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The scene was one of much interest; sod as Mrs. BEECHER Bruws,--slim sun -oom. plexioned, active, intelligent, simply dressed, ant perfectly self-possessed was seen petted and lionised by a whole be vy of Duchesses and Coen tesees, who had been charmed by her marvellous book; there was afforded a gratifying proof of the incense that truth and humanity may gain from all ranks—and proof, moreover, of the admiration which the genius of the New World may win from even the most select coterie of the Old. When the first Anti-Slavery meeting at Stafford House took place, we said as little as possible about it ; because it was a fair occasion for criticism, and we could not blame those who did criticise it; while the anti-slavery . cause appears to us sufficiently strong and sufficiently venerable to cover some sins of judgment in its supporters. We thought that, on the whole, the meeting was to be regretted. because those who managed the banana were in sufficiently informed of the facts of the case--about the relation, we mean, of the women of America to the institution delivery. Of all the foes of American slavery none live in such anguish of hostility to the institution as the women of the Southern States, for reasons which are obvious enough, when the morals that coexist with slavery are considered. And we certainly must dissent emphatically from the decla ration in the Address, that we—we of the existing generation of Englishmen and Englishwomen, ought to humble ourselves in shame and grief, on 66- count of England's share in the guilt of American slavery. To this coaxing statement we absolutely object. Bat the sacredness of the cause si lenced us when it would have been easy to ridicule and blame ; and it was never a part of our objection that the movement was one conducted by women. Slavery is it subject on which women may and should speak and act as freely as men, and if men do not speak and act as freely as they ought, women are quite right to choose their own method of expressing their own protest, individual or collec tive. All ridicule aimed at the meeting, as a woman's meeting, was below notice, and always will be on a similar occasion. The time has now come for ridicule to cease, in regard to anti-slavery business going for ward at Stafford House, and all the more so that the authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has taken part in the proceedings. Mrs. STOWE is no fine lady, come to play off fine sentiments amidst the flutter of fans and the homage of adoring listeners. She is no Corinne, crowned for intellectual triumphs. She is no wonderful new novelist, whose pictures of the sufferings of the heart provoke and tempt an inquisition into the personal experience of the idol of the season. She has plenty of ability, a sound head, a keen sagacity, accu rate intuitions if not an always sober judgment, and charmingand inexhaustible humour, such as is usually found in connexion with that united sensibility and power of expression which constitute pathos in writ ing. She has plenty of ability; but that is compa ratively a small matter. The singularity of the case is that she has been made, unintentionally and even unconsciously, the apostle of the greatest came now existing in the world. Two years ago, she was in her home in Ohio, the daughter and the wife of clergymen, living in the humble way which in America is justly thought the most honourable for that profession, busy in her nursery, and carrying about en anxious hart, always and increasingly burdened by a growing knowledge of the sins and sufferings attendant upon the institution of slavery. When she could bear it no longer, she spoke ; and the manner in which she spoke indicates the quality of the woman, and explains the power of her speech. She did not bewail her own pain, or put forth her own opinions, or in any way make known her own presence in the scene. She told, in the most straightforward way, what happens every day in the slave states of America. She did not even give high artistical qualities to her work. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has grave artistical faults which would have been talked about abundantly on all hands, if one order of readers had not been over whelmed by their umpathies and another by their rage. The power of the book was in its truth, set forth in its full strength by the objective character of the work—by the absentia of all self-reference on the part of one of whom the world could have afforded to hear a great hail. In natural and maple* eeeordases with this Wilma tear d Wed s the sow is the very first way lbw lobe essillbe her marvellous fame to the ripsaw of es midi be the eablect on which she spelei, se ohs Nye. abe am, she could not help it :'' and bet steely pair tunes in this view in the midst at sash an into:dott ing whirl of success of every kind as would have turned almost any other head, marks her as a greater woman than all the genius of all the women who ever lived could have made her, without her honest simplicity. We beg to call the attention of ob servers and critics tgthis. Some are trying to make out that she is Nancy, and selfish, and affected, be. came, in their practised judgment, she must be so, attar her year of une qualled feminine fame. Some say that if she is not exiijeante now, she soon will be,—for the Nine excellent reason. Some look upon her passage through our country as on. of the amusements of the season, and get up an enthusiasm and a criticism, as they would upon any peat artist of the day. This is all wrong—all a mistake; and thous who perpetrate it have no real understanding of the cause, or of this its involuntarily preacher. She has sought no suffrages, and nobody can point to any personal aim that she has ever proposed . She is eager to interest all she meets in the cause, to hasten the day of the abo lition of slavery; but all sympathy that she meets here must be embittered by the shame that she. with her patriot heart. must endure, that all seek ympathy is like reproach to her republican consul. These are feelings in the presence of whist; el petty gossip, all narrow criticism, all thoughtless levity should be silent, and, if possible, be turned into respect and humility. It was not to say this that we have spoken at such length of Mrs. Srowz. It can matter little to her or her kindly and symw thieing entertainers, or anybody elm), how lightmiuded people talk. Nor is it for Mrs. STOWES sake or that of her friends that we have spoken of her at all. It is because her fame and her presence are a portent of a serious kind. Her fame is a protest on the part of the world against slavery in a democratic a. public and her welcome hero is a brand hint, if her countrymen would but take it, that that institution is doomed, and that they would be wise to see bow they could beet release themselves from it. They know, as well as we do, that any in stitution which is condemned by the most advanced nations of Europe (the condemnation being on moral and economical, as well as political, grounds) cannot be long sustained in a free, generous, growing, and wealthy nation. Whether it is a book, or awoman, or a Great Exhibition, or a Hungarian revolt, or anything else that elicits the truth, and conveys the warning, matters little; it becomes a solemnity throughits use. And thus it is that Mrs.Srowt's reception in the Bri tish islands is, in the eyes of thoughtful persons, no trivial matter, to be treated with transferable sym pathy, or stared at for amusement. She is the em bodied rebuke of the lovers of freedom and the advo cates of popular government, addressed to the brethren from whom they have hoped, and still hope, so much ; and addressed, surely, in the mildest form that remonstrance ever assumed—that of grateful hospitality to the most successful of living American authors. THE LONInARI) EMIGRANTS.—The national theatre of Turin has been put up to lottery for the benefit of the Lombard emigrants. The drawing is to take place on the 9th of May. There are 300,000 tickets at sf, each, snakiest in all 1,500.000 f. The value of the prizes being only 64,000 f., the rest will bo for the emigrants. FRANCE. • • PARIS, SIINDAT Evz-viso. The Muniterir of to-day contains a number of changes in the magistrature. 'there is also a list of 26 persons, sentenced to various punishments by the mtzed commissions, .to whom a remission of sentence has been grante d by the Emperor. In the Corps Legislatif, yesterday, amongst other local business, a project of law woe adopted, grant ing permission to the city of Marseilles to contract a loan of 2.000,000 francs. A project of law for the establishment of an elee trio telegraph between France and Algiers was presented. At a private audience yesterday the Emperor re mired the Marquis of N illamarina, Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Sardinia, chargel with the remission of the reply of his Sovereign to the letter of credence of the Duke of Quiche, Minister of France at Turin. Some important modification in the law of 1850, regulating the use of the electric telegraph by the public, are made by the bill which passed the Carps Legislatif on Friday. The fixed charge of 3fr. upon every despatch of twenty words is reduced to 2f., and the proportional payment according to distance is reduced from 12 to 10 centimes per myriametre. Several members complained that the redodien would operate almost exclusively in favour of lam& ties in the immediate neighbourhood of Paris, beam", the fixed charge being diminished by one-third, while the diminution in the proportional charge was bat one-sixth, the longer the distance to be traversed the dearer in proportion would be the despatch. Thoa,lat a message sent to a distance of 2 myriametres the reduction is 32 per cent., while for 100 myriamstra it is only 20 per cent. To this objection it was re plied by the government commissary that the fixed charge had hitherto pressed withespecialseverity upon correspondencest short distances, and that all parts of Francewould derive an advantage in this respeetfrom the new measure in an equal degree with Pans. The esminittee on the bill had proposed an amendment in &Tour of towns which, being situated near to emit other as a crow would fly, are obliged to pay aossrding to the actual length of the electric wire M be traversed, as in the instance of Nevers end Dijon, which, although only 160 kilo metres apart, can only communicate by electric telegraph through Paris, and are charged as for a distance of 550 kilometres. It was urged that if for political reasons all the leading telegraphic lines converged upon Paris, it. was unfair to the in habitants of the provinces to tax their telegraphic asomunication so very heavily in constnuence. The mmentittee proposed that the charge in such cases skald never exceed double the proportional rate for the setts! distance. The Council of State however re jests' the amendment, and the committee agreed to report in favour of the bill as it stood, considering it at all events a boon, though not going so far as they could have wished The views of the committee were explained in the debate by Count de Saint Hermine and the Count de Champagny. M. Boa jean, the government commissary, admitted the ano maly, and said that probably at some futons time the system of telegraphic zones, as estab lished in Germany, would be adopted. The subject was under consideration, and a decision would doubtless be come to before long. But, for the present, the government saw no pressing osesseity for altering the principle of the law of 1850, and the direction of the telegraphs apprehended that the else trio lines might be inconveniently crowded if toe much encouragement were given to private M. Bonjeau's arguments were somewhat i c: l 3= tory with each other, for, while he opposed the amendment for fear of inoumbering the ts legrapb, he said the towns in whose favour it was pressed would probably be di► =to avail themselves of it only to ; pi = t i ed extent. In support of this latter however, he cited a very striking example. A int line of telegraph was lately laid down between Calais and Boulogne, expressly to relieve those ports from the hardship of corresponding by way at Amiens, and the retinas of the number of despetehes sent by the new line, are one despatch for the moth of January, and two in February. In truth it is unlikely that small towns in France, how ever glad they may be of facilities of communication with Paris, can have any very frequent occasion to correspond by telegraph with each other. But then there is the lest reason to be afraid of the zone sys tem. In the course of the debate a hope was ex pressed by several members that the principle of one uniform charge, without reference to distance, as now adopted by the Post-offioe, might be extended to the electric telegraph. This system is in actual operation in Switzerlartiovitereoemeas ensofloo leagues there is one uniform rate of if. hr 20 words, 2f. for 40 and 3fr. for 60, and the system is said to have worked so well that the dim of Geneve alone sends on an average 99 despatches a day, or 32,850 a year. Such at bast wee the statement made in the Chamber by IL Meanie: de la Siamese, bet the Count de Bryas, the reporter an the bill, said the information laid before the committee minarning the Silm telegraph was not in accordance with this eemmet. He observed that at all events the experiment in Switzerland was of too recent a' date to form a precedent, and argued that there wee so analogy between a telegraphic message and a letter asseet r e et seat by eke, and that if a uniform rate were of being advantageously adopted, it would have n tried by some of the private companies in England. It should not be forgotten, he said, that while a dispatch to a distant place was being trans matted, communisation between all the intermediate points was interrupted. The bill was ultimately voted, es bills sow usually are, unanimously : By one of the slams the Minister of the Interior is authorised to great the sus of the telegraph for fixed periods at greatly redaesd rates to chambers of commerce, the syndicates of erns de change, and the syndicates of commercial brokers, upon condition that their despatches shall be immediately made public in the form determined by the government. It appears that the estimates of the cost of the electric telegraph in the budget of 1854 amount to 2,245,130 fr., and the estimated receipts are one mil lion, leaving a balance of 1,245,130 fr. to be defrayed by the state. The estimate of the receipts is based upon the assumption that they will increase in a very large proportion. In the last 10 months of 1851, only 9,014 private messages were sent in France, producing 78,04Y/fr. In the year 1852 the number of messages increased to 48,105, and the sum produced by them was 452,000 fr. The Echo du Nord has received a warning from the Minister of Police for an article containing "attacks, as violentas unjust," against the legisla tion which now regulates the press. The Marseilles journals speak of the seizure of a sum of money collected by subscription on the Toulon high road with an "essentially political object." Au interne in a state of rupture of ban has been arrested in connexion with the same affair. The Press says, in its weekly commercial re view : Commercial affairs have recovered their activity this week, under the influence of fine weather. Stuffs, which bare been neglected for so many months, wets the first to feel the return of the fine season, and the shops are filed with purchasers. Several of our large houses have within these few days effected gales which excel the most favoured days of list year, and they hope during May to make OD the deficit of the month of April. PARIS, SATIIRDAY EvExixo. Contrary to general expectation, it appears that the session of the Corps Legislatif will be prolonged beyond the end of the three months assigned in the constitution. In an article in the semi-official Pays, which, moreover, is in complete accordance with the declaration made yesterday by M. Billault, in the Corps Legislatif, it is said, after an enumeration of the unpassed hills, that It is the firm desise of the Emperor to have all measures, and, above all, those which engage the Treasury, discussed with all the deliberation that their importance demands. Time will not consequently be refused for a conscientious examination of-the questions which they give rise to. With out doubt, if the ordinary session is not sufficient, theretwill be neither hesitation nor difficalty in according to the re presentatives of the country the delay necessary for the cum ple te performance of their duty. A telegraphic despatch received to-day from Mar seilles states that the corvette Pluton has just left for Ovan with troops. The Muniecur contains a decree apportioning France into four divisions for the purpose . of the " high mission " to be fulfilled by the commusioners recently appointed. The funeral obsequies of the Marquis de Valde gamas were celebrated to-day, with extraordinary pomp, at the church of St. Philippe dm Itoule. The THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1883. whole corps diplomatique of Paris was present ea /kande texas. The-Emperor was inpruseated by owe of his aidce-de.camp. General Ms•tuas,' as eon, mandet4n.eltid of the army of Park ; General Lowcostine; commanding the Nitional Guard ; Mar-. dial Names, and most (tithe Spaniards of diatmo. Lion now in Paris, besides s very large following of private Mends, joined the cortege. Cloning prices at the Bourse.—For money : Three Fr •Cents., 81f. 75c., Four-and-a-Ralf par Cent 852), 101 L For account : Three per Cents., 82f. 5c.; ur-ancla-Half per Cent., 104 f. 10e. Bank Stock, 2,895. Railways: Northern, 928 f. 75e. Strasburg, 935 f. Orleans, 1,115 E warmly touched by these friendly assuranoes frau the other side of the Channel. r Yee, let us seat, with the ever dear remembrenee of na tional glories—let aa 'hammy ourselves Le respecting them, both at home and shooed, but let to direct oar activity to. wards new careers, which, though lees echoing, an not leas honourable. • Your letter, friends, and our answer, bear witness of the identity of our aspirations. The hospitality of Brittany will be wanting to the children of Newcastle, who leave the banks of the Tyne to visit the borders of the Loire. May year ships come among us to seek the bread of life— the corn which the husbandman claims from the furrow ; and may oars go to you, seeking the bread of industry, the coal which the miner digs from the bowels of the earth. This exchange, friends and brother, of Great Britain, is better than that of bullets and grapeshot. BELGIUM.' BRUSSELS, FRIDAY. During the adjourned discussion this afternoon in the Chamber of Representatives, of the bill for in- creasing the Belgian army from 80,000 to 100,000, and for forming a strong reserve, the Minister, of War declared that the military law of 1843 was in sufficient for the defence of the country. M. Mani lius, (the rapporteur of the central committee, stated that that committee was decidedly op posed to the formation of a larger per manent force. For his own part he was willing to vote for the increase of the army under extraordinary circumstances, and that increase, when really neces sary, might bo provided for in the budget, front year to year. The Minister of Finance declared that the financial state of the country was satis factory, and that the proposed increase of the army I would not necessitate any new imposts. M. Thiefry declared that the Belgian army could not, under any circumstances, successfully resist the French one, that invasion could be only apprehended from the direction of France, and that the Belgian fortresses ought to be demolished, so that the war budget might be reduced to 23 millions of franca, instead of $2 millions, as now proposed by the government bill.' The hon. member was about to read a communication addressed to the military commission, when the Chamber decided on going into a secret committee. All strangers were then ordered to withdraw. The Chamber shortly afterwards adjourned. SPAIN. It is quite certain that M. de Torre-Ayllon, the Spanish ambassadoi at Vienna, has refused to accept the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. The Duke of Brabant, eldest son of King Leopold, who accompanies him in his visit to Berlin and 'ienna, has received from the King of Prussia the order of the Black Eagle. The young duke, on his part, is to confer the grand cordon of Leopold upon the son of the Prince of Prussia. On the evening of May 6 there was a grand dinner at the palace, fol lowed by an entertainment, at which the court was present. TURKEY. The Conatitutionnel mays that Abd-el-Kader is tired of Broussa, where he misses the ovations for which he acquired a taste in France, and that be wishes to return. DLITICAL TESTAMENT OF PETER THE GREAT. While the friends of the Cur Nicolas are disavow ing on his behalf any contemplated aggression on Turkey, it may not be inopportune to compare what we know of recent Russian proceedings with the directions contained in the memoranda:it drawn up by Peter the Great for the guidance of his successors. The following are the 100,11 th, and 12th articles of that remarkable document:— " My successors must carefully seek and maintain rela• Lions with Austria, and apparently support her designs upon the sovereignty of all Germany, but secretly straiten the jealousy of the German princes. Further, either the Em peror or the Princes must be brought to seek the aid of Russia, which must then exercise a kind of protectorate over the land, and so prepare the way for its ulterior pos session. 0 The House of Austria must be interested in the expul sion of the Turks from Europe, and in the event of the taking of Constantinople its jealousy must be neutralised either by exciting the other states of Europe to make war with it, or by rehnquishing a share of the conquered terri tory to be taken again at a later period. " All the Greeks in Hungary, Tarkey, or Southern Poland, now divided into parties, must he rallied 'round Russia as a central point; Russia must be their support, and by means of a certain ecclesiastical supremacy must prepare the way for complete sovereignty." AN ADDRESS FROM FRE ENGLISHMEN. The Mayor of Newcastle has received through the hands of the French Ambassador in London, the following reply of the inhabitants of Nantes to the address lately , forwarded to that city by the people of Newcastle. This interesting document, of which we give below a transla- Lion, contains about 2,500 names, and is about G 3 feet loaf. It is mounted on calico, for the purpose of preser vation, and should receive a place among the local atchives se a record of the cordial feelings created by the inter change of commerce. The Mayor of Nantes, with the pre fect of the Loire, head the list, and are followed by a num ber of the first merchants and persons of importance in the place. And while such evidence of commercial friendli ness exists, third are sufficient proofs of the extension of the good feeling to the humbler classes among the French people, and an apparent manifestation that the connexion may not only be one of the interests 6 f commerce, but the no less real end abiding interests of humanity. The Ambassador of FlllllOll presents his compliments to the Mayor of the Town of Newcastle and he has the honour of sending him enclosed an addre ss of the principal in habitants of the city of Nantes, which the courier of the embassy brought him this morning. 22, Grosvenor-square, London, April 22, 1863. Reply of the Inhabitants of the Town of Nantes to the Address of the Inhabitants of the Town of Newautle-upon• Tyne. Friends of Great Britain, Industry and commerce fulfil the reveries of ancient philoophers—frontiers are effaced, prejudices vanish, the animosities of asthma disappear. If there really be • progress, evident, indisputable, and marvellously realised in the spirit of the people, that pro gress is " Peace." Peace has inherited the old popularity of war. In 1848, at the close of a revolution which bad stirred up so many passions, France proclaimed peace. More lately an august and sincere authority nobly confirmed that attitude of the republic, in saying " The Empire is Peace,; ' and trusting in these promises, the country returned to the em pire, sheltering, as it has been said, her destinies under • majestic souvenir of glory, bat careless of adding other laurels to her military crown. This inclination towards a pacific futuie is not caprice, Is not a passing fondness. It is an opinion inherited by the public from the authority of philosophy and religion. ' Europe, the whole of Europe, without excepting one country, without excepting cne government, wishes for peace. There it no longer • warlike nobility, no longer a' , military knighthood, there are no longer pmfessional soldiersloving war for the sake of war, or for glory or ooa- quest. There are in our day owners of property, merchants, and workmen, people who think, who love peace for their own interest, and who certainly would not snake war but when peace would be • cowardice. Bog emotion, and all interests, become obstacles to thee, gigantic murders which have so long :desolated hums nity, and impoverished states. A. French writer has said, " that to cultivate peace is to turn the last and most ble page of the Gospel." He has mid truly. And if from these sublime religious thoughts we descend to commoner and human considerations, are we not correct in thinking that the enormous resources ab sorbed in keeping up large and useless armies, would have found a much better application in the creation of harbours, in the formation of roads, and in the foundation of useful public institutions. A truth deeply felt by one of your illustrious countrymen, Mr. Cobden, who has so wittily chastised that perpetual out-bidding of fleets and levies, that barren agreement of enlistments and armies, which governments make with each other. The keel of a vessel of war, said he, is no sooner pad down at Brest, than the hammer resounds in the workshops of Portsmouth ; a new forge puffs at Cherbourg, and beheld the sparks of a new anvil fly out at Portsmouth. Monstrous folly ! The system of armed peace Nu cost France from 1831 to 1849, to the great injury of the national industry, 274 mil lions sterling. How true it is, then, as Voltaire says, writing of the conquests of Louis XIV., that war is a gulf where all the channels of plenty are swallowed up. Thanks be to God '. We shall see those things no more. The passing generations have seen war and wept for it. The coming generation, those who lay hold on the enjoy ment of the moral life and hold the rudder of affairs, know nothing but the sweetness of peace. They are devoted to it. War has been condemn( d, irrevocably condemned, by the greatest captain in modern days, by him who has ren dered battles impossible by having conducted them too well. What then is war, said he, but a trade of savages, where the whole art consists in being the strongest upon a given point. Your letter, Friends of Englund, has not found us indif ferent to the sentiments it espressos. We have been THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON. The American Company's steam•packet Washing ton, Captain Elisha M. Fitch, arrived at Southampton on Saturday afternoon, having left New York April 23rd ; thus making the passage in 13 days and 17 hours. The Washington brings 43 passengers for South ampton, and 167 for Bremen. Her cargo consists of 120 packages of tobacco for Bremen, and a small amount of specie for Bremen and Havre. From the New York papers of 23rd and the two preceding days we extract the following items of intelligence : The Post-office department at Washington has just adopted regulations by which the postage on news papers, when sent front the United States in the British or open mail to Great Britain for transmis sion, is two cents. each, to be prepaid, instead of kew cents, as stated in the postage tables last published, being the United States . postage only. When news papers for those countries are to go in the United States and Prussian closed mail the rate required to be prepaid is six cents, being the full United States, British and German postage. These important mo— difications of previous regulations have been adopted by the present able Postmaster-General, Judge Campbell, in consequence of the receipt of the fol lowing rathet emphatic despatch from the Post-office authorities in London, calling his attention to the irregularities and neglect of the Post-office depart ment here whilst under the direction of the late Post master-General, N. K. Hall:— General Post-office, London, Muth 29,1863. Sir,—The Postmaster General has received your letter of the 31st of January last, in which you informed his lord ship, with reference to your previous letter of the 26th of the same month, that you bad so far waffled the order dated the 24th of January, issued by yen respecting the rates of postage to be collected in the United States upon letters for France forwarded through the United Kingdom, that the usual credit of two cents on each newspaper for France via England, would continue to be given to this department by the United States Post-office, as heretofore. The receipt of this communication has brought to the knowledge of the Postmaster General the fact that the United States Post-office, in sending to this country newspapers fur France, has accounted to the British Post-office for a postage of two cents cep each news- paper, contrary to the provisions of the 12th article of the postal convention of the 15th of December, 1848, in which it is stipulated that letters and newspapen passing between the United Stites and France, and sent through the United Kingdom, shall be specially excepted from the British transit rates applicable to other foreign correspon dence; because, under the postal convention between Prance and the United Kingdom, such letters and news papers are liable to certain rates which are to be paid to this country by the French post-office. The Postmaster-General extremely regrets that this circumstance has so long escaped the attention of this depaitinent, and that thus the post office of the United States has been permitted to account to the British pat-office for postage on the newspapers in ques tion, to which the latter has no claim. And his lordship is mush concerned to hod, on inquiry, that the United States post-office has accounted to this office for a postage of two cents, not only upon each newspaper for France, and for countries the correspondence of which is sent through France, but also upon newspapers addressed to many other countries mentioned in the accompanying list, under convention with this department, owing to which the British Poet-office has twice received pa) meat upon such newspapers. This irregularity, which was reported to your ;department on the 17th of May, 1850, has, I re gret to state, continued without correction up to the present momeat, owing, as far as the British Post• office is concerned, to the original papers on the subject having been unfortunately mislaid. This being the case the ,Postmaster-General will readily reimburse the Post: office of the United States the amount of postage or. roneously received by this office, upon being furnished with a statement of the number of newspapers for the foreign countries in question, which have been forwarded through England from the United States, since the eons vention of 1848 came into operation. In t he meantime, hi lordship requests that you will be good enough to name immediate Instructions to your officers not to give credit to this office in future, for any newspapers addressed to those continental states with which the United Kingdom has concluded postal conventions, enabling this department to receive the postage colected on the delivery of news papers, and that you will also cause the reduced rate of two cents.—the Unites States rate—to be charged in the United States upon snob newspapers, instead of the postage of four eents.which,it appears, has been hitherto collected, to enable the United States post-office to defray the British transit rate.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient, humble servant, M. MABIRLY. To the Postmaster-General. Washington. The Central American policy of the present ad ministration (says the New Fork Herald) is under stood to be indicated by the sending into and ratifi cation by the Senate of Mr. Squier's treaty with San Salvador. This treaty, which is supposed to have been held back by the late administration for fear of offending Great Britain, is entirely free from en tangling alliances with any European power. Mr. Buchanan designs setting an example of republican simplicity at the Court of St. James's. He is said to have requested the Hon. John Appleton, member of the last Congress from Maine, to accompany him as Secretary of Legation. Senator Borland having . de clined the governorship of New Mexico, it is Inti mated, will get the mission to Central America, which was rejected by Mr. Slidell. According to recent advices from the city of Mexico, there was general rejoicing on the receipt of the telegraphic despatch announcing the arrival of General Santa Anna at Vera Cruz. Guns were tired, bells•rung, and ever] other demonstration of popular delight manifested. The governor of the State of Oajaea appears to have got into difficulty in conse quence of exerting himself rather too strenuously in favour of Santa Anna's return. In order to be able to put down any opposition that might be made against the reinstatement of the exiled chief, he dis tributed five thousand muskets among as many In dians, and it was feared a war betireen the white and red races might result therefrom. Mr. Falcooette, the British agent, had been arrested at the request of some of the ex-deputies of Congress. The reported discoveries of gold above Austin, and also on the Upper Colorado River, are confirmed by the last acoounts from Texas. Large amounts of the precious metal are said to have been collected, causing great excitement throughout the stale. Naw Irma', APRIL 23. Farther Improvement is visible at the Stock Board, and confidence is gradually becoming restored throughout the °immunity. At the Board this morning an advance took place in Canton Co. Shares, 11; Hudson River It. It., 1; Reading R. R., 1 • Norwich and Worcester R. It., ; Michigan Southern R. R., ; Nicaragua Transit Co., 1 Cumberland Coal Co., 1; United States Six per Cents. of 1867 have again reached 139, after a recent decline of 1 to 1 ; California Seven per Cents ,83 ; Ohio Sixes of 1860, 1081; Erie Income Bonds, par. Very few Bank Shares come upon the market. Sales of Bank of Commerce, 108 j. Remover Bank, 991. Continental Bank, 100. • '- - - • Corron.—There has been more activity for the past three days, induced in part by a little COOOPASIOII in some cases. Our quotations, however, remain about as before. The sates of the week amount to 12,800 bales. Atlantic Other Porta. Florida. Cull Ports. Inferior nominal. nomini. nominal. Ord low to good Bf. 91, to 91 Bf, 91, to 91 81„ 91. to 9/ Kid low to good 10, 10f, to lit 10, lOtto 111 101, 11, to llt Mid hit to lair (*num.—The market for wheat has become dull ; al though holders are steady in the rates and tot free sellers ; there is a fair milling demand, and but • limited inquiry for export, at present prices. Among the sales of tho week wo notice 6,800 bush. Mich. white, 1 dol. 20e. ; 7,000 bush. Ohia white, 1 dol. 20c. ; 7,000 bush. Genu ses white, 1 dol. 23c. to 1 dol. 26c. ; 700 bush. Southern mixed, 1 dol. 18e. ; 6,000 bush. Canada, in baud, 1 dol. 14c. Ryo is in limited sup;.ly and firmly held at about ' 90c., with sales of 4,000 bush. Barley is dull, and as the season advances tales are made with more difficulty ; 3,700 bushels brought 640. to 67c. Oats are quiet at 48c. to 60e. for State Western. Corn with more per arrivals, is easier ; the sales of the week past aggregate 163,000 bush., closing at 69e. to 61c. for inferior; 62e. to 64e. for Southern white and 6.1 c. to 66c. fur yellow Southern, and 65c. for Jersey yellow. FLOUlL—trader the influence of unfavourable English accounts, the market continues to recede, and our quo tations show a decline of 12)c. to ltlc. per barrel on shipping qualities. The demand for export has materially fallen off, but for the local trade and city use them is a fair inquiry. Since the opening of the Hudson river the receipts have been larger than was generally expected; this, together with the resumption of canal navigation, has occasioned an Mururoa dullness, and ands wallas mere anaious to realise. FAZIONTII.—To Europe there is a moderate amount offering. but rate appear to have a downward tendency. We quote :—To Liverpool—Tobacw, per hhd, 3s. ; vittun, spiere balele per lb. I to 6-16 ; San' sad meal per bbl 2s. to 2.. 34 , by propeller 2s. 34 to 2s. 64.; rosin, 2s. ; beavy goods per ton, 252.6 d. to 30s. ; grain, in bulk per bushel, 64. to s}d. . To London—Tomato per hhd., 35e. to Vs. ; flour, 2.5. W. to 31. per bbl.; turpentine, per 280 lbs., 31. lid. to 3s. 6d. ; measurement goods per ton, 25.. to 30s. • heavy goods, oil, itc., 30s. to 325. 64. ; cheese, 355. ; beef, per tierce, 6.. 6d. to 61. ; oil cake, 3.. To Havre—Cotton, saere g b u l e s. re p i s t ir lb.Le r ..as l las ; per Lon ur . e B to ns lo dole. ; rice, goods, 10s. ; whaleb one, ifte. per lb ie. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. (HT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, MoNDAY, 10.30 A.Y. By the steamer America we have advices from New York to the 26th, and Boston to the 27th ult. The steamer Canada had arrived at Boston. The steam-ship Star of the West had arrived at New York with advices from California to the Ist ult., and 2,234,308 dollars in gold dust. The steam-ship Independence had been wrecked off the Island of Margarita, Lower California, and 176 lives lost. She was bound from San Jan del Sud for San Francisco. The smallpox was making terrible havoc among the Indian population along the coast. The propeller Pioneer, which was abandoned to the underwriters on the each at St. Simon's Bay, had been got off and towed to San Francisco. The New York stock market had a downward tendency. Money in active demand, at 7to 7 per cent. Exchange on London, 109 k to ; Paris 5.13; to 5.15. The cotton market was quiet, without change. Prices of flour well supported. Ohio red wheat was selling at 110 e. per bushel. Indian corn dull and heavy. Freights to London without change. ne Court. OSBORNE, SATVILDLY. The Queen, accompanied by the Princesses Helena and Louisa and Prince Arthur, and attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Orly, drove out yesterday afternoon on the Newport-road. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, rode on horseback. SUNDAY. The Qneen and Prince, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, attended Divine Sallee this morning at Osborne. The service was performed by the Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley. The ladies and gentle men in waiting and the household were also present. The Earl of Aberdeen is staying on a visit to het Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade laide of Hohenlohe, and attended by Ludy Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Cooper, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with her presence on Saturday evening. The Diacloes of Kent and the Princess Adelaide of Ho henlohe attended Divine service yesterday morning in Kew Church: The Royal Duchess and the Princess visited the I Duchess of Cambridge at her residence at Kew. The Persist Envoy transacted business at the Foreign office on Saturday. Mr. W. Beckford, Mr. H. Davidson, and Mr. P. Black burn, had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle at the Colonial-office on Saturday on the subject of Jamaica. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone left lowa on Saturday afternoon for Brighton. The Earl of Aberdeen (First Lord of the Treasury) has I Wined invitations to a party of Peers to a full dress dinner on the 24th inst., in celebration of the Queen's birth-day, at his residence, Argyll House. Viscount Palmerston (Secretary of State for the Home Department) has issued invitations to the Queen's Judges of common law and equity and a large party to a full dress dinner, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, on the 24th inst., at his residence in Carlton-gardens. The Duke of Newcastle (Secretary of State for the Cala nice) hos issued invitations for a full dress dinner party on the 24th inst., at his residence in Postman-square, to cele brate the Queen's birth-day. Despatches were sent or Saturday evening from the Colo nial-oflice to the Governors of the Falkland Islands, New Zealand, Victoria, and New South Wales. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was at tended by the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmer ston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Moles worth. The Council sat three hours. Henry Francis Howard, Esq., late Secretary of L^gation at B►rlin, is appointed her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Brasil, in the room of Henry Southern, Esq., C. 8., deceased. The Earl of Rosso, the President of the Royal Society, gave his second conversazione this season on Saturday night, at his residence in Connaught-place. On Saturday_ morning was solemnised at St. James's Church. Piccadilly, the nsarriase of Baron Rib- Medals and Ellen, daughter of Colonel More, M.P., of Caldwell. Amongst those who accompanied the bridal pair to the altar were observed his Excellency the Prus sian Minister, the Matsui' of Lansdowne, Lord mad Lady John Russell and Miss Victoria Russell, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl and Countess Howe, the Countess of Mansfield, Lord Colville of Cuirass, Lord and Lady De Tabley, Sir George and Lady Clarke, Sir Adam nod Lady Hay, the Hoa. the Misses Lister, sisters of the bridegroom, and who were also bridesmaids on the occa sion, Colonel and Mrs. Mare, Mr. Philip Mute, Mr. Booker, Mr. Hunter Blair, Mrs. Cradock, Mr. and Mrs. Raikes Currie, Mr. Hallam, W. and Mrs. Armitage, and Mr. and Mrs. Drummond. Lord Ribblesdalc is the son of the second Baron and of Adelaide his wife, who secondly married Lord John Russell. MONEY ORDERS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND TICE COLONIES.—The Postmaster-General is taking mea . sures for establishing a money order system between this country and the colonies. So far as relates to the receipt and payment of money in the colonies and to its transmission to and from the United King dom, his lordship intends to avail himself of the agency of ordinary banks, except in any case where the colonial postal arrangements are not under his direction, and where the authorities of the colony may prefer to undertake this business themselves. The receipt and payment of money in the mother country will form a branch of the money order sys tem already existing. Advertisements will shortly appear, inviting tenders from bankers for the per formance of the duties referred to. THE MURDER NEAR COAIVA Y. The inquiry into the cause of death of the unfor tunate young man, murdered on Cerrig-y-pryfaid mountain, near Conway, terminated late last night in a verdict of " Waal murder." It appears that the names of both the murderer and his victim are Roberts, and not Williams, as stated in our Saturday's impression. So great was the ex citement throughout Conway, and so numerous were the reports current, that it was with the utmost difficulty the real facts of the case could be obtained. The youth was a teacher in the British School, had just obtained a prize, and was much respected in the neighbourhood. The scene of this deplorable event is the village of Roe, about 4 miles from Conway. At the inquest, which was held before E. G. Powell, Esq., of Carnarvon, the father of deceased, an old man upwards of 60, deposed to the murderer coming to his house on the evening of the event, and asking his sin to accompany him rabbit shooting. They went out together, and he never saw him alive again. Jane Williams swore to seeing the prisoner ascend the mountain with hisi - victim ; noticed that prisoner wore a white Jim Crow hat, and a velveteen coat. Saw him late the same evening. Ile had changed his hat and coat. The Jim Clow, spotted with blood, has since been found, but not the coat. Mr. J. Salisbury made a post mortem examination of the body. Several large shots had entered at the shoulder blade, and passcd upward into the brain, causing instantaneous death. The shirt of deceased was saturated with blood. The body was found at the base of a large cleft in the rocks, lying face upwards. l'risoner, who as a labourer on the Chester and Holyhead line, was, at the close of the inqnest, conveyed to Cimarron, to await his trial at the next assizes. Hundreds of people assembled to se him finally secured, and were lsiud in their execrations. MURDER OF A NAVAL OFFICER.—WO deeply regret to announce the murder of the paymaster of her Majesty's ship Redalus, at San Bias. The unhappy victim, Mr. Michael Feeley, wlto had gone on shore at that place, was found dead by the crew of the boat that left the ship on the morning of the sth March for the purpose of ob taining frs sh beef. A man suspected of the murder was captured, and was in priens at the date of the lettar (15th March) announcing the melancholy cvc nt. Some money was upon Mr. Feeley's person when discovered, but it is supposed he had been robbed of a p'rtion of that previously in his possession. We regret to add that Mr. Feels) , has left a widow and young family, who were wholly dependent upon the unfortunate deceased.—lfontputtre Ttiegrapli. MRS. B. B. SIONVE AT STAFFORD ROUSE. Ou Saturday last a number of ladies and gentle men aseembled at Stafford House, to welcome Mrs. H. B. Stowe to this country, and to give expression personally to the aspect and admiration which are felt for that lady. Among those present were observed—the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll , the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, Lord John ltassell Lord Palmerston, the Earl of Carlisle, Right Hoe. W . . Gladstone, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Archbishop of Dublin, Mrs. and Miss Whstely, Lord Ebringten, Lord Blantyre, Mr. Russell Gurney, Lord Claude Hamilton, Lord Gleselg, the Deaa of St. Paul'', the Rev. Dr. an d Mrs. Cumming, the Bishop of Oxford, the lion. Arum lugs - Mrs. Kinnard, Dowager Countess of Carlisle, Mr. Tom Taylor, the Rev. Edmund Holland, Mr. and the Misses J. W. Alexander, the Earl of liarrowby, Mr. and Mrs. T. Roman Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Alsop, the Misses Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Hanbury, Mr. H. Harwood, and Mrs. Spicer, Mr. Elmsley, Mita Pringle, Mrs. Elmsley , Miss Seeley, and Miss Webster, Mrs. and Miss Gurney, M r. and Mrs. Jos. Tritton, the Chevalier Bunsen, Mrs. Mary Howitt, Lady Dover, Ree. P. Latrobe, Mr. Ernest %wen, Mrs. sad Miss Benson. Rev. Mr. Beecher, Mr. H. E. Gur ney, Mrs. Price, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Right lion. H. La. bouebere, Mr. Higgins, Colonel Maclean, Right lion. T. B. Macaulay, Mr. George, Lady Louisa and Miss Vineb, Mr. Moncktou Milne', the Hon. W. Ashley, Sir David 'h a d a ; lion. C. Howard, Captain J. Trotter, Dr. and Mrs; Sutherland, Mrs. Grainger, the Misses Rudall, the Rev. It. Burgess, the Rev. T. Blaney and Mrs. honey, Sir E. N. Balton, Mr. T. Powell Buxton, the Rev. Dr. Stesne Mr. J. Couder, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cook Evans, Itei. J. Sherman, Mr. Fowler, Mr. G. Oliphant, Mr. John MacGregor, &c., The company on their arrival were ushered through the magnificent suite of rooms oa the principal door t) the pie. cure gallery at the east end, where the Duchess of Suther land mad a distinguished party received her guests. M rs . Beecher Stowe, accompanied by her husband, Professor Stowe, her brother, and the Rev. Mr. Blaney, with whom she is at present staying, was cordially welcomed by her Grace. Mrs. Stowe is rather below the middle size. has was neatly but plainly attired ; and wearing no head dress, her appearance formed a remarkable contrast with the numerous groups of ladies arrayed in all the brilliancy and variety of demi-toilette. The Duke of Sutherland having introduced Mrs. Stows to the assembly, the following short address was read end presented to her by the Earl of Shaftesbury : " Madam,—l sin deputed by the Duchess of Sutherland, and the ladies of the two committees appointed to conduct ' The Address from the Women of England to the Women of America, on the subject of Slavery,' to express the high gratification they feel in your presence amongst them this day. The address, which has received considerably more than half a million of the signatures of the women of Great Britain and Ireland, they have already transmitted to the United States, consigning it to the care of those whom you have nomiaated as fit and zealous persona to undertake the charge in your absence. The earnest desire of these cow mitteet, and, indeed, we may say of the whole kingdom, is to cultivate the most friendly and affectionate relations be tween the two countries, and we cannot but believe that we are fostering such a feeling when we avow our deep admi ration of an American lady who, blessed by the lie ssessioa of vast genius and intellectual power, eujoys the still higher blessing that sbe devotes them to the glory of God and the temporal and eternal interests of the human e." The Rev. Mr. BEECHER (Mrs. Stowe's brother), after a few prefatory remarks of acknowledgmtut and thanks, read the following letter which had bten written to his sister : My dear Mrs. H. B. Stowe . . . . I am fully sensible of the small results of my efforts in the cause of emancipation, I will nut deny that your appreciation gives me great pleasure, and, I trust, not ignoble pride. Alas ! without such kind and cheering words, which I hove received from many sources, how coull I have stood so long up against such odds ? However much Providence had gifted me with iron purpose, the loss of caste in the social circle in which wo have been used to move is hard ; the obscurity from which the most fervent ambition cannot rescue us is hard ; the peril of good name, of life, and limb, is hard; but harder than all es the reflection that we are for ever unappreciated by those for whom we sacrifice our all. For if wo fail our memory perishes, the most melancholy idea of Siberian exile is the extinction of the name, when the burial stone not even marks the ashes of the past. The history of mankind therefore presents kw instances el sacri fice for the interior castes. The Graeehi fell in defence of the rights of the poor, and the winners in the contest branded their names with infamy from which the late jus tice of history' can hardly rescue them. It remained only to the Divine Messenger of our faith thus to softer and to conquer. Our plans of procedure in this ceuee are simple. We follow in the lead of our hearts rather than our intelligence, for I am not insensible of the almost indestructible power of the slaveholders. I venture to say that never before was an aristocracy based upon such firm bens. Slavery em braces almost ell the talent, the learning, and the bodily energy of the people. If the elaveholders had only the two first and the mass of the people the last we could be to them leaders and they to us power ; but, alas! whenever in the course of events men of action spring up, the first want of accumulated wealth is menial service, which here can only be slave labour. Thus the ownership of slaves places them at once on the side of the men in power. " Can we persuade men to lay down power ? Can the luxurious be induced to cease from luxury ? Can the lame walk or the blind see ? On the other hand, can we infuse spirit and maritime into hereditary dependence ? Can we make men firm when their bread wastes away ? Alas ! are not the dependent whites the slaves of the slaves ? " Still we ' never give up the ship,' because to give it up is to give up our idea of God ; we can't give it up because it would be to despair of all eventual elevation of the human race ; we caul give it up because our soul lives upon ideas of justice, of mercy, of truth. We perish with hunger, we must eat, and eat of them only. * * * • • We trust in Providence, but we trust with our shoulder to the wheel. By agitation we prepare the minds of the ruling powers for change. That at last, think they, cannot be so insufferable which so many men of all climee so ear nestly crave. Thus you of the north aid us—thu. England aids us—thus France aids us—thus.ell outcry of all mankind aids us. This, then, is, perhaps in my time, the mission of the free-soil party in tho slave states—to take care to keep untrammelled the freedom of speech and the press, and be the trumpet-tongued messengers of truth and the conscience of mankind. " This is the way of Providence, the undying aspirations for the right in the hearts of all true wen and women. This is the Divine. All humble and obscure as I am, lam yet too proud to flatter any one ; but honour to you that you have not buried your talent, nor repine against Him u a hard master. " Uncle Tom's Cabin " is the fruit of the embryo inspiration which God has planted in every human soul. Be of good cheer, you have not lived in vain through long centuries. Yes, I feel when slavery shall be no more, you hove erected • shrine around which the humble, the tainting, the famishing will gather, and be comforted and strengthened, and be at peace with men sad trustful of God. " Mrs. Clay gladly accepts the office of committeeman on the reception of the address of the ladies of England, pro ' vided it be not too late. It has been the solace of long ' years of painful effort, that she appreciates ley principle* and my purposes. Though all the world is lest, home is secure. " The vote cast for me advocating unconditional mud , nation on the soil wall near four thousand. The colonisation party did not sustain me. When they shall give up that "compromise" with slaveholders—if ever—our strength t will be greatly increased. ' Uncle Tom' is much reed in i Kentucky end all the south: here it is making doily con , verb to our cause. We are organised, have a feeble paper advocating our views, which we hope this summer to strengthen with an abler editor. We are few but deter r mined, and may God defend the right. * • " Your obedient servant, " C. M. CLAY." After partaking of refreshments, the ladies who were present congregated in one of the splendid saloons apart, and Ma. Stowe, seated between the Duchesses of Suther land and Argyll, entered freely into conversation with her numerous visitors. In the course of her observation!, she stated that the ladies of England were not at all aware of the real state of feeling of the ladies of America on the subject of slavery: it must not be judged of by the answer sent to the addreas nor by the statements in the American newspapers. The ladies of England seem not to be at all aware of the deep feeling of sympathy with which "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was received in America long before it was known in England. The press in America bail invariably spoken li:ghly of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." The first word that ever appeared in print against " Uncle Tom's Cabin " was the article is the Times, which was reprinted and re-echoed in the Ame rican papers, and widely circulated in the form of a tract• The bitterness and anger manifested against the ladies' address showed how much its force had enraged the advo cates of slavery. Ladies in England were happily ignorant of slavery ; yet that address had shown sympathy, sad sympathy was very sweet. There was no bitter feeling between the ladies of the two countries but the ladies of Amends cannot, because of their husbands' personal and political feelings, stand forth and say what they feel on the subject. Some hail said that " Uncle Tom's Cabin " was now for gotten ; but it should be mentioned hat 60,000 copies of the " Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin " were sold in three days. The practical question was what can be done to forward this great work ? She looked first to God, but man also could do something. Sympathy must continue to be es pressed. British subjects in Canada must be educated. The use of foe grown cbtton must be encouraged, and there were other ways in which this great work may be aided by the people of England, remembering, that after all, the issue is in the bends of Him that ordereth all things. The company began to disperse soon after 5 o'clock, ever, one appearing to be thoroughly gratified with the interesting proceeding of the day. Mrs. Stowe and her friends were among the last to lease, and were accompanied to the entrance hall by the Duchess of Sutherland, who there took leave of her quests. ROYAL COLLEGE OP SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen vitro admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Examiners, on the Gth icst.:-- Messrs. Henry Soussaint, Ceylon; George Alder Watson, Scarborough ; Jesse Conway Davies, Hulywell, Flint!birei Charley; Hemming, Kimbolton, Hunts; Philip VI nrrcn Mathias, Cardigan; James Ray, Lowestoft, Su ff olk; Sutherland, Hon. East India Company's Service : Oa fet!3x Williams, Rolston, Devonport; Arthur Anthony Harps. Wardington, Oxfordshire ; Edward Snell Wa ll is , Dub lin : and Lloyd Herbert, St. Mary's Bourne, Hampshire. PA WAYS . Argled• order / A mite maid ; APto, Ar!pd Barini Bates. Bland Ilowp Buabl Built ChOat Cony Davie Dove' Diara Dunn Emu) YuUei Greet Grogi mitt dere on E trop ____ Lon Mel —cc Con ant the Hi ful rec