The Express. — London, England, 1852-05-14 00:00:00

Zhe erpreoo. TO CORMIIIIPONDSNTB. oasool WM= el .llto Illspook" JJAW.JB :Jo wow mob*, thu•olo," Is onollolood Joey Twiny and Maw slab; J thaw Jr pail. att•ltt sow. to hotroJl Mot "TM" Kamm." lank. riff. At tbr thAlee. la. Matitsii*ettelt, Ton &dodo on Jo 111011 WALVIS AT LONDON BRIDOZ. Tony u.,— .. I LL iiilts... NM. T...kozarnr—alolll4. IS& 7E6 LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY 14. THAT manila of EMT eseetinge, Exeter-hall, was last night the mono of same explanations calculated to attract very giessnil attention. The occasion was a gathering of - ths friends of religious liberty, to consider the UM of the Rev. Messrs. WI,tuATE, Warn, and EOM tßus, three protestant missionaries, recently expelled from the Austrian dominions, where they had been sent by the General Nis sionary Society of the Free ('hutch of Scotland. In tlw course of the pruceeitings a correspondeoee was mule public that had passed between the ex pelled preachers and our Forvignmffice, and as the letters upiwar in another coluum, our readers will have an opportunity of judging for themselves bow our present Foreign Minister maintains the ancient character of England in his communications with other powers. We are not now going into the question of how far it may be wise for English or Scottish churches to send missionaries into continental states on the one band, nor into the warm views of those speak• is who at the meeting yesterday warmly, and amid t he cheers of their auditors, pointed out the gene ral alliance bet ween Romanism and despotic power. In the present case it will be enough to draw attention to the documents to which we have referred, and to couple the facts they present with some other occur rences of recent date. Since the advent of the present government it has been with them a treat object to obtain nn additional military force. To achieve that end they have declared England to bo so weak, that she is at present unable to repel any aggressor who might choose to land upon tier shores. This statement, denied by the liberals. has been so constantly reite rated by those iu authority, that foreign powers, es pecially Austria and Italy, have done our rulers the hmour of believing the statement; and there is now on the continent a very general belief of our utter helplessness. England is popularly regarded as being—if not in a second dotage—at least in so complete a state of helpless wealthy plethora as to be incapable of energetic action, and hence a readiness to act upon so uncompli mentary a belief. Tuscany sees an unarmed Englishman cut down by the sabre of an armed Austrian, and denies redress; in the streets of Leghorn an officer—ashore for amusement from an English ship of war—is dragged by au inso lent Italian police force to gaol, to be there kept in disgraceful duress; and the people of Florence are further astonished to learn that the commander of the ship whose subordinate was thus violently and illegally taken to gaol was denounced as deserv ing reprimand for having procured the release of his unoffending countryman. in Rome, meanwhile, we find an English subject king in the dungeons of the Papacy upon a charge winch his accusers shrink from producing before an open tribunal, and there kept until all Italy, France, and. England are startled by the intelligence that—nntricd before a fair or responsible court—he has been condemned to death. lime is a catalogue of insults and injuries unexplained and unredressed, and only to be understood upon the explanation that foreign states have taken English ministers at their weed, and believe her to be too helpless or too indolent to stretch forth a hand for the pro tectio:i of Englishmen abroad. But there cases are not all. Whilst Mr. MATHER is suffering from a sabre cut in Florence; whilst Sergeant DAGGS 5 in limbo at Leghorn whilst Captain Coon, of the steam-ship Vengeance, is under Tuscan ban ; and Mr. MURRAY is lying in the condemned cell at Rome, the influence of Austria is in another quart, r being exercised for the still further injury of our national interests. Two protestant mines ten are at Peath, and a third at Lemburg, in Poland. Neither, it should be observed, are in Austria proper. In Hungary, at all events, they had as protestants a legal right to entertain their faith, but under the new r ,, giine all such rights are set at nought. Of old the Eureaoa was absolute even over the church, but now it seems Austria groans under two tyrannies—that of the EMPEROR, acd that of the local Romish bishops, and though accredited visitors to the country, and though their papers were perfectly en regfr, these Englishmen were sans r«tbtoono. ordered out of the Austrian do minion*. We pay many thousands a year to an ambassador at pa y many but of course Lord WEST 1104ELAND was too busy with his violins and his menses to attend to the grievances of his injured countrymen, and Messrs. WING tTE., Stain, and Eliwsittei were expelled. The moral of all this may, as we have said, be gleaned from the fact that our present rulers have not only preached to the whole world our helpless ness, but have exhibited an unmistakable leaning towards despotic powers. The tory journals have claimed for Lord NIALMEABCRT great credit for having concluded some negotiations long pending between England and some foreign stater. The present FOREIGN SUM/TART has, say his adettiontsi ar ranged the differences with Tuscany, aid ha nor over retitled the settlement of the vexed quietism d lichleswig-Holstein. But if the Tuscan couspidds have been smothered it has been by betraying BM just claims of Englishmen ; whilst in the question of the banish succession Lord MALMESIMMT has clearly played the game of Austria, France, and Russia. We are now told that Aus tria is our " ancient ally," this being urged when the interests of Prussia are spoken of as compromised. But surely our truest allies are to be found amongst the protestant free-trade state, of northern Germany. With them we have interests in common. But Lord Mststr.stsear ignores the Mesons of history—forgets the powers that stood by England at Waterloo, and plans against Prunes into the hands of her southern ana northern antagonists. And so English travellers are sabred by Austrians in Florence, English seamen are snubbed' in Leninism, and English protestant preachers arc kicked saws sink maxis out of Hungary and Galicia. IT will be seen, from documents which we pub huh in this day's impression, that the local committee of Blackburn hare followed the example of the local committees of Warrington, Belfast, and other im portant towns, and requested the Royal Commis sioners for the Exhibition of 1831, to appropriate the sum contributed by that town towards the Ex hibition guarantee fund, to aid in the establishment of a local free library and museum. It will also be seen that the only answer vouchsafed to this applica tion has been Mr. EDG‘a BowntsCs stereotyped letter. The Royal Commissioners have met all applica tions of this kind by declarations of what they think they cannot, or of what they will not, do with the sum made up of the contributions to the guarantee fund, and tho surplus receipts at the doors of the Exhibition. We would now beg leave to remind them, with all the delicacy which pertains to the mooting of such a delicate question, that it is high time they told, not only their memorialists, but the public at large, what they intend to do with this sum. A report on the subject is, we understand, now being' prepared for press. Before it is issued the Royal Commissioners will do well to consider thoroughly the full bearings of the case they are called upon to decide. The Waimea of the Exhibition is now finally wound up. The articles exhibited have been re turned to the exhibitors or otherwise disposed of; the Crystal Palace has been ordered to be pulled down ; tho expenditure and the receipts of tho Com missioners have been ascertained, and a balance struck ; the Commissioners having nothing left to do, but to dispose of a surplus that remains in their hands. What do they intend to do with it? If— s, they seem disposed to do—they retain this sur plus, not making any visible use of it, and withhold ing all information as to what they are doing or intending to do with it, they will expose themselves to very ugly suspicions. For anything that at present appears to the contrary, they mean to invest the money in some way or other, and, out of the interest allowed them, to pay their secretary, who can now hare no- .11111 Mon thing to iebnitoirsw t iaterest, as a salary for his taxi& Theo is only one word in the English longues that thowilies fly such a peemeding, and drat rod Ws& It is tieas Nat in the report, • copy of which 111111 1111111 loammitted by Mr. Easisa Hispania to the NM elms and other memoMlsts, some wonderful eisseart which the Commissioners have in view is ohmurely hinted at. But except that this scheme is not of a" limited, partial, or local character," nothing is known about it to the public, nor even, it would appear, to the Commissioners themselves. They admit that their project is yet vague, undefined, and shapeless. They admit that the money they have in Land would be quite inadequate to realise any scheme of national utility. They, however, give it to be understood that they will keep fast hold of the surplus fund until, in the first place, they have devised some plan for spending a great deal of money ; and, in the second place, until they have persuaded parliament to entrust them with money for carrying this yet unformed plan into effect. In short, they say with poor Lear—hut not exactly with his single-minded lunacy—" they will do sudi things--what y et they are they know not ;" and that they will keep the surplus fund in their possession till the Cruet Culends. We have heard of mcu so fond of fingering money, that no client could ever get it out of their hands, though they abstained from using it themselves: the Royal Commissioners would appear to belong to this unaccountable class. The state of the case, wo repeat, is this. A surplus land remains in the hands of the Commissioners, now that the business of their commissien is at an end. They cannot with common decency pocket this sum themselves, or allow their agents to pocket it. The surplus of the money taken at the doors is yes nullius; the money sub scribed to the guarantee fund was contributed on the express understanding that it was in no case to be refunded—i. e., to the individuals subscribing. Here is a sum, then, that belongs to nobody. It is agreed on all hands that it ought to be applied "to purpor strictly in connexion with the cods of the EA - tion." . The Commissioners have no such purposes is view. The memorialists from Blackburn and else where suggest that to expend the surplus Lund in promoting local free libraries and museums, would be to " apply it to purpose: strictly in keeping with the ends of the Exhibition. They add that to this end every locality that subscribed to the guarantee fund, should receive the amount of its subscription on be coming bound to apply it in aid of the establish ment or maintenance of a local free library and museum. They leave it to tho Com missioners to distribute the sum that has at crued from the surplus receipts at the doors to the best of their judgment. No other party hiui pro-1 poseel any other mode of expending the surplus fund. There is one, and only one, proposal before the publics for applying the surplus " to purposes strictly in con nexion with the ends of the Exhibition." The Commis sioners refuse to adopt that proposal, but offer none in its stead. They will keep the money useless, or will waste it upon a secretary, who has nothing to do. They will emulate the dog in the manger, who denied the ox the hay which was of no use to himself. The position assumed by the Royal Commissioners in utterly untenable. To shame them out of it, nothing more is required than to oblige them to argue the question publicly. To bring upon them the pressure necessary for this purpose, the public are entitled to look to the local committees, who collected and transmitted subscriptions to the guarantee fund. These gentlemen aro responsible to the subscribers in particular, and to the public in general, for the right application of the fund. They have most of them at heart the promotion of local free libraries and siteseums; they arc connected, most of them, with incipient institutions of that nature; it is their duty, as it is the inclination of many of them, to follow the example set by the local committees of Warrington, oxikermouth;Bolton, Belfast, and Blackburn. From what we can learn there are some of the Commissioners who would gladly support • general representation from the contributing towns. They I feel annoyed by the awkward position in which the dog-in-the-manger policy of their colleagues has placed them. Their annoy ance has certainly not been diminished by the singular lack of delicacy which led Mr. BszLEY—himself a Commissioner— to use his vote and influent* in • tartiater the local committee of Ma•ehdse, ea provost it bee moving in aid of Blackballs, Mil ether plates that have memorialised. Than is anew roans te baikve that a general expressionatopiaion from the contri buting towns would induce the Commissioners to abandon their present no•ciews as to the disposition of the surplus fund. INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (DT ELICTIIC TELLORAPII.) We have received our usual telegraphic despatch from Trieste dated the 13th inst. Our dates from Bombay are to the 17th of April. The troops for Burmah were all embarked by the 30th of March. The whole force was to unite before Rangoon on the sth of April, and Rangoon was ex pected to be in our possession by the 10th of the same month. The forces would then advance as speedily as possible further up into the country be fore the rainy season, and would then await reinforce ments and the return of more favourable weather. The expedition under Sir Colin Campbell returned to Peshawar on the 7th of March. Three days afterwards, however, new outbreals upon the fron tiers were reported, and it was expected the troops would again be sent off. Money was in demand. Company's Five per Cent., 104} ; Four per Cents., 91. Exchange on London, at three months eight, 2s. Old. per rupee. Import calm ; export ditto. Cotton from 85 to 101 rupees per candy. Freights for London and Liver pool, 31. 10s. to 31. 15a. per ton. MAy 13, 5.30 P.Y. The Indian Mail has arrived. Dates—Caleutta, April 7 ; Bombay, 17th ; Chins, March 23. The last expedition with troops for Butmah left Calcutta March 27, and from Madras the 31st. Exchange at Calcutta, Is. 11;d. to Is. 11.,;(1. Money is abundant. THE MAURITIUS. REDUCTION OF TAXATION. Ws learn by Port Louis papers, bearing date Feb. 2, that a reduction of taxation, to the extent of 20,0001., has been pro=d by the Gove rn or of this colony. The expert of 6d. on sugars, the 9uay dues, and the Post.eare are those which are pointed out for retteetlee. The sent of revenue surren dered is apportion& ie IbUowe :—Export quay does, 3,5301.; expert duty se sew, 7,5001. ; harbour dues, 1,0001. ; regintrades arm 3,000 L ; postage, say 1,0004 Total, 20.000 . 1. . . . In the minute le the legislative council, announc ing theme easesidene, his Excellency states his rea sons kw the moon in the following terms : As it is deem thee a somewhat larger moms is likely to le. rued hem asiming sweet of taxation than is required for the purposes of revenue, sad at the present surplus of web over liabilities, augmented by the enema of last year's reissue, is now sufacient to guerd the mks, spiket the 1111111ftemsiss of a sudden demand for expendi ture, them memo se emeelen tit amiateleisy an annul exam of nmenee, lad it beeemes eamelleat to remit taxa tion to the extent that an with safety and propriety be granted. In eineinsion, he says : I benne se may rely in costidence on the buoyancy and eleseleity steer local resources, prudently and energetically AfsoMedi is the undeniable advantages of our geographical , lag nttetNlme yeeltion, thetere.l and developed by a free sad nneeeltisted eemmaree with the markets of the world; and on ear awneweytagyeaspete of a continuous supp ly of mew wreemmehla tame, which our organ' and healthy system of Immigration is well calculated to secure. In these essential eisments of progress, it may be &farmed that Mauritius stands unrivalled, or is at least unsurpassed, by any other competing country. And I cherish the con victual that they will enable her to surmount the obstacles that remain to be encountered, ultimately to rest the foundations of her prosperity on a stable and enduring basis. ---, His Excellency's propositions were subsequently adopted by the council, and came into operation on Feb. 6. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1852. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY ReMenge. The Mowing letter, dated " Venice, April 27," has been addressed to his friends in France by the Count do Chambord : knee the *vests of the month of December last, I have several times made known to my friends the nature of my sentimens, my wishes, and my daises. But, considering the language lately held by the chief of the priming govern ment, and the tendencies which are store and more mani fested Heel the necessity of again addressing a few words to all 'those who have till now remained, and who wish still to remain, faithful to the principle of which I am the representative, a principle which can alone secure to France bee repose, her happiness, end her liberties. I shall, there fore, frankly and loyally explain the line of conduct which it appears to me necessary to adopt under the present cir cumstances, without concealing the sacrifices which it re quires from theirdevotednees. The brat duty of roys/ists is to do no act, to enter into no engagement, in opposation with their political faith ; firmly emanated that the salvation of the country is attached to the re-establishment of the legitimate monarchy, they ought, above all, to endeavour to maintain intact the prin ciples of which it is the basis. Thus, then, whatever ad vantage may be obtained by Elting positions and offices which place them in relation and habitual contact with the people, they must nut hesitate to refuse all such in case engagements or promises be required from them contrary to their prisciples, and which would not permit them to do in all circumstances what their isonvictions im- pose on them. Hut even where the royalists should find themselves forced by motives of conscience, honour, and loyalty, to re nounce all public functions, there still devolve on them duties, and important duties, to fulfil towards France and to society. Let them continue to reside as much as possible, and as I have not ceased to request them, in the midst of the population on whom they can exercise influence, and let them try, by rendering themselves useful, to acquire each day still greater claims to their confidence and their grati tude. They may also (and even they are bound to do so) aid the government in the struggle it carries on against anarchical and socialist doctrines • and if • new crisis un happily should arise, they ought still (as they have already done) to show themselves the most zealous and the most courageous defenders of social order. bverthing strengthens the belief that an attempt will soon be made to effect a considerable change in the form of the government. They who are attached to monarchy will not oppose by violence that new experiment, for, by my example, they will abstain from doing anything which could trouble the repose of the country; but it will be come a rigorous obligation to protest formally„and by every means in their power of a pacific kind, against a change which can only have fetid consequences by endangering the destinies of France, and exposing it once more to catas trophes and to perils, from which the legitimate monarchy only can save it. I shall here repeat what I have often said to my Mends —be unalterable on matters of principle, but, at the same time, be calm, patient, and ever moderate and conciliating towards persons; let your ranks, your hearts, like mine, remain continually open to all. l'erhaps some per , ons amongst you, retained by various modem will not at first follow the path which 1 have just indicated; but enlight ened at a future period by experience, and by the course of events, they will all return to us, I have no doubt, and we shall receive them then with happiness. Let us receive also with eagerness, and with cordiality, all those of other opinions who are approaching to us each day, and who bring to us the valuable aid of their zeal, their intelligence, and their patriotism. It is on presenting to France the reassuring spectacle of the intimate anion of the entire monarchical force that we shall bring her to finally renounce so many fruitless designs, and to recognise of * herself where her best and surest future is. _ _ We are all thrown on times of trials and of sacrifices and my friends will not forget that it is from the land of exile that I make this new appeal to their constancy and their devoti dues'. Happier days are yet in store for France, and for us: lam certain of the fact. It is in my ardent love for my country, it is in the hope or serving it, of being able to serve it, that I gather the strength and the courage ne cessary for me to accomplish the great duties which have been imposed on me by Providence. It is lit and proper that the necessary measures be adopted, that the present instructions, written and signed by my hand, shell, with the utmost possible promptitude, be brought to the knowledge of all my friends, for it is of im hartance that none of them shall have to complain that he s not been informed at the proper period of the intentions and the desires which I have manifested. HENItY. An article of the Constitutionnel, upon the attitud prescribed to the legitimists by the Prince whose title they support, has stirred much sensation. The above letter has been handed about during some days past in the salons of the Faubourg St. Germain, in which the Count de Chambord issues, under the form of a private communication to a leading legitimist, a sort of manifesto, describing the course he wishes to be pursued by his partisans under present circumstances. The drift of the Constitutuninsi is to call public attention to the preciac order of the exiled prince, and to teach public opinion to measure *bolero° of the legitimist party hy the number of legitimists who obey their chief. Now, as probe bly only a very small minority of chevaliers preuz will comply with instructions, which would cut down their incomes, abdicate their influence, and impair the sinews of their faction, the prettotion of the Constautionnel to claim as sincere adherents to Louis Napoleon all the legitimists who take the oath is more complimentary to their principles than con sonant to common sense. The article says: As no one doubts the docility with which these iniunc• lions will be followed, we may expect a new evolution of the legitimist party ; it is the abandonment of the policy which the men usually considered as theguides of thi , party base made prevail for several years, and particularly since 1848 ; it is the triumph of what the Fsubourg St. Germain itself calls the pailique des dues. The arrival of the letter alluded to is the most serious event that has occurred among the legitimist party since the manifesto of Wiesbaden. If it be an ineontestible adnn tage for a government to see clearly into the conduct and progress of its adversaries, and to know with certainty on what it may or may not reckon, we cannot see with dis pleasure the new movement of the legitimist party ; if it suits it to now number its forces, we can only regard it as a useful lesson for it and for France. Another letter has been received at Paris, which makes scarcely less noise than that of the Count do Chambord. General Changarnier has addressed from his exile at Moline; in Belgium, to General do St. Arnaud, the minister of war, a refusal to take the oath. (This letter appears in another column). It is expected that the generals who were General Changarmer's companions in the prison of Ham, will also refuse the oath. By this means they will lose the pay which they receive at present as officers en dispontbilittg, and only receive the pension of generals retraite. The dinner given by the President of the Repub lic to the superior officers of the army of Paris, and to the officers who had come to be present at the dis tribution of the eagles, took place yesterday . at the Tuileries. The guests began to arrive at six in the evening, and were 800 in number. Tho tables were sot out in the grand gallery : The Prince arrived at eleven and, alter conversing a short time with sewer:Ll officers, led the way to dinner. The banquet continued until nine o'clock, alter which the prima sad his guests proceeded to the theatre, already ied by a considerable number of ladies, corps, and a certain number of the 11111111111111116 tbs great bodies of the state, in official sualsaa Ths company of the Theatre Francais gAdNNalessoiselle de la Seigliere;" and that of the Oeudgue the " Rendezvous Bourgeois." This theatre, which has never been opened since the revo- Won of February, was first built by Louis XIV., Sir the first representation of Moliere's "Psyche." Louis 15th, when ten years old, danced upon its boards with several grandees of his court, in the comedy of the Inconno." In 17;10 Servandoui, the architect, obtained permission from Louis 16th to perform pantomimes and spectacles for his own be- Dent and for the improvement of his pupils in the alto: decoration. After the fire which destroyed a pat of the Pattie Royal in 1763, the Opera was for a lies roativrd to the Tuileries theatre. In 1770 it allimbelliegiblity to the comedians of the Fosses St. Oceiaski, whose theatre was tumbling down. It was hers that on March 30, 1778, Voltaire, on his return tem Ferny to Paris, was the object of that enthusigelle ovation which preceded his deigh. Oa entering his box a unanimous cry arose el " the esawn, the crown." One of the king's eassdians advanced and placed it upon his head in the presence of Count d'Artois, afterwards Charles X. When the curtain fell, after the per. formance of " Irene," it rose immediately afterwards, and discovered the whole company grouped around Voltaire's bust, which was crowned by Madame Vestris, who sang some venire in honour of the philo sopher. After being ransacked by the snob in 1792, transformed into a parliament house for the sittings of the convention in 1793, and serving, after the expiration of the convention, for the ancients who sat up to the 18th Brumaire, it was restored to its pri mitive destination under the empire. It has been entirely renovated since the 2nd of December. Last evening Mdlle. Judith came forward between the and reed a long copy of verses, by Alph o n se re c r e P upon the return of the eagle. A beariet is to be given to-day by the President of dos Depiablic to about 2,000 non-commissioned limn and soldiers composing the deputations from veglasats not in Paris that were sent to represent ►etraik. their reipletlve caps at the distribution of the eagles. Die l=ent will be given in the spisetbd tent Greeted hr the ball at the Emle Militaiew when the dmorations still remain. It is expected that the Or esident will appear in the coarse el the dinner, and address a few words to his military pests. The President is expected to pay a flying visit to Havre, to inspect the Brine Hortense steam-frigate, which will shortly arrive at that port. The Moteiteter contains the following commaii-1 cated note, with reference to a part of the pawls& of the confiscation of the Orleans property : The Prises-President, by his decree of the 22nd it January last, appropriated a sum of ten millions to the ma. attraction of more healthy dwellings for the workmen in tarp towns. Ont of this sum three millions will be devoted to the erection of three model establishments in the three most populous arrondissements of Paris. Each of theme establishments is to satisfy all the conditions et the following programme .—To erect a building in whisk married or unmarried workmen may have a healthy sad airy residence, suitably warmed, li*hted, and provided with water, in which each family may live completely apart, and where the only thing in common both for them and for the public will be a large wash-house, for bathing, for washing linen, and offering every facility for drying. The essential condition of these buildings, which are to serve as models for private industry, is that they may be erected with such economy, and on a plan so precise, that the workmen may be the better although moire cheaply lodged; and, on the other hand, that the proprietor may find a proper interest for their money. The problem has been solved in England, and it will be, we doubt not, in France ; and, in order to secure this solution, the Prince President makes an appeal to the architects of Paris. A premium of 5,000 fr. is offered from his private purse to whoever shall produce the best plan. General St. Arnaud is said to have prepared a re- I port of the military ceremony of the 10th ; but some difficulty occurs as to its appearance in the libmilear, as it would be awkward to affirm the cries of Vive l'Empereur r while the omission would lead people to argue the coldness of the troops in the imperial cause. 1 mentioned some days ago that the administration of the state domains had operated the seizure of the chateau and estate of ltaincy, belonging to the Orleans family. It appears that the minister ' of finances is considerably embarrassed as to the sale of these domains; as those who could best afford to become buyers are not favourable to the goveniment,.while the adherents of the Presi dent, who have money to spare, scarce deem the in vestment a safe one. So that between the capitalists, who are shy out of prudence and those who decline the purchase upon principle, there are likely to be few bidders in the field. Hence the President will, if disposed to acquire certain estates like Chantilly, enjoy a good chance of getting a princely estate dirt cheap. The present of Louis Napoleon to M. de Persigny on his marriage is to be half a million of francs, paid in annuities of a thousand pounds sterling per annum for twenty years. M. de Seville, an officer of engineers, and aide-dc camp of the President, is spoken of as likely to sup plant M. Lefebvre I)urufl6 in the Ministry of Pubhc Works. The electric telegraph between- Paris and Lyons is open to-day for private communication. It is an nounced that by the 29th of September the line of wires will be completed to Marseilles. The society for the encouragement of national in dustry has just fixed the pnzcs to be awarded in 1853. Among them are the following :—For a new and improved spinning machine for flax, 4,000 fr.; for a conclusive demonstration of the resistance of metals at different degrees of temperature, 6,000 fr.; for a satisfastory substitute for isinglass in fining beer, 2,000 fr.; for a salubrious process as a subrel tute for the steeping of flax and hemp, 6,0001 r.; for improvements in the carbonisation of wood, 2,000 fr.; for a more economical process in the manufacture of bougies, 4,000 fr.; for the culture in France of fari naceous roots fit for food hitherto not cultivated in Europe, and which would be a substitute for potatoes, 10,000 fr. ; for improvements in the cultivation of beet root, 5,000 fr.; for a satisfactory demonstration of the nature of soil and its expedition in the produce of different kinds of wood, 5,000 fr. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell 5c., and closed at 99.90; the Three per Cents. rose 5c., closing at 70.45. Railways again fell. Rouen, 7.50; Orleans, 5 ; Central, Northern, Strasbourg, and Dieppe, 2.50 each ; Sceaux,lo. However, Marseilles rose &fr., and Lyons, 1.25. IMPORRANT FROM TUSCANY. The Piedmontese Gazette gives the following intel ligence, without date : " A decree of the Grand Duke of Tuscany constitutes the government oa the same basis as before 1848. Tho constitu tion and civic guard arc abolished. The ministers are henceforward responsible to the Grand Duke ; the Council of State is separated from that of the ministers. The communal law of 1819 and the law on the press are to be revised. GERMANY. A telegraphic despatch from Frankfort-on-the- Main states that the Federal Diet has issued a friendly monition to the Senate of that free city, reminding it that by the Concluding Act of Vienna Frankfort is constituted a Christian state, and must so remain. The Diet fears that in the new constitu tion now under discussion too much may be conceded to the Jews. BADEN. The Carlaruher Zeiul4cOutains an article upon the refusal of the (catholic) Archbishop of Freiburg to celebrate the religious office for the late Grand Duke. The semi-official organ says: The sovereign, whether protestant or catholic, is the ruler of all his subjects, without distinction of coniession—it is his csalted vocation to care alike for all. For this reason all the cenfemions send up their prayers to heaven on his behalf It is doubly astonishing that any one should refuse the usual offices to the Grand Duke Leopold, who was a truly peaceful and benevolent prince. It is conceivable that strife may occasionally arise between the church and the state ; but there is at least one spot where all embitterment should cease—the grave, where a noble prince has found his resting place. HUNGARY. The Father Zestung contains the sentences of court martials condemning eleven personages to death by hanging, for high treason committed during the events of 18404-49, Forty-ono other persons are sentenced to imprisonment of various terms, with confiscation of their goods. A great camp of evolution is to be formed on the sth of Juno at Ceegled and Heresstur, in Hungary. All the disposable cavalry of the 3rd Army Corps, and 30 batteries, will manceuvre during forty days. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Oriental Company's steam packet Tagus, Capt. Thos. Russell, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of lieutediant P. Rainier, It.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are : ' Gibraltar, May 4; Cadiz, May 5; Lisbon, May 9 ; Oporto, May 10; Vigo, May 10. The Tagus brings 40 passengers. Lord Howden had reached Gibraltar, and visited the squadron on the 4th. The squadron was to sail on the 6th on a cruise for a fortnight, when they were to assemble at Gibraltar to meet the Admiral about the 2lth. No news from Cadiz, save that all the papers, but the Coniniercio, were suppressed. From Lisbon particulars were heard of an accident which befel the Queen on her tour in the provinces. At Bucellos, on the night of the ith inst., the house in which she lodged caught fire, and the royal family and their suite were forced to take refuge in a dwelling belonging to the Count do Terceira. lier Majesty's ships at Gibraltar were the Albion, Vengeance, Indefatigable, Terrible, Janus, Antelope. Phaeton left Lisbon on the 3rd to join the squadron at Gibraltar. In the Tagus, on the 9th, - H.M.S. Dragon. Our Lisbon correspondent, writing on the 9th, as 'a: We have received an account of an earthquake which took place at St. Michael's, on the 16th ult., and which did considerable damage, attended by the loss of 7 lives. There had previously been much rain and wind, but the 16th was dry and hot, in the afternoon the atmosphere began to thicken, or rather darken. and about 10 o'clock at night a violent shock was felt, accompanied by a great sub terranean noise. The convulsion threw down houses and walls, ruined others, and opened chums; the people fled in all directions. About 25 minutes alter 4 am., on the 17th, another shock was felt less violent. The whole par ticulars are not yet known, but those which have been ascertained show that l'onta Delgada is pretty nearly • heap of ruins; the tower of the church also fell, and caused much damage to that edifice, the same thing happened at Feteiras. The vessel found derelict at sea, which the Dragon brought in dismasted and water-logged, is dis charging her cargo of fine white pine balk. No papers have been timid, or other materiels, by which anything regarding her can be known. The name, "Gilmour," is on her anchor, and other parts are also marked with Eng lish names. }her hurtbcn isahout 1,000 tons. The intelli gence of the Queen's progress is of the ordinary character addresses, triumphal arches, human, &c. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS. (By Electric Telegraph.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRRSCONDENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, FitiDAY MORNING. The Severn has arrived, with the South American maiie. Her dates are: Buenos Ayres, April 3; Monte Video, 6 ; Rio Janeiro, 14; Bahia, P 4 ; Per nambuco, 21 : St. Vincent, 30; Teneriffe, May 5; Madeira, 6; and Lisbon, 10. There is no political news of any consegnence. Everything in confusion at Buenos Ayres, from the number of lawless persons abroad. At Rio they were contemplating a brush with Monte Video, to enforce the treaty entered into before the defeat of 'togas, the parties in power now refusing to ratify that part of it which makes the rivers Parana and Uruguay free to Brazilian ships. SWEDEN. The impulse towards emigration appears to be working among the Swedes almost as powerfully as upon their southern neighbours. The Gotheborga Mandela och SAfarts Tidning has the following:— Emigraau to the United States of North America arrive here almost daily from the interior. It is now quite com• mon to see a whole train of waggons closely packed with household gear and children moving through our streets, followed by the men and their wives on foot. Some of these people have just eatliedoat noun to enable them to secure a passage; Woes was peer and destitute that, to raise the necessary MIMS,. lbw make a compact with better furnished emigrants, eargisitig, In return for passage money, to serve with them a essildu period as labourers after their arrival in America. TURKEY. The Austrian Lloyd states that a customs treaty for three years has been signed between the Austrian and Turkish governments. A letter from Constantinoplestates that the Turkish government has adopted the basis of the treaty of the Sanitary Congress of Paris, and has decided on organ izing its quarantine system according to European ideas. LIVERPOOL AND TILE AUSTRALIAN " DIGOINS."— ing to the recent discoveries in the auriferous districts of Australia the passenger traffic from Liverpool to the ports of Sydney and Melbourne has increased conaiderahly, and bids fair to be a profitable Source of income to the Liverpool shipowners. A number of large sailing vessels which have latterly been comparatively idle are sow in the various graving docks, undergoing repairs and alterations, with a view of being used for the Australian passenger traffic service. At present emigranta arrive in Liverpool more quickly than they are carried nut, in consequence of the number of ship', being less than the demand requires. A vessel will sail on the Pith with upwards of 1100 emi grants from the government depot at Birkenhead. The gold fever is affecting persons in respectable positions of life at Liverpool, and many are preparing to bid adieu to that port. GENERAL CHANGARNIER AND LOUIS NAPOLEON. The following letter, in reply to Louis Napoleon's decrees on the oath. has been published : "Matinee, May 10, 18.12, 10 o'clock, A.Y. "M. le Ministre,—During 36 years I have served France with a devotion which might be equalled, but which could not be surpassed. "Under the Restoration I held a grade in the army proportional to the then obscurity of the services 1 had rendered. " Under the government of July the elvinces of war raised me rapidly to the station of lieutenant-general. " Twelve days after the proclamation of the Republic, when M. the Due d'Aumale, whom I had just re-conducted on hoard the Solon, honouring him with a salute from the artillery of the Place do la Marine, as if the King Louis Philippe still inhabited the Tuileries, had left me the go. vernment of Algeria ad interim. " I wrote to the Minister of the Interior that I had not wished for the proclamation of the Republic, but that it did not appear to me to change my duties towards my coun'ry ; the provisional government slid not break my sword, and on the 16th April it had no cause to regret being able to make use of it. A short time after that day I was appointed Governor-General of Africa. I soon left that high position, where everything was easy for me to effect, to respond to the confidence of the electors of Paris, who called me to the Constituent Assembly. General Caysignac, charged with the executive government, atter the days of June, 1848, at which time I was absent, named me on the 30th of June commander-in-chief of the National Guards of the Seine. On the 14th of December, of the same year, General Cavaignac having desired me to call at the hotel he oceupied, Rue de Varennes, told me, in the pretence of nll the ministers, that the police believed in a Bonapartist movement, prepared to profit by the ceremony of the anniversary of the translation of the remains of the Emperor to the Invaliies, in order to excite the popular enthusiasm to conduct Napoleon Bonaparte to the Tuile ries, and to proclaim him emperor. General Cavaignae finished by asking my opinion on the measures to be taken. I gave him it, and finished by saying, ' My dear General, I have given my hand to Louis Napoleon to make bins a president—not an emperor. In a few days he will be Pre sident of the Republic ; but you may depend upon it that it is not to-morrow that he will enter the Tuileries, where you have established my quarters-general.' These words expressed briefly, but exactly, my unshake• able determination to remain—what in all my life I have been—a man of order and of the law. " Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has several times attempted to make me deviate from the right line which I had traced to myself in order to determine me to serve his ambition. He has often offered me, and made other persons offer me, not only the dignity of Marshal, which France would have seen conferred upon me without considering itself fallen, but another military dignity which, since the fall of the Empire, has ceased to dominate our hierarchy. He wished to attach to that dignity enormous pecuniary advantages, which, thanks to the simplicity of my habits, I had no merit in disdaining. Having perceived, when very late, that personal interest had no influence on my conduct, he endeavoured to gain me over by pretending that he was re solved to prepare for the triumph of the cause of the monarchy, to which he 'unposed that I was devoted by my predilections. All these kinds of seductions were power less. I never ceased to be, when in the command of the army of Paris and in the Assembly, ready, as I once stated during a sitting of the committee of permanence, after the reviews at Satory, to defend with energy the legal powers of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and to give every opposition to the illegal prolongation of those powers. • It is not to you that it is necessary to tell how tbss powers have been established under a new form, and what 1 iniquitous and violent acts have accompanied his installs. lion. I " Persecution has not cooled my patriotism. The exile ',bleb I item undergone in solitude and silence, which now I pea fors se to break, has not changed in my eyea my ' &Ma le Finage. el Wan M to be attacked. I would solicit with ardour the berm et ling in its defence. " The French journal which I here see has just in honed.4., me the decree which determines the mode of I taking the oath—which is to be demanded from all military authorities. A paragraph, evidently drawn up in order to be applied to the proscribed generals, gives them a delay of four months. I have no need of deliberating so long upon a question of duty and honour. " This oath—exacted by the perjured man who lin failed to corrupt me—this oath I refuse. (Signed) '. CUANOARNIEII. POSTAGE TO THE COLONIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sts,—The government is now deliberating as to the postal rates drat shall be charged on correspon dence to be sent by steamers under the new mail can • . Use your powerful voice to induce tho government to tx the postage on letters conveyed to Australia, India, and West Coast of Africa by the new contract packet companies at Rd. each, and let the prepayment of that postage, by means of stamps, be compulsory. City, May 13. MERCATOR. HEI'IIY,t3ENTATON etEWISDaent.—WINDSOR,TIWILI DAT EVININO.—The melancholy intelligence of the death of Major4ieneral M.l'., which took place at his resi dence in London on Wednesday morning, diffused a very general gloom throughout the town yesterday evening. It I was known that the general was suffering from a severe I attack of bilious fever during the whole of last week, but I it was stated that he had passed the most dangerous crisis, I and the intelligence of his death took his friends, in this I town, completely by surprise. General Iteid succeeded to the representation of \Vindisor in October, 1t45, on the death of the late John Itemobottom, Esq., was re-elected without opposition (in conjunction with the late Lord John Hay) at the general election of 1847, and by his death ono of the scats for the royal borough is vacant. Mr. Charles William °rental, one of the sitting members for Sandwich, is the liberal candidate at the approaching general election, and it is understood that he will accept the Chiltern Hundreds, and offer himself for the present vacancy. WINCUESTER.—There are now five candidates for the representation of this city, viz , Mr. Bullpitt, a banker; Mr. Theobald, • magistrate; Mr. John Bonham Carter, and Sir James Buller East, Bart., the present members, and Mr. H. St. John Midway. The three first are candi• dates on the liberal interest, the two latter are conserva tives. vbe Court. THE DRAWING-ROOM. The Queen held yesterday afternoon a drawing_ room, in St. James's Palace, in eidebrAtion of hcr Majk birthday, which was most numeroualy and brilliai.tly attended. . . licr Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Iltakilieliam Palace at 2 o'clock, escorted by a detachment el the Loy,d Iforsc ()nerds, and were received by the great officers of state. The Queen's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at -Arms was on duty in the state apartments. The yeti:lice of the guard were on duty in the Palace, under the command of Captain Kincaid, the pion in waiting. A guanl of honear of the Royal Hume Guards was on duty in the larAe I net of the Palace, with the band of the regiawnt in state n gi meutals. Soon after her Majesty's arrival the Arehhiphop of Cate terbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of °sherd (Lord High Almoner), the Bishop of Chester (clerk of the closet), the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, Worcester, Bangor, Norwich, 11. record, Peterborough, Chichester, Itoehester, St. Aaaph, Salisbury, Ripon, end Cape T own wi re ushered to the presence of her Majesty in the royal closet, when the Arehliihhop of Canterbury delivei..l an address of congratulation to the Queen on the auspicious return of her Majesty's natal day. The l)ucbcse of Kent was present at the Drawing-room, attended by Lady Fanny lloward and Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bart. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Priocess Mary were attended by leitiv Suffield and Harem K neseberk. The Doke of Cambridge was attended by Lord W. I'sulet. . _ The Queen and Prince Albert were etten.led by the Mane% of the !lobes, the Viecount4%4 Joe.olyet (In ing) ; the Marehioness'of Mourn, the Viscoubt - e"-ss the Countess of Mount Eilgcumbe, the Marchioness of Ely, and the Countess of Ilesart, Ladies of the Iledchantle r; lion. Matilda Paget (in waiting); lion. Mary Seymour (in waiting) ; lion. Elesnor Stanley, lion. l.ury Kerr, Hun. Caroline Cavendish, lion. Flora Macdonald, lion. Amelia Murray, and the lion. Beatrice Byug, Maids of Honour; the lion. Mrs. Trevor, Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, lion. Mrs. George Campbell, and Lady Theresa Higby, Women of the Bedchamber ' • the Lord Steward, the Loru Chamber lain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the l'rinee, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamber lain, the Comptroller of the llousehold, Lord Pulwarth, Lord in Whiting; Viscount Mandeville, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Colonel the lion. C. 1L Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy l'urse; Colonel the lion. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness; lion. W. Knox, Groom in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel Francis Se moor, Groom in Waiting to his Royal High ness ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, Equerry in Waiting; Lieut.- Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon, Equerry in Waitioa to his Royal Highness; the lion. Alfred Crofton, and Mr. George Cameron, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The Queen wore a train of cloth of gold, trimmed with hunches of wild daisies and blue corn Horton and tull, The petticoat was of white satin, covered with white tulle, and trimmed with bunches of wild daisies and blue corn dowers, to correspond to the train. Her Miiji sty's head dress was composed of a wreath of wild daisies and blue corn flower,, ornamented with diamonds. The Duchess of Kent wore a train of Indian gold, with a flower pattern, trimmed with gold lace. The petticoat was of rich white satin, of English manufacture, with fletnv, of point lace. The stomacher was brilliantly ornamented with diamonds. Her Royal IlMhness'a head-dress was formed of white terry velvet and gold, with white feathers, dia monds, and point lace lappeta. The Duchene( Cambridge wore a train of white satin, trimmed with point lace. The petticoat was of white satin with a diamond stomacher, and was trimmed with point lace to correspond to the train. tier Royal Iligline-s's head-dress was composed of white feathers, diamond., and point lace lappets. The Princess Mary wore a train of blue moire antique, trimmed with blue ribbons. The petticoat was art b:ue satin with a double crape skirt, and was trimmed with blue ribbons. ller Royal Highness wore in her hair white feathers and diamond ornaments, with point lace lappet.. The Chief Judges of Common Law, the Lord Chief Jus tice of England (Lord Campbell), the Lord Chief Justice Jervis, and the Lord Chief baron, appeared in their splen did gold collars of S. S. with the portcullis. The Master of the Lord Cranworth, Vice-Chancel lor Turner, rice-Chancellor Kindersley, Vice-Chancellor Parker, and the Chancellor of the Prince of Wales, all wore their gold robes. The Right Ron. the Speaker arrived in state, to attend the drawing-room, wearing his gold rube. The right hon. gentleman was attended by Mr. Lefroy, his secretary, aid the Rev. Thomas Gartner, Chaplain to the House ei Com mons. The principal knights of the diSirt nt orders of knight hood wore the cellars of their respective orders, in honour of the day. The attendance of the nobility and gentry was so numo rous, that not only were the suite of state reception rooms filled, but the throng of company exceeded down the grand staircase and entruuce lobbies. Iler Majesty and I'rinee Albert, accompanied by tho Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, entesed the Throne Room, when the drawing-room commenced by the intro duction of the Foreign Ministers. The following presentations to the Queen and Prince Albert took place in the diplomatic circle:— By the Countess of Malmesbury—The Countess Harden berg, sister to the Hanoverian Minister, and the Couutc,s Eller liardenburg, her daughter. By the Hanoverian Minister—Count Albert Hardenbur& nephew to the Minister. By the Minister of the United States—Mr. Isaac Law rence, Mr. William Beach Lawrence. By the Portugneec Minister—Le Comte de Meequitella, Grand Officer de la Muisuu de S. M. la Reins de Portugal. By the Persian Ei,eisy A ut e e i ge B . ig,„„ra,gg, Attaché to the Persian Mission at the Court of St. James's. The Diplomatic Circle was attended by the French Am bassador and the Countess Walt 'Mei, M. Charles Baudin, First Secretary, and M. Jules de S tux, Second Secretary of the Embassy ; the Belgian Minister und Madame Van de Weyer, M. Maurice Deltesse, Secretary of Legation; M. Octave Delepierre, Secretary and Consul-General, and Madame and Mademoiselle Delepierre ; the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Russian Minister and Baroness de Brunnow, and M. Alexandre de Berg, First Setretary of Legation; Count de Kielmansegge, the Hano verian Minister; the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, Count l'erponcher, First Secretary, and Baron do Langen, Attache to the Legation ; Baron de Itchausen, Swedish and Norwegian Minister, and Baron de Geer, Secretary of Legation; the United States Minister and :Mrs. Abbott Lawrence, Miss Abbott Lawrence; Senor X. Isturiz, Spanish Minister, Mr. J. I'. Comyn, First Secretary of Legation, and Madame de Comyn, and Mr. J. L. de Urbiatondo, Attache to tho Legation; the Marquis d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister; to Marquis Taliecarne, Conseiller de Legation, and le Comm Bentivoglio d'Aragon ; the Greek Minister and Madame Tricoupi ; the Turkish Minister and Madame Musurus, Prince A. Vogorides, Conseiller de Legation, M. I'. MUM • rue, First Secretary, Dilaver Effendi, Attache to the Lega tion, and M. Jean Musurus, Membre du Conseil du Mini stem du Commerce, functionnaire du:second.rang ; Baron Bentinek, Netherlands Minister ; the Portuguese Minister and the Countess de lAvratlio, the Chevalier Pinto de Se veral, Secretary of Legation, and Madame Pinto de Several, N. F. F. de la Figaniere, Attache to the Legation, and Madame F. F. de la Firaniere and le Vicomte and 1.1 Vicomteue d'Alte ; the Brazilian Minister and Madame and Mademoiselle de Ma ado, and M. d'Amaral, Secretary to the Le g ation; the Sicilian Minister and Princess de Carnal; the Danish 111inist. r and Madame de Bills ; Shaft Khan, Persian Envoy, sad Major Mirza Ibrahim Malcolm, First Secretary and Interpreter to the Mission ; the Mexican Chargé d'Affaires and Ma dame Facia, and Madenna,selle Facia, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, and Lieutenant kliegs, Austrian Hus sars ; the Earl of Malmesbury, the Queen's principal Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Countess of Maims bury, and Major-General the lion. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.11., Her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. Ia the general circle the flight Hon. Sir John Peking ton, the Queer's principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, presented to her Majesty the lion. Francis liineks, Inspector-Geueral of Canada, and the lion. E. B. Chandler, Member of Executive and Legislative Councils, New Brunswick. The general circle was attended by the Duke of Norfolk (Earl Marshal), the Captain of the lion. Corps of Gentle• men at Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, Viscount Combernecre, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Master- General of the Ordnance, Lord Monteagle, Comptroller- General of the Exchequer, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Dean of the Arches ; Sir James Tyler, Lieutenant of the lion. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Sir George P. Lee, Lieutert. ant of the Yeomen of the Guard ; the Queen's Advocate, the Attorney-General, the Right lion. the At torney-General for Ireland, the Attorney-General of the Prince of Wales, the Solicitor-General for Ireland ; Mr. Culquhoun, Mont and Consul-General for the Hann Towns ; Mr. Solomon, Hanseatic Consul (St. Helena); the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, Lord Colville (Clerk- Marshal) ; Major Herniae. Standard-Bearer of the lion. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Anna , Sir George lioulton, En sign of the Yeomen ot the Guard; Mr. Thomas Shaffner (Paymaster of the Household) ; Colonel Sir George Coo per, Bart., First Equerry of the Duchess of Kent; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to Prince Albert ; Lieu teuant-Colonel the Honourable Augustus Liddell, Equerry to the Duchess of Gloucester ; Colonel Sir M illiam Davison, Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge; Colonel Cornwall, her Majesty's Assistant Master of the Cere monies; the lion. Spencer Lyttelton, her Majesty's Mar shal of the Ceremonies; Lord Charles Busied', Sergeant-at- Arms; Mr. Sheriff Cantrell ; Mr. Sheriff Swift; Colonel l'arker (Ist Life Guards, Silver Stick) ; Sir Augustus Clif ford, Bart., Gentleman Usher of the Black Leal; Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State; Admiral Sir William Parker. principal Aide-Ile-Camp to the Queen ; Captain Sir George Richard Pechell, R.N., M.P. ; Captain Norwich Duff, R.N. ; Captain Sir George Tyler, R.N., M.l'. ; Colonel Baker, Colonel Wood, Colonel Scott, Colonel I'. Reed, Colonel Wymer, C.D., Colonel Morris, C. 8., Colonel Clark Kennedy, C.B. and K. 11., Colonel Oldffetd, and Colonel Montgoinerie, C. 8., Aides ele.Camp to her Majesty the (haven ; Captain i'llibbs and Captain Bellaire, Elena of the Yeomen of the Guard; the Rev. James Edwards, chaplain to the Lord Mayor; Mr. Joseph Skip Lloyd, Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant of the lion. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Mr Fisher, Surgeon in Chief to the Metropolitan Police ; Colonel 11. Bentinek (Coldstream Guards), Field Officer in waiting; Hon. Captain Feilding (Coldstream Guards), S Adjutant in Brigade waiting ; Colonel Sir Frederic mith, KM., - 11 A Down, urn' DIA Edda riCard t • Darla Con.l Don:, Bag , . 1 , 1 sc.] lotto l't igt Cron , iolry lin Baine B. Di J. C. Loa, E R. La Ho Cunt T. Li Livut Lloyc Fitz "tarot Talfo M.P Hall Lam Pric Wm Hug Epps. if. J C.ll. neat Fell Kge Thn Joh! Nov Thel dell, Wort iV; 14 1 Ha Cal He Ot, Fr. ac bal La P.