The Express. — London, England, 1856-03-27 00:00:00

r~ RELIEF to the EMBARRASSED.—Mr. DI A RPM ALL. of M. Illattcoleedie. solicitor 1.4 Meese, et L. Court for tbo robe of Iseuiveat DO•ars. =gayer& of Meaty Wa s .:::,l7tr .. h e t7l, to 46 thaellate PROTECTION of s.4t PLKooN owl PROPERTY Pea Oevatp Cent sad other proreloo,, sod o.oduct thelt beano throes) the nett rods tbe hew Art, otth-ut itrt,ousaxst. at eel the Wed the eftgeb any bo ',ski by s•-~-,--u Ibc expreos. taken themselves to the recreation of imposing lines on irreverent Sheriffs. The first who commenced this series of new and popular entertainments was that mild and excellent magistrate, Mr. JustioeVAUOIL&N Wruxtms. Abetter tempered or more easy-natured man cannot be found oar the British Bench; but there are some revue doss against which no amount of good nature is proof, and the lot of this exemplary Judge was no doubt a hard one. It had been his fate among the wilds of Wales to encounter in succession two abso lutely maiden assizes—not a single cause entered on the civil side, not a single prisoner to try on the cri minal. On approaching the mice town of Car marthenshire, his native county, he was met, not by the Sheriff in his family ouch, but —by the Under-billet-if in a Aired fly. No trumpets, no shawms, no javelin-men, none of the honest paraphernalia of judicial pomp — nothing but a Carmarthenshire attorney in a Car marthenshire fly—a vehicle, we may conjecture, not unlike one of those " SHEN, HAM, and JAPHET buggies" spoken of by the irreverend BYDNNT, " built before the flood and found on the top of Ararat soon after the subsidence of the wattre.' , The insult was no doubt gross. If the Sheriff kept ao carriage and was unable to attend himself, surely he might at all events have sent his footman with an umbrella, followed by at least one under gardener bearing on his dexter shoulder a javelin rauljnint, and in his sinister hand a pair of galoshes sable and a worsted comforter gales. But an Under sheriff in a fly ! It was too much. The habitual meekness of the judicial mind gave place to indig nation, and the contumacious Sheriff was fined 1001. liberdeimento Intended to °Tie teyeees.°Lredia &Wag pow. PR be Attu Melee, 10, Boseerteatreet, by Tvs Vela* Oa the iiir et publicatoe. SIGH WATIR AT IA Two DST—Morns', 3n. IC. TO4llollloW—llamag, Mu 45: Ix BRID9B. la. Se. LONDON, THURSDAY, NANCE 27. TUE Western Powers are very busy at present, lecturing the Ottoman Government on the subject of religious toleration. Indeed, they do more than lecture ; they bring a little gentle " premium from without " to bear upon the Divan, with a view to I obtain guaraniy es for the liberties of the Christian subjects of the SULTAN. Far he it from I:3 to anything that might seem to imply disapprobation of this zealous assertion of the great principle that con scientious adherence to religious convictions ought to subject no man to political disabilities. But might not these zealous inculcators of religious toleration upon the Turk do well to amend their own ways in this reapect before they set themselves up u reformers of the Osmanli ? Do they never reflect on the old adage abort the Physician healing himself, or upon the exhortation, emanating from a still higher source, to him who is disposed to remove the mots from his brother's eye to begin by extracting the beam from his own? Were the Turks addicted to repartee they might fled ample matter for retorting upon the Christian Powers their exhortations to be tolerant. We do not allude to Spain, with its denial of honourable Chris tian sepulture to Protestants, and the recent p►onun ciamento of its Government against Protestant propa gandism. Spain is no doubt intolerant ; but Spain has not bad the audacity to preach toleration to °thee nations. But Russia, Austria, France, and England, all affect to be horrified by the intolerance of the Turks. Not one of these Powers will concede to the other an exclusive Protectorate of the Christian subjects of the Porte, or of any sect among these subjects; bat, with certain salvoes, and verbal reservations in favour of Um SULTANS independent sovereignty, they insist apes exercising a joint Protectorate of the Christians is the Ottoman dominions. Now, what is the con duit of these Governments towards dissenters from the professed faith of the constituted authorities in each of the nations we have named ? It is not worth while to speak of the treat ment of the nuns of Minsk, or of the sup precision of Protestant missions in the southern pro vinces of Russia. All the world knows that in Russia there is no such thing as toleration. It would be equally a waste of time to remind our readers of the expulsion of the Free Church Missionaries from the Austrian domioions. Austria is notoriously quite as intolerant as Russia. But from France and Eng land better things might be expected. In France, however, we have repeatedly seen of late, Protestant congregations denied the privilege of assembling for public worship—their temples closed under the shallow pretext that their meetings were in contravention of a law directed exclusively against political useablies. And with reference to this fact we may be allowed to offer a parenthetical remark upon the strange conduct of certain profess ing friends of religious liberty in this country. There is no Government which has made such rapid pro gress in the practice of religions toleration of l►te years as that of Sardinia. Yet when the King of SARDINIA visited this country he was persecuted by delegations from religions communions and societies, lecturing him upon the duty of toleration as if he had never by his conduct evinced a sense of it. These obtrusive monitors, however, remained mute and stood aloof when the Emperor of the FRENCH visited Lon don, although the EMPEROR'S Government bad again and again encroached upon the religions liberties of French Protestants. There was an offensive for • in the obtrusive advice of these bodies to the King of SARDINIA; but there was something worse, there was sycophancy and timeserving, in their &iliac, in the presence of the Emperor of the Faericn. This remark, se we have above intimated, is merely parenthetical; our present object is to in quire how far the Western Powers are entitled to take upon them the office of teachers of religions tole ration to Turkey. France, it is clear, has no right to preach to others what she does not practise herself. And England : with what face can she all upon the Mahomedans of Turkey to give equal poli tical rights to Christians, so long as the Christians of England refuse equal political rights to the Jews? With the intolerance of Spain, Tuscany, Russia. Austria, and France, we have comparatively little concern. We lament it, we disapprove it, we have a right to express our disapprobation of it; but we have little or no power to amend it. With the intolerance of England, however, it is quite • different matter. The classes of English society who are the most eager to urge on the English Government to claim equal political rights for Christians in Turkey are the very classes who most obstinately and bigotedly refuse equal po litical rights to Jews in England. Are these men indeed Christians, who evince in their conduct scab habitual forgetfulness of the injunctions, to do as they would be done by, and to take the beam oat of their own eye in order that they may see clearly to take the mote out of their brother's? The next great example of the kind took place on Tuesday last at Bury St. Edmund's, Sir ions Jxavis being the outraged Judge, and Mr. ARCEDEKNE the culprit Sheriff. la this case the withdrawal of javelin men had been ax act of malice prepense ; an Associa tion had actually been tormed among the county gentlemen of Suffolk for the express purpose of saving the Sheriff the expense of these indispensable functionaries, and (horrescimus referentes) employing in their stead the county police. At this the wrath of JERVIS blazed forth with consuming real. It was not only the dignity of his office that wee compro mised, but the safety of the county that was endan gered. In order to save the pockets of the gentry, exclaimed the excited Cater JUSTICE, • the property and lives of the public are to be deprived of the natural protectors which the law affords, and those who are so inclined, knowing that the police are engaged at the assizes, may make an inroad into the county and commit their depredations without check or control." Such are the fatal relies of an economy in javelin-men. " The object of this Association," remarked the CHIEF JUSTICE in conclusioc, "is to save the pockets of the contributors from the expense of javelin-men. It is my duty to take care that that is not done, and 1 therefore fine the Sheriff 1001.," Verily, the words of the wise are precious : to take care that there is no lack of javelin-men is the judi cial duty ; to fine the Sheriff 1001. for withholding them is the judicial logic. Now, in one point of view all this is very ludicrous, but in another it is very lamentable. There is nothing more strongly to be deprecated than that the Judges of the Superior Courts should in any way lose the respect of the public. They may depend upon it, however, that the readiest means to deprive themselves of real consideration is to insist upon false points of dignity. It is not by virtue of " javelin men " that these venerable magistrates have hitherto maintained so firm a hold on public estimation. It is by discretion, by self-control, by learning, by dili poor, by a singleness of purpose that knows no deviation, and • purity that is beyond all taint of suspicion —it is by these means that they have hitherto commanded the respect of their country men. The rest is all " leather and prunells,° the trappings of an idle state, the gewgaws of a barbaric age. Besides, even conceding for • moment that these forms have a certain value in the eyes of the vulgar, have the present race of Judges any right to complain of their being discontinued by others, when they have been to • great degree abandoned by themselves ? In the good old days when Lord KENTON used to travel the Northern Circuit in his coach and six, he might reasonably have complained of a want of corresponding dignity in the equipage of the Sheriff. But how stands the case new? The Judges—it may be with a view to economy, but at all events, as we think, in wise oomplianoe with the spirit of the time—have long been in the habit of taking full advantage of the cheap and rapid transit afforded by railways. The ume train often carries down to the assize town on the commission day, the Judge and his Marshal in one first-class carriage, the bar, attorneys, and more °palest witnesses in others ; while in the second and third elan follows the mingled ruck of poorer witnesses, barristers' clerks, sturdy turnkeys, and manacled felons. It wise but the other day that a train of this kind, containing Mr. Justine CaomProm and a motley retinue each as we have described, bound for the Maidstone Anises, was shunted on to a siding, and detained there for an hour or more, in order to let a special train pass. And what do our readers suppose was the freight of the special train for which the Majesty of Justice was thus kept waiting? It was filled with gentle men of the fancy about to break the law by misting at • prise fight. Such are the levelling results of the rail ! Her MAJESTY'S repressatative post poned to the " Tipton Slasher ;" the vindica tor of the law delayed, in order that the violators of the law may keep their time to a second I Sorely, Mr. Justice CzonProw, thus dimpled on the siding, to make way for prise fighters, presents a less dignified picture of British justice than even Mr. Justin* WILLLuts encountered by an Under-sheriff and a fiy. If the Judges, who are paid 5,0001. a year for adequately representing Majesty, choose io this way to sacrifice pomp to economy, what right have they to insist on still enjoying that vicarious magnificrenos which the Sheriff is expected gratuitously to supply ? As between the Sheriffs and the Judges, the right of complaint seems to as to be entirely with the former. Many country pa dawn of abundant means ao doubt covet the office of Sheriff far the sake of its dignity; but wealthy as our county gentlemen are, it is not every county which an supply an annual succession of men by whom an additional outlay of 5001. or I,OOW. • par would not be felt as a heavy tax; and yet the less opulent of the county gentry are liable to have this expensive honour thrust on them without any means of reentlag or evading it. The Indies are not wise in their generation in stirring up such a question at such a time. A feeling has long been gaining groand that in the remoter districts at all events the biennial ceremony of the circuit is some what of a farce. It is already perceived that a far better distribution of judicial force s. ould be realised by greatly diminishing the number of the Jodps of our Superior Courts, and creating in their steed, in all our great centres of population, tribunals having a permanent jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over groups of counties, as the Central Criminal Court now has for criminal purposes over the Metropolitan districts; thus avoiding all the evils of delay and ex pense which are necessarily incident to the circuit system. We have not space now to develop this idea, but we shall take an early opportunity of re " NIT Lords the QUEEN'S Justice*" have a pain is their temper. We are not ..prised at it. In the first place, they have had to get through their spring circuits in the teeth of one of the most persevering east winds that ever blew even is this favoured clime, — a eircumastasce in itself not favourable to human amesity. In the next place, those pestilent institu tions the County Courts have made each kneads into the civil business of the country, that " Lode" have throughout bad most meagre oases lists, and in some lestanoes no causes at all. In one or two is... there has been actually no batistes whatever to dispose of, either civil or criminal; and the represeetativse of Majesty have travelled their couple of hundred miles to the remoter assize towns merely to Hod that their nervier, were in no respect required by their country. This is provoking enough, but worse re mains b. hind. The ccuoty magnates have hire and there shown a disposition to be contumacious. The Sherif& equipages have not always been all that could be desired. Above all, "my Lords" have been pet on a short allowszce of " jave lin men." For some unexplained reams this last insult stems to have rankled more deeply than any other in the judicial mind, and the sagesof the law, for want of better employment, have be. THE EirRESO, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1856, turning to it. Meanwhile, our advice to the ledges would be, not unnecessarily to draw the public atten tion to the greatly diminished amount of their work as compared with tits undiminished scale of their salaries, and tile misplaced loftiness of their pre tensions. Ine Court. WINDSOR, ILtsca 26. Mr. Albert Smith had the honour of performing last wght b fors her Majesty, the Bing of the Belgian', the Dachau of Kant, the royal fatally, aad the party asoosabied at the Carle. The dinner rarty inelnded the Hiss of the Belgians, the Duchene of Bent, the Princess Royal, the Belgian Minister and Madams Van de Wryer, Lady Fanny Howard, Bummer de Sped', Vejor•Usnaal the Hon. Sir Edward Cue, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Sir I mes Clark, Colo el de Moerkerke, Captain Priem, and Dr. Riskin. The band of tit. 2ad Life Guards played daring dinner. Her Majeaty's private band afterward' performed In the Castle. The Queen and Prise*, with the Princess Royal and Princess Al ce, twie on horseback this morning, attended by the Countess of Desert, Major-Oesenl Buckley. and Captain the Hon. D. de Roe. , r-Generel the Hon. Sir Edward Cut left the Cattle in the tor. noon. Lady Bl,edosald hu eneereded the Dosuitau of Duart as Lady in Waiting to bar Nasty. WINDSOR, WIDNVIDAY. On Monday next the Court will leave Windsor Castle for Buckingham Pilate, to remain there probably not more tun a week or ten days, alter which time her Meji sty, Prince Albert, and the royal family will go to the Isle of Wight. His Majesty the King of the Belgians will take have of hir M..jesiy and the Prince, and leave the Castle at half•put 9 o'clock to-morrow morale', on his return to Brussels. The King and suite will travel by the South Western has to the junction at Wanesworth, thence down the mein line to Guildford, travelling therefrom to Reigate, on the Booth Eastern line, to Dover, avoiding by t'us arrangement chugs of carriages, luggage, Au, as well as the inconvenience of the delay occasioned by changes is formerly. His Majesty, oa his departure, will bs attended by Mr. Scut, mower, mad Mr. Crombie, emiretary. The jimmies will be perfo•med is leis thee four boars. Mr. Ruben Bernn f iron, of her Msjerty's Private Baud, has bees appointed one of the State Truntpcers, in the room of Kr. Grist, doomed. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and t►e Princess Mary will remain at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, until the elose of the ansuiog week, and then return to St. James's Polies lot the reason. The Duke of Newcastle has left Portman•egasre for Clumber Park, Notts, where his grace will remain until the se-meembling of whiniest. Tho Maiqu; and Marchioness of Londonderry who have 'Totally left Rome for Naples, are expected home from their tour is Italy towards the elms of the ensuing math. The Earl of Eglinton hu left town on a visit to Lord and Lady Bdathanyton, at WhittMary Lodge, N.rthamptonebire. Lord Stanley, M.P., has left town for Knowsley, the Earl of Derby's seat in Lancashire, for the Eater holidays. The Marquis of Northampton is at Castle Ashby, earronaded by a select party. The noble biatqais emee to town ter the mason the week after next. Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre have arrived at the Earl of Egliatnee, from visiting Sir Within William and Lady Wyse at Wynnitay. Sir James Graham, aecompanted by Lady and Miss (habits, has gone to Netlathy, his met in Cumber land, and does not retails to town for a fortnight. The Doke and Duchess of Norfolk leave Carlton Home-'.mace tc-day for Aristide! Castle, Saws. Admiral Air Edmund Lyou is staylag with dm noble Dabs and Duchess. The Duchess (Dowager) of Norfolk, leaves Norfolk House to-day, fir Chidden Park, the Make of Sutherland's *eat, ne►r Ilaideabead, where her than purposes to retire for a few smiths. Led, Peel has ten Whitehall-garden on a visit to Mr. Frederick Peel, M.P., at hie seat Hampton Arden, Warwickshire. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Jane Peel are it:plata to arrive in town immediately after the holidays (rem a tour in Italy, when the bon. baronet will resume his official &dire at the Admiralty. The Earl and Countess Spencer who hare returned to Althorpe-hall Irma town for the repels are entertai•ing • distinguished circle at their country seat. Lord and Lady Southampton are receiviog a ono- OHS ioa of distinguished visiton at WhittleburyLodge, North amptoesMrs, during the mot mooting. . . Lord and Lady George Manners have joined the family circle visiting the Duke of Rutland at Belvois Cutlei Leieestershira. Lady Dover Moos her return from Elowran Castle, Ireland, has been slaying with the Commas (Dowager) of Carlisle et Curls Howard, Yorkshire. We regret to anoounoe the premature demise of Mrs. Alexander Mackinnon, atter giving birth to • still born child, on Tuesday last. The Dean of Carlisle has, we regret to learn, sus tained a most distressing domestic bentvement, no lea ilea four dengliten having been myriad off by scarlet fiver within the last tweet, days. The last and eldest died on Teesday, at the age of ten ruin. The new Philharmonic Society hu received an in tleiatiee from Madame Jenny Lind, that she will pouf wee at one of the conferee of the eocdety daring the approach ing season. Mr. Benedict and Dr. Wilde wit be the modular.. Orders have boss Maud at Portsmouth for every dispatch screw ten-vessel, Si well as the screw tea-boatt, to be reedy by the 16th of April, BO that it way be takes for treated that oa t►e 16th or 17th of the seat math the Quota will review the finest and most powerful lint ea re cord. It is believed that her Majesty will min is the taming at the port oa the day is question, sad ntara to inn i• the evening of the sane day. THE BOARD OF OEIVERAL OFFICERS. It was stated this warning, in newer to inquiries at Chelsea Hospital, that the General Board of °Beers, appointed to 'squire late the eeminet of the Berl of Car dinals, Use Berl of Luna, Sir Rickard nifty, and Colonel Gorda', oriel aseemble ea Saturday mat wader the presi dearly of Sir John Woodford (Mee Lord Beaton, retired), Esr the purpose of E rattly arranging the coarse of their preeeediase, lad that they will eater opts the investigation entrusted to them epos as early day beat week The board sou minim of General &r Joke Woodford, Lord Bees. chomp, General Rowan, Str Jobs Bell, General Josatttaa Peel, M.P., General Knoll's, sad Sir Joh* Berkeley. The Mosley will ha conducted is the large hall of Chelsea Hoe pital, end it is understood that the preliminary proceedings ea Saturday will be eoadueted with the striated privacy. General Vivian arrived at Marseilles yesterday by As Osage& We read, is a letter from Berlin of the 25th, — The Coact Cults, who was understood a fortnight beak lett to have shot himself, and then to have been shot in a deal at Potsdam, walked into the amino here a few days hack, looking very well indeed, maeldeting what eatremi. ties ha was supposed to have gene through ; and, strange to my, nobody ese Sad oat who was Not any way at Pon , dam on the 11th Mat.; at the same time, aebely prateads he my that nobody wee shot then sad t►ere." A letter fromllmo burg, of the 20th, in the BruThrLee Zedepeedenee says :—" Blau peace has been considered cer talc, merehaste sad nagotia.ors have graved almost daily from various puts of Ragland, with the object of establish log factories in some part of the Ramie' empire. It ie • remarkable het that of all ins peoples of Europe the 'dis bar show meet eagerneas to mow busier*/ nlations wit► Ramis. It is now in contemplation to form a great Argto- Bari= eompaay which, w,th considerable capital in its hawk, will 'elicit of the Imperial governmeat authority to tura to 'Mit on a vast 'cal' toe territorial and 'luau's' Ashes of the Ruda& territory." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. VISIT OF THE CZAR TO FINLAND. ST. PETERSBURG, Maxon 18. In the course of the ensuing week the Emperor Alexander will undertake an excursion into Finland for the purpose both of inspecting the works of de fence aad of visiting some portions of the interior, which he has not yet seen. His route will be by Helsingfors, Abe, Tavasthons, and Bekholm. Two companies here are constructing some flat bottomed steamers for the navigation of the Volga between Twer and Kazan. Their voyages will commence in the spring and continue until the approach of winter, while the vessels of the old construction, from drawing so much water, are only able to navigate when the waters are swollen, viz., between April and Jane, the Volga being strewn with shoals and sand banks. This enterprise being oontemporaneoas with the formation of another so- ciety for the navigation of the Lower Dneiper, will open the two principal arteries of the empire to THE BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC. The following appears in Le Aord:— STETTIN, Uszcs 21. Letters from DaMsie amnesia, the arrival in thaw roads of the frigate Impirieme. This frigate left the &myelin, the F.lcon, the Pylades, and the Ranier at Farosand, to order to crui.e to on t , * Rumen port of Linn, upon the couta of Courland, wia re it made brown the resump tion of the Llockede to the authorities; and imme diately, to give force to the menace, the Englieh cruiser drove from the Russian pats some merchant va ses bound there under a neutral flag. These singular vex aqua at a moment w►en a proclamation of peace is re garded as certain by the Ilaglish themselves, and the pre sence of the Inoterieuss in the Dentuic roads, have caused great perturbation in Oa. commercial town. Oar ship owners, who have learnt to their own colt how little the neutral flag is uspected in this war, are determined to un dertake no expedition while bondable continue. THE EAST. MARSEILLES, WIDNESDAT. The Genge hu arrived with accounts from Con. stantinople to the 18th. The weather in the Black Sea had been very boisterous. The French frigates Montezuma and Christophe Colomb had returned to Constantinople. Omer Puha had paid a visit to the Caimacan. The Polish General Zamoiski had arrived at Constantinople. The Porte had made application to the French government for 10,000 carbines and as many sabres. The Porte wu averse to the introduction into the general to sty of peace of the reforms contained in the late Ham-Scharff. The English fleet is shortly expected at Malta. Accounts f►om the Crimea to the 13th state that the weather continued stormy. The health of the French troops had considrrably improved. 'rho cold is se. vele at Kertch j the canal of Yenikale is frozen over. Geseral de Lamarmors has left Constantinople for the Crimea. Mr. Murray, the English anibusador in Persia, is still at Tabriz. FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR. A Paris letter, in the buit , preclance of Brussels, up:—" You will mum& r a fact which was some time ago mach spoken of, that some colonists belonging to a in th. Wand of ModogUear worm massacred by the One, whilst others were carried off in I slavery by the Queen, who had c rmmanded the expedition. Some 'unwise has been felt that the Monitor should have been silent on a subj. ct of so serious a character. A report is new current here that the Emperor will not allow the insult topes ever unpunished, and that an eapedition is to be fitted out fur the island after the pow. A French colony will be established at Madagascar, which is likely to ►eceme a wonderful market for French industry. It is one of the largest Wands in the world, and has a population of nearly two millions. It is said that no difficulties on the put of Eagland will be made to this expedition.'• THE RUSE OF A PIEDMONTESB SOLDIER. A letter from the Crimea, published by the Presse d' Orient, shows how a Sardinian soldier contrived to fill his pane on the day of the conference between the staff of the armies on the subject of the armistion Daring the interview of the chiefs of the staff some &naves were sten upon the banks of the Tchersais with bottles In their hands, making signs to the Russians, isv:t ing them to Dome and partake. But how was it to be done ? The Traktir bridge was reserved for the pustge of the generals; possibly because It was wished to prevent a erited at the plies when the conference was ►eing held ; a multitude of officers and soldiers, nevertheless, ardently wished :to cress the river to the Russians; • boatman would have made his fortune that day. Every one complained of the fate which kep• . him on the bank. All of • sadden • strong, hialtby Birdioian soldier entered the stream and offered for a son per head, to pats to the other side of the Tcbernaya any one who would I mount his shoulders. " He was instantly overwhelmed with orders, and for two whole hours he remained in the water, transporting to the ' enemy's bank every amateur who presented himself. One eon ! Every one cried out how cheap it was, and vied with each other in embarking epos the shoulders of the intrepid and polio.. trooper. On touching the opposite bank they tendered him their warmest thanks, rallying him • little ups doing so mush for so lilt's money. He replied with a malicious smile, which so one understood, bat which nev , rtheless, had its IligaidollllCO, u they very soon dis eovered. After the interview all who bad passed the rim apes the soldier's hark wished to return to the left side by the BON road. They c►lled to the aquatic warrior, and male egos to him to approach, bet he replied, laughing in a most provaking meaner, that the water was cold, and that ►e was afraid of the rheamatiam. ' But bow are we to Muni to the sump they cried in an excited mariner. 'As you have dome put of the work, yon must finish It.' 'I am ready tv am sent,' replied the retrain Piedmoatene, ' but U I catch • Dough, I wish to have the means of sashimi broth as I like it. Is tiles of a 800, you mast pay me • frame.' A universal cry was raised against this Imam of prim, but be would sot swerve from it. If you fled It too dear,' said be w ith res;st'ese argameat, ' lard the stream years'''. Afte r you are not so er•sitive to Um sold as I am, and you will Ind the water good wash.' In brief, it was necessary to pay him wh he irked. They treated the marten is plea lastly is they could, and in • few minutes the ',ldler found himself in pas mina of a good naiad sum t. Oselleasen,' said he, is withdrawing, ' I have had so much water out side. that you'll not think ill of me it I now put a Malt wine " On the 20th the Queen of Span visited sem o f the churches of Madrid ea het. ♦ letter, written et the time, after describing she meaner In which the 'tents were lined with the hamar, end militia, enstiesee—" The do seems of the pakw, shoat 160 M waiter, are ant in the precession. They ere all weenred. Between two rows of helberdien 0n.., the Ogees, wearing a white dress, sal es her bead a simple crown of white TA's. Ohs mew happy enough, and edema the orowd repeatedly. Marshal Bapariero wai►s on the right of the King, sad Marshal O'Donnell on the left. The other Walston, the Weis of the One, twelve maids of honour, and the megaton of the royal family follow, sad four chain of an antique make ars carried ►y Woe, needy for their Majesties if they should Wens* fatigued." It is stated that Aali Praha intends shortly to en tertain the Basearor of the French at s asplitlesatfite.. On the 20th the Emperor and Empress of Austria monad the feet of tw.nty.f.mar old people, wig., twelve old women and twelve old men. The oldest of the women was 89, and the youngest 83 ; the oldest of the mess wee 91, the youngest 82 ; the *gas of the twenty-feu combined sweated to 2,062 years. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE CONFERENCES. &sex ova owx 0011.111POWIMIN7.) PARIS, WIDNISDAT Evurixo. The Congress assembled today for the fourteenth time, and I understand that the plenipotentiaries have resolved to meet every day until the treaty is signed. A morning paper states that the Gas Company has received orders to be ready to illuminate Paris to-morrow night, and I know that the Commissaries of Police were this morning summoned to the Pre fecture to receive some special orders, which some people think relate to the illuminations for peace. Neverthelc.,:. I ua not thick the proclamation of the expected event is so very near at hand. This evening's Patrie says : Withsut departing from the rea•r•c impend upon us, we believe we may announce that the Title difEcultits spoken cf by some loreiga j tunnels b.ve not come to any ad. The Cmgrtss and the cummissiouers of the secondary plectipotent.a. es are active y pursuing their labours. The Asseinblee Nationale contains the following article, which will be found interesting under the circumstances of the moment: The Mom of the Coneriss are evidently drawing to a dose. All the etrential conditions of ihe treaty which is ta bi wow peace on Europe have teen settled, it is said, some days ago; and some arrangements concerning the Denubien provinces and their internal rule have alone retarded its' definitive conclusion. It is added that the signatures will be ailed probibly this week—Thursday or Fr.day. What we can assure is this, that Lord Clarendon has made several P.P.C. visit•, and has announced that Le will quit Neill on Sunday morning, in order to be present at the Holiday's sitting of the House of Lords. We be lieve that in tha course of the negotiation the best her inony has not spprared to reign between the plenipoten tiaries of Austria and Russia, and that there has been in their flintiest' something of that bitterness which is ususlly is be remarked in old friends who lave been separated by eireurnstanose, end mutually believe therasalves ill-treated. In a word, if appearances were to be behaved, as also the commentaries to which they hare given rise, the intimate alliance which existed befvre the war between the three gre►t northern court. is mane cr less seriously compromised. The Asaemblee concludes by stating that Count Orloff will remain in Paris in the quality of ambas• odor extraordinary, and on the re-establishment of peace will notify to the Court of the Tuileries the accession of the Emperor Alexander 11., whose ooroaation will take place in the month of August. According to the same journal, France will be re presented at Moscow on the occasion by an ambas sador extraordinary, and England by the Duke of Cambridge. The Bourse has been very doll. Several specu lators being uneasy at the prolonged sittings of the Congress, closed their accounts. The Rente left off at ytsterday's prices, 721 r. 40c. for cash, and tell 20c. for account, closing at 72fr. 50c. The Paris and Lyons Railway fell 10fr., and almost all the other lines were two or three franca lower. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c. The Bank of France, the Caiue d'Amortissement, the Caine des Consignation., and other financial es tablishment. under the control of the government, have received positive orders to invest their diepcs• able capital in reports at the Bourse, at not more than 6 per cent. interest. The Finance Minister is overwhelmed with complaints against the new mea sure restricting the dealings of the eotsliue. Letters from London state that some idea is entertained on the Stock Exchange of excluding certain French se aunties from their quotations by way of retaliation. I understand that M. Megne thoeght the new rale impolitic, bat the Emperor insisted upon it. The Court of Cessation has to-day given judgment on the great electoral question, and (u might have been expected after their decision in the Orleans con fiscation cue) has pronounced in favour of the Govern. ment. It is accordingly ruled by the Supreme Court that in a country where universal suffrage is ostenta tiously proclaimed to be sovereign, the electors are not entitled to know the names of any candidates, except such as the Government may choose to tell them of, and that the giving of a piece of paper, with a mere name upon it, by one elector to another, is a penal offence. Mdlle. de Casablanca was married to-day at the Chapel of the Luxembourg Palace to M. Bailie de Casselbanne, a merchant of Montpelier. Prince and Princess Murat, the Princess Baciocchi, and a large number of official personages, attended the cere mony. SPAIN. We read in the Paris Pafrie of the 26th :—" A telegraphic despatch received this morning from Ma drid, announces that the Finance Minister, M. Santa I Crum, has called a meeting of all the proposers of motions against his financial scheme, in the hope of coming to an understanding without a public dis cussion. Marshal O'Donnell is again unwell." THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. (BY HAONETIC TELEGRAPH) (PROX OVA OWN CORREAPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL. TEULSDAT. The royal mail steam-ship, America, Captain Whickman, arrived in the Mersey at midnight. and hu brought, besides the mails, 62 paussogen, and 325,000 dollars in specie, on freight. She left Boston on the 12th inst., and Halifax on the 14th. She passed the screw steamer, Emu, on the 20th. . . _ The Africa arrived at New Tort on the Bth; and the Arabia, from hones at Boston, 00 the 13th. Nothing heard of the Pacific. The Senate on the 10th was occupied with the consideration of the bill appropriating the 3,000,000 dollars for increasing the armaments for the effi ciency of the national defences. General Casa de livered a speech relative to the difficulties with Great Britain. He did not see how the Central American controversy could be referred to arbitration ; it was not a question of boundary or indemnity, but a mere question about the messing of a word. No arbitrator could tell ne what the word "occupy" means better than we know already. The bill finally passed to a third reading by a Tote of 22 to 12. Bermuda advice, to Feb. 26, state that the House of Assembly is about to be dissolved. The Emperor of Hayti returned to Port-aa-Prince on the 14th of February, and ascribes his defeat to treetop. The yellow fever is raging fearfully. Shipping and busi ness in a wretched condition. _. The money market at New Yoik is easy; Stocks inactive. Exchange on London, 108 to 1091; ditto, on Paris, 6.171 to 6.221. Cotton closed rather easier. The breadstuff market improved; flour was in fair demand at 121 cents. advance; provisions heavy; freights firmer. The Marquis Wielopolski, who has inherited the insane fortes* at the late Count fieldsiesta, le about, :n oosplia , .es with the testator's wishes, to establish a library and wawa & at Warsaw, and he has purchased the large Zaluelii Palace for the purpose. The first Paris steeplec hues of the season come off' on Sunday ant at La Idncke, neer Valle d'Avray. One of ahem will he very serious, as in it two noted English pe• &Orions, l'homss, " the Salopiaa," and Maaks, " the War wickshire Antelope," are to run against hones ; the dis tance is to be a mile and a half, and the "jumps " not fewer than fifty—one of them over the famous dm. TEMPEST IN THE BLACK SEA. NUMEROUS WRECKS. A telegraphic despatch, dated Constantinople, March 24, was posted yesterday at Ll~7d's , fly an nouncing another terrible storm in the Black Sca, which appears to have been severely felt fa the vicinity of Kuateudje, between Varna and the mouth of the Danube. It broke out on the morn'og of the 14th Mit , and con tinued with fearful violenoe for 48 hour, in the course of which ne leis than sin Erglith barques and five brig., chiefly employed in the Transport Stores Service, and 10 foreign ships, were wholly wrecked. The names of the English vessels are reported is the message" as follows : The barque Zealous, 339 tons burthen, Captain Collinson. She VII. a Sunderland-built ship, launched in 144, be logging tr Messrs. CoMason and Co., in the City, and was chased in Lloyd's Registry A 1 for 12 years; saw saved. The barque Snarebrook, 459 ton., Captain Caithness cow 'sander, belonging to the port of London. She was launched at Sunderland in 11.52, and was classed A 1 for 9 jean ; crew saved. The barque Constantine, 608 tons, Captain Rogers muter, belonging to Bristol, where the owners, M , airs. Brass and Co., reside. She was built at Backwater in 1847, and classed at Lloyd's at A 1 for 12 years ; crew saved. The barque Cadet, 317 tour, C.ptain Hatfield, of lAndou, launched at Nova Scotia in 1819; classed A 1 for 4 ware; crew raved. The beNue A4nrs King, 278 tonr, Carlin Gray, belong ing to North Snielde, Al . Woodhouse aad Co. owner,. Snip built at Sunderland in 1816, end eloped A 1 for 8 years ; crew need. he barque March Hizon (it i. t , hat , Irne mis • take hat uccorrai in telegreptsing th• name of ti,:s ship ; the name is n ,t to be tuned in It g,stry) ; the crew ia reported bale. The Engl.sh brigs List are the Mary Hudson, 301 tons, Captain Brawl., bp longing to Hartley , o', crew saved; the Emily Kate, 238 tons, Captain oowring, belonging to North Shields, crew steed; the Bunt Ana, crew saved; the William, crew saved ; and the Wave, crew saved. Among the otht r wrecks the?* were throe French ahipt, the V.lle de Dunkerque, the Vole, and the Joan. r Jetnr; the crews were staid. The whole of the English teasel; were insured at Lind's. ITALY. (FROM 0111 OWN COMIZSPONDINT.) ROSIE, MARCH P. Oa Sunday morning, shortly before nom:, the Eternal City resounded to the discharge of artillery from the Castle of St. Angelo, announcing to the Roma- population and French garrison the birth of an heir to the throne of Napoleon 111. The tele graphic despatch bearing this important intelligence, dated March 16, 3 a.m., and addressed by the Em peror to his Holiness the Pope, reached Rome at 9 o'clock on the same morning, and was communicated to his Holiness just at the commencement of the grand ceremony of blessing and distributing palms and olive branches to the cardinals, ambassadors, and other ecclesiastical and ciril dignitaries of the court collected together for that purpose, with a vast crowd of foreign sight-seers, in the ample basilica of St. Peter. The commandant of the artillery, M. de Montreal, brother of the general in-chief, immediately lett the church to give orders for a salute of a hundred and one guns from the neighbuurirg fortress of St. Angelo, and the startling sound, echoing along the piaz , s, and colonnade of St. Peter's, was taken by most of the uninitiated spec tators, whe were gazing on the Portiff borne aloft in his gorgeous sedia gestatoria, for part and parcel of the imposing ceremony. It would be a mistake to imagine that the Pope, or his venerable brethren the cardinals, have put them selves out of the way to express any feeling of extra ordinary satisfaction at the birth of the Imperial Prince, however great may be the obligations they are under to the French Emperor. The salute came from the French artillery in the morning, and the illuminations were limited to the French establish ments and embassy in the evening, nor d:d the official journal of the following day allude to the fact otherwise than by briefly communicating the tenor of the telegraphic despatch. In the lengthy deacrip tiou of the Palm Sunday ceremonies in that sage periodical the usually technical paragraphs are wound up with the following unusual and somewhat algal. Ocant digression respecting the frail nature of earthly conquerors' triumphs: A great number of faithful, especially foreigners, col lected from every part, assisted at the sacred ceremony which records the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem —an entry the memory of whit h was not rerpetaated with arches and obelisks, as conquering king. have done to render their triumphs eternal ; nevertheless it has remained, after more than eighteen crttn , ies, strongly impressed en the mind of every believer. Centuries passing over marble monument' overturn them and scatter even the ruins, but they are not able to caned a pace of the geepil entrusted to the faithful custody of the church. The French ambassador has issued invitations to the French subjects residing in or passing through Rome to assist at a solemn Te Deem, which will be chanted next Sunday in the National Church of St. Louis, to return thanks to God for the happy deli verance of the Empress and the birth of the Impe rial prince. The interest of the court of Rome in this event will be displayed by the more or less numerous attendance of cardinals and prelates at the TO Deana. Oa the Monday following it is the intention of many British residents and visitors to leave their cards at the French Embassy, in demon stration of the sympathy and congratulation natural between allies. . _ . This morning hie Holiness has been occupied in washing the feet of thirteen priests, who represent the Apostles, in the church of St. Peter, and in sub sequently waiting on them at dinner, a repast which he offers them in one of the halls of the Vatican. It may be imagined what attractions sights each as these, surrounded by all the pageantry of the eeria gladiola court, present to the newly-arrived travel lers who crowd every edit to the basilica and palace, and find it " labour dire indeed, and weary woe" to attend every tniserere, benediction, procession, or display of relics,so plentifully indulged in during the holy week. Amongst the foreign grandees who figure in the reserved seats this year are Prince Al bert of Prussia, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningeo, and the Hereditary Prince of Holstein Augustenbourg. Three rival propositions for the lines of railway in the Papal States have been subjected to the exami nation of the Financial Council of Sate, and are now before the council of ministers. It appears probable that the line from Rome to Civita Vecchia will be granted to Mr. Shepherd, director of the Roman gam works, who offers most advantageous conditions, and will doubtless organise a satisfactory company. The Marquis of Monclar has been for years is treaty for the great line from Rome through Ancona to Bologna. and is now likely to obtais the necessary concession from the government. The third competitor is the Duke of Rtanzares, but as his conditions include the demand of a guaranteed interest of six per cent. ow the capital employed, he will hardly succeed in esta blishing his pretensions. - _ A letter from Rome, of the 20th, in the Univers, says: • • -- Since the 16th, little has been bilked of here but the birth of the Prince Imperial of France, the news of which reached this city about ten in the morning. The telegraphic des patch ►nnouncing the event was, it is said, signed by the Emperor himself, and concluded by requesting the apostolic benediction. It wee addressed personally ti the Pope. At the moment when it arrived, his Holiness was at St. Peter's, per forming divine service, and it was during the singieg that it was delivered to Cardinal Antonelli. The tees 5000 Wad abroad, particularly among the French soldiers, who locked to the church in crowds. The Pope immediately seat his canyratulat'oas and his benediction to the Empe ror, by the telegraph. A great number of French sad ales of foreign residents went to the French embassy, and in , scribed their names. Prince Lucien Bonaparte, private I ehambe eels to the Pope, arrived here on the I.sth. It is said that after he his been ordained priest by the l'ope, be will retsina to Paris, where he will perhaps take an active and official part in the eeremony of the baptism. The Dinanais says that a widow lady, named Madame Andre, left Moan on Palm Sunday, with the in tention of proecediag to Jaquesltm on fat, taking Rome in her way. Th:s pilgrimage le undertaken In pursuance of 4 TOW.