The Express. — London, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

HARMONIUMS —NSW MODEL. clu msy BLALS. and WOOD, lel, Zasantaftest gitt erpreoo. PARIS FIRST CLASS and LONDON PRIZE =DOA wizsarox and BIOGDIN, GOLD An ONI= sad awNuita. abasbdoey. Is. mmAsseir.orea, Cov•Oor00 0 . W.C., N.B rer adatOo ooooo is aimed At oln Os womb& sod as woman at 1 e'axii• TO . 001RFliPONDEN73. Advertteemente Intended ter Qs* Leaden livening Paper, must be at the Mace, 10 , BativertilMinet, b 7 Two o'clock on the day of ptiblieetioll. COVENT 11ARD124. THIS EVlLnilto, THE ARMOUR= OF NANTIER Mews. Wets/. Santley, H. Corti, sad W. Harrigan ; MIMS L A. Bar. And BEAUTY AND Till BLOT. Coach' with the lranatorsatlas flemas.—Cwoometiott at T. HAYMARKET. 'Pus Mnn. OUR AMILBICAN COUSIN. Mews. Bothell, and Meadow ; Mrs. E. rtorlinans..—RASSELAß PRINCK OF ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton and Mr 1.. Keeley. —And MRS. WHITS. Mr. Coniston and Mill Harfieur. PRINCESS'S. Tins Eviction, THE WINNING SUIT. Mears H. Maratha. Viola, and Cathcart MI Amy Sedavlck and lira IL Marlton. And HIQUIT WITH THE TUFT . or, Harlequin and Mo th er Obtpkat. Mauro, Mllaoo. Poww, and Mallard, Mu Collthaon. LYCEUM. TRm IMMO, A SUDDEN ATTACK. Meah ilhore mad Vilddlromb . Emma& sad Mrs. Loa—And TILE DUICWS MOTTO. Marra Tochtar, G. ng Brougham, sad Saimaa , Mama C. Leclerc% I. Term sod Iliworthg. BRITANNIA. tvrinsa, WOMAN'S DEVOTION. Yea Z Yarnold wad Mr Sophie Wm—And ABON HASSAN. Dn. S. Lane : Drank Wale. Newham, and NM*. C. Stephen; Tom Haim and Me two Malec —Commence at hall-pad 6. HIGH WATS". AT LONDON =DEM TWA DAT Mardi& M. 611%.....Ansnassa. 0.. 170. roatosaow—lfaralis. ea. Pia....Aerahrais. O. 17m. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. THI citizens of Dublin, who take a natural pride in the traditional beauty of their capital, are just now united in a vigorous and determined effort to preserve it from invasion, and save it, if possible, from the rude hands of the spoiler. It need scarcely be said that the Goths and Vandals who menace the Irish Metropolis, and threaten to destroy the fair vistas and stately avenues of stone that have delighted successive generations of its citizens, are the agents and representatives of that iron monster with the fiery breath that in our day wages such relentless war against architectural beauty in every shape. This ruthless conspiracy against the visual enjoyment and aesthetic peace of our fellow-subjects across the Channel has as sumed the familiar but ominous form of a "Metropolitan Railway Bill." This Bill coolly proposes to brake imposing lines of masonry with unsightly gaps, to cross the fairest vistas with black and massive beams, to cut the thoroughfares at distracting angles, and, in short, to run long lines of iron traffic right through the city, irrespective alto gether of its architectural beauty, its civic pride, and its domestic peace. Fortunately, the scheme is at present only " projected," but the project has already roused the citizens to active measures of self-defence. A large and highly influential meeting was held at the Mansion-house on Saturday last, to protest against the proposed disfigurement of the city, and to organize an effective resistance to the projected bill. The Loan Mazos, as chairman, stated that although the proposed scheme, if ca rried out, might to some extent injuriously affect the trade of the city, that was not the objection felt to it by himself and the citizens. " The main objection to the scheme was, " that it would seriously deface and partially de " stroy this beautiful city, of which they all felt "so proud." And he pledged himself that if any well-considered scheme were brought forward foieffecting the object in vieworithout "irretrievably " spoiling the city," it should have their hearty rapport. This was the tone of all the speeches, and resolutions strongly condemning the scheme were unanimously passed. In a word, the citizens pro test with hearty unanimity against the disfigure ment of their city. This we take to be a very natural and proper sentiment, and one which, so far from being at all peculiar to the metropolis of the sister island, is largely shared by the inhabitants of London. The citizens of the English metropolis have at least eunuch looal pride in the appearance of their city, as keen &desire to promote its architectural comeliness, and as strong an aversion to its needless disfigure ment, as the citizens of:Dublin. But unfortunately London is such a busy and such an unwieldy place, that it is sometimes difficult to secure any appro priate and concentrated expression even of a sentiment that is acutely felt, or an opinion that is universally shared. But for this, we surely should have had before this some organized and effective resistance to the further and per fectly gratuitous disfigurement of our prominent thoroughfares and public ways. Many of these have been already invaded, and injuries of a more or less serious and permanent character inflicted upon them. We do not now refer to the house telegraphs, although their lines flying across the roofs of the metropolis can hardly be considered ornamental. At most, however, they simply suggest a clothe►drying company of large proportions and elevated views, waiting for permission to use their extensive plant, and roof the city some fine morning with a gigantic punkah of fluttering cloth and calico. These wires, it is true, catch the eye and cut the prospect, but they do not shock the visual sense, break the vista, and blot out the open view. This is effectually done, how ever, by the railway bridges now erecting in various parts of the metropolis. The architectural calamity which the citizens of Dublin no justly dread, and are resolved at any cost to prevent, has in part at least already befallen this less fortunate metropolis. The young Princess? Airwrnsa, for example, when she makes her grand entry into London next week, will pass under the ugliest gibbet that could well be con ceived or erected, in the shape of a railway bridge, recently thrown across the High-street of the Borough. This is a mere black mass, an unsightly block, without ornament or relief of any kind. Such a gigantic and obtrusively ugly bar across one of the chief entrances to the metropolis is a shock to the visual sense of every stranger, and a permanent eyesore to the myriads who pass in and out of London through that great central thoroughfare. This intense and utter disregard of the natural feelings and architectural requirements of the public is of course more extreme and obtru sive from the prominent and commanding situation thus ruthlessly sacrificed to the destructive genius of the barest utility. But offences of the same kind are committed at a number of other points with impunity, while far more serious and fatal inroads on the slender architectural pretensions of the metropolis are threatened. On both sides of the river the streets are being darkened by horizontal madras of iron, and dis figured by vertical mounds of masonry. It is high time to protest against this destructive process being carried any further; high time that some active and organized effort should be made to stay this desolating plague which is gradually extend ing ov& the City, its fatal ravages being marked by fresh eruptions of blackened metal Yd new tumours of shapeless stone. It is the Sore necessary to insist on this, as all that has yet been done is merely the thin end of the invad ing wedge, that threatens to destroy the last remnants of form and comeliness of which the me tropolis can boast. Instead of one, we have up wards of a score of Metropolitan Railway Bills pro jected, all taking their own line, coming in at different angles, and on different levels, and "taking the country" as though it were a waste howling wilderness, instead of a populous city crowded with beings endowed with the sense of vision and gifted with a nervous system. We do not pretend to my that many of these proposed lines may not be very useful and very necessary. But if they are to be made, we do venture to plead for the rights of the public in the matter. With regard to any scheme of railway extension or general utility that affects the more important thoroughfares, the interests of the public at large are imperative, and ought not only to be carefully con sidered, but respected to the uttermost. It is the interest of the inhabitants at large that the City should not be disfigured by unsightly masses of brick or metal. If bridges or viaducts are neces sary at any point, their architectural beauty is • matter of the very first importance. Whether light or solid, let them at least have some preten sions to grace and ornament. There is no reason whatever why such structures should be a cruel infliction or the sight and nerves of a whole city. They can easily be made sightly, and even hand some—positive additions to the architectural beauty of the metropolis ; and if they are allowed to be erected at all this ought in every cue to be in sisted on. There is the projected viaduct over the Holborn Valley, for example. That will be either a great beauty or • great deformity, and it is the business of every citizen to insist that in such works as this, while utility is considered, the form, proportions and general appearance of what is to meet the eye of myriads every day should not be overlooked. If we are not fully alive to this, Mr. Tines deplorable anticipation will be realised, and the bigger the metropolis gets the uglier it will become. .. 1" A; "' • 4 ; Tat EXPRESS, TUESDAY IVENING, FERRI:aid Ebt COUrt. ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. WINDSOR CASI'LE. F. 23. The Crown Prince= of Prussia (Prinown Royal) arrived at the Castle to-day on a visit to the Queen. Prioce Louis of Heue went to London this morning to meet the Princess at the Bricklayers' Arms-station, and ac companied her Reysl Siemer to Windsor. Prince Leopold, and Prinome Louis of Heise, met the Printer at the South-Western Railway-station, at Windom. The Crown Princess was attended by Counter Pourtales, Ouster Hohinthal, end Count FUrstenstein. Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, bad en sodium, of the Queen on Friday, and presented the Address of the House of Lords, in answer to her Majesty's Marge relative to the provision for the Prince of Wales. Prince Arthur, amended by Major Elphirutone, left Windsor this morning for Greenwich-perk. The Commission for promoting and encouragiog the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster held a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Palace of Westminster. Present—Earl Stanhope, Viscount Ewemley, Lord Llanover, and the Bight Hon. William Cowper, IL P. The secretary, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, attended. A deputation on the subject of Irish fisheries had an in terview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. A deputation from Brighton on the subject of the default of collector of taxes had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in A deputation from the committee appointed by the owners and occupiers of property abutting on or adjacent to the river Thames, and of shipowners and tinders con nected with the easnmerte and navigation of the port of London, bad an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson and the Bight Hon. W. Hutt yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the cooservancy of the Thames. The deputation wee introduced by Mr. Western Wood, M.P., and consisted of Mr. Charles Capper, chairman of com mittee ; Mr. J. B. Towns, solicitor to the Fishmongers' Company ; Mr. Joseph Turnley,solicitor to the holders Atha Conservancy hoods ; Mr. Willis= 8. Hall, legal quay whardager ; Mr. Jam. Penning', Fenainp'-wharf ; Mr. J. G. Barry, Meriton's Wharf ; Kr. Leach. Mark Brown's Wharf ; Mr. Alfred Barry, Meriton's Wharf ; Br. Thomas Mow, aristast of the Court of the Watermen's Com pany ; and Mr. Cuthbert Singleton, secretary to the City Steamboat Company. Viscount and Villoolllli4lo Pelmenton returned to town en Sunday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester. day. An appeal from Bengal, '• Prmanath Chowdry v. Ranee filurnowiyce," was &mimed with coats. The lords present were Lord Biegedowo, Sir J. Coleridge, flir E. Ryan, ' Sir L Peel, and Sir J. Oolvile. Despatches were resolved yesterday at the Colonial-office from the 00•111f1)0f of (naafis. Despatches were seat to the Governces of the SMAlemesits ow the West Coast of Africa. PRINCE ALIBSD. MICKINGHAIE PALACE, Fn. 24, 2.30r.x. Telegram received this morning reports favour able progress of Prince Alfred. The Prineville' Helena and Louise, accompanied by Lady Caroline Barrington, honoured the performance at the Lyceum Theatre with their preeesee Let evening. The Princess Royal of England arrived at Gooresend at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, on Maid the royal yacht Oeboroe, and disembarked at the Cuatom • house Pier. She was rewired by Lord Alfred Paget, Vis. count Sydaey, Gem& Eyre, Major Dealers, Colonel Gordon, Colonel Mills,, aid the Mayor and Corporation of Grevessod. The royal Princess appeared to be in capita health and spirit'', and led her youthful son &Zoog the pier to the royal carriages, which conveyed her and her suite to the North Kest Railway station. Here a state train was in readiness to eoevey her to the Bricklayers' Arms Station, and it left Gravesead at half-past 11. There was a consi derable number of persons amemblad, both at the landing pier and railway statics. The Princess on landing was greeted with a royal dote, fired from Tilbury Fort, and her departure from the railway station wos followed by the hearty cheers of the assembled multitude. At a public meeting of the inhabitant, of South wark last evening, it wee resolved that • deputation from the borough of Southwark, accompanied by the High Bailiff, should moseys his Royal Highness the Prime of Wales sad the Prisms Alexandra on their arrival stab' Bricklayers' Arms Statics, escort them through the Borough with all honour, and eoaduct their royal highnesses to the foot of Loudon-bridge. A sub-committee was appointed to receive subscriptions, and make the neemeary arraagementa. A public meatiest of the inhabitants of Paddington was also held yesterday, and was influeotially attended, at which it was determined that • suitable demonstration of the loyalty of the perish should be made on the wedding day, a MeM mitt*. being appointed for the purpose. The ladies who have been honoured by being selected so bridesmaids to the Primes. Alexandra are said to los—Lady Victoria Scott, Lady Una Bracy daughter of Lord Elgin ; Lady Victoria Hare, sister of Lord Liatowel ; lady Georgians Boma Hamilton, daughter of the Marquis of Aberoorn ; Lady Aosta Yalta, daughter of Lord Hard• winks ; Lady Coastwise Villiers, &miter et Lord Clams. dos ; lady Victoria Campbell, Lady Theodora Grosvenor, lady &DeWitt, Mount•Edgesmbe, and Lady reodorowna Wellesley. The invitations to the dinner to be given on the 10th of most month by the howlers of the Hos. Society of the Middle Temple, of which the Prince of Wales is one, extend to all members of the inn who shall signify their anieptanee of the moss by Tuesday the 3rd of Marsh. The Loud Chancellor and several of tbe jukes have been in vited ; and the old hall will he decorated with great taste. No after-dinoer speeches will, however, be allowed—the toast of the evening being simply " His Royal Highness the Master of the Bench." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DRAMA. DRURY-LANE. The long-promised historical spectacle of Bootie POLAND. Dwuk, was w a gge d a t thi s h aase h a t we l t w ith & d egree o f The Prase has the subjoined summary of affairs spirit mid liberality on the part of the management which in Poland : is worthy of all praise. It is note sensation drama, like the On oomparing the intelligence received from different Peep of Day, but rather a series of pictures in which the sources, it is easy to form a distinct idea of the situation, author, scene painter, dressmaker, and stage manager and to estimate the extent of the insurrectional movement. combine to give the public some idea of • bygone period. The Poles are divided into numerous bands, each of which To dramatise • ballad which was never very popular on this has its centre of operations. The government of Rolm is side of the border, to bring before us in the flesh &shadowy inclosed between two insurrectional bodies, comman4ed by hero who is little known andadmired out of the Highlands, to Knrowski. The tirst of them occupies the south-eastern tack on to this an historical event which a leading poetical district ; the south is guarded by flying detachments, dramatist (Judge Talfoard) failed to make endurable on the which connect the east with the west, and keep open stage, was a task of no common difficulty. If the song of communications with the second corps, strongly posted " Bonnie Dundee," end • mange in the life of John Graham in the west and protected by extensive tweets. Here of Claverhouse, and that massacre of Glencoe which has appeared the first detachments of the oorps under furnished so mach matter for controversial historians, fail to Laogiswicz, encamped on the frontier of the department, mix well as • good acting play, we have still the spectacle to watching the isolated movements of the Russians and pre fall back upon. The whole vast area of the Drury-lane venting their coooentration. In this government the &on stage is thrown open, is fitted up with solid hills, sod is sian troops occupy the towns of Miechow, Rieke, Kau** peopled with hundreds of vigorous Highlanders in every Czanstochawa, Radom, sod Sandomir. The centre of variety of clan costume. This is • scene worth looking at, i Kurowski's corps is at Dombrows. %Momenta, which and Mr. T. Grieve never painted a better picture as a back- I we consider exaggerated, represent this corps to be 6,0 00 pound for such a display. Another scene, representing etrong. Its lines extend to Olkuss and Oicow, and Glencoe by moonlight after a snowstorm (painted by Mews. ' threaten the railway from Cracow to Warsaw. As for W. and H. Telbin) is even more effective, though the me Langiewicz, be threatens the high road from Cracow to clinical waterfall in it would bear a little improvement. I Warsaw rid Radom. In the government of Lublin the The story contrived by Mr. Edmund Falconer to connect i high road from Lublin to Lemberg is threatened by the these and other scenes is slight and fragmentary, and di- 1 oorps of Frankowski, some of whose detachments are in corn vided amongst many characters. It deals principally with munication with other bands extending into Volhynia. Dundee's solitary journey from Edinburgh to Lochabsr, I Lastly, in Volhynla itself there is a band, under the com harassed by the Lowland covenanters ; with his reception mend of Neczej, a Cossack by birth. To this general sketch by the Highland chiefs and the gathering of the clans, leaving we may add that Lithuania and the government of Augustow his death to be imagined by the audience. This part of the are overrun with bands whose number and movements are fable occupies the first two acts, and the third act deals with altogether unknown. Forests, lakes, rivers, marshes, the massacre of Glencoe, which is not shown on the stage, the render repression impossible. These bands extend to the supposed borron being relieved by the rescue of Helen and very gates of Warsaw, in the forests lying between &eine. Master M'Donald—the two lovers of the piece. The crowded wine and Psolimon. Bowe German journals speak of name action of the spectacle here, which takes place in a very narrow runs desertions from the Basilian army in Lithuania. . _ mountain pathway, and on a very narrow mountain bridge, with one or two speeches, by way of tag, which may be cut out with advantage, brought the play to a rather weak conclusion. The pruning -knife will doubtless be °remised here and in save& other parte of the drama before the THE GREEK REVOLUTION. next representation. We (Times, Second Edition) have received the following telegram from our special correspondent at Athens: The ;ding promoted nothing which calls for very detailed notion Mr. Edmund Phelps wanted muscle and earnest ness as Bonnie Dundee ; Mr. Henry Loraine spoke a short prologue carefully, and bounced heroically through the part of Alastor M'Donald ; Mr. Graham played forcibly as Alec Campbell ; the chief oovenaritem preached ; some of the actors, who tried Scotch, talked in the unknown tongue, and Mr. Haigh threw very little dramatic spirit into the ballad which gives the piece its name. Mrs. Bowers was interesting but not powerful as Helen It'Donald, and the "ATHENS, 111. 22. " The Provisional Government., recently esta blished, has fallen, through a demonstration got up yesterday with the assistance of part of the garrison. " The Assembly has invested President Morai tini with the executive powers, until it should order otherwise. character which stood out most strongly wee Deft Dairy— played by Mr. J. A. Shaw. The supernumeraries were all excellently drilled sod marshalled, and their shouting wee loud enough to drown the shouting of the audience. The house was crowded, and Mr. Falconer was called after the first and second acts At the close of the piece Mr. Laraine led on Mrs. Bowers, and Mr. Fsloonar came on with Yr. W. Whin. " To-day all is quiet. " The troops which were disbanded are returning. "The Assembly are discuasing • new form of government. _ . . _ " A ministry elected directly by the Assembly will hare the greatest chance of success." Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for a dancing party oa Wednesday, the 4th of March. . .. Thebowl tow of Derby will hold aeeembliea on Wednesdays, the 11th and 18th proximo, at the family IlltatiOn in St. Jame's-square._ . . . . THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : The Earl and Countess Stanhope entertained at dinner, last evening, at their reridenoe in Grosvenor-plies, his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Marquis and Mar chioness de Cadore, the Earl and Counter Grey, Viscount and Viscounts's Castleman, Lord and Lady Echo, Lord Stanley, M.P., sad Mr. Caleratt. Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner, bet sepsis`, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Lord and Lady Chelmsford sad the Hon. Miss Thouger, Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, Colonel and the Baroness North, Hon. Edward Stanhope, Sir Ralph Howard, Hoe. Milo Harding., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Law, Yr. Peal, Mr. Clive, ke. The Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcnmbe have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Meant Fdgcurobe. Viscount and Viscountess Clifden arrived in town last evening, from Althorp Hall, where they had been staying during the visit of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Earl and Countess Spencer. . The Karl and Countess Grey returned to their residence on Carlton House-terrace yesterday from passing a few days with the Dachas Dowager of Sutherland at Cliefden Park, near Maidenhead. _ . The Earl and Countess of Besaborough came to town yesterday, from visiting the Earl and Countess Spencer, at Althorp Hall. lady Emily Peel is prolonging her residence at Nice, and is not expected to return home until noon after Boater. The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., is ex pected to mice in town towards the end of the etumiag mouth, from Nice. _ _ _ Lady Westbury, the wife of the Lord Chancellor, is seriously ill, her ladyship having ruptured a blood renal a few days linos. The injury was caused by a fall. . . The Marquis of Lansdowne, since his arrival in town after the funeral of his father, has been confined by indispositioa at Innadowne House. The noble marquis was able to leave his room yesterday. His Grace the Duke of Rutland still remains at the George Hotel, Grantham, under the treatment of his five physicians, his injuries preventing his being removed to Belvoir Castle for the present . We (Nottingham Omar( lien) regret to learn that W. H. Barrow, Esq., M.P. for South Nottinghamshire, is dangerously ill. The Bishop of Oxford is gradually recovering from his serious illoeu, and we hope shortly to announce his lordship's return to convaleseence. _ . "Tuesday. "The Massilia, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 8 a.m. this day. "The mails were to leave for London at 11.30 a.m." Ou Monday last the Rev. Demetrios Panaghis Calliphrooss, M.A., was instituted to Use vicarage of Wal pole St. Andrew, in Norfolk, on the :Annotation of the Rev. Chancy Hare Townaheed, of Norfolk-street, Park ins*, in the county of Middlesex, clerk. The Channel fleet, under the command of Rear- Admiral IL Smart, RR., lying at Spithead, Is under orders for the Nore, in order to welcome the arrival of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark to the coasts of England. Each ship is now laying in coal, and filling op its comple ment of ,token, in readiness for leaving Spithead. The report to be presented by the Islington Agri cultural Hall Company on the 3rd of March recommends • dividend of 10 per cent., and propane the issue of 5 per oast. del:lantana to the amount of 11,0001. to improve the fittings of the building. LORD PALMERSTON'S VINCE TO GLASGOW. —We (North British Mail) understand that the Lord Provost has received intimation of Lord Palmerston's arrangements on his approaching visit to Glasgow. His lordship, &Ceara • ponied by the Hon. W. F. Cowper, President of the Board of Works, is to arrive on the forenoon of Monday, 30th March, and both will take up their residence with the Lord Provost. It is understood that the noble Rector of our University will deliver his instal lation address to the student& in the forenoon, and will at tend the banquet given by the citizens i• the City-hall on the evening of the day of his arrival in Glasgow. His lord. ship has consented to receive an address from the working chases, which is to be presented at a soiree or reception, to take place on Tuesday evening in the City-ball. It is ex pected that Lord Palmenton will employ the forenoon of the same day in paying • visit to, and inspecting the works and improvements of, the Clyde. GVIRRAL BURNSIDE ON THE FEDERAL ARMY.— At a recent meeting in New York of the United States Christian Commission, General Burnside, after some remarks eulogistic of that swim/dice, thus desaibed the Mate of the Federal army :—" A wrong impression, I think, is existing in the community with reference to that army. Many per sons I meet have the impression that the army is in • demo . reused state. That is not the case. The soldiers are as brave sa they ever were. Tbey are well clad, well fad, well armed, and as long as they are well they are able to take one of themselves in the field. Our officers are becoming more experienced every day, and there isnot the demoralisa tion in the field which general conversation on the streets and in private circles would indicate. There is not that adhesion to soy general principles, or say special set of men, or any special line of policy, that many remarks would iodinate. They remember, and appreciate. cad feel, that while it is noble and grand to entertain personal friendship and love for their commeoders, they at the same time realise that it is ignominious and low to give a blind adherence to any man, or any men, or to any specific line of policy, either political or military. They are in the field to give their whole strength and energies in support of the government." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova own PARIS, MONDAY &Imam. The Pattie contains the following announce ment : We have reason to know that a despatch relative to the affairs of Poland baa just been sent from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Baron Talleyraad, the French ambas sador at Berlin. The despatch, said to bear date Feb. 20, is believed to boo:ow:led in carefully moderate and very friendly terms. It insists principally upon this point of view, vim, that by aiding to put down the insurrection in Russian Po land the government of King William would, perhaps, be likely to arouse the aapirations of other populations of Polish origin, and induce them to make common cause with the insurgents of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. If we are correctly informed, the document, of which we attempt to indicate the general seam, does not conclude with the usual direction to leave a copy with M. de Biemark, and there fore has not, strictly speaking, the character of a note. The last line of the above paragraph accounts for the origin of the rumour put forth, no doubt designedly, that a " note " had not been sent. The date of the despatch, Feb. 20, also shows that the report of a note having been sent in the • middle of last week was premature. The mission of the government journals for the moment is to prevent the public from beifig alarmed. _ The France says it can go further than the Constitutionnel, and announce that Austria seems disposed to join with the two powers in a common remonstrance. Under these circumstances, it thinks that the peace of Europe is in no danger. The Petrie has heard that the Grand Duke Constantine "did not desire and bas not fully approved" the treaty with Prussia which has excited so much commotion in Europe ; it suggests also that the Emperor Alexander will not be displeased at the representations made to him from Paris, knowing that the "honour of Russia can have nothing to fear from a Prince whose character is kuown and appreciated by the Czar, and whose policy has been so often in accord with his on the gravest questions." The Bourse has recovered to a certain extent, but business was heavy at the improved prices. Rents rose 2i c. for cash and sc. for account, closing at 69fr. 70c. and 69fr. 65c. Mobilier rose 13fr. 75c, The Lyons Railway rose 7fr. 50c., and the other lines about 2fr. 60c. " Nothing is talked of in the Paris saloons," stye the Nord, " but the strange incident which happened a few nights since to Baron and the Baroness de L►doucette. Their carriage had just pulled up at the door of their house, and they were preparing to alight, when some thieves rushed up to the carriage door on the side where the lady was sitting, opened it, and endeavoured to seize ou her diamonds. They would perhaps have succeeded, for there were several of them, had not the coach man had the presence of mind to whip up his horses, and thus defeated the intentions of the thieves. Some passers-by coming up, the fellows took to their heels, but three of them were se cured." Without any special reference to the jewellery of the Baroness de Ladouoette, I take this opportu nity of saying that I don't believe in French dia monds, and that thieves who steal them run a great risk of being taken in. The mania for the dis play of baubles is altogether overdone. I remember that some years ago, after a ball at the Tuileries, advertisements in the papers stated that a great many jewels had been picked up, and might be had by application to the Emperor's chamberlain. No ' applications were made, and the reason was that all the trumpery was false and of no value. Now that the custom has grown up of setting forth in the newspapers the precise oust of the diamonds and pearls displayed by court ladies, you may depend upon it that there are more counterfeits than ever. It is notorious that ladies who really possess dia monds of great value wear paste otos in addition to make up the quantity that some richer person is supposed to have. Nobody but a jeweller can tell the I difference between the true and the false. There 1, must soon be a reaction, under the empire of which the lady the least bedizened will be held to be the best dressed. Families will not long continue to ruin themselves for the sake of a parure not differing ostensibly from that which a farmer of • lottery tickets is always ready to furnish to a housemaid for leas than thirty shillings. 24, 1863. ANNIYERRA, TON WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. !ASSOCIATION OP CHAMBERS OP COMMERCE OP THE UNITED KINGDOM. The anniversary festival to commemorate the birthday of Washington took place yesterday evening at Si. James's Hall, and was attended by about 120 pertain. The room was decorated with the Union gag intermingled with the national banner of England. In the absence of Mr. Morse, the Consul of the United States, who was absent from illness, General 0. VANDBE. MGM presided. Amongst the company, including a large number of !edam, were the Hon. Charles Francis Adams, the American Minister ; Mr. Charles L. Wilson, and Mr. B. Moran, Secretaries to the American Legation ; Mr. White, M.P., Mr. Coningham, M.P., Professor Newman, the Rev. Newman Hall, the Rev. Mr. Warren, Mr. Isaiah Vecree, jun., late United States Secretary of Legation at Si. Petersburg; Dr. W. P. Ballard, JudgeJ. G. Winter, of Georgia ; Mr. J. Snow, Mr. R. Hunting, Hr. C. F. Dennett, Dr. Richardson, Mr. A. Roderick, Mr. W. Wilkes, Dr. Coffin, do. The following letter from Mr. J. Stuart Mill was read : "Blackheath-park, Feb. 21. " Dear Sir,—Although I am prevented by pressing occu pations from accepting your invitation to join you in cele brating the glorious memory of Washington, and the great work of liberation in which he took so important • part, I am thankful for the opportunity afforded me of associating myself, if only by letter, with the principles and purposes which are identified with that illustrious name. " The prospects of the human race are so deeply . inter ested in the success of the great experiment which is work ing itself oat in the United States, that the lovers of free dom and progress in other countries feel whatever injures, and still more whatever diabonoura America as • Personal calamity. Foremost among all which injure and dishonour a country stands the personal slavery of human beings. Rather than consort to the further extension of this scourge, the American people have voluntarily Moaned all their present sacrifices ; and because what was originally a war against slavery his grown into • war for its extinc tion—(loud cheer)—my hopes for the future welfare and greatness of the American Republic were never so high se in this, to superficial appearance, the darkest hour in its history.—l have the honour to be, dear sir, very faithfully yours, " J. S. Mitt." The CHAIRMAN proposed as the first toad, " The memory of Washington." In doings° he observed that Washington eau the founder of those great institutions which ware„now exposed to such deadly unaulta. The name of that peg man could never be dissevered from the Union ; and when the latter was broken, the fair fame of the former would I have been tarnished. (Hear, hear.) For the last two years it had been customary with a certain clue of persons in this coustry to compare Washington and Jefferson Davis, be cause both resisted established authority. Nothing could be more unwarrantable than such a comparison ; for while Washington rebelled against wrong and oppression, the leader of the South rebelled in order that slavery might be come permanent in the Union. The toast was drunk in solemn silence. After the toasts of "The President of the United States," and "The Queen," both of which were drunk with great enthusiasm, The Quietist( gave " The Union," the chief instrument in bearing an infant republic on to prosperity and greatness. May the Union never be divided, and may it carry order, peace, and new 'scarifies to liberty, with a higher civiliaa- Jima over every care of the rebellious states. The toast was drunk with three times three, the band , . which was present, afterwards playing " Yankee Doodle. Mr. ADAMS, the American minister, who on rising to re spond met with a very hearty welcome, said—Mr. Chair man and ladies and gentlemen, in responding to the senti meet I feel in some degree embarrassed by the manner in which it has been associated with myself. If I was at home, as I was in the days to which you, dr, have been pleased to allude, when I was a candidate for the office of President without any chance of being elected—(laughter)-1 should have liked nothing better as a theme to descant upon. But theme are now changed very much ; and I find myself placed, without any act of my own, in a situation in which, according to all the ordinary usages at least of the European world, it would not be vary proper for me to indulge in any very extensive or very harardous talk. (Laughter.) I feel myself in a somewhat similar position to that of the Irish man who, having got somewhat exhilarated, said to himself, "Faith, it's not I, but somebody else." Standing in the position which I have now the honour to occupy, I feel that it is not I but somebody else that is here, and therefore I hope you will be so kind as to excuse my not making a 'pooch this evening. I should have been delig hted to extend the subject in connection with the associations which the chairman has presented but in a foreign country and in • foreign situation, I feel myself to be, as it were, in a straitjacket, and I would there. fore rather decline the responsibility of speakieg. (Hear, hear.) Bat, before sitting down, I may perhaps be pea mated to make one remark connected with the sentiment to which I had to respond, and with an observation which fell from the chairman in his opening address. You remarked, sir ' in effect, that Union and Washington went together — th at the chain of connexion between those two ideas are indissoluble. Never was there a remark ' made in relation to American affairs more true than that. (Cheers.) The Union was as much the work of Washington as of any mortal man. He devoted the whole of hie efforts for years to the bringing about the Union ; he crowned it by accepting the nitration which finally effected the oompleteness of the hood ; and one of the last acts of hie political life was, as you must all remember, that memorable legacy by which he enjoined bin countrymen to keep the idea of the Union, as the ark of the covenant, ever sacred in their minds. (Cheers.) Yet I have heard it contended in some gutters that if Washington had been alive at this time he would have been found arming the rebels. The persons who talk in that way have little perception of the character or prin ciples of the persons about whom they are asking. (Hear, hear.) What! Washington stimulate • rebellion against the authority be had ever prized ! For what ? We all know what has been the object of the gentlemen who stimulated the present rebellion—it was to extend and perpetuate slavery. (Cries of "True.") Would Washington have taken part in any such movement, when the very last act of his life, as hie testamentary disposition shows, was the 'liberation' of all hie slaves? (Hear, hear.) I think, there fore, we may dismiss, with contempt, for ever the preten sion that, under any circumstances, the name of Washing ton could have been annotated with such • dishonourable and dishonest movement. Strange as it may be, it is yet perfectly true, that from this time forward the name and memory of Washington must be kept in reverence, and guarded with care, exclusively by the loyal portion of the Americana. It can never be re garded with admiration by those on the other side. (Cheers.) They have voluntarily abandoned all the glorious sasocia tious of their history ; they have surrendered every point upon which the nation had previously fixed its eyes with pride ; sad they have opened for themselves a new career whether of glory or of shame it is for posterity to decide. They must, at allevents,look back with feelinpof satisfaction on the pas t. The past was • pledge of freedom ; their future is a pl edge of slavery, and between the two an impassable ocean ' I ever remain. It is, then, for us to cherish and cultivate, while honouring the memory of Washington, the glorious associations connected with the perpetuation of the Unica. (Loud cheers.) Mr. CONINGHAII, M.P., at the request of the chairman, made a few remarks relating to the commemoration. They were, he observed, told the other day by an eminent par liamentary authority, that this fratricidal civil war was the result of republican institutions. To such assertion he (Mr. Coningbam) gave a most emphatic denial ; the cause of the war was that which had caused half the calamities of the human race, namely, slavery. The North was engaged in s deadly struggle against an accursed slave power which had too long controlled the counsels of the Union ; and he trusted that the banner which they all witnessed would yet wave over a united people. (Cheers.) Mr. WHITE, M.P., afterwards addressed the assembly in a similar strain. GENERAL MEETING.-(THL3 DAY.) - This morning commenced, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, the annual meeting of the Areociation of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom ; Mr. 8.8. Linn in the chair. The folk — wing — here the chambers represented end the names of the delegates :—Mr. Dust= Lupton and Mr. W. Hirst, Leeds ; Mr. T. With°, Leeds end Goole; Mr. J. V. Godwin, Mr. John Darlington, end Mr. Jacob Behrens, Brad ford; Mr. Game Dixon and Mr. J. S. Wright, Birmingham; Mr. Oliver Ellis, Dewsbury ; Mr. O. Allhusen, New. castlison-Tyne ; Mr. Robert Jackson, Mr. J. .Dobson Smith, Mr. IL Hall, and Mr. W. Smith, Sheffield ; Mr. W. II Wills, Mr. Mark Whitwell, and Mr. L. Bruton, Bristol ; Mr. J. Lumedeo, Mr. H. J. Atkinson, and Mr. C. Norwood, Hull ; Mr. J. W. Gam e, Mr. C. H. Jones, Mr. Joseph Wrigley, jun., and Mr. Joseph Battley, Huddersfield ; Mr. E. Akroyd and Mr. J G. Bow man, Halifax ; Mr. Frank P. Fellows, Wolverhampton ; and Mr. Edward Day, Dewsbury. The draft report of the standing committee wee read end adopted. Reviewing the measures of commercial reform which characterised the past year, the report referred to the treaty of commerce signed in January last between France and Italy, and expressed an earnest hope that the negotiations for an Anglo-Italian commercial treaty day now be brought to an immediate and eatisfactory issue. Reference was made to the satisfactory treaty with Belgium and with the King of Burmeh ; to the passing of the Merchandise Marks Act. 1862, by parliament ; to the extension of the Mateo( ownership of registered designs in articles made wholly or chiefly of metal, from three years to five ; and to the act for the incorporation, regulation, and winding up of hiding companies and other usociatious. The committee express a hope that the petty import and export charges imposed by the Customs Act of 1862 may be abolished this suckle. The Partnership Law Amendment Bill, the Patent Laws, and the International Maritime Law were commended to the attention of the chem. hers. The committee trust that at no very distant date a bill may be enacted which shall not only cons°. lidate the entire Astute law of bankruptcy, bat render pro. ordure in bankruptcy whet it ought to be, at once the most simple, economical, and speedy method of dealing with the evil to which it relate*. The attention of the various chambers of commerce is urgently required—the commit. tee observe—to the tumatidaotory fiscal relation. with Greet Britain of foreign state" (especially of the Zollverein, Aus tria, Ramie, Spain, and Portugal). The report proceeds to review the objectionable provisions of the tariffs of these states, any specific allusion to the enormous protective do. ties imposed on the manufactured of this country by the United States of America being purposely avoided. "The present circumstance" of that great country," say the com mittee, "ammo exceptional, that the committee can here only expellee a hope that, at the termination of the present na happy and disastrous civil war, the tariff of the United States may be shined in • spirit more in accordance with 'modems. mercial principle", and with the present opinions of the other leading commercial nations of the world." la the negotiations or oontromcial treaties it is very important at ell times that the special interests of British manufacturers should be duly considered. It would be a fatal misfits (rye the report) to follow the details of the treaties which may have been concluded with other states by the Fresh, ce by any other foreign government. With regard to oer repeal of the navigation laws, the committee observe that it is to be regretted that many of the principal maritime na tions deelhoe to respondst all to this liberality on the part of Great Britain ; but by imposing extra tonnage dues on British, as compared with their own shipping, and bydifferen tial duties on the goods carried therein, succeed, in manyin. stances, in practically excluding British vessels from partici. paling in the foreign, colonial, or coasting trade of such conutries altogether. This is a ground for just complaint, and one to which the attention of the Foreign-office and of the Board of Trade should be constantly directed by the , various chambers of commerce. In concluding their report the committee advert to the increase of our exports and the gratifying result, to Franca no lees than to Ragland, of ; the adoption of a more liberal commercial policy by the ; former. The following is the programme of subjects for discussion by the association to-day and tomorrow : Name of Chamber Subjects proposed. proposing. The Partnership Law Amendment Bill, 1862 Birmingham. The Extension of the Principle of Limited Liability to Private Partnerships ; The Desirability of • General hfsatton of Partnerhire Leeds. The Patant:Laws 1 Bradford, Birmingham, ;Medd. _ . _,Y, The Defects in the liiiikrapiey Ast, 1.861, - as exemplified in its practical working... • Birmingham. The subject of Foreign Tariffs generally Bradford. The Desirability of an Improved Mode of Commnaication between the Foreign Office, the Board of Trade, and Chambers of Com merce, in reference toOommercialQueetions Bradford. Belligerent Rights at Sea Bristol. Desirability of Abolishing the Petty Import and Export Charges imposed by the Customs Act. 1860 The fficheldt Tolls Impropriety of granting Powers to Railway Companies to run Steam - Vessels Hull. The Abolition of Extra Batas charged on Goods removed Inland for Bonding Leeds. bioarporMiou of Chainbess of Commerce The Desirability of Tribunals of Commerce Bat'. The Desirableness of an Alteration in the mode of conducting Legislation on Private Bills Private Bill Legislation The Desirsbility of the Abolition of the Duty on Fire Insurance, or its reduction and ex tension to all kinds of Insurance against Fire The Question of having Extra Facilities Granted for the Transmission of Patterns by Post Bradford. The Metric system of Weights and Measures, and the Report of the Select Committee ' of Parliament thereon Huddertia A 000sidwable pert of the moaning WAS occupied is discussing Mr. ikholefield's bill on limited liability. There was great diversity of opinion with respect to it. more par ticularly in relation to the partnership of clerks ; and the question wan ultimately disposed of by a resolution reCOlll. mending the bill to the oonaiderstioo of the associated chambers of commerce in their separste capacity. A resolution was afterwards passed unanimously io favour of the compulsory registentioo of all partnerships The meeting then pranged to the consideration of the patent laws. Mrurra.—A. parliamentary return, issued thi3 morning, shows that is the year 1862, the estahlishmee: of all the militia regiments is the United Kingdom amounted to 4,677 akin, 5,874 now-commissiooed office" and 173,740 privates. The numbers present were 2,57, . . officers, 5,255 noncommissioned officers, and 87,391 pr. vates. The numbers absent were 46t officers, with leave. 77 of without leave, 42 non-commissioned °Pico with leave, 51 non- officers without kat:. The remaining toast. were :—" The Constitution—may the slaveholders rebellion begun spinet it, by tyranny and treachery, to perpetuate human bondage and to secure selfish ends, terminate in universal freedom, and a more firmly established union." "The United Stater and Great Britain —compeers in the march of civilisation. May the blessings of peace ever cement the natural alliance." "Me Army and Navy of the United Stake—patriotic defenders of a glorious country and its flee institution& The lover of free dom will for ever bold them in grateful remembrance." "The Press— tho mighty lever of public opinion—ita freedom and purity giro a healthy development to national senti• emit" "The Ladies—true to their mission, the firmest supporters of uniform' liberty." 1,144 privates with leave, 12,312 privates without lam The numbers wanting to complete were 1,666 office". 696 pon-oommieeioned offloers, and 23,127 privates.. Yesterday the competitive trial of srmill-1,0 3 rifles to be need at the next Wimbledon meeting of t.n National Rine Association commenced at the governm , :t long range, Woolwich Arsenal. Miss Constance Aylmer having recovered fres) her severe indisposition, will make her reappearance at :ha Princess s Theatre on Monday next (March 2), u Moth , Gibbs, in the drama of AU that Glitters is not Gad. Twenty-two candidates have already preseutel themselves for the post of director of the Italian Opera .1 Paris, lately resiroed by 111. Cando. The Ft gramme states that M. Basler, director of the Tbess Royal of tiadrid, stood. the best chance of obtaining the direction. The MoviTnel9l) of Genoa states that Garibabli'i health csitinnes to improve. He walks about in his WA with the aid of crutches, and is able t.) go as fir as the shore. His thoughts are directed towards Poland. 11r hat just written to General Corte, a member of the committee for assisting the Poles, to express his approval of the fix• mation of the committee. _ The Princess-Dashes de Poi: nee Talleyrand- IN'rigord, widow of the Prince Duke de Poi:, formerly Freoch ambassador ►t Bt. Petersburg, has just died at Versailles. at the age of 77. Under the First Empire the de. ceased was lady of honour to the Empress Maria Louisa, and under the Restoration was mistress of the robes to the Duchess de Berry. At Turin the celebrated actor Salvini, hurt by some very reascreable and moderate strictures on his style of performance, in a festilleton of the Gaz:etta di Torino. hat challenged the writer of the article, Botto, and laid him low with two sabre cute. M. Leoomte, in the Monde IlluetrA relates the following anecdote on the subject of the recent marriage of Marshal Canrobert :—" At the close of the Crimean war a ball was given at the residence of M. Magee, then Minister of Finance. The marshal, on entering one of the rooms, saw a young and charming person, dressed in piak and crowned with flowers, who oatne up to him and invited him for the nest dance. 'Monsieur le MartMhal,' she said, 'deign to regard me sea Russian, and make me--dance ? 'lmpossible, mademoiselle,' replied the marshal, 'there is an armistice." And an amnesty for my boldness, I hope! The warrior offered his arm to the lady to lead her to her place, but on the way he met a young officer. ' Here, monsieur,' said the marshal, ' take your 'place in the quadrille with this lady, and remember that this night a marshal of France has envied a subdieuteoant.' The lady was M rile. Flora Macdonald, who has just married the marshal." —.— " Winter," mays the Courtier de Lyon "ha: , At length arrived within the last few days, but it is so saki that Montpellier, Nice, and Genoa might envy it. Is do morning the thermometer is at one or two degrees belay freezing point, and in the middle of the day at ten or tegrt degrees (Centigrade) above it. The wind blows from 0 0 north, and the sun shines in an almost cloudless sky." TM ame delightful weather prevails in Paris. The Telegrafo of Barcelona gives a stranger: . count of an apparatus for flying in the air, lamented by farm labourer named Orujo, residing near Malsga. It o ° °. slats of fans attached to the heels, and large wings oval' ing from the shoulder to the waist and moved by do bands. The inventor, ►he above mimed journal states, lo g already risen to a height of 9100 yards, and moved about all directions even against the wind. He had also rer formed the distance of a league in less than a 'miner ef A hour. Credal Judants Apello I .~► 1