The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-29 00:00:00

MHZ DAILY NEWS : LONDON MORNING Tw AM, wise wellowed 4L. armee Id DiaAlag LelaW JewemA De aglow*, et Ow earlow tad et Valma& Moor We Mont arl male el Ns moral aew—he MOW er Ih 111. weer* awl la Ibe weSed nerwalle re ammonia wharf L..= .1 V.Y =Away. am arms leurib—aft pm. - Fri MUNN NOWII u lIILIADLI AND IMPARTIAL ILa mesh* wry mon er deppla IM lofts wee Is sapoNal ND by every °ward Net wAD TIM ONLY DAILY ITLUIIO MOM WO O ld et p4sm. IT SIOLIJoW ALL 011PONel TN ADYWITISZ c NINVIL OWN, re. war s T=wTx la c 4a a eianaler pWllea visy GI swore la Da limbs ; er al Leallea. We paw 17 swabs Ur g e Ankh We wow awe =le wo./7 II WA ei. pa weer. paid la frbt expreoo. aftirommis tallWit.. - -ib7i4;;;;;V:ii. smea r w ar, ma I. a es clew L . ifineerilzell. by Two o'Clank an the Op of pakiludis. HAIIIAR[LT. Tele 'Threw A UMW TRIM.. Ileum leacketeee, Comptes. Threw 11•Iwti Bara. las" ta,a Clark Wee Remote*. lira Its . elrieee—AT•LeteT•; sr, The Three Geed... Apple. Wee*. (Arr. SAM LIND U FIZZ lllllLLlS6ll—.oanamece r T. TlVRninvo. • OAHU OF 11,7 111 + . Lat RING RICHARD lIIICOND. sod Km 0. mem con se leal/- CO& ltlrf. TIPSMIUIM, lIIIIPTIAL fU Magee. _ , Wren& sad lOW 110•601/. Mrs. N. Dracins. ELLT. Meow • iflitreelb; Ulm PV.olll—Aad TN II NIA VOT Alt D ab7l - 1/ MOM RSV. 10.1fleamare ; Nairn Amilel.—Opal pat MOM W*T AT LONDON BRIDGE. = a , ll . =lmam ft. I. fla Us.-- Afkinsas. A 43a. LONDON. TVEDYESDAY. APRIL 29. TO OUR A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will 110 published as ma on SATURDAY NEXT. Tag record el the examinations in the Court of Bankruptcy connected with the case of the Royal British Bank bra become so voluminous, and the proceedings hats dragged on to so prat a length, that the interest taken in them by the pals& begins somewhat to diminish. They hare honed that companies are founded, not only in eameipsnes of the relation between supply and demaad, but also because some large building laces • tenant. The art and mystery of cooking amounts and balance sheets has been fully elucidated, and the peculiar mode of morality practised by the profemors of that recondite branch of industry is no longer a rent confined to the initiated. But, unhappily, little be expected of them," and is quite surprised to find that the Commissioner does not take the ism. view of the intelligent mode in which he has dis charged his duties. A glinsineatag suspicion, however, seems on one occasion to have arisen in the mind of this bank auditor that he was a mere marionette, for be once hinted to CIAO/ORD that the audit seemed to be a mere farce; and that individual, with the same touching candour which prompted him to admit more than once that two debts of 321. and 181. re spectively might be considered doubtful, speed that it had rather that look, and suggested a communi cation to CAMERON. Mr. PAGE, in his simplicity, expresses some astonishment that neither directors nor shareholders ever suggested a real audit, or in quired whether the biennial farce was an audit or no. Had ho our long experience of the profound apathy of shareholders, he would have ceased to wonder, and would rather, like his colleague, have trusted to that apathy, and dipped his fingers with the others into the till of the bank (which, to his credit be it spoken, he never did), rewarding himself for his complaisant credulity or neglect, and trusting that in the natural course of events it would never be discovered. His co-auditor, Mr. CRINDLF.R, bad borrowed some 8001. or 9001. from tho Bank direct, and a further sum of 1,3301. through Canaan., the bulk of which was still owing when he failed. What particular qualifica tions Mr. Paws pommies* to entitle him to so im portant a post we cannot tell, but Mr. CHANDLER'B antecedents were of a more imposing description. This gentleman was a surgeon, and a brick-maker besides; he was also a Director of the Wendt° Water Company; of the Chartered Australian land, Mining, and Importing Company; and of the Patent Brick and Tile Making Company. No wonder that he discovered a practised ability, to which Mr. PAGE was a stranger, in helping himself out of the Binds of the Bank as some slight compensation for the labour and responsibility of auditing Mr. CIAO TURD'. accounts. Will this authentic exposure of the ride= of auditing arouse shareholders from their lothergy ? Will CiACtt'll:Vs statement that the returns to the Ciasette were looked upon as a mere farce, open the eyes et the Legislature and of the public ? And will the avowal of the Directors of the Royal British Bank, that they pained off an egregious falsehood upon the Privy Conseil, demonstrate the necessity of some severe enactment to punish such frauds and such ruinous neglect of duty ? We have seen these things so often exposed and commented on by the press, that we are beginning to doubt whether anything effectual will be done. We are almost forced upon the conclusion that the ris inerlie is pos sessed by these interested in its utmost development, and that even after the exposures of the last fcw months the field is se wide sad as safe as ever for the ingenious rogues who devote their wits to the wholesale plunder of the shareholding public. of Wows new. We had been somewhat sti;leited vrith details of joint-stock raacalities, and the chief interest in the Royal British version of the old song was derived from the enormous scale on which the frauds were perpetrated. On Monday, however, a more novel branch of the " mystery of iniquity" was en tered upon, and the public will do well to study • little same closely the cootributiens to the physio logy of joint-stock companies furnished on that occasion. We have at length been admitted behind the scenes as regards audits, and have learned the wane operandi from a brace of living auditors, examined on oath, who have, moreover, given us the benefit of their views and those of the Bank imagers, as to the appropriate functions of their elks. The world beyond the board-room is apt to look epos an auditor as one entrusted with the can of verifying the statements submitted to share holders at the meetings, and charged more especially with the examination of the accounts presented by the directors. After reading the examinations of Mr. PAGE and Mr. CHANDLII, this delusion will inevitably be dispelled, and the more rational con clusion adopted, that auditors ere mere ornamental appendages, whose names are necessary for the com pletion of the prospectus, bat whose duties are not intended to offer any impediment to the operations of the REDPATHIS and ROMIOXIS and CAIICRONS, et doe 'OW muse, who flourish so luxuriantly in the congenial soil of public companies. at Court. The Duchess of Eclat visited her Majesty peter - day, at Haddam Palma Prise ABrst rode ea horeibatic with the Priam of Wake is the freseeca. The Priam, Weeded by Lard Alfred Paget , paid • Tide to the Dothan et Oleetester to the sfierneon. The Priam§ Albs, etleaded by tidy Ceram Beerbarton, Wee Welted the mei dacha; et Gleacesile-bawee. ia the eitineoca. The Thither at Glosoisier woe feebler yesterday &re mai, sad her royal llghnies to la a premium state dialog the day. Imlay on the part of the Queen after the heath ot her royal sae nes suds is the moraine. Prince Albert end the Primers Allot paid visits in the afternoon to the royal ditchers, and her nephew, the Dale of Cambridge, arrived at Gloweeter-hovas soon after eight o'clock let Avg• A Cabinet Coaxal was held at the official resi dence of the First Lord of the Treaaary, Dawning street, yesterday. The Ministers present were— rmosant Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Laboochere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Facheqner, Bir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Aliorkj, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right lion. M. T. &dam Idr. PAGE would seem to be a fair sample of his elan. He does not appear to have shared in the plunder, nor did be even regularly receive his 251. per annum for listening twice a-year to the copious and lucid statements of that invaluable ser vant of the late Bank, Mr. CRACTURD, who was specially charged with the mystification of the anditors—a service he performed with great skill sad conseicuticrner—serming that he was in duty bound to further the frauds of the manager. It even appears that Mr. PAGE was somewhat exorbitant in his views of an auditor's duties, for CRAUEURD inti mated as much to CAMERON, who thereupon under took to indoctrinate the inquisitive auditor as to the proper limits of his inquiries. The process of auditing was r follows :—An item of " London Bills, No. 5, 95,9341.," appears in the balance-sheet, but in the badger that total figured under the bead of " past due bills." Mr. PAGE naturally inquires the cha t/weer of the item, as it appears in the abstract ac curst before him, and Mr. CRAVEIRD, " in • very clear and satisfactory manner," explains that it is essareed et bills receivable. Bat are all the secari tiss goad I' asks Mr. PAGE ; and CLOTURE, with a charming candour, admits that they were not ail load; two Items of 321. and 184 were doubtful, bet ern those he hoped the bank would recover. "Lon don bills discounted with security, 70,7281.," is the next item, and this is represented to be of like ex cellent character with the former. "Loan account, No. 1,16,3271.," Jlr.Caiertno tells the acute auditor, soolito of zoottiogoo on houses, land, &c., payable at abort three months. " Loan account, No. 2," was SAM In Jur 18.53, and the next half-year it NMI to MOW I but Mr. PAGE has no suspicion the the fassassa is owing to the transfer of a hope kr Ohl oi !WOW to that account from another. The • mama account" was represented to ow mist of loans for short periods, and Mr. Not "bad no notion that this item contained H. Baown's isvanhown account of 37,5921., CAMERON'S of 3,000 L, ENIVON'S of 8,000 i., which had been overdrawn ter years." The most wonderful account, however, was the " anspease account," a sort of financial dust )** late which was swept everything that add sot dsccatly be put elsewhere. In June, 1856, this item had grown from 36,6101. to 54,0494, but the auditor is perfectly satisfied with CILAITCRD'S OZOMMI6OM, that it consists of " Hosting sums not appropriated to any account, bat to be so in the next boN-year." A deputation, agalatlag et Messrs. M. H. Marsh, M.P. (IM* M.L.C. New South Wale.), George Leslie Gate SI.L.G. New South via*, John Douglas, Francis Bine Gate M.L.C. New South Wales), David biToonel, and Welter Leslie, had in latervisw with Mr. Fuezetar7 Labourbwis yesterday. - ♦ &vitiation frees the ecmoittee of the Bildt& and Foreign Anti-81avery Society bad also an interview with the right boa. gentkman at the Colonial-oftlee. The deputation con sisted of Mews. 0. W. Alexander, Thomas Diana, J. &urge, 8. A. Cimarron:ow, with the Rev. Dr. Carlisle and Jos. Kiteley. Tbi Royal Ceembeles Ite determining the site of the sew Rational Gilkey met ea Monday, at 17, Great Queen•speef, Weetanteater. Present—Lad Broughton (chairman), the Dula of St. Peas, Professor Farads 7, Mr: Cockeyed; sad Mr. likliraaaL Despatches were received at the Coloeisl-ofice yesterday free the Gasmen of Hoeg How, Ceyks Canada, &. Helms, Mat* sad the bad High Coramiadneer of the lades Llamas. Now, while the auditors were complacently listen ing to these explanations, and noting them down from CEALTIIRD'II lips, the general ledger was lying open bare them. They had only to turn to the acenants represented by those totals. and the very headings wonki have shown them, had they been anything bat auditors, that this ems domain of CAEIZZON was mystifying and misleading them ; that ono and all of those amounts represented bad debts. But that was evidently no part of their duty ; they "could not suppose the chief accountant would deceive then "—" had they suspected anything wrong in the position of the Bank they would have nide • emitter examination "—and so on. Finally, We. PAGE winds up with the utterance of a convic tion that " the anditors bad done all that could THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 157. UNITED STATE& We published yesterday, by taken* the _ Irina * intelligence the b 15th rought init. by the Ams, which left The Washington correspondent of tho New York Courier and Enquirer, writing on tho 13th inst., says: the army order just issued is of great impostmee, as die ' pun' gof the absurd st o ry that the troops wave to be with drawn from Kansas. There is a total Menem of troops then of shout 800 men, consiatiag of the eight corapeales of the 10th Infantry, ordered thither from Minnsetra. A column of about 1,000 men, composed of cavalry and infantry, is ordered, under Colonel Sumner, to premed about the 10th of June against the Indians of the plaM. In the early part of Jets there will be in Kassa, as estimated, between three and four thousand troops, of which 1,600 will be detached on spacial service as soon as the grass on the plans will admit of the movement of the animals. The Lcoomptre correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat states that " the appointment of the Hon. Robert J. Walker, as governor of Kansas, gives great dissatisfaction. It is regarded as favoura b le to the formation of a slave state. The instructions to carry out the census rouses general indignation." The letter also says that a spirit of violence and reckless lawlessness is beginning to be exhibited ander the new administration. With regard to the China question we learn by the correspondence of the Herald from Washing ton es that on Saturday, the 11th, the reply by the Secretary of State, General Cass, to proposi tion advanced by the British government was trans mitted to the Windt minister, Lord Night : The United IBM's govern—eat &ohm flet z = rib, a & sallu7 W h im elitkel dime with Timm In Motet TM mum megnel bff Omni Cam In the promlem red won the adebiliel palsy el the country. Be seams la the *Mtn that me mauves within the meek d trimmer *Mid Is loli atrial to open the gates of Cldes to the miamerciml end polltkal Inter com.' of the weld ; but he drum a eoperMonhip is a Chinese war mg= of the ?ma mid policy. Oar liimestinft, will me he beet 'Mem with the gmernment of Mho. Moeller efilhaviting or Tae-ping-mumg, le dm moms nob repeal by the two groat Rumpus pewees ; and the feet that the Ombing treaty will we eagles by get of Ilmitellen eteatm Os direct occa sion es ear pent he SW usismal fir Wier, mere universal, 1 and some pomement sencenimit. It l i s=e=oe i Hr. PAM, in Chink may receive moms In eoppert cd as omen MOM of all civilised hemlinmta. Abe hes en eget et Pain Inln the swot, of palled substraftst sod boil ef the Beat dor* ohs may Memo a it seilent of eneobdieethe le mitt Minh win ,it I. bellemd bare, that the trina et thyroids et Mier who hem node their"? be gal rim of Oahu& will con tribute In • emeitemble &epee to the eallitilmmost el their mmemeskg tbs pow Ned reememen et W e e forth raft. In 4 the tu ft ed /trim no holy dame via or Fruits, but oamrMrat course of meinerreet for the woe comers *mite d i efsi i r ofwd= en era country, end ..he Um of at"... anomodone eanditron of aliens in Utah is, next • to the akvoly credal; the meat perplexing domes tic subject saw - before the government and people of the United States. Since the day the Mormons made themselves a power in the politics of Illinois no administration has possessed the courage to op pose them. Mr. Buchanan and his cabinet, however, are about to attempt a revolution among the Latter Day Saints. It is proposed to send to Utah a mili tary force of twenty-five hundred men, officered by persons of eharacter, who have families; and judges and executive officers of worth and high stand ing, who have families, are to be appointed in place of Brigham Young and his satellites. These mea sures will, it is believed, afford ample protection to the territorial functionaries, and at the same time, impart an enlightened and purer tone to the morals of the community. The order recently issued from the War Department, withdrawing General blarney from the conduct of the Indian war in Florida, and directing him to repair to Fort Leavensiorth, there to await special instructions, may perhaps have something to do with the contemplated coup eitat of the administration. Mr. Drummond has realigned the office of Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah territory. THE WAR LN PERSIA. • (non LAST xtonv's ossurrn.) INDIA BOARD, APRIL 28, 1837. The following despatch has been this day received .t the Ere ladis-bouas : 110 M TM■ OOTIMINOII-01SAILAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL TO TMA MILT COMMITTAL OT Till LAST INDIA COM. PANT. (Extract.) Fort William, Meath 24, 1867. We forward a printed copy of a notification, publishing Sir James Outram's despatch to big Excelkocy Beat.-Genetal Sir Henry Soutereet, mporting his alma victory over the Persian army, commanded by Shooja-001-Moolk, in their en. trenched camp at Borazgoon, on the Bth ultimo. We beg to bring to the 'avowable notice of your honourable committee the service rendered by the Milken and seen as this masks, and the manor In which it has bets performed. Fort William, Foreign Deparbeent, March 12. The Governor-Gmerel inComell has gnat pleasure in pub lishing the sooompanying ado from Lieutosat-Getsend Sir Imam G a h m, Y . C . H ._ It discribee • Dew mass of the Brifbh saw in Persia, achieved between the 3rd and the 9th of Fibrosis, against • force much superior in member, and in the hoe of difficulties which ham made coaspicuotts the energy and promptitude of the commander and of the officers associated with hisn, as well as the courage, discipline, and cheerful endorsees of the The reitid awl WENN akiththerthire, deliberately pleased ad setempihimil with moth= ; the fathesent weather, spinal whielt se preleelks of say kind was available to men or Mean; the Itu meitheace to as attack to circum stances the mei ben et the theism Roder of as army awl the atter coat mid easteelea cf the enemy with very beery leth Vim the waniag light melded sew soldiery to theme their amtheate—heve theited tide vendee whim the Paths etheeelied °map st boresimetoe me of width the Sees oder Sir James (harem's enema may well be pod. I. the Mile Ot it officers sad mea ben exhibited si the qualities Maki make as army ithisollith re Sir James Oahu& and to his brave companions in arias, the Governor-OmM is Council <keit.' to offer an early swinreatee ot the warm appeelialion sad thanks which they have so wall earned. nese ere especially due to Major-General Stalker, C. 11., end to Colonel Lemuel, C.B , chief of the staff, who are described by Sir Jame Odra= as having guided the impel* victory in the theo—wwet baffity net of bag aadrisre—irle width he was dialed by s NI al his bins; bat they ere dee to all of every rank who have ties share in this *way secceisful exploit, which has called hr minuet /wry swami from all, and in which all have borne thala mi.= with plientry. The iL t ' THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER. The following bulletin was boned this morning: " Caseersear Hook Are 29, 9 &N. " Her Royal Higbee' the Duchess of Gkeseestes is team feeble te-day thea her Bo* Highness was yesterday!' (stood) "Femme Hewatee, M.D. "Router 1 1 1110USON, M.D. "Simian H. HILLS." The Duke of Newcastle and family have returned to tows from Chamber Perk, for the seem. The Marquis and Marchioness Towisaend are ex pected in town in a fro days, from Ball Park, Hertford, for thr season. Via:coil Rayohsen oar to tows to-sorrow. The Earl sad Countess at Hardwieke and the Ladies Yorks eons to town today for the stoma. The Fart and Countess Wald/grave are at present otayiag at Hailags, sat will sot rebus to town until lb. 12111 of nazi swath. The Earl and Counter of Wemyse are staying at their meat Es Bra Leaks, end will not return to telrst wail the hater awl of ant am& The Earl of Line*la has returned to town from Mottlaglisia Viscount Castleman has arrived in Belgrave wean from Kafumy, for the roosting of puharoant. Lord and Lady Echo bays arrived in town from Italy, and ban tan a bovastaUppar Bidirave-strest, fur the seam. The Hors. George Frederick and Mrs. Boyle have snivel at tie Comdr. Amps. of Glasgow'. residence i 1 allidnalkok Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pctre have arrived in liesisirporms, Is, the ems& Among the fashionable visitors now staying at Brighton, en: The Dasher of lterlharoanit and Lord Meant Chard" Lady Easily Manbaza, Lord Sadsiooli, Mr. Saila, M.P., Lard avid Lady Olivia °avulsion, Lord Cieorp and Lady Addis Manama, Sir John and Lady Paldapon, Sir Gimp and Lady Minty, Kr. James Ker shaw, M.P., and Mrs. Kershaw, the Han. Capt. J. C. Viviaa, M.P., mad the Bea. W. Hsabary Tracey. Prime A Mid, seeoad an olQueen Victoria, paned through Aupberg as the 24th as lb way to CobsuT. The Primula al Oade arrived at Glen*, co Xceday, east vire reeeived b 7 the Lord Provost sad the reagistretoe. in Coaocil will bays ths greatest satisfaction in expressing to the Honcriusbis Court of Directors hie appreciation of the senior rendered, mad of the manner i• whkh it was performed. The Governor-Gee one game young in Council has to lament the lean of cer—Lieut. Franklead, of the 2n4 Europera Libra—who, acting as Reined; Major of Cavalry, MI dead in the first of the briWast charges by which oar small body of Horse on that day distinguished it. self. Captain Forbes, commanding the aid Regiment of Light Cavalry, and Lieut. Hemmers', of hier lidalseers 64th Regiment, have been merely woandeL BM, upon the whole, the csenalties on the Ode of the British force have been few compered with the very heavy lose inflicted spin the enemy, both in men and munitions of war. By order of the Right Hon. the Goronwx-Chnerel in _ , O. F. EMIONSTONII, Secretary to the Government of • Published in the London Gazette dills 3rd Apnl. According to the Unicersal German Gazette, ITheStliftl ere to be taken in Saxony, similar to those adopted in Prude, for preventing the circulation of foreign bank notes. The Piedmontese Senate, in its sitting of Saturday last, voted the bill for the fortifications at Mossssdri• by • majority of 46 to 8. The Paris Patrie age that Captain Merriam of the English army, who lately received a dlareand snuff-box from the Emperor in acknowledgment of a very complimen mu "'Eatery of Napoleon III.," written by the moan, has sent the Emperor in return a present of km thorough bred homes, wbkb are to ran at the next Fontainebleau races. A tranalation et Captain Wedmore@ work le &bent to appear in retie. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS, TIMIDLY IiTINOI9. I learn that the Council of State has made some important amendments in the bill for taxing nego tiable securities. It is proposed to augment the amount from 16 to 20 per cent., and to take as the bags of the calculation the average quotations of the last preceding year, and not of the last three years. A favourable clause is introduced with respect to nominal shares, but shares to bearer are to be sub jected to a duty of 10c., payable every six months. A separate provision is made with regard to foreign railways. _ _ Rumours of the above measure produced a very bad effect at the Bourse, and another considerable fall has taken place. The Rente fell 25c. both for cash and account, closing at 68fr. 05c. Mobilior fell 30fr. Railways were much depressed. Orleans fell 20fr.; Eastern, 16fr. 25e. ; Mediterranean, 17fr. 500. ; Lyons, sfr.; Southern, 8fr.50c., and other lines aboat sfr. There has been a sudden movement in the silk market at Lyons, which, for the last six weeks, had been very flat. The rise, which is as much as 3fr. the lilog., is attributed not as might have been supposed to orders from England, but entirely to the fear of another bad crop—a fear, however, which the general tenor of advices from the pro ducing countries does not justify. Lord Cowley has caused the report that ho was about to leave Paris, in order not to meet the Grand Duke Constantine, to be contradicted. The French government journal which announced his approach ing departure, but without giving the above reason, now says that be is not going to London at aIL The Emperor and Empress are going to Com piegne on May 15, to stay a week there with the King of Bavaria. The second division of the Rumian fleet is ex pected at Cherbourg from the lath to the 20th of May. It is thought that the first division, now in the Mediterranean, will come there aim. The Pays says that the Emperor has been gra ciously pleased to allow all the polytechnic pupils forming the mood division, who were lately dis missed, to return to the school without a single ex ception. The 6th of May is fixed for the trial of eleven members of a secret society called the "Society of Action," who, it appears, are accused of having con spired to do some atrocious act or other as yet un known to the public, on the 24th of February last. The prisoners are MM. Fillet, Doctor of Laws, for merly a Commissary of Ledru Rollin ; Mallevalle, a political transport of IJecember, 1661 ; Bailie, a wineshop keeper ; Galonnier, a master shoemaker; Vale, a servant of the Orleans Railway Company; Collins, a clerk of the Entrepot des Vine; Marti neau, an architect ; Gautier, Renier, and Clement, labourers; and another whose name I have not learned. I understand that an inquiry into a later affair, called that of the frames juges, has resulted in the release from prison of the following four persons : MM. Rachart and Berault, professors, Morin (a re. darker of the Revue de Paris), and Drivon, a weaver of Lyons. A collision between a passenger and a luggage train has occurred on the Bordeaux and Cetto Rail way, and it is reported that sixteen persons have sustained serious injuries. THE NEUFCHATEL QUESTION. BERNE, Arm, 28. t, although it would bare desired to see the proposed arrangement 'modi fied in three particulars, has nevertheless accepted it. The President Fornerod has recommended the Federal Council to accept the project, and the de cision of this body will be made known to-morrow. Several Swiss journals evince some scruples, and uk for guarantees for the execution of the con vention. SPALN. The Datil, of this day publidwr an analysis of the Royal speech, which will be reed by General Narvaez, in the Queen's name, on the Id of May, at the opening of the Spanish tarts. The speech is drawn up by M. Pidal. It will announce the reestablishment of a good understanding between Spain and Rome ; renewal of friendly relations with the Court of Russia. The hope is expressed that the difference with Mexico will be amicably settled, but not 11111C111 the honour of Spain is satisfied and the interests of Spaniards in Mexico guaranteed in future, and an indemnity paid to those who have suffered. Should the condi tions put not be granted, Spain, despite her sincere wish for peace, will not hesitate to have re course to coercive measures. The Qasus calls the attention of the Cartes to the internal condition of the country. Peace and order prevail everywhere. A veil of obli vion is to be thrown over the past. The difficulties caused by the high price of pro visions have been happily overcome by a series of well-combined measures. The loan is especially mentioned as having enabled the Government to act without complying with the enormous exactions of Spanish etspitalists. The conditions of the loan have been faithfully fulfilled. The Queen will recommend a series of political and financial reforms; a bill for the reform of they organisation of the Senate will be brought forward very early in the session, as also a bill for reforming the regulations of the two Chambers. The Senate, as now constituted, consists exclusively of members appointed by the Queen for life. It is proposed to introduce a new element into this great body which will give it greater authority and add to its lustre. The Senate would lase nothing if it com prised a certain number of hereditary senators se lected from the Grandees of Spain and possemors of large territorial fortunes. The fortune would be the dotation of the title, and would descend from gene ration to generation with the title to the eldest sons of the Senatorial families. The existing regulations of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies have engendered many abuses which continually impede the public service and the progress of the govern ment, and will ultimately throw discredit upon the parliamentary system. . . . Finally, the speech from the throne will give some explanations on the bills that will be presented by the government for the regulation of the finances, with a view to establish the financial system upon the principles of economical science and the wisdom of experience. __ The Queen will inform the Cortes that the plans of the Minister of Finance will be submitted to them at the same time as the Budget of 1858. The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Mar. wake on Monday aliatacen by bind. A splendid reception bad been prepared der Min, and ha was greeted with loud acciamattens. General Tadieben was in the carrier with the prim& The imperial party dined at the Prefecture. The prince was to be preamt yeeterday at the explosion of a mire at Le Prioal, then at a review, and in the evening at • thostrkal representation. He teem litr Pieta to-day. [ON AT SARAWAK. LISTER FROM SIR JAMES BROOKE. The following pampa from a letter from Sir Jenne Meeks, addressed Io a personal friend, describe the event' of gas late iasurreados: ..BALIDAII, XARcu 15. " I may sow relate more tireunntatially the wreath of the last kw weeks. Sarawak was as peaceful as It had ever been, and lbws was no canes to eudte dissatigaraton among the Chinese or raise suspicion in our minds of any hostile designs; yet a conspiracy had been formed which had its ✓omificadons in Simmers and la Chios. A follower of Trate, the rebel chid, had arrived In Sarawak, and seta whoa* who had been totalled the country, secretly re tamed from Singapore. I Ind been unwell for some days, sad ca the night of the 18th retired early to bed. My servant was sleeping in a room war mine, and Mr. Steel and Nicho las occupied a small bungalow close by. Between twelve awl one o'clock I was awakened by yells and shots, mad, asking my sword and revolver, I opened a window and OM that the house was surrounded. The noise told me it was by Chinese. I opened door by door in the hope of find ing mains for escape, but in vain. I told Potty (his native servaa!) that our deaths were at band, sad, as the last hope, went down to the bathinrroom, which we. under repair. The door was not fastened. I opened It gently, and, seeing the ay char, nut across the lawn to the creek on the right hand of the house, and took the water close under the bows of the boat which had brought the murderers to their bloody work. I carried toy sword and pistol across with me. Glad was I to touch ground on the far aids, thee* not above thirty yards. I struggled through the deep bud, and lay down exhausted and panting In the road. laneweimg breath, I get to the nearest isms. and, Alera• Mood pulled up to the Datoo 1311111•Strig. i Llon moo. I was too mama/ to do mass, and Heel e hied, weld not have Pithead assess es ardor to ash • pethictebbn raowd. Hen Cheshienit imbed me dm • abase waist Oa the nth H. Waived Stye be ark wa apps bgeg See the abs more weld St seterel. g a bele et nearing afiia the B. gone, I m p ulled to the Sow. above, end pereneded the people to seam their thaws 101 i valualase to prams, and to cross to the mobile or left bank of as river, so as to prevent the samßeeekiken attack ing awn by land. My than, Arthur's, sal kiddleton't were nag afore this to aims. We got the yam and children across the river, and Arthur. Onsabook, and myself retired to the IMO to to the hoer of Nakodah &yak. lice Crymbis joined in Ida He elli genre alter en bases Slam lbw bet as 'Seth had been taken, NA with it ell ear =A asaii.eithnti btu, Ice. It hed best dahried tar men and two prams; fl ute Otis yews NW or two waded, and girth's Swath 14 gird by a mlit lie ebb. Xiithrms, Bluth mil Pleg Mla am altar sae r. The kW* wath at, erashg beds at Stith bat ably le as =we able et ow allArs. We red at kooky bag east we mold to sainsts tialslfeati eel te perm he week a Shoot se oar seism ebb* r• In I esai ion nab tbe lib Mill& Adam et as Poor • insoasell the PS% eiyhg to 1 4 11 = Csselhamik owl his wife escaped bl their tatbammi deer. the sea dbal, mil he protected bar throat with in hle bne, ha graft the belie, ewe et then usslaa red ftem w eggenki - rise and at her dam Her hirtand brad la anew the the wthearth beelj d r with • twist be et his body wombed It the shaft, he struggled to get the 'pear. g Agy, beaver, Wing go with his right Mad, in which he • short mood, be an Crookahank scar the fleshy put of ihe ans. Both bar gyred, both let go the spear, and Chadolimit, week with loss of blood, sad belie% ing his with de_ed, sniggered away and reached toe. She, young and beantlful, lay 'for twelve hours weltering in her blood, comer= and calm in this extremity. One fiend hacked at her had till he cut off the long names which protected it ; soother tore her rings from her flews; a third — for the mks of oor common nature let it be told—gave her water to drink. By this time the remainder tithe Eneopseas had been assured of protection; but when the bishop asked the leader's progenies to carry her to his kora he warn told that eke should be left to perish. At the bra was greeted, and she as relieved sad tends, and Is now, God be ponied, recovering. Midellaca's Hams wee attacked at the same time and in the come meow so the others. He with ridicule/. the poor wife hid hi a bakery 71=beraing rafters fell sheen her, Mae mid, from her toweel. meat, saw the samilents about the brd f bee eldest child. The mother was ; she wished, she mid, to ra sh out, but art move. The youngest child was moldered and throws into the flames, where poor Wellingtoa's rumba ware likewise coomamed, hie head bora off in tame& shine attesting his previous molder. The day _broke, ammolder. I said, sad shortly after I bend that the Chinese had mewed the annieces of safety ; that they Ind communicated with the bishop, and seat for Helms and Rapped. I then, border of doter geed, started for Siek, • small stream which km its outlet far below the town; it wee a wild walk ; we swam the stream, washed out every track of our footsteps In the mud, and took refuge in a man grove swamp as dark carman By eight eclair two small boats came to carry us sway, end ia an hour afterwards I was in Abong Buyong's proton maimed by forty men, with six .realer boats in company. Our party awaited of Arthur Crookehank, Crymble, Middleton, and racy, and, slier the trials and fatigues of the twenty-four hours, we slept as though migration had not overtaken us. On the untrukg following I landed at Baking, and I wish I could explain to you the trader are, the generous sympathy showered upon Sir James Brooke preemie to describe the steps taken to supreme the insurrection,—his narrative confirming the ac count which we published last evening. The punishmeot has been almost as sudden end far sharper then the treachery and lest acmes of the miscreant body. A thousand and more have been killed in different places, their flourishing setttementa destroyed, and "not a rooftree to cover their dastard heads in the country." Out of a population of 4,000 or 5,000 not more than 2,000 bare . and half this number Is composed of women and &Sara. "The Chinon," says the Rajah, " sat play no further treachery hare, and in future we shall prevent their bein associated in contraries, disavow them, MI reduce them to a daily obedi ent* to the laws end a strict surveillance. Sarawak hes now paned through the ordeal that Hong Kong is prang through end Singapore has yet to meet. The country is secure, the authority of government has been vindicated ; the principles on which it is bead proved to be tight by the fidelity and ardour of its native population. Orr guns have been recovered with • proportion of out ninaketry, end the priocipal lose falls on myself, on Crookshank, and Middleton. For myself, I may say that I never knew the small value of worldly goods till I lost them. I do not pretend to soy eratimental rant over my noble library, my costly plate, or all the decorations and tokens of honour which were ono, showered upon me and have been lost even more soddenly than they sere acquired. Man's happiness cantata not in such things, end be destroys the chances of finding it if he persuades himself that It does. • • We aro really not much hurt; our finances will suffer, but sal recover, ea oven now, owing to the openly and complete destruction: of the Kumagai, confidence is not wanting. Thelon of the company is trifling. It is fortunate that you will hear of our detester and its retrieval et the same time; and, for myself, Imay say that I am in good heath end epirits, and reedy to rough it e.th the best of them. Our ladies behaved with great fortitude and resignation. Charles Johnson, a• usual, has been my right hand, and every government servant has declared ho will follow its fortunes in evil as well as in good fortune. I have written to retrench every superfluous expense, and I have ap propriated my pension from the East India Company to pay the pension. I grant to others. Everything else is amain ono No books, no rapers, no wine, nooohing.' Sir James Brooke, in his letter also remarks on the coed!. deuce and lust of dominion which everywhere possess the Chinese when resembled in large bodies, and the feelings were roused by the new. received from the north. Whether the grog rebellion which now convulses the empire be the canes or the effect, it is said that an energy and a spirit of daring are to be fouled among the Chinese of the present day which they hardly portend some fifteen years ago. It seems that their plan was not to destroy, but to revolutionise the settlement. They would murder Sir J. Brooke andrvery one connected with the administration, but they world spare the bishop and the other Europeans, take them ands, their protection, make Sarawak a Chinese settlement, and emery en a trade with England on their own account. Englishmen only wanted to make money, sad as long as the trade of Borneo wee kept open no one of us would care whether Sarawak was a British or • Chinese settlement. "To upset the government," writes Sir James, "by the murder of its prod* Akers end its head, end to establish other Englishmen to carry en the trade, an the entotestion of Chine at Singapore well acquainted with my relations with my own country, with the rated position of Sarawak, and rammed with the idea that the murder of Sarawak officers sod the Sarawak Rajah would be a matter of supreme indifference to the British , nation, provided that trade was continued and cottons sold.' This it is to have • reputation. It is stated in aristocratic circles at Vienna that Prince Alfred do Windischgraetz, though 70 yews of age, is about to marry the Countess d'Anereperg. The princes first wife, see Princess de Schwarmnberg, was killed by the insurgents in the insurrection at Prague in June, ISIS. The Gazette du Midi complains of the conduct of the hotel-keepers at Toulon, who have tensed the r kit of the Grand Duke Constantine to good amount by fieeelng the visitors out of llfr. a day for a miserable bed-room, with every other charge in proportion. . . . . The authorities at the War Department have sanctioned the issue of 6d. per diem by the relieving officers of wishes to all those soldiers' wives, married with leave, who have been left behind on the occasion of their husbands embarking with their regiments for special service in China. A public banquet will be given to Major Reed, at GO ltighbury Barn Tavern, on the 13th of neat month. The Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. Baronet Minton, 8.A., late of Liverpool, to the incumbency of Percy Chapel, Tottenhana-conrt-road. IVATEIN, M.P., AT YARSOCTII. Yesterday evening, Idr. Watkin, who, in eo n , junction with Mr. MeCuHigh, defeated the tory candidates, Sir E. Lacon and the lion. Mr. Vereker, at the late demise for this borough, addressed a "monster meeting constituents and supporters from the balcony o f the blar Hotel. There could not have been le ss than 7,000 persona present on the quay, and f 4,.. Watkin's speech was listened to attentively throw,. out, and enthusiastically applauded. Mr. MeCulls e n was prevented attending by the sudden death of hi s figh er . but the cordial and hearty greeting with which hie m em was received, unmistakeably testified the affectionate reg ar d in which he is held by the constituency which plved hits a the head of the poll. The meeting was presided ova ty Richard Hammond, FA. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA ILLILWAY. (THIS DAY) This morning the fifteenth half-yearly Meetiag of the proprietors of the above railway was held at the L ee . don Tavern, Mr. W. J. IIAXILTov, chairman of the berg of directors, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN before the laminae was cement col, ia. traduced to the meeting Mr. Witte, who had just return e d from Bombay, and whom the director. had remedy Impound director. Ha experience in India would be of great mist, ante to him in the diocharge of his duties in the bow management of the company. Thu report was then read by Mr. Warn, It stated that the connect drawings and specification of the North Eastern Extension line, running tame% the Borer cotton field to Nagpuor have been received, la, whole line from Weiland to al igpour being divid e d into tire sections. Looking to the length - of line now under con. struetion on the South-Eastern Extension to Sholapeor, w j the probable demand on the native labour of the country, ss i i the inadvisability of having too large a quantity et p er , mancet way material and rolling stock to send oat from this country at once, the board determined to confine their opera. liens for the present to the three tint sections on this pee. , Lion of the line. Tenders, therefore, were invited in ten country, for three only out of the five, and them banana been let. They are as follows:—Contract No. 11, b. Wand to the foot of the Ghent, a distance of 26 miles, which bas been let to Jarovetjee Borabjee, a Bombay en. tractor ; contract No. 11, the Thull Blunt Inches, a distance of Di mike ; and contract No. 12, be n the top of the Ghent near Egutpoora to Bliosawal, a distance of 190 wiles. Then two latter have hem let to Mesas. Wythee and Jackson. The most important of tams works is the anent of the Thull Gout, and it has bean su laid out by the chief resident engineer as to avoid the necessity of stationary engines. An alternative line a under anudderatiun, involving features of a novel and intereet character by which the gradients will be materially red o although theline itself may be considerably lengthened. Des Mg the last half-year, while the average of miles open has only biereased from 60 to 88 the receipts have maimed from 16,5721. 9a. 10d. to 1A,6551. 9s. Id. At the mine tiros the percentage of working expenses has been database! from 46.8 per cent, to 39.3 per cent., while the net mean during the same period ha v e been raised from B,BIW. k to 14,9181. 125.; subject however to moms hatis of expenditure, which there was not time to adjust before closing the accounts in India. Waco the last meeting at shareholders • further liaaolat of 2,000,0001. capital he. been issued, guaranteed 6 pee eat. interest. The present capital of the company therefore amounts to 6,000,000!, In shares of 201. tack ; and 333,3001, in loans upon debenture bonds at 4i per eat. interest, issued for a determinate period office years, In conenance of the retirement of Mr. Nicholson from the office of saps intending director, and the resignation of his Mat as a director of the company, the board have resolved to appoint Mr. Watts, hitherto secretary to the committee at Bombay, to be the secretary of the company in England. They conceive that such an appointment will be mere satisfactory than that of a sumantending director, and they look far ward to Mr. Watts experience and knowledge of the am pony's affairs in Bombay as of the greatest importune. The board have at the saute time elected Mr. L. It. Reid, formerly member of council end acting governor of Bom bay, to till the office of director, vacant by the intimation of Mr. Nicholson. The directors who at this period nail from office under the provisions of the act, are Mr. J. O. Frith, Mr. A. S. Ayrton of London • and Colonel Melva], and*. I'. S. Cowie Bombay ;ad of whom are eligible for re-election. Mr. James Andertun, one of the auditors, also retiree from office ; he is also eligible for re-elective W%• capital account i;jncthe commenoenrentto December 31st last shows :—Receipts, 3,039,0041. la. 10d. ; disburse ments In Bombay, 543,8211. 2a. 4d. ; and in England. 880,2241. 3s. ; total disbursements, 1,424,0451. 6.. 4d. • Wince, 1,614,9531. 16a. 6d. The revenue accounts for th; half year ending December 31 1866, show remipts, by coaching traffic, 12,0391. 5.. 4d., by merchandise tray 12,4961. 3e. 9d. • ' total, 24,5364. 9s. Id. • disbar...mats, 9,6461. 17s. I d ., lenving a balance of nett pr o Sta for the heal year, 14,9081.12 a. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report. congratulated the proprietors upon the prosperous revue of the undertaking. The receipts were Increasing bey expectation on the portions of the lino already open!, while the program of the works on the other perm tions was highly satisfactory to the company. local an s=s. It was not nn•eraary for him to go at any mg into the details of the management in India; ill the information that could be given on the 'abject bad been furnished to the shareholders through the median of an elaborate report which the directors had thought 6 right to publish, and which he hoped had reached the hands of every shareholder. The intelligence brought by the hat nail showed that the traffic receipts of the company bad reached an avenge of 13,000 ropers per week, and that the progress of the works ' continued catielactory. Since the lad meeting Mr. Nicholson had resigned the utiles of m 7 and in hisplace the directors, as he had already stated, 0 appointed Mr. Watts, a gentleman well known in Bombay. In answer to question., The CHAIRMAN gutted that since the formation of the company 176,8061. bad been received in England sad 36,3.71. in India from the Esst India Comply sa interest. The length of lino already opened was 86 miles, and the rolling stock and machinery for working t, had cost 7281. per mile, bat the company were in possession of a larger quantity of rolling stock than was absolute', required for the 83 tulles. Mr. Piaci found fault with the propene of the mar. taking; the eonipany bad been in existence seven years a a half, and yet they bad only eighty-eight miles of railway open, an extent of lino vait9y disproportionate to the enormous amount of capital paid up. There was an item in tlw accounts which he wanted te have explained. The sum of 3,7001. was set down fee engineering expenees in England, whereas their railway Tao in India. The shareholders ought to have something more he their outlay than the mere live per cent. they received from the Rut India Company ; and he should, therefore. move that the that paragraph in the report, stating that the progress of the company was satisfactory, be expunged -1 he amendment having been duly seconded, Mr. ELMSLLY demurred to the statement of Mr. Price es to the progress of the works. It was late in 1831 Wore a spade was put into the ground, end having had some U the making of railwaye, both at home and rei"e India, be in could assure the meeting that there was no ground for coniOaint in this instance. Mr. BENSON asked whether there would be any (linden of the surplus profits beyond the 5 per cent. before the mine line was completed. The amendment was then put, and negatived bye large majority. After some further explanation. connected with the se count's. the retiring directors were re-elected; and thanks having been voted to the chairman and directors, the Far needing+ terminated. STREET 13IPROVYNIENTS IN LONDON.—MI. FWD. cis Benumb is to read a paper on this subject before the Society of Arts, this evening (Wednesday). The paper will be illustrated by numerous diagrams and drawings as will ris by a complete model of Loudon, made to scale, showing the levele. The plan includes the embankment of the Thames, and it is calculated that the land reclaimed will more the pay all the expenses of carrying out the when*, includieg ample comreneation to ell whose interests are affected. THE QUEEN r. SMITH AND CUTTS.—It Will be la the recollection of oar readers that at the last scares IT INS county an indictment, which had been removed by euctlerari, wee to have been tried by a special jury caw tas Bishop of Oxford's Act, against a Mr. R. E. SMith, d Plnchingdeld, and Mr. John Cutts. his attorney, foe h pt tie', to the procuring and prevailing upon Mill HO* a =lady under the age of 21, to live with the defendot but in vineequence of the delicate elate of the idyl health the trial wee adjourned. At the some time it we haven that en action had been commenced, the dimes Wag laid at 1,00 W., against the defendant Smith, who eappiard to ho very rich, for a beech of promise at nutmeg° at the suit of the same voting lady. Ii few (Jaye the jury ass to have amused the real damages which she WM t entitled, but on Wcdneeday last, we hive. go defendant Smith, in propriti personef, claimed to fulfil!! contract. How or in what manner he had been olob d . upon, it is impossible to say; it is riiniul" tlti L=l/ reapectablo gentleman of the profession liaa bM by Smith to endeavour to arrange terms of NP dement with Mr. Shepherd, of Hoisted, the young 11 41 .4 ve legal adviser, and that very tempting offers of "pc= 3 the task h less. The lady, reparation" were rejected with a finances which it is said, took care to let the defendant Smith know that it was not the meals but the man " alone that would tempt her to Iser the right of appeal to a jury; and therefore it may ce fairly surmised that the defendant Smith could no lOW constancy, Be that, however, no it may, a incetiztir. it N" 4 „..... withstand such an unequivocal proof of her attachment sad took place the Mlle evening at Mr. Shepherd's ofhoci w et certain "confessions and concandons" were made whisk led to the "happy pair" being duly married on Friday lads by licence, by the Rey. D. Fiwner, at Holy Trinity ciau Halsted, in the presence of sever e gentlemen who `ri_u the ceremony. The defendant wee heard fondly heartily to repeat the solemn vows and obligatioes we". if faithfully kept by both parties, will not f a il to prod* • that true heppineea which those who witnessed the cow 'loony most heartily desire they may both long lire to eel* —Ems Herald. the: took dr*. the ot cow ra" tz; Lave any Mr qu fury La cake cowl of th 4 with the • A trim For salt - 3 - 4: kora , 'V OM. T 1; wail big Dr. Mt 11 the betfa /4 to exo 'Me $ /6. Cao Ire hi t:« Ws 1 Azad Pgr'.l. ftlesi Russ Se dm intri Diked br, 1 Mr. P d6ao4 Did WAS 0 iOOlOO - 131 i other inot!:!, sham from i t, Did with lint. I,t ninori olnt n IQ; extb7 harm Vais t 9 ,078. Sacra time