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TZIII DAT —llanda& ff► OlR....Aftwown. 2 1 1. ITM. Taawiuww—Manshig, IR Um.....Abimsoco. 20. Mas. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. THE Duke of Wau.rworow, in his letter of 1847, points out the year 1804 as one which, in some respects, we may regard as a model in considering the defence of England. In recommending that an account should be taken of our warlike stores, in comparison with the quantities we kept in hand in that year, he says: " I have " taken the year 1804 as the standard, as that " was the year in which the invasion was threat " sued. It was previous to the employment of " our armies in the Peninsula or North America ; "in abort, as nearly as possible similar to the " political circumstances in which we stand at this " moment, excepting that we are now at peace " with France ; we were then at war." Some weight must undoubtedly be given to the _ _ _ circumstance which his Grace aavertato as form ing the sole distinction between 1804 and 1847. At the former epoch we had been for a whole year at war with France. Its ruler was the greatest master of the art of attack whom modern Europe has beheld, and the Duke of Ws:ma:so ros has himself spoken of his presence with the army as equivalent in value to 40,000 men. He had warned our ambaa sador, Lord Warrwoirn, even before war was declared, that if it should break out he would make a descent on our shores, and that his army would be raised to 480,000 strong. Of these he had, in 1804, actually collected 150,000 on the heights of Boulogne, and had prepared 4,000 transports to effect tho passage. He had not yet lost the possibility of securing the com mand of the seas, for Trafalgar was not fought till October, 1805. Therefore beyond a doubt, when we compare 1804 with 1863 we must admit some difference in the attitude proper for this nation at the two periods. The difference may be fairly enough regarded as equivalent to that between troops actually under arms as in presence of the foe, and troops ready to be called to arms should a friend become suddenly hostile. We may therefore say, that if we maintain the regular army of the same strength at the two periods, the militia and other forces for the special and limited purpose of defence, who were embodied in 1804, may be allowed to be disem bodied, and only liable to be called out if required during this present year. Such a distinction is consistent with reason, and with the proposition of the Duke of WELLINGTON, that our stock of ma teriel, which cannot be improvised, should be no leas now than then. Let us, then, see bow the comparison stands on these principles. In 1804, it appears from a return of the Awn rsirr-Getrsaax presented to Parliament in 1805, that the total of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands was 94,553. By the Ist of January, 1805, it had risen only to 99,173. But of these numbers, 27,890 in the former year and 20,747 in the latter are stated as being only " for limited " service," being raised under Acts passed on the emergency, authorising a levy of men to serve in Great Britain only, and for a short period. They were, therefore, in point of fact, nothing more than embodied militia. The result is, that in 1804 we had only for home defence 66,663, and in 1805 78,426, regular troops. We had of militia (including the men " for limited " service ") in 1804 113,409, and in 1805 110,556 men. Of volunteers there were stated by Lord CarerLimascit to be 410,000, but of these 120,000 had no muskets, and were only partially supplied with pikes. On an average, then, we may say that throughout 1804 we had 70,000 re gulars, 112,000 embodied militia, and 290,000 volunteers, such ea they were, "with muskets." In 1863 we have 89,000 regulars, 108,000 militia and volunteers, though not " embodied" yet ready to be so at an hour's notice, and 100,000 more volunteers within a fortnight of the like stage. Nor let us forget that we had in 1804 drained every available man from the colonies—we left in them no more than 34,000 men, excluding troops in India, while at this moment, according to Sir G. Lewis, we have in them, with the like exclusion, 60,000 men. These being the facts, can it be gravely maintained that our present situation demands that we should keep at home an army exceeding by 20,000 regular troops what we found sufficient in 1804 1 The excess is almost exactly correspondent with what in a recent article we showed to exist in our force beyond that which the Duke of Wexusoroze thought requisite. And we are, therefore, doubly justified in the conclusion that it is beyond what is needed for defence, and is of use only for purposes of aggressive war. Such is the reit& established by the incontesta ble authority of facts and figures. But we may with some interest (though perhaps with lees accu racy, for there are few official statements of the strength of our armies when in foreign lands) pursue the consideration of our military position down through Liter periods of the same great war, when we had commenced to send out those mighty ex peditions which ultimately wrested the Peninsula THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. from the domination of NsrotsoN. These com menced in 1808. In that year Sir ARTHUR Wia.utstar was despatched to Portugal, and soon after landing fought and won the battle of Vimiera, the result of which was the convention of Cintra and the evacuation of Portugal by the French. Sir JOHN Moose, superseding him, then commenced the march into Spain, of which the retreat to Corunna, and the battle fought on the 16th January, 1809, was the disastrous conclusion. It appears from an official state ment obtained by General NAPIER, and published in the appendix to the first volume of his history, that the British troops not in India and the colonies were reckoned in that year of 1808 at 160,000, and that of these 48,341 rank and file, or, with officers, above 50,000, were sent to Spain and Portugal. Besides these there were, under a treaty signed in March, 1808, 10,000 men garrisoning Sicily. This makes a total of upwards of 60,000 men and officers; and it was stated by Mr. Tanury, and admitted by Mr. CANNING, in the House of Com mons on the 24th February, 1809, that 13,000 more troops were actually on board the transports when the news arrived that Sir Joint Moose, instead of desiring reinforcements, was forced to re-embark before the overwhelming force of the French. The result was that we were about to leave in the United Kingdom not more than 87,000 regular troops, or 2,000 less in number than in this time of undisturbed tranquillity we are invited to maintain. In the next year (1809) we had in Spain at the date of the battle of Talavera, on July 28, 35,410 rank and file, including asmall proportion of German cavalry, while on the very same day we sent from these shores the disastrous Walcheren expedition, consisting of above 41,000 men—the whole expeditions amounting, with the troops in Sicily, to 86,000 men, and leaving only 89,000 regulars in the British Islands. And two years later, when we had upwards of 60,000 men in Spain alone, we maintained a reserve of less than 100,000 regulars at home, not solely for defence, but to enable us to supply the incessant drafts which the losses in the field and in hospital compelled us to send out. Nor let it be imagined that we followed this course because the naval power of France was broken, and her armies too much occupied to menace our shores. In 1811, Mr. HUSHISBO24 estimated in Parliament the French fleet u con sisting of 98 ships of the line and frigates, ready for sea, and 46 more building and repairing, com posing a fleet nearly a half larger than our neighbours can hoist at present. Enjoying per fect internal tranquillity, having just cemented an alliance, political and matrimonial, with Austria, and wielding undisputed sway over above 80,000,000 of men in Europe, France might have easily at any moment massed her whole re serves on the heights of Boulogne, supplying their place with drafts from the Spanish army, which the EXPEROR habitually maintained at above 300,000 men. To sacrifice the conquest of Spain in order to achieve that of England would have been no very surprising determination on the part of NAPOLZOI'i, and we could not, there fore, from day to day consider ourselves as not liable to attack. Above all, being then at war, we were without means of knowing any thing of the disposition of his troops, and could not guess when or where the blow might falL Yet all through the period during which we were thus directly threatened our army consisted of 20,000 fewer men than it does now, and even after we slammed the offensive we were for seven years at war before our reser►e of re gular troops at home exceeded its present standard. Were our fathers then rash fools in their defiance of their enemies, or are we the dupes of needless alarms 1 Were they vain glorious in their self-confidence, or are we weak in our terror f Or if they and we are none of these, for what purpose, over and above self-defence, is it that our army is now kept up to the standard suitable for a gigantic and desolating war t LATEST INTELLIGICNOIL THE lONIAN ISLANDS. SPEECH OF THE ENGLISH RESIDENT AT CEPHALONLL We translate from the Grece the text of a speech delivered a few days ago by the English Resident at Cephalonia to the principal persons of the city, who had waited upon him. This speech has been very briefly mentioned by the telegraph : . . I thank you, gentlemen, for the honour you have done me in attending this soiree. On this occasion I can announce to you that Great Britain has decided upon laying the first foundation of the resurrection of Greece by the abandonment of the lonian states aod the annexa tion of it to Greece. The English occupation of these islands has lasted about fifty years, and daring that time some enmity between the two nations has manifested it self. It is necessary that this should be forgotten. The English army will soon quit the shores of your beautiful isles, and will be replaced by a Greek army. England is grateful to the Hellenic nation for the love and devotion it has shown for our young Prinoeitlfred, and she regret& deeply that the politics of Europe prevent her from yield ing to the desires of the Greek nation, which has preserved the most ardent and lively recollections of her greatness and of her glory. Moreover, England and the English people will not cease to feel the warmest love and the greatest interest in the Greek nation. England and Greece allied can introduce civilisation even in the Oriental world. That Greece may return to her ancient glory and bet ancient brilliancy is my wish from the bottom of my eon!. AMERICA. (811:111W8 TRLROWL ) LONDONDERRY, Fn. 3. The Canadian steamer Jura arrived here this morning from Portland. She brings 25,000 dole. in specie. NEW YORK, JAN. Z, MolutufG. (Per Jun.) _ General Burnside's address to the army of the Potomac is dated the 20th inst., and informs the army that they are about to meet the enemy once more. "The gallant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas have," he says, "divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment has arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the rebellion, and gain the decisive victory which is due to the country." General Burnside calls for the tirm and suited action of officers and men, and the army will then have taken the great step to wards restoring peace to the country, and to the government its rightful authority. Generals Franklin and Rookor's divisions moved off on the 20th inst. by the rear of Sumner's divi sion, seven or eight miles above Falmouth, on the Rappahannock. Bumner's division remains opposite Fredericks burg, with orders to move at a moment's notice. Heavy rains have fallen, rendering the marching difficult. The government continues reticent concerning the movements of the Potomac army. NEW YORK, JAR. 23. On Sunday last the Confederates threw up new intrenchmente in the rear of Fredericksburg, and exhibited great activity around the heights oom mending the city, so as to render another crossing of the Rappahannock by General Burnside at the same point very difficult. Considerable skirmishing continues to take place around Baton Rouge, and the city has been nearly entirely evacuated by the inhabitants. The Federal force there is stated at 8,000 men. At the late battle near Murfreesboro' the Union ists are said to have lost 1,470 killed, 6,800 wounded, and 2,000 prisoners. The Richmond Examiner says that the South is now on the high road to peace : This road does not lie by way of Europe. The South pursues this road when, retiring upon its thorough organi sation and hard fighting, it marches straight upon the enemy, and it loses the road whenever it looks beyond its own exertions for ending the war. Foreign intervention may be a formality attending the conclusion of peace, but peace, when it comes, will come only ae a consequence of the established convictions that the South cannot be con quered. This conviction has made tremendous strides in the North within the last three months, and ia hourly ex tending. The South is therefore infinitely nearer pesos than it was a year ago. The North may be vindic tive enough to pursue a war of hatred and spite indefinitely ; but it is not in human nature to resist in the end the logic of sober second thought which teaches that pion is cheap and war expensive—pekoe a mine of wealth and war the grave of all prosperity." The Richmond Despatch says :—" The enemy is concentrating a heavy force, with a view to strike a blow at the main line of railway connecting Richmond with the far South. Their forces at Newbern and Morehead city number 50,000. It is said that a powerful fleet is at Morehead city with a view to an early naval attack upon Wil mington whilst a simultaneous movement is made upon Weldon." Governor Letcher, of Virginia, has called out 26 regiments of militia from all counties near to the North Carolina line to aid in repelling any invasion of the enemy from that direction. The militia will rendezvous at Petersburg for six months' service. A camp of instruction for convicts is to be established at St. Petersburg. The Jackson Mississippian thinks that the banks of the Mississippi, either at Vicksburg or at Port Hudson will be the theatre of the last grand battle of the war. not serve to make a serious impression on the rebels, if at the end of that term the North is no further advanced than at the beginning—if some malignant fate has decreed that the blood and trea sure of the nation shall always be squandered in fruitless efforts—let the North bow to her destiny, and make the best attainable peace." The appearance of the Confederate privateer Retribution off St. Thomas is confirmed. She i s schooner-rigged, and was formerly the steam-tug Enoch Train, of Boston. She is very fast. The inaugural address of the Governor of Dela ware expresses strong Union and emancipation sentiments and favours a vigorous prosecution of the war. The steamer Golden Age sailed on the 20th from San Francisco for Panama with 1,338,000 dole. in specie for England,and 354,000 doles for New York. NEW YORK, Jaz. 24, MORNING. General Burnside's intended forward movement has bean postponed in consequence of the state of the weather. No troops have crossed the Rappa hannock. The army has resumed its old position. The New York Tribune asserts that General Butler will return to take the command at New Orleans. The republican journals approve the dismissal of General Fitzjohn Porter. The New York World says :—" The administration has struck another blow at the Army. General Porter's dismissal is a sovereign injustice." The turretted steamer Weehawker has safely arrived at Fortress Monroe, after encountering severe gales. NEW YORK, Jay. 24, Evimnro. General Evans bas left Memphis for another attack on Vicksburg. General Bragg, in an address to his army, claims to have captured at Murfreesboro' 10,000 prisoners, 30 pieces of artillery, 7,000 small arms, and 800 waggons. The Federal" have captured St. Charles, Duval's Bluff, and Desarie, on the White River, and their gunboats are over 300 miles above the mouth of the river. Intense excitement and uproarious proceedings continue in the New York Assembly. No speaker has yet been cboeen. QUEENSTOWN. Fin. 3. The Inman steamer City of Baltimore, which arrived here this morning, brought 11 bags of mails, 69 passengers, and 606,720 dole. in specie. NEW YORK, JAL 24. (Per City of Baltimore.) _ Heavy rains, making the roads impassable, have rendered the advance of General Barnside's army beyond the Rappahannock for the present impos sible. The condition of the roads delayed the transportation of the pontoons and heavy artillery, and prevented the surprise of the enemy at the points designated for crossing the river. No troops, therefore, crossed, and the whole army re turned to its former position. Western journals anticipate an immediate attack on Rosencranz by Longstreet. Four thousand eight hundred prisoners from Ar kansas Poet have arrived at Cairo. A resolution has been offered in Congress, en quiring if General Burnside had formed any plans for movement since the battle of Fredericksburg, and whether subordinate officers had written to Washington to interfere with such movement, and, if there had been interference, by what authority. Congress has rejected the Secretary of the Trea sury's banking scheme, as presented by the Com mittee of Ways and Means. The bill now before Congress provides for raising 900,000,000 dols. by 20-year six per cent. loans, 300,000,000 dole. by 3-year six per cent. Treasury notes, and a further issue of 300,000,000 dole. ' legal tender notes. The New York Assembly has reached its nine teenth ballot for a Speaker, but none has yet been chosen. The Mexican minister at Washington has com plained to the Federal government that he was refused permission to ship arms to a Mexican blockaded port, while it permitted the shipment of mules and waggons for the French in Mexico. Mr. Seward replied that he did not recognise a state of war as existing between Mexico and the allies, as there had been no declaration of war ; therefore the United States could not govern their conduct by the rules of neutrals, but the prohibi tion to ship arms applied to all nations, on the ground of the military necessities of the United States. 00313IERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAs. 23, Erzttnto. Money easy. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 163. Stocks lower. New York Centrals, 119/. Illinois, 921. Erie, 78f. Cotton unchanged. Flour, corn, and provisions good inquiry. Wheat slightly firmer. Coffee, sugar, and molasses very firm. NEW YORK, JAN. 24, Evingurc. Money easy. Gold 50 per cent. premium. Ex change, bankers' bills, 163 to 165. Stocks firm and advancing. New York Central, 121. Illinois, 96i. Erie, 79i. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JAW. 24. Advioes have been received from Vera Cruz to the 3rd of January. It was rumoured that Gen. Doblado had committed suicide. It was also re ported that there was a serious misunderstanding between Generals Ortega and Comonfort, and that numerous desertions from the Mexican garrison at Puebla were taking place. A conspiracy had been discovered in the brigade of General O'Horan, and five Mexic►n officers were shot. 35,000 Mexican troops were at Puebla, and 10,000 more between there and the capital. There were 12,000 troops at the capital, 8,000 in Queretaro, and 12,000 in Guerrero, mostly badly armed. The fortifications of Puebla are mounted with 200 guns, and those of the city of Mexico with a like number. The Courier, which arrived at Mazatlan on the 3rd instant, reported that the French were en camped at Puebla, and were disposing their forces for au attack on the city. Au elict has been issued by the governor of Rome establishing a tariff for cabmen, which is to come hate force on the Ist of March. The Correspondanee de Rome. a • French journal published there, is enthusiastic in its praise of the measure, unimportant as it may seem, and winds up • long article on the subject by the follow* reflections : " Such is the wisdom of the Pontifical power ; we like to detect it and demonstrate it in little things. That wisdom which directs the spiritual affairs of the world necessarily retains some reflection of its heavenly inspiration in the regulation of affairs of an inferior order. And Do think the wicked, for we take as a proof their rageruces to assert the contrary." The railway from Rome to Napimi, with its omnibus conveyance between Ceprano and Presensano, continues in operstion, but the traffic upon it between the two capitals is as yet very moderate, not exceeding twenty or thirty travellers a day, chiefly 6nt•claw foreigners. The principal train is hitherto from each city to and from its own intermediate stations ; but the completion of the line, which will be in about three weeks, will tempt more tra vellers. W. N.V. - Z:O7.W and soarLAND. N. INVISIDAT. to Ill . :, itr;;;L tto. back, strong, some added. downfall. W. to N. and back, 11.11L1M. W.N.W. to N.N.E., W.B.W. squally. SW to 2 11 71. W . W.Certaat. '' . u. : . : l k , fresh, tut strong to flesh, settled. KIWI:. AA next above. N.W.FaAmct. W.B.W. to N.N.W., fresh, to moderate. As next above. 91mJac. Shaer. 11.W.INown). W. to N., fresh to coo- ILL INGLAND. dents.. W.N.W. to N.N.E., t Maar. strong, squally. Cbr Court. OBBORNF, Fes. 2. The Queen took a drive in the grounds this morning. Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat have arrived at Oaborne, in moomelos to Major-General the Hon. A. Hood and Colonel the Hoe. A. Harding'. The Queen will hold a Privy Council this day (Tuesday) at Osborne. ♦ Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyle, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Juffirial Committee e the Privy Council eat yester day. Lord Justice Knight Bruce pee judgment ot appeele from the High Court of Admiralty, the Maunder sued Florence Nightingale, affirming the judgments of the wart below, but giving direction as to costa. Au appeal from Madras, Ramasawmy Jyeo and others r. Vencate Achari and others, was commenced. The Lords present were the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir L Peel, sad Sir J. Colvils. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. °Moe from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Canada, and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who is honorary colonel of the Civil Service Regiment of Vo has honoured the lieutenant-colonel, Viscount Bury, ILP., with au interview, in which he announced his inten tion of presenting a challenge cup, to be shot for by mem bers of the regiment. The rules and conditions under which the cup will be shot for will be published as moos as the lientennot- oolooel receives his royarhighnem's nom made cm the subject. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has returned to town, from visiting the Duke sad Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton. The Karl of Fife arrived in town yesterday from vita* Mr. sad Ludy Louisa Brooks, at Aston Park, Wrex ham. The Esrl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope mate to town to-day, from their teat, Chevening Park, near Sevenoaks. The Karl and Countess of Orkney arrived at their rmidesos in Eooiemore•pleoe, yesterday, from visiting Kr. and Lady Isabella Schuster, at the Grange, Leather head. The Earl and Countess of Dundonald have arrived is town from Tunbridge Walk Baron and B►roness Lionel de Rothschild arrived at gingatoa House a few day. since from Torquay. Sir Rutherford Aloock, H. B. M. repreeentatire in Japan, has arrived in Paris, and alighted at the Hotel du Lcravre. Lord Stratheden and Campbell has notified his laicisation of assuming henceforth the title of Lord Camp bell oaly, though somewhat lower ia preoedenoe than the Ramey of Steatheden, w►ich he inherited from his mother. A preeedent for this arrangement will be found in the came of the Earl of Brooke and Warwick, who is generally keown la society as the Earl of Warwick, though his other earldom of Brooks is of more ancient date. It is said that Mr. Coningham, the chairman, has resigned his seat at the board of the Library Company (Limited). THE POLISH INSURRECTION. We have descriptions from various parts of Poland of obstinate encounters between the Russian troops and the insurgents, with varying results. It is re ported that at the village of Surage a battalion of nearly 2,000 Russian troops was put to flight by an armed band of Poles. At Bodzenlyn the soldiers were also defeated, men and women attacking them with poignards, revolvers, and carbines. The gar risons at several other places have been disarmed. One letter says : The whole country is in motion ; people are exasperated beyond measure ; all classes of society are in the movement ; the Jews figure among the insurgents who hold the country. In the government offices and among the nobility there is • party formed whose object is to proclaim the Grand Duke Constantine King of Poland. This party is urging the popu- lation of Warsaw to an imposing manifestation with this view. Many persons have heard cries of " Long live Con stantine King of Poland !" A great number of conscripts, now shut up in the citadel, have taken part in that demon stration. The Russians have already lost five colonels. among whom are MM. Kozlianinow. Wrzeamowski, and Prince Tcherkassow. They have also lost many lieutenant colonels and chiefs of battalion, as well as a councillor of state, M. Schewetroff, one of the organisers of the conscrip tion. Moreover, many colonels and superior officers have been made prisoners. One of them has been set at liberty by the insurgents. The Cologne Gazette has the subjoined : The Prussian government is baking measures which seem to prove that the Polish insurrection inspires more unseal nem than is manifested by the official despatches. di squad ron of the Bth Ilnlans, and two companies of infantry, are on their way from Graodens to the border town of Strauss burg. The sth Regiment of infantry is leaving for Thorn, the garrison of which town is employed in keeping the from • tier. The reserves of all those corps are called under arms. Troops are being sent by express train from Silesia to Posen, and those of the latter province are, it is said, to be sent to Silesia. The morns of the 4th, 6th, and 59th Regiments of Posen are called out, and the Black Homes are watching the Polish frontier. The Wa;alerer of Vienna, 28th ult., says : In order to give our readers the means of knowing 'the geographical position of the segue of the present Polish insurrection, we can state that, according to the account' received, it extends on the right bank of the Vistula to a distance of front I'2 to 16 geographical miles above and below Warsaw. On the north-west, Nssielsk, the forests of which appear to form the principal place of meeting of the refugees, below Warsaw, is about 54 miles on the north of that city and about 34 miles south-wed of Pultuak. Plonsk is 34 miles front Nardelsk ; Plock, on the Vistula (the chief town of the government, and having 13,003 inhabitants), is 74 miles more to the west, and 12 miles from Warsaw on the railway which leads to the Prussian fortress of Thorn. !Medico, the ancient capital of Podlsquia, and Razyn. are the chief towns of districts, the former being 11 miles east of Warsaw, and the latter 16 miles southeast of that city. Illonie is 34 miles to the west of Warsaw ; Sierock, about half-way between Warsaw and Pultusk ; Surark is on the other side of the limit of the kingdom, three miles south west of Bialystok, and Zabludow is 3 miles to the east of Sums (REUTIVB TILZGRAM.) POSEN, FIB. 3. _ _ A proclamation of the military governor and of the President of the Provincial Government cau tions the inhabitants of this province against direct or indirect participation in the insurrec tion in Russian Poland, as every such offence would be regarded and punished as an act of high treason. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. The Press of Vienna publishes a letter from Vienna, stating that, in consequence of the pacific relations now subsisting between Austria and Piedmont, the communications between the two countries has become much easier. The strict search to which railway trains are subjected at Peschiera, and which detains them two hours, is to be done away with, and henceforth the eisa of the Legations will be sufficient for entering Austria. The other prescriptions concerning passengers are also to be mitigated by degrees. The examina tion of passports at the various railway stations has ceased, and passports are only required at Mantua and Verona, and even this measure will soon cease, and passports be produced at the frontier. Since the Piedmontese government has ceased paying subsidies to the Hungarian Legion, soldiers and even officers from that legion are seen again return ing. Many of the latter have asked to be included in the amnesty, and this favour has been granted to several. CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY. The Lombardia of Milan publishes the follow ing circular addressed to all the proeuratori regi (royal attorneys) of Italy by the attorney-general of the kingdom : A rumour is current that an encyclical letter has hews & Skimmed to all the bishops of Italy, enjoining them to deprive of the right of cordoning peuitente all such priests as shall have signed the address to the Holy Father draws up by the Abbi Carlo Paoseglia. The undersigned invites all the procuratori revi to give the judiree the neeeseary instructions to proceed against ►ny person or perms, who may have in any meaner introduced the said encyclical letter, or executed its provisions, or contributed to the iatroductioe or execution of the same, in omformity to Ark 270 of the Penal Code, an article which is is force eves is those provinces i where the Code itself is sot yet introduced. SPAIN. In the sitting of the Spanish Chamber of Depu ties on the 30th ult., the Minister of Finance, in reply to a question pnt by M. Calve Asenno, said that the lode of the church property would be oom plated so soon as the proper formalities had been gone through in all the different dioceses. The government, he said, was deeply interested in the measure, as on the principle of the sinking fund reposed numerous and important public services. A fancy dress ball at the Tuileries is to take place on the 9th. Tim Prince-Biehope of Brien and Trent and seven other priests have moved m the Tyrolese Diet that the house do decree that no protestant community shall be formed in the Tyrol. This is in direct 000tradiction to the Patent Law of 1861, and also to the Act of Confederation. THE LEGISLATURE AND THE PRESS. In the House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Harding, of Kentucky, said the emancipation proclamation bad united the South and paralysed the efforts of loyal men so as to leave little hope of the restoration of the Union. The proclamation was war upon the constitution. It was an absolute assumption of despotic power which would wrest from the people the right of self-government. No state could be safe with such a power suspended over it. No stronger disunion doctrine was ever issued. Those sanctioning it were ready to yield their liberty and confess themselves slaves. Secessionists furnished the fire, and abolitionists the fuel to kindle the conflagration now sweeping through the land. Withdraw the fuel and the fire would soon burn out. He had no hope of reunion under the present radical policy. The democratic party north and south would crush out the abolitionists and seces sionists, and snatch the government from ruin. Resolutions censuring Commodore Vanderbilt and others for negligence in fitting out the trans ports for the Banks expedition, have been intro duced in the Senate. The New York State Assembly met at Albany last evening. The floor of the Assembly was packed with persons not entitled to the privileges of the floor, the upper galleries were locked, and persons on the stairs and in the outer hall could not gain admission. The democratic members de. flounced the locking of the doors of the galleries, and insisted on the doors being opened for ad mission to the citizens. The Assembly then ad journed. After the adjournment the crowd broke open the galleries and rushed in. The New York Hindi{ urges upon the New York State Legislature to pass resolutions denouncing the manner of conducting the campaign, and calling upon the President to place If Tlellan at the head of the War Department, and some com petent naval officer at the head of the navy department, and says :—" The country is now satisfied that as long as the present cabinet remains in office there can be no hope of bringing the strug gle to a successful conclusion, and President Lin coln cannot and dare not disregard a formal declara tion of this kind on the part of the State Legislature." The New York Tribune urges the reorganisation of the cabinet, to be composed wholly of states men who not merely acquiesce in Lincoln's eman cipation proclamation. As the necessary and inevi table sequence from the proposition that the nation has • right to live at whatever cost to traitors, the Tribune urges the dismissal of all officers cavilling at or exciting hostility to the policy of the government, and the calling out of the uniformed militia for three months to garrison Washington, Baltimore, and the western cities, whilst all the sol diers are sent to the front for active campaigning. The Tribune further urges the arming of every man, native or foreigner, black or white, who will fight for the Union in the meantime. "If f o reign powers interpose the North cannot," says the Tribune, " be expected to consider proposals of mediation until they are first accepted by the rebels, and it would be next May before the North could be asked to reply to offers of mediation. If three months' earnest fighting do , SPIRITUALISM AND MAGIC IN PARIS. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Pust writes: " The spiritual Mr. Hume is again in Paris, followed, I hear, by a crowd of impalpebles from the other wdtld. He gave • secoacr at the Tuileries last week, when some important communications were made by 'hue invisible personages who can only come to us in the rapping form. We have not much spiritual telegraphy going on in Pula ; some few old ladies in society now and then turn the tables, but the game is not popular, and no one can make money or fame by it in this infidel city. What we patronise here is the old-fashioned for. tune-teller with the mystic cards and a generous crossing of the hand with gold or silver. There is one M. Edmond in Paris, who is said to gain 100,000 fr. yearly by revealing the pest, present, and future.' His establish meet is the real thing. The astrologer is dressed in a black velvet robe and cap, decorated with hieroglyphics, and gold chains round his neck. Before him is a table on which he spreads the astronomically illuminated card,. true stream of daylight is allowed to light the chamber, by darting through coloured glass. and falling on a skull. A pleasing mysterious twilight prepares the carious for M. Edmond's revelations. I suggested that ' soft music' should be added (ram an organ ; but it appears the fortune-teller's time is too valuable, and the music, however soft, might cause him not to be heard, and then questions would be asked, and time thus inevitably L ot t, Besides, the present attractions produce financially all that could be desired. Early in the morning and throughout the day M. Edmond's rooms are crowded by the young and the old of both sexes, and of all dames of society. They are called in one after the other to the magician's sanctum, and, having cut the cards, hear the worst and the best told them in a rapid I:meths's-like voice. As everyone asks for ' more,' M. FAmond is obliged often to declare that his power of vision grows dim, and the picture of the patient's (permit me to use the term patient) life grows dim and empty, whereupon the door is opened, and other customers enter. Some people take to it like a vice, and go over and over again. They are mostly women, and young women ; and often that class of human beings who, from imprudence or idleness, ha s z i tin: some trouble, and believe eventually that ' will turn up' to get them oat of it. M. Edmond ileitis his daily work, he has to write his correspondence ' for abroad People consult him from all parte of the world. M. Edmond is • clever man, and no labourer in Paris works harder. He might have been • Spurgeon, • Cumming, • Hume, • Morison (of the pills), • Montalenthert, • Disraeli, or a newspaper correspondent. Good beak to him, and long may he lire I* WICATRIS RIPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MEW. rnivAay 4 • LL IB I j Nairn 20.2 gel 1 Aberdeen 19.90 RV 2 Leith 29.39411 Antrim's' 29.43 46 Portrush 29.4240 Galway I - Queenstown 29.7041 1 Holyhead 20.90'4 2 Liverpool 29.1:94 2 Pembroke 29.72 45 • Penzance 29.0147 1 Jersey Brest 29.9148 0 L'Orient 20.9242 1 Rochefort 20.1249 1 Plymouth 20.14144 1 Weymouth 29.81144 1 Portsmouth 119. 7742 1 Raw. 29.76'471 1 Londe. 20.774 1 Yarmouth 20.77.71 1 Scarborough ,39.68441 2 Shields 20.64,4R Heligoland 129.2242 0 =•—l Lisboa - W.N.W. to N.N.E. fresh to moderate. Workmen are now very busy under the super vision of Mr. Gilbert Soot! in restoring, or rather coniplet log, the exquisite interior of the Wolsey Chapel, Windsor. The groined roof of this fine old structure was only exe cuted in plaster and composition. This has been entirely removed, and the plaster work replaced in carved stone— the spaces between the rich tracery of the stone work being filled in with tiles, to be covered ea soon as pos sible with the brilliant glass mosaics of Signor Salviati, which attracted attention in the Exhibition last year. 7'he windows are also to be filled in with stained glesst When complete this will be one of the most beautiful little shrines in the kingdom. It is intended, we (Times) believe, as a memorial chapel to the late Prince Common, and the ex pense of its restoration, which will amount to between 25,000/. and 30,0001., is entirely defrayed by the royal children. At the Court Theatre of Vienna, 217 perform tom took place during the year 1862, divided as follows: kleyerbeer, 26 ; Dooizetti, 23 ; Verdi, 20; Mozart, 17 ; Richard Wagner, 16_; Flotow, 11, kr... The drama of the Milkrabies has already finiahed its career at Brussels, the last performance having taken place three days beck. The Armenia of Turin, the Journal of Frank fort, and many other ultramontane journals, have made a violent onslaught on Mr. Odo Knoell for having been the medium of offers from the British government to the Pope in a dangerous juncture. The Ansonia comperes Mr. Btuisell to Satan tempting our Saviour to throw himself from the pinnacles of the Temple ! It would hardly be believed how important an industry has sprung from the fashion of wearing crinolines, if there were not statistical documents to prove the fact. The steel springs for petticoats amount to 4,900,000 lbs. weight per annum for Frame alone, 2,400,0001b*. for Fag land, and 1,200,000 lbs. for the rest of the world. Them springs, covered with cottoo, are sold at the rate of lfr. 25c. per lb., which gives an avenge of 10,500,0001 r. annually. The cotton employed in covering them I. sold at about 30fr. the 200 1b.., which makes the suns 1,200,000 fr. Letters from Havannah mention the exorbitant prices to which certain articles of primary neemeity had risen there, and among others ice, which is required for the hospitals of Vera Crur, and for which it is necessary to pay 2,000 fr. a too. At St. Jago de Cuba water is paid 15fr. • ton, and if taken on board at night, 20fr. Coals, provi. dons, native produce, and even rum, are all extraordiaasily dear. In consequence of an accident on the Havre and Paris railway but week, goods for America and the Wed Indies were delayed ►t Havre, and extra steamers have been running to convey them to Southampton. On Sunday morning lad eleven railway waggon. left Southampton for Liverpool, filled with Freud:l4o,4s for the United States. The Royal West India mail packet La Plata, which was to have started at 2 p.m. yesterday, was ordered by a telegram from the Admiralty to be detained until midnight The barque Achilles, laden with 5,020 barrels of flour for the relief of the Lancashire operatives, has sailed from Philadelphia for Liverpool. LIGHTING PRISIROHR-HILL—The inhabitants of St. John's-wood and the district at the north-eastern sad of Regent's-park intend applying to the Hon. Mr. Cowper, as Chief Commissioner of Public Works, to place gas lamps along the pathway leading across Primrose-bill, and which is the chief means of communication between the two locali ties, as well as to and from the North London Railway Station in the Hampstead-road. An address is circulating for signatures. While the subject is under consideration, it would be as well to endeavour to obtain a revision of the regulations concerning the dogleg of the perk gates. At prompt they shut at hall•past four ; after that time the in habitant. living to the north of the park are compelled to make • long circuit to reach their homes.—Beildirip Neer. GREAT INCRRASIS IN EMIGRATION FROM LlVER POOL—Yesterday (Monda)) the emigration officials at Liverpool issued their usual monthly return, and from their statement we find that during the past month there sailed from Liverpool "muter the act," 13 ships, with 88 cabin and 1,833 steerage passengers; to Victoria, four ships, with 107 cabin and 1,437 steerage pumping ; to Queeodand, one ship, with 3 cabin and 428 steerage passengers ; making • total of 19 ships, 198 cabin, and 3,698 steerage. The " short ships " vessels under the act) carried out to the United States 887 passengers; to New South Wales, 12; to Victoria, 35 ; to South America, 37 ; to Africa, 34 ; to East Indies, 4 ; to West ladies, b ; total, 992—making a grand total of 4,888. This number, when romp red with the same month boa year, shows an hie:uses of 2,71 b, being the largest number in the earns month inn the year 1857. IF II li ..... - w. W.N.W. RAW. S.W. B.W. W. S. W. S. W. W. &W. &W. W.S.W. B.W. B.W. S.W. W.S.W. W.S.W. B.W. ~--- I • • s ' 4 1 . 8 1 8. IL r trul s 0381 • 1 0.01 - 1.08 • 0. - 801 8 1.18 3 o.lB'