The Express. — London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BL'IL'•I NO, South Kensington. A GRAND MILITARY CONCERT In AID of H.R.N. the PRINCESS MARY'S FUND, for Providing Nurses for the lomolee c.f the CANIBKIDGE ASYLUM, will be 'oven In the InternAtional BoildinA, Mouth Kensington ,by special pronissioto, TURD Y nest, the 13th Jui.e. Doors open at a, the Concert to continence at 3 precisely. Cud, the Immediate Patronaste of "' " Du Royal Highness the Prince of WALF-i, Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALDI, Her itoysi Highness the Duchess of CASIBRI DOE, R.ldi Highness the Puke of CAMBRIDGE, and Her Rovdl Highness the Princess MARV ADELAIDE. Ih BAND:S id the HOUsEHOLD BRIGADE, condsting of The First Life Guards, The Seoond Life Guards, Ropd Horse Guards (Blue), The Grenadier Guards, Cid Istream Guards. and the Scots Fusilier Gouda. Mill perform on this occasion. The full Programme will be ready this day, June A Admi.' l " ,d • r'''''rvd Wata• is. 6d. ; stalls, numbered anol strictly sed, tsti. —Tickets to be obtaine.l at Sic 'anti Rri)al Library. I. st Jamesa-street, S.W. ; Sir. Nlitchell', Hold Library, XI, Old Bondatreet ; Mr. Westertoo's idlorsry. sl. George . ..place. Kt.ortitsoridge ; Sievert. Keith, i'mase. and So, l'heapside . and at Mr. Austin's Ticket-other, St. dsuls*es - hslis Pi, Piccadilly. EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MIL ES. Alfre.l Webb Miles REMOVED FROM HOSUATKEIa to J. BROOK .STREET, Hanover.square, In 1559. The lea. Trousers ,oriiitinated Wm, in all the New Patterns, •• BETTER THAN EVER." IN FUN THIS WEEK, Price Otte Peuny, Th. 1)11 Jaw Done. Lord Henry neorge Charles Cordon Lennox. M.P. Our Prase !Inlays. The International Dog Show. The City Election Now ready, handsomely bound in magenta cloth, elk price Ss &1.. post paid, SR , THE Engracinge by talented artists, and articles by distinguished writers. 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AND CHARITY. with Profentor Pepper • adaptation of p Waifs syIICrRAL ILLUSION.—The Urethan Concede. And THE MALADETTA.—Commence at tuff past 6. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BEIDGR., 7M2/1 01T — :-Morning, 61. .Attommem 76. 1461. romosiov—Moratax. Th. 44a..... Attsraoin. 8a 15a. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 8. ON Saturday the customary festivities in honour of the QcEEN's Birthday were appropriately re sumed, and the loyal feelings of the citizens found again a welcome expression in the old channels, the streets of the metropolis being once more bright with illuminated benedictions on the Sovereign Lady of these realms. It is not sur prising that this annual celebration should this year have awakened feelings of unusual interest. The strong loyalty of the nation, the respect for the private character and virtues of the Sovereign, which has strengthened during the whole of her Ma.iserv's happy reign, bad naturally acquired fresh depth and tenderness during the silence of last year, and was associated with new hopes and joys in the happy celebrations of the present Spring. Any opportunity for the public expres sion of these feelings is, therefore, peculiarly wel come. The people earnestly desire to express their sympathy with the QUEEN, and the tribute to the Royal Widow on Saturday will to-day be followed by another to her son and his lovely bride. This evening the City will receive and entertain the Prince and Princess of WALES in a manner that bids fair to be wholly unpre cedented both in its magnificence and cordiality. The venerable corporation barn, with its bare walls and dingy roof, has been suddenly trans formed into a fairy palace of light and colour. Around this palace has arisen as though by enchant ment a series of elegant reception rooms and spacious banquetting halls, that have utterly effaced the old landmarks of the Guildhall-yard ; and to-night the foremost representatives of the rank and power, the wealth and talent, the beauty and fashion of the three kingdoms, will share the splendid welcome of the City to its illustrious guests. But in this, it need scarcely be said, London but faithfully represents the country at large. The humblest classes of the community are quite as much interested in the Patrice and PRINCESS as the MAYOR and Corporation can possibly be. The whole nation has a feeling of sincere and hearty enthusiasm on the subject. Everybody feels a real regard for these young people, fellows their movements with deep and friendly interest, desires to do them honour, looks forward to their future with sympathy and hope, and prays that every blessing may attend them. This complete union of sympathy and interest between the people and the throne is, in the pre sent state of the world, a very striking fact —one, too, well worth the study of other nations, and especially of other rulers. How is it that the Queen's eldest son and his bride are so welcomed, so feted, so popular, amongst all classes of the nation ? We are not a demonstrative people, and do not usually indulge in any public expression of strong feeling or active enthusiasm except on good grounds. But, as yet, we know hardly anything of these young people, about whom we are so such excited. They have only just entered on their public career, and could not, in the nature of things, have earned for themselves the high place they hold in public esteem. That they should occupy such a position is nevertheleu per fectly natural and just. This spontaneous homage to the PRINT E and PRINCEM is a significant national tribute to the exemplary character and virtues of the QuErar. The Mother is honoured in the Son, and the welcome given to the children reflects the love and admira tion cherished by the country at large towards their illustrious parents towards the person of the one and the memory of the other. The QCEIN lives in the loyal affections of a united people, while the remembrance of the PRINCE CON. SORT'S character and career is to the realm at large a sacred heritage. How has this happy result been brought about 1 How is it that, in a con• stitutional country, amongst • free people, the occupant of the throne, instead of being an object ti iiiit t,t on an d distrust, or the cause of bitter hostility and disunion, is the harmonious centre and bowl of the national life I There have been periods in our recent history when this was very far from being the case, and the experience of Europe at the present moment shows that a cordial union between the prince and the people is, even under a constitutional system, the exception rather than the rule. During the whole of the present reign, however, the Sovsaziox has been to the country a source of strength and union rather than of weak ness and strife. If leas fortunate rulers would THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1863. know how this supremely happy result has been achieved, the answer is very simple. It is by the faithful discharge of the duties of a consti tutional monarch. The QUELN has gained the devoted love of her people, and proved a blessing to the nation, by adhering with unfaltering and impartial fidelity to the strict rule of constitutional action. During the present reign the Crown has never attempted any stretch of prerogative, or encroached in any way on the other powers of the State--never attempted any independent action, or descended to any political partiality—in a word, it has never lost sight for a moment of the fact that its great powers were held in trust for the good of the whole people. There has been no divided aim, no conflicting purpose, between the head and the body of the nation. The SOVEREIGN was content to advance with the people, without rashly attempting to go before or obstinately re solving to lag behind--content, in a word, to fulfil the first and most imperative duty of a con stitutional ruler. It might seem at first sight as if nothing could well be simpler, more obvious, or more easy than such a patriotic, enlightened, and conscientious course of action. But the experience of other countries shows that in prac tice hardly anything is more difficult or more rarely to be found. Europe is literally strewn with the wrecks of constitutional governments that have been destroyed by the blunders, the obstinacy, or the incapacity of the Monarchs on whose intelligence and honesty of purpose the success of these political experiments must so largely depend. Louts PHILIPPE lost his throne by his determined opposition to the wishes of the people,whose constitutional exponent and head he had sworn to be. Ilia folly destroyed for the moment a political system that promised the best results. Louis NAPOLEON has just re ceived a significant warning that there is no per , maneut security for any ruler who does not con stilt the wishes of his people, and that the only safe basis for the throne is the good-will of the nation. Prussia is a still more striking example of a consti tutional system broken up, and a nation weakened and divided by the folly of its sovereign head. In Greece, King Onto, refusing to govern constitu tionally, paralyzed the country until he lost his crown. These and other examples sufficiently show that, simple as are the duties of a constitu tional ruler, it is difficult to find a Prince who will honestly appreciate and faithfully discharge them. The late PRINCE CONSORT, happily for us, had the rare combination of virtue and intelligence, of statesmanlike sagacity and supreme honesty of purpose requisite for the responsible duties of the illustrious position be was in early manhood called to occupy. The history of the present reign suffi ciently shows that in this highest department of ac ' tivity, as elsewhere, virtue is its own reward. What other Monarchs have spent lives of intrigue and labour and expended all that was worth living for in the vain effort to secure, our own QUEEN has gained almost without an effort—a throne that rests on the good-will of a people whose interests she has ever made her own. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, It is stated that Prince Napoleon is going from Egypt to Constantinople in order to negotiate for a settlement of the difficulties in the way of the Isthmus of Suez scheme. Count Moreira, the late Brazilian minister in London, has arrived with his legation in Paris, where he purposes to await the settlement of the unfortunate misunderstanding which necessitated his departure. concludingy letter thAt th e we shall be near the truth. The France to-night " Everything," said he, "depends upon yourselves. P e n mentions a rumour that several more ships of war toe the Emperor, and you will be free. Bay to bile that yo u have received orders to sail for Vera Cruz. are not Poles, and that you do not wish to be, and you The news about the diplomatic notes to Russia, beire learn stond a to th th e e enjoy : w a nt of perfect security."which weekly journals in London, Frankfort, and c h urc h o f Aberm m yza has " beau plundered. Paris affect to give with precision, is unreliable and contradictory. The Patric affirms to-night that the French note at least has not yet gone, and is still the subject of negotiations between Paris and Vienna, CORK AND YOUGHAL RAILWAY.-(TRIG Imy.) A meeting of the shareholders was held at o p, o'clock, at the company's Other., 176. (leathern-how , under the Wharncliffe Act of the House of Lords, tosnien t to the proprietors and obtain their sandlots to a lag pending in parliament for the purpose of enalsi e , the preference shareholders of the company to convert shares into ordinary stock, and to grant a permissive pev a to sell the railway to the Great Southern and Western of Ireland Railway Company, with the consent of the share. I holders. Su Cogent Boner presided, and briefly explained th e object of the meeting. The Soucrroa (Kr. Stephens) having read the heads t 4 the bill, The CHAIRMAN moved, sad the RHO. 110M1 BROWNI si. conded, a resolution approving the bill, which was curried unanunoudy. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY. JO/f1 & 8 A.I. I L B. ILI 1/.. W. 11. E...! Q.' L ii. IL I. - I Nairn 29.44.47. 1 K. 17 8,4 I r 2 0.13 &benison 29 42 51 4 . X 36281 c - . - 3 Leith 9.42 . 60 2, E. 2 312 r 5 0.18 2 ltrdroesen 29.4143 3 , E. i 3 : 3 20, b.- ' - 2 Greencastle 29.41 52 4; N. '2. 3 4 I c 7 0.22 i Galway 29.48 44 2 ; N. 'I: 3 28 0 6 0.00 I Valenti& 29.5.3 61 2 i N. W. 1214 24 I r 8 0.20 4 Queenstown 29.47 66 1 . N.N.W. 3.6 24 cl 4 0.85. 4 Ehlekle ...„ 29.42 51 8 B.E. . 2 312 r 121 2.00 4 Soarborough 29.38 53 2 ' W.B.W. 2 6 14 012 0.65 4 Liverpool 29.40 64 1 I B.W. ' 2 624 r 4 0.43 1 Rolyhemd 919.118 54! 2 N. N.W. ..; 1 2 ,118 b -'- i 1 Pembroke 24.44 64 2 ; S.W. , 3 4 40 e 2 . 4.14 1 Penman° 29.58 47 2 W.S. W. 1 8 720 , c 3 0.25 4 0.4 . 29.04 64 3 : W.B.W. I 5 4 24 ' c 2 .0.12 3 L'Orient 19.09 47 4 i W. S.W. , 7 3 22 ' c 3 0 .12 b Rochefort - 19.04 69 2 1 W. 1 8 724 0 - i 0.32 c Plymouth - . 29.54 67 8 I S.W. .4 , 3 20 e 7 0.52 i Weymouth 29.55 64 S 1 W. '4 i 7 B) I c 6 o.l' 4 Portsmouth 29.50.50 4 S.W. ,8.8 20 j c 2 5.14 1 London 29.534 I 8 4 W S.W. 41 8 20 c 8 .0.66 - Dover 29.641n0 4. W.S.W. ,3 i I 4 20 2 3 &Oa 2 Yarmouth 29.49 58 3, 14.8. W. 8I 3 ti c 8'0_45 2 Helderl Heligoland .624 3. 0' B.W. 18 i 8 22 I h 380.40 7 ?1 , 1 6 : 111"gen 1 :I - -I - I: I: I 1 1 --- - • - TrISDAT. Z. to N. and N.W.. 800Thateu. strong, squally, with rain. N.W. to N.Z. and bask litzthan. W.N.W. to N.,. E., to W., strong, un- strong, squally. settled. W.B. W. to N.N.W.. W.CgifiltAL. W. to N. sea lark, fresh to strong, strong to moderate, squally, showers. showery. As next above. W.Pethamt Al next above. Similar. B,IV.ZII4ILASD. Similar. S.W. to N.W. and S.L MN ILANI% N.E to W. and < u N.L, strong, squally, strong to moderate. showery. As next above. WIDNIEDAT. N.W. to N.L, ctmg, unsettled. L COAST. As next above. BRE MtJERTY'S BIRTH DAY.--Saturday, in honour and in oelebration of her Majesty's birthday, was observed as a general holiday at all the government offices, u well as the Stock Exchange. At twelve o'clock a royal salute ea, fired from the Tower, the shipping in the river was dice- Med with flags, whilst the royal standard floated from the summit of the grand tower of St. Stephen's, from West. minter Abbey, St. Margaret's, St. Martin's, and most of the West-end and City churches. At the Admiralty, Horse Guards, Somerset-house, and other government establishments, and in very merry of the leading thorough fares similar emblems of loyalty were exhibited, noteith standing the inclemency of the weather. Although the weather had been throughout the day exceedingly co. propitious, and continued so during the evening, the illuminations in the metropolis were of a pretty geneni character, and were not confined to the royal tradesmen. State dinners in celebration of the event were given by he Earl of St. Germans, G.C.8., Lord Steward of her Majestfi Household ; Viscount Sydney, G.C.8., Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Household ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Earl de Grey and Ripon, Seat. tary of State for War ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir George Grey, Hart., G.C.8.. Secretary of State fordo Home Department ; Earl Russell, Secretary of State fr. Foreign Affairs ; the Archbishop of York ; the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty; and Viscoctt Palmerston. Sir William Atherton. the Attars' , General, gave a grand dinner on Saturday to the Queens Counsel and the leading members of the bar. A teelso was given at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, the exterior of which was brilliantly illuminated in honour of the 0CC41102. Covers were laid for eighty. There was a crowded attendance at the evening meeting at the Royal Institution on Friday, to hear a kr tore delivered by Mr. Itnekin "On the Forms of the SM. ti6ed Alpe of Savoy." The lecture was illustrated by ci• morons large drawings and sections, taken by Mr. Burkina the Savoy Alpe. He stated that the subject of their stn• tification is one on which he is still engaged, and that be intends to pursue his investigations still further on the spit THE ACTIUM AND THE SC/L[llEll.—A letter front Konigsberg says :—" A very comical scene has just evened at our theatre. Meddle. Jenanschek, one of the moat I brated stresses in Germany, has been giving /apneas tions at Konigsberg. The other day she was taking me pert of the Maid of Orleans in Schiller's tragedy, and m oat scene in the last act, while she escapes from prison, she to to seize as she files the sword of one of the English cavahni who guard her. At Konigsberg all military parts ate played by Prussian soldiers. The man whose mord tie Maid of Orleans was to take, happened to be acting for tie first time, and was completely ignorant both of Sebillersol the Orleans heroine. When the actress, in running put snatched at his weapon, he resisted and said loudly, • N.J.I don't give up my sword.' You may imagine the laupte with which this was heard, given too in a Prussian pat which contrasted singularly with the elevated language of the tragedy. The actress, to whom the sword was tiltv.dy to finish her part, became irritated and took it from lam IS force. In doing so she wounded her hand, witbolit, ever, much mischief ; but at the end of the spectacle 4:e declared to the director that she would not play spa 2 Konigsberg." Commander de Carvalho Moreira, Dlini Plenipotentiary of Brazil to the court of London, rived in Paris, and alighted at the Hotel des Deur .ilooeio. The Spanish newspapers contain deseriptiet• vi the new steamship Principe Alfonso, of 2,000 tons and et , horse power nominal, lately built, under special Prone 7 of Lloyd's and Veritsa, for Messrs. A. Lopez and royal snail line between Cadiz and Haseeutiah, by Mew , William Denny and Brothers, of Dumbertoo ; and of a was quoit given on board at Alicante to the Minister of Slaw and other authorities. A sister ship, the Infanta being completed, and it is stated that the spuoish meat are disposed to extend Messrs. Lopez's line to 't ete suede, New Granada, and Mexico, for which six more D ee steamers would be required by that firm iu addition tome nine now on the line. Paris (writes a correapoudent) is going out town rapidly. The court is already at FuntaiorlAcut; ministers are arranging amongst each other how they eau succeeeively make holiday ; and, finally, certain recur:-; signs of the season appear on the walls of the capital. citing the public to the seaside and those famous iitsro L springs where health and fortune may be °twined. M.v-. 1 is to be the fashionable novelty this year. The lath: r.: ,- cipality not far from Nice is now provided with It.' peculiar baths which are accompanied with • dip into roulette and other bealth-and.happinesa ri-stocci games. Baden-Baden addresses the polite world of l'sr , with many promised attractions, whilst Homburg adreit , +: the usual famous mineral springs, and "only ono Ler - and then, again, here is another attraction :—" The stall of the bank at trentett.quarante is 300,000 fr., and :De maximum 12,000 fr." This will evidently be a great year for bpi: , therspic establishments. Italy is beginning to burr Stabilitneuti di Bagel di Mare" in Rimini, whilst mineral waters of Southern Italy, such as those of isast , mare and Ischia, are for the first time announced 111 newspapers like those of Vichy. The railway is rs 0 1! conducting people to these fountains of health. Loie o h .. hotels are plentifully advertised, with " church sersice accommodation and pale ale. The great hotel COmiSalli may, and no doubt will, extend their operations to the Rhine and Italy. Travelling is very much incre...is:. amongst the Coetintiotabi. Tuc NEW BIAHOP or GIBRALTAR. —Tile 1/010: Ot Newcastle has appointed the Rev. lir. 'crosier, formed! Bishop of Glasgow, to the vacant see of Gibraltar, upon the recommendation of the Arebbiahop of Canterbury. I I T• Trower is of the University of Oxford, where be toot second ChM in classics and a first class in matheruatics. ,A was elected fellow of Oriel—Times. THE ROYAL VISIT TO GUILDHALL THE PREPARATIONS AND REGULATIONS. The chaos which bag reigned in and about the Guildhall for the last month was reduced to some thing like order late ou Saturday night, when the general effect of the decorations was tested by a thorough lighting up of the buildings. The flying platforms with their loads of busy painters that had been so long clinging against the lofty roof of the old hall were lowered, like balloons, about nine o'clock, the ladders and ropes were cleared away, and the gas was set flaring iu every direction. The result was most satisfactory. The rich colours laid on with no sparing hand under the direction of Mr. Crace ou every available inch of wall shone out as brilliantly under the new light as any of Mr. Beverley's artistic triumphs and pantomimes. The indefatigable entertainment committee, with Mr. Truscott at their head, made a tour of in spection later in the evening—looking into every stray nook, police court, council cham ber, or lumber closet, giving hurried directions I for a little more drapery here, a classical bust there, or a fountain, a shrubbery, or a picture to be placed in corners usually devoted to the stern details of corporation business. The ingenuity with which old sooty fireplaces were turned into overflowing bouquets of flowers—iron safes were concealed by drapery, and small dark passages were made to appear vast and light by a plentiful casing of mirrors, is worthy of all praise. Every corner of the old hall presented the appearance of a house turned inside out, in preparation for an evening party. The crypt—that fine old, damp ill-ventilated Gothic vault—restored to something like its original architectural condition by the exertions of Mr. Bunning, was the only part of the building not flaunting in new paint and tinsel. On former con vivial occasions it has been used as a supper-room, but this time it is turned into a storeroom and kitchen. Though the supper to be served to-night will be cold, a vast deal of preliminary cooking is required, and this has rendered the lower parts of the building savory for the last 48 hours. The new buildings erected in Guildhall-yard, which comprise a reception-chamber on the ground floor, and a large supper-room above, were nearly completed by midnight on Saturday. As soon as the painters and carpenters were cleared out, the waiters entered, and the tables were laid out for the banquet. The minor supper-rooms, erected on the same level in the law courts, were even in a more forward state of preparation, lighted with gilded chandeliers, and decorated with pink and white calico. The council-chamber, set aside as a supper room for the Prince and Princess, and sixty chosen guests, was still in the hands of the car penters and upholsterers, though the whole of the work in this part of the Guildhall will doubtless be got through by noon to-day. The antechamber of this apartment—fitted up in a Cremornelardens style with a picture of the Prin cess's late home in Denmark, set in a cavern frame, and lighted with footlights—seemed to attract the chief attention of the numerous privileged visitors. Some of the workmen on duty were amusingly sen timental about this picture, and one described it to the lookers-on much in the style of a street showman. He was particularly anxious to impress upon the visitors that the young lady on the lawn in the picture was the Princess Alexandra, and that she was precisely in that position when the Prince of Wales first saw her from the drawing-room of the mansion. The lighting up of the Guildhall—the chief ball room—has led to many alterations in the arrange ment of the lights. The bows of gas jets, which were intended to mark the arched line of the win dows at each end of the ball, have been abandoned. They blistered the new paint, and brought down the tinsel stars in fluttering clusters from the roof. The perpendicular hooped lights at each bunch of banners were also felt to be objectionable, and these will doubtless be altered. The tone throughout will be gay and brilliant, and the general effect will atone for any faults of detail. The short time given to Mr. Crace, and Mr. Taylor, the City painter, to execute the work, must be taken into consideration by all artistic critics. Their Royal Highnesses are expected to arrive at the Guildhall at nitre o'clock, when they will be received by the committee appointed by the corporation, who will precede their illietrious guests., making the circuit of the hall along a apace enclosed by silken ropes, and conduct them to the dais in the following order : H. Field, Esq. H. H. Heath, Esq. E. Burkitt, Esq. W. Hartridge, Esq. G. Cuthbert, Faq. W. Lawley, Esq. The Chairmen of Sub-Committees : John Kearns, Esq. Lowman Taylor, Esq. The Town Clerk. Sheriff Jones. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence. The Chairman of the Committee : F. Wyatt Trmoott, Eaq. Alderman Gibbons. Alderman Abbiu. Alderman GabrieL The Recorder. Alderman Carter. The Swordbearer. The Macebearer. Ilia Royal Bigheads the Prince of WALES, with the Lady Mayoress. The Lord Mayor, with Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. Suites of their Royal Highnesses and of the Lady Mayorees. The Guildhall will be open for visitors at six o'clock, and it is scarcely necessary to sty that on those occasions all visitors honoured with invitations are bound in strict politeness to be present before the hour fixed for the arrival of the royal guests. At half-pest eight all approaches to Guildhall will be closed to the carriages of visitors until after the arrival of their royal highnesses. At the foot of the dais the freedom of the City will be presented to his royal highness, enclosed in a casket of solid gold. The first supper will be served for the general guests soon after 12, and the second about 1 o'clock. The police arrangements, so far as they are known, are well adapted to prevent anything like a repetition of the confusion which marked the public entry of the Princess Alexandra. From half-past 5 no carriage or other vehicle will be allowed to enter or remain in Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, SL Paul's-churchyard, Cheapaide, or the Poultry, unless provided with a ticket for Guildhall. The barriers in the neighbourhood of the hall will bs closed as early as five o'clock, and after that hour no person, except ing servants attending upon the carriages of guests, will be allowed to enter or remain in Guildhall-yard or the imme diate ►pproaches. Carriages containing persona provided with tickets may pass the barriers up to half-past eight o'clock, after which time no carriage will be permitted to do so on any pretence until the Nino* and Princess shall have passed. All carriages with guests for the hall must approach from Cheopside, through King-street, and set down in Guildhall-yard. Oa leaving the ball, carriages will pas off through Guildhall-buildings and Basinghall street. In consequeoce of the serious illness of the Lord Mayor doubts have been expressed as to the possibility of his lord ship being present at the ball. We are glad to be able to state that the Lord Mayor had so far recovered from his iodispoeition u to be able to leave Brighton on Saturday to be present at the dinner given by Sir George Grey in honour of her Majesty's birthday. The Lord Mayor, as head of the corporation of the City of London, will, we have no doubt, be present to receive the royal visitors this evening. The royal promotion will leave Marlborough-house for the grand civic ball at Guildhall shortly after eight o'clock this (Monday) evening, and proceed for the City along Pall-mall, Charing-eras, Strand, Fleet-street, Chespeide, ka The stately e ortige will complies several of the royal carriages, conveying the Prime and Princess of Wale., and the *bole of their royal highnesses' honseitold, io' s ;:9"r with the Duke of Cambridge, the Dowager Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary of Cambridge, and suite, escorted by • squadron of Life Guards. A guard of honour of the Royal Artillery Company, under the command of Lord Col ville, will be drawn up in line at the top of King-etreet. Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of England, presided on Saturday afternoon at the distribu tion of prises to the successful students connected with St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. In the course of so inte resting address, his lordship urged strongly the necessity of a careful study of medical jarisprudeime. Mg Court. --•-- BALKORILL, does 5. The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by Princess Louise. Princess Helena went out riding. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, left the Castle yesterday for Edinburgh. The Queen, accompanied by the royal family, will leave the Castle tbis day at 12 o'clock for Moyne, where a special train will be in readiness to convey her Majesty, the royal family, and suite to Windsor Castle. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jim 6. Her Majesty, axompanied by Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Primness Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold. left Balmoral yesterday at half-put 12, and arrived at Windsor Castle at 9 o'clock this morning. The suite in attendance consisted of the Lady Augusta Bruce, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Major Cowell, Mr. Buff, and Mr. Rutland. The Ducheu of Athole attended her Majesty to Perth. The Duke of Argyll travelled with her Majesty, and left for London. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited her Majesty. Lord Talbot de Malshide and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell are the Lord and Groom in waiting. Major-General the Hon. A. Dl. Hood and Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe are the Equerries to her Ms- The Maritimes' of Ely has succeeded the Duchess of Athol. as Lady in Waiting. The Hon. Beatrice Bog and the Hon. Emily Cathcart have arrived a. Maids of Honour in Waiting. SUNDAY. The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Alfred. Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leo pold, and the Lidice and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended vine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. Lord Wriotheslsy Humid! officiated. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll. Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wocul, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Duke of Atoll arrived in town on Saturday from Scotland. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were seat to the Governors of Canada, the Bahamas, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. LEVEE.-(THIS DAY.) His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales held a levee this afternoon at St. James's Palace, by command of her Majesty. The levee was numerously ►ttended. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Prince= Mary honoured the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey with their company at dinner, on Satur day evening, at her ladyship's residence in Berkeley-square. A aslant party had the honour of meeting their royal highnesses. Viscount and Viscountesa Sydney will have the honour to entertain the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at dinner in the course of the present month. The Earl Brownlow is expected to arrive from Madeira early in the present week. There will be grand doings at Ambridge Castle m the second week in July, to celebrate the coming of age of the young earl. The Countess (Frances) Waldeirave gave a grand entertainment on Saturday evening, to their Royal High- DOOM the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale. The following were invited to meet their royal highnesses :—The sea %AMON'S they, sae ...N....a.. aome.w ..one wensley dale, Lord and Lady Norreys sod Lady Elisabeth Bert* Lady Molieworth, the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Deni son, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Hon. Arthur Kinnard, M.P., Sir Edwin Landeeer, Mr. and Mrs. Higgins, Mr. Frederick Peel, Mr. Ralph Soeyd, Mr. Cole, to Ou Saturday afternoon Professor Thomson deli vered the second lecture of hie worse on the "Electric To lorrlngdt." at the Royal Institution. At the cooclusion of the lecture several telegraphs were shown is action, sod =mg them was a gigantic repreesetatioe of the traamenis sion of signals by a Mono instrurneet, is which the symbobi were marked by electro-chemical decomposition ea a broad band of paper that paned nearly woes the lecture-room. AMERICA AND RUSSIA. The Europe of Frankfort publishes the official text of the American despatch announced by the Jouruut of St. Petersburg, and an analysis of Prince Gortchakoff's reply to the cabinet of Washington. The Russian minister, iu order to be able to give his reply as early as possible, has addressed it not to the Russian minister at Wash ington but to Mr. Clay, minister of the United States at St. Petersburg. Prince Gortcbakoff ex presses the Czar's sentiments of affection and grati tude at the attitude of the Federal government under the grave circumstances in which Russia is placed. One paragraph of this document is de voted to the rebellion. PRUSSIA. The Municipal Council of Berlin has taken the initiative of adopting an address to the King, re presenting the disastrous effects to the country resulting from the new decree upon the press, the absence of a budget regularly voted, and the inter ruption of the sittings of parliament. It is believed that this example will be followed by the municipal councils throughout the country. BELGIUM. The biennial elections of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies take place to-morrow (Tuesday). The clerical party is greatly exerting itself, but it dues not seem to have gained any fresh ground ; while the liberals, on the other hand, are laying siege to three strong clerical places—Louvaine, Nivelles, and Ghent, and have a great chance of carrying them. It is, in fact, upon these three towns that all the interest of the contest is centered. Lou value, the seat of an ancient and illustrious univer sity—the metropolis of Belgian ultramontanism— would be a brilliant conquest for the liberals. (RZUTIR'B TELE/SR/XL) THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CAPTURE OF KONONOWICZ. FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. 300 SOLDIERS KILLED. CRACOW, JUNZ 8. The Polish leader Kononowicz has been cap tured by a stratagem, and is about to be shot. His band remains undiminished. 5,000 of the Imperial Guard have been des patched from St. Petersburg to Lithuania. A frightful accident happened to a train con veying a portion of the troupe, caused by the rail way giving way : 300 soldiers were killed. SUPPLIES TO THE ARMY IN MEXICO. PARIS, Ju S. An official announcement has been published to day upon the steps taken to secure the supply of provisions and munitions to the troops in Mexico. Upon April 19 the army was furnished with sup plies for 50 days, the renewal of which was easily effected. Independently of the monthly trans ports from St. Nazaire, the Minister of Marine has organised a ship service, leaving Cherbourg or TOII - on the 23rd of every month, carrying out sup plies and bringing back the sick. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAIL. MARSEILLES, Joys 6. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse, with the India and China mails, arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom OUR ows ooßassroseiar.) PARIS, SuROAT EVINING. The Moniteur has ceased to say a word about the elections. It must necessarily declare the exact state of the polls all over France as soon as the official returns are collected ; but it waits patiently for that bitter moment, and makes no premature disclosures. With few exceptions, it has announced the result only of the elections, and has given no figures. It was not so in 1857. Then it lost no time in proclaiming the immense government majo rities all over the country. There is good reason for this reticence. The lists of minorities, when they come to be added up, will convey a moral even more striking than the return of upwards of thirty opposition members in the place of five ; but the great overwhelming fact which cannot be ex plained away, and which the Emperor is much too wise to shut his eyes to, is that in almost every considerable town in France the majority of the electors has pronounced against the government. It is not only in great cities, like Paris, Lyons, Mar seilles, Bordeaux, and Nantes (which have succeeded in returning opposition members), but in almost every place where the population was too numerous to be drilled and terrified by the administration, that the voice of the public called for liberty. The liberal majorities of the towns have been swamped by the blind mechanical votes of ignorant rustics, who are marched to the poll by the mayor, the gendarme, and the garde champetre. Here are a few figures given by the Opinion Na tionale this evening. In the towu of Lille the opposi tion candidate obtained 8,500 votes, against 3,600 given to the government candidate. In 1857 M. Reno° was elected for Lyons by only 12,000 votes, whereas now in 1863 he has obtained 21,000. In the Doubs, M. de Montalembert polled in 1857 but 4,378 votes ; now he has 10,000. At Rouen the prefect's efforts only produced 11,000 against 10,000. It must be remembered, in estima ting the general results of the elections, that in at least sixty circumscriptions the government can didates walked over the course, it being considered hopeless to attempt any opposition against the for midable administrative organisation iu their favour. A curious electoral incident has transpired at Saint Quentin. Count Louis Cambachres, who was the late deputy, elected by government influence in 1857, is now, notwithstanding the famous Bona partist name which he bears, out of favour. AM. Georges was set up against him, and M. Malezieux was the liberal candidate. The poll stood in this way :—Georges, 11,430 ; Malezieux, 10,569 ; De Cambachrea, 6,525. The government candidate not having the absolute majority there must be a new election next Sunday. Count Louis de Cambaceres wrote a letter to M. Malt:Wen:, with drawing in his favour. The letter was communi cated, for the information of the electors, to the three journals of St. Quentin, but not one of them dared to publish it, and it now appears in print, for the first time, in Paris. Of course the return of the indepeudeut candidate for St. Quentin is , certain. M. Dufanre retires from Bordeaux in favour of M. Lavertujon, who will certain]) be returned. Nothing has transpired about the ministerial council which the Emperor came up from Fontaine bleau to preside over yesterday, except that it lasted an unusually long time. As to Mexico the Moniteur contents itself with saying in two lines that news has been received by way of England to May (it means April) 27, and that the " siege operations are going ou regularly." If fur regularly we read slowly awl unsatisfactorily, ANGLO-AUSTRIAN BANK. According to advices from Vienna the negotia tions which have been pending with the Austrian government since January last, for the establish ment of an Anglo-Austrian bank, have been brought to a satisfactory termination, and the bank will be immediately announced under government auspices in Austria, in conjunction with a powerful combi nation in this country. The object of this institution is represented to be the more active development of the great resources of the Austrian empire by means of British capital, and also a closer union of the commercial and monetary interests of the two empires. According to the same advices a project of a similar character, which has been announced as about to be conceded to Baron Thierry and Mr. Lever, bas no privileges, as its name implies, but is an ordinary banking project. RUSSIAN ATROCITIES IN LITHUANIA. The following is a despatch from the national government of Poland to its representatives abroad : POLISH NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENT OF LITRE:AMA. Wilaa, May 21. To Mr. , Foreign agent at How far the professed mild and benevolent character of the Emperor Alexander stands in contradiction with the treatment of him Polish subjects, the further recurrences in Livonia which it is my duty to report will fully testify. 2nd May. This morning at six o'clock 26 inhabitants were arrested—some in their own houses, some in the streets, others in the country—and were carried off to lizeczycs. The greater number of them were retired officials. or municipal magistrates. These unfortunates, with irons on their feet and chained two and two, like malefactors, were forced to go on foot to Dsoeburg, the place of their imprisonment, where no comfort or relief is allowed to reach them. . . . . . .-- The military commission pursues its inquisitorial task, and spreads terror far and wide. Count Leon Plater, with the generosity for which he is distinguished, has taken upon himself the responsibility of all the charges which the government may choose to make against the inhabitants. He is already regarded as condemned to death unheard, without form of trial, ►ut merely on suspicion, by the secret decision of the commission. To _ escape from such arbitrary punishments the young and healthy members of the population, indeed, all who are capable of bear ing arms, have resolved to assemble in the forests of Tuchaowirse, situated in the remotest part of the country. Hundreds have already obeyed the summons —students from the university, officers from the military college, and cadets of rich and patrician families, all eager to strike a blow in the sacred name of freedom. There is not a noble family which is not represented by one, at least, of its members. Add to these the peasantry of the neigh bourhood and the citizens of the surrounding towns, all of whom form a band of desperate moo, organised and equipped, and ready for any emergency. The gevereor of Witebek is begging and entreating the Livonian nobi ity, sod is prepared with menaces, if neoese eery, to obtain from them an address of devotion to the Emperor, and • protest against the very idea of reunion with Poland. Oo this *iodates% only he promises them in the name of the Czar that their lives and property shall be respected, sod that every honour which it is in the power of the Emperor to bestow shall be lavished upon them. 3rd May. No particular news to-day ; all soviet; anxiety, and suspense. 4th May. Count Schonwaloff arrived yesterday, with plenipotentiary powers from St. Petersburg, and has this morning despatched troops to Sieweez, where events of some importance have just occurred, and where two bends of about 203 each strong have appeared. Among the inhabi tants who have been arrested a few have been released, but Count Stenislas Mottstill remains in prison, the cause of his detention being ucknown to himself or to any other person. The prisoners taken at Siemens° have been condemned to irons, and incorporated into bodies of convicts, and with their heeds half shaved, together with Count Plater and his twelve courageous friends, transported probably into the depths of Siberia. No trial took place—no sentence was pro. nouoced. Such is the clemency, such is the justice, so often promised by the Emperor to Poles and to Europe. The Roskoleski are still demisting and pillaging the whole country. The estates of more than fifty landed pro. prietors have been laid wade, and the inhabitants treated with unparalleled cruelty and insult. It was by these savages that Count Plater, having first witnessed the pillage and destruction of his castle, was struck with an axe, and after suffering excruciating torments, died next day of the wound inflicted. The Roskolaski have ever been famous for cruelty and ferocity, but it seems that they are at this moment bent on surpassing themselves. An old man, 75 years of age, M. Peter Brzozowski, curate of Bugmnj, having been outrageously treated, was bound back to back with another old man of the same age, whom he was this obliged to carry the whole of one night. The next day be was con ducted with the most savage hooting' to Itzeczyca, where he remained several days, and ultimately succumbed to the brutal tre►tment he had undergone. But how shall I relate the indescribable sufferings of Mr. Wilainowski, of Ost.bynie? The savages pulled out the hairs of his beard one by one, spat in his face, and having bound him, struck him and insulted him in every way. It is the almost invariable practice of these Roskoloski to pull out the beard, moustache, and whiskers of their prisoners, of whom alai ge number are already wouoded and crippled for life. The church of Oszum was plundered of all its valuables and profaned by their sacrilegious conduct. The same sautes were enacted at Kamsinsie. The troops who accompanied and aided the Hookoleski returned to Dunabourg loaded with booty, and there is no doubt but that the government, if not the promoters of these excesses, was at least the tacit accomplice of their perpetration. In this way Colonel Ozierow has enriched himself with the spoils of Wyski, whose valuable service of plate he still has in his posses sion, and excuses himself by asserting that he purchased it of a peasant. Others, too, have succeeded in appropriating horse', jewellery, and furniture of priceless value. The brothers Mott having proved • great number of 'similar misdeeds, the government were obliged to institute au inquiry, which has resulted in esta blishing the complicity of several officials. One, named Dymontonsy, a district judge, nominated by the govern. meat, is the meat compromised. This man was in the habit of journeying from village to village, exciting the peasants meiotic their landlords, and promising them plea der with impunity ; and the commandant of Dunabourg, formerly captain of gendarmes in Warsaw, sent soldiers and Coaaacks, ostensibly to protect the landlords, but in reality to encourage the Roskoloaki •gaiest them and those whom they supposed to become insurgents. The Rev. Vincent Lignosk, curate of Puna, • venerable prelate, was taken by force from his bed, beaten, bound, loaded with chains, end carried to Rseczyca, and two other curates were subjected to the game treatatee:.. _ ... _ - - - . Mr. Victor firi:chno has been forcibly dragged from Ilia home and thrown, with several other miizens, into the pri son, while his property has been pillaged. In the district of itundany two res pectable citizens, John and Casimy Ku lakowako, were seised and bound so tightly to each other that the blood spirted from their flow nails. Mr. Igoe nature Sobel:ski, of the same district, in spite of his age, met with no better treatment. His aged parent was taken in the same manner to the fortress of Dunabourg after witnessing the destruction of his and other property. Poe what do the Poles suffer this unheard of severity! The words of the Governor Ogolla will beet answer the queetion. 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