The Express. — London, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

i r ebe expreOgl. ideurdseeente lathiest he “Tlie Itzprohnorits Imahieeper, nag be et UM Otheh 10, hosterle•ettest. by Tire Vele* es the Ye et 'Wageless. BIOS WALTZ& AT LONDON BRIDOIL T■li DOT—Vairdsig.lol6 Iris .......Mtissoce. Ilk. 12m. To-rosiov—lsnda&llll. iof_.......Aftreow. lb. Om. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1. Tree Revenue Returns for the year and quarter ended yesterday will be found in another column. We learc from them that there is a net increase on the returns for the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1855, of 1,477,6451.; and a net increase on the returns for the year ended 31st )larch, 1856, as compered with those for the year ended 31st March, 1855, of 4,497,6711. The returns for the quarter show an increase under every head of revenue, except Stamps and the Post-offios; those for the year show a similar increase, except under the heads Stamps, Taxes, and Post-office. The increase in the Property Tax Returns is attributable, no doubt, to the augmented percentage of that impost ; that in the Customs and Excise must probably be as cribed mainly to the war taxes in those depart ments. It has also to be noted that in addition to the increased returns of ordinary revenue, Govern ment have raised, during the quarter just ended, nearly three millions and a half by the issue of Exchequer Bills and Bonds, and have received a trifle more than three millions and a half in instalments of the Loan of 5,000,0001. There will also have to be issued, in the coarse of the quarter which has just commenced, Deficiency Bills to the amount of about two millions and a half. This assuredly is no very alarming state of our financial affairs at the close of a two years' war. We cannot look for an imme diate abatement in the rates of war taxation; there are outstanding bills still to be provided for, and our military and naval establishment' cannot be reduced from a war footing in a day. But it is a Milking exemplification of the power and resources of Great Britain, that a war which has exhausted Russia, and made even Fllll2OO stagger, appears likely to impose upon us burden scarcely greater than we have ere now incurred to relieve an Irish famine—certainly less than we voluntarily imposed open ourselves to put down the slave trade and emancipate the =gross in our colonise. Tax interpellation of Lord PALYERATON by Mr. Flamm, on the subject of the Peace, may be clas sified among what have been called " unrehearsed ante Last night, as the massembliog of the Howie of Commons, after the preliminary routine which precedes serious business had been gone through, there was a momentary pause. There was an appearance of a desire to try whether some more detailed information regarding the Peace than was to be found in the curt notices of the Morsiteur and Gruerfe could not be elicited. Bat no Cabinet Minister was present. There was a general laugh, and the House at once went into Committee of Supply, although it was barely half-past four. Three minutes had scarcely elapsed when Lord Per nos entered the House, and was received with cheer ing and laughter. This appeared to Mr. Faucet a good opportunity for playing off a little virtuous in dignatioo. Accordingly he threw out hints that pos sibly the PILIELLIR had waited at the door until after the House had gone into committee, to avoid being questioned; and soeoladed by moving that the Hones do now report progress, to allow the noble lord, if he saw proper, to make a statement. Lord PALMERSTON met this onslaught with his usual playfulness; declared that if his honourable Mead wished to be told officially what unofficially he law already, he was ready to enlighten him; repeated that the Treaty of Pesos had been signed, bat that the stipulations were not to be published before the ratifications had been exchanged, expressed a hope that this might be dose in about three weeks; spoke in warm though general terms of the satisfactory character of the Treaty; affirmed that the manner I. which the negotiaticas bad bees carried on was calculated to cement the aliases between' France and England; passed a glowing eulogises on Leeds CLARENDON and COWLEY; and ended by stating that be had nothing more to nay. The House again laughed ; the Committee resumed ; and nothing more was maid about the matter. To parties unacquainted with the tone and' temper of an English House of Commas, this any look like trifling; hat it was not so. The Hoses being aware that no real information mild be elicited, did not waste time in attempting the im possible. Perhaps the pettiness of the balk of the topics whisk occupied the attention of the House daring the evening was quite as charseteriatie of an English Legislature as the little episode we have adverted to. In any other country it might have been considered a breach of decorum for legislators to be disputing about a charge of sixpence for admiesios into a cathedral, and about the comparative eligibility of flagged or gravel paths, while uncertainty pre vailed as to the stipulations of an European Peace. Bet JOHN BULL is proverbially regardless of stage effect. He transacts business in the intervals of ex citement without troubling his head about dignity. And he is not the less alive to the great interests of existence because he can find time in their pauses to mind its trivial details. When the time cornea the stipulations of the Treaty will be closely scanned; bat till the time for discussing them mass, there is ao :sawn why attention should not be paid to the extortion of beadles and the maintenance of foot ways on which a man can walk with comfort. Out of doors the postponement of revelations se• westing the Peet* is endured as patiently as Is Parliament. The Equanimity with white tab RagNehmen passes from • belligerent to a pulls state is as ea:opinion in national as is playa broils. He can fight, and it is a matter if indifference whether he fights or act. ad= refused the offered terms of pesos the English people would have carried on the war cheerfully. They are told that Russia has given in—that she has conceded the points in dispute—and they my, If it be as, thin is no use in fighting any longer. Bat it would be a great mistake to imagine that this external coolame is the result of apathy, or that the English people will be satisfied if the stipulations of the Treaty of Peace should be found to fall short of what they had In the meantime they are resume their pacific avow_ not quite so demoastrative _ other side of the Channel exuberant hilarity produced by appears to be is a great snap eo•fined to the official circles. • fact that the proclamation -••: of • reduction is the Zbe Court. Bank rate of discount should have been accompanied, at Paris, yesterday by a fall in the Bente, notwith 'tending all the enthusiasm a made to order." Ose of the great prizes for pulpit oratory has been thrown open to competition by the Rev. Mr. MEL vux's resiguatioa of "The Golden Lectureship." The depths of the clerical mind have been stirred up. Already there are several hundred applicants in the field. One is a 'powerful orator; another is of unquestionable orthodoxy; a third is an eminently respectable man with a large family and empty pockets: it would be a hopeless teak to attempt an enumeration of the diversified recommendations of the claimants. "The Golden Lectureship" is sur rounded by as many suitors as the legendary Lady of " The Golden Leg." No wonder: the duties con sist :in preaching a weekly sermon on Tuesdays; the reward Is something between 6001. and 7001. a year. We hope we are not insensible to the importance of "the preaching of the word." At the same time we must confess that to pay 6001. or 7001. a year for the preaching of a weekly sermon, while many of the best ministers of the Church preach as often and toil throughout the week in addition, in the discharge of parochial duties, is a sad misapplication of money. " The Golden Lecture ship" is a Church luxury, and it is scarcely proper to expend so much upon a luxury while there is an inadequate provision for necessaries. This Lectureship may take rank with the many Cathedral of which have been suppressed as useless, and the incomes of which are being applied to more practically valuable objects. "The Golden Lectureship" is a relic of a bygone state of society. Like most lectureships, it was instituted at a time when the knowledge of reading was not so common, and when men were more dependent on oral instruction. Lectureships were natural and necessary in the missionary age of our Established Church ; bat that age has passed away ; or if there is still among u a field for missionary exer tion it is among very different classes of society from those who are likely to be edified by the incumbent of a" Golden Lectureship." When the lectureship was founded it was attached to the Church of St. Bartholomew, which was then the centre of a dense mass of buildings, threaded by narrow and tortuous alley.. A whole town of these edifices was swept away to clear a site for ,the Bank of England; others have been removed to afford space for the extended Royal Exchange. The counting houses of merchants, who occupy them only during the day, have taken the place of the dwellings of poor and thrifty citizens. There is no local congre gation left for the preacher of the " Golden Lec ture;" nay more—the very church in which its founder appointed the lecture to be preached ham disappeared. Homeless, and without permanent hearers, the well-paid lecturer is literally a preacher in the wilderness; an anomaly—either destitute of a congregation, or followed by the stimulus•seeking hunters after fashionable preachers. " The Golden Lectureship" is in the gift of one of the great City Companies—we believe the Haber dashers. It will be well worthy the consideration of this intelligent body, whether the money cannot be better applied than it has been of late years. They can have no difficulty in obtaining powers from Par liament to divide the income of the lectureship among some of our underpaid and over-worked metropolitan incumbencies. We do not ask them to denude them selves of the patronage: let them stipulate that the alternate presentations to the livings, augmented by shares of the income of the lectureship, shall be vested in them. The patrons of more than one ad vowson would willingly enter into an arrangement 'so manifestly advantageous. By aotiog thus, the Company will be giving real effect to the will of the founder, who doubtless, had he lived in our day, would have accommodated his foundation to the existing wants of society. WINDSOR, NoNDAT, Masai SI. , . The Queen and Primo, with the Princess Alice, roil out on bombe& this tonneau. attended by the Hoe. Eleanor Swaim Major-Oesual Buckley, sad Capt. the Hos. D..dley de 800. A depatatios from Illeiversity College, Leaden, respect iag Mr. Headlan's Medical Bill, bad ea Laurels, with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Hons-ellee. The depatatie• iteasisted of Wears. Grote sad Frederic Job, Wood, Mem ben of Cowed ; Professor Ellis, Des* of the Fsaalty el Kedlaise ; Prefeeier Sbarpey aid Kr. Atidasea, Secretary. . . . • deputation of maltatira hod an latamiew with the Chameller of the Eachmarr yesterday at his °Mehl resi dence in Downing-street. They were introdsard by Mr. Oeorp Saed•ra, M.P., and eassisted of Mr. Mono. (Ponta Ina), Mr. Bryant (Newastraat), Hr. Noma (Matteis,- ten, Beam), Mr. Brows (Cokhester), Kr. B. B. Wale sky (Condos), Hr. Japp (Brantford), Mann. Thorpe, Gilstrap, Pegg, Wan, asd Man. A depntathau of ...dial men mumeted with Usiversity College, lands., had an intomiew reterday with the Bight Bon. W. Cowper, M.P., at the *Mee of the Osumi Board of Health, Whitehall. The depstaties gossistod of Mr. Brigham, Dr. Ham, Mr. W. B. Stewart, Dr. Quin, Mr. Baker, Mr. Pates, Mr. Powell, Mr. Ashton, Mr. Jackine, and Mr. W. Adana. ♦ deputation, enisistiag of 131, Mons Matte dem Mr . Leeds Coins, Mr. J. Alezaader, Mr. Hoary Hants, Mr hose longue, Kr. H. lionotto, sad Mr. &nines Samuel, had yesterday as Interview with Sir George Grey. Despatches from the Lord High Conniesiceer of the leaks Islands, aad from the Governor of Malta, were n eared yesterday at the Colossialudlee. Despatelses were seat last enable to the Governer of the Cape of Good Hope. It is rumoured that one of the rarest orders of the Garter will be conferred spew Lord Palmerston; and that Lord Clarendon will be raised is the rank of margnis, in eossideration of the important en rims rendered by them is connexion with the peace which has jest been proclaimed. Hi. Royal Hi,ghomo the Doke of Cambridge ham esaleated to reef& at the 67th ;aaalvereary dinner of the Royal Literary Feed, which is axed to take place at Free masons' Hall oa the 7th of May. The Dee d'Osena and suite have left the Claren don tor Paris. The Mariptia and Marchloam of Wootraisator &ad the Leaks °resumer us gess to Laos fora alien *err. previously to JAL, op Weir reskiftee la Loaloa for the • mom Th. Countess De Salim sod Miss De Belie have arrived at CleridEa's Hotel from their ant, Hawley Court, sear ll:bridge. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Franei. Stoner arrived is tows yesterday from Steam, Heniey-ea-Tause. The late Mr. Justice Tonna was celled to the bar is 1795, sad UM the oMee of s•rjeaat for warty youa He was elevated to the ►each la 1523. The vaeaat mat is the Common Pleas will, it is supposed, be offered to Mr. Attor ney-Gess& Keogh, M.P. As the law stands, the summated rate of income taz will cocainee till the 6th at April. 1868. The increased duty wu greeted 0 darlag the war, and sun the 6th day of April which shall Ira happen after the aspiration of ass year fro the ratification of a detainee truly of puss." This ratification, It was stated yesterday, will probably be delayed for fon weeps—assaely, to the 28th of April. Tile espiratioa of owl year frost that date will fall ea the 28th of April, 1867, and the duty is souseqesatly to espies as the 6th of April, 1868. which . will be the Ant Bth of April that will kappa& afterwards. THE REVENUE. No. L—AN ABSTRACT OF THE NET PRO- DUCE OF THE REVENUE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, in the undermentioned periods, ended March 31,1866, compared with the corresponding periods of the preceding year. Illiiili f e : i .r , .:" r' .1. r ir 1 "?.... P .7 , :g 'A f . : .i" 4 f, Sr: •. , F. .- f C l:: c :-. c z.: c g : tir• :- -- .1% .s o ' 7 C • THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1856. had reason to expect. Is prepared cheerfully to fel tiOnli, though they are no as their friends on the of Even in Francs the =libel the conclusion of Peace an mire factitious and co•tin At lealt, it is a remarkable of Peace and the Dammam LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE LATE ARREST OF A MOLDAVIAN BOYARD BY THE AUSTRIANS. The altaid dutrieAwnne gives the following ex planation of the above affair:— The address which a certain number of Moldavian Boy ards transmitted to Prince Calks, with the prayer that it be submitted to the Conference of Paris, will be in the recollection of our readers. The Prince, who at first wu not as to tome proceeding of the sort, aftetwarde changed his mind, and judged it inconvenient to proceed in the mode of protest. The older men amongst the Boyards thereupon gave up their intention of protesting against the projected reforms, I I bat a certain number of the members of the noblesse united to draw up a protest, and this they entrusted to a M. 801-1 1 ban, who was called to Pale on businew, to present to the Conference. Prises (Mika then telegraphed to the Au trims authorities a request that M. Holban be arrested. The latter was aocordingly conducted back to the frontier under escort, and pat into the hands of a Moldavian officer, who to it hlm b.ck to Jassy. Prints Ohika limited him self to a reprimand. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (riox ova owx PARIS. MONDAY EVINTNO. Although the cannon on both sides of the Channel has heralded the advent of peace, the Congress of Paris lies still, it would appear, much to do. A meeting is announced for Wednesday, "some further sittings" being necessary, according to the Patrie, "merely to settle some very secondary questions which are already formally decided in principle." _ _ Cabinet couriers left Paris yesterday evening for London, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Turin, and Constantinople, to take copies of the treaty to those Courts. Immediately after the siKnature of the treaty, a telegraphic despatch was sent to Marshal Peliasier. The armistice, which expires this day, is prolonged for four weeks. One of the Paris journals has erroneously stated that Lord Clarendon left Paris last night for Lon don, in order to be present this evening in his place in the House of Lords. It was not his lordship who left Paris, but Mr. Ponsonby, hie secretary ; Lord Clarendon is still in Paris, and will be present this evening at the grand dinner to be given by Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the mem bers of the Peace Congress. Lord Clarendon will also attend the grand review to-morrow. The Presse says of the laudatory observations of tho Petrie concerning the treaty :—" These are very safe revelations, end, in fact, 1 no. thing." The Presses also remarks that M Gra pier de Cassignac's pretentious article in the Constautionnel does little more than enlarge upon the stipulations of the four points. "To announce the transformation of the Black Sea into a neutral and commercial sea is no news." "The Constitts. timid," the Press adds, "appears to consider the question of the Principalities as settled, while most of the other journals assume that it is reserved for the future labours of the Congress." To-day's Moniteur has the following : "The latest news from Constantinople, by the Sinai, is to the 20th March. At that date the fears which had been excited by the outbreak of sickness in our army bad begun to wear away. For some days past the number of the sick had sensibly dimi nished. The construction upon the plateau, hitherto unoccupied by the troops, of thoroughly ventilat-d huts, placed a good distance apart, had enabled the soldiers whose state required especial csre to bo placed under the most favourable hygienic conditions. The distribution of fresh vegetables and preserved meats, with which the army is always well provided, wu regularly made, and everything inspired the hope that the return of the fine weather would oom pletely dissipate the unfavourable influences to which our army had latterly been subjected." The result of the Bonne to-day has been eztraor. dinary. The speculators for the rise have received a heavy blow and a great discouragement. The expectations legitimately entertained from the pro clamation of peace were forfeited by a rise of (not much, it must be confessed,) in Console, and by an annouccement placarded at the Bourse, that the Bank of France had reduced its discount from 6 to 0 per Gent, whereas rumour had only ventured to surmise that a reduction of per eent was in contemplation. Notwithstanding all these favourable circumstances the Rents, after having risen some 25c. or 30c. in the morning, went dawn frightfully. It was settle ment day, and the rates demanded for carrying over moonlits were so enormous, that very many specula tors resolved to sell at no matter what pries, rather than pay them. The Three per Cents. fell 60c. for cash, and 400. for account. the last prices being 72fr. 70c., and 73fr. Credit Mobilier fell 12fr. 60c. for account, but fell 10k. for eash. Railways changed but little, and were quoted rather higher than other wise. The Coital des depots et Consignations has resolved to lay out 80 millions of francs in the por t:hue of Routes. These purchases will commence on April 7. The 12,000 men forming the camp of Boulogne will be present at the review to-morrow. The Emperor has ordered the nurse not to kiss the baby ! "The vessels belonging to the Mediterranean squadron which are still in this port (says the Tow boneweis of Saturday) most be o• the point of takiog their departure, se all the seamen have been since yesterday ordered on board." A day or twe since a hackney carriage, containing three gentlemen and a lady, drove up to the door of a house in the Rae da Bac. A moment after they had alighted a commissary of police, accompanied by several sergens-de-villa„ inquired of the coachman where he had taken up his company. His answer was such as to lead to further inquiries of the con cierge of the house. He unconsciously gave infor mation which convinced tho polies that they had found out a clandestine political meeting. They followed the newly-arrived visitors upstairs, broke up the meeting, which was rather numerous, and arrested several individuals. I have not beard tho character of the assemblage—whether Legitimist, (Meanie, Republican, or Socialist. Dr. Veron has ceased, "for private reasons," to have any connection with the Independence Berg.. Paris was last night brilliantly illuminated. In the Paris corn market during the past week business has been exceedingly stagnant. The four marks found some pturohasers at 891 r. and 891 r. 600., but very few presented themselves at there prices. Wheat is even more difficult to be disposed of than flour. Despatches have been received from Naples i saying that 60,000 hectolitres of wheat were sent to Marseilles. This supply may be expected between the present time and the 16th of April, and it is now offered at Marseilles at prices which only give a profit l ef lfr. 600. the 160 litres. In general throughout the departments prices are lower, and the crops on the ground are so megnifioent that that circumstance has indooed the farmers in many places to bring their stocks to market linos the tendency downwards. The Joarnal do Dreads mentions that some mar nllloast bones, coralog from Easels, and eupposed to bo a premed to the &spent Napoleon, passed through that city M the 2611 a THE OVERLAND MAIL. (11011 ODA OWN MARSEILLES, MONDAY: The Ermine arrived at this port to-day at one t E FE .§l.. 4 No. U. INCREASE and DECRE. Quarto:and Year ended March 31,1856. as e the eorrespoodisig periods of the preceding IPI-1 .. - . I .i ) ..4 .., 1 1 il II g -I i...-:1 ill 1[ 1 ...- ba -. •• No. lII.—AN ACCOUNT SHOWING THE NET REVENUE AND OTHER RECEIPTS of the Quarter ended Marsh 31, 1866; the Application of the same, aad the Charge of the Coneolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Deficiency upon nrh Charge. s=e l V: in e stlizlrme=ler: f 411,784 /411,7114 Not Immo MOM Is Uri Quarter ended North MS. as slam le Mom& L 17,381,161 Ammtsfistkawir 1114) tad Itsolioqßondi loomitla the Omits amid Marsh 31, 1854, Loll of Grant of NAUSS Amost tooffool la r& Ourtar eadtd !Web 31. 1856, la put of aw 11 8 1 .411 8 .408 8,301,000 low ollohoi MY of 6etelgnr 61116 illined to roplasu la port. Ur onouat of Supply BOW paid off la New saw eiodiod Was at of dr Ways sad Memel tlio Tem 1653-& 600,000 of gadhog id; la put of fortglita at SO I SSI8.?8 , oor B 622,000 Moffat 10.-` 'hi ihe Claerter ended Mesh $l, 1674, V repeposetet Athematic Mee Word, is 233,351 Wee ea ihe dine lie Dtpketetis listarke for the YIN DIN .............. 13,624 aka" lits Welds, Mlist La* UK =1:, Urge el Imo Comibled remi la Great le mot tie Mae& did sem Maw m alls le aurtm Is Ars Ilk 11/14. al tit 'kWh Ikabsigan Milo (Ddleacy) will be bud b that 2.549,683 £te.144.392 Mild Wink is, kW terelompska of Isebequer kW (Dukkerglestasseter kik Deka kr 11. MS-. /13.1179,760 reams. Ida maw received seder la =he IVI Prltrigra Saw 441,000 Se Misert ark or kr bus= to Supply aim Akre kr, k_ Clerke limb SI, ISM 11,133,2611 awe el MIP Vlossollise hod Stlf the Quitter skirl Slika=4 oka ft kr Parnearat DM Z3.5911,594 Tarieshls Dek .419.314 Pa Parharpar Mk (1 kliaisrar) 1 114 IMO'S lit 0 6 1, , 114 Mgr (Seress ea Oardik4rl rued 314,371 Moms kr TOM Wu* kr. llll4lBO MAYA lifter Ibaresalesd :dor the Art kw Foam @Nep=isorved 1511,030 Wad the Charge of the Commildoird read. br Or grrtr oared Slant SI, ISM, via Omar 1647.147 .-.... 847.1147 SIGNING THE TREATY. The Constitrtiosisel gives lbs following particalara relative to the important sot of signing the treaty of penes : The draft of the passel treaty of pease drawn up by the Coati de Ridacties hiving, in the sitting of Saturday, obtained the seactim of the Courses, the p'esipoteatisrise of the restraining powers met the next day, as &beady Mated, to pressed to the formal act of &dieing their signa lers, to the document. U. Nernst de Couches, chief of the protocol department in the Ministry of Toni p Affairs, bed awed seem copies of the treaty, written en parchment, to be prepared and platted en the table of the seeferences, in each a manner that each sopy wee pet before the plenipotsetieries of the gofers ' seat by w►ich it is to Untitled. After the tort of theatres copies bad been earefally compared, the pkaip ticacia r c es proceeded to alas their signatures to tbe end of the treaty. Gnat Waleweki, us prultut of the Curren, signed Bret, sad the other pleeipvtistiaries in the alphabetical order of their respective coutrits. It we/ at this slowest that the Emperor was Informed by electric telegraph that the treaty of peso* was signed, aid his Majesty seat bask word to the umbers of the Cosmos that ►e would be reedy to receive thus after they b►d cos eluded their task. Bet although the were set totalizing their eguatares ompapied the 'planipotesUario ►eta very brief portion of tams, yet the whole of the formality of alga. lag laded nearly two hours, es the plenipotentiaries, la addition t.. 1 their capstan at tre bottom of teak prow sol, hod to afar their halals to the different puerto., the whole amber of rash mirror signatures being, it is said, thirty-eight. The plesipotentleries of soak cost:set power signed list the miry reserved for their govera meat, sad then the other plesipotontiaries Opted In sipluelretiod order. In this meaner, seek rustrarting power Ewing at the heed of the sigeatiares of the espy whieb It is *ratify, all ctlEmsities as to etiquette or prece dency were set add.. To email signature was Immodletalp attacked the private meal of each plenipotentiary. &Moly after t►. dose of the sitting, all the pletaipotestio ries west together to the Tenerife, whore they had the ha mar of being resolved by the Emperor. , t fi 7SP-I in the red with o'clock p.m., with the mails from India and China. THE UNITED STATES. (FROM 0911 OWN LIVERPOOL, Mom AT. This afternoon, at 6 o'clock, the Royal Mail steam ship Africa, Captain Shannon, arrived in the Mersey with the usual mails from the United States and British North America. She sailed from New York on the 19th instant, and has brought, besides the mails, 41 passengers and nearly 809,000 dollars in specie on freight. The Africa passed on the 29th a large steamer bound west. The Edinburgh, Clyde, arrived at New York on the 15th, and the Hermann on the 16th. Nothing had been heard of the missing steamer Pacific. Neither the Quaker City, from hence on the 4th instant, nor the Royal Mail steam-ship Persi►, from hence on the Bth, had arrived at New York on the Africa's departure. The Washington correspondent to the New York Herald states, " upon good authority," that Mr. Crampton will positively be recalled. In the Senate on the 17th, Mr. Clayton made a long 'peen upon the Clayton-Balwer treaty, and the course of Great Britain in regard to it. He took occasion to stigmatise Walker, of Nicaragua noto riety, as a Russian buccaneer and pirate. The steamer George Law, from California, arrived at New York on the 15th, with one million and a quarter of dollars. Her news was anticipated. The American papers publish advice. from Ha vannah, dated March 13, stating that the British man-of-war Powerful had arrived with orders to unite all English and French naval forces stationed in the Mexican Gulf and start for Nicaragua. Sugar had somewhat declined, and freights im proved. _ Our Bermuda advice. are to March 3. The governor had diasolved the colonial parliament, and new write were issued. The New York money market was active, and the supply abundant, at from 6 to 7 per cent. Stocks moderately active ; no important change. Exchange on London, 109; to ; ; on Paris, 5.171 to 3.22;. The cotton market was more active, and a 1 cent higher. The market for breadstuff, was dull. Flour un eettled—prioss tending downwarde. Wheat quiet; prices nominal. Provisions firmer. Freight without change. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. (Plol‘ 0171 OWX CORRIDIFONDENS.) SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT. The Royal Mail steamer La Plata has arrived with the West India and Mexican mails. She left Bt. Thomas on the 18:h inst. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 2,839,117 dollar., of which 43,000 dollars are on account of Mexican dividends. The specie consists of 2,329,377 dollars in silver, 400,916 dollars in gold, and 11,240 dollars in Plata pins, also 5,160 dollars in pearls. She brings 78 passengers, amongst whom is the Hon. Mr. Sharp, Chief Justice of St. Vincent. The Atratu arrived out at St. Thomas on the 16th inst. The West India Islands were healthy. The British Admind was at St. Domingo, and was about to pro ceed to Havannah. At Trinidad the weather was favourable, and the @agar crop promises to be a good one. The riots in British Guiana had been subdued. About 800 Portuguese shops had been pillaged, and the destruction by the riots entailed a loss of 200,000 dollars. About 1,200 prisoners had been sentenced. The trial of Orr, the anti-catholic preacher, wu to come off on the 14th of April. The sugar crop in Demerara would be short. The colony was healthy. From Nicaragua we hear that diseatiaraction pre vailed in Walker's army, and the opinion is that he will be obliged to leave the country. The executive power at New Granada had been anxious to liquidate the New Granada debt to Mexico, but circumstances had prevented its being scamp. plished. Commeroe and industry had made great advances in New Granada. At Bogota, the vice-president gives a favourable account of the state and prospects of the country. Great excitement prevailed in Oregon on account of some gold discoveries there. Dreadful shipwrecks had taken place in Chili. The mines there are reported of favourably, and are improving. Exchange at Jam►ica on London, 90 days, 1 per cent. prem.; 60 days, Ii per cent. prem.; 20 days, 2 per cent. prem. At Mexico it is stated that Tamaris is supported by the clergy, and that if he would declare, several states would probably constitute themselves a separate republic. SPAIN. The Madrid Gaulta, of March 27, states that some alarming symptoms had been observed in Gsllicia, and that a column of troops had been conoentrstsd, in order to bo woody to march in any direction that might be necessary. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MONDAY. On the ocatsion of the signing of the treaty of peace, the King has conferred the grand cordon of the Black Eagle upon Baron Manteutfel. The Austrian Minister, Count Esterhazy, is se rionsly ill with inflammation of the lungs. THE EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN. TRIESTE, MARCH 30. Many of the Japanese nobles perished in the late earthquake at Jeddo. The Emperor and the Imperial family were saved. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES HOTHAM. TRIESTE, Mainz 30. Accounts have been received of the death of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria. We read in • letter from Bt. Petersburg of the 22nd:—" Yesterday at 2 o'clock the usual Hsi messed to float spots the Imperial chateau. The Emperor had left for Eialead. This *Reunion, whisk will embrace a lam portion ef the roustry, will sot *stead over more thus tea days. His Majesty is secuspauied by his two lirothsn, the Dread Dukes Coastaatias sad Michael. His Majesty's suits is very limited." The Upper Chamber at Berlin decided, on Satur day, open the report of its bereau, that M. de &chow having placed himself, imosedia.e'y after the duel, at the dispreitios ef the mi:i•ery authority, an au.hotioation to prosecute wan not required from the Chernher. Anthr rity, however, was given in the ease of ha tecmd, M. de Mandl,. ITALY. (vies ova OWN NAPLES, Ideitcrt 24. As the Conferences draw towards a conclusion, and that too apparently of a peaceable character, great is the " ground swell" of excitement which exists here, and intense the anxiety to know whether Italian affairs have been or will be discussed, and in what sense. I am not surprised at it, for nothing can be worse than the political condition and prospects of this country, and, spite of all that poetry may sing that he who desires to be free "himself must strike the blow," profound is the conviction that no amelioration can be effected except through the intervention—moral or material—of the foreigner. The reason is this, that Austria is ever present to put down any move ment subversive of " order." Her hordes are at the beck and call of the Italian despots, who, knowing this, can well afford to despise the wishes of their people, and insist on their own theories of govern ment. At the very foundation, therefore, of Italian oppression, is that security which Austrian in fluence gives, and not until it is diminished or centralised, will there be any chance for the I.berties of this country. When the question becomes a simple one as between the sovereigns and their people, the former must, to ensure their very existence, alter their policy. Several facts within the last week have awakened the fears of one, ar.d the hopes of the other party. Hie Majesty lest Ineedzy received a despatch at half•past four o'clock in the morning, which greatly troubled him. It was said that Count Cavour had mooted the Italian question in the Conferences. What is more tangible is, that the questions pa to Lord Palmerston and the article in the Morning Post have created the strongest hopes in the circles of the liberals. Poor fellows ! how can it be wondered at? They have no political existence at present—they do not enjoy the common rights and privileges of man. And such is the state of things, which it is sternly re solved to continue unless some opposing and wiser in fluences are introduced into Italian affairs! I am not asserting facts which do not admit of proof; for, omit ting the monstrous ac's of this government during the last five or six years, let us glance for a moment at " defences " and confessions of political faith written and circulated •by a minister of state and by his paid creature,. In 1853 a pamphlet was printed in Geneva for circulation in Naples. It was ordered and paid for by Mazza, of pious police memory. It was an attack on all free governments, and that of England in particular : it insulted our nation and our Queen, and was considered so offensive that a copy was sent officially to the home government, without, however, eliciting the expression of any opinion. The temperate, gentlemanly, and argumentative spirit in which it is written may be inferred from the following passages :—" Ido not se much com plain of the falsehoods published by Mr. Gladstone as I am surprised that so many have been fools enough to confute him, proving him a calumniator, liar, rogue; for it is well known that, as being English, these epithets belong to him de jure. To such a wretch one answers by spitting in his face. Yee, you are a liar, a calumniator, a bri gand, most base, most ignorant—true type of your monstrous nation. The world will have no peace till all the united sovereigns succeed in destroying this piratical people, and blotting them from the list of nations. May the people of England he destroyed and dispersed like the Jews, and may London be rooted out and burnt like Jerusalem, and Europe will be safe." All this is very elegant and complimentary to us English; but, together with its tirades agai:: st free governments, it is of importance, as having been ordered by Mazza and circulated in Naples. A second publication, showing the political sys tem in favour in Naples was the "Letters of Jules Gondon, the editor of the Univers, to Mr. Bow -1 yer." It is a thorough defence of whivever had taken I place in this country within the last few years; and having emanated from Naples, whither it returned and was circulated, ia of course the true expression of the opinions of the highest personages in the state. Again, the last publication of any political signifi cance is that which I noted in my last letter—. Mazza's " Confession of Faith," bearing his name on the title-page, and breathing the rankest, maddest "absolutism." All these works tend to one end— the maintenance of the political system which hen excited the abhorrence of all Europe—and, proceed ing from a press under the control of this government, and being circulated in Naples, bear upon them the stamp of authority. No weeder, therefore, will it be if no promise of change be held out to this country, if clubbists again commence their agitation, and " Mazziniani " multiply. I allude to a report which has found its way into print, and which has been whispered, too, in Naples, only to deny it—that the King of Naples had yielded up his ecclesiastical rights in Sicily, commody known as the Tribunale della Monarchia di Sicilia. Those rights were conferred on Count Roger by Innocent 11., in gratitude for his having driven the Saracens out of Sicily and restored the Greek church( s to the Papal see. Clement XI. abolished them, but Bene dict XIII., on the remonstrance of Cnarles VI., re stored them. Since then they have been held by the sovereigns of the Two Siciliev with grett tenacity, and by none more so than by Ferdinand 11., who resisted the frequent applications of Gregory XVL, and who only so late as last year by his resolution obliged the Papal delegate, Monsignore Biz aro, to leave the kingdom. In fact, Monsignore Rizarro, as I reported at the time, was not very mildly treated by the police, his papers having been seised in him rooms in the monastezy of the Agostiniani Sealzi. I shall be much astonished, therefore, if such rights have been conceded, which I do not believe to be the case. Theeffect of these very peculiar privileges is to make the King of the Two Sicilies independent of the papal power in the Island of Sicily. He is Pope to it, and sends his nuncio or ecclesiastical minister, who, in the name of the King, administers and con• trot the ecclesiastical affairs of the island. I have scarcely anything new to add to what I have already said about the decree permitting (or pro hibiting) the exportation of grain. No new purchases can or will be made, since exportation in colers &dead loss either in England or France. The French have 500,000 tomoli purchased last autumn, and as yet only tonnage for taking op 120.000 tom. has been chartered. It is felt that the loss incurred will be too great to admit of sending all off, and the general opinion is that the object of exporting this small pro portion is to keep up prices here, so as to sell off the remainder quicly at a less loss in Naples. 'this de cree is a pretty specimen of financial jugglery in Naples. It is perfectly prohibitory in its operation; and whilst it laughs at the foreigner, kflicts a most material loss on the native. The Neapolitans are much gratified by a fact re cently brought to light. Giulio Bianco, a shoemaker, ' of Averse, near Naples, was the man, it appear., who planted the French flag on the Malakhcff Tower. He left this country some years ago for Algiers, where he entered a company of the buitives. With them he embarked for the Crimea, and there he per formed that act which has procured him his cap taincy, the Cross of the Legion ot Honour, and the Order of St. Maurice and ot Lazziro. THE BALTIC. (1101 i OUR OWN CORBESPONDINT.) KIEL, MARCK 2s. The Firefly arrived here last night, apaches from Captain Watson, and is now waiting for orders, which are expected to be received from England, to regulate the proceedings of the advanced squadron in the Gulf of Finland. She left Faro Sound on Tuesday, and had a good run here. When she left, the frost was severe, a,.d she had to cut her way into the harbour for coals at Faro, and on her arrival here she was a perfect sheet of ice. Here the weather is cold, but nothing like ice is at all to be seen in any part of the bay. The Majestic and Csciar are still in the harbour, and the Sampson is daily looked for, so that we have quite a squadron here waiting the remit of the con ferences at Paris. ITALIAN RAILWAYS.—The question of connecting together the Loteard railway line. avi , h those t Sardinia la on the point of hemp! d•eided. Tae tinn will take eke', in all troSability, on two p •ints, not n..sr Pavia, awl the alba at the bridge of Beaton, over the Tied,o. ti 1111 C A- n r. rip, 1 r t 5 11 . It I. II ~-.: ?-:. i I.: