The Express. — London, England, 1856-06-03 00:00:00

ant expreoo. TO 0021ZOTONDRIITIL elbelsonsibelNesiellir" a r=abla Tbsibirpow.' ma lie at the Mo. le. by Two Wink ea tie INg 0 pelesillia. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Rai DAT—lleralag. ilia 31. MA. Twomew—Nontos. fa. 811. LONDON, TUESDAY, JURB 3. TEE aspect of the latest news from the United States is undeniably ugly. Still we will not believe that the Goverment' in Loaders and Washington can be so insane as to risk a war the results of which most b e s o tremendous, on such miserable grounds of quarrel as they are debating about. fi there is • war it will be a mete buccaneering war. The United States have no standing army; they cannot invade England ; the immense extent of the Re public's territory, and the thinness of the population, enable it to laugh an invasioa to scorn. Bat, on the other hand, the meets of England and the United States are equally destitute of fortifications, and open to predatory incursions ; and both nations have hordes of unarmed merchant ships in every era, that would be an easy prey to veinels of war. The only way in which either state could harm the other, would be by shelling and burn ing seaport towns, by sinking and capturing mer chant vessels. Fights there might be between single men-of-war, or small squadrons, but there would be no battles like the N►le or Trafalgar—for the simple MOOD that the United States have not a large enough asst. While the war lasted, therefore, the efforts of the belligerents would be almost exclusively confined to predatory and destructive operations against private property—a course of action calculated to lower the combatants to the level of the moss•troopev at buccaneers of former centuries. The loss on both sides would be enormous. The more paralysis of pnxise live industry induced by the cessation of commercial intercourse would spread bankruptcy mad beggary through every district of England and the United States. And all this waste and misery to be immured on flimsy points of humor, about which abeam of Irish fire-eaten of the olden time would have hesi tated to exchange shots! With regard to the en listment quokka, the United States have suffered no detriment from the operations of the English cerement. The Cabinet of St. James's bee again sad again declared it had no intention to injure or affront the Government at IVeshtigton, and that it is sorry that it should innocently have gives accents for umbrage. As to the American Isthmus, both Goverment' are load in their pram tatices of their determination act to sequin any new territory there ; and is troth inch acquisition by either weld be :plain a less. The pecuniary in terest of both countries is the questions at item would be outrageously over-solintated at a penny sterling. England, we know, has no desire to set sneourtemaly towards America; and America, we hope and believe, bee no desire to set ascoartscasly towards England. The whole emetrovemy between the two Governante anew from their relostanee to express the sum ideas is the same words sod plums. If they go to war it will be on either side simply with a view to impose its own verbeljamehe on the other. What an awful respoesibility the statesmen mud inner who precipitate two states so eapable of inflicting injury oa each other into war ea mask Wettable pretexts! How the despots of the world will laugh to see the two most her sad en lightened nations of the age cutting each other's throats and destroying each other's property for such pitiful no•roseoee ! Such, they will exclaim is soora ful triumph, are the fruits of free institutions ; these see the conseqesnose of allowing peop/es to govern thimmelves. We address thee' consideration= able to English men and America's; for we °enact regard any war between England sod Americo—sod that is our great objection to ens—in any other light that sea civil war. Ws know that any English Government that by unjust, or even discourteous, conduct towards America shall render war inevitable, will be driven with disgrace from power. On former cosmos', we do not deny that Eoglish Goveraments have bee, too apt to treat Americans with a supercilious affecta tion of superiority. We admit that some of Lord PALMERSTON'S antecedents warrant suspicions on the pert of the Americans that he has still some of this Old World leaven about him. Bat we have every meson to believe that his colleagues are superior to all such silly and antiquated prejudices; and we know that his lordship is not the man to allow any personal feeling (or principle) to interfere with hie tenure of office. We say that on the whole the oceduct of the existing English Government throughout this disagreeable controverryg not always remarkable for prudence, has always been fair and courteous. The difficulties regarding Central Ame rica they offer to refer to arbitration; they di* claim any intention to act in contravention of the laws of the United States in the salacity enlistment affair ; and as for Mr. CRAMPTON and the Consuls, the language used by Lord CLARZNDON is in effect, " We cannot punish men whohave served us faithfully to the beat of their abilities, unless they are proved to have violated the laws of the United States; the witnesses adduced in support of the charge that they have doss so are utterly unworthy of credit upon oath; do you (the American Government) prove by trustworthy witnesses that they have asisoondaoted themselves, and we will withdraw them, bet otherwise we Gannet do that consistently with our own hooter." This, we maintain, is all straightforward; and for the remote assigned above we believe that the English Ministers speak and act. in this matter, with perfect sincerity. As for the Americans, we cower in the view taken of their feelings by our New York Correspondent, whom letter we publish to-clay. This gentleman, we may recomdc in passing, ia saw et Om cut, an American, proud of his country, having implicit faith in the infallibility of his countrymen; and he de clares that the whole difficulty on their side is owing to the unscrupulous tactics adopted by the party leaders now in power, with an eye to the impending Presidential election. He tells us—and we believe him—that if the English Ministers keep their tempers, and abstain from any acts or words that may give a handle to the reckless agitators of the White House till alter the elections in November, there will to no danger of war. We, too, would give this advice to our rulers, and we believe it will be acted upon. But, at the same time, we would appeal to the rational and truly patriotic portion of the Ameriesa people—and the language which we have ever held, in perfect sad cordial aineerity.with regard to the America" people, entitles us to do so—to aid us actively is the prow rates of Use p.o.e. They can do so, for they are the majority, sad is the United States the majority is all powerful. they need to do so, for the last step of Prosidest hums demonstrates that as little coati dense eon he plead in hie prudes*, se in his wind. plea. Whew WALK= appeared to be earrying all before his In Nicaragua, President Pince refused to rooopial him 1 sow that WALE= appears to be tottering on the verge of destraeasa Freakiest Pixies naives his envoy. The man ode sea this act in defames of every dictate of pruderies and sem— mon sense, may at any moment adopt INOMPONS that render war inevitable. We aware oar American friends that this conviction is already beam ing operative hors in England. Next mail will convey to them intelligeoco of fluctuation in our Money Market fluctuations attributable solely to the aspect of oar relations with America. And we can tell them more, that the great American merchants here, and the manufacturers with whom they deal, are already talking seriously of restricting their operations within such limits as may expose them to the least possible risk in the event of a war breaking out. Fully one half of the evils that actual war could inflict on the two countries, are about to be incurred in a state of peace, from the mere unsatis factory aspect of our relations with the United States. We call upon the true patriot§ in North America to assist as in putting a step to this ruinous state of affairs. Oar sole object in these remarks is to impress both on Englishmen and Aseseidens the ridionloas and criminal light in white the two countries would pre mot themselves to the world by going to war for the paltry objects that are now agitated between their Governments. When we shall have snooseded in this—when the voice of both nations has compelled their rulers to discuss their differences rationally—we are prepared to enter upon that controversy. At pre sent a word misapprehended might have a prejudi cial effect, and therefore we abstain. Far the same reason we have avoided the vulgar braggadocio in which some of our contemporaries have been plemed to indulge about the might of Eogland. We are, perhaps, more fully aware of the real strength of our country than them braggarts, but we know that, with a high-spirited and energetic people like the Ameri cans, to talk of such matters at such a crisis is wan tonly to add fuel to dame. L gpt Court. The Queen went yesterday to lay the foundation stow of the Welhagvn College. Her lifejlety and Prises Albert left Buskinstea Pekoe ate visitor before 12 o'clock, with t►e Regent of Bodes, end Prime Frederick WiLisin of Prude. The Queen sad the Prime Cowart were •ocowpanled by the Prises ot Wales, Penn Alfred, the Priam as Royal, the Primeness Alice, Relearn, mad Lake, sad also by Priam Arthur, his Royal Highness's Int appearance I. paid* the Primo being the gods= cf the late Duke of Wiling tea. The yews Prime sad his two eldu brothers wore the Blublaud drew. Priem Albert appeared ia the as of a aeld-nualial, sad wore the &bind sad Hedge of the Getter, the Ranges of the Golden Fleece, sad the Sun of Prussia& (Black Bogle) sad Bade. Orden of Knighthood. The Reg eat of Hades wore the 'Wont of a gemenl, den blue and geld, with the (head Cordes of Baden, and the Stare of the enters of Baden and Cahouet. Prince Frederick Williams of Prussia appeared la • colonel's Italians, dark blue wit► 'Um appoianunts, sad wore toe Insignia of the Black Regis sad of • Brits Order of Knighthood. The royal mite onaiated of the Dulbeas et Bettierland, the Dasher of Athol*, WI Caroline Barrington, tke lieu. Lacy Ken, the Men. Mary UMW, Mad Beemis, Colonel the Rea. C. B. Phipps, air Frederiek Ste,* Majae-Gsseral Boater* Captain the Hoe. D. de BAN Unt.•Oeersl Berea ilehreekenstsia, Baron de Moltke, Cannel Baron &utter, Dam de Gemainges, Cantata Heins, Lieutenant de delissokineesia. Dr. MIMS, Dr. Wegner, the Hen. sad Very Rev. ON Dena of Windom, the Hee. Mortimer Beek vale Weet, Ms. Gibbs, sod Lieutenant Cowell. The royal pasty occupied nine ceniages, and wessorted by a detadmeat of the led Light Disposes to the priest* static* of the loath Western railway, at Vauxhall, where We Quetta was stet by the Lord Seaward, We Lord Chase beilain, the Master of the Hone, Lord Chap L0u..., and Ilejwlleseral Wylde, who attended her Majesty to the esiwasy. TN Medea of Wollisseas aloe aososspeaint Ws Chem la the epeeist railway train whist eseveyed bar Majesty from Lague. Atte; the 'swampy of laying the is... w soardwiled, the Qom eatartalasd at lestabeea la the mai politikus the ilimaisigaishal pasty wieospaeliag Ms Majesty from Leaden, together with the followlai Governer. of the Welliagtea CoUeste, via :—The Duke of Cambria'', the Arehbialsop el Caaterbary, the Duke of Wellketoo, Earl of Derby, Earl of Elleowera, Viesoaat Hardin., the Right How. fleriasee Walpole, Sir Edmond /Latrobe", Sir Jaws W. Hoge, mad Ms. Hoary Itleharl Orre. The kart of Abington, Leed-Llestemeat of lb. County; lit George Grey, Secretary of State tee the Home Depart mart ; the Bilhop of Oaford, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, the adjeteaaGeaerel, sad eh. Qaarteriaaster- Goaatal. - lie bad alp Ow beam of joiaiag tha - toyal strata at lattelatoa. After huskies the Qua reviewed the troops which were •sseabted for the imiessias, eades the ceseaead of the Duke of Cambridge. The Qat'. and the Prises, with their illustrious visitant, Waned to Beekiyk•a P•lsse •t • quarter pest id: Veleck. Her Ms}sety gave a &sass party la the email %. The eempasy ladaded tle Mamas of Heat, the Priming Roysl, the Dacha's! Cambridge sad Prisms Mary, Use Resta, .1 bides, Prises Fielerick William Of Prasais, sad the Duke if Cambridge, the Dubose of listherlaad, his High asse &all Pasha, Vie Turkish Latbssmdcr sad Madame Idasurss, tM Mulsie of Lsasdowas, the llamas of Aber ars, Vineosat sad Viscount's' Harding% Lsdy Lisa Hula Dawes, Lady Hasidim" &mune, Burmese de &Nth, Adm;rel &r Edmilad Ltest..Cisseral Bares Sehrsekeastals, Bares do Moltke, Colossi Duos &atter, Dares its Osamiegea, Captain Helms, Laistssaat da Bshreelmastela, Dr. Ullman, Dr. Wepaer, the Has. Ma- Dam lisekville Hest, Major Home Pares, sad Unit: Colossi the is. James Msodostald. TM Bud of the Dadaism Chards was fa attends's* darts( the dimmer, sad played a On l rd Mud'. omiloold by laTor loyal lllilamo the Dubow of X.st. Ooortare."Dr Proloologs " Waits, *. Jabilio" Pantos* " late lo Diablo " ... uw4.7. L the evening her Mejesty's Private Itaal psdonsed the follo.le g esea?asitioes : °warty* " — La Maim" ................ hater. Chem, " error• ....... ........—.... —.. Varela. Marra, " Parades Ist* l. L. rilartes. Aria, " DM lowlife Welber ale arbAssr" Baeata alla Tates thwart Coast Almond's Paleaadasir has hilt Buckingham Palace, for Brussels. Ceptata the Hes. Dudley de Roe hes relieved Captain Ds Plat is the duties et Kquerry Is Waldo; to Prises Alberti, Prises Loewenstein left Leaden hest events for the Continua. The Rdesatioa Committee of the Privy Council ball Immitiog yuterisy at the Conned-case. Preseet, the Lord President, the IdarquA of Lansdowne, sod the Earl of Narrowly. Despatch.' sere resived at the Colonial-o®s yesterday fns the Governors of the North Assess Provinces, of and of Has Koos. This afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Frede. Ark of Prussia, attended by Col. Frantic flush Seymour, Lord-in-Rafting to her Majesty, the Buys De Moltke, Bans de Sehrickeastein, left Buckingham Palace is am era lands. ((r i pe British Maarega. The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained a die tiagnished circle, at dinner, last evralogot the family man sion, la Berkeley-lusts. Ames; thE guests were th e Prseelan Misimer sad the Countess Bersetad, the Aintriwg Minister and the Counters d'Appony, th e M enia l s gad Hanthlgaere et E'y, the Margula of Bath, the Earl of Car iboo, the Earl of Malarebury, the Earl of Rilistm, the Earl of Crrsernsa, the E.rl of Dalkeiti. the Countess Cra. vim and Ledy Elisabeth Craves, Viyeasat sad Visemistees Villiers, rim The Cassia's, at • later period of the eves leg, spiced her Worse fee the mastics of a very amorous circle. Mr B. Bolwer Lytton, M.P., entertained the Duke of WeMogan, the Marquis of Claarlsndr, B'r Archibald Allan, Bort., Mr. William, M,P., Mr. Nathan Wodekow, Mr. Blackwood, mad • West elreleow Maur, as he no& easel is Perk law, w lieaday evening imt. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1856. TSB WELLINGTON COLLEGE. TIIE YOUNDATION STONE LAID BY THB QUEEN. It 'will be remembered that u ems an the fleet beak of the animal gnat for the loss of the great Dabs of Wollaston had maid dare into • more solemn sinew sad grateful reoilleedion elite services which the illustriose dead had rendered is his coestry, • general diapositioa was sassed to preserve hi memory to future ages by the eros ion of HIM grand animal monument, worthy at ems of Its object and of the rich and grateful realm by which it was to be emoted. Various supgestioas were made ; and, in assordesse with our pnetial habits, alasge sum of money' was subscribed on the first great prelimizery, and ulti mately it was determined that the most worthy sensorial In boson of the first soldier in the world would be the (*sedation of a college for the rearing and education of the orphans of his brethren is arms—•s brave, but not so femme or fortunate is Smelt The sass evillest** wee somewhere about 120,0001., sad la the ISM instance 110,0001. was set spans. an endowment fend, while with the balsam the future governors of the proposed last titian lot about the selection of a Ste, 'and the preparation of plans for the intended balldiag. After some time swat in inquiry, a suitable piece of gamed WU obtained Is Berk shire within easy distance of Baadkuret, sad situated about midwey !Swim Blackwater and Wainghans. The cha racter of the soil in that neighbourhoods, generally speak ing, • rather bleak moorland, bat taterspersed here and there with picturesque knolL, essay of them thickly sad beautifully wooded, and on one of these the infant college already begins to rise considerably above its foundattom The design is a handsome Palladian elevation, having in front a stately façade in the later Italian style, and the re mainder of the building forms, m Is usual in build*, of this school, the sides of • guadraagle. Rowe of wiadowe ran along ha the reef as in the Invalid., la Paris, sad the whole will be surrounded by a handsome iron railing with appropriate mimes gates et regular intervals. It is 'spatted that the whole expels, Jacinth( the purchase of ground, will be 65,0001., or shout 16,00 W. more thus the sum in hand, sad it is hoped that the great Mee given to the martakiig by the latereetisg 'steamy which took place yesterday will have • salutary effect is stineulatieg the liberality of those who—sad who don not f—take an thi rst in the concerns of our brave soldiers, and the welfare of those children from whom they are too often taken away when fighting the battles of their country. Nothing could hove gone off better than the whole of the inaugural ceremony. After the dreadfal weather we have had for ems weeks put, it would seem es if summer had set to all at 0n.,, in order that a prosperous beginning might be made in so important an undertaking. There was • sheerful opts speckled sky, • fresh bream, and towards noon quite enough of ran to reader the anfarlis of the ladies' parasols an indispensable part of the ceremonial. As the ground Is approached by two railway., the prepara tions for the day's travel were divided between the South Bailers and Booth Western Companies; bat the principal Strut of the arnagements devolved upon the latter, in eluding the highly-impet tact duty of coanyieg her H. jetty and the royal family to and from Sandhurst. Four of the directors, Colonel Lewd, Captain Johnston, &deem Gaselee, and the Hos R. Duthie, had the honour of at tending on the royal party, and the travelling was ably superintended by Mrs. Crombie, Beetle, Gadeoe, and others of the poindmal Misers of the company. An imams number of Salsee mime down by the Woe tick& special trait from Lrgairmbridge, and during the forams both the South &am and South Mesita Lam were fully em ployed b en a, down the emmisy. • temporary na tion hads erected within esey ammo of the building, sad Owned from thence to the apet where the mommay of laying the first atone was to be pedirmed, was Yd with detachments of the Or-mediae Ganda sad Itept by salvoes fore. of the nittropclitan polies usher the Wasiak** tom mead of Cassia Balateed OM • mina" le alas of the bulidiag, isledieg • swifts quadrangle, is already above ground, sad round kpfiMles ind been erected for the aesommodatles of the 11111 palms el the theti intim. fa them gelled.* • very lIIMIPPOSSINI ithioubla company were assembled, mow* wham ea unutuil , masher of foreign ladies might be sealed. The arrangements kw bee Majesty's reception osnisieted of • pavilion, in whisk her Majsety might rest sad 'refresh anal( upon her journey, and from theme a prams& covered with assist sloth, and leading to the spot upon which every thief was prepared for the tempted airemonhal. The " fist stone sessisted of &large square pies of polished p ophyry, to be laid on encases of • similar material sad form, an latentidal WOO being left between the two for the usual deposit of mine, site. On the atoms was engraved an therripties to the effect that the Ant stone of the Weapons College. founded la homer of the memory of " The Great Dais," and intended tee the education of the orphan ems of Moen is the nl army and the Rut India Company's envies, was laid Her Majesty Queen Victoria, en th e Ind June, 1866. Oar the Mean was • pegolsoluthed maopy, severed with soarlet sloth gad pity paean, and, emend the stens • carpetted dais for the oesomasedation of the Own and the other royal and dietingelebed partakers la the onemoataL A profusion ofd sad streamers de aerated the whole quadrangle, and the interior we. held all round by the Grenadier Guards. As may be imagined trot these details, the ensemble, la eluding the brilliant company, the military display, and the ocamiosal decorations, all lighted up by the briohtest sunlight that has been seen aim the r mamma meat of the present Bummer, was extremely brilliant and effective, and the alma: was endued whin the folds et the royal pavilion Wog thrown open, the inaugural pro emial proceeded la the follow Leg order to the setting " the first stone" . - Mi* Architect. The Builder. The Bosomy Soliritor. The Bfiezettry. High Sheriff of ihe Cosety. The Governors. _. _. . _ The Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterban. The Archbishop of Canterbury. The Bishop of Oxford. The Lord Steward of The Lord H. M. Household. Chamberlain. The Oars. H R.H. The Priam Coaaort. Member of the Royal Family. The Orr Officers of S an and other Attridente as Her Majesty sad the Prior Consort. Amoapt tho diareguished personages foreleg the Royal oxlip, the whole of the children formed an lute reedits group. the young Princes La Royal sad Stuart tartan, sad the Processes In the gayest javesils ..,tame. The Prises of Prussia, who w e s the devoted cavalier of the Princess Royal during the day, was, of soars', the ob served of all observers. His Royal Highness is rather a good ratios yoga/ ran, about the middle height, sad lightly bat well-formed, and with • preens sad latellipot osmosis. of trastensace. The Regent of Baden, by whew his Royal H' buss was aecompeard, is also of glandes exterior, sod these illasteose preenegts and their estendlwats r with their headwater forests suitors, added sessiderably to the point effect. Is the Royal suit* were his Royal Highness the Doke of Coat:kir, also the Duke add Dasher of Wellington, the Duchess of authorised, Berl Siemer, Sir A. Wood rani, Marquis of Abner., Ear of Ellesmere, Honour able J. Walpole. Earl of Derby, and S r 0. Grey, the lust name brag th e cabinet minister who had the honour as this cession to be in oilieiei atuadsnee one her M•jesty. The prayer woo offered up by his Oran the Archbishop of Csaterintry, who weencompasied by the Bishop of Oxford, his gnu's chaplain being in at codas a. While her Kepley was slowly proceeding to the dais a military band plated the national maths.. the ociaspany steadies end cheerios heartily. earl t -• r. 761 party arrived at the dais, whoa the procession ensued themselves is a semicircle, sad the Earl of Derby proceeded to read with hie well-knows mu nificent el ration as address, to which her Majesty retuned the following most gracious newer: "I have received with sincere gratilleatiou the adders which you Lays this day Fronted to me. It affords me tie gene st Wistaria' to sort myself of this osessioa to testify sues my erns sod heartfelt participation in the general relies of affection sad ver ration fir the memory of that Waitron man when same will be assosistod with the institution which we are sow series to lonsurate. That soli-faction is *chanced by the character of the mons • meat which you roans to rare to the lasting sensory of the Doke of Wellunton, and ski by the eirateastases of the true selected for its Oration. The. raid sot be a mere worthy risoei of the ceuotry's entitudo to its neater soldier than a permanent endowment for the protectioe aid education t f the orphans of the brave men whose lien hays I been laid down la the sera tis of which be was the shit ornarroot and pride. Nor could there be a more If ppropri its time for raising such a 11101111111111 t to his memory, than while we an gratefully admires the sallsatry sod devetioa which have bees so eon • serenely dist lipid by my army in the lets wee. I lino deeply eempethred with the droner renews and tetra- 1 Hoes (the inevitable ranks of sal which kayo made so natty =earners, sad I feel that we essuot better celebrate the re-istabliahmeat of peen Visa by lulus the inadatioa of as forint** which, while it will toad to tooth their sorrows sod to niftier the severity of their privations. will held up to the imitatioa of all those who Aare its benefits the example of a distiusuished patriot:ins, of en isseessing dentin to his einstry's seevieo, of as honesty of you se, mad of a determiassion in the performer N Ma duty. by which the long and essiant car« r of the Duke of Wel. Heston wen so um rksta'y distinguished. I can express so better wish fi r my own .m, who bears the novae of that great sees , then that he wesl4 take as his plaids thrisph life the monk of cow with whom it will rae be his high tliatieeties I. be sew nested. I heartily joie with pout in annweediag this te sti/atm to the Diets, blessing, sad in ragtag that with Its reeving prop rity the benevolent latnotteas of its founders may be reelissi." Her lialesty nag time' this long Wren with mock kettles sett segbesin, upseially the illumine so the great deice, whisk hosughe e r r a s t . mode. late the eyes el the Nano W eWugles, who was in (.mediate at. tends..,en OP geese. n equally ieterested parties sat ' in the eereismiel, altheosh subarea, Is weld sot • spestetior, WM Lied Charles Wellseley, who, notwithstentl• hhie deg fulisa et AL% =Ma it the foundatien of The = nalneekti as lefimeea of kis Mustang permit. Ulm ef Gianrabary Om delivered sa eppro piste prayer, sad her Yummy west through the soul geta way with much sues EN dignity. Her limpet y next retired le luncheon, its which the gamma ha d tie honour to participate, and shortly after pessaided to s temporary ter rase, from which a flue proepeet taint be enjoyed of the review, with which the day's? Needless wets to teresiaate. Os ea extensive phis. spreedieg from the base of the royal terrace, upwards of 12,000 troops ern drawn op In one log ilia. Their bayonets glittered la the Ica, theft VOW 1 epitome struck out in bold relief manta the black mar lead, their 'rations 'tends:di floated issjestleelly is the brans, sod the arsine of their military bands pave life and anletatlos to the scene. Oa the extreme right Wed be reoognieed the dark ism of the Rides wed Gersten lagers, along the ',Astro wen draw. op the several militia rest- Brants, and at the other extremity two ',Mallon/ of artillery were drawn cap to complete the military arreogements fora field day. The forces on the ground eatratted of two bat talions of the °steadier Guards, the 80th end 91. c Baltiellente of the line, three battalions of the Ha, brigade, the /outran. Burnes, Second Surrey, Somerset, Eldora', Leicester, Hereford, Worcester, Kerry, a detachment of the Third Dragoon Ginnie, the °atm= Leticia, and featly the Artalery, the whole beteg under the SOMMILI3 d of the Duke of Cambridge, with General finals as general of the day. The masatavres, wh'ith were eoluodered to be vary well itzseated, eossistel ef tondo( to line, rearahlag peat at slow and quirk time, the bends of the regiments playing appro priate Rues as they passed the rayed tent, and then forearm into aquaria to receive cavalry. Having then stcod an attack from the dragoons, the whole force divided itralf Into two armies, sad the sisal IN1111011•11,011 of a pail/ "MY were gone through on a null seal*, the sependit rue of powder making up for the eemparatively smell number at troops engaged. On the termination of the revie w her Majesty sad party mended to the railway station, where the royal carriages were In readiness, and seder the experienced guiders* of the directors and (Accra before enumerated. The mewl retuned t 3 town, while the general company adjourned toe state e pavilion, la which Messrs. Staples, of the Albion, were busy and sae meal in cateriog for their refreshment So greet wai the hist of the ass, that one of the Rifles fall down dead in the field. The high temperate', did not, how ever, interfere with the activity of the swell mob, footless of w hom were detected by the polies at an early hour of the day and immediately removed in custody. We were not able to araertein %became of the architect of Wellington College, but andante/ad await, eraetion will be entrust.d to the efficient hands of Me ere. Helloed, of Duke•strist, L/lades. THE FAILURE OF A FRENCH MILLIONAIRE. Our Paris correspondent writes : Y. Piece, whose failure has caned so much eonsternstin, was a partner is the firs of Noel end Plum. Before be comirg connected's fib the Credit Mobilise, he had a prints fortune amounting teems* 300,000 fr. But of late yeses he has been living far beyond his means. He kept ap the establish ment of a country geatlenum of large fortune at a chateau neer Mein, when he had one of the best Kicked sportiag manes in the neighbourhood of Pula. This plies eat him not lest than 100,000 fr. a you. It Is trate that the ea penditure served to elevate him to that fienelal meaner, fr_ra •hch he has so redelealy fallen. M. M. de Moray and Fould, and ave. Prises Jerome Boaaparte, honoured his &alum with their preemies. Five kindred pheasants were emotions slaughtered la a day at this rws in itriv, sad fa return for the sport the princes of Hamm let M. Mee late slay a good thing. The disc wry of his embarrassments, to the eircumetaarm of which I have alluded in a former letter, took plus after be bad actually left Paris for Coastaatinople, there to establish a Credit Mobilise. He had mashed Marseilles, aid was en the point of embarking when he received • telegraphic dispatch from the bow of Pamirs bilging him to return to Paris immediately. At the same time, by way of le halmome precaution, • second despateb wes seat, on proper authority, to the Prefect of the Bosehea-da-Rbono, desiring him to take one that the ci-dreense atillianalre not leave the enatry. The last sows of M. Place is that be had got as far as Lyme on hie way beck to Paris, bet that he was prevented by the inundations from warming his joinery. The principal creditors an MM. Pepsin, 6,000,000 fr.; M. Brant Andrd, 3,000,000 fr. ; the Dyke de Oeiline, 4,000,000 fr.; M. Desert, 2,000,000 fr ; M. Grooming, 1,600,000 fr., and M. d'Brebthei, 700,000 fr. Of I nas* I do not precisely gunman these figures. DEPLORABLE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE. (F►om Oskioso Oi of yostorday.) . . The Lyons paper motion* to give the most heart. reading ethonste of the polm of the thandation. We yesterday gave the priocipal details of the solemnises of thicp on the morning of the :Ist ult., but unfortunately they are far below the reality. When the dyke cf the Tete d'Or near the Grand Camp mace way, the water covered the east plains with vast rapidity. The tooth was sounded in all the 'wounding villages to give the alarm. Many poisons were surprised In their sleep, and could only save th , msdae , ludfdeemed, by wetting through the wet r, laving all their property at the mercy of the flood. Many were eospelled to tennis in their houses, and wait until assistance scald be brought to them. The embankment thrown up to the north of the I Bottoms protected the chemin de rondo in that direction, but a little farther to the east the water broke furiously through • breach into the part celled La Petite C..lifornie, behind the Prd set Clercs; sad through the Rue Masons, the water rushed like a meaner. The establishmeat of the Petite, &ears des Peewee sou inundated, sad it was found 'seventy to remove all its tomato to the noel-Dien in weggoas. The directors of the 11111i1011 des Bsiat-Refent- Jesus brought all their children., one by one, on their backs, and the Mee were laid on mattresses, and placed on rafts hastily mails for the purpose, and thus °soled to a place of safety. At every mosatat, hoo's and omnibuses' might be MIS settling dews their fetish's at the Hotel de Ville and fa the Conn Mooed, which remained clear of the water, and where an lumens number of persona =dthe remainder of the night. dome of them had ebt* to save a few clothes, bat most of them had only what they stood In, and those were &cashed with water. Cries sad moans were heart in every direction, women smiklag their hatbands and their children, and the children calling for their mothers. Horses, cows, and sheep were elm seen prowling about and tett- ring cries of burger and alms. It appears impoesible to Una any 11011114 t idea of whet accidents have taken place, nor the it be correctly maintained tool the water shall have subsided, and circu lation be once more free. At the Brottemex several houses were weehed down before the kbabitants could be pot oat. At Chaspthnes, a mar, his wife, and their child wore buried beneath the reins of their house. A boat, with several pewees who bed bees loved from a house, upset and ail wen drowsed. The Rhos. is constentiy bringing doss [roans, settle, and sheep. Many small houses built of framework and brick, have been waste 1 away bodily from their foundstons at the protein'', and are seen looting about with the current. The Orande Rue de la Guillotine has the *pommies of • regular river. The high bask used as the Palmas at the Hoed Camp has lent:rely diseppeared. Three of the Rhein steamers broke foil their Beni. gs and were drives down the river. The torrent fortunately carried them into the river Chillies, where they were brought to by letting go their eneltors. The circulation es the Mediterranean Railway has been re estehlkhot The above details relate almost entirely to the Rh us. The theme has she rims. but up to the pre sent time its progress hes been toiling smeared with ' , that of the other river. Amuses !tom Telenet stets that altheugh the rise of the Rhone has rot eon pieta', stepped, it does not adonis* as rapidly as before. Ihe quays and the low parts of the town are e'en pl Inundated, and ie mato of the street' le ding to the quay, the w %ter in the ground Bo •r is six feet deep. All the Plains dee Granges tonnes I . • appeararee of an immense 'eke. Ibe n v r t. eors'antly seen ' , elusion down trees which have bon gavel up by the roots, fettle, (unhurt, eel • quantity of whir articles. Three large bargee, la.let with cosi, which were moored to the quay at Valente, were oohed away by the r tpielity of the corona, and all of them sank at same distance down the river. One man was drowsed. At La Pallas**, the Velure has Arleen over Its banks, end caused c insidersble mischief. The tnwns of Tete and Toarnon are completely under sester team the rend , wing of the Rhone, and Mo tehm e et is threatened with a sitailsr fete. The small river Morgan, which runes throneh Villefeancbe, and &foresees fells loco the asone, has become • couplets torrent, and havieg risen shove the arches of the bridge, which still stands firm, has word iwed the bank,, and many of the houses have cellars and grouted-loon under waor. The Alier, the Doebs, and the Loire', with all their tributary streams, moans' their upward movement sad inundate all the sur rounding country, but the Loire, the Garone, and the Cher have, it ile hoped, reached their utmost height, and la mess parts have began te fall. A greed review of Prussian troops took place at Berlin es Saturday, is the primate of the Emperor Alexander. H. Imperial Majesty left Berlin this nonstop ter Bt. Petersburg. The following letter bas beau addressed to the IFresels bishops : It. the Bishop of —. We shall p to present our ems few baptism im the church of Notre Dams et Paris, ea Bstazday the 14th of Joao. It seems to as that the dew of Fromm, auseekted with the Joys of this emuitsy as with its ►epes, should he represented by its leading pastors is this solemn mt. We see snored, moreover, that the Bpisorpsey will be happy to salts Ito ra- an to those sspreseed I. the cams of the somamoo Father of the Faithful, sad to assist In this neat the reprooptstivou of hie Bedlam' Pope Pies IX. We de sire, the*, More. Bishop, that you will rose to Paris to moist at thaesnisseey of the baptism of the Imperial Priam. This totem. Imolai co ether object, we pray Dod t►at lie will lave yea is big hely keephig.—Gfeea ►1 Its pips of Clowd.—Naroanox." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (NT SMINAZINI AND BRITIAN fliiOlAPI.) (PION 00A OWN 001LRINPONDINT.) PARIS, TOMIDAT MOANING. We loam from Lyons that the Emperor hu visited the scene of the inundation', riding on horseback along the banks. He has distributed relief with his own hands, and placed the mom of 100,000 f. in the hands of the Prefect. He leaves today for Valence. (PNON 0171 OWN PARIS, MONDAY EVININO. The weather, which is the most interesting sub ject that can now be spoken of, seems at last really likely to undergo a happy change. There was • slight shower this Droning, but it has since been fine and warm all to-day. The Emperor arrived at Lyons at three-quarters past ten o'clock this morning. The government de spatch which brings this news says that the waters began to subside three-quarters of an hour before his Majesty's arrival. The despatch also says that all the population of Lyons turned out to meet the Emperor, and received him with acclamations. Almost immediately after his arrival the Emperor went to inspect the inundated parts of tke city, and directed in person the succour which their critical situation requires. The Emperor's resolution to go to Lyons was very suddenly taken. He left St. Cloud at two o'clock yesterday afternoon in an open caleehe, without es cort, and went straight to the Lyons Railway station, where he arrived in twenty-fire minutes, and set off at once by a special train. His Majesty was dressed in the uniform of a general of division, and wore a kepi on his head. All the despatches received at the Ministry of the Interior up to a late hour this afternoon are unani mous in stating that the waters are lower. At Lyons the Rhone has fallen ninety-five centimetres since yes terday, and the Saone ten. From Saint•Etience the news is that the Loire and the Gier are falling conside rably. In thiadiatriet the injury done to the cropland homesteads is very great indeed, but there is no loss of life to deplore, and no bridge, or other public works are injured. The I: .':re and its tributary streams are also lower. The military, under the direction of General holier, are assisting the popu lation. I understand that the Minister of the Interior has this day caused to be presented to the Corps Legis latif a demand fora first credit of two millions, to meet the most pressing wants of the flooded dis tricts. The railway communication between Lyons and Avignon has been re-established, but the line be twee° Avignon and Marseilles is still impassable. The railway between Lyons and St. Etienne will probably not be in a state to be re•opentd for some days to oome. Aooording to the latest accounts from Lyons 26,000 persona were still hemmed in and made prisoners by the waters that surround them. The settlement in the Rent* went off heavily at the Bourse today. Reports were only to be effected at very high rates, owing, it is said, to arbitrations between the Rents and other securities. The Threes fell 60c. for cash, and 30c. for account, closing at 74fr. 45c. and 74fr. 60c. For account they were at one time as low as 74fr. 10c., but the price of reports suddenly gave way within the last half-hour, and caused a partial recovery. Credit Mobiher was pretty well sustained. Bat little business was done in railways. GREECE. The Austrian Correspondence announces, date of Athens, May 24, that the king of Greece will, on the 10th June, embark on board the Hydra for Trieste. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. (sy nnscraic nu.aonsPn.) I Orlon 001 OWN COZZLIPONDINT.) SOUTHAMPTON, TUINDAY Moarrixo. The Madrid has just arrived with the Peninsular mails, having left Lisbon on the 29th ult. In Portugal the weather is s• ill most unfavourable. The potato crop is a complete failure. The finance debate still continues in the Cortes, and the measures of Signor Fontes are being passed by large majorities. A motion has been carried by which the government are entitled to make a selec tion from the parties proposing to negotiate the loan. Her Majesty's steamer Basilisk, on her way to the West Indies, had put into Lisbon to coaL . _ Exchange on London thirty days, 641, ninety days, 541 to 54f. Her Majesty's ships Dragon, Retribution, Transit, Vulcan, and Ariel, were at Gibraltar. IHE WASP BATTERY AND SEBASTOPOL HARBOUR. An officer who served in the fleet at tbe bombard meet of Sebastopol, in 1864, dined, by levitation, with the Governor of the Wasp Battery lest month. He describes the Wasp Battery aa bevies a ditch some 30 fret w around it, with as embankment level with the guns, so that ships' guns could net hit the fort at all, but only the em bankment in front, while the guns at the bait ry would fire shell right down open tie deck of • chip. 150 feet below. This tirtificatien mounts only 8 guru, en barbette, and those are very clue together. This was 'he bast, re to the fire of which Fi M.B. Albion was exposed, en 1 the Rosales Mat uprose(' his surprise that the was not sunk. Aecordir g to his account. the shelle thrive by the battery would go cos n'etely through the whole of a Min's decks in that petrifies. The only essimlty the Itura'ass suffered is the Wasp Battery was from one shell, which dropped amongst them, rendering 28 men hors de trorneat. The Lacer himself had, on the occasion of the bombardment, been in the front of the an. gigement, and was Pinions to see who guns the fleets had soff.red from. The Weep Ba•tery, which is scsraely per ceivable from the 169, 11 • describes ee the must dengerose, end the Albion as honing oco of the hottest berths. The Ripsian commander gave him a good diaper, pleat, of champagne, and s hearty welcome. From the statements of the some Russian (Zees it at pears that the outer boom is Sebisetopql harbour, owing to• 1011041111011 of gala , . hawse in s nuking *tote during the siege, and wee rem.ved to insist in melting the brirge of boats; the loner one *hotel, afterw• rt. shored the tame fate. After the gale of tie 14th 14..vtreqr, 18i4, the rater line of ships wee so much broken up es It rider the her hnor easy of stews to tie firer, upon tiverviog which the O.briel end &lines were sunk by the Silesian. as • further imp. diluent. Fin, steam e rs were sunk on tee morning when the Russian troops crossed the hriJge of boa's to the north side : nothing of them is visible. The first or outer line of ships were sunk, with everything no hoard them, upon the Ressians pereeiving the Alliei fl•els weighirg from the Alma. and in the helief that the Ailed fleets were about to eater the harbour, the Ru•s-au 0f830,1 gni men losing all their property on board. The Bowels Marra and Grand Prise* Coast intine are the only two ships whose maws are standing; the former on her bilge, the latter per fectly upright, lying with her heed op the harbour; the others are cross ways; the last menti ,t ed was the finest s►ipin the Russia, fleet. The ships were san k by heeling them over and cutting fear sent•les on each side es large as a puddirg plate; they were kept 'fir at for some time by plugging and caulking them in till it was riquinite to sin them, sod then it was dose by driving the plugs all oat together, after which it required from two to throe hours for them to sink. The (barrier du Gard, after stating that the wheat mops to Met department hies berme is suffer considerably from the wet, states that the silk-woraa are is a dreadful situatims ; first, tram want of proper mature' heat, sad ant, from their fold being saturated with moisture. The Agrans Ga:ette states that bands of robbers haat the woods ent tits frontion of Croatia. There bands are eaapostd obiefiy of forage iloaveds, sad are well or ganised, !omit! at their disposal melleat horses. The goadumerio seat easiest than have bean hitherto lIIIIIIIC<INS feI, sad a battalion of ahaaseurs, with a resistant of lastoser, has bees mat to eatonaiaatie thou. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. PRAY 011/I OFICIAL CORILISPOIDZIet.) NEW YORK, May 20. General Pierce has environed us with difficulties on all sides. Whichever way we look we see trouble ahead. In KIWIas he has brought on us a civil war, where blood is flowing to establish slavery on the free soil of the republic. All our relations with Eng land, which on his accession to power were of the most friendly and even fraternal description, have become so complicated, and are becoming so much more complicated from day to day, that we entertain serious apprehension.. The President has involved us at last most deeply in the agitations and struggles of Nicaragua and Costa Rios, and nobody expects to see the matter stop till it his got us into trouble with all Central America. We are thus reaping the fruits of the fatal policy which we have now followed for a generation, of elevating obscure men to the presi dential office, and leaving our great stateenicn out of power, to struggle as best they may against the in rolling tide of corruption and degeneracy. So far as our relations with England are concerned, it is confidently asserted that Mr. Crampton will be dismissed in a few days, and that on his deputure he will take with him his secretary sod all the mem bers et the legation, his object being to close the em bassy entirely, and thus emphasize the suspension of intercourse between the two countries. Mr. Dallas's immediate dismissal will, it is thought, follow; and yet I am disposed to doubt this, for several reasons. First, the decision to dismiss Mr. Crampton was made before the answer of the British government had been received. That answer differs somewhat from what was expected. It was elated on good autho rity last night in Washington that there had been during the day a protracted cabinet council held to discus the English answer—that the British govern ment most distinctly disavows having entertained any intention whatever to violate cur municipal laws, or offend or outrage in any manner our national sovereignty. It would, therefore, seem quite likely that the cabinet would meet again to-day, and sus pend any definitive action in regard to Mr. Cramp ton's dismissal. The only way for the President to dispose of this disclaimer of the British government is to accept it, and reduce the whole case to one of personal objections to Mr. Crampton and the consuls. Lord Clarendon does not think these gentlemen are guilty. Mr. Pierce and his cabinet take another view of the case, and therefore they seem to be bent on getting rid of them. But however strong may be our confidence in the perpetuation of peace between England and America, we cannot relieve ourselves of painful apprehensions so long as the present state of things exists, and that state of things will exist for some months to come— in fact, until atter the Presidential election, next fall. British statesmen should never forget that, under our present regime, our entire home and foreign policy is shaped solely with a view to a reelection of the President. Mr. Pierce or his successor will be elected the let of next November. The democratic candidate will be nominated in three week,. The strife between the leaders of that party will then be over, and if Mr. Pierce is rejected we shall see wiser and better counsels prevail at Washington. His incomprehensible course in regard to Central Ameri can affairs—his rejection of Mr. French in the begin ning, and his final acknowledgment of the Walker goverment, and his reception of Padre Vigil at a moment when Walker seemed hopelessly overthrown; his 'Manus course in the Kansas matter ; hie tortuous and vacillating policy in the Crampton affair; in fact, all his acts have had bat one object in view, and that has been to secure his re-nomination at Cincinnati. It Lord Clarendon will have a little patience, and not pay much attention to Mr. Pierce fora few weeks to come, he will find lees trouble in doing his business with this government. The news from Kansas is quite as bad amour worst apprehensions have ever depicted. The authorities established there by the sanction of the President, through the agency of bowie knives and revolvers, have established a reign et terror in Kansas. News from Nicaragua is anxiously expected. The common impression is that Walker is in imminent danger, not only of overthrow, but of complete annihilation. Ido not indulge in these appre bee mons: His position is critical in the extreme ; but I still believe that he will surmount all difficulties, and ultimately consolidate his power. The season is propitious for all the great crops, and the prospects never fairer for an abundant harvest The grand festival of the Alsacian singers at 8 reeburg commenced on &turd ty, with the err:via of th'r ly. Ririe singieg societies, comprising 547 members, from vat!. ors parts of France. Adding to these the 200 members of the time Strasburg societies, and the twecty members of the society of the Robertson, the whole number of singers will be 767. To lodge the foreign singers, the committee has found 143 beds in private families, end the ►otels have offered 376 more ; the remainder rt iy with their private friends. The Augsburg Owelie announces that the 'Minister of Fiance to the Germanic Coa(ethration has Invited the Diet to accede to the convention relat,va to the right. of neutral flap in war. M. Berirougooux, formerly the editor of the Eman cipation of Toulouse, wee lata:y sentenced by the tribunal of Viii sur Lot to two 'ens' imprisonment for having spokes ill of lb. Emperor of the French in a public carriage. The public prosecutor &spooled against the Ma. tenni as too light for the ..f'• nee, and the Imperial Court al Agin has now condemned M. Borgougnoos to tin yews' imprisonment and fire years' depravation of civil rights' M. Escosura, the Spanish Minister of the Interior, has fulminated a circular against two or three Protestant pamphlets which hare weds their appearanc 1 at Cartbsgena. Her &Nasty, the minister stye, bra beard with paichd surprise," of the esiatecce of these pemphlem. To. fiscal procereun are ordered to prosecute all parties esnessasd with the almost rigour cf the law. _ We read, in a letter from Berlin :—" Yesterday, la the salons of Count de —. I he. rd a warm eulogium on en intention ascribed to the Em. eine N •polt on of erecting lon the site of the ancient Tem Is a monomeet to the memory of Louis XVI. and Mario Astainette. ' This generous idea,' said an old general wLo served wider Blocher, ' is, as it were, the tett dim of a noble set of which I was a witness:—ln the occupation of Vienna by the French army, the Emperor Napoleon 1., on the eve of his departure fir France from his bead-querters at &hien henna, 'mused to be celebrated in the chapel of the pulses a saris* for the repose of the soul cf Queen M iris Antoinette, and to net only attended it hi¢eelf, tureens ded by all his marshals, but manifested Feed. und antoti ui at the a:weenie of an immense grandeur, c.niterattil by an immense mirfortiane." Le Nurd publishes a circular addressed by Prince Gortebakoff, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, to all the shies of the Ruuian Legations ►broad, making known the new amnesty to the Poles. These representativel are to apprise the refugees rtaiding in the country to which they (the diplom+tittt) are accredited, of the Imperial decision. M. Ntootalrmbert, speaking the other day in the Corns Legislatif, against the spirit of speculatim in France, used an eapression of this kind,—" These scandal ous (tartan's," be said, "acquired without labour, are squally made without honour." Mr. Layara, M.P., arrived at Conwantitople on the 20th ult., and hu been entettlinet by LTrl Sue:font de Redeliffe. We rend in the Brussels Riependanee, "General Monravieff and General Williams have met at Berl it, and it is said tt at they hive been seen wek,ng r getter int-in am Both are myelitis; 0110 goes r! such to the baths of TcrA to, sad the other to Bsden Baden." steamer arrived at Stettin on the 27th ult. from tit Petereurg, bringing fr. t h 't ell Count Nerer:rxle, Baron Mereadorff, Prince Woroos)11, and the Nattiest Rinker at the Ratings' Court, B Mb de Werthern. • WRECK 3.-000 hundred hod twelve (112) vessels were wrecked daring the wooth of May. Is the month of J■euary the nanaher was 261 ; is February, 1741111 Mitch. 145; and Is Atrit, 157; making a tstal is the put five menthe of 5.53 WRECK OP A VESSEL, WITH GREAT Lofts a LIP. —SINCI•PORM, APRIL 2l.—The Itt.olocao (L'otta• 'Reese ship). Fernandes. frees Mac n to Havannah, with 350 Chiame p wagers, sprang a lock oa t'te 11th o f Fe bruary, which subsequently incectspd to 31 inches pee hour, and on the IS b, the Is 11 being full of weer, she nu put on shots in the Bay of Bt. June:, and abaudeard; the mew, takir g in the boats, master, 10 men, and sonar 300 Chinese saved; the tut drowsed by the upsetting of the bests. I"' ►l