The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-06 00:00:00

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MONDAY, APRIL 6. TO OUR A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published ON SATURDAYS u usual, during the Parliamentary recess. The most remarkable feature of a modern gene ral election is tho rapidity with which we get through it. In the memory of many dill living a general election was a protracted agony ; now it is a brief, though sharp, fever fit. This blessed change is owing partly to legislative enactments which pro- vide for the abbreviation of the electoral processes ; partly to railways and other means of accelerated com munication which render the abbreviation possible. The constitution of the body politic is in consequence less severely tried ; inasmuch as violent diseases undermine the constitution less than lingering ones. Of electoral corruption we have still more than enough ; nevertheless, we are disposed to believe that it must if anything be diminished under the new system. As there is now less time allowed for spending money improperly, the presumption is that less is spent. The time which has elapsed since the dissolution would, half a century ago, have scarcely sufficed for getting up the steam of the electoral agencies ; whereas we are already near the end of our voyage. The balk of the parliamentary harvest is reaped. The principal business that remains on hand is to take care of the gleaning. But the gleaning mast not be neglected by the Liberals, if they would have their harvest got into the great barn at West minster in good condition. Among the late fields is the Metropolitan county. This day will determine whether Middlesex is or is not to retain its position among those tried and trite counties which make up their complement of electors of Liberals alone. It will be a scurvy tale, if we have to report that the free and independent electors of Middlesex, at an election which has purged all the Metropolitan boroughs (the City in cluded) of the last lingering admixture of in so many counties has turned the tide in favour of stifle its own voice by returning& Liberal and a Con servative to neutralise each other's Totes, instead of returning two Liberals as heretofore. If Lord CULLOM is returned, it will be the triumph, not of the man, but of his party. Since he has had a seat in the House of Commons, Lord CULLOM has not allowed one indication to nape him of any aptitude for legislation inherent in him. He was too poor a legislator even for Dover : will the Metropolitan County put up with what even Dover scornfully flung aside? Lord CHELSEA is the pis alter of his own party. It is well known that the Address attributed to him was prepared by others, kept ready cut and dry at the Carlton for several days, waiting only far some ono bold enough to append his name to it. No better man being to be had, Lord CHELSEA was at the eleventh hour allowed to subscribe the document and have it issued in his name. Lord CHELSEA is a mere speaking automaton, performing gesticulations, and uttering sounds, according as he is pressed by the finger of the Carlton. The electioneering agency which canvasses for him, the drilled band of voters who will plump for him, would have exerted thenvelvee with equal good-will, at . a 171 - Inent's notice, for any OtLer legislative puppet brought upon the scene by the central management of the Carlton. If the independent electors of Mid dim' allow such a phantom M.P. to be sent into the Moose of Commons in their name, they will allow their voices to be silenced by a mercenary organi sation. And what objections can be urged against the Liberal candidates sufficient to induce the electors to allow a mere man of straw to get the start of them? Against the eligibility of Mr. HARBERT not a murmur is heard. The only tangible objections that wo hear alleged against Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR are his Sunday Trading Bill of last session, and certain medical heresies he is understood to have a leaning for. With regard to the Sunday Trading Bill, we frankly admit that we think Lord ROBERT made a blander in introducing it. But let it be remembered that he deferred to public opinion, withdrew the bill, and does not intend to bring it forward again. For the painful scenes provoked in Hyde Park by the Intemperance of the police authorities Lord ROBERT was in no way responsible—the sole blame rested with Scotland-yard and the Home-office. And his error in bringing forward the Sunday Trading Rill originated in a mistake as to the best mode of benefiting the labouring classes. This error reflects no discredit on Lord ROBERT'S philanthropy ; and when we consider how judiciously be has laboured to benefit the poor in other respects, it cannot be considered as a very serious reflection on his judgment. Against this one mistake, too, we have to set off a life-long devotion to the Liberal cause. The other objection alleged against Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR we will not con- descend to di cuss. It is not a medical officer for the Union, but a legislator, that the constituency of Middlesex are called upon to elect. If we were sick we might not send for Lord ROBERT to cure us ; but neither, if we had a member of Parliament to elect, would we give our vote for our family sur geon, though we have implicit confidence in his pro fessional skill. The only two objections made to Lord ROBERT OROBVENOB, are mere jokes, and not very brilliant or very original jokes either. If he is rejected it will be merely because he has been suspected of not being a very good customer at the ale-house or the apothecary's shop. Had not those who are influenced by such considerations better call upon Lord CHZ.LSNA to produce his ale house score and his apotheaszy's bill ? TEE trite maxim, that human nature cannot be trusted with unlimited power, receives in these days its most fearful illustenticos on board the merchant ships of England and Anodes. The master of a vessel on the high seas is stOl the absolute lord of the mariners who navigate her. If he be, u is too often the MIN a Assn of coarse and brutal nature, of drunken habits and ungovernable passions, he can, and be does, make a floating hell of the isolated community he misrules. He is mow ssrily entrusted with great power ; he hes le deal with men generally improvident and thoughtless, often lawless and turbulent. Where the misty of all frequently depends on implicit obedience to one, it is indispensable that habits of implicit obedience should be enforced by firmness and at times maintained by severity. There is no help for We; the jurists and legislators accordingly, of all ere, have acquiesced in the harsh necessity of the me, and have not been minutely scrupulous in limiting the degree of authority which the matter of a merchant ship may exert over his crew. They have left the limits of his power to be ascertained by the broad precepts of common sense and humanity ; on the one hand overlooking a degree of harshne.s and coercion which in any other relation of master and employer would be plainly indefensible ; but on the other. sternly and promptly repressing any acts of high handed power which plainly transcend the rea sonable exigencies of discipline and the paramount necessity of subordination. The English legislature has recently made a laudable endeavour, by raising the status of the muter, to improve the position of the mariner. The Merchant Shipping Act of 18.54 has instituted examinations for masters and mates of foreign-going merchant vessels, or home-trade passenger ships, and " certificates of com petency " can only be given by the Board of Trade to those masters and mates ' who are reported by the local examiners to have given "satisfactory evidence of sobriety, experience, and general good conduct on board ship." (17 fx 18 Vic., c. 104, s. 134.) Complaints have been made by shipowners of the difficulties created in working this clause ; but that some restraint of this kind is im peratively necessary has been recently proved by many frightful instances of abused power in our own mercantile marine. There was that most horrible cue of HUGH ORR, tried the other day on the Western Cir cuit, in which, though the jury, misled by a false sentiment of humanity, only brought in a verdict of manslaughter, the evidence clearly proved a case of deliberate and atrocious murder. The miserable tyrant had simply flogged to death, out of pure wantonness, a black cook, who was not proved on any one occasion to have given any reasonable ground of offence. The death of the victim, indeed, resulted not as an immediate consequence from any one act of brutal violence, but was the sequel of a pro tracted agony of weeks, during which the number of stripes inflicted in each successive chastisement increased in exact proportion to the decreasing power of the sufferer to endure them. It is idle to urge that such cases as that of limn ORR only prove the inefficacy of any system of examination and certificates. The argument is the other way. Extrame cases of atrocity like this are exceptions against which no preventive law is competent to provide ; but such a law, if wisely framed and pro- perly enforced, does tend to make drunkenness, cruelty, and misconduct, rather the exception than the rule in the merchant service. The case ju,t tried before Mr. Baron WArsog, at Chester, though not so revolting in its barbarity as that of Oita, yet reveals a state of brutal lawlessness which is in the last degree discreditable to the American marine. Indeed, if we are to accept the comments of certain American journals as fair expositions of the real state of the case, the brutality of the commanders and subordinate officers in the merchant ships of the United States appears far to exceed, u a general rule, even that which prevails in ' British Teasels. Be this as it may, the case to which we refer took place on the deck of an American vessel. The following arc the principal facts i—On the night of the 18th of January last a party of Liverpool seamen took boat for the Robin Hoed, a vessel then lying in the Mersey, for which they had shipped themselves. It was between 10 and 11 at night, and quite dark. Another vessel, the James L. Bogart, was then in the river, off Birken head, and in want of bands for the voyage. The seamen, who were no doubt in that state of obfuscation which generally beclouds Jack's faculties on quitting for a time the shores of Old England, were taken to the James L. Bogart. The people on board purposely decoived the men, by bailing as the Robin Hood. They did not find out the trick that had been played them till the next morning. When the discovery was made they naturally protested against it. After breakfast, when the boatswain came on deck to count them, CHRYSTIE, the prosecutor in the case, and the boldest of the remonstrant., told PETER CAMPBELL, the second mate, that he did not ship for that vessel, and that he would not work. "CAMPBELL," he con tinues, " then laid hold of me, and said, ' What did you say ?' I repeated what I said before, when Fnaßla, the chief mate, cried, ' Put the son of-a in irons. " FLRBER flung a billet of wood at him. CAMPBELL caught him by the neck. CanssrtE flung him off, and escaped into the rigging. CAMPBELL followed, with a six-barrel revolver. He shot three times at Ottani! withers , effect. VANDF.RPOLE, another of the kidnapped seamen, then joined his comrade. The two mates again came towards them. CAMPBELL then said, " Will you work ?" the reply was, " We will if you will treat us like men." CamPBELL thereulvn fired at Y. vor.s.toLE, but did not hit him. " I heard," says the witness," the ball whistle put." His fifth shot told with deadlier aim. The prisoner then fired at CRRYSTTF, who cried out, " Oh Con, I'm shot!" Then begun a general and furious . . onslaught. The chief mate was struck down by the infuriated seamen; the pilot and steward ran up a Niguel of distress ; the police officers boarded the vessel ; and CA , !) PELL was thrown into custody to abide the trial which has just terminated in his con viction, not indeed on the capital charge of shooting with intent to kill, but on that of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm. We observe with great satisfaction the firm and manly tone taken by Mr. Baron Ws•rsos: in com menting on this atrocious transaction. No maudlin sympathy was allowed to intervene between the clear proof of the offender's guilt and the vigorous expres . . . . . . . . don of that righteous indignation which its cold blooded enormity was ma well calculated to excite. The sentence of transportation, or penal slavery, for life wasnever more richly deserved. it is to be hoped that it will be literally can Wont. Mistaken leniency to offenders such as these is worse than weakness-- it is immorality. It is a pitiful'evasion of that re sponsibility imperatively east on the highest adminis. traton of our penal law, who ought never to forget that mercy shown to culprits of this class is the most indefensible cruelty to those whose lives are intrusted to their keeping. The lot of a mariner in the merchant service, hard and precarious as under the present race of masters and officers it too often is, would become absolutely intolerable, unless the extremist rigour of the law were inexorably meted out to such culprits as HrGir ORa rand PETER CAMPHILL. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1857. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Council of State has given judgment by an immense majority against the Bishop of Moulins. It is said that only four members voted in his favour, but the government keeps the matter as secret as possible for the present, in the hope, as it is sur mised, of bringing the court of Rome to reason before resorting to extreme measures. In this hope the French government is quite certain not to be disappointed, if it only shows itself firm, for Rome is never wanting in elasticity when it becomes abso lutely necessary to yield a pretension rather than lose a reality. Many more arrests connected with alleged secret societies have been made in the provinces, pursuant to orders sent by electric telegraph. It is again affirmed, and in the moat positive terms, that M. de Persigny has been instructed to urge the English government to expel several refugees, and particu larly M. Lcdru Rollin. The Press, says in its weekly commercial review : The news from London he bad the effect of adjourning the hopes that our trade had entertained of an immediate reduction in the rate of discount by the Bank of France, for it is not likely that the huff will discount at 6 per cent. in }'aria, when ei is the rate in London. This new cheek is the more regrettable that the situation of the Bank °trireme has greatly improved within the last month, sad that trade stand. in great need of encouragement at the moment when activity in business is to be looked for. Within the kit fort night the travellers from the provinces have been frequent visitors to the mannfactoties, and have made some purchases, I hat buyers still hesitate a great deal, and do not readily sub mit to the great and general rim in prime. Advice' from the provinces are not very favuumble ea rempeota theme. Bed. itetr. hos been dull during the put week, both in silks and cotton.. At Rotten, and in Aleatia, everybody complains of the melancholy state of things, which makes it impoesible to establish any reasonable proportion between the price of the raw material and the manufactured article. At Lyons, however, raw eilk has fallen considerably, notwith deeding the epidemic among the silk worms, which OWNS apprehensions of a bad harvest. There are, nevertheless, encouraging 'dykes from consumers in Germany and Rum* end the New York market, in consequence of the new tariff offers, hes led to Wee of French articles on better terms than were hoped for. This tariff will not mine into operation till the let of July, but the holders of French goods in New York are already getting rid of their stocks by public auction, fistring the competition of merchandise which will come in under the now rates. Corn continues to decline, and It is difGcult to do busineen in the markets. The promise of the coming harvest is so favourable that few capitaliate are dis posed to buy. The appearance of the vineyards is equally PARIS, SATURDAT EVENING. The Neufchatel conferences are adjourned sine (lie. Dr. Kern found it impossible to admit the pretensions put forward on the part of the King of Prussia in the last sitting, and has referred to his government for further instructions. . . The Bourne to-day was far from animated. The Itente fell 20c. for account, closing at 70, and left off at yesterday's price, 69.50, for account. Mobilicr fell 10. The railways were almost all considerably lower. Orleans, Lyons, and Mediterranean, how ever, rose about sf. for account. The Sardinian and Austrian lines suffer from the state of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Minister of Marine, Admiral Ilamelin, is going to Toulon about the 16th, to meet the Grand Duke Constantine. The line ship Fontenoy will be launched in the presence of the illustrious 3.61b:0r. The Indfpendance says that the Emperor having consented to act as arbitrator in the money matters in di,pute between Count de Morny and Madame Lebon, has made an award in favour of the latter to the amount of four millions of francs. 'The Progrie du Pas de Cobalt, perhaps the most influential provincial journal in France, has been suppressed by the Correctional Tribunal of Arras for a breach of the " respect due to the law." An appeal has been instituted against the judgment. BELGIUM. M. le Vicomte Vilain XIV., the minister of foreign affairs, delivered the following speech in the Belgian Chamber e Representatives, on the 2nd instant, upon the subject of the disorderly protectionist meetings and the consequent riots at'fournay. " The Chamber will understand the reserve that the government is obliged to maintain upon the question which has now been raised. An adminis trative inquiry and a judicial inquiry have been opened, and the result of these two inquiries will be published in the Ma niteur. But one matter has been alluded to in the course of the debate, a fact which no one has contradicted, and upon which I desire to make some remarks. It is that there was a cry raised of 'Throw the English into the water.' Such was the cry that was to be heard in one of the chief manufacturing towns of Belgitun during the whole afternoon. It is true, as every one must be aware, that the cries which accompany a street masquerade have nothing very serious about them; but never theless it I. essential that, in the name of the country, some one should protest against its being supposed that this cry has any sort of foundation. Some persons have cried out, "Throw the English into the water.' But what have the English done to Belgium, that they should be thrown into the water? Since the year 1830, the name of England has recommended itself to our people by the sympathy . she has manifested, under all circumstances, for Belgium. " What ! shall the report of these miserable scenes go to London on the very day when we have re ceived the speech of Lord Palmerston to the electors of Tiverton, a speech in which he pronounces the most complete, the most honourable eulogium on Belgium—a speech that has touched me, that has gone to my heart, and for which I am happy at being able to thank that statesman here publicly ? But this very day the London papers are about to distribute throughout all England the report of these scenes at Tournay. This is very lamentable. The English doubtless will laugh at it, but we ought not to laugh ut it. Throw the English into the water!' And what for? Because they offer us cheap coal, cheap cotton, cheap thread? It is to be pre sumed that they do not compel us to take these wares against our will ; England does not exert any pressure on Belgium to make her sign disad vantageous commercial treaties. The English, there fore, do not force us to buy the cheap . products they manufacture. They . sav to us: ' Here is coal, do you want any ? Here i s flaxen thread, do you wish for any? there is cotton twist, do you want any ?' If any of us believe it js not our interest to buy at a cheap rate, we may easily say to our neighbours, No, thank you, we don't want your goods, but we must not cry out Throw them into the water. I any, therefore, again, without treating such maisqueradea and carnival scenes too seriously, that 1 do notwithstanding protest, in the name of the country, against any . attempt to attach importance to the absurd cries that were uttered at founkly." ROME. ROME, APRIL 4. The Pope has just issued a decree permitting the religious corporations of the catholic world to sub scribe in their own names and with the funds of their houses to the Roman railways. The Giornale di Roma, of the 27th ult., publishes a convention just concluded between tho Holy See and Austria for the extradition of criminals. The convention contains no claw* in favour of political refugees, bat pro vides shot, if en Atotrian mbject commit • clime in the rontificid States, and then sei k refuge again on the Austrian territory, the right of extradition shall not apply, and con versely, but that he shall be judged by the tribunals of his own country. The Madrid Gazette publishes a royal decree an nouncing that sham to the amount of ten millione of reels in the Canal Imbella 11. will be pat up to pub* enatini on the sth May next. THE PRINCIPALITIES. 0,11.0 X 001 SPiel BUCHAREST, MARCH 29:" The Colansisaloners, with the exception of the Russian and Prussian, have arrived. Of the move ments of the German nothing is known definitely, but the Rua may be daily expected, as the Turkish troops—Acme I,ooo—have been bent out of the country at his request, and u a condi tion of his appearance. Both the English and the Russian. Commissioners havo refused to accept their board at the expense of this country. A magnificent table and suitable equipages were offered them ; a sum of 62 ducats—some 301. per diem—had been fixed for the household expenses of each Commissioner. Baron Talley-rand, the French declined - _...wooer, has, they say, only the argenterie necessary for his establishment, having brought his own. The Turk, on the other ha nd, has demanded everything necessary for sixty covers at his table daily. We shall see whether his guests are ever likely to muster so strong. The Austrians have nearly vanished. A few, attached to the staff, still linger about the streets= but their numbers no longer shock the sight of their unwilling hosts. Their departure has not hitherto been marked by any excesses, although it was rumoured at one time that they had attacked one of the inhabitants with a bayonet. The departure of the Turks has, I am sorry to my, been marked by an act of fearful atrocity—the more to be wondered at, inasmuch as their conduct has hitherto been most orderly. On the eve of their departure several Turkish soldiers entered the dwell ing-house of a Prussian subject who was reputed to have amassed a considerable sum of money; for tunately for the individual in question he only in habited the house during summer, and was repre seated in winter by a glidener and family, consisting of wife and babe, as also of a boy of citiht years of age. The miscreants entered about eight o'clock at night, the husband being at the time occupied in reading to his wife. On demanding his money, all that he could offer was some three roubles. Disappointed in their object, they seized an axe and butchered both husband and wife, fearfully mutilating their bodies. The son (8 years old) sprang through the window and alarmed the neighbours, but they only arrived to find the mur derers fled, the wife dead and the husband with his skull cleft, and the axe remaining in it, actually pin ning him to the floor. Strange to say, the infant was lying on its mother's breast untouched, but covered with blood. Every effort has been made to discover the assassins, but hitherto ineffectually. The Turkish soldiers were paraded more than once, and it woe hoped that the little boy would have been able to have recognised at least one of the party, whom he asserted to have been wounded by his father, but he failed to I do so. Several people assert that the deed was pup,- trated by Austrians dressed in Turkish uniform, bat the only ground for this assertion is the fact of the murderers not having been identified by the son of the murdered man, and that the quarter where the murder took place was that in which the Austrian soldiers were billeted. Sir Stephen Lakeman (Miwha Pacha) has most generously adopted the orphans, and intends libe rally to provide for their future. His ample means enable him to alleviate much misery, and it is a gra tifying fact to be able to record that he is ever ready to follow the dictates of his heart Town and country arc occupied with the ap proaching elections. Vlllions clubs and debating societies have been formed, to which the Caimacan has been obliged to submit with a fair face and a heavy heart. The union of the Principalities is the wish of almost everyone. (rams ore ows coanuroxorst.) BEYROUT, MAR( n 20. We are only now getting rid of the most severe winter that has been known in Syria for the last thirty years. For muny weeks, and until within the last ten days, the snow on Lebanon, instead of being merely seen upon the tops of the highest peaks, as is usual during the cold weather, was to be found several feet deep within two hours' ride of the plains. For upwards of a month the road to Da mascus from this town was completely blocked up, so much so that the regular government post was unable to get through, and for that time we were without any communication between the two places. A party of Austrian dragoons that arrived here by the Trieste steamer (for the purpose of taking to Germany a large batch of horses lately purchased from the Bedouin tribes for the Austrian govern ment) attempted to reach the first station on the road to Damascus, but were obliged to turn back, as their horses were up to the fhoulders in snow. This party was detained upwards of a fortnight in Beyrout waiting for fine weather, and at last was obliged to cut a path through the snow, being the first men and beasts who had found their way over the mountains since the setting in of the cold season. Nor were we better off seaward for a long time. Storm succeeded storm and wreck after wreck was heard of all along the coast for several weeks. The whole of the coasting trade carried on between this town and Jaffa, Sidon, Caiffa, St. Jean d'Acre, Tripoli, and Lattachia was interrupted, no small vessels either leaving or arriving at Beyrout for some weeks. Owing to these causes there was what City men would call a regular "monetary crisis" in the place, as no hard coin found its way to Beyrout. All classes in business felt the pressure. Of failures we had none ; but were it not for the presence of an English hank amongst us many of the second, and not a few of the first class native traders must have suspended payment, at any rate for a time. Even those who looked with the most invidious eyes at the establishment of the Ottoman Bank in Beyrout must now confess that it hiss worked well for the interests of others, besides making money for its shareholders. During the late crisis here every solvent trader who bad good guarantees to offer ob tained accommodation from the establishment, and this ou terms which, although very profitable to the bank, were far from being either usurious or un reasonable. The Paella of Beyrout, by name Wumek Pacha, has been recalled to Constantinople, and leav es to-morrow. It seems he is to be turned out of office at the requisition of one or other of the Frank arnhiemadors to the Porte. In some quarrel which took place six months ago between the "Maronites and "ortliodox"Greeks of a village in Lebanon, he decided that the former—who were" protected" by France— were in the right, and the latter—" protected" by Russia—in the wrong; and so he has become ob noxious to one or other of the ambassadors, who nullify all the good they might do in this unfor tunate country by listening to petty intrigues and childish quarrels. By all the Christian Arabs in Syria who belong to the churches in communion with Rome—such as the lilaronites, the Circa Catholics, the Catholic Armenians, and the Roman eatholics, "Latins" as they arc called—Wamek Paelm is well liked, as he is also by nearly all the English here. For a Turk, he is a good ruler and a fair man. His bands—like those of all pachas—are tied and powerless for any change towards good, and, like all his brethren, he is always consul•ridden by one or other of the local representa tires of the great powers ; but with all that, " for any we'll get better, it's ten we'll get Wale (as the Scotch song says), as Pucha of Beyrout. In silk, large profits were made last year by all who exported that article to France, after it had been reeled in the various factories managed by Europeans in Lebanon. This year more than one new factory will be opened and set to work when the silk season commences, some two mouths hence. RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN THE FRENCH AEMT. —Marshal Marian, as commander of the army of Paris, has just issued an order to the cffcct that all soldiers belonging to the Jewish persuasion shall be exempt from service dueng the solemnities of Easter, commencing on the Bth, and ending en the evening of the 18th, in order that tle,se men may bo able to perform their religious duties. They will to also allowed en the Bth and 9th to remain out of quarters until eleven o'clock at night. ANOTHER PAUL VERONERE FOR THE NATIONAL GALL/AV.—A letter fmm Venice in the CLurrier Feanme• Italie, my* that the picture of Paul Veronese, called "The Tent of Darius," which be painted for a gift to the Piaui family, in return for the hospitality he had received at their house, hoe jest been purchased of the present representatives of that funnily for the mum of 14,000/. sterling, to be placed in " the British blown , ' at Lond.n,"—by which, of course, mast be meant the National Gallery. The price is probably exaggerated. UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE HERMAN, (now ova OWN cosuasroNntunr.) BOVTIiaMPTON SA7t RDA? The United States mail packet Hermann hen arrived at Cowes on her way to Bremen. h e left New York on the 22nd, and therefore brings as s day's later news than that brought by the Leopold' which arrived here last night. The steamer tip . has arrived at Boston. Much excitement exists at Washington respectios anticipated political appointments at New York nod California by the new administration. The Washington correspondent of the New Pork Herold states that the basis of the new tiftty Mexico will be the acquisition of Sonora and Sinsi en with the command of the Gulf of C'alifontia, for which the Mexicans are to be paid a sum of manc e Other correspondents assert that the new treaty be merely of a commercial character, and wider.- tory to both republics. Governor Geary, of Kansas territory, has resig ne d his office, alleging that he could not carry on th e government in consequence of the failure of pr o d. dent Pierce to fulfil the pledges made at the time of his (Geary's) appointment. These pledges were to support him with an army of militia at th e expense of the public treasury, if necessary ; but instead of receiving this aid, he has paid 12,000 dolla rs out of his own pocket, the administration having refi ne d military support under the moot urgent do eumstanees, while he wo- thwarted by the judiciary of the territory in every possible manse. 'lhe Governor states that fifty men were under oath, from the day he entered the country till he left it, to assassinate him, provided his official conduct did not meet their approbation. lie regrets the step he has been obliged to take, but feels confident that had the promised assistance been rendered he could hare administered the affairs of the tenitory in a mum: acceptable to honest settlers of both sides. In rel., tion to the outrages committed by pro-slavery met he says one-half has not yet been told. lle ems plains bitterly of the obstruction and mutilation of correspondence; he says the mail bags come con. stand opened, and all objectionable matter tow from him extracted. The f.iovernor thinks the ce tablishment of a slavery constitution inevitable. It is stated that the southern members of Bleed/jai have resolved that a southern man shall be appointed governor of Kansas. Mornien affairs in Utah are la a dreadful state. It is said that Brigham Young to be superseded, and a military force sent into the territory. A report prevails that the American minister and the special commissioner had demanded their passports from the government of New Granada, because the latter had rejected the overtures from ' America respecting the Panama massacre. A sloop of war had arrived at Panama. THE SOUND DUES. Subjoined is the translated copy of a circular loved by the Sound Custom-house: In socadance with a treaty c'oe ' ned nu the 14th inst. by lens Majesty's government and the diplomatic agents of dims foreign powers, relating to the alsdition of the Sound sad Belt duties, ea that their being tooled no a source of went by this country Wall cease from the lct of April ant; sal further, in conformity with a protocol signed at the sass time, whereby it is declared that the Danish government entitled prosonally and se security for the duties which the, by treaty, has consented to abolish. until the conditions cce tained in sections T and 8 am d by all the mine* powers, his Danish Majesty's government has hereby no calved, in order to relieve bode and chipping as much possible from unnecessary detcutio4. to limit these gumantas arrangements as follows, viz. Until the government of any of the contracting powers hen fulfilled the said articles of the treaty, shall the dues cao tine to be calculated on the ships m 4 cargoes of the vessels of such nations as may be passing through the Sound a Delta, without however the actual deposit of such dues boils demanded. The captains' personal report and productional the ships' papers will nevertheless required in this err diem. . . . Should however the master of u vessel pulsing through the Sound under them circumstances deeire that the pepal which he hos handed in for the regulation of them chirp be returned to him, ho mast apply direct to the Costae. house authorities ashore at the Sound Cuitemrhoune ' or elm on board the guildship, where authorised parties will hs stationed for that caliper, and as eoon ea the dues are cal culated, as also the below-mentioned declaration been dull aped by the captain, a written 'negation will their to given him of his having reported hiumelf, and ho can then proceed without further hindrance on Lis voyage. Should the shipmaster, on the '..riutrc-ry, not require to hare his papers returned to him, and for thir purpose it will be de. arable that he be furnished with duplicate sets, and in rod cams where his papers are moompentel by the below-me tioned declaration, it will be allowed him (without any a. pease however to the Danish goverumort) to emit his ppm direct to the Sound Castoni-liousc or to the courtship, ard then to proceed without farther delay on his voyage, ankle he should require a certificate id . having reported. Should ice alapinister (which, however, sea general mil, would not be advisable) dude; to have his papers beat aft him, he must in such erases, in writing and with can, dour his address and place of destination, and one will then doubt lem with success, Conrad, obtain your mistime for the "hips of your notion, in receiving these papers from the Cuatom-house, and seeing that they ire forwarded to their destination. The above-mentionod decleninon, which the shipmaster wifliesTMsi;gn,;iffbe as follows, vie. . 1, the undersigned N.N., water of the vessel N.N., of We burthen of N.N., belonging to N.N., under today's dal p,issing the Soud on her passage from N.N. to tbe pat of N.N. with a cargo consisting of N.N., hereby declare salt conscientiously to hare given a true and faithful report oat my whole CArge; and further, I bind myself in the ease get the treaty signed on the 14th of March of the protect De, =to the abolition of the Sound and Belt duties boot , then to pay without demur to hi. Danish Msfsaft Sound Custom-house the dues end charges that v i be due thereon, according to the hitherto saner treaties, on this my present voyage. yin the latter case, cm I then be entitled toes hitherto customary primaga. The 1.34. (Signed) MN., Master of the Vessel N.N. Blank forms of these deelandien- in different langulgit . _ will be procurable at the Sound Cosi. on-house. As soon, on the other band. as any of the foreign gorsar meats in question has fultilleti the tenditions of the n, will the proof of the vessel'. nationslit • solely be req, and his Ilisjestes authorities will fad tiound, as far as lime their power, to terry on this nrronizenicnt without oblige; the captains to come on shore. The boiffiting of the no usmi Dag and the production of tho itne's register will be sofa dent. I flatter myself, Consul, that in the interests of the cAsils of your nation, you will alibrd your nesisninco under thence. etuartances, and beg you to ris vivo the icsuronoe, are. Elsinore, 29th Mareh, (Signed) OT.RIX, pro tem. Dir. To Consul TITS AMERICAN I.IATL.S.-I.ITERCOOL, SATCRDAY. —The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain .1 amen Stolle. wiled Mir afternoon from the Mersey, for New York. with the anal nails for the lintel Staten and Canada, 180 peaSrnvro. sad a full cargo d merchtutdire on fredght.—'r he North Atlantic N., :otos Company's screw steamship Kbetrasese,C.lpta:al'hompa% else palled to-day for Newfoundland, Halifax, and l'art. with 400 paasengers and a full cargo. The United Staten mail steamer Hermann arrival at Cowes on Friday night, on her way to Bremen. Ss le New York on the 21st alt. 11cr Englith pameagers, as" dad cargo were landed at Senthataptos on Saturday asset ing, under the ears of Messrs. Crey and Co., the sr% for the United States Mail Packet Company, to whim& Hermann belon gs. The Belgian Royal Mail steamer Leopold lo arrived at Cowes on Yriday bight (non New York, ails way to Antwerp. Although a screw Pfratlter Ole bads di pomp in 13 days. Mears. Owen, Hazel, and Richards% the agents foe tho Royal Belgian Mail Company, camel kla Engli.h passengers to be conveyed ha a small stanaril Southampton. EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—During the 11% quarter of the current year the number of emigrants els have left Liverpool for all foreign ports Ina 1X1,234. 12,774 in eases of the corresponding three mouths in 11% Of the steerage p assengers-10,090 were English, 1, Scotch, 8,412 Irish, and 753 natives of other count**. Fife - three AiPs. of 73, 3 6 0 tone tad 2.956 of a crew, the for t he United States, with 273 cabin and 18,453 stem. passengers ; fire ships to New South Wales, with 2,014.01' sengere; twenty-ono to Victoria, with 133 cabin and aar„ steerage PcmOngere: one to Stiuth America, with 11 l partangers • two to T 10111311114 with 399 preowngeres. and% to New Zealand, with 9 cabin and 396 steerage prewar% Besides there, which went out under the tuapection of Cipt. Behomberg, R.N., and his staff, there were tieventrae% short ships, hating in all 1,430 cabin and 987 steerage? * Kv fn . NEW SCGAR Dl:MS.—This day (Monk) the new auger duties will take effect, and art to continue*, the 6th Aped bent year. Candy brown, or wbbe wfullEt 18s. 44. the cwt. • 16a. on white clayei sugar; 13a 101 yellow Muscovado and brown clay tal sager; 120. tid• brown Muarovado L and ss. per cwt. on molasses. POSTAGE OF PUBLIC DEPARTMENTs.—Same mt* may be formed of letters seat by public departments wet the estimated expense for the current year Is 1id,0461. CU Court. The Dachas of Kent, the Princess of Hohenlohe &W isalla Z i r e tineem Feed" visited the Queen en Leif OMEN. jria red ke Mild i te n tird A = 4 :3 l it b eti &MO& Pim &Yam, with the Prisoner Helena and Louisa, Ink •411 the la the arerhe la • morisge sad four, and in Sio dim= pia a Ask is the Ductless of Oloumeter at Sheemoter ■ MOM ?sass Limpid visited the Dueler of Kent at Chrome New, IL J. The Pabeenn el Ilohenlohe Lenbiug, the Right Hon. Sir Omar Weed, Lord George I.nolt, and Colonel the Has. A. OSA" dined with her Mrkjesty in the evening. TIN bud 469 tad Life Guards was in attendance during dlemor g ai *Ned Wieprocht. Selectee% « leMt le MAW lloyerbeer. Andante, Ilmisiske mbar Selection, "111iiiiinimble Roadni. "Marten" Wet,, Her Majest)'s Private Band effimereelis performed in the evening the Mowing easejeoddeas : Overawe, "Lem& Marschner. some Beethoven. Mud the Haas Clime? do Merchf end Airs de Ballet, "Mseaniello Alder. Yesterday bee Majesty, the Priam, the Prince of Wales, the Princess kepi, the P ri ncess All em the Primer Belemm dm ladles sad esalleman of the moat, and the domestic bertilold, libieded Millie service in the private chapel st Ilsokligbra Peirce. The lion. and Very Rev. the Doan of Wham caelekd. _ _ The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Primer of Ilobenlohe Langcnburg and the Princess Faders, took a carriage drive yesterday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of tho Treasury, in Downinotreet. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lanadowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Marks Wood, the Hight lion. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. TILE PRINCE op WALES AND TILE ATLANTIC TILEORAPH.—On Friday apeman last his Royal Highnee the Prince of Wales, acoompanied by Colonel Phipps and Mr. Gibe, visited the works of Mouse. Glass, Elliott, and Co , at East Greenwich, for the purpose of witnessing the of manufacturing the submarine cable to be laid L":,cra i 6 1 ' between Newfoundland and Ireland. His royal high ness was received by Mr. Glee, who explained the method and machinery by which the cable is spun off Messrs. Samuel Gurney, T. H. Brooking, and Cyrus W. Field, directors of the Atlantic Tokirraph Company, were in attend ance, and Mr. Charles Bright, the engineer, and Mr. White holm, the electrician to the company, showed some Uttered log experiment.. and apparatus in tonnexion with this greet enterprise. Hi s royal highness appeared much interested at the iletaile given, and on leaving expressed great malefaction at the arrangement. and mechanism employed. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, aceom paiod Fy the Princese Flohenlohc-Langenburg and the Princess Feodore, took a carriage drive, yesterday. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess do Penigny entertained at dinner, on Fear. day evening, lint Excellency Ferukh Khan, 6porio3 Envoy front the court of Penis, end suit°. The following wen, invited Fo meet his Excellency.—Hid Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Kaduna) Mudurna, the Prince do la Krakow', the Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Vie. torn' Ashley, the Countess of Cayuga, Viscount and Vlrcountess Palmengos, Captain Lynch, Se. After dinner the Countese received a select circle of visitors. His Excellency Ferukh Khan, Envoy Extraoidi nary from Pereia, gave a grand dinner, Out evening, in the Persian style, at Cleridge's Motel, to the Lord Moyer and • select circle of gusts. The Countess ehreptowitch will leave town for Paris on Friday neat for a brief et/liar. The Marquis of Clanricarde has loft town to visit Ws Mateo in Ireland, where him lordship will remain until the end of tLe present month. The marchionerm has gone one visit to Mr. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margsrrt Beau mont, at their mat in Northninbetbinil. The Marchioness of Sal:sbury has left town on a visit to tho Earl and Countess Delaware at Duckhurst Park Semi. The Marquis ham gone to H at&ld House for • taw days. The Earl of Cardigan has arrived at Deane Park, Narthampionatlra where he will rooeive a iraccemion of visitors daring the Easter holiday'. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston hare de layad their visit to St. Lsonards-on-Sea, and era now es- pieta t, irn to Droadlantla for a few days before the opening of parliament. Lord Stanley of Alderley left town on Saturday afternoon for Alderley Park, Cheshire. _ _ Earl Granville left town on Saturday evening f,r Paris, for which capital tho countess departed the pre ri...us day. The noble earl and countess intend to athy three secb■ In Paris, and then return to London to give a scrim of fashionable reunions. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley left town on Saturday fur Knowsley, Lancashire, until the meeting of parliament. Lord Stanley, M.P., re mains in town. The Countess (Frances) Wahlegrave and Mr. George O. Harcourt, 11. P., entertained a select elects to dinner on Saturday, at her ladyship's resident" Strawberry hilt Twickenham. The Paris correspondent of the lirussels Indf pendonee writes:—" I can state upon authority that the Bud der departure of Ur. Hume, the spirit rapper, woe in obe dience to en order from the Emperor. The Emmets was no much affected that her august consort dreaded the continuance of the diebolical scenes. The ladies of honour were not ken excited then their sovereign. They could eprok of nothing but So redoubtable con joror. The Emptier made • wise revolution in the household, and the poor devil, who, though playing the part of a personage with 40,0001. ft year, wee really penniless--has left for the country of the rapier.. A few days ago the Emperor met the learned phynicLut. M. Becquerel, and re marked, ' I want to consult you upon what I sew that trickster do; ' and his Majesty then told how Mr. Home had made • table tun round without touching it, and nutted ft to be struck by animism% hand as many times an he liked. The Emperor received from the ian the very natural reply, ' Sire, I can my nothing upon facts which I have not witneered.' " A letter from Vienna of the 4th says :—"!Yost of the members of our diplomatic corp. ere making preparation. fur a sojourn in the country, The French toubaseedor will rei4de at St. Veit. the Turkish and English amlantsrOors at Heitzing, the Russian qoll.w=wah.r at Baden, the Belgian anabatuador at Penzing, and the atobsuador from Wextcra berg at Vtrolau." In the court news of the Juvrnal de Si. Paersburg of the _Bth ulLore rmol :--"On Thurelay Madame the Counter" do Morny, rife of the Amb,mador Extrnordinury of France; Madame de Govern, wife of the Envoy and Miniater Pleni potentiary of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands; and Lady Wodehoune, wife of the Envoy Extraordinary and Minialer Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty. had the honour to be presented to her august Highness Madame the Orond Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna." M. Alexandre I)umas concludes a letter to the !WAN, deecriptive of the Middlesex nomination, with my ing :—" Let me repeat that Lord Palmerston's majority constituted his true dongcr. In three menthe th:s majority will either have compelled him to brook into a gallop on the rood to program, or they will have pasoed over his body." RUONT Sermot.—Within the loot three weeks all the tmiverolty scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge hare been won by Rugheians, as under:—Oxford—tho Ireland, Bowen; the Hertford (for Latin echnlarship), Lee Warner; the mathematicol sohritarship, Dover. - Cambridge—the Craven, Sidgwick ; tho Bell (open to all eons of clergymen), lasnary. Sr. ANDREW'S F.:intik—We hear that there is to be a volume of St. Andrew's University Esous—after the example of the Oxford, Cambridge, and Mainburgli Essays. Amongst other. it is probable that Professor Fer rier will voile on Scottish Philosophy; Professor Tolloch on Christianity in the Second Century; Professor Seller on the Religioue tlemento in the Latin Poets; and Precentor Day on some physiological quit-dons. Mr. J. C. Smith, the advocate, will also be one of tho emayista.—Dtendec Adver tiser. BANQUET TO MR. WILLIAM BROWN, About twenty-four distingnielical guests have eignitled their acceptance of the joint invitation from the Mayor and the Banquet Committer. All the arrontimuents are progressing very eatiefactorily, but the bow of tickets has Leen delayed till one o'clock on Wednesday. Mr. Best will attend end exhibit the power and tones of the pron.—Limped EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN.—The charge for the cornet year for education in Cheat Britain is 641,23.1/.:, for science and sit, 13,11651. ; and for edi.casion Irolond 213,030/.