The Express. — London, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

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That scheme is sot, it sear, to consist of ra oratiawas line of cavemen/Mien, bat of a aeries of fertifeatiens, properly so tensed, placed at intervals along the whole of our seaboard, so as to afford stress& sad protection to en army of defence. Could it be demon strated that worha of this description weirs asesatial, no rational man would venture to spree their immediate adoption. Bat if, cm the other head, any portios of the suss is question b le be eneshisred but so a preliminary instalment es sessantef a sestly alteversi. tellhaele, Wads the masest (sweeties e. hardly hope to see esespisted e me tram that se mewl ibet • job will be diewased with all the weep that the moan= demon& We have had too messy inesseess of late years of the allbsb of seismitting ousel.« to uodertakiep imperatively requiring vets after vote for an Mt/mixable period, Meg after their worthlessness Ma be.. proved eves to the wet esepticaL Take, foe that atepeadoes folly et Deur Harbour, whisk spicily seralphe 1101101110 in hawked@ of thomeads, and will madame to de ee keg after its perejesters ham mosidered into dust. Seses years age, whim the ometwidse of this Rniege—new allowed by all peastion nose ts be mselms—was determined open, it was plemdbly urged, ea behalf of its expediency, that " a large ".m might fairly be upended. that locality, be " came Dover was the.spot whines to west peed " over the Channel, in enter to prevent busies " lad to maintain our naval sopreisarry ; it woo. however, admitted, at the muse time, that "it " would not do to Aare sentral Th.rers." Let it be considered for a moment what • mediae femme is, and what it involves. Then is in the first instance, the patches' of the sit*. then the preparation of the premed, the erection of the outworks, and, within Mess, of massive bastions connected by "curtains' of spas pew masonry, capable of resisting the tremendous shock of modern artillery. In the coot» thew most Decessanly be bomb-proof casemate, with me guius and storehouse', all of the most solid struc ture ; and if a rough estimate be needed of what all tide would amount to, some idea may be farmed from the fact already cited, that our precious martello towers—insignificant in comparison, never having bees intended to carry more than one gnn—oost as upwards of 24,0001. each. Bet, assuming that it is not in contemplation to protect the British Ides by means of a number of fortifications similar in she fader and dimensions to those of Antwerp at of Ehrenbreitatein, and that the proposed works ars to resemble rather what French engineers term places did movies 4 or field fortressee—even to these, several of ths above objections would apply with equal fore,. They an regarded by some authorities, it is true, as entrenched posts only, intended to oocsaiou delay by compelling an enemy to go through the tedious preliminaries, if not the entire process, of a siege ; but in order to do this they must be executed with sufficient care, and possess almost the powers of endurance of a first claas fortress. In the Peninsular War the importance of inch places was proved on more than one occasion, OA at Peniche and Abrentts, where field works of great strength were thrown up with tolerable rapidity by the English Army, and at Salamanca and Burgas by the French; cad though the celebrated fortef Matagorda does not quits ease under this category, Its defence, nadir the gallant Bic ANCHILLD MACLAINE, is one arum most memorable sweats in the annals of war, and proves more forcibly than any other ease that could be cited what a brave officer, judiciously posted, can accomplish. Here it wee that hlnctditsE, styled the links " the bravest of the brave," with only 115 men, resisted, for nearly two months, the united efforts of Marshal SOULT, with 8,000 picked troops übder his command. No doubt, therefore, that a well•conoected writs of such forts would possess unquestionabh. advantages, by impeding the march of an advancing fo, ; but es they would unfortunately not be moveable, and as the commanders of an in vading army would naturally wiled roots' whereas such obstacles did not exist, it seems difficult to understand what possible object there would be In OW possessing any number of form of the kind that could re monably be constructed, unless we rendered it at the MEN time an imperative necessity upon the part of an ~my to occupy himself in attackieg titra in 'accession heforestriking a vital blow at theCspitsi. Besides, with the limited numbers disposable to protect our shores, in comparison with the armed hosts of the rely Power ever likely to invade them, every fort such as we have alluded to, if net oneeetial to the system of defence, would be an absolute source of weaklier, owing to the garrison it would abstract from the effective forces at eenamail. W. knew sot how snarly of these fortification@ it is in ciontemplation to erect; but seeing that the seaboard of the British Wee *Lends 3,000 miles be et say am whatever these ought to be at hut a maple of keedred or seek etransholds at intervals &Di ear MAIL Nee eegl4 sea art to esetala I a garrison of much les than a couple of thousand men. Even with our twenty thousand Militia re cruits, the few disposable Line Regiments left at home, together with the Household troops, it seems difficult to imagine how even a tenth part of these fortresses are to be manned on the outbreak of a war, leaving at the same time an adequate body of men to be moved, possibly at a few hours' notice, to support any of the various vulnerable points that would be simultaneously menaced. It scarcely requires further argument, then, to expose the futility of the whole project, and we hope seriously that our authorities will pause ere they venture to bring it forward. If after all that has been said and written on the national defences, this notable scheme, the offspring of the collective wisdom of the Ministry, is the beat that has suggested itself, we cannot but lament the want of that fertility in resources which I might to be the concomitant of foresight, and we base sot much reason to be over confident as regards the future. " Sourrnlxo must be done." This, we suspect, is the num, rather than any substantial advantage to be attained, why Mr. WALPOLE makes • Sale of Poisons Bill, part of the early and urgent business of the smaion. In the alarm that has followed the acci dents which have occurred, the crimes which have been committed, owing to the too easy accemibility of poisons, some people have cried out for fuller rules, sharper restrictions, and aggravated penalties, to guide, restrain, and punish the dealers in durum. drop. Usteemion Mr. WALPOLE Gofer deferred to this dimmed es to introduce to the House of Com mons a Bill which might have been entitled The Tonne Chemist's Guide." The maws tire of the shop, the ooloars and shapes of the bottles, end the claseitloatien of chard ads, were all premeribed with a minute exact nem which took seeenat of everything except the character of the objects regulated, and the possibili ties of trade. There were poisons arbitrarily consti bated such by Aet of Parliament, and limited to the little chamber of hewers which every pharmaceutist was required to set up; and again there were malignant drugs left with liberty to be at large en the general shelves. The new Bill is a great advance on that measure. A good half of its childish regal/i -dolss have been knocked away. A few remain, j est to remind the chemist that he is the heir of the suspicion which the Middle Ages attached to alchemy. The fourth clause, which enacts that surgeons and apothecaries shall keep certain medicines in vessels labelled not only with CM proper names of their contents, but with the word " Poison" in conspicuous capital letters, moot have been suggested by some member of the " British " Oellege of Health." Of a large number of the ehmamts of the phommespccia it may be said, that if they were sot rims they would not be medi cines, the scone prepertior being their title to both iheigmatlens, their various operation depending simply ma the mode and degree in which they are received late the system. The repulsive worth are ealoulated to alarm the uslesimed, while they will have little err someaning he these who ere enjoined to use them. Bat we seed set dwell on this, nor oa the et►er rostristive shame of the measure. The chemists and druggists will probably balance what they New egaiest what is imposed, and not oppose this Bill, as they did the lest. Probably no mown at all of a petal character could worry them less. The caw mon-place precautions which they have been in the habit of observing will not become more troublesome by reesiving the sanction of an act of Parliament. The diffiealties thrown in the way of mks of poison will diminish the number of such troublesome tramp sedans ; bat, en the other hand, by inducing esseemen to bey larger quantities at a time they will inaeaee the stores of dangerous drugs in private Ueda. Bach are the difficulties which beset attempts to supply by rule the leek of self-act lag diuretics. We have always maintained that the oily way to increase the security of the public is le tales and permits* the character and qualifl satins et the closer to whom the dispensation of dangerous drugs is entrusted. Ha Elm last night stalled the attention of the Govorament to a matter which, alight as it may appear on a first glance, has been regarded with con siderable apprehension by a portion of the busy public—the POSTMASTIA-01SUAL'I order directing that all lettere posted without payment shall be opened by the Post-office authorities and returned to their senders. With a stroke of the pen, and with out the aid of Parliament, that noble functionary has destroyed the sanctity of the seal in which Eng lish letter-writers have so long been accustomed to trust. It is a matter of coarse that this stretch of adminis trative power has not been well received, especially whoa the best reason that can be assigned for it is the atrivenience of a Departmirit. It is obvious that the efficiency of the service would be immensely is. erased if payment by the sender were the universal praetiee, according to the original design of the rounder of the Penny Post, and to that we must come in time. If it were universally understood that the postage of every communication must be paid by the sender, then writers intending to post an unstampea letter would know that they were inditing for the Post-office clerks, and not for the person to whom they Inscribe their correspondence. But a fair warning has not been given of the change. The Porrtrestra-Oagraet's order is only dated the 37th alt, and it took effect last Thursday. There are thousands of persons in the osisatry, sad hundreds arriving daily from abroad, who, ignorant of the new regulation, and without ready seem a stamp', will post letters announcing arrivals, sick ness, or urgent business—letters which will never roach the hands of those deeply interested in their content.. The time for the execution of this west ought to be extended. By the middle of next week the Post-office clerks will have got over the extra business of Bt. Valentine's Day, and it would be well if immediately afterwards the order were rr called, oe its operation postponed for at least six swaths, by which means the merlons threatened in convenience might be avoided. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1859. TSB PARER DUTY. -9.- Yesterday, an influential deputation, representing mural associations which hate for their object the removal of Wes spun knowledge, waited upon the Earl of Derby, at his officio] reetdenoe m Downing-emu, to urge the neces sity of the lend of the paper duty. The deputation was intradaesd by Mr. Milner Gibson, ILP., end consisted of Sir Do Lacy Inns, M.P., Mr. W. Bratt, Sir O. Blestgomery, M.P., Mr. J. Wed, ILP., Ilfr. W. Buchanan, M.P., Sir J. V. Mellen M.P., BY Joseph Pasta, _11.P., Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., Mr. 1. 0. &kw bury, M.P., Mr. W. Scholehdd, M.P., Mr. J. Begwe'l, M.P., Mr. Oliver Gran M.P., Mr. J. Hatchet, M.P., Mr. F. "night, 11. P., Mr. 0. Brays, /4.P., Load J. Brows, m.r., Mr. Loftus Bland, 11. P., Mr. John Grosse, M.P., Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P. Mr. Jolts Bright, M.P., Mr. A. 8. A3=1111 , .P., Mr. W. H. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Edward , M.P., Mr. J. /Mann, 11. P., Lord Dankellin, M.P., . Brody, M.P., Mr. J. Walatock, M.P., Sir R. Leviers, m.r, Colonel F. French, M.P., Mr. F. M. Cahn; 11. P., Mr. Donald Ntooll, 111. P., Mr. Respell, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Colonel Syne, M.P., Mr. W. Kura, M.P., Mr. John Locks, M.P., Mr. O. Hedield, M.P. Mr. B. Ball, M.P., Km R. J. Cranford, M.P., Mr. P. M'Mahon, M.P. Mears. John Cassell, John Preen, Henry Vhetelly, W.Chembees (Edin bur 14, entree= of the Scottish Asecelatien ; Dr. Grey, chairmanof the Irish Association, Messrs. A. Thom, J. Camerae, George Routledp, R. loony George Augustus Sal. J. Hollinabed, Augustus Mayhew, Dr. Mackay, Moira David Climbers, B. Lloyd, Cl. W. Potter, Mandated Jerrold, J. 8. Wright, Dr. ?daunaell, to. Mr. Massa Grilses, in introducing the deputalloo, said its object wee to press upon government the necessity fur a speedy ceasideration of the subject of the paper ditty. Par liament had already Almost unhesitatiogly condensed it as a mourn of revenue, and that decision had caused cos siderable mot r alley in the papa trade, and had greatly im peded operations. He oceekleted that, under the drown- Assess, the government ought to being the matter to a speedy settlement. He would not empties longer en his lord ship's tints, bat call upon Mr. Col'eit, the secretary, to read the address from the Asociation for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on II nowlsdge. Mr. Cobtxrr then read the address', which, after allud ing to the resoluttos poised lately by the Hone of Com mons, tradesmen( the paper duty as • permanent source of revenue, stated that as - the hone would shortly be asked to gin effect to that tesolotion, as it could not be an posed that they would allow it to remain inoperative, the society hoped that Lord Derby would not call upon the Hone to Twin It without • division. If the duty wore repealed, in addition to the Impetus which would thereby be given to the eland of education, a much &quantity of paper would ha produced, and the ef employment much extended. After shading to the restorative influence which the duty had epos the function of the press, the address needed to the pro mise of the Chancellor of the Enbeseer to rewire the system of taxation. and recoiled the feet that a former Chas cellor of the Exchequer bad in eleven years repealed soma millions of taxation with • positive increase to the revenue of five DlttO. annually; and concluded with • hope that the country might owe to his lordship the removal of • tax which eta . race education, Rosette commerce, and, above all, Y really injurious to the revenue, the meinuesnos of which Y the wily but unwurentelec excuse for its cooriamusoe. Mr. Vrirretbr, on the part of the English Newspaper and Penseicol Press Astocistion for the Repeal of the Duty, said a memorial, which stated that public opinion on ties Westin of the tax had been long 'inn declared, end if then woo any didioulty in the care, it lay in thatessrel agreement of opiates which was sometimes the pretext for quiescence. Mr. CASSELL said It was his firm belied that if the paper duty were removed it would teed greatly to tr „ %tread of br esning and relights. Ihe edneetion of the would drays greatly doped *span the p a p,O pu The S of which be woe a member lamedoo,ooo copies' rf &sap publications per eau= ; and the paper upon which they printed pied • tax d so lees then 10,00 W. a kw wards tom Mr. Pannell, Dr. (buy, en the part of the Din Amociatfon for the Bova of Duties an Paper, said that the society which he eugrusrMd woe of some impottesee, as it nerebend among he mho se lore than forty-five menlaers of parliament. The his It pross, ha mid, were unanimous in wk..g for the re peal of tha duty ; but is Indeed that subject we not alone • pens rainiest, for the movement had oriented moss the mesechents engegted in the monsfactere or consumption of paper, lot in Inland those merobaste peed • much ismer pro- portion of the paper duty than fell upon the prem. To pees how directly the paper duty isepeied the speed el know ledge he untamed the ease el • small edocaticoal book which which bad lately been published in sone:ion with the asthma schools. That Book was published at 6d., and so less • proportion than the price ef ems book in every lye went to In government la the bra of dray. Mr. WILUAY Caaaslen , &maroon of the UM& ANa ration for the Repeal of tits es Paper, rat that duty wee set any a hardship tapes the press, but It add es • direet istpahmaat so tbe prenatal's. of esminorms Mr. WRIGINT than read a notameisl from B which showed how the they on paper restristell = the moralist:um is that tows ; sad Mr. Minx read cant similar Import from Ycwhabise. Lad Danny said ha had to thank the dopalatios for supplying him with as Woad., dunk of entsraileg, and be might asl e i d l i sroviag, al the sal** of the tax on know to reed which, however, wadi the " kiaore Moe" which they berel yokes se essellt wies E at least six months. The subject wagon e un ef id but the arguments which had been t ug = anything of week, bejond what bed hen end dewed both by the former and the seised genteroest. On on pont, toned, it would seem hoe sans of those Mate mens that the continence of the duty bed net had the alb. at chocking the incrusts and extenake of these soy sheep publications upon which It was said to fell se heavily and so oppreravely. He did not know whether the tonne from the duty was at preset firing or falling off. However that may be the moan wee not the Scat time ha had received a deputation ce the subject, and he had not 000eealed his ob jection to the character of the lax, which he con sidered to be crams. Thee was on poiet of the questke, which had only been s ag touched urn by the dranation, which wag =titled to some weight, vim, that the regulations of the amiss were Wes rated to steed In the way of the Improvement of the mantecture. That was a cosaideraties well worthy of atte win. The reel point which they had to caster was whether in the pea_l Sate of the revenue, with the otelgs tion• with the country had uedsrtakon and the noomoity for discharging these ~ions, woe it pueblo Is dispense with 1,200,0001 • year of tr uss revenue. It was • question apes which ha would hardly then elutes an opinion; bacentil net anticipate the statement which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would have to make is the opera of two or that e months. All he could say win that the rate of the public tisanes at the prment time was the cely thing that stood In the way of relieving the cutlery free& • too which is ad mitted to be an objectionable use. He was net, home.. in a position to say whet the Chancellor of the larkeqeer might ho able to lb. Bet ha would be much worpriostl, and ha might add gratified, to find that be weald be ambled to remove any of the burdens from the country this year; In fact, be should be glad to dad that there wee no aseemity for him to impose new one.. He could only repeat that be con sidered the tax was objectionable, and that the only thing that .trod in the way of sty removal we. ths present stale of the public Swam. The deputation to thanked hie lordship and withdrew. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. DUBLUI UNIVERSITY. FRIDAY. lira Rigit Ham I. Whiteaids wu returned thia day without i o. OALWAY. FEDAT. This alert:on took Vacs to-day. Mr. .L.bn OMII Lever was porperot h the Haw. Falser Daly, asd ore Evbl.l by Kr. K. C. Drarka, as& 11114 ratarsed Inquest eppord'. n. • greet pubis domoroamdea ka loam dila boa. gratloamoio haws ottoevardo took plate, Resiox-ornes, Fu. 6.—The Quell has bus lesalg ... pleerert te &meat Robed Alexander Odors nes Jets; COINSI•GPStaI at Ups* to • Luria at En.mo. ; sad Alfred &Vises ' Hank iffloese bar Illajerre C. noel at Cairo, to be Ist Me=eCeet=* A . lesalm.—tieartle xus Fts. 9.—The them has bun ==eve et Mr. Oe vie Joachim Goshen me In Leis 1, the lens Hassle CNN of labadiakesaa, arl Has ; and of Mr. Msysailf Camel so Corsi et Pert Lee*lfiarltfo. , Lc bit 1407 se Illapits et Milder -Oeurtr, IN Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Iris. 11. Her Msjesty'e dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Rent (attended by Lady Fanny Howard), the Piteous edict% the Doctisse of Sutherland, Major- General the Hoe. C. and Mrs. Grey, Colonel the Raw. Sir Charles and Lady Phipp, the Dean of Windsor and the man. Mrs. Welkaley, the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph, Major Rlphin wone, R.R , sad Mr. Glover. Also the following stators, who arrived at the afternton • —Loyd George Lennox, Lord Da Roe, and the right Hon. Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour. lh• band of the 2nd Life Osarda was In attendance, and played during dinner the - Wedding karat Marsdasobn. Overttur, "Jetties" Weber. Wale, Alamek's Time" Lamer. Fele Aka, .• Mobs" RessieL Crap V . Streams. The fellowbg led the hamar of re ' lltivleg hothetimas after dinner :—The Earl of Carlisle, Lady Chariot • Ora eyed, Lady Caroline Sardegna, Lady Emily Seymour, Lady Georgians Cathcart, Miss Catboat, lady Lao liana Cost, Mies Cra, i to za rd sad Lad ] Rohe*, Colonel he Hoe. A. N. and Lady Hord, Mies sod Kr. Hood, du Right Hoe. B. sad Left the Hon. Mn. Pay moor Brame, Mist lterMturet, M.P. r the Hoe. sad Rev. C. tram, H. and Mimes Moore, the Prevost of Eton, the Rev. Dr. end An Grafted, the Her. W. Cranieg, the Rev. H. J. sad Mrs. Ellison Lieuremant- Cenral Knoll's, Mrs. sad Moe Knolls., C,ltinel and Lady Henrietta Orley, Liestenent-Coinel Howard Wyse, Com muting Omer Sad LIL Guards, Mrs. Howard Vyme, Lisetenant.Colond Y. Brum, Commanding 00se Ist Ret race Oreeedirr Onside Me. arte Miss Clive, MW Phim Miss Maria and Kiel Emma Cedriagtlo, sad the Rev. W. R. Jolly. The Queen and Prince Cowart walked in the Home Path this morning. Primus Louie sad Prince Leopoiditook a carriage drive. A &putative of owners of proyerty adjoining the old har bour at Hull bad an interview with the Right Hee J. W. Henley sod the Earl of Donoegraore yesterday, et the Mike of the Brant of Trade. The deptuat on cos ad of Mr. J. W. Press (banker), Mr. IL J. Xelgbley (mandasat), Mr. Jmes Makera (raar4m), Yr. G. S V. Wirdawerth re2rat), Mr. Heiden (mt- r), was Made mad Hr. °slab* by crir . Thkdepelellen ra r. Clay se t nlel:Rdweedas. • meat iag of the !beam Comeratem of the Royal Cm radon for be Eehibitioa of 1811 was held on Thereby at the Palace of Westminster. Them were mama : Earl Gm rills (cheirresa), Led Overman*, the Right Hos. C. B. Addertry, M.P., Se Alexander Spearman, Rat., Sir WU liars Crab, Mr. T. P. Gibson, sod Mr. Edgar Bowling ( ). Yr. H. H. Williams, Amaral officer to the , was mho present. • dreattatioa ea the subject of the affairs of Mexico had so Minim with the Earl of Mebasabwy, on Thursday, se the Poreign-ollos. rill &Wades eonstisted of Mr. B. W. Crawford, 111. P, lb. J. C. west, M.P., Mr. T. B. Nan ran, M.P., Hr. I. A. Terms M.P., Mr. Timms Bosky, M.P., Er r .W. Liana H. W. fieltimidir, I. Mr. R. S. ned . Mr. N•ws4. Wasting. .It - 6e7atier , osin ge Vert WIN held at l, Adelphi-terrsce as the lot, 2nd, 3rd, tal, 7th. 9th. and 9th toot. The counalasioeers maid were : the Bebop of Chester the Right Nes. Lord Justice Tomer the light How. M. T. Berm, M.P., the Right Hon. el; LAVIIMOS Peel, Vice -Chaecellor air William Pep Wood, the Rev. Dr. Vaughaa. and Mr. Horatio Waddington. The Judicial Cornadeee of the Privy Council eat yester day, end bored al appeal Iron the Adninlty Court, t• Raker v. Reinder." (the Orarlileilta). The Lords preesnt wee Lord Kregadoes, lb O. Cove web, Mr J. Coleridge, Sir Z. Itc p r e ald L. Peel. were me has Se Coloniel-odbm, yesterddy, *the Gomm' et Ma Heath Antrthea Provinces. THE PRINCE OP WALES AT ROME. 31LBAZILLES, Fn. 11. Advice, have been received from Rome to the 6th inst. The Pope having sent his Miler Domo to pay his compliments to the Prince of Wales, the Prince made yesterday an Macial visit to his Holiness. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Mr. Russell, the seine. tary of the English embassy at the Gen of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Major Peel, late 34th Regissest, eon of Major- Goers! PM, Seentary of Btate for War, has been appeialed sidereiremep to the ere Lord High Commissioner of the laden Wands, Colonel Sir Beery Starke, Y.C.B. Liedmeat tad Captain lion. IL W. Campbell, Coldstream Oman las been appointed ore of the aide. de amp to the new GOVIIIIIOT of if ibraltar, Lint neat. Garin Sir W. Cabingtot, C.D. The following, among other noblesass dwi rata, an eon pursuing a cairn of windy at °eked :—At Christ Church The Marone of Bowmont, Visitant ▪ Visootet Adair, Sir Joseph Bally, Bat., Ifk OW. Gnat, Bart., thr F. J. W. Johann, Bart. (first tarn), the Hoe. A. Legge, Hoe. A. H. Thinner, Hos. L Staterrille, O. W. 0. Lens GOOSt, Lq., 0. W. H. Ohl .se, Lq., C. L. Weed, Esq., Jain )I , lle, Esq., T. H. Talbot, Seq., P. H. Dyke, Esq. At the Hoe. E. L. Becky, the Hoc V. Lawless. At New College: the Hon. W. Firms., the Hon. C. names, Sir Charles Young, Ban. ♦t Mertos K. Azkerlillt, Bev, the Hoe. F. S. C. Freerh, J. Grandy, Lg. At gaoler: the Hon. C. Crandon (first term). Awarding to the Calcutta Englishman the Com maser-la-Cldeta iat.ndd rearm to England kto lay hie tide sad for one at the feet of a fait lady, earourtgel, pro bably, hi oredertakisir lit sew empeten by the example of Ida teatime ha arras, tbo Deb al Malakoff. "It is believed," says • C.aleutts, letter, "that government will be able to mai en forlorn/1m in March, when the reel of Indians homewards wal tax the resources et the Paninwelar sad Oriental Cesepaay. Her Majesty. Mime in particular diebke the service end the country et as-Judy. The Indian vernier an weary with excite ment, craving for home, anxious, some of thin, to regste semis from which they were soddenly ordered out after the enjoyment of e few weeks. Lord Stanley, moreover, hae jest ranted the peer r for Eft-ca more civil pensions, which will induce Maim high ofileials to resign." We (United Sertiee Gazette) olderetand that one cause d the delay In bringing forward the navy estimator la the non-completion of the report of the royal eommis.ionere for =analog the navy, ppm which tbs resolutions of the Ad miralty la some measure depend. As that repeat cannot be flaiabsd said the Istter cnd of the ensuing met, the esti mates will art be forthootsieg until next Friday treat, as stated oa Thursday night by Ste John Paldagtoa. _ - The Sunday Times understands that her Majesty's Thema, will to converted Into en hotel; • lease levier; twee reetzilly granted by Lord Word for that purpose to certain perils. The Wariest World says In • dont time ber lfaies.y's Tholes* may be expected to opts a very .iron' some of the word. Not only will the doors melee on their Wages, bat the soy wells will be renaavad, or, at trot, gertoated la sew fortiloo ; and, In lin of the voices of Pieooloodni and Giuglial, the sound of hammer and saw will le 11 , ard in the Haymarket, to Inoue flooded after • while by the clatter of halves and forks. There sem., in short, to be so dwibt that the old Opm•-bonsa bee hem purchased by • joint-stock rompeny, who in'end to eenvert it into • huge hotel, managed after the Transatlantic fashko." The organ at the Alhambra, in Leicester-aquae, ea extensive and costly irstrararnt, is advertised for 'ale. The next Oratorio given by the Racrod Harmonic Society is to be Rendes Solomon. A son of the late Mr. E. Seguin, whose fine bias voles is not forgotten (.hoogb it is some years sloop he died, is America, foe nbich ciatinent be bed long sbandoned Engl.sd) is son in Loudon, for the pnrpo•e of begitualsg his ems/ et a singer. Be he been rapid, se hear, by Kies L. Fyne end Mr. liatrison. Mr. a2;11 Mrs. Barney Williams have entered into sa agreement to wham at ths Lyceum Tbeatro, com mencing oe the Tl 4 Instant. Two s•tlrely mew dramas and • for will be brougbt oat dung lb= mejoura. Wednesday nest. at the Lyceum, will be appro priated to the benelit of Madame Ce bete ' trivet • sew Lama by Mr. Jobs Osenfotd. called TAr Last Nolte, will be produced for tbe oomaios. It will be the lad night but three of t inly's rrignament. Daring the week the newspaper press has last a seams sgest—Mr. Charier Mitchell, the proprietor of the *Newspaper Prey Di eatery." He established the twister I. Red Ustsreaut, sad lereesist it to prosperity by hie per fireman. Bo boy Were ble soviets spereested, that valuable rerv:ce et plebs was prostate& le hire by the pro vissid aswepre privietate, is 1111. Oxman Untvgastre Iticnow.—TM election af • bargees to warmest the Valversity et Oxford in the rem ea tire Right H. n. W. M. 014ssons, who hes bees apposistsd Ler High Commigoioser of the Isaias hiss, leek pima Is • eterocation held this eftersess. Mire was so egyakini. MITIOPOLITAN 3042 D 07 WORIS. The weekly meeting of the Idolitan Board of Wachs team held yesterday to the sft Cbanalwr, ; Mr. J. THWA IT / 4 ,n the elude. _ _ . ii:ii;sid;i:i..i;il;;;47ipalsace on the fol!oeriag heads —Geneml amount, 22,4461. is. dd. ; Covent-garden spin oa-h, 221,0641. I Is. lid.; fissitbeark sad Westmin ster sommottiesti. a, 216371. Is. 7d.; Vicroris Park ap proach, 42,6021. Kid.; Fizeouy Park, 34 leo. lid. ; mailing • trial of 3116,606/. Is. N. FlwasolT Pali. A deputafion afteudod Iron the 'Wry ef this perish of St. Mary, Islington, to ;meat a inemor4l lea) ing that Imme diate a spa be taken for tae pantave or securing of the land fur the formation of Fiosbary Park, pursuant to the provi liOa• of "The Finsbury Park Act, 1167." Mr. Sr VAOII moved a rerolation wish the view of eatryi ng intnriWet taw prayor the gorworial, Wilk& wadi seconded by Mr. PECIETT. Mr. DOVLTON moved, and Mr. PAZILAAIt seem:Jed an amendment, "That it ie,nesp , dient to tabs any steps for she (mahatma of a park for Fmetusy until the board shall be is posre-sion of resources for cl,fra)ing the cost other than the direct fondles of the 'rimy p0i..." Lleat.-Co'onel KENNEDY thought that before they un &nook the fermation of this perk, they should consider the quails of pests parrelly, and whether the cost should be aellaysd from local or national coon es. Mr. H. L. TATLOR W. is favour of improv'tsg and widen hag the priacipol thoroughfare before they eatatirdned such emtiy projects es forming parks, whoa they Lad no finds tut those derived trim d rent teration. the Cirtatean 1;4 titeciu7etioe , cad declared the ereeed meat to be ceevied. PIMPTIIIO SNIPING 701 t THE MAIN MISTNAGE. Oa ohs motion to tea its teed. re for pumping enginse and mtchlasty kr raising sewage at Deptford welkin, lift. CAIIIMALL isoce4 that the tender* remised for the panipieg anew ant mwhisery be referred to the main deskse gip comesitiee, eith in.t.o *ices to rail in web profes sional assistance a. they noiy consider desinible; and that the commit**, do report to lir. bawd as to the beet cunstruc • i..n of engines sod inschieery f t relent; the wimp a• the Doodad station, mid also aa to which, If any, of the tenders should be meowed by this hoard. After sores discussion the modes was coterie!, and some other Walsers hating been digit:wad of, the board adjourned• Tuz Niw SUPERANNUATION HlLL. — Yesterday the eats Nelrrinalet bill re eapennalatioes was printed. Then le a prevhisa as to the compiling r.Vremeat of per son. at e& Seven' arts an repealed, aad the wale of &Wasson an Rath. T i.years appear to he the sh..r ret -- manias far solidi • fe w " be valued, and Ihr atort pooled* seetelir; may 100 rata. - The new' Reform Club," recently organised in Liverpool hove SUNNI the handrails end resteedino build leg kern ea the Lord' s Can, In Clartolvegurze, a■ a rewlawas hepatica' ma dab 'sabotage. IMPRESS FROM PARIS. (PlOll OVA OWN Pa.RII3, FRIDAY Everixo. M. Emile de Girardin's pamphlet hu been allowed to appear, but it is reported that he was compelled to strike out some passages from the original manuscript, in which his opinion of the incom patibility of war and liberty was too bluntly stated. His title page, however, exhibits a motto culled from the words of the Emperor himself, the citation of which clearly indicates M. de Girardin's belief that if Napoleon ILL goes to war it will be because he despairs of permanently keeping down liberty in Franc, without resorting to that extremity. Here is the apt quotation : There he. never yet been OM umeg free peoples say government etroog enough to repress liberty at home for say length of time without giving to Its subjects glory abroad. I have no time to give a fall analysis of the pam phlet, which I think is destined to make a consider able sensation. M. E. de Oirardin's position in France is peculiar. For many years he bas laid aside his pen, on the express ground that as he could not write freely he preferred not writing at aIL A year ago he wrote under a borrowed signa tare a few articles in the Coursier de Paris, with the heading, " The Empire and Liberty." The theme wee disagreeable to the authorities, the man ner of treating it still more so, and the journal was soon given to understand that the series must be discontinued. Since that time M. de Oirardin, who has long been closely con nected with Prince Napoleon, bee accepted office under him as a member of the consultative council of Algeria : and, therefore, must be con sidered to have rallied to the empire through the prince, and perhaps on condition that he may enjoy a certain latitude to develop that liberal side of Napoleoniem of which the prince has come to be considered the representative. So far as I can judge of the tenor of his pamphlet, from a hurried first reading, it seems to me to be written under a sort of tacit understanding that he should be allowed to express his own opinions very plainly against the particular practical war which is now im minent, on condition that he should ventilate the idea of a grand universal war, which he perhaps thinks would be still more congenial to the mind of the Emperor if there were any chance of the country supporting him in it. He thinks that to make war for the miserable purpose of turning Austria out of Italy would be an unworthy " waste of powder," which had better be kept to be used against—pleasant prospect !—Proasia and England. He combats with great ability, paragraph by para graph, the various pretexts put forth by the official pamphlet, " Napoleon 111. et l'ltalie," to justify an armed intervention in the Peninsula. He shows, in terms which must severely try the temper of the imperial prompter of that production, that the deplorable state of things now existing in Rome is not justly attributable to Austria, bat to himself, on account of his having bombarded Rome in 1849. He ridicules the idea of making the Pops President of an Italian Confederation, and quotes Napoleon I. to show the impossibility of reconciling the Pope's spiritual Infallibility with temporal re sponsibility. The emancipation of Lombardy from the thraldom of Austria, which he admits to be most desirable, he thinks might be attained by time, peace, and the pressure of opinion, and ha positively joins issue with the pam phlet on one of its main positions—that Austria can never be expected to yield without fighting, because she would be committing suicide. Bat in the second part of the pamphlet he says that if, contrary to his opinion, France feels the "abso lute necessity " of making war, he would like to see a general war carried on by the aid of a Russian alliance against England and Germany for the pur pose of avenging Waterloo and founding two grand empires—the Empire of the West for France, and the Empire of the East for Russia. This scheme he shows by copious extracts from .writings of Napoleon I. and Napoleon 111. would be a true oarryiag out of the " Idea Napoleoniennes." He concludes: If the objest be to Interfere In the afLire of the Roessne r to piece the Lombards ender the Piedon Mew petrel:nest, la spies of the temembeence of the eseembly of Lugano to INS, end to have sn Italian coefedarstion presided over by the Pope. we shall say, Pate I If It be wished to take re vamp for Waterloo, to restore the left bank of the Rhine to Fran, to maths, in fact, the programme of St. Helena and of Ham, and to fend the great Etuopran amodation, we than my, War! Either war with its conquests or peace with the proves'. The Bourse opened with some firmness upon the strength of Lord Malmesbury's announcement that the conference might be expected to meet. The Rental was for a moment quoted 6c. higher, but the more confident feeling was of short duration, and the closing quotations, 68fr. and 67fr. 96c., show • fall of 26e. and 30c. Mobilier fell 13fr. 76c. Rail ways were from 6fr. to 10fr. lower. The alarming alternative propounded in 61. de Girardin's pamphlet was not without influence on the market. MEW AUSTRIA AND PIEDMONT. VIENNA, Fn. 11. The official Austrian Correspondence refutes the sensations of Count Cantu, and says : " Austria is nfficiently armed to ward off attacks against the imperial sovereignty, but respects, ne vertheless, the right of other states to settle their affairs as they may please." MALTA. (nom ova ova MALTA, Fie. 6. On the Ist instant, Vice• Admiral Fauskawe and the °Sours of the Meditteranean equedron pve • ball to the park.° and gentry of Mats. On the 4th, her Maje.ty*a ship &apelike lett this for Alexandria, conveylog fifty boys fowler Majesty's ship Ch. eaposte. They sill b., seat by rail from A1..1.11;11 . 6 to Sues, at wEich poet her Majeety's skip Roebuck is awaking heir snivel, to take them on to Jeddah to bee Majesty's ship Chesapeake, which will then at omit lemma to Gybe with Cememdore Henry EdgelL Ow the Bad • court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Ribald., for the trial of Comreand.r Edwd. Kneecalinll 11 mg hem Hallett, who had been ordered from I Kaarlaod expreedy en charges &riding out of the Wel of Po ma.ts r 'Tacker, who had been dismissed the Berrie, for a d,6M.eney of above 7001. public nv.ney. The charges spinet Commander Hallett were two, for negleM of duty, an both of which he was found guilty. The dentine* wee that he I abouti be reprimanded end admonished. The electric cable Wilma thin and Cagliari wee repired and put le perfect waking order in the evening of the 6th. The tropmed plan for the division of the harbours and media of Malta is that the upper part of Grand Harbour, commonly known as the Mazes, should to teserred far mer e cheat shipping. The Mersa is to be &mimed end made available for merchant /hipping, end two breekweb re awed eta cod to the Treasury at Great Britain of from 70,0001. to 100,0001. The Para, with mails from India, treed at 12 a.m., the telegram via Coifs having attired at 6 p.m. yesterday. The Rusin., with overland petiole of well Ikons India, arrived at 1 a m. of Feb. 7. The AurrieuAN MAIL.—The Thames arrived at Southampton yeeterday with the lwavy portlfin of the Aus tralian math. Her date wars :—Alexandtia, Jan. 27 ; Malta, Feb. I. Amongst the cup wee gold duet and *pock to the value of 76.2111. IS.. 4d , nearly th e whole of which wee from Melbourne. The U. S. ship Macedonian we. M Alethedria. The British ewew steamer lank WU Off Cars. The Thanes exchanged goals with a large aionwr ea the Srd., summed to be the Bombay snail p tad, which MR Southampton to the 47th ult. The Thames art with very but nsather aU the way kat Gibredt.r. It nixed az tenlvely, and the mkt wee seererpealed by irlo'eat raw of thunder and lightning. There was • heavy swell from the sanh•wmt aloof lb. amid Partspl, sal saves the By of Biscay. THE UNITED STATER. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The screw steam-ship City of Washington, Capt. Petrie, belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company, arrived here ' to-day, having sailed from New York on the 29th ult. She brought the United States mails, 64 cabin and 137 steerage passengers, and 177,698 dollars in ie spec. On the 29th she pared the packet ship William Tell, bound in to New York. The steats-ship Arabia, hence, arrived out at Halifax on the 28th; and the Arago, from Southampton, reached New York on the 29th. The steam-ship Circassian, which sailed from Galway on the 11th ult. for St. John's, Newfound land, had not been heard of when the City of Washington sailed, and was then over eighteen days out. She had been advertised to leave New York on her return trip on the 27th, and the passengers booked for her were, in her absence, transferred to the City of Washington. Lord Napier had accepted the compliment of a ) ball in Washington, but considered it injudicious to accept a similar testimonial in New York, or else where. The steamship Illinois, with the California mails of January 6th, and 1,210,713 dole. in gold, had arrived at New York. Her advice. have been generally anticipated rig New Orleans. The whole gold shipments of 1868 from San Francisco amount to 47,724,990 dole. against 49,266,162 dole. in 1837. The steam-ship Washington, which left New York on the 26th of December for Oreytown, finding it impossible to send Ater passengers across the 11th mug, proceeded to Aspinwall, and after a brief delay at that place :left on the 19th of January on her voyage to San Francisco rid Cape Horn. A letter from Victoria, British Columbia, of De cember 26th, gives the following news : The principal events that have occurred here, sines my loot, are the beening of Fraser's River and the reception of sews from the Upper Fraser sod Bridge Rivets which plows the richness and extant of the British Columbia places bo yced a question. The miners on the Lower Fraser had, by the felling of the river, just been enabled to get bats the dlr. gimp on which the reports of lout swing were hosed, whim operatioes were interrupted by the of tie water, sag little will probably be done now till F . Probably, ore this, washing bee also been stopped on the pper consequeatly maw whim are arriving from above, whose faith in the r;clutets of the mines may be ultimata front the feet that they comprise the first rush from above width has Viotor instead of returning to Califonde. A =feel of dust Is now being received here, and probably more has keen seat below in the past six week, than in all the preview period since the irruption of the Fraser lever. Dr. H. A. De Groot, formerly editor of the Sox Premise new, has taken as ellen:rive trip thruagh the tippet country, and furnishes several interesting icier. to the Omits. THE NEAPOLITAN EXILES. The following is an extract of a letter from one of the Neapolitan prisoners transported to New York, dated Bay of Cadiz, on board the Neapolitan war steamer Stromboli, Feb. 2, l 869: o It is impossible for any one of us to land: our imprisonment continues, and will end only at New York. Not even Posrio, wbo is ill, has been allowed to land for an hoar. A Spanish sailing vessel bee been hired, on board of which we shall soon be placed. The Neapolitan steam-frigate which escorts no will tow the Spanish ship for two days, and then will turn back. We shall continue our voyage alone. " After having pained ten years in a sepulchral stillneen it is hard to be towed about at sea. I am, however, cheerful and well, and happy in thinking shall soon be free. On board this steamer we in well treated. From New York I shall eons ay England. " Forgive my incoherent letter; the not the effects of a sea voyage, and, to tell the truth, a Willi vexation at having to make so long a voyage without any reason, the new life which I live, have be• wilderee my poor brains, and I hardly know what I am doing. " We are all well, Poerio excepted, who has long suffered from bronchitis, which of late having be. oome worse, gave as great uneasiness. He is now better, but who known what may happen during the voyage, which most lest at least a month ? Wo are in Ood's hands ; we are cheerful, and bear up manfully. Forgive my uncouth epistle ; I tell you my head is (lolls oonfosed, and I am giddy." We are glad to learn that ample preparations are making at New York to give these noble men, who, although released from his prisons, yet feel the heavy hand of King Ferdinand's cruelty, a reception that will resound throughout the world. The Hereditary Princess of Tuscany died at Naples as Thursday Ler. The deceased princess was the daughter of the =ping King of Saxony. sad was but 72 year, of sr. In November, 1866, elm wee married to the Hereditary Gmad Duke of Tuscany, and on the 10th of WS month she gays birth to a daughter. A letter from Vienna, - dated Monday, says :—. To the great stories of the peblio the oonductors of our j journals hare ro:ei‘od orders from the government to submit to the Minister of Finance all articles treating of financial questions, and to publish none which an not approve! of." " An Engliahman arriving in Florence now for the ant time," writes a correspondent of the Atheneum," would probably be much struck by the amount of liberty of speech which he would witness ow all sides. With his notions of the espiototage hsbituatly practised by the ever-trembling despotisms of the Continent, the cautions prudence of the Italian character, and the danger Maine! by known hoe. Wily to the government, he would be astonished at hearing in every eel talk which very- mild rulers might Leidy deem seditious and treasonable, and at seeing openly pawed from band to band addresses to the people of the most frankly revolutionary description. lb. preducf Qui &Undid to ars, it is true, chnde.tioely ;rinsed, and anonymous. But the printing and distributing them would be very dangerous, not to to say Impossible, if the powers of a despotic govern. sent were to be pot in attic.* in earnest to prevent or punish it The Madrid journals of the 7th say that Mr. Dun. cash. Jonas Perry, the Englishman condemned to death for having assaulted a Stanish sentinel in the vicinity of Gib raltar, belongs to a good family of Wale., and is only 21 years of ego. In addition to assault tog the sentinel, it is said that he heated down a gendarme who went to the soldier's defence. At the moment of the assault he wee in the com pany of several English °Meer., and of a young lady named Pemberton. The cause of the assault was that the terrine!, in obedience Waders, tried to prevent him frrm riding ea a cer:ain site. Toe Cbsraponetelseia Asittyraf a iathastait that the Queen will probably spore his lite." The North China Herald states that a newspaper published at Shanghai in Chinese by the miaalaa•ies ben attained a circulation of 700. The people boy it woek by week, paying cask, and each parch& er reeds it abed. The Chinese, it appeare, are much interested in all local news, particularly plies reports. _ - • Dr. Bellart writes in a Ceylon paper :—" I have the Omura of announcing to the acien*ifto world that I band the ovaries of the peal oyster Sled with pearls of various size and shape. I bar. marred the specimen for te.a.mtoioi to Professor Owes, to be by Wm p'aced en the shelves of the Museum of the Royal College of &rotas as a proof of the accuracy of the la's Sir liveried Homes doc trine, which has for many years been exploded. I obtained from ow of the ovaries as many as thirty-two pearls, and the other egg beg, st4l unopenel, seems to contain ss many more." It is understood that chambers of commerce have resolved upon ending comvtent spate tAnd a, to woeful and report sp . a various mattrra ralatire to the meth of macs. Tbey ste to ascertain what coremereial delkeltiew have to be removal, or facilities to be discovered; sad to sot for their principals as airman epees may require. The Continental journals state that the negotia , Was for a commercial tasty ketwesn Rugg and Austria have ten hitherto ansocceedal. It is r.potted that wide Arastrn is willing to make every conceal& a Russia gelneee 110 lower the duty cm tome of *Le most important articles. CRYIITAL PALACZ. SATURDAY CONCERT. Kaden, Gathering Hayes will make her first appearance at the Crystal Palace at the most et this day.