The Express. — London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

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Willusr.—Aud WAS I.—CiameaseVr," Pt ISOlcArat r•rwas. 111110 iIIC3II Till WIRE. MAL gaming Menu. Lam.—umorre al T. /MIT %NUM . .= ... lBTWNLlMlt ir el!taer IL /ikoffill i. l=l: .: t h. .. - Gridr ui dnla . oit a tihrt 11Dila CLOUD. MON NAVIN AT LONDON CRIDON. The 0,1-3Agria. •a• 4 aO. Ts $lll4OO .4 4, AA— —...aturasely 4 . 54144. SONDOM. ntuutr, NAY 20. As the late Parliament was dissolved in conse queues of its vote of censure upoo Ministers for having brought forward as insufficient Reform Bill, the first question that will naturally arise in the New I.wham/at mast be the confirmation or reversal of that rote. If the people, when •ppe•led to by the Boy ZllllOll, here returned • tosjorny of representa tives pledged to • more just •nd comprebeneire 'unsure thastbst whichtbeirpeedeoessors refused to adopt, their int set as faithful stewards must be to pot distinctly upon legislative record a clear and emphatic declaration of the satioo's will. It was vexatious sod troublesome enough to have had the busineos of the session inter- rupted for six weeks, for the porpoee of inakiog that appeal. It baa been costly and . . woetefel enough in the reeking ; and debilitating and injuriou, enough to the natioesl istereate abroad Mat at each a jimetaria it should hays boot made. Bat there is no help fur these things sow. We have paid the price, and we now begin to Lk what have . _ . - we got for our bargain? We are assuredly entitled to something substastisl in the way of malt. In their honest desire to secure as a good Reform Bill our late Parliamentary treaties felt themselves jus tified in incurring ail the possible aod certain cense- - . (pumas of a diaiso:etion; fur they knew the sort of nun 'h.:, Doi to deo:with in theprosent Cabinet, and they neeertheleas felt it to be their ditty to pin a Reeohalos which ►tforded them the pretext for appealing to the cout.try. Whatever asay hays been thought sad said of the use made of that pretext. certain it is that the people at liege have not repudiated those who •forded it by voting fur the amendment of Lord Jolty Rreeru.. Oa the contrary, they have sent beck with every souk of honour and confidence all the trading men who supported that Resolution ; sod they hare confessedly returned to the now Hosea of Comtism, a decided majority pledged t. 'amain the priaciples it embodied. What, thew, will be the Snit duty of that majority after they hays chasms a Speaker, taken the oath*, mined to ',DOW the standing orders, adopted the preliminary steps for the 'entireties of disputed election'', sad in a word organised thornier* for business ? We have no hisitatlow is saying that sot a day or as hoar should be last by the !Antal majority la peen*/ their doter enieotioni to meatus Ike dissessisa of the great question of the dey at the pulse when it wan interrupted by Lord Diver's ahem Of the prerogative. Anything short of this would be wwwat trilling with the dictated will of tb settee. sad ■tter self-stultification an the part of P►rliament. Let poor. imagine for a moment that ere an desirous of arguing the matter in a party erase, or that we are animated by any party purpose. Tbe great pri%ilege of the initiative in all grave and weighty matt,* of kgialation belongs to the Admi ■lmration of the day. There is nothing to prevent Lord Drape and his col'eagnee, if they be so minded, bringing forward atone. such a measure as they sow know public opinion would approve. By doing so they would make the only sort of amend. in their power for the inconvecience end injury they have caused by the dissolution. lhey would thereby ems into court and offer to sub mit freshly to jadgment in appeal being ca tered against thew. Their doing so would no doubt him set of humiliation, but then ministerial fencer have grow■ supple by practice, and would hardly refuse to bend once more. That is, however, putty their affair ; oar's is to insist that judgment be peremptorily entered op in the great awe of Popular Enfranchisement against Corrupt Oligarchy. By the 31st instant her MAJLESTY'S Miuietere must have made up their minds either to do the peoples bidding as expressed at the general election regard ing Reform, and to do so at once and without further evasion, or to set that bidding at defiance. A plain question, answered in plain term', will decide that point. Parry iog and pawing will no longer dim At the beginning of June there is no time to waste in speciosity or Jesuitism. If the season is ►ate for going in'o committee on a Bill to amend the representa tion of the people in Parliament, that is not t►e fault of the people, or of their friends in Opposition: t is the fault of those who have wantonly wasted the greater pert of April and the whole of May if an abortive attempt to obtain a majority of sham Reformers in the House of Commons. But it were sheer impudence to set up that factions and futile attempt as an excuse for another year's delay. Rita who could so far forget the deceptive of duty would th're!y pet the millets out of the pale of all ordinary forbearance; and would justly provoke the MOSS summary; measures on the part of their opponente, calculated to bring their tamer of temerity to an immediate sad. Should Minister., however, prove deaf to all warning sod remonstrance, and refuse to lay urn the table forthwith a satisfactory project of Refers, then the leaders of the Liberal party will, we trust. be prepared to take suitable steps for thevindica tion of their own consistency, and for the content ment of the country. A nobler opportunity could not be afforded to men than that which the contin gency we have supposed would present. They have but to place themselves at the head of the popular movement for Reform, and to become the clear and audible exponents of popular expectancy aed deter mination, and their cause is woo. let them make the pasaarg of a broad and effective measure of en- THE EXPRFSS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1859. T H WAR. The Muisiteur of this morning (according to Mr. Renter) publishes the following tele g rams : _ _ "ALR9'9ANI/kIA, MAY 19. " The Emperor inspected to-day the positions of the first and third corps d'armie at Tortona and Ponce Carona. " Yesterday the Austrians endeavoured to fortify and to block up the windows of a house on the left bank of the Po, and by entrenching themselves within it to dispute the passage of the river at Valenzs. A few discharges, however, of French cannon from a distance of 2,800 metres sufficed to dislodge them from their sheltered pnition, which they have since abandoned. " At 11 o'clock this morning the Austrians with drew from Vercelli, and have blown up the bridge l over the Sesia." The following official bulletin (No. 39) was pub lished yesterday at Turin : " Yesterday evening several detachments of the Austrians advanced to Capri:moo, near San Germane, driving off cattle and firing at the peasants. " Our troops desiring to fight, awaited the enemy at San Germano, but they withdrew to Vercelli, which they this morning evacuated, after blowing up two arches of the bridge over the Sada. " Our troops occupied Vercelli at 4:30 this after- " The Austrians with their artillery are still on the left bank of the river. Yesterday the enemy endeavoured to fortify a house on the left bank of the Po, opposite Valence, in order to hinder the passage of the river by as, but a few discharges of French cannon from a distance of 2,600 metres forced them to abandon their intention." PAVIA, Kty 19. The headquarters of the Austrian army have been removed to Gplasco. Great movements of troops have taken place, and a collision is expected daring to-day or to-morrow. BER NE, MAT 19. According to reports from Vienna, General Gyulai has sent word to his government, that his demand/ of contributions from the Sardinians for the support of his troops are unattended with further result' that provisions are beginning to fail in Piedmont, I and that he will not be able to hold its present posi tion more than 16 days longer. franchisement during the present session their watchword and rail} log cry, and resistance to their oaslati;ht will become hopeless. In the muter roil of tte new Parliament there are numbers of men who cannot help but vote with them ea the question of moderate but immediate Reform. It may be consistent and politic in a Con servative ministry to take office pledged to nothing. Their strength is to sit still. That of • Liberal government is to more on,—temperately, deliberately, if you will, but unmistakeably and fear lead) in the direction of progress. When the people see • change of bands in office, and only learn that so many Dukee, Earls, and Nonourables of one West•end Club have superseded u many be longirg to another, they look on with natural indif ference, and mutter moodily to themselves," The old "story." They do not grudge the new men their turn ; but sane one or two who happen to be indi vidually popular, they know nothing about then, believe nothing of thpm, and care not a rush how long ce how short be their court tenancy of Downing street. No set of men calling themselves liberals can come into office with credit to themselves or ad vantage to the country in this way. They muse _ _ unfurl a recognisable flog while in Opposition, and plant it on the summit of the breach whenever they make an sasault, if they will enter with honest triumph or the practical hope of patriotism. is one word, they must make the people under stand 'chat the change is for, as well as who it is for. To-day there ia but one thing the c3untry earns for as matter of immediate legisla tion. If the Opposition knows its real interest and would prove its real strength, it will permit nothing to divert it from the obvious policy and duty of in sistiog on the prompt enactment of a comprehensive measure of Reform. Cbt Court. THE BIRTHDAY DRAWING ROOM. The Gwen held a drawine-room in celebration of bee birthday ;oda lay atemoon, in Bt. i.e...'. Paseo. The Qum and Priam C• ea r', scoompieded ►y the Penmen Alice, arrived frem Beekiaghme Pew., attended by the Idles sad gentlemen in waihng. The Doke of °poet*, [`rime ea Prime's Clews. of S.aoay. the Dabs of Cambridge sad the Priteem Mary, ' Edward of &me-Weimar, end Prince Frecketek of llols'ent were went at t►e rearrien. The Duke of Cam bridge was attended by Colonel the Hee. J. Illsodonskl. The Pflug's bl.ry yea attended by Lady Gersldise .—... . . . . . ThaLcithiphop of Canterbury nee ant latroduced to the Queen. lib Omens, accompanied by the Archbishop of York, dm Wm, of London (Doan of the Chat el ithyal), the Bishop of Wutcheeerr, the Bishop of Durham, he 131.00 p of Oxford (Lord Rif kl Almoner), the &shop of Chester (Mira of the Cl^e a), the Bohe.p. of St. Astph, Wor . ontcr, ' Carla.ls Me nt he - ter, Beth and Walla. Rion, I.loooio, C•phel,Dowe sad Canton, Cape Town, NeoLuadtand, end Orabania Teen. The IL/chi-dation of Caatettney delivered an edam, of congratulation to Let Mel oty non the rotors of her meal day. After the receptti n of the Blab les the Queen end Frinov Consort entered the Throne Boom, accompenie I by the PI WOMB Mlle, thy Doke of Op ,ne, Paco. and Princes. George of Stoney, the Duke of Combei 1,. cad the Pliocene Mary, Priem Edward of due Wieimar, and Fence Frede rick of Hol-tein. The Q. era .on a train of trfeen mid glow wstwel irlown.d itit`l hoodoos of the Vecuirla Robe., Filrer bleade, and whits tulle. The poriiriat white oath., wi h Ores eli;rio of white talk, terra with Wadi. •of Victoria, •wl silver blade. Her li..jrity's bead-dna, wee compitord of • wreath of the Victoria Bops airmailed with di .coindo ; feathers sad orfl. . . . . . . Tll;lriar vs Mks won a hells of phh moire, I ned snob rkh satin, and trammed with folk Worsham of white MOP, sad pink ribhae. The punkas& risk RlrF, bosilloaws pick lath sal trimmed with basolow of white roes sad pink ribbon. Her Hopi Histaisees hosddrees was (ward of • wrrs•h of white has, well, sad too hers. Orwasesta, pearls sad diancsda. _ _ . The Priarere George of &many wan a man of pm mire, embrcidend with gold. The pettleott green moire. Her Rays! Higbriee:e headdr*es wee ndmed of white feathers and damned oin.Mnrete. The POMP= were the I..iatli of • Psi tiptoes O.d.r of Kaightltood. The Prinee.ii Karts of Cambridge were a train of white roods, trimmed with pink muse rosebud. and long gran. Is we of pkilt ribbon, and tionillnenee of Mlle. The pinked white tulle over itch gime silk, gond sit\ pink ribbon and kmmeltee of pink wee roe bode mad gram. The nirvana trimmed to watch ',Oh a row of diamonds; a diamond etommher; emeeeld and Amazed wahine mid earring*. Hie Royal Henbanes headdress wee • Cedilla of diainoeds, pima of *ottani, silver tally veil, with ameral I and Cawood orowoon... Ofitso"Mei, ow of the Priam of Son* the Prloom N. (4.fmoiritoli ; Prism O►ol.m 1 , 4146v050d, of saa of Tigre* lhallaa; rows Too z' Oink 'moos o. Tifees• Sultan ; n 4 Paws lot*, Du k', gnat madam of Two &has. vandal Os &sofas-mac Primo N. 01emowitelt won a talks of gold sat diamond*, mil his wan was eh. PI LediAly iwasanested wish diamonds , . I. the Dillies•tsc Ore& dee (aiming iste•mt vines to the gear IPA plow • Ift We. D+11.., Krt. Mania, las of th• United Swan st !Alma. By Ih. Usial4 Sulam Illiakior, Gourd Idiergin, Voted Steles Illinlesew w lietwa. B 11.7.+1.aHisMeee, Bann Viatiesehoff, Attest& to the By Gm epa.W Whister, N. Pnwevite de Chalon y Her ne% Atteahl a la Leeman or Cetus's., a Leedom. The Diplemetie Cinie woe a.t.wde t by the Funch Ambas sador, the Bakke, the B rubel+, the His.,. r as, the Eke diaine. the Greek, Gee Netheriaa4a. the Piamian, the Brasil .a, the Helsel State., the Auaiian, diszoft. the sad Norwegtea. HAMA. Reads, Soialeke. TM"- sneak Haase Twee,. mad Pore Mac Mitleters; Poises A. Vegoridee. Charee d' Alarm of tno flablime Posta; H. Listaat Pallas., Charlie d'Affaires' of Haiti; Chevalier &Meeks, Countill, of the Porteerasee Legalism. The Anemias Mistime premaied Coat Teeetayl, a Hungarien boblemeti, to the anon, in the diploma& ern*. The Diplomatic Circle was aloo attooded by the Eal of lidalmerbort, tbs Qmon's priecipal Secretary of Sisee far Foreige Aff.ire, the Comatose ofWaheesbory, and Major- General ihe Hoc. Sir &lend Coat, her llejesty's Heater .1 the Grammies. The Connie.' of Mount Edpournte was in attendance to her Majesty a. eves Lady in Waitimr. The general . 4 rele wee an.whid by mot of tor Majesty's refelaters and meat sabers of State. The Prises Consort ottend..l the parade of the tromps at the Boom Gaorke 'his morsire. accompanied by the Doke di Oporto and Priem George o f ny. Is attendance were Major-Ovesrel the Hill. C. Grey, Lord Charlet ?dale% "tape °morel WIMP, Coked P. floymear, Usese Ponsomby. Celine 'be Has. A. Hartlfege, Du Fiat. Lime..Geweril Vitae* de Compalea, C4 4 4 .llll H.lidoif, sad Celeesi P. H. ihrpecur. The Prioress Auguries et Sum Coburg arrived la the fore saw. roc visit to her Msp sty, 11==I The Queen, b.:compacted hy the Prises sad "roma Giver. of Simony. and the Praetor Aeittegov of 8... Coburg, drove rat in a eerriiiire and dun is the eltmeown. lied Chilli Fain, end Calomel E. H. Islam were in atteedente. Tb. Phi... Co!sfff. with the Duke of Greta, teas at bombs* atbarfoi laz = Usia:mat-Colosel P 000sstry. tbsoleshoi as 4 tla "Nivea Gomm ome, mid by POEM led Own of Saxony. Goa Pi is • antaaAnniallia of &as Carr Lemaared with Moir remota ibitporfarirmio M lb fayd Italian Opera. C mest.gardos. no Qom sof royal party were &venial by the tat ao sod iisibma WWI =km lb" Ifritbl N la Cove, Wm Taeltinekky, 1/11. la &troi lsm tbo Primo mid Prisons theme at Saxony es lb* 'retest at Bucitingliss Palace, aa Woitosaday. Her Royal Ilighneee the Princes' Frederick Wil lie/ea Pounds nu expected ty erubark to day at Antwerp for ()Aortae. A ktter ftus Berne rays that the Count sad Connate Perprneher win aceomFany the Prime•, bet that the prince sad the infant will remain et His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, with a mum-roaa tente, has er,het at Clerklige's lintel, from a leer et five 'needle' duraliou through Auarie, Turkey, It*, sad Frage. _ _ - The Marquis and Marehionets of Bresdalbane hies snivel at the Peen ea Hotel, Folkestone, en rents to Loud, n fres Parte. Ths Earl of Annesley arrived at hie residence in Norfulk-alreet, Park-late, 'muddy, from Ireland, for the mum Lord Kinnaird Dar arrived at hie reaidinee in Oroomeirw-otro., for *b. /040013. Lady Alfred Hervey gave birth to a son yester day, at 47, Y..Wia•ptae. The Cosetese. of Derby Geld a recer tioa " laet ',mist at th 4 cIBI.I redden , . d Ibe fleet Loki of the Timmy la ik.e aiseNteee. I levitaias Are Issued to eked 700 members r f the at ialoctrry Ad &Akashi* yea. and mon ibis' 101 were pewee. Lord sod lady No►mspbl Awed with the Belgic p o ut oa Woduoiday. THE BLOCKADE OF VENICE. VIENNA, THURSO/4,T. The evening edition of the official Wiener Minns contains the following: The Norwegian brig Alma, coming to Venioe, was stopped by a French frigate, overhauled, and re ceived the declaration, that all Austrian ports, with the exception of Trieste and Ancona, are in a state of blockade. The commander of the fortress of Venice haw yet received no notice of the fact. The French fleet before Venice have already taken Mx schooners and six other remelc Fifteen French war ships hare been teen near Cattaro, on the mast of Dalmatia. Tne Malta fleet is about sailing for Genoa. Tee following telegrams have been received this morning by Mr. Renter : "SPIONO, Mar 17. ".:Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian returned to this place shortly before the French squadron wee in view at Ragusa." "TRIESTE, TIIVIVIDLY, MAY 19. "The Austrian bark Genic), laden with coals, has arrived here from Liverpool. "Twenty Austrian vowels hays been captured by the French." THE FEDERAL DIET. FRANKFORT-ON•TfI-KLINR, TROMDIT. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Dist, Prussia declared that, although she still adhered to her protest against the proposal of Hanover to form a federal corps•J'armle of observation on the Rhine, y e t she did not object to its being discussed is a matter of form ; and the proposal was accordingly referred to the Commission for Management of Mili tary Affairs. MAYENCE, FaiDAT. The Mayenee Journal states that, according to reliable information, 23,000 Bavarians are next week to enter the Rhine Palatinate to protect the frontiers. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, FaloAT. Karoo Xiibeek is designated u the future pre sident of the Federal Diet. HAMBURG. HAMBURG, THUBSDAT. The rate of disooant is this day 2 to 4 per mat. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN SPAIN. MADRID, WV:Mt/DAT. The Prince of Wales is about to travel through the provinces of Aadalaida. MISCELLANEOUS. Count Pout*lse, Minister of Prussia at Perim, has left for Berlin, but the Nord says that the journey relates exclusively to private affairs. Prince Napoleon has estab.ished the bead. quarters of the 6th corps d'armee at St. Marna, near depot. A Vienna letter declares that the subscriptions to the Austrian patriotic fund amount to 108,409 florins. A Milan letter of the 10th says :—" The military I commandant of this city has polished a proclama tion which raises the indignation of the :Milanese to the highest pitch, and shows that the government has some fears of an insurrection, which might be successful. In the proclamation it is declared that the soldiers of the garrison have received orders to kill any Milanese on the spot who shall be guilty of any offence towards them." A Vienna letter states that the retirement of Count de Buol is likely to be followed by that of two others of his colleague,, Baron de Bach, Minister of the Interior, and Count de Than, Minister of Public Instruction, being, it state,, on the eve of either resigning or receiving their dismissal. As to M. de Bruck, the Minister of Finance, his services cannot be dispensed with under present circum stances. A Paris letter in the lndependemee of Brunels says:—" The Italian committee have up to the pre sent time Bent off 250 volunteers to the Piedmontese army, at the total cost of 18,000 fr., including travelling expenses and 40fr. to each man, half paid on Inning Paris, and the remainder to be received on reaching Turin. The subscriptions amount to 28,000 fr. The committee have received flattering letters from M. Conoestt, en the put of the Emperor, from the Marquis da Villamarins, the Sardinian AmbasaadOr, and Count de Carour." The correspondent of the Times at Rome writes: Voluottere go off daily from here in ouuilare, 110030 1 / 1 111PS kg% s =mimeo more, thaw 100, mid a Fero= stationing him self ou the Pout* Slab would be struck with the sommaly quiet and sober demeanour of thaw leaving. Many of them are only working men, many have not told their families, and their appearance indicatea poverty or eserecy. Bitch man has got a small parcel under his arm, and very probably nothing in hie pocket. There are none of those frantic demonstrations which have hitherto marked Italian uprisings, but there is something better —there is a quiet, modest demeanour, indicating a flied and deep resolatics. As they march along they tank at the door, perhaps, of some companion who has agreed to join them. On 'Mein; at the s'ation a man awaits them, and presents each with a gum varying from 20 to 30 pauls, and on arriving at Clefts Vecchia I hear that a similar sum is promoted to them. AU this Is done openly— it is useless to oppose It; to do so would be to create a revolution, and the Papal authorities of necessity submit. On Thursday 130 volunteers 101 l with Bags, and shouting " and yesterday morning 30 men of the middle chests, besides others, left. A thousand men have already left Perugia. A cation contribution to the army arrived In Rome this week, in the form of 200 donkey drivers. In 18481 understand that the suns clams of men displayed a very warlike spirit. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. CllOll 001 OWI4 PARIS, THURSDAY EvININO. During the Emperor's absence an auditor of the Council of State will leave Paris every week for the seat of war with a portfolio of papers. M. Vieyra Molina left this morning for head-quarters. People have bat little idea (says the Pays) of the cost of transporting the materiel of the army from one place to another. To give one instance among a thousand, it require. 300 horses to remove a million of cartridges. We have already sent ten millions to Italy. Three thousand horses, therefore, have been put into requisition for this simple ser vice alone. Such an enormous mass of cartridges in these days of arms of precision, give. a terrible ides of the destructive power of our arms. It oan no longer be calculated, u it wu fifty years ago, that every enemy killed east hie weight in bullets. The means of destruction are now too formidable for war to last long. The bill for approving certain conventions made by the minister of public works in the part of the state with the Orleans, Northern, Lyons, Dauphiny, Western, Eastern, Ardennes, and Southern railway companies was voted by the Corps Legislatif lest evening, after a three days' debate. The numbers on the division were—ayes, 232; noes, 11. This minority was less considerable than was expected, for the bill provoked a great amount of opposition. Messrs. I)arimoo, Picard, and Emile 011ivier ob jected that the government, in order to save the railway companies from the ruinous condition into which they had brought themselves by their own bad management and want of foresight, proposed to saddle the state with an amount of liability which it was perfectly frightful to contemplate. By sae- CelifiTO fusions the whole railway net-work of France had been divided into six great commas& Every fusion was hailed with exultation, because at the Bourse fusion wu synonymous with premium ; railway shares had at one time been selling for fin times their original value, immense sums of money had been recklessly raised by issues of obligation', and now the companies in defiance of their con tracts, said they were unable to complete the railways which they bad promised to make, and the govern ment at once made new and more favourable bar gains with them, and undertook to guarantee a minimum interest upon their obligations, in order that they might be able to pay something to their shareholders, who otherwise would be likely to go without dividends. They also complained that the companies, strong in their monopoly, had put down goods traffic on canals and ordinary roads all over the country, and that now both agriculture and commerce suffered greatly from the exorbitant charges and hopeless delays of the goods trains. They contended that according to all sound policy, great companies, as wel l as private individual', should be left to abide by the consequences of a sontract. To all this M. Baroche replied, on the part of the government, that the crisis of 1838, in creating a state of things which it was impossible fur any human prudence to foresee, had made it impossible fee the companies to fulfil their engagements; that the railways promised must be finished, because the Inhabitants of the districta through which they were to pass had built hopes upon them which it would be unjust and impolitic to disappoint; that there was, to a certain extent, a solidarity between the credit of the companies and the credit of the state, and it was therefore wise, in order to prevent the latter from being depreciated, to hold out to the companies a helping hand. He admitted that the companies would have to realise successive loans, amounting in the aggregate to two milliards and a halter franc's, for the payment of the interest of which the state would be responsible as a surety, but he contended that this was a less evil than the bor rowing of the money directly by the state. The latter plan had been proposed in committee, but was rejected from the consideration that the prospect of a series of loans, occasioning the creation of new stock to such an enormous amount, would have seriously injured the creditor the state. M. Plichon, the reporter of the commission, while approving of the bill, admitted that the guarantee of the state wee by no means likely to be merely nominal ; that it would be • serious burden to the treasury, par ticularly daring the next few years, and that it would have the inconvenience of bearing most heavily upon the state in moments of financial diffi culty. He was not, however, alarmed at this pros pect, because he was convinced that the new railway branches would give an impetus to agriculture, trade, and manufactures, which would largely augment the public resources. lie could not deny that many of the complaints preferred against the companies were but too well founded, and unless they amended their system of administration he feared that government would one day be forced by public opinion to take the railways into its own hands. It was because he was convinced that government could not accept such an inheritance without serious inconvenience that he urgently demanded that the companies should be constrained to do their work better. The Bourse opened with some tlrmneu under the itAlaence of another large " discount," but there was little animation. The Rents, at one moment wu marked 6lfr. 23c., but it was all the morning 10e. lower than the official price in the coulisse. The mooed quotation of Consols coming from London with I per cert. fall produced a decided downward movement, which sou accelerated by some talk about possible resolutions of the Frank fort Diet. The closing prices were 61fr. for cash and 601 r. 96c. for account, being a fell of 15c. and be. Mobilier roes 12fr. 60c. Two or three of the rail ways were from 21 . r. SO:. to 6fr. higher, and the other lines closed without change. The vats of the new bill by the Corps Legislatif produced no eensible effect on pricer. The Paris Moniteur of this morning snootiness that the mutt hie instituted the Counsellor of State, M. de N Gurronalitv, t the poet of &meter pre Enwpors of printing, of the library, of the prate, and of the etrent of publicsti:nr. A letter from Turin mentions the arrival in that city of Barra Park, and several of his compsnioas. A PIEDMONTS 11 PEASANT FLOGGED TO DEATH BY THE AUSTRIANS. A Turin letter of May 16, in the Sick, asserts that about a week previoaa two waggoner' from Novara had received ordera to take charge of some waggons laden with plunder. On the rood one of them took to Bight, and the other Came to bead-quarters alone. He was held rerpmaible for hie companion, and was sent. noel to receive forty blows on his naked body. At the twill-aft blow he died. The poor man, whoee name was Bianchi, was the father of a FRANCE AND GERMANY. The Debats of yesterday published every important article, which began an fdlows : Whilet it is our misfortune to be in a state of open war with Austria it is with regret that we see sentiments so little friend) y to our nation developing themselves in certain countries of Germany. Had we merely to record precaution ary at =Men , s effected with rahnnemand dignity, we should tot bare one word to add. Fur nearly half a century the doctrine has obtained in Europe, and assuredly to the greater part of the cirilwd world, that no important question can be properly edited unless regulated in conceit by the great powers. Now Germany In every ernes Is a great power • and It would appear to as to be only in keeping with he; dignity and rook in the world if she would throw her wright into the scale when the cley shall have arrived tor pronouncing definitively the fate of Italy. In another part of the article we find the fol ' lowing : Although it any he true that Germany herself has inva riably repelled the attempts made by the court of Vienna to enter as they say, with ell bee Matte into the confederation, end that the Germane are lees directly Interested than some of them pretend in a quarrel having Italy for its object, we should nevertheless be inclined to respect the feeling of sym pathy inducing them to show so lively an interest in behalf of an empire fur from being composed of Germans, but to the heart of which a minority of the German rem, week as ft may be, merle a preponderating influence. Great states, towerful people, those who know that they hold a good positioo in the world, exhibit moderation; little people, on the emtrary, who by reason of their weakness even tsar the reeposuibility of their acts or speeches, hare tier tome Ilene been displaying extreme vi.dence with respect to us. Whilst in Prussia we are told, in language of with& we acknowledge with great pleasure the decorum and dig nity, they are arming tor the protectioa of the national in t. ma's and the maintenance of the European equilibrium— and tWe is unquestioo ably Prusaia's right and duty—others me striving elsewhere to rekindle against France the parsimma of another age. In what is oohed a grand duchy, but which in reality is nothing more than a charmieg though petty prin cipality on the northern banks of the Rhine, we heard the other day a prince of the reigning house announce pompously toe public amembly his departure fur that regiment of the Austrian army in which he tunes either as a teal& or colonel, and exclaim that he was prand at being one of the first German princes to draw the sword in defence of father land. Can Italy, then, hare become the fatherland of the Germans? We hope public opinion, on our ride of the Rhine, will not Pella itaelf to be led astray by such chimeras, and that it will respect, on the south side of the Alps, those principles which it would like to enforce on the north aide of the Elbe. For leanly years mad longer Germany has perseveringly toiled, not always by the moat scrupulous mean,, to detach from the crown of Denmark the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig, which nevertheless belong to Denmark by virtuoso( rights intirdtely noon respectable and'ancitnt than those that constituted la 1816 the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom for Austria's bebool. The pretext, and the only pretext, for this quarrel, that hen already coat muck blood, le that the majority of the population in Holableired Schleswig, speaking the German tongue, met alp be ot Ge ?mon rues, sod that consequently it ought to be reunited to the common mother country and taken away from the government of a foreign prince. We shall not Weems thaw theories; It is enflicient for us to know that they in flamed Owners, to such a pitch in 1848 and 184 e that she wised war for their tealiratthe; and it is enough for us to ask bee with what justice alm con blame the enterprise now undertaken by King Victor Emmanuel and We allies, The inhabitants of. the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom are certainly fellow-manta, men in the are of the Puelmosta se and Toscana far more legitimately and Melee:stably than the ream to of So Mewigaed Holstein state ma be of the Telerate in B ihemia (a Selavonic race), or of the Swab:ans In Revert I, though both these last belong to the Germanic Confederation. THE UNITED STATES. (IT ELECTRIC TSLIORAPR (FROM 0171 OWN couturonDzwr.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Ariel hoe arrived with the American mails, &deices of the 7th, and 382,000 dollars for France. She spoke the Harvest Queen, for Liverpo3l, and the Hammonis, outward bound. The American government have been informed by the English Minister that the action of our Minister in Mexico was without authority. Oalignaei says :—" The reception at the Tuileries, the night tefore last, was unuastel'y Wilford, u very nearly all the p rooms entitled to attend made it a point to present their respects to the Empress, end the general remark was that never since the commencement of these Teeklay recep tions was there it numerous an assemblage at the palace, Her Majesty walked round the several rooms, graciously 'peaking to the wino persons as she passel along, and dis playing a grace and tact that attracted universal admiration. Prince Jerome and the Princesses Mathilde and Clothilde were pres n'." An official daily paper in the French language, La liontteur Ottoman, is about to be published by the Turkish government. The municipality of the siziammrete of Porn and Galas also intends to crewe an official organ, Le Monitenr Munimpal, which, it appo UM, will hive a 41110.. fold object explain and upholi the rota of the council, and to ini isle the inhabitants of Pen Into the mysteries of economy. We read in the Levant Herald of the 11th .• boxer Poch*, It we me correctly informed, Is duly ex pected bare from Bagdad to receive a high miner, command on the Danube. Attract Pasha, Commander-In-Chief of the army of Arablstan end Governor of Damascus, Is spoken of as hie suromorr at Bagdad; ant if the favourable reports we have renewed of this pasha's a imiaistrative sums. at DiaIIMIIII be corrtri, the Porte mid heftily make a better choice. Rifaat Paehe, sa-Govrtnx of Janina, will pro bably be the me governor of Damascus." The Frankfort Journal of May 17 mentions the death, at In r Ommetarg estate, of the Baron , Aosolme de Baths hr.d, a sister of Baron L. de Rothaehlid, M.P. We are glad to notice the arrival of a genuine artist in Bombay. Mr. George Landeeer, the eon of the talented engraver of the same name, an nephew of Sir Edwin Lindseer, is sescoegtt ne. We bear that he proporet to snake a sufficient stay to enable him to collect materiels for future pictuto Bombay Standard. A correspondent from the Sonthal Pergunnabs %forma .he Calcutta Phenix that there ie jest now a great ' deereme in the deetrucion of human Hem by tigers sod le Tara., Ste thirty of three fermiout animals base bcea de steuyed with' the pan six or eight months. But another evil has just lamented itself in the chaps of elepham a ; them animals bare ores roving sr large ahout the billy past of the district, committal; all kinds of depretatione. DEATH or COMMISSIONER YEH.—The celebrated Maud min, Yeb, diet to C clout's on the evening of the 9th ult. During the last three weeks he bad le n mime, and had been* subject to sudden collapses, from which be, however, wee wily motored, nor did he complain of any thing In particular, so that It teat hopimible to guess what may have beat the muse of de .th. 'Re was jolly to the lea (says the Beckons) and retained hia genuine Cheese tyye of etrieism. So far from eagerly* from compauct lilt of enectence, for liming, at the very lowest compatatios, beheaded one hundred thowand fellow creature,. Lie only regret seems to have b•en big inability to take the bees of all tl'e rebels and their kindred!" ME LATE SIR JAMSETJEE JESIEEEIIOT.—We lean that the late Sir Jatateties Joefeethoy, a little before hi. d.sith, yet apart a lam at 10,000 repeal f v the begat of the incident Pate. el Persia, who ate compelled by the Shah to pay a espimCon toe end we me inf ormed that his pont hare rtavoted a sac of five lakht of raper to be ex pended during the first year aft( r the death of their father, in the p !dorm noe of mligiontoerenion'et, ant for charitable purpos to, such as the diet•ibution of throe slung the per, denntiont to the priest', and eopportins religious places of w..orehip of the Zornso'li!nr.—Sonstoev Gazette. THE RAILWAY WORKS IN TRK PL ' Sl]Avn —Our readers will perhaps be surprieed to leant that the railway monks is the Punjaub have Fees—etvred. The monient Sir John Ltwronegn inek is turned in Indio, the suptente government end its advisers have ,suddenly discovered that the line laid down by Mr. Brineon, end yr e Wien, ap proved of by Sir Jobs, is objectionsble.—Lahore Chromic's, April 17. CRIS: AN CANAL.—The commissioners have de cidet, for the present at loot, that this useful un'm'aking shell be regonid to he former counties; and eciv mea sures arc in prognes for carrying out the debris a. a preli minary .tep. DINITHESIA.—Yesterday a communication on the Pithiest of this complaint wee addrersed from the Privy Council OiLli to the hoods of guardians of the eerma Wane and puiehes of the metropolis, requeMieg them to mo untain from the medical oniony of their =deur, sad inform their lordelt'r, whether diphtheria Is new prevalent In ►ny pert of their union., awl if so in NUM pub and to whet ex tent. If the divest he not sow prment, but shall hereafter appear, their lordships request to be hifirmal of the fact. INDIA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE EXECUTION OF TANTIA TOPEE. BOMBAY, APRIL 26. The event of the fortnight in India has been the trial and execution of the far-famed Tantia Tope*. He wu hanged at Sepree on the afternoon of the 18th instant. In my lut I conveyed to you the in formation that he had been captured; that Mann Sing had surren d ered; and that the forces of Fe _ . roznbah and the Rao Sahib had been nearly de- stroyed in the Seronge jangles. Mann Singh While here offered his services, and those of his fol lowers, to secure the capture of Tantia Tepee, who, he stated, was larking u a fugitive in the neighbourhood. Major Meade accepted his aid, and on the 7111 inst. Matta Sing came reeling into camp with the intel ligence that he had marked the game down. It appears that he had met Tantia in an adjacent vil lage, and had left him under the pretext of going to collect his men. Instead, however, of doing so, he rode straight to the British camp and gave the necessary information. He then returned to the village, and lay down with the man he had betrayed, to have a little sleep. At a given signal, the Sepoys of the 9th Native Infantry rushed in and seized Tantia almost before he was thoroughly awake. No reeistacce was offered, and the Pindaree leader was carried in irons into Sepree. On hie arrival here be was at once placed in charge of a strong guard, and every precaution taken to prevent either escape or rescue. On the 16th instant he was brought to court-martial. The charges upon which he was arraigned were confined to rebellion and opposing the British government by force of arms. The court did not long deliberate; and it soon became known all over the camp that he was to perish on the scaffold. At 6 p.m. on the evening of the 18th instant he was conveyed to the place of execution in a dhooly, guarded by a company of the 3rd Bengal Infantry . (Europeans). After a delay of about twenty minutes, the charges, finding, and sentence were read in English ; a native translation having been previously read to the prisoner. When re , quested to mount the platform he did so without assistance, evincing neither hesitation nor apprehen goo. He died without a struggle, and had it not been for his cruelties and his crimes, his stoicism might have been admired. Tantia Topee was a Brahmin of the Dekkan, having been born in the zillab of Ahmednoggur. He attached himself at an early age to the court of the late Peishws, Bajee Rao, and was from his boyhood the constant companion of Dhuar doo Punt, of Bidhoor, commonly called the Nana Sahib. He was well skilled in mili. dry tactics, and had made the old predatory system of Mahratta warfare his study. His age has been variously estimated, but his general ap pearance did not betoken it to be more than forty years. As I have already supplied you with his portrait, I need not now describe his personal ap pearance. From the hour of his capture to that of his death be betrayed no symptoms of either trepi dation or despondency. He seemed to feel that the end was come; and at was easy to perceive in his general demeanour that he was quite prepared to yield up the life he had hazarded ripen the cast of the die. Revolting as were his crimes, he attempted neither palliation nor extenuat ion. He gave no mercy, and he sued for none; stern and relentless to the last, he yielded up his life without a murmur or a struggle, betraying as little symptoms of nature or humanity on the scaffold at Sepree, as he had done by the well at Cawnpore. Ile denied having taken any part in the massacre; bat it is well known that he commanded on the occasion one of the divisions of the Nana Sahib's army. His exploits were more numerous and dashing than those of any of the other rebel leaders. He led the Owes lior Contingent in person when Wyndham's camp was burnt in November,lBs7. Sustaining, however, a severe repulse at the hands of Sir Colin Campbell, and losing sixteen of his guns, he domed the Jumna, and fell back upon Calpee. But here he did not remain long. Intelligence of the victorious entry of Sir Hugh Rose into Central India, the relief of Sanger, the fall of Garrakota, and the perilous pod tionof the Ranee of Jhanaie ' induced him to evacuate Calpee, and march southward. On the Ist April, 1868, he first crafted swords with Sir H. Ruse on the banks of the Betwa, and his troops were driven in disorder by only a handful of the Centel India Field Force from under the very battlements of the beleaguered city. He also commanded at Agra, and sustained a severe repulse at the hands of Brigadier- General Greathend. In the course of twelve months he fought twenty pitched battle', viz.:—The Betwa, Koonch, ergagemcnts before Calpee, Gwalior, Kota ke-Serai, Sangermer, Bodwarra, Kotarra, Incite Gowlie, Sindwa, Kurrai, Rajpoor, Oodeypoor, Per tambargh, 1)hoosa, Burrache, Zeerapoor, Koorhans, and Seronge. In every one of these engagements be was defeated, with the loam of guns innumerable and hundreds of his followers. During the whole period he bad only two successes—one at °wilier and one at Diangurgh ; and on both occasions they were over native troops, who, instead of opposing him, ranged themselves under his banners. Setting aside his skirmishes, he encountered in suc cessive engagements more than a dozen of our best British general officers and brigadiers. His first vanquisher was Ortathead, and he was succeeded by Rose, Napier, Michel, Roberts, Smith, Parke, ])e Said, Showers, Belden, Somerset, Hor ner, and Rich, who worsted the Pindaree leader wherever they encountered him. His success lay in the celerity of his marches, his knowledge of the country, and the freebooting manner he adopted to obtain supplies. He carried along with him neither baggage nor commissariat, compelling the countries through which he passed to provide him with every. thing that his army required. His betrayer, Mann Sing, is not held in very high estimation, although be carries himself with a lofty air enough at Se. pees, his capital city. He is described as being fine looking man, standing upwards of six feet high. When he reached our camp he appeared to have un dergone a great deal of hardship, his habiliments looking rather worn. He has a long black beard, with a very sharp block eye. lie had on his head a red poggrie, on his back one of those thick ' padded coats, all ornamented with sewing in gold thread, and on his legs a pair of silk pantaloons the worse for wear. His arms consisted of a fine brad of pistols gold mounted, a doable-barrelled rifle, with one of Dine° country-made swords. He bad 200 followers, but 20 only come in along with him, all of them fine,big, strapping fellows, to all appear , anus likely men for anything. 1 On the Nepeul frontier the position of the rebels is even worse than it is in Central India. They have been repulsed wherever our troops encountered them. The Bingowlee rebels crossed the Suar.e, and entered the southern pergunnah of Mireepore on the 3rd instant. They proceeded via Manche., and descended the north side of the Ky . monore range on the 4th, and were plundering the country on the 7th. Lieutenant Knyvett, with the Mirzapore Police Cavalry, attacked and de stroyed eighty of them. The rebels have not remised to the first range of hills. Those under Bala Rso and the Nana were still between the fine and second range of hills, suffering greatly from scarcity d food. The Segura was still further back. Colnael, Kelly intended proceeding to Tuleuli to act Will Colonel Roes against the rebels. The Gouda bluish and Museeerbsd Brigade had gone weeteud. After being repulsed by Brigadier Hereford, is front of Toolseopoor, the rebels crept westwards. under the hills, and attacked the police post of Due' bounce. The police being in a defensible pains* were stile to hold their own. They then threatened the Kurnaon Battalion under Major Ramey, at Musha, on the 4th and sth, and appear to hereineked up into several parties, three of which hare barn into the plaint.. They have been joined by a second and th ird party, and probably altogether flui d 2,000 under, it is said, Banes Mandoo, Hurdut of Bounden, the Goode Rajah. and Ranee Sing, ci Burns. Sir Hope Grant has advanced in pew° I the Gogra, and is able to direct from Fyzsbad ths operations of the English army.