The Express. — London, England, 1862-03-08 00:00:00

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As • manufao truer fa:aka with the districts most affected by the blocked% the Member for Bradford, moreover, spoke with a knowledge and authority which con trasted very happily with the strange ignorance rod practiad imbecility displayed both by the 'mover and the seconder of the motion submitted to tire House. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1862. bt Court. CASTLE. Emma 7. The Queen walked and drove in the Home Park this morning. The Crowa Primrose al Pram& (Princess Royal), Printers Alum, and Priem Alba aosompardad bar Majesty. A useetieg al the Council d the Duchy of Cornwall was bald yesterday at the Duchy Office, Buckingham-gate, St. Jarnieleperk. Theme were premed : Sir William Dunbar, Beeper oaths Petry Seal ; far William John Alexander, Att.:rimy-Oise eel ; ..d Word the Has. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipp, The Prime Onion Mawrlel Committee bell their se mod meet* "Wen* afteaseee at the Palace of West , minder. PION'S* : tie Earl of Duchy, the Earl of Ch nada), the Lord Mem and Bir Quirks L Eartlake. Mr. G. G. imaisma bed sa interviste with the Right HIM W. Hulk ea Thursday, at the OMICS of the Board of Trade, en the nabbed of the Wise Dation Dinpaithes ware teesived yeethrdey at the Colthial-olßce hem the GOTOISIOS at Crib" Haag Kong, Gibraltar, and Malta. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. Tics Member for Galway deserves the hearty commiseration of all who can pity misplaced affec tion, or sympathise with the pursuit of a hope less object under accumulated difficulties. He tells us frankly, without circumlocution or disguise, that he is enamoured of the hospitable and him:trims South. He naturally regards with satisfaction her efforts to shake of what he con siders a discreditable connexion, and since the rupture took place he has made every effort to in troduce her into good society, and get her position acknowledged by the world. The fates, however, have from the first been apinstldes, and his devotion has been sorely tried dazing the last twelve usooths. In the ardour of his early enthu siasm he would have urged the claims of his persecuted client ea the attention of Par• Lament at the very outset of the struggle, before any estimate whatever could be formed of its pro bable duration or ultimate lime. He proposed early last session to bring forward a motion for the immediate recognition of the South. But in this, as the bon. gentleman himself soon dime verged, his seal outran his discretion. The South, so far from having achieved her inde pendence, had only just commenced the struggle to obtain it, and it naturally occurred to men of cooler judgment and lees excited feeling that it was impossible for the Government to recognise a position that did not exist and might very pos sibly never be attained. The disappointed Member for Galway wen reluctantly compelled to acquiesce in this view, and postpone his motion for a time. During the vacation the transient sue comes of the Confederate arum served to keep alive the hope that the South would make good her position. But now this hope is so completely destroyed that the hon. gentleman does not ven ture to revive his motion for recognition. Still the vows of his early devotion are upon him. He must in some way relieve his own feelings, attempt to satisfy the expectations of his friends, and dis charge under sadly altered circumstances his self imposed duty. It would be cruel to criticise with any severity an address delivered under such cir cumstances. The hon. gentleman went conscien tiously through his hopeless task, but nothing could well have been more dreary and utterly ineffective than his laboured efforts to make out a son against the practical efficiency of the blockade. A handsome silver drinking-horn has been pre- There was in reality no case at all, and the 01•6•4 to Dr* Desna;,: erkwew t _ led if e t ef,his services to Member for Galway displayed throughout such a S'allmei" literature , a °un— An leak gentlemn, includiag the King and Crown Prince of keen and depressing consciousness of this's altogether Denmark. The horn was accompanied by &handsome letter to destroy the effect of what was evidently intended foram t h e DLlt i a h minister i n L ou d on , f rom whi c h th e follow to be, and might, perhaps, otherwise have proved, ins is ID extract :—" The docking horn is melded like a spirited and rhetorical display. those is use is olden time, and embellished with figures and Although last night's debate iu the House of moo inalttstivt el the Niel Sap. The contributors trust Caveman was on the most serious of all questions, thesei gestidithwilece f lc at of in art De rna n y ples ee mark sad yz e , as Oa ev land titereloif.thoef it is almost impossible to treat it seriously. As Mr. that heroic per i od o f the g e ,„di euv i eu met h have f oun d ~, ifosecros MiLse.s justly said, there was an air o bi s sad dj a tj w yeeiee an interpreeer. Os the hem is a of unreality about the discussion in striking con- Runic inscription, which tells you on the part at your many treat to the vast interests and in -ewe passions con- and newer* friends in Denmark and Iceland that 'to fries& netted with its nominal object. Everyone felt the read is short though the distance be great.'" that the subject of the Blockade was forced on the The season of the Royal English Opera is now attention of Parliament at a most unseasonable drawing to a close. On Saturday next Mr. W. Harrison moment, on wholly insufficient grounds, and for no r t benefit, Bo on e w , e lli e ch " nu m i ' n th '. for the practical object whatever beyond that of allowing Caoilic i sad d be performed. Another attraction will be it a few members of extreme opinions to express their novelty is the form of a sew eperetta called Court and feelings of animosity against a friendly Power. Comp; at which Mr. Tom Taylor has written the libretto, Mr. tinriaisi's own explanation of the reasons end Mr. F. Clay has composed the music. which induced him to bring the subject forward Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keen take their benefit on was about the most inconsistent and unsatisfac- Thursday, Muth 13, at Dewy Lens The play chosen tory that could well be imagined. He professes to for the cession is Othello, when Mr. Charles Bean will speak on behalf of the straitened manufacturers I f 9 iii ear in thetchare,..':cie_ter of the sad lira ' Charlie Klan and distressed operatives of the North ; but un- --- O re n Pr ron - il — ay evening (writer the Path corm fortunately both chimes alike repudiate their 'pendent of the Poet) a 1./union took place in the private officious and unauthorised representative. They do apartments of the Empress, and it is confidently hoped by not ask the Government to interfere, and they the few that have gained admission to the imperial circles have no wish that it should think of doing that they may be continued during Lent. The Emperor so on their behalf. It is quite true bee joined in the masquerades, bat as his domino has been that a large amount of anxiety and distress well k nown, b eban not "aped from some al prevails amongst these classes, but they are con- those mystification! with which a mask can test s person whom they have reeogaised. Two or three tent to suffer on in silence rather than England of the gentle sex in the coarse at the evening made should be guilty of the enormous crime, and be their approaches to him, and amused him with their wit branded with the indelible shame, which any in- sad piety. The Marouis de Boissy found himself in the terference on behalf of the South would involve, clutches of an English lady, who did sot spare him for his Even the humblest clams in this country know hostility to her native land. Navies discovered him, .she tor and fuel that there are some causes worth suffering followed . °ln im eei du rinng the e e rd vehnist eada sad to the r.r t e h :im ie from for ; and whatever Mr. Giteraiev and his f r i en d s I r eeled i utoti s r eeie zeal was at leegth mitigated by his may be prepared to do they are not willing to ! e moiety to make bee feel at the sapper table that be could barter the birthright of Engli s hm en f or a mess 'be • devoted knight in the service of the sex when *nth as of pottage. As for the facts and arguments by I occasion called for it, and he good-naturedly ended by which Mr. Clemente attempted to support his drinking the health of the Queen whose people he se hopeless proposal, they were sufficiently annihi. naheritatingly attache in his public speeches Lied by subsequent speakers, a n d mare * merit Some commie are to take place at the Tuileries This Eget, and EMMA SIMILE Will be more especially culeb serious criticism. His attempts to define the mist Tile &gee end Americans in Paris will net die efficiency of a blockade by the impossibility el sseehms their smesuissate excepting oe Wednesdays sad running it, and to prove that it becomes void wigs. As Americo lady, together with a Spanish if some of tlio Tw i st y b e l ong i ng t o t h e m oc k. I Mme, aka Messes. sad Alladanse Item collected • number ailing squadion are &bond. for a day or two, •OF Americus' and Spanish fashionable. on Monday last, in N o ise Wel fitted up with more than usual magnificence, 0011. were the merest c ob we b l og i c i n t h e wor ld. i Medea that their stay bare is but short. Their saloons, blockade that ev e r was es t a bli s h e d has last I adorned with rich paintinp, and decorated in the style of these conditions, and no man of practiced omens Louis produced a very grand eft sct sense would ever expect them to be fulfilled. The Spurt, which is the journal patronised by There is no question whatever that the conditiose the dabs sod by „one Fusee, assounoes the item. of ordinary efficiency have been in the main fully diate seduction of the white neckcloth—it is sin met by the Northern blockade of the Southern plarly bitter against this admitted Portion of the ports. But Mr. Garsioav's pretended facts expo- dims toilette. It seems that the young tun of fashion will net go to parties where this part of the rieneed a o fate even than his arguments. His ins were said so have casennie is iedispeneakde, end many of the WT0641.180 of posiii4 list of high circles have gives in to the decision. ft &misers that run the blockade was utterly demolished and a lob aiseictice. who „ has the P scattered to the winds by Mr. Fortirrea's exhaustive mimeo the ;L e eteseet curtsey is Europe istert. : 4 ; se . analysis. laved the masterly speech of the . Victoria," moiled the risible families of one of the meet Member for Bradford was a triumphant reply Waken* assemblies by offering a most greeloin specimen el her tame the white-narked butler, whom she mistook to everything in the shape of fact or serious aro , far the aster of the house. A fashionable journal dwells went that had been urged in support of Mr. sew this contretemps as quite a sufficient reams for the (leeway's proposal ; and the most satisfactory isaaem.ot a th e detestable whits, sad the .simatation i feature of the debate is that it should have celled d mss ar pink eitk. Yesterday the eeumitt•e sormiaated by the Quee• to ebbe ber liderty is the aides cad execution e • duke far the pargesed asthma wig a the bits Arius Qe•esit bilk Meee•d sistag. . .. _ The toamitloo lisit into coorbitiatles the mime oom matiodion they MI eloolvid hem moopeo of qualm in easomet to issololloo so to the Wore and ilmodoes el the geniis Wipe they weld font& Wolidog. howeepoe, wee deoldoi co ; sod oaths to the onerisa nature of woo of the Ipenikes tbat exteo. ,ere Ms dolor sae take plaoa Blr itoderiek Iforobboo b toodlotlog nimble aelietaeoo to Ike etemeittee. Hie Royal dee Duke de Brabrant left town yesterday by the Hes& looters BeHow for Dover. His mid bighorn was expeseed to sojourn for the night at IHkokshenee heed Wades Hotel, sad to leave Dover to day for Hie Ithellency the Ambassador of France and the Osentss i Moab entertained a select party at Maar lot wain 4 Os entry House. The Miesthiroun d Abereorn arrived at Chester- MGM Hamm Thsolidevening from Baron's Court, county TlTown. Maria Marchioness of Aileabury has left town to jets the essay sossabled at Tottentiens Path. Willa The Bart and Countess of Tankerville will come to town as Monday sot from a tour of visits. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney arrived at their rethissies to Clevelandopore as Thursday, from their seat, Beat. A deputation of the Royal Dublin Society will wadies Lord Grieving,. es Then day next, at the Science sad Art Deverhoesk lsdk lesslasks to ask for souse relentees is coopledeg the Maseasse sad Art-collections el the Seesky. We (Aihassess) tellers the deputatios • sat lay a way May athlete before the lord Prod der& They will ea 14 3,0001. towards the National • 4.7501. for the ensplenies of the Nat West Histary Itseesea, %OWL to be &Med between the Library and the lisseses et Balmy, est ICE. far the publicatko et • Oakilagas d llisseala la slides to this they will sok for sa laseare 4 abet* NOE sa the annual groat, partly fen ths asisterses et the Bethel of Art, and partly for ropers' Wad* the ening et the Botanic Gardens on desday. The annual meeting of the Liteeuy Fund Society will be held as Wolneeday nest, at the chambers in the Adelphi. The Geological Society Las resolved that the salami routribution to be paid by both resident and non resident fellows elected after the let Inst. 'hall bs 21. per seam, the composition for future annual contributions being 211. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ORE CE. The Greek legation at Paris has sent the follow ing communication to the papers : 41 Marseilles despatch, dated yeaterday, communicated by the Maras Bather agency, gives news from Greece which 12 altogether inexact. It is not true that the insurgent forte in Nauplia consists of 2,500 soldiers and 6,011 robin teen. The Nauplis prrison is usually only from 1,000 to 1,200 strong, inclusive of a company of pioneers, but ►t the moment when the rebellion broke out this garrison was re duced to half its usual strength, several companies having been detached for service at Tripolitsa and other towns in the Peloponnesus. The number of armed volunteers who have joined the rebellious troops does not exceed 300 or 400, according to authentic information. Moreover, the entire I population of the town is only 4,500, end therefore it is quite impossible th►t there can be 6,000 volunteers. As to the blockade of the town, the Greek government has notified it officially to the friendly powers, and that is • positive indication that the blockade is strict and effective by sea. The want of provisions felt at Nauplia sufficiently proves that the blockade is equally effective by land. Tee above despatch also states that the Greek government it denuding the province of soldiers, and that in consequence of the recall of troops from Thessaly and Epirus agitation is feared in those provinces. It suffices to say, in answer to this assertion, that Themaly and Epirus do not belong to the kingdom of Greece. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3rd intimate that in the provinces efforts are being made to promote insubordination, but that the precautions of the government are sufficient to ward off any danger that may be threatened. The Queen had addressed a circular to the governors of provinces, directing them to call out immediately the fifth part of the 35,000 men ordered as the contingent for thi) cur rent year. AUSTRIA. Advloes from Vienna state that the departure of the Emperor of Austria for Venice is to take place next week. The troops will by that time have taken their new cantonments in Venetia, and it is probable that his Majesty will pass them in review once more, and not return to Vienna until towards the end of the month. (acorns Inpasame.) THE PRUSSIAN CRAM BERLIN, MAsca 8. The Minister of Commerce has iiddreeeed a letter to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, requesting him to adjourn the sittings for a few days, because the ministry, being occupied with important discussions, would be unable to attend them. The sittings of the Chamber have been therefore adjourned until Tuesday next. BERLIN, Mama 7. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies a debate took place on the motion for the enlarge ment of the budget, by inserting a specific state ment of the principal items of revenue and expen diture, based upon the estimates of the different departments. _ _ . The Minister of Finance declared that it was a question whether government would be practicable after the adoption of such a motion ; whether the responsibility of conducting public affairs could be undertaken, and whether the proposition did not encroach upon the executive. The motion was, however, agreed to by 171 to 148. CAMEL, lilacs 7. Herr Goddans, present Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been entrusted by the Elector with the formation of a new ministry. ITALY. PROGRAMME OFTiIINEW MIND3TRY. TURIN, 11Asca 7. To-clay, in the Chamber of Deputies, the new Cabinet occupied the ministerial benches. The generally accredited report that Signor Car. dove had resigned is incorrect, as he sat among his colleagues in the Ministry. Signor Ratarsi, in announcing to the Chamber the foreign policy which would be followed by the Government, said : " We shall depend upon the alliance of France and England ;we shall secure the friendship of other nations by the wisdom of our conduct and by provoking no one, either by deeds, speeches, or demonstrations. We do not wish to compromise the peace of the world on the Roman question. We shall follow the de liberations of parliament, and shall above all em ploy for the solution of that question moral and di plomatic means. We shall put into execution all the laws and orders of the day voted by the Cham ber relative to the national armament. We shall produce the budget for 1863, and realise a strict economy in all the branches of the administration except in the armament. Signor Luna requested explanations on account of the late ministerial crisis having taken place without the exercise of parliamentary influence. Baron Ricasoli replied that the former cabinet, notwithetanding the favourable divisions it ob. taMed, was not sure of the confidence of the Chamber. TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO. OONISTANTLNOPLF., Kum 7. The negotiations for the conclusion of the loan are progressing satisfactorily. The last assembly of the insurgent chiefs at Cat tigne having evidently proved the participation of the Montenegrins in the disturbances in the Her zegovina, the Porte has 'informed the powers that it is compelled to renounce its system of modera tion towards the Montenegrins. Omer Pacha is master of all the important posi tions. Cabonli Effendi and Mehemet Pacha have pro ceeded to Syria. GENERAL MIRAMON. CADIZ, RAE% 7. Miran= has arrived hare and will proceed to Madrid. ARRIVAL OF THE MASSILIA. 9OUTHAIIPTON, Miacn 8. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Messina, lately employed in conveying mails and passengers between Marseilles and Malta, arrived in the river last night. The Maasilia left Gibraltar at 3 p.m. on the afternoon of the Ist inst. Throughout her passage she experienoed heavy gales from the S.W. The British schooner Nancy, 21 days from Swansea, arrived at Gibraltar on the 27th nit. The British barque Arabian, from Odessa, bound for Falmouth ; schooner Annie, from Trieste, for same destination ; schooner Tamarac, from Catania, bound to Glasgow ; brig Watchful, from Greece ; and barque Dinorah, from Constantinople, bound for Cork, severally sailed from Gibraltar on the 27th ult. The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 28th February says :—" In Malta popular demonstrations got up by the supporters of the Bourbon and Papal cause in Italy continued to occasion some inoonvenienco to the public. Persons known to be in favour of the liberal party in Italy have been insulted by the rabble, and some of the local journals think that too ranch latitude is allowed to the mob, and call upon the local authorities to enforce the obeervanoe of order." Her Majesty's ship Marlborough had left Malta on a cruise, and the Admiral's flag was transferred to another liner in port, The Egyptian frigate Sejah Bahri had been admitted into the govern ment dock to effect repairs. The ships of war in port were :—Algiers, 86 ; Queen, 80 ; Medina, 6 ; Firefly, 4 ; Surprise, 4 ; Boxer, 3 ; Growler, 3 ; Supply, 2 ; and Hibernia receiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Superintendent H. J. Cod rington, C.B. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, March 8 : CACLUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN The Sultan, with the above mails, left Alexan dria for Marseilles at noon on the 7th inst. The Pera, with the heavy portion of the mails, sailed for Southampton on the 6th instant, at sunset. The Nemesis brought the mails to Suer, arriving there on the sth instant. SAFETY OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. LIVERPOOL, 11Awni 8. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Baltimore, from New York on the 16th ult., paned Holyhead at 10.15 a.m. this morning. It is supposed her machinery is disabled. A tug has gone out to meet her. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw steamer Edinburgh, Captain Mirehouse, which sailed from New York on the 22nd ultimo, arrived in the Mersey this evening. A telegraphic summary of her advice, has already been published. The surrender of Clarksville, on the Tennessee River, is announced by the following official des patch from General Halleck to General M'Clellwn : St. Louis, Feb. 20, 1862. To Major-GeoerolWelollao. Clarksville Is taken; with supplies moues for our army for 20 days. The place is oow *coupled by Omura Smith's divisiom IL W. HALM; Major•Ossisral Oommaadiog. The New York /Jerald of the 22n1 of February says : The occupation of Clarksville leaves Nashville exposed to the advance door troops end gunboats, as the rapid rising of the ricer would permit the latter to approach the city without dithenhy. According to statements in the Rich. mond papers, General Johnston had telegraphed to General Grant, upon hearing of the fall of Fart Donnehen, offering to surrender Nashville on cow Anion that private property should be respected. Considering that the IJakm party in Nashville Is very large, sod that the desire to preserve the city from destroo tion would naturally be in the ascendant there, it is act at all imposible that no stubborn resistance to mann willbs met with at that point. It appears, by our news from St. Louis last night, that the Provost Marshal at Clarksville Invited General Grant to come on and occupy the town. --. _ Governor Harris is said to have called • special meeting of the Tennessee Legislature for the 24th February for the purpose of having all the unconstitutional acts passed by that body immediately annulled. It is further stated that the officials and leading citizens all over the state de alers that Tennessee most soon be back again in the Union. Information reached the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Fax, yesterday, from oneof the inbreed prisoners from Riohomed, that the Union feeling in that city is very strong, sad that an organisation numbering fully three thousand men exists there, who are only waiting an oppor tunity to show their allegiance to the government. Disaf fection thus appears to permeate through the whole land of rebeklom, from the south-western binder even to the capital Hod. The direst fear exists; among the rebels that both Savan nah and Charleston are in imminent danger of being cap tured by the Union armies. The Savannah near says that Savannah will certainly be destroyed this week, and Me !erten soon after. A despabh, dated Augusta, Oa., an nounces as the latest Intelligence to the 18th inst., that oar vowels were pining ground in their strode to reach the mein channel of the river, and that the attack on the city could not be much longer delayed. All the information we have relative to the taking of Savannah, it moat be observed, comes from rebel sources exclusively, and it must be admitted that the whole of that information indicates the happiest results. Our armies in Missouri are gaining still further victoria, as is shown by the following eflicid despatch : " Rewitparters, St. Louis, Feb. 20. "To MaJorasooral lrelellaa. "Pries, being reinforced by M'Culloch's command, made a stand at Bow Creek (we tarred into Arkansu on the 18th), and was detested after a short engagement, and again and. Many rebel primmer, were taken, and the arms width Prica's men threw away in their flight. (Si 81 8 0 1) " H. W. HALLECR, Major-General Commanding." General Hallo* forwarded a later despatch last night, to the effect that General Curtis had taken posessien of Bentonville, Arkansas. By our news from Nassau, New Providence, to the 12th inst., we learn that the rebel steamer Catawba had ran the blockade from Charleston, and arrived at the former port, loaded with cotton, and that twc vessels, the steamer Label and another, name not known, left Charleston at the same time, also with cargoes of cotton. A son of President Lincoln bad died. Both Houses of Congress adjourned after very short sessions out of respect to the President and hie family in their recent affliction. The Homestead Bill was brieflyconsidered in the house, and Speaker Grow made a speech in favour of its pause. No further action was taken upon it. In consequence of the death of the President's son, it was resolved that the illumination of the public buildings in Washington should not take place that night, as previously arranged. The funeral of the President's son was to have taken place on the following Monday. The following was addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives, but Congress had ad journed before it was transmitted to them : The President of the United States was last evening plunged into affliction by the death of a beloved The heeds of departments, in consideration of this dis tressing event, have thought it would be agreeable to Con . grew and to the American people that the official and private buildings occupied by them should not be illumi nated on the evening of the 22nd instant. Wu. H. Swam, 8. P. Cu►u, E. N. erarrox, GIDRON WILLS% EDWARD gaze, M. Bunt Weehingtee, Feb. 21, 1862. The Times observes that if the blockade of the Southern ports is not theoretically perfect, though the blockading ports do sot cross their fires, or give notice to each particular vessel that appears, yet there is quite enough to doter some very courageous gentlemen from pushing their way in. Among a multitude of cases, Mr. Ward, who found his way into Pekin when nobody ass could gat there, is still oti this mda of the Atlantic, and would be much obliged to Yr. Gregory to land him safe is • quiet port of Georgia. Mr. Yanoey, with • little society of Southern gentlemen, is stall at Haviusnah, waiting for an opportunity. Others are now in liesioo, preparing to brave fever and the Indians, eo as they may find themselves once MOM with their families and estates. There are people in this country, in this city, who have not heard from their near relatives in the Southern States for half • year, and who would give almost any sum for one interchange of letters. The real grievance is " that the thing is done too thoroughly, and Mr. Gregory wishes England to abate the nuisance by declaring that it is sot dope at all." Au accident to the Great F.astecn has been re ported. It appears that one of the shores supporting the ship as the gridiron has penetrated the starbeerd side. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1110 M OUR fors PARIS. FEMAT EVINING. The Monitsur publishes the following : On the occasion of the bill which has just been submitted to the examination of the Council of State, the Moniteur announced yesterday that an annual mate, the amount of which was not flied, would be inscribed on the great book of the public debt. If that amount has not been indicated it is that it should be ultimately fixed in concert with the Legislative Body. This note, you will observe, coolly assumes that the Corps Letislatif will accede to its own stultifi cation without the least difficulty. The commencement of the debate on the address in the Corps Legislatif is singularly uninteresting. Yesterday the ultramontanist members, MM. Plichon and Kolb Bernard, " read " two dull speeches, in which they endeavour to excite alarm in the party of order by the old device of shaking the red rag. M. Plichon said that " the old friends of the government were now suspects," and that it was seeking new allies in the camp of its adversaries. To-day M. Delalain opened the debate by calling for a reduction of the army. IL de Morey is seriously indisposed, and in his absence the chair was taken by AL Schneider. The following protectionist amendment to the address of the Corps Legislatif has been presented by MM. Pouyer, Quertier, Jules Brame, de Wen del, Randoing, Le Clerc d'Osmonville, Kolb Bernard, and the Marquis de Blosseviße : To par. 11 : Your Majesty knows the great suffering which desolates our principal manufacturing towns, and you endeavour to succour them by the most generous gifts. But inasmuch as serious thinkers attribute this distreming situation mainly to the operation of the English and Belgian commercial trestle", the chamber respectfully calls the solicitude and attention of the Emperor to this grave question. It begs your Majesty to order an inquiry into the real working of these treaties, in order to put an end to the doubts and apprehensions of our working clues if they an not well founded. _ _ _ Almost all the people recently arrested—nobody knows why—have been released. The Bourse was extremely firm although the amount of business done was not lar ge. The Bente roso 50c. for cash and 35c. for account, closing at 69fr. 90c. and 70fr. 10c. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. (which were quoted for the first time ex div.) left off at 97fr. 95c. and 98fr. 200. Mobnior rose Mr. 25c, Railways were fully from Mr. 50c. to sfr. higher. Cardinal de Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons, has addressed a letter to the Gazette de trance on the i late vote in the Senate, in which he says : I bad the intention of adding my vote to that of my eminent colleagues ; my conscience made it for me a duty to vote withtban against the address. I had my bulletin in my hand, but the urn was not presented ma to naive it, and the noise in the hall did not allow me to bear the enumeration of the votes for or against, or to make my objectless beard. INDIA. By the Bombay mail we have advice(' from Bom bay to the 12th February, and from Calcutta, by telegraph to Bombay, to the 7th. The following is from the overland luminary of the Bombay Gazette: The English mall of the 18th January arrived in Bombay on the 9th Petinery. Since the departure of our last Bombay mall, we have also received the English mail► of the 26th December. the 3rd and 10th of January. The public mourning for his Royal Highness the late Prince Comport was, by government notifinatios, closed on the 10th February, when sixty minute puss were Arad from the fort, and the Gag, which had been bolded ludfcnast high, wee dropped. The various communities in this Pre sidency have given public expression to their regret for the death of the Prince Consort, and their sympathy with the royal family, and have offered public prayers for her gracious Majesty the Queen. The news of the pacific settlement of the American " dif ficulty " has given very great but perhaps not altogether disintorested safa— on in India. There is peat excite ment in our cotton market His excellency Sir George Clerk is suffering in health, ' and his return to ad may take place sooner than has bees *Veda& Public opinion Weer. Sir William as the best wancessor to Wu George Clark in the government of this presidausy. Thu !Manias in the Jratiak Ms, joined by the e peopl in the Tippersh Rills, and a number ef the late on. East India Company's mutineers, have rises with the avowed intention of taking Sylliet. Farces have been dispatched to put them down. An °Moir of the rack of bngadier will probably be sent to assume the command of all the troops In Amain sad the contiguous dishier's. The Hoe. Mr. Ling has been suffering from indisposition, and boa left Calcutta on a journey up.oosstry. THE NEW ITALIAN M. Cordova, Minister of Grace and Justice, is by prefeadou a Sicilian avocets. He has, however, never attended the courts, but has low resided at Turin, where he is known for his proficiency in economical studies. He was Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and after ward. Minister of Agriculture and Ocoutteree under Count Cavour. . . M. Petittt, Moister of War, was Chief Secretary hi that department under General Lamarmora. lie was made a lietiteaaat.general after the war of 1859, and resigns the chief command of the second army.corps to take °Hoe. He is a Piedmootese. M. Bella, Minister of Finance, who is also a native of Pied mont, is a distinguished engineer, and represents Biala, his native town, in parliament. He was formerly appointed Chief Secretary in the department of Public Instruction, on the recommendation of Count CM our. Admiral Perrino, Minister of Marine, is well known as the captor of Ancona and the besieger of Gaeta. M. Dorset* Minister of Public Works, a Piedmontese, is one of the most distinguished members of the Turin bar. In the Chamber he sits on the benches of the Left. He was for a time Pro. Dictator of Sicily, having been appointed after the taking of Palermo. Y. Pepoli, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, is a eon of a Princess Murat. He was sent to Turin by Bologna, his native town, in 1889, to obtain the annexation to Piedmont, and afterwards was elected deputy. Count Cevour appointed him Commissioner Extraordinary of the King in Umbria, when he decreed lan important measure the suppression of oonventa. In the chamber his place is with the left entre, and he has soled with the friends of Itatarsi. N. Mancini, Minister of Public Instruction, is a Neapo- litan of great repute uan advocate and jorisoonsult. He was one of the emigrants, and has long practiced at Turin. After the annexation of Naples he was sent thither to pre ride over the department of justice. He is a preforor in the University of Turin, and was appointed by the King tc read constitutional law with the royal princes his sons. THE MEDI (nor con owl" .MALT4,.Mtsca 2. I inclose you a copy of the Progrersiita, a news paper lately started in Malta in favour of the new Italian kingdom, and spinet the temporal power of the Pope. It is currently reported at Malta that the archbishop boa sir nified that any ern who prints, touches, or I. in any way connected with the said newspaper, will fall under his dis pleasure. Should . such be the case, it will be very difficult to get the paper printed at Malta, for the bishop stands very high is the opinion of his flock : his wishes are their law. " Norm. " His Excellency the Governor having been pleased to grant the usual permission for the diversions of the carnival this year on the four days, beginning with the let of March, measures have bean taken to prevent the carnival from assuming such a political colour as was given to the 'Posta' of St. Paul. A notice has bees issued, stating, among other regulations, that ' nose shall on this occasion carry emblems, dos, or other signs referring to foreign political questions, or by any masquerade, or otherwise, make allusion to the ISOM" Her Majesty's ship Maribor-msh arrived from Sicily sad a mules on the 27th ; and the Trident the same day, from Algiers has left for Niche, to relieve the Exmouth; and the Quill. prooods early next week for Corfu. Commander Palmer, promoted from the Algiers, did lot Emus_ to ass in that ship, but remained for a woo to EXECUTION OF THE CAPTAIN OF A SLAVER AT NEW YORK. (Pram the New York Tramm at Feh. 221 Yesterday Nathaniel Gordon, the slave trader, was hanged in the City prison. The enormity of the crime for which he suffered was justly characterised by Judas Shipman, of the United States Circuit Court, before whom he was tried, in pronouncing upon him the sentence of the law which he had violated. " Do not imagine," said he, " that because °there shared in the!gnilt of this enterprise yours is thereby (limn:6l6a] ; but remember the awful admonition of your Bible, Thou g h band join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished' " On the same occasion the doomed slave trader was Te , minded of the 'maid &meter of his crime in the following language : "Do; not attempt to hide its enormity from yourklf ; think of the cruelty awl wickedness of seising nearly a thousand fallow-beings, who never did you harm, md thrusting them beneath the decks of a stoat ship, beneath a burning tropical sun, to die of disease or suffocation, or be transported to distant lands, and be consigned, they sad their posterity, to a fate far more cruel than death. "Think of the sufferings of the unhappy beings libels you crowded on the Erie ; of their helpless agony awl terror as you took them from their native land ; and especially think of those who perished under the weight of their miseries; on the passage from the pkoe of your capture tollou rovia! Remember that you showed mercy to none, carry ing off, as you did, not only those of your own su, tut women and helpless children. "Do not fierier yourself that because they belonged to different race from yourself your guilt is therefore lessened —rather fear that it as increased. in the just and gummy' heart the humble and the weak inspire companion, and Gall for pity and forbearanoe." The condemned, for the lan few weeks, was attended by the Rev. Dr. Camp, who was unceasing in his care for the spiritual welfare of the prisoner. The gallows bad bean prepared for the execution previous to the itli of February, the day on which Gordon was sentenced to be heaged by the court. Owing to the threats that • rescue would be attempted, the United States Marshal obtained from the Marine Barracks, at the Navy-yard, • sufficient force to protect the prisoner in any event. About 80 marines, tinder the command of Captain Cohen, were in attendance. They were drawn up in line, and ordered: to load with fall. cartridge and put caps on their muskets. This done, win fixed bayonets they marched into the yard of the prism, and the main body were drawn up in double file, fronting the gallows. TLe plkors was a new one, originally made for hang. ing the three murderers of Captain Pyke, of the ship General Parkhill. It was not used, however, at that time, as the sentence of there men was commuted by the Pre n. dent to imprisonment for 15 years. Although the execution bad been announced for half-peat 2 dela*, crowds of people began to assemble in the immediate vicinity of the Tombs at au early hour. An ample polity force under the command of Captain Dowling, of the Sixth Precinct, guarded the entrance to the prison, and kept the way clear for the approach of persona who had been authorised to be present at the execution. Han. dreda sought the loftiest positions which could be obtained on the buildings °Maide the prison, all anxious to get a bat glimpse of the dying slaver. About 200 spectators, including members of the 844 Pcslaturs, city and county officials, and representatives at the pries, made up the assemblage in the prima. The gal. lows was meted in the grand central square, in full view of the marinas and the spectators. After parting with larshal Murray on Thursday night, Gordon occupied himself in writing letters to various frieeds, especially to his wife and to his son, a boy about five yearn of see. The letter to the boy was .directed to be presented to him when he should come to the age of discretion. Al- though he seemed careworn, the prisoner did not express himself as if anxious or uneasy as to the solemn circum stance' which narked his quicklyfleeting hours. At 1 o'clock yesterday morning, evidently exhausted from the labours of the night. and the earls for the coming morrow. Gordon retired to bed, and slept soundly till shoot 3 o'clock, at which time be awoke and expressed his asto nishment that he bad been asleep so long. At about 11 o'clock a youth came rushing into the prism, coming in his hand a telegraphic despatch from Albany, which he had ban instructed to re►d in the hearing of Mamba' Murray. Hawing gained his ear, he read the tele. gram, sa follows : " Poughkeepsie, Feb. 21. " Governor telegraphed President to respite Gordon. See Wormy. Received from Albany at 10 a.m." To which the Marshal replied that his arrangements with the President were such that he would disregard any tele. graphic communication, from whoever it might come. The message referred to wee from e:Judge Beebe, who went to Albany on Thursday night, to endeavour to induce the Governor to interfere br Gordon's behalf. Shortly after, ax-Judge Dean arrived, bearing the same inhale*, and presented it to Mr. Murray, who told him that be appreciated his pandas, but was unable to regard anything that did not emanate in regular documem tory form from the President of the United Stet's. As bee been stated, the *suer retired to bed at 1 o'clock a.m. As he answer& explained to Deputy-Hu shal Borst, who had the prisoner in charge the latter put of the wonting, his object in retiring at 1 o clock wee to elude the vigilance of hie keepers, by pretend' to be Weep ; but nature asserted its claims, and he fell into a soled slumber, which lasted him till 3 o'clock, at which time, waking up and looking at his watch, he was amazed fiat by his own exhausted condition he had been outwitted. His plan was not to be baffled, however. He was desperate, and be at mace, by some mysterious sleight of hand, am eroded in swallowing a quantity of poison. Shortly before 4 o'clock the deputies in charge of Gordon observed him act in a very curious manner, and soon the fact disclosed itself that their ward was in a spasm, from which he did not recover before half,past 4 o'clock. By that time the prison physicians had been summoned to he side, and when be recovered from his first spasm he wee astonished to au the doctors, and quietly answered their questions as to what he had been taking, by saying that be did not thank them for interfering with him. He looked up in their fuel and pashbeg his teeth said, " Fre cheated you ; I've cheated you." The doctors immediately pro ceeded to administer such antidotes se they deemed new' eery, although they had to work in ignorance of what kind of poison he had taken. At length the matter Immune known to the United States Marsha, who immediately dispatched a messenger for Dr. Janus IL Wood, who arrived at the prison at SI o'clock. He immediately learned that the prisoner hid taken strychnine, and applied himself to the POO accordingly. Copied draft+ of strong whisky were wimistared 'to the patient, which had the effect of gradually restoring him to con sciousness. Shortly after 9 o clock he became aware of what was going on around him. From that time, however, be continued very feeble, and made his responses to all ques tions asked in writing. At about 11 o'clock the prisoner wrote a note to Simeon Draper, in which he said, " I hope I will die before 12 o'clock." The first note that he wrote to Depnty-Marshal Borst was " Did you give me the whisky to keep the spasms off r He then followed that by another note, saying, " I wish 1 might die, and end my suffering." Mr. Simeon Draw, on entering the cell of the prisoner, said to hint, " Do yon know roe, Gordon?' to w hich he replied, in writing. " I do. Mr. Draper is a very good man. and I thank bier for what he has done fur my wife and child." Deputy-Marshal Borst then asked him what kind of poison be had taken ? to which he replied in the same manner as before, "Strychnine . A good many may accuse my wife of a hand in this affair. I have only to say that in time of peace prepare for war. The little bench you sit or, if it was examined and could speak, could possibly tat som e take about it." Here he directed the bench . to be turned eei when he pointed to a crack on the lower .iide of it in which be intimated that the strychnine had been secreted for a long time. Ho added, in writing, the following intimation that uo tiring relative to the slue.trade should even escape his liP4 "I shall never let mortal man know anything." In reply to the question, " Why did you want to exit suicide suicide ? " he said, " I wanted to spare my wife and child the disgrace of my being hanged." He stated in writing that he had had the strychnine give° be him on the second day of his trial. He also stated his plan of intending to pretend to be asleep at 1 o'clock, and how it failed him. The last note he wrote to Deputy-Marshal Borst "Tell my wife and child that my last thoughts were of them." At 12 o'clock, United States Marshal Hurray and Deputy United States Marshal Thompeun, with their deputies, the beer • to the oell of Gordon and announced to him that been bad arrived when the execution must be carried into elfeet. He was pinioned by Deputy•Sberiff Isaacs, Bed brought from his cell to the corridor, where he was set down on a chair. His appearance was feeble arid haggard , 01J presented a drugs outcast with the owe lordly crept!" who gave his orders from the quarterdeck as to the do' positron of helpless humus beings imprisoned in Abe bold of his due ship. The Uaited States Marshal then reed, slowly old solemnly, the death warrant of the culprit, also, tb e respite granted by the President of the United States. After a brief passe, Captain Gordon delivered, in • dell. berate tone, the tellurium speech " My somesience fa dear. 1 have no fault to find with