The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

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Mr a d Mrs. IL Marrlato.-41.2d/M1 ODZIM 012L—Oramasoe at RIOS WATILI AT LOIDOS SAM& TAU DAT ..lialllllll6 ft. i 5....... Anaseoe, 'a. pea Tv-Roaaow—Morefte. IL 4t4a..... AltsnasrA, 342. ee► LONDON, 701118 DAY, APRIL 29. is apparently put in for the benefit of the Commie siouers themselves. The Crioimiesioners are anxious to have it known that, having made a secret arrangement to the prejudice of Dr. Banner!, they subsequently fated to make him • party to the arrangement. It cannot, we think, surprise any one that Dr. Bsxnsrr declined their invitation to name a conductor, and left the responsibility on the right shoulders. IT would have been difficult to persuade the public in 1860 that in 1862 Dr. SMETHURST would figure in the Probate Court se the credited witness and the successful plaintiff in an action to establish the will he drew for IS•RELLA BANES& But so it ia. Even the tenacious and persis tent may doubt whether they have attained to the highest power of perseverance as they read the verdict in Dr. SMETHURST'S action. Never to take "No " for a denial ap pears to be the lesson of the remark able series of law proceedings which it may fer vently be hoped are now brought to a conclusion. Appearances were at one time so strong against the Doctor that many would have thought him lucky to escape from the fangs of the law with the skin of his teeth. not with a cool head on his shoulders, he took the measure of the world. He was not the man to be scowled out of any advantage within hie reach. Certainly there are few men who would have braved the ignominy he was sure to encounter by propounding Miss Essen's will and defending it before Sir CRESS wati. Caretwett.. That able Judge was of opinion that Doctor Se eriteawr " presented himself to the " court as a man against whom human nature " must revolt." And this was the expression of no idle prejudice, no lurking suggestion, born of impressions which had furtively survived a royal act of pardon. When the Judge told the jury to suppress all the best feelings of their heart, and look only at the cold legal evidence, he was referring to matters which had just passed under their eyes. For, as the Judge truly said, in the witness-box the Plaintiff had just admitted himself to have been guilty not only of gross immorality but of the crimes of bigamy and perjury. It would seem from the history of Dr. Sorrneasir that no prudent man need, or indeed ought to be, without friends. There is no knowing what fantastic array of circumstances may be com bined against innocence, and require to be met by other combinations, prompt, bold, and decisive. In the worst case the tears of an injured wife may be worth a king's ransom. It is further evident that if the good word of the world is for feited by great vices, and even crimes, there is no reason why private attachments should fall before them. Such as Dr. Smenteiner was, there were those to whom his life was dear and his companionship desirable. We need not despair of fnenilship when we see what infinite pains were taken to recover him back to that society from which the blandishments of a late acquaintance, acting upon • too susceptible heart, had all too soon removed him. These wishes are gratified; Dr. Surnitiner's friends have him back—may be a sadder and a wiser, but at all events a richer man. Let him enjoy his gains with all possible quietness, while the public marvel at the mysterious dis pensation which sends him back to comfort piously the declining years of his wife with the money of IsAIiELLA 111.C•KEs. YABHIOrpII MAY. (has Le Pollee.) Ws learn from a note addressed to us by Mr. Cove that it his been the object of some writers to induce the belief that he has created em barrassment, by suddenly declining to conduct the music which Dr. IteNNzrr has written for the Opening of the International Exhibition. This is incorrect, as plainly appears from Mr. Coatis letter to her NIA., txrv's Commissioners, and their reply. The facts, as established by these two letters, are just those which we stated last Friday. It is, therefore, only as an act of courtesy that we now publish them. We were, however, under the impression, until we read Mr. CCeCTe ' e letter to Mr. &mortal; that his refusal to conduct Dr. Btzrirarr's music had been publicly dis cussed upon quite other grounds than that of the inconvenience it might cause to her MAJ very 'l4 Com missioners. With the facts now authentically before them, the public will judge for themselves whether their earlier impressions were warranted. Mr. Cosrs certainly shows that there has been no ambiguity or vacillation on his part. As early as last July he announced his intention not to con duct any music of Dr. Blyweren, and be has con sistently adhered to it. This, as we read his letter, is all the merit he claims. Mr. fixeriiroze, on behalf of the Commissioners, accepts and confirms Mr. CoarA's representations, and adds an explanation, which does not seem to be called for by anything in Mr. COSTA'S note, but THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1862. The materials materials suitable for spring wear are in great variety Shill season. We may safely say, there hest i sever bees a more abundant supply, or so many new de signs. In far, the manufacturers rem to have vied with each other to produce a choice selection of goods. Timm are some of a silky texture, of a fresh pink, tummies bre, or pale green colour, which form the most Imentifel sad Await toilettes ; some of taffetas moires, with arrow Mee lines, gros d'ete, taffetas chines, and moires. We have seen a nankeen taffetas, upon which it appeared as if a network of lace had been thrown; this material is trimmed with black lace. The same styles made in violet ex whits. Spotted moires make vary handsome erasing ce swami dinser-dressea, and are also worn for visiting direr Them Are are taffetas with a white ground and arrow Hass of violet, orange, pink, black, he., cc with brocbeea flowers ; or black ground, with the same pattern. Cliambery mama are already worn for evening der; and are made with high bodies for young girl, for whom organdie, with coloured flowers, mad checked taffetas, as well as foulard ere still fears able. For simple dress, black, brown, or violet moire antique should be made quite plain, or with very Utile trimming. Indian foulards and Irish poplins are wore r well ; the sew foulards made with various designs, detached bouquets on black or brown ground : those with white ground are reserved for summer wear. A plain silver drab is the colour most in vogue for poplin. The poll de chevre, with a drab ground, either plain or chine, with small flowers embroidered in green, blue, or nasturtium coloured silk, is in great favour just now. The narrow flounce at the bottom of the skirt maple cried indispensable—at any rate, it is rarely this does est at least form part of the trimming ; it is generally Moll double, especially in light material cc summer taffetas Skirts without trimming are no longer worn. Airy and °Marti are often made with a very full skirt, hear' four or five wide tucks ; in this case, the WIOW flounce is not put at the bottom. Sometimes the teaks are trimmed with a narrow fluting. These dresses ere also made with a narrow plaited flounce at the bottom, endear rows of Tay narrow fluting above. Taffetas drew are sometimes made of two oolonn—for example,the dress of violet silk with alternate tucks of black and violet; brown with green, violet, white, or Week tucks. Shame retain very much the same fashion they have bad lately, with revers, and not very wide. A very pretty sleeve for silk drew is made with revers, but narrow, and with • seam up the back, and showing • white tinder- Short *Wm, for out-of-doors wear, are now taking the A nn a of the large and long pardessus we have bad lately. Alpaca is used for these, braided, trimmed with pious, or with passementerie. Round capes and shawls are also made in alpaca, and in plain material, matching the dress. Some are trimmed with frills (not if made of barege) ; but these are not so generally adopted. For the season, when farther advanced, some magnificent shawls have been prepared ; the pound of tulle, with net folds, forming cross ben , checked like a chees-tioard, sad two rows of English lace. For this Reason the small bate, with raised ar falling edges, are as much in favour as in any preceding year. The shapes are exceedingly graceful, and are trimmed with velvet or long feathers. The hat is composed either of black, grey, or brown straw, Limbers or Belgian straw. Bonnets are now made 1111M111 , 111f at the shies but raised on the forehead ; they are trimmed very mock, both inside and outside, and the ornaments are of • varied description. Crepe and tulle are both tow in demand for spring bon nets. White drawn crape, with • large coquille of black lace and tea-roses, the ends of the lace falling over the curtain, is considered very elegant. The front is covered with • point of lace shading another roes, which is placed on the summit of the head. Some are made of white tulle,having two curtains—one of violet taffetas, which is plaited exactly like the under ova, but open in the middle, to allow for • soul of blonde, tied in • knot to fall over the back. This scarf is fastened on the front of the bonnet by a plume of white and violet feathers, platted very flat, partly inside and partly outside. The bandeau is composed of violets. One string is white, the other violet. Another is of white crape, in tucks, the curtain edged with a mullion of blue between each tuck. On the top is a large coquille of blue, on the left sideorith • white feather. The inside is trimmed to match. The strings are blue. LAT! Count de Niewerkerke, and at 3 this afternoon her Majesty and the Emperor left the Tuileries in a travelling carriage to see the Chateau of Vincennes. There is to be a grand dinner, a concert, and a ball at the Tuileries this evening. The Bourse has been extremely firm. The Recite rose 20c. both for cash and account, closing in each case at 70fr. 60c. Mobilier rose 7fr. 50c., and the Italian Loan 35c. The Southern Railway rose 17fr. 50e., from which fact it is to be inferred that the interview with the Emperor yesterday was favourable ; Orleans rose Sir. 75c., and Lyons Mr. 25c. The Russian Loan was officially posted at the Bourse. The Campana collection, which is to be called "The Napoleon 111. Museum," will be open to the public on May 1. On the same day will be ex hibited, for the first time, the curiosities found by M. E. Renan and M. E. Balmy in Phenicia, on the eastern slope of Mount Olympus, and also M. Ravaisson's casts from Greek marbles unknown in France. A double murder, which suggests very melan choly reflections se to the moral value of "good conduct" in prison, has just been perpetrated at Toulon. A soldier named Huet, who was con demned to death in 1848 for an attempt to murder an officer, had his sentence commuted to imprison ment with hard labour for life. Subsequently, in consequence of his good conduct, he was informed that his punishment would cease at the end of twenty years, and consequently in six years from this time he would have been a free man. But two of his comrades in chains drew the inference from the favour granted to him that he must be a police spy, and gave expression to their suspicions. This accusation awakened the old instincts of the man, whose mind was familiarised with the notion that any injury to himself must be wiped out with blood. He got hold of a hatchet used to cut wood in the kitchen, killed with it at a single blow one of his traducers, whom he found asleep in bed, and so desperately wounded the other that his life is despaired of. A sergeant of the 44th Regiment, now quartered at Fort Nogent barracks, has been sent to the guardhouse for a fortnight, for having set snares for cats. It was proved that he caught half-a dozen, and converted them into "jugged hare." This is a case of de gustibiss, Am.; but the not very severe punishment of the military authorities makes no reference to depraved taste, but is founded upon the swarms of rats and mice in the barracks which the cats would have usefully made war upon. A new play called Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois Dore, founded on a novel by Georges Sand, and dramatised by M. Paul Meurice, was produced at the Ambign last night with immense success. THE NEW RUSSIAN LOAN. The prospectus of the new Russian Loan was not circulated by the agents, Messrs. Rothschild, until late last evening. Annexed is a copy : IMPERIAL RUSSIAN FIVE PERCENT. LOAN OF 1862. His Majesty the Emperor of Ramie, by Imperial Ukase under dateof the 26th of April, 1862, haying authorised the emission of a loan for 15,000,0001. sterling, nominal capital, Menus. de Rothschild Brothers, of Paris, and Mews. N. M. Rothschild and Sons, in this City, have catered into a contract for the negotiation of the same. Five Millions Stock of this Loan have already been disposed of, and for the remaining 10.000,000/., Five per Cent. Stock tuberrip lions will be received. NOM N. M. Rothichild and Sons, therefore, beg to announce that they are ready to receive applications for the mine, which will be emitted in bonds to bearer for 501., 1001., 501)1., and 1,000/. sterling, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, with cou pons, payable half-yearly, on the Ist of November and let of May, each year, at the option of the holders in London, in pounds, darling ; in Paris, at the exchange of 25 franc 20 cede. per 2 sterling ; in Frankforton-the-Main, and Amstardar at the exchange of the day ; and at St. Petersburg, at 37 pence per silver rouble. 'rho bonds will be proed wi twenty coupon', and a talon for renewal of the same after they are exhausted free of expense. The Imperial Govern ment reserves to itaelf the right, after the expiration of twenty years from Ist May, 1862, of redeeming this loan at par. The price of emiasion is 84/. for every 1001. stock, payable in twelve months, with dividend from tat May, 18C, as follows, viz. : lb per cent, on 941. on the 15th May next. 10 „ „ „ 10th July. 10 „ „ „ 10th September. 15 „ „ „ 10th Nov., lees the dividend. 10 „ „ „ 12th January, 1863. 10 „ „ „ 10th February. 10 „ 10th March. 10 ~ „ „ 10th April. 10 „ „ „ 12th May, lees the dividend. 100 Subscribers desirous of anticipating the payment of these instalments will be allowed a discount of 4 per cent. per annum, and the bonds will be delivered as soon as they can be obtained from the Imperial government. Every applies. Ron meat be areninpsnied with a deposit of 10 per cent. on the amount applied for. In mule the allotment should not require the whole deposit, the surplus will be returned ; if it be insufficient for the first instalment on the amount allotted, the balsam required must be paid forthwith. Scrip receipts will be issued, which will be exchanged foe the bonds after payment of the last instalment. Subscrips tion lists will be opened at the same time at—Mews. De Botha:lldd Brothers, Paris ; M. A. De Rothschild and Sons, Frankfort O.M. ; Becker sod Fuld, Amsterdam; Mr. Bleiehroder, Berlin. No applications will be received alter Friday evening, the 2nd May next. It will be noticed that the amount-15,000,0001. is quite as large as reported, while the conditions in some respects are even less attractive than ru mour made them to be. The announcement that 5,000,0001. has been "disposed of" must be held to mean merely that the subscription of that amount has been guaranteed by the agents and others, but as regards a large portion, if not the whole of it, the subscribers, no doubt, retain the power of sale. The instalments are spread over a year, ending in May, 1863. The large amount of the preliminary deposit,p.o per cent., seems to be arranged expressly with a view to bind the applicants closely to their bargain. It is a feature worthy of notice that there is no sinking fund, though the Russian government reserves to itself the right of redemption after 20 years. There are many points which would have to be cleared up before the general public would feel dis posed to lend active support to a transaction of so enormous an amount. It is already rumoured that but a brief interval will elapse before Russia will be in the market again ; and if it is true that the emancipation of the serfe involves a money compensation of something like 300,000,000 or 350,000,000 silver roubles (say 50,000,0004 sterling), the report becomes less impro bable than might at first be supposed. It is understood, too, that the Russian government is very anxious to possess itself of an iron fleet, and the secrets of its Seance are so im penetrable that the mode of application of any loan can never be traced. In the next plane, rumour does not hesitate to go so far as to assert that the reserve of bullion, which is traditionally supposed to exist in the vaults of the fortress of St. Peters- burg, and which, though notoriously inadequate to support the existing mass of government paper, is ostensibly taken once a year on a solemn promenade to amuse the multitude, has no existence. Added to statements and rumours of this sort comes the allegation in letters from Paris, that the French government has resolved to pro hibit the quotation of the new stook on the Paris bourse. Some of these reports may possibly be exaggerated and others unfounded, but their circa lation and acceptance is a natural consequence of the sullen wormy of the Russian financial depart. menta, and, combined, they produce a permanent feeling of distrust. MUTH= RIPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TAT. Amin ie. • au. la tY. a tic L a NM= 30.14 17 51 B. 114 o 30.23 63 so asm. 4 3 0 14M Blow= 61D101041 30.21 62 60 W. 211 b 20.19 50 48 8. 4 , b 45Aiwsv 30.19 68 63 Z. 6 1 b Ulnas 30.30 63 48 W. I - 31 -- 0022.41000.4111. 10.30 48 51 8.8. W. 3 1 o 411.45001.2110 90.41 66 60 Z. 0, 1 b Uvinouut. 30.30 51 50 16.8.11. 1 1 is gun:swot= . 30.14 66 66 8.8.2 41 1 b Vaunts TAZZOO2I4 $9.36 n 49 LK, 2 I 1 b 1.01111302 MSS 60 62 ILK 3 3 b Dom 3043 68 66 Na 21 1 b 90420900111 30.26 66 60 B.Z. 3 30.26 66 61 118.0.. 4 1 b MUM= 30.19 60 63 OIL 6 4 JIMMY 20.21 45 60 N.N.Z. 6 1 b 1 PROBABLI. WIDINIODAT. Noltrifllarrato.—N.Ltolt.R., N.N.W. to E. light to freak gm. moderate, tine. lam.ann.-41. to N. and N.W., N.N.W. to K.N.E. and EgE, moderate to trash, fine. treed to stroog, dear. Crimitex..—N.L to W.N.W., W. to N. and E.N.E.,moderste, light to moderate. varla'.le. to trash, fine. E. Coder.—M.& to E.N.K.and N.N.W. to K NE. and S.E. N., moderate to fresh, One, moderate to trash, doe. S. SII9LUID.-11. to &, moderate LN.E.and S.& W., fruit to fresh, One. to strong, line. trial to An interesting experiment wan made last week at the reaklence of the Sub• Prefect of Seintes. A chemist from Cognac demonstrated that he could, by menus of a elective, distinguish pure Cognac brandy from mixed spirit, sod tell whether the latter was composed of spirits of wine. beet root, or corn spirit. Various descriptions of brandy were given to the chemist for his experiment. By pouring a glum of his reactive into a bottle of each liquor he produced instantly a particular tint, which indicated the nature of the mixture. There were a number of wine mordants and distillers present, who were astonished at the accuracy of the experiment, which succeeded above 100 times. A communication from Jerusalem of the 106, in the Monde, says :—" Since the end of March, the Holy land has been traversed in every direction by pilgrims Pm' °adding to Jerusalem. The route by Jaffa is More frequented than any other ; the French, Russian, sad Austrian steamers land there long files of dissenting hsdlw On the 9th April a caravan of Coptic women, coming from Alexandria, entered Jerusalem, raising singular shouts of joy. This troop had been preceded by the Oonsul-General of Greece at Beyrout, and a crowd of travellers of different nations." It is stated in the Australian papers that the mercantile community are opposed to a more frequent mid communication with England on account of the labour which It would impose on them! Between 1851 and 1860, the extent of land which had been used wholly or partially by the gold diggers the colony of Victoria was 640 squ are miles, for which the diggers bad paid the Victoria government 3,975,02' 24 . a 101. per acre. If the pastoral tenants had pad the gown' meat in the same proportion for the land they ocrwOi"l during the same period, the government would haw ft' °sired from them the mind 450,000,000 i. The tench has been successfully introduced into the colony of Tamed& CD( Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. Arm. M. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Alfred, Princess Altos, Priseess Helena, Prineese Louise, sad Princess Beatrice, left Osborne to-day at throe o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle at 6.30 p.m The suite in attiodsoos col:misted of the Courtin' at Gaiusborooolt, Lady A. Dram, the Hon. Harriett Filippa, Lord. Alfred Peat, LieolsoantAleneral the Has. C. Grey. Colonel the Hem. Sir Oberlin Phipps, and Major CrorelL Her Majority Imam& quite privately. Moe" Leopold remains for a abort time at Debase, Mamie& by Liralmemt Coker.' Do Plat sad Dr. °bather. Vbsesed Paiwasstra arrived in town yesterday from his wad, Insadhadr. Basta. The Classellsr d the Escluiver and Ma. °Madam wriest at their weldeass cm Oarltoa•hoswtarrsse prier. day afterimoo, hewillavieriss Osage. Ties Right Hos. T. =air Gibess has returned to Leader. • The Right lloa. W. Hutt has arrived in town freer ' Gibeide. Lord Stanley of Alikaley has returned to town. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Goren°, st the Falklead Ishiada, the Lord High Commissioaer d the Lavine Wards, sad from the 00VerS0111 of °Rasher, Malta, Heligolmet, Osyloo, Hoag Yong, sad the West ladle law& DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM OSBORNE. (nor on owa counrownirr.) PORTSMOUTH, Ana 28. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by some et the semben of the royal family, and &Raided by the Wits sad gentlemen of the court, left Gabor's. today, and arrived at the Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The royal party proceeded at once, per special tilde, to Windsor, sad, as on every previous occa sion since the death of the Prince Consort, the journey ass performed in • strictly private manner. Their Ro) al Highnesses the Princes Arthur and Leopold re main at Osborne, sod will, on Wednesday, embark on board the Vivid, and proceed oo • cruise. The Rolla, instruction brig, Lieutenant Nelson command ing, which has bees in attendance daily a Osborne for the use of his Royal Highsees Prince Alfred, returned to Portsmouth harbour this afternoon. Queen Christina, with the Duke of Rianzares and saw, leave Paris to day to be present at the opening of the Intonational Exhikitioa. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Ifsekkohargh-Straits arrived at Dover last night, by the John Penn, mail oteam•packet, under the seperintendeooe of Csptain Smithett. On landing, her royal highness pro• seeded to Birmingham's Lord Warden Hotel, where she slept. Her royal highness was met at Dover by Lady Oarohoe Coat. Her royal highness proceeds this morning to Loudon. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have re tercel to Apsley House from Strathfieldsaye, where they have been passing the holidays. The Marchioness of Salisbury and family arrived im Arlington-street s yesterday, from Folkeiteee, for the season. The Earl and Countess Somers have left Princes gate for Reigate Priory, Sussex. The lion. Richard Cavendish has issued cards for a ball on Friday, the 9th of May, at his residence in Chesbam-place. The 31archioness of Ely has, in the name of her sou, the youthful marquis, given instructions that seed oats, potatoes, and other seeds shall be distributed amongst those of the tenants on his Fermanagh estate who at this time would, if Dot assisted, be compelled to let the land be uncropped, or make ruinous sacriflose to procure seed. The late Earl Pembroke bad only a few days prier to his death signed a lease for an apartment of Lord Hertford's in the hotel which formerly was the Oaf 6 de Paris, at the corner of the Rue Taithout, and which the old marchioness occupied at the time of her death. Lord Pembroke's magnificent furniture, bronzes, paintings, and I plate are to be sold by auction. His lordship expressed a wish to be buried at Montmartre, but his English relations lave, it is said, determined to take his body to England. We are authorised to state that no appointment to the vacant mina canonry is Westminster Abbey has yet been made. The Daily News of this morning publishes a supplement, the two inner pages of which are devoted ex. elusively to a description of the contents of the loternatiooal Exhibition. The outer pages are occupied by illustrated ad•ertissmeuts from exhibitor. On going into committee of supply, on Friday, Mr. Maguire will ell attention to the fact that several deaths from starvation have occurred recently in Ireland ; sad ask whether the government have received oMcial in formation of such cases having occurred, if so, whether they have taken, or are about to take, any steps in consequence ; also, whether they have any objection to lay upon the table all the reports, communications, and correspondence in reference to such cases. Mr. blsney, on Friday, will ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if be will introduce a clause in the Highways Bill to enforce the repairs of foot piths being highway. WOMB fields and elsewhere near great towns. On Tuesday next Captain Joins will move for a Meet committee to *airs es to the beet means of pre servieg Hann& Harbour se a harbour of refuge. Ou going into committee of supply on the oth of May, Sir De Lacy Evans will move " That, in the opinion of this house, oo further postponement ought to take place is realising the recommendation to her Majesty, contained in the report of the royal commission laid on the table of this house by the l'rime Minister in 1837, to the effect that a change should be made in the mode of appointing to the command of regiments ; that for this rank purchase should cease, and that the lieutenant-colonel should be named by selection upon the responsibility of the Commander-in- Chief." Mr. William Ewart proposes to nominate the select committee ou +IMAM sod measures as follows : Mr. William Ewart, Mr. Sotheron Estonurt, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Adderley, Mr. BMus, Colonel Wilson Patten, Mr. John Benjamin Smith, Mr. Home, Mr. St. Aubyn, Mr. Hennessy, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Finlay, Mr. °meal, and Mr. Pollard• Urquhart. The following clause has been inserted in the sew Mutiny Act, to meet oases similar to those which have been ender investigation b► recent courts martial :—" Every officer whose character or conduct es ea officer and gentleman has been publicly impugned shall, within reasonable time, submit the same to his commanding officer, or to other competent military authority, for inves tigation, on pain of suffering such punishment as a general court-martial may award." The following additional clause has also ben inserted in the same act :—" A court-martial recommending that an offender be discharged with igno miny may also recommend that be be marked on the right breast with the letters ' B. C.' (bad character), and such recommendation may be legally carried into effect by the military authorities." The manufacturers of Lyons have received orders milkiest to give employment to their hands for seine time to come. The export of silk manufactured articica has con siderably diminished to Spain, Italy, and Germany, which tiatil lately was niece considerable than usual. On the other hied, the export to England hes emmiderahly iocreaseL The Museum of Natural History at Paris has just lost the crocodile, nine feet in length, which has been there for six years. The animal required more imam, water, and mud, asd it was kept °Defined la a box always closed, °Detaining only three or four inches of liquid, and Used with sine, a substance which is fatal to cold-blooded animals. On the body being opened there wen found In the stomach suns pieces of roots which it most have ewal ' lowed when living at liberty in the wakes of the Nile, twenty years ago. THE GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. There is at present on private view at the Music hall, Store-street, previous to its removal to the Great Exhibition building, a model of the orchestra at the Crystal Palace, as it will appear when the Great Handel Festival is to be celebrated there in June next. The orchestra is con tained in • handsome and substantial oak case, and Is modelled on the scale of half an inch to a foot. The num ber of figures is somewhat under 4,000, but they are so well arranged that they scarcely appear half so n.any. There are 10 figures on every eight inches square, the great organ being the central point around which the various groups of performers, male and female, are arranged. The figures are modelled and sculptured by Mr. Wm. Beattie. A greet deal of variety and character baa been imparted to the miniature musicians—Mr. Costa with his wand directing the operations of the entire orchestra. The colouring also is happily diversified, and the appearance of the whole model is that of • pretty and pleasing picture. Apart from its merit as • work of art, the model will answer the purpose of notifying to the thousands who will visit the Exhibition at South Kensiegtoo nest month that the festival of the greatest composer of sacred music is to be celebrated next June in the most delightful of palaces, by one of the largest orchestras Urger& resembled under a single roof. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Queen of Holland honoured the Oyesesse Theatre, Paris, with their presence on Saturday night, to see M. Sardon's new piece, Le Perle Noire. The King of Holland is expected in Paris towards the beginning of neat week. His Majesty is at present 45 years of age, having been born on the 19th Feb., 1817, and has filled the throne of Holland since the 12th May, 1849. The Queen of Holland, daughter of the King of Wnrtemberg, was born on the 17th of May, 1818, and mar ried King William 111. on the 18th June, 1839. Two princes are the issue of this marriage. The Austrian Gazette states that the Empress of Austria made an excursion on terns/rata on the 23rd inst., for the first time during her stay at Venice, her Majesty having gone to Vicenza, to visit the Archduchess Hilde gard.. A deputation from the lace manufacturers of Nancy lately waited on the Empress Eugenie to solicit her patronage. The Empress replied to the deputies by showing them several boxes filled with loos the produce of their manufactories. She told them farther that she would not only not lose any opportunity of serving their interests, but she would by her example procure them its many customers as possible. The FeuiUe de Thcoin of the 19th inst. states that M. Jourdain, one of the principal spinners of that town, has informed his workmen that after the present week he will Sod himself under the cruel necessity of re ducing their hours of labour in his manufactory by two- thirds, is order that his stock of cotton may last the &mem Me added, however, that he would reduce their weer by only one-third. The sacrifice M. Jourdain is rir solved to make, in order to give bread to hie numerous operatives, is estimated at 1,000(r. a week. Two Berlin journals announce—on the strength of statements in private letters end newspapers from New York—the arrival in the latter city of Lieutenants Von Sobbe and Pntaki, the two Prussian officers who first slew an ion servant and then broke the parole, which had been most blameably accepted as almost the sole security for their safe keepisg until their fate should hi decided upon. The New York Denorrat of the sth inst. heeds its mention of them with the words " Arrival of Two Murderers," and, after stating that they had gone by way of Ostend to South. aniptoo, and thence had taken the steamer to America, mentions that they were arrested ea landing, sod oolekcjad before the Prussian coused.reeral, who, however, declared that he had no instructions respecting them, and could not stir in the matter. Other American papers have protested, it appears, against the idea of their admission into the Federel army. The 3f uniteur Vinieole, in reference to the effect of the frost of the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th, on the vines, states that, if some vineyards in Lower Burgundy, the Marne, the two Charente*, sod the environs of Paris, have been more or less injured, there d good reason to hope that the greet majority of the best vineyards will yield a good croli. A Frankfort paper states, from Brussels, that a noble Belgian bigot ham placed a rum of 100,0001. In the heads of the Cardinal Archbishop of Malian for the nee el the Pope in his eventual crusade spinet the revolution, and that each lavishness, is sock a cause, bad aroused universal isdigeation in the Belgian capital, in presence of the great distress and misery now prevailing among the manu facturing population of Ghent. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Anar. 17. General Ha deck has assumed the command of the array in Tennessee. The Confederate head quarters are at Corinth. There is a space of only two miles between the two armies at Corinth, and another battle is considered imminent. The Journal of Commerce has the following re marks on the capture of Fort Pulaski : It is not likely that an advance en Savannah will meet with formidable opposition. Fort Jackson is • small work four miles below the city, on a site near a bend in the river. and commands the channel. It is built of heavy brick masonry, and has an armament of ten 24-pounders, several field pieces and howitzers, and a few mortars. Above this fort again, as described by the Richmond Demote/4, are beZtenee enough to make it a serious under eking to pro ceed to Savannah, but any obstacles of this character must speedily yield to overpowering force. The Despatch mourned in advance that the acquisition of the city by the Federal+ would avail little. The editor vauntingly said—" When at Savannah, what have the Yankees obtained, The people then will hold no inter course with them. Were the turfing Rhode Wand senator there with his vessel, he would find no one to open a trade with him. There in indeed nothing there. There is no cotton, and the banks have transferred their valuables to the interior, so there is nothing for trade, and little whereupon to employ the other predominant passion of the Yankees.—stealing. They may burn Savannah. Well, let them if they can reach it. At last amounts there were supposed to be at Savannah and thereabouts 4,000 Confederate troops. The blockade of Savannah is now complete, and we take it that the vessels which have done duty in that neighbour hood may seek employment elsewhere. The fall of Pulaski places the Union in undisputed pos session of the entrances to Savannah, and for the future we shall not hear of vowels running the blockade into that river. The damage done on the walls of the fort by the gnus brought to bear is another illustration of the programs of, and improvements in, artillery. Stone forte and wooden ships haveceased to rank high in the offensive and defensive means of war. A few years ago we built this fort—a strong and well-planned work of military art. Now with our im proved artillery, finding it in the hands of an enemy, we batter it down like a child's toy house. The Washington correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says there is a new political movement on foot in Washington. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says, that the Committee on Foreign Rela tions to which had been referred the treaty between Great Britain and the United States, for the slip pression of the Slave trade, reported it back with out amendment, and with the favourable endorse ment of the committee. It is the opinion that the treaty will receive the prompt sanction of the full Senate, and be forthwith forwarded to England, to be ratified by the British government. General Grant, in his official report of the battle at Pittsburg Landing, after describing the first day's righting, says : During the night all was quiet, and feeling that a great moral advantage would be gained by being the attacking party, an advance was ordered as soon as the day dawned. The result was the gradual repulse of the enemy at all points of the line, from nine o'clock until probe-1)1y five o'clock in the afternoon, when it became evident that the enemy was retreating. My force was too much fatigued, from two days bard fighting and exposure in the open air to • drenching rain during the intervening night, to pursue immediately. General Sherman, however, followed the enemy, fiuding that the main pe rt of their army had re treated in good order. M. Mercier, the French Minister at Washington, arrived ou the 16th instant at Fortress Monroe, cud went on board the French steamer Gassendi, which steamed up to Norfolk. Curiosity was evi denced in naval circles to know if the French steamer would salute the Confederate flag at Nor folk ; and if the Confederate guns would salute the French flag. It is supposed that M. Mercier will visit Richmond. Some despatches state that he has gone to look atter some French government tobacco stored at Richmond. Other despatches say that M. Mercier's visit gives rise to much specula tion in Washington. The Tribune states it is rumoured that the Fede ral Secretary of War has resigned. President Lincoln has sent a message to Congress announcing his signature and approval of the bill emancipating the alavea in the district of Columbia. In this message the President says he never doubted the constitutional authority of Congress to abolish slavery in the district, and always de sired to see the national capital freed from slavery in some satisfactory way. Hence he never had in his mind any question on the subject except the one of expediency rising in view of all the circum stances. If there be matters within and about this act which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory to his judgment, the President says he will not attempt to specify them. The President is gratified that the two principles of c,impensation and colonisation are recognised in the aot.l Three commissioners have been appointed to in vestigate and determine the value of slaves in the district of Columbia. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says that President Lincoln's signature to the Emancipation Bill greatly disappoints conser vative men in Congress. It is regarded as an un willing consent to a measure of doubtful expe diency under existing circumstances. The Border State members are much depressed at the prospect of an unfavourable result from the adoption of this measure upon their Union loving constituents. !EST INTILLIG IMO . SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The last instalment of the war indemnity due to Spain from the Emperor of Morocco has been paid; and the steam frigate Isabella IL has brought the amount to Alicante. The obligations of Morocco having thus been fulfilled, orders have been sent from Madrid to Rear-Admiral Pinion to proceed with his squadron to Tetuan to take on board the Spanish garrison, and convey it to Algesiraa The evacu►tion of Tetuan will be effected during the month of May. ITALY. A letter from Turin of the 25th, in the Conetitu tionne/, says : The government has so great a confidence in the peak development of 1862, that it has just liberated from navies in the army two dames of men—namely, those born in the , years 1833 and 1834—thus reducing the effective by from 25,000 to 30,000 men. This measure was earnestly called for by reams both of economy and humanity. Those two classes had fulfilled an uninterrupted service of seven and eight years, and it was at last necessary to allow them to repose. The saving resulting from the measure will be entirely employed in perfecting the materiel of war and in fortifications, so that in reality the war budget will not derive any advan tage from it; but the mark of having mouse to supplementary credits for the indispensable expenses of armaments will be avoided. By means of wise administra tive manna, the financial yea 1862 may perhaps he closed without the neceeeity of a loan. Public credit is already feeling the advantage of this system, and the Italian Five per Cents., which were at 67 on the mamma of the present ministry, are now negotiated at 69.50 and 70. The only supplementary credit of any im portance will be asked for by the Minister of Marine on the reopening of the present session. After the re volution produced in all the navies of Europe by the combat between the Monitor and the Merrimac, it was uo possible not to place Italy in unison with other nations and to think of a new method of constructing ships. To that effect Admiral Person sent two superior allays of the navy—MY. Riccardi and de fiaint-Bon—to France, England, and America, for the purpose of studying thoroughly all the new systems of naval construction, and authorising them to choose that which shall appear to them the most &dean ' agleam and the mat in conformity with the program of • science. MM. Riocardi and fiaint-Bon, after having care fully visited all the dock and building yards of Francis, are at the present moment in England, actively pursuing the purpose of their mission. Worn% mamma.) ARRIVAL OF KING VICTOR EIDIANUEI AT NAPLBS. NAPLES, Arm 28, Evens. The King arrived here at 4.30 p.m. to-day, escorted by three Italian and four French frigates. His Majesty was saluted by the cannon of the fortaof the squadron, and of three English frigates. On landing be received the syndic of the city, and passed through the streets in an open car riage. His Majesty was everywhere welcomed with indescribably enthusiastic demonstrations of joy. On arriving at the palace he appeared several times on the balcony to the people. A general illumination of the city is now being effected. It is believed that an amnesty for the press and for fines decreed against national guards will be proclaimed. It is also expected that charitable gifts will be made by the King. CONSPIRACY AT MILAN. MILAN, Arita 28, Evrauta. A great conspiracy has been discovered here among the soldiers of the old Neapolitan army. It is asserted that the clergy had supplied them with arms and money. The population is agitated. PROTEST AGAINST THE INVASION OF MONTENEGRO BY THE TURKS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Area. 21. France, supported by Russia, hes formally pro tested against the invasion of Montenegro by the Turkish troops. The frontier will not, oonssquently, be crossed. Negotiations are in progress for the marriage of the Sultan's niece with the son of the Bey of Tunis. _ _ . His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is e:• petted to arrive here on the 4th of May. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom owl OWN PARIS. MO3DAT EVICIONG. The following paragraph which, if reliable, rite an end to a great deal of recent news, appear, in the Toulonnais of the 26th : _ . In coosequeoce of a despatch which arrived here yester day morning, the experimental squadron received orders to get under weigh to-day. Its mission appears no longer a secret, as the vessels are to go to the regattas of Cannes, which are to take place on the 4th of May. They will re main until th►t time at the Isles d'Hy4es. A voyage to Naples appease, therefore, to be quite ►bandaned, and it is even said that it was never IS contemplation. I find no contradiction of the above in any even ing paper. Bullier's Correspondence merely says, " We must not be too sure that the news is true," but that amounts to nothing. A Paris letter in the Journal de Rouen confirms as follows the statement that the Marquis de Lava lette does not go to Rome at present : A despatch has been sent to Reins by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to miming* officially to M. de Relines, First Secretary of Embassy, that the leave of absence granted to the Marquis de Lavalette hu been extended. A despatch from Rome announces that Mdme. de Lavalette was on the point of embarking at Civita Vaechis to return to France. Those two facts put an end to all the contra dictory rumours which have been current for so many days past. It is, moreover, known th►t the Marquis and Mdme. de Lavalette are to go to Vichy about the middle of May. It is part of the system here to ventilate through some provincial journal a piece of news which would clash with late declarations of the Paris semi-official press. M. B. Renan's Hebrew lectures, which were to have been resumed to-day, are again suspended. I have heard no explanation of this extraordinary vacillation on the part of the authorities. I think it right to mention, though I am very lorry to hear it, that simultaneously from French and American sources the news reaches me to day that the French and English governments are seriously thinking of an intervention in common to put a stop to the civil war in America. The Northern men here are most uneasy on the sub ject. To-morrow the Corps Legialatif will discuss the military levy for 1863. The five independent members propose to support an amendment for making a further reduction to the extent of 20,000 men, and incidentally the recently-formed opposition of various shades will probably bring forward some of their objections to the budget. The Count de -, accused of having stolen the paymaster's bag while dining u a guest at the mess at a regiment, is admitted to bail, and has been sent by his friends, by whom be had been previously placed under interdict as a " prodigal," to an asylum in Paris. The Queen of Holland, who is a protestant, went to church at the Oratoire yesterday. This morning she visited the galleries of the Lo><vre, attended by lingan, being in ;ille 7 rae for the aseaultic LilLicray nor, 167 of their Mr. I fence. Police ley was attend. bad stmt once to faring fr bead, az the folk Winger has am assault 1 nw gr.l client t that thi his ewe From last nig home a polio, 1 plaice& prison mange proms way to freely, Isztv ton-re kicking knee. that fm Bible. 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