The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-05 00:00:00

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Tarsal, sad Mra Cranford. —AM CILLMAY a*NCIL Mr. aramod.—Comassce st se. ISM WATILA AT LOSDON BAUM& MI 1169.-/Isliam, Ai 11k5..... Ailsoasea. Sh. 44245. 1.4111111111. .141ffliMS, Mt iii...... Aftarsom, N. Yea LOSDON, sAruRDAY, APRIL 5. THERE appear to be Englishmen who think the time has come round again for the country to lose its wits. It is a long while—above a year—since we had a panic, and things were getting rather flat. It seems to be thought that the exploits of the Mer rimac may serve a good turn. The Merrimac, heavy and well thatched with iron, has with little difficulty made short work of destroying or crip pling four or five wooden ships found at anchor. There is nothing extraordinary in this. The Merrimac was reconstructed, just as the Moire and Warrior had been constructed long before, because the immense advantage of armour sheathed over naked wooden ships was well known. The engagement in the James River has shown us in history and fact what we knew, as reasonable beings, perfectly well before. The experience is very impressive and should be turned to account, but it leaves the realities of things where they were before. By all means, while the subject is fresh, let us survey our means and resources, and ask how far we are keeping pace with the improve ments adopted by our neighbours ; but it is not Deaconry for that purpose to work ourselves into a frenzy, or feign the thing that is not. No squadron of unsuspected Merri mac& has been suddenly discovered at Cherbourg, no flotilla of Monitors is announced from Roche Point. Nor, if there had been, need we have been so very much frightened. Captain ER1.14,40S feels certain that with the Monitor he could sink the '.lerriniac in three rounds; and the Moni tor, we learn,, has her weak points, which our marine artillery would soon find out. The number of sea-going iron ships has not been increased by one since the Americans took to iron-plating, and the Duke of SONERALT was very near the mark when be said, on Thursday, that the chief thing taught us by the recent engagement was that we must pre pare to find iron-cased ships in all quarters of the globe. It is to be hoped that the view of the British Admiralty will embrace all the consequences of this change. We take it for granted that it will always be possible to construct for home defence a class of vessels protected by heavier armour and mounted with more and heavier guns than any vessels of war which can be sent and maint against them from a distance. if that be mo o it will be the fault of the power assailed at home if itadefenceshould not prove more efficientthan the attack. Every nation which has a seabord and porta, and interests and honour to defend, will of course provide itself at any coat with iron-clad floating batteries, and only Mexicans and Chingos will submit to blockades. Of course we are the great gainers in all that concerns improvements in the art of naval war. We may now make aggression on these islands hope less and aimless. Our colonies also will be enabled to protect themselves much better than we can protect them : and these two interests being provided for, we shall have merely to protect our commerce on the seas of the world. Common sense suggests that we should keep our eyes on this work, and adjust our means and inatruments;to it, rather than dwell on swelling rhetorical phrases, invented to palliate extravagance and excuse reckless waste. The Duke of Soria. err appears, from his speech on Thursday night, to have thus conceived the duty of a First Lord of the Admiralty, and of course to panic-mongers his statement seems sadly below the exigencies of the occasion. An ingenious but purely fantastic calculation is made to show that for all practical purposes the navy of England consists of two ships, the Warrior and Defence. If all the rest of our navy, it is said, were drawn up in order of battle, there are half-a-dozen ships in the world which would run them down, riddle them with shot, and smash them utterly, without allowing them a chance of re sistance. By the same mode of calculation a citizen of the world might say that the navy of the world consists for all practical purposes of six ships, which could not be got together; and that if the rest of the same navy were drawn up, Eng land has two ships which would utterly destroy them. All this is pitiful nonsense, designed to give some show of support to the assertion that our wooden ships not plated are of no use. Their uselessness as line-of-battle ships is on all hands acknowledged, but that is not the most common use of our war navy. For the police of the seas and the service of distant stations they will keg be most useful if not indispensable. The Duke of Si•msasirr has explained in a lucid speech, which every Englishman has read, the action and intentions of the Government Since the present Administration came into power our iron-cased fleet has been increased from ems to ten, of which five will be on the sea in this wens of the summer. Captain Cowrie Coaxes Cupola ship has been adopted as the best form et mewl for the protection of our coasts, and the eensieue tion of one as a model has been ordered. Our wooden ships are to be turned to account. The L.,au said We have five frame of EXI " line-of-battle ships and seven illlllll.B of frigaies " which could easily be adapted ; ladwe have also " eight large corvettes which could be adapted to " °wry at least some guns protected by iron plates. " With regard to our vessels generally, we could " out down 20 line-of-battle ships and adapt them " to coast service ; and as they have their machi " nery on board, it would be at a comparatively " small cost that they would be produced. While " doing that we should still have a powerful fleet " of niore than 40 ships to oppose any wooden " fleet that we might have to engage. Therefore, " if the nations of the world Irish to have iron ships " and to fight with iron, we are as well prepared " as anybody." Those who clamour because the Government has not adopted a headlong course, with "No " hesitation " for its motto, whose cry is " Break " up," " Reconstruct," while they deprecate fore sight and prudence, may find fault with this pro gramme, and the more so, as the FIRST LORD states that he hopes to carry it out without enormous expense ; but the country, we believe, will accept it with satisfaction. We are thank ful to be able to report in another column, that the opinions we have advocated for two years respecting the defence of our coasts, after being adopted in the House of Commons, have been accepted by the Government, and that the construction of the Spithead forts is to be suspended for two months, to give time for a reconsideration of the decision formerly sanctioned by Parliament. Considering that for the money which the three forts at Spithead would met we may get fourteen iron-cased ships, we feel at liberty mgratulate the country on the resolution unccd by the Government. bt Court. WLNDSOR CASTLE, Amt. 4. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Louie and Princess Beatrice, drove out in an open carriage and four yesterday afternoon, attended by the Countess of CaWon sod the Equerry in Waiting. Her Majesty and the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, Mamas Helena, Princess Louie, ' and Princess Beat:ion left Win:lsar Castle to-day at 3o' clock for Osborne. The suite in attendance included the Cousins of CsWoo, Lay Augusta Brace, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Sir Charles Phipps, Lieutenant-General tie Hos. C. Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel 1)u Plat, Major Correll, and the Master at the Household. 'lto Bishop of St. Helena had an interview with the Due of Newcastle on Thursday. at the Colonial-efitee. Mr. Drummed Wolfe had an interview with his race PORT9ltov PS, Amu. 4. The Victoria and Albert, royal yacht, Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., went okapi& the Claraae►lard, at Gosport, to-day, to embark her Majesty tie Qum°, and a part of the Royal Pamdy, for conveyasoe to Osborn*. The Royal Highnewies Prince Alfred and Prince Leo pold arrived at the dockyard at 5.30 p.m., and proceeded to Caboose in the Firs queen, Mater Commander Paul. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Counter de Mahal& will shortly leave Coventry House, Piccadilly, far Albert Ore House, the realism, of the French Embrey. The Duke of SL Albans received a select party at dinar last evening, at his reeldeeme in Hill-street. The Earl and Countess Stanhope will leave town is a few days for Caroming Perk, Meek for the holidays. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville arrived at the Priliou Hotel, Folkestone, on Thursday, from the Coarser, and left the following day for London. A committee is being formed for affording to the people of the three ldngdonse, and particularly the labouring dram; an opportunity of contributing to the national tr owel to the Prince Coeur. It is desirable that the com mittee should represent every dm cd labour and every &Domination of religioe, end we (Pima) understood that the names of those who have already camested to act go fax to answer this description. The now committee will work on ground which has been as yet untrodden, and will in no way interfere with the Lord Mayor's committee, the subscriptions to which have been horn the wealthy and mercantile clams. Mr. Jobs M. Clabon, of Great George. street, Westminster, cal Mr. Samuel Redgrave, of Hyde park-gate, are to be the honorary secretaries. The SUSSEX Espreq; is au enthusiastic supporter of the budget of 1052, and proposes that the two counties comber to celebrate the great event. " Let us have no poor select meethg, but a dimmer at such a price as will enable many who have shared in past eufferinp to take put in the present joy ; and, afore all, let it be does at once. Do not let us wait until the ant warmth of our emotions has rased away, and the deep glow of gratitude has sub sided into a mild mealtime of approval ; but let all arra ble and join io expressing WM' deep sense of the services which have been rendered to the cause by the noblemen end gentlemen who have taken part in the agitation which has at length been crowned with so glorious a The following are the thirteen tuembere who voted last night &gland Mr. Bentiock's amendment, "That this heves will, on Thursday, the Ist day of May, resolve Resit int, a committee, to consider of authorising the appli cation of any portion of the moneys which have been voted for the construction of fort., end not already expended or appropriated, to the construction of iron-sheathed Team* or to the conversion of wooden vessels into iron-sheathed vessels" :—Mears. E. Bairns, B. Daleish, M. Drumm, H. E. Ewing, J. Green, W. U. Heypte, W. Lawson, J. R. Mills, W. J. Monson, H. Pease, Baron L. de Rothschild, Mews. J. White, and H. Woods. Tellers, Mama Cross- ley and W. Forster. Mr. Moffatt, on the 29th, will move for a select committee to inquire ioto the emotional the petty chance on commerce imposed in 1860. The National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George-street, Westminster, will be open to the gab& on Easter Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, from 10 to 5 o'clock. - The Vocal Association having obtained the con met of Miss Leiden Pine and W. Harrison, Beg., to give • selection from Mr. Beowlict's opera (the Lily of Ifillarvity), will introduce for the first time in the concert-room an entire selection of the principal gems of this opera on Wed• nesclay evening next, April 9, itt St James's-hall. The solo singers announced are Miss Banks, Ulm Augusta Thomson, Mr. Swift, Mr. Tennant, and Mr. Bentley. The choir of 200 voices will sing the " Boatmen's Chorus." Mr. Bene dict will conduct the performance. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL FUND. LATEST IN! M. THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS. A despatch from Marseilles announces the land ing at that port of the Japanese Ambassadors• They were received by the Marquis de Trivia°, senator, and by Count de Maupas, with military honours. qi!D#T.. v.ectwo. - w:s:w: tox.x.w. fresh to moderate. lreland.-B.W. to N.W., strong to fresh, May. Central.-8.8.W. to W.N.W., sliO;3r7 . 11..C005t.. 7 8.W. to N.W. to N., fresh, showery. B. England.-8.8. W. to W. N. W. strong to moderate. The following are a few of the principal amounts received at the Nansios-howee daring the week in aid of the Mamelel tad :—Earl of Yount Edgecumbe, 30/. ; H. L Biechellesheia, Fag., 261. De. ; sobecriptioire from Fulmer pal* per the rector, 201. Is. 6d.: Earl of Shannon, 2 01 . ; Bevis B. Omen, Egq., 211. ; the Right Hoe. S. H. Walpole, 111.1*., 90/. ; Lord Weelook, 261. ; Lord &edam, 301. ; George Haseeelleld, Esq., and Na. licaneefield, 201. ; William Bradley, Esq., 201. ; David Pugh, Nag., ILE, 201. ; George Gilbert Batt, rag., 101.10 e. ; Maas. Nichol ees and liesiert, 101. lae. ; the Bev. Auguries Chweid, 10/. 10s. ; W. Nicol, Eq., N.P., 101. 10e. ; Lady Augustus B. 2. Bran, 15/. ; the DowegerMounteee of Lichfield, 101. ; Liesteneat-Colonal Keppel,lol. ; Lieuronant.Owaseal 114 James W. Wallace, HAL, 101. ; Charles J. Flower, Req., 10/. ; Lady Ridley, tat. ; Lientareant•Ottirmel Sir William Weiser, NI.P., K.C.H., lOt. ; Mr. Oekorae, Newtown, Ramer, Clownel. 10/. ; N. P. Lovell, 51. sa. ; Heats IL Seymour, Esq., Y. ss. ; Charles Bowyer, Fog., 5/. ss. ; Mir Trafford, Soethwell, be. ; Captain F. 14pertoe, R.N., M. fia. ; officers, children, sad manta of the Comearelal Travellers' School, per U,. Richards, 54 2s. Id. ; Urine sant•Colonel Wilkins, OA, bl. ; Richard Foot, Fag., 51. ; Oland William Theentee, 51. ; Comadasery•Gesenl Wane, 5/. ; C. W. Craddock, Req., 5/. ; the Mines Speriert Stanhope, 51. ; Kn. Helm Brymer, 5/.: Blamed R. Boyle. Rol, Pegs of Honour to the Queen, r../. ; H. B. Fosses, Faq., St. •.., 'RESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1862. • merit, called the Makin, was produced thine last Sunday. The principal scene represents simply the performance of a cotillon just as it is done in a I private drawing-room. Some three or four actresses objected that they would lose caste by appearing on the stage as dancers ; but the ' manager insisted that to walk through an inci dental dance in which they were not expected to cut professional capers was quite within the terms of their engagement. The fear of a lawsuit with the manager induced the ladies to undertake the parts assigned to them, under protest. But it happens that they reckon among their friends— their very intimate friends some of those fashionable young men in Paris who are yclept yandina, and (in this instance) be long to the Jockey Club. Perhaps I ought here to explain parenthetically, lest the word gandins, which you won't find in the dictionary of the academy, should be thought an opprobrious term, that it merely means men who spend a great deal of money in gloves and dinners on the Boule verde des Italiens, the name of which in the time of the Restoration was the Boulevard du Card. So simple, not to say childish, are French sobriquets which go the round of the world, and the origin of which is soon forgotten. How many people know that the word Jacobin is derived from the existing Rue Jacob, in which a small political club used to meet I But rerenons a nos moutons. The gasideu of the Jockey Club, reinforced probably by other white-gloved gentlemen of the like kidney, mus tered strong at the Vaudeville in order to hiss the Cotilion off the stage. The immense majority of the audience was in favour of allowing the per -mance to proceed. The claque, that lamentable - -t in all French theatres, a body of "roughs," hired to applaud, rushed from their lair in the centre of the pit to the orchestra stalls, and "showed fight." A commissary of police, girt with his offiiial scarf, loomed in a trout box, and pte vented blows, but failed to restore silence. The curtain fell, a body of police cleared out the theatre, and so ended the first night. The management would now have withdrawn the play for the sake of peace and quietness, but the government, which does not much like the Jockey Club, et pour came, . . thinks this a good occasion to make a stand against their pretensions to a theatrical dictatorship. Positive orders were sent to the Vaudeville from the Minister of State's office to keep the Cotillon on the bills. It has been now performed four times, the rows increasing in intensity every night. Two evenings ago the Duke de Gramont Caderonsse, one of the ringleaders of the opposition, was arrested, but he has since been released. Last night an immense crowd collected in the Place de la Bourn to hear news of the fun, and remained till a late hour. Tue piece was played in dumb show, the public taking a decided pert against the gandies, but not being able to silence their cat-calls. As many as fifty policemen were in the house, and every now and then a rioter was dragged out, but all their vigilance failed to restore order. Some women in the upper boxes threw their footstools at the heads of the sibilant party. The piece is not on the bills for to-night, but it is announced again for to-morrow, and peo ple are very curious to know how the quarrel will end. M. Boieldieu, the brother of the famous com poser of the Dame Blanche, has just died, at the age of 85. WEATHER REPORT.--(11118 D At) SATIIIDAY. AMID. 54 • LEL { I .__.. /i. D. 11. D. 1. 'O. I. Z. L 1 ..... —— Runs... lo.sl a is Lw. s a 1 kalniMil Wall Maw= Asiaallail llO4 411 41 LW. 4 r 8 IPOOMPIN..— DLIT 111 41 8.2. I • I GUAM Mail . lwanceseil& 1 31.01, 13 M W.LW. 1 b 1 DilLienall .. . KOS 42 41 LW. I t 2 lignomos Wit f r al= l° (ninon % LIMN WU 4$ 40 LW. 5 Own WU SI OD W.S.W. 1 • 1 Posumoulla POSTLAND 911.11 011 IS LLW. 4 in i P 511109911 Mims /WM ■DDDAT. N.W. to N.L, trod. W.N.W. to N.N.E., treat to moderate. W. to N., moderate. N. to N. and N.K., moderate tough &W. to N.W. sod N.N.F.. moderate to light. KXPLANATION. H.—Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at mean sea level : each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-hundredth of au inch diminution . and each 10 deg., above 32 deg., causing nearly threetnndredthe increase. E.—Exposed thermometer In shade. M.—Moistened bulb (for evaporation sod dew point). D.—Direction of wind :true-two points WC of mat uetle'. le. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C.—Cloud 11 L Initials :b, blue sky c, clouds ;detached); t, tog; ball; 1, lightning ; in, misty (uay) ; o, overcast (dull) ; r, rala ; e. sawn t, thunder. R rain fall, or mow, or bail. since last =la Inches acd decimals. 11.—Beeellstairbance 0; tog). Z. CAPTAIN COLES AM) THE CUPOLA SHIPS. Captain Coles ham published a letter, in which be eaten into the history of his cupola ships, agreeing in details with the statement, made by Mr. Osborne in the House of Commons yesterday evening. His first vessel, proposed in 1855, was on the same principle as the Monitor, which Captain Coles claims to be his own invention, but prejudice was too strong against him. Mr. BMW and the Prince Consort gave him encouragement. Had we sent, he says, two such rate, in pieces, to China, the forts would have been taken without the loss of a man, and millions of money saved. " I consider," continues the captain, " that the defence of this country must not only depend upon the offensive powers of our moping fleet, but at the same time our rivers, estuaries, dockyards, and commercial towns must have the powers of local defence, and of expanding, by improviso means, that defence in time of war. It must be re membered, and it has been proved by the Monitor, that this clam of . vowel from their bones% rapid turning, and light draught of wean, have a great advantage in defend ing a harbour or narrow waters against sea-going and larger vessels, that must cross the Atlantic or the Chan nel to attack us ; and, therefore, I can, without any reflec tion on the Warrior, of which we have reason to be Feud, or her projector+, to whom all honour is due, state that I will guarantee to build two of my shot proof raft., with 300-pounders and revo i l ip v ee int le altields ( giving them • little more length, depth, and , for 00,000 f. each. And they would inevitably dispute adman to Spithead against the Warrior or vessels of that class, or would most certainly either destroy or driveher away. Then, if in peace times we only bad • few of these vessels as patterns at each port, in case of war, or the chance of it, with the powers of our mercantile dockyards, our rivers and coasts could swarm with them in an incredibly short thee. They would be manned by our Coast Valuation and seaboard population, giving us a stimulus for volantary ser vice, with a specific understanding as to where and in what vessels they would have to fight for the protection of their own shores and home'. It is of great importance that I should make it clearly understood that we must have two distinct classes of iron verde, one to summed, wooden frigates and line-of-battle ships for me mobs, and the other for the special protection of our mash. For both these classes of vessels my principle iv equally applicable ; it is quite optional whether they' are rigged se not. It must not be supposed that lam writing this sent any spirit of finding fault, for it is only due to the prima Admiralty to say that since the experiments ordered by their loldships @ix months ago in the Trusty, which weft en successful, I believe they have been most anxious ts further develops this invention." Mr. Whitworth, in a published letter, contends that the navy may be armed with artillery which iron-cased ships cannot withstand, but be protests against the re-adoption of the smooth bore in preference to the rifled gun. His experiMente justify him, be says, in stating that not only solid, but also hollow, fat fronted projectiles, capable of being charged with exploolve or combustible compounds. may be fired through the new iron-plated vessels st math greater ranges than those at which the remit action was fought between the Asperities' vessels. AMERICAN NOTIONS OF IRON-CLAD SHIP& (From the New York Tulsa of March 22.) The tut principle of military or naval swum is cone*. hotbed force. The force of a war vessel is the weight of her broadside. Iron mail, that the Mow of a ton would shiver, might stud the Maw of 200 puede for hours. This muds, will artably be admitted on all hands. Now a Tema' Inseiside depends, of course, up= her misc. A small gunboat us 'sly carry two or three pieces, end throw 200 to 300 puede at e c • breadelde—whße e lan half a toe . Bu t the a first- frigatan may herb and throw cost of • begs eesel is objected to ; and it is gravely asked why leeimbeds, throwing 220 pounds each, are not ••Met so good, and a great deal cheaper, than mud which. like the Minnesota, throws 1,100 peruels—both classes to be ironclad! Let the Mots saswer. The Monitor may throw 340 pounds at a brea st& (if Captain Dahlgren will comsat to her guns firing solid shot, instead of hollow shot, es they did at the Mer rimac), end her cost was 275,000 dole. The Stevens battery will throw 2,200 pounds at a broadside, and cost 1,250,000 dols. Is other words, the cost of the Monitor per pound of ~ broadside is 808 dols, while that of the Stevens battery par pound of broadside is 588 dole., or 30 per cent. cheaper. But this only half states the case ; for while the small venal can oonceotrate bat 340 pounds upon one point, the large bull era coneutrate a ton. Or, with re/Kenos to the money, the go v ers. mat already has in the Stevens battery her cart, for a given weight of broadside would be less than half—only 40 per cent.—of that of the small vessel. Again, the casemate guns and other expensive and mummery features of the British Warrior—a vessel of the rune size, but of less used and broadside than the Stevens battery— have raised the cost to an excessive amount ; while the large sums ex= by the Messrs. Stevens on their ves sel, and not to the government—expenditures on the dry-dock, preliminary expainseets, & c.—and the employ ment of witarproteettea, which costa nothing, - have greatly reduced the and of this vessel below a fair contract price. Hence the remarkable fact, that although the Warrior throws but 70 per cent. of the Stevens vessel's broadside, her cost per pound of broadside is nearly three times as great. These facts are before Congress, and we do sot expect to hear any more objections to the Stevens battery oa the ground of her cost as due to her size. But the most important branch of the subject is yet to be mentioned. No small vessel is fast. No small vessel can be fast, and . carry her armour and armament. It is a physical impossibility. Doubling the lineal dimensions of a vessel of given form increases her carrying capacity—act Wee, but eight times ; or, in other words, it gives her the buoyancy to hold up eight times as much power of nirand boilers. On this principle, to a consider iblat, and for other reasons which would strike an segfaser, open examining the vessel, the Stevens battery carries the power to drive her aboveve 20 miles an hour. The bud el moaners give her o statute miles an bout, alb ofie=(oontrary to the certificate of the United elates inspector) her steam pressure to owls& that bleed* ow, an argument on the absolute necessity of speed is unseessary. The Monitor is, no doubt, vastly superior to the Warrior as to protection and quality of guns • but of what use is the Monitor's protection and hea vy balls if the Warrior runs away from her? Will un armour constitute a whit better protection than wooden walls, or no ship at all, if an ironclad enemy once runs oat of shot mime in her course up our baboon? And when we consider that the imperfectly clad Merrimac resisted the heaviest ordnance afloat in the world for some hours, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that one of the carefully constructed European armour-clad vessels of superior speed could safely run the gauntlet of a whole fleet of slow vassals —especially as oho could run over any of them lying in her course without firing a gm—on he wc iz iz r to our cities. Such is the difference in speed, that the arrior would not re main within shot•riume of the Manioc more than *re► quarters of an hour. These are facts of a most character. Is there a remedy ? Certainly—fast iron vessels. And to be fast, they must be large. But it will be urged that the greater part of our ironclad enemies will probably be slow, and that however certainly a fast and heavy viral may destroy the enemies that it can engage, those that it cannot serge will escape unharmed. For this purpose, and for other reasons, we have repeatedly urged the construction of more Monitors. But it must not be forgotten that sines the Stevens battery is abolutely un rivalled in speed end oonesstretion of power she eon sot only overhaul and engage a fleet of slower vbsels, one after the other, but that she ean make short work of them when she does catch them. She will not quarrel long with any Merrimac, for if her broadside--a ton of metal hurled at cue spot--cannot do the business, her prow will. The hoes of a North River steamboat and an iron prow with 6,000 tam of weight, and above 8,000 horse power behind it, are not • good thing to stand in front of. We urged, the construction of iron-clad vessels at the very beginning of this war—in time to have had a fleet of them afloat when they were wanted. Now, we must ear nestly urge that a portion of the new iron-flavor/ails should be faat. When some faster enemy, distancing oar fleets, lays some wealthy city under contribution, we presume the department will take the same view of the case. The French jury of the London Exhibition asa. bled on Thursday, under the presidency of Prince Napoleon, to elect their own president. The choice they made is not without some political significance, the question being put— " Whether it would be best to elect a free-trader or a protectionist?" several of both having been proposed as can didates. The votes were as follows :—For M. Michel Che valier, 32 ; M. Dumas, 14 ; General Morin, 3 ; M. Xenia°, 3 ; M. Combo, 1; M. Drava de Lhuys, 1; M. Schneider, 1; M. Bouningault, 1. M. Chevalier had, therefore, a very large majority in his favour. Advicee from Chili by the last West India steamer mention a statement which had become prevalent of the discovery of an enormous quantity of silver at a place about 100 leagues from Copiapo, in the great desert of Ata cama. The assertions with regard to its abundance even on the wince of the soil are mat extraordinary, and a num ber ei people had started for the spot, many of whom, with their lames, had perished on the journey from want of food aid IMAM Some who bad set out had turned back from !Rost Ton/ans.—ln the autumn of last year the dewed sal exhaustion ; but it was expected that more peal- Federal government sent an order to this country for the Ike statements would shortly be received, when, supposing construction of four iron towers similar to that now on ties to confirm the expectations excited, an organised eye- board the Monitor. The commission I was accepted, and Ins of triumit would probably be attempted. would have been faithfully executed if the Treat Oak had net occurred, and so prevented the shipment of all • Earls letter says :—" For the present everyone warlike stores, and among them these particular ' her. belonging to the upper classes seems to be bent upon castles. The contractor is now saddled with the be sooto bi tt. produce of his labour, as in the meantime, pursuing a round of dissipation too fat i gu i ng the Americans supplied theMselves on the spot The Countess Persigny has brought in, by giving her last and he now contemplates o ff ering them to the Emperor of ball at midnight, 'Julien' in a fair way of being widely the French, as on this aide of the water we are pprorovided adopted, as well as one that will make the sociability of the with Coles' cupolas, which weigh only 72 toes to 's • brilliant world more life-consuming than it ever has been. 200 tons. No little differs's°, of weight for a ship to arm..—Arway and Navy aortae. Soirees now commence loog after 10 o'clock, private cos- ARCHBISHOP OF OANTIDLEURT.—Yesterday cute at about 11, and balls at 12. When they end may his Graoe the Archbishop of Canterbury honoured Mr. easily be inferred from the time of their beginning. The Mayes, the photographer, with a visit mid sitting at his ' wearing effects of such unnatural hours on the conatitu- studio, in Regent-street. The veserable primate h e =at lion are warded off by the Lidice, and, leased, often by the entered his 83rd year, mad is in the enjoymeot of t gentlemen, in • manner so ingenious that it deserves to be health- UONIHRELATION AT THE EAST END. —The Lord recorded, Dineen are ordered half ea hoar earlier than Bishop of Worcester held a confirmation yesterday (Friday) they an usually served, and ionised of Wa g "' ha far the Lord Bishop of London in the district cf Christ half-Prat 7ee 8, are over at 7 *ad half-pied 7 , so that Par" elm* Watney-street, when 300 candidates were catina& goes ol quality can go to bed and have a keg sleep betas I slf these upwards of 100 were preempted by the Rev. G. IL they drew to go oat at midnight." MaeGdl, the incumbent of the distract ; 60 by the Rev. T. The last of the eons of Audubon , the g reat Dan- .7. Deena rector of St. Marpret's, Lothbury ;60 by t. mete of St. Peter's Stepoey ; 23 by the clergy 01 relict, hes just died in the United States , The widow et s Mission ; and smaller cumbers from St. Marfa, Audubon still Urea. She is nearly ninety years of age. and All Sainte. The earnest . address of hin Mr. Raney , the horse - tamer , has caused immense hreihfp i'de tio a deep rom haP t. "" °• c• t h e mehdetee add the areitement in Hams. The captain-general used all the —11;i1-1)170POSED VOWlTifft6 Bssivirr.—ln eon principal persons have patronised hire. sequasse of Lord Cl having declined the invitation to According to &deices from Nassau, New Provi- te r iesee to be held at the deuce, by way of the United States, telt had advanced fled per pound. ' toa Pa t viatlimitheom the banquet a l together. tnittee hays rasa red on ITALY. In a leading article on General Garibaldi's tour for the promotion of rifle matches throughout Italy, the Opinion of Turin expresses itself as follows : The appearance of General Garibaldi at Genoa and Milan has led to a general belief that some great event was at hand, and that the cabinet was about to declare war on Austria. This is a mistake, for the government certainly is net at present think of setting Austria at de• issue Nevertheless there is great apprehension. At Palk, London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, it is fentui lest General Garibaldi, like a second Peter the Retch, should preach a crusade against Austria all over Maly, and excite the multitude to follow him, the Italian government being all the while unable to stay the revolution. This is an erroneous view*, the case. The cabinet is not very strong, but the nation is ; and if ever a party should attempt to force it into a war, its representatives would know how to prevent a folly which might be fatal to the country. Gin. Garibaldi leas been for some time path writing so many letters and delivering so many speeches in which he always repeats the same thing, that it is not surprising if, in the various towns he has visited, he has expressed ideas that require to be modified by thaw, who are aware of the reality of things. He has always had an invincible mei= to diplomacy, and has always held that in (modem of national independence, dilatory mea sures. welt as good policy preemibes, should be prescribed. Bat his are the mere individual opinions al a man who madden the straight road the shortest witheet taking the obstacle* into account which may lie in his mg. The warlike demonstrations which are made so mush of just now appear, therefore, to us fraught with but little awe, and there would be none if the (abbot, strongly constituted, offered those guarantees of stability and strength which it can only acquire by possessing the fullest confidence of parliament. (=ma's TILSOLUNS3 TURIN, Ann. 5. The Turin journals assort that the King will go to Naples at the end of the present month, and that his Majesty will be wmoinpanied by Signor Ratarzi and the Marquis Pepoli. FRANCE. PARIS, Amu. 5. The Mosittur of to-day announces that the sum to be paid by any person desiring exemption from military service is fixed for this year at 2,500 francs. The bounty for re-enlistment for seven years has been fixed at 2,200 francs. The following telegram has been resolved at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, April 5 : CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN ALEXANDRIA, Ana 4. The Sultan, with the above mails, left for Mar seilles at noon. The Mooltan, with the heavy portion of the mails, left for Southampton at 10 a.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor OUR tont PARIS, FRIDAY Iv WO. There is no positive confirmation of thereon' of General de Guyon. The Patric affects to believe that the rumour originated in a mistake, attribut able to the arrival in Paris of Madame de Goyon, while the Opinion Nationale insinuates that the lady is only the precursor of her husband. A piece of news, of capital importance if true, is given in a provincial paper, the Journal du Havre : A Paris letter states, on the subject of the affairs of Rome, that a collective request has been forwarded to the Emperor by five ministers, MM. Baroche, BiMinh, Fould, Rootlet., and Detangle, praying him to come to a definite resolution, whatever it may be, with regard to the situation of the French in Rome ; public opinion and politicsl sad fisemeisl comiderations demanding that resolution. The Emperor replied that he was in fact thinking of definitively Icing public opinion on the tendencies of his policy, and that instructions would in consequence be given to a diplo• maid to be designated to proceed to Rome. In official circles, however, it is not thought that the policy of occm palm will be modified. It is wonderful if the Journal du Havre should have ventured to make such • grave statement as the above without pretty good authority, knowing, as it must do, that a warning or a prosecution for false news will follow to a certainty, if the intelli gence be disavowed. The situation must be serious indeed, if ministers between whom there is no solidarity, and who are only the Emperor's indi vidual servants, should have served a round robin upon such a master. The evening papers make no allusion to the assertion of the Journal du Havre. The Appeal Court of Bordeaux has decided that a priest has no right to throw a missile at a child for not knowing its catechism, and that he is amenable in such a case to be tried at common law for an assault. It would seem that the point was not clear, for in the case before the court the Ablni Tbory, of Libourne, who had thrown • stick at a little girl with such violence as to knock her down, and to cause severe bleeding in the head, had been acquitted by the Correctional Tribunal of Libourne. On appeal, the priest's counsel submitted that in throwing the missile his client was only acting "in the exercise of his functions," and, therefore, could not be prosecuted without the consent of the Council of State. The Imperial Court of Bordeaux, however, not adopting this view of the duties appertaining to the sacerdotal office, overruled the objection, and, finding the priest guilty, sentenced him to pay a fine of l6fr., and 150 fr. damages to the child's mother. M. Aubry Foucault, &ant of the Gazette de France, has been sentenced to a month's imprison ment, and a fine of 500 fr., for having announced that a subscription was on foot to buy the library which M. Eugene Pelletan was compelled to sell to pay the fine to which he had been sentenced (besides imprisonment) and the costa of the prosecution against him. The Archbishop of Toulouse has determined on a jubilee to commemorate the glorious event which occurred in that city 300 years ago. This "glorious event" was nothing leas than one of the most diabo lical massacres of protestants recorded in history. The Bourse opened favourably under the im pression caused by the announced reduction of the army in the Monifeur to the extent of 32,000 men. It is thought that the proposed sugar and salt duties will be abandoned. The Bente rose to 70fr. lbc., but this advantage was lost in the after noon, and the last price was that of yesterday, 70fr. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. The railway market was in an uncertain state. Eastern fell 12fr. 50e. ; Lyons, lir. 25c., and Western, 2fr. 500. ; but Orleans and Southern rose lfr. 25c. each, and Northern was without change. Some extraordinary rows, amounting almost to riots, have been going on all the week for a very ridiculous cause at the Vaudeville Theatre, and they seem likely to continue. A piece, of small NAVAL AND MILITARY. PORTSMOUTH, Arita. 4. The Royal Sovereign, 131, screw, was brought down alongside the sheer jetty this morning to be stripped, preparatory to being cut down and converted into a shield ship on Captain Cowper P. Cokes principle. She will be coated with iron plates of 4i inches in thickness, and will carry six cupola. on her now. deck, each being mounted with two guns of heavy calibre. The work will be pro. coded with immediately. It is stated on authority that the Due of Wel. lington and the VW.oria will also be converted in a similar manner. The latter is the largest line...3E4).We ship ia her Majesty's service, is a new ship, and has never been in commiasion. _ _ CHATHAM, APRIL 1. Another of the large line-of-battle steamers under construction at Chatham Dockyard is ordered to he converted into an armour-plated frier" the Lords of the Admiralt). _having decided on baying the two-decker glummer Bulwark, 91, cut down, lengthened, and one of her decks removed is order to adapt her for micas* in armour-plates, similar to the Royal Oak, as soon as the latter vernal is complete. The Bulwark is a very fine vessel of her clue. She has been in hand about three years, and has all her exterior planking affixed. The engines originally intended for the Bulwark are to be placed in the Royal Oak, 51. THE COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN ROBERTsom.--. We (Dublin Morning News) believe we are safe in Wl nouncing that the court-martial in the case of Captain Re. berteon has resulted in his acquittal. The judgment on the regiment is, we believe, still under comideration. DEATH OF SIR JAMES CLARK ROME.—We regret to announce the death of Admiral Sir James Clark Roes, the celebrated Arctic voyager, who died on Thursday at Aylesbury, aged 62. THe FORTHCOMING REVIEW AT BRIGHTON.—We are authorised to state that no further applications for permission to attend the review at Brightow will be panted to Volunteer Corps after the 12th instant—that being the last day on which, natter the amagemeota of the Railway Company, tickets oaa be ieseed. NAVAL MEDALS POE CHINA. (From last night's Gazette.) DEPARTMENT OF THE AOCOUNTAITT-OZNIIIAL THZ NAVY, DICIALIT, SoKnave Hoven, Arin. 4.—Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to put a medal to the officers, seamen, and marines engaged in the late wan with China, as well as distinctive clamps for the various I nomad ul operations against the enemy, on the dates here. inafter stated, notice is hereby given, that the medals and clasps are now ready for issue in this department, and for which application may be made, either personally or by letter, producing the requisite certificates in support of the claim both for the medal and the clasps. The periods of servloe for which the medal is granted are as follows : _ _ - Fat the first period of the China War.—To the naval sad merino facets who took part In the operations in Chins, from:lst October, 1856. To the date of the signing of the treaty of nantain, on the 26th June, 1858. Foe the seeped period of the Chins War. —To the naval and marine forces who took pert in the re-oommectement of operations against the enemy from the Ist August, 1660. To the day on which the treaty of peace wu signed at Pekin, on the 24th October, 1980. Chaps ere awarded for the following distinctive services : China, 1842.—T0 those already in possession of a medal fee the China wars of 1841 and 1842, who have shoo been engaged in the late wars of 1856 and 1860. Fatales, 1857.—T0 those actually present during the sue :useful operations against the Chinese war janka, which commenced in the Escape Creek on the 215th of May, end were finally closed at Fatehan on the let of June, 1857. Cantos, 1867.—T0 those actually present at Gatos on the 28th and 29th of December, 1857, when that city was bosabseded, and finally captured. Taku Forte, 1858.—T0 those actually engaged in the ope rations which ceased with the first capture of the Taku Feria on the 20th of May, 1858, and led on to the treaty of Taka Forts, 1860.—T0 those actually present at the ap• tore of the Taku Forts on the 21st of August, 1860. Aida, 1860.- -To those actually present before Pekin the day the gate of that city was given up to the allied army : via, 13th of October, 1860. The following are the names of the ships, tic., whose crews are entitled to the China medal : Acorn, Actseod, Adven ture, Algevine, Amethyst, Assistance, Banterer, Barracouts, Beagle, Belleisle, Bouncer, Bustard, Bittern, Calcutta, Coro. mandel, Cambrian, Camilla, Centaur, Chesapeake, Clown, Cockchafer, Comes, Cormorant, Cruiser, Drake, Elk, Rooounter, Eak, Firm, Flamer, Forester, Furious, Fury, Grasshopper, Hardy, Haughty, Havoc, limper, Highdyer, Hornet, Julie:ibis, Insolent, imperieuse, Janus, Kestrel, Lee, Laves, Magicienoe, Nankin, Niger, Nimrod, Odin, Opossum, Pearl, Pioneer, Pique, Plover, Run:hone, Raleigh, Sir Charles Forbes and Hong Kong (hired tenden), Retribution, Renard, Ringdove, Roebuck, Sampson, Sans. parail, Scout, Simoom, Blaney, Snake, Soap, Sparrowhawk, Spartan, Sphinx, Starling, Staunch, Surprise, Sybille, Tribune, Urgent, Volcano, Vulcan, Watchful, Winchester, Weasel, Woodcock ; also Ist Battalion Royal Marines, 'Jed Battalion Royal Marines, Provisional Battalion Royal Marines, Royal Marine Artillery. BURNING OF THE AUSTRALIAN SHIP OCEAN CHIRP. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. For the fourth time within the space of five months we have to announce the total loss, by fire, of atm ther Australian packet ship, well known in the passeogsr trade between Liverpool and Australia. To-day a telegram was received in Liverpool, by way of Alexandria (in antki pation of the Australian mail), to the effect that the ship Ocean Chief, belonging to Mears. James Baines and Ca's Black Ball line of packets, had been burnt at Bluff Har bour, New Zealand. The telegram iu necessarily brief, sad the date of the burning of the vessel, together with Ohm particulars are consequently not to hand. The Ocean Chid sailed from Liverpool last year with emigrants from Mel bourne, under the command of Captain William Brown, and made a very rapid run out, in fact oue of the most suc cessful passages of the season. When the Ocean Chief arrived at Melbourne, the "Antipodean Exodus" was at its height, and the Otago gold Sakti of New Zealand were the navels which were then attracting thousands from Mel bourne and Sydney. The ill-fated Ocean Chief was engaged to convey live stock, fa., to Otago, and left Melbourne on the 3rd of January last. She bad 4,000 sheep on board. and 50 tons of fodder. The Ocean Chief was 1,026 tons burden, sod classed A 1 at Lloyd's. The circumstance of the destruction of the ships Sovereign of the Seas, Prince of the Seas, Dupree , of the Seas, and Ocean Chief, all, engaged in the emigration trade, willsodoubtcanse a mast rigid investigation to be made into the aurae of the fires, which have consumed so mazy fine ships—in fact people are beginning to think that there is something wrong. It is singular that Bluff Harbour, where the Oceis Chief is stated to have been burnt, has been, according to the last mail, the scene of the loss of the steamship thrar, on a sand bank, through the negligence of the pilot, al well as the lose of five sailing vessels on the same spot the course of a week, and representation' were about to be made to the legislative council upon the absence of the Re , Icesaary pilotage on mach an intricate, dangerous, and bar totem Gl:imperatively unknown coast. THE Lois; OF THE STILLY= MARA. —This vt.msel sailed from Waterford on Tuesday morning. Her car. it is widentood, consisted of 330 pigs, 167 bead of cattle 2 and 10 hones, and there were also on board upwards OHO passes, all of whom it is feared, have, with two ramp. time,met with a waiary grave. The Wilms on board at the time were, we bear, Captain Bliaman, ihs master, Mr. Duncarmon (first engineer) ; Mr. Ness _ ( (stewards engineer) ; Mr. Hallett (steward); Mrs. Way ' s) ; Mr. Marshall (second mate ) . The lint nisi% Mr. was fortunately not ou board. Six perscan were ea comprising two waken (moo d Orom end Owe), the two and two cattle dealers who were oa board as pureengws. S everal of the dealers of Brie tel bare sustained heavy louses by the casualty. Several re ports have been in circulation, to the effect that the Sham• rook had fallen in with two boatemmitaining between tweet, and forty of those comprising the passengers and crew of the lost rowel. We have, however, made every incoiry with regard to the eornelmess of the rumour, which fora time r. grea t bes a h l P :slt e le ali to wn fit e d rw aty bttthUnifo°ritt!"4,;• we are mamma for belie.* in the possibility of such a !two; Date nccurresos , the Shamrock's time for leaving Hilt ort) , Haven being shoat seven o'clock in the morning after the week, and we eali n t istosa ireat that the report may prove la he earreet. was the non of the late CePtt!! Mamas, Shaman lord with all hands on board the roo A f steamer, h',Wel Maul, some t'S or 30 rears 110. leisgram sWm diat Lloyds' agenthuvisited the spot who.. ' the ship was lost, rued reports her sunk in deep "ter. man and young woman (armee unknown) bare been wobe.l ashore. —Western. Daily pus. iir W