The Express. — London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

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Master Percy Roselle. HIGH W AVIA AT CONDON BEEDOI. IMO DA T M — orntq. Th. 119sa. .. . . Anareass. Th. Wm To-MIAOW Morning. VA. len .....thersoos. 3h. Ttha. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7. THE conclusion at which the majority of the Law Lords have arrived in the Alexandra case will greatly disappoint public expectation. In so great a diversity of judgments it is needless to attempt to offer any opinion. But it is impos aible to help sympathising with the regret of the Law Lards that it should have become necessary to set aside a question of such vast national import ance as that involved in the Alexandra case for one of such microscopic technicality. The mountain has indeed brought forth a ridiculous mouse—when we find the solemn and laborious contest of weeks on a great question of International Law ending, as the LORD CHANCELLOR said, in "some " discordant opinions on the meaning of the word " practice.' " It would be premature to offer any opinion whether the Court of Exchequer, which undoubtedly is primarily responsible for this grievous miscarriage of justice, will be able to do anything to remedy matters at this stage. But it cannot be doubted that the law-officers of the Crown would never have consented to abandon their undoubted right of appeal by Bill of Exceptions had there been the slightest doubt as to the com petency of the Exchequer to frame Rules granting the new right of appeal in case a new trial was re fused. It is true that the right to the Bill of Ex ceptions was formally abandoned by the ArrosNer- GE.VERAL before he was allowed to apply for anew trial. But we must repeat that this was done under the distinct belief that the Judges of the Court of Exchequer understood the extent of their jurisdiction, and were in fact giving the ArrosNEv- GENERAL a better form of appeal than that which he already possessed. Most certainly the CHIEF BARON must admit that these new Rules were, in fact, resorted to in order to extricate him from the in convenient position in which he found himself. Therefore, both for his own sake and for the sake of the public, it is of the utmost importance that the law-officers of the Crown should be restored to the position which they occupied when they yielded to the suggestion of the Judges of the Exchequer and abandoned their right of appeal. How that can be done it is not for us to elucidate. THE QUEEN has judged it necessary once more to enter into direct explanation with her people concerning her MAJESTY'S personal situation, and the expectations of which she is the centre. We are warranted in ascribing to her MAJrsrY the statement on this topic which was published yes terday, if for no other reason, because its language is assuredly such as no subject would presume to employ. The Qutex, who has on so many occa sions shown how attentively she notes the mani festations of public opinion, remarks the preva lence of • belief that she is about to resume that place in society which she occupied before her great affliction ; that is, that she is about again to hold lev4es and drawing-rooms in person, and to appear as before at court balls and concerts. This idea, it is remarked, is erroneous, and "cannot be too explicitly contradicted." The QUEEN kindly and rightly refers to the loyalty and affection of her people, the wishes that have been expressed for her MAJESTY'S more frequent appear- ance in public, and graciously promises to do all she can to gratify it. Whenever any " real object" is to be attained by her appearing on public occasions, "any national interest to be promoted, or anything "to be encouraged which is for the good of the " people," her MAJESTY will not shrink from any personal sacrifice or exertion, however painful. But from the mere pomp and ceremony of State her MAJitsrv, we learn, is compelled to withdraw herself. The Qrsits condescends to assign the reasons of this resolution, and when we proceed to their respectful consideration we confess to • feeling of anxiety approaching to alarm. The public will observe with no other feeling than sympathetic regret the resignation to sorrow which appeared so natural in the firstyears of her MAJESTY'S affliction, but which it was hoped would be softened and mitigated by time. The knowledge that public appearances are and will be painful to the Qcxxe would lead her people to acquiesce most readily in any resolution her MAJrary might form. But we do not think the nation was prepared for the intelligence that her MAJvcre is " overwhelmed " with work and anxiety," in the discharge of duties which she cannot neglect without injury to the public service, duties which "weigh unceasingly " upon her," and the laborious and conscientious discharge of which has "seriously impaired her " health and strength." These words we may be sure have not been willingly penned. They have been extorted from her DIAJ esn , by the ex pression of wishes which, by the light now vouch safed, are seen to have been ignorant and incon siderate. But who among us could have suspected that, while almost every class of the community is enjoying the advantages of diminished hours of labour, the Qutes was so borne down with toil as to be compelled to restrict her intercourse with her people t After the QUEEN'S explicit statement, there is something more serious in question than the holding of lev6es and draw ing-rooms, and appearances at balls and concerts. Her DlAJzsrv's loyal people will auk whether it can be really necessary in a constitutional monarchy that the Soyßano' should be the mast. distinguished drudge in the State. It would be much to be regretted if the Quars's advisers, responsible or irresponsible, have fostered an exaggerated estimate of those duties which are so heavily oppressing her blAscsry, but which some of her MA2scry's predecessors have discharged with comparative ease. The Quaxit is surrounded with advisers whose duty it is to assume the respon sibility which might otherwise weigh upon her, so that whatever may happen and whoever may be to blame, " the QUEEN can do no wrong." We hope the time is far distant when the name of the Sove reign shall be introduced into either the controver sial politics of the day or disputed points of ad ministration. But while 31:nisters assume the responsibility of the public acts of the Govern ment, there surely can be no great difficulty in relieving her /taJzsry of much of the mass of routine business which is destroying the health and happiness which are so precious in the eyes of the public. Cbt Court. TUB EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1864. Edema in the intelligence and the good will of the great powers. It relies on the 00-operatica of a powered saciliary —the general wish for peace. It hopes that the efforts made to guarantee the true interests of the duchies will be rightly judged of throughout the whole of Germany, and that the latter will, oil the occasion of the approaching conference, haves clear idea of the real situation of Europe. (azunra's nasosAms.) ENGAGEMENT BEFORE DUFFEL. COPENHAGEN, Ann. 6, 2.45 P.Y. Last night the enemy drove back our videttee upon the left wing, when an infantry engagement ensued. At daybreak our troops re-occupied their former position. During the night the enemy extended the paral lel already commenced. Our loss is trifling. THE ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN. PARIS. Aram 7, Noaimio. Tho Moniteur of this morning says :—" Accord ing to advises from Miramar the Archduke Maxi milian will receive the Mexican deputation on Saturday. He will leave for Mexico on Sunday next." AMERICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ann. 7. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Sazonia sailed this morning for New York with a large cargo, and upwards of 500 passengers. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Hammonia sailed at the same time for Liverpool. The gun fired on board to announce her departure exploded, killing the gunner. WINDSOR CASTLE, Aran, 6. Earl Granville arrived at the Castle yesterday . The royal dinner party consisted of the King of the Bel gians, Princess Helena, Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and Prince's Clotilde, the COWAN'S of Gainsborough, Lady in-Waiting to her Majesty; Lady Caroline Barrington, Mdlle. de Borsch, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Emma Lamellas, the Earl Granville, Mat.-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, General Count de Moerkerke and Dr. Koepl, Gentlemen in attendance on the King of the Belgians ; Lord Rivers, Colonel F. Seymour, C. 8., Major-General F. Seymour, LieuX-Colonel du Plat, Mr. SOIL and the Muter of the Household. The Kiog of the Belgians, attended by General Count de Moerkerke and Dr. Koepl, left the Castle this afternoon for Buckinharn Palace. Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, Princess Clotilde, Princess Amelia, and Prince Ferdinand, attended by Milk. de Borsch, left the Castle this morning for Claremont. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke d'Aumale and the Duke sod Duchess de Chartres honoured Frances Counts.. Waldegrave and Mr. Chichester Forteecue, M.P., with their company at dinner last evening, at their residence in Carltoo•gardens. The following were invited to meet their royal highness,.:—His Excel• lency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Earl Gran ville, the Earl of Clareodoo, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe, Lord and lady Dufferin, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Right lion. Charles Pelham Village, M.P., General and lady Alice Peel, &c. L►ter in the *ruing her ladyship had an assembly which was oumeronidy and fasbionakdy attended. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and their youthful family do not leave Goodwood, Sussex, until the week after next. The Duchess of Sutherland (Countess of Cro martia) boa issued iavitations fee an evening party on Wed nesday next. . _ _ The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone entertained the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Count Strselecki, Baron Meyer de Rothschild, Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, the Attorney-General and Lady Laura Palmer, Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., and Mrs. Brand, Lord Frederick Cat milk, Hon. Lucy Lyttaltca, Mr. Sransfeld, Mr., at dinner last evening at their residence in Carlton House-tenant Mrs. Gladstone subsequently bad an assembly Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., Under Secre tary of State for the Colonies, bas been appointed a mem ber of her Majesty's Most Iloantrable Privy ConaciL Lady Emma Talbot gave birth to a daughter yesterday afternoon at the Earl of Derby's residence in St. Jetnee's•square. Her ladyship and infant are doing wall. Lady Margaret Beaumont was safely delivered of ama yesterday at the family residence on the Terra" Piccadilly. Both mother sad infant me programing favour ably. I marriage will shortly take place between Captain A. Mice, of the Grenadier Guards, and the Hon. non Labouchere, daughter of Lord and Lady Taunton. . _ The ball at the Tuileries on Tuesday night was not numerously attended. The Eoglish were few—hardly soy except the ambassador. the Bishop of Oxford, the Duchess of Somerset, Lord H. Lennox, Mr. S. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Pope Heoneesy. The Emperor had a loog confe rence with the Eogliah ambassador, and the resignation of Mr. StaneMd, being known by telegraph, was the general topic of convematioo. The Emperor remained later than usual The Royal Victoria Yacht Club, flourishing numerically and financially, has netted its programme for 1864, and offers DO UN a sum than 6401. to be competed for on the crouton Cl its annual oaruirel THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS. surEmali RKPOET. This morning was issued the sixteenth report from the lieclasiestical Commtenoned+ for Wand with an appendix. The report detail/ the amount of work already accomplished io the angmeutation of benefines, and iacludes a statement addressed to the Home Secretary, in answer to the report of the select committee. The appendix, besides an aliened of the account' for the year, contains a minute of the estates oummlttee in reference to the alleged ill-management of the estates of the commission ; a report by a committee of the Treasury, made in 1859, explaining the duties and at ibliahment of the office of the commissioners ; and a report of • select committee of the commissioners themselves, appointed to examine tato the accounts. begin with • abort amount of what they have done, and what they have a prospect of doing. The existence of a common fund for the augmentation and endowment of beakless having curs of souls dates from 1840, end &trio; the first 16 years from that date—that is, down to 1856—the sommiesioners appropriated far Its porpoise • capital value of more than three millions. During the mtbetqaent seven yam they have sp. propriakd from their own resources shoat • million and • half, and the public bays met them with bens factious to the amount of another million. So that on the whole five millions and a hall of money have been applied far the nugmeattation of benefices, four millions and • half of which have bees derived from " the redistribution and improvement of enclesisstical property previously enjoyed by the holders of cathedral dignities and sinecure prefer ments." The oommissioaers then c,lculate, as • sort of estimate of the work that remains to be done, that in order to raise to 3001. a year all beoefires in public patronise with a population of about 500 persona. and to provide half the amount necessary to raise to • like amount benefices in private patronage with a like population, they would require 330,000/. a year in perpetuity, or • capital rum of ten millions—an smonat of which they only my that " the funds at present at their disposal would be insuffinent to provide it, but they think that the continuous increase of the permanent income of the Common Fond will enable them to provide a considerable portion of it" by a system of appropriating such income in stead of capital. By this means, within the next five years ; they expect to raise to 3001. a year the income of every bene fice now existing with a population of 4,000 proems, and also to appropriate to the endowment of new churches 16,0001. • year in perpetuity ; every such church to be endowed, by the commissioners skate, or by them and private persons, with 2001. a year. Accordingly, within the next year they are prepared braise to 3004 the income of all be•e6oes with • population over 8,000 perm= ; to appropriate 3,0001.6 year in perpetuity to the endowment with 2001. • year of new charring with • popalatios of &COO prawns ; to make further appropriations in capital sums to the fittest of 100,0004, and, in short, on the whole, to make greats of the capital value of 700,0001- THE LATE SIR HITYPEriZT Divv—A committee has been organieed at Peosarice with the object of raisies a monument to the memory of the celebrated chemist, Sir Humphrey Davy. At a meeting held au Monday evening it was announced that two ladies were willing to subscribe 1,0001. provided the mocuasset take the form of alms houses. The liberal offer was accepted, sad numerous other lasheass. subscriptions have beep received is fartherme of Oa LATIUM INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SERIOUS CHARACTER OF THE RECENT WAR. We have received Bombay papers, dated March 14. The Bombay Gazette says it seems to be now certain that the recent war on the north-west frontier was not the isolated enterprise of some tribes of hardy mountaineers, but " was under taken in concert with, and as the first act of a wide-spread Mussulman conspiracy against the English domination in India." Numerous arrests have been made by government iu Umballah, Patna, and even Calcutta, and it is expected that at the trials which are about to come off the whole history of the plot will be disclosed. It is expected that Sir Charles Trevelyan's budget will show a deficiency of at least half a million in the opium revenue. The last steamers of the Persian Gulf Tele graph expedition have left Bombay for Cape Mussendom. The Nawab of Rampore has resigned his seat in the Viceroy's Legislative Council. A duffadar (native officer) of the Poona Horse made a furious attack lately, on parade at Seroor, on the adjutant and the commandant of the regi ment, both of whom he tried to cut down, but was himself run through the body by an English officer and killed before he bad done any mischief. Fana ticism is the only cause assigned for the attempted ition. Sir Hugh Rose has left Hawn! Pindee on a tour through Huzara, Cashmere, and Thibet, to Simla. The Viceroy will leave Calcutta early in April for the north-west, to open the railway as far as Ghareeabe.d, on which occasion there will be a grand banquet at Delhi The Star of India was presented to the Jeypore Chief at Ajmere, on the 10th inst., by General G. St. P. Lawrence, C. B. The new University of Bombay is to be built from the designs of Mr. G. Gilbert Scott. Sir Mordaunt Wells, who leaves Bombay for England by this mail, at the dinner given in his honour by the Bombay bar, denounced the present constitution of the Indian high courts, on account of the admission of untrained civilian judges to sit on the bench. The Bombay Chamber of Commerce has pre sented a memorial to government, praying that there may be one common terminus for the two railways entering Bombay, or that, if this be im possible, the Great Indian Peninsula Company may be compelled to bring their line into the town on arches instead of at the level of the streets. The friends and admirers of Mr. Robert Knight, the retiring editor of the Times of India, have started a subscription to present him with a purse, to show their approval of his conduct as a journal ist. The contributions already amount to nearly a lac of rupees (10,0001.). The British government has applied to the Indian government for as much of its garrison strength as can be spared, to the extent of six regiments. The Indian government has determined that only two regiments can be spared. Captain Burton has succeeded in apprehending at Bareilly, Azeem Khan Hukeem, the murderer of his father at Kotab. The prisoner has been sent to Kotah for trial. The Bombay Gazett€ says that in Bombay the tightness of the money market is again so great ea to cause fears that the commercial crisis of the last two months of 1863 will be surpassed in in tensity by the crisis which is now approaching. The cotton merchants of Mooltan refuse to send their cotton to the government screws, and are in great excitement on acoount of the act passed by the Bombay government for punishing the adultera tion of cotton. Large quantities of cotton are said to be oa the way down from tho north-west to Bombay this year. THE SLESWIG INVASION. Notwithstanding the groat number of shots fired by the Prussians, little effect has been produced on the fortifications of Duppel. The works there are constructed according to the system adopted by General Todleben at Sebas topol, and being principally of earth can be easily repaired when injured. Tc carry such a place, the best artillery is not sufficient; an infantry, at the same time firm and active, is required, and ac cording to all the accounts, the Prussians in that arm of the service are far inferior to the Danes. The precision of the Prussian fire is, however, very remarkable, and some curious details on the point are given in private letters. Thus, in a Danish battery established on the coast of the Venneog band, the Prussians selected for their mark a mortar of 84. In the course of the fire a ball entered the month of the gun and choked it ! A few minutes after two other mortars of smaller di mensions had their carriages broken. Advice' from Copenhagen state that the elections for the formation of the Superior Council (Lands thing) have just taken place in Denmark, properly so called, and in the island of Alsen, not occupied by the enemy's army. The old chiefs of the Na tional Unitary party have been named in moat of the districts—that is to say, that the principle of the defenoe and preservation of the monarchical unity will have a majority in the First Chamber. The session extraordinary of both chambers will open in the course of the present month. AUSTRIAN VIEW OF THE CONFERENCE. The Vienna Gazette publishes an article on the conference expressing doubts as to the confidence to be placed in the communications relative to the object pursued by the powers interested in the question of the Duchies. On the subject of the position taken by Austria and Prussia the article says : rim two greet dermas powers having drawn the sword for the welfare of the Duchies, casnot allow that a struggle en tered into for the independence, if not absolute, at least relative, if not material, at least moral, of the Duchies, shall terminate without satisfactory guarantees being obtained. Thais guarantees must secure to the Duchies the most entire independence and a position absolutely equal in right to the rest of Denmark. They must also secure not osly their administrative, but also their political union, and moreover relations of protection between than and Germany. The idea, It is true, is not to bring forward those joss demands in a haughty =inner, and to explain them in such a manner as to make them appear unacceptable. Austria takes part in the con forms with the firm hope that it will be pos sible to solve the question in an boa:arable manner, and without disadvantage to all the powers interested. Sacrifices must be made, bet they must be guided by justice and equity. The Angriest government wishes to avoid the obstinacy of Danmark giving to the present militia the proportion of a European one. It is fo r that rams that it maiden it useful and desirable that the majority of the powers taking part in the *oaf wane* should salts in the object of finding a desirable arrangement instead of complicates( by the admixture of other element' the ohmmeter of a question which belongs exclusively to public right, or pleading in favour of pretensions which are either too bad or too timid, The Austrian government feels caw . EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MOH OUR OWN PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Prince Napoleon is expected in Paris from Hol land in a few days, and it is expected that he will speak in the Senate against a petition got up by some ultra-imperialists, praying that the journals may be prohibited, absolutely and altogether, from making comments upon the debates of the Senate and Corps Legislatif. "Prince Humbert, eldest son of King Victor Emmanuel," says the Sport, "is expected in Paris. The prince will reside with his sister the Princess Clothilde, at the Palais Royal." Some journals have represented this visit as a counter move to that of Garibaldi in England, but I fail to see the possibility of drawing a parallel between the two events. Prince Humbert may be a very estimable young man, but the Parisians know nothing about him, and not ten people in Paris would walk a quarter of a mile to look at him. What the Eng lish people think of Garibaldi you beet know. Lady Cowley's second ball last night was more crowded than the preceding one. All the great court people whose absence last week, though very possibly accidental, has been commented upon as indicative of a coolness between the two courts, were present on this occasion. It is certain that Mr. Stansfeld's resignation and Lord Palmerston's speech are regarded as pledges of a better under standing. Among the English visitors to Paris present at the ball was Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald. The clerical party is intriguing very strongly to get K Durny, the Minister of Public Instruction, dismissed. He owed his appointment to the per onal appreciation of the Emperor of his great abi lities,but he has few supporters about the conrt,and his refusal to turn M. Renan out of the professional chair is the latest pretext for bearing hard upon him. The priests are very powerful in France now, and there is no knowing how far the Emperor may think it expedient to resist them. It is reported that Car dinal Bonnechose, who was so completely routed by M. Delangle the other day when he supported the fanatical petition of Captain Merlin for harsher laws against "bad books," is going to return to the charge upon another petition, more moderately and artfully worded. At the Bourse the Rente underwent no change but quotations were heavy at the close, and Mo biller fell 3fr. General Marquis de Castelbajac, formerly a peer of France and ambassador to Russia, and under the present empire a senator, his just died at Pau, after a very short illness. The papers of the late M. Pietri,which have been sequestrated because they were known to contain private letters from the Emperor, have been restored to his family. The Independatil de la Charente inferieure, a jour nal published at Sainte*, has received a warning for an article on the Paris elections in its number of March 29, which article is condemned by the prefect on the ground that the writer " seeks to mislead public opinion, and to excite to hatred and contempt of the government" by describing it as " an un bridled power without counterpoise, and one which can do whatever seems right in its own eyes." I really do not think public opinion can have been much misled by the description, for most people will think it as like as a photograph. I presume there must be something which the authorities think likely to mislead public opinion in the Daily News of yesterday, for the number is seized. " Great interest has recently been excited in the artistic world hero," says a Paris letter in the Suhit Ps6fic of Lyrae, •• by aUs portrait of Madam* Victoria Lafon taine, painted by an artist named Filo, bons without arms, but who plan the quell very dexterously with his feet. This is not the Mat instance of the kind ; for, during the reign of Louis Philippe, several of the annual exhibitions at the Louvre comprised paintings by IL Downie*, of Lisle, who appended to his signature the words • Painter without arms.' " A decree of the Supreme Court of Constanti nople, sanctioned by the Sultan, has just prohibited the sale of haschish, a dangerous narcotic which the Turks are food of smoking. Dispensing chemists may. however, supply it as a medicine when prescribed by a physician- All other persons who may henceforth sell this drag will be prose cuted sod severely punished. The Duke de Luynes has been at Jerusalem, and is at the present moment exploring the Dead See onboard a small steamer called the &gar, 33 feet in length. He bad this built on purpose at Toulon. It was then takes to pieces and seat to Jaffa, whence it was conveyed to the Dead Sea on the backs of camels. The Arabs in the neighbourhood, struck with amazement at ths sight of this tiny vessel moving along the waters in a way inexplkable to them, firmly believe that it is s Chastan (demos) which has risen from the bottom of the manned lake of Sodom. The tide of emigration Bows on with increasing volume from all parts of Ireland. Travellers declare that they have MOM whole villages in Connanght utterly de sorted, the people, old and yousg—grandfathen and little children, being met in hundreds on the road, making their way to the emigrant ships. The clamorous grief of rola tires parting is seldom witnessed now ; on the contrary, the emigrants ere quite cheerful. Speaking of those who sailed by the City of Glasgow, the Cork Reporter says that they seemed as joyf el as if they were embarking for • pis ale ea • summer lake. The booking-ofSoss in Dahlia have all the births engaged in the Atlantic steamers for weeks le ciente. Erse in some of the best counties in Wester and Ulster the smell farmers are giving np their amylase draggle to live on their small holdings, and are going in great Dual= to the ceentry where they ear have farms without rent. In many mem the peasants have their pas nage paid by their relatives i• America. THE WAR IN DENMARK. ()SOX OUR owl" HAMBURG, APRIL 4. The German papers appear to lay great stress on the fact of the first parallel before Diippel hain been completed in the night of the 30th of Marc without the work having been discovered by the Danes till the next morning. Five battalions of General Von Canetein's brigade were detailed for this duty, which they succeeded in accomplishing with great celerity and in perfect silence, two bat talions of the same brigade being pushed forward for the protection of the working party. This first el begins to the right of Freudenthal, not far from the shore of the Yenning Band, takes a turn towards the high road below the Bpitzberg, goes round the latter, and ends between the redoubts Nos. 3 and 4, from which it is only 800 yards distant. The soldiers in the trenches were agreeably surprised the next morning to receive a visit from the Crown Prince of Prussia, who came down to inspect the work, and spoke a few kind words to the men. The Danes tired a few shells into the trenches, but (according to Prussian accounts) without any effect. The Prussian outposts, detailed from the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, or " Queen Eliza beth," and on duty on the other side of the village of East Dttppel, are now so close to the forts Noe. 6,8, and 9, that they exchange signs with the Da nish sentinels on the ramparts and facetiously drink each other's health out of their field-bottles. They have just discovered that the redoubts Nos. 8 and 9, to the south of the high road to Apenrade, are now coanected with one another by a covered way. The new battery in the trenches has been un masked, and a few guns were discharged to find the range. They were found to carry as far as fort No. 5 on the left, and to 1,000 yards from No. 1 on the rigb t. The two pontoon bridges thrown across the neck of the entrance to the inlet called Nobel Nor, at Eckensund, have now been broken up, and the whole of the materials re moved to Alien Sound, where an attempt is about to be made to replace them under the direction of Captain Kegler, who is spoken of as a very efficient officer of the Austrian Engineer corps. But, notwithstanding this, the Austrians appear by no means sanguine that Duppel will be so speedily reduced ; for they have just made some very large contracts for horse-shoes, bedding, linen, and other requirements for the army, it being found to come much cheaper thus than having the stores sent from Vienna by railway. When the army first set out they were supplied with all requisites calculated to last for aix months, but with the hard wear and tear of active campaigning for only two months, they are found to be all used up, and must be renewed. Very little has been heard of late about the Pre tender, who has been living quietly at Kiel, scarcely ever showing himself out of doors. But there are various significant indications that he is about to change his tactics, and take a more active part in the direction of his own pretensions. It is now announced by his adherents that the Prince is going to make a " progress," and show himself personally in the principal towns of the duchies. And, indeed, he has already made a commencement, for on Satur day he drove over to Preetz, about ten miles distant from Kiel, where be was received by the associations of gymnasts, singing clubs, and trades' unions, and speeches were made and duly answered, after which he dined with the Provost of the Pro testant nunnery, Herr von Quaalen, the town being illuminated and decked out with flags in honour of hie visit. Late in the evening he returned to Kiel. His two principal advisers or ministers, Messrs. Samwer and Franke, have received throe months' further leave of absence from their chief, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg; indeed, the Privy Councillor Franke seems to meditate remaining altogether at Kid, for he has just completed the purchase of a house and grounds in the immediate neighbourhood of the town. A day or two ago the second division of the Prus sian Field Telegraph battalion passed through this city and excited greet curiosity, as it is an institu- Von as useful and important to an army in the field as it is of novel and unique appearance. Each carriage contains neatly coiled up insulated wire of ton German miles in length (nes•ly fifty English statute miles), and is drawn by six strong and hand some horses, so that the wire can be unrolled and laid down at a swinging trot if required he done quickly. The staff of operators and escort—of whom there are ten to each waggon—are all mounted, uni formed and armed, wearing the same helmet and ac coutrements u the rest of the army, their only dis tinguishing mark being two white cords on tbecollar. Whilst being forwarded from Alton* by the railroad one of the horses broke loose, and when near Elms horn leaped out of the railway truck, but did not seem to be much hurt, and had galloped off across the country before the train could be stopped. By order of the Federal Commissioners in Hol ste'n the alteration of the railway tariff came into operation on the Ist of April. Passenger fares and goods freight are now no longer charged by Danish money, but exclusively reckoned by marks and schillinga of Hamburg currency. MEXICO. The following is an extract from a private letter dated Mexioo, Jan. 27, 1864 :—" The situat;onlof the French army is not so good as might be fairly supposed. True it occupies the road from Vera Cruz to Mexico and the most important centres of population from the latter city to Guadalajara, an extent of territory 750 miles long by 200 miles wide in a country six or seven times larger than France. But when we remember that in this dis trict the French general has been compelled to content himself with potting garrisons into the principal towns and mere de.achmenta into some adjoining villages, without being able to ensure his communications between these vari ous points, the question at once changes its aspect. "At latest advioes Gonzales Ortega was in the environs of Zacatecas with a corps d'armiie of more than 6,000 men ; Crags, with 12,000 men, was encamped at only four leagues from Guadala jars, every day having skirmishes with the garrison of that place, and having beaten at the commence meut of February the re-actionary General Urbano Toyer, who bad ventured upon a sortie. Moreover, the guerillas swarm on all sides. They keep the garrisons of the towns occupied by the intervention in continual alarm, and General Diaz has succeeded in organizing in the state of Oaxaca a! corps of 11,000 men, with which he proposes, after having finished with the reactionaries of Chiapas and Tabasco, to fall upon Puebla and Orizaba. Finally the French have not yet succeeded in quitting Tampico, where they still remain on the defensive, and even in the environs of the capital, if we except the roads leading to Vera Crux, Queretaro and Toluca, nothing is known of the intervention, because its forces have not yet found means of gaining over to the Empire the population of those districts. " Meanwhile Juarez is at Monterey, the capital of the state governed by M. Vidasissi, with a force of 4,000 men belonging to the division of General Doblado ; but from some involuntary avowals in the reactionary press, it was thought at Mexico that something very serious must have take place near Guadalajara for 4,000 men had been hastily sent off in that direction, and it was said that General Douay occupied with his division against Zacatecas was to join this column and march with it upon the capital of the state of Jalisco. It was supposed that Uraga had attacked that town, and perhaps even entered it." The gold-bearing ores of Colorado are the richest I. ore of an yet discovered on this planet, but the gold is so iatrie y blended with ire, wiper sine, river, nickel, lead, sulphur, orrery and alnaiers. r to overtax hitherto the highest skill of American abeiniets is it from than by ordinary presser It wee that analyses of small quarries of ens by Prof. =Li t re arapotice, in this city, indicated that they re tained 2,000 dor of gold to the cord of ore ; but by tb• user of serration by quiebOver, only birth of 4 anieur epos the emerge raid be rireeted one sod send.—Nsie York paper. LONDON Ginsaas. Ommiirs Conrairt (Linnzo). Teals ressiple week aiding April 3. 11.0684 fls. 2d. THE FRENCH NOTE UPON THE FERENCE. PARIS, Ai. The following is an exact translation of respecting the conference forwanled by M. Dr.. 0%,, de Lhuys to Prince Ls Tour d'Aurergoe, ti • French ambassador in London : Paris, 3I arab *.%) Prlnce,—The Britannic government is taking pe w at this moment to bring about the mooting of a envier• once, and the belligerents do not appear as much as previously to the opening of negotiations. 1 o r , aware that we have no objection to take part IL , they are accepted by all the other courts, awl I voyed the intentions of the Emperor's government this subject to you is my despatch of the of this month. But before taking our seat it iLe conference, I wish you to acquaint the cal.l:. London with the ideas and sentiments we ghoul,' hric K us. This perfectly friendly communication will p. explain better than we have hitherto had occasion to do the line of conduct followed by the imperial go►ernrnent in the Dario German difference. It will oleo 000 tribute, to pat an end to the 'appositions of ulterior objects f,. . penset) which have been so gratuitously attributed to 0.. In emaciating ourselves with this effort at puifieati,c, weeliall find that we ere in presence of two chief iateio i t c Upon the one hand, we have to take into amount sti!.tila• tions concluded with a view to the European balance a power, and furnished with the signature of France. t too the other, it is impossible to misconceive the seetiment. repulsion which have arises against the work of the Ple nipotentiaries of 1852. We are far from disput,r, wisdom of the combination which the ti• ,t, London was intended to place under the s.l of the public law of Europe ; and if. spur from the oppoeition of Gerussey and the model! ,tiote of the Duchies, we were free to'obey the inspiratiAl of traditional sympathies for I)enn.ark alone, all efforts would be devoted to upholding this agreement. Hut A i, impossible for us not to recognise the obstacles which an opposed to the exact and precise execution of the treaty of 1852. If in the eyes of some posers the treaty of London possesses a separate existence a peculiar authority, independently of the ervi,,. merits concluded at the mime period between Gen:riser a,l Denmark, in the opinion of others, upon the contrsty, it is subordinated to those engagements, and caboot 1 0 , separated from them. Amos( the German States am* have refused their adhesion or hare only gives it is are. striated form ; others after having formerly adhered to it. now declare themselves free. Finally the Germanic Coe. federation appears to dispute the value of an act in shirk it has not concurred. In presence of this diversity of opinions, which will give rise to insurmountable difficulties, it appears to me hobs pensable to examine the interests concerned in the existing war, without preoocupyiog ourselves exclusively with the letter of the treaty. The cause as well ea the distinctive character of this straggle is evidently the rivalry of the populations which compose the Danish monarchy. A natiosal sentiment clings smolt; each, the force of which cannot be placed in doubt, What, thou, would be more natural, is default of a course unanimously accepted, than to take as a heals the vi,L of the population! This method, conformable t 4 the veritable interests of the two parties, appears to us the best fitted to bring about an equitable arrangement, and se offering guarantees of stability. In asking the appliestien of a fundamental principle of our public law, Lad in chin. ing the advantages of this principle for Denmark as Us Germany, we believe we propose the most teat and feats solution of this question, which excites such lively on. easiness throughout the whole of Europe. Accept the assuranosa kc., 11101:1731 ns LiC.:TA. THE I'OLLSH GENERAL ROUE. The Dradeu Journal gives the following particu lars of the descent and history of this well-known insurgent leader : Brink's grandfather was • Saxon employe is the office of the minister Coat fkiihl, and came with him to tt Liner in the reign of Augustus Ilf. Roping to better his position in Poland, he remained there after Closet &uhl was recalled to fkixoey, and being a man of greet taking' sad micomplish• mean, he established an educational intimate, to wbßb were educated many ma wbo afterwards did their country good service. Rs had three sons ; the eldest, Hawk" se artillery officer under titanislana Augustus, afterwards served in the Polish legions in Italy order Buorseparte, ad on the Rhine under General Moreau. Baring bees appealed general in the army of the Duchy of Vo maw in 1616, he defended, with credit, the fortress of &mom during the years 181243, where he had mosey . mined at his own experts for the purpose of pay's( his soldiers. After the establishment of the Congress Kingdom, he as appointed Minister for War, and afterwards, in the pm 1829, be wee rained to the rank of count by the Emperor Alexasder L Ile was married to the daughter of the ft. mots army swoon loforitsua, by whom he bad two daughters, who are still liras—Emilia, the wife of Cast htsckeibseg, general in the Imperial Cart, and Julia, for. nicely a said of homier to the Emperor, sod mimed to Prines Alexander of Reme-Dannstedt, brother of the pre. lent Empress of Russia. ovieral Bank's father wen the snood brother of Count Maurice. Be fought in the cam- paigns of Napoleon, and in the year 11328-9,1 whoa he wee Colonel of the Polish Rogineers, was attached, with 'AI other officers, to the etaM of Di.bies, when be so Melia. &shed himself that the Cear called him to ea Petersburg. tappointed him his aide-de-camp, sad made him a count mho he death of his eld broth'r . The mo th er of Ceara Bomb is the daug h ter of th e welkknown M. Steinkeller, who has dose mach invaluable mirk* in the sew mares and the materiel primperity of P oised. himself, whose real name is Joseph Count was educated in the Corps of Peps et St Petersburg, and subsequently served ix yew in the regiment of human of the guard, after which bevel the aide-deanip of Suclioninet, the War Minster, and three years ago was mint to the Camas as °Menet laser mad of • regiment of cavalry. Although tonight cap is Russia from his infancy, and his great abilities sod bleb cosnezioss opened to him • brilliset career, this pit a% offing saerthoed all his prospects, left the it 1•10010 service alined peenikes, and a year ego joined the ineargeot rinks At the same time be wrote • letter to Alexander IL, is which, after thank* him for tbe favours he bad received while in his service, he declared that being a Pole he as about to share the lied destinies of his unhappy The experience of this 'militia and patriotic Meow is tho Cancan has stood him is ineallest Mead in Pelted, when. to the amostishmeat of Europe, he has secoseded is men. Main himself in the billy diarists of the palatinate of Cracow during the whole of the water, though opposed by fret, dietitians, and the overwhelm* forces ei the sassy. Sir John Shelley, on Monday next, will ask the Secretary of Mote for the Home D. p•rtment, whether the government here mew to any is rtlaressee le an alteration of the law regrrding the regulations r M tr hours at which licensed houses in the mrtropolis should he elosedduring the eight._ Thirtptiree velmels were loaded with guano at the Mimes la w& daring last month. Thiry took aR 27,048 tow. Your of the ships wars loaded with h, tIO toes for Eagles& A Naples letter in the Perarreran:o of Milan says:—•• A Frenchman named Fournier, whose eztesdiiios had been demanded by the French government. be. fnst been arrested here. He is seemed of a robbery of 'PO,UOUtr. From the Vienne aMreel breach of the Hank of Prune. His Mother sad accomplice camped at the manse% of he cap tors. A perquisitio• mode is Fouroter's house did sot easolt io the disoorefy of se important sum of gamey, bat on his anent beoorusg known, ono of he oonstryniee Mt" seated himself to the authorities, and gave up a see of 80,000 fr. which Fournier had confided to him The limey has bees placed in the hands of the easnial." TdAaoorn Socrerr.—Yesterday evening the annual festival of this society was celebrated by • public dinner at the London Tavern. Lord C. Paget took the chair, lad swops the mummy promat were the Earl of Ramsey, Sir E. 'Weber, Admiral Gordon, Captain C. J. Bossainet, Captain H. E. Bat, Captain Alamo, Yr. fL S. Thorne" It,. Smith Bayley, U. The Marine Society has bees ra existence for upwards of • century. aid during that penal it has provided the naval end mercantile manse at this country with no ler thee 54,474 boys well trained to eta service. It appears from the published report of the society that the boys are carefully iostructed in religious ih all i ft,. mmi ne at tla d th. g u aed iliel' om mi aDd psw reell u es knot eseroiaed in tio r riss i 7 spbci lxs t. ra soo al They are also mercieed at the peat gum and "aught bosh rifle and cutlass dulls, accord. lac to the latest maim established on board her Majerny's ship Excellent. They are likewise practised is the apple'. tics of the tourniquet. During the festival lest night the boys at present supported by this society, aed who are berthed in tee Warepita, off Cltos pier, mar Woolwich, pared is proessam round the room where the dinner took Place, and a doer "et of young fellows, with looks more fall orof health,with ph frames better developed for ass, ft would sot easy to bring together, though some of them, it was stated, were only • fmr malts back leading • miserable life is the streets with scarcely • helm to go to. The toast by the Dobbs eleguna was drank with peat estC. e, sad after ma* more torte and the aanowarneset of the contribution, asecetatiss to more than 4000, is odd of the objects of tide society; the company orperated.