The Express. — London, England, 1862-03-07 00:00:00

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The unconditional surrender of 15,004) Confide- rates, with horse*, guns, and baggage, is a fact which tells the whole story—that is, wherever it is not suppressed, as we saw in a remarkable in stance yesterday, and a private imagination of " conditions exacted " by the defeated party put in its stes4L It appeals that Genera d'art after capturing Fort Henry, CM the Tenneseee River, on the bth, appeared before Fort Donebion„ standing _ _ . on the Cumberland River, a dozen miles east of the first-named fort, on the 13th of February. The Confederates appear to have chosen a very strong position on two great hills, with their fort on the lower ground near the river. Their forces are stated to have numbered from 20,000 to 25,000 men. Those of the Federalists are variously stated at from 30,000 to 40,000 ; the disparity of numbers being in a great measure compensated to the Confederates by the advantages of their position. The Federal flotilla took • brief but I gallant part in the attack, bat suffered so severely I from the accurate fire of the enemy's heavy guns that after an hour's close fighting it withdrew die abled, with the loss of fifty•four men. The Gen. federate troops fought with credit, and being well entrenched indicted on the Union troops a loss which their Generals admit to be very heavy. They appear to have expected reinforcements from Bowling Green, still further to the East, but after three days' fighting, during which positions and batteries were repeatedly lost and retaken on each side, the fortune of war showed itself so de cidedly for the Federalists, that General FLOYD, who is " wanted" at Washington to explain some little matters, quietly abandoned his command in the night, and left his fellows to obtain the best conditions they could. These proved to be no conditions at all, for when General /locum proposed an armistice and the appointment di Commissioners to draw up terms of capitulation, he received from General GRANT the answer— " No terms except unconditional and immediate " surrender can be accepted. I propose to move " immediately on your works." To which Ge neral Breit/vex was constrained to reply that not withstanding the brilliant success of the Confede rate arms, he was compelled to accept those " ungenerous and unchivalrous" terms. The events of the campaign which has just opened have so far justified the predictions we have ventured on from the beginning. The Northern forces are at last organised, as well as they can be organized without regularly trained officers, and they have begun to move, and wherever the Southern line is touched it gives way. Those who have been assuring us for twelve weary months that the Southern army were • sort of mixture of the tiger and the bulldog, who might be exterminated but would never submit, while the Union soldiers were little better than curs and mongrels, must have some difficulty in recon ciling their theory with recent events. When 7.otuvorria made his onslaught on General Taints', his forces defended themselves with great feebleness, as is proved by the return of only 130 killed out of a Federal divi sion of 10,000 strong, and then retired in great disorder upon one of the strongest positions in the West. Their camp was entrenched on • high "bluff" over the Cumberland River. The earth works were as good as six months of preparation could make them ; they were fully armed with artillery of the heaviest kind, were fully pro visioned, and the garrison sou well butted. There was no reason why they should not have been held for a week or ten days against treble the force General Thomas had at command. If they were animated by the spirit for which their friends here ask us to give them credit, they might have remained there until this hour. But they did not remain one night They left before daybreak, and took nothing with them but the clothes they had on. Their papers, arms, provisions, and stores of all kinds were abandoned ; and so far from preferring death to retreat, they did not even kill or drive off their bag gage mules, but allowed 1,200 of them to stand ready for capture by the enemy. The earlier affairs in Western Virginia were marked by the same horror of desperate measures. Seven hundred men laid down their arms at one time to General WCirt.i.a., after two actions, in which the loss on both sides wastrifling in the extreme. At Hatteras, seven hundred men more surrendered two forts and themselves, after a two hours' cannon ade, in which their total leas was sixteen ! More recently, Fort Henry, in Tennessee, a heavily armed earthwork, supported by 5,000 men out side, was given up to five gunboat., ►fter • bom bardment of one hour and twenty minutes, the force outside having decamped previously. At Roanoke Island, works armed with forty rifled guns of enormous calibre, with the ap proaches by water obstructed by piles, and de fended by a tle , •t of ten guns each, and a garri son of 5,000 men, with swamps and brushwood around all the redoubts, are bombarded for one day by a small fleet of light vessels, and stormed the next morning at daybreak by 10,000 men, with • loss of 40 killed and 150 or 200 wounded, and the gunboats are all de stroyed or captured. The fate of Fort Donelson is another instance of the extent to which South erners share the very pardonable and very human desire "to lieu to fight another day." Since MACK laid down his arms with 40,000 men at Min, there have been few instances of such whole sale capitulation as this last one in Tennessee, and we have not the slightest doubt that the coming three months will add others to the list. We do not dwell on these facts as proofs that the Southerners are more wanting in courage or tenacity than men of other countries, but as proofs that they are neither braver nor more persevering than other people ; that though they may do sa much as some have done to achieve their inde pendence, they will do, and are doing no more, and are not doing nearly so much as a great many have done. They have just furnished in another direction another striking indication of the valuo of those desperate resolves which some of our contemporaries have been so assiduous in presenting to the English public as a good basis for commercial calculations. We have been enured until we were tired of hear ing it repeated, that not a pound of cotton would be either sent down to the porta, or be allowed to be exported, until the blockade was mimed along the whole line. This heroic resolution was announced to the world, with the usual accompaniment of oaths and asseverations and invocations. England and France having made up their minds unmis takeably to let things take their course, we are now informed that any vessel which can run the blockade can have as much of it for export as she chooses to Garry. In short, it is not difficult to foresee, even at ibis stage of the contest, that the South will furnish through the whole course of it abundant illustration of the accuracy of those ac counts of the character of the people which all the shrewdest observers agree in furnishing. They have all that confidence in their own immense superiority to all other nations, in the superior excellence of theirpeculiar social organization to that of all other countries, that profound contempt for the quiet manners, and the thoughtfulness and caution bred by high civilization, which are characteristic of semi-be:berms societies. The notions of the Northern States, and of Europe, possessed by the mass of the population, are strikingly similar to those of the Turks about Western Europe. They have engaged in the present struggle with that im pulsiveness by which their temperament is so strongly marked, and with the ignorance et the comparative value of their own resources which is the natural result of slavery, of the want of edu cation, the want of commerce, and the scattering of the population over too wide an area. What they are now exhibiting is that want of vigour in resistance which men in inferior stages of culture generally display when they first find that they have over-rated their strength. The recent successor of the Federal army are _ _ reminding some of our contemporaries of some facts which they had forgotten. We do not think that, looking back on the past nine months, they will on the whole be anxious to maintain:the correctness of their estimate of the military character of the North. The Secession leaders had been preparing for their insurrection for eight years, under the adminis tration both of Fizzes and BUCTUNLII ; and when they began it, they were not only in posses sion of the greater part of the public arms and stores, but they took the North and the Govern ment by surprise. The reverses sustained by the Federal forces at the outset were the natural and unavoidable consequence of the haste with which they were raised, and the comparative complete ness of organization and equipment in which they found their adversaries. The fact that none of these reverses was sustained in a conflict on open ground was • fact which the Secessionist organs in this country studiously overlooked. Neither at Bull's Run, Big Bethel, and Ball's Bluff, one even at Springfield, engagements which have been put forward as proofs of the superior prowess of the Southerners, did the latter show them selves with emcees in the open field. No one, however, who was at all familiar either with North ern or Southern character, or with the require ments of modern military organizations, was in the least deceived as to the probabilities of the 'draggle by anything that occurred in the first aim months. Nobody but Mr. BIULZSPOZD Hors and Blacktrood's Magazine, and, perhaps, Sir Anew eau) ALISON, saw in Bull's Run one of " the " decisive battles of the world," or came to the conclusion that the United States were moribund, because they could not raise and equip an army of 800,000 men in lees than half • year. Those, too, who have studied Northern and Southern pecu liarities of temperament and habits did not fall into the egregious blunder of supposing, as many of our political philosophers did, that the Northern farmer or mechanic would make • worse soldier than the Southern planter or "poor white," simply because he was less familiar with the use of the pistol or bowie knife, drank lees whisky, and rode less on horse back. This theory would make a Turk, or a Moor, or a Sikh, batter military material than a York shire ploughman or • French vine -dresser; and yet what general would hesitate about which of them he would enlist in an army organised as modem armies are f The moral qualities are those which in our day contribute most to make a good soldier. Habits of order, intelligent appre ciation of the value of a cause, profound reliance on the value of organization, and readiness in sub mitting to it and in carrying it oa, are things which can only be acquired in • high state of civilization, and they are the very things the poriesaion of which distinguishes the Yankee or North Western farmer or mechanic from the "young man of the better classes" from Alabama or INTENNATIONAL ExaletTtox, 1862.—The Com mittee upon Art Designs for Manufactures met yesterday at South Kensington, the Marquis of Salisbury, X.G., in the chair. The committee de termined to take immediate steps to secure the proper representation of the works of decewssd de signers. They would be glad if proprietors of de sign* by Gibbs, Keat, Taman, Smile, Gandy, Jai fery, Wyatt, Flaxman, Stothard, Holland, &id geus, Pitt (sculptor), Tatham, E. Wyatt, Pugin, Barry, &c., would offer the loan of them for exhi bitiou during the time the International Exhibition is °Pen- MIBRION or MN RIGHT HON. W. E. GIJ.D STONI TO TIM lONIAN INLANDS.—This morning $ blue book of 83 Tam, consisting of papers relative to the mission of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone to the lonian Wands in the year 1858, was presented to parliament. The despatches are from the Right Hon. Sir J. Young, Sir E. B. Lytton, the then Colonial secret.ry, Sir H. Storks, and Mr. Gladstone himself. The right boa. gentleman, it will Ibe remembered, was brat High Commiwioner Eatraordi. vary, and 'abstinently Lord High Commisaiouer. PaTstei'm DAY IN LOYDON.—The Duke of rambri.lge will pride at the annul festival in support of the Besevoiset Society of fit. Patrick. which will take plaoe at Inseamone 'tavern on fit. Patrick's day. Many lout* eeeleben of both houses of Parliament, including Viscount Palmerston and Earl Ituriell,, will support his Royal Highness on this occuion. - Dc*T or Silt G. H. DASHWOOD M.P.—A vacancy has oceirred la the represestatiaZ of Wycotobe, the death ef air George Healy Dfel i i= which todt es Tesedey, at lie seat, West Wycombe- The 801111•10 , 1 we • son d the or: l' 4h baronet, aadeucesealed to the title on the death of his father in 1849. He entered parliament in 1812 as one of the members for Buckinghamshire, awl continued to re present that coostitueacy Willa% when lie was unseated ; be again contested the mat is 1837, and was again defeated, but an the same year waa elected for Wycombe, and has con tiuued to repr -meet that borough uninterruptedly ever Mace. Is pohtias the deceased wag a liberal. Zbt Court. WINDOOR CANAL. lUD= S. The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Princess of Prussia (Prisons Royal), Prisons Alice, Prime Alfred, and Primer Helena, left Osborne at ball-put two dolor& and arrived at Windsor Castle at twenty minute' past seven. The ladies and gentlemen in attendance were ViaCOUntela Jocelyn, Countess fichalanstsla, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lieu tenant-General the Hon. 0. Grey, Count Furstensteini Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Major Cowell, and Dr. Jenner. Her Majesty travelled in the utmost privacy. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice arrived at Windsor Cutle, from Osborne, at twenty minutes Wore two o'clock, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hoe. Beatrice Brig (who joined at Gosport), Colonel the Hoo. A. Har ding*, and the Master of the Household. Countess Blucher sad Baron Erma &odour travelled with the Priociesneu . . The Eight Hon. Mr George Grey arrived at Osborne yew tetchy, sad hod an mafiosos of her Majesty. The Eight Hon. fiemetary returned to London to-day. Prince Arthur remains at Osborne, attended by Major Elphinstimm Viscount Torrington and Lientenant-Colonel F. Cavendish have arrived at the Castle, as Lord and 01 . 00111 in Waiting. The Hoe. Emily Chthaut has also arrived, as Maid of Honour in Waiting. A deputation on the sab}ent al limited liability relating to joint stock banks had as interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson and the Right Hon.W. Hutt yesterday, at the Odic* el the Hood of Trade. A &panties hod se interview with the President sod View.Prerldest d the Board of Tide yesterday, on the star led of compulsory pilaw. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-offiee from the Lord High Cocumbsioser al the lonian Wu& Despatches were nut to the Owen= of (weds. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1882. DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM OSBORN& PORTEUIOUTH, MA= & Her Majesty the Queen and the court left Oeborne•bomie s 1 three o'clock this afternoon, for Wiadeor (bath. The royal party embarked as board the peddle yaebt Victoria and Albert, Oththis O. H. Seymour, 0.8., and emend over to the Royal Clutha Yard, Commit, proceeding thanes per apeoial train to Windsor. The homey was pesfanned is a side* pirate maser, and the customary formalities were dispenser! whk. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have arrived at Stafford Bowe, St. hisser The Dothan Dewier is staying at CUefdes Rome, Maidenhead. The Duchess of Somerset returned to the Admi ralty on Wednesday, from • tour of visite. The Earl Brownlow has left town to join his pelt is the Mediterranean. His lordship has recovered from his recent indisposition. The Earl of liopetoun has arrived at Long'a Hotel The Earl and Countess of Dononghmore left lowa a taw days dace on a coatdaental tour. Lord and Imdy Overtone and Colonel and the Rea Mn. Loyd-Lindsay hays arrived is town, from Over done Park, for the goose Lord sad Lady Ebury have arrived at their red den is PeriPetreet from Moore Park, Herta, for the Lady Panmure and Mr. Power have returned to ark resideree r Chahar4treer for the mum. Lady Emily Foley has left Brighton on a viait to Viesanat G. at his oat in Sum. Lady Caroline lane Fox has arrived at her resi dence hi Cheeham•ekest from visiting the Berl end Coun ter of firewood, at their seat in Yorkshire. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with Lori Fitzroy Somerset and lady Blanche Somerset arrived at Southampton yesterday. trout Gitealtar. _ A handsome monument has just been erected in the cathedral of Derry to the aasserny of Captain John ll'Neill Boyd. of the Ajax, who was swept off the pier of Kingstown and drowned while attempting to rescue the crews of some shipwrecked Teasels during the hurricane on the 9th February. 1861. The body of the monument is of pure white marble. Ciptain Boyd stands with his right foot on a block of stone, and pointe with outstretched bands towards a ship whose bows and nix* appear rushing to wards the rocks, directing firs of his crew to fling the coils of reps with which they are engaged to the distressed vend. Lord Robert Cecil on Tuesday will ask the Vice- President of the Committee of Council, if it is Intended, under the revised edition of the revised code, to abolish soy of the lectureships in the training colleges, and if so, when that abolition is to take effect. On Friday next Mr. Freeland will call the atten tion ot the House of Commons to the papers presented in 1881 relating to reforms in Turkey, and to the mission of Lord Hobart and Mr. Foster to Constantinople; and to move as address for copy of their report on the finances of Taney, and of any correspondence that may have taken plies between the governments of France and England relative to their mission. Major O'Reilly is not likely long to enjoy the homer of representing Longford. A petition will be at epee preferred against his return by Colonel White, whose spate allege that their voters were kept from the poll by the violence and intimidation of the mob. At the elm) of the poll Major O'Reilly and a Roman catholic priest ha rangued a very uproarious mob, armed with bludgeons, in front of the Court-house, and referred in exulting terms to what they described as the Remit victory they had won. The Council of the Royal Irish Academy have recently decided no awardieg ate of the Academy's gold medals to each of the following gentlemen, in recognition of the valor ef their respective works :—To the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., F.T.C.D., for his " Researches in Physical Optics, Magnet ism, and Meteorology ;" to Mr. Robert Hallett, for his " Researched, in the Dynamics and Phenomena of Earth quakes ;" to Mr. J. T. Gilbert, for his "History of the City of Dublin ;" and to Mr. Whitley Stokes, for his philo logical work, entitled "Irish Gloria," published by the Irish Archsenlegical sad Celtic society. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT AND THE ROYAL EKCHLNGZ Morro.—Various statements have been made regarding the origin and cause of placing the motto on the pediment of the Royal Exchange, '• The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof," the general impression being that it was suggested by the late Prince Consort. Mr. Tite, M.P., architect of the Exchange, thus explains the matter in the City Press :—" As the work (the building of the Ex change) proceeded, Ids royal highness took much interest in the modelling and carving of the various groups, and con descended vary frequently to visit the studio of the sculptor in Wilton-pleas. Your readers may recollect that the figure of Commerce stands on an elevated block or pedestal in the centre of the group ; and it became a subject of earnest consideration with Mr. Weatinacott and myself in what way the plainness of this block could be relieved ; for although in the original model on • small scale this defect did not strike the eye, yet in the execution it was very apparent Wraiths, fasces, festoons were all tried, lest the effect was unsatisfactory; and in this state of affairs Mr. West moat submitted the difficulty to his royal highness. After a little delay, Pr in ce Albert suggested that the pedestal in question would be a very appropriate situation for a r e ligious inscription, which would relieve the plain ness of the surface, in an artistic point of view, and at the same time have the higher merit of exhibiting the devo tional feelings of the people and their recognition of a superior power; and he particularly wished that such inscription should be in English, so as to be intelligible to all. This happy thought put an end to all difficulty ; and as Dr. Hilman, the learned Dean of St. Paul's, had kindly advised ine, in reference to the Latin inscriptions on the frieze, and in the merchants' area, Mr. Westmacott con sulted him on this subject also; and he suggested the words of the Psalmist, which were at once adopted." THE LATE MRS. STANLEY. —The loss of this lady will be deeply felt by a large circle of relations and friends. Mrs. Stanley was the daughter of the Rev. Oswald Loyeester rector of Stoke, Salop, and married Dr. Stanley, afterwards Bishop of Norwich, on the Bth of May, 1810. She leaves two daughters, one married to the Rev. J. C. Vaughan, D.D., vicar of Doncaster, and late head master of Harrow. It was hut the other day her only movie* see, the Rev. Arthur Penrhva Stanley, D.D., once of Christ Church, and Regius Pio forger of Eaderiestieal History at the University of Oxford, took hays et her on proceeding to join the Prince of Wales, to travel with his royal highness in the East. Dr. Stanley is now, we believe, in Upper Egypt with the Prince, and it is feared the sad intelligence cannot reach him until the return of the royal party to Cairo or Alexandria, on their way to the Holy Land. Bishop Stanley, who died in 1849, was interred in the centre of the uses of Norwich Cathedral, at the desire of the citizens, sad a handsome slab placed over his grave. Subsequently the dim led laity of the diocese united in subscribing to redone the peat west window of the cathedral (in fact, pro viding s pew cad very beautiful window) to his lordship's memory. It is thought most probable that Mrs. Stanley's remains will= beside those of the deceased bishop in Norwich LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GREECE. THE INSURRECTION. ATHENS, Fir. 28. Nauplia holds out well, and up to this time has defended herself most advantageously. The insur gents have made redoubts at three kilometres dis tance from the place, and the opinion is that these redoubts cannot be taken without much bloodshed. The royal troupe have already met with conside rable losses. The nation is indignant at the ex pressed determination of the King to punish this garrison, at all hazards, for having broken their oaths. " Why," may the Greeks, "if the Nauplia troupe have broken their oaths, has not the King been false to his for the last eighteen years, during which period he has never ceased to violate the Hellenic charter which he swore to observe 1" Public opinion in the country is undoubtedly favourable to the insurrection, in spite of what may be said in the letters which the government takos care to send to the Continent by every packet. Either yesterday or to-day an attempt was to be made to carry the redoubts above alluded to. If the royal troops should be once more repulsed, I am afraid that the two little armies will ooalesoe and march to Athens to dictate to the sovereign those conditions which the whole nation demands, in order that the system of government may be changed, and the Hellenic charter obeyed. Many intelligent people think that this will be the &wawa of the crisis. In every family, in every clam, men, women, and dldrentmanimoualy condemn the King, and more especially the Queen. Whatever may happen they are blamed for continuing a fratricidal war. Even assuming that the King should get the hatter of the insurrection, it cannot be forgotten that at least 500 lives have beetalready lost, and the Greek nation will think this too high • price to pay for the obsti nacy of its rulers. In my opinion, the affair of Nauplia, whatever may be the immediate result of it, will be disastrous for the dynasty. Business is paralysed, and many tradesmen in Athens have been thrown into prison simply for having closed their shops. A Greek said to me to-day, "There has been nothing like this since the time of the cholera." ' The people do not leave their houses, because the police arrest men in the streets on the lightest suspicion. The prisons are overflowing. The police recruits the scum of the city and pays them well. The bank groans under these expenses, and its collectors come home empty. The courts of law dare not give judgments against those who re fuse to pay. The situation is terrible. AUSTRIA. Several letters and journals of Vienna complain of the conduct of the clergy on the fit* of the con stitution. Cardinal Schwarzenberg, at Prague, addressed a circular to the bishops, with the object of showing that the clergy cannot contribute to a political demonstration. The Bishop of Budweis energetically attacked the solemnity, on bc. count of what he terms the anti-religious project of the Reichsrath upon the liberty of worship. A curd at Prague, however, who refused to celebrate a mass on the occasion, had his scruples overcome by the offer of 150 thalers. The Pveue of Vienna asks if the country is to remain passive when the bishops set the example to the laity of contempt for the constitution, and render the church the accomplice of anti-national attempts—" an offence which is punishable by the penal law with six months' imprisonment." PRUSSIA. The following extract from a letter just written to his constituents by a deputy of the Prussian parliament, M. Harkort, represents very clearly, it is said, the opinions and feelings of the Second Chamber : The liberal element in the Climber of Deputies has gained greatly; the extreme left does not exist; a reflective RCA and a seal far work are supreme. A liberal government, marching towards definite objects, would be certain to posers a large majority in an assembly which only wishes for moderate progress. Doubtless pirate motions, not always practical, accumulate, together with more important government projects ; but if they are not actually adopted, they at least local questions which heretofore have been too much neglected. If we are not to look for great results from the present session, upon which the country bad founded so many hopes, the fault lies not with the chamber. The government oscillates between the feudalista of the Chamber of Peers and the men of the people ; half measures, which satisfy no one, are theresult, despite the good intentions of certain persons. The general state of mind is painful. The military question has provoked a &Hennas between the government and the nation which may lead to the dissolution of the chamber. An appeal to the people will not bring about au electoral result more favourable to the government. Either the bills on military law will be rejected by the chamber, or they must undergo considerable modifications. For my part, I cashes that I am not in favour of the military service el seven year. in the army ; and prefer the law of Frederik William 111. of the sth September, 1814, which holds the balance equally between the army and the landwehr. I maintain the principle—no deficit In time of pesos, no twenty.five additional oentiimes without real danger. I maiotainthat the taxes are excessive. Our taus increase, but the national rmor^oee do not. As to legislation, all liberal propositions fall before the absolute opposition of the Chamber of Peers, and the men of progress are left sticking in the mire. The chamber pommies a method by which we can escape from ibis difficulty—it is the control over the taxes. We have really been too easy in this respect. Reaction sake only for money and soldiers ; hay jog obtained them it says, " That is sufficient." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE SENATE. At one o'clock yesterday the Emperor received the deputation of the Senate charged with present ing the Address. His Majesty (says the Constitution/lei) spoke to the following effect : Monsieur le President,—l am rejoiced at the unanimity with which the Senate has just voted the address which you present to me. It is an additional proof that, in the Chambers as in the eountry, the majority always sides with wisdom, and excludes extreme opinions. After the vivacitios of the debates, I have seen with pleasure the measured language of the Address approved by nearly every vote, thus contirmiog that maxim of Bernet— MOdfratiOn based upon truth is the firmest support of human affairs." Re ceive, thee, my sincere thanks ; for nothing is more favourable to the calm, reguler advance of govern ments than the good understanding between the gre►t powers of the State. These words were received with cries of " Vire !" " Vire l'lmpdratrice !" " Vivo le Prince Inn:Arial !" (asursa's =mums.) FRANCE. THE MILITARY PENSION BILL AND THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION. PARIS, ILtacH 7. The Moniteur of to-day says :—" If on the occa sion of the bill on military rewards submitted to the Council of State, the amount of the annual Rente which will be demanded was not stated, it was because it Is to be afterwards determined upon in concert with the Corps Legialatif." The Moniteur also publishes a letter from Vera Cruz, dated 31st January, expressing regrets at the deplorable course taken by the allies, who have not shown sufficient energy. The letter con tinues They ought not to have entered into negotiations, but have demanded immediate re dress for their grievances." The writer concludes by saying, "In order to find • remedy for the present state of affairs, it is necessary that the allies should without delay take energetic measures, and follow precise and identical instructions. It is especially necessary that the Emperor should send reinforcements, because France is principally de pended upon to enable Mexico to emerge from its present state of complete disorganisation." CHINA. MOVEMENTS OF THE REBELS. SHANOHAE, J. 23. (By Telegraph from Alexandria.) The rebels are moving in the direction of this place. A proclamation has been issued by the consuls of the allied powers, declaring Shanghae to be under their protection. Reinforcements have been sent hither by the Pearl. COCHIN CHINA. SAIGON, JAN. 28. Fresh disturbances have broken out in Cam bodia. The Siamese government have sent a large naval and military force against the insurgents. ARRIVAL OF THE JIJRA. LONDONDERRY, Masai 7. The Canadian screw-steamer Jura, from Portland on the 23rd ult., has arrived here. Her news is generally anticipated by the Edinburgh. She brings no late despatches, On the 2nd inst. the Jura received from on board the American ship Moroko, bound to Boston, the crew of the Bremen brig Detmar, abandoned on the 27th February. THE ACCIDENT TO THE CEYLON. SOUTHAMPTON, Maus 7. The Ceylon was docked this morning. The aoci dent to her screw has been remedied, and the company has announced that she will again sail for Alexandria at 1 p.m. to-day. THE GALL PLYMOUTH, Maws 7, 10.30 A.m. A heavy gale from the 8.8. W. still prevails here. The Cape mail steamer Athens is unable to proceed, and is lying under the lee of the Breakwater. IN, Nam 7. The American ship Sarah Park, bound from Chatham to Cardiff, went ashore off Hurst Castle during the gale of yesterday. It is expected she will become a total wreck. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova owx PARIS. THIMSDAY EVINING. The Emperor's letter to Count de Moray conveys unconsciously a well-merited slap in the face to the lacqueys of the government press, who for the last three days have been swearing that there was no " ooniiict " between the sovereign and tbe Com mons' house, but only a "misunderstanding." The Emperor uses the two terms as synonymous, which, in point of fact, they are under the circum stances. As the Temps says, these journals have spent "their time and their rhetoric " for nothing. The Rente has declined to-day 30c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 69fr. 400. and 69fr. 75c. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. left off with a fall of 20c. and 15c.,at 99fr. 50c. and 991 e. 85c. The Conversion closes to-day, and,in spite of all the bragging about the suooess of the measure, rather less than two thirds, or about 115 millions out of 175 has been converted. The " call to the unconverted" re maining unanswered is, therefore,very considerable, and it is quite certain that the government is in no position to pay them off at par. There was little change to-day in Mobilier, the Italian Loan, and railway shares. The Southern Railway, however, rose 10fr. As soon as the Emperor's "History of Julius Crease appears it will be dramatised for the Porte Bt. Martin by MM. D'Ennery and Mooquard—at least, so says the hidipendatice Beige, seriously. But for this announcement I should have thought that the idea of Caesar on the stage under such cir cumstances could only have germinated in the brain of an anti-imperialist. It is said that Colonel du Pin, one of Count Palikao's coadjutors in the plunder of the Emperor of China's summer palace—and who, as already stated, was put on the retired list for having osten tatiously advertised the sale of his loot by auction —insists upon a court martial, which can scarcely be refused him. _ . The Imperial Court of Algiers has decided on appeal that an Algerian Jew, who the Council of the Order of Advocates had refused to call to the bar, Is eligible to ezerci.e the functions of an advo cate as being a " Frenchman," although not a "French citizen." This distinction is, I believe, new. The Armoricain of Brest has the following :- "The crew of the shipwrecked English steamer Lord Byron, consisting of 22 persons, have been picked up by two fishing boats belonging to the Island of Rein, and conveyed to Brest" "If we are well informed," says the Charentais, " Mgr. Landriot, Bishop of La Rochelle, will be appointed tutor to the Prince Imperial." ITALY. ROMAN STATES. (ram ow' over ONLIMPOND ROMA Haim 1. I was unacquainted with the particulars of the scene in the Corso yesterday when I despatched my last letter. It seems that when the liberals com menced pouring into the streets to form their mute demonstration, the Papal troops prepared to charge them, and the cavalry was on the point of making a murderous onslaught, when Goyon interfered, sent the Pontifical soldiers all off to their barracks, and lined the Corso with French troops in the manner I described. Some say that De Merode ordered cannon to be placed in the Piazza del Popolo ' and sent word to Goyon that he meant to fire down the Corso unless he (Cloyon) would take on himself to atop the threatened demonstration, and on this threat Goyon acted. However this may be, it is clearly the French policy to prevent all collisions rather than to repress them. But the demonstrations are over for the present. The Liberal Committee have given the word to remain perfectly quiet. Thursday's and Friday's work were amply sufficient to display the national feeling in the most striking manner. More than this the Romans cannot do. It is idle to ask them to go and throw themselves on the French bayonets. The rest of Italy, or the rest of Europe, must interfere if Rome is ever to be freed. Everybody may now see the case stated in letters of light. The Romans wish to be free—they quit their national festival, and expose themselves to unrelenting enmity merely to prove that they are not contented under the Pontifical government. Wbo will help them—who will render it physically possible for them to achieve their freedom 1 Have all the Christian powers forgotten, the brave old exhortation, " Deliver him that is oppressed from the hand of the adversary " 1 IMPORTANT LIFEBOAT SERVICES. CANTOR, NORFOLK, TiluaBDAY NH:HT.—The Rev. G. W. Steward, of Caistor, reports " that hat nigh; a b ou t 12 o'clock , the tutor lifeboat put off during • heavy gale ot mod, with rain. At break of day the crew saw a vessel on the Creamy fiends. The sea on the mod was very glut The venal proved to be a schooner of about tons, but the lifeboat's crew were unable to discern a living creature on the [wreck, nor could any roan have lived or held on the rigging, from the fury of the ask and the state of the rani. The lifeboat cruised about the sand for sometime, but without falling M with any of the crew in their boat or otherwise. The life. beat's crew state that, unless the shipwrecked men had es caped previous to the weasel getting on the sand, they moat inevitably have perished. The wreck was so covered by the sea that the name could not be seen. It is the opinion of the lifeboat crew that the vessel had been at the sand some hours." Lownirrorr, THUBSDAT Nwirr.—This morning the brig Adonis, of Co lchester, with coals, sank on the Banical Sand& The Pekefield lifeboat immediately put off to the rescue of the shipwrecked crew, and fortunately sucoeeded in bringing them safely ashore. Previously, howeve r , the poor meter and his wife had perished. Pm.Lum, Notrois, THURBDAY.—Last night the brig Jane, of North Shields, foundered about three miles from this place, during a strong gale of wind, with heavy surf and sleet, the night being very dark. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was immediately put into re. quimition, and succeeded in rescuing eight out of the ten of the vessels crew. The master and mate remained on board. Fortunately the brig has held together, and was this morn. ing brought by the imachmea to a port of safety. WEATHER. REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) Al, lIABOZ 7, B AL B. &M. A 1.,4 L1 L 6 --- —. LAWS. 1111.12 66 W 1. ' 9 s I— it £.4141N Z. 9 Or ?OM 6 Lour W.4O 61 60 L 941 I BUM= WAG II 41 & LOS 6 Asowermi IS IBM W ALL 146 1.0 6 Porrzala..— WAS 040 & flar k alo 1 114 GALWAY ll 0 IS W.& W. o I 804114060042 10.18 SO 49 6.6 W. 0 4 H212601.111D- 12.61 46 42 66W. 0.66 4 linwrow 10.16 61 40 6.& W. fr • 0.08 5 /=lll WM 61 61 &W. rI 6 . 1 1601 61 10 W.B.W. Or 058 6 TAMA= 19.60 0 46 B.W. 4r 10.0 0 LONDON 18.60 61 42 S.W. Or 0. 00 - DOVili 10 .46 60 42 8. 0.16 7 202214141112 2•122822 ILO 60 40 &W. Sr 017 4 11Twouni Maim= I WS: 06 6.1 I W.S.W. W 4.10 0 11101U12. SAWADAT. =DAL to N. Britain.- - eto N. and N.W., NA to N.W. sad W., trek strong. • real in pima, to Of 1001114. troth, with nor mow. Irolia&—W.B.W. to N.N.W., B.W. to N.W. and N., trio, drone to moderato, rainy. ma rain. OanaraL-5.W. to N.W., trim& •siwitabols. ele strong. mato rain. 1 Oni.-B.W. to N.W. and W.S.W. to N., trod Li, strong to IZlOdarste. B. Rogiiind.—.3.W. to N.W., LW. to N.N.W. fresh, Bon. Wong to moderato, showery. WLLXAaoN._ I.—naromiller earreolod sad tily - orarte et den. it mean sea level ; each le feet, of vertical tyi, eatudag 'boat me-hundred* at an Melt dishantios ; and men Le abovvre deg., raa{ag nearly threonnadredthe Innaaaaal..--liapoeed thermometer In dada. 14—Yeeetesed Ws (tor evaporation mad dew point). D.--larectlon of wind (inn—twe pointe Wt of al& eatto). E—lares (I to b—bibsbed). C.—(.load (1 to 9)...L laltisli blue ab : a eleada (detached) ; I, fog: 12. Mil: I. Pim) ;o, overeast (dull) : rain: mow I. thwarter. rars4all, or wow, or MU, bass last report, In incase and decimals. ll.—lierdisierbenoe 11 to 11). " The North Riding election," says the Leeds Mercury, " will now be • fair party fight. °spina Worsley will no longer be a canes el weakness or division on either ale, haring yesterday, at Scarborough, formally announced his retiretaeot from the contest. Mr. Iffilbeak and Mr. Maria included Scarborough in their tour yesterday, and addressed separate meetings of electors then. Mr. xa. bank's reception was again most cordial, and so far both his tour and canvass give promise of 'ocean." The Independence Beige states that Sergeant- Major Soiohot, of the 7th Light Infantry, representative of the people in the last French Republican Assembly, now occupies the grade of colonel in the Federal army ci the United States. _ _ ---- "We regret to learn," says the Malta Times of the 27th ult., "that en midget occurred yesterday to Mrs. Codrington, wile d Rear-Admiral Codlington. She we° starting for a rids, when her horse slipped at the corner ad Wads Levant°. She was much shaken, and severely cat and bruised by the fall. The injured lady was conveyed home, and prompt medical aid afforded. The horse was also meek cat." _ _ --- --- The Correspondence naliertne gives a few details concerning the explosion of a bomb before the theatre Sin Carlo, at Naples, on the 27th ult. The explosion was so strong as to break all the window-panes, and put out the gu in front of the playhouse, but it did no other harm. A national guard on duty, perceiving a fellow dressed in the uniform of an artilleryman alight from a cab with something apparently heavy in hie arms, wbkh he deposited on the ground • few moods before the explosioo, oonoeived some napicions which were strength. mud by the fact that the man was m aking: off. Meanwhile the explosion occurred, and the national guard fired at the fugitive, whom he wounded so severely as to prevent his escape, and afford the carbineers time to come up end arrest him. He was taken to the hospital. A new law on passports has just been presented to the Frani= Chamber of Deputies by Count Schwerin. It proposes to abolish the obligation of being furnished with a passport for the interior as well as for abroad, bet the right of obtaining one, if the traveller wishes it, is maintained. --- Tess VOLIMTMIA Bins COBTOME.—WhiIst some volunteer reps am discussing the question as to what weed be the best esker for the new undorm, the Mallamshire Bides have taken action and decided to substitute • scarlet fir ther ent grey tunic. We are assured by the Mel- Jlahl / that the new tunic is really very hand that the change meets with great favour from the welanteere. " The cloth of the new tunic," rys our orkerporary, "is of the same kind as that worn by the Onmmie, and is therefore of excellent quality. The tunic her purple facing of precisely the same kind es those warn by the 56th nt. The collar and cuffs are de. canted with silver em • • and, which is • new feature In volunteer, if not in regular iiniform—the shoulderknote are of silver lace. The snake of the new tunic is admirable, and, superior as is the quality of the tunic, the cost will not exceed Ala., which is greatly has than the cost of the per wet grey tunic" THE CuNxiD &won Scom.—This splendid specimen of naval architecture strived in the Mersey yea terday from the Clyde, where she has been built. The Scotia is the largest mar now in the Cunard fleet, and expeated to be the swiftest of the transatlantic mall 111111111111111 She left the Clyde at ten minutes per 12 OD Wednesday eight, and accomplished the distance to the Bell buoy spinet the tide in 12 hours and four minutes. During the purge her machinery worked admirably. So well does she answer her helm that on her arrival in the Moray she was turned round in her own length ; and to re a phrase more expreesiv• than elegant. she is " as stiff ea a church," a sign that her construction is thoroughly orthodox. The Soria will be commanded by Captain J ud. kink the commodore of the Cunard fleet, and it WAY under hie ere that the vessel was brought round from the ciy4e. A LIVANTRR. —Reader ' have you ever been in a real Levanter No darkness, no rain, no long Atlantic Andes of billows, but short, quick, high waves rushing hither and thither, blue as the southern sky, flecked with veins of foam, sod tossing their snowy manes and meets meat high into the air, while the Egyptian sun shines down from the deep cloudle ss sky as calmly over all the turmoils' the Sphinx over the battle of the Pyramids. It is an ama zing sight 1 I rood once gazing at it bewildered, and aryl few moments thrown down by the tremendous shocks of the aide wares, which rattled the great ship like a child's 1 0 y2 and drench:3 the deck in foam. Yet so entranced was 1 with the glory and the beauty of the scene, I could not go away. We were riling to Alexandria, and already soma towers on the coast had been bailed as landmarks, when down came over the sr this wild hurricane , the true " Stortnrind Eurrilydon r and away it bore us, far off from sight of Egypt, half a hundred leagues, away towards the shores of Crete. The whole day long it blew, and when the night cause on. the tem pest grew weer, crash after crash resounded on all rides, and it seemed as if no work of human hands could beer such aseaulta as the wild waves were making on ear vessel from stem to stern larboard and starboard. 1 wto voyaging alone to the Itast ju rtermined to see sib, and Jenks and Myrna before I ; and woman ea 1 was, to make my way aloe. if so pleasant company offered. Sa it came to pass that while the gale was blowing so fiercely, I was lying alone on the floor of my cabin, rejoicing who I could keep my head from being knocked spinal the rides Presently, in the midlle of the night, an American lab with whom I had only exchanged a few courteous words, came tottering into the little den, and sank down on the mime matinee opposite me. " I came to see how poen getting oe." It was a kindly thought ; and so we lay lag that strangenlght, talking of death, which seemed knock• log at our doors, and of all those things in the infinite Beyond of which man pins a clearer sight when the hire of life are loosened. And se it came to pass tbat when that night was over, and we set foot at last upon the shored of Egypt, that brave good woman and 1 were oe User strangers, but friends, and as friends we lived together for many days. In all my reedleetioes of Egypt she takes • pert, together with her kind husband and dear little chill. who brought childhood and playfulness with us even to the dour of the Pyramids.—lwraser's Magazine for March.