The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-17 00:00:00

rir - 1.011 , ^OW - - THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 18612:' IN T tits NATI 0 N • L ZXHI B I TI ON. he hint at some shadowy and portentous treaty ski as ialAWil asont ri cea cgrril a 071 " sxat 6bilia" BITION 111 ar i a& lIIM between Austria and England, whisk, with a IPIWW EVisi NUTON law the Listens Dasw). Prise, a adman NW to contingencies in the East, shield eistabliah mime sunssee& The letter eatities the owner hs an Wwwilite to use Gomm er ia• Rawl nerneelearal Soddy, ' sort of common action in Italy between the Cabi lailadleg the newer slows POW on rweimealm nets of London and Vienna. The object of these Cease for Ala[ the Versa Takata oral be obtained at La la. 01.001$11. va smelt ridiculous rumours has obviously been to weaken B..Sialre• =thatstat.b."ltr.lttitiomdZlNdt"litwa:, English " influence " in Italy, as if England S 1 ". allem ea r t rsit-dvic "' len, "W ahl ' 10 i' J* " cared to exercise any other influence in the Penin- M.. sane caseif* crass Cheques or Cavalry all bs reseleaL sale than that of disinterested counsels and un arms lishets may mho be obtained at TM lead Berlieettarel Swirly, Swat [eminent. W. selfish sympathies. Were • a Tory government in Swill Levingess Mamma, W . power at the present moment it is beyond a doubt The lbsciety ad Arta, John strra Adripht W C. errant Palace Ticket Office, 2. Lilacs" sin. Strand, W.C. that Lord MaLattalltiaY would already have Matt awan's Ticket ore,-, St. Jon.'''. ha, AA Plecadilly, W. lillsitiTs LISTat7,ES. Chapel wino.. Brierare-squata. ~w. aged to persuade all the Cabinets in Europe th at 14osodo Library. I, At. Jamm's dent, S.W. he should regard the downfall of the Temporal Watertee's Laney, [ n i g htaleidge. S.W. LW" Pon awl Co . a iteyal Exchange, LC. Power as a " revolutionary" proceeding which Lath. Protege, and to., SE, Chesyside, E.C. could not expect the concurrence of England. J. 4 dela]. Sa bon.l street, W. IL W. Meier, 19, Old Bond stn.-et, W. After the words that fell from Mr. GLADSTONE W. W. Marsha* Si, idewareroad, near Marble Arch, W Crust bode, and Wood, eel, Regent-street, W . W. sad Lord PALMERSTON in the House of Commons Chappell and Co.. t 9. New coed-'treat, W. it will hardly be in the power of the Pays or the She. and Co. , T. 7, Southampton-row, Rusaellequare, W.C. J. Roberts. 2, AnOwlia-row, Pimlico. S.W. Pat rte to pretend that the continued violation of smith and Son, news agent& ISt Strand, W.C., and the Boob Mails at Illas principal Railway Stations, the principle of non-intervention at Rome is even tacitly acquiesced in by the Liberal Ministers of England. We trust that the outspoken voice of the British Parliament will lend no ineffectual aid to the great national party in Italy, who claim for their country the simple right to possess itself in HARILONIIIMIL-NSW MODIL. MAIM MALL anti WUO IN. liagoi4treal Elie (Fromm ro COLVISPOINDINITIL ,dverttegneste Intended for "Ztil" landon Everting Piper, meg M M atm dem ftgwegiedeses, by Iwo o cbct es the gieg d gubiglegeg. Cbt Court. ILLTIUZEM. OSBORNE, Aram 16. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice and Priem Arthox, drove oat yesterday. Lieutesent-Coloael Da Plat atAmalld oa horseback. on moron, JOIN J 0 deib erilll.-01711. e. =MCA:4 COUSIN. Nlesera. Sees,_ll. Mir sod Rowe Yews, Yraser.—TEl RAIL Of ANDALVSI A Peres Nous sadissor TUSILNIPS OUOST. rtt~wcter4 Pt sArritrAT, Tel OCII)Elf DAllenia.lin Treater. .141.-oton, (I. Jordan, Potato. J. G. IhsehOsedss. Car. Mart. and Moreland . Meadazaaa Wads% Mawarliti. awl Carlotta Loden., —Commence at spark" W IL Despatches were received yaulawity at the Colonisl-odiee from the governors of the Narth MaarWs provinces mad Bermuda. Deepatches Inn soot to the Lord High Com missioner of the looks bleak mad to the governors of the West India lamas and Midi Columbia. the bishops. The only rational way of interfering with them in France is to hold them strictly and equitably to obedience to the law. At'Rome, if the Emperor were to abandon his noxious protec tion of the temporal power, they could do no harm to France. I have seen a private letter from Naples, which speaks of an extraordinary movement among the Muratists there. Placards are stuck up at night bearing the inscription, " Viva Joachim Murat," "Napoli et Murat," "I battagli di Murat." IThe Murat party, as you well know, is perfectly insignificant in Naples, but these placards emanate from paid agents, and show that the pretender is still on the watch to take advantage of and pro mote a catastrophe. The Bourse has about lost the ground it gained yesterday. The Rents fell 20c. both for cash and I account, closing in each caws at 70fr. 40c. Mobilier fell fife. The Italian Loan was without change. The Orleans and Western railways rose 2fr. 50c. each ; and Eastern, lfr. 25c. ; the other lines were from lir. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. lower. LL BT INTELLIGENCE MO MEXICAN EXPEDITION. The Paris papers of to-day publish % despatch, dated the 3rd ult., from Mr. Seward, Foreign Minister of the United States, addressed to the re presentatives of the Union abroad, making known the opinions of the Federal government relative to , the affairs of Mexico. While sooepting the deals- I ration of the expeditionary powers, that they in tend to reserve the absolute independence of the Mexicans, the American government be lieve it their duty to disabuse the minds of those who are disposed to counsel the, establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Mexico. The American Secretary endeavours to prove that a monarch, especially one of foreign, origin, could not count upon a solid throne in Merle. He shows that the European powers would have not only to found this monarchy, bat constantly to maintain it. Such an intervention, he argues, would be a permanent menace alike for the Mexicans and for all the inhabitants of the American continent who live iu a republic. Mr. Seward observes that, in the opinion of the president of the government which ho represents, the emancipation of the American oontinent from European control has been the principal feature of the last half century, and that a revolution in a contrary sense has no chance of success. 11 M. de Lesseps has arrived in Paris from Suez, and of course brings flourishing news of the pro- gress of the canal. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M. P. , arrived this morn ing from London, and alighted at the Hotel Mirabeau, Rue de la Pau- Giraud de Gatebourse was convicted yesterday gf the forgeries of Bank of France notes, and sen tenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life. WIKATRZR ItSPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THURSDAY, APUL 1; II a.r. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. As the day approaches for opening the Exhibition, and the arrangements for the ceremonial, after many changes, seem to be at last finally settled, the question of whether Thursday, the Ist of May, is to be a metropolitan holiday naturally presents itself. The appointment of the extra royal com mission for the opening appeared in yesterday's Gazette, and the Corporation of London, with many distinguished individuals and bodies, are daily signifying their determination to be present at the ceremonial by purchasing season tickets. The pub lic interest in the undertaking hourly increases as the work of preparation draws near a conclusion, and the paragraphs and articles which have been appearing for several months past in the foreign papers have already bad the effect of seuding a vast number of foreigners to London. The seventeen or eighteeu thousand foreign exhibitors have a great attractive power over their friends and countrymen— and even the two thousand distant colonial exhi bitors are not without a following. The select bend of English exhibitors (with a few exceptions) are doing their best to represent their country worthily at the industrial congress of nations, and if reason ably liberal railway prices are put forward during the summer, our provincial visitors will be as numerous as the increase of population, railroads, and exhibition attractions warrants us in expecting. In 1851, the let of May was kept as a gestial holiday, and it was estimated that at least a million persons collected outside the Crystal Palace. The industrial gathering then was so far a novelty, that many worthy persons regarded it with dread ; and the police and army were concentrated in and about London as if in expectation of a civil war. No one—not even the few obstructive(' amongst the commissioners of 1851— is bold enough to declare that the first exhibition was final, and not to be surpassed, or that arts, manufactures, and commerce have stood still for the last eleven years. Without begrudging Captain Fowke one penny of the money he has fairly earned, we are all pretty well agreed that the building is not as happy in conception as it might have been ; but, setting the cage on one side, there can be little doubt that the bird will be rare, valuable, and interesting. The invitations that have gone out to all the world in the name of her Majesty's commissioners have been promptly and heartily responded to, and the twenty thousand foreign and colonial exhibitors who have sent their goods from every corner of the globe are certainly entitled to that English mark of respect which is conveyed through the medium of a public holiday. England is undoubtedly t he hardest worked nation in the world, and London is most probably the hardest-worked city in England, and as international exhibitions only come once in ten or eleven years, there is no good economical reason why theyshould not be welcomed cheerfully. Year after year passes by, and nothing breaks fue l round of ceaseless labour but Good Friday and Christmas Day ; and without advocating that happy state of idleness which exists in cities where daily newspapers come out calmly in the afternoon after being quietly edited in the morning, we think that the toiling, perspiring, Anglo-Saxon, would be none the worse for a few more holidays. In this country we are governed by precedents in almost every action of life, and the treatment of interna tional exhibitions should form no exception. What was done in 1851 should be repeated to the letter in 1882—improved upon if possible—in which case there will be no business transacted on the Ist of May which is not absolutely necessary and unavoid able. The Commissioners have been joked about their latest official publication, in which they state in substance that the quality of the dress which each visitor wears will regulate the quality of the seat which he will receive on the day of opening. This new order of merit which they seem bent upon founding must be very pleasing to tailors, and it will certainly add to the effect of the picture on the Ist of May. The ladies will, of course, belput in the front ; and let us hope that the day will be fine and that their costume will be as gay as a flower-show in the Horticultural-gardens. Crinoline is a new invention since 1851 ; it will cause a loss of many hundreds of pounds sterling to the commissioners in the space which it will rob them of during the exhibition, and it ought, there fore, to lend a grace to the approaching ceremony. There is no authority in the report that any ladies will be required to appear in mourning. They may appear in ordinary morning dress with bonnets. The refreshment rooms are now nearly finished —thanks to the energy and remonatrances of both English and foreign contractors—and in a few days the two great rival schools of cooking will be open in the building. Messieurs Veillard and Co. have for some weeks been supplying their hungry customers with diners d la caste on the French side ; and Messrs. Morrish and Co. have been anxiously waiting to do tho same ou the English side. The refreshment arrangements seem to be very liberally planned, and the contractors promise to carry them out with spirit, although they have had endless difficulties thrown in their way by architects and builders. The hanging in the English picture gallery is now nearly completed, and the work inthe foreign gallery is getting well forward. The sculpture seems to be either very backward in coming in, or in being placed, and this part of the show will certainly not be fully ready by the day of opening. Many of the works, being heavy and valuable, have to be moved with great care, and we do not envy Mr. Oldfield, his task or his responsibility. he I lIIIITANSIA. Ten EVILITIIO. A OLAND CONCEIT. Moira. L Ilershall, aeloran. Yorde, Painda, Weed sad Soo. Plumping, , Mesdames Yearve and Lase. DOVILX-HANDED DILL. —Aad TH.I LOOK OUT AND THE ILIACUL —Costume s 4 Si. HIGH_ W4TIR at LONDUF . 'LIDO& Twts 31111;27.7.AiletTioW: 3h. 67m. To-roaaaW —Nana* 41i ..... Menlo .% 414. 46ri. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 17. Au. roads, we know, lead to Rome, and if the debate of last Friday is to be cited ea an example, all roads, it would seem, lead from Rome. It was Rome that had sent forth from Ireland the forlorn hope of the Papal party to confound in one common anathema all the authors and abettors of the liberation of Italy, and it was to Rome that a— the friends of the unity and independence of Italy pointed as the source of all the troubles and calamities which afflict the Southern Provinces, under the auspices of the Emperor of the FRENCH. It is in Rome that all the conspira cies for the overthrow of Italian liberty find their natural centre and focus. As Protestants, we may call the fatality providential which has brought the Roman Court to such a pass, that it is resolved to conquer or to perish with the billions& Had the advisers of Plus IX. been more chary of connecting the cause of the Papacy with the cancelled rights of legitimate misrule, and prepared to stand or fall as a Sovereignty of wore than earthly pretensiona, it is not improbable that some part of the Temporal Power might have been saved by timely concessions, and that the religious sympathies of Italy, if not of the whole Catholic world, might once more have rallied to a throne from which only benedictions had descended. But, thanks to the perverse blindness which has dark ened the councils of the Vatican, and made the Head of the Church a victim to the rancour and intrigues of his advisers, and a prey to his own pusillanimity and passion, the Temporal Power has become so fatally identified wish un relenting hostility to national independence, and even to modern civilization, that before the Bouitwis brigandage is suppressed and Austria cast o it is felt that Rome must be the capital of Its, and that the Pura must cease to be a King. Or, should it please the Emperor Napo- LroN to daily for ever between justice and convenience, and to affect to reconcile light with darkness, the path of Italy, which already skirts the confines of schism, lies clear and broad towards complete abjuration. So much for that confusion of the spiritual and the temporal which to fervent Romanists in free countries appears indispensable to political salvation. All this, however, as Mr. MONCKTOX MILNER reminded tho House on Friday night, is a question between the Catholics of Italy and the Catholics of the rest of the world. Catholic malcontents from Ireland, who desert the banners under which the battle of their own emancipation was fought, to avenge the downfall of a Government of all others the most hostile to the emancipation of the Italian people, are forsooth indignant that liberal English statesmen should desire the same liberty for Italian Catholics which they desired and obtained for Catholic Irishmen. How will M. Da 310NTALEMBERT and his school charac terize the Catholic " Liberals " who use the freedom they enjoy at home to vilify a Catholic nation contending for its freedom? These excitable Papal members, it is true, are loud in their enthusiasm for Poland, not so much because Poland is oppressed as because the oppressor of Poland is schismatic. It is thus that adherence to the Temporal Power as a political dogma turns honest sympathies awry, and exposes to de rision the very idea of " liberal Catholicism." The time has been when Catholics and Protestants fought the battles of political and religious liberty side by side, but that was before Irish treason. mongers who claim for themselves the right of in surrection against a free and merciful Government, had deified the most abandoned tyrannies beyond the Alps. It was before ultramontane principles and a divided allegiance had almost justified the apprehensions of the Tory statesmen of fifty years ago. un the whole the debate of last Friday is one to which Englishmen of all creeds and parties whose judgment is unembarrassed by faction or fanal.i cism may look back with pride and satisfaction. On no previous occasion have the united sympa thies of the British people and Government for the freedom, happiness, and unity of Italy received a nobler or an ampler expression. All the malig nant storiesthathave flitted about in legitimist and Papal cliques for the last six months were sum moned to the light of day and stripped bare. The Papal advocates put their worst thoughts into the worst words; and so glaring were the incinsisten cies, so flagrant the contradictions into which their informers had betrayed them at every turn, that they were fain, at last, to appeal to the testi mony of speakers of their own persuasion in the " enslaved Parliament "at Turin for evidence in support of their assertions. The tone of the speakers on the Liberal aide was authoritative, unreserved, and temperate throughout, as far from idle declamation as f affected reticence. Tiled.- chirations of Mr. LA Y A Klo, of Mr. GLA DIMON; and of Lord PA ticrosruir on the subject of the French occupation at Home leave no room for mis representation of the motives and principles of the British Government. It los been a frequent and h k ilish device of the French 8912i-Official journsis AUSTRIA AND ENGLAND. Lord Palmerston's speech upon Italian affairs has produced nowhere a more profound sensation than at Vienna. The Austrian journals have lately assured their readers that England was quite in accord with Italy upon Italian matters, and had even signified to the cabinet of Turin that any attempt against Venetia would be considered by England a trios beUi. Hence the speech of the Premier on Friday has been a source of astonish ment as well as offence. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Under the head of " Lateet Intelligence," La Prose says : " Numerous arrests have taken place at Corfu, by order of the governor." La Patric says : " We learn by a private despatch, dated Corfu, 12th, that, consequent upon the reply of the Lord High Commissioner to the deputation of the lonian Parliament, various partisans of the union of the lonian Islands to Greece have been arrested, and will be confined to the Island of Cerigo, by order of the English authorities, who accuse them of an attempt at agitation." (astrrsal TILOGRAIOI.) ADDRESS OF THANKS TO LORD PALMER STON FROM THE INHABITANTS OF FOGGIA. _____ __ TURIN, Aram 17. A committee elected by the inhabitants of Foggia, and presided over by the prefect, has resolved upon sending an address to Lord Palmerston, thanking him for the words which he spoke in the Howe of Commons during the recent discussion on Italian affairs, and praying his lordship, in the interests of Italy, to continue in the same sentiments. General Fanti has been entrusted with the com wand of the military department of Tuscany. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ana 17. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Mooltan, with the heavy portion of the above mails. arrived off the Needles at 12.45 p.m. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, April 17 : TEE BOMBAY MAIL. The Valetta, with the above mail, arrived at Marseilles at 6 a.m. this day. The mail was to leave for London at 10 a.m. , LL IL D. SQL R.B. -- -.- ---.-- - Nun. Lussfill Lura - 2 11aaftwf - 1 ALDWAISLII 14.4 1, 46 41 W.N.W.Ur 0.44 6 7082101111 11421: MI U W.O. W. b - 1 GALWAT - lamas . - eoossoootoo . E WPC 44 of W.N.W.b - IISLIGoLAND LIVIInvOI. . - quissorrowl SAS 61 67 LW. b - vAuirrui TALIIOO4II - Lo7DON UM 67 48 N.W. lr an - Dorms UN U 411 W.LW o - 1 roarfrouts US IS 47 N.W. U 607 4 POICTLIJID 111.14 41 4 W.N.W.Ir 0.07 4 Pirmoutz mouton Juan MIN 44 If 7 LW. Or 0.041 X 71.1D4y . . N. BRlTAli.arti. to N.W., strong to moderate, tome rain. LLIILAND.—As next above. SAMMY. W. 10 N. and N.E., trash. W.O.W. to N.N.W., fresh to moderate. As out above. VerrRA.—W.R.W. to N.N.W., fresh. L COMM —S.W. CO N. W., fresh, W. to N. and to N.N.Z., mode- One. rate to freak L ENGIAXI).-B.W. to N.N.W., W.B. W. to N.N.W., fresh to Arms to moderate, some moderate. showers. EXPLANATION. B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to $ &iwi! sp, level ; each IS fest, of vertical rim, causing about onoltundredtb an inch diminution , and each 10 deg., above fig deg., causing nearly three-hundredths incream. Z.—Upend thermometer in shade. M.—Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Direction of wind true—two points WI of mag netic). F.—Force ,I to It—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 toe). I.— Initials b, blue sty: c, clouds k delached): t, fog; h, hail lightning: m misty (ham) ;o, overcast (dull) r, rain :s. snow: t, thunder. 1. rain-fall, or snow, or hail. since last report, in inches and decimals. L—Ssa-diaterbance (1 to 9). Z.—Calm. An exhibition of works of art and industry is to be opened, at three o'clock in the afternoon, on Wednesday next, at the Romsey Town-hall, in aid of the funds of the Roomy Reading Society and Bonney volunteer corps. Lord Palmerston has promised to be present. Mgr. de Mdrode, Minister of Arms in the cabinet of the Pope, has addressed a letter to the Marquis of Nor mally contradicting certain statements made by Earl Rowell when speaking of Italy in the House of Lords on the 27th February last. The document appears in the Onion, and is published without any date. " The Duchess of Parma, with her family," says the 014 Destacke Post, " has left Vienna, after a its, of only two days, for Venice, where the Duke of Modena and t►e Greed Duke of Tuscany intend to hold a conference at Easter." " Two engineers," says the Trieste Gazette, " are about to leave Vienna for America, to examine the Monitor and Merrimac and tho fortifications of the coasts. The committee on the navy, under the presidency of Count Rechberg, has in the meantime adjourned." The Economiste Belge says :—" There is some question of convoking an International Congress for the purpose of considering the propriety of henceforth placing non-fortified towns under the protection of international law. Should such a project be realised, Londe), Liver pool, Havre, Rotterdam, and Hamburg would be secure from the dangers of war; whilst Antwerp, as a fortified town, whether iron-plated or not, would be more than ever devoted to destruction." " Baron de Rothschild," says a letter from Vienna, "gave, on Sunday last, a grand dinner, at which were present the Duke of Gramont, Ambassador of France ; Lord Bloomfield, the English Ambassador ; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count de ReAberg; the Minister of Finance, M. de ?Ismer ; and Prince Esterhuy." Garibaldi dined the other day at the Palace Cairoli, in Pavia, with about fifty friends. After dinner ' proposed a toast—" To the Italian martyrs." Madame Cairoli sat beside him. Madame Cairoli was a widow, and had five sons. When the Italian war broke out she de spatched them all to fight as volunteers. Three died upon the field of battle. The fourth received • wound in the head, which leaves him an invalid for life. The fifth, one of the most eloquent deputies in the Italian parliament, received wounds in the breast, arms, and legs, so that he has to walk with crutches, and cannot nee his left arm. Perhaps, when Garibaldi proposed his toast to the Italian martyrs, he had not quite remembered by whose side he sat. All at once he turned to her and then he saw that Madame Cairoli was pale as a corpse and in tears. A sob broke from Garibaldi; he seized the band of the suffering and bereaved Italian mother, pressed it to his lips, and EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PION 005 OWN 001318PONDINT.) PLUS, WIONZSDAY Evncuco. The Mouikur having announced that the Empe ror has no thought, "at present," of going either to England, Prussia, or elsewhere abroad, the ob sequious Pays hastens to say that the rumours of his Majesty's visit to the London Exhibition, "which the Afeeiteur now denies," originated with the English journals. This is not so. A telegram was sent from Toulon and printed in every journal in Paris, before it appeared in London,which stated that six men-of-war were ordered to Cherbourg to form part of the fleet which was to escort the Em peror and Empress to England. This news re mained for several days unchallenged, and, more -1 over, the contradiction came at last from Toulon. This is a curious illustration of the fact, of which many striking instances could be furnished, that "false news "—notwithstanding the special laws invented to punish it—is more common in France than in England, and that when promulgated it remains longer without being set right. There will be some disappointment in England at the iutimation in the Moniteur t which, however, does not state positively that the Emperor will not go to the Exhibition, but only that the visit is not unable to control his feelings suddenly left the room. included in any present arrangements. It seems to Madame George Sand dined on Monday with be as uncertain when he is going to England as Prince Napoleon. when his troops are coming away from Rome. Per- In the United States there are 31,800 miles of ha ps there may be some correlation between the German F railway, 711 1 7 1° - L a' ris Kingd*m ?ta u t:en ,tfl/ 50 . in a il l Ai i a n , two events. Judging from the tone of the semi- 3,165; Prairie, 3,162; Canada, 1,826 LBpain, 1,460; Fest official journals, Lord Palmerston's plain speaking :at"; 1 " ; e g al . 7 6. 1 i 3 . 1 , 5° 5 ,j 0 R T 1 . . 1, 1 1 ; 8 !r um . 9 : 8 ! on the Roman question has caused some irritation Denmark, 262; kypt. 204; Chili, 196- Victoria.' 183; at the Tuileries. New Brunswick, 1 75; New South Wales, 125; Braiß, 111 ; I em told that M. de Lavalette advised the Em- Nova Scotia, 99 ; Portugal, 80; Turkey, 80 ; Norway, 63; Rome, 50; Peru, 50;New Grenada, 50 ; Cape of Good upwards . a a :3o, mile; e that i of peror to enforce his prohibition against the journey Hope, 28 ; Mexico, 20; . and Palmy, 8. rile cost of 000 of the French bishops to Rome, and informed him I j 'iench sad Bogli mtd States ZaryagilwmayasboutB, positively that it was the Pope's intention, under In the United Killeen) the railway companies own 200704 the pretence of canonising the martyrs of , locomotives, carriages, and waggons ; and convey nearly Japan, to hold an (ecumenical council, th e i 200 goo(ooo(inooothepleliveerfs,thaen: nearly 100,000,000 sons of ear. importance of which would be much enhanced by I Awalicsit AND CANADIAN MAIL DESPATCHIA— , the presence of the French prelates. It is certain Yesterday the Inman steamer City of Waahlagtor was di. edi t die d s := & L e i d y.= for New Y ef ork pe with ge maila n for together that, in spite of the note inserted in the Moniteur , some time back, no obstacle will now be put in the I with cargo, &a. To-day the Quebec end M ' ontr;al t- 7,0,.. way of their leaving France, and many people tax : Mail s teamer mail.with a t N h o e r ft Canadian caDarsiilljosiateldfrosille Mersey 101 the Emperor with culpable weakness in allowing Saturday the Cuotrd Royal Mail steamer American will be for Boston with the North himself to be set at defiance by them. But the i e lP:t h : d en f 7'l . %t a l t r lly truth is, that if they are determined to go he cannot A CUBIOUS Berrxe.—A fight of more than ordi stop them without the exercise of personal violence, ' nar y . interest took place on the bank of the canal near Kid which would be very undesirable. It would never ; i t 2 . 1 y, i a n few dilisolg°' A along eat, making t her do to arrest a bishop as he was stepping on to a attacked by an otter of no !mall dimensions,e°' was as in an instant tossed into the middle of the steamer from the Marseilles quay. Besides, there w hd is no doubt that if but a single French bishop sat in rut 'for and her the ll, in an fi ! ht* ge n tial fw ele t m h e e nt. " Bat the council at Rome, he would have powers to eery soon they were observed by some sailors and shippers, ea witnessehe st.age ro ce o the e we nce n . ° ° Ei co th n er ten ko w m ho t h hli at lea md r t o 7 represent all the rest of the nitramontanists by procuration. I hear that the Bishop of Orleans the men, or of its formidable antagonist, the otter relin has already 47 episcopal proxies in his pocket, and si ee ish ni ed . itL o ho b ld, en d poor sratlations. pun But e p L e lan: i ll: t d aai i ids &g t hearty t if it were possible to suppose him detained as a with the laurels she u had won in the first contest, went out prisoner in his palace, these would easily be trans- r i ll the to t llowing dsy, a sal set:sag er : i t se e z iee ttea) . lj gio u re a - , ferred to somebody else. These facts show, what attacked m t e he cat m o ' n land. The contest became very severe, was pretty evident from the first to anyone who but ultimately the otter was glad to regain its watery thought about it, that it was not a wise course to m en tal,. an e d ery lea eo ve m u e ss ra ti y e I vtor a t e h es e ee sec t ig t d 4 l e ti & m i e t , h w e it e h e tu a t attempt to interfere with the personal liberty of formals tea—Avows Herald. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. The cub-committee of the food for the Albert Memorial met yesterday at the Mansion•honse ; the Right Hon. the LORD MATOR in the chair. It waa reported that the total amount received was about 46,6604, of which about 1,426/. had been received since the but meeting, including 2001., which wee received in the course of yesterday. Mr. Goodman, hos. aseretery, read a commuoioation from Mr. J. B. Dasent, Judge of the Shoreditch County Court, informing the committeethat be, together with some other gentlemen connected with the court, had made a subscription, and he intended also to do the manse at the County Court at Bow. The committee ex- pressed their eatisfactioe, and hoped the judges of other county courts would follow so good an example. A satis factory letter from the Oriental Bank was read, informing the committee that they were acting conjoiutly with the Agra Bank in India in collecting contributions for the food. The Loup Maros, in reply to a question by Mr. Greg sou, said of late doubts had been entertained whether the block of granite in the quarry belonging to the Dube of Argyll in the island of Mull, upon which the attention of ►er Majesty's Committee of Advice had for some time been cioneentrakd, would answer am to grandeur the purpose of • theenehthic obelisk in perpetuating the Prince's memory. Drawing. of the stone carefully prepared had recently been Lid before the committee by the chairman of the Moll Granite Company, from which it appeared that although it was about 115 feet in length, yet it nods• hied in places very considerably, so much so that when lines came to be drawn along it, SOON of those indentations were within the lines, thus de tracting from its aptitude for the purpose in view. The company had been at some expense in uncovering it as it lay, and although perhaps its precise character and dimen sions could only be satisfactorily ascertained by degrees in the proems of quarrying, still the defects in its breadth in places to which he bad alluded lad induced the committee to pains before incurring greeter expense in a work which might after all prove abortive. The Lord Mayor added be was afraid the great memo! the people of this country bed yet to be educated, so to speak, into a thorough appreciation of the grandeur and appropriateness of the obelisk, and especially • monolithic obelisk for monumental purposes. T bare were some who appeared to regard the setting up a huge stone for such a purpose as simply sym bollard of a barbarous age. With great respect for the opinions of others, he could not help saying he altogether dissented from such reasoning ; besides, it was not until the Egyptians had reached the highest point in their cultiva. Moo of art that obsilisks became conspicuous features in their style of architecture ; and he thought it would have been • glorious thirg for England. where a monolithic obelisk, worthy the name, was utterly unknown, to have made this the occasion for erecting one of imposing grandeur. The Duehema of Sotontayor has arrived at Maurigy'a Hotal from Blackburn. _ _ Thu 111arquia and Marchionem of Douegall will leave Creamier-square early next week for Brighton.. The Earl and bountesa of Craven are entertaining a select party at Ashdown' Perk. Arnonpt the company are Sir Robert Brow origg, Sir Frederick Johnstone, Hoe. Frederick Craven, Mr. George Johnstone, Mr. Percy Doyle, the Misses Oswald, kr. The Foal mad Countess Antherat will entertain a select party at their wt, Kneels Park, daring the The Counter , / Fitzwilliam gave birth to a eon at Wentworth Woodhouse ow Ssindey last. The Countess of Fife's evening party, announced for Saturday beak is usavridably postponed• Lord and Lady Harry Vane have left Grosvenor plats for their seat at Battle, for the holidays. Lord ani Lady Harriet Ashley leave town on Monday for Brighton, for the Easter recess. Viscount Nevill, eldest son of the Earl of Abe:- gavel:toy, has been visiting the family estates in tokberrow parish during the past week. His lordship is the tint of the family that has ever visited these estates, al though they have been in their possession for more than 300 years. The Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, accompanied by Mn. Pigott and his daughters, left town on Friday lut for Government Hostas, Douglas. His ex cellency had been detained in England some weeks from indisposition. - Mr. Wakley, the coroner, has written from Madeira to state that be hopes in a few weeks to be sofa eieatly restored to health to rehire to MiddWei sod re_ sums his official duties. the total amount of subscriptions to the lAMB testimonial to Apro 15 is 4,2221. 10a. 6d. The presentation will take place at Freemasons Hall, ow Thursday, May S. The Cork Examiner says :—" We regret to state that a telegram has been received here announcing the cir cumstance of Miss Itatcliff, daughter of Sir John Hatelift, having been burned to death at her father's seat in England. The caultrophe was occasioned by her reading in bed, and the CAWBO setting fire to the bed-curtains. The deceased young lady, who is said to have been endowed with great . . . wu slater of Li. beauty and remarkable David Leahy Arthur, of this elty." The Crown Solicitorship of Cork has been con ferred epos Mr. Philip O'Connell. The celebrated Yelverton cane is likely to occupy the Dublin Court of Common Pleas this term, probably after the E titer holidays. Mre. Yelverton's legal advisers have filed notice of a motion to amend the bill of excep tions taken after the trial. If leave be granted, the effect will be to somewhat simplify the case, by expunging from the bill all the exceptions relating to the Scotch marriage, leaving the validity of the ceremony performed by Father Mooney, at kostrevor, the only subject for consideration. A large 'umber of Dublin o4bopkeepers have been lately mooned upon by three fashionably-dreamed men who arrived a few days since from Holyhead, sod contrived to pass a large number of forged notes, purporting to be of the National Bank of Scotland They decamped after pur chasing a considerable quantity of jewellery, but were yeetenlay arrested by the constabulary in Cork. The Mr* Freeman states that at the "quarter sessions of Kilrnah, this week, the chairman of the county felt it necessary publicly from the bench to denounce the fearful extent to which perjury had been committed by a number of the parties to the various civil bills which we» heard before him." This is not the first time, it adds, that his worship has bi 4 mum to deplore Use prevalence of this crime. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Ana 16. Quizzes Cousas.—The Rev. L. P. B. Dykes, one of the Senior Fellows, has announced by written notice on the chapel door, that the election of a Provost, in the room of the Right Rev. William Thomson, 1).D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, will take place on Thurs day, the Bth of May. We understand the election is con fined to the actual Fellows on the old and consolidated foundations. THE WEAVERS' STRIKE AT CHORLEY. —The strike amongst the operative weavers at Chorley still 'con noun, and the probabilities in favour of a speedy settle ment or a protracted contest are now shout equal On Monday afternoon, a large meeting of operatives, adjourned from Saturday, was held in Pearson's Assembly-room. The room wasdensely crowded, end it was some time before a moderate degree of order could be obtained. The pro priety of again adjourning fora week was discussed at some length, but ultimately • small majority decided in favour of a settlement of the question at that meeting. The meet ing was convened for the purpose of taking the vote in favour or otherwise of resuming work upon the masters' terms. A resolution, to the effect that meetings should be held by the operatives of each mill, and that deputations be appointed at these meetings to wait upon them respective employers and arrange upon the best terms they could get, was submitted, and, although a majority voted against the resolution, the arrangements for holding shop meetings were made. The decisions arrived at at these meetings, however, were conflicting, an some of the shops agreed to request their employers to open their mills, whilst others refused to accept the terms that were offered to them. Consequently, the millowoen refuse toopen their mills until there is a general resumption of work in each mill. The alterations in prices, we understand, will more seriously affect the wages of the operatives employed upon 80030 sorts of cloth than those employed upon other kinds; hence the diversity of feeling among the operatives. Lit tle prospect is held out to the operatives at these meetings with regard to any means of support in the case of a pro tracted strike. THE DISTRESS IN Loren:m& —The expenditure of the Wigan relit/ committee for the past week is again in exams of the preMing week, the total amount having risen from 2081. to 2191. At the meeting of the sub-committee there were oo fewer than 74 new applications, and at a second there were over 70, with a corresponding increase in each of the other wards. Some additional payments have been made to the relief fund since our last report, and the sum in the bank and to be collected will amount to between 7001. and 8001. As this will only last two or three weeks at the present rate of expenditure, a deputation from the committee has waited upon the board of guardians to inquire whether the board could not takes number of the MIN off the books of the committee. If the guardians were to relieve all they had power to relieve, and the cons mines were to take the remainder, the funds would mot be exhausted for • month or two. This suggestion was ac. quiesced in by the board, and arrangements are making for transferring • large number of oases to the books of the re lieviog officers. The guardians have decided to meet twice • week to take these cases. At the meeting of the com mittee last week, it was agreed to reduce the amount paid it wages to the men employed on the different streets of the town from Is 6d. to Is. 3d. per day. When this alte ration was made known to the men, they struck work ; but, representations being made to them of the folly of their conduct, they returned to their employment. DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN BOLBOTN. Shortly before five yesterday] afternoon consider able excitement was co:mimed in Holborn in consequence of an explosion, which, it is famed, will prove fatal to three or four labouring men. For some days past the employie of the City Ges Works have been engsged in the above named thoroughfare in taking tip the old pipes and laying down new once, and at the time of the unfortunate occur rence the men were at work near Little Turnstile. From what we were able to glean it seems that one of the men wee in the act of opening the earth with his pickaxe, whilst others near him were employed in " filling in" and " ming down." The former, having accomplished his task, called to his " mate" to see if all was right, and, accordingly a piece of tow wee procured, and lighted, in order to asoertain whether such was the ease, and which, on being applied below the surface, resulted in the accident. The explosion was terrific, resembling the report of artillery guns. Two lengths of pipe, each measuring about 12 feet, and more than 2i inches in thickness, were shattered and blown in all directions, one large piece being forced rote. pletaly over the house tops into Lincoln's-inn-fields. The windows in the shop front of Mr. W. Muller, artist-colour man, No. 62, High Holborn, as well as those in the upper part of the house, were vary much broken, and the premises belonging to Messrs. Warr, printers' stationers, next door, were also mash damaged. One of the labourers was forted up and fell into the middle of the carriage-way, and re. ceived internal injuries of • serious nature ; another of the unftertunat• men had both his legs absolutely tore from him; a third had him face and jaw frightfully mutilated, the chin being left hanging by a portion of skin ; whilst the fourth was most terribly injured both internally and ex ternally. The sufferers were at once conveyed to King's College Hospital, where every attention,was afforded them; but on application last evening we were informed that but little hopes were entertained of either of them living till the morning. LATEST PAB.TIOULABS.—(THES DAY.) Upon inquiry at King's College Hospital this morning, it was stated that the three men lying there so dreadfully in. ir c ed rei lz the above explosion, viz., Morley, Bexley, and were still alive, though it was not thought probable Norway and Hawley could survive the shock. Mores) has had both hie legs amputated while under the influence of ehlesolcem ; but both he and Hawley, who had part of his jaw shattered and his right arm fractured, are in • very us state. A fourth man, named Dooley, whose izrr were comparatively slight, left the hospital this morning. It would appear from inquiry that the cause of the &mi. dent is attributed to a leakage in the pipe, owing to its worn and rotten state, and the gas escaping therefrom came into contact with the fire used for melting the lead, and ignited. The shops and houses in the imme. diate vicinity of the explosion suffered severely— especially that belonging to Mr. Warr, the stationer, at the corner of Featherstone-buildings, immediately opposite to which the explosion occurred. The windows in the house from the third floor to the cellar were that tared in pieces, and the shop front and its contents coat pletely destroyed, large pieces of stone pavement being vio lently pushed through it. The windows in the shops of Hr. Coates, hatter, and Mr. Muller, artiste' colour were also destroyed, and damage done to several of the neighbouria6o a booms. At an early hoar this morning • workmen were sent down by the London Gas mpany terepair the damage done, and at once set to work in putting in the glass and window frames. It is a fortunate circumstance that, although the accident took place at an hour when the thoroughfare is always crowded with passengers, no injuries were received by any of them, although some extraordinary escapes oecarred. The piece.' of iron piping and stone pavement flew about in all directions ; but one person only was struck by them —a lady, named Fisher, while walking on the opposite side of the way ; but she did suffer any serious in carry, The damage to Mr. Warr's shop and dock is each that be has been oompelled to remove his business, mid carry it on at • house in Featherstone-buildings until the damage is repaired. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT DUDLEY. At the Dudley pettFsessions, yesterday, before j Bennett and Chptain Pletcher, Thomas Read, a ( sir a erl t -town quack doctor, was charged with shooting a man, named Oliver Newsy, with intent to murder. Polios-constable Dement stated that be was on duty at Bates.bill at three o'clock yesterday man. lug. He was tailed to the house of Noway, who was suffering from • wound in the left band. He went to the house of the prisoner, whom he found in bed. He charged him with shooting at Oliver Newsy, and doing him serious injury. Prisoner said "I did, and there are the pistols," pointing to • braes of pistols on • chest of drawers. Witness, upon examining the pistols, found one loaded and the other recently dis charged. Prisoner afterwards said, "I meant to shoot the —; 'lope it has gone through him." He also told the dicer that, after he had shot Newsy, he went into the street with the loaded pistol, and walked up and down for half an hour, with the intention of shooting the first man he met. Witness then took the prisoner to the police-station. Upon examining the prisoner's pro misee, witness found two bullet holes in the entry door, and two bullets about two yards higher up. There was blood upon the outside of the entry door. A medical certificate was put in, stating that Newsy hail a bullet wound through his Idt band, and would be unable to attend for • few days. The prisoner was remanded until Monday next. The only reason at present assigned for the commission of the act is that the prisoner had been chaffed by the wounded man and others. and be therefore determined to have his revenge. Some words wad between Newsy and the prisoner, oppo site the prisoner's house, and the prisoner set his dog on Newsy, but the dog refusing to bite, prisoner said, " @hoot you." He then went into his house and fetched his pistols, and shot at Newey, who was at the bottom of the entry, and the bullet took effect in the left band. Prisoner was intoxicated at the time of the occurrence. DEATH OF MR. BRANDT, COUNTY COURT JUDGE. —We regret to announce the death of Mr. Robert Brandt, the highly respected judge of the Manchester County Court, which took place on Tuesday evening at a quarter to eight o'clock, at his residence in Pendleton. Mr. Brandt, who was in his 66th year, has been su ff ering a good deal during the last few years from gout, and latterly from water on the chest, which last disease proved fatal. He was the KO of a Manchester merchant, carrying on business in Morley street, Manchester, and was called to the bar in lel Before his appointment of county court judge he was for many years one of the Commissioners in Beoluuptcy, sad Judge of the Bury Court of Bequests. BUICIDZ IN • RAILWAY TUNNEL.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Missing, • draper, for many years residing at Tranquil - vale, Blackheath, left the London-bridge railway station by • down-train on the North Kent line, and when in the tunnel, between Blackheath and Chariton, committed suicide by shouting himself with a pistol. The deceased had taken • ticket for Blackheath station, but proceeded further down the line, evidently with the intention of do gelling himself when the train arrived in the tunneL THE FEARFUL CATASTROPHE AT BURTON.—FOUL Most DRATFIe.—On Tuesday night two more deaths or curved, one in the hospital and one at Prieatfield ; and yew terday the body of a missing man was found in the canal at the works, and wearer man died in the hospital. There are now therefore 23 persons lying dead from injuries re ceived by the explosion, and there is reason to fear that before this account appears in print certainly another life will have been sacrificed by the same accident. The injured person who is not expected to recover is a woman who at the time of the explosion was engaged in washing "breezes" outside the works. The few other persons injured are expected to recover. Three are in this condition in the hospital. Mr. Rose is in • position to contribute only the COOIIIII which will be rr quired for the deceased. Some iron and cal masters, who are aware of this, are, through the Rev. Mr. Richards, the vicar of Ettingshell , t aking steps to mho a small fund out of which some relief could be afforded to the dependents of the deceased and the sufferers. Yesterday the inquest was opened before Mr. W. M. Phillips, coroner, at the King's Arms, Bilden. A number of witnesses having been examined, the Dmiry was adjourned for a week. EATH THROUGH F.XeRSSIVE DRINKING.—Yeater . day morning an inquest was held at the London Hospital, by Mr. Humphreys, touching the death of Philip Fitz patrick, aged 22, who expired on Thursday last from the effects of drinking off at a draught a pint of neat rum , under the following circumstances:—Francis Clarke said that he was in the Two Brewers public-house, Challenge street, last Wednesday, and he saw deceased, who Wel • friscd of his, speaking to a young woman with whom he had been keepiug company for some time previous. They appe ared o to have made up a quarrel , and deceased was in high sp ins. They bad been drinking some half-and-half, but he was quad sober. The young woman ordered a pint of rum, witness supposed to treat the company, but the moment it was laid on the bar deceased took it up, and saying he would driok to her health OA it had been drank before, drank off the whole without once taking the measure from his lips. Ha changed countenance, instantly staggered backward, sod sat down. He became insensible in lees than five minutes. He only spoke, after drinking the rum, to ask for a pipe, but of earn it was not given to him. He was conveyed in a cab to the hospital, where he died in two or three hours. De' ceased was not • man of drunken habits. The jury returned the following verdict : " That deceased died from the effects caused by drinking a pint of neat rum at a draught." CRIDUISTY AND IMPOSITION.—At the Liverpool Police-court _ yesterday, • singular case was invest-10 0 a before Mr. Raffles th e stipeudiary magistrate. Mar! Gattent described by the detectives as a " usveldlog dodger, wee ohareed with obtaining V. 4s, 6d. from a youug girl named Susan Fox, stssistant in • cigar shop in the Brunswick-mad, by the following means :—lle ',Timmer some time last year sold the proascutrix a " r id "„ riqz and during lest mouth some earrings and other' jewelled, and after the sale had been effected she called upon Mss Fox and wished her to give them up, or give money for them, maybes they had been stolen by her (the prisoner Miss Fox proteetiog that the theft had nothing to do wi her, the prisoner aid it would be a very serious matter for her, and that she would be put in prison as the receiver of stolen property. This statement so worked upon Miss For that she was induced to give various sums to the above amount, hut upon the woman again calling and offing threats about imprisonment, she was handed over to the police. The accomplice of the prisoner has not been spew heeded, but the prisoner herself war sent for trial.