The Express. — London, England, 1864-05-27 00:00:00

ivoßrrn and ZLMBILL'S One Guinea and Two Order YIELD 6LL98115 sad 121.19001.111 an ent reated as nstivalled for power sad bey/limey. Us. sad 425. In ease complata-1, liattos-orden. LC.: N. Corabin. LC.: 1 22 . Zsgent-etreek W.: 181. newt street : and Crystal Paso*. 1 what Happy Lead can I see you after the Opors r I eddy know of out "Happy Land" in which a gentleman may sup—IVANSIS, Covent-garden, my dear fellow I Che enoreiSL iLdamelipsommdm latimd tar " mi" lamas Wiry Paper mama Do ma ttr ediala Wawa oa She day at yarbitmatima. " ‘ Illweriediesk HA YMA RKET. TIM SMOG, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Was Asp& DAVID GARRICIL Messrs. Bothers. Bockatoottehlttoeuctste, ; Meetteesse Baoledoo, FlizollthnL—VßELlS s AIMIKIL Min i ig.—Aill MR& WMITR. PILLOW& TEM 'Mow. THE OLD STORT.—THE ICAL BROTHERS. Lamm Vining and Wait Lacy. — AM BOLL TO GOOD LLICIL Mr. Dominick llonsy. LYCFUII. TlllB ETlnnms, HAILLer teds7a Fochtar. J. Brow Ern, mss, Jordan, Ne Ting Ch ltillS. %Platys% Morton, kaymiond, EforoMad, Cbltor I, Edmonds, Widdicamb, sad awn , lames KIM Term Rearsds, sad lasworthy. -Commons at 8. lIIITANNI/L The IMO" LaStIDTO THE HEM —ZOE BOY. ](aster Percy Roselle and Mimes C. at. Came tad looti—Wlllt Tent Parts of THE LEFT-HANDED MA WAGS. Yrs MAIM sad THE 03.1.11" <moor I.IIISCT.-.Comiseso• At Se. MOH WATER, AT LONDON =IDOL Nl6 DAT Morn*" lb. VAL ....Afterimas. Ni. LOA. TalloaBoll Mania& 6L. IDA ....ANIMIO4Ie. 7 / 1 . DNA LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 27. Tures was a debate on foreign affairs in each House last night--oniDenmark in the Lords, and on Poland in the Commons. Why noble lords and hon. members will raise these discussions it is not easy to discern, evident as it is that the opinion of Parliament has no influence on the course of events. Take Mr. Pore-Hmemisv's motion on Poland, which has been hanging over the Howl of Commons we are afraid to say how long. Sup pose all that it affirms is true, that the negotiations of our Government with that of Russia respecting Poland have not terminated in a satisfactory man ner, and so on—what then t The insurrection is crushed out, the fighting men have been shot, and their brothers and cousins uprooted from the soil of Poland to be transplanted to Siberia. Mr. Has army's motion has been held over, according to usage and intention, until it could not exercise the slightest influence on the policy of the country. The House understood last night that it was a mere form : it listened to the hon. member while he recited the familiar history of Russian oppression ; it also heard Lord Patairasrme's explanation of the value of the " diplomatic and political proteo " tion " afforded to the Poles by the Treaty of Vienna ; and then without a division it wisely went to business and talked about the Civil Ser vice Estimates. The Lords had an advantage in discussing • sub ject still of living interest:—Are the Prussians violating the conditions of the armistice by levying war contributions in Jutland I Well, perhaps they are, but what then I Lord ELLENBOROUGH felt the futility of the inquiry, for he soon left it to discuss more pregnant topics—the influence of England abroad, the grounds of the national policy, sad the political influence of the Crown— topics which are everywhere in people's mouths. Lord ELLEN•OROCOH blames the Government for not remembering that the strength of diplomacy resides altogether in the force by which it is supported, and declares that the hope that mere moral opinion ran produce any effect is an idle dream. But if the Government has made that mistake, it has done so in company with the whole nation. That delusion has led vs far on in • foolish path, but it is one we shall not soon fall into again. There is reason to expect that we shall for some time see a great deal of high-handed iniquity in Europe, and what we h►ve all got to learn is that when we are not permitted to interfere actively it is better for ourselves and for the world that we should go on husbanding our resources, improving the condition of our people, and generally minding our own business, than rush hither and thither lecturing this unheeding bully and asking that overbearing ruffian to do us the favour to sit with us in Confe rence. We must learn to overcome our fear of that old bugbear " isolation," and learn that our position may not only be more dignified but politically safer when we bold ourselves aloof from the fellowship and the transactions of con querors. THE conventional ides of an English manufac turing town shapes itself into stifling avenues, warehouses closely packed together, ugly factories, tall chimneys, smoke, and general dingyness. No novelist would be praised for truthfulness who ven tured to depict such a town in glowing tints; yet although the beautiful can hardly be said to reign in places like Sheffield, nor even in Manchester, any more than bright skies belong to Bolton or Wigan, there are seats of manufacture--especially in Yorkshire—the first view of which very much modifies the preconceptions of the stranger. Huddersfield is one of them. The visitor de scends from the steps of its handsome railway station into a square of some architectural bes ity, composed chiefly of rather floridly ornamented warehouses, built of white stone. He cannot find a narrow thoroughfare in the whole town, and, turn his eyes whither he will, the surrounding hills are seen to bound the perspective of almost eves] street, picturesquely receding behind one anotherto the very horizon. To the sense of the political economist Huddersfield proclaims its own pro sperity very distinctly, while the number of well kept open spaces, the broad rows of spacious, highly-glazed retail shops, the widely detached suburban villas, suggest to tlie territorial mind a general easiness in the matter of ground rents, and a fair inference that landlord and tenants must be on excellent terms with each other. Alas I the report of Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Sruzirr's judgment in the cause of " Thornton verpts Ramsden," which appeared in our impres sion of yesterday, completely reverses the latter in ference. The land upon which the flourishing town stands ia the sole property of Sir Joni WIL LIAM R.MBDIrv, and, instead of the peace, har mony, and goodwill which the pleadings show to bare reigned between that wealthy young baronet, his predecessors, and their tenants from time immemorial, legal warfare to the very knife has succeeded, in spite of efforts on both sides to preserve harmony. The whole case presents a salient instance of the facilities which the law gives for setting honest people by the ears. _ - The ordinary tenure appears to be of that easy character known as tenancy at will, varied in some instances by renewable leases. The original can didate came to the agent, had a little conversation with him, put in a few stakes to indicate the boundaries of the ground he wished to rent, and by that means acquired for himself--secure in the impeached honour of the RAMSDIN family— a tenancy almost equal to freehold. Upon such a tenure a great part of the important town of Huddersfield has been gradually built, at a coat to the tenant. of something short of one million of money. Such a state of thinpimi one aide and That men—Yorkshire ing thousands of pounds be subject to the will of I they can place a fine ,faitt r the above the caution and shrewdness that the world gives them credit for. But the responsibility on the other side seems to hays been too weighty for the trustees of the estate during its present incum bent's minority ; and an Act of Parliament was framed in 1844, satisfactory at the time to all parties, giving power to complete agree ments for leases then unfinished, and to grant new leases on certain conditions. A dis pute in the family of one of the tenants, which took place after Sir Joint RANZDEN had attained his majority, revealed certain defects in the Act of 1844 as likely to affect the good understanding which always existed, and a new Act was paned in 1859. This Act, as appears from the pleadings, was asked for by the tenants' themselves, and was passed under the supervision of a committee appointed by them, amidst special expressions of thanks to their landlord for the liberality and fairness with which he had met their wishes. Thus far all was peace and harmony. In this happy state of affairs, unfortunately, when landlord and tenantry were morally shaking hands with one another a cry was got up that this act of the tenants' own seeking placed every one of them in the hollow of their landlord's hand; indig nation meetings were held, and the whole commu nity set in a ferment. A tenant named Tiloareren I bad applied for a lease, had been offered one for 99 years under the Act of 1859, but refused it, in misting upon one for sixty years, renewable every twenty years for ever on payment of certain fines. This, it appears, the landlord was advised could not—with true regard to the nice technicalities of the law—be granted to him ; and to try the question an action for eject ment was brought, resulting in the Chancery suit begun in Vice-Chancellor STUART'S Court. Where it will end ft is difficult to state, the present judg ment manifestly leaving the case in greater con fusion than it found it. The local bearings of the case can be no concern of the koblic journalist out of the locality. It can only be improved as a text for a wholesome sermon on the manner in which law can be employed to produce discord. THE VOLUNTZIR Estrum To-moasow.—We are requested to state that no one will be allowed to enter the enclosure that will be railed off in Hyde park, on the occasion of the Volunteer Review to-morrow, except offiores in uniform and persons provided with ticket& Officers in uniform will not have the privileged bringing with them friends who are not provided with tickets. Tickets will be distributed by the officers commanding the volunteer corps which are to be reviewed, and will also be sent to members of both Houses of Parliament, and to public departments. We are also requested to state that the permission given in the general order, dated the 25th May, to her Majesty's lieute nants of counties to enter the inclosure in Hyde park does not extend to deputy-lieutenants. Laumrsrao.—The "declaration of the Duchy of Lauenburg,” mentioned in one of Mr. Reuter's telegrams, has not been sanctioned by the Estates or Par lia ment of that Duchy, but proeeeds from a so-called Lauenburg Association, a private society, and virtually a branch of the National Verein. CONYIRSAZIONY OF Tin ROYAL RORTICLLIVILAL Socierv.—Yeeterday evening his Grace the Duke of Bac. el each inaugurated hie presidency of the Royal Horticultural Society with • brilliant courergaziont in the grand conser vatory of the gardens. which was brilliantly illuminated for the occasion. It would be impartible to imagine • more novel and ohm .ning spectacle than the interior present. I with its crystal roof, bamboos Italian galleries and alcoves, and the wonderful collection of rare exotics, the varied colours of which told with double effect udder the artificial light. It bad been feared that the delicate and valuable plants and flowers with which the cosiervatory is filled would be Nand by therm, but by great care in the venti lation and • novel mode of ,illumination it ia hoped that thie beautiful sad singular reception room may be safely rendered available for many similar re-unioov. The are no lighte near the flowers, but a bri”:- • t ..tutee of jets rune a/' round the base of the roof, and the whole are lighted up instantaneously by a very insignias' proems, which excites much interest sod curiosity amongst the visitors. A cosset tens along an iron bar in • line with the perforated us pipe, and this being worked on pulley, from below, elides rapidly along, followed by a stream of light, until in a few seconds, and as if by magic, the whale moray° is illuminated. The jets are so small sad so high up, and the interior below is se well ventilated, that it is ermfidently hoped the plants and flowers will not receive the slightest injury. The Duke of Bo:clench, misted by Sir Wentworth Ddke and the other members of the council, received the visitors is the antral resat* near which • military band wee stationed, and performed a selecticie of music in the in tervals of the reception. The company continued to strive rapidly up to eleven o'clock, at which time there must hays been several hushed porous present. The verdict was unanimous in favour of the unique beauty of the whole scene, and the admirable fine of the conservatory u a gorgeous and picturesque ceembly room. The en-royal family of France had been expected, but the near approith of the marriage of the Count de Paris was supposed to account for their abuses. ROYAL &CU' TOR THZ PREVI3I/70N OF CIWIELTT to Amara.—The instal /DaSCISig of the shove society was befit yestardayat Pa. Jaime's-hall. The Earl of Harrow by presided ; sad after • few obmrvatiope on the importmeoe to the community as well si to brute creatures of this insti tution, the secretary reedthe report, the leading features of which are as follows :—After antics/icing the siovisi tioa to the council of his Imperial Hiatuses. Prince Louis Lucien Bonsperte, and the efforts which have been made to obtain an enactment in Italy for the protection of animals, it is stated that during the past year promising bunches hive been established at Leicester, York. Healing, :hes ter, and Chatham. They sanoanced that they were abuut to offer • premium of 501. for an ems against Vivisection in Engliati. and 1,000 flame for similar one is the French lupine which they hop* se) continue the agitatioa velvet that practice which they have histiiiited. During the past year they have prose cuted upwards of 1,000 offenders to conviction, and had sustained only dismissals. The officers had per formed duty in eights's. comities, besides atteediag fairs and visitiog the canal teaks, and io addition to the Lor• doe suburban districts and the general metropolitan duty. At the Copenhagee market tour officers constantly attend. Some of the disuses punished were of • most horrible oberacter, and many were too disguatiog to be desetited in detail. In various parts of the country lectors had been delivered oa kindness to animals and schools had been visited for the purpose of ircoloating the principles of this society twos children • while many ser mons had been preached in 'favour of its ob jects. The committee are about to propose • plea for giving reweils to permits whose uniform good treatment of animals may merit some mark of dis tioctioa. They imamate • premium of 501. offered foe an improved vermin trap, which shall supersede the teethed steel trap now in use, and, at therm* time, be taissareless. Upwards of 200 models bed been received, sad were as that occasion on view, but oo adjudication had yet taken place. They report a teem:able decisioe by Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, in the Court of Chancery, in favour of • legacy left to the society of 10,0001., and which had been matestid by the residuary legatee ,• and should the decision not be reversed, the amount, at the death of a life tesent, will fall in their betide for the improvement of London slaughter houses. After enumerating a few dosetions sad legacies, the report concludes with an appeal for support, the cur rent expenditure baying greatly exceeded the lemma in the absence of which, it is stated, the operations of the society mast be seriously curtailed. THE CIRCASSIAN Ex tutt.—We are requested to anstounce that the following committee has beam formed for the porpoise of collecting sulacriptions m aid of the Cr. ousiaa exiles :—Presideut, Viscount Stratford de &Male's; the Marquis of Claaticerde, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Zetlasid, Vimonnt Strumford, Lord Homilies, the Lord Mayor, Lord Richard Grommor. M.P.. the Hoe. F Oalthorpa, M.P., the Hon. H. Stealey. the Hon. Arthur Ramat/A. M.P.; Sir Justin Shed. &CR.: fair Hairy Raw- Limo. K . C.8.; Mr. Deal* Seymour, M.P. ; Mr. Robert 'fishery, M.P.; Hr. Thomas Hughes, Mr. OrsorpSoyesoar, and Mr. Imunece Oliphant. SabraiStiles will be ramieed by Mears. Remotes, Bomar* sod Oa. 1, Pallmall Rest ; Marra Smith, Payne, sad Smith, 1, Lombard-street. sad Yearn. Hoare sad Co., Fteetatmet. THE E/CPRESS, FRIDAY 411141 g . • This le the it Queen' , her went the theirinome Upham and the Princess Helms. • Her Majesty, with the Princess Ldningsa, Princes Bekaa, Princess Heelriae, and Prima Leopold, drove to Birkhali. ad bone by &maw. Prinoass Louise and Prices Arthur accompanied the Queen on horseback. Lord Stanley at Alderley lilt the Oastle this morning. The Duke al Acrli arrived ea visit to the Queen.' The Prises of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, west to the railway dation atiCharlng-crome yeeterday morning to inset the Prince sad Primus Loses el Hose, who have arrived on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prime and Primer Louis ol Ares are attended by Mlle. de Gnaw aad Captain von Weeterweller: The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, rode oat on horseback. The Prime and Princes' of Wilts, with Lady Morton and Major Teesdale in waiting, attended Divine service at W.* minter Abbey in the afternoon The Prime and Prisons of Wales, and the Prince end Princes Loa of HOW, visited the Grand Duke and Grand Duchies of Ifeckbanberg &relit; at M. James's Palace. The Prises and Primers of Wales, accompanied by the Prince and Princess Louie of Hems, and attended by Lady Morton, Mdlls. de Grammy, Major Teesdale, and Captain von Weeterweller, went to the Italian Opera, Covent-garden, in the evening, Despatches were Nee 71104/Wdlly from the Colonia/4)Ba to the Governors of Malta, the Manririns, Ceylon, Hong Hoag, Litman, the Australian °elegies, Gibraltar, and Caned& TEE Panics AND PEIECESS OF WALES AT Ws:mammas ANEXT.—Yesterday afternoou their Royal Highnesses the Prises and Princess of Wales attended Divine service in Westminster Abbey, the Arthbehop of Canterbury brim undertaken to plead the muse of an ex. sullen t and well-managed society, the Clergy Orphan Asylum Corporation, which supports 148 boys and girls. The semi°, was held in the nave, mid 'thalami warn by ticket Long before the service began every part of the sable save was crowded, and many porous stood for between two and three hours. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess of Weles,who were attrdedby the Countess at Morton, Lieut.-Omura Bean and Major Teesdale, C. 8., arrived at Poets' Dosser at three o'clock, sod were received by the dean. The choir and clergy took their airs in the nave about 10 minutes put 3. The Prior and Princess were conducted to seats cm the dean's left hand, the Arch. bishop of Canteibury and the canons being on the right. Among the coogregation in the reserved seats were the Bishops of Lichfield. Rippe, sad Rochester. Prayer were charted by the Rev. B. F. JOON, and the lessons wore read by the very rev. the dean. The music performed was r follows :—Resposises, Tallia ; chant, J. Fester; service, Tule m D ; anthem, " Mired be Thou," Bent ; before the airmos, Psalm 119, v. 9, "Row shall the young preserve their way." The alto solo, " Thine, 0 Lord," in the anthem was excellaitly given by Mr. Busby, sad the treble solo, "Both riches and honour come of Thee," by a little boy named Tinley, with surprising strength of voice and grace. Mr. Turk presided at the organ. His grace the lord primate preached an excellent sermon from Jeremiah, chap. 49, v. 11, " Leave thy fatherless children, 1 will preserve them alive ; sod let thy widows trust in me." The collection amounted to 1641. After the service the dean accompanied their royal highnesses to the deanery, where light refreshments were served to a select party of about twenty persons. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Primes Louis of Besse joined the illustrious party at the deanery. About half-past 5 o'clock the royal carriages drove up to the deanery, sod their royal highnesses took most cordial leave of the Dean and Lady Augusta fitualey, and drove off am id the respectful salutations of the people. His Royal Highness the Duke o(Cambridge re ceived at dinner last orating at Gloucester House the Duke of Beaufort. the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Montrose, the Duke of Richmond, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Raglan, Lord Nue, Lord John Manners, Viscount Newport, Lord Claud Hamilton, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtoe, M.P., Colonel the Hoe. C. Forester, 0101111 Hall, the Right Hoe. B. Disraeli, Colocal Taylor, Colossi Stuck Colored Tyr whitt, Colonel Dawson Darner, he. . _ His Excellency the Ambassador of Franoe enter tained at dinner Let evening at the embassy, Albert-gate House, Prince Edward de la Toler d'Auvergse, the Deems de Moray, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis sad Marchioness of Bath, the Eel Cirsawille, Vermonter Jocelyn and the Bon. Misses Jocelyn (2), the Marquis sad Marchioness °adore, the Marquis Caumoat la Form, Count Mattis, Viseount sad Visecientese Coalmine, Viscount Beaumont, Viscount Moutramin, Viscountess Palmerston has binned cards of heal team for redoing parties to-morrow, the 28th lust, and on the of Jose. The Earl and Countess Russell received company at dinner last even* at their house at Cliesham.place. His Excellency Baron de Boost, his Excellency M. de Ba lsa, his Excellency M. de Biagi%lobsci, the Earl sad Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of Listowel, Lord and Lady Wociehouse, and Colonel Crichton Stuart were among the pasta. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe entertained at dinner last evening at their residence in Gresvesor.square the Doke and Duchess of Roxburgh*, the Marquis sad Muni/keels of Clanricarde, Viscount Castle. roe's, Viscount Sydney, Lord John Hay, Lady Gertrude Talbot, Sir Reba, and lady Emily Peel, ke. TLe Earl and Countess Stanhope entertained at dinner last *sago& at their residases is Groavassa,plaes, hie Enoslimey t►e 13evon Minister, the llarehlesese of Hy and Lady Marion Lofton, the Earl and Lady Contemn Grosvenor, the Earl Cowper, Lily Adet•ide Talbot, Lord Wentworth. Lord cad L.ly Wharnerffe, tad Mr. Geroge Sitwell. The Genitals Stanhope had a "area sad early' party after dinner. The Archbishop of Canterbury bad a diniser party yadorday evoking at Lambeth Palma. On Wednesday evening the Very Rev. the Dean of Wes. sitar sad lady Augurs Stanley entertained at dinner UN Goers= Fortelene, Sir John sad Miss Shaw Werra, the Hee. Beery Stanley, Mr. A. Mills, M.P., and Mvs. Mills ; Mr. J. G. sad the Hos. Mir Talbot, Mr. F. W. Gibbs, C. 8., Mr. and Mn. Thomas Hughes, Mr. Hoerr Baring, sod the Rev. Chancellor Vaughan, D.D. (vicar a Doncaster). and Mrs. Vaughan, who are on a visit at the deanery. There was a areal everting party later, at w►ich the Queen's Advocate sad Lady Phillboore, Lord Threw', Lady Hobart, do., wen presat. Their Royal Highnessee the Duke and Duchess its Chartres will give a grand ball on Monday night at their residettoe at Haut, to celebrate the wedding of the Count de Paris, which will take place on that day. His Royal Highness the Count de Paris has taken York Rouse, adjoining the church at Twickenham (formerly rented by the late Earl of Lonadsie), for a term of veers. A large novel rof workuses an reamed pre paring the home for the oount's ocemetioe. Last night the Mayor of Cambridge (H. H. Harris, Esq.) gave a bell and supper at the Callahan, to about 200 gentle, including members of the univenity and the principal families of the town mad neighbourhood. At a special meeting of the council of the York Reform Association, held oo Tuesday, the following tees. Intim we. unanimously adopted : " Resolvsd—Tbat the best thanks of this council be presented to the Right Hon. W. E. Gl►dstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, for ►u support of Mr. Babies's Borough Franchise Bill, and his able and eloquent advocacy of the representative rights of the working classes." The Right Hon. Lind Lyttelton will preside at a meeting of the friends and supporters of the National Emigration Society, 44, Charieg-cross, to be bald at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, MI Tuesday next, at 4 o'clock. The Council of the Society of Arts have ar ranged far a Conversasioas at the South Kenaingtos Museum nu Thursday eresieg, the 16th June. Mr. Shepherd, who for nearly forty years has occapiad the ono, of °manor of the West Riding Howe of Correction at Wakefield, has resigeed la company* of fading health and the daily increasing responsilxlitiao of the positka. The magistrates, yesterday, whilst reesiajae the Tirlgadion, recorded their regret that the Riding was about to loss " one of the moot valuable public servants" it war had, aid referred to the vioiting justices the onsideratioa of the queatioa of a retiring pumice to Kr. Hhep►erd. A Nrw LtrissoAT.—A benevolent lady has given a now lifeboat, the station of which is to be at the east of the harbour of Poole, in Demme. i 0, MAY 2' INTELLIGIE. • AMERICA. (asurza's TZLIKIZAM.). (Par the Scotia viA Creolchaysa.) NEW YORK, MAT 18, Mourn( No general engagement has occurred in Virginia sines the 12th. The reported abandonment of Spottaylvania Court Howe by General Lee is untrue. Both armies cor.front each other at Spottsyl van* Lee holding a strong position north of the court House. Heavy rains bare prevented far ther military operations. An impression gains ground that General Grant's looses are larger, and the present condi tion of hie army less favourable than was pre viously supposed. Reinforcements are being hurried forward to Grant. Southern papers state that all the damage done by the Fedxrals to Lee's communications has been repaired. The Confederates have attacked General Butler before Drury's Bluff, iu front and in rear, inflicting considerable loss and compelling him to retire to his lines. The Confederates have also defeated General Sigel at Newmarket, capturing five guns. Re retreated across the Shenandoah in good order to Strasburg, with the loss of 650 men. General Sherman has occupied Dalton and Re ams, General Johnstone retreating towards Atlanta hotly pursued by the Fedora's. Two days' fighting occurred at Roam A portion of General Banks's army has been compelled to march ovealand to the Mississippi River, fighting its way out. A forged proclamation was issued this morning announcing a call by President Lincoln for 400,000 men, and declaring Grant's campaign closed. The publication of the document caused intense though temporary excitement. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW 'YORK. MAT 18,1 f owns°. Money easy. Gold 82 premium. Stocks firm and advancing. New York Central, 138 i ; 1331; Brie, 115 k. TELEGRAM OF THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT. (From the Saved Edition el the risme NEW YORK, MAT 17. tip to 8 a.m. on Monday there had been no fur ther engagement or movement of importance by either Grant or Lce. Lee's reported crossing of the river Po, on Thurs day night, is contradicted—his centre and left still maintain their positions in front of Spottsylrania Court-house. On the 13th inst. Meade announced to the Federal troops that they had captured 18 cannon, 22 colours, and 8,0C3 prisoners ; but that their work was not yet over, and exhorted them to renewed courage and fortitude. Heavy rain; on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday have prevented Grant from advancing ; but it is be lieved that, in reality, he has been compelled to await the arrival of reinforcements. From 50,000 are asserted to have been rent. General Sheridan penetrated to the outer line of the Richmond defences where he was attacked by Stuart's cavalry, and driven into Butlees lines at Turkey Island Bend, on James River, with the loss of upwards of 1,000 men kill^d, woundcd, and mis sing. He reports, under date the 9th, having de atroyed portions of the Fredericksburg and the Virginia Central Railways, and a large quantity of rolling stock and stores. Confederate despatches of the 11th announce that the Virginia Central Railway bad been restored to running order. General Butler reports sharp skirmishing,and the occupation of WOW unimportant Confederate works in rear of Fort Darling, by Baldy Smith's and Gilmore's forces, on the 14th. General Beauregard, on the 11th instant, made a detour to the west of the Petersburg and Rich mond Railway, marching in the direction of Rich mond, and is believed to have joined Lee. Secretary Stanton published despatches from Sherman, which state that, by a flank movement against Resaca, he compelled Johnston to evacu ate Dalton on Friday night. An engagement be tween the armies of those generals ensued on the following day, which wu continued on Sunday. Sherman admits a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded. At midnight Johnston's forces evacuated Realms, retiring towards Rome. Sherman is reported to be pursuing. MAY 18, 11 A.L. Despatches from Grant's army to noon yester day, report considerable skirmishing on Monday afternoon and night. The lines of both armies re main unchanged. Official despatches from Butler stated that on Monday, during a thick fog, the Confederates sur prised Baldy Smith's forces, and drove them from their position in great confusion and with heavy loss. The Federate subsequently rallied, and the Confederates returned to their defences. Butler was also attacked at the same time, and forced to retire to his entrenchments, near James River. The defeat of Sigel, reported on Saturday last, was premature. On Sunday be was attacked at Newmarket, in Shenandoah Valley, by Breckin ridge, and driven to Strasburg, with loss of nearly 1,000 men and five cannon. The steamer Fulton, from Port Royal, reports a general engagement in progress between Admiral Dahlgren's fleet and Confederate batteries in Charles ton, including Sumter, on 16th. Some of this morning's papers publish a procla m►tion, purporting to be issued by President Lin coln on the 17th inst., which, after presenting the military situation in a most gloomy light, and ap pointing the 26th inst. for fasting and prayer, con cludes by calling for 400,000 fresh troops, for whom a peremptory draught is to be made immediately after the 15th proximo, if not furnished by that time by volunteering. It wail ascertained in the course of the morning that the document was a forgery. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold fluctuated yesterday between 174 and 174, and closed 177 i. It opened this morning 180, and at one time, owing to a belief in the Pre sident's proclamation, rose u high as 184 ; at 11 o'clock it stands 183. Government Sizes, registered, 1881, 114} ; five twenties, Coupons, 1061 ; seven-thirties, 112 i. New York Central Railway, 1341 ; Eries, 151 ; Illinois Central, 133. Cotton closed yesterday, 90i; breadstuff' im proved ; provisionsdull ; sugars inactive ; coffee firm. (sitrrsas TIELIGILMIL ) PRUSSIA AND THE PRINCE OF AUGUSTENBIJRG. BSRLDT, HAT 27. The Speiser:Ole Zeihtng of to-day says :—" Wo are informed that the Prwwian government will exert its utmost influence to support the candida ture of the Prince of Augustenburg to the throne of Sleswig.Holstein, and the complete separation of the Duchies from Denmark." [ll4 TURIN. MAT 27. The National Baak has reduced its rate of die• nit to 8 per ITALY. to (vat OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 27. The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen, sailing benoe this afternoon for New York with the English, French, and German mails , takes out 189 saloon passengers, jewellery from Havre value 7,3001., and a large cargo, of which 300 tons were shipped at this port, including a large quantity of French silks. Despatches for the United States will be received on board the Bremen until 2 p.m to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE DANO-GERMAN CONFLICT. (nom ous OWN common:ism) PARIS. TermsAT Mum. The Pays, the most official of the evening journals, says it is enabled this evening, from "per sonal information," to describe the present state of the conflict. A firs - t and MIAI2 point is agreed upon by England, Sweden, Prussia, Germany, and France. That point is that it is absolutely necessary to establish a natural and de finite frontier line between Germany and Denmark, all territory on one side of which shall be exclu sively Danish, and all on the other side exclu sively German. That frontier line should be the Dannewerk. The whole of Holstein and the southern part of Sleswig would be de tached from Denmark altogether, and become part of Germany. But as to the new organisation of these territories to be henceforth moulded into one, there is considerable divergency of opinion among the powers. France has made no proposal whatever ; but the moment it is admitted that Holstein and the southern portion of Sleswig must be detached from Denmark, she declares that in her opinion the populations must be consulted as to their wishes ; it is for the populations to say whe ther they prefer to form a distinct and independent state under (for example) the sovereignty of the Duke of Augustenburg, or whether they would be reunited to Prusria. Prussia entirely shares the sentiments of France, declaring that she has no personal pretensions, but refers entirely to the will of the populations. Sweden ranges herself on the aide of France and Prosaic England prefers that the task of disposing of the territories detached from Denmark should devolve upon the conference. ' She is willing, however, not that the populations should be consulted, but that the choice of the new sovereign should be left to the states of the two provinces. The Diet claims for itself the privilege which England demands for the conference. M. de Beust will, no doubt, ultimately be instructed to urge this claim ; but there is reason to believe that the majority of the plenipotentiaries will send the Diet and the conference dos d dos, and that the great struggle sill be between the system of a vote by the populations and that of a choice by the states. Denmark, as • matter of course, is opposed to this combination. Russia does not exactly defend Denmark, but she says that if the treaty of London is to be abandoned, she will confine herself to supporting the rights which, in default of King Chris tian IX., she pretends to have over a potion of the disputed territories. As to Austria, her atti tude forcibly calls to mind the famous lines of Francis I. upon woman : I _ Souvoot ono Tor* Bien fol est qui s'y hi. The cabinet of Vienna appears to be with England to-day, but perhaps to-morrow she may be with Russia. Besides the difficulties suggested in the above article, there are others of considerable importance. Austria and Prussia will certainly endeavour to make Denmark pay a subsidy for the expenses of the war. They will also, in conjunction with the Germanic Diet, claim to have federal fortresses ►n the new territory. Rendaburg, in particular, they have set their hearts upon. The other powers in the conference will, however, oppose the creation of any new federal fortresses, and upon this point they will probably be unyielding. A vital question, and one which, according to all precedent, will govern the result of universal suffrage, supposing that panacea to be resorted to, is what troops will hold the country, and guard the ballot-boxes during the election. The Moniteur du Soir states that Sir Moses Montefiore's benevolent endeavours to ameliorate the position of the Jews is Morocco seem likely for the present to produce a contrary result. The liberal concessions which he obtained from the Sultan Abderame have greatly irritated the ktaboaretans in very many places, and "it is to be feared that, instead of founding the emancipation of the Israelites, they will lead to grave complica tions." News from Tangiers announces that regrettable scenes have occurred at Fez, Mequium, and other localities in the interior, and that a violent popular reaction threatens to break out against all the Jews in Morooco. The Moniteur du Soir says that the rumour of the Emperor having commuted the sentence of death upon La Pornn3erais must necessarily be erroneous, for the reason that the Court of Csas tion must pronounce upon the validity of the appeal befure the Erupero: can be conbulted upon an appli cation for a pardon. The Bourse continues firm. The rise of yester day is fully maintained, but there is no further advance to note. The Bank of Franca has lowered its discount from 7 to 6 per cent. A Berlin letter etatea that Meyerbeer in his will has indicated all the ansageeneste which are to he observed for the execution of the Alfricaine, which fa to be positively represented at the Grand Opera, Paris, bat under the title of Vasco di Geese. A Coburg letter gives some details of the mar riage, which lately took Oboe in the espial, of the Archduke Joseph with the Primer Clotilds of Saze-Cobarg, the Archbishop of Bamberg officiating. Is additioa to the misting Duke of Saxe-Coburg, there were present at the ceremony the Archduke Stephen of Austria, Priam Alfred of Enema. the Duke d'Aumale, the Priam and PADOSIS de Joiaville, the Doke de Peuthievre (son of the Priam de &e. The railway to Naples has made Rome a central city, and it will be still more a piece of transit when the Anomie and Tuscan lines are completed, so that travellers will be more and more urgent in their endeavours to over come the tiresome obstacles of the antiquated peeepart system. The Maremma line, hitherto only open from Leg horn to Folloaica, warn inaugurated is its whole length to the Roman frostier, sear Orbetello, on the 16th. Rome is now only deprived of direct railway communication with the north of Italy b► the fin sad twenty miles which inter vene between Civil& Vecchia and the Tuscan frostier. A letter received at Vienna from Rome says :-- ! " Mae, Romig° families of distinctioa, some of which have lived for a long time in the capital of catholicism. bars received directly from St. Petersburg, or from the Russian ambassador at Paris, advice to make a speedy change of re• sidearm. They ha,. hem give" to nodentaud that, after what has recently weaned, it would be in some Impede ioanveuintforperfectlyloyal Russians to remain at Rome. Two of these families baling to the Roman catholic faith, and have expreeced their resolution net to imeform be the foregoing advice, which, it is unneoemary to my, is Naive. lent to a positive order." LONDON DOCK CONRANY.—(THIS DAY.) A special meeting of the proprietors was hell at 1 o'clock, at the Lo adou Tavern, Yr C. J. If taxts,, io the chair, to comities the bill for the amalgamation of the company with the St. Katharine Docks Campaoy, o w e , the OM' of the " Loudon sad St. Katharine Dock Com. psay," and for the transfer to this amalgamated com tmy of the Victoria (London) Docks. The CHAIMIA2I, io moving the resolution apporim o f the bill, saH there would so doubt be some oppowitou io the House of Commons. Mr. Nash (a whereas's) who w,, present, could tell them more about that ma tt er than could. -- /E; Nana havieg been thus appuled to, said that Wets soar alteration were nude in the ulanae relating to the entr d y of bargee Into the d Commons. onk the bill would certainly oPresr.ee is the Howe of y to Mr. RHIMIGTON MILLS, The RAHMAN said the bill did not provide f , d , the levying of any charge on the barges, but simply that hu ge , should not be allowed to use the docks without • paw The resolution wee peened unamosoaely, and the pr logs terminated in the need reasuer. VICTORIA (LONDON) DOCK COMPARE (THIS DAY.) A special meeting was held at 1 o'clock, at ti t London TILVDTD, Mr. J. P. HITWOOD in the chair, under the Wharncliffe Standing Orders of the Houle of Lords, f or th e =of considering the bill for the amalgamation o f t h e sad st. Katharine Doak Companies, sod the tread, to the amalgamated company of the undertaking and duet, of the Victoria (London) Dock Company. The Souerros haring read the heads of the bill, The CIDAIIIIAN moved a resolution, approving of the bill. In reply to a SHAREHOLDER, The COAHU ILA observed that the bill had already beet read a third time and pealed in the House of Lords. had been read a fret time and adopted in the House of Commons. He added that the board had no reason tl so. ticipate any serious opposition in the House of Commies. A SIIALEHOLDEE inquired when the sharsholden w ou ld be psid off if the bill was passed. Mr. C. lfolitunos, deputy chairman,said the lenses se a l bare the option of paying either within a month from the parsing of the bill or in January seat. The precise time mould, perhaps, depend on the lessees' opinion of the mate of the money market, and the shareholders would in the meantime receive 5i per cent Toe resolution was then put and carried unanimously, and the meeting terminated in the usual manner. Mr. Roebuck, on Monday, will ask the I:ntkr Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether key wept hare been taken to obtain from the Papal goveroment re. dress for the injuries does to Mr. Home by that rovers. meet. Viscount Palmerston proposes to nominate the select committee on educatiou (lospectone Reports) al fol. lows :—Mr. Brace, Sir J. P►kiugton, Mr. William Elwin! Forster, Mr. Gatborse Hardy, Mr. Dodson, Mr. Adderier., Viscount Enfield, Lord Robert Cecil, Mr. Walter. Mr. Edward Egertoo, Mr. Clay, Mr. Heournsy, Mr. Barter, Mr, Arthur Mills, and Mr. Saxton. Thia day week Sir James Ferguason intend, t move fora Wed committee to isqaire how for the number of the members of the administration, charged with thr cooduct of the affairs of Swami, and hawing seats it parliament, is commensurate with the requirements of that part of the United Kingdom. Mr. Remington Mill; next Friday will auk th , . Chancellor of the lisohemier whether for the 000venieeoe of the public ha will make arrangements that the divideeds on government annuitiee payable at the Beak of England in the math of October shall be paid oo the eighth day of that month, ma la the ow in the months of January, April, sad July. Sir John Trelawoy, on Thursday next, will move ter a mint committee to inquire whether ft be posible, by watery or other measures, to mitigate some of the evils to which soldiers and sailors quartered in permseetit camps or in garrime or seaport towns ars peculiarly exposed, sad which, impales( the sac:weer and Moresaing the cost of the services, are knows to exercise a DO leas injurious in. einem upon the health, etreogth, sod character of the Sir John Bay, on the 14th of next month, will elk the Under... Secretary of State for War, after the ax.-irol of the aext mall (min the West Come of Africa, to by upon the table of the bosom returns of the number of troops employed on the Gold Coast es the Ist day of January, 1863 ; of the member of troops landed there niece that date, sod a stateaseet of the easoallies front death or invaliding io the forces there employed. And a statement of the auxiliaries employed on this service, and their cost. __ _ We understand that the Duke of Wellington has take's the fond of Bine shooting for next scum. The whole of the extensive Nest of Unsound, ma the north side of the Dee, 'minding what is termed "Condemn Foust," with the sanction of a small portico mend the family msseios of tovermaid, Las bees takes, we coder. steed, for the shooting emus, by Visoscat Holmes:LlN M.P.—Aberdeen loomed. DIOCINZ or Nozwica. —On Friday last the Res. Frederic Godfrey was hist/tatted to the vicarage of Wen. butes, Suffolk, coo the presentation of her Most Grsaloom Majesty Qnsea Victoria. On the lame day the Rev. Edgar Moots.% M.A., was instituted to the rectory of Kettle. *one, Norfolk, on his petition, he being patron. At a genera onliastioci holders in the Cathedral Church of Nor. with, a Sasday heat, the following pergolas were admitted iota holy orders :—Deacons : Francis Horse Atkinson, RA., Genuine sad Canis Coll:f i e . ,; ap anabeidge ; Charles James Hamilton, H.A. riaity C A.,Cambridge;Wm. W. Alfred Howell Lewis, ILA., Bt. Jibesllage, Cambridge; Christopher Hales Wilkie, 8.A., Exalter fte, Orford. Priests : Biekard Leonard Adams, R A., Christ's Collette Cambridge; Robert Fourier, 8.A., Eminsaluel College, Cache soe ; d John Ede* Rudy Storm% 8.A.„ Christ Church, Oxford ; Charles Edward Fare Caasrreras AT TwlcKraratx.—On the Ist sad god of Joao, Odessa Homo will be opened by its royal occeipsets for a fancy bazaar, is aid of the fends of the Societe Frame's do Bientaisenea, The beautiful fronds of the remnies will, at the same time, be the scene of s lite champetre. The Priam, of Wales has graciously Ev e:rimed to boomer the gathering with her pomace. The illuatrions ;moorages who have tome to this country to be present at the marriage of the Comte de Paris are expected to visit the blow sad fits. Tut HooMAL FOR ComirturnoN ' BRourrox..— The annual court of the gammas of this valuable dimly woe bold yesterday is the boerdmews of the .. .81:04 Breniptes, the Raman d Weetmisster is th e chair. Kr. Rose (the hoe. sec.) reed the report, which rtsted that der* the peat year the Delegate of the charity had born still further extended said iecreased. For the year the camber of is•patieste had hem 1,160; d thug number 814 were diocharged, many very greatly be milted, died 131 i, I. the hospital at the end a the year 198. It was to be regretted that the aim bilities of the balding for receiving petit:eta did net keep pace with the demand fee Woos ; while the WM was steadily ineressing year by year, the power al roc:Mktg patients wader she existing artasgwsata bed shoat reached its limits. The present sumber of beds (210) W. elided these min beds which had been pat op during the lest few winters, to meet the pressure at that seems. All the available SCAM in the wards balm thus moped, it ME only by a large mesesioa to the ;twat funds that the sixommodstion could ever be made et all commemorate with the demands as the instibatioa. In addition to the pitied's in the hospital 92 persons bed been admitted into the Home. Ileum Howie Chase.. The comber of out-patients for 1863 was 6,966, and the total income for that year anomatel to 11,8761. The sums of 1,000/. and 2301. bad been received from mireetrn dosses. Tait Lama MaoIMAM Arial/Y.—At the Leigh Vtisemires. held on Yonday lest, before Mr. T. E. ingtos, Mr. R. Gem* sad Mr. R. Fletcher, Bridget Hughes, a married woman, with as intact at her beemaorit sunimased foe baring swell Novena profane oaths tt West• leigb, on the 17th inst. The complainant was Johan Burns, neat door neighbour to defendant, and the °Reece alleged to be committed daring a quarrel between the two women. A wears was called, but she did not corroborate the oomplaiat'e statement as to the profanity. Defendant denied using the language 'olFuted to her, but the magistrates coovieted her in the penalty of one shilling and Mork or is default tea dai r e ed imp ri son meat. The woman and bee inf a nt are now in Rait dale House of Corrostioo. The chief penalty n mach WOO II the costa, which are comparatively heavy, often as mash ea 11S. to lea ; in a resent case they amounted to Maw/weer Examiner. A SCOTCH FARMER MURDERED tx fItIOW Aron.—Lettem was. received has. last week saricausiod the murder of Mr. Thomas Deoholin, who wait out to the seighbouthood of Bassos Ames u a stock farmer about two years ago. From the amounts which have reached us, it sp pease tint about the *ad et Marsh a wander's. rasa frees the woods mitered Mr. Deeholues house. evideetiv with the design of plundering. With the exception of Mr. Denholm. his wife, and child, there was so person witbio the home whoa the attack was made. Mr. Diabolic' was disabled I , f a stroke ou the arm, sad his wife, who endeavoured to help him, wee also severely woended. She, however, ma for m oieties* to some persons who were at work at a little dis tance ; but before they motorised to tbs borne Mr. Doi holm wee dead, sod the murderer had Std. Intelligens of the foul deed was carried to Mr. Alexander Deoholar. • brother of the murdered mos, who lived about two mini oil. He immediately applied to the authorities to bring tbe guilty person to peuisbessek It is reported that the oath,- Miss ware either usable or unwilliag to grant the desired issistaeas is eg the culprit to punishment, but the, would Geer so es to the murdered mac is relations %kiss the law into their ewe bee& Os this hint, is distend*, Denham set eat ie pursuit of the ruffles, COW with him him mut day, and ave his brother's blood* idea deed cm the spot w#41.4 Porno. bi.