The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-22 00:00:00

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Min Kate Terry.—Comweeee of 71. • _11114TA)!NIA. Ton 6TIRIMIkore LOT IN LIM alonitinnas a. Lana and Cracifeurd—istertallaiseste by Miss R. Potreo Mille. O'eleek aarll r -, THE DARK —As.lllll. LOOK 011.7 AND Till MMUS., eirl %TEK. 4 . —Commence at q. me WATU At LONIAJ.I RA/DIM TIMPI DAT Zii.ll;6l. it Ens— Atternonn, TA. 4.5 an. Tte=llollllloW—Morning. Va. Mks—... Atternecon, Ink Icen. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 22. VTER a short lull, the news from America has again become important. Both in the East and in the West of the Union great movements are taking place, and greater events are impending. The mod unequivocal announcement is that of the surrender of Island No. 10 in the Mississippi to the forces of the United states. The statement, resting on the reports of the General Commanding-in-Chief in the district, and of the Flag °dicer who re ceived the surrender, is distinguished from previous announcements of similar tenor. The Confederates surrendered to Commodore Fowl's., commanding the Federal flotilla. An unofficial report adds that 6,900 prisoners, besides a lam number of guns, were taken. Apart from the loss of men and material inflicted on the Confederates, unbalanced, aa General H ALUM' writes, by any loss on tho part of the besiegers, it would seem that this success must prove a great gain to the Federal cause, by releasing the powerful squadron of gun and mortar boats under Commodore Foovr- We are not told what became of the Confederate gun boats. It is, however, to the battle near Corinth, where the two principal armiesof the West have met face to face under Generals lIULLL and BEAM'. GARP, that attention will be drawn most power fully in this country•. The accounts of it which have come to hand are not only unauthenticated, but are at once exagge rated and defective. The engagement was commenced by the Confederates on the 6th, and was renewed by the Federate on the 7th of April. We have a Northern account of both days' tight. ing, but • Confederate account of the first day only. The weakness of the advanced column of the 1 uion army attracted the attention of the Confederate general, as the latest letters had led us to expect, and he accordingly attacked it on the 6th. The newspapers on his side affirm that he captured " eight Federal batteries and a "large number of prisoners." The Northern news papers allow that he gained the advantage. But they say—and here they are our only guide—that early tho next day the Federal army, having been reinforced by General Beets. in the night, turned upon the enemy, and after defeating him, drove him back to Corinth. , It would evidently be unsafe to build much on the fragmentary infor mation brought by this mail. The Southern army appears to have renewed active operations with credit. It is, however, difficult to believe that the loss on either aide was so great as is re ported in the telegram. A loss of 65,0110 men approaches the proportions of that of the great battles of the Napoleonic wan. Only telegraphic accounts of the battle had reached New York when the steamer left. Tut Committee appointed to advise the Queau respecting the Memorial of the lamented Paisce Cievaier have presented their first report to her Mkii..ry. The weekly accounts that have ap peared must have prepared the public for the principal result of the Committee's deliberations and inquiries. They have con sidered the project of an obelisk in all its bearings--the quarries we may count on, the expense attending the excavation, removal, and fashioning a stone, and the suitability of the work when erected—and they conclude by lays-ig before the Quees reasons for re-considering the proposal to commemorate the PRINcE CoMMOILT by a monument of that clase. Patient inquity and deliberation have led them to the conclusion that to persevere in the original deign of the Memorial would be to hazard in a dubious experiment the funds which the nation has so promptly offered. We might not even get the monolith for the money subscribed ➢ and it is tolerably certain that we should get nothing else, no surrounding sculptors, and, worst of all, no statue of the Pelee& The Queen, upon these representations, has most graciously waived the proposition contained in General Gezv's first letter to the Lone Mkeiiit, and, since the whole matter must now be considered afresh, has referred the entire design of the Memorial to the Committee without conditions. Now that the Writ:os decision has restored the when, tines tom to the domain of unfettered discussion, we have no hesitation in affirming that the abandon ment of the design of an obelisk will give general satisfaction. It era never taken to by the public, and for good reasons. A public monument, espe cially a monument proceeding from a spontaneous national influence, should speak a language " under " *tended of the people." There may be mystic meanings in an obelisk, not to perceive which may denote, as the limo NI evils has lately observed, a low and defective education of the people in regard to art. But when it is Prince Attirer we speak of, lot us avoid the affectation of an unknown tongue. If we cannot command for this Monument the Christian and Teutonic style of art which would best agree with the memory of the Panics, at learnt let us have something articulate and intel ligible. General GaNy'.l letter to Sir CUAILII4I EMT LAK E contains the suggestion that it would now be better to turn from the geologists to the archi tects, asking them to prepare a design in which the groups of statuary c:.iitemplated from the first may be combined. The Committee have a difficult task confided to them ; but the jedgment and fidelity which distinguish their first report will increase the confidence of the public in their fur ther deliberations. j EirtESSi, AUBSDAjr EVENING. APRIL 22, 1882:: ITN (oust.. Arm. K. The Queen drove out in the grounds this room- LATEST iNTELL IGOINCE. r o: ITALY. • A petition, bearing 36,000 sigoatures, has just been placed In the hands of Sir James Hudson by two deputies of the Italian parliament, imploring the diplomatic assistance of England in securing the evacuation of Rome by the French troops. M. Pallaviocino has just left Turin for Palermo, of which place he has been appointed prefect. General Garibaldi has sent the following letter in anticipation : TO THI PALEBINITANN. Georges Pallevicrino, my heart's friend, is leaving for Sicily, appointed to the government of the island—e good augury for a heave people. In recommending to the city of berricades the martyr of Spielberg, the veteran of Italia& liberty, I fulfil a very precious duty, dictated by my heart.—Yours for life, G. GAILSALDI. Count de Chambord has just left Venice for Rome, on a visit to the ex-King Francis. NZOTZWII TURIN, Ann 22. The Doha of to-day announces that a French squadron has received orders to repair to Genoa to escort the King to Naples. It is further stated that an English squadron has received similar orders. General Gloyon has been directed to go to Naples to compliment the King on his arrival in that city. GREW& NAUPLIA, Aram 113 (vi► Corfu). 1,230 royal troops entered the fortress of Nau plia to-day. Order was immediately re-established. VIENNA. APRIL 22. Despatches received at the Greek Embassy here confirm the intelligence of the entry of the royal troops into Nauplia on the 20th inst. AMERICA. . fitsursn's manes.) • NEW YORK, Aram 9, Nominee,. (Per steamer China, rid Reohe's Point.) An extensive engagement has been fought near Corinth. The Confederates, under Generals Beauregard and Johnstone, attacked the Federate, and at first had a decided advantage, but the Federal' having meived reinforcements, the Confederates retreated to Corinth. The Federate are reported to have lost 20,000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The loss of the Confederates is esti mated at 35,000 men. General Johnstone we. killed and General Beauregard wounded. The Federal General Prentiss was captured. NEW YORK, Aram 8, Evramta. Flag-officer Foote reports that Island No. 10 . _ _ surrendered to-day to the Federal gunboats. An important engagement is said to have taken place at Corinth. A Norfolk paper of the 7th inst. contains a despatch from Mobile, dated 6th inst., stating that a battle had been fought at Corinth, and that the Confederates captured eight Federal batteries ands large number of prisoners. No Northern account of the fight has yet been received. The Federal army under General M'Clellan, which is supposed to number from 100,000 to 150,000 men, arrived in front of the Confederate works at Yorktown on the sth inst. The Confederate position is said to be strong, ex tending two miles in length. The batteries are mounted with heavy guns. The ground in front is low and swampy, which renders it impassable. The Fadershi commenced au attack with artil lery, which was replied to by the Confederate bat teries. The cannonading on both sides was with out any material result. Advice' from Fort Monroe state that nothing had yet been dune in front of Yorktown. General WGrader with 30,000 Confederates occupies York town; but it is supposed that the place cannot hold out against the immense force of men and artil lery under General Waellan. The British steamer Phaeton is reported to have arrived on the Rio Grande. The commander is said to have stated that his mission was to keep open the navigation of the Rio Grande at all hazards. The steamer Hibernian has arrived out. NEW YOB.K, Arm 9, Noiurnia. The battle near Corinth commenced on the morning of the oth inst., and lasted all day. The Confederates, having the largest force, gained the advantage. They were reported to number 60,000 men. The battle was, however, renewed at day break on the 7th by the Federals, who having been reinforced during the night by General Buell with a large body of troops, attacked the Confederates, who were compelled to fall back, and at four o'clock in the afternoon retreated to Corinth, pursued by the Federal cavalry. Generals Bragg, Brecken ridge, and Jackson commanded the position of the Confederates. No official account of the loss has been received. It is supposed, however, to be exaggerated. Six thousand prisoners and 100 siege guns are reported captured at Island No. 10. General Halleck reports that not a single life was lost among the Federate at that island. The Merrimac and the steamers Jamestown and Yorktown are waiting at Cranes Island. The House of Representatives has passed the Tax Bill, and also a resolution to appoint a committee of nine to report if a plan can be proposed for the gradual emancipation of the slaves in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Another resolution was adopted to extend the inquiry to other States. A resolution has been introduced for a semi monthly statement of the financial position of the government to be submitted to Congress, and during the recess a monthly statement to be pub lished. The Chairman of the Ways and Means Com mittee estimates that the national debt will amount to 1,200,000,000 dole., even if the war is ended this year. The steamer Etns, from Liverpool, has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Aram 8, Evsxnto. (Pet Chinseict Roche Point.) Money easier. Gold 2 per oent. prem. Ha change on London very firm, at 112} to 113. Stocks tending downwards. New York Centrals, 831 ; Illinois Centrals, 62; Erie, 37 1-6. Cotton very firm. Middling Uplands, 28c. 1,000 bales of government cotton, ex Magnolia, have been sold to spinners at 271 c. to 271 c., being an average rise of lc. Flour tending downwards. Wheat dull. Corn good inquiry. Provisions buoyant. Coffee quiet. Sugar unchanged. Molasses steady. QUBBNSTOWN, Arßn. 21. The Royal Mail steamship China arrived here at 1220 p.m. to-day. She left New York on the 9th inst. The China brings 102 passengers and 621,201 dole. in specie. She landed 70 sacks of mails and 9 passengers, and proceeded at 12.40 p.m. All well. The China experienced severe easterly weather. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 14th says : —" Bills are posted up here announcing excunions to the Exhibition of London, some by land and some by water, so as to be adapted to all tastes. One of the most fashionable of those speculators promises to the public thirty days of uninterrupted pleasure at Berlin, Paris, and Loudon, with allthe comfort possible, for 2,000 fr. His programme is most attractive and complete, and even the Owes Cr. mentioned to be played at the theatres on certain days. For instance, at Paris, on the Gth of June, the performance le to be the Count Ory and the Iftoile k Kr sine, and on the 13th Robert le Diable. As au additional pleasure, this gentle. Ulan promisee the company the society of a police officer, appointed by the superior administration of the capital, ' in order to cause to be respected everywhere both the engage ments entered into, and the character and honour of the Russian nation.' Is not this latter detail a superfluity r The clerical journal at Turin called the Campaaile, which was the most violent organ of the party, has just mused to appear for want of readers. There are now only two Ultramontane journals at Turin, the Armenia and the Piemonte. The friends of the exiled Sovereigns of Italy are spin spending large BUMS of money in London and Paris on journals which they supply with letters, dated Naples and elsewhere, already translated into English. It has been already mentioned that a corps of Genoese volunteers bad offered their services to act against the bands of brigands in southern Italy. The Turin journals now state that M. Menotti Garibaldi, the eldest son of the general, is fined on to command this corps, the other officers of which will be chosen by the volunteers themselves. The Madrid Gazette of the 17th anuouncee that in consequence of the state of her Majesty's health, the usual ceremony of entailing the feet and giving • dinner to the poor will not take place this year, but that each will receive instead • complete suit of clothes and a sum of mousy. . . Owing to the contest between the Merrimac and Monitor in the United States, and the consequent debates in parliament on the comparative merits of fortification* and iron ships, the works at Breakwater Head, in the Isle of Portland, have been stopped, and it is expected that the Verne fortifications in that island will not be proceeded with. THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL. ABANDONMENT OF THE The committee of noblemea and gentlemen re cently nominated by the Queen to advise her Majesty in the choice and mode of execution of a design for a National Memorial to the late Prince Consort have just prawn teil &report upon the subje . ct, to which General Grey has sent the following reply : Osborne, April 19. My dear Sir Charles, The Queen commands me to acknowledge the receipt of the report from the committee aimed by her Majesty to advise her on the subject of the propos...l national memorial to the Prince Consort. Her Majesty cannot refuse her assent to the reasons so clearly and stmegly put forward, in the report which induce the committee to doubt the expediency of any further attempts to tied a moeolith that would fulfil the conditions so which her Majesty'. choice of an obelisk as the distin guishing cluiracteristic of the proposed monument mainly depeuded. Her Majesty sees, therefore, no alternative but to acquiesce in the abandonment of the idea of as obelisk, and to request the committee to turn their attention to the pos sibility of finding some other mode in which the peat ob- ject in view may be moat satisfactorily effected. Her Majesty's wish is to leave the committee quits has to recommend whatever may appear to them to afford the beet hope of a satisfactory result ; end she would manly throw out as a suggration whether the opinions of seas of the foremost architects of the day might not be Meseta geously taken as to the means of combising the peeps of statuary mentioned io my letter to the Lord Mayor ' (amongst which of course a statue of the Prince would be prominent) with some other design.—l remain, yours very faithfully, C. Our. sir I', Eastlake. THE WORRIES cl.Aseir ALBERT MEMORIAL IRIND. Tine movement, which has been set on foot to suable the working dears by penny seibeariptiona, to erect model lodging home with halls for educatiornal and insti tutional purposes free libearies, he., is memory of his late Royal Highness the Priem Cowart, is said to be progressing very favourably. The Hou. F. H. F. Berkeley, IL P.; Mr. W. Evart, M.P.; Mr. G. Potts, M.P.; Mr. R. B. Sheridan, 11. P.; end Mr. G. H. Whalley, M.P., have oousented to become puma The Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke of Itmehener, the Countess of Herdwioke, and others I have approved of the object. As it is intended that the mosernent shall be ent , vely a working ems the mairgement will be left in the heeds of the repnrentatime of the mimes, and for that Pur a merlons' committee of working mean has formed. The following . circular to the operatives el the United Kingdom VI in course of elucidation "le order to make the !weeniest general, sad to give the working classes an opportunity of contributing towards tido form of memorial, district committees will be formed it every part of the metropolis. The committee melees that all the trades of the United lEimpicri sissiabd be re- presented on the managemeet, solicit eiropereadon to am ong out the objects of the movement, and ell parrs de sirous of promoting the said object are requested to com municate with the honorary secretary. The committee wish it to be distinctly understood that the movement has not been ratted out of any feeling of disloyalty to her Most Gracious Majesty. or spirit of contradiction to the ioduential committee organised at the Mansion House, for erecting an obelisk or monolith to the late Prince Consort, bat eolely for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of oos who during the cause of his brief hot brilliant career was a benefactor to his adopted cautery, and who wee a zealous patron to any movement which had for its ultimate aim the moral and social improvement of the working chimes. The committee believe that the masses would only be too willing to contribute to, and support a movement which would eventually tend to their immediate benefit." Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., has consented to act as treseuier, sod subscription. can be received at the Charing. crow Br ach of the Bauk or Losion. THE RIGHT HON. W. A GLADSTONE, MP., •T STOCIPOIir. The corporation and inhabitants of Stockport, desi rous of esti/owing their spproval of the finaucial policy of the government, took advantage of the visit of the Chancellor of the Each., Ines to the town yeeterday, on his way to Abney Hall, Cheadle, to present hint with an address. The right boa. gentleman arrived ►t the Edgley Station about four o'clock, when the Mayor and several members of the corpo mike, and some hundreds of the inhabitants of the borough, assembled to meet him, earl as his stepping ou to the plat torn., accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone, he was loudly cheered. The address warn signed by the mayor, town-clerk, and many of the peiacipal inhabitants. The CHANCILLOR of the EICIIINUIR briefly responded, and, after expressing his thanks for the honour conferred upon him, said he wished he had been fortunate enough to meet the ishabitante of Stockport in brighter days. (Hear, hear.) Su; while he could not congratulate them upon the present state of trade and employment in these district; he could express his warm sympathy with them, with regard to which he could only saw he wished it were as much in his power to alleviate the distress as it was is his heart earnestly to feel for them. Ile was fully aware, and they would doubtlees be the same, that we were now reaping the r.,rani of the course that bad been pursued by the legislature of late rears, especially in the unexampled cn ti a , n la ence and resignation which had been shown by the - tion under the pressure of the times. He wee certain tritanner in which they had borne the present ridandav had given them, if possible a greater title to the paternal care of parliament and future governments of this swantry to seedy, so far sa human wisdom and knowledge could, to promote their welfare by meantime beneficial to the °pantry. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the language I. the address, he had nothing to say, only to echo it. (Amilanse.) It contained the principles be wished to adhere to as the guides of his life, and those be wished to recommend to others. They might have the consolation that although they had not been able to avert the extra ordinary calamity they were now enduring, the causes that produced it were well understood by the people ; and it waa equally satisfactory to know that much had been done by the legislature to mitigate the preemies by enlarging the field of employment and multiplyieg the markets, or at least to reduce to a minimum distress like that they were now enduring. (Applause.) The right hoe. gentleman soon after left the station in Sir .1. {b'ath's carriage, aid previous to leaving the tows he accompanied the Mayor, Majer Cloppock, and other gentle men, to the ritlentso's armoury, agendum half an hour in iospecting the building. We understand that Mr. Elliot, lately Minister at Naples', is about to proceed on a special mission to the King of Greece. We regret to hear that Sir Thomas Wyse, her Majesty's Minister at Athens, died on the 15th iie‘tatit. CONsKRYATIVE SYMPATHY WITH ITALIAN RISAC vox. —no Moritieg Herald characterises the treatment of Mr. Bishop as "of the most violent, insulting, and brutal character," and rya that " it is sot becalms his sympathies see with the raiser of Neapolitan indepeadetter that the protectiog aegis which Lord Paha...stoles government is popularly supposed to throw over every British subject, in foreign countries, can be withdrawn." M. Lavalette's stay in London will be prolonged is consequence, it is said, of the ammo( Cottot Fleheult, the French sisaboradov. Tlo: hotels of Paris are filling rapidly. Every raibrav is brining its hoodreds of visitors daily from Bag load. Germany, Italy, Spaia ; is fact, from ell quarters of the globe. " Each suomediag year," said so official pereseap the other day, "adds to OUT &at* population ; half Purls will Go made up ere long of hotels for travellers." The Japanese allalllBll/10111 hare given °niers for French produce to a large ►mount, to be repaid by pmduce seat from Japaa, to eousist chiefly of row silk awl cotton. The Queen of Hollow' will arrive to-morrim at Ais-la.Chapdhti and will Isere ea Thursday for Paris. The French journals announce the death at Strasburg, at the age of 32, of M. Charles Michalek son of the oslebrated historian. An enormous dustruction of 'Amon fry took place at Cork on Thursday evening, by means of the Mr. binee in coasstios with the waterworks. Mr. Canoe, the local inspector of fisheries, calculates that no leer than 20,000 or 30,000 must have bus destroyed. In coasts qusnoe of a similar destruction is 1860 a grating wu pre. pared with vary narrow meshes, which prevented the slaughter of the young flab. Through some oversight or carelessness, or from want of an adequate supply of water, the defences were removed, and the oonsequeoce was a ter rible havoc and lose in the salmon preserves. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ROM 00 /I Ow/ PARIS, Jimmy' Emma. Although Raster Monday is generally all but a holiday at the Bourse, a good deal of business was done there to-day. The Rente was very firm, and left off at 70fr. 60c., both for cash and account, with a rise of 15c. and 10c. Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c., and the Italian Loan, 45c. The Orleans Railway rose 7fr. 50c.; Lyons and Southern, 3fr. 75c. each; Eastern, 21r. 50c. ; and Northern, lfr. 25e. ; Western was without change. The unexpected news of the total and definite acquittal of Mires--whereas he himself only asked for a new examination of his accounts—produced an immense sensation. The shares in the Caisse Gin‘rale des Chemins de Fern, which were quoted at 45fr. on Saturday, sprung up to 70fr. It is said that the Douai people, who in the course of the trial took up a strong impression in Mires' fa vour, have invested largely in these shares. I un derstand that Mires has already arrived in Paris, and is surrounded by troops of friends who have confidence in him, and will aid him to recommence financial operations on a large scale. He has been upwards of eighteen months in prison on what is now judicially recognised to have been an untenable accusation. In consequence of the newspaper offices being closed on Easter Sunday, there are no morning journals to-day, and those of the evening are sin gularly destitute of news. The weather is beau tiful, and makes us Englishmen think of the Brighton Downs, where we hope it may be as good, in fulfilment of Admiral Fitzroy's prophecy, for the review of the volunteers. M. de Lamella, the governor of Mazes prison, has been dismissed for showing too much indulgence to political prisoners, whom he is accused of having allowed to see their friends, in his private room, at times not allowed by the regulations. He is trans ferred to the Hadelonettes, a prison for nnfortu nate females. A pamphlet on the Roman question, by M. Pietri, Senator and ex-Prefect of Police, is on the eve of publication by Deutu. The author's last speech in the Senate, wherein lie called for the re peal of the law of public safety, liberty of the press, and the cessation of administrative inter ference with elections,is reproduced as an appendix. It is reported at Toulon that Rear-Admiral Cbaigneau will supersede Vice-Admiral Jurien de la Gravure in the command of the Mexican squadron, upon the assumption—which can be scarcely doubtful—that the latter will resign as soon as he hears of the Emperor's disapprobation of the convention of Soledad. Some provincial journals say that the French Mediterranean squadron, which is already known to be under orders for Naples, will accompany the King of Italy's flotilla from Genoa, and that this step will be taken as an important mark of sympa thy fur the Italian cause. Let as hopefully accept the omen. The presence of the English fleet at Naples will, at all events, neutralise any encourage ment which the Muratists might be inclined to see in the French vessels. The Union, which lately published the false news that the Minister of Public Worship had written to beg the Prefect of Polies to keep his eye upon the writings disseminated by the clergy in Paris and its neighbourhood, has been compelled, by a unnnouniqui from M. Rouland, to publish a contradiction. I apprehend that, under existing circumstance., the Prefect of Police would natu rally keep as good a look-out as possible, without the stimulus supposed. Princess Richard de Metteruich, the wife of the Austrian ambassador, gave birth to a daughter yes terday. The Pope's nuncio will baptise the infant to-morrow at the private chapel of the embassy. The Japanese ambassadors, who were to have gone to London on Thursday, like Paris so much that it is said they will prolong their stay here till Sunday or Monday next Murphy, the famous Irish giant, has just died of small-pox at Marseilles. The Gazette du Midi says Shia his body is to be embalmed, and sent to the Museum of Natural History in Paris. The Earl of Maltnesbury arrived in Paris on Saturday, and alighted at the Hotel Mirabeau, Rue de la Paix. The Berl and Countess Spencer have also put up at the same hotel. Thirty-six biehope--nearly one-half of the total somber in Fmoce--bave notified to the Minister of Public Worship their intention of repairing to Rome in compliance with the summons of the Pope. No impediments will be offered to them by the French government. Letters from the Lower Rhine speak of the tem perature there as unparalleled at the rine seuon since the year 1811. For the preceding six weeks the weather had Wm so uninterruptedly warm and spring -like, that fields, orchards, and kitchen gardens showed an extraordinary firrelopmeet of vegetation. More than • fortnight ago all the goes fruit, and most of the apples, pears, Irc., were in full bloom, while from the earlier blossoming kind', such u apricots and peaches, the flowers had fallen and the fruits were set. The great quantity of blossoms gave pro mise of • first-rate fruit year—barring late frosts. The meadows were equally forward, aad grams, lucerne, and red clover were tall monk for the egther it need were. OUR OCEAN MAIL SERVICE. The government have given a twelvemonth's notice to the Royal rail Company fur the termina- , tion of their contract for the conveyance of the mails, and the company are already talking about the sale of their fleet The government have also advertised for competing tenders for conveying the , mails between Aden and Bombay. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail contracts have ex pired for some time past, and have not been re newed by the government. It is evident that the question of ocean wail subsidies is about to be seriously considered. The North Atlantic and West Cosat of Africa Companies' mail contracts expire in 1 and the South Pacific Company's oontrais at an end in 1885. The ocean mail subsidies amount to nearly 850,0001. a year, to wards which 146,0001. is subscribed by our depen dencies, and the ocean postage amounts to about I 320,0001. Daring the last 20 years the government have lost 10 millions sterling by the ocean mail steam-packet companies. Notwithstanding that we lose nearly half-a-million of money every year by subsidies, our foreign mail packet system m most inadequate for all the wants of govern ment or commerce. Thus, we have no mail packet communication between Southern and Africa, between the south eastern and north-eastern coast of China, between China and Japan, and between Panama and British Columbia. We want also another mail communi cation with Brazil and Ls Plata, and with Australia across the Southall: Pacific, to watch the French doings in the latter quarter, and to effect a more rapid communication with our gold colonies of New Zealand and Australia. Oat of 34,0001., which we pay for the Cape of Good Hope mail contract, the Cape colony only pays us 8,0001. Our In lie, Chins, and Australasian contracts cost nearly 400,0001., and we only get from the India and Australian govern ments 138,000/. Our North American service costa us nearly 200,0001., to which Canada subscribes nothing. To be sure she runs a line of mail packets, but a great portion of her mails are sent by the mother country's faster packets. The United States pays not one farthing towards our enormous subsidies. The government of that country simply insists upon taking the carrying of about one-third of the transatlantic mails away from us, and giving them to foreign ships to carry, handing over to the owners of such ships the post age. The ocean mail subsidies have created a monopoly on all the mail lines except the North Atlantic one. This line being short, an enormous capital is not necessary to establish competition. The North Atlantic subsidised mail steamers have attained a higher speed, and passengers are conveyed by them for lower fares, than on the other two great subsi dised steam packet lines. The average speed of Cunard's steamers on the western passage is 11} knots ; on the trunk line, to and from St. Thomas, it is 10 knots • and on the Calcutta line, only 91 knots. The passenger fares by Cunard's packets are 40s. per head a day • on the St. Thomas trunk line, 80s. per head ; and on the Bombay line, 655. per head. The payment of enormous mail subsidies beyond what the foreign postage realised was originally intended to be temporary, and was for the purpose of fairly starting steam-packet companies. Are ocean mail packets necessarily unprofitable without government aid of such a magnitude as to be out of all proportion to the obvious value which the govern ment receives for such aid 1 True, it is said that the country is amply repaid for subsidies by the increase of foreign and colonial commerce, and by the political advantages which the government derives from a regular and rapid mail packet com munication. But cannot these advantages be ob tained without such an enormous expense to the country 1 The steam-packet shareholders' divi dends are a constant quantity, no matter how the traffic increases, and contractors for building, re pairing, coaling, and victualling mail packets, get enormously rich. Could not the government, with out much trouble and expense, ascertain, by moving for returns, what the revenue and expendi , ture of a mail steam line ought to be, and regulate subsidies accordingly ? Perhaps it would be found that the present subsidies would be suffi cient for the extension of the ocean mail-packet I service to almost double its present area. TEE ERE PETER DALY. The Galway correspondent of Saunders' News, writing on Sunday, says :—" As expected, the chapel of St. Nicholas today, at 12 o'clock, was crowded to excel ; about 2,000 pinions were present, Before the odebration of high mass, the bishop being present, Father Daly appeared habited in a Boutin. There was immediately great sensation in the chapel, and expressions of sympathy were openly given. He appeared deeply moved. He thee approached the front of the altar, and read a document which he held in his hand. It con tained certain apologies for his disobedience to the oommand of the bishop. He then retired, and the service was pro ceeded with. He is to go into 'retest' for one week, and at the expiration of that time he will be fully re stored to his ministerial °Mom. It is generally stated the Rev. Sir Michael Bellew, principal of the Jesuit College of tit. Ignatius, in this town, is the person who effected the " The correspondent cif Saunders' News, writing from Ranh:robe, Saturday, says :—" Freesia Lavelle, bro ther of the Rev. Patrick Lavelle, hes paid the debt of nature, but under rather painful circumstances. He was killed bye fall from his horse. He was in Bellinrobe during Thursday, and was on his way to the random* of his brother at Partry, when the horse fell, and threw his rider heavily. The accident was observed by some peelers by, and the unfortunate man was conveyed to a house neer at hand. Doctor Roughen, of Ballinrobe, was immediately on the spot, and used the only remedies possible, but without effect; he died yesterday (Good t.iday) morning. The part be played in the Partry busier es has rendered him rather notorious. It will be recollected ha was summoned last September, or thereabouts, for breaking down a_gleund belonging to L ord Plunket, but did not appear. He was subsequently arrested at Drumcandra College (All Hallows), Dublin, and conveyed to Ballinrobs, whose be entered into securities to appear to take his trial. The trial, I believe, was postponed to nest ambles. It is somewhat remarkable that this is the mooed _person connected with the principal actors in the doings at Partly who has met death by vio lence—the first being Harrison, the eteward of Lord Plan ' kat, who was shot dead; and the second, Frannie Lavelle, the brother of the Rev. Mr. Lavelle." TEE LATE PRINCE CONSORT AND THE LIVERPOOL BAILORS' HOER.—The annual meeting in connexion with the Liverpool Sailors' Home was held yesterday, and the Home itself—which was almost entirely destroyed by fire about two years ago, and which has since that time been rebudt—was reopened for the reception of inmates. In the coarse of the meeting the chairman (Mr. Derbyshire) alluded to the circumstance of the late Prince Consort lay ing the foundation stone, and the interest the Prince took in the institution after its establishment, and hoped that this circumstance would induce persons to subecribe to the fund for clearing off a debt of 2,0001. which is at present hanging over the Home. It was intimated by the chairman that so soon as sufficient funds were collected, a meltable monument would be erected in the hall of the institution in memory of the event of laying the foundation stone by the late Prince Consort, and of he (the Prince's) many estim able qualities INTERESTING GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY.—CODSi durabIe interest has been excited in the highest geological circles in London by an important discovery which has been made in our neighbourhood A cave, locally known as the " Heathery Burn Cave," near Stanhope, in this county, exists in a deep ravine in the limestone strata, which is being worked by the Weerdsle Iron Company to obtain • flux used in smelting their ironstone. The morns of the ' quarrying operations has laid the entrance to this cave bare; and in a deposit of sand under four inches of the stalavoitic stone which has been formed by the dripping of water holding lime in solution from the roof, have been discovered a human skull, as well as several hundred bones of various animeJs,and some bronze ornament., as, for example, armlets, pine,ke. These have been carefully collected by an ablelocal geologist, Mr. John Elliot, end by him transmitted to Loodoo, with a view to obtain the highest scientific opinion on this most interesting discovery. It is said that Mr. S. J. Mackie, P.G.S., F.S.A., editor of the Geologist, is engaged in re searches, with the iuteotion of defining exactly the age of this cave deposit, and that the bones have beets submitted to eminent gentlemen in London for identification and de scription. Great credit is due to Mr. Elliot for the care with which he has collected all the evideucee, and the lucid description which he has given of the nature of the cave. As these remains, sinless some error of observation has been committal, world spperently indicate the existence of man in the county of Durbam at a period of time long previous to the known historical age, the remit of the investigation now going on will be watched by us with the greatest in terest, and we hope in a fortnight or three weeks to be en abled to lay before our readers some most interesting infor mation on the subject, derived from the most authentic souree.--,Darkans Chronicle. METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE &WARR, CITT.—The aggregate number of patients relieved during the week ending dpril 19 was :—Medical, 1,203; surgical, 001—total, 1,904, of which 088 *ore new owe. HUNGER OED MARKET. Loudon is the city of perpetual change. Paris, it is true, has within the taut few years rivalled, and indeed surprised it ; but with us the tendency to alter and rebuild is not an affair of a single reign, but of two centuries. The Great Fire of 1866 swept away the London of the middle ages, and of Shakspoare, or at any rate the greater past of it ; and ever since then we seem to have lived in a quick. rod. We make and unmake in the course of a single life ; we do not allow our edifices to grow reverend before we abolish them. We build " palaces" that cover acres of ground for a single season ; and we shall Noon not have a metropolitan bridge over the Thames that dates beyond the battle of Waterloo, although those of Westminster end Maekfriars the two oldest remaining were new erections in the days of Dr. Johnson. The Quadrant colonnade, which Nash conceived and executed in the days. when George the gentleman was Regent, vanished thirteen years ago. The parish of St. Paul's, Covent- garden, though not a very ancient neighbourhood, is in , worse of being almost entirely rebuilt ; and the city, albeit born anew alter the disaster that followed the great plague, would look strange in several elite localities to the man who died only thirty years ago. Many of us who are hardly middle-aged can recollect with great vividness the rebuilding of Hungerford.market ; and yet here it is already falling before the hands of the destroyer, that something totally different may arise upon its site. Ours is one of the oldest cities in Europe, but we take good cure that it shall bare the aspect of ever renewing youth. There has been • market, where there will shortly be railway station, for nearly two hundred yews, Hunger. ford-market having been built in the year 1680. Sir Edward Hungerford, of Farleigh Castle, Somersetaldre, had • large mansion on this spot in the reign of Charlie 11,; but " the town " in those days was beginning to migrate still further westward. Pall-mall and the street* to the north of Piccadilly, were rising, or had just risen, in the outer wilderness ; and the Strand, which was the grand aria. tocratical suburb in the reign of James L, was fast becoming vulgar. lafluenced probably by these circumstances Sir Edward Hungerford pulled down his riverside house, and built several small ones oa Its site. At the s►me time spa peered the market. It was generally anticipated that the speculation would prove • good one ; and there were many reasons why it should do so. The proximity of the plans both to the western and arm suburbs—for ages the great nurseries of fruit and vegetables for metropolitan consamp• lion—and the convenience of the river for conveying the produce from the market gardens of Fulham and Ber. moodsey, and delivering it at once at the very doors of the vendors, without the necessity of land carriage, pointed o Hungerford as the chief London market for what one forefathers used to all "groan mere." But Strype, who in 1720 records these anticipatior, at the acme time informs us that the project was "balked at tint," and had dace turned "to little account," Covent-garden having got the stars and being "much reented unto, and well served with all fruits and herbs, good in their kind." Still, Hungerford-market held on, and early in the reign of William IV. it was rebuilt, when fresh hopes were formed of the figure it would make in the Loudon world. It en to be • dead meat and poultry market, fish mar. kr, and • vegetable market; and it was to eclipse Its competitors by its manifold adria. tars. The first roue of the new buildings was laid on the 18th June, 1831, and the market was opened on the 2nd July, 1833. The architect was Mr. Charles Fowler, who also built Covent.gardea-market ; and a somewhat wild commingling of brier-like allays, elevated terraces, flights of steps, granite pillars, public-houses, and steam• boat-piers, was the result of that gentleman's skill at Hungerford-stairs. There seemed to be no reason why the speculation should not second ; on the contrary, as we have already shown, there were many reasons why it should @noosed, and vet it never has. Multitudes of people have pared through it daily for nearly 30 years, on their way to and from the boats, but they have never brought prosperity to the market. Of late years • foreign cuff, illustrious for penny ices, bad music, and not very picked company, has drawn • number of idlers to the spot, hut Hungerford has nevertheless made no progress towards tap• planting Covent-garden, Leadenhall, and Billingsgate. In the summer of 1848 a portion of the centre was burnt down, , and people said it would be better to sweep the whole away, , but the gap was filled up, and the market has almost our vived two more apprenticeships. It might fairly have bra , expected that the opening of the suspension bridge, in April, , 1845, would be the forerunner of a better day for the market; but fate had decreed it otherwise. Some evil destiny seems to have hung over the whole locality; the bridge itself—though constructed under the direction of Mr. I. K. Brunel, and of noble aspect from the river—never having been popular. Let us hope that the Charing-ace Railway will be born under a happier star. ' The last notable circumstance connected with Hungerford previous to its destruction is one of blood and ferocity, for the place is associated with one of the wildest and darted romances of London life. It was in the alleys of this I market, one morning last summer, that Major Murray, the hero of " the Northumberland-street tragedy," was accosted , by the unknown enemy who had dogged his footsteps, and • hung like a mysterious influence over his life ; and it was thence that the intended victim was lured to the scene at that frightful encounter in the neighbouring street. Thera are probably some to whom the disappearance of the market will be • relief. WEATHER REPORT.-;THIS DAY.) TURSDAT„ APRIL 2; $ LX. L e, IL 1 D. P. O. t. L 111. I --- —..— -.. Num... 29.38 52 49 B.W. o - mu Jam LIMB - [Sumac - ARD6OBII6II 29.31 60 49 B.W. Tr i 0.16 P09T6 1 968..- 29.65 60 49 8.8.1: • - GALWAT - Benin - sousoilbisi SAM 63 31 as.w. s - 11111.1001411 D„ 19.91 48 .CS W.S.W. 122 - Karr:looot Qumarowi 29.41 56 55 W.S.W. r - OMAIIIIIA VA14110012 - 109309 29.80 66 53 s b Dove 19.86 59 66 W. PurlBoo2l 20.79 66 62 S.W. e - P•Rrtrin 19.76 64 62 B.W. io - PUMAS - i 63334509 Illiarir .. - . PEORABUt WIMWINDAY. THOUDAY. /1011111111rrms.-11S.W. tow., W.S.W. to N.li'.. Arollr to fresh to strong, rainy. moderate. 1331695.-8. to W.. (refill to S.N.W. to W.N.W., gPag. strong. rainy. CrarriteL. 7 B S.W. to W.N.W. soma rain. S.W. to N.W., fresh W moderato. showery . R.W. to N.W., fresh to strong. frab,showem Leneer. —8.8. W. to Mr., some rain. O. Enowth.—W. to S., troth strong, rain In places. 5.8. W. to W. N. W.. drone to moderate, some min la Om a:. EXPLANATION. B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to St deg. at mein .rs level ; each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about onehiludrnilit of au inch diminution and each 10 deg., above 3/ deg , ounlat nearly threiehundresiths increase. K —Exposed thermomete r in shade. 31.—Moistened bulb (for evsporstion and dt point). D.—Direction of wind ;true —two points krt of Task nettc). F.—Force .1 to I.—estimated). C.—Cloud )1 to 9 • b, bine sky: c, clouds 'detached): f, tog, h. bail. 1. lightning; m, misty thaw : o, overran r, min , 5, atom t, thunder. 11.. raitefall, or aIIOW, or hail. since last reirort. is inches and decimals. B.—Bea-disturbance :1 to Si,. Z —Cala TIM PAVING OF HOLBORN AND CNANCERV-LANIL —For the last two or three weeks considerable Monte nience has been experienced on the part of the public is consequence of the closing of the important thoroughfares of High Holborn and Chancery-lane to carriage traffic. 1 9' are happy to be able to state that this inconvenience will shortly cease. The diversion of the traffic has been ren dered isecesery in order to repair the carriace-vaian a nd this has been accomplished in the most satisfactory tosn ner. In Chancery-lane the roadway has been entirely ree formed, a substratum of concrete put in, and the surfs? , covered with granite from the Mount Sorrell quarries in Leicestershire, this stone being incontestably the moat eci• during for London traffic. In Holborn the carrier,/ paving has been simply relaid, the enormous traffic whits& it has bad to sustain rendering this operation impera tively mammary. It was originally intended to rib', is carriage-way half the width at a time, so as not to stop the tra ffi c ; but, the gas and water companies taking advan tage of the opportunity afforded to reinstate their MOW, this desirable mode of carrying out the works bad to be abandoned, to the serious inconvenience of the inhabited' 'bag the line and the public generally. It is now prop o s ed to open Chancery-lane and that part of Holborn lag between it and Gray's-inn-lane in the course of the follow ing week, and the most strenuous exertions will be made On the part of Mr. Sewell, the contractor, to complete the re mafnder of the new roadway in Holborn before the opeest of the International Exhibition. The works have bee e mitted under the superintendence of Mr. Lewis 11. Isaacs, O.K. the surveyor to the Hollers District Board d Works.