The Express. — London, England, 1862-06-23 00:00:00

Mt SUM IXlbOO.ll PURE EXTVrALVES' FEET, _Tat la QOM, Om SIM at td. It it, tad Is. ay an ebtatda. Pada% 4 1 03_,. SIANUYAbfOkY, u saanumst• ^ • ,~ ILOOiD•HANDVANOTORTS B . _Eau"•*Ns • i•••• saselasst 118 " 8 . 81,11 4 Meg ellsinel maim. at qty Mead pgisia—MG. -VAETER-HALL TICKET-OFFICE open tI To-morrow, from ten o'clock In the mifkolfus until ten et ni e t temdlug visitors to the HANDEL 71MTIVAL will UM themselves trouble by purebsaing tickets beforehand. Enter-hall, June Vile erpreOlS. ratwamorm. THU trams, TOO MUCH OF A 000 D THiItO.—THE CORSICAN BNOTHARS. agora. Charles Kss Jordan, Shore, Cathcart, Amok, Garden. and Meadows ; Lectercti. and Chnpu.an.—And MAERILD. HAYMI sr. Taw Brow; MRS. WHITIL Mull& —OUZ AXIMICAN COUSIN. llama Boanarn, nealonana ; Man Young, Mks Oliver. —LA OUNTILABANDISTA. Pam Nana and War Yampa— And KY KUISAND'S OHM. T. JAMIIIIL Thu Evmase.l7NDlß THE 100.-11111 LAST VICTORY. Mews George Vislug, Moans Dear ; Muss Herbert sod Adams.—And PRINCL BIITAWWTA. Tem KVINWING, A1(681 . 611 fiiiiiitY.—ls.ertaintnend F il Jilias Smithson and J. G. Fad.. LOT IN Mesdames S. Lane and Crsalard.—And THI IDOLArO3II— a 4 64. HIGH WATS! AT LIMOS BIUDIIi TEIIII MY —Montag, 111%.1561..... Atesimoes, Ilh. 10-10.)1.1ww—Yeasam. N. 05..... Attansoon, Oh. lbas. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 23. SIB G. Lofts has placed on the paper of the House of Commons for this evening a notice of motion for authorising the expenditure of 1,200,0001. on fortifications during the awning year. It would seem, therefore, that Govern ment has resolved to stand firmly by the Report of the Defence Commissioners, without regard to the evidence adduced before them. Our readers will remember that the relative posi tion of the Commissioners and of the witnesses was in s general way that the former adhered to their original ideas respecting the superiority of forts over ships, while the latter confessed that the introduction of iron ships was an ele ment which they had not before contem plated, and which now led them to the conclusion that forts would not effect the purpose for which they were designed. An old proverb tells us that " a wise man changes his opinion often, a fool " never ;" and without insisting too much on its application, we may fairly claim a higher re gard for the evidence of those who frankly admit that, in spite of prior prejudioe, they have seen reason to alter their opinions, than for the dogmas of those who tell us that the revolution in naval warfare seems to them to leave the question of forts precisely where it stood before. But the course which the Government is about to take appears to involve a further sacrifice to traditionary ideas than even the Commissioners themselves have, at least recently, sanctioned with their authority. The battle has bean waged on the forts of Spithead as an outwork, bat Government is determined to claim a victory along the whole line. The vote which is to be asked from the House of Commons is for the fortification of the royal arsenide anddockyards, and of the ports of Portland and Dover, as well as for the acquisition of a central arsenaL Here, then, it is no longer Spithead only that is to be con sidered, but all that is done, or proposed to be done, in the way both of land and sea fortification, at Portsmouth, Plymouth, Portland, Pembroke, Chatham, Dover, and Cork ; and we are again pressed with demands upon the country for funds to carry out the whale enormous system of sta tionary defences which the Commissioners at first recommended, and which Government has in prin ciple adopted. It is indeed well that, if Government will not of itself advance with the times, public opinion should thus again have the opportunity of revising its judgment on the propriety of carrying on these prodigious works. Attention has perhaps been too exclusively concentrated on the points of interest which the Spithead forts suggested in con nexion with the course of American events, and we have overlooked the fact that while the Govern ment has yielded to the general demand for the suspension of operations there, it has nevertheless pressed forward the execution of similar works occupying a less prominent position. Thus, at Plymouth, inside the breakwater, a foundation is now being raised at the bottom of the sea to carry a fort similar to those at Spithead; but as it was not specifically referred to in the debate in the House, it has all this time been proceeded with. When the oversight was discovered, Sir G. Lawn promised that though he would not suspend the progress of the works, be would refer the propriety of their being carried further to the for re-consideration ; but Defence be Court. osmium, 3 21. - - Her Majesty, accompanied by the Priam of Wales, Princess Alice, Printer Heine, Prisons twine, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bealelee, sr. rived at Osborne at 20 minutes past 6 chinch yellow:lay afternoon from Windsor, attended by the ladies 'gad gen tlemen in waiting. RI7NDAT, Jong 22. The Queen, the Prime Wale., Plll3OlOl Align, sad Prince Arthur attended Divine service at Osborne this morning. The Rev. George Protbero officiated. Princess Helens and Princess Louise attended the service at Whippinghani church.. His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, attended by the Hoe. Oharles A. Murray, paid a private via to the Inter national Exhibition on Saturday morning. His Highness received a Mart in the afternoon from the Lord Mayor at the residence OM, Turkish Hallway, in Bryanoton-equare. His lordship arrived at five o'clock to pay his respects to the Viceroy. His Highness honoured Viscount Palmerston with his company at dinner in the evening, at his lordship'■ residence in Piccadilly. The Hon. Charles A. Murray attend ed the Viceroy, who was accompanied by his nephew, and whose mite comprised Zulfikar, his Highasse's Minister for Foreign Allah's, sod Mr. Larking, the Viceroy's agent ie this country. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturds=e official residence of the First Lord of the in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. O. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat on Saturday. An appeal from Kew South Wain, "Halm • Poor," was heard and judgment given by Lad Kingedown, Au appeal from Canada, "Macfarlane •. Luebke, " was commenced. The lords preseut were Lord Kiegulowa and the Lords Justices Knight Brace and Turner. . . . . Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Ciovsneor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada, and to the Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Islands Lord and Lady Vernon and the Hon. Louisa Versos Warren have left Farreace's Hole/ for Sodbary Hall. Derbyshire. Mrs. Malcomamo and Mies Malcomion have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel from Leeparda.town House, Stillorgan, for the season. they have, as a matter of course, approved its con tinuance. So also it has been shown by a parlia mentary return obtained a few weeks since, that contracts have been entered into for nearly the whole of the land and sea fortifications originally con templated, and that almost two millions have already been spent upon them. But heavy as this loss may be, it were far better that we at onoe re conciled ourselves to the fact that it has been fruitlessly wasted, than that we should continue to spend more and more in perfecting the huge and treacherous fallacy on the foundations of which it has been spent. For as regards every species of sea fortification we must reiterate that in the present state of gunnery all money is thrown away which is spent on the idea that guns can be effective at more than 600 yards' range. They have as yet failed at aught above 200 yards : it is not proved that even at that distance their supe riority is decisive. We are, indeed, promised bigger gnus, but their construction is still problematical ; and if they are made they may find that ships' sides are by that time coated with BILSSEUZII steel instead of iron, or that in some other way their power is neutralised. Yet it is on the Will-o'-the- Wisp hope that by the time the forts are built we shall have guns which can instantly sink a mail clad or cupola vessel at 2,000 or 3,000 yards that we are called on to continue an enormous outlay, not at Spithead only, but at every naval port, while we neglect those inventions by which we can, in any possible ciao, maintain our naval supremacy—by which we can bring the muzzles of our guns to the very port holes of our assailants' ships—by which we can give British seamanship scope for its accustomed triumphs, and by which we can, in the last resort, bring the boarding-pike to decide the victory be tween the contending struggles of material science. So, turning to that part of the Government scheme which involves a circuit of fortified posts round Portsmouth, Plymouth, Pembroke, and Chatham, we discover equal evidence of but half appreciation of the new conditions of war fare. The authorities have reoognised the fact that • large object, seek es • town or arsenal, may now be shelled at a range of five or six miles, and they have ac cordingly round these important points endes- Lord and Lady Taunton gave a grand ffte on Saturday linema: at their seat, Stoke Park, sear Slough, to a numerous circle of the aristocracyead foreign celebrities at present in this country. Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale honoured her ladyship with her compsay. Re freshments ware served in reverid of the principal rooms, and in a large tent erected on the lawn. Later in the evening her ladyship had a tall. . . The session of * the evening meetings at the Royal Institution was brought to a close on Friday with a lecture by Professor Faraday, and for at kat half-an-hour before its commencement all the seats, with the exception of those set apart for the manliest, were filled. The subject of the lecture was "Gas Obssa-hoar Formica, /a.* The Public Schools Commissioners visited West minster School on tialmudAy Lid, sad afterwards held meeting at their office, in Victoris-elweet. Preset: The Berl of Clarendon, the Earl of Devoe, toed iirtteltat, Prolamine W. H. Thompson, H. Haffeed Vaughan, Fag., sad the samba. y. . . . Commander Hay, RN., examiner to the Royal Mail Company at Southampton, has just invented a nautical pocket instrument, which is called a compound peotandar. It determines by chart the coarse to be steered from one position to enclitic in a moment of time. Augmlar dis tances of objects, either horizontal or vertical, can be taken by it with equal facility. It noddy affords the means of obtaining the sae's azimuth, amplitude, and mapielie boar inp, and it is capable of icing the =lei position el a ship, shoal, or place of the observer. _ _ _ . . The Right Rev. Dr. Clanghtott, the newly appointed Bishop of Colombo, will leave Itagatisd for his donee in about a month. Several other eolouial Whops, now in England, are expected to leave about the same time. It Is believed that there were never so meg ear:anal Whin sin London an there are at present. Among them are the Bishops of Sydney, Tasmania, Fretieristas, Nova Soot* St. Helena, Colombo, Ontario, Sorra Leone, and Jerusalem. The Tynemosith, belonging to Means. W. B. Lindsay and Co., which recently left Dartmouth for British Columbia, took out 260 passengers, including 60 female emigrants sent by Miss Eye and the London oom mittee for promoting female emigration to the colonies. The Tynemouth is the first steamer that hes left England died for Vancouver's Leland. Her engines are of 600 horse power. She carries coal for 50 days' steaming, and will eall at the Falkland Islands to fill up. On the lith of Angel* she will be followed by another ship bekegLeg to the same firm, the Robert Lome, of 1,600 Woe. Taw VlcisoY owFairr.—We (Liverpool Albion) have the pleasure to announce that the toyer Mir. B. HatehLoo), who is now in London, has invited the Viceroy of Egypt to visit Liverpool, and that his highows has as espied the invitation. The day is not yet litad. % 71 Priscr . , • 7 mit; . • e * voured to design • cordon o d f is t inot rtlata:dtii at LA ve , :lr I ELLWE thing approaching to that • eat they '- . •••• included in them additions! barracks for 30, IiNEHOH BISHOPS ASE E men. But they have overlooked the circumstance Several of the French bishops oniiturning to that if we build such fortifications, we must be their dioceses have met with a reception by no layered to hold them; that if seized by the means j 6 liocordance, with their representations 41 enemy they would be turned against ourselves, I th e h o l y c i ty. Demonstrations h ave taken place at while affording a place of refuge and organization I Nimes, Toulouse, and Rennes. At the latter to him ; and that to hold camps with from four to ; place the clerical party had taken great pains to twenty miles of land circunivollotion we should secure an ovation ; but, to their surprise and hor need in each a separate army of at the very ror, no sooner had the archbishop left the railway least as many thousand men. So in the event of station than an immense body of workmen and stn war, we are to have half-a-dozen garrisons, not one dents raised shouts of " Viva Garibaldi !" " Vive of which we dare weaken, amounting in an sggre- Mahe I" and some four or five hundred of them gate to some 150,000 troops, safely placed hors de surrounded his carriage, forming a most unexpected combat as regards an enemy who chooses any other cortdge, until he reached his palace. point on the coast for his landing. And so, in the event of peace, we must have at least an extra 30,000 men added to the strength of our standing army, because we have built forts which we dare not leave untenanted, lest by a coup de main on the part of an enterprising foe they might be secured by a small body sent scrota with the fleet which brings us a declaration of war. To all this imbecility we oppose the plain, com mon sense principles on which the defence of Eng land must ever rely. Her first line is the ocean, on which her supremacy must be kept unques tioned. Her second line is het people, that army of regulars and volunteers, which can, warned now by signals of far greater speed than the beacon flash or fiery cross of old, pour down, as we learned by experiment this spring, at the rate of 5,000 men an hour on any point which may be manacled. What mare may be needed to meet any possibility of momentary surprise: we shall not grudge. A few harbour batteries to dispose of say stray ship which may escape our fleet, a few power ful guns to bar the narrow entrance of rivers or ports, may be useful and proper aids. But our safety from attack must lie in the knowledge that attack would be fatal to the assailants, that they could find no cover on our shores to save them from being swept into the ass, that they could transport no army which, with its communicatioos cut off, would not be compelled to lay down its arms on the beach on which it landed. This we cannot do if we build fortifications ' • but all this 'we can do if Government will bat trait the na tion, if it will but devote its funds to the reorgani zation of the navy, and if it will but give its attention to the popularizing of the militia as our true national force. ~c~ ROME. ENGLISH REACTIONARIES AND FRANCIS IL On the 14th instant a grand fate took place at the QuirinaL The ex-Sing Francis IL, surrounded by his ministers and court, received on that day an English—or rather Irish—deputation, entrusted with the presentation to him of a sward of honour. The deputation was beaded by Cardinal Wiseman and Dr. Cullen. The ex-Sing was greeted with cries of " Vire les Bourbons !" A Correspondent of the Temps says :—" The sword is a very hand some one ; it is now exhibited, and I have this morning been to see it. At the guard is a bag relief in masaive gold representing Omni and its ' fortifications. On one akin of the city is 04 1 • Ffir donna, on the other St. Januarius. Engraved upon it are these words, To legitimacy and Honour.' Upon the handle are rubies and emeralds. The steel, which is English, is superb, and the sheath of the richest description." TEE RUSSIAN AGITATION. The Northern Pod of St. Petersburg, of the 17th, has the following note : Depositions of various operatives in fit. Petersborg have mailed the beet that in two Sunday schools—that of Samp • eon, in the Wyborg quarter, and that of the Presentation of the Holy Virgin—are taught doctrines tending to overturn religious Wish, to propagate socialist ideas as to the right of property, sad to smite hatred against the government. Two workman who attended the Sampson school, and are now at the other one, have been allowed to utter seditious speeches upon political revolutions, upon the utility of isswaltary fires, upon the necessity of burning St. Peters. burg to the ground. &c. The workmen in question have *Ail, arrested by order of the military governor pawl The Northern Post goes on to state that the Emperor has ordered a oomtnission of inquiry, and that the two schools have bees closed. St: Petersburg letters of thelth state that no one there believes that the fires are the result of accident. The details of tie disasters and their geography, so to speak, show a fired plan and • cunning organisation. Proclamations of various kinds continue to circulate in the chief cities. Some of these papers fir the moment for general action for the day of the inauguration of the monument of Novogorod, which has been fired for the 2nd of August, the millenary' anniversary of the foundation of the Russian empire. Already the government, warned by this threat, has ad journed the inauguration till thelith of September. "It is surrounded, in fact," says one correspondent, "by alarming symptoms. Proclamations are dis- tributed in the imperial palace, and are reprinted in several of the towns." (aiansee Tnzazam.) ELECTORAL HESSE. CASSEL, Jturz 23. The government proclamation, mentioned on the 21st as being in preparation, was issued here yester day evening. It relates to the re-establishment of the constitu tion of 1831, and the electoral law of 1849. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ' ' (nom OUR owa col PARIS, SUNDAY Eviainro. There is a strong impression that there will be a general election before the end of the year. The careful language used on the subject by M. Benche the other day, while showing that be had no com mission to make any revelation, is soareely con aistent with the hypothesis that the Emperor means to defer an appeal to the constituencies till the latest legal moment, which would be altar the session of 1863. M. Gueroult makes some striking remarks upon the electoral question in the Opinion Nationak. If the government decides to have the elections this year, it will show that it does not fear an appeal to the people ; it will be able to choose its own hour to raise or solve certain ques tions—to select, in short, its own battle-field, and to have its own watchword. But if the elections are allowed to stand over till next year, the position of the government will, or, at any rate, may be lens favourable. Whatever happens, the elections " must " take place then. There may be a bad harvest; there may be commercial distress and consequent discontent among the working claws ; there may be an unexpected, an unlucky, an unpopular war— no matter, the utmost legal delay will have expired, and the government will have no choice but to go to the country, and accept the result whatever it may be. M. Gueroult, therefore, evidently inclines to the opinion that it is for the interest of the Emperor to have the elections this year rather than next. He then touches with cautious bold ness upon the importance of the event which may come almost immediately, and which cannot be long postponed. Ten years have elapsed since the proclamation of the empire, but in reality the present Emperor has been in power fourteen years ; for his first and most genuine election was that which made him presi dent of the republic in 1848. Fourteen years—a considerable period in the life of any nation —is in France, X Gueroult ventures to say, "climacteric." Fourteen years is about the average period of the duration of all the governments that France has seen since 1789. Of course he hastens to add that this reflection "Is in no way menacing to the imperial govern ment, whose destinies, as all men must see, are far from being exhausted." There is, therefore (and here, as it seems to me, the writer slightly qualifies his preceding sentence), nothing " necessarily fatal or alarming in the idea that the fourteen years are out, but still it is far from being a matter of in difference ; an old lease is expired, and a new one is beginning." He then alludes to a consideration on which liberal politicians in France found their most serious hopes, namely, that a new generation has arisen nine 1851, which is a stranger to the influences which made the France of that day submit to the coup ciltat. The youths of 1851 are now men, the virile generation of that day has attained riper years, and the middle-aged men have become old. The panic fear of "disorder" which prevailed In 1861 was never felt by the young men of 1882, and is forgotten by those who are now in the second period of manhood. Old men may say, "we tried liberty and it failed in our hands ;" but the young will reply, "we should like to try it again and we believe it will succeed." tt- .:•4410 JTJ 2$ 1662 R Af t t it er , : en tltall o tto the transformatit of 11 2 Fuz etANMIL FESTIVAL i oons•• time has effected, 3/ 1 , Gusto This great to-day ;but con esisi7.—n began jorges uirif — the government the necessity . derin the vait multitudes who bed to the making up its mind upon the subject of Rome; . seheareal *l g ,on Saturday, that day may be regarded which must necessarily be the great theme of the as having really been the ecninseneement of the miming elections. It is to be expected that the Festival. Probably as many people were present clergy, the legitimists, the militant Orloaniste, and at the rehearsal as there will be during any of the the protectionists, will do their best to organise in regular PFientlenoes of this week. In a musical the electoral bureaux the same sort of coalition . r e ai t t e al vrlfew' the ter s m rehearsal cannotA 1 ta..11 1 .1 against the government which they have done in , private " preparation for a y. public perfor the Academy. • "Calvin and Loyola (read K mance, not the public performance itself. Ouisot and Kde Moutalembert) will publicly kiss The chorus and the instrumental orchestra, each other on both cheeks, and the historians o f the individual singers and players--are must ered under the standard of their chief, are arranged in the empire and the revolution will combine theiy e rge a r i zla v c o es, go throu gh privately l what they to support that temporal power which in their are ob tthro vved u an g d p eo ub vvected icly, em by ery ca e ve rror ul writings they formerly accused of ignorance and being vigilantly incapacity." The Roman question, the writer 1 repetition, till the requisite precision is obtained. very well argues, baa become more important fur But this is a thing which cannot be done in pre- Francs than for Italy. Italy Can afford to bide I senoe of a crowd of auditors and spectators. Let au an- Itere be e are :o ver so t m as an t y o m am is o ta un ke t e, to they mu, unless en her time. Rome is now for her a shackle, noyance, an impediment, but not a danger. The st ill, th be quietly passed over, a and the w hat of the temporal power is certain, and Italy can called rehearsal becomes nothing more than look on patiently at its dying contortions. But an imperfect performance. Nobody knows is France the question of the temporal power is 1 this better than the able conductor, Mr. Costa, merely the question of divine right in disguise. If :l i t it . al we !' a " . o r , mak " a in vf. he r.abear; the Pope, as the bishops say, has the right to cern:d e , in itie n o v nl t ; Zl ii re ever lia y adei mie F u eltir to u r i ctohis govern the Romans in spite of themselves, -ii -1 1 we do not. blame him, for it, seems a usattv of ne plain that by the same reasoning the Count de oessity. To have a real rehearsal, with 4,000 per- Chambord has a better right than Napoleon 111. formers, at the Crystal Palace, was perhaps impos sible, or at any rate would have involved a heavy to govern the French. It is therefore against the war which the clergy of the 38,000 nse, while a nominal rehearsal would produce tsa • Alb " 4 exPe of course it did—a large amount of pro fi t ; France is prepared to wage upou the Emperor' that while it 'so happened that many of the pieces per he should prepare by a frank adhesion to the formed on Saturday, particularlythe choruses in The principles of 1789, in which alone his strength Messiah, were so familiar to the performers that consists. they stood little is need of reheussl. One advantege In connexion with the above subject I cite the certainly was gained by the rehearsal of Saturday. The va rious bodies were "brigaded together," following observations from the Temp.: taught to know their places and their neighbours, Tree ie no recent sot of seclasiarkel antheritY whieltis en d formed into an organized whole. not a &Gros to the spirit of modern society. We are This musical boat was such a one as never was woes to hoe inquiry, and we are joked to believe in the assembled before. Not to go bock to the " great l miracles of Lourdes and the &lett.. We have little who commemorations of Handel" in the last oenturA for mysteries ; the new dogmas of the Immaculate .ComelP• which, though matters of wonder at the time, Wm ties is deuced. We ars mistrustful of winter; the dumb now become insignificant, the growth of thus mode all the us,' to Japan to bring us a new batch. We armies, in our own day, has been enormous. So would blot out the very revoecohnor of such • thing aa • recently as 1857 the musical strength at the Crystal holy war ; the Archbishop of Tonlour proposes a jubilee Palace was about 2,500 ; in 1850, about 3,000 • io to commemorate one. We regard family rights as sacred i 1882, about four thousand; and, at the mime ;ate, the Holy See steels a child from its Jewish parents. We we may prospectively estimate the assembled heel, think that • nation ought not to be subject to • rvernmeet three years henoe, at five thousand, or perhaps • which it abhors ; three hundred bishops assemble in the still greater number. Whether this mountable= 1 capital of the Christian world to proclaim that the belotism of numbers is a real increase of strength, is a gusti of the Romans is the sine qua non of the catholic religion. tics into which we shall not aow enter. There is but one thing more its than the blinder' of The number just mentioned, of 4,000, inelidilit I Rome, and that is the terror of titre who think it possible the chorus only. Thant is besides an instrusesmiell that society can ever again be brought under the dominion orchestra nearly 900 strong, in addition to the 1 of such a faith and such pretensions. great organ. The choral voices are drawn, nal I The Conference of Advocates, which is frequented from London alone, but from all parts of the king-1 ; G not merely by youhg barrister* but by the beads of dour Birmingham, Norwich, loucester, Woe te Hereford, !ads, Manchester, Liverpool, ax, Huddersfield, and away the pro f ession , discussed the following question at ;La rd, York, B their weekly meeting yesterday, M. Rivolet in the other places Contribute their quotes, of d ehair — •.—"Has tie Prefect of Police of Paris, and before this day those detached soignee h ave the prefects o f t h e d epu t ation * th e right t o have only been twice . brought together, at Exeter-hall on Friday evening, and on . Saturticy seize letters in the post-office in cases where there morning at the Crystal Palace. The readiness with is no flagrant dell I" The question, suggested by which they seemed to coalesce, and the smoothness the recent conduct of the government in the case with which, on the latter occasion, they moved of K Tanle's letter to Ledru Rollin, was decided together, was really surprising, and gave a striking in the negative. proof of the high condition which &eine-singing Ms reached in England. ___ EMIGRATION. REPORT OF THZ 0011MHZIONEBS. This morning the general report of the Emigre, [or 1881 was issued. Emigration from the United Kingdom attained its maximum in 1852. In 1855 emigration began to fall off. It revived to • slight eistere in 1867, but since then bee again fallen off. In the year 1861 the number who left the United Kingdom was only 91,779, being the smallest emigration in any year since 1844, and a reduction. as compared with 1860, of 36,699, and as compared with 1852 of 256,964. The (rut reduction was of course is the emigration to the United States, which fell from 87,500 in 1860 to 49,764 in 1861. The decrease to Australia was only from 24,302 to 23,758, while to British America there was an increase from 9,786 to 12,707. And, u might be expected, the principal diminution was in Irish emigration, which fall from 60,835 to 36,322, being a decrease of 24,513, or more than two-thirds of the whole reduction. Even if civil war bad not broken out in the United States, it is probable that the emigration to that country would Dever have recovered its fanner proportions. As it con sisted almeet entirely of Irish, the depletion of Ireland by the excessive emigration of recent years must, under any circumstances, have brought it down to moderate propor tions. Between 1841 and 1851 the population of Ireland fell from 8,175,124 to 6,515,794, or • decrease of 1,659,330 ; but during the same period the Irish emigration amounted to at lead 1,289,000 scale, or more than three-fourths of the decrease. Between 1851 and 1861 the popubition of Ireland fell from 6,515,794 to 5,764,543, or a decrease of 751,251. But during the same period the Irish emigra tion We/ upwards of 1,210,000 souls. Even, therefore, after making allowance for Irish settled in England before 1851, who may be included in the return of Irish emigtante, there remains a large margin to be accounted for only by the ester of births over deaths in Ireland. The amount of remittances from settlers in America to their friends in the United Kingdom in 1861 was, u far as the commissioners hare been able to ascertain, 426,2851. The above amount, mourning, as is probable, that the peat bulk of it was sent from and to Irish, would have been more than doable what was necessity to pay the whole ex pense of Irish emigratim. The emigration has again been very healthy. The mor tality in ships proceeding to the United States (for returns of which the oommiesioners are obliged to depend on the shipowners) has been only •05 per cent. In ships proceed ing to the St. Lynnee it was •0t per cent., midge the government ships to Australia it was yenta During 1861 no accident attended with lose of life oc• caned to aey passenger ship. Of 307 ships which sailed from the United Kingdom, one, the United States, was wrecked at the entrance of the St. Lawrence, but the mew and passengers were saved. No other casualty occurred. The principal choruses performed (we do not say rehearsed) on Saturday were " Chorus" and "For unto us a Child is barn, * from the Messiah : the " Hailstone Chores," _ "H. net a thee Disetneek" *ma braid in Bad; " Dead dial live," - from the Ode en St. Cecitia's Day ; Wretched Lovers," from Ads and Galatea ; " Haste thee, Nymph," from the Allegro : "May no rash Intru der." from Solomon ; and " See the conquering Hero conies," from Judas Maccabees. There were several solo performances. Mdlle. Titling swig " 0 had I Jubare Lyre," and " Let the bright Se raphim ;" Madame Linnaeus Sherrington, " Hash i i s l i a r a T i i i t:y warbling choir" and "So shall the Late;' e Bandon-Dolby sang the recitatives intro ductory to the choruses in Solomon ; Mr. Sims Reeves, " Love in her Byes sits playing," from Ade and Gdol ; Signor Belletti, "Revenge, Time thous cries," from the Ode on St. Ceoilia's Day ; and Mr. Weiss, " Haste thee, Nymph," from L'Allegro. Mr. Bentley, whose name was in the list of per formers, did not appear. It was very gratifying to find that the great ex pense incurred in improving " the great Handel Orchestra" has not been thrown away. The effect produced by the roof thrown over it, and the lateral walls (as they may be called) of sonorous material, was even greater than bad been anticipated. The sound, being thus concentrated and projeeted into the space occupied by the audience, has gained that fulness and distinctness the lack of which has hitherto been so much complained of ; and this was the case not only with respect to the choruses but also the solo voices and the most delicate instru mental accompaniment& A good dad of confusion and difficulty took place in the transit of the vast assemblage of visitors both to and from the Crystal Palace. Mul titudes of them arrived so late that the commence ment of the performance was delayed for nearly an hour after the appointed time. But these incon veniences, we trust, will be obviated. On the whole there is no reason to doubt that the festival will be completely and brilliantly suooesduL The weather this morning, though at times such as to cause apprehension, has been on the whole satisfactory, the sun having, whatever foreign visi tors may say on the subject, shone out at frequent intervals, and the rain kept off entirely. The cab traffic towards the London bridge and Victoria stations was exceedingly great up to noon—the latest period that could safely be chosen for departure for the great musical fee , tival of the year. The arrivals from the country north, eant, and west of London by early trains have also been numerous, and for the day Sydenhain will have run a successful race of competition for public favour with Kensington, and, as may now be added, the remote region of Battersea The Emperor Napoleon is still actively en gaged in writing the account of the conquest of Gent by Julius Camay. He has sent one of his aides- THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. cle-aamp to Boulogns.eur-Mer to ascertain the ex act position of the Itius Portus. Antiquaries differ The success of Saturday's reduction of price at in opinion on this gutsiest. According to Walkenaer, that the Exhibition has decided the question of whether ancient Gallic port gess situate at Wissant. Others or no one day of the week 'halite thrown away on at Ambleteuse or at Boulogne. Others are of opinion that it the mere loungers. Notwithstanding the counter was more to the north—at Calais, or at Mardyke. All attraction at the Crystal Palace, the numbers who these contested points ere to be cleared up in the Emperors paid for admission were nearly double the return work. of a five-shilling day, and but for the Handel res in a letter from the Times correspondentat Rome tival recital would have been perhaps treble or we read :—" Among the numerous presentations to his quadruple. But it is not merely in the increased Holiness during the last few days has been Mr. Randall. number of visitors that the expediency of the re- United States' Minister, who speaks no other language than duction is felt, but also in the discriminating cha- American. His excellency, in a good stump speech, re racier of the company. It was rather humiliating e gretted that at the prevent moment his government was in to see a collection of rare and valuable, and useful au embarrassed state in consequence of the rebellion of the and instructive objects made merely the scene of an South, but declared that their institutions were safe, as the I idle promenade, and a precious day thrown away in principles in which they were founded were eternaL ;Re every week which might otherwise have been so was instructed by the President to convey his deep symper profitably employed in a careful inspection. &Aar thy with his Holiness, and to express an earoeet wish that day's company formed one g i gan ti c cour t o f the Pope might be successful in the accomplishment of examiners. The picture galleries had their full, but his objects, and that his throne might be established. not overflowing audience ; and you actually saw In short, it was a kind of '0 King, live for ever' speech. people looking at the pictures. At almost His Excellency was accompanied by the consul and Mr. every second step you knocked against the Smith, who translated the speech for the benefit of the I connoisseur with his catalogue roiled up telescope Pope, and translated it in so liberal a manner as greatly to j fashion, or his hand semi-closed ? and held up delight the paternal heart. According to hie version the to his eye, in the position which the earnest Preeidest expressed a hope that his Holiness, might overcome I amateur adopts, in order to confine his vision ex all his enemies, and that his sovereignty might be confureitL I elusively to the immediate object of contemplation. Either the sinister must hays exceeded his instructioris, or 1 The compan y who flock to the Exhibition may, in the Praidesi is bidding high for catholic and conservative fact, be divided into three daises, which are moist favour, I s which ease he may probably stand a chance of accurately defined and divided by the prices being honoured with the title, if not of the 'eldest eon,' at hitherto charged for admission. The shilling Last of the most slalom fried ol the church." . public, who come armed with babies and "noes- Large quantities of copper chrome have been hags," are the learners and wonderers the half found ne•r Nelson, New Zealand. Gold has also teen found crown Yisaitors ale the make and lodge , : and Ur there, and oval. The ship Sir George Pollock cleared foe . eve•elalheg company the leveieeedete s od Load°, from N e l son on m uch 14 w i t h 4, 764 0 .. o f rm . ' tors—of themselves, who come to be seen mace 30 tons of chrome than to see. This last classmust now waited to According to late Australian advice& all Owe I fuse and disPPeer into She 43614 ; and it is to be and rum pieced in quarantine for the parpo.es of the Cattle hoped that they will be improved by the contact Dimas Prevention Act base been ' , Awed teem quizaatbee. and good example. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon visited the building in the course of the day ? and the pub lic, advised of his ooming by a previous announce ment in the morning papers, were ready to give him the usual ovation. His Imperial Highu m was received by Sir Wentworth Dike on beh a lf o f the Commissioners, Earl Grenville being absent on a more solemn duty, and, attended by A very nu merous suite, passe d through several of the courts. He succeeded in getting through the Ohms/ Court unmolested, but was unfortunately detected whilst taking a hasty &nos at the Koh-i-noor, to ethi c ", Sir W. Dilke had directed his attention. The mob then formed in an instant, and followed, dodg e d, and out-flanked the Imperial party all through the Precious Metal Court. At Mr. Hancock's case the Prince stopped to examine the Devonshire getwi, and was in the act of looking at the well-know n diadem which contains the locket portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Leicester, when the enemy advanced in force, and the exhibitor was obliged to give his Imperial Highness a means of retreat, by pa ss i ng him right through the stand, and raising a po r ti on of the rail, the moveability of which had hitherto happily escaped public notice. We don't know, of course, exactly bow closely the visitors to the D og show, during the present week, will consider them selves jusliAed in examining . the specimens, b u t if we know anything of canine temper, anything like the inspection to which royal and imper ia l personages are obliged to submit at the Interna tional Exhibition will be very apt to disturb the harmony of the show. The evil is really assum ing monstrous proportions, and will, if the public do not learn to keep their curiosity within rea unable bounds, at last banish all celebrities from the Exhibition. On this occasion Prince Napoleon was almost hustled out, and, by a curious coinci dence, in company with a distinguished French nobleman of tie motion regime, and a day or two before the Prince of Wales bad to beat a hasty re. treat from the Process Court, where his Royal I l an u i g ess had been watching the process of pipe. with 'considerable interest. We suppose that t ese royal and imperial personages are willing to accept a reasonable amount of staring as the penalty of their high position, but the manner in Which they are followed and impeded at the Ex hibition is beyond all bearing, besides implying the existence of a spirit of fliinkeyism in the public, of whieh a free people like ours ought In be of One of the most attractive spectacles which have taken place in the International Exhibition since its opening came off on Friday evening before a very limited audience. For some time previous the pm aibility heel been mooted of illuminating the whole interior by means of the electric light, generated according to the improved process which is daily to be seen in operation in the western annex. •On this occasion the Cattily was erected at one sad al the building, and shot a broad column of the brightest daylight quite to the other end. The sustaining power of the new process was Billy proved, but the well-known defect of the electric light in leaving everything beyond its influence in comparative darkness—in other words, its abeam of diffusive quality—was also perceptible. Another inoonvenience was that the eyes of persons approtiell ing the light were so dazzled that they could see nothing ; but with these drawbacks the east was extremely beantifuL Mr. Mayo is now imaged In experiments by means of which he hopes to neutra lize the dazzling, and the complete illumination of the building can be obtained by placing lights at various angles rd the interior. Mould it ultimately be found possible, steadily and universally to illu minate the interior by means of electricity, the problem of a night exhibition will be solved, aswith the electric light all danger of fire will be avoided. The success of the evening exhibition at the Royal Academy has not improbably turned the attention of the Commissioners to this subject. The number of visitors on Saturday was as fol lows:—By season tickets, 8,306; by payment, 12,291; total, 20,597. OPENING OF TER ROYAL AGRICULTURAL IIHOW.—(THIll DAY ) The masa show .of the Royal Agrifilefiligl Smithy of England opined this monde. is Balinese-wk. when the piastimMery arreesseesses have teen far Mlle Mme in propene, and, se be as the sapid GI the nrossdit esseaesad; apprestly with ecimplete enewes. The exhibition,' as is moil. oomph= adrioultaral bold& mega, machines, and ether utiles for farm purpose", esecit roots, manures, W., for the inspection of which by the public it will contiams open until the tad of July. It Is three' 'dishiest deportmente, awry, snewhinery Is meths, and catkin. The Amt two only ere throws erallit awe* ; the wpm* of the lest Axed for Welmmele.. The whole cover an area of about 20 seam el vale emblem: amen are devoted to the ma chinery he maim the ether portion being about equally dltehisibesems maddesszy smi while, the Werth of "shed. Ote. • appopriated to the former big about mile, sad that appropriated to the latter nbout 14 mile. In the machinery departments the amber of avitthitat is about 270 ; the number of shade brine 17 mein lion "A " to " Q "), tie number el wide' 5,064. Within the area of she madainery departuret are its Mame of the reesetery, tic Ikeda', Yr. Beware& Gibbs Nom secretary of the tiotiltfield Club), and the ecetrector, se well as several exteeive refreshment booths, those be to N a as SW elm being eoadeeted by Mr. Woodruff* is ioma sew to his lined lssisees), and those maim veer the desemissibos tie " snood class" (so wise at sts being sold here), loft mewed by Mew. NOW and Bal dwin, of the Task. TIMM, Citesawiii. The grandentrawe to We ground is oe the south ids. whew visitors paw firm* • tarnetile upon the " telltale" priaciple, sad which ft le to be hoped will tell its tale mere amerately than those of the Great laternatiosal Rxbibitiee Oa peeing through this turnstile the visitor wet at ere be struck with the clew end plesamt aspect of ("MAW within the range of villain There i AM as opts 015,1 onsiderable portion of which is covered with rows of disin upon which the weary may net themselves. Th ere ere ben, too, small huts far the wa led astalogoes, ad what I wee important to bruisers% there is also • smell lode the odes of th e interpreter," Mr. Nepolosa. os Swetakocaki, who the great iNlimmtae mm fw such an °Moe of hag ehmea lineages. The sheds rue in loos ranges biked this epee arm (s" which it is proposed to have a military band), with a • ample space between for light, ventilation, and the pomp of upstate,., and with • wide central opaniog or aide sp prating them into two great divisions. With the exception of one whisk is devoted to " seeds and roots," they" filled with machine" and implementa of every cm mind& demelplies, every department being carefully Mr aided, and every elms embracing a variety of develop Malt Ind detail perfeetly bewildering. Nothing is ablest that alaray p.kbein he connected with agriculture-- front the steam pion% to the from the patent ho the pant_ pitchfork,se chow.. exhibits. bee Ids wale euesp iseea ly dispLyed at his and the eye eaccessively rests en the well-known senses E Taxied, Cromildll, Clayton, Shottlewo rt tinned,fl older, and others, aninent am agncidtaral mschr Wit" and emilseine. The anuagement of the various shads was only fives effected ea Saturday night—in fact • few articles were ea milted this rooming ; and while this mean it in. pomade, in • hasty preliminary notice, so dwell ups* particular merits of individual exhibitors, it is aim Ml* Bible to avoid doing justice to the all but absolute sir d oompletion which prevailed throughout thesheds when thou! were thrown open to the public. point of variety, perhaps of novelty, the present show is vastly snow It the any previous we ; and there eau be no doubt that Imo reedy somas to tie site, the number el visitors the yes will greatly exceed that of any former year. The malt. a sounia, be to a great *pent • matter of maim tun ; but the authorities confid ent l y e xtricate that on each of the three shilling days (commix°. osa_... Monday), the number of paying visitor, will armed 100,VP per day. The area appropriated be the " Machinery i n Main. deperwest, =like that cal the " Machinery," powwow! the morning • rather rough and somewhat unready a ppeersoos There wee so lack °I is machines upou the smiled, ard hen and there the eye deteeted the mad revolotiocs of ' Ay wheel, or the ear fie homing soh GI • revolving star; but emu the Wes/ants meseed so be employed ID ling up the Mesa, or tends, the list screw, or gotta( • the last pin. Tomorrow, no doubt, everything will bits due order, and the machinery in motion department feet iBt at az. and more then su ffi ciently postbag son- eye. It boss mated shady that the cattle department I met open till Wednesday. Into this ,azW- est • nom o. feature has been this year introdneeL via. lb , Mitten of foreign stock (there is so forelia alirsta7), end although the quantity thus. to the exhibition will not be very it will certainly attract • considerable amount of 'twee • hem British eoesoimeurn as well as from those b° •1•11 he it fall" to adjudicate the prime. Pest of the cattle et" rW peeked from slimed have already arrived, bat rely astallbroporbos of the mitre contribution' to the ita asi row tie ra ai w irnt ili t e relsiai devoted will takemtoe tiei o n s ginsi grew"L by railsmillto-VidiaitafiodiosetgatarriTra'sio.o:t-s•