The Express. — London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC (RUM'S 7ZUMIAMIL) JOURNEY OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Anu. 2L The King has left for the seat of war. Advkes from Rendsburg state that Marshal von Wrangel had arrived there. The town was decorated. RENDSBUEG, APRIL 21._ The King of Prussia, accompanied by the 3ltui,ter .4 War, Herr von Roon, arrived here this iuurnit4. His Majesty was enthusiastically re ...rived at the railway station. Herr Wiggers a ddressed the King, who replied in cordial terms. Toting dressed in the national colours grow , ' flowers before the King. The band played the Prussian National Hymn and the Song of SICSW i.,:-Holstein amidst the cheers of the people. Salutes were tired from the Carlshdtte (an iron Fundry near Rendsburg). FLENSBURG, Aram 21. The King of Prussia arrived here at 11 o'clock ti,i' morning, and was received by the Crown Prince, Prince Frederick Charles, and Field Mar %Li Gablenz. His Majesty drove through the t o m:, the cheers of the people. The church bell , were rung. The King lunched at the Hotel Ra-eb. and proceeded at 12.30 p.m. on his journey to Poppet. THE FALL OF DUFFEL. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 20, 12.15 r.m. N..thing importance occurred at the seat of sm. c-terday. Hostilities were suspended for six Among our killed are oue general ci dividon and two commanders of brigade. A 1{ 4 , 4 truce. was sent to the enemy to obtain in tclli.,licc of our officers, wounded and prisoners. om,r killed have fallen into the hands of the i SON DERBORG, Aran 19, 9 A.m. N uhauge has taken place in the position of •iu:r yesterday evening. A few shots only during the night. GRAVENSTEIN, APRIL 20. our loss on Monday in killed and wounded 1 i ,awted to tiO officers and upwards of 1,000 men. The Vanish loss, inclusive of prisoners, is at least 4.900 men. 811 Prussians, many of whom are ~ rely wounded, and 21 Danish officers and 580 :Hot are now iu our hospital. AMERICA. (Per the America.) NEW YORK, APRIL 9, MORNING. A slight engagement, lasting three hours, on eurred on the 28th ult., 35 miles above Alexandria, Louisiana, between 8,000 Federals and the Confe derates, who were estimated 12,000 strong. The Federals are reported to have captured 500 pri soner., and then continued! advancing, endea vouring to bring on a general engagement. The Confederate ram Tennessee is reported to have sunk at Grant's Pass, Mobile, during a gale. The Senate has passed a resolution amending the Constitution, so as to abolish slavery. The resolution has yet to pass the House of Represen tative.; and the State Legislatures. In Louisiana the election for delegates to the State Constitutional Convention has resulted in the success of the Free State party. Au enormous mass meeting of working men has been held in New York, protesting against legisla ' tire intt.rference with strikes. NEW YORK, Aran 8, Erman. Forrest is moving out of Kentucky. It is rumoured he intends attacking Memphis. News generally unimportant. COMMERCIAL DTTELLICENCE. NEW YORK, Aran. 8, EVIX7IIO. Money tighter. Government has fixed the rate gold at 165 for the next eight days. It opened iu the market yesterday at 171 i, but bas since been declining, and is now quoted 1691. Exchange on London : Bankers' bills, 154 i to 1541 ; on Paris, 15 to 3.2 i. There was a strong speculative down ward reaction in stocks yesterday afternoon. The market is, however, recovering to-day, and prices are advancing. New York Centrals, 1431 ; Illinois, 1481 ; Erie, 12:.q, ; Six per Cent. U.S. Bonds, 114. Cotton steady. Midland Upland, 76c. Flour sc. biOier, advancing. Wheat quiet, at an advance of lc. Corn quiet. Provisions rising. Coffee and molasses very firm. Sugar steady. Petroleum, crude, 34i ; refined 49c. to 51c. NEW YOEK, APRIL 9, Mosam. Money tight. Gold, 170. APPEAL ON BEHALF OF POLAND BY THE FRENCH COMMITTEE The Franco-Polish committee hare addressed the following appeal for Poland to " the friends of justice and humanity ?' A fresh appeal to public sympathy has become necessary in presence of fresh misfortunes and of growing necessities. hi the one band, the means to which we have recently had recourse for alleviating heroic misfortune have failed Li. The authorities have not granted to no the renewal of the conferences of the Salle Barthi l.my they have not permitted us to continue and develop those direct relations with the public which had such an excellent moral effect for the came, and which had begun to considerably increase our resources. On the other band, fresh calamities have fallen upon Poland, sad they are day by day multiplying in terrible proportions the number of the victims. The bond momentarily loosened which unites thethree accomplices lathe great crime of 1772, is now drawn closer ; Austria has returned to her policy of left; and 1f49. The Austrian government follows in Gali cia the traces of Berg and Yourawiew. Women of the people have been condemned to the butooado ; illustrious Wks are brought before the Austrian criminal tributhis for organising assistanos for the wounded and emir. leek& sal equivocal ors can anal nothing I .:sicat official documenta published by the Austrian government in Gailicia, or against those circulars which order the frontier to be absolutely closed against every l'Aish-Russian subject not furnished with a Russian pies arid forcibly nod back to their country all foreigners without regular passports that is, deliver over the Polish ref apes to death or Siberia. Odious and afflicting detail. aeon the execution of these measures reach us every ds:r. A multitude of unfortunate people escaped before the Let ordonance decreeing their extradition or an still ramping, thanks to the efforts of a courageous compassion. They are traversing Germany to take refuge in France. formerly among the Poles the rich assisted the poor ; now there are no rich, all are involved in a common run, in the e nein) of distress uin the equality of devotion. We coo. -ire French sympathy to concert and to unite in order to amid misfortunes, which have never been so numerous or cruel. Peril. April 15,1864. (The Damao of the committee follow.) WC:4 INI,IA AND PACIFIC STEAM-,H I P COY. 'NT 11.1wrin).—Mr. F. A. Clint, chairman of the board f directors, presided at as extraordinary general meet* ' 4 the shareholders of this company, which was held at Liverpool yesterday, when it was ounimously resolved to increase the capital of the company from one million to by the issue of 5,000 new shares of 501. each. This resolution will have to be confirmed ate special meet ,or to be held on the 11th May. The thalamus &earthed the prospects of the company es highly suisfacitory. E "tc in. STCAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. We understud that the British government have jut Goe r ;' , 61 an arrangemeot with this company for en extension their mail contract for • period of seven years from k In additioe to the subsidy from the British vernment for the woveY anoe of the English math thaws.= r mama and Valparaiso twkeis each month, the company subsidies from all the local governments for the carry ,.4o( the local mails as far south as Chiles. and the var." along the line of coast between Payta, Valparaiso, usl hiloe ere now four times • inciath. THE EXP. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. BHA KESPRAItZ FORBIDDEN. (nom oul owl ooszzeromuzsr.) PARIS, THURSDAY Evutra. It is most true that the English Shakespeare banquet is interdicted: The thing was done in the most off-band way, without apology, explanation, I or even direct communication with the English committee. A police agent went yesterday to the Grand Hotel, where the banquet was ordered, and coolly said, " Yon will let those gentlemen know that they will not be allowed to have their dinner." An employi of the hotel took this message to Mr. Yapp, the honorary secretary—and that was all. The considerable expenses incurred, the arrange ments made with a view to April 23 by Englishmen who, from their rank and position, have many engagements, and the legitimate desire of English residents in general to participate in the celebration of Shakespeare's tercentenary, were ali held of no amount, and a harmless festivity was put down with as little ceremony as an electoral meeting. The committee have, however, perhaps wisely— at all events, meekly resolved not to consider themselves affronted, and they will not condescend to ask the English ambas sador to prefer a remonstrance which could hardly fail to be seriously listened to. Annoying and ridiculous as the conduct of the authorities is, it is quite clear that they bear no malice and enter tain no suspicion against the English residents. If the dinner had been, as by the light of present events, it is now seen that it ought to have been, an English dinner exclusively, it would never have been interfered with. Unfortuuately the festival is swamped, because the committee guilelessly and large-heartedly accepted the proffered co-operation of Frenchmen. When a gentlemanly Frenchman, M. Leroy, got up at the public meeting at Lord Cowley's, and made the proposition, seconded by the Rev. Archer Gurney, that on the ground of Shakespeare being the poet of the world, anti not of England only, the banquet should be inter national, it never occurred to any Englishmen pre sent that Frenchmen labour under anch social disabi lities that no twenty of them can dine together without the permission of the Prefect of Police. M. Leroy, when proposing to join a set of English men on jovial thoughts intent, forgot that he was presuming to exercise a liberty which the laws of ' his country, voted by universal suffrage, do not permit French citizens to enjoy. The English committee understand this now. Given the posi tion, which it is not for them to dispute, that it was a political necessity to prohibit the exclusively French banquet with Victor Hugo's vacant chair, they are not disposed to deny the consequence that the English dinner, to which Frenchmen might have obtained admittance by buying tickets, could hardly be allowed to come off. Another time they will know better. It is a dangerous thing, as Messrs. Roebuck and Lindsay know to their cost, to report any converse- Ration with Napoleon 111. Even such a courtly and accomplished diplomatist as Lord Clarendon may not do it safely. There is a wide discrepancy between the little tart note in the Moniteur yester day about Garibaldi and the genial conciliatory speeches of Lords Clarendon and Palmerston. The Moniteur, after having denied that Lord Clarendon promised the Emperor as a concession that Geri: baldi should shorten his stay in England, went on to say that the French government had made " no , kind of observation to Lord Clarendon on the sub. ject of Garibaldi." It is obvious that in the above paragraph the " Emperor " and the " French government" are used as synonymous expressions. It is officially averred, therefore, on this side of the channel that the Emperor never " said" a word to Lord Clarendon touching Garibaldi But in the House of Lords Lord Clarendon spoke of a "communication " which he bad received from the Emperor, and stated that the Emperor had "said " that he entirely and fully believed how completely such qualities as Garibaldi had displayed went straight home to the English heart and I commanded their approbation. In the House of Commons Lord Palmerston was empowered by Lord Clarendon to say that the Emperor " said " that he looked with admiration upon the feeling which the reception of Garibaldi expressed upon the part of the British nation, and that it did them the highest honour. Now if the matter ended here, although there would be still enough to puzzle a plain mind, it might be argued that the French word " observation " has a bad sense, implying criticism or remonstrance, and does not, strictly speaking, exclude the fact of the Emperor having conversed with Lord Claren don on the subject of Garibaldi. But when the Moniteur makes a misrepresentation it is apt to stick to it ; and if you refer to the Moniteur of this morning, you will see that the speeches of the two English ministers are so translated as to make it appear that the Emperor " said " nothing, but merely listened to Lord Clarendon, who put his own construction upon what he presumed to be his Majesty's sentiments. All the remarkable passages which I have cited above, and which formed the beats of the telegrams sent from London, are stu diously omitted in the Moniker translation. This curious story is an illustration of the fact often re marked, that diplomatic truth is a thing essentially malleable in its nature, rerit4 en decd des Pyrenees erreur au de/d. Of course all Englishmen believe that the Emperor expressed to Lord Claren don the magnanimous sentiments about Gari baldi's reception which are recorded in parliament, but it would be very inconvenient if such a belief were to prevail in France, seeing that the semi official journals under the French government orders have never, since Garibaldi set his foot in England, ceased to sneer at him and at the English public on account of him, and seeing moreover that the Moniker, which professes to give news from all parts of the world, has till yesterday ig nored the fact of Garibaldi's being in England at all. Accordingly all loyal Frenchmen are held to believe that the Emperor never so much as men tioned Garibaldi's name to Lord Clarendon. The Bourse has recovered materially from yester day's fall. There were 000siderable fluctuations, but the market closed very firm, with a rise in the Bente of 45c. for cash and 35c. for account, the last prices being 67 ft. 35c. and 67fr. 50c. Mobilier rose 30fr. In railway shares there was little altera tion. The bullion in the Bank of France is under stood to be increasing, the figure now mentioned being 229,000,000. The money article of the Opinion Nationale says :—" The subscription to the Mexican Loan is going on successfully. The num ber of subscribers yesterday was 2,784. It is stated that the demands of the Receiver-General repre sent 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 of Rents. This figure, added to the small subscriptions already known, nearly covers the portion of the loan reserved for French capital." Molts THAN WM AND Darns THAN Ema.—This applies to the lamest sad best dock a 1 sprfa s ead serenser patterns ever sabeattled for pabbe worktArseed 16a. trousers at Alfred Webb KUlS. f r "L orlilastar's stay este. ‘llatunent., TS, Brook-street, Basovereqvare. WADI/Med 1861 .{Adrertiaseaset. 'SS, FRIDAY. EVENING, APRIL 22 , 18 6 4. except fiehastopol and Charleston, ware . chad's . pliy to this Danish war. Several regiments have arrived to reinforce General Gerlach. The soldiers are singing " Deo Tapper Landsoldat " once more. We hear that Marshal Wrangel has summoned us to surrender. THE WAR IN DENMARK. (nom ous incIAL DANISH HEADQUABTFJIB, ULIEEI3OL, Aram 16. 6 rx. In language not very elegant, but familiar to even the least pugilistic Englishman, we have heard how some defeated bruiser came wearily up " to time" and received "punishment" with unshaken courage. The scenes thus described are my best illustration of what is now going forward on Dybbol bill. Deserted by her allies, and hard pressed by • merciless enemy, Denmark stands doggedly at bay. A small force of devoted men is expected to defend its position against overwhelm ing numbers ; and, unlike our own armies: when they have conquered a more numerous foe, the weaker side has here the inferior weapons. It may be questioned whether any troops, save perhaps the Confederates at Charleston, have ever been under such a fire es is poured upon Dybbol-hill. Old-fashioned campaigners, who thought 12-pounder guns heavy artillery, and fought every summer in the Low Countries, would find nineteenth century warfare simply astounding. Changes have come into all branches of the military art. Enfield rifles, iron-clad ships, and twenty other improvements might well bewilder the re turning ghost of a "buff jerkined warrior." But this systematicdestruction by monster cannon would stagger even the modern soldier ; the Danish garrison is exposed to attacks that no reso lution can long defy. An enemy provided with beautiful breech-loaders, and in vastly greater strength, was sufficiently formidable, especially when he brought many veterans against a brave body of national militia. Yet these advantages were not considered enough to overcome the steady valour of that handful of Danes. Dybbol VIM held and fortified by them during six weeks, despite the presence of a Prussian army. The enemy waited for fine weather, allowed Dybbol hill Ito be entrenched before his eyes, and slowly col lected his siege trait,. Had time brought help to Denmark, as most people fancied that it must, this cautious German policy would have been fatal to its admirers ; and February 22 ought to have ranked as a great historical day, fur the Prussians then made their famous demonstration in front of Dybbol, and decided not to storm the hill. This unaccountable delay was useless to the Danish cause, for no foreign assistance arrived. Winter passed away, the roads became sound, and Mar shal Wrangel began to receive supplies of heavy battering guns. A month ago he opened fire from Broagerland, shelled Sonderburg, occupied Arubjerg—in fact commenced the siege. Since then we have seen every kind of attack upon Dybbol hill, except the one manoeuvre that would certainly have taken it, viz., an assault by the whole Prussian army. For a month has this glorious defence been protracted. England and France left Denmark to her cruel fate, as she naturally rejected the Ger man offer of an armistice, which required all prizes to be given up, and even the expected Conference was heartlessly postponed. Thus a great power, stung by defeat, has put forth all its might to crush these gallant but unfortunate Danes. Gradual approaches towards No. 6 and No. 2, the burning of Sonderborg, incessant cannonading from Brosgerland, with the threat of crossing Alasund, have been varied by many alight attempts at surprise. Rifled guns sweep the shore of Alen, fusee shells burst in air over the advanced position. Every redoubt is hammered out of shape, with their artillery mostly silenced. 'Tie a con test of flesh and blood against scientific annihila tion, in which justice, although backed by daunt less courage, must inevitably go down before mere engineering skill. Two delusions current in Ger many respecting this siege should be emphati cally contradicted. First, as regards the damage inflicted on their enemies by the Danish fire, secondly, concerning the nature of those bugbear defences so feared amongst the Prussians. There are certainly a few rifled cannon possessed by Denmark, but they cannot make head against such pieces as the enemy has now brought to bear. NVhilst of Dybbol works I will only say, that if victory rewards his rather timid strategy, Marshal Wrangel will marvel at the trouble such intrenchments have cost him. Without regular fortifications or bomb proofs, the Danes hold on desperately to a line of ruined forts, connected by low curtains. No shots are returned in exchange for constant battering, and each yard of the hill side has been ploughed up by Prussian shells. It was like watching some victim under torture to see these last days' bombardment One felt almost ashamed of doing nothing to help in the de fence. Day after day the terrible fire continued : Dybbol Mill was knocked to shivers. It seemed clear that unless a diversion occurred our poor friends who had sung so gaily for King Christian, and longed so eagerly to meet the enemy, would be fairly shelled out of their works. Whether they could have endured many hours more of those murderous detonaters, and whether an assault, if delivered on Thursday night, would have succeeded can never be known. The storm of shells sud denly ceased, and for two days past we have had comparative quiet. As I remarked above, the Danish army is now waiting, like an exhausted gladiator, for the next " round." A savage and shocking business it is—this destruction of a small patriotic force by the artillery of a foreign despot. ULLESOL, Aram 16, 10 P.N. Still the mysterionsailence along our front. I saw to-day some splendid practice from a battery before No. 10, upon the tik-de-poet. One shell craabed right into a house near the southern bridge. People scattered in all directions, but none were hurt. Another shell flew straight towards the bridges, but struck ground and burst too soon. Had not human beings been exposed to it, this firing was very pretty to look at. With life in danger the interest became painful. A flash in front of No.lo, a scream of the whizzing projectile, and before its track of sound is completed a dust cloud where the detonative has exploded. From the hill above Sonderborg everything can be seen. Men lie close behind their breastworks on DybSol hill. Now comes a shell. Ah, heaven bare mercy, it will strike where that group is taking shelter ! No, hurrah ! the earth flew up far beyond, and they are safe. Changes of wind and position, however, affect the sounds of passing shells so much that no theory should be formed upon them. From the hill where I stood there were visible three converging lines of fire—one against No. 2 from Broagerland, the next towards No. 6 from Dybbol village, and the third into No. 10 and the Mk-de-pont from Arub jerg. Sometimes they gave us a random shot that might fall anywhere, and these, when sent across Abound from Arubjerg, were very unpleasant. The forte had a wretched battered appearanoe ; and that once crowded road between the rained mill and the bridges was deserted. Dybbol hill looks strangely odd and unsafe, although nothing was being done. For such effects as are here mentioned do not constitute a bombardment in the modern sense of th►t word. All former siege*, THE DANISH QUESTION. (non ova owe oceiguroinurr.) FRANKFORT, Aram 20. Count Beust arrived here yesterday, and was inaugurated in his new dipity as the first Federal ambassador by a splendid dinner given in his honour at the Austrian embassy. He is the right man for such negotiations as are likely to goon in London, where all parties agree to do the least possible harm to Denmark, and want only to obtain proper guarantees that the same dispute shall not be too quickly reopened. Neither Austria nor Prussia intends to take one laurel) from the Danish crown. The majority in' the Diet has long ago thrown the Duke of Augustenburg overboard, and Denmark ought to know by this time that no other power is at her disposal for making good her supremacy over the Germans in the Duchies at the rusk of a war which Napoleon himself has styled " the most dangerous and calamitous in which he could engage." Count Beust is full of shifts for arranging questions where both parties stand ou vested or pretended rights, without wishing to injure each other materially. The solution can, as things now stand, be no other than that of providing a good government, which will prevent provoking conduct on both sides, and enable Ger mans and Danes to live in peace under one ruler, with as few common institutions as possible. It seems that au agreement between Austria and Prussia and the Diet exista already on the following points :—A common legislative assembly for the duchies ; Rendsburg to be a federal fortress ; the Eider canal to be enlarged, so that ships can go through from the German Ocean to the Baltic. The conferences will at all events have this good result. that both parties will plead their cause and will have to prove tbeir grievances, and public sentiment in England, which has been biassed in favour of the Danes as the weaker party, without entering thoroughly into the merits of the case, will then be enlightened, and the opinion will gain ground that the Danes have not altogether played the part of the lamb, but have justified by wanton annoyances the feeling of hatred prevailing against them among the Germans in the duchies. The scope they give now to their right of blockade, by preventing even the intercourse between neutral ports in the Baltic, must prove to all seafaring nations to what extent they use a contested right. It will not be difficult for the German envoys to prove that all their doings in the Baltic are against international law and the stipulations of Paris in 1856. Already the Prussian Chambers of Com merce have petitioned their government to occupy Jutland, and to raise contributions there to indem nify them against the unlawful depredations of the Danes; as far as the impending armistice will permit, this measure will now be resorted to. The fall of Duppel has illustrated by a new example the obstinacy of the Danes. They would not agree to the armistice, conceded on March 7, by Austria and Prussia at the instance of England, and, probably enough, the conference will , give other instances of this obstinacy, which has been the source of all the misfortunes which have befallen Denmark in 1807 as in 1814, as well as in the peasant day. The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg has given an illustration of the childish vanity natural to such petty princes. Ile was one day a spectator of the siege of Duppel, and on his return he bestowed on himself by a ducal decree his own military order for bravery. The eldest eon of the rich Elector of Reese has been released this week from prison here, where lie had been confined almost a year for debt. THE EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES. (From the Daily News.) THZ continuous outflow of large numbers of our industrious fellow-countrymen who seek to better their condition in the New World is still marked by incidents which make it desirable that public attention should, from time to time, be directed to the movement. As long as emigration,wbether from England*, Ireland, is stimulatedby merely natural agencies—•s long as it proceeds from the desire to earn higher wages, to acquire laud, or to rejoin friends who have gone before—it will be, on the whole, a salutary process, notwithstanding some necessary and disagreeable drawbacks. Such has been, and still is to • large extent, the character of the emigration that has taken place from Ire land, where neither the dissuasions of the popular priesthood, nor the anti-Federal tendencies of • majority of the newspapers, avail to keep back either the young or the middle-aged from embarking for Boston or New York to share in the prosperity of which they read in the letters of kinsfolk and acquaintance. The emigration which takes place from Lancashire is directed, like that of Ireland, almost exclusively to the United States, and there is hardly a family of the working classes there that has not some near relative in America. It was so before the war began, and since then all the motives which prompt men to emigrate thither have gained strength. Labour is at an enormous premium in the States. Nearly 500,000 men have been withdrawn from the productive industry of the country within the last twelve months, and the drain still goes on. In agriculture that exten sive use of machinery as a substitute for manual labour in which the Americans have taken the lead somewhat mitigates this inconvenience, as far as the Western States are concerned, although even in agriculture the want of men entails great loss. But the war has also made considerable gaps in the ranks of skilled labour, the high bounty on enlistment having attracted thousands of mechanics into the army. The result, as our Special Correspondent at New York writes, is that " carpenters, masons, smiths, upholsterers, cabinet "makers, printers, shoemakers, carriagemakers, " and machinists have become • sort of privileged " class, and one has to dance attendance on them, "and sue them with bated breath to have the " smallest job done at their own price." Our Correspondent adds, " I doubt it in any country or " in any period • man is so valuable as he is here " just now." And English operatives employed in the States are sending home precisely similar repre sentations. No doubt there is another and a more shadowy side of the picture: we are not, how ever, balancing the arguments for and against emi gration to the United States, a course which we have I never felt at liberty to recommend, but simply stating the causes which are at work to promote it., From the moment that a number of persona in these islands desired to go to the United States, in order to escape from circumstances of more or less difficulty, it was certain that a class of men would spring up to speculate in their value as labourers, and tempt them by illusory offers of assistance to place their capacities and their persons completely in their power. In Ireland we have seen Mr. FZINZY and his contract system at work aide by aide with the natural and safe agencies of emigration, and we have since heard from Boston of the condition of distress and despair to which our countrymen have been reduced in oon sequence of having inconsiderately placed them- Delves at the mercy of strangers. Our Special Correspondent in Lancashire has recently exposed • similar velem, which interested parties are oar- Tying into effect in the cotton districts. Some of our countryman in the neighbourhood of Manchester are preparing to leave England, after signing a contract of this kind : Hawing noshed of A. a, of —, State of —, Militia States of America, the sum of —, the lame being the mrpeess of anal and passage of myself and family to Boston, Mats of Maas., U.S. of America, by the steamer —, from Uverpool, England, to Portland, Maine, we, the undenigescl, hereby pee to repay to the said A. B. the abovementioried rem within ninety days from this date, in gold enrreacy, or laboor. Obviously this is • contract intended to put the emigrant completely in the power of the agent. Suppose the emigrant to get work of the most remunerative character at the very moment and place of landing, and apply himself to it most dili gently, he would still not be able tosave enough to be in • position to repay the cost of his own outfit and passage and that of his family within a period of ninety days, in which the term of his voyage is included. Oar Correspondent expresses the con viction that, if the women and children carried to the States under a contract of this kind are wanted for the mills, the recruiting officer and the bounty are intended to solve all difficulties as regards the men. The supposition ,is as probable as any other, though it does not need a state of war and • demand for recruits to make such • contract valuable to the agent in a country where wages are excessively high. How the contractor shall I realise his profit when he has landed his bondman will depend on local and temporary circumstances ; but it may be safely assumed that he will dispose of his victim in the most remunerative market. We are informed that it is very doubtful whether the tribunals of the States would interfere to en force such • contract as that quoted above. But our countrymen ought not to place them selves in • position to depend on that security, and in any cue the contract would prove • source of embarrassment:and annoyance to the emigrant who had accepted the onerous obligation it records. It is absurd to speak of the crimps who prowl about entrapping our countrymen, as being " Federal "agents." They are simply speculators who would as readily dispose of their human prey to General LEE'S ea to General GRANT'S recruiting sergeants. They are men who, if there had been no secession and no war, would, in all probability, have been employed at this moment in buying and selling slaves, some of them as white as the Lancashire operatives whom they now seek to lure into their toils. Provided that their trade be stopped in good time, it matters little whether it be done by the warnings and exhortations of Mr. SPENCE and his friends, from hostility to the United States, or by any other agency and from any other motive. For our own parts we should prefer to see some of the Lanca shire organizations friendly to the United States turned to account in order to prat an end to this scandaL Equitable and legitimate contracts under which Englishmen engage to go out to the States and accept employment there, have been familiar to some of our trades for many years, to the ad vantage of both parties. Under present circum stances, the principal point is to provide • means by which any person proposing to emigrate under a contract may ascertain whether the person offer ing employment represents responsible parties in America ; and the next, to see that the contract offered is not such an one as would reduce the emigrant to the position of • coolie in the West Indies. This work of supervision is one which we should think might be very usefully assumed in Lancashire by the local members of such an associa tion as the Union and Emancipation Society,which must by this time be greatly relieved of concern for the primary objects for which it was estab lished ; but any society, or any agency for dif fusing information, may do much to defeat the wiles of those who seek to traffic not only in the labour but in the liberties of our countryman. MUSIC. THE SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL The tercentenary commemoration of the birth of Shakespeare is divided lato two distinct portions, the one in the metropolis, the other at Stratford. The London Festival includes a "Grand Herdic Jubilee" (whatever that phrase may mean), at the Royal Agricultural-hall, Islington, on the 21st, 72nd, and 23rd instant. Os the 21st Out night) there was a concert of Shakespearian music; to-day there is to be a "Magnificent Character Ball sod Masque, sugpdive of the Royal Revels giver, by Godley Furl of Leicester in b °Garr of Quern Elisabeth during her visit to Kenilworth Castle;" and toroorrow there is to he, at the MON *re, a "Grassi MiNcellusecus Entertainment and Mood:* Demanitastion of the Working Classes." There is, moreover, to be, this evening, another concert of Shakasaaarain made at Ett. James-hall ; and ko morrow evening there will be dramatic performances, morn or lam Shakespearian, at all the theatres in Leedom. All these entertainments have hem arranged under the direc tion of the National Shakespeare Committee, and in aid of the fund for • national monument. The coacert at the Agricultural Hall hat Right was hardly so brilliant an affair am might have been expected. The hall was not one-fourth full, and the large empty spaces in every part of it gave the enormous building a somewhat dismal appearance. There was, however, a good selectioa of mimic connected with the plays and poems of Shakespeare, very well performed and heartily applauded, There was a host of vocil performers, including Madame Sherringtou, Miss Stabbech, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Madame Fenny Haddad, Miss Palmer, Miss Heywood, Madame E. Williams, Miss Cicely Nott, Madame Pampa, Mr. Porten, Mr. Thomas, and Mr. Renwick. The name of Mr. Sims Beeves was in the programme, but he did not ap• pear, and his absence was apologised for on the score of in disposition. There was a small orchestra, who played two Shakespearian overtureo—Maclarree's Borneo and Jtilid, and Nieolaes Merry Wires of Windsor. The manic wee chiefly vocal, consisting of bongs of Arne, Stevens, Weld, Bishop, ka, which delighted farmer generations, but are now, unfortunately, falling into oblivion. The first set of 774 e Tempest was resitsi by Mr. Phelps, with Purcell's inci dental music; and the ooneert concluded with Matthew Lock's Sae old music to Madera. The concert, taken altogether, mast have been interesting to those whose taste for oar own national music ham not been spoiled by the growing predilection for foreign novelties. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDO& Arm 21. THE VISIT or THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—At, a congregation this day It wee arranged by grace that the prise poems and exercises be recited ia the ou the 16th of June, on which day it is un derstood that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Primers of Wake will be parent. At the Name cougregati Mn. Vim-Chance ll or (Dr. Cookaa, Mister of St Peter's o• ) ; the Muter of St. John's (the Rev. Dr. Bakers). Dr. Bidet Oahu; Mr. Power, Pembroke; Mr. Day, Caine; and Mr. Blom, of Trinity, were appointed of a syndicate to make fitting arrangermaris for the reception of their Royal Highnesses. It is at present understood that their Royal Highnesses will arrive on the 13th, that the public celebra tion will take place on the 16th, and that the royal guests will depart on the 17th. At the seine congregation the un dermentioted decrees were conferred( :—LLD.: Jima' Ogilvy Millar. Christ's College. M.A.—Jemse Curtis Leman, Ckre Collage ; Frank Heath, Trinity Hall ; Hoary Gary, Corpus Christi Collage ; Francis Wane Cornish, Edward Compton Austen Leigh, Gimp Tuthill William James Bo^ King's llege • Frediebk Bleeketf De Clair, Jesus Wlege ; Philip Joke Hensley, John Twoetyman, Richard Augustine Chudleigh, James Larkin Heehaw, Christ's College ; Charles Hartwell Horne Cheyne, Joe Foster, Jolia Francis, St. John'. College ; Freacie Elliott itchiest, Gerard Frames Cobb, John Roche Days/. Claude Smith Bird, Mk& Moodie, Thomas Edward Baue, Charles Evans Newborn, Richard Hairy Wingfield by, Trinity Oollep ; Nathaniel Coniford, Robert Tilbury, Herbert Oldfield Francis, John Con Edwards, Emmanuel College ; Andrew Ikaiiehamp Stark', Mden C o, M. A. (in their abases).—William Era Ward, Triaity Collage ; James Orem sad Edward Madden Drawer, St. John's College. (Mr. Gran is mei. dent in lad* Mr. Greater in New Zealand, sad Mr. Ward in India]. LL.M.—Charlesj Braes Howbeit Trinity College. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OP COMMONS, APIM. 21. THE FIRE INSURANCE DUTY. Ways sad Means—Order foremamittot read ; motion made, and question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leers the chair :"—Amendment proposed, to lases out the word " That " to the end of the quatios, in order to add the words "in the opinion of this holm, each a reduction of the Sr. insurance ditty as that oostemplated by the re solution of the home passed last session would be best effected by an uniform redaction of Is. per cent. on all description of property liable to the said duly,"—( Mr. H. B. Sberidan)—instead thereof :-I,,?usation put, "That the words proposed to he left out stood part of the ques tion ."—The bones divided ; Ayes, 170; Noes, 117. AYES. Adam, W. P. Penwlek. K Odaome, R. D. Atinane, H. J. Foley, H . W . Prdtsore, K. Aogentein, W. Po:Jambe, P. J. Pays', ford A. Atialiimney, Loci Fortesrue, C. 8. Paget. Lord C. Aroun R. 8. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Palmer, ?sir R. Bagwell, J. Gard. N. 8. Panto rib's, TiscL Bullie s H. Gibson, T. M. Patton, Sir J. Bess, M. T. Gilpiu. C. Pear, If. Baiter, W, P.. Gladstone, W. Peel, Sir R. Baxley, T. Ooschen, G. J. Peel, F. Beach, W. W. Glower, P. L. Peel. J. Beaumont. S. A. Gregory, W. H. Pllkionton, J. Bellew, R, M. Orison, A. Pinto,. Col. Berkeley, Col. Grenfell, If. B. PoiltniA'rquhart,W Bleocone, J. G. Grey, Sir G. Porronbi, A. Bouverie, P. P. Grosvenor, Fad Potter, E Ir r E n ct . , " .l. I W. I : " ) Te r :: P . Price.... G. Pratt hd, J. itrstvo, J. Hailer, Sir W. G. Prohi, Lora Buckley. General fleadlani, T. E. Pugh, D. Buller, J. W. Henderson, J. l if i n o tt e o rt. o, O. M D ".. Burke. sir T. H er b ert. H. A. Bury, Thict. Henry. Lord Roelolck. J. A. Button, C. Hoditkfuson, G. ROSs4,II, H. Caird, J. florstd, C. B . Rusiell, A. Cardwell, C. Huropliery, W. H. Boor-11, sir W. Care, S. Hiatt, W. facoordeld, J. H. eseerullsh, Intl G. Kekerich, BT. Seymour. W. D. Childers, H. C. Kinglake, A. W. :•11.-Ilev. Alr J. v. Cholueley, Sir M. Kinglake, J. A. Shvt i : tn. R. B. Churchill, Lord A. Kingrcote, Col. Smith, J. B. Cis), .r. Ki norlrd, A. F. Smith, Augustus Cohltett, J. B. Knatchbull • Huger Sun' 1., J. A. Cobden, R. sen, E. Stoll:hold. H. Coke, Col. Knightly, R. Itt:ol•f• ~I. J. Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Layard, A. H. Steel. .l. Collier, sir R. Langton, W. H. illitteeS. H. E. Cotthurst. Sir G. 1a.41011, W, Tra y, .. It Cower, W. F. Lercharo, E. A. Trelsr ny, Sir J. S. Crtufurd, E. H. Lefcr re, G. J. Turner, J. A. retwford, R. W. Liddell, H. G. V.rt,oc, II F. Crossley, Sir F. Lo c k e , J. .._ ~. VillicrA, C. P. balglcsli. R. Lore . K. `•" i. tail. 11. 11. Base'''. R. MarJoribanks, D. C. Tyner. R. A. Davie, Sir H. R. Martin, P. W. - U'ittklus. CoL Davie. Col. disulln. J We.siellit. T. M. Denrorn, G. Massey, W. N. We.tets, N. Doff, M. E. Merry, J. Wh:tl.re id. s. Dud. R. Idoncreitf, J. White, J. Dntlas, P. Monlaunt, Sir C. White. 1, Inindas, Sir D. Morris, D. W Billow, W. Dunkellio, Lard Morrison, W. Nvill.cuthy. Sir H. lionise. A 31. Ne a l e, C . Wihuleigton.Sirl.E. Enfield, Vlach ?Canis, J. T. W o si 0,1, rC. ES'illt., J. C. North, F. Woods. H. kwing. H. E. O'Briran, T. TELLERS. Farrar, J. I r L.whien, Mr C. B. Band. 11. Fellllla, IL Ormlow, G. Dunbar, Slt W. NOES. Maack, T. Hardy, J. O'Reilly, M. W. Astrll, J. B. Hartong, X B. Pakington, Sir J. Raring, T. Hay, Mr J. Papillon, P. O. harrow. W. If , Hennessy, J. P. Parker, Ilajur Itateson. sir T. Renate. 81r F. W. Paull, . Beaumont, W. X He)tinte, W. V. Peveusey. Visct , Beecrott G. s. Borstal!, T. B. rORCii, F. S. Black, A. Bottum. Lord Ridley. sir 31. Bowyer, Sir G. Hubbard. J. G. Rose, W. A. timbres, Slr B. W. Humbentone, P. IL Scent, lord H. Brooks, R. II Hume. W. W. Brolly, V. Browne, Lord J. j,, Jennyn, Earl Scits ) ea, C. J. Sutler, C. 8. A Knight, E. W. Seymour. A. Butt L ' — 3ll London, W. G. Sidney. T. Hilton, Mr R. J. .V Leadtr, N. P. Smith, sir F. Cochrane, A. D. Lefroy. A. Somerset, Col. Cogan W. U. Lee, W.' Some', J. Lennox, C. 8. B. Stewart. sir 31. (twilit, G. Long, R. P. Stuart. IA -Cl.o Dawson, R. P. Longfield, A Stracey, sir H. Disraeli, B. Luls, F. Stun, Lieut.-Col. Du Cane, C. lA•Cormick. W. Sullivan. NI. Duke, sir I. Mackvoy, X Talbot, W. C. Duncombe, A. 11 . 31shon, P. Tut lot% CoL Duticonitae, re. E. Maguire. J. F. Taylor. P. A. Dunne, Col, Maintaining, T. Toliemache, F. J. Edwards, CoL Ilallus, R Torrent., R. Knots, J. Manners, Lord J. Tottenham. Lt.-CoL Farquhar, Sir M. Miller, T. J. Trefusis, C. 11, Fellowes, X Mills, J. R. Turner, C. Fitzgerald, W. R. Miteheil, T. A. Vance, J. Fleming, T. W. Mitlord, W. T. Walcott, Admiral George, J. Montagu, Lord R. Waldron, L. Getty, 8. G. liontVwsery.file Q. W .I.le, Goddard. A. L. Moor, H. Waterhnose. 3. Gore. J. IL Mowbray J. R. Whitmore, H. Greenall, G. Murray, W. Yorke. E. T. Wert'''. OIL Northcote, /WS. B. TELLICAS. Onnith. C. D. 4 eConor Doe, The Sheridan. H. Lt. Grogan, sir F.: °Terra, E. M. Hadfield, G. GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES FILL. Select committee ou Government Annuities Sill nominated : Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Sotherun Eatoourt., Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Henley, Sir Matto Farquhar, Sir Stafford Nortboota Mr. Borstal!, Mr. Goechen, Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. floury B. Sheridan, Mr.Ayrton, Mr. Hodikieson. and Mr. Paget. Motion made and question put, "That the committee bare power to send for persons, papers. and records" ;Sir Mint° Farquhar). The home divided : Ayes, 101; Nora, 127. AYES. Adell. J. H George, J. Montgomery, Sir G. Ayr Goldsmid, 81r 7. H. Mundy. W . sirt Gore, J. B. 0. Nam, Lord to w n a , „, :el Bannon, Sir T. Gorr, W. B. Pakington, Sir J. Beaumont, S. A. Groenall, 0. Peel, Gen lk.erorl, G. S. Grants, C. D. Phillips, G. L. Blake, a Grogan. Sir I. PosriA T. 8. Bowl, J. W. Hamilkm, Lord C. Ilkley Sir H. tivamaton. TW. Monkey. T. Scott, Lord H. Bridges, Sir B. Hartsard, M. 801 .1 71 , C. J. iss ue., Major May, Sir J. C. Shelley, Sir J. V. Bruce, Sir H. Hennessy, J. P. Sheridan, R. B. 1 Bruen. H. Renate, Sir F. W. =P. B. =lord Royale, W.V. CoL t, CoL H oy 11, T. Nome% J. carton, sir IL Heat, Sir A. A. Stanhope, I B. 1 Cochrane, A. D, Booby, W. B. Stuart, Lout •CoL I Cols, J. L. Hubbard, J. G. Sireasy, 81r H. Collins. T. Jervis, Capt. Sullivan, M. 1 Corry, H. L Jolliffo, Sir W. 0. Purteea, H. B. 1 co , , W. ioltirre. H. H. Talbot, W. C. Crowley. Sir F. Handall, N Taylor, Col. Cutlet, G. it natchonli. W. F. Thrum, Lord H. Daniel* Harlot = i t . ., F. W. Torrent K. R. Os.son, P. .N. P. Trefusis. C. H. Meson. Col. Lefevre, 0. J. Toner, C. Dunne, Coll lin Losses. C. S. Yaodekur, CoL Edwards, CoL. 1 Loll* W. Yausittsrt, W. !porton, Sir P. ea 1 Longdeld bi ß id Vi re, Cot. hatcourt T. H. z Lov7 be e. ,... . Waterhouse. S. !wart J. C. Whitetilde, J. !errand, W. , J. n Yorke. E. T. Fitagerald, W. R. Mamma, Lord J. !toyer, J. Maxwell, Co/ mum& Framer, sir W. Milk, J. B. Farquhar, Sir Y. Gard, it. S. Moffatt 0. Honda. T. B. HORS Jireinbillt k W. IV, Penmen., C. 8. Padmore, R. Aphelia.. Wham, T. M. Paget, C. Athhimney, lard 11 Hilyea. C. Paget. Lord A. Aytoun, R. 8. Gladstone, W. Paget. Lord C. Bagwell, J. Goschsa. G. J. Palmer, Sir R. Banns, T. G. Cower, F. L. Palm. 'step, VlseS. Barnes, I'. Greenwood, J. Pease H. Buchanan, W. Gregory. W. H. Peel, P. Bullet, J. W. °reopen, & Peel, Sir B. Boller, 812 A. Grey, ter O. Potter. X Butt, 1. Gurney, 8. Powell, J. J. Par az glf . i. Hadlield. 0. Einahory. X. Pries, X. G. Pritchard, J. carnegle, C. Hance, eir W. Proby, Lord Castlerosae, Vise.. nudism. T. I. Ranadmi, Mr J. W. Childees, H. C. Hendersca, J. Ricardo, 0. Clive, 0. Henley, Lord Roberts.., D. Cobbett J. H. Hervey. lord A. Roebuck, J. A. Corms. w. R. Hodaktmen, 0. Russell. A. • Coke, Col. Holland, E. karell, Mr W. Meter, Mr R. P. Howard. C. W. Pt Astor.. J. Colthurst. Mr G. C. Hutt. W. malomons,Alderman Cowper, W. F. Jermyn, Earl ihymoer. A. Craulard. R. H. Johnston., Sir J. Shaft., K. D. Crawford, R. W. Kimpcoes, Col. Thornhill. W. P. Davey, R. Klansird, A. F. Toilet...eke, P. J. Demme. 0. Knatchball-Bages. Tracy. C. R. Dent, J. D. see, E. Turner, J. A. Dodson, J. 0. Layard, A. H. Verney, Sit H. Duff. M. R. Lorkris, J. Vernon, IL F. Duff, IL /Mu Villiers, C. P. Duodas, Mr D. Msekd m J. anoa, W. A. Vivian, H. H. DunkeHln, lard Martha. P. W. Tyne., P.. A. lbw* J. Mart* J. Warm,. E. Fans, T. Wm. lawny, W. N. Watkins. Col. Ewart, W. Merry, J. Western, R. Fenwlek, H. H. 1.1 Whitbread. 6. Fenwiek. RH. =a J. Whit., 1.. Finlay, A. 8. Neste, C. Woods, H. Fitzroy, Lord F. North. F. Wrlghtsca. W. R. Foley, H. W. qOl vy, Btr Z. Foljamba F. J. O'Hagan. T. Forster, C. W ,la Mr C. M. Forster, W. L Oadow, G. UR& Brand. H. B. Dauber, Mr W. raeuraz ELscrung. —On Tuesday the uomina tios of a representative for the county of Fife, in room of the late Mr. Wanyss, took place on the hustings at Caw. There was no oppositiou to the return at Sir Hobart Amstruther, the Whig candidate, his radical and conserved,* opponents baring withdrawn from the Geld. The proceed. Inge were, consequently, 000 ducted very qwetly. Sir Robert Anstruther was nominated by Admiral Bethune, and seconded by Mr. Stenbonet and, after • show of bands, was declared to be unanimously elected. fin Robert then re. tuned Minh for the even honour which bad been con ferred upon him, and exgremod his desire to represent not oily the intstesta of the liberal party, bat those of the whole oasetitsemey. Tie BALLOT &curry. —At the weekly meeting of the committee, held at the ounces, 61, Chespande, on Tuesday last, the following subscriptions were announced as received since their last report :—Wm. Hargreaves, 201.; 8/r R. P. Collier, IC la ; Richard Hann, 11. La, ; an d lieu=maw rms. The committee congratulates the party upon the acconion of a friend to their ems by the •os of Mr. Fonda at Lanonter, is lieu of Mr. (iarsNt, haw 'maid from lees] information that the fanner gentlemenis as earnest empeonn. of the bellot The gemenl elsotice• wide is sad, astisipated, also word the eatesills el the sowagliese