The Express. — London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

I OM SMITH LIM 00.11 PURE E%TRAOT of CALVES' FEET, Pat Invalids and Oalbory tree. Mar.aa, and Y. mice's, by all ambits. mean. AMORY, 23, Lir= PONTLILVD-Wr., itiont- IL. Wa. W. SECOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. CIAIII7t, DIMS, and WOOD have a brio ati°Aa".. of seeouChend Planakeies, by the moat erdeemed makers, Ai omit) reduced priem—Sol. &Waletmii. Cite •xprexiti. TO 0011218PONDINT 8 . Avertlaements intended tor " The Uproot" London Evening Plr. mot be et the MB" BouValt•-ftreek by Two o on the day ot pobboatiew. HAYMAN'S?. 'lan Evevise, JOHN JON ` /N.—OUR ASIXRICAN COVIGN. Mew.. hem. Smokable.. alisra. and Rostra Kra C. 'Young, Mims 011 mm—fin STAR OP ANDALUSIA. Pens Nana mulScuur Ricardo.—Aad MT HUSBANDS GHOST. rientevown. Teti EVIMPO, THel:ll7l:l 7 fittASlTlll.—And THE GOLDeN GaOOSRS. Mews Pechter, H. Wnid{cowl; Jordan, Potter, J. G. Shore, Garden, Cathcart, and Moreland ; Mesdames Ileaderson, Eleworthy, and Carlotta Laclareq. T. JAMES& Tlll9 Err•inta. UNDiriiflilaTii:—TMEND3 OR TOM Meagre. Dewar, Remora. Slat•bown ; Mewtamee Herbert and Alatthewa.—And THE ROARDINO SCHOOL. Menus. Ashley and Dewar; that Rate Terry.--Coounence at BILITANSIL Tina Eriornie, OUR LOT IN LIFE. Mesdames 'FL Lane en 4 Crsuford. —Entertainments trr Mfr E. esarce, Mdlle. Celeste Steskban, and Mr. Maclagan. THE DOGS OF IND.—And THE GREEK OIRL Mlaa E. I..lAyton —Commence at Si. men WAIT.' AT LONDON DAUM& THIS DZi7-1aiii;217 4 7 31:51111;::::Atia;;;;; ►t. OIL TO-1101k0W—Moniho, Attimmomi, 4h. 40m. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 2. AFTER the Crimean War one of the Commis- T tie metropolis had yesterday a May-day that loners of Inquiry said, " What Miss Nioirrue all the world might well be glad to share ; one, " GALE has done is this : the world consider tho moreover, which, through its representatives, all " army to consist of gentlemen and brutes; and the world may be said to have actually enjoyed. " the soldiers were always treated accordingly. None who were present at the Opening of the " She has taught the officials and the officers to Exhibition will ever forget the festive day or the " treat them with respect as Christian men." The splendid scene the multitudinous escort of way in which the soldiers expressed their view of peaceful citizens that thronged the various it may be seen in a letter from a patient in hospi thoroughfares leading to the building, the gay and tal. " Before she came this was a horrid place— brilliant assembly gathered beneath these crystal " such cumin' and swearin' Now, it's as holy as domes arid towers, or the picturesque and pro- " a church." Since that time the aim of the foandly impressive details of the ceremonial itself. friends of the soldier, and of such patriots as have Nothing that nature could offer or human con- attended to our military system, has been to make trivance supply was wanting to secure the success the soldier's life healthy and respectable, and his of this great international festival of art and science, play-hours as innocent as the play-ground of his of commerce, industry, and peace. And it was in youth. What has been done towards this object all respects a grand, a complete, and in its con- must never be forgotten ; and what remains to pleteness, we might almost say, an unlooked-for be done must be insisted on with all the resolute I triumph. The morning was as fresh and lovely perseverance which belongs to the national cha- ' as CHAUCER could have desired, as bright and clear meter. Such perseverance and determination are as that of the May-days described by the poets of in the highest degree necessary in face of the op the Elizabethan era. Au early shower had laid position of those in high places whose sympathies the sultry dust, deepened the blue of the sky and interests are entirely on the side of ,the overhead, brightened the tender green of the gentlemen of the army, when the convenience of Spring foliage, and given freshness and elasticity those gentlemen comes into collision, real or ap to the genial air. The streets leading to the parent, with the interests of the brutes. Such re- Exhibition were arched with flags of welcome, forms as have been obtained for the soldiery have wedged with holiday crowds, and filled to the roof been extorted by the War-office under Lord on every side with happy faces ; while the Building HERBERT, or under the influence of his spirit, itself was a massive blend set in an ever-shifting from the Horse-Guards, whose predilections are sea of murmuring life. Within the Building the altogether in favour of the " gentleman" element; Boone was unexpectedly brilliant and imposing, the and now that Lord HERBERT is gone, the only large crowds, the distinguished visitors, and the hope of the completion of his work is in the sup varied preparations tending naturally to raise ex- port which the nation will give to it through their pectation to a very high pitch. The orchestra, representatives in Parliament. Those represents with its amazing semi-circular sweep of human tives themselves must be stimulated, perhaps en faces, brightened towards the centre with soft tones lightened, by their constituents, or, even yet, the of colour, and alive with the gentle flutter of thing will not be done. The presence of a mili innumerable fans, was in itself a striking picture. tary secretary in the War-office--a mister- Every point of sight within the Building—nave, tune which Lord Brasilia had cause to gallery, aisle, and transept—was equally crowded, rue—was moat damaging to his plans of and when the vast assemblage reverentially arose reform, as giving large control over the War as the first notes of the National Anthem pealed office to the Horse-Guards. It was kept in check from the myriad-voiced orchestra with a volume to a certain extent while he was able to work of sweet and solemn music that filled the build- and assume responsibility; but, since his death, ing, yet with the affecting clearness and precision it has become more oppressive than ever before. of a single voice, one overpowering emotion In order to see how the watchfulness of Paella touched every heart in that responsive throng. ment and the nation should be applied, it is The simple words of national prayer and benedio- necessary to bear in mind what has been done tion carried the thoughts of all to that bereaved in the way of military administration up to the LADY whose presence was to have been the time when we find the condition of the soldier to crowning grace and lustre of the scene, and to the be what Captain JACKSON'S Report and much revered Fames whose large intelligence, patient other evidence has lately disclosed. thought, and steadfast will were reflected in the Up to the Crimean war, we had nothing which triumphs of the day. These thoughts and feelings could be properly called Military Administration were of course revived and deepened by the refer- at all. When any catastrophe was averted, it was enoes to the Panics in the noble ode of the by sheer valour on the part of the soldiery ; and LAUREATE, nobly interpreted hy Professor BENNErr's when successes were obtained, it was in spite of tender, solemn, and inspiring music, and exquisitely the administration of the army. The history of sung by the choir. Indeed, the ceremonial as a the Peninsular war is as complete an illustration whole was admirably carried out, and the pre. of this as could be desired ; and forty years of veiling feeling at every point was bow coin- peace struck deeper the roots of the mischief. We pletely it realized what the PRINCE would have entered upon the Russian war without having any wished it to be. The combined zeal and energy military system at all ; and we struggled out of the that, under so many discouraging circumstances, consequences by means of an expenditure lavish has achieved such a signal success, is in itself a beyond excuse and example. Circumstances, and striking tribute to the memory of the PRINCE. the energy of Lord Psemoaz, destroyed what Every officer connected with the work had evi.. remained of our vicious old methods. By pro- dently laboured to carry out the design according digious efforts, costly to excess, our second army to the P antes's plan, and to have the whole exe- in the Crimea was preserved from the fate of the crated as he would have desired had he been pre- first ; but we were set back to the starting point, sent to encourage and reward their efforts. The and had to construct a system of military admi day was, as we have said, in all respects a complete nistratioa success, and the subdued tone of feeling arising The handle by which the task was laid hold of from the sense of national loss, and the thought of was the Medical Administration. The Report of the Royal Mourner in her distant solitude, added the Sanitary Commission marked the first step depth and reality, something indeed of a sacred towards the new construction. SIDNEY HERBERT tenderness and power, to the ceremonial of the was the life and tul of that commission, and of day. the four which grew out of it. Of those four, one The late Panics's wishes and hopes have thus contemplated the reform of barracks and hospi been realised, so far as the opening of the Exhibi- tab ; another, the reorganization of the medical tion is concerned. We believe they would not department and the sanitary and hospital service have been disappointed in its appearance and con- of the army ; another, the institution of a sensible tents. In every department—in raw materials, i n method of medical statistics, on which the future manufactures, in the triumphs of engineering life and health of our soldiery mast largely de skill, and especially in the application of taste Pend and the fourth related to the School of and genius to the arts that embellish life, the Hygiene, and the specialities of military medicine present Exhibition is far richer than the last. at Chatham. Though these subjects seemed to The testimony of all entitled to speak, who belong to the medical department, they in fact have examined its contents, is already decisive on invo!ved the ',ova management of the life of the this point. While the Exhibition will thus show soldier, relating to the barrack and camp as much how much has been learnt from the first great in- as the hospital, to food as much as physic, and to ternational lesson, it will also supply instructive employment and recreation in health as much as hints for further progress. Nor is there any ma- treatment in sickness. The preservation of the son to fear that the Exhibition will at all fail in health of the soldiery, through its comfort and producing those higher moral results which the respectability, was the object. Parsee so confidently anticipated. Such oppor. The immediate effect was the reduction of the amities of friendly intercourse between the various mortality of the army by one-half. Further re nations of the earth must help directly to make ductions must follow, for the medical statistics of them better acquainted with each other, and thus our army, and the medical "Regulations" issued to establish a good understanding between them. in 1859, are by far the best in Europe. The These international festivals of art and industry China war tested these regulations, and the re tina contribute not only to the material advance.iturns showed that, instead of the sixty per cent. ment of the race ; they directly help the higher , lost by disease in the first year of the Crimean interests of international union, moral progress, war, only six per cent. died in China, from disease and universal peace. That wars have happened 1 and inaction. Yet, much as had been done be during the interval which has elapsed since the fore the close of 1859, we were aghast as often as First Exhibition is no proof whatever that its in- I occasion brought before us the state of our soldiery. fluence was not directly and powerfully in favour ,We have not forgotten the public meetings held in of peace. Before deciding on such a point welLondon about that time, and the facts told there must remember the object and result of those wars, by qualified informants of the desertions, the War, indeed, has no principle of growth or pro- i licentiousness, the nature and extent of the dis grass within itself. It is purely destructive, but eases of the troops, and their discontent with then it may be employed to destroy the inveterate barrack life. In the course of 1858 the defter obstacles of growth and progress, and thus be tions had been 20,360 ; and estimates were instrumental in conquering the conditions of offered of the cost of desertion on the one hand, real and lasting peace. There are forms of 1 and invaliding on the other, which seemed scarcely public evil so inimical to the life and progress credible, but were too true. The direct of a nation, that their mere existence is at most recommendations of those meetings related to bat arrested war. If they cannot be got rid of the employment and amusement of the any other way they mast be ex p elled by vio- soldiers ; and th e woor g ai ,„ E , ween the lance. Wars to arrest the progress of a despotic Power or to set • noble nation free, are not substantially at variance with the signs of peace that gather and multiply on industrious horizons of the world. The same is, of course, true with regard to the marked advance in the range and power of destructive weapons. By all means let art and science do their utmost to perfect these implements of violence and destruc tion. If the power that is to use them, if the nations of the world but advance in mutual intelligence, in habits of friendly intercourse, in connected interests, and in the consciousness of their common relationship, we need not fear any new outbreak of violence, or despair of the future of the race. The era of peace on earth and good will amongst men which has inspired alike the poet I and the prophet, and is still the sovereign hope lof all noble minds, may be a dream, but it is a dream destined to be realised. And we may be certain that such days u yes terday, and such months as are before us, hasten its approach, and will continue to do so till, in the noble words of the LAORRATE that yester day pealed sublimely through the great Temple of Industry, stirring every heart not only with the inspiring music, but with the glorious vision, statements then given and Captain JACK soles Report is very striking. Meantime, Lord HKABKIIT was preparing for the issue of other Regulations and Reports, all of great value, which were acted upon in 1860 and 1861, and among them the Report on Libraries, Reading-rooms, and Day-rooms for the soldiery, which has recently appeared. Only three weeks before his death he caused the Barrack and Hospital Inquiry to be extended to our stations in the Mediterranean, and issued instructions for providing, without delay, a " Soldiers' Home " at Aldershott, with branches. He was aware of the facts disclosed to us by Captain JACKSON'S Report in regard to the character of the places of retort at Aldershott, and the intolerable effects on the health and character of the soldier ; and it cannot be too clearly under stood that he repudiated, with all possible earnest ness, the suggestion of diminishing the immediate mortality from the diseases of debauchery by means of a police superintendence and license of vice which must directly contravene his great aim of elevating the character of the soldiery. It will be a fatal hour for the army and the nation, according to his view, when the War-office authorities propose such a licensing system as the only way of preserving i the life of the British army. Thus far it certainly appears that other methods answer beyond ex pectation wherever they have been tried. Our readers have seen what remarkable success at tended Captain JACKSON'S experiment at Gibraltar. All Lord HERBERT'S experience went to convince him that the soldiers a, prefer innocent to licen tious pleasures, that any sort of club which affords a refuge from ennui in newspapers, harmless games and refreshments, and means of sociability, is immediately thronged, to the ruin of bad public houses. But the opening of such institutions re quires a strong expression of the public will and pleasure, whenever the convenience of the "gun " tlemen " comes into collision with the welfare of the "brutes" of the army. It is not likely to be forgotten how one of Lord HERBERT'S last wishes about Aldershott was baffled. An officers' club house was standing empty there from the failure of a speculation. A tenant offered in the person of a friend of the soldiery, who would have opened the house as a " home" for the men of the camp ; but the scheme was baffled by the needs of the COMMAND/S-IN-CHIEF, who must have the house for "distinguished guests" visiting Aldershott For one " distinguished" visitor, thus accommo dated, how many private soldiers have been made " brutes" in some of the hundred public-houses within reach! . - Till each mw end his own in all men's good, And all men work in noble brotherhood. Breaking their mailed fiesta and armed towers, And ruling by obeying nature's powers, And gathering all the fruits of peace and crown'd with all her flowers. The fate of another wish of the soldiers' " distinguished" friend and benefactor further warns us to keep a vigilant eye on our army ad ministration. Our readers may remember how Lord HERBERT and many others desired to see but hospitals opened for the soldiers' wives—a measure of high importance. With a world of difficulty Lord HERBERT obtained from the Trea sury an annual grant of from 6,0001. to 8,0001. for this object ; and after his death the first appli cation was made for one. The application was made in the terms prescribed, but the Con marinsa-nr-Criutr interfered. The general officers must be handsomely accommo dated before he would permit a single hut to be erected for the sick soldiers' wives- An attempt to overthrow the scheme of the new Woolwich Hospital, in the teeth of a decision of Parliament, happily failed, through a virtuous steadiness in the right place. It will bear down Lord HERBERT'S name to future generations, as is fitting. But we must receive the warning of such incidents, and ourselves look to the fulfilment of the just claims of our soldiery. No one will imagine that where Lord HERBERT scarcely main tained his ground, in regard to his own reforms, the present SECRETARY AT WAR will be of any use in resisting the encroachment,tyranny, and uncon stitutional wilfulness of the Horse-Guards. We must take care that no reforms are reversed or hindered. The thing must be done. We cannot see our soldiery rot before our eyes, in the midst of reforms willed and paid for by the nation. In order to have a clear view of what we must demand and obtain, we have atill to review what has been achieved, in proportion to what is needed, • for the right use of the soldiers' hours of leisure. • We will some day present the leading facts, as supplied by the recent Report on Reading and • Day Rooms. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1862. int Court. A procession left Buckingham Palace at 25 minutes before one o'clock yesterday afternoon for the International Exhibition. The Crown Prince of Prussia, attended by Baron Hiller de Gwetringeo, general in the Prussian mortice ; Count Herrmann Fackler Grand Marechal de la Cour of his Prussian Majesty ; and Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Its, Equerry to the Queen, were in one carriage. Prince Oscar of Sweden, attended by Colonel Kinpcote, Groom in Waiting to the Queen, occupied a second carriage. Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Obernits, Aide-de-Camp of the Crown Prince of Prussia ; Captain Armand do Lucadon, Aide-de-Camp to his Royal Highness ; and M. von Not; Premier Lieutenant Garde Fusilier Regiment, and Adjutant of lst Garde Infanterie Division, were in the third carriage. Count Cronatedt, Chambellan of his Royal Highness the Prince Oscar, and M. d'Arbin, (Mader d'Ordonnance, occu pied the fourth carriage. The Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Household con ducted the Crown Prince and Prince Oscar to their carriages. The Crown Prince wore the uniform of a Pranks General, the epaulettes oovered with crape. His Royal Highness wore the riband sod jewel and also the star of the Most Noble Onier of the Garter. The Royal party were conveyed in her Majesty's carriages. the Royal servants wearing black liveries. The equipages of the Duke of Cambridge, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, and the other Royal Commiasioners for the International Exhibition, I joined the procession outside the quadrangle of the Palace. The suite of the Duke of Cambridge comprised Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, Colonel Tyrwhitt, Colonel Clif ton, and the Hon. Homey Fans Keane (Royal Engineers). The mite of the Archbishop of Canterbury included Dr. Travers Twise, Vicar-General ; Rev. John Thomas, Chap. lain ; Rev. Mr. Sumner, and Felix Knyvett, Faq., Secretary. The suite of the Lord Chamberlain consisted of the Hon- Spencer Ponsonby, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department, Viscount Hinclunbrooke, and Captain Sir William Hate (Royal Navy). A detachment of Life Guards escorted the cortege from the Palace to the International Exhibition. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Meck lenburg Strelits, and the Princess Mary, were present at the opening of Pie International Exhibition. The Crown Prince of Prussia paid visits yesterday morn ing to the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelits, and the Duke of Cambridge, at their respective residences. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, MIT L Her Majesty and the Royal Family reached Perth this morning at &40, took breakfast, and resumed their journey northward at 9.50. Her Majesty reached Balmoral at 3.45. BAB MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—A circular has been issued by the Lord Chamberlain to the various public departments stating that although it is the Queues wish that her Majesty's birthday should not this year be tiele brated by the usual festivities, her Majesty would much regret that her servants should be deprived of their actual holiday on the occasion, which might therefore take place oa the Seth of Nay. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. sp.ux. "The bad faith of Spain," observes a Paris con temporary, "in the payment of her debts has be come so proverbial that the principal money markets of Europe—London, Paris, and Amster dam—have been long closed against any appeal to credit from the government of Madrid. Within the last two or three years the foreign creditors of Spain, perceiving that the country is certainly be coming more prosperous, have bestirred themselves to obtain some settlement of accounts, and being strongly supported not only by the public prow of England and of France, but, to its credit be it said, by that of Spain, the Spanish Finance Minister, M. Salavorria, has from very shame been ,forced to do something, and not long since pro posed a bill to the Congress, with a view to ar rangement." The Debuts, which has always supported with persistence the claims of the creditors, now publishes a long article, in which it shows that the scheme thus brought forward, is nothing but a mockery, which cannot, in any par ticular, attain the end which it pretends to have in view. The article terminates by expressing the hope that the Spanish deputies will be more careful of the honour of their country than the Finance Minister appears likely to be. HUNGARY. The Vienna Gazette publishes a rescript addressed by Count Palily, Governor of Hungary, to all the authorities of the comitate and districts under his rule. The document states that associations having for object to perform acts of charity, and to promote the intellectual and material progress of the people, had never been opposed by the government, which had, on the contrary, ordered the authorities not to interfere with them. But several individuals having lately endeavoured to transform the meetings of those associations into political ones, where sentiments hos tile to the government were expressed, the governor thought it his duty to order that, for the future, no assembly of the members of any association of the kind should be held unless in presence of a commissary appointed by the autho rities. He also orders that such commissary shall have positive instructions to dissolve the meeting if any subject be brought under discussion connected with politics, or foreign to the avowed object of the association. AMERICA. President Lincoln has issued the following message confirming the emancipation of slaves in the district of Columbia : Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Repre sentatives, The act entitled, " An Act for the release of certain per sons held to service or labour in the district of Columbia," has this day been approved and signed. I have never doubted the constitutional authority of Con gnaw to abolish slavery in this district, and I have ever de sired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory way. Hence, there has never been, in my mind, any question upon the subject, except the one of expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances. If there be matters within and about this act which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory to my judg ment, Ido not attempt to specify them. lam gratified that the two principles of compensation and colonisation are both recognised and practically applied in the act. In the matter of compensation, it is provided that certain claims may be presented within 90 days from the passage of the set, but not thereafter, and there is saving for minces, lines covert, insane or absent persons. I presume there is an omission, by mare oversight. and I recommend that it be supplied by an amendatory or supplemenury act. ABILARAM LINCOLN. Washington, April 16, 1862. (an-na's TEL= ITALY. NAPLES, Mar 1. Prince Napoleon is expected here on a visit to King Victor EmmanueL It is stated in official quarters that General Goyon has been recalled from Rome. MEXICAN INTERVENTION. PARIS, MAT 2 The Monikur of this morning publishes a letter from Mexico, commenting upon the intolerable conduct of the Mexican government, and the pro bability that the French troops will not delay marching on the city of Mexico. MADRID, MAT L The statement that the Spanish and French troops were about to march against Mexico has been favourably received here. FRANCE AND ROME. PARIS, MAT 2. The journal L'Esprit Public of to-day says : " There is a question of sending Marshal Niel to Rome, with military and diplomatic powers. It is said that he will be charged to conciliate, if pos- sible, the protection which France owes to the Holy See with the rights of the Italian nation." MARRIAGE OF THE RING OF PORTUGAL LISBON, lit 1. The King has officially annommed his approach. ing marriage. The new ministry is finally consolidated. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. IN, MAY 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Pera, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy por tion of the above mails, arrived here this morning. She brings 132 passengers, 4 packages of specie, 1,531 bales of silk, value 140,0001., and 275 packages of sundries. The Para left Gibraltar on the 27th ult. On the 29th she spoke the Kamilla, standing south, and on the 30th the Tagus, steering for Lisbon. The frigate Magicienne, under command of his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, left Gibraltar on the 25th ult. for Malta, to join the fleet under Vice-Admiral Martin. . It was reported in Tangiers that Hadj-Abd-el- Kader-Ben-Ash-Aah had been appointed by the Emperor of Morocco the future governor of Tetuan, and that he would enter upon office immediately upon Tetuan baying been evacuated by the Spanish troops. He was governor of Tetuan some years ago, but was subsequently disgraced and cast into prison. This restoration, it is said, will give great satisfac tion to the traders of Gibraltar baying relations with Tetuan. Gibraltar exchange on London, 90 days, 80 to 501; on Paris, sfr. 25c. ; Genoa, 5.29 ; on Madrid, 8 days, 1 premium ; on Qadiz, # discount. Freights unaltered. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, May 2: BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 9 a. m. this morning. The mails were to leave for London M 10 a.m. THE PENINSULkiI , MAILS. r, liAy 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Alhambra, Capt. Steward, with the above mails, in charge of Commander Bingham, RN., arrived here this morning. She brings thirty-two passengers, amongst whom are the Hon. Mr. Shif fington and Dr. Hagen. The Alhambra brings on freight six packages of specie, value 2,620/., also 491 half chests of oranges, 130 boxes of potatoes, 291 boxes of eggs, 1 package of bank notes, and 129 packages of sundries. The Alhambra experienced fine weather during her passage. On the 30th ult., at 9 a.m., in lat. 46.38 N., long. 6.37 W.,lshe apuke the steam ship Tagus, with the outward mails of the 28th, bound for Lisbon. LISBON, Man. 27. The King is said to be opposed to a dissolution of parliament, and it is said there must be a change of ministry. Avila and Saldanha are named as likely to be called to form a new cabinet. The Minister of Finance has presented to the Cortes proposals for reducing duties and amending the Stamp Act, which are looked upon u very salutary measures. The proposed large reduction in the heavy duty levied on salt fish will be very beneficial to English merchants ; the trade in this article from Newfoundland being almost entirely carried on by British bottoms. A rednetion 14 oleo paajc....Loaiasiolav slaty nn Man covado sugars. The first stone of the statue to be erec`cd to Ca moens in the square bearing his name is about to be laid. The King Dom Luiz is residing in the palace of Pedroncas, and enjoys excellent health. Her Majesty's ship London has sailed for the south, and the American corvette St. Louis is lying in harbour, also the Russian frigate Granaboi. Trade still continues exceedingly dull in all branches. Exchange on London is quoted at 54 ; on Paris, 528 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Amsterdam, 42 to 50 ; and on Genoa, 524 ; Rentals Three per Cents., 46} ; Coupons, 44 ; Deferred, 421; Lisbon Bank, 556 milreis ; Oporto Commercial Bank, 258 mania ; and Oporto Mercantile Bank, 258 milreis. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (non ous owig PARIS, THURSDAY EVIMIDIO. The recall of General de Goyon from Rome seems to be accepted as an accomplished fact. The Pays, with wonderful enthusiasm for the doctrine that " whatever is is right," declares that the event is of no consequence, and that, even if the French garrison was removed, nothing would be changed in the situation ! It is very positively said to-day in official circles that the French and English ministers at Washing ton have received identical instructions to attempt a "moral intervention," exclusive of any idea of a forcible intervention, in the hope of putting an end 1 to the civil war. The Independence Beige was seised to-day. It is rumoured—l know not with what truth—that the cause of its confiscation is that it contains the story of a coolness between the Empress and the Queen of Holland. Let me explain, once for all, that I take no delight in the repetition of cancans of this kind. I would never start any such thing, as you well know, without the most cogent grounds ; but when the French government prohibits the circulation in France of a particular number of a foreign journal on account of a specific statement, it not only lends an importance to that statement which it might not otherwise have had, but, in the opinion of the public, stamps it as true. Ido not mean to deny that, in point of practice, false news may sometimes bs a cause of seizure, as well as true news that is disagreeable. But inasmuch as the government almost daily contradicts false news (or news which it esteems as such), either through the Moniker or by "communicated notes" to the journals, people are quite justified in believ ing that any printed statement which extra ordinary pains are taken to conceal must be true. To counteract this damaging in ference the government has only to proceed a little more decidedly in the path which it has already followed with great benefit. According to the present police instructions, very few foreign journals are liable to seizure at all, and the in stances of molestation of these few are rare in practice. I firmly believe that the government will soon be brought to see that, in these days of rapid communication, it can serve no good purpose what ever to attempt to prohibit the reading in France of newspapers which anybody may see in England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. The Emperor, at five yesterday evening, visited the Campana Museum, which is this day opened to I the public. A funny illustration of the present sys tem, which imputes all acts of authority to the popular will, is to be found in the Pays, which takes the trouble to say that the designation of "The Napoleon 111. Museum," which I told you some days since the Emperor had decided upon, is the spontaneous result of the "public voice." Just in the same way the public voice was assumed to have cried "Napoleon UL" when it pleased the present incarnation of the house of Napoleon to assume that the son of Napoleon I. had actually reigned in France. The Union states that, in consequence of the result of the Mires trial, M Pinard, the Procureur- General at Douai, has "earnestly solicited" his removal from that court, and that he will probably be sent to Riom. This paragraph is suggestive of the wide difference that exists between the theory and practice of the execution of the office of "public minister" in French courts of justice- The theory is magnificent. He is not a " public prosecutor," not an official advocate bound to ob tain a conviction if possible, but a "magistrate," sitting on the same bench with the judges, and supposed to speak only in the interest of the law. In practice, however, he is too often a young judge looking for promotion, and wbo feels th^.t in criminal cases his business is to hunt down his quarry. In the present instance, M. Pinard feels the acquittal of Mires as a per sonal defeat which must shake his credit before the judges who pronounced it, and he cannot bear to look them in the face. At the Bourse there was scarcely any change. °aim Mires remains the same as yesterday. An interesting work on emigration has just been published by M. Legoyt, chef de division of the Statistical Office. Pursuant to the favourite French system of treating every matter ab coo, the author, in an introductory chapter, sketches the history of all European migrations from the remotest times down to the present day, pointing out the causes and consequences, according to the beat authorities, of all such migrations. He then describes in much detail the emigration movement in every country in Europe within the last twenty years, giving his opinion, in each instance, as to the postal and local calms of the displacement of population, and also as to its effects,whether economical, social, poli tical, moral, or religious. M. Legoyt accompanies the emigrant from his birthplace to the oountry of his destination, warns him of the rocks, shoals, and pitfalls that he may meet with on his journey, and gives much valuable information touching the chances, whether favourable or unfavourable, which await him at the end of it. The work concludes with an analysis of the legislation of most of the countries of Europe with regard to emigration, and an index of all the principal books, state papers, and documents which bear upon the , subject. FINE ARTS. PRIVATE VIEW OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.—(THIS DAY.) The Royal Academy opened their Gallery for the customary private view to-day, and we are thus enabled to give some account of the exhibi tion, which, after the annual dinner of to morrow, will be opened to the public on Monday. The exhibition, on the whole, must be pronounced a very interesting one. There are unfortunately no pictures by the president, Sir C. Eastlake, nor by Sir Edwin Landseer, unless we may mention one tiny little dog introduced in a por trait of Mr. Higgins, by Mr. F. Grant, R. A. ; neither do Mr. Macho; Mr. Dyce, nor Mr. Egg, of the academicians, exhibit any work. Mr. Ward has only one comparatively unimportant work onal, MAri• Aetoimette's •dieu to the Dauphin in the Prison of the Temple." Notwithstanding, however, the interest of the exhibition is sustained by several excellent pictures by others of the academicians and asso ciates, and particularly by the works of those artists who may be styled the probationers of the academy. There is no grand picture of all-absorbing interest by any one, but, as we have hinted, there is a general level of high merit I throughout the gallery. It is not difficult to ac count for this state of things by the remarkable collection of English art at the International Exhi bition, which to some extent has a rival interest to the Academy Exhibition. It has no doubt also been felt by the painters that the best works of their life I were to be seen at the International, and therefore they naturally preferred to stand upon the merits of the worksof former years than run the risk of appear ing to fall off. The principal room has the poets of honour occupied by Mr. Mulready, Mr. Elmore, and Mr. Phillip. Mr. Mulready, A., who might fairly be called the father of the Academy, comes out this year with a large picture of remarkable power and truth to nature, and finished like a miniature. It is called " The Toyseller" (73). A negro is offering a little drum to the fairest of little girls, who shrinks in dread of the black man, into her mother's arms. A sunflower, admirably well studied, rears itself in front of this group, and the rest of the picture is filled with landscape —fine grey trunks and branches of beech trees with foliage; and a blue distance. Mr. Elmore, R.A., has gone back to one of his early tubjects for which he seems to have a very happy inclination—the history of invention in manufacture, a subject which is especially felicitous in choice in this year of international rivalry—" The Invention of the Wool-combing Machine." In • workman's home the father, while seated before the fire, has turned his head accidentally, or, perhaps, struck with admiration at his pretty daughters, one of whom stands before the glees combing out her long fair hair almost at arm's length ; the other—a raven-haired beauty seated near her, as if waiting to use the one glass which the humble house affords. In this way he is said to have caught the ides of the wool-combing machine he afterwards invented. The lighting of the picture is entirely from the window, excepting a slight glow from the fire which strikes upwards upon the man's figure, and is most artfully contrived to show the rich tone of the interior and the sweet face of the girl reflected in the glass. In a recess can just be dis covered the mother about to light the lamp—an allusion of the painter to the spreading of the light of science and invention. This will be felt as a work of very great interest ; it is admirably well painted, and we are disposed to give it the very highest place amongst the artist's many able productions. Mr. Phillip, RA., exhibits several pictures, all of his Spanish life and character. (19L) "Doubt ful fortune," bangs in the principal room ; it re presents a gipsy telling the fortunes of a pretty Andalusian and her companion, from the cards in her hand. (207.) " The Water Drinkers," is to our taste, however, even a more happy example of this artist's peculiar gift in rapid sketching and rich colour. (622.) " Dolores," a study of a very charming model is also a remarkably interesting picture for character in the head. (24.) "The Volunteer," shows a stout Spaniard disengaging himself from the arms of his sweetheart, the mother standing by holding his musket. Above Mr. Elmore's picture hangs a very noble work (136) by Mr. Ansdell, A.R. A. In this Mr. Ansdell well asserts his position as the first of our animal painters on the large scale —the heroic of animal life—by his picture of "Excelsior ;" telling the poem of Longfellow with a voice quite as impressive and stirring as the words of the poet. Two monks of St. Bernard clad in their thick brown cloaks have just come up with their noble dogs, who arebaying load over the body oflthe ;knight, half buried in the snow of the ava lanche, still grasping his banner beside him. This, of its kind, is one of the most striking pictures in the rooms. It is about the same size as " The Hunted Slaves" of last year's Exhibition, both fine lec turer for the walls of some noble old English hall. Mr. Ansdell exhibits also two very pleasing pic tures of the ordinary pastoral style of cattle painting. Mr. Feed, A. R. A. , has painted larger pictures, but never anything more thoroughly charming than his "New Wars to an Old Soldier" (64), a picture that, email as it is, contains a little world of sentuncut, character, and artistic beauty. The subject is moat happily chosen; a young and very pretty mother is reading the news of the taking of Delhi to her father, himself a veteran under Wellingten at Assays, who is sitting musing while he listens, and holds on his knee his little grandchild, absorbed in astonishment at the doll-soldier the old man has made by dressing up his thumb in a red handkerchief. What with those who will be captivated with the subject, told as it is with se much manly feeling, and without the least weak ness or mawkish sentimentality, and those who will be equally smitten with the charm of its rich intonation and genuine study throughout, this it a picture that will never be without its crowd of admirers. A charming little sketch by Mr. Faed is a portrait of a little son of Mr. Hepworth Dixon —a morassu of delicious qualities. Mr. F. R. Pickeregia, RA., exhibits only one small but elaborately-worked picture (179)—" The Return of a Crusader" to his castle home. His faith ful wife had WPM thought to hear him speak P