The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-24 00:00:00

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This observation relates only to the gamma policy of the EMPEROR ; it has no in vidious application to the Duke of MALAKOFF. He evinced throughout the campaigns in the Crimea a sense of the importance of British co operation ; and he is understood to have rebuked with considerable epigrammatic felicity the late bravados of certain French colonels. As an individual selection the choice of the Duke to succeed M.& Pessimist is a happy one. It was eminently desirable, for the sake of the amity between France and England, which we are anxious to see prolonged, that the person deputed at the present crisis to represent the French Government in this country should be a man not likely to fall into the error that it is is the power of any time-serving or truckling minister to give a binding undertaking, either verbally or in writing, that England may be cajoled into the abnegation of her independence or self respect. We cannot may that we share in the surprise which Count Peastexx's resignation has apparently caused amongst certain iinrellecting people on both sides of the Channel. To us nothing seems more natural than that a man of strong opinions and outspoken purposes should show the chagrin he feels at the defeat of the open and above-board policy he advised his muter to pursue for the diplomatic subjugation of this country. M. PERSIGNT was confident of moons in what he recommended, and he had good reason to be so. In Lords PALMERSTON and CLA MEN DON he had colleagues u devoted and unhesitating as himself ; and if he made a mistake in the tone he counselled the French EMPEROR to adopt, his amour-propre has been abundantly consoled by their confession that they took in good part everything he did and said ; and that he never would have thought of entering and making such a noise in the hall if they had not quietly opened the door and told him we were all asleep in our beds. Even amid the confusion of sudden awaking, and bundling the betrayers of our security into the street, we must do ourselves nationally the justice to say that scrupulous care was taken to observe the respect due to a stranger who had obviously been deplorably misled by those who ought to have known better. We all saw that the French Ambassador was quite as much sinned against is sinning, and that he never would have dreamt of going the lengths he did had he not been enticed and encouraged by his English confederates in mischief. As soon as their places were filled up by other men, M. PERSIGNY, with more temerity than discretion, tried to induce these, in their turn, to leave the door ajar. " Yon told " me," he said, in plainer English than they wished he knew how to use, " that you would stand by " without interfering, while I did the deed; yet " now that you war the household livery yourselves " you demur, and say you are afraid. This is the " second time I have bees duped." Well, it is not very pleasant, the consciousness of having been made a fool of ; it is not very easy for a downright earnest and irritable man to bide his morti fication, and it is not always worth such a man's while to try. M. PERSIONT certainly did not make the attempt. He wrote to his Government what was true, that Lords MALMEIBURT and DEMME had promised to renew the French Bill as soon as they were officially capable of doing so; and he persisted in counselling that he should be autho rised to exact the fulfilment of their pledge. But every ambitious and able minister hu his confidential enemy in the cabinet or the court he serves—somecan did considerate colleagae,who is ready to seize hold of • blunder, and smilingly protest he cannot think of allowing himself to do himself harm with it again. M. WALEWSICI'I opportunity had come. He could not think of placing the representa tive of the &dreamt in London—eo deeply valued a personal friend—in • false position a second time. The romantic courage of Mon sieur is Comte was worthy indeed of all honour; but his Excellency and the EnPCXOII Milt be saved bout the consequences of suicidal self-devotion. It would be, in fact, much better to take another way with the matter. All the time M. Watewext had been in England he had never found it necessary to quarrel openly with the gentlemen in Downing street. There was, after all, a great deal in the way of putting things--of saying at the moment whatever suited the moment, and then unsaying, or pretending to unsay it all whenever the occasion required. M. WALLICSKI was sure he amid deal with Lord DERBY and manage Lord MALMESBURT better than most people could ; and as M. PERSIONT'S mode of procedure, however patriotically intended, had not succeeded, he per meated his Imperial Master to try • different one. Before the question about opening the outer door from within should again be actually raised, Lord MALAIESTIURT and M. WALEWSKI were sgreed that it would be better to let people get back into bed, and fall sound asleep as before. When that was done, it would be the time to try stealthily how the French police might be securely admitted within the National premises. The mot d'ordre was accor dingly sent to the outpost at Albert Gate—" As you " were." Bat it was in vain to bid the baffled Ambassador " stand at ease." In point of fact, he could not and would not stand it at all. The sense of diplomatic discipline, and perhaps still more the sincerity of his personal regard for the Ex- PLKOR, constrained him to execute unhesitatingly the temporising instructions be received from Perin after the change of Ministry here. Instead of en countering an explosion of reproaches and rebukes, Lord If ALMLABURT, to his astonishment, was po litely and placidly presented by M. PY.RBIGNIr with the explanatory despatch of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. Bat that necessary act per formed, the humiliated Envoy forthwith proceeded to beseech his Imperial Muter to relieve him from the responsibility of a position which had become for him intolerable. He had been duped by Lords cuagsno:t reed PAIXIBITON 1 but these he cadd THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1858. forgive, for, had they net proved themselves staunch in their twason to natisag righty and fearless in all the friendly bithleworm he had expected of them ? They had alba in the very fact, and politically died exonerating their accomplices, and protesting their innocence. SO lin would he have been, moved to take so decided a step by the notoriety of the fact that he had been be-fooled by Lords DERBY ►nd MALX111111:13.T. M. PERSIGNT is too sagacious a can to roost last ingly the abject and hand-to-moath expedience of men wbe feel themselves and are felt by all the world to be the mere ad interim deputies of their predetemors. Nobody regards them even in the light of tensats from year to year of Downing. stud, but as mere lodgers on the first floor bound to leave at a week's notice. It were hardly worth while being angry at aaything which their destitution may tempt them to do. But it is harder to bear the consciousness of being practically superseded in one's own special department and func tion by a saucy and supercilious rival Nothing probably can exceed the intellectual disdain in which the French Ambassador is believed to hold the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, except the evasion with which the latter functionary is said to regard the former. It is easy, therefore, to imagine the frame of mind in which M. PEIBIGNY sat down to pen his recent letter of resignation, and the un affected earnestness with which he pressed the acceptance of his prayer upon the Emezzoi. INDIA. The following telegram was nesind at the India Hone this morning, at 1 o'clock. It will be observed that it is dated at Calcutta prior to the last received from Bombay. The intelligence is not, theeefore, fresh, but it contains a few particular which have not hitherto been published. It was probably sent from Calcutta by the wrecked steamer Ava: (NY RUII•1XNI AND NIITION TIENONAPIE4 Front H. Heiden, Esq., Secretary to the Govern ment of India, to the Hon. the &ant Committee. CALCUTTA, FEB. 22. The Governor-General assumed the government of tibe North-Western Provinces on the 9th inst., and Mr. Grant has returned to the Presidency and resumed his seat in Council. The Commander-in-Chief is still at Cawnpore with his force, consisting of 16 regiments European Infantry, three regiments Native Infantry, three regiments European Cavalry, three regiments and detachments of two other regiments of Native Cavalry, with 80 heavy guns and mortars, and 63 field-pieces has crossed the river and is in progress to Lucknow. It is expected that the attack will commence about the 27th inst., when Maharajah Jung Baba door's and General Franks' forces, consisting of 12,000 men, will also have arrived. General Franks expected to attack the rebels at Chad& on the 20th, and to be at Sultanpore on the The Maharajah wu to cross the Gogra at Phool pore on the 18th. The greatest cordiality exists between Jung Bahr door and the officer with his camp. The road from Minapore to Bombay, by Jubbul pore and Saghore, and the road from Agra to Bom bay via Indore, are opened. Brigadier Walpole commands a force for the de fence of the Doab from Futtyghur downwards. The rebels are strong and active on the Oude side of the Ganges from opposite Futtyghur to Cawnpore. A regular chain of communication is kept up be tween Bareilly and Lucknow. The rebels in the Etawah district have been defeated by the police and semindaree levies with the loss of 126 men and all their guns. On the 10th instant, Colonel MacCausland, com manding the Ghoorkas Regiment at Nynee-Tall, defeatefl the rebels, about 4,000 strong, at Buberee, in the Barrilly district, with a loss of 260 men and four guns. Lieutenant Osborne has taken the torts of Knn ware& and Tyeragoognrh, capturing 17 gntui. The forts have been dismantled. All well in the Panjaub, Sanger, Hyderabad, and Southern India. The fort of Rotu has been occupied by Colonel Mitchell. On Cammor (?) the mutinous companies of the 34th Native Infantry have been ahnost entirely an nihilated. Some progress has been made in suppressing the insurrection in Jumbalpore. Her Majesty's Bth Regiment has arrived from the Cape, and will garrison Fort William. Her Majesty's 84th Regiment marches to Benares. Commodore Watson, with the Chesapeake, is still at Calcutta. The Pylades is also here, and the Shannon and he Pearl, whose crews constitute the Naval Brigades on service in Oude and Ooruckpore. The Pelorus and the gunboats of the squadron are at Rangoon. Captain Seymour, with a party of 300 seamen and marines, have gone up the Irrawaddy to the Meaday frontier. V. MONTANARO. Malta, Much 23. The following telegram, from Actiag-Constd- General Green to the Earl of Malmeabury, was received at the Foreign-office on the 23rd of March, at 10.30 p.m. ALEXANDRIA. MARCH 19, 1868. The steamer Nubia arrived at Suez, from Calcutta, on the 17th instant at 10.30 p.m. She brings no intelligence from India more recent than received from Bombay by last mail. Her Majesty's ships Shannon, Chesapeake, Pearl, and Pilades, at Calcutta. Yeh, a prisoner on board the Inflexible, was at Hong Kong on the 15th February, on his way to Calcutta. The blockade of Canton was raised on the 10th. The Russians and Americans have joined the English and French in their demand on the Chinese government. The letters of the four Plenipo tentiaries have gone up to Shanghai, and by the middle of March it will be known what line China Woes. This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria by the contract steam packet Euxine' at 7.33 p.m. on the 23rd March. LYONS, Admiral. (DT eriNA.ll,lll AND IIITIIX TELZONAPN.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MALTA, Dimwit 24. The Calcutta mail has arrived, with dates from China, February 15 ; Calcutta, 23 ; Madras, 28 ; Gale, March 4 ; and Aden, 12. Madras exports inactive. Exchange—Bills on London, six months, 2s. Old. to 2s. Old. Calcutta exports improved. Imports and money market no change. Exchange on London a little lower. Bills, six months' sight, credits, 2.. Id. to 2s. lid.; documents, 2s. 11d. to 2s. led. Freights for Lon don and Liverpool, 31. per ton, but falling. Large available tonnage in port. THE MONUMENTS OF VENICE.—The Archduke Maximilian Is getting repairs executed In the most famous monuments of Venice, and especially of the Palace of the Doges. In the latter, the Prince is now having the Worms bearing the names of the "Four Doors," the " Anti-Col- Lep," the "Ambassadors," sad the " Smite," and whi c h are destined for solemn 00E•6000., richly decorated. These moms contain some of the masterpieces of the Venetian school of ptinting. and among them are pictures b Titian, Paul Veronese, Palma, Tintoretto, Da Pont., &c. The Prince has also ordered the vacant spaces in the ceiling of the Saloon of th e Council of Ten, which were emu by two pictures, one remeenting " Jupiter," the oth er " ono." by Paul Venoms, which pictures were carried od by the French, to be_pedated by lint class artist.. HENRY WATT, THE ENGLISH ENGINEER.—Mr. William Watt, of Neweeedives-Tyne. has received the fol lowing letters from Mr. Ridley, M.P., with regard to hie unfertanste brother Henry's journey from Naples to this country :—" Leaden, March 20.—Dear str.—Since netti ng to yen last night, I have ascertained that instructions have bees emit out to Naples that your brother should be mat home free of expense as soon as he is able to travel. Yon may rest assured that everything will be done in this respect that ia proper and right.—l am yours, faithfully, G. RIDLEY." London, Sunday, March 71.—Dear sir,— Sipes 1 wrote last night • telegraph has been received from Naples, stating that your brother left Naples ye.- terday (orday), in charge of a QES/41.8 raroommgor, for Marseilles and Ragland ; if he is weR enough to travel so quickly the messenger will bring him to England, In which case he would probably reach Leaden en Thursday morn ing. If he in not able to travel so fast, be will he left at Maudlin in charge of the British Consul there and will continue his journey when able to do so. I will arrange for his being met by • proper person on his arrival la Basked, so that he shall be under prow care till I know your wishes, or until you come up to town, which you will Probably think right to do. You will hear front me when I am able to tell you an of his arrival, and when I know of Isis actual coming I will telegraph to you. lam mire Mr. Newton or Sir J. Fife will kindly advise you in the matter of your brother's treatment should it be found mcimery. I will provide for his proper reception on arriving. Let es know what your wishes art.—Yours faithfully, Q. RIDLEY." Cbc court. The Queen went yestorda y to the Camp at AJdor *hat Her Milivoti sed dr nibs.* Cowart left Backlag ham-pal ur c hin H e r a. pet Ma ectiock, attended toy Lady Ch ftWial Brag. Lord Colville, Captain the Hos. D. de Rea, sal the Mostar of the Hower hold. idetsclunent of the llth Hassan formed the moat to the private statio• of the South Western Hallway at Vauthad, where a special train wag Is radiates for the conveyance of her Majesty. The Queen end Prises wad OW the new barracks. and subsequently her Ma' eety tewlewedl the division at Alderahott under the commend of Lleat.-Gesend Hno llye. The Queen and Prince returned to Buckingham-pelace at twenty minutes before sir o'clock. Her Majesty. accompanied by the Prisons Mice, honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre with her is the evening. The Queen wee attended by the Coastr ofCaloion, lion. Bourke Byag, Lord Ragin. end Lard Colvin*. Td Prince Consort, attended by Lord Bart, Colonel Funds Seymour, C. 8., and Captain the Ron. D. de Roe, hosciousd with his presence the performance of Bach's multi, at St. Martin's Ball. The Counters of Caladen has succeeded Lady Churchill as the Lady In Maitfntt . to the Queen. Lord Bedlam and Major- General Berkeley Drummond have succeeded the Earl of Virulent and Mr. It. Ormsby Gore as the Lord and Groom in Welting to ha. Majtaty. The Earl of Erns had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at hie °Saki realdenes in Downing-etreet. A deputation from the West India Committee had an in eerview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-can. The deputation oomatted of Mr. H. S. Crum Ewing, M.P.; Mr. Stephen Cave, setts( chairman ; Mr. A. Macgregor, Mr. Thomas Porter. Mr. Meolosald, Mr. J. C. Hoods, and Mr. 1. Torrance. — AelThad= on behalf of the Permissive Bill of the United *Deem Alliance had an interview with Hr. &ore tary WalpoleWalppoele,, yesterday, at the Horew•officit. The deputa tion aoaieted of Mr. Samuel Bowl, (Gloucester), Mr. Samuel Pope (Manchester), Rev. Canon Jenkins (Downie), Rev. W. W. Robinson, A.M. (incumbent of Christ Churob, Chelsea), Rev. Dr. Burns (Paddington), Mr. Robert Cherish:la (BritiMll, Dr. Ellis (Budbrook Park), Mr. F. H. Colleen! (Beth), Rev. T. Hullos (ohaplain of Northam county gaol), Mr. J. Jape (Mare)„ Mr. R. A. W afss.r ht (Lbscolit's-ina), Mr. W. Jammu (Tottenham), Mr. H. Dixon (Manchester). and the Rev. Davison Harris (Paddington). Mr. J. H. Wicht had ea Win law yesterday with Lord Snaky. Mr. Squire, Mr. Mew, and Mr. Estoonll, a deputation from the corporation of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, in refer ence to Tar-bridge Bill, acemspented by Mr. Birkenahaw (engineer), and Mr. Peed (psniantentary agent). had an in • terview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and the Earl of Donougbmore yesterday. A deputation of hop planters had an Interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer _yeseerday, and presented a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury for the total repeal of the excise duties on hope. That whereas, at the conclusion of the Peninsular war, almost all the taxes were oonsiderobly lowered, end many of them repealed, the excite duty on bops was continued at the rum settled In 1806, a period of the highest general taxation, and that mince that period, although so much has been done to alleviate taxation on all articles of consumption by the labouring clam, the duty has been actually increased five per cent.; that large and unexampled crops have depressed the market for hops to a rate utterly unreraunerative to the grower, at the same time greatly in creasing his exponent, and ain4eedft him to the payment of an amount of excise dilly whiA he has been constantly only able to satisfy at the expense of severe aserilloss, or the tirEnt of other payments. The deputationtmensted n eveneey, K.P., Kr. T. Barr, M.P., Mr. P. F. Robertson, Ifr. F. Web*, (Battle Abbey), Mr. A. Cowan, M.P. for Idinhergit, Mr. C. H. Frewen, late M.P. for East Sussex, Mr. J. W. Body (Northeram), Mr. 8. Rutley (Yaldham), Mr. J. W. Whiff (Sevenoebe), Mr. D. Barclay (Mayfield), Mr. J. Nash (Rochester), and other gentlemen °uncoated with hop-growing. Her Majesty held a levee at St. James's Palace this day (Wadoettlay), at two o'clock. The Countess of Jersey had a " reception" last night at the family mansion in Berkelersquare. There was • very large gathering of the members of the corps diplomatique and of the beau monde. Previously to the re ception the noble earl and countess entertained the following *ale at dinner Excellency Baron Brunnow, his Ex cellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Berestorif, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley, Viscount and ViSCOWIteI• lagoon's, Mr. George Russell, kr.. The countess ha. as assembly cm Saturday nut. Hie Excellency the French Ambassador and the Genesee as Parsley entertained at dinner last evening, at Albeet•pb Howe, his Eastlimey the Austrian Minister, the Deane of Menshester, the Marchioness of Stafiard, the Earl and Countess of Harderloke and Ledy Elizabeth Yorke, Baron and 84/001811 Nioolay, Count and Comities &house lot Count Karolyi, Mr. Panissi, Mr. Augustus Lumley, &c. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and Mr. G. 0. Harcourt, M.P., entertained at dinner, last evening, at their residence in Carlton-gardens, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d' Aussie, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Rut of Carlisle, Count and Countess Jarnae, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, Lord Moho, the Right Hos. Edward Mhos, Mr. Thackeray, &c. The Marchioness of Queensberry has arrived at 'Wrung's Hotel from St. Leonard's-on-Sat. The Marquis Carsociolo has arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, et. Jams s, from Park. The Earl and Countess of Radnor and family have left Clerldge's Hotel fur Brighton. The Comte Stadion has left the Brunswick Hotel, 81. Imam's, for Vienna. Viscount and Viscountess Combermere will leave town In a few days for Comberasere Abbey, where they intend Is pensthe Easter holidays. (rams Lao. 1/10fT . 4 warn' ) Bocriscaaat PALACE, MARCH 22.—This day had m a wa a bee Majesty :—The Baron de Brunnow, envoy eztvecedinary sod minister plenipotentiary from hi. M.jesty thy Emperor of All the Russias, to deliver hi. credential.; to which audience he was introduced by the Rnrht Hon. the Earl of Malmeebure, her Majeaty'r Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-Oeneral the Hon. Sir Edward Cud, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. WHITEHALL, MARCH 22.—The Queen Lag been pleased to give and grant unto Colonel John Lintorn Arabia Simmons, of the Royal Engineers, C. 8., her Majesty's royal beams and permission that he may accept and o'er thole rigida of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour of the Fourth Clam, which his Majesty the Emperor of the French bath been *seed to confer upon him as a mark of hie elnl Itajwity's approbation of hie distinguished services berms the enemy during the late war. WHITEHALL, MARCH 22.—The Queen has been appoltit William Henry Walter Montagu Dougl as Glanced to Eeq. (commonly called Earl of Delkeith), to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire of Dumfries, In the room of Archibald William, Marquis of Queensberry, resigned. WHITEHALL, MARCH 22.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alesender Shank Cooke. P.q , advocate, to Le 6berlf et the shires or sheriffdom of Roos and Cro =wry ; and George Meir, Seq., advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Stirling. PRINCE Or WALES'S Courfat CHAMBERS, BUM 111014A1COATII, MARCH 19.—Henry Whitmore, Barb ens of the commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury hes been appointed Keeper of the Privy 9esl of his Roc! Highness the Prince of Wales, in the room of Henry week Wil lie* Brand, Esq., resigned. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE NEW IR TO LONDON. lIMIXARI3II Axs sort: TELZOII.I.I.) (1110 Y 01711 OWN 0011211PONDINTI PARIS, WIDINSDAT Marshal Pelimier, Duke of MalakoA is appointed Ambassador to London, la the place of Coant Per signy, whose resignation is accepted. We read in the Ceitseigutionnelof thisday —"Count de Persigny's reeignition is now definitively accepted, but people have beim too huty in announcing that he had returned to Paris already. The count will not leave London until after the presentation to the Queen of his letters of recall and the arrival of his successor." (13011 001 OWN CONANIIIPONDINT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. I call your attention to an incendiary article in the Univers, appealing to the worst passions in order to stir up a warlike feeling against England. This article, the second of its kind, derives ita importance from the fact that Louis Veuillot, the writer, is now in great favour at the Tuileries, where he has not only his grand's but his potato entrees. Moreover, the news of this very day is that the government has just granted to the Univers the privilege which, at the instigation of Vallinot, was lately withdrawn from the Silas—namely, that of being sold in the streets. I subjoin some extracts from this valuable commentary upon M. de la GuerronniAre's oily pamphlet which has been translated for the use of English simpletons, and is sold in England at the price of one penny. . . It there is one thing on earth more manifest than another at the present moment it is the obstinate determination of the English to refuse the just demands of Franco. English statesmen may possibly not be &complies* In this ob stinacy, but their prudence is powerless. Public opinion, goaded by the press, turns a deaf ear to meson. Mr. Disraeli, with all his phrases so adroitly dis courteous towards us, is extremely likely to fail like Lord Palmerston. The pride of England is wounded. The wound is an old one ; It waa caused, we believe, not by the first dispatch of our Minister of Foreign Affairs; not by the solemn cry which rose is France against the laboratory of . . assassinations; not even by the military addresses insetted in the Mersireor by an error sufficiently explained. The wound was inflicted in the Crimea, at the Alma, at Inker mann, at the Malakoff, everywhere when the French were the first on the field, and penetrated the deepest into the enemy's ranks. St. Arnaud, Bonnet, Canrobert, Paltrier, Maclidahon—these are the men who wounded the pride of England. Another wound has been inflicted by the fact that India la in flame. while France is in pesos ; that Kabylis has been added to French Africa while British India lain a decline. Then, again, the King of Naples has not been de throned ; he has not begged pardon for having defended his throne, and has not delivered up to the English the porta of Sicily. Moreover, minor wounds have been inflicted in the United States, and even in Persia and Constantinople. All these circumstances ought to have lowered a little of that extreme arrogance which WOW or later becomes the weakness of the strong. But John Bull, like the Emperor of China, believes him self to be the son of heaven, and like that sovereign, be has the habit of strangling the messenger who is the bearer of evil tidings. • • • • • We sincerely wish that England would understand this magnanimous language of the Emperor to his ambassador in London Explain well to the ministers of her Majesty the nature of our position ; we do not now seek to protect my life but to preserve the alliance." If we admire this language, it Is not that we care for the &Stenos, for nothing is lees cared for by French sentiment, and this is proved in the most startling manner by the august gravity of the Emperor's words. But political reason and Christian reason have spoken and have been hearkened to. They teach us that peace mutt be maintained as long as it is possible, and as long as honour permits it; this honour is also a political meson, and, when well understood, the first of all 111111110111/. France, in spite of her eternal thirst for glory, in spits of the long and indignant shuddering left by a defeat incompletely teethed out, would nevertheless prefer a difficult peace to a war, even a successful one, if she could hope that the triumph of justice con be obtained by peace. lie concludes by saying that " France feels that she can no longer remain in a state of moral infe riority, that she feels that her true destiny is to be the bras arms of right, and that she will uneasily accept the counsels of those who advise her to be patient and will only love those who may determine to ask for blood." I cannot too emphatically contradict the assertion made by one of those Loadon journals which think it necessary, in the interest of the alliance, to echo whatever is said at the Tuileries, that "never did anti-English feeling run so high in France is now." I affirm the contrary to be the case, and that never at any period in history were the French people less disposed to quarrel with England than now. The Moniker publishes an Imperial decree re organising the Council of Admiralty. The official journal reports that his Imperial High ness Prince Jerome Napoleon is now convalescent. The Memorial de Lille says that the new pass port regulations are carried out with the utmost rigour in all the ports of the Channel. Nobody can land at Dunkirk, Calais, or Boulogne, unless he has complied with all the required formalities. Several foreigners have been sent back from all these towns. M. Carlier, the old Prefect of Police, is very busy, giving advice to M. Boittelle. I understand that he is installed at the Prefecture, and works there all day long. The Moniteur says: The police have just effected some Important arrests. For some time past robberies have been very common at night at country houses in the communes of Nenil iy, Auteuil, Busy, natio:, to. The attention of Mayon.). having been directed to the teat, a watch was set, and several of the depredators have bean wrested, and a groat number of the stolen article., such u beds, time pieces, looking•glaaees, &c, have bean foetid at their lodgings. The Bourse wan unsettled. The Rents fell 10c. both for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 65c. and 69fr. 80c. Mobilier fell 32fr. 50c. The Orleans Railway fell 12fr. 50c.; Lyons, 10fr.; and the other lines about sfr. SWITZERLAND. B4RNE, MARCH 23. It is announced that in the last audience accorded by the Emperor to Dr. Kern, his Majesty seemed disposed to reconsider the passport question. The government has made an objection to the establish ment of the new consulates, bat has not yet adopted a definitive resolution respecting them. WRECK ON THE COAST OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.—A letter written from the Falkland Islands In behalf of the crew of the North American ship Antoinette, Mates that that ship has been wrecked on the coast of the Falkland Islands, while on its way to London. "We got to Berkeley Sand," says the letter, "on the second day after we left the ship, or rather to • settlement at Port William, where we found an American consul, to whom the captain told our lose, and that there was a boat and five men adrift, whom we had lost sight of. The good old gentlemen got a vessel the same afternoon, and at daylight the next morning proceeded to look for them, el though it blew • gale of wind. His last words to um were, Dont't fear, if they are alive I will find them ;* and find them he did on one of the small Wanda, with boat stove and without water; and the mew informed me that he never left the deck ar slept until he did find them, when he showed them every kindness in his power. He was absent but four days. I am informed by the Inha bitants of the colony that he has always base in the habit of acting in ibis way for many years. He is the seine men who went in pursuit of and found Captain Gardner and the mierdonaries who were starved to death at Ceps ROM Teemed • French mew on the coast of Pa and in the Straits of Hegelian, and a Danish mew d, end all at his own expense. The inhabitants say be is better ac quainted and has more knowledge of the place and coast than any jiviss. He Is bind, generona r end liberal in the THE WRECK OF THE AVA. .............. On 01110 Y TSB PASSING'S/1a The steamer Ava left Calcutta for Suez on the morning of the 10th of February. On board of her were Lady Inglis, the wife of the General late com manding at Lucknow, and her three children • Ge neral Michell, bound for Bombay ; Colonel Gre athed, the hero of the Delhi flying column; Captain James, the saviour of the Lucknow garrison; and many other ladies and gentlemen lately besieged there : altogether the passengers numbered upwards of 60. After the Ava left Calcutta it transpired that she was engaged on the part of Government to take up Treasure at Madras and convey it to Trincomalee, thus making a deviation from her course. She arrived at Madras at 4 p.m. of the 14th January, took in some more passengers—chiefly ladies and children—and the Treasure, and left for Trincomalee at the same hour on the 16th. At 10 a.m. on the 16th the ship was running about 11 knots and a half in the hour, and the Captain calculated that he was about 79 miles from his destination. At about 4 pm. the rocky coast of Ceylon was discerned ou the starboard bow. With out changing her course the vessel gradually ap proached nearer, as the coast bulged out consider ably at this point A little after 5 o'clock the Cap tain imagined he must be nearing the port, and ac cordingly altered the course a point towards the shore. A light was there visible, and it appeared as if there were a settlement of some kind on the coast. Half an hour had not elapsed after this had been done before a large rock was visible, immediately in the course of the ship. The ladies at this time were sitting on deck, perfectly unconscious of danger ; the gentlemen walking up and down, or smoking on the forecastle. They were suddenly roused from their occupations by cries, immediately following one another, of " Hard starboard," " Stop her. The words were scarcely out of the Captain's mouth before the ship *truck hard and fast on a rock. The paseengere were all aware that something serious had happened—they did not know what; they, however, acted, for the most part, in the most exemplary manner under the circum stances—they remained perfectly quiet. One or two gentlemen, who happened to be forward at the time, noticed the water rushing in furiously in that part of the vessel, and at the same time the crew were observed quietly lowering the boats. All this was ominous enough, and it was, almost at the same time, rendered more so by the Captain quietly pass ing an order for all the ladies to congregate on the deck. These arrangements were completed without the slightest disorder or confusion, and the six boats belonging to the steamer were lowered without a single accident Into these, the ladies first, the gentlemen afterwards, many of them scarcely con scious of their danger, were hurried, and in fifteen minutes from the time the ship struck, all the pas sengers had been safely placed in the boats. The orders issued to the several boats' commanders were to keep near the ship all night. Fortunately, the night was not dark, the breeze was moderate, and there was no sea on. Between the ship which they had just left and the shore was about a mile of water, studded with breakers, and it was absolutely neces sary to obey the captain's orders most strictly, and to keep near the ship. Our situation can be ima gined. Upwards of seventy passengers (some having been taken in at Madras), besides stewards, ship's officers, Chinamen, and children, were crowded into six boats at 7 o'clock in the evening to cruise in a space about one hundred yards square for nearly 11 hours; to be careful to approach neither too near to the ship on one side, nor to the breakers on the other. The sea was sufficiently rough to cause the most un pleasant sensations amongst many of the passengers, and sea-sickness raged in all its horrors. All this time signals were being made from the ship ; guns were fired, rockets discharged, and blue-lights burned, all without the slightest effect; for, although • light was visible on the nearest coast, it proceeded only from fishermen, and these made not the slight est effort to come to our assistance. The Captaio (Kirton),assisted by some of his offioers and the Laacars, remained on board : their presence there was at tested about 11 p.m. by the fall, with a tremendous crash, of the fore and main masts, without, however, injuring any one. All this time the fore part of the vessel appeared slaking, whilst the stern was high above the water. This was visible to the passengers from the boats, as they set waiting for the dawn which was to disclose to them more fully their own position. At last the day broke, and the wind dually increasing made the waves rise higher. The prospect was by no means cheering. Between the boats and the coast were breakers in abundance— many visible, others just showing their heads above the horizon. Trincomalee itself was about twelve miles distant. It was therefore resolved that the boats with ladies in them should make for Trince melee, making a large offing to avoid the rocks, whilst the others should attempt the coast. This course was adopted: three boats with ladies and their husbands put out to sea. One of these, the cutter, arrived at Trincomalee about noon, and gave the first intelligence of the disaster ; the ether two, being slower sailers, heavy boats, and with a tired crew, were picked up by a native cutter bound for Trincomalee, where they arrived about 3 p.m. 'the other boats managed, after one or two attempts, to reach the land. fhe kindness of the residents bad sent on conveyances to meet them on the first inti mation of the disaster, and all arrived safely before the evening. It would be impossible to convey an adequate sense of the kindness and hospitality of the residents of Trincomalee, and of the measures taken by them to make the disaster light to the sufferers. It is a little place with from 20 to 30 European residents. On these was suddenly thrown the task of entertaining some seventy unfortunates, possessing only the clothes on their backs. And yet they :did it—in such a manner, too, as to impart a real pleasure to those who availed themselves of • hospitality evi dently so genuine. Mr. Morris, the Government Agent, Colonel Weir and the officers of the 50th, and Mr. Cooper, took the lead in this, as well as in those other measures necessary for affording shelter to the officers compelled to remain near the ship, and pro tection to the baggage which might be washed on shore. Everything that could be thought of was done, and in the welcome which they received the passengers forgot alike their misfortunes and their These losses were of no ordinary nature. Many of the passengers belonged to the Lucknow garrison. They had arrived in Calcutta =possessed of any thing in the world. They had been fitted out by the Relief Fand in Calcutta, and the resource thus obtained was gone. But there was perhaps even a greater loss. Many of them bad kept journals of the siege: most of these had gone the way of the rest of the baggage ; only one, so far us I have heard, was discovered. A few boxes were subsequently washed on shore, but their contents were entirely spoiled by the salt water, and for the week that the passengers remained at Trincomalee they were de pendent for a change of linen entirely on their kind hosts. The account of the accident was despatched with the utmost promptitude by the Government Agent, Mr. Morris, to Galle. It fortunately happened that the Granada had arrived at that port two days pre viously, en route for the Isle of France. The news reached her at 5 p.m. on the evening of the 19th. She was then partially laden with coffee. However, at 7 p.m. her cargo was unladen, and she was steaming for Trincomalee. She arrived there on the morning of the 21st ; left the same evening, and then started on her return to Galle. Galle was reached on the morning of the 23rd. The shipwrecked passengers were there able to procure clothes of some sort, and the ladies again experienced the kindness which scents to have taken root and to be indigenous in the island, having shown itself not only at Trincomalee and Galle, but at Colombo also, by the despatch thence of necessaries for ladies' use . These acts can never be forgotten by those on whose behalf, strangers as they were, they were perpetrated. The Ava we visited on the 21st; she was then just below water; her back had broken on the evening of the 17th, and since then she had gradually sunk down. 'Whatever might have been the conduct of the Captain in running the ship on the rocks, it must be admitted that subsequently to the accident no man could have exerted himself with greater energy or daring. The Captain and the Admiralty Agent remained on board to the very last moment; the hitter in the hope perhaps of saying hie mails, but they were submerged almost immediately after th e first strike. Conspicuous also was the conduct of Lieut. James, of Lucknow renown, who was co board when the vessel made her first tremendous crack in the centre ; and for a minute or two he we e actually alone on board—the others having Push e d off without him. By Captain Haswell, R.N., m g by the various officers in charge of the boats, th e greatest coolness and self-possession were shown. It is to the display of these qualities, indeed, that it was owing that not a single life was lost, although nearly half the passengers consisted of women and children. It is unfortunately necessary to add one testimony of an opposite nature. The vessel had no soon er struck th a n the Lamars and others of the nativ e crew rushed down to the cabins and commenced rifling them. On the following morning, whe e some gentlemen returned to the ship, they found the boxes in the still-accessible cabins broken open and their contents scattered. Every valuable lied been abstracted. These had been necessarily lefton board, the boats having been sufficiently loaded ei i t was, and in the absence of the psseengera the devas tation had been committed by the native servant/ of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. PROSECUTION FOR A LIBEL 027 THE EMPEROR OP THE FRENCH. Yesterday afternoon a Polish refugee named Stasilaw Teleoristoaki, keeping • bookseller's shop at 39, Rupert-street, Haymarket, woo brought before Mr. Jardine, at the Bow-street Polioe Court, upon a warrant, executed by , Inspector Whirler, of the detective force, charging him wick " having, on the let of March inst., unlawfully printed and published a certain false, scandalous, malicious, seditious, and defamatory libel, concerning his Majesty the Emperor of the Emrich, with intent to incite divers persons to assami nate his said Majesty." Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution on the part of the Crown, and Mr. Leverscm, a solicitor, attended for the Me fendant. The alleged libel Is a small pamphlet, in French, Warta( the signatures of "Le Comite de la COOII3IIIIIA Revoln tiormaire, Fells Pyat, Beason, et A. Talandier ; " being the document recently referred to in the parliamentary debates. Mr. Bodkin said—Theee proceedings are taken by thedirso lion of her Majesty's Attorney-Gannet against the prisoner at the bar, who has been apprehended on the charge of pub lishing and selling the pamphlet which I hold in my hand. It is written in the French language, and like another which has been also the subject of • late prosecution, it trariss, enforces, and justifies the crime of asaassituition. The pri soner, although a foreigner, resides In England, and enjoys the protection of our English laws; and it is not to be tole rated that a person in such • situation should break and defy those laws with impunity. I shall prove that the publica tion in question wee purchased at the prisoner's house, with five or six other copies, the same having been advertised on sale at his place of business. I shall have several pu rges of the book translated, and when your worship has seen what the character of the production really is, I doubt not you will feel it your duty to hold the prisoner to bail on the present charge. Jonathan Whicher deposed that he was an inspector of the London detective police. On the Ist of the present month he went to • small book-shop in Rupert-stieet, called the " Librairie Polonaise." There was a boy there, and the pri soner came in afterwards. Witness asked prisoner if be wu the proprietor of the shop, and he replied " Yet" Saw several copies of the work now produced lying about on the counter, and asked the price of them. The primmer said the large ones were 3d., and the others 2d, each. Witness then purchased tiaree of ach size, and paid him le. 3d. for them. He requested a memorandum, as they were not for himself, upon which prisoner wrote as follows on a strip of paper " 39, Rufert-etreet. Lettre an Pariement et ala Preen.' 6 make Tne memorandum and pamphlet were both produced, and 8 t Rogers, an officer of the C division of pollee, trans la=he passages upon which the prosecution was founded. Theywero to the following effect : " Has Bonaparte attempted at the court, as at the assem bly, as at the law, as at the people ?—forced every resistance and every VS assassinated citizens and representatives, arrested, transported, executed the defenders of the constitution, compelled the remainder to vote with the bayonet at their ribs P Is all this • fable • story, or a dream ? Have we dreamt it, invented it, lielgined it for the reqairemeata of our opinions or of our passions, sa mentioned in the Welewski note ? Is It a reel, recent, patent, public, his torical, and judicial fact ?—undeniable by the author him self, who bouts of it ?—crying aloud and bleeding in the memory of all demanding vengeance from God and man, deserving cha s tisement from below as from above—from everybody and every arm, unpunished because triumphant ? • • • • At the ordinary maims the garter would rise to his neck (serve to hang him). This Emperor is an assassin. Then the question le if an unsain, who is also an Emperor, may be killed ? A wrest question we know— even ridiculous—pregnant with ' Yes' and No; ' according to place and time ; an old question, having all its beard and teeth iarrived at maturity), like the Supreme Being. An especially idle question, which arose with the first tyrant, end on only be solved with the last. Constitutional kings are reported inviolable, they having responsible ministers; yet they someftenes pay with their persona ; but are tyrants also iftvidable ? These are some of the worst species in the oldest and moat odious acceptation of the word. Such en one, for example. who would have fallen under the guillo tine, had he net by the forte of murder risen above it ; had be bees Ism criminal, lees atria. Let us suppose that a king of England-this has been seen—weary of his council, of his parliament, of hie press—of all the rights acquired without contest to our time—took it into his head on • fine December niOt, also to make a soup d'etat, to outrege ail . public libertim, to stifle them all in th e blood of hi e peo ple to be what is called a perfect Emperor, what the English people do if they could ? What they have already done. Ws will no longer discuae the right of regicide. In the country of Charles I. it is aupertiuom. . . . . Are not tan thousand muskets iced a hundred cannons worth four bombe ? They are of the same veils with him. It is he, always he, who presides at the executions from which Rome never ceases to bleed. It Is he, and he alone, the chief and author of invasion and occupation, of civil end religious despotism—the enemy, we say, the mama enemy, forewarned by his own act—the principal end model enemy—the enemy armed and encamped . in the bosom of ,the country. Has not every citizen the right and the duty to save lus country—to strike the enemy wherever he may be I' Say? And yet the Italian patriots did not attack him in London. when he came ea if to insult by his pressure all the proscribed. They respected the mutest end free country. They would not stain the hospitable soil with such blood. They made the attempt on Bonaparte in his own country, on his own ground, in his camp, =cage* and in spite of his 'oldie' and hie police—as if better to prove to him the vanity and frailty of his tyranny—to prove to him this mathematic truth, this word of gospel spoke by the very lamb of resignation, who lives by the sword shall , die by the sword.' The Italians, then, are not asesanine— thr7 are combatants. They have rendered tooth for tooth, grafted* for grenade. They are prisoners whose throats the savages are about te cut. They are vanquished—they will not be punished. The enemy may kill, but cannot judge than. Al! the poison of Chas-Cita Aege can never tarnish them. They may die, but cannot be disgraced. Punishment for them, disgrace for others. They die for their country. As for us, untortunately we have no gilnto the merit of their work. We have not the participate in their enterprise. But the cock would avow twice if • French voice did not salute them before the judgment-sent. Friends unknown, but not misunder stood, we salute you I you shall be avenged. If our means differ, our cause Is the mine." Mr. Bodkin, observing that the passages jut quoted sufficed for the present, now asked that the prisoner might be committed for trial. A full translation of the pamphlet would be produced at the trial. Mr. Levers= applied for a remind to Saturday to enable him to prepare his client's defence. He should oppose the committal on legal grounds, apart from which be regarded the proceeding as an atrocious encroachment upon the liberty of the pees. And why wee his client arrested on • warrant? He suspected and dreaded the facility with which warrant, were now granted in these owe, while every obstacle was raised when they were sought to bring ordinary criminals to justice. Mr. Bodkin—The warrant is • mere form. It remained in the officer's hands until the prisoner was wanted here, sad then he was sent for. Mr. Jardine—Besides, it is notorious that In half the assault cases heard In every police-court in London the de fendants are brought up by warrants. It Is the comma practice. If the client's attorney tells me ho is not reedy with his defence, that I. ground for a remand, and his appli cation shall be granted. It is aam in which I can take ball. Mr. Lererson uM be had one of the bail pretent. A person, epparently a foreigner, stepped into the wanes. box. Mr. Bodkin—Ars you the printer of the pamphlet which forms the subleet of this prosecution P Wilmer—Yes. I am. Bedlti;:liten I object to this person's bail. Mr. Leversae—Then you will drive toe to send for the grottiest philosopher of the age, J. Stuart Mill. He will be bail, and I will send to the India Howe for him. Mr. Bodkin—Will you oblige me with the private adder* of the greatest philosopher of the age. Mr. Leveranu did not know it. but he would undertake to Isteh Mr. Mill within twenty-four hours. He cMr. Laur ent) looked upon these prooredines with awe, with dread to the liberty of the subject, and the purity of even junta:sigma. Mr. Bodkin was linable to understand why rum guilty of printing, and publishing, and promulgating dootrinas which every right-minded Christian most loathe and detest, should be treated in the tender drawing-room style s the prisoner's attorney. He did not oppose %re ed nal although the object of it wu apparent enough. The prisoner wee then committed in default of bail, sad lart la as prism Yea. [1