The Express. — London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

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APaseassi. lh. 64m LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20. THE Anstro-Pruasian intervention in Denmark has been from the first attended with dissensions, as frequently happens where several parties join n an enterprise impelled by discordant motives, which they cannot conveniently avow. And now a new and very singular cause of rivalry, one which it was quite impossible to anticipate, has suddenly arisen. This is nothing lee. than a dis pute as to the proportion in which the Austrians and Prussians are respectively entitled to share the gloii of the campaign. Considering all the cir cumstances, and comparing the military means and resources of either of the German Powers with those of Denmark . , it is certainly a difficult question, and it is debated with an eager ness that has not been surpassed since the days of the schoolmen, when the disciples of the Angelic and Seraph 'c Doctors disputed by the week how many thousand angels could eland on the point of a needle. The debate was raiard by Prince FREDERO-R CHARLES of PRCSSLA'S order of the day, issued after the passage of the &Wei. This precocious young General, who has evidently heard of the fame of the Archduke Cream" and studied the proclamations of the great NAPO LEON, was not long in Slestrig before he showed the soldiers under his command what renown they might expect to acquire if he were allowed to write the history of their exploits. Before the attack on Missuude, this young warrior, addressing his troops, said—" We shall meet with well-armed " fortresses and large surface, of water and ice ; " your intrepidity and zeal will be the more ma " nifest ; those obstacles conceal an ninny aecu.- " tuned to fry io-fipre our regiments." The world knows something from history of the style in which Danish troops fight, and something also about that of the Prussians, and did not need the teaching of the events that so soon followed to guard it against error. The Danes fought at Minunde as they always fight, and it was the Prussians, and not they, who retreated. By-and-by, however, the Danes, too few to man the long line over which the immensely superior numbers of the enemy enabled him to extend his attack, did fall beck. They abandoned the Dannewerk, and Prince Fez. DERICE CHAILLM and his corps were able to pass the Schlei. To the Pence nothing seemed more natural than to suppose that they had retreated in terrorof him and his followers. Thereupon he issued another order of the day, in which neither the Austrians, who had done nearly all t►e hard fighting, nor the other Prussian corps who, we may suppose, had contributed something to the re sult, were even referred to. He and his corps, the PRINCZ said, had compelled the Danes to retreat. If so, it was certainly by the dread they inspired, for the Danes fell back and were on their way towards Flensburg before Prince Cassuoi had passed the Schlei. The Austrians, who had stormed the Konigsberg, and suffered severely in the battle of Oversee, read the Panica's procla mation with feelings which may easily be con ceived. He had not only ignored those warriors of the working day, but had had the incredible folly to congratulate his soldiers on the smallness of the sacrifices by which the work of driving beck the Danes had been accomplished. While he thus marked the esteem in which he held his Austrian comrades, he showed that in his opinion the words in which the first NAPOLEON congratulated the heroes of Austerlitz were not too magnikoquent to be applied to the heroes of Misaunde. According to him, to be able to say in aftertime, "I was an " artilleryman at Alissunde," will be to esta blish title to admivation and envy. But, as the children of the conquerors of Austerlitz are now remarking, there is one great difference in the two events. At Missunde the Prussians numbered 15,000 against 3,000 Dane*, while at Austerlitz 45,000 French defeated 90,000 Austrians and Prussians. At Vienna the Pziarcs's words have been criticised with equal severity and justice. The Prase, after remarking that the order of the day has caused a great excitement in military circles, frankly declares that the Prussians did not cross the Schlei at Arnie "until they were well assured "that the Danes had left," as indeed is shown by the details which their own journals have furnished respecting the passage. The Oat Deutsche Post more courteously affects to question the authen ticity of the PRINCE'S order of the day. It luta e," is THE caused a painful surprise ; it undoubo/44;slsr a misunderstanding ; it must be apocryphal ; awkward imitation of the celebrated bulletin of Napo's°, I. demonstrates its blames ; if it were authentic, it would rank with the " most extra " ordinary enormities in the history of wars." The Penes's order of the day, however, is more then authentic ; it shows that he has thoroughly comprehended and adopted the sentiment which has dictated this unjust war. It is the policy of the Kiwi, his uncle, and M. BLIMARcx to raise the Army in the eyes of the Prussian people, and give its leaders a more decided preponderancy in the State. For this reason it was sent to the Duchies in numbers greatly exceeding the army of Austria, and doubtless with a sincere intention that it should bear the brunt of the war. From whatever cause, however, it has happened that the Austrians have hitherto had to do nearly all the hard fighting. A correspondent who was with the Danish army during the engagements in the South of Sleswig, and who accompanied it to Ditppel, observes that, with the exception of their not very successful attack on Missunde, the Prussians were hardly ever seen or heard of at the front, and all the toil and honour of the campaign seem to have been appropriated by the Austrians, in whom the Danes recognise worthy adversaries, while they speak of the Prussians with contempt. This is no doubt unfortunate for the Panics and his family, but he will not mend matters by leaking gasoonading proclamations, which in these days of railways and telegraphs can only excite contempt. It is to be feared, however, that the failure of the Palms and his army either to win distinction or seize unmerited renown will also prove a mis fortune to Europe by prolonging the war. The Prussian Parliament will not be ruined in influence by exploits like those of Mar. shal WaaxosL and Prince Fssoastes CHARLIS in Sleswig. Something more must be done to exalt the army in public esteem, and excite in the nation a military enthusiasm which will neutralse all domestic political action. It is not likely that the opportunity will long be wanting. The Danes have yet to be driven out of a position which is not only strong in the mere engineering sense, but which is far better adapted than the Dsnne werk was to make their numbers and resources effective. Whenever Ditppel is attacked we may expect to hear that thousands have fallen before its entrenchments. If the Prosaism' are bure'ng to march in the front rank on that Decision, we may hope that not only their ambition may be gra tified, but foremost places will be reserved for tl-e military members of that family whose guilty am bition has done moat to instigate this cruel and unjust war. bt Court. OMR" Pu. 19. The Queen and Princess Helens walked and drove yerterday moralizer. The Hoc. Harriett Phipps bas 11114:010:104 the Hoc. Emma Lamellae m Maid et Hamar la Welting. The Queen ham lately superintended the placing of a mo nument in the chancel at Whippinerham Church to the memory of the Prince Oonsort, the design for which was previously submitted to and highly approved of by her Majesty. The upper portion of the design, executed in white marble, consists of a medallion of the Prism encircled in a wreath of laurel. The lower portion is divided into three weds, inclosed in arches of nlabsster, supported on smell columns of red Portuguese marble, and surmounted by a cornice of alabaster richly wed. la the side panels are the arms of the Queen and Prince, and in the animas inscription commemoretive of his Royal Wishner. The monument, the joint production of Mr. Timed and Mr. Humbert, the architect of the chunk which wee rebuilt by order and wider the suparbitsmisoce of the Priam Goe bert, enerespends is style with the architecture of the building, i.e., about the commencement of the thirteenth century. A deputation from Birmingham had an interview with Sir George Grey at the Home-oaths yesterday, on the alb. Oct of the utilisation of the sewage of towns. A deputation from the Western Bank of Scotland had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his ogieiel residence in Downingarrot, on Thursday. Despatch= we see= yesterday fro= the Col=ial-of6os to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malts, the Maerritios, Ceylon Hong-Kan, Lotman, the Amma=ncolosiss, and to the Lord High Commisioner of the lonian Islands. A meeting of the English and Irish Lew and Chancery Commissioners was bald at No. 6, Adslphi-terrace, Strand, on Thursday issi. CAsium CorNal.--Craul DAT.)-lAirt evening commoscon won loosed for a Cabinet - Conseil for ilia; (Wonky) aftorsoon at ball-oost 2 o'clock, at Via:oast Palenernon'a official random in Downingnizoet. Tag lisross or ass Moran ro Wataeos,— (THIS Dar.)—Her Majesty the QOOlllll, ethoathaaied by the junior members of the royal family, atteadat by the ladies and gestlomen of the court, is expected to kayo Osborne and return to Windsor Cootie this morning. The royal party, on reachien Gosport, will 111••• the Royal Clansee PietistMopped at sOOO, and will proceed to a opened task to Virrodsor. Mat the Loedoa and South Waters and Groat Western Railways, *Mohan at the Windsor ter minus of the letter line about a quarter put 2 o'clock in the aft ernoon. The Countess Russell had an evening party last night at the family residence in Chesham-pl•oe. hey of the fordo =misters and • huge abide of the nobility were present, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. Lord and Lady Chelmsford entertained last evening his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff, the Earl a St. Germane, the Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, Sir Charles Russell, Sir Jams sad Lady Mary Wilde, Rae. Lady Smyth sad Ni es Smyth, Colossi Taylor. ILP., Mr. Tar. ear, M.P., mad Mrs. Tuner Mr. Clresille Howard, and the Hon. Francis and Mrs. Moser, at their residama is Eaton. square. The Countess de Grey gave her first assembly last evening at the family malice in Oulteaprtiese. Under the auspices cf the Countess of Fife a striae of tableaus vivant.a will be represented oaths erecting' of Wednesday awl Thursday mixt, at her laarbipli red &ace is Orowesoewqsare. Oa Thursday orating bat Royal flightier the Dachas of Oasibridge a:11 bower the ester isieessot with hey preissec The Viscountess Palmerston will have an aa sem* this eve Meg et Cambridge Ham A marriage is to take place between Captain J. 0. Heailtoo, late of the god Life Guards, ead Lady Emily Melville. youngest daughter of the late Earl of Lena and Melville. A marriage will shortly take plate between Miss Ado/Aide Gore, daughter d Lleakeesat-Oeowal the Has. Sir Charles Goes, sod niece to the Datum el lavoroma, with Colonel Rich, of the 714 Highlander'. Mr. Charles Dickens has consented to preside at the annual dinner of University College Hospital, at Willies Rooms, on Tuesday, April 12. On Tuesday afternoon the Chancellor of the Erasers. will reeeivo a tiepolstios from the Central Asti- Malt Tax Association, socompasied by member of parlia ment favourable to its object. _ _ . _ The first day's sale of the Delacroix pictures at Psi* many of them man skalabss, 86 in iambic prodand the large suss of 86.r.31r. "Bola. Reviews, and Misoellanies," by Sir George Oontearall Lewis, eallected hose hie ontrilatiess periodical litorateria. will be polished la the souse el the ISOM Mr. Samuel Sharpe, the historian of Egypt, has jest Moe elected a Fellow at the Sesisty et Astigmatism The Ptsb/ishen' Circular says :—" Mr. Dickens's sow story, the feet smoothly part of with* will be peb lished on the lst of lisy, will preseet • semi Wien, is being illiwtriMid with weed.seggewisgs by Yr. hiscessillises, instead of the peculiar altersate amnia sad sombre steel engravinp by Yr. Rabbi K. Browse." tikepatUkYi J 4 pEsT urrEuictmat THE INVASION OF SLESWIG. According to advices from Duppel, Marital Wrangel reconnoitred in person on the 15th and 16th all the works in that neighbourhood. The siege artillery sent for to Berlin had arrived, and the attack on the works was looked on as likely to take place without much further delay. The Prus sian Guard was to be first engaged, not having as yet taken part in any hostile affair. The Danish squadron, composed of 12 vessels of war, was anchored close to the island of Alsen, off Son derburg. Two iron-cased frigates, the Absalom and the Willesnoes, armed with rifled cannon of long range, as well as three gunboats, had been ordered to take up a position within 200 yards of Duppel, so as to open fire against the Prussian forces when necessary. A reserve has been organised in the island with large supplies of stores, hospitals, &c. A daily service of steamers has been established between Alsen and Oopenhagen. The inhabitants of the town of Duppel have taken refuge at Nordburg in the island. " While a part of the Prussian army," observes the Constitenosacl, "is pursuing its siege operations against the entrenchments of Duppel, which are defended by six battalions of Danes, a Danish force is also concentrated at Fredericia, a fortified port of Jutland at the northern entrance of the Little Belt. The allies, anticipating a long re sistance at Duppel, are said to be think 4 og of be sieging Fredericia also. The allied troops may consequently now be seen to be extending from the south to the north on the Apeorade causeway at the north of Sleswig —the Austrians advancing towards Hadersleben, Zegerap, and Marstrup, whilst the Prussian Guard is concentrating around Christiansfeld, where the commander-in-chief has transported hie head-quarters." The Pnuse even announces the oocupation of Kolding, a town of Jutland on the frontier of Sleswig. "It is the corn trade, carried on to a consider able extent on the coast of the Baltic," says the Pays, " which will suffer the moat from the blockade of the German porta by Denmark. In order to form an idea of that fact, it is sufficient to know that corn forms one third of the exports which take place from the Prussian ports. To speak of Koenigsberg alone, out of 40,00,000 worth of merchandise which leave that port every year, wheat and rye alone amount to 15,000,000. Almost all the cargoes of corn which are shipped at that port and at Dental°, Stettin, and Memel, go to England, Belgium, and Holland, but England alone takes sore than one-half. It is only in years when the harvest is bad in France that corn from the Baltic comes into the French markets. If, therefore, the blockade with which Denmark threatens the Prussian ports becomes effective, France will not have to concern herself in the matter on her own account. Such will not, however, be the same with England, which every year requires from 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 hecto litres of corn from abroad, and which has not yet, as we are aware, completed her supplies." ARREST AND H.L-TREATMENT OF A FRENCH GENTLEMAN BY THE AIISTRO- PRUSSIAN AUTHORITIES. K Eugene d'Arnoult, the Patries correspondent at the theatre of war, has b-en arrested by the Austro-Prussian military authorities. The Patrie denounces this act as a breach of the law of na tions, and says it has applied to M. Drouya de Lbuys for redress. K d'Arnoult writes a letter dated " Prison of Flensburg, Feb. 14." His statement is that he left Kiel on the morning of Feb. 9, for the purpose of paying a visit to the rains of Missunde, as crowds of people were in the daily habit of doing. On the 10th be was ar rested in Missunde by a Prussian officer. He showed him a passport vise for Kiel, Sleswig, and Hamburg, but the officer would not listen to him, treated him roughly, pretended that he ought to speak German, "since he spoke Italian," took his pocket-book away from him, and packed him off to Sleswig in charge of a lieutenant and two soldiers. He was sent thither, a distance of five leagues, on the outside of a Danish gun-waggon. It was snowing hard, bitterly cold, and he had no extra clothing. From Sire wig he was taken to the Chateau de Gottorp, and handed over to some officers of the Austrian staff. IThese gentlemen received him at first with polite ness, but the moment they beard his name they informed him that, by express orders of Marshal l Wrangel, he was to be arrested the moment he appeared in Sleswig, and sent to prison in Flensburg. The officers, however, did what they could to alleviate the hardship of his position. He was perished with cold and his hair covered with icicles. They lit a large fire to warm bim, and gave him a good meal. At 10 at night, with the thermometer lb degrees below zero, he was sent to Flensburg in an open carriage. The journey took eight hours. When he arrived his great toe was badly frozen, and he was suffering from an attack of bronchitis. There he was thrown into prison, put into a room exposed to many drafts, with nothing but a little straw and a bad blanket to com fort himself with. There he has been for four days without any change of linen, all his luggage being at Eckenforde. K d'Arnoult learned from the commandant of the place, the only person he had seen, that this punishment was inflicted upon him on account of correspondence written by him to the Pairie and Nation, and also because of some fenilletons signed by him in the Skle, in which Russia was hardly spoken of. He Mt:Da/has his arrest entirely to a spirit of vengeance against him as a political writer, and hopes that extensive publicity may be given to his fate as a warning to other correspondents who may think of travelling in Prussia. (mum% Istasasics.) THE INVASION OF JUTLAND. OOPENELAGEN, Frs. 19, 2.16 p.m. It is officially announced that all was quiet at Duppel at 11 a.m. to-day. In consequence of the circuitous movement of the enemy, the Dams were compelled . to evacuate Bolding in Jutland. A cavalry engagement aulinequently took place at audios without result. DEPARTURE OF AN AUSTRIAN FLEET FOR THE PROTECTION OF GERMAN VESSELS. VIENNA, Pia 20, lloawnea. A squadron of 12 Austrian men-of-war has re ceived orders to put to sea for the protection of German merchantmen against Danish cruisers. Part of the fleet has already sailed. AUSTRIA AND THE LONDON TREATY. VIENNA, Pu. 10. The Austrian government addressed a cireniar despatch on the 13th inst. to all the members of the German Confederation. The following is a sum mary of the document :—" It is admitted that the London treaty is not binding upon the Federal Diet." A vote on that treaty taken by the Diet, in con formity with the propositions of the committee, Fip would not be decisive with sitgard to that question, but might possibly induce the non-German powers to make counter-declarations in favour of the treaty, thereby aggravating the critical state of affairs. Anemia, therefore, requests the German govern ments not to assent to the different propositions of the committee, but to instruct that body to make a fresh report, which should treat solely of the suo maim question. TEE WAR IN SLESWIG. HAMBURG, Fix RI, 10.31a.m. Advices from Flensburg state that several Danish iron -clads, among which were the &born-Snare and Absalom, appeared on the 18th inst. in the Flensburg Fiord, and exchanged shots with the allied artillery. It is stated that a Prussian garrison has pre vented a landing of the Danes to the north of Friederichsort, which had been attempted in the boats of the Esbern-Snare and Thor. • FEBRUARY 20, 1864. GREAT NORTHERN BAILWAT.-(THIS DAM" The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders took Owe al 11 Aka at the Kiag'weross station ; Cokmel PACKS. 11P., in the chair. The mid sad entente having been eirealsted and pub lished, were takes as read. The Ow:mum. in moving their adoption, commenced by elating that he occupied the chair in conosquence of an as which had befallen the chairman, adding th▪ at the last account received was to the effect that be was going on . favourably. He was happy he said, to meet them with an unwed dividend, a diet , dead amounting, in fact, to 8f per cent. per 'mum. In the last year the board paid off 25,00 W. of the suspense no count, thereby reducing the debt to 27,4721., and he that in the ensuing year that debt would be wiped off, supposing the shareholders to receive a dividend cd 6 per emit. The expenditure showed an esoem of 5,6661., 34,500 having been charged to permanent way. They were ecocide( with their friends in the west in the mad amicable manner ; but he regretted to say that the Great Eastern Company had invaded their territory mod unwarrantably. flu snout was his feeling on this subject that he had lately endeavoured to get the bill thrown out in the House of Commons on the snood reading, and he believed the house was with him in feeling ; but, in defereooe to the opinion of the chairman of committees, Mr. Massey, who remarked that snob • course was very unusual, the bill Ina allowed to go to a committee. When be (Colonel Pane) observed In the house that half the capital was to be advanced by the General Credit Company, • director of that company got up and said that it was not to advance a single sixpence. Therefore he was driven to the conclusion that • company which paid • dividend of only 2 1 per cent.—namely, the Great Eastern Company—was to find the whole of the lane capital required. He tinned. however, that there would be no difficulty in inducing the House of Commons to reject the bill. Al regarded the ac oommodatioe of Cambri, if any reasonable arrangement could be made with the Great Eastern Campion, he would be one of the lad person to think of making • new line to that town. He trusted that by mans of an arrange. meat with the Loodoa, Chatham, sad Dover Company. referred to in the report, facilities would be obtained for the transit of traffic of the Great Northern Company to the south. They ware asked to submit* capital for that pur• 100-e • but that they declined, c on senting only to make • loan of 300,0001. Mr. VALZATINA tivrtairr. in @acceding the melba, in quired whether the 23.030 51. entree had been disposed of The ementneat replied that they had all been taken up at 1121. per cent. Mr. V. Knorr believed that but for the great elas ticity ci the traffic the dividend would not have ben satisfactory. The attacks to which the company was sub * in parliament were • disgrace to • civilian country. He admitted that the connecting link of the London, Chatham, and Dover line would be • great advantage to the company, bat he should like to know for what period the money for that purpose was to be advaneed by the Gnat Northern Company. The Castilian said it would be • loan or rent charge in perpetuity, at 'II per cent. V. Henowr would be glad to know whether it was to rank after other charges, as in that case the security might be a very poor on. The CHAIIIIIAN replied that the proprietors might rely upon it that their intonate would be duly cared for by the board. (Hen, bear.) Mr. 110011C11 doubted the wisdom of making • loan to the London, Chatham. and Dover Company. The Great Northern Company's debenture and debenture nook already amounted to 3,440,000 f., which exceeded the one-third of the I capital authorised by parliament ; and he thought the noses of two or three hundred thousand pounds ought to be explained. As regarded the large dividend now to be de. dared, it was questionable whether it had been fairly and imitimattly weed, the revenue accounts not having been all furnished. He complained that no detail, were gives with respect to the law charges, and said he believed they would turn out to be much larger in the swept* than was peers= In re y to a gaieties, The said the accident oocupensatioas were all provided for and charged in the accounts. The CHAIRMAN. in reply, said the airmen's much re gretted the amount of the law expenses. They had, how ever, tried to keep them down, and had monthly made an arningenseut with the solicitor which would have the effect of reducing them. The House of Commons bad on siderably lowered the puliamentart expanse, sad be hoped they would be AM further diminished daring the pretest session. If the board raised the loan to the Loan. Chatham, and Dover Company at 4 per coot. the Great Northers) Company would is only 1,500 f. a year, while the advantages to be secured would amply compen sate them for that apparent lose. A Gern.rance baying expressed a deers for information as to the snare of the arrangement made with the solicitor as respects law charges. The fiouctroa (Mr. Leen) said the arrangement was one by which he agreed to do all the business of the company, tad to defray all the expense of clerks, &c., for • period of five jean for • specific sum. A BILAMOLDIR wished to know the mount to be re ceived annually. Mr. LOCH said the affair was not snob • mighty one that he seed shrink from inning the amount, but be would rather an do so. He wan not to have a sixpence for anything beyond the amount agreed upon, and therefore the more law there en the mores it would be for himself wider the new spans The report was then adopted, and dividoods in accordance with it were desiared. The retiring directors and auditors wen reelected. Mr. E. S. WILLI:NON said there was eme nicer of that company who appeared to him to be underpaid, considering the importance and vein of his serviem. He rehared to the secretary, Mr. Oakley, who received at present 1.0001. a year—a sum which was much below that paid to scene other officers. In eonzanuninitions with that officer, generally as an onpooent, he had found him most efficient. Mr. biennia having also testified to the value of Mr. Oakley's services, Th. CHAIRMAN expressed his full eonouneese in this appreciation of the secretary. who be said was often at work up to 12 earya et eight. The matter was one which rested entirely with the shareholders. and be did not think the menetery would be at all over-paid with 1,5031. a year. (Oben d & aa ) ninounts thought 1,200 f. wend be • liberal moans Mr. Amami, M,P., said as one of the oldest directors, sad one who bad dandy observed Mr. Oahley's cooduct, be did ad think 1,6001, would bat all OZOINIMIVS. The Camara, said the derma of the bawd tti Denison) had so high an opinion of Mr. Oakley that an ago he expressed a wish to give him a large meant on hie own resources. - . . O; the oaten of Yr. Wd.wrintow, sweeded by Mr. HUGIJES, it wee aseabsioasly resolved that the rimy d Mr. Osklny be Increased from 1,0001. to 1.5001. per ea warn. masks were dimmer& voted to the disesteem, sad with this eeksowledgewat the proosediap tonsdaated. CARDINAL WISEMAN AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM rte ENOLAND.—Denis the with (lodised Wiseman has published in a boned vol., the paper which he reed at the Roman Catholic Megrim at Karats, oe the religiose and social position al lie fellow- rag Egr& He tells his hearers sad remises that °abolishes la England is in a pecepereas state. Everybody I. teed rams to acknowledge that cathoraises idaily gaining ground upon proratantiam. In 1830, there were rely 434 priests for the whole of &Weed there ere sow 1,242. The number of chapels, which was thee 410, now amounts to 872. Fran 16 some* which tray poramed be 1830, day have rase, is 1863, to 182. Lardy, while in 1833 ao " hews of religious rasa" existed there, is 1850 there were 11, and their pretest number le b 3. The cardinal proceeds te ray that " Never sloes to the faith" an now made morales* ; the clergy were dray, opposed to vibratile. them. "Do set suppose, therefore, gentlemen, that became you been lea than you formerly did of coaversione, the ourreet of proselytion is dapped. On the contrary, coevessises are gradually in crowing; they embrace persons et every politico, erased tog, a. formerly, Mn to the highest in the raid scale." The catlidies, h. man are beam* sines in Eaglaad. At the last ithotion, " a candidate in a coosiderable town WOO before the eleaen om liberal prieciples, sad was surprised to dad himself mimed by the preponderate* of mac& votes, which tuned the seals. He was informed that the motive for this ended was hit braise exceeded rasa the liberty accorded to an advocate I. a awe which he had piseded easiest a Roma radial, bias., in order t o m a d th e religiose podedies of a jury. He wee told that he would wet with the MOO deiermieed sod erre hied operatic* in another place where he iabseded to try his chaos. This was the one. Be, bowleg to stead for the very phses where that Whop lived, be ailed epos him, and made Ids pease." The crierl adds, that with Rostra madam in Enema " nee claim must be made at a thee, that it maybe duly aid Isiserely seiorosd ; and thee another Era seemed, till all shell have bees favour. ably eitheasted." A WAR INCIDIRT AT PLYMOIITIL—AD awkward laterfermees with the real roam erasseres, erase quest epee the masa war is Denmark, le sow moaning st Plymouth. Os Friday last the gee Breams bargee Java, TIP toes, Capt. Tate, from Basra with a sumo of rise, pat is at Plymouth fer crams. Oe Braday the Niels Joel. Danish Meat, ides arrived at the pert. Oa Wednesday the frigate. after war up, proceeded to sea at shoat 8 ma.. ettemileg f war le the B.W. About 2 p.m. a the aims day, °sada Irellevieg Ids fonaidebiamtage eiet lad gera the asps el the Craw ad, got eassureigh to sisal up CliseeeL He had, however, hardly got ameba if the Dolt Head, whoa he kora the Niels Jed was atteemras a raw She bad goes sal el sight te the &W., and the. hots np Ohne eel, and whs. diseovered from the Java was fast been., down apse her. Oraesin Tel& immedrady raked amil tetrad to port, the frigate baying lad the jays for the . m ead byre,: earreates Had the frigate allowed the barrio te get farther is sewer& or had she see her 011111 rile and bare dawn seder wee hated of running, to whisk one her real chemater weal est have lea dleereared et. erly, the capture et the banes weal rave bees awe leraitais. Tb. Java weal mar • ramble pries, fay la Weals. to the worth of the vessel, she hes a cusp of eras 1,003 lees of rice, worth shoat 10,0001. —rodeos Mersin, Ifas. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TIAN OMR OWN PARLS, FRIDAY Emma. I mentioned some days ago that M. Corte, a member of the Corps Legit'LAU, was going to Mexico on a special mission. This news (which I have reason to know is very important) is now confirmed by the Moniteur, which makes the announcement in the following terms : M. Corte embarked yesterday for Mexico, charged with a minion confided to him by the government, during which he will exercise a complete authority over all the French meets and officials in the finance department. M. Oorts had the honour before his &porton to be received by the Emperor, when his Majesty deigned to thank him for having accepted this temporary and gratuitous minion. As to the "gratuitous" character of this mis sion, that is a little fiction destined to do homage to the constitution, which provides ex pressly that no deputy must accept paid functions. ' But M. Corte would not be the good man of business which I understand he is if be did not find his own account in the mission. He gets the trifle of 60,000 fr. to start with under the head of "expenses of his voyage," and he has ample powers to draw for more. Moreover, he has two sons in the army, one a lieutenant, and the other a captain, whose promotion has already been rapid, and whose prospects are, doubtless, now at least as good as they were. These are, however, secondary considerations, only necessary to be alluded to lest it should be too readily supposed that the empire is served for nothing. I under stand that M. Corta's powers are very large indeed, and I am happy to say that they are to be exercised against the church party, whose insolence has become insupportable. K Corte will dismias every functionary who has taken part with the Archbishop Labastide against General Eta:eine ; and as to the archbishop himself, he has authority, should he find him troublesome, to transport him to Guadeloupe. If he cannot find Mexican functionaries to suit him, he is not to scruple to replace them by Frenchmen. What will come of all this is hard to say. The situation is very anomalous, for the intervention was made at the Instigation of, and has hitherto been carried on in co-operation with, that very clerical patty, which M. Corte goes out to put down. Moreover, the Archduke Maximilian, who, we are constantly told, the whole country is dying to parses, was fished out by this very clerical party, of whom Almonte is the leader. M. Aubdpin, the Advocate-General, addressed the court to-day in the case of the Suez Canal Com pany against Nubar Bache. He expressed his opinion that the publication of the opinion of MM. Odillon Barrot, Anfaure, and Jules Fevre, was, under the circumstances, libelous ; but concluded against the plaintiffs upon all the other parts. Judgment will be pronounced on this day week. It should be stated that the opinion of the public minister is in no way binding on the court, and scarcely raises a presumption of what the judgment will be ; decisions are given every day against the judge-advocates' "conclusions." The Bourse has been very heavy, although the bullion in the Bank of France is understood to be increasing. One of the papers says that speculators are now " digesting " the late rise. Mobilier and all its tributary securities declined considerably. MOVEMENTS OP THE NIELS JUZL. (11.LCTieff PLYMOUTH. Fa. 20. The Danish frigate Niels Juel is reported to have bees last seen yesterday evening MI the Deadoma, mar Falmouth. When observed Me was under ekes rested top mile, and lying close to the land awaiting arrivals. On Friday, the 11th of March, Lord R. Cecil will move for paws apes the recent negetilatioes in refer ence to the Dania goodies. A traveller arrived from from the Eastern Pp resew stales that the severe oold experierved for the last Ave week' has famed amorous wolves to quit the woods and descend into the plain. They roller M great umbers at nightfall, and remain about the villages and term•boasea watching to sire an say imprudent traveller or stray sheep which may fall in their way. Their howling is described as fearful. They dare rA attack DM travelling in COM. pray, bat there are several mem of individuals Irvin false victims to their voracity. A letter from Corfu says :—"The demolition of Port Vido, la Corfu, is bides pushed forward with great hosts, and the guns are metously inturod through reckless. sem in dismounting them. The fortifications of the town of Corfu am to remain intact." I: is expected that Captain Sherard Osborn will arrive in tows today from Miss. The Revue des Deux Monde. prononnoes in favour at mooing elbo 111/111011 brews= Eog hied and Frame to order to promos Danmark. The dinner of the Royal Society of Musicians will take plate ea tkelsa at March. Mies Ella's Magical Union will begin its concerts the first Tuesday she, Neater. . _ . The conatria of the New Philharmonic Society will osismiser at the 14th at Mired. STN.S.V SEIPS &TWAT, &C.—This morning niters was limed skewing the number a/ steam ships afloat and building, *paw wit► the number of effective sailing ships on the Ist of the pewit mouth :—The total mew steam ships Bloat was 400, of paddle. 106--total, 606. The asseheref screw ships building wee A, and el paddle 11. The effective of sailing ships aficat oe the Ist inst. wee 86, making a total of 630 steam and nfliog ships ears& and battles. The Duda* of 3 lla►al-bathe ships, S frigates, 2oorvetist, 3 sloops, and 5 gas MIMI& bas bees impended, and 2 other Mears, new es t►e Mick; are ordered to be takes down. ACcIDZIKT MON FIZZ TO Alf ACTILZHI AT THZ Li'Wool. AzriuTzZAraa—Os Wodsoday eight se Reef deet moaned at the Ausphitheates. whke, bat tee the prompt saeiesaaes reastetett, alight bare beta attaaded with terioae easeegarsea Duties the Let eat el the Poor of LiscrpnotoW 1 the ladies. W . ho was taking the part of a beldame."' is lb. seseledisg some, west so sloes to the ',Redskins es the MN* that ber dress became She coeurniare, whisk was ems * the sadism*, reused great switameet ; but fertatatoly Kr. Elladard, who Amend the "widest, west to the lady's assistance, immediately esti*. "Welled the flames with his head, sad mast was theat n. stored. The lady, we aedantsed, rewired wry Wale injury bat as there were other mem= es the stage whose dreams were composed of ilAt material, the awes gamma might bars bass serious had it ace bees for the promptitude displated by Xt. Inaft'ar.--Vverpoei Mir. airy. EEPRIEVE OP TWO OP THE COYDE.VNED PIRATES. A oommnnigation was received yesterday evening from Sir G. Grey by Yr. Jonas, the governor of Newsom?, announcing that two of the condemned culprits, Marchelino mad Los Banta, would be reprieved during her Mijestj'a *am% It is snticipated that the crowd of persons who will bead their steps, towards the Old Bailey on Monday morning will be laminas* large ; and in order to pre vent any untoward event the sheriffs and the cow 'Widmer of the City police have made such urines meats as, it I. confidently expected, will prove moat effec tual. An unusually barge somber of barriere are erected at very short intervals ahem the Old Bailey, and across every amine leading thereto. At the north and south entrances • setts strong barriers will be placed, and all ingress and egress stopped at an early hour in the morning. Barrie, will aloe be erected MOM Giltepar-etreet, Nevrgate stree‘ and Wooer-street, where the traffic will be suspended until after the execution baa taken place. An addition of 7 feet has been °mistrusted, to be placed at the and of the old drop. A sew cross-bees 23 feet loug. 7 inches by 6 inches square, has been made, which will rest upon three uprights. The Aye men will thus be executed in one row at one time, three standing on the old portion, and two on the new. A connexion sill be made with the bolts beneath, so that the whole of the culprits will fall at the name moment. It is wormed to place a strip of black cloth or beige around the rails which surroned the top of the drop. so that when the men hare Wien little more will be visible thea their heads. In order to avoid the difficulty of paining through the crowd to the prison, the sheriffs and uudersheriffs will pass through the Loudon Coffee-house from Ludgate-hill, at the extreme back of which an entracte has been temporarily made into • small yard adjoining the grand jury anteroom of the Central Criminal Court. From therms the sheriffs will peas through a subterranean purge into the gaol of Nowise,. _ It is a ringlike coincidence that it will be exactly 57 years on Monday since the murderers of Mr. Steele were executed on the same spot. On that day, February 22, 18D7, 30 persons were crushed to death is the Old 13eiley.ii Mr. J. R. Steet, Chancellor to the Spanish Consulate, has at • late hour, published an appeal on behalf of must of the condemned men, offering various reasons for not carrying oat the extreme penalty of the law. "It is strange, but true," he says, " that the man who originated the plan of seizing the vessel, and who masted in throwing the first victim into the sea, has escaped the extreme penalty of the kw. The &abduct of these Macilla men since their sentence has been moat quirt and exemplary. They listen attentively to their spiritual adviser, and pass their time in constant devotion. They have repeatedly begged to be allowed to pray once together, but this of course the rules do not allow. Ose of the prisoners at the moment of the sentence, and immediately afterwards, exhibited a mod unbecoming levity, but his behaviour and countermen have undergone a striking change within the last few day., and his mental sufferings are evidently most intense. lie is the only .on of a widow, and refusedlto allow her to be communicated with. as he declared it would be her dsat.h.blow to hear of his pcaition." - - - -- IMPORTANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE. NEW ROMNEY. KENT, FIUDAT NIGHT. Henry Stringer, Esq., bon. secretary of the New Romney and Guapore Breach of the Naioaal Lifeboat Isetiadien reports ' I have much pleasure in advising you of the valuable esrvices rendered this day by the Dun garee, Lifeboat of the Institution in • gale of wind sad snow-Mono, in saving the lives the whole of the poem gem and mew of barque Golden Fleece (? Age), homeward boiled from the East Ladies, with a very valuable cargo of cotton and cinnamon. The lifeboat was afloat soon after the vessel stranded at daylight this morning, but owing to the tremendous surf, which at times almost overwhelmed her, it was eases time before she could succeed in reaching the object of assistance ; but at length she wadi socoreeful, and brought to shore 22 passengers sad mew. The utmost credit is dos to the oorswain and mew of the lifeboat for the cable efforts they have made ia saving the have of their fellow-creatures. for they were from daybreak to sunset exposed to the fury of the gale and snowstorm, with the uncertainty whether their own lives might not be sacrificed in their endmvours to assist the abets." The yawl is likely to become a total wreck. The seat of this lifeboat was presented to the Na. Ronal Institution about three years ago by the Rev. IL J. Hatcheroon, of Canterbury. On Monday the Awl of Derby will present s petition to the House of Louis against the Royal Arcade Bill The House of Lords will not receive any petition for a private bill after the 22nd of March mink unless each private bill shall have been approved by the Court of Obaneary ; as any petition for a private bill approved by the Court el Channry after Thursday, the 12th of May neat. The hones will not resolve say report front the judges, arca petitions presented to the hones for prima* bills, after the nth el May next. LrreeszY AZD ficrewnric lifzerreori Foe TEM Eamon Wm.—Monday. Royal Academy, at 8. " Eloulp turn," Pickiest Weetorratt ; Geograohltal. at 81. Taw ▪ Bth oo k li tsal, at B,s Traditions." Rev. S. W. Fazza , r a t " &.hoology of Ceylon," Mute Camara Steamy ; Institution, at 3, "Experimental Optics," Professor Tyn dall ; Engineers, at 8, diseuwion Do Mr. Be9witles paper, "On the Moot Geis Tunnel ;* Zoelogieal, at 9, " Oda. °logy of the Sign, _" Mr. Parker ; " Hatel os t o is iw rf vita( Trout,* Mr. Rockland. Wednesday, Discoveries et Flint lastruments and F Mammals Dear Redford.' Mr. Wig , * " Discovery of the goalie at a, and Cephalic Shield el that Feb," Mr. bakes rautTl'Remains of Bothricilsms from Upper Devonian Sandstones of Elgin" Mr. Roberts ; Society of Arta, at 13, " petroleum; Dr. Mated ; Are/neologies! Amorietiew, at 8, "Seal of the Crewkerue Grammar School." Mr. Oen. leg; "Heath Old Hall." Mr. Weotworth. Thursday, Antiquaries, at 8 ; Royal Institution, at 3, "Rs Id Optima," Profaner " Tyndall ; Royal, at 134. y, Royal lestitatiOn, at 8, • Quaternary Flint Imolomenta, villa," ho.. Mr. Prestwich. Saturday, Royal Ind than., at 3.—.4 theacrun. Bane or Me. TRACCILATII HOUR& —Ma Thaclosray's house is to be be sold. An advertisemmt the papers has caused many hundreds el people to viola the meideses et the great humanist. It le mid that a sale tell De held of the books, furniture, sad curiosities early ia the rooky month.—Lemitesi Beier. Tax POI? LLITIPALTE•III New Poem.—Mr. ramy. sou's new poem to so far completed that its publioatioa by Mews. Meson aid Co. may be looked for at 1111 early day. The nature of this new effort of the poet laureate is not known ; bat rumour says that it relates to an early period of oar own history—to a time not long after the Am whew Arthur is add to have been king. and the ceder of the Ridable of the Round Table to have been a lavishing lastitetise.—Lesidos Review. FATE= Newear AND ?di Her. CRAM= Knimumr.-71te Rev. Charles Misplay, reviewing Promie's History, is Jfatiaillaser Magazier, lately wrote that Father New had said that truth need not, and on the whale might ad, lobes vides with the Rumen clergy; that "sta. Mai is the weapon which Heaves has given to the wherewith to withstand the brute male form et the valid which marries aid is given in marriage.' dose ate swat the number at the magazine to Father Newman, with the ferefoimeg pump marked by psonfl, sad the lammed print wrote at ores to Messrs. Maeoullaa, drawing their attention to the " grave sad gratuitous 'Mader." The Rev. Charles l ioi replied, referring to one of Dr. Nemeses egmege, white a Prettiness. es Selideste of the • i a volume published in 1844. tad entitled " Wis dom ad lanossees„" - but expreming *awe that be wee mistakes is the interpretation be had placed on that sett men. Fulham earrespordesee sawed, is which iCi ley procaine to publish aa apology is Motiodien, eadhe n C dose so. Father Newman has published all the Wham in a psphlet farm, called "A correspondence ea the quellem whether Dr. NODIDIMI tenches that truth is DO virtue.' It is clear that Father Newman has lost nose of the power of same= for whit he was famed in years gone*. There has bees nothing for a bog tune so bine( in its way as the amlysie of the correspondence, sad the tidedirrie open it with which the rev. father brings the pamphlet to a close. He uses that be lives "out of the world," but it is dear that the weld is not eat of his thoughts. A 8171111•ZINI VZIONL or WAe.—Expeefinenbe were made a few days ago in the pert et Reebelle to test the qualities of a submarine vowel of war, the luneellon of Captain Howe* of the French navy. Au %mere amber of spectators were assembled to winnow than. TM vend was stated to he so coestrooted as to admit of being almost indently eabosseged by compressed air sad a sionlier apparatus with which it was provided. The ash pad that TOMMIDI visible is a small tower, grimes the eastemader may observe the podtioa and motions of the ship to be attacked, sad direct his Ines which way to steer ta eider le stoke her hull with the fruitlalge spur which eensallnbig the chief 1111 1 / 1 1 of ittack of the sew matrivaeos. The espirismeta, however. were sot satisfactory : mom this is leer elapsed befogs the sew masa got mow water with as Mdoleet sat of swam moths. Oho .lowly performed the idols diem", frees me sod of this port to this other, wed thee mimed rotted to rearm Os seining the starttog point she very sesrly roe fool of one of the monk la the whereby the power of her spur would lam bees irld is rather as usimpaged end us welcome mason Ws QM trial, layover, met with Melaka's* train the •tnit helm evident that with some irevessmsp acearivasee might become a terrible of sari TER Tams Basra u Toss. Lorelei Neter. grocer. Wimple, the reeistrar of bathe said deaths ter the distrlet whore three children were nessely pee. Assad at ow lenh, has melted the facer* desneaslis. tins :—" Mr armies Phipps baa retelvod the commands her =the geese to f.rword to Mr. Leooslo4 reef Me order for V., wade payable to lhe and to desire that b i l k :rill have the modem to baud abs assovet b Me, the wife of William Padden. so • dortose hem her Majesty to slit Qat poor 'ranee after her ace tooteeet of three eloildree at ow birth."— Yordebire Gateete. The /agenda " Cousin Phil!** meetly pub. Used is the Comte/4 is tioderstood to be from the pee d irlm Tbookeray. It 1 I! i t the W re* 06 fs (or iW alb. • vid,? gad the? L na i' oma rd - • r ed of oowl! osC , l mash rt SO th 101111 their I Yr. IN -.l :3tr. SI Mr. B. Mr. &I thil Mrs. adarl band Hann NI ask! the oh Mr. 1 4 1 tbal toe li Coif sza bet chef he tlac The in Worl I JIM .dow Kt be Wm ma t a wwi ay wbi A no COI Mr. E ace!: I• tlu OW • Flay, 11 I very I kabit ria itil loon 3uoc muss, lot do ioc.h d love 12 - 6 that ab partie patted Fedi, Cro• upwar Grave W tri in we K«: Waren thence " Chem all die/ Rip 111 00t iirge I 'mow 4 Is alw Martel lour kb7s;i .jtll boas. llra.A Jell -- 6 1 , Had 1 oai UN II vial* Orb i