The Express. — London, England, 1862-02-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1862. GAD. SINITI AND COW puits IXTRAOT et OALV,IW IZIT, PIR lowilai AM Caftan Via add bi mad /adopts. by AN alwaisk VON", *e. INAMIPMIT. It 12TM rwITLAIID4I7'.. Iww•AW. W. AZOOND-HAND PIANOPORTIB. =Lux& mak sad WOOD Doi • burp readomill sserilm4 nonagon. II We ww. " .. " 1.4 makin • ig graft named prism IND. Dmpotatreal ghe elDreoo. To) CORIC4PQN TENTS. oineetiannests Intended for " The Express" London Evening ?ter, meet be et the .ehte , houreele-stroet, by Two oAi oft the dey of publication. H A Y Tea Evionto. (wit A IILitICAN COUBDr. MINS. llothem. **Astoria% IL %Murk and Bogen . M C. Two, Mos Oliver. 11118 MOTET AND LITTLI DOT SLIM; or, Pariwinias and OW Dadoly 1601110.0. Looks Lwow, dw. Plg=ft& Crumn. Alidia ar MIDNIGHT. Mourn Ryder. J“rgan, Potter, Wkldkomb ; MaGnenns Tnildlag, Angel, Ilen.Jkorson. sad Slarrt.Ni. —And WHITTINGTON AND II In VAT Yews J. Lauri, Ulldyard, and hula; Mtn C.Adsont. BT. JAKEIFS. EtEmu. .1 WONDERFUL WOMAN. )ll.a I. Adman. PRRALUA AND ANDROMEDA. Mr. F. %Other, sod this Hettlert -And THE WARDING tiCIIOOL Mo-s Hrrbett, Ulu Itnlntorth. sod *Tar. llatthon—Conantol., at 7i. IMUTAIrIaa. Two tram T7iLAW antuara —A n.I THE KING OW THE .7 Ultr4. I. UM: MOM& SAW. luau, Ng , non. the ( "train'' , ram*: IMO. C. Whisim. Mr& W. ermaaaL —cookawace a es. 1114111 WATfI AT ?ANDO), =OWL tin Vs• ma•••• Maraa. 4 IL Tolima°, 4k AftersuuL 4L Wm. LONDON, MONDA T, FEB. 17. Tiiose who have studied the art of war, and the re cent mechanical improvements subsidiary to it, agree that they give increased power to science oienbised with capital. They also perceive that increased intelligence in the ranks will be required to apply those improvement; some of which are useless in ignorant hands. The improvements will weer gnat° also thoroughly good officers for their direction, and the prevalence of greater intelligence in the rank; howsoever introduced, will also render the improvement of the commanders requisite. This has already become perceptible as • result of the Volunteer movement. The educated men who now compose the ranks of the foremost corps, having studied, besides their own duties, the duties of their officers, have become highly cri tical of the latter. t tlficers bud themselves virtually under the command of severe censors who know as well as themselves what ought to be done, and will inevitably detect any minions. " Muffs," whether regular and professional, or irregular and volunteer, are now more speedily detected, and if there were a serious demand for the service of the Volunteers, aster an actual war, it may be confidently predicted that a large proportion of the find appointments of officers chosen from mere poli tical patronage, or social position, or interest, or vanity, would, upon better experience and under standing of what is required, be immediately and sternly superseded. Educated men would not endure to have their own lives thrown away and their cause ruined from any complaisance to unfit ness, which gains position in the absence of danger, or in the absence of strong motives for scrutiny in time of peace. In the inquiry into the misdi rection of the Crimean war it was proved that the loss of life, material, and force was always pro portioned to the ignorance and incompetency of the colonels having command of regiments. It was said by way of apology that it took three cam paigns to obtain au etficieut English army. With such education and intelligence ea there is now in the Volunteer ranks, it may be confidently averred that such a loss of blood and treasure and of time would no longer be endured. With respect to what is denominated the intel lect of the Army—the Engineer and the Ai.illery corps—there can be no doubt that the first eCect of the application of the principle of open competition has been to shut out much inferior material for commands, and to provide • higher quality to work upon. We do not now propose to enter upon the evidence as to what remains to be done in that direction. it is sufficient at present to ob serve that before we criticise our American kinsmen too sharply for their military shortcomings, we should remember our own—our contracts, our breakdown at Balaclava, our failures of the camp roads, and the first horrible winter before Sebastopol. We are not aware that the Americans have yet brought science to bear upon the war, for time requisite to them as well as to us to do so. Any new form of implement adopted can scarcely be manufactured on a scale for war in leas than a year, and the training of men to use them would re quire a corresponding period. By due diligence, however, on the part of our military authorities, there is no doubt that the WHITWORTH as well aa the Aniisraimio guns might have been broug' to bear on the rebels with astonishing effects during the Indian mutiny. There are rising criti cisms on the part of the volunteers in America upon the qualifications of the " regulars," im parted by their common military education, train ing, and habitual preparation for war during peace, to which we would call attention, as bearing some analogy to the criticisms, not yet in print, but current in speech, amongst our edu cated volunteers, upon the defective training and untrustworthy character of many of the conunands of the " regulars." The common military mind does not rise in estimation on closer acquaintance. The Engineer and Artillery corps are acknow ledged to contain the "intellect of the Army;" but it is deemed a proof of default in the practical scientific training of that body that the most im portant recent improvements in arms should have been resisted by them, and for the most part car ried against them by civilians. The volunteers of the Federal States generally make exception in favour of the officers of the Engineer corps, but chiefly in favour of those who have had practice in dealing with men, and have shown ability in the conduct of civil works during peace. One ground of con fidence in General M'Ciaiiax is his scieltific edu cation se an Engineer, and that his avidity had been displayed in almost the only way it could be exercised during peace—in civil works, as for example, in the direction of railways. if the war should continue long it may be confidently pre dicted that the iatellipnos of the native Americana will make heelf respelled, and give es and useful lessons. They are now beginning to retrieve their first defaults at a peee which will leave us little to reproach them with. The expression which we hear of an intention to " popularise the army," we appre hend means popularising it not by any such means se the re-introduction of the electoral element, which it has wisely abandoned, but by the adop tion of measures to increase its efficiency by in creasing the efficiency of the commands, by testa and examinations, and generally by reforms which will give increded vales to military ability by securing to it its fair reward. A ars•rtATtßl of the last French loan litu met with not a little animadversion amongst men of caution cud judgment. It ha. been authoritatively stated, and not contradicted, that the Loudon and IWestminster flank subscribed for 500,000/, of the amount, under the original but abortive arrange ment ; and the circumstance, also vouched for by the nuts, that the chairman of that establishment acted as one of the trustees in whose names the hypothecated Rentes were to be put, gives ample confirmation to the statement. Is this, we ask, a legitimate use for the funds of our joint-stock banks 1 Is the area of English trade and finance so circumscribed that it has become necessary to hunt abroad for foreign stocka whereon to make advances ? Or can it bo that in their eagerness to maintain or to exceed dividends of twenty and twenty-five per cent. per annum, joint-stock banks require higher rates of interest than can be obtained from home business and home investments ? We believe that the depositors have an impression that their funds are kept beyond the influence of continental turmoil. What would be the effect, not only upon the London and Westminster Bank with its advance of 500,000/., but upon all the joint-stock banks of London, were news to arrive some fine morning of a serious casualty in Paris, or of a quarrel between France and England, or of any intel ligence that would render unavailable the g ceedingly fluctuating security upon which S us French loan scheme reposed ? To put the ndi er upon no broader ground, it has never been main tained before that foreign stocks form a good English banking security ; and it can hardly be that even the London and Westminster Bank, with all its power (a power dependent entirely upon public trust), can dream of building up its pros perity by disregarding the sound old principles of English banking. Considering the magni tude of their liabilities in proportion to their reserves, it is peculiarly incumbent upon our joint-stock banks to take in none but ' sound and convertible securities. It seems the more nesessuy that the arrangement made in this instance by the Westminster Bank should not pass without that public challenge which may prevent its establishing • dangerous precedent, because another metropolitan institution, the Union Bank, has likewise gone into foreign loan business. No doubt it will be urged that the Union Bank mean to limit their advances, to protect themselves care fully, and so forth; but, knowing, as we do, how • questionable example spreads, and bow difficult it frequently becomes for a banker to keep within the limits which he originally proposed to himself, we earnestly advise shareholders in and customers of joint-stock. banks to discourage transactions _ ... 01 this character. Foreign loan•mongering is assuredly not one of the purposes for which these establishments were originally formed, and for which the public have entrusted them with fifty 'millions of deposits. Zbc court. OSBORNE. Frs. 16. The Crown Princess, Princess Alice, Princess Lollies, Prises Arthur, sod Prioress ilohaolohe, at tended Divine Service at Whippinghars Church this morn• iv. The kw. G. Prothero officiated. • Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Traisury, ia Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chanoellor, Karl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Rummell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Cr. Cameral Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. Dregatebee acre reoeired ea Saturday at the Colonial. elle, from the Oeeeesers of the West lodia islands, the radethaa Coisake, (Wks, Hog Kong, sod Lhasa, Dearatthes were sot to the Geossors of British Walsh* )wands, the Lied High Doeuerolomar of the hum lessais, ad to Ye Orremon of Damao sad the Bahamas. THE PRINCE OP WALL, Ar VIENNA. VIENNA, Fn. 14. The Prince of Wales arrived here the day before yesterday, with a numerous suite, and was received at the station by the Dohs of Saxe-Coburg Cobary, the Eurlish Ambassador, sod all the members of the embassy. His royal highness was conducted to the hotel of the Archduke Charles, and in the course of a few tnientee received the visitof the Emperovand the archdukes. Yesterday the Prince paid visits to the imperial family, and wont with the fr.:ova lroe over several military establishments. There was then a court dinner ; and in the evening a fete at the house of the Prince Auguste de Saxe Coburg, at which the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Modena were present." On Saturday morning his royal highness left the Austrian capital. THE PRINCE or Watsn—lt appears that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales bee concluded the per ches@ of the Sandringham estate, near Lynn, Norfolk, to which he made a dying visit of inspection before leaving England on hie tour in the Rest. The estate, which has been purchased for shooting purposes, has, up to the present time, been held by Yr. Spencer Cooper, a relative, by marriage, of the noble Premier, and it is said to abound in pme. The amount paid for the property is 200,0004 Amer to the Sandringham property will be shortly faci litated by the Lyn and Hunstantou Railway, now in rapid program ; and, seder all the circumstances, the Nor folk people entertain strong hopes that they shall see a good deal of their future Sovereign. The Duke and Duchess of Roiburghe have left town for Brighton for a few days. The Marquis Camden and the Ladies Pratt are expected at their residence in Grosvenor-square in a few days from Wilderness Park, Rent. _ _ Maharajah Dhulenp Singh has taken Abingdon How, South Ksissinton, for a short Mrs. The Earl and Count°4B of ltimebery and fain;ly ara espeeted is toga at the latter cod of the mouth from Weary Park, The Earl of Wilton has left Groevenousquare tar Egerton Lodge, Mahon Mowbray. The Earl ai;(lCountera of Craven will leave town in a tow days for Ashdown" Park, Berks. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke wal leave Portman-square on Wednesday for Sidney Lodge, Hate. Viscount and Visoountess Stormont have left tbeir reeadeoce le Upper Orovenoretreet for Scotland. Lord and Lady Pelham have left Fatranoe's Hotel far Critcbill House, near Wimborne, Doreetabire. The Dowager Lady Henley has arrived at Far ts:we. Hotel, tram Brightest. Lady Henley died on Saturday at the family residence u, Eaeleeleisequare in her 34th year. Her lady. obip was daughter d tie Very Rey. the Date of W. aster, asid menial in 1846 the present Lord Henley. The Dees al Worcester and the Rev. IL Peel here tented et Fenian's Hotel from the Dattsety, Wor cester. The Speaker gave hie first Parliamentary Wi dnes dimmer.. Italierday meta* to the following members et the Lover Home :—Vitemmt Palisade's, K. 0., Sr G. C. Lewis, Beth, air Nome Grey, O.C. R., Sir Ches. Wood, 0.C.8., Right Hee. 'Edward Oirdwell, Right Hes. C. P. Villiers, Right 'Him T. Milner Gibeoe,!Right Hoe. Wm. Cowper, Right Hoe. Sir Robert Peel, Bari., Right Hos. Robert Lowe, Right Hee. William Hatt, Right Hoe. Fred. Peel, the Judge AdvocateOeeend, Lord Meese. Paget, C. 8., Tiseoust Bury. Viwouet °asthma% Lord Pray, the Attorrisy-Georral, the Solicitor-Osieerel, Hew. Homy Breed, air Wilbur Dunbar, Mr. T. G. &deg, Mr. 8. Wbitheeril, Mr. Massey. Mr. Chichester Fortseaue, Mr. Clive, Mr. Marliddieli-liuyeasee, Mr. Charles Gilpin, Mr. Lewd, He.. W Perfasea, Mr. Wioters Wood, Mr. Alfred Beebw fagesbees awweliary), and Rev. Henry Drury. The Chseeener ef lbe lasbepsr nee prevented from atteishey on eeesset of • illemeetle wektios. The festietrjes consequent upon Viscount Adam's comiec et see closed on 'ride/ night with s ball, at which all the surrounding nobility end gentry wen presest. A pod fox.hunt, in which AO horsemen were nipped, pre ceded this fiehtocable reunion. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH CHAMBERS AND THE ROMAN QUESTION. The commission which has been appointed by the French Legislative Corps to draw up an address in reply to the speech from the throne has submitted to the government a series of questions upon the external policy of the Empire. Amongst the que ries is oue which asks for the nature of the compro mise which the French government would have proposed to the Holy Sue and to Italy for the re conciliation of their interests if M. Thouveners despatch to M. de Lavatette had been better re ceived by the Pope. MM. Baroche, Billault, and Magne have been examined by the commission on this subject. diate predecessor in the apartment, and the occu pier betas him, both laid violent hands upon them selves, and upon the strength of these curious facts broaches the theory that suicide is often attri butable to mysterious local influences. In support of the doctrine it is said that Napoleon I. ordered the destruction of a sentry-box in which several soldiers had successively destroyed themselves. ROME. The national committee have issued au address to the Roman people, urging them to discretion. The nation, it says, ought to prepare for events, showing to Europe, a firm desire to separate the temporal from the spiritual, but also respect towards the Pontiff and the ministers of religion. Sincere catholic, ought to be convinced that the safety of the Pope will not be compromised by the departure of the French troops. The Romans, however, will prove on all suitable occa sions, by pacific manifestations, that they are firmly resolved to make partof the kingdom of Italy under he sceptre of Victor Emmanuel. (=rues Tirmagats.) FRANCE. PARIS, FEB 17. The draft of the address in reply to the Em peror's speech will be read to-day in the Senate. ITALY. TURIN, Fn. 17. The Thrift() of to-day oontains the following : " Garibaldi, having been informed that in some towns clandestine enrolments are being made in his name, has requested us to declare that be has neither authorised nor recommended the adoption of any such steps." The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Feb. 17 : BOMBAY - MAIL. The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 7 am. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 am. The Mooltsn, with the heavy portion of the math, arrived at Malts at 7 a.m. on the 14th inst., and sailed for Southampton at 2 p.m. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAIM The Indus (from Southampton on the 4th inst.) and the Mantilla (from Marseilles on the 12th) left Malta for Alexandria at u p.m. on the 14th. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mot ous ou PARIS, SUNDAY EVININO. The debate on the address in the Senate will be gin on Wednesday or Thursday. In spite of the reiterated expression of doubts whether Prince Na poleon will pronounce a speech or not, I believe it to be certain that be will not miss the opportunity of making an onslaught upon the temporal power. Putting together all I hear, I cannot but think that this speech will be the most important one of the session. Difficult as it is to fathom the depth of the Emperor's duplicity, there is much ground for reasonable conjecture that Prince Napoleon will foreshadow his real intentions more correctly than the authorised ministers. Although there are frequent differences between the Emperor and his cousin, it is important to remember that the prince, after being sent into Tuscany at the head of an apparently useless expedition, in order, as it was pretended at the time, to get him out of the way, was nevertheless chosen at the last moment as the confidential agent to negotiate the peace of Solferino with the Emperor of Austria. The Patric to-night contradiots the news lately given by the Independance that Italian troops were' about to occupy Rome and the patrimony of the Pope jointly with the French, and asserts that the state quo will be maintained. lam greatly afraid that the Patrie is right. At all events, no change is likely to be made till after the debate on the address. The Patrie, however, represents the papal element in the Emperor's counsels, and the extreme obscurity of M. de la Guerronnihre's recent lucubration (signed " Ponterie") in favour of the temporal power show that the clique is groping in the dark. A French priest named de Millard has just had an audience of the Pope to present him with 300,000 fr., subscribed in'Lyons to the St. Peter's Pence Fund. It is observed that this sum con siderably exceeds the subscription made in Lyons for the weavers now suffering such intense distress in that city. The misery is, that this money col lected from the widow and orphan by spiritual pressure, is employed to make more widows and orphans in Southern Italy. The papers amuse themselves by contradicting each other on various insignificant points of detail about the Mexican expedition. One says it has received news from Vera Cruz two days later than the Moniker, and another wonders by what channel such recent intelligence can have come. To the announcement that General Doblado, the governor of Mexico under Juarez, had established excellent relations with the French admiral, Jurien de la Grimier°, the Pays replies, that at the date of the last advises the two forces were at least two days' march distant from each other. The report that an aide-de-camp of the Mexican General Almoute had embarked from England with important lespatches is contradicted by the allegation that General Almonte was aocom- I ponied by no aide-de-camp, but only a secretary, who is still in Paris. The Pays hears that the English colony of Sierra Leone is in a state of hopeless anarchy, and that 20 English soldiers were killed in a recent combat with the natives. Very serious complaints are made of • recent re pudiation by the syndicate of the stockbrokers of the liability to make good a breach of trust com mitted by • member of their body—a breach of trust arising out of confidence placed in him in the regular discharge of his duties as a broker. Hitherto it has always been understood that the syndicate was liable. It is a very serious matter indeed if the liability does not exist. The public have no chains but to confide their money or stock receipts to a broker when they wish to buy or sell : if the roguery of a single individual is to make an ordi nary transaction unsafe, the whole nature of basi licas connected with investments will be changed. The sensation created by this affair is so great that I think something must be done to restore confi dence. The legal journal Le Droit, in reporting the suicide of a gentleman in the Rue de Provence without any known reason, states that his imme- THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The following report has been addressed to her Majesty's Commissioners by the professional 17101111 INS of the building monmittee of the International Exhibition : "SO TII - 1 COMMISSIONER. OP TIM INTIIREATIONAL EXHIBITION. " My Lords and Gentlemen,—Feeling that it would be • source of satisfaction to the commissioners, as well as to ourselves, as members of the building committee, and also • due precaution for the public gaiety, that the gallery and other floors of the International Exhibition building, at South Kensington, should be thoroughly proved, we under took • series of experiments on Monday last. " We have to report that, in carrying out these experiments the various floors and stairs were put to • more severe test than they would bo subjected to with the largest number of people that could possibly be assembled upon them at any other time during the exhibition. The malts of these experimeeta fully bear out our calculations on the strength of the different parts of the structure, and we feel perfectly satisfied as ifs the stability of the building for the purpose for which it was intended. " The two large domes, in the strength of which we have taken great interest, were eased from their temporary sup port last week, and no observable settlement took plane. ' The following are the particulars of the testa :—The first caused a large body of men, about 400 in number, to be closely packed upon a space M. by Mt. on one lay of flooring ; we then moved them in step, and afterwards made them run over the different galleries, and down each staircase ; at the same time we caused the deflections of the girders car rying these floors to be carefully noted at several places, and had the satisfaction of finding that in each ease the deflections were very nearly the same, thus exhibiting • remarkable uniformity in the construction. The cast iron girders, with 25ft. bearings, deflected only one-eighth of an inch at the centre, and the timber-trussed beams of the same bearing placed between these girders deflected hal an inch at the centre. In every instance the girders and trusses recovered their original position immediately on the removal of the load. " We are, my Leeds mad °salesmen, yours faithfully, " Wu. FAIBBAIRN, BAKeB,I " W c E . ILLIAII C. " London, Feb. 13." Tea ALBERT MEMORIAL FUND.--It was incor rectly stated ou Saturday that the amount received up to Friday evening in aid ol the Albert Memorial Fund vas 32,6001., whereaa the amount received up to Saturday alter woo yr only little more than that amount. THE HARTLEY COLLIERY . RELIEF Ft/NO.—The total amount received up to Saturday afternoon at the Mansion-house, by the Lard Mayor, in aid of the sufferers by the Hartley Colliery accident, was about 17,3001., of which about 3501. was received in the course of the day. The Public Schools Commissioners held a meeting at their offices in Victocisestaest, Westminster, on &tardy present :—The Earl of Clarendon, the Fad of Devon, the Lord Lyttalton, Sir Stafford H. North. cote, Bart., M.P., the Hon. H T. B. Twiseton, the Rev. Professor W. H. Thompson, K. Helloed Vaughan, Seq., and the Secretary, Protestor Hansard. _ _ _ The Dublin F reemen is perfectly confident that Colonel White, the new Lord of the Tressu7, will enjoy the luxury of a "walk o►er." The writ for the county of Longford wan despatched to the high sheriff on Saturday. The board of the Roman Catholic University, which consists of the archbishops and bishops in Ireland, have made arrangements for placing at the disposal of the rector the sum of 3401. per annum, or 301. from each diocese, for exhibitions to " assist" deserving studente in the prose cution of their studies. Theme exhibitions will be divided between the four provinces, and will be open for public competition to youths from every put of Ireland. The case for the prosecution of Captain Robert son, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, closed on Friday lad. Some of the witnesses rather favoured the prisoner's state meat, which is charged against him as • falsehood is the indictment, that he had been bullied into sending in his resignation ; and some curious evidence was given, to which some mystery appeared to be attached, that on the very day on which the prisoner made up hie mind to retire, • junior officer, who had never bdore signified his intention to purchase a step, determined to purchase the vacant com mission. The prisoner intimated his intention to give in • written defence, and obtained an adjournment of the court tall Thursday next, in order to prepare it. _ _ At a meeting of Greek merchants and residents in London, on the occasion of the return to Grimm of the Greek ambassador, If. Triompl, Mr. IL L Bodocanaohi in the chair, resolutions, proposed by Yams. Sparta and Belli, were adopted for the presentatice of an address and • parting testimonial of their edam. Is reply, N. Tricoepi expressed the hope that, after having pawed through many trying times and difficulties, the just expectations of the Greeks would be realised by the cordial co-operation of sll ander the King's rule, and through the proper working of the constitution. A private letter from Rome of tho Bth iost. says : —"A turret-shaped diadem, emblematical a/ Gaeta, et au appropriate design and skilful execution, the work of Storr and Mortimer, has been presented to the Queen of Naples from England ; this graceful lot of homage shows kind feel ing towards one who deserves sympathy, and has reaped nodeserved censure as the tuned of her heroic deeds. The Queen rises early, takes a morning drive with her sister, returns to hear mass in hex private chapel, breakfasts with all the family, then withdraws to her apartments, where she amuses herself reading, drawing, and writing letters. At dinner she again joins her mother-in.law and her hus band's relations, and spends the evening at home playing the piano with her sister. Such is her daily life, aestivate aided but by a casual visitor, or a reception day, each as a birthday of one of the royal household, when all the Nea politan emigrants in Rome throng to the Quirinal." A letter front Alexandria ear :—" The reports current here respecting the operations of the Sues Canal Company bottoms daily more sad more unfavourable. The small channel, or rigole de serriee, dug through Lake Mentaleb, is already, I als informed, almmt eolinly obliterated. Whatever embankments had been raised on either side have Sees washed away, and the small boats that occasionally attempt the passage find themselves every now and then stuck fast in the open but shallow lake. The approaches to Port Said are in as unpromising a state as ever, and the cutting through the sand heights of El Oise it is found must be attempted in spite of its acknowledged difficulties and disadvantages." A Berlin letter of the 12th Rays :—" The Duke of Coburg-Gotha has been here for about twenty-four hours, jest to take leave for his African expedition, and to give or to get information from one of the best authorities on Africa, Dr. Barth, residing at Berlin, with regard to the principal object of this expedition, the search for the lost African explorer, E. VogeL Vogel is our lamented Franklin, for whom recovery (or at least ascertaining his fate) our naturalists, the people, and the Duke of Coburg-Gotha, have made great moral and ma terial exertions. By such means an expedition was prepared and entrusted to Herr Von lienglin with a clearly pointed out object, the search for Vogel. Bat from information and letters received it was loon user baked that Herr Von Henglin bad become false to hie trust, and deviated by thousands of miles from the traces of ow miming African explorer. Dr. Barth, and most of the naturalists and supporters of this Henglin expedition, gave vent to their indignatioe in the press, in published Wien, in meetings, and by resolutions against Herr Von Hamlin, and for another expedition. The Duke of Coburg- Gotha seems to bare volunteered his services for such a supplementary and corrective search, ►nd is prep ring to start in a few weeks." King, the only survivor of the ill-fated explora tion party in Australia, is described as a simple, quiet young man, not ovcrburdsned with intelligence, who owes his safety solely to the fact that his constitution was more hardy than those of his unfortunate companions. The account given by Meg In no way differs from that which previously appeared in Willes }oared. A party under the leadership of Mr. Hewitt has been despatched to Cooper's Creek, for the purpose of brioging down the bodies of Burke and Wills, preparatory to rendering them the sad but just honor= of a public funeral. The South Australian party, which was despatched to attempt the relief of Burke, has, since the discovery of his melancholy fate, made several valuable disooveries—but not without running eerioos dangers from the hostility of the satires —oft sew oeuntry eminently adapted for pastoral per poses ; sod. treat a deepatalt rewired from Yr. W. a Hodgideeoe, it appears that they hare bees aka ow* compelled to resort to &ear= to mom the safety of the party. FIRE AJD LOSS OP LIPS. Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, a fire broke out in the Gray's-inn-road, near the Kinestroms Railway station, which we regret to state has been attended with fatal soirequeneir . alrearly to two human beings7s mother sad isfaa--and then li but little doubt but , the husband and father. The premises were in the tenure of Mr. Greodaberth, a corn chandler, 17, Cheater-place, Gray's inn-road, adjoining the stores of the North Loudon Repoli tory. The discovery was made by a police officer, who after considerable trouble managed to arouse the inmates. They consisted of Matilda Baker, the housekeeper, a family con sisting of Mr. and Mrs. Keir and an infant only twelve months old, and a man named George, the carman, who also in the building. He sumeeded in getting out of the attic window, and ran along the parapet of the adjoining houses, and was sheltered by Mr. Palmer io the same street. Mr. Keir having snatched up his infantilay, opened the front window on the second floor, and p the child on the ledge, and was in the act of throwing it into the street, but the little innocent's foot caught in the iron bars in front of the window, used for protecting flowerpots. Mrs. Keir had also made her appearance at the same window. Her husband tried in vain to get her away, thinking that the Royal Society's escape bad arrived, but unfortunately such was not the case, as owing to the excitement at the time the escape had not been sent for, and Mrs. Heir, after uttering two or three frantic screams, was seen to fall in the midst of the dames, and in a few minutes the poor creature was burned almost to • cinder. The husband finding that he could render no further assistance to his wife, tried to move himself. Having got out of the win dow, he laid hold of the ledge, were he held on for • short time, with the dames curling round his body and over Ids head. He then fell upon the dap beneath. He was picked up in • state of insensibility, and removed to the Royal Free Hospital, when it was found that his arms, hands sod neck ware extensively burned, and his collar bone broken. Very little hope is entertained of his re covery. The infant was rescued by the Royal Society's escape conductor, and taken to the Royal Free Hospital. It was seriously burned, and died in four hours after its ad mission. Four engines of the London Brigade were early in arriving. The flame were not extinguished until the premises, furniture, and stock were destroyed. A. soon as the flames were got out, and before the ruins were cooled, some of the Mipde entered the second door front mom, and under the window found the remains of the poor woman. The bodies were removed to the deed hone., to await the inquest. The cause of the misfortune is unknown, and Mr. Gresidsberth being out of town at the time, it could not be aloe:tabbed whether or not he was insured. ANOTHER FEARFUL ACCIDENT TO A FEMALE BY MACHINERY. HALTON, SATURDAY. A most shocking accident oocnrred yesterday afternoon at Birdsall, • Wold village • few miles from Halton. Except in its horrible termination, the accident is precisely similar to the recent one at Sunderland. It seems that Mrs. Hudson, the wife of Mr. Haden, a sli_ojp. keeper at Binythorpe. a neighbouring village, was at Mr. Watson's farm at Birdsall, w he n a corn thrashing machine was in use. Mrs. Hudson, it is stated, attempted to step over the " tumbliug.shaft," which revolves rapidly, and has a connexion in the centre presenting sharp angles, which are very likely to catch and retain hold of • dram if brought in proximity. It is thought Mrs. Hudson's dress was caught in this way, and was instantaneously wrapped several times round the shaft, the wearer being, of coarse, brought down with it, and, to the horror of all present, whirled round and round with every revolution. The machinery was stopped as quickly as pomible, and when the unfortunate woman was extricated it was found that her knees were dislocated, and that she had received many wounds and very serious injuries. To-day she is stated to be in • precarious state. The accident is doubtless owing to • went of proper fencing over the shaft, • precaution very tardy adopted in thrashing reachiaas. FATAL ACCIDENT AT AN ENGLISH BLONDIN EXHIBITION. SHIELDS, Sarcranav Moat This ev o ;!f, Mr. Favell, the coroner for North Durham", ma intuit at South Shields, on the body of Heoege wilily • betwe en twelve and fourteen Mr. who calla rats himself the " E.olltirlogzr.,.. byl the Cricket of that town, on Friday night. Duvalli had to ascend and descend on what he described as the *kakis telegraph wire, • tight rope about 160 feet in length, extended by mama of wooden sheers or scaffolding poles 35 feet in from the ground. He had also to let fireworks off, and a great mob of people were gathered, who shortly after the inge commenced became very unruly. Duvarrir c i commenced to let fireworks off ; and while he was doing so some blackguard appears to have rut the Manilla rope, which secured the sheer lepl and the wire rope to the ground, and the result was that the sheer legs fell over amoopt the mob, killing the boy Forsyth upon the spot, and seriously, If not fatally, injuring another boy named Richard Dams. Of course, after this, the greatest con. fusion arose, and the proceediap were put a stop to ; and as the miscreant who cut the rope has not been found out, the incised was adjourned until Wednesday, to give the police time to discover him. AN AMIIHICAN BISHOP AT Sr. PAUL'S.—Yester day evening there was a large congregation under the dome of 8L Paul's, the service being rendered more than ordi• eerily attractive by the announcement that the sermon would be preached by the Right Rev. Dr. Wilvaine, the Bishop of Ohio. There were present the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Llandeff, the Bishop of Ripon, the Dean of • Paul's, the Archdeacon of London, the Rev. Canon Dale, the Rev. Prebendary Hawkins, the Rev. Prebendary Randolph, sod many ahem. Prayers were intoned by the Rev. W. 8. Simpson, M.A., rector el St. Matthew's, Friday street, the lessons being read by the Dean. The Bishop of Ohio preached an excellent practical sermon on the subject of the foundation of a Christian's hope. The Bishop of London pronounced the benediction. The sermon next Sunday evening will be preached by the Rev. Daniel Moore, ILA., incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862.—We Me ra by her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition ofrrer l to state that they have made arrangements wish Mr. Hunt for the publication of an official " Handbook of the Exhibition," and with Muer% Street Brothers, of Serie. street, for the collection of advertisements intended to be inserted in their official catalogues, with the guaranteed cir culation of 250.000 comes • and that they have no eon nezion with • work adverti sed by Masan. Holmes and Co., of No. 5, Oatherine+treet, Strand, as the " Illustrated G u ide to the Great Exhibition of 1862 ; guaranteed issue 250,000 copies." BIM= AND PRAYER BOOKS IN THE EXHIBMON. —An agitation has hue set on foot which promisee to make considerable noire about its peculiar grievance. It appears that application has been made to the cominiuioeen for space in the building for • stall at which bibles and prayer books painted in English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, and Hebrew might be given away to visitors. At a public prayer meeting, held • few days since at Crosby Hall, it was stated that this applica tion had been refused ; that the commissioners fully appreciated the good motives of those who wished to dis tribute the Scriptures gratuitously, but considered that the exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, in which persons of all religions would take part, we not exactly the t=loepportuoity for distributing bibles of the authorised , and books of common prayer, which could not be recognised as orthodox by • large portion of the visitors. The commissioners were roundly abused for the decision at which they had arrived, and were told to re member the warning presented to them by the catastrophe of Pharaoh and his hosts drowsed in the Red Sea ; and of the greet armies which came up against the King Hezekiah and a memorial to the Queen was decided upon, to be placed in the heeds of Lord filaftesinu-y, for presentation at the foot of the throne. The matte to be Owed over the 1 stall which is proposed to be erected is, "Peace on earth, end goodwill towards men ;" but if we may judge from the terror of the remarks of the speakers at the meeting referred to, and the tone of the letters *dammed to the commis sioners. the good injunction dose not have much weight with the disappointed, mid ere doubt well-intentioned, gentlemen who have set the project on foot.—Post. CHURCH RATE; AT CAMBERWELL.-011 Saturday • number of summonses were heard before the magistrstes for Surrey, sitting in Petty Seesius at the Vestry-ball, Camberwell, for non.payment of church rates in that parish. The rate, which was 2d. in the pound, was media in July last. The objection wee that when the poll was taken there wee, in fact., no rate in existence, as no opportri waa given for ansmendmeet to be submitted before the - nal motion for the rate was declared carried. It was urged that the summons should be dismissed on the ground that proceedings bad not been taken within six months after the first refuel to pay. The magistrates overruled the objections, and refused the application to state a case for the opinion of a superior court. The distress vermeils were signed, but ordered not to be served until the end of Easter term, in order to give time for an application to the Court el Queen's Beach for a mandamus to compel them to slate a ease as requested. CHURCH RATES IN WHIRR PARIBIIRS. —At Berke, in Pembrokeshire, • sixpenny rata was called for, but only three mums voted for it. The cbrushwarrlens then came down to a peony, but it was resolved to raise the money voluntarily. It is stated that there I. some parish land, the rent of which should go towards the repair of the church (which is meekly out of repair), bet is applied to the ordinary expenses—At Towyn, one ri the largest vestry meetings ever witnessed in the town was held me Saturday week. A diameter occupied the chid; and remarked that he could account for the large attendance, in comminute of the very questionable conduct of the church party is Towyn within the het two or three years. A rate of lid. was pro- posed, followed by an amendment that no rate be made. Far the rate three hands were held up ; against it, an lm mews madority. A subscription towards exterior improve meate le the church-yard was then proposed, and lOL were to • few minutes subscribed by the antimratis party. CITY or LONDON HoemAz! ros Masa= or WE CUBIT, VICToBIA.PARIL —The number of patient+ re lieved at this institution during last week was 1,062, of which 194 were new oases. 70111 MAY. WAY. N. licttals.-8.1. to N.E. and N.N.W. to N.N.L, a BAIN N. W.„ try& to atm*, now mow or rats. rIPL Iras;24.-B.Z. to 8.W., strong, &LW. to N.W., a gale, wttlt t e 4garale, with rain. rain. to B.W. and B. to W. and N.W., a pia, witb W. strong, to a gale, rainy. rain. OsaffiL-8.8.11. to 8.W., B.W. to N.W. and N.L. strong rtrong, reins. to a gale, snow or rata. L znistim&--&& to 8.W., 8.8. W. to W. and N.W., a gale, strung, to a gale, rainy. rain/. THE ALLEGED CHILD MURDER IN PORT. LAND ?OWN. LNQUEST. 7 (TILL6 DAY.) The adjourned inquiry into the circunottanci attending the death of a female child three weeks old, sup posed to have been murdered by its mother, Mary in Jams, sod which was found pack e d i n a hamper el the back yard of the house No. 55, Henry-street, Portland. torn, was resumed this morning by Mr. Brent, deputy coroner for West Middlesex, at the Buffalo's Head, Mary. leboae-rced. A number of people had assembled around the house is order to catch a glimpse of the prisoner, who was remanded from the police-court last week. She was brought bere ley is Sheehy, t divi s ion, and Pohee•constable shun., 406 S. From the evidence adduced no the former occasion, it sp pears that the woman Jarvis had been, when the child wss found, confined about three weeks. Her landlady, sit hearing it cry for about three days, informed James, th e constable, who found the body in a hamper, and afterwark apprehended her in Great Charles-street, Westmiustes. Jarvis'sage is about 25, and she was married about four year, ago to a stableman, with whom she went to live at Stow on-the-Wold. She afterwards left her husband, sod moo to London, and since that she told her mother that sbe had received a letter stating his death. She has a child living over three years of age. The first witness called to-day, Eliza Brown, No. fit, Townshend-toad, St. John's Wood, saidt—l live ukthe next room to Anne Jarvis, where the child was born. It was three days old when I saw it. I never saw the child alive after last Sunday fortnight, but have heard it cry. Last Friday week was the lest time I heard it, about 6 or 7 M the evening. The mother was at home at the time and a sotdjir was with her. Martha Austin, residing in the same house, said—l nev,r saw the cb;hl but have frequently heard it crying. The last time I beard it was on the Friday. Mrs. Wilkie, JarvWs landlady, asked her where the baby was. This was on the following Monday. Jarvis said "she had dressed it and taken it to her mother's." Mrs. Wilkins said '• I should like to see it," when Jarvis replied that she was going for some work, and on her return would bring it up. Mrs. Wilkins told her that she should keep her eye on the child as long as it was in her house. Jarvis then left, and did not return any more. Dr. Allen, in reply to the jury, said be did not think death bad taken place forty-eight hours when he saw it ; he should say about twenty-four hours Corporal Benjamin Cannan, Coldstream Guards, Wel lington Barracks—l know Mary Ann Jarvis. She lived iu Townahend.road, where I used to see her. She had a child, of which 1 believe lam the father. I have seen tho child several times. The last time was last Friday week in her room. It was alive, and appeared to be in good health when I 'saw it last. It cried before I left. I cannot say whether any syrup of poppies or spirits bad been given it. On Monday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, Jarvis came to the barracks and said she wanted to speak to me. She said her mother was taking care of the child. She said she was sure of it. That was the first time l had seen her out since her oonfinemeat. By the jury—l told her if she wanted any assistance to come to me. She took the child up and suckled it. When she came to ore she said she had come to look after a room, say* she would no tko home any more, and begged me not to She said she had taken a room in Great Chapel street. I did not we her till I took the detective to No. 15, Charlesetreet. bhe made the maul , to me that, "Poor little thing, it is dead." Mary Anne Jarvis was introduced into the room, when Canaan repeated his evidence before her. She appeared very deject L finnan added that she said, " She did not hur t her child intentionally." The constable did caution her. The coroner having given the 'mowed the usual cau tion, she said, in • very low tone—My name is Mary Anne Jarvis. lam a widow. I had • child at 6A. Towns bend-ros i. The child was very Milli on Friday and Satur day morning. It had had a cold in the nom for about a week. On Saturday morning I gave it some gin —about a spoonfr , and • half—in some warm water. It continued cross, and I sent for some " Godfreja." I welt • spoonful to quiet it. It did not suck all day on Saturday, and slept all Saturday night till five or six o'clock on Sunday morn ing. It was not very well, and went to sleep again before I got out. When I looked at it, the child was dead (crying). I was afraid to speak about it for fear what I gave it made it ill. I did not know what to do. I did not say anything to soy one. (She hare was completely overpowered by her emeteon.) . . Jarnes,. 4068, said, in reply to the coroner, there was no " Godfrey's " in the mom. Dr. Alien said be saw no proof that anything had been given to the child. The stomach wee empty. Jarvis—Saturday night and Sunday morning I gave it the "Godfrey's." I did put it in a hamper. I did not know what to dew, ith it. The Coroner then asked her about the bandages upon the body, when she bunt into hysterics and had to be led from the room. Dr. Allen Xsid—The " Godfrey's " migbt have been given without being detected. It is a mixture made up by chemists, but not prescribed by doctors. It I the means of destroying thousands and teas of thousands of children. Ultimately an ripen verdict wee reformed. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) KozDAT, TXXXARY 17, II LX D. L Y. ix ii. IU. L. IL. C. N 44.1 f ... 29.58 1 Si ' —8.8. X a Aswan 8587 36 57 B.K. r Lir= 20.40 40 37 8.2. o Blzwiec UN 30 30 8. o ARD1406942 V 29.56 37 34 X. 4 [muss 23.47 U 30 B.Z. o 64LwAr 20.20 43 42 X. o 43 w oo s 29.45 119 UIL 0 — BO 29.06 34 37 BILL o — 117.1.1401.430 10.92 33 32 1 Li. 0 LamarBu4 29.66 37 N N.N.Z. t 9 B.N. omi 20.36 40 10. r V=224 ." 47 B. 4r 0. Vasiroora 19.03 140 3 L. 8.13. o L05D09 UM MO IS 8.1. fir O. Dona 24.551 45 42 8.34. o rostoorovou P 997600 19.0 to 44 E. Or 0.0 Moms !morrow's I.I:PLIL2fATIOF„ IL—Barometer corrected ar7TWiioilicto SE deg. at mean see level ; each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-hundredth of an tech diminution; and each 10 deg, above 30 deg., causing and, three-hundredths therein. IL—Erpoaed thermometer to shade. M.—Moistened bulb (tor evaporation and dew t). D.—Direetlon of wind (trne—two pointa of sap o poin dic). 7.—Fort• (1 to 11—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9). L— b, blue sky : c. clouds (detached) ; t, tog ; 12, hall ; lightning; m, mid, (hart); 0, overcast (don) ; r, rain ; s, snow: S. thunder. 8., rain -fall, or snow, or hall, since last report, in Inches and decimals. 8.--Serdlatarhaisse (1 to 9). Z.—Calm. THE CEMETERY or Sr. GILES-IN-THE-FIELD&-.• The bill introduced into parliament for appropriating this cemetery to building purpeees, late the attempt some two or three years since to remove the dead for similar 'purposes from the cemetery of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at Camden town, is creating much excitement in the parish of St. Pancras; and large placards have been published during the last few days announcing • public meeting, convened by the vestry, and presided over by the senior churchwarden. to be held at the Vestry-ball this evening. SHOCKING OMNIBUS ACCIDENT. LEM night, between the hours of 8 and 9, a frightful and it is feared fatal accident occurred in the Walworth-road, near Camber well-gate. It appears that an omnibus belonging to Mr. Hubble, the " Tally-ho," running between Camberwell-green and Cornbill, together with one of Mr. Tilling'• came down the road together, and were nearing Camberwellgate, when • race began, but they had not proceeded far when the Peckham-rye omnibus crossed the " Tally-ho," to pass through Camberwell-gate first, one side of which is rimed oa Sundays. The "Tally-ho" omnibus, to prevent this, dashed against the kerb stone on the north side of the Waliworth , road. The shock threw the driver head foremost on to the kerb, fracturing his skull, and severely injuring his lap. He was picked up insensible, and conveyed to the house of Mr. Crisp, surgeon, who after examination advised his im mediate removal to the hospital. Tbe horses took fright, and dashed through the closed gate on the south side, smashing it to atoms : they were shortly afterwards stopped. and the very much alarmed were release:Tot their danger. None were hurt ; some received ' eontasioas and bruises. The Peckham omnibus was by_polioreonstable 113 P . ...and the number, were en. TEN MURDER AT Dunew.—The inquest on the body of the young woman, Elise Monow, who was brutally murdered by Joseph Thorley, at Derby, on Thumb') evening last (as detailed in this journal of Saturday), was held on Saturday morning lad, at the Town Hall, before Mr. Coroner Valka, when, after hearing the evidence, the jury consulted together for • few momenta, and returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" spinet Richard Thorley. THE MURDER AT ROC/WALL—DEATH or MRA leOTT.—This unfortunate woman,whe was shot by her hus band, in Rochdale, eapired retards, morning about 7 o'clock. An inquest wIU be held area her body in • day or two, and will no doubt revolt is a charge of wilful murder. _ _ A STRIKE PREVENTED.—A week ego lest &tut , daU t he master joiners and bulldees of Blackburn decided to • into operation, owing to depressed trade, • reduc tion et . per week on the wages of their operatives, and gave them notice to mach effeet last Monday, letisnetiag that the new rate of wags would be introduced and paid at the end of the following week. This intimation was opposed be the operatives, who resolved to resist the reduction, ra ther than concede the advance ousted to them ten months since. A meeting of the masters was acconlinely held last Friday eveuiog, when they agreed to withdraw the ot• tempted reduction, and to pay 264 per week. r.