The Express. — London, England, 1862-03-17 00:00:00

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Mr. HOL4FALL invites the House to attirmthat the present state of international mari time law, as affecting belligerents and neutral, is unsatisfactory, and calls for the early attention of the Government. So think Mr. 8E:471:40C and Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANZ, who would undo the, reforms accomplished at Paris in 1856. The hon. Member for Liverpool is dissatisfied, however, for a very different reason, and would carry those refonns yet further. Indeed, he has no difficulty in showing that, by favouring the neutral, they place our shipowners at a disadvantage— since now, at the first suggestion of a war in which we may possibly be engaged, commerce shuns our flag, and British shipping all over the world is thrown out of employment. It is urged that the shipping interest ought not to be expected to bear in this way the brunt of con• tentions which are national, and the burden of which should, therefore, be distributed fairly over the community ; and the remedy suggested is a further change in the law of maritime war, no leo than the general exemption from capture of private property at sea. Mr. 114.saritt's speech narrowed the scope of the motion, and placed the subject before the House as a practical question. It has, however, most frequently been publicly treated as part of a general amelioration of the usages of war under the influencesof humanity anal civilization. In this latter aspect two things are to be remembered. On the owe hand,wo must not despair of effecting improve ments because we have only moral means wherewith to regulate war and bloodshed ; for experience shows that the rules of war are not beyond the power of reason to regulate. And on the other, we must guard against the weakness of supposing that anything is gained by inducing nations to consent to rules the consequences of which in practice are not clearly apprehended, or which it may be foreseen would have • one-sided operation. The greater part of what we call in ternational law is merely international morality; an I the fact that no power exists to enforce its rules makes it especially necessary that all parties should perceive • common advantage in their observance. Any attempt to faros on • change, however beneficial, for which the mind of the world is not well prepared, and still more the attempt to introduce • state of the law 1 calculated in practice to favour oue State or one class of belligerents, would end only in disappointment, disgust, and recrimination. In this view of the matter, Lord Piinuorr , ..,..'s declaration that the adoption of Mr. Ilduirst.e. proposition as a rule of international law would be pernicious to this country, is one very necessary to be considered. If all nations were even nearly alike in the nature, sources, and employment of their warlike power, it would be improper to argue upon this question from the peculiar circumstances of • given country. Since, however, it is not so, the application of one rule to unequal circumstances would be very likely to result in injustice. It would not surprise us to see the representatives of a continental Power, which was in the habit of over bearing all its neighbours, and interfering everywhere by means of enormous armies, urging in a congress arguments for dindniahing tbe power of belligerents at sea ; but if another Power, having • very small army, and • navy not too large to defend its scattered possessions, had a voice, then those arguments would not go un challenged. But since the question has been brought forward with practical aims, let us ask how Mr. HORN- FALL'S principle would work. Lord PAL- I EWITON says it would be fatal to our political power. To ;Ole up the right of capturing the ships 91 an enemy would be to cut off our right arm. And it It Implied 01 necessity that it would not have the same effect upon other Powers ; otherwise it would be sufficient to answer that if all nations saw their advantage in fighting only with th,• left arm, a common agreement to do so would not be very unreasonable. To us it seems that the effect of the proposed rule on the relative power of England and her neigh bours would he the precise contrary of that which Lord PA I.llr.it-To% expects. At the commencement of the war out merchant ships would go freely everywhere under the protection of the rule. Accord ing to the same rule, the enemy's merchant ships should also go everywhere : but they would not; the enemy would soon find that he had conceded to us • real advantage in return for one that was merely nominal. For his ships would be confined to their ports by a Britiah blockading squadron. The practical inequality of the rule would then become intolerable, and the whole arrangement would col lapel. Even in this condition, however, he would not be powerless to inflict damage on the British shipping which had ventured all over the world under the supposed protection of international law, and it would not be strange if, having begun to violate agreements, be proceeded to issue letters of marque. A. long am thq ;;;,,„„„ im i lair of blockade is main• tamed, and it is strictly regular to Phut np the ports and coasts of your enemy at which you do not pretend to be fighting, it is difficult to see how the principle of Mr. Hossratt's proposition could be tendered to foreign Powers with the slightest ann.a of acceptance. It is in the power to blockade, and not in the right to prey upon the enemy's ships after letting his com merce escape in neutral bottoms, that our advan tage lies. Neither Parliament nor the country, we believe, is prepared as yet to surrender this right, and nothing is more to be deprecated than pledg ing the good faith of the nation to an ill-consi dered policy. But, perhaps, in time we may see our way to relinquish this in return for the im munity of oar vast mercantile marine from capture. At all events the subject is one which much needs discussion. And let our legislators discuss it with full confidence in the fruitfulness of such delibe rations. Whatever may be said, it is possible to introduce into the practices of war ameliora tions which, resting solely on the moral in tegrity of the belligerents, stand the rude test of experienoe. It was argued on Tuesday by a member of the Government, that agreements limit ing the power of a belligerent to damage his enemy are futile, because, by the fact of war, all treaties between two Powers are dissolved. But even if a law, made for the event of war, is not by its very character exempted from this rule, it is surely not to be supposed that two civilized na tions will, in the face of the world, break an agree ment into which they voluntarily entered in anti cipation of the circumstances. Regard for its own honour, and for the opinion of the neutral world, which is generally armed on these occa sions, and capable of increasing the power of either side by alliances, would restrain it from so disgraceful an act. It must not be said that nations are not capable of keeping their deliberate promises. WHAT will this plethora in the money market lead to I is • question in which few of us are en- For the next two or three weeks its possible that a certain demand for money may be stimulated by the hold which the Bank of England gets upon the circulation at the termination of each quarter ; but this will be cor rected as soon as the State makes its usual quar terly disbursements to its annuitants and other creditors. Apart from this momentary influence, it is believed that the tendency of the market is still towards increased abundance. The last re turn showed a large addition to the unem ployed resources of the Bank of England; the accounts of the Bank of France point likewise to • reduction in the value of money ; the continental and other exchanges are at • point which allows us to add to our already large stock a considerable portion of the gold im ported ; there seems to be as yet a remarkable absence of foreign commitments ; and, what is as important as any of these considerations, trade presents no iodications of recovery. Were the war in Americo to come to an end, and supplies of cotton once more to become available, it is pro bable that a large amount of money would be ab sorbed in that important branch of buainess. But, taking a general glance over the wide field of trade, it seems unlikely that legitimate commercial business will be able to work off the large surplus of money, the pressure of which has carried down the rate of interest to a point rarely witnessed in this country, and very unsatisfactory to the capitalist. It is expected by some that, accidents apart, the rate of discount of the Bank of England will be reduced next month' from 2i to 2 per cent. In that case the terms in the general market would doubtless be still lower. The policy of • reduction by the national establish meet may be questioned, and it is, perhaps, very doubtful whether it would do • better business at 2 per cent than it does now at 2i. We suppose the plea of the directors will be that they must do the best they can for the interests of their proprietors ; and the somewhat remarkable circumstance that the Bank is about to declare a reduced rate of dividend, while all the other joint-stock banks in London have pre sented statements satisfactory to their respective proprietaries and leading to • considerable rise in the prices of the shares, certainly goes to show that the Bank of England is at a decided disadvantage in the present state of the money market in rela tion to its competitors. Though the latter allow interest upon the deposits entrusted to them, they manage to pay high dividends, while the Bank of England, which gets its deposits free of interest, yields • much lower return on its stock, and is now about to re duce the rate of dividend. The remedy, regarding the matter merely from the bankers' point of view, is for the Bank of England to go in and compete more actively for business with other bankers and money lenders ; in other words, the Bank minimum will probably, after a while, be lowered. Far be it from us to say • word in ad vocacy of increased banking competition. Though quite aware that no currency scheme will keep the financial current perfectly smooth, and eradi cate the seeds of evil ere they can germinate, we have a strong opinion of the defects of a sys tem of currency which tends to make money arti ficially dear when it is most wanted, and which, I by creating fresh paper money most rapidly at the very moment when it is not wanted, sharpens the competition of overladen bankers. But in allud ing to the probable appearance of the Bank of England as a more earnest competitor amongst contending bankers for the diminished amount of business now to be picked up in the monetary arena, we simply describe the present inevitable tendency of the market. In trying to dis cover what is likely to come of it, we can only be guided by • reference to part experience. This shows that, at a time of depressed trade, when money accumulates and falls to a merely nominal value, the accumulation continues until at last the public get tired of it, and then speculation sets in. Trade, in the ordi nary sense of the word, cannot carry off the load of money--cannot relieve • market which, after long waiting, demands to be relieved. Speculation, therefore, rises, and does what trade cannot do. Speculation has many shapes and channels. There may be speculation in cotton, corn, tallow, sugar, or other colonial produce, the effect of which is, that we attract here, under the stimulus of high prices, vast quantities of such articles from various parts of the world, pouring out our gold in return. Then other forms of speculation are foreign loans, foreign or home railways, mines, banks, docks, steam companies, and so forth, the action of which on the money market is the greater or lees according to the amount of capital which they draw away to foreign parts. When speculation has gone to • certain length, it brings its own cure in the form of a rim in the rate of interest, and as trade has likewise probably by that time recovered from its torpor, as well as received some illegitimate im pulse, it generally happens that the monetary pendulum swings to quite the opposite extreme. Perhaps it goes from li or 2 per cent. to 8 or 10 —from plethora to panic ; for it is • peculiarity it the speculative phase that no accurate amount is kept of the foreign commitments entered into, and the aggregate of these ultimately proves heavier than the market can well bear. We are as yet only in the 2 per cent. stage, and though it would not be too much to say that the seeds of panic are ordinarily sown when the money market is in its present condition of plethora, our acts seem as yet to have been sufficiently ( prudent. It would appear that we have not yet become quite tired of looking at our heap of money. It may be as well, however, to cast an eye forward, remembering at the same time that seasons of great ease in the money market, such as that now experienced, have always ended, sooner or later, in rampant speculation of some kind. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1862. ebt Court. WINDSOR CANTLE, Reim 15. The Earl of Derby arrived at the Castle last night, and returned to Loudon today. Lady Fanny Howard arrived Ude afternoon. THE NEW ROYAL RIAIIIIIOLEINIL _ _ MARCH 16. Divine service was performed in the private chapel of the Castle this morning by the Hon. and very Reverend the Dean of Windsor. The Queen yesterday laid the first stone of a mausoleum in Promote -pawls, in which are to be deposited the re mains of her dearly loved husband the Prince Consort, and ultimately her own. _ _ Her Majesty, in performing this act of reverential and devoted affection, was surrounded by all her children now in England, and was attended by the Ladies end Gentle men of her Household in Waiting, and those who had in any way specially attended upon the Prince. Her Majesty, supported by the feeling of the sacred nature of the duty she bad to perform, was able to complete the ceremony, and after the stone was laid, the Dean of Wind sor said • prayer asking God's blueing on the work. The few carefully selected ponces who were permitted to be pre sent were assembled upon the pound at 12 o'clock, and her Majesty, with no attendanW but the royal children, proceeded on foot from Frogman House (whither her Majesty had previously come in • carriage in the moat private meaner) to the spot where the stone was prepared. Upon the stone is the following inscription : " The foundation stone of this building, erected by Queen Victoria in pious remembrance of her mat and good hus band, was laid by her the 15th day of Mar* A.D. 1862. Blessed are they that sleep in the Lord.' " The building is to be erected under the superintendenee of A. J. Hum bert, EN., architect ; and the reclining status of the Priam will be executed by Baron MarcebettL Her Majesty had wished that this mournful ceremony should Wm place upon the first annivenary of the death of her revered mother Use Duchess of Kent, but as that day was Sunday, the eve of the anniversary was selected. There were present—The Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal of England), Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louis, and Princess Beatrice, Prises Alfred sod Prince Arthur ; the Countess of Caladon (Lady in Waiting), the Hons. Beatrice Byng and Emily Cathcart (Maids at Honour), lady Augusts Brace, Lily Caroline Barrington, Countess von Eichulenberg (Grande Maarten to the Crown Princess of Prussia), Countess Blucher Walstadti(Ludy in Waiting), and Count Furskn'oetein (Chamberlain to her Royal Higlisims), Viscount Torrington (Lord in Waiting to the Queen), Colonel Cavendish, Groom in Waiting), Colossi the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardiage, C.B. Equerries in Waiting), Lieut..Genesul the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hes. Ste O. Phipps and the Hon. H. L. Phipps, the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph, Lady Cowper, Major-General Seymour, Miss Hildyard, Madame Efocidi, Miss Banat, Major Cowell, RH., Major Elphin stone, R.E., Mr. Baked, Mr. Woodward, Colonel Ponaonby, Colonel Seymour, C. 8., Boots Fusilier Guards), Mr. Meyer, Dr. Jenner, and Mr. Brown. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Visootint Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Karl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Karl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. Corm wallLewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Eachequer, the Duke of Somerset the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Kdward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right HOD. C. P. Villiers. A deputation from Nottingham, eassisting of Yr. Barber, sad Mr. A/initial, on the part at the Tows Clowneil, and Mr. Ors mad Mr. Aahwell, together with Yr. Benders, the °lark, es behalf of the board of gnerdism, had an interview es asterdly with the Bight Has. 0. P. Villiers, at the ogee el the Pear Lew Board, Whitehall. The Oominittse on Monistical of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday et Present the Lord kcesidest, the nuke of Socreereet, the Cheariellor of the lizebequer, Sir George Gm, Dart., the /Ike. President, awl the Lord Advocate. Despatebse w• received on Saturday at the Colonial• office from the Lord High 0011101illaleir of the lonian Idaoda. Dopatebta were sent to the governors of the West India Isissib, British Columbia, and Bermud►, the Lad Hish of the lonian laleada, sad to the governor; et Or a. mad the Bibense. Villa:6oß, Maim 16. According to the present arrangement& (writes our Windsor correspondent) her Majesty the Queen will leave Windsor Miele on or about the 3rd day of the ensuing mouth, and return to Osborne, Isle of Wight. Her Majesty coutemplates visiting the Highlands at an early period, and returning to Windsor, from Balmoral, in Jams After a stay of about a fortnight at the Castle the Queen will proceed to Osborne, and again visit Balmoral towards Use wad of the season. Her Majesty, we are happy to learn, is in the enjoyment of excellent health. and takes her daily walks and drives in the quiet and secluded vicinity of the Home-park. Now of the royal family have been seen in Windsor slue the return of the Queen to the Castle, and the away indication of the court being there is the waving of the ! royal stand►rd on the round tower, the absence of military music on mounting the Castle guard, and the closing of the state apartments. The day after the re. tarn of the court to Windsor, as the evening was closing, and all had left the chapel, the Queen, accompanied by four of the royal princesses, entered the sacred edifice by the private antrum leading from the Deanery. The illustrious party advanced to the bottom of the altar steps, where • brass plate indicates the entrance to the royal vault, be neath which the remains of the late Prince Consort are temporarily deposited ; here they remained for a short time, and each placed a wreath of flowers on the marble which coven the pave. Similar wreaths were again placed over these drooping Bowers yesterday evening by her Ma jesty and the princesses. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have been visiting Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate, at his seat at Yarriugford, in the hie of Wight. The Earl and Counted, of Craven and the Ladies Craven left Coombe Abbey on Saturday for Ashdown. Park, Berke. The Earl of Dalkeith has arrived in Be'grave square from &whin, Selkirk. Her ladyship remains at Bowhill. . The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have left town for Paris. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Pool entertained a select party at dinner on Saturday evening at their reel. dense in Whitehall-gardens. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland returned a few days silos to Cliefdsu, her seat sear Maidsohoad, from Trentham. Om Saturday toe Duke and Duchess of Argyll kit tows to visit tho duchess. . . - . . His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Vsa de Weyer had a dinner party on Friday ►t the Belgian Leption in Fortland•phwe. . . • His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Counties de Mahal:lt entertained a distinguished circle at dinner ea Saturday 'veiling, at Coventry House, Pic cadilly. _ _ _ ETA and Countess Russell had a dinner party, c Friday, at the family mansion in Cheeham-place. no guests included his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brunoow, his Excellency the Spanish Minis ter, hie Excellency the Portuguese Minister, Lord and lady Wodehoose, Lady Wm. Russell, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer sad Mrs. Gladstone. Ste. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received a large circle at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence in PiesdNy. Later in Cie evening her ladyship opened her saloons for the reception of a very numerous assemblage of the rank sad hake at primmest is tows. THE PRINCE OP WALES IN EGYPT. ILisoa 8. The Prince of Wales arrived here on the let inst. He landed at the railway terminus, and at once went on to Cairo, where the Viceroy awaited his arrival and received him with every possible attention. The train wan driven direct to the Dacha's palace of Kasr-en-Nil, on the teaks of the Nile, whence, after a sheet interview, the Prime and his suite were conveyed in carriages to the palace prepared for their residence. On the follow ing day the Viceroy visited the Prince, bat without form or state, in consideration of the privacy in which his royal highness travels. The Prince, on Monday, in like manner, returned the calls of the several members of the Viceroy's family who had come to pay their respects to him. With these few unavoidable exceptions, the Prince's visit to Cairo bas differed but little in its circumstances from that of a private gentleman. On Sunday afternoon his royal highness attended divine service at the English chapel, and on his excursions into the town few of the Odrenes who beheld him riding through the basun on the ordinary moisture of the city can have suspected that they looked upon the future King of England. On Tuesday at mid-day his royal highnome left Cairo for 1 I. l "ppm Egypt. The Puha'. steamer conveyed the Prince and has suite from the palace of Kaar-en•NO, and they were aooompanied by Vimnsul °gout for the first day. At Djirsh the Viceroy again received his royal highness in per son, and Colonel Mimi exhibited to the Prince and his party some of his recent improvements in the rifle. On the shore every variety of Eastern means of locomotion had been pro- vided by the Viceroy and awaited his royal highness's arri val—carriages, horses, asses, and dromedaries. The last mentioned obtained the preference, and a keg cavalcade of richlycapar • soned dromedaries wound De way through the green fields and palm groves of Djirah, under the declining • t of a glorious evening, to the platform of the Py The sun had just set when the Prince and his party came into full sight of that memorable view. They had just time to survey the oolosml features of the Sphinx and the general out line of the Pyramids b' the fading light, and then retired— not to the ordinary bivouac in which the European tra vellers rough it in the desert, but to the sumptuous tents supplied by the Viceroy. Here, otter a late meal, the party retired to rest till they were roused by early dawn to make the ascent of the Great Pyramid before sun rise. The Prime, who was the earliest of the party, excited the astonishment of the Bedouins by climbing to the sum mit without assirtance, a feat which, as all who have tried tt, an well aware is anything but a light one. "Is that the go a I Why does he go alone?' was the question the Bsdoains put in their broken English. The Ina. rise revealed in its usual beauty the wonderful view that spreads itself out at the foot of the Pyramids, and, after enjoying it at their leisure, the Prism and his raite descended again to their tents. An hoar or more wee devoted to the examination of the other antiquities in the neighbourhood, and the cavalcade returned as it bad come, not without having been successfully aught by the skill of Mr. Bedford, the photographer, who moons [ried the Prince's suite. At Djuish his royal highness re oad the steamer, when he was met by Mr. Colqnhoun, Majesty'set consul-general, who accompanies him to Upper pt. The Prince will return to Alexandria about ' the end the month, when he will re-embark for Syr a.— Sir John Rainsden has left town on a visit to the Right Hoe. Edward Herman, at Ashby St. Ledgers, North _ - . A public meeting, called by the Lord Mayor of Dublin for the purpose of taking steps to erect a suitable memorial to the late Prince Consort in Dublin, was held on Saturday. The prooeedinp were t►ken part in by the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Benjamin L. Guinness, the Right Hon. Joseph Napier, George Roe, D.L., the High Sherif of the °minty of Dublin, Alderman Reynolds, and Sir James Power, Bart. An influential meeting of noblemen and gentle. men, desirous to establish an institution in Dublin, which would afford to all classes of the citizens • means of rational and civilising recreation, was held on Friday, at the residence of Mr. Ben j amin Lee Guinness. The chair was taken by hi Grace the Duke of Leinster, when a resolution was proposed by Mr. Gannon, seconded by Lard William Fitzgerald, that a company ahor'd be formed under the Joint.etock Company Act (limited liabiPty), with a capital of 50,0031., to carry into effect these objects. Lord Palmerston, in giving evidence before a parliamentary railway committee last week, stated that he had turned his attention very much lately to the defences of the country, and that it was most important that all the arsenal/ should be connected by railway, and of similar gauge. His lordship also stated that it was in contemplation to make some defences on an Island in the British Channel, and that it was advisable that Portsmouth and other arsenals should be connected with Bristol by • railway without break of gauge. Pembroke, his lordship said in answer to • question, wan not an anenal, it was simply • building and refitting yard. His lordship also stated that be was in favour of connecting all towns on the south coast by rail._ . _ A Melbourne correspondent writes :—" Sir Red mond Berry, ooe of the Judges of the Somme Court, asses to England by the overland mail, sod will act u one of the oommusionen for Victoria at the Great Industrial Ex hibition. Sir Itedmoad is • great benefactor to this oolony. We owe the Melbourne University, of which he is Chancellor, to his exertions, and I believe he was the origi nator of the public library, which has since grown under his exertion, to a splendid collection of 27,000 volumes. It is not too much to say that his example of well-directed energy bus influenced the formation of other useful institu tions. The Supreme Court Library which now contains 4,000 vols., the growth of ten years, has also been =stained by his vigilant care. Catalogues of these librarire have just been printed in such • manner as to exhibit the state of typography in this colony, and copies will be bound with the same view. The other commissioners are Mr. Charles Bright and Mr. J. G. Knight, the architect of the Houses of Parliament, who proceed to England in the Great Britain, and about 400 tons of articles for exhibition will follow them in ships to sail forthwith. It will be found that we grow other things besides gold in Victoria." . . . . - . Nearly a third of the members of the Legislative Body dined with the Emperor and Empress Napoleon on Thursday. In the evening there was a reception. It seems to be generally believed that the Em- peror of the French will pay a visit to Loudon this year, for the purpose of seeing the Exhibition, to the magni ficence of which hie own subjects have contributed so largely, and possibly his imperial Majesty will make this visit coincide with the period fixed for the opening. Other illustrious foreign personages likely to be present are the King of the Belgians, with the Crowe Prince and Princes Royal of Prussia, Prince Louis of Hesse, to. The Debate of to-day, alluding to M. de Bour queney's explanation' (mentioned in our Paris correspond. cone) as to his statement that the press was freer in Mittens than in France, observes :—" After all, M. de Bounmeney has maintained his assertion. Facts Sr. facts. An by the terms of a recent law the Vienna journals will in thinning established without the authority of any one ; as the editor will have to deposit but a trilling sum as caution money ; as the journals will cease to be visited by warnings —a cue. tom imported from France—and can no longer he suspended or suppretsed but by the authority of justice after a legal trial and the arguments of counsel, there is no senator in the world who can maintain that the mewl is less free at Vienna than at Paris. All that the purest patriotism can suggest is to urge that license reigns at Vienna, while at Paris the salu tary principles of good order prevail. M. de Bourqueney has not thought it apropos to express himself on this point, and we imitate his reserve." The civil marriage of Mdlle. Adele de Rothschild with Baron Salomon de Rothschild took place on Wednes day at Frankfort. The religious ceremony was performed on the following day at the synagogue by the great rabbi of the Consistory of Paris. All the members of the Moths child family from Paris, London, and Vienna were present. Baron James de Rothschild, on the occasion of the marriage of his ion Salomon, has presented 2,000 fr. to the maim of the ninth arrondissement at Paris for distribution to the poor. Dr. Maggiorani, one of the moat eminent pig- Alicia:A of Rome, whilst hastening to attend • patient in an alarming state of illness, was stopped the other afternoon by • large body of police in plain clothes, who left the patient to shift for himself, and escorted the doctor back to his own residence, where they made a most rigorous exami nation of all his books, papers, and private correspondence. The search lasted several hours, but nothing was discovered at all inculpating him. Meanwhile Lis patients were sadly alarmed at his protracted absence, and some female mem bers of his family were frightened into fits by the unusual and importunate visitors who detained him at home. DRBPATCH or Ausztokx Meta—The Cunard Royal Nail steamer China was on Saturday despatched from Liverpool for New York with the mails for British North Amens, United States, Bahamas, and Havannah, together with • lags cargo and 40 cabin passengers. Oa Wednesday the Liverpool , New York, and Philadelphia OempaaY• steamer will be deseatebed from Liverpool tor New York with mails foe the United States, ke. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRIISSLi. Letters from Berlin speak confidently of the intention of the liberal members of the cabinet to resign if they fail to obtain from the King and their colleagues satisfactory guarantees for the reorganisa tion of the Chamber of Peers in a manner con formable to liberal opinions. It is stated that when the ministry, however composed, have agreed upon their programme, a royal proclamation, amounting to a political appeal, will be issued. AUSTRIA. The Oat Deutsche Post states that the ministerial propositions relative to finance have been very coldly received by the second Chamber. Those relating to new taxes, says this journal, excited no feeling one way or the other ; but the proposed arrangement with the bank was very unfavourably regarded, and, "to judge from the attitude of some eminent members of the Commission of Finances, we must not expect that the government project will be very cordially greeted by that body." The Chamber of Deputies appears, also, inclined to throw out the law upon the press, now that it has been so much modified by the Upper Chamber. However, the Vienna Prase trusts that the law will be passed, leaving to time the task of eliminating what is illiberal. It is more in the interest of the press, says our contemporary, to have a law of some kind than to remain under the discretionary rdgime which has been hitherto in force. On the 13th a few hundred persons met in the Bchmelzer Cemetery of Vienna, round the tombs of the victims of March, 1848. In the crowd were several young men, with students' caps. Crowns of flowers, intermixed with ribbons of the German colours, were placed upon the graves. Patrols paced the adjoining streets, but no disturbance took place. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, March 17: BOMBAY - NUM The Valetta, with the above mail, left Malta for Marseilles at 9 p.m. yesterday (16th). The Elora, with the heavy portion of the mail, was to leave at midnight. She may be ex pected at Southampton about the 26th inst. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ous OWN PARIS, SUNDAT EVIIIIING. In the Senate yesterday M. de Bonrqueney, ask ing leave for a personal explanation, made some observations upon the exclamation made by him • few days ago while Prince Napoleon was on his legs, that " there was no censure in Austria ; and that the press was freer there than in France." He repeated that there existed in Austria no sort of preventive legislation against the periodical press, and that the acts of the Austrian government were frequently attacked by the Vienna journals with a vivacity greater than was indulged in by the press of France. He nevertheless protested against the interpretation which had been put upon his words, and appealed to his colleagues to bear witness that he had " not in any way discussed the superiority or inferiority of a foreign legislation in comparison with our own." That is the whole explanation, and why an old diplomatist should have given himself the trouble to say a thing so very unimportant is a matter for wonder. The Marquis de Larochejaquelin afterwards, at the end of a long altercation with President Trap long, obtained leave to call the attention of the house at the next sitting to an official speech of M. Maui's, in which he had put an erroneous con struction upon the last vote of the Senate, and one injurious to the dignity of that body. The speech alluded to is that made by M. Ratazzi in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on March 8, wherein he said. To-clay opinion has changed In France, and the number of catholica who are no longer frightened at the eventuali- ties we look forward to has greatly increased. I need only point out to your attention the debates in the first body of the empire—the Senate. If you compare the debate on the affairs of Rome with that which took place last year, you will find that opinions are modified, and that men who were the most opposed to any change in the pontifical states have now oame to move reasonable opinions. It is most agreeable to me to my, that for this happy change we Sr., in part, indebted to the speech of a prince who makes me of his eloquence and his high position to further the Italian muse on every posibb 000maios. ' " A disouseiOn on such an issue promises to be inte resting, more particularly if it be true, as reported, that M. Thouvenel has only recently made use of the Senate's address as an official argument in sup port of fresh remonstrances addressed to the court of Rome. It is certain that if M. Ratarsi is mis taken, his error is shared by the majority of poli tical men in France, among whom the course of the debates both in the Senate and Corps Legislatif has been construed as remarkable evidence of the progress made by the Roman question since last year. In the Corps Logi&latif yesterday K Gouin, who of late years has criticised the budget pretty freely, seemed satisfied with M. Fould's reforms, and spoke against K Devinck. The question of written speeches which M. de Morny raised at the beginning of the session was practically elucidated at the expense of K Giron de Burareingues, who attempted to read one which the house would not listen to. M. de Morny told him repeatedly that the Moaiteur should only report what the short hand writers could hear ; and when told by some of the speaker's friends that the speech was very interesting, and that they should like to read it, tartly replied that in that case they must ask the author for his manuscript, for that the Moniteur should not print it. M. Barocbe (in the absence of M. Magna, who was knocked up by his exer tions on the previous day) replied very shortly and generally to K Devinck's financial criti cisms, that they would be more appropriate when the budget came on for discussion than in the debate on the address. It is to be observed, however, that in the "exposition of the situation of the empire," issued simultaneously with the Emperor's speech, the financial scheme of the year is largely dwelt upon ; and considering that the debate on the address affords the only opportunity which members have of taking an initiative, it seems reasonable and fair that they should have consider able latitude to discuss that text. The financial amendments were, however, negatived without a division, and then M. Picard made a lively attack upon the extravagant and uncontrolled adminis tration of the Prefect of the Seine, apropos of his amendment, " that Paris and Lyons " should be allowed, like other towns, to elect their own municipal council. The house adjourned till Monday, before the debate on this amendment was finished. K E. Pelletan has refused to accept the sub scription offered to save his library, which will be sold on Wednesday. It is said, however, that the studenta intend to buy up the books at very high prices. ST. PATRICK'S DAY.--COKIIRMORATION OF THE PRSTIVAL.-(THIS DAY.) The morning wan ushered in with all the solemni ties which Irishmen hold to be dos to the memory of their patron saint. It is not, perhaps, generally known even n, those who him lived all their - days in London that there 38, in the heart of this metropolis, a church where, on the 17th of March, year by year, St. Patrick holds bigh festival. The church, which lea very ancient structure, is situate in Soho-square, or, rather, in • small street running oil Irmo it. It is dedicated to St. Patrick, and ewe the pio n. , saint this morning received the highest honour his church could confer, "his Eminence the Cardinal Archbisk, i , of Westminster," es the devotees of St. Patrick delight o, style him, taking part in the ceremony. The solemnities were foreshadowed by • service last night, "the eve of St. Patrick," when there was an attractive service in the church, and " • procession of the relic of St. Patrick* What the relic consisted of was not explained, althiitxt , there was • sermon afterwards by the Rev. Father Stan ton, who pronounced a high euloglum upon the piety, virtue, and devotedness of the long departed hero of the faith. This morning high mass was sung at St. Patrick's, at 11 o'clock, by the Very Rev. Dr. Hearn. vicar-general, Cardinal Wiseman assisting pontifically; the Gomm, S, which the patron saint of Ireland was certainly not ilarop e d with faint praise, being preached by the Right kev. Morris, " Bishop of Troy." The mass, which war Vert' jw• pressivelv and most solemnly performed by the caidind and his coadjutor priests, was Beethoven's iu C, with ample orchestral accompaniments. This evening there will to a second "procession of the relic of St. Patrick," with a sermon by the Very Rev. Canon Morris, and conteninom. nersudy with this very solemn ecclesiastical and rtlimimi p there will he a highly convivial dinner, at Fre t . masons' Hall, at which the Duke of Cambridge will preside, in his capacity of Earl of Tipperary and Knight of th, Order of St. Pstrkk. Lord Palmerston, Earl Russell, Robert Peel, Baron Rothschild, Mr. Chichester Fortesen Sir d. Peonefather, and General Upton are amongst the vice-presidents and stewards. THE ALL ENGLAND ELEVEN IN AUSTRALIA, A Melbourne letter received by the mail of yei toda says "Du y ring the nom all things gave way to the great cricket match played between the All England Eleven and 1" platen o[ 'Victoria. They played during the first four dui of January, and the Victoria .Eighteen were beaten in one Innings of the Euglish players, who scored 305 to the Vic. Soria., 208 in two innings. The scene was a very brilliant one. The Melbourne cricketnround is a large cleared space in the middle of what is called the Richmond-park. A semi-circular grand eked had been erected,capable of seating comfortably 5,000 persons. There was no unnecessary I lcrowding, as each seat was separated by arms—in fact, divided into stalls. Opposite the grand eland and outside the fence of the cricket-ground the park roes, so that the crowd upon the hills occupied what may be called a natural grand stand. Within the ground, but separated from the field by alight fence, wasample space for spectators, and on the whole ground there could not have been fewer than 25,000 person, present. The weather war very favourable, Wag fins but cool for the time of the year. There was a large tent for lunch provided for invited guests every day, and the under part of the grand stand was occupied as refreshment booths, where substantial food, pastry, fruits, iced drinks, wines, bur, and spirits were to be had `at Melbourne prices.' All the arregements were well made, and in all respect" the entrepreneurs kept good faith with the public. I never saw so large a crowd so well-dressed or so orderly. There was no dt un and no disorder, and the only accident arose from the hroaking of a branch of a tree, by which a young MIA was brought to the ground, sustain. ing injuries from which he died. It is worthy of record that notwithstanding the large number of persons on the ground for four consecutive days not one complaint was made at the polioe-office of anything which occurred on the ground, and the English players were themselves *track with the power which all classes seemed to pones" of spending money freely on the ground for mere enjoy ment. So far as the mere speculation is concerned, I hear that Spier and Pond will make a 'ergo profit from their spirited enterprise, and their next pro tainis.to invite Mr. Charles; Dickens here to give read throughout the colonies, for which purpose they have, I offered him 10,0001.—0 r 5,0001., they bearing alibis expense', travelling, house, servants, a liberal table. car riage, lie ., while hare. The English nicketers have since played 22, composed of ' All Australia' players. Here they were not so successful. At the first innings they were beaten, and before the second innings could be completed the game was drawn under previous engagements to play elsewhere. The field of 22 seemed too strong for them. It is doubtful whether they would have beaten the Anetrallaas in the end, and the result shows that the game is much better played in Auetralis than in America or Canada. Last week they played 22 at Geelong, and won with seven wickets to spare. They have since started for Sydney, where they are to lay " The Eleven playe d and won at the Ovens (Beech worth) with the thermometer 107 deg. in the shade. Of course they played in the son." The following was the snore of the Melbourne match : MazotraNz grogtxar. J. M. Bryant, b Bennitt — ------- . u G. Mars, c Iddiaon, b Orleith a J. Sweeney, b °Math C. Mace. st H. H. Stepkeseas‘ b Griffith J. Buddleston, a Sewell, b DrairstA Z. W. Ward'll, naafi 0 C. Makinson, b anus* • T. Horne, bßennett 0 S. Costick, c Motile, b Bennett J. B Thomson, bit w, lb Barnett G. Elliott, b (MIMI T. F. Wray, c and b Grifilth S 8. 8. Bennie, 1 b w, b Bennett J. Conway, run out I J. Stewart, b Griffith 8. Hopkinson, run out B. Butterworth, c and b Griffith 0 G. 011tillane, not out • Bps 7, leg-byes 3, Irides 1 ll Total ll3 ENGLISH UNVEIL 0. Bennett, c Butter;rl;th,Viliinway E. Stephenson, b Conway W. Mudle, b Elliott 0. Griffith, c Butterworth, b Coetick W. Caffyo, e O'Nfulliuse„ b Stewart B. I.ldisoa, b Conway 11. H. Stephenson, b Conway Inareoce, c Conway, b Bryant Sewell. b Stewart Mortlock, not out Berne, b Stewart Bye* 7, lei byes B, w 2 hr 12 Total Masovial lissargor 206 31 • • • • • 21 • • • • • • J. Ruddketone, e Iddloon, b Sewell . C. Mace, b Sewell D. Sweeney, c Laurence, b Sewell J. Bryant, b Sewell G. Marshall, c Mortlock. b Sewell J. B. Thompson. run out T. F. Wray, c K H. Stephenson, b align C. If Bich:won, run out B. S. Rennie, a Laurence, b Iddison It. W. Wardill. c Laurence, b Griffith W. Stewart, b Manson S. Costick, e Iddison, b Griffith B. Hopkinson. c Bennett, b Qatryn G. RHlotf, c Iddisou, b Sewell J. Conway, at H. M. Stephenson, b Calyn T. Morrea, run out G. O'Mullene, not out B. Buttenrith. c Iddlson, b Sewell Wides Tail 91 The Viceroy of Egypt has for some time back spoken of visiting England and the Great Exhibition during the course of the coming summer, and there is every pro• bability that he will carry his plan into execution. The Egyptian contributions to the Exhibition are in course of preparation, and will comprise some specimens of guns and rifles, with improvements of the Pacha's own invention, The famous ancient jewellery discovered by M. Marietta some years &goon the mummy of one of the daughters of the Pharaohs is likewise to be sent to London, and will become an important centre of attraction at the •` World's Far." The two pointemen who are suspected of having stolen a heap of goods from the railway station at Wen riogton, were examined before the magistrates on Saturday. It appears that a series of depredatioua have berm con• milted on this station, of a very serious character, and the prisoners were near the waggons from which the goods were stolen early one morning. This much was proved against them, and they were committed for Wel, but bail was allowed. SHARMAN CRAWFORD MEMORIAL —Yesterday (Friday) the committee for raising a suitable memorial monument to the late William Sharman Crawford, " the Father of Tenant-right," held a privete meeting in the Im perial Hotel—Dr. Hans Harpsc, of Killyleagh, occupying the chair. Resolutions were pared to the effect that, in in consequence of numerous applications from the per tonal friends of the late Mr. Crawford, the uodertaking -- which it was at first intended to restrict to his own tenantry—should be extended so as to include any of his public admirers and private friends who desire to loin this tribute to his memory. It was also agreed that the form of memorial and its site should be in accordance with the wishes of the Crawford family, when their feelings are ascertained. Arthur Johmaoe. Req., Rademoo, was re• gi og e i ter a l r to continue as secretary, and John Cleland, Er. , John Down, was appointed tresurer. As 'abased cum' mittee to carry out the undertaking was then nominated i after which the meeting separated.—Northerii Whig. DEATH OF A " CATO-STREET CONSPIRATOIC'—Last week James Gachrlst, a Sootchman, and oue of the Loma implicated in the " Catontreet conspiracy, " with Thistle' wood and °thins, in the reign of George IV., died in this town. Gilchrist, se far as our memory serves, tamed King's rider*. Thistlewood was hanged, and others were severslyc i tha m d. Gilchrist eventually took up his residence in and, miserable man that he IF' pared to be, he. yeses teen living upon the parish sail private sho rtl y.—Claialinigis Zedspasdrist.