The Express. — London, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

SEVEN PER CENT. COTTON LOAN of the I/UTZ STATES of AMBRICA, foe 09.000.000 81111 LING. antinroTU!fD, Nona' Is HEREBY 6IVEN,V that the rim HALF YEARLY DRAWING for the REDEMPTION of this WAN at PAR has takeu place thls day in the presence of the under signed somata to the contractors of the Loan, and of Mr. Salem C,..instable Harris, Notary Public: and the following IRS Sonde, amounting to tn,soo, which forma one-fortieth of £2,846,600, the amount of the Loan at thls date unredeemed by cotton, bate been drawn by lot : Hann A.-313 BONDS AT fl,OOO. 306 698 - 800 1307 434 569 819 947 1177 1178 511 681 824 971 1230 1468 539 717 858 1018 1240 1180 500 756 859 1103 1257 SNAILS 8.-37 BONDS A? 1400. 841 1016 1161 1358 .262 to, ex 1083 1214 1360 335 602 Mil 1066 1351 1378 368 765 968 1110 1361 1380 449 777 1006 1135 Owes C.-38 Bone 6? .C 240. 137 319 601 725 871 990 1138 1268 t.. 24 334 540 816 896 1002 1146 1906 252 308 556 829 • 912 1066 1232 1340 952 439 670 847 932 1125 1477 1425 279 449 678 859 946 1132 SWU D.-72 2081 x 414 4100. 12. 170 706 1152 1487 1021 2221 2.508 260 725 1249 1521 1818 3339 2521 44 27! 776 1275 1638 1637 Z2O 2537 67 277 844 1298 1542 2079 2 1 3.5 2643 107 HO 901 1829 1578 2083 2386 2553 114 468 996 1341 1800 2154 2430 2829 181 464 1414 1604 1654 2109 2440 207! 147 660 1027 1439 1660 2181 2467 2687 152 568 1083 1667 1661 2199 2478 2945 three Roods must be forthwith soot ist for parmsot at the Counting-house of NMI". J HENRY SCHRODER and Co between the hours of II and !o clock, and all Interest thereupeu resent from this date. - . The Bondi, with Ildit arranged in mustiest order, must be left two clear days for examination. J. HENRY SCHRODH2 and Co. 145, Leadenhallatreet, London. March 1, ISM. THE DEPOTS AIITHENTIQUZS for SALE of the as UFFS, Tobaccos. and Cligsra manufactured or Im riTANCH GOVERNMENT TOBACCO ADMINISTRATION, Ire et 20. PICCADILLY, W. ; 40, Tchio witiumsirszer, CITY. THE UNITED LIBRARIES, 307, Rp3EIVT-817951T, LONDON, W. Bubscd,boG. ao. OD. OW WRBTERTON'S LIBRARY, INIGHTSBRIDOL HOW COLD IT HAS BEEN.-NKORETTI amid ZAMBIA'S celebrated THILMOMETERS will cor rectly register the lowest tempersture. Price b. Id.—l. Hatton garden 59. Corohill 155, Fleetoweet , sod ltt, itgent•strest. Agents wanted. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES t My dear know ! gentlemen sup at EVANS'S. Covent-paten. ght expresso. ODyINT-GAR.DILf. Twig /Immo, Maclarren • Opera SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Mesas. A. H. Webs, H. Corn, G. Perron, and W. Harrison. Mines L Ern* and A. Hiles.—Conductne, Mr. A. Mellon—And FANCHEITE. HATIULLIT. Tnts EVIEII3IO, LITTCEDAITY.—BUNKUM MULLER. Mr. liothern —Ol AMERICAN COUSIN. Mews. Sothera, Bock none and Chippendale Mesdames Angel, Snondon, and Mania—And A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Clark. PRINCEWIL ISO Ecrtcd, PACI:9 REfORS. Mews. Vining, Neboe. Mesdames Marston end Kate hwitld—TlE COMCDV OF ERRORS. Messrs. Vining. Nelson, and the Brothels Webb. —And JACK'S ARRIVAL PR OM CANION. .Lvestrm." Missrills Ingmea, alii - e ' ELD. Mr. Wlddloomb sad P. Loclercq.—BEL DIMOIIIO. a Love Blom Messrs. feehtet. Brougham, Irmo, Charles, and Jordan; Mame Kate Term loveaue, and Bleirarthy, sad Msa laa IMITANNIA- Tura Eeritsa. THE OUTCASTS. Messrs. Reynolds. Cnn. ford. and Drummond: Madames Yarnold and Mika—And HICKORY, DICHORY, DOCK. Mesdames & Lae and Cranford. Tbe Fr.och Clowns -The Ildry /osairda. RIGA WATER AT LOIDON BRIDGE. TI DAT Weida& 4 301 a...••ADITIALTAL IGolloßao, Monde& 7b. Tom M. 6 LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 1. IN the month that has elapsed since the meeting of Parliament Lord DERBY and his chief sup porters have bad such an opportunity as a party in opposition rarely enjoys of displaying before the country the qualifications which form the ground of their pretensions to office and power. Ministers met Parliament surrounded with embarrassments and weakened by difference of opinion. It was notorious that a large body of their adherents were dissatisfied with their neglect of domestic reform, while their policy abroad, which had long been accepted as some compensation for their omis sions at home, had in two most important direc tions resulted in failure. Prudent opposition leaders would have known how to turn this situation to profitable account. In exposing the errors of the Administration they would have taken care to give evidence of their own superior discernment. They would have seen the impor tance of establishing a reputation not only for that ability in which neither of the great parties is deficient, but also for those sober and statesmanlike qualities that inspire the confidence which the public withholds from so many whom it unhesitatingly admires. The course taken by the chiefs of the Conservative party in both Houses, from the very meeting of Parliament down to Mr. Disaszu's speech of last night, has been the very opposite of this. It has, indeed, been recklessly and indecently fac tious. From the experienced and generally judicious leader of the party in the Lords to Mr. SEYMOUR FITZOERALD and Lord ROBERT CECIL, its members appear to have been animated by the merest party spirit. A great deal that is smart and clever, and even true, has been said from the Opposition benches. But of English statesmanship, of clear and decided views, of coherent purposes, and firm, steady resolves, we have heard nothing. The public has seen its most important interests sacrificed by the Conservatives to objects for which it could feel neither sympathy nor respect, and it estimates their position accordingly. On the great questions of the day, and especially on those which have furnished occasions to their sharpest criticisms on the Government, Lord DERBY and his friends have found nothing to say which affords reasonable evidence that they would have managed the affairs of the country better than the statesmen in office, while they have had the folly to identify themselves by their advocacy with causes inimical to the welfare of the country. They have done more than probably any party not burdened with the cares of office ever did iu so short a time to neutralise their chances of arriving at power. Whatever prospects seemed to open before them a month ago have now dis solved ; and when men are disposed to complain of Lord Patimisrox's Government, they will suppress their murmurings as they think of the intolerable alternative. In nothing has the wantonness of faction been more strikingly shown than in the attack made upon the Government on account of its dealings with Mr. LAIRD iu respect of the Confederate rams. The assault of this day week, although committed to a subordinate, had the full sanction of the leaders of the party, and was premeditated. Lord Deasy had threatened it on the first night of the session, and never did a great party make a baser interest its own. The extravagant charges vehemently urged against the Government because it had taken a course called for by public opinion and dictated by duty to a friendly nation, show an utter abandonment of principle, and well mark the cha racter of a party whose hopes rest not upon the merits of its members, but upon the accidents of the day. The speakers of the Opposition were unable to deny that the rams were intended for the Confederate Government, or that the building of them for such a purpose was contrary to the spirit and meaning of the Foreign Enlistment Act. They could sot pretend that Earl Rues= had not treated Mr. Lusto with a degree of consideration which appears uttsrly un merited when we consider the extent to which he was prepared to sacrifice hie country's interests to his own. When the facts were fist brought to his knowledge the FOREIGN SECRETARY invited Mr. LAIRD to state for what foreign government they were intended, and received for answer that • French gentleman, Mr. BAYR.AT, had ordered them for the Pacha of Eom. But inquiries made of the Egyptian Government showed that Mr. LAIRD had been misinformed, and that notwithstanding the Egyptian names given to the vessel the Pause knew nothing about them. The Foreign-office was then obliged to institute inquiries upon its own ac count, and found much difficulty in getting at the truth. The American Minister was of course ac tive meanwhile in remonstrating with the English Govenruent, and representing the urgency of the case, and the danger that the rams would escape, as the Alabama had done, while the Government was deliberating. It is not pretended, however, that Earl Brum permitted himself to be ad dressed otherwise than as became the re presentative of England. As long as the information at Earl RrasELL'a command was vague and uncertain he forbore to act, but when it had acquired a sufficiently tangible cha racter his promptitude and decision were equal to his former caution, and an embargo was laid upon the rams. A month was allowed to Mr. LAIRD to give a straightforward account of the destination of the ships ; but this he was unable to do. The Government then offered to buy the vessels, but its offer was refused. It was not till then that the rams were seized in the QUEEN'S name. And it is upon such facts as these that Sir HUGH CAIRNS and Mr. WALPOLE agree to build a charge of op pression and of usurpation of unconstitutional power by the Executive. There is something fitting in the association of the so-called Conservative Opposition with this wretched case. Their politics bear pretty nearly the same relation to real statesman ship as blockade running and Confederate ram building bear to the legitimate commercial and manufacturing interests of the country. As Mr. THOMAS BARING—who to his great honour dis avowed the tactics of his party in the recent debate—remarked, no country in the world has so deep a stake in the observance of the duties and the assertion of the rights of neutrals as Great Britain. It cannot be shown that in any case, from that of the Trent to that of the Saxon, the Government has failed to assert those rights as against the United States ; and the Conservatives, by resisting the performance of the correlative duties devolving upon us, have shown themselves heed less of the interests of the country, and have justly forfeited the confidence both of the public and of the more disinterested and patriotic members of their own party. CDt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Fxs. 29. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and Princess Hohenlobe, went to London this morning by a special train on the Great Western Railway, and visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. Her Majesty afterwards visited the Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty then drove to Buckingham Palace, and returned to Windsor at a quarter after one o'clock. Viecounkes Jocelyn, the Hoc. Mrs. Bruce, Major-General Seymour, and Lieut.-Colossi the Hon. D. de Roe, were in attendance. Priors Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, returned to (;reenwieh Park this morning. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena and the Princess Hohenlobe, riaited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house yesterday morning and remained till noon. Her Majesty was attended by the Viscountese Jocelyn' the Hon. Mrs. Brace, M►jor-General F. H. Seymour, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. D. de Ike. At three o'clock in the afternoon the Lord Mayor of Lon don, with the sheriffs, and •deputation consisting of a large number of the Aldermen and other members of the Corps"- ration, together with a deputation from the Court of Lim tenancy ; the Lord Mayor of Dublin, with a deputation the Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, with a deputa tion ; and the Lord Mayor of York, with a deputation, arrived at Marlborough-house to present addresses of con gratulation to the Prince and Princess of Wales upon the birth of the infant Prince. The Prince and Princess, attended by the Coasters De Grey, Lord Barrie, Lord Alfred Hervey, Lieut• General Knollys, Major Teesdale, Colonel Koppel, Captain Grey, the Hon. P.. H. Meade, Mr. C. Wood, and Mr. Fisher, re ceived the civic dignitaries in the drawing-room. The de putations. attired in their State robes, were severelly in troduced by Lord Alfred Hervey. Their addreases having been read and graciously received, the deputations retired. The Prince of Wales afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Major Teesdale. 163 1/1 206 216 301 M 3 103 I°B 46 THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVE/MG, MARCH 1, 1864. M. Pilled died yesterday. This eminent func tionary of Napoleon 111. was born at Buten., in Corsica, in 1810. He studied law at Aix, came to Paris after the revolaike of 1830, was called to the bar, and for a time was a pupil of M. Creoileux. He was then an ardent republican, belonged to the society of the " Rights of Man," fought in the emeute of June, 1832, and signed Ledru Rollin's protest against the state of siege. As be himself stated in an electoral address, dated March 27, 1848, he remained for " 18 years in the breach," and he did not hesitate to join the popular move ment which overthrew Louis Philipps, The pro visional government sent him as a commis sary to his native country, Conks, and he was returned a deputy to the Constituent Assembly. There he sat with the extreme left and voted for K Grevy's proposal that the president of the republic should be chosen by the assembly. But when Louis Napoleon became a candidate, M. Pietri was one of the first to rally to him. He did not obtain a seat in the Legislative Assembly, but was made a prefect by Louis Napo leon, and administered several departments in suc cesaion. The coup d'etat found him Prefect of the Haute-Garonne, and he was speedily called to Paris to succeed M. de Maupas in the Prefecture of Police, which poet he held till 1858. In 1869, having previously been made • senator, he was sent to Nice on a special mission to " work " the universal suffrage which was to annex that province to France. Latterly, M. Pietri has been, next to Prince Napoleon, the most considerable representa tive of what is called " Napoleonian democracy" in the Senate. The settlement at the Bourse is heavy, and alto gether against the speculators for the rise. Bente fell 15c., and Mobilier 21fr. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TORIDAT. MA2CH I. 3 A.M. L Z., D. W. lr. Z. Q. 1. —.... --, .....-- --•—.. —I Hairs V .— -1 99 361 Z. 110[7 I o. lt lo , Abordsoi ll3/ , ILL 34 WO O .—. Wet • 3 1.0 . X. 1 8 re 0.40 Ardromaa Oreorscaelda 39.813 39. 1.8. W. 6 8 ro 0.13 , Galway in.scso, a 2 10 or ' 0.17 Valentla 29.46 .4 L 6 12 re !OM Cape Clear 29.47 43 SILL 1 9 Bro 'Ltd' Queenstown 29.30 46, B.Z. 6 2 00 I—' Liverpool Holyhead 19.71 42 &N.& I 3 . 4 e :0.11 Pembroke 29.00,43 IL 3 12 e .0.14 Pentanee . 19.66'43 &Z. 8 15 or 0.30 Brest L'Orlent 71:5 8. 614 c 0.20 Rochefort 29.84 1 8. 5 II eh • Plymouth_ 49.08 44 ILL 13 11 cm 0.40 Weymouth 19.21146 IL 8. I. , 1 12 loe • • Portsmouth .19 9 .73144 8. IS 201r0,0.12 Loodou Dover ,20.87 46 W. I 1 24 'Mb ' Yarmouth t19.77 IN 410 I Scarborough 120.06 38 && W. 1512 to , 0.37 Shields Heligoland 10.0044 ' 8.8.8. 0 14 to : ' • PII.OIIaBLE 01 NOILTIMILN THUNIDAe. L to 8. and 8.W., Coasts. S.W. to B.L and L, fresh, rainy or mow. fresh to strong, some rain or snow. E. to R. and warrni. B.L to 8.W.. fresh to atstrong. B.B.W.ually, rain strong, with rain In times. laces L&L to fresh, dominos. A s next above. with some rain. As next above. liarinits. 8.8 Us W.A.'S.. &ten, rain in places. Nortgern=Bcottand. Unt Western= Ireland. Wake, and s ad. Am lastward England and itellgolandides. Bnntnern =ie! Cbannel and Elam gay. Eastern s. THE EDINBURGH "Wrrrussa."—This well known journal, the principal organ of the free church of Soaked, and long edited by the L 4 Hugh Miller, is defunct. " Had hope of human reward," says the Wirnerr in its clueing words, "been our spring of action, we should have cherished a miserable delusion, and been fated to experience a mortifying disappointment. 'Cursed be the man th a t trusteth in man .' " The &woman says, "Especially, should have been added, in clerical man—for with men in general, honesty and independence, though they have their pains, have in time their reward ; the peculiar misfortune of our departed neighbour consisted in trying to use these qualities in a position with which they were incompatible, and among raga to whom they were inconvenient and un palatable. •W e have been the servants of the church aloes,' sae the Witness's last words. If it had served its country as faithfully as it has served its sect, its service I would Dot have been so unprofitable, its clients so migrate ful, nor its would-he masters so unkind." — tilii TH 011 , MB: R. BID DI3 L PH, F. R. G. S. —Mr. Robert Biddelph, the head partner in the bashing firm of Suldulph, Cocks, and Co. of 43, Clutrimprroes, died on Sunday, at his residence, in Futon-place. He was about 63 years of ice. CENTRAL RELIEF FUND. —The weekly meeting of the Contra Exeestive Committee was held at the Town. ball, Manchester. yesterday. Sir J. Kay Shutt',worth, Bart, presided ; anti there were also present Lord Edward Howard, M.P., the Mayor of Manchester, Mans. A. H. Heywood, S. J. Stem, J. Worrell, R. Minium E. Ash w Rom, G. L Ashworth, J. R. Kay, H. B. Far. nori N. J. Mast , H. Mama, W. Roberta, J. W. limier, (boo. see.). W. Rathboae, jam. ' R. H. Hutehinsce, and J. Goodair. The hem. semetary reported that 101. 17e. 61. had been received during the week, sod that the baboon in the bank was 159,8671. 7s. 3d. Two packages of clothing had been received ; 2621. 4a. had been received from Ripon, making a total of 1,1621.4 e. from that locality. Mr. Fueall reported an lucre's, of 1,763 persons receiving relief in 27 names last week as compered with the week.= week. Grant' were made from the general fund :—To Ashton, 1.7001. ; Aedeashaw, 40/. ; Droyleise, 501. ; DukioSeld, ; Burst, 751. ' • Less 'Lod district, 3001. ; Mott rem , 1001. • Stelybridge, 1,7004 • ' Mellor and Ramegrene 15/. ; Witte:a, 1001. • Harwich, 40/. • Burnley sad Habeergham Eaves, 3004 ; ' Hawkshaw La e, 25/. • Blimp, 4001. ; Bal. tingles. 1504 ; Crompton, 301. ; Royion, 901. ; Oldham, 7501. ; Bomber Bridge, 60/. ; Whitworth and Facit, 2001. . • Norden, 60/. ; Skawforth, 2001 . ; Hyde, 1.500/. ; Bred bury, 1001. ; Stockport. 2,500/. ; Mamie, 1001. ; Wigan, 1.0001. ; and Mellor, 201 A grant of 51. 10s. was made to GOMM, sad • great wan made for the superintendence of labor at 21 lbs. to Cotyledon. SELECT COMMITTRR ON STANDING ORDERS. —This committee have declared that the standing orders may be disposed with, and that the parties may be permitted to n o r , wi th their bills in the following **sea :—Pul and tStorrington and Steyniog Railway ; Cannock Chase lverhamptou Railway; Manchester, Sheffield and Linoolothire Railway; Bristol and North Somerset Rail way (Beth and Estendons). provided in the latter case that all the powers contained in the bill of which notice km not been given be struck out ; 13elfsst Waterworks. THE FAILURR IN THE METAL TRADE AT BIRJEINO HAM. —BIRMINGHAM, Fmk reference to this failure it may be stated that the liabilities will, it is believed, amount to more than 400,0001. The sorts are spoken of as likely to be very large, but in transactions of such magnitude, and of a character no purely speculative as these must have ben, there is no saving what the actual realisation may be ' in • falling market for metals. I'he fall in the price of Scotch pig iron is the assigned cause of the failure, but the transactions must have been on • more enormous scale then an be conceived to have brought about such a result, looking at what the decline in the prim of Scotch pig has bag suns the tat of January. Mr. Alfred Barker, wham fainre ham taken piece under these cirounistance;, an.. ceded his father in bungee a few years Samos. THE MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCR CONPARt. —The first annual general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held is the bead officio' at Liverpool yesterday. Mr. W. J. Fernie, the chairman of the board of directors, presided. The report and statement of accounts having been taken as read, the chairman, in moving their adoption, said ; that he was happy to be in a position to congratulate the ; shaseholders on their semen. They had done • safe and o prottable lousiness, for their set premiums up to the Slat of Deosmber amounted to 72,8271., oat of which they had had ; so pay about 27,0001. for losses and averages. They had ' also paid for their office fittings and preliminary expenses, ' and from the proat on their investments they could declare a dividend of 5 per east. free of income tax. The report was adopted unanimously. as were also resolutions re-appointing the retiring directors and auditors, and thanking the chairman. t r ilTID STATES SANITARY Comm riTits. —A second meeting of the London Committee of the United States Sanitary Committee was held at 139, Regent-stmet, on Saturday event . Mr. Cyrus W. Field In the chair. It wu again attended by a larp number of the principal Ame ricans residing in Loudon. Mr. Bowles, of the Paris Com mittee, stated that on the continent they had been vary sncessdol. Upwards of 10.000 dollars bad been subscribed in Some, and large oostributioes in mosey aad goods from many other cities in Gerasny, Switzerland, Italy, Ma. Dr. Bellows, of New York, had informed him that books wen much wanted for the sick, and many hundred volume, had already bees forwarded to the committee. G oo d b ran dy was also an article much needed, and had been liberally supplied. He samara the readiness of Um Paris commit- tee to join in the efforts of the English committee to obtain the greatest amount of omelettes, in money and pods from Americans, and from those English houses doing • la trade with America. Many subscriptions were announced, and dim some further discusaice the meeting wu ad orned until Thursday next, at two o'clock, at the London Tavern, when it is expected • large number of ,lattaectial gesilemes will attend. THE ROYAL CHRISTENING. The baptism of the infant son of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wake is fixed for the 10th inst. at the Royal Chapel, Buckingham Palace. Invitations to attend the solemnity were issued yester day afternoon to all the cabinet ministers and great ethos= of state. Hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured the Strand Theatre with his presence lest even ing. attended by Major Teesdale ►od Mr. Wood. . . ........ Viscountess Palmerston will have "receptions" at Cambridge House on Saturday next, sad Do Saturday the 12th ion. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe and Hon. Nissen amain arrived at their residence in Grosvemor-equire a few days back from Brighton. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons will hold his first levee this season to-morrow evening, at his official residence at the New Palace, Went minster. We regret to learn of the death, at Cavenham Hall, of Harry Spencer Waddington, Eel., late IL P. for West Suffolk. in t►e 83rd year of his age. The Countess of Malmesbury has issued cards for an assembly on Wednesday, the 16th hut. Dtspatchea were received at the Colonial-office yesterday, from the Connote( Heligoland. The deputation from her Majesty's Commis sioners of Lientanaocy of the City of Loudon, which attended with the Lord Mayor at Marlborough-house yes terday to present an address of congratulation to the Prince and Princess of Wales co the birth of the infant prince, consisted of the Right Hoo. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Ambrose Moore (the mover), Mr. Richard Nathaniel Philippe, E.S.A. (the seconder), Mr. Robert Benefield, Mr. Charles Common, Mr. Jobs Kinnenley Hooper, Mr. William Hughes Hughes, Mr. John Ridley Hunter, Mr. Jon. than Mucklestee Key, Mr. Charles Joo, Manning, Mr. Thomas Parker, and Mr. Edward Wilson. The deputation from the City of Edinburgh consisted of the Right Hon. Charles Lawson, Lord Provost of the City end Lord Lieu. tenet of tbeCounty of the City of Edinburgh, Bailie Johnston, Bailie duettist, Bailie Monahan, Babe Cassels, Bailie Alexander. Charles llPCibbon (Lord De an o f Guild), Adam Beattie (Convener), James D. Marwick (City Clerk), H. G. Lawns, with the sword-bearer, the mare-bearer. abd the City racer. The deputation from York consistal of the Right Hon. Richard Welch Hello. (Lord Mayor), Mr. J. P. Brown-Wastbeed..M.P., and Mr. Joseph Wilkinson (Tori Clerk). A deputation from the Schools of Art in Great Britain and Ireland bad an interview with Bid Gnurville and Mr. Lowe on Friday last, at the Privy Cooped-office. It was introduced by Colonel Wilms Patten, ILP., and was accompanied by W. Pease, M.P., Gilbert Greenman. M.P. , W. Greven, M.P. W. Francis Powell, M.P., W. Green field, U. P., and W. Allen A. Bathurst. Mr. Berestord Hope stated the wisher of the deputation is referetice to the recent minutes of the Privy Council, which seriously affect art schools. Earl Grenville gave btu eoessiot to the mewing fora committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the whole question, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ILESWIG INVASION. The intelligens, from the seat of war is still scanty, both parties being comparatively inactive in consequence of the continued severity of the weather. The snow fell so heavily on the 24th and 25th, in the north of Sleswig, that in front of Duppel it is more than three feet deep. This fact induced Marshal Wrangel to suspend the siege operations, but on the 27th, the wind having changed, he sent a despatch to Berlin, an nouncing that the weather was improving, and that he hoped to resume the works on the Ist or 2nd March. The batteries which are being constructed by the Prussians are seven in number. The largest will be mounted with eleven rifled cannon, three will have seven guns each, and two nine. The seventh battery will be one of mor tars. The works of Duppel have an outer coating of earth more than 4 feet thick. It will be there fore neoesaary, after tiring for several days, to fol low the system adopted by the French at Malakoff, and have recourse to an attack by main force. The Danes have excellent soldiers and numerous re serves. THE STATE OF SIEGE IN GALICIA. EXPECTED INSURRECTION. The Morgan Post of Vienna, of the 24th ult., says :—" For some days past moat disquieting accounts have been circulated respecting affairs in Galicia. If we may believe them a portion of the Galician population has completely fallen under the sway of that mysterious power which is named The National Polish Government.' The authori ties of that revolutionary body exercise a dominion before which that of the imperial authorities is no thing. A complete organisation, with taxes, heads of villages and of districts, tribunals, and gendarmerie, is established, and will exercise all the functions of a regular administration. From this it is con cluded th►t a rising against the imperial govern ment is preparing in Galicia, and that it is high time to recur to more efficacious measures to guarantee that province against an outbreak." The Vienna journal goes on to throw discredit upon much of this information, arguing that the contest in which the Poles of Galicia wish to participate is that against Russia, and that to put Galicia in a state of siege would be simply so much aid given to Russia to suppress the insurrection. Galicia already has been submitted to an excep tional rigime, and if more is done it will show that an alliance exists between Austria and Russia, and that " the Austrian policy after neglecting, with incomprehensible magnanimity, to draw any profit from the Polish insurrection, now prepares itself to employ every means to crush that insurrection, which begins to embarrass it in the presence of the changes which have occurred in the political attitude of various powers, and which prevents the development of the forces of the state which has become its ally." The Gazette' de ,Saint-Pettrstkourg of the 23rd says :—" It is difficult to say what will take place in the spring, but what is almost certain is that the pusnit of the insurgents will be most actively recommenced. At Warsaw the Polish chief of the city continues the publication of his daily orders. No one can say in what place the printing-office of the revolutionary documents is concealed, but it must be very carefully hidden. The last order of the chief of the city was published on the 15th inst., and the paper bears the number 31." fawns's =sawn.) VISIT OF KING LEOPOLD TO ENGLAND. BRUSSELS, Miles 1, LlO r.x. The King of the Belgians will leave to-morrow for London, accompanied by a small suite. DENMARK AND THE CONFERENCE. COPENHAGEN, FIB. 29, 8.37 P.m. A telegram received here states that the Herman papers announce the acceptance by Denmark of the proposal for a conference. The Be rlingske Fidelide of to-day semi-officially denies this statement, and says :—" Should the basis of a conference be a political union between Sleswig and Holstein, or a personal union of the duchies with Denmark, the government will not accept the proposal." MEXICO. PARIS, MARCH 1. Advices received here from Vera Cruz to the lst February state that the insurrection in favour of French intervention had triumphed at all points in Yucatan. General Bazaine was returning to the city of Mexico, where he was expected to arrive shortly. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OCR OW2II COILIESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY Brimc. The Dibat4 makes a great mistake this morning in announcing that an " exceptional" article in the decree fixing the elections for the two vacant seats in Paris for the 20th and 21st of March, is intended to enable the electors whose names have only been on the register since the 31st of March last to take part in the election. The fact is that the govern ment, knowing that the larger the number of electors the larger will be the majority for the opposition, has purposely appointed the elections (which it would otherwise have postponed to the utmost legal period) to take place a few days before the 31st of March, for the very purpose of excluding the recently-registered electors from the poll. It is • pitiful policy. M. Glais-Bezoin, the opposition deputy (who is sometimes called the Marquis de Bohol) of the Corps Legislatif, being invited to dinner at the Tuileries, excused himself on the ground that he had no uniform, and bad promised his constituents, 25 years ago, that he would never wear one. Marshal Forey arrived at Lille yesterday to assume the command of the 2ud Corps d'Armie, and was reoeived with public rejoicings. The proposed new law on strikes and coalitions to raise wages, which was represented as a boon to the working classes, is not accepted as such by the S'icts, which stigmatises it on the contrary as an "aggravation" of the existing legislation so long complained of. It asserts that the text of the bill does not bear the construction put upon it in the Expose des Motifs, according to which "simple coalitions" were to be henceforth permissible, and it warns the working classes that, with very few exceptions, of which the administration is the sole , and arbitrary judge, they will find every sort of coalition punishable. The penalties also, it says, are more severe than those at present in force ; and in fact several draconian provisions of the time of Louis Philippe, which it was thought had been for ever abandoned, are revived. rnder these circum stances, the Sit , r/e hopes the Corps Legislatif will adjourn the measure to another session, so as to give the government ample time to reconsider it. MM. Emile 011ivier and Jules Simon bare been elected members of the committee on this bill, and it is understood that they do not approve of it. THE CLERGY AND THE LATE JUDGMENT OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. The committee appointed at a meeting held in Oxford co Thursday last have drawn up the following de aeration, which is in course of circulation among the clexer "We, the undersigned presbyters and deacons, in holy order of the church of England and Ireland, hold it to be our bounden duty to the Church of England and Ireland and to the souls of men, to declare our firm belief that the church of England and Ireland, in common with the whole catholic church, maintains without reserve or qualifi cation the inspiration and Divine authority of the whole canonical scriptures (a) as not only containing but being the Word of God (6); and further teaches (e) in the words of our Blamed Lord (d), that the ' punishment' of the carted ' equally with the ' life' of the ' righteous' is everlasting.'" Signatures to be sent to the Secretary, oommittee.rooni, 8, St. Aldates, Oxford. Names of committee :—C. C. Clarke, D.D., Archdeacon of Oxford ; R. L. Cotton, D.D., Provost of Worcester College; G. A. Denison, M.A., Archdeacon of Taunton; W. R. Fremantle, Rector of Clsydon ; F. K. Leighton, D.D., Warden of All Souls College ; J. C. /filler, D.D., St. Martin's, Birmingham ; E. B. Posey, D.D., Regina Professor of Hebrew. (a) " Homily or Information for thaw which take offeoce at certain plains of Holy Scriptore," pp. 7.36-244. (4-to NJ (6) Arta. ri., vii., viii., :wit., sx., xxi., :sir., a:xi., xxxiv., xxxviL (c) Athan. Creed, Litany, Cate chiwn, Counninatioa, Burial 841rViCO ; and (d) Katt xxr„ 41.46. BISHOP OP LONDON'S FUND. The Bishop of London has invited the clergy of this diocese to meek him in Willis's-rooms on Thursday, at half-past 2. His lordship is anxious to lay before them those statistics which be has lately collected respecting the spiritual wants of London, and to consult them as to the best mode of enlisting the sympathy of their parishioners in the effort., Dow making to supply these wants. "The difficulties in our way," says his lordship, "are very peat, and can only be met (under God's blaring) by systematic and combined exertion." MATERIAL AID TO DENMARK. On Friday the Earl of Ellenborongh will eel her Majesty's government, in the House of Lord; whether any measures have been taken with a view to an eventual aecowity of affording material aid to Deemark. Captain Jervis, on the 18th, will move as an amendment on Mr. Gregory's motion coocerning the lonian Islands—" That, in the opinion of this house, the demo- lition of the fortifications of Corfu is contrary to the due fulfilment of Articles 4,5, and 9 of the treaty with the King of Denmark relative to the accession of Prince William of Denmark to the throne of Greece." Sir Harry Verney, on army estimates, on Thurs day, will move "That it is expedient that the recom mendations contained in the report of the Committee on the proper means for the instruction and Employment of Sol diers and their Children in Trades, and of the Under Sone. tary of State in a letter to the Quartermaster General, Horse Guards, dated 23rd May, 1862, be carried into effect" In committee on Penal Servitude Acta Amend ment Bill, Sir William Miles will move to add at the end of clause 2, " Provided that the maximum period of remis sion for prinmers subjected to a sentence of five years' penal servitude shall be one year, unless previously discharged under her Majesty's royal prerogative of mercy," and will also move the following clause :—" After the passing of this act, to any prisoner who shall be sentenced to six years' penal servitude and not exceeding 15 years the maxi mum period of remission shall be one-fourth of such origi nal sentences, and when for 15 yews and upwards one third of such original sentence ; when any prisoner is sen tenced to penal servitude for life no consideration of remission shall take place until after 12 years of penal ser vitude shall have been undergone, Was previously dis charged order her Majesty's royal prerogative of mercy." The Orford Journal states that the design sent in by Mr. John Gibbs, architect, of Oxford, for the monu ment about to be erected at Nvr Radnor to the memory of the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis, has been selected by the committee from among many others. Mr. Gibbs is the architect of the new Banbury Cross, erected to commemo rate the marriage of the Princess Royal, and of the me morial to the late Pr;nce Consort, now in course of erection at Abingdon. A match has just been made, which causes much interest in ,porting circles. A gallant colonel has laid • noble lord and friends 500 even that they do not cause • letter to be delivered by band cm horseback a distance of 30 miles within the hour. No restriction has been plated cm the number of horses or riders to be employed on the occasioo, and the match will take plain at Newmarket either on the Saturday is the lloughton Meeting or on the Monday following. At present the backers of time think they have 25 seconds in hand, which is rather too near to be pleasant. The German journals state that a general con pen of Freemaeoos of all countries is to shortly maerable at Lsipsie. A Paris letter in the Brussels Indepcndance says : —" I have been informed of ac incident which shows that the spirit of intolerance is sometimes u great in dissenting bodies as among ultramontahe catholic*. The Protestant Coosistory of Paris has refused to continue M. Athanase Coquerel (son of the old respected elergyman)in his functions of assistant pastor, for which he bad been presented by the titular, M. Martin Pasehood. M. Cunard is accused of not preaching doctrines aufflcisatly orthodox. M. Guiret was at the 'head of the opposition, as well as M. Finest Andre, from whom, I believe, the proposal otexclusioo ems. , Rated. This decree of the Protestant Coosistory thus sets aside one of the most justly appreciated clergymen of the French reformed church." RKFRISIDICCIB AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. —The contract for the supply of refreshments at the Crystal Palace, which during the last three years has hese held by Mr. Frederick Strange, yesterday passed into the hands of 1 Messrs Bertram end Roberts. /tr. Bertram was formerly on the staff of Mr. Sawyer, of " The London," in Fleet street, during his joint occupancy of the refreshment C •r de partment of the Palace some years Moos with Mr. Strange, and hem neatly filled the post of for Mr. F. E. Morrish, at q a International Exhibition of 1862. AUDACIOUS ROBSIBT AND MUSD= AT ROME. A letter from Rome gives an account of an audacious crime committed is one of the moat frequented thoroughfares of the city. M. Baldini, a money changer, who ham a shop on the Corso, but resides at moms dietaoce, has long been in the habit of removing hie specie to hie derellieg-house after business hours in a hackeey coach. On the evening of the crime, when two clerks were animist' the money, the carriage was suddenly stopped fa the Vu Lucien by three men, one of whom held the horse while the two others posianded the clerks. seized the mosey, amounting to 10,000 midi (53,000 fr.), and got clear off. One of the clerks was killed on the spot, and the other died the next morn lag. The coachman, whose complicity appears probable, W bees arrested, but the robbers have not yet been dis covered. As woe as General de Montebello was informed of the crime, be inetrocted the commander of the Free& erie to reader every assistance to the liMilat) police. Te darm general impression is that the perpetrators belong the same band that recently stole 30,000 scudi from the Roman Railway Company. VOLTAIRE a Tow a.—The Paris Figaro states tbat • ransom, for some time past in cireulation, to the effect that the remains of Voltaire are no longer at the Nathan, has now bees °esteemed. The tomb is empty, and nothing ,is known as to what hu become of its oonteote. This dia -1 °ovary was inside, it declares, through the following iaci deet :—" The heart of Voltaire, as is generally known, was lilt by will to the Villette6mily, and had been deposited in their chateau; the present Marquis de Ville** a descend. sat of Voltaire, having resolved to the estate, offered the celebrated relic to the Emperor; it was accepted by the Minister of the Interior in the mime of his Majesty. and the question then arose as to what should be done with it ; the meet natural idea was to place it with the body is the tomb at the Pantheon. bat a scruple arose ; the Pantheon hai again become a place of Christian worship, and if the tomb of Voltaire WAS still in the vaults, the reams was rather from • consideration that what was done could not be nodose than from any other at all events, so fresh coremoey relative to Voltaire could take place in that building without the authorhatkie of the Archbishop of Pane Mgr. Darboy, on being con sulted, before making a reply first hinted that there was • belief that, since 1814, the Panthisoo pommelled nothing belonging to Voltaire but an empty tomb. In consequence, it was determined te verify the truth of the report. A few days bask the stone wee mind, and, as the hreibishop had stated, the tomb was found to be empty ! A strict in quiry Into the subject has been ordered, and the Emperor has given isstructimes that the heart shall be enclosed in a silver vies, and deposited either in the great hall of the Imperial Library, or at the Institute of France.' INTERNATIONAL FINA-VCIAL SOCIETY (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.) The first general meeting of the shareholders was bald at won, ►t the London Tavern ; Mr. A. HEATH in the chair. The report and accounts having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN said, under the articles of emaciation the first meeting was to be kaki in March, and he thought that condition could act have been better fulfilled. When the prospectus of the association was Maud in May last, it wee supposed that it would be too speculative. Out of 150 companies started since that period, only five were brought out by that society. The filet company which they brought out was the Egyptian Trading Company. They received a handsome commission on that account, and he be lieved that nothing they had had to do with would do them more credit Ito board was highly respectable, the head of it being the uncle of the Pacha of Egrept, and his highness had been materially assisted. The next company—the most colossal of all—was the Hudson's Bay Company, which already paid a good rate of dividend to the investor and the future of which wee most promising. The society held 17,00 , shares and the board intended to retain them. There were 100 million acres of fertile laud in the company's territory ; and, estimating them at Ir. pe r acre, the shares were at once worth 501. each. The board spoke at first of a dividend of 4 per cant, but more than 5 percent had already been received. The two companies this named were the only companies which were brought out last year, and it was therefore only the protit on them that appeared in the account'. The profits on the three companies brought out in the present year were re served foe the future. Those companies were the Neuritis, Leaded Credit Company, with which he hoped they would do a profitable business in future ; the Anglo-Italian Bank, at the heed of which were Sir James Hudson and Baron Ricasoli, and which he had no doubt would prove a valuable undertaking ; and the Land Securities Company, which was brought out about a month ago, and which he believed had excellent prospects. As regarded the profits of the International Financial Company, hr trusted the: they would be as satisfactory in the future an they were at present. A SHAIIHOLDER complained that, having been a holder ~f fifty shares from the first, he bad applied for shares in the companies brought oat and had met with refusals. The CHAIIIIIAN replied that the case of the Hudson's Bay Company was the only one in which the directors of the International Financial Company had control over the ;sin nag of the shares : in all the other cases the control was in the hands of the respective companies. A SHAREHOLDER thought it wee very unsound to set down Hudson's Bay shares in the accounts at par when the were at a discount. The CHAIRMAN observed that since the report was issued those shares had risen considerably in value, adding, in reply toe question, that the board had done nothing what ever to influence the market price. In reply to a question from Mr. H. DUNPHY, The CHAIRMAN said the board had no intention to make any further calls, but of course they could not pledge them selves never to do so. _ _ _ A SHAREHOLDER complimented the chairman and his colleagues on the skill and prudence with which they bad conducted the society's affairs. Re added that they must not expect the present Mete of the public mind with regard to new companies and to premium. to continue much longer. That society supplied a publiz. want, but they should now look forward to a period of rest, when the society would depend on banking operations. (Hear, hear) After some further discussion the report was adopted unanimously. In N ei ... 8/LULZEOLDER. The UMW( said the dividend would be paid in two or three days. The Cwatusbn stated that the future amounts would be made out up to the Slat December in each year, the securi ties being valued at the market pesos of the day, and the meeting would be held as soon as possible afterward.. flasks were voted to the chairman and his colleagues, and the meeting separated. SOUTH LONDON INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. OPENING CEREMONY.-(THIS DAY.) The South London Working Climes' Industrial Exhibition was opened this afternoon, at the Lambeth Baths, Weetminenw.road. The exposition onsista of works of in dustry wrought by working men, mainly in the spare hours of the day, and many of the articles are of an exceedingly ingenious character. The exhibition comprises nearly 430 working models of machinery, curious and amusing articles, paintings end sculpture, electrotype.. ships and boats, As. Mr. Gladstone, IL P. Chancellor of the Exchequer, exhibits an elaborate wood carving, containing 4,000 figures and heeds, representing the history of the human race, by • Greek monk of Athos. Amongst the other articles of special interest are "improved anti-wetting aerate ; " • folding platform, for open air, teetotal, and other meetings ; ' an ingenious con trivance to wake a man, strike a match, light a lamp, and boil • cup of coffee, while he in getting ready for work ;" •• a writing desk made from the bottom of an "old mangle ;" "au ingenious mousetrap," to. The Earl of Shaftesbury was to take the chair at the opening aeremoey, sod Mr. Gladstone, aL P., and Mr. Bright, P., had else expressed their intention of attending. 'I heir presence was anticipated with much interest when this report was despatched. DEATH PROM snatrarioN AND DESTITU TION.-ADJOURNED INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. J. Humphreys, the coroner, resumed an *airy at the Two Brewers public-house, High-street, Shoreditch, respecting the death of Naomi Norman, aged 63, who. it was &limed, had died frown weal and exposure at No. I, King . ..head-court, Shorediteb. After some other testimony the commie read over the cola rolooss depositions and remarked on the distressing nature of the case, and said it was to be regretted that she had re fused to go into the workout when recommended to do so by her friers:is. She had said that she would rather starve than go to such a place. The facts disclosed a sad car of dimiution. _ _ _ Thnjary returned the following special verdict—" That the deceased Naomi Norman died from rupture of the heart, aocelerated by want and exposure to the cold and in sufficient clothing.' Sr. PACL'S CATHEDKAL.—The following With(' list of presolsers appointed by the Bishop of Loudest for the special services dunes the sooetti of March :—Marsh 6, the Rev. J. H. Crowder, Minister of the Octagon Chapel, Beth ; 'Web 13, the Lord Bishop of Ripon ; March 20, the Deeß of Carlisle ; March 27, the Rev. Robert Kaman, vicar of Great Marlow. _ . _ ALYSLNDILA PLRK.—The preparations for the erection of a vast pleasure palace on the high ground of that nobly picturesque estate, Hve miles north of Loudon, called Alexandra Park, are being actively carried ma. The building Reif, from the architectural place of Mr. Owen Jones, will be formed of the materials used at South Kea sington foe the Exhibition of 18(12, but its contour will present a very different appearance. The poem' character of the design is Italian, the brickwork being in two colours, relieved by stoma dreasinp and ornamentation. Above the roofs will rise in the (entre • bold tambour, pierced with windows, from which will spring the great dome, terminated at the top by a simple balustraded parapet, and a standard mast 50 feet high. This dome, sai also the octagon cupolas ►t the smaller intersections, will be coveted with Muntz's brenr-oolonred metal, with moulded ribs axed panelling in bold relief. Meanwhile, the attractions of the grounds see already in • forward sea*, both as regards the park and the grove ; and the accessibility of the spot from town, by the local traias °false Great Northern Railway, le very much in its favour. . _ LLINERS •ND DRIDOM AKERS' Iserrrunox.— Last evening the sixteenth annual meeting of the Milliners and Drammakers' Provident and Benevolent Institution was held is Willis's Rooma, Mr. J. 8. Pears* in the chair. It appeared by the report that there were IES members. The total receipts for the year, including a balance of 17a. lld. at the commencement, from subscriptions, donations and dividends on stock, amounted to 6T.U. 19a. 3d. After the payment of the current oxpoosso, aed the purchase of 2741. Is. Id. stook, there remained a balance of 16,1.35. 10d. in band. The assets amounted to 8,413/. Us. 10d. Ten of the members of the institution had received pecuniary re lief during the past year amounng to 1381. 4s. 6d. ; and the amount distributed b r ti the committee , since the °pee ing of the institution, in 849, was 6541. Ba. 6d. After some farther observations the report was adopted and the retir ing directors re-elected, and the proceediop Unaudited with a vote of thanks to the chairman. AN ARTIST'S C•REER. —A few years ago a youth was seen sketching in Southampton and ita egighbourhood, and was often on the quay sad pier there watchiag the sun set& Phrenologists who came to the tows geed to declare that be would be either a great poet or a gnat painter. His talk was of Roskia's writings and Turner's paintings, and his ambition was to reek with Turner as landsnme painter, and to he a member of the Royal Academy. He thought he should die early, and this made him eager for work, in order to achieve fame as soon as possible. He studied for .ome time at Munich, and the King of Bavaria visited the atelier of the young Southampton artist. At the house of Mrs. Robert Brownrigg, the famous poetess, in Italy, be met an aosomplished lady, whom, is 1858, be married, and in five years after that be died, at the age of 32. This was Frederick Lee Bridell, the painter of the Co llagen by moonlight in the lidernational Exhibition, and a hundred other beautiful tisane& DEATH OF GAVOTTE 8 BIOTHER.—The Marquia Onetime Cavour, elder surviving brother of the late Count Oavour, has just died of apoplexy at Turin. In 1848 the deceased belonged to the oceservative .party, and wad one of the founders of the dreioxes, at the head of which journal he remained until 1851. Prom the time of his brother's enemies to Aloe he gradually fell off from his former associates, and in 1859 was completely in accord with the Piedroostese govern:neat. He we. at first a great admirer of Father Pagaglia, whom he kept at his boss. for mese time, bet at length got tired of him. Of the Cavour family there new .sly remain' Count Egisard. younger eon of the marquis. The elder brother died in Lombardy in lEiE..b.re he was serving as lieutenant of artillery. The morquis knew a daughter married to Count Alfieri. 1.-:61.1611111L: ' Af9 I to Jo urh, II iThrs sped be a mosil wry post] Jo indic and RUM ache • y TI plea Id so& in 1 1.) 14 Prid hoe opal