The Express. — London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

2 PARIS FIRST CLASS pad LONDON PRIZE MIMI& WATHIEBTON and BROOM GOLDBMMIS and II WILLYBA. liaaatactory, 10. Bennetts-street, Covent-garden, W.C., Loudon, N.B This establishment Is closed at Bto the evening, and oil Batardays at 1 o'clock. HARMONIUM& —NEW MODEL. MAXIM 'MIA.. sad WOOD, 101, Zagentatreet. Eke entreiPs. TO COIRESPONDIMITS. Advertisements intended for " The Myna' lowskas Taming Paper, must be as the dike. 10, lieunwiimplavet. by Two o c lo ck on the day cdpiabbloatioa. .ILintAZW, Miss Emma, THE ROI./ AND THE LAMB.—OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Warm &Ahem, Backstone. L Mien, R ms . Mrs. young, Miss 011ver.—LA CONTRABANDISTA. Pica Nona and Neer lioragas.—And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. PILINCEIff& VOA EVIPIPO, THE LITTLE TREASUEL—THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Meson. Ryder. Potter Shore, Jordan, Wlddik•ornb, and Meadows: Mesdames Fielding, Angel, and Eleworthy.—And THRICE MARRIED. Mire. Leelereq. IT. JAKIFS. Tan EMMA, A COZY e6IIPLILZPRINCE AIIABSL ; or, The Fairy licess. Marra Mat.liews, Belmore. and A.bley ; Wu N. Moore, Mrs. F. Matthews, and the Illante Nelson. —And UNDAIt TILE 11041.—Commeneo at Ye. _lll . l . TAWNIA. Tin Emma, 01111 LOT IN LIM._ Madames S. Lane and Craufard.—ltatartalnmanta by MMa Z. Nano and Mr. Madman. And TRZ OLD MAID IN THE WINDING SHEET. Mtn Z. Clayton.—Commence at le. HIGH Wgil ATLOSDOS BALM& Tao DAT —Naming, ek. Aftersook IR. 20m. To4lollloW—lbrenirre, Th. 460..... Afternoon, 20. btu. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 13. Tax recollection of the Tartar who announced the fall of Sebastopol after the battle of the Alma not unnaturally makes some people doubt the news of the fall of New Orleans. But the canes are not parallel. If the news which electrified Europe in the autumn of 1854 had come, not from the Allied Army, but from Moscow or Sebastopol, and had afterwards turned out to be a gross exaggeration—if, moreover, it had been conveyed not by word of mouth, but in the columns of a Russian journal, there would have been some resemblance between that case and the cane which has just occurred. Although the intelligence com municated by General Wow, to Washington was brought by a fugitive slave, the intelligence was contained in a printed newspaper published by the friends of those who had suffered the disaster, and this intelligence is neither confined to one journal, nor does it seem to be discredited by those whose strong interest it is to disbelieve it. It is certainly the opinion of the Southerners that New Orleans has fallen, and it is scarcely necessary to add that the same opinion prevails both at New York and at Washington. There seems to be no good rea son, therefore, to doubt the important fact which has been announced. The position of New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi, is readily explained. About 105 miles from the spot where this great river joins ' the ocean, and upon its left bank, stands the ci4 of New Orleans. On the north side of the city, and at a distance of a few miles, lies the great Pontchartrain Lake, which communicates at its eastern aide with Lake Borgne and the ocean by a passage which is guarded by Fort Pike. Along the south and west of the lake, and between its waters and the left bank of the Mississippi, runs the Jackson Railroad towards the north. About 60 miles below New Orleans the river is guarded by Fort Jackson on the right and Fort Philip on the left bank. It thus appears that New Orleans may be approached in three ways—by ascending the river after forcing a passage through Forts Jackson and Philip ; by a land march along the left bank of the river ; and, thirdly, by forcing a passage by Fort Pike into Lake Pontchartrain, and landing a force to the west of the city, and therefore in its rear. Under such circumstances the plan which would promise moat success would be by combin ing an advance up the river and landing troops in rear of the city. And this, in fact, seems to have been the plan pursued by General BUTLER, who commands the troops, and the officers in command of the fleet. The number of the troops employed does not appear, but they must have amounted to several thousands. The fleet is said to have consisted of 35 war vessels and 21 mortar boats. On the morning of the 24th of April the Federals seem to have passed Fort Jackson, and in the afternoon of the same day they appear to have been in practical possession of the city. In the mean time, however, Fort Pike had been /abandoned, and probably the bulk of the troops under General BurLza had penetrated into Lake Pontchartrain. There is no account of the landing of the General ; but rthere is little doubt that such an event occurred, because it appears that the Confederate General LOVELL ha.l retired with his men to Camp Moore, which is about eighty miles north of New Orleans, upon the Jackson Railway. This will no doubt enable that officer to join the force under BEAUREGARD at Corinth. But at the same time New Orleans, taken in front and in rear, has very naturally fallen into the hands of the Federalists. It may be that if the citizens had been as vehement Secessionists as those of Charleston they would have offered a more obstinate resistance, even after resistance was hopeless. It is well known that before the beginning of the civil war there was a large Union party in New Orleans ; and it is not improbable that, the Federals and Union ists having now obtained the upper hand, they will have little difficulty in maintaining their posi tion with the help of the fleet. The position oc cupied by BUTLER was very different indeed from that occupied by General PAKENIL&M when he was beaten back from the walls of New Orleans by the Americans under General Jscitson some seven and forty years ago. In those days the British army approached the city after a dreary and fatiguing march. No attempt was made to take the city in rear. Gunboats were unknown, and the wearied Englishmen were shattered to pieces by the fire of sharpshooters from behind cotton barricades, without the possi bility of their inflicting any damage upon the enemy. Whether the Federalists have been aided by their friends within the city or not, moat certain it is that in this enterprise they have displayed not only consummate skill as military strategists, but admirable vigour and great power of organi zation. The wonder is that an army which has only been created within the last twelve months, should ha►e been able to execute so delicate an operation. It was considered a great feat for the two greatest Powers in Europe to land an army of 50,000 men on the Crimean coast, only a few hundred miles from Varna. But what is this compared with organizing a military and a naval expedition more than a thousand miles from the point of attack, and then succeeding at the first blow in obtaining possession of a great city, for preparing the defences of which neither time nor skill was wanting? - But the importance of the capture of New Orleans is not to be pleasured by the mere fact that this great commercial emporium is in the hands of the Federalist. Hitherto it has been impossible for the Federalist to think of peace THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY Evki4oo, MAY 13, 1862. because the Mississippi was in the hands of the enemy, and because that river is absolutely essential to the security and the very existence of the North. It might perhaps have taken some time for Com modore FOOTS to make his way down the river ; but now that the gunboats are able to ascend, I not only the Mississippi itself, but all its tributaries, both Louisiana and Mississippi State must fall into the hands of the Federalists. Troops and supplies of every description may now be sent up in any quantities, and may be landed at any point on the river bank. Even if HAm.scx should fail in his attack on BR, URZOARD in his entrenched camp at Corinth, the Federalists will be able to renew the attack from the South and West ; whereas if HALLSCK should succeed in his attack, the absolute destruction of Bsstuuto&an's army seems almost inevitable. General LovELL acted with perfect prudence in refusing to be cut off by the troops under BUTLZP, and compelled to surrender with New Orleans. He has no doubt gone to join General BEAUREGARD at Corinth. But the position of that officer has become perilous in the extreme. He has, in fact, no base of operations left—no magazine from which he can draw either men or supplies. To ward the west of the Mississippi must soon be in the hands of his enemy, nor can he hope any longer to draw his supplies as hitherto from the great depOt of New Orleans. To the north there is no hope for him. From the south he can only expect the aid of Lovett ; while to the east lies the great army of HALuscic, which is even now close upon him. Moreover, General Mrrcumx is I now in possession of 200 miles of the Memphis and Charleston Railway, so that his own possible re treat will be by a south-easterly march, which must necessarily expose his flank to the attack of the pur suing enemy, and must be the final abandonment of the whole line of the Mississippi. Indeed, unless General BEAURBOARD possesses an enor mous supply of men and supplies within the en trenched camp at Corinth, it is difficult to under stand how he can sustain the onslaught which will certainly be made upon him by General HAL- Lac& after he has concentrated all the troops which are within his reach. So far, therefore, as the campaign in the West is concerned, the ap proaching battle of Corinth must settle the business. In the East the doom of the Confederates de pends upon the army of the Potomac. Richmond is the goal. From the north the corps of Bums and M •Dowiti.Lare slowly advancing. Balms has entered Hairisonburg ; Iff'DowsLi. is still at Fre dericksburg. Though the distance from Richmond is only 60 miles, these officers evidently dread the conscquences of allowing the Confederates to at tack them separately with overwhelming forces. On the south-east 311`Ci.r.u.ks is still before York town. The object which the three generals have is the same, but the manner in which they will effect their purpose is still matter of conjecture. The probability is that III'CLELLAN is still waiting for the snivel of some powerful iron-clad boats to assist him on his flanks in the York and in the James Rivera. Arras. three nights for sleep and three morn ings for cool reflection, the journalists of the Con servative Opposition persist in writing as if Mr. Disarms had unfolded on Thursday a great scheme of policy which the public is now called upon to accept or reject. We are told that "he " has propounded a policy which will save the " country," one which " will give us security at " home, peace abroad, reduced taxation, and dhni it Wished diet/els." Would that it were true that a party so strong in Parliament as that which Mr. DISRAELI leads had adopted and announced such a programme ! But the right hon. and ingenious gentleman has done nothing of the kind, as our contemporaries may easily ascertain by the simple process of once more reading his speech. We venture to say that nobody reading that speech with an unprejudiced mind would receive from it the impression that the Opposition leader had the least intention to commithiniself to the definite sta:e ment of a practical court() of policy. We are far from saying that he may not some day "declare a true " policy of retrenchment and economy," or that in doing so he would not be entitled to the support of disinterested politicians of all classes ; but we do say that he has not hitherto done so, and cer tainly that he failed to do so on Thursday night. This is so well understood out of doors, that the mind of the country, supposed by some writers to be intent on weighing Mr. Dusaszu's imaginary prospects, is otherwise occupied, unconscious of any party question to be decided. So far from advancing the era of retrenchment and economy, Mr. DISRAELI has taken the surest way to discredit those aims by gratuitously ema ciating them with an ignoble policy which the in stincts of the nation peremptorily reject. As steady opponents of the system of excessive warlike ex penditure which has grown up under Lord PAL iczasrocr, we heartily regret his speech. For purposes which we do not pretend to un derstand, he has given the pal Lisa= of extravagant expenditure an advantage they would not have dared to claim. Nobody on the Govern ment side of the House had pretended to assert that our enormous armaments were kept up in order that Naples might share the greatness and freedom of Italy, and that the Romans might be delivered from the Cardinals and the Sbirri. We all had quite other ways of accounting for the reign of profuseness. If Lord Pauntasforr really takes that personal interest which is im puted to him in the furtherance of "bloated " armaments," he must feel much indebted to any one who will undertake to persuade Parliament that, as " expenditure depends on policy," we are paying as much as 28,000,0001. a year for the army and navy because we pursue a policy which is at once generous and English. We protest against all such excuses for extravagance : whether made from the Treasury beeches in the form of apology, or implied in a clumsy Opposition attack, they are shallow and unreal. We have encouraged no struggling peoples to look to us for material aid. Neither Romans nor Neapolitans look to us for the exercise of other than moral force, of which indeed they know well the value. For power of this kind Mr. Diseazu shows a contempt which ill becomes a statesman of these days, when he asserts that it is synony mous with garrisons doubled and trebled, and squadrons turned into fleets. The moral autho rity which we possess in Europe we enjoy, not as being always ready to back our opinion by armed intervention, but as a nation too strong to be silenced, too happy to be envious of our neigh bours, and in the most favourable position, there fore, to form a disinterested opinion. We might this very summer fall back upon that peace establish ment which Mr. Durum for a moment only held up to view, a well-organized Militia, our Volun teers, and a Channel fleet, without impairing our influence in the questions which now press for • solution. We want a party to announce that pro gramme, but in default of one we shall gain nothing by lending our ear to vague declamation, purposely delayed until ships and men, soldiers and marines are voted. We take leave, however, to warn Lard Pimmire wow not to be misled by his resent may triumph. Everybody is praising the Pumala's reply to Mr. Disarm' • everybody says it is admirable, astounding, conclusive, and so on, and of course everybody is right. But when the ready wit and genial humour have been heartily enjoyed, then cornea a dark shadow of taxation across the mind. Memory, experience, prospect—all are full of it. The burden cannot be much longer borne ; it threatens to become a source of public danger. The Pitmans would do well to look to it in time. No Minister was ever in a more favourable situa tion for diminishing our warlike expenditure. But no Minister, we venture to say, will prove strong enough to maintain it at anything like its present rate. LATEST INTELLIGEXOE. ITALY. Mgr. Lanai, capitular vicar of Bologna, and the curds of Ban Procolo and San Celeatino, have just appeared before the court of assizes at Bologna, accused of complicity in the armed reaction in the Southern Italian provinces. Mgr. Canzi was con demned to three years' imprisonment and 2,500 fr. fine, and the curd of San Procolo to one year's imprisonment and I,ooofr. fine. The curd of San Celeatino was acquitted. A government despatch just received from Spezzia announces the arrest of the perpetrators of the audacious robbery committed on the Ist instant, at the bank of Messrs. Parodi. The prisoners are five in number, and had embarked on board a sailing ship in the Gulf. Upon them were found various effects valued at more than 300,000 fr. The men were furnished with arms of different kinds. (ftstrzat's manate.) ELECTORAL HESSE. FRANKFORT, MAY 13. Reports are in circulation of the intended mobilisation of the 4th and 7th Prussian corps d'armde. It is strongly believed that Austria and Prussia will occupy Electoral Hesse, in case the mis sion of General von Willisen should remain without result. It is probable that an extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet will take place. RUSSIAN POLAND. THORN, MAY 13. It is said that Governor-General Krsystowski has tendered his resignation. Some directors of public schools who had offered resistance to the government have been dismissed. Several officers of the garrison of Warsaw have been arrested on account of prohibited prints hav ing been found in their possession. COCHIN CHINA. PAWS, MAT 13. The Moniteur of this morning publishes Admiral Bonazd's report, dated Saigon, March 28, confirm ing the taking of Vinhlong, after an energetic resis tance on the part of ita defenders. Sixty-eight cannons and an immense quantity of rice were captured. The French losses are very small, and the gun boats sustained no serious damage. • although it would not in any case be prosecuted as "false news," and may possibly ,not, be true, is good, at least, as a satire upon the system of match-making in France. A rich young merchant having met a young lady at an evening party, who pleased him, asked her hand from her father, without saying a word to her. The papa, having satisfied himself that the proposed son-in•law was eligible, gave his consent, and in formed his daughter that he had found a husband for her, that she must order the wedding dress im mediately, and that she would be married in a week. " Very well, papa ; but who am I to he married to i" "Oh ! a friend of mine ;he is gone into the country on business ; but you will see him on Sunday." " And the wedding is to be on Monday, papa " It's all right ; don't make yourself uneasy." On Monday last, May 5, the wedding party appeared before the mayor of one of the arrondissements of Paris, to celebrate the civil marriage, which is alone the essential legal contract in France. On the mayor putting to the bride the usual question—" Do you consent to take this man to be your wedded husband ?' the girl answered, " Why, to tell you the truth, M. Mayor, you are the first person who ever asked me that question." " Well, but what do you say r " Well, if I had been asked before, I should doubtless have said ' perhaps ; but, under present circumstances, my answer is, ' no."' The mayor at once left his chair, and the matter stands over for further con sideration. General Turr has arrived in Paris from London, and is about to leave immediately for Italy. " PUTTY HORIMBIZAWS" IN PATE. The Perin correspondent of the indlipendanee esys :—" Acts have occurred at the Bois de Boulogne, which, without poseessing any great importance, have attracted the notice of the authorities. Ladies who move in a certain sphere, luxuriously reclining in splendid equipages from which with fastidious airs they seemed to look con temptuously on honest poverty,' have been Weird by the promenaders. Angry groups of people =mounded the carriages, and the ladies deemed it prudent to best a retreat with all the speed at which the horses could carry them. Similar scenes took place at the races. The ladies there met with a bad reception from the people. Stones were thrown at one of them who seemed more cool or more daring than the others, and whose attitude looked like a provocation. These scenes often repeated, and taking place even in the minor theatres, have awakened the atten tion of the police. But what is to be done ; for personal liberty must be respected. The police authorities, I under- stand, have been studying the question, end amongst the reports in circulation is one which says that lists of pro scription are to be drawn up against the most recalcitrant of these daughters of Eve, and that those who have come from the provinces are to be sent back to their respective departments., with an injunction that they are not to return to Paris without the permission of the prefect of police. Those who are foreigners will be conducted to the frontiers with all the respect due to their sex, if not to their position. I am aware of the seneation which this news will produce when the independowee arrives in Paris to-morrow." THE BATTLE OP PULTOWA. The ulause of the Emperor of Russia, abolishing all national festivals, except the one for the victory of Pultows, has been interpreted in Sweden es a demonstration of hostility. At least, the journal. of Stockholm call upon Sweden and the provinere detached from the eras.) of Sweden to celebrate in common the anniversary of the erne battle as a day of national mourning. The Princess Mathilde gave a grand ball on S►turday night at her residence, Rue de Conroelles, Paris, in honour of the King and Queen of Holland. The Queen of Holland wore • dress of blue gauze, with a coronet of dia monds of the richest kind. The Empress had on • white dress, remarkable for its simplicity and elegance. The King was in plain evening dress, with the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. The Governor-General of Algeria bass appointed the Aga Si-ben-Ali-Cherif to form part of the committee of delegates from Algeria to the Exhibition of London. He is c harged to collect, during his stay in London, all the facts which he may judge of • nature to interest the native population of Algeria. Last week there died at Tyrnan, in Hungary, a named Johann Jatrovits, a hussar attached to the person of Cardinal Batthyany, Primate of Hungary. He was 106 years of age, and married at the age of 82. A daughter of the loot marriage, aged 18, attended the funerals The Prussian Lieutenant Bonin, who, several weeks ago, killed a Swiss officer, Lieutenant Roulet, formerly in the Prussian service, in a duel near Kehl, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a fortress, and has gone to R•statt to undergo his punishment. He has also been dismissed from the aervile, but with a pros pect of being hereafter restored to it. M. Kuhn°, the highly respected liberal deputy in Prussia who has been sleeted at Elberfeld, writes to his electors to thank them, and says that although stormy weather may be expected in the ooming parliament—too . . . stormy almost for a man of his age (77 years)—he will stand by his colours so long as his strength Lista. Not a single one of the present ministers of Prussia has found a seat. M. von der fleydt, who has long sat for Elberfeld, has been ignominiously rejected. Count Bernstorif was beaten at Potsdam by more than four to one. General von Boon and M. von 'filthier are in the IMMO MM. The Annales de Commerce Exkrievr state that, although the imports from Scotland into France appear to diminish, the exports from France to Scotland are consider. ably increased. The Scotch steamer which runs between Leith and Dunkirk at her last trip took back a large quan tity of madder for the dyers of Glasgow, end, in addition, a considerable quantity of beetroot anger. It is said that the refiners of Glasgow and Greenock find au advantage in mixing it with West India sugar. If this be the case beet root sugar may one day become an important article of traffic. Mixon Picruaz SHows.—lndependently of the more important picture shows usually open at this period of the year, and all of which have been duly noticed in these columns, there are now several smaller exhibitions, where works of more or less merit, some new and others well known to the public, are on view. These exhibitions are chiefly of a commercial character, and are to be seen in the galleries of picture dealers and fine arts publishers. Thus Mr. Hogerth, of the Haymarket, exhibits au interest ing collection of photographs of scenes in Japan, China Fgypt, An., together with some spirited sketches of Cana dian incidents by Colonel Crealock. Messrs. Moore, M 'Queen, and Co.. of Berners-street, have on view Mr. Millais celebrated picture of "The C arp enter's Shop," and Mr. Luartl's popular works, entitled "The Welcome Arrival" and " Nearing Home." Mr. Hering, of Regent street, shows a number of photographs of various localities in China and India taken with great skill and precision by SSirggnnor F. Beate. Mr. Holman Hunt's famous picture of "The Saviour in the Temple" is open for the season at Messrs. Gambart's gallery in New Bond-street ; Mr. Feed's greatest picture, ' From Dawn to Sunset," with some other works by the same artist, is to be seen at Messrs. Jennings, in Chapala ; end Mr. Betjemann, of Oxford. stmet, exhibits a painting_ by Mr. F. Hopley, entitled " The Birth of • Pyrami4" a work of much ingenuity, intended to illustrate a purge in Herodotus. Tax CRYSTAL PAIACI IN A NIGHT STORM.-- Last Wednesday night we bad an opportunity of being in. side the Crystal Palace during the violent thunder storm that visited the neighbourhood of Sydenham. The novelty of the sights that presented themselves was striking and marvellous. In a moment, from intense darkness the whole building was lit up—every object standing out as bright as in day in all the distinctness of the stereo scope, to which indeed it might be compared, with the additional emaciation of grandeur in its fullest ex tent. At another time the western end of the centre transept assumed the character of a brilliant luminous mass, with • vividness that lightning only paeans— brighter far than the sun. Then, again, the roofs wire illuminated, all their beautiful proportions exhibited, end their outlines distinct and dazzling, as though studded with millions of diamonds. Turning to the southern aids , we looked out upon the expanse that lay before us ; here the scene was magic in its character. From intense dark- DSO—Bitted at rapid intervals- •Very object, statue, foun tain, tree, shrub, tertace, and the distant country to Seven oaks, in brilliancy that ton scarcely be described by language. We never before witnessed anything so peculiarly beautiful end Fwd.-BmA leiter* Gwent. WIDWDAY. N. Sonora—N. N. W.to L N.L , fresh to light, Ana. . raziono.—N.W. to N.IL, mo- N.N.W. to L N.L, sad iodic., demote to fresh, In.. moderato to fresh. Cooroot..—N.N.r. to L&L. E.N.E. to 8.8. L, moderate to moderate to fresh, ma. fresh. L coArr. —N. to L and B.L, L N.H. to &LL, fresh to !matt to strong, Ise. moderate. 8. iIIOLLID. N.N.W. to N.L to I.E. and &, fresh to KN.L, aad to &L, moderato moderate. to sinus SAT. N.W. /0 N.& sad IL, shoderate. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (7110.11 OCR OWN PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. I am informed that Count de Persigny has been suddenly ordered to go to London. The explana tion of his journey given to the public will proba bly be, that he hes gone to see his wife, who is in England. But the impression conveyed to me is, that he has a mission to treat on American affairs, the aspect of which is greatly modified by the latest news from New York. It is worthy of remark that the Pistrie, which hitherto has been very hostile to the North, says' this evening :—" The taking of New Orleans is calculated to precipitate the march of events, and hasten the fall of the Southern Confederation ; " and again, "A new situation is coming, which will require to be deliberately examined." The Duke of Brabant passed through Paris yes terday on his way from Spain to Brussels, whither he is called by the illness of his father. His royal highness breakfasted with the Emperor at the Tuileries, and remained with his Majesty two hours. A Toulon letter states that the Asmodde frigate is ordered to Civita Vecchia to bring back 1,100 soldiers of the army of occupation of Rome who are entitled to their discharge. The men assigned to replace them were sent to Rome some time since. I am almost afraid that this news is the only founda tion for the statement telegraphed here from a London journal of this morning that two regiments have been recalled from Rome. The " five members " have presented an amend ment to the budget, proposing to reduce the secret service money from 2,000,000 fr. to 600,000 fr. In an explanatory note they say that they found their motion not only on a consideration of the pre sent state of the public finances, but also upon this reason—that the government—still maintaining the law of 1851 relative to secret societies and the surveillance of the high police, the law of 1852 interdicting certain categories of citizens from residing in or near Paris or Lyons, and most of the articles of the laws of public safety of 1858 — cannot possibly require so much money as 2,000,000 for secret service. The Bourse opened with the same hesitation which characterised the end of last week ; but in the course of the day an improved feeling was manifested, which was maintained to the claw. Rente rose 10c. both for cash and account, closing at 70fr. 60c., and 70fr. 80c. Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c., and the Italian Loan 15c. The Orleans Railway rose sfr. ; Lyons, 6fr. 50c. ; Southern, 71r. 50c. ; and Northern, 2f r. 50c. Eastern fell 2fr. 500., and in Western there was no change. Caiase Mirbs is firm, with little alteration. The affair of the printers tried Vac, other day for a strike is a strong illustration of the gratuitous cruelty of the French law with respect to pre ventive detention. Of the seven men accused, three were acquitted, and the remaining four were sentenced to the almost nominal punishment of ten days' imprisonment. The presiding judge ad mitted that all the seven were most honourable re presentatives of the respectable class of journeymen printers. But these seven men were treated before trial just as if they had been presumably guilty of the most heinous crime. They were arrested, marched through the streets in the custody of armed men, confined in the station-house (violon), carried in the convicts' van to Maim prison, and there detained in custody for upwards of forty days, to the terror and impoverishment of their families, deprived all that while of their society and succour, and fearful lest a worse thing should happen to them. It is high time that a reform, based upon the English system, the working of which it is rumoured that Procureur-General Chain d'Eat Ange was studying the other day in London, should be introduced into French practice. Trivial offences, more particularly those of which there is a large class in France, which are merely male prohibita, and do not affect moral character, should certainly be bailable on easy terms. The third and fourth volumes of Victor Hugo's " Miscirables," the issue of which has been delayed two or three days in consequence of the extra ordinary demand for the impression, will he published to-morrow. The titles of these two parts of the work are " Cosette " and " Marius." The Arai de la Religion, a journal which from its title might be expected to be scrupulous on the wore of veracity, tells the following story, which, Or court. BALMORAL, X&Y 11. The Queen and Royal Family took their usual ex ercise in the grounds yesterday. A deputation from the Metropolitan Association of Medi cal Officers of Health had au interview with Viscount Pal merston yesterday, on the importance of sanitary supervision of public schools. A deputation from the Society of Arts bad an interview with Earl Grans 31e yesterday, at the Privy Council-office, in reference to the Artistic Copyright Bill now before the House of Lords. A deputation had an interview yesterday with Visoonnt Palmerton. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the Settlements on the Wert Coast of Africa, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and from the Governors of the North American Provinces, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. Yesterday morning Prince Arthur landed early from the Vivid, end, in the company of Colonel Owen, RE., director of works, inspected the new fort of Tregantle and the battery at Caweand, to the west of Plymouth. His royal highness then crowed the Boned to the eastern bat teries constructing at Boviaanct, Stsidon-heights, and Tarn chapel, where he wee reoeivci in a barge, which conveyed him to the old citadel at Plymouth. In the evening he re embarked on board the Vivid. To-day he will probably go to Tavistock. The Crown Prince and Princess Victoria have taken np their residence at Potsdam. The Berlin papers announce the snivel of the Queen of England at Reinhard'. bruise, the Duke of Saxe-Cobarg•Gotba's summer palace, for the end of August, by which time it is expected that the Princess Royal wi'l be able to join her there. The Duke of Bare-Coburg is expected back in Germrny very shortly, on his return from his African expedition. Lady Louisa Tenison gave her first dancing party last evening, at her residence in Grosvcoor•dreet. Previous to the assembly, Mr. and Lady Louisa Tenison entertained at dinner the Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Georgina Rumen, the FM and Countess De Grey and Ripon, the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, Count Weldateio, Lord and Lady Harry Vane, Lord Earlsfort, ,Major the Hon. A. H. A. Anson, M.P., Mr. Peel, do. The Countess of Ashburnham has issued cards for an assembly on the 15th. Lady Fitiwygram's morning concert in Con nsaght•plaoe will take piece on Wedzwaday. the 21st inst. Lady Moleeworth entertained at dinner last evening the Duke and Duchess of Montrone, the Marchioness of Hy, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl Granville, the Dowager Gaunter of Essex and Min Johnstone, the Conn tees de Penigny, Earl Cowper, Lady Frances Gordon, the Hon. F. Calthorpe, Viscount Castleman, Lord Dafferin, Mr. end Mn. liaillie Cochrane, Mr. Townley, and Dr. _ Lord and Lady Camoye and the Hon. Mines Stonor are expected to arrive at 31, Dover-street., for the season, in the early pert of the week. Mr. Augustus Koppel Stephenson, of the Norfolk Circuit, has been appointed recorder of Bedford, in emcee &ion to Mr. R. Couch, appointed a judge in India. The second reading of Sir JelinTrelawnfe Anti- Church Hate Bill is fixed for to-morrow. The opponents of the measure are not prepared with any proposal for a compromise, but Mr. Estcourt has given notice of hia inten tion to move the following amendment:—" That it is on just and inexpedient to abolish the ancient and customary right, exercised from time immemorial by the ratepayers of every pariah in England, to raise by rate among themselves the sums required for the repair of their church, until some other provision shall have been made by parliament for the discharge of those obligations to which by custom or statute the churchwardens on the part of the parish are liable." There has been some anxious questioning of the officials of the International Exhibition on the part of the five guinea season ticket holders, as to whether these docu. manta would entitle them to admission to the Horticultural Society's Gardens on Sundays. After a conference with the representatives of the latter society, it has b3en de termined that five guiles season tickets will carry the privilege in question. The instructions issued on Saturday regarding admission to Woolwich Amami do not, as stated yesterday, reader tickets tumeeessary. Visitors can only be admitted on Tuesdays and Thursdaya, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock, on production of cards, which must be obtained at the Waroffioe, Pall-mall. The statement in regard to the admission of loreignen is quite cottect. Detachments of the Coldstream and Fusilier Guards, under the command of Colonel de Bathe and Captain Blackett, arrived at Eastbourne on Friday, from Aldenhott and London, to go through a course of mus ketry practice. Upwards of 100 of the men are under canvas, as there won not seelcient barrack room to accom modate them. Of the various cricket matches played in Victoria, amounting to twelve, the E'even have won six, drawn four, and lost two. A Melbourne letter says :—" Mr. Edward Wilson, one of the proprietors of the Argus, leaves by this maiL Mr. Wilson has been the founder of orr local Aoclimatisation Society, =dm an unostentatious gratuitous manner has done, and is doing, more for this colony's futur e prosperity and advancement than many whose noise and sound signify nothing. Mr. Wilson is, it is understood, proceeding to Europe for the purpose of making arrange ments for the sending out a supply of salmon ova, a'l the attempts previously made having proved failures." To the new products naturalised in India, such as tea and flax, will soon be added, it ix believed, the quinineliebling cinchonas. When the state spends 50,0001. a year on quinine alone for its hospital', it becomes a matter of importance to render India independent of foreign supply, if not an exporter on her own account. For this purpose the government of India have been making most strenuous effort.. The plants procured from Bolivia by Mr. C. Markham, whom Lord Stanley sent there, dud, but those sent subsequently have so succeeded that the experiment must be pronounced a success in the propagating houses of the Ootacamund gardens. Poore RELIT, IN LANCASHIRE.—This morning a variety of statistics relating to poor relief in Lancashire and Cheshire were returned to the House of Commons. One of the tables shows the number of paupers relieved in the distressed unions of the two counties in each of the nine weeks ending with the sth week in April. The totals are as follows:—In the lit week of March, 132,353 (a note in the return attributes the excessive number of this week to an Mamie in Liverpool occasioned by the prevalence of easterly winds there, which stopped the principal business of the port) ; 2nd week, 110,939 ; 3rd week, 111,402 ; 4th week, 111,770. In the Ist week of April, 104,340 ; 2nd week, 105,587; 3rd week, 104,167; 4th week, 104,279; sth week, 104,508. PRINCE OSCAR OF SWEDEN IN LIFEEPOOL.—This prince (who is travelling incognito as Count Rosenthal) visited Liverpool on Saturday, and, in company with Mr. Holum, the deputy mayor, and Mr. S. R. Graves, inspected some of the pnnapal buildings and works of the town. He entered St. George's-hall whilst the Saturday k ft ersoon Concert was going on, and at its conclusion played " God Sere the Queen" on the grand organ with ooesiderableakilL After this he was conveyed to the great landing stage, em barked on board the Cunard tender Satellite. and proceeded down the river to the wort' of Mean. Wirer, at the Canada dock. The yachts of the Royal Mersey Club turned out on the occasion , sod the prince was much delighted with their evolutions. Upon being asked by Mr. S. R. Graves, the commodore, whether or not he would consent to become an honorary member, he at ones expressed the pleasure he should feel in having his name placed upon the bopks of the club. In the evening the prince proceeded to Chester, whither he bad come in the morning. WIATHIR =PORT.-(THIS DAY.) TosD►T. NUT 13. • /AL I!7Ama ..... LINZ GALWAY .... SOILIOROI7OII. RSIMIOLAID .. itiatir - owi: rAamoots .. nova ...., POWNIIOOIII.. PLTIIOO7I .. Jimmy .. ..... I i , t t I - • 1r 407 i ft 0.10 I e'— B.&L Z. N.N.L N.N.L N.W. !8. C I 5 //' 0.00 0 - I 2 I b —; C - 3 b .1 X i—la r —1 g h i I 1t ,0.01 j! C i i 2 O - RAGGED SCHOOL UNION. Yesterday evening the annual meeting of the Steads and supporters of the Ragged School Mika ma held at Exeter-hall. The Red of BsArrsasaar occupied the chair, sad on the platform warm-Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, the Hon. Arthur Kinuaird, 1L P., Sir Robert W, Cardea, Rev. Emilius Baylv Rev. Dr. Merle d'Aubigue, Rev. Newman Hall, Rev. vr:Oadmaa, he. The hail Ile crowded. . . The report which was read pee an interesting accand cf the proceedings of the union during the year. It com muned by asserting that in the report of the Royal Con missioaen on Education, statements bred en imperfect sad erroneous information had appeared, oal=lated to injure ragged schools. Since the 001111111/SiOZIOre report bad been Issued a most minute invaitigstion had been made into the questions relating to ragged schools by a committee of the House of Cornmeal, and the result bad confirmed the opi nions of the friends of the union, and had proved that the report of the consmiesionas had not only been at variance with facts, but also at ea/linos with the evidence of thei , own inspectors. In connection withthe union there were in 171 school buildings 201 Sunda -schools with 25,000 scholars ;172 day-schools with above 18,000 scholars, and 211 evening schools with above 9,003 scholars. The industrial schools were 3,800, and the voluntsry teachers numbered 2,800. The appeal for a special fund of 3,0001. bad been responded to to the extent of 2,0001., and it was hoped that the other 1,C301. would soon be forthcoming. The grow income had been 8,800/., and after meeting the neeeseery expenditure, a balance of 1,2391. remained. On the motion of the Rev. E. BArcrr, seconded by the Rev. Newnan HALL, the report was unaoinao . n d ela a tited. The claims of rigged schools ware afterwards by several gentlemen, and before the meeting separated a cordial vote of thanks wee given to the Earl of Shaftesbury for presiding. SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE SOCIETY. A conference of the members and friends of this newly-formed society took place yesterday at the Free. masons' Mr. B. Gorunr, place _ yesterday presiding, whohaving the beans, with some appropriate remarks, the opened the the secretary, read the report, which stated that the soden was founded in 1860, with the object of India/lig the Midi= public of all denominations to set aside by weekly offerings a portion, not to. than one-tenth, of their annual income, to promote the cause of religion and charity. It was entirely untectarian, knowing no party or sect, and embraced amongst its members ministers and lay. men belonging to almost every denomination. Its sphere of operations was the United Kingdom, the annual income of whose population was estimated at 1,000,000,6001. sterling. The imperial and local taxation was about 100,000,6004 while the expenditure in intoxicating drinks and other vitiating luxuries was quite equal to that sum. The charities of the country were not in proportion to its wealth, the income of all the great missionary societies united being only about half -a-million sterling, which is about the coat of an iron-plated war frigate, and lees than the duty paid on tobacco alone. An immense field ins threaten open for the operations of the society. The report then detailed the operations of the society through out the country, which had been of a most encouraging character. The working expenses of the society were esti mated at 1,0001. per annum, which it was hoped would be contributed by the friends of the movement without having recourse to any public appeal. Nearly that amount had already been contributed by a few friends for the first year. The Rev. Mr. Roes then read • paper, giving several re. markable instances of increase in the charitable receipts of those churches and chapels who had adopted the recommits:. &tined this society in respect of weekly offerings. A long discussion then ensued on the best method of extending the operations of the society, taken part in by the Rev. Mr. Minna, Mr. P. Cater, Mr. Radon (of Bolton), Mr. Duncan (of Ireland), the Rev. Mr. Weeks (of Manchester), Mr. Linke, Mr. Wardell, and others, and resolutions were ulti. mutely adopted in furtherance of the objects of the society. FATAL. AOCIDENT ox THE SOUTH EASTERN RAIL- War.—This morning an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, coroner for London and Southwark, to inquire into the death of George Smith, one ofi the guards on a train on the South Eastern Railway. It ap from the evidence that on Saturday morning the poor fellow was sinning in shunting some trucks at the Tun bridge Station, and bad, in endeavouring to jump on to the step of ass of the trans, slipped and fell emcee the hoe, and a train coming in the opposite direction passed over his left leg obliquely, mutilating it in • frightful =non. He was im med iately attended by a local doctor, and by his advice sent up to the hospital by a special train, and Mr. Bryant, the surgeon, most skilfully performed the operates of amputation at the thigh joint, but the unfortunate de ceased did not rally, and died in the afternoon from the effect' el the shook to hie system. A verdict of " Acd dental death" was returned. Figra.tonnurany Sunotron.—On Saturday evening Mr. G. S. Brent held an inquest in the boardiroora of Chelsea workhouse on the body of Andri Amnon Eider man, 32 years of age, a Swede, by trade • fancy weed carver. It appeared that shortly after 9 o'clock on Taman inning, the 29th tilt., the deceased, while smoking a cigar, fixed himself at the window of a tobacconist's shop, in Sloane-street. There was a woman sitting in the shop, before whom be grossly misbehaved himself. She com plained of what had occurred, when he ran away with his clothes in disorder. A police-constable being on the spot, chased him, raiss — ng • cry of " Stop thief." He ran into Upper George-street, where • young man named Cullen, seeing him coming along the road and hearing the cry of " Stop thief," ran into the road to catch him. While behind him he said, "If you run • mile I'll have you." He put his hand on the deceased's left shoulder. When he did so the deemed took something out of his trousers pocket which seemed to Cullen to be a life preserver, and as the deceased veined his left arm, and appeared about to strike him, the latter bobbed his head. They were stall running. At that instant he sew a flash and heard a re port, and the man dropped down in the mad. It all happened in about two minutes after be took up the chase. The cca stable came up as the man fell. Mr. George Conn, surgeon, of Weethourne-place, Eton acre, was immediately celled, and saw the deceased lying on his face in the road in a pool d blood. He was dead. It was ascertaioed that the demand had been formerly convicted of an offence similar to that which had led to his death. Elizabeth Zetterman, of Wynd ham-street, Maryleboneroad, identified the body as that of her husband. She was married to him in September last, in Paris. She bad been in St. Mary's Hospital for a short time, where he visited her. She need to be afraid of him. He always carried loaded fire-Irme. He was not given to drink, but smoked opium, and wee very nervous and irri table. The jury returned • verdict of "]Math from rupture of the heart by means of a pistol ahot, but whether that shot was intended for himself or any other person there WAS not sufficient evidence before them to show." DEATH FROM THE BITE or AN ADDER.—The Sussex Express has the following :—" As • little boy, named Wilkins, of Bargeas-hillorea returning from school, one even ing last week, he clambered up a bank to examine a bird's nest, and groping with his hand among the mow he felt, as he supposed, a sharp prick from a thorn, but which after wards turned out to be a bite from an adder. As the real cause of the wound was not suspected, the swelling of the hand and arm was not properly attended to until the virus of the reptile bad spread into the system, when he was taken to a surgeon, but it was too late, and the poor little fellow died under it on the second day." The same paper records another case :—" On Timidity last, a little boy named Newland, about nine years of age, residing with his parents at Sayers-common, HuntOerpoint, on his way home from school , about five in the thernoon, crossed some fields lying between Hurst and &yen-common, and amused himself by bird'snesting. Upon discovering the eat of a grey bird, he thrust his lilt hand into it, and though he never saw the adder, was immediately bitten on the back of the forefinger. The boy's Cries brought to his assistance • man named Standing, who drew, what he believes to be an editor's tooth from the finger, and conveyed the boy to his home, where he was shortly after wards attended to by Dr. Holman. A search was made the same evening for the adder, but without soccer. OW Setr day last, however, a person named Press, succeeded in kill ing a female adder, about two feet in length. near the spot where the boy was bitten, end which is believed to he the reptile that bit the boy, ea it has • tooth miming. Muck sympathy is shown for the poor little fellow , and although he has suffered greatly, we believe his clue is an considered hopelem." Carnal. Pawn. ONI SHILLIWE Dates MONDAY, MAT IL—Admissions on payment, 1,563; dittos by season tickets, 644 ; total, 2,109. J r i I I ran 29.111 MIS 29.87 20119 29.87 I WO I WU N.N.Z. N.L N.W. MIL N.L N.L N.N.L N.N.L.