The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

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There are two ways in which you may censure an opponent : you may lay down rules ►nd maxims of conduct, and at tempt to show that he has departed from them ; or you may accumulate distinct objections, for midable in their mass, though possibly inconsis tent with each other, and may thus secure the valued though equivocal advantage of remain ing uncommitted. We need not say that the former course was not the one taken by Mr. Diu- Tutu. But although the right hon. gentleman was at some pains to avoid exp►ess declarations-- although the nearest approach to a positive state ment was his intimation that in matters of finance Mr. BLNTIACK, the member for West Norfolk, is a safer guide than Mr. 0 txusrose—the tone of his speech and the uniform direction of his criti cisms betrayed the spokesman of the enemies of Free Trade. Mr. Disitsr.m's criticism was built upon two principal statements—that trade and with it the public revenue is declining, and that the CHASMS.- LIM of the E1.11164/VER begins the year with a merely nominal surplus. What is a surplus T It is an excess of the revenue over the re quirements of the year. It is a good thing when it springs spontaneously from the increased productiveness of existing sources of income, but it is not a thing to be plotted and contrived for, since every farthing in the strong box of the nation beyond the amount sufficient for the pub lic service is so much taken from the tax-payers. Mr. Dniasau is of opinion that there are circum stances in which a CIIANCSLLOR of the ExCHIQVCII may properly propose a Budget without a surplus. It might have been supposed that the time to have a surplus would be when the convenience of one to the Government would much exceed the inconvenience it caused to the tax-payer. But Mr. Disit.i zit thinks otherwise. When trade is brisk and employment abundant —that is to say, when the taxpayer can best afford to pay the money, it may he in his pocket ; but when loisinem is slack, and profits and wages aro small, it is not sufficient that the CHANCILL4Pit makes both ends meet; he must show a surplus. The terrible inconvenience which Mr. DUIZAZLI apprehends from the want of a surplus is that, should any unforeseen circumstances arise to mum an increase of national expenditure, the Ceascxt. Li.R of the Excusouva may have to come down to the House and ask for new taxes, " If," mays the right boo. gentleman, "we commenes the year " without a surplus, we may be led to " that most unfavourable of all circum " stances, an increase of taxation, which is already " very heavy." Yea, " very heavy" indeed ; but what place, the public will ask, is there for this re gret in a speech the very argument of which is that taxation is not heavy enough, but has bean made too light by the repeal of duties which preened upon trade and industry t hope the oosithagency which Mr. I)i.a.r.i.i deprecates will not arise, and that Mr. Guart.•vr will not have to go down to the Haw and ask for new taxes, W. cannot me on what grounds it can be represented as probable. But if it should be so, the nation will have the satis faction of knowing why the money is wanted, and will pay now taxes with greater pleasure whoa the moon of the increased expen diture has been fully explained. Additional taxa tion, imposed to meet the clear requirements of the nation, and for which a real compensation may be expected, is reasonable, and may be borne. What is not reasonable is the practice, for which Mr. DisiLtsid pleads, of anticipating esuselessly those requirements —of creating a surplus in the confidence that an occasion for spending it will nut fail to arrive. Mr. Menial.' deprecates the imposition of tares when they are wanted, but would avert the difticulty by keeping or putting them on before they we wanted, and while it is uncertain whether they will be wanted at all. The greater part of Mr. DIMIttELIN speech was an attack on the policy of the French Treaty and the reformed Customs and Excise legislation of the last two years. But the country has made up its mind on that subject, and Mr. DIsaIELI has nothing new to say. Mr. Gx•berrowe underrated last year by 200,0001. the amount of drawback to be allowed on the repeal of the Paper Duty, and he also relied on the assurances of the English authorities in China that we should re ceive 750,0001. of the Chinese indemnity, whereas we have actually received but 400,0001. These were the two strongest points which the Conserva tive leader could urge against his most dreaded antagonist. The rest of his speech was, in effect, • long complaint that certain money was in the pockets of British consumers instead of being in the public Treasury in the form of taxes. He treated all the remissions of the past two years as clear loss, whereas the country regards them as a twofold gain, first as so much money left in private pockets, and next as the removal of obstacles to trade and manufactures. But Mr. DISSAILI has never really accepted the principle' of free trade, and is just as ready to make a speech involving THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AP: the old heresies as if an 411fabistt Coneervative leader had never bowed to 11111 Ooluttry. Even now, when it is demonstrated Set we owe to the French Treaty of Commerce the reparation of those breaches in our trade and industry which have been eased by the American war, the Conservative leader speaks of that measure, not as an invigorating ieuredy, obtained by returning to nature, but as • luxury.- The CH•vo ELLoR of the Exenzgrot was careful to impress on the House last Thursday that be had been carrying out a system of remission', in the interest of trade and industry, with the aid of extraordinary resources, which would not be available in future years. This fact, treated as a startling personal discovery, formed the staple of Mr. DISRAELI'S remarks. With Mr. GLA nom; however, the observation was of a most practical tendency, and the attack made on him last night gave him occasion to amplify it. Some highly rhetorical references made to the Income Tax by Mr. Duman' enabled him to declare with emphasis the ten dency of his financial policy. The Conservative leader had thought it a good stroke to affirm that the Income Tax was in Mr. Chanerora's scheme a permanent feature of our system of taxation. "Is that," he cried, "the opinion of " the Hones of Commons t Is it the opinion of " the country ? I reiterate myself the opinion I " have often expressed, that I do not believe it " possible that the income tax in the present form " can be a permanent feature of our finance ; and " although I have listened to every suggestion " that has been made, and weighed " every suggestion without partiality and " with patience, I have listened to no "scientific solution of the difficulties connected " with the tax which would be satisfactory to the " Treasury of her Manorn. The tax remains " unequal, unjust, inquisitorial; branded with the " character of infamy which the right hon. gen " tleman in 1863 so eloquently and with such " profuse expression gave to the tax which he " made the basis of his most considerable and at " the same time his most fallacious financial cal " culation. We had a right to expect that the " right hon. gentleman would have spoken frankly " with regard to that tax when he came to repeal " taxation. The right hon. gentleman has no " right to fritter away the resources of the country " and leave the tax untouched." We gladly place this declaration on record, and hope that it may never prove a source of incon venience to the right hon. speaker. With still greater satisfaction we record the CHANCELIAWiII reply. Mr. GLADSTONE disdains the quackery which denounces the Immune Tax but declines to deal with its cause. Profuseness in one department of expenditure begets profuseness in all, and concur rently with an enormous outlay on the means of war everybody is carrying his crotchet to the public Treasury for aid, and with remarkable suc cess. Mr. GLADSTONE promises us that when we can moderate our desires we shall be excused from the visits of the collectors of Income Tax. This is the language of sincerity and patriotism. While, however, we recognise it as such, we must be per mitted to express a hope that the CHANCIIILLOS will assert fee his convictions more of that kind of effect which reveals itself in the Estimates. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, XoIDAT. The Royal Mail steem-thip Afrim, Captain Shannon, which left New York on the 26th ult., arrived in the Money this evening. NSW SOIL M•soe 28. It is generally supposed an attack has been made on New Orleans, but the result is not known. It is believed Congress will not adjourn before July Ist. The death of Ben Mac Culloch appears now to be fully confirmed. The following despatch from Fortress Monroe, 23rd March, concerning the occupation of Newbern, North Carolina, has been received here : The steamer Chancellor Livingston arrived from Hatteras Inlet last night. Immediately after the occupation of Newham an expe dition wag started by Gemini Burnside. The place was, however, evacuated before oar troops approached. Fort Macao was blown ap by the rebels, and the steamer Nash. villa burnt. On the day General Semi& occupied New born, 16,000 Confederates were on the road between Golds borough and Newborn. A despatch from Washington, March 24, says : Coioael Sept, representative elect from the Acoomac district, arrived here this morning, warming the gene. of the destruction of the privateer Nashville and Fort Macon by the Confederates. „A tight bad occurred on the Upper Potomac, at Winchester, concerning which the following de spatches have been received : Washington, Bush M. Gemini Banks is at Winchester. The rebels expected to steal a march on us, and were surprieed at being met in force. We took a large number of prisoners. 300 are en mire to Baltimore. We shell probably bag the whole party, whit* is only 6,000 strong—not 15,030, as first re ported. A damp/telt tram a forma in Genital Shield's army to the Baranon-Oeseral at Washington, says, in relation to Um Data* el yesterday:—"Our lom it from 75 to 100 k il led, and 260 wounded. I have seen 225 of the enemy's dead." A late despatch from Winehestcrnays: "Our forces today the rebels with extraordinary . vieur and courage Li w ; s arstStrasburg, driving them like frightened ahem." Latest reports from Winchester are as follows : Winchester, March IL The rebels have been driven back to Strasburg. There has been very little fighting today. in the skirmishing we have lost about 10 killed and wounded. Mr. Fall, assistant to Captain Albert, Topographical Engineers, wee taken prisoner by the rebels. We have captured more than 1,000 small arms. _ Another despatch has been received from Wisehester, March 24, 11 p.m. In consequeece of Use forward movement of our !ARM the reports of the killed, 'reloaded, and miming _mold act be amentained • hat oar lees is from 80 to 100. killed • whom were 1 c oloneli and 14 captains and lieutemuite a rZs were wounded, among whom rate 10 °Seers The sway had nearly 500 killed and wounded, and lost 300 primmer,. The New York Times gives the following news from Washington Certain newspapers having flagrantly persisted in the pub• ligetioa of military details, in violation of the roles god snide' of war and the orders of the War Bscfm•mrni" th eadeagering the safety of our armies sad the sac cierb3 military operations ; the floorotory ci War boa embed 11111 enforeemell el the praise, and a special imenmertbi is to be mennehled at Wallington for the trial emimi sr pnabliment of limelhedess. .—The Jerrold bailee, the Smoky Mercra7, miermarnat Og er efi ai rmeree New York are suppressed by Min= of Wet, their editor aad proposa l= and is Wuhington, to be triad by a imarbsesibil for violating Ibe 57th article of war. Ths timsary Depart/seat is now issuing certificates of ' at the rake ce nearly, 2,000,000441 n a day- Ma •a co dear GM Ike amounts that have berm Naiad. bad not sets Immo el the asset of Treasury asks. norm! mesa lakserly far isms again is • or two. Omelettes el bailairess are bought by Wosidagioa bankers at 911 e. ea the &Mar. It is said that the arrears of money due to °Moors of tffe army amount to 10,000,000 dole. The following despatch, dated Cairo, March 24, gives the latest news from Tennessee An arrival from the Tennessee river we 8,000 men mike Geared Walkos visited Adainsville, eight Wile from hits. berg, landing wham there was nadarainod to be a brge rebel twos On arriving time they found As rebels gone. Armed rebels are emerimatrating at Corinth, where a shed will be made. An arrow& recruits are being nowt to Decatur Alabama. At Memphis all rebel dons are being removed to plains of safety in the event of sa attack by the Union forces. There is but little known at Memphis of the movements 4 Island No. 10, outside of military circles. The supsriateadsat of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad placed 14 locomotives and 200 cars at the disposal of Gooiest Polk, for the transportation of troops to Corinth. Beaure prd is at Jackson, Tennessee. On Tuesday the bridge sores Turkey Creek on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was burned by Union troops The following from Cairo shows the state of affairs at Island No. 10 up to March 24 : A s at Island Nary are in stan pro, end the mortar boats are firing regularly but very moderately, about ones an hour. The rebels do not reply. There are not so many tents visibly Home reports say that they are leaving. No balloon reconnensance has yet been made, on account of high winds. The following general news is condensed from the New York Times of March 26 : The victin7 achieved by our forms near Winchester bids fair to prove one of the most important of the war. lobe matioe received in Washington yet :r o da eli shows that afar as army wat Strasburg yesterday • and a War despatch from General Beaks to Gen 'Shields, dated five miles beyond Strasburg, states that the enemy was skill in full flight, with our forces in hot pumu i t. Gemmill Banks states that the lone* of the rebels must have been enormous. They had abaodooed waggons along the reel filled with dead and dying ; the houses on the route weer bond crowded with muscled and deed, and the dwetharge in the towns adjacent to the battlefield were also food filled with wounded. Our artillery was making terrible havoc among the enemy in their flight. Later intelligence from Newborn 4North Carolina) dabs that the steamer Nashville had been captured by the gun boats of the blockading fleet, as she left Beaufort ea the approach of our troops. A Richmood despatch gives the personnel of Jeff Davis's cabinet as recently newly constituted. J. P. &ajar in, of Louisiana, is Secretary of bate; George W. Randolph of Virginia, Secretary of War ; 8. R. Many, of Florida, Secretary of the Navy ; C. G. Memailager, of South Carr line, Secretary of the Treasury ; Thomas H. Watts, d North Corollas, Attorney-General ; aad Reagan, of Tessa. • The Norfolk Daybook announces that heavy reinforce misted °Mimed troops have been sent to Fortran Monroe, supposed to be for the Burnside expedition. late advice. received from Memphis render probable the supposition that an attack ,has been made en New Orleans, It was reported there that Fort Pike, at the entrance to Lake Pontchartrain, had been captured by our forces,though it was explained that it was merely a temporary structure, mouatang three or four guns. From New Mexico we learn that the advanced guard of the Texans at last accounts was at Algederos, 45 miles from Santa Ft. Advice. from Fort Pickens state that there were but 3,000 rebel troops at Pensacola, and that these were but poorly armed. The guns of the rebel fortifications were said to be turned inland, in anticipation of a visit from the national forces under General Butler. The St. Louis papers state that General Pope had cep- ' tared at his Point Pleasant batteries the E J. Gay, a large rebel steamer. It is said that a new projectile, adapted to the 11-inch Dahlgren gun" of the Mosher, has been made at the Cold Spring foundry at West Point. One of them was driven through a solid plate of wrought iron eight inches thick, placed at Wangle of 45 deg. The Louisville Democrat states that the Tennesseatos are coming into our army in groups of from 50 to 500 a day. On December 31 there 'erotica two entire regiments enti tled to pay. Since then the second regiment his been filled to its maximum, Is third regiment is complete, and there are sow two more entire, and a third nearly ready to be mum tered into the service of the United States. It is believed that in one month's time there will be ten regiment' of Taw Demean. enrolled for service in the United States army. The KOn • J. It. Giddings, Consul General far the British North American provinces, left Jefferson, Ohio, he Montreal on Monday last. A serious mutiny moaned in the Wisconsin 17th Regi ment, at Madison, a few days ago. There was some delay in eying them, and nearly 300 refused to obey the order to embark in the cars for St. Louis. They were all placed under arrest. The steamship America arrived at Boston March 24. The steamship Nova Scotian arrived at Portlard March 25. The Hausa arrived ►t New York March 24. In the Senate, on the 24th, resolutions from the I New Jersey legislature, asking congressional action with reference to the defences of the coed of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, and in favour of State loans for the purpose, were re ferred. Resolutions from the Ohio legislature, opposed to the settlement of the rebellion exce p t upon unconditional surrender and condign punish ment of traitors, were referred. Resolutions from the Maine legislature s endorsing the course of the administration and in favour of oonfiscating the property of rebels, were referred. The joint reso lution in favour of affording pecuniary aid for the emancipation of slaves, was opposed by Mr. Sauls bury, of Delaware. Mr. Davis, of lieutueky, offered a substitute, declaring slavery to be eaclu- LATEST IBTOLIOENCE. THE AUSTRIAN WAVY. A letter from Vienna of the ind says :—" The Emperor and the Archdukes have returned from their tours of inspection, with the assurance that nothing had been neglected which could render the coast impregnable ; but at the very moment when the Em- I peror was so satisfied with the means of defence, • the news of the feeds of the Merrimac and the Monitor comes to baffle all his defensive com binations. Plated war steamers are now the great desideratum, but, to have them, money is required, and M. Plener finds that commodity difficult to obtain. Italy has seven iron-plated frigates and eleven screw frigates. Her mer chant vessels amount to 350,000 tons, and may, at any moment, be used as transports. Austria has deemed it expedient to protect her coasts with bomb-proofed fortifications, but the intro duction of iron-plated steamers has rendered almost useless the expensive works along the shores of the Adriatic." ITALY. Advioes from Turin state that General Garibaldi has returned to that city from his tour through the principal towns in Lombardy. They add that the royal decree relative to the judicial re-organisation of the southern provinces of the Italian kingdom has been signed. (woes nazaiwits.) THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION. MADRID, Aria 7. The government has again declared that nothing will change its firm determination to abstain from any demonstration prejudicial to the independence of Mexico. CRISIS IN NOVA SCOTIA, HALIFAX, IL4Acii 24. A ministerial crisis has been caused by the oppo sition moving for a retrenchment of public salaries instead of increased taxation. The ministers, however, gained a majority of two. The opposition has demanded what course the Dvernment intends to take. Mr. Howe, the Premier, gave an evasive reply. AUSTRALIA. QIIEF2IBTOWN, APRIL 7., The steamship Great Britain has arrived off this harbour in 66 days, rid Cape Horn. She has landed mails and passengers. ITALY. (fox ova OWN ROMA Ann. 1. The English and Americans in Rome have this week been the victims of a hoax worthy of Barnum. It was announced that Rarey, the horse-tamer, had arrived, and that with proper inducement he would consent to give an exhibition of his powers. As three-fourths of the foreatieri in Rome belong to the equestrian order, thanks to the glorious tempta tions of the Campagna, and as the Roman nobles especially court the honours of a knowledge of ' horse-flesh, there was no lack whatever of ten scudi notes lodged for the temptation of Barry, and on Friday, in the Doris Riding-school, the exhibition took place. In the gallery were ladies, especially artist ladies, anxious to study the beautiful groups to be formed by the noble horses and the splendid horse tamer. Chairs set for the Queen of Naples were quickly appropriated to better women ; and had it not been that the incense of some hundred cigars from eminent sculptors, Roman princes, and Eng lish grooms in the riding-school below proved some what stifling, enjoyment would have been com plete, when Remy entered. Was it Rarey 1 Forty Americium and English had seen Rarey two or three years ago, but was this thickset, awkward-looking man really be 1 There was much room for doubt as it seemed ; yet, as it appeared that his hair and his voice were all right, it was finally concluded that he was only somewhat altered for the worse, and profound were the reflections offered on the anti-esthetic effects of prosperity, and the dreadful results of liberal potations on the nerves. Nervous he cer tainly was, and awkward to boot. A placid-looking brute led in with much parade by two grooms lent himself mildly to the Rarey proem, exhibited with much more caution than grace, and then a young fresh colt from the Cam trotted into the riding-school, was duly lassoed by an assistant, and half strangled into the small boarded arena tr i i li tttentre. Here a most laughable incident occurred, for the poor persecuted colt, in a moment of seiz i e l l erration, leaped his wooden walls, and ' plan among the spectators. Consternation • the noble Italian audience, and helter-skelter they rushed, Dories, COonnics, and Borgheees, into doorways and up on window stools, while roars ' of laughter from Britons and Yankees sent I the poor frightened colt faster and faster round I the house. The Barry process having failed even tually to complete so far the beast's education as • to prevent him from kicking and plunging con tinually, the audience retired, receiving at the last moment the consolatory assurance that there were r three Rarely, and that this was not the Rare) , but a Rarey. Next day, however, the truth came out. . It was no Rarey at all not even an American — only an English traveller named Golding, with a , pseudo-Yankee accent picked up in Canada. All our moralisings on the disastrous effects of pros , perity and vicious fermentations had been wholly superfluous, but the consolation was considerable ' that the man had never been able to touch his ill-earned scudi, and that they were carefully re ' turned to the owners by the banker to wham they had been paid. We translate from the Correspondence Litho grapAiite, published in French, in Turin, the fol lowing extract from Signor Rattazzi's recent cir culaz : As for the Venetian question, the government feels strong enough to hinder that question from being prejudiced by acts which might disturb the integrity of its engagements. Nevertheless it must not be silent as to the danger of see. Mg, at any moment, the order and liberty of that important part of Italy disturbed by the presence of the foreigner. The community of origin, of language, of sufferings, of hopes, and of glory, which links the populations of Venetia with us • the votes pronounced in 1848, the promises that way ad s to it in 1859, the volunteers it has seat us, its iodinate now owned through all our towns sad our army—all thew so strengthen the bonds of sympathy and solidarity between the Venetians and the Peninsula, that never can free Italy rennin indifferent to the sufferings of that country. And in proportion as the nation gathers strength, it is to be feared that it will one day break the chains of patience, and strive to relieve itself from the grief which it feels for the woes of so nobles portion of its body. . . The right of Austria over Venetia is destroyed by the indubitable fact that she cannot maintain it except by force ; and form may, it is true, postpone the crisis, but cannot prevent it. The powers that have mated each a state of things us bound to provide for the peaceful nolutios of this post question. The King's government had a right to Oat out to them the dangers that may spring from too pro looged a delay, and which can only be obviated by means d a fundamental revision of the treaties of 1815, sad set until regammtad Italy shall have reoovered her mutual fracture. The Japanese ambassadors on Friday visited the Prado, the Chateau Wray, and the Zoological Garden at Marseilles. They were accompanied by the maim charged with the administration of the department and the mayor of the town. In the evening they went to the Grand Theatre, and appeared much amused with the entertain ments. The fronts of the Bourse and theatre were illumi nated tar the maim Cbt Court. OSBORNE, A►arL 7. Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds tads,. Priam laidagen arrived at Osboree yesterday, sad left semis this mralor. To-day is the birthday of Prince Leopold. Prince Alfred embarked to-day on board her Nalestv's ship Rolla, under the oommaad of Lieutenant Charles Nelson, and will cruise in her every day, during the stay of the Court at Osberee. A deputation from the Committee of the National Society for promotion the Education of the Poor, consist- Mg of tie Bishop of Soder and Mao, the Bight Hon. Spencer Walpole, M.P., Sir Theme Phillips, Archdeacon Sinclair, Mr. C. W. Giles Pena, M.P., sod the Secretary, bad as interring with this Iced Ptesident of the Council, at the Privy OsumilmMos, an Saturday. Despot°bes wen received yesterday, at theColonial-ofdoe, from tits Governors of Gybe, Hoag Kong, Mahn. the Lord High Commissioner ci lb. lonian Islands, and from the Governor of Gibraltar. HER ROYAL HIGH E e Pam:ma ALI CI. —The confirmation' of the Primes, Alioe is appointed to take place on Wakineiay, the 166 inst., at Oeborse. It is shamt naleosemary to my the solemnity will be conAned to the Qnnen's demotic circle. TIM 141 J. or DIKBY. —The improvement in the health et the Earl of Dish, which we asiewanced yeeterday se bevies swayed on Sunday last has since ceetlesed, and loess are bell out by his lordship's medical adobe"' that in • law days the notate earl will be so far recovered es to leave town far the eenwiery to recruit his health derby the parlia mentary mom Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge las bon stdisriss frays as attack of isdassra sad cold for Um last few days. The Duchess de Stacpoole and Count de Stac pools have arrived at the Loadoo Hotel fro® Paris. The Marquis and MArchiouvo of Salisbury entertained at dinner on Saturday evening the Marchioness of Lothian, the Counter of Hectic., Lord and lady Burghley, Lord West, Mr. aoi Lady Anguata Fremantle, Mr,. Lane Fox, Mr. Whiteside, M.P., he. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon intend to receive a succession of visitors at the Grows, near Watford, during the ►olidays. . . . . . . . Lardy Moleaworth entertained ►t dinner last evening the Earl of Cork,Earl Granville, Marla Marchioness of Adesbary, the Earl and Counter Sowers, Viserniat and Vermeer Enfield, Viscount Torringlos, Vernet Strat ford do Radcliffe, Lord Echo, the Right Boa. Sir Edward Salyer Lytton, Mr. Delane. and Mr. Hayward. The Hon. Gerald and litdy Maria Ponaonby have returned to town from visitieg the Earl and Countess el Clarendon, at the Grove, Watford. The Hon. Philip Bouverie, M.P., has arrived at his house in Hill-West, from his seat inSorneretshir. Lord Hobart, who has been selected by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl Russell, as British commissioner to Turkey, takes his departure today for Constantinople, to assume his diplomatie duty. Lady Hobart will accompany his lordship to the Rest. "On Monday evening," says the ti ent nor Times, "the remains of the Bay. James White were borne by old and faithful servant, to their last resting place in the beau tiful churchyard attached to the New Church, Bonchtirch, his even gift to the parish. The funeral was of the most simple character, and only a few intimate friends followed to the grave one of such world-wide reputation ; these were (his nephew) Rayburn, Bel., Rev. R. H. Fielded, Ed mend Feel, Faq., Sir John Pringle, Bart., John Martin, Fag., and from the church to the grave Mrs. White herself joined the procession, accompanied by Miss Peel. His only son is in India with his regiment, and his only surely tag daughter, so reesatly married, has not returned from her wedding tone on thsCoathseat." _ A letter from Brussels says :—" King Leopold ie getting better ; he haa resumed his ordinary occupation, and takes loss walks in the park of Laken every morning. No surgical operation ever succeeded better, nor has any operator ever bad a patient evincing greater courage and Arroness. A man in the prime of life could not have shown more. During the whole treatment, his Majesty attended to public business, se may be men by the date of the laws aid decrees in the official journal. Dr. Civiale, who so asecessfully performed the operation oa his Majesty, re. osived the decoration of the Order of Leopold before be left for Paris, about tea days skew" . .. - 8, s 1862. sively within the jurisdiction of the people of the several States, yet that when any State determines to emancipate its slaves the Federal government shall pay a reasonable price for the slaves and the cost of colonizing them. The subject was then laid aside, and the bill to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia was taken up. Mr. Davis's amend ment to colonize the slaves was rejected. In the House of Representatives a resolution was offered asking why the release of Colonel Corcoran had been delayed, and urging that no further ex changes of prisoners of war be made until the colonel was set at liberty. A bill providing for the payment of the public debt was introduced. A resolution appropriating 50,000 stollen for testing plans for renderiug vessels invulnerable was re ferred. The Tax Bill was taken up, and several amendments agreed to. In the Senate, on the 26th, a. debate took place upon the bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. In the Rouse of Representatives the further consideration of the Tax Bill occupied the major portion of the sitting. MCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAscs 25,_EvisTme. The stock market is weak and lower. The railroad shame are to per cent, down. Michigan Central and Galena are premed for sale, on account of their decreasing earnings. Panama mod Pacific Mail continue firm at 1214 for the for mer, and 98 for the latter. Government securities are scarcely so arm this afternoon ; the registered 94 to 944 ; coupons, 941 to 944. Gold is dill at 1014 for lota of 5,000d01a. and 10,000 dole.; lots of 500 dole. and 1,000 dole. eau be had at 1014 dole. Exchange on Europe is steady bid quiet. Sterlinglll3 to 112. Some attention is paid to the continued decline in breadstuffo, and considerable influence will be exercised over the rates of exchange by the state of the grain markets. Breadstuff@ were quite depressed yesterday by the en favourable news per Nova Scotian at Portion& Prices gesseally lower. Corn was in request at the reduced rates, lint flour and wheat were insolive. Oottou.—lnquiry ha. somewhat abated, and quotations are lower. Pork heavy and drooping. Bacon and lard animated and buoyant. Beef quiet. - The mime may be maid of hay, hope, iron, fruit, tin, nadir, spine, hemp, olio, naval storm, rice, and tobacco. Suers met a good sae. Freight 'appoints Maybe. THE NEW CUPOLA SNIPS. The Victoria and Duke of Wellington, screw thresdecken, at Portsmouth, are named ea the next ships I for conversion to shield ships on Capt. Colee's principle; and the work of ramming them to their middle decks will be immediately taken in hand. The Duke was originally laid down m a mailing three-decker, and was afterwards altered and adapted to the mew. Her engines are of 900-bases power, and her burden in tons is 3,771. The Victoria war laid down as a steamship, from designs famished from the ofiloe of Sit B. W. Walker, K.C.B. She has a much flatter floor amidships than any of the converted three-deckers, and has doubtless for this moon much greater stability than they. She is, therefore, better adapted for conversion to a cupola ship thee either the Royal Sovereign or the Doke. She was launched some two years Mee from Portsmouth Dockyard. She is of 4,127 tone burden, and is fitted with engines of 1,000-hone power nominal, and attained a speed on her light-draught trial in Stokes-bay of nearly 131 knots. The cupolas for thine two ships, mead ing to present intentions, will be six in number, but the number at guns they will oontain and their calibre is, of come, entirely a matter dependent on future contingencies. The make nature and thickness of the armour plating on their sides from below the water-line upwards is also a matter for future consideration. Them ships cut dowu and eoeverted to awls ships whoa armed, stored, maimed, and reedy for sea, will have to carry about 800 tons lees weight than they would have under the same circumstances as 131- gun screw steam ships, 'apposing that they are rigged when cupola ships, and carry the same masts and yard., &orlon, and cabled. CslitCola writes : ain propose to build two distinct chines of mask ono to replace our wooden frigates and liners for madaing pur poses, and the other, a totally different and smaller vessel (or utmost raft) fer mad and local defence. I have already stated what I would do with our meter three-deckers— how I propose to bastard orpoise a omit flotilla of steamer rafts. I now wish to date further what I wrote in a letter lAA October to the Admiralty—viz., that I will undertake to prove that, en my principle, a vessel shall be built nearly 100 feet shorter than the Warrior, and io all respects equal to her, with me exception • that I wlli guarantee to disable sail imbue her in an 'hour she shall draw four fed INS weft, require only half the crew, sod asst thessersky gm building at least 100,00 01 . less . lam ready te Yet abed en these assertions. I must again say tbst my meepagiele with the Warrior are merely made to demispe the at • new engine in warfare, but that I mid every most be proud of the Warrior as the firet•bere babe of our iron-clad family. The ship which drawbar mask ei, an is about to be built by the p rimmest, mil have provisions for meats, but will not have them shined whim neessiery to send her abroad ; she ia dodged immendy for Channel service, and, although she is on my plea" it to but just to my the dodges were made by the Ossagiseim sad his department, and I have no limited= in maybe that when launched she will be so for midable and ceosemisal a vessel that there will be enough room for all embalmed in her to 'webs due merit." Mr. Naamyth pushes forward the superior claims of steam rams : "No iron plater, however thick, as forming the aides of an iron-plated war ship, could ever withstand the crushing-in mike ot an encbon blow from a stems-Ism possessed of the momentum due to 2,000 tons, moving with even so moderate a velocity as 10 miles an heed While such a crushing blow would be fatal whoa delivered on to the side of the many, the result to the shremosin would be prectically harmless. In the combustion el such a ram as I oder to everything would be one to give her ' end-way strength,' while at the lame time being hampered with no interior fittings ensepli whet was doe to the attainment of high speed. Usher such favourable conditians a degree of speed might be oft to her such as to enable her to overtake my more cumbrous vessel, against the rudder and screw of which she .said easily rush, and so, in the first place, utterly disable the locomotive power of the enemy, and then sweep round to gain due momentum and direction, and crush in the plated Ades of the then comparatively helpless enemy. For such purposes it would be well to lime a covey of smaller nimble rams, to act es what I would is crippled—aamely, to rush at the rudders and screws at the enemy's shim which would render them an easy prey to the peat rams and other spats of deibudiee. Vast as has been our expsedi tare on such mob as the Warrior and other vowels of her elms, the steam ram principle in them Is so imperfectly carried out, and overlaid and hampered with traditional naval details, as to reader it more than donbthil if any of them dare to sot as steam rams,' certainly not as such against an iron-plated enemy." THE CHAMBER OP OOtMERCE, NEW YORK, AND MIL BRIGHT, M.P. Mr. Bright, M.P., ban returned the following reply to the address tom the New York Chamber of Commerce: " London, April 4. " Dear Sir,—l have received through the ha nd s of the Ron. Mr. Adams, the Minister of the United States, your letter of the Bth of March, and the resolution umnimotaly adopted by the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York on the Bth of Mart*. I wish you to convey to the eminent body of gentlemen over whom you preside, the expression of my sense of the honour they have conferred upon me, and of the pleasure which it gives me to know that the course I have taken in reference to the events whiz'', are now passing in your country has met with the warm approval of those whom they represent. I accept their most kind resolution, not only as honourable to myself, but as a manifestation of friendly feeling to the great majority of my countrymen, whose true sentiments I believe I have not mis taken or misrepresented when I have spoken on the aide of your government and people. I believe there is no other country in which men have bon so free and so prosperous u in yours, and that there is no other political constitution now in existence i n th r =eareatioe of which the human race is so deeply inie as in that under which yon live. This is true beyond all doubt when applied to the Free States of your Union. I trust the time is not distant when It will be true over all your vast territory from from the St. LIMMINOID to the Gulf of Mexico. Notwithstanding much misapprehensioo, and some recent excitement, I am sure that an overwhelm. 1.4 majority of the people of the United Kingdom will rejoice at the meows of your government, and at the com plete restoration of your Union. Whilst asking you to convey the expression of ray grateful feelings to the mem. bers of your chamber, I dears to tender to you my thanks for the very kind letter from yourself which accompanied the resolution.—l am, with vary great respect, very tguly yours, " JOUS BRIGHT. "To P. Perit, Esq., President of the Chamber of Com merce of the State of New York.* The creditors of Spain are making another effort to being the Spanish government to • settlement of their dam. A manorial, backed by numerous igasturee, will axe be promoted to the Corta, sullies them to wipe off the reyreaa of bad faith which hew melon Mule to tbelr (Wonky. An Miglish gentleman, himself largely intereeled, is ea his way to Madrid for that object. PAPERS RELATING TO ITALY. The papers tio anxiously sought by the Mar quis of Normanby, relating to fir J. Hudson's report,' on the government prosecutions of the press in Italy, owl to certain alleged severities in the Neapolitan territory, were issued this morning, in reply to an address of the House of Lords. With regard to the Italian press, the followin.: estract is given from a despatch of Sir Jamee written in April hut year : "Turin, April 27, Is4l. " Whilst, therefore, on the one band, we see that the counter-revolution is organised in Rome, whence anion money, and agents are dispatched to the Southern pro, in order to create revolt, we have, on the other bawl, a a example of the sound sense of the Neapolitan people iu the verdict recently given by a jury in the case of a government action against the editor of the Pietra lafernalt new.- paper. The jury, and it was the fiat trial by jury that ever took place at Naplee, condemned the editor in twice the costa proposed by the crown prosecutor, and added three months' imprisonment besides." Sines the meeting of parliament Earl Russell, to taatudy the Marquis of Normanby, ►ppears to have written to Sir Jamie Hudson on the subject of the Italian press ; and on March 18 his lordship receivea the following reply : . _ . "Turin, hiarri - 10, 1844. "My Lord,—With reference to your lordship's inquiry upon the subject of prosecutions of the press by the state in this country, and why I have not reported upon them, I have the hamar to explain that under the constitutional Ise of Italy it is perfectly well know c to all writers and printers what they may and what they may not print. Consequently, it is one of the duties of the King's pro. curator, in case that law is violated, to lay an indictment against the party so violating it. The Italian judges are, as your lordship is aware. irremovable, and completely and entirely independent of government. In the case in point, a prosecution of a newspaper or pamphlet, for instance, would be tried by a court of first instance. II the defendant is cut, he can appeal to a higher court, which would correct any merely legal error. From thin, again, the defendant, if a second time cut, can cony his ore to the Court of Carnation, which corrects the Court et Appeal. During the period of my residence at than court, I have heard of many praccutions of newspapers by the properly constituted legal authority, but I never heanl of any undue presume or influence being exercised by govern ment upon the judges. Had anything of the kind occurred, it would undoubtedly have been brought before parlia ment, and the minister who had ventured upon the experiment impeached ; because there are in urns meet here representatives of every section of public opinion, and the opposition of one shade or another in polities would only be too glad of such &handle against government. Under these circumstances, se no case of oppression or cd tampering with the law or with the law con;lis, is the pert of the go►ernment, has ever been brought nadir any mike I really did not conceive that it was neeemery to take ap your lordship's very valuable time with reports upon the administration of the law and the julgussale of the l►w marts, which in no way whatever affected a British subject or a British interest, and bad no such bearing upon the po• literal condition of the country as rendered it esomeary for me to cell your lordship's attention to have, &r., (Signed) "Jana HUDSON." No despatcher; have been received reportiag the bone of obnoxious proelematiou in the Neapolitan territory ; bat as to the condition of Southern Italy generally, Sir James Hama, it appears, transmitted to Earl Russell, with ]an• datory comments, the summary of a speech delivered last year in the Italian parliament, by Signor Maenad, deputy for Bart (Naples), in which it was shown that all the evils in the administration of the Neapolitan provisoes . are to be tamed to the Bourbon system of govern:est, whisk eel clings to many deponents. Sir James an mods a summary of the replies of the ministers to this spesok, elbowing the anxious desire of the Italian smarmiest to remedy the evils complained of, and the 101001171111 they preplan for that purpose. WZA.TIIIIR REPORT.-(THIS DA.Y.Y Mow; Mi. 4 $ La L L U. & 6. 0. L L L I 1 -- -- --- -. Nula . I 40,19 U 41 N.W. b - im611661 au 0 60 118.0 a - 1.-M UM 47 46 W - - i BUM= 14.06 44 41 6. • - Ausaiess WU 44 64 N.W. • - Maras= O.O 0 46 2.. L I - 00,0 40.111 44 U L o - eNtsise. - SIM 46 0 8. 406.60200... a ale 64 42 IX 0 - Imam up 1624 61 0 L b 4- lavuroos SUS OS 44 ILL o -.. 21212122T0WN oftrt U 66 LLW • - Vat unu UM iSS 41 LLW •• - 14.0600 vi WO 41 0 N.& • - Looms O.lO 0 0 lt L Se 0.0 - DOUR 110.41 47 441 &NI YR SAO S P 012111100121 10.16 41 66 N.E. o - 2 PORTLAID lll.ll 0 47 NM If 0.0 S UMW= flimautos :WIT .. - 1 THURSDAY. to N.S. light, floe. N.N.W. sad toN.N.R. , moderate, floe. lrelszel—W.B.W. to N.N.W., moderate, line. Cestral.—:f .N. W. to NA and N.N.W. to E.N.E., moderate, Ana. N. to Z., light, reelable. - 1. - 1.7m0 - cfenii:viito:l;lo7 Oosat.-14. to IL, fresh to moderate. NICK. to 5.F.., moderate. B. Softlasid.—N.N.lL So 1.8. Z.. trash to moderato. lot. N.L to B.E, moderato to light, lac AIE.PWATIO2f., B.—Barometer correcte7 n land . 1;41tro - t;d • to 92 deg. at mean era level ; each 10 feet, of vertical des, causing about one-hundredth of an inch dinduution ; and each 10 deg., above U deg., clown nearly tluve•hundredths increrea. IL—Exposed thermometer in shade. IL —Moistened bulb (for evaporation and Are point). D.—Direction of wind ;true—two points left of netic). F. —Foroe (I to 12—estimated). C.—load (1 to 9). I Initials; b, blue sky; c, clouds ;detached): t, tog: b, hap lightning; misty (hug) o, overcast (dull) ;r, rain: a. woe: t, thunder. rain.tall, or snow, or hail. since last report. is Inches and decimals. Ik—liondistsuinutee 11l to 9). Sir George Grey, on Thursday, will bring iu a bill to amend the law relating to oonupt practices at elections of member of parliament. The following members compose the minority who voted last evening for the amendment that the Thaws Embankment Ball proceed no further until the estimate of the cost shall have been laid upon the table of the house : Messrs. A. S. Ayrtes, W. Cox, R. W. Crawford. Lord Fermoy, Messrs. H. Lewla, J. Locke, Augustus Smith, G. Tomlin', and J. Wyld ; tellers, Sir J. Shelley and Mr. Williams. A Boston correspondent writes :—" Wendell Phillip', who ranks as the first of American orators and abolitionists, who ham been delivering anti-slavery lectures at Washington, Philadelphia, and other places, in which formerly he could not have spoken, has been mobbed at Cincinnati, the chief city of the free state of Ohio. The agreeable many-headed stoned him, and then threw rotten eggs at him. They would probably have killed him bad he not been first protected end then removed by hie Monk This being a free country, can't a man do what he pleases with hi, rotten eggs' The incident shows how much of pro-slavery feeling there yet exists in the free states. There are men in Boston who would gladly treat NG Phillips as he was treated at Cincinnati, and even W OAD." "Lately," says the Paris correspondent of the Nord, "Marshal Canrobert and Marshal Nisi dined tete. then at the Tuileries. It is known that since the war in Italy a coldness had existed between the two officers, but at present they are fully reconciled." A Hamburg letter states that the first vessel with the Siamese flag, a white elephant on a red grand , ever seen there, has just entered that port. The ship for reedy belonged to Bremen, and was purchased by the kW et Siam. HUNIPIOINT LRGACY TO AN HOSPITAL. The Rev. John Grifilth, who died at Ely last year, at the aged Si, end was for upwards of half a century a miser canon of the Cathedral, kw, it braid, left property equal to 70,000 1 ; : and among other bequests he has left to Addembrookes hospital between 3,0001. and 4,0001., 3,0001. of which 111 about to be paid ; the remainder depends upon certain con tingencies. Mr. Griffith has also not been unmindful of other charitable institution', which present a claim upon the benevolent. The venerable gentleman appears to have outlived most of his more immediate family 000010300 R Quark* independent. " WALDRON V. Lotto AND ANOTIII3."—ID thin awe. OR action against the Morning Post tried co Friday at Kingdom, with a verdict for the plaintiff, damage' n" farthing, Mr. Chambers, on Saturday, applied for a certtfi• age to carry costs. Mr. Lush, for the defendants, objetind that his lordship could not possibly certify that the mime was " wilful and malicious ," the jury having given only one farthing. The Lord Chief Justice said he thought theffin"' tion was one for the jury, and he did not like to take it out of the usual course. The certificate for costs was therefore refused. 1 !