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

. ‘••• •. • , , t . . . • . /THE 413:1PRESS, FRIDAY !!EN Lords, was reflecting on the niggardliness of the country in providing for its own defence. After re ferring to the recent action in the James River as evidence of the value of iron ships, the noble lord said, " He thought the time was come when this " country could no longer nibble at the question, " but must open its jaws and swallow the expense "of reconstruction, whatever it might be." Com sidering that neither parliament nor the country has ever shrunk from any expenditure for national defence which has been shown to be necessary, Lord El mamma en deprecation seems misplaced. In both Houses there are speakers who can never mention these iron and iron-clad ships without as• sociating with them an enormous additional outlay. Some people measure the national safety by what they pay for it. On such a calculation we ought now to be very safe. It is time to try another plan. If this revolution in naval construction found our warlike expenditure at somewhere about the level of 1835 there would be rearm for talking of its great expansion. But we have been for the last few years paying at a war rate for our defences. It is now simply a question how the money shall be spent so as to give us the utmost possible security. The new class of vessels which will in future be employed in maritime war gives an immense preponderance of advantages to states defending , their coasts and ports. For whatever the power of war-vessels which may be built to cross the sea, others still more powerful may always be con structed to keep guard at home. The consequences of this fact will be manifold and important, but one of them will surely be a clearer light thrown on the nature of the protection on which we should rely in these islands. If we build costly forts which the enemy may avoid, we shall still have to con struct these iron ships or batteries, while, if we have the latter, we shall not want the stone forts. It is too soon to talk of new and boundless ex penditure. When it has been shown that we are making the wisest use of the money already ap propriated to defensive purposes, and that the amount is insufficient, it will be time enough to call upon the nation to open its jaws and swallow a monster estimate. CU Court. wnitiga mini, Min S. The Queen ana Primer Helena walked and drove la the Homo Peek Ibis ebernieg. Viscount Palmerton arrived at the Castle last night, acid bed an audience) at her blafeag• - - - Don Louis lffessees, - Charge d'Affaires General for Peru, hed an interview with Hari Russell, at the Foreimoffice, on Saturday, to present his credentials. Sir Henry Young, Governor of Tasmania, had ea inter. view, with the Duke of Newcastle, yesterday, at tbe sad Ocaral- 1.30101111/-011100. A deputation of commoners of the lAN Forest of Bal. noun had an interview with Secretary Sir Gem, Grey, yesterday, at the Homeo®oe, respecting Chignon FACIO. sure. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Bratnaton sod Colonel North. Viscount Palmerston returned to London yesterday front Windsor Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial ...Aloe from the Governors of Yalta and the Mauritius. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Laboan, and Canada. It is now finally arranged for the court to leave Windsor this afternoon (Friday), soca after luncheon, between two and three o'clock. Her majesty, with the PAXSON Alice and other members of the royal family, will travel by special train on the Great Western line by the narrow gauge, which the company has brought to Windsor expremly for her Maisety's accommodation, to avoid delay hitherto miceeneed by break of page at Basingstoke. The journey from Windsor toßasisptoke will oocupy 50 minutes, at which place the South Western Company will take charge of the royal teen to Southampton. The whole journey by railway, it is expected, will occupy an hour and 50 minutes. The usual guard of honour will be dispensed with, and the royal journey will be conducted in as private a manner as possible. A special train will leave early in the morning, with the bones, ceniagee, and luggage. It is gratifying to state that her Majesty continues in the enjoyment of excellent health. Her Majesty, with the Princesses, visited the Chapel Royal of Bt. George yesterday evening, and placed, for the fourth time, wreaths of evergreens and Bowen on the tomb of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort. PRIII3/31A. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was accompanied to the Wanda by Fadil Pacha,the governor of i Kennel:. At Bloat, on the 21st, ult.,the prince was indebted 1 to Fadd Perla for the sight of a jerced tournament, axe- cubed by some of the Hawaii Arabs located on the river between Siout and Denderah. On arriving at Cairo. un happily, a gloom was rest over the royal party by the tidinp that awaited the essompUelmd and amiable historian by whom the prince is accompanied. Under the unexpected affliction that has fallen upon him, Professor Stanley's first impulse would have been to return at owe to his family, but, being aware of the great importance which the (Irma, the public, and the prince himself attach to his attending on his royal highness while travelling in the Holy Land, he has waived all private considerations, and haa consented to roman and carry out the original plan. The prince west over to Sees oe the 25th. and was to return in the afternoon after visiting the shores of the Red Sea and the various pointa of WPM in the vicinity of the town. Dovsz, Anil. S.—Her Majesty's steam yacht Vivid. Captain Allen, arrived here this afternoon at four o'clock, after an excellent voyage from Boulogne of one ►our and forty minutes, and brought His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold, Lady and Hiss Bowater, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and suite. His Royal Highness the Prince Arthur was on the pier to receive his royal brother. bevies arrived with the Hon. Colonel Elphinstone for that purpos► Their Royal Highnesses will sleep at Birmingham's Lord Warden Hotel, and pursue their journey to London by the South Faction Railway tomorrow. The Priem Leopold appears in excellent health. The Duke of Somerset held his seoond levee yes terday at the Admiralty. The Archbishop of York has taken a residence in Upper Oromenorstreet for the mama His gram is ex pected in town at the latter end of the mouth. The Duke of St. Albans has taken a residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, for the mason. Frances Aune Marchioness of Londonderry has arrived at her residence in Park-lane, tram Wynyard Park, Durham, for the season. Count Persigny has taken •residence in Lowndes menet, Belgrave-square, for the season. His excellency and the Countess de Persigny ere expected in London on or about the 23rd inst., from Paris. Viscount and Viscountess Clifden arrived at Dover Hones, Whitehall, yesterday, from visiting the Reid and Countess Spencer, at Altborp Park, Northampton. Lord Southampton has taken a house in Mount ains!. Oromenoreequare, for a term of years, late the resi- deem of Colooel Wyndham. Lord and Lady Coloheeter entertained at dinner cue Wednesday evening the Marquis and If archionees of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchlooms of Downahire, Lind Reda&le and the Hon. Mies Mitford, Sir John and Lady Pskington, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Walpole, Sic. Last evening the noble lord and her ladyship remind at dinner the Earl and Countess of Camperdown, Lora and Lady William Osborne, Lord and Lady Cremorne, Lady Alvanley, Lord Stanley, M.P., Colonel the Hon. P. W . Talbot and Lady Emma Talbot, the Right Ham. H. T. I. Corry, LP., sad Lady Harriet , Carry, Lady Oweadolena Anson, Hoc V. Daimon, Miss Dallas, he. Lady Moleeworth entertained at dinner on Wed nesday evening Viscount and Visoountess Bury, the Marquis of Bristol, the Right Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., and Mrs. Peel, Lord sad Lady Cremorne, the Earl of St. Germans, Lad and L idy Lyveden, Lord sad Lady Egerton of Tattoo, the Earl of Loogford, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Fellow's, Mr. sad Mrs. Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Conks Marjori banks, he. Lord and Lady Stafford have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from Osamu Hall, Norfolk. APRIL 4 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. " A great deal is said in the German journals," remarks the Nord, " about a Congress of German Princes which is shortly to take place. The only hesitation has reference to the choice of the town which is to have the honour of posses sing this parliament of crowned beads. Perhaps this rumour, to which the Gazette du Weser attri butes some probability, owes its origin to the recent change which appears to have taken place in the relations of Prussia with the secondary states, and particularly with Austria, in consequence of the internal crisis which agitates the Prussian king dom. This crisis tends to assume proportions more and more serious, thanks to the extravagances of the party, small but powerful, which perseveres in extreme measures. It seems, however, to follow, from information which reaches us from a good source, that King William begins to comprehend that the love of his people is more precious than the loyalty of a party more royal than the King, and that it only requires the supreme manifesta tion of the general sentiment in the elec tions to convince the ministers that their counsels are as mischievous to the dynasty as to the monarchical interests of the state. We are assured that the King insists, to his Cabinet, that all the projects proposed by the preceding ministry, and especially the law upon the organi sation of the district councils, so odious to the feudal party, shall be presented without any modification to the Chambers in the course of the session which is going to open. The King has preserved for his former minister, M. d'AuerswaLl, all his affection and his confidence, and has offered to him apartments at the Chateau of Bellevue, for the purpose of retaining him near his person. Moreover, it is said to be seriously contemplated to effect considerable diminution in the military expenses, by reducing the strength of the army, and abstaining for this year from the grand manoeuvres of the autumn. In the meantime the ministry are trying force and repression, and the subordinate organs are exhibiting their zeal as awkwardly as usual. The vehemence of the re actionary press increases in proportion as the liberal journals show greater reserve, and the attitude of the nation is more calm and resolute. In the preparatory meetings the orators protest loudly their attachment to the royal person, their respect for monarchical institutions, their aversion for all violent or revolutionary tendencies ; but they demand at the same time that respect shall be shown for sworn faith, and the rights which the constitution guarantees to the repre sentatives of the nation. All these mani festations are similar from one end of the kingdom to the other, and are embodied in the fol lowing resolution passed by an assembly of elec tors at Daren :—‘ In voting the Hagen pro position the Chamber of Deputies struck no blow at the sacred rights of the crown ; it only wished to maintain the constitutional and inevit able right of the national representation. Seeing that in voting in favour of the said proposition our deputies have acted in accordance with the views of their constituents, we regard it as a duty of honour to elect'only as electors in the second degree those who engage to give their support to our former deputies.' " 1 ‘ riiho, TEE BUDGET. (From the Tina.) • • All this is pleasant to think upon, and Mr. Gladstone states it in a TOMSK to put us in good humour with him and ourselves. But we cannot forget that when he «averts a surplus of 150,0001. into a defi ciency of 30,0001. be is welding the haemostat still closer to our wrists and ankles. He srumee its peepetnity. He boasts that he has not been dealing lavishly with taxation, because he has, in fact, added three millions and a half to the burden at the income tax. Ile states with com placency that It is now 'AI in the pound, and produces &hoot ten millions a year. At the same time he adds to the massed taxes, among which his brewing hoses in its applicatket to private houses, must be considered. We are not prepared to go all lengths with the policy el substituting an income tax and various forms of assessed taxis bur the whole system of indirect taxation. It is not so conducive to thrift as the old taxes were, for they directly operated as a meson against expenditure. The income tax has the opposite tendency, for its heavy deed drain on the income ',quests the evil thought of ineking up for it by some plausible species of gambling, or re venging one's self ups" it by reckless expenditure. At leant, we are not satisfied that Mr. Gladstone has exhausted this pert of his subject so completely as he has the disposal of his small surplus. (From the Morning Past.) Regarding the budget as a whole, its chief claim to favourable acceptance is its eon-interferecc• with the existing revenues. Serious as are the consequences ma mboed to our commerce by the American war, still they are by no means so serious u those which may be occasion& by the ooatissed dearth in the cotton supply to our manu facturing dams. Our export tide with America, though it has suffered by the war, has yet steadily improved during the pan four mouths. This was clearly demonstrated by 11r. Gladness. But the disastrous effect. of the war make themselves felt more and more severely every day in the reanufacturieg district'. To counterbalance those evil effects, no surplus that a government might hope with sum OM to ask of Parliament by iocresaed taxation would prove of any avail. We thick, therefore, that the ministry have exercised a sowsd judgment in refusing to suggest any far ther retinal°a of the present taxation ; whilst they have shown an equally wise discretion in abstaining from the attempt to impose additional burdens. Should those bur dens unfortunately become subsequently necessary, it will then be time enough to impose them. (From the Aforning Adrertiar.) . . . . . . - The right boo. gentleman displays a wonderful alacrity in putting a cheerful face on matters, even when they are of a nature the reverse of assuring. Last night, however, it must be admitted that he had no inconsiderable reason for the assuring character of his speech. The revenue for the 60111)Cial year which has just closed has turned out better thou most people expected. Considering the heavy blow which many branches of our trade—and these the most im• portent--have received by the prolongation of the American war, the wonder is that there has not been a serious falling off in the income of the country. That the revenue returns, in the face of this depression of trade, should continue to be so productive, is assuredly a peg fact, on which we all ought to congratulate ounelves. It is one which proves, beyond all question, what a sur prixicg elasticity there is in the financial resources of the country. But Mr. Gladstone did not hold out the hope that we could go on year after year thus keeping our expenditure within oar income—miler, he added. the moat rigid economy be practised in every branch of the public service. In the latter sentiment the nation will concur with him. We must insist on a universal system of economy wherever that compatible with the honour and the security of the country. And we cannot be too thankful to have at least the implied assurance of Mr. Gladstone, that with due economy the revenues of the country will be safficient to meet the expenditure--always, of course, barring those ex- ceptional circumstanced', such u war, or ;Repaint ions for war, to which we are always liable, but which happily seldom occur. (From the Morning lit raid.) The ministerial Hudson outdid his prototype and himself last night, in concealiug the mischief he had wrought in the fitianecs committed to his charge, and making the beet of a very unsatisfactory balance sheet. He admits a deficit for the pot year of 1,160,0001. where be had promised a sur plus of about 400,0001.; but it is not easy to believe that the actual chasm between income and expeaditere has been so amall as this ; and all who have watched Mr. Cilaibtamee career are well aware that he is skilled in all those arts of arithmetical jugglery whereby two and two are &owe to make five, and three taken therefrom to leave four 111. rnaining. Of one thing only can we be certain; namely, that there is no surplus to be found or invented by the most gelignite speculation in the accounts for the coming year. A balance of 100,000L —allowing fur the loos on the operation by which redeems is to be given to the hop•growens at the expensed the Iffeeress—is, indeed, promised to us ; but we must leave it to others to discover whet result this modest anticipation really portends. If a surplus of 400,000/. meaty • deficit of above a milliou, what is to be expected when Mr. Gladstone offers an almost even balance between reve nue and outlay? Perhaps the Civil Service CORM/1111000111 will put this question in their next examinatiose ; and we trust they may find • candidate who can answer It iv understood (says the Times) that the con templated Egyptian loan will be brought out on Saturday (to-morrow) by a leading Loudon bowie. A testimonial fund ban been commenced in admooledgment of Ur. Imo Taylor's eminent services to literature. ➢lr. Taylor las at no time received from his works may adequate remmeeralios ; he is Dow in his 75th per, mod las smiaMed seem Seiklol looses ; end moved by them menideratleee, some of kis Moods sad admirer pro pose to 111111111.1114111 of mosey for investment, for the benefit o f ►imsalf sad kis family. Professor Fraser, of Edinburgh, mid the Rae. J. J. 8. Perowne, of King's College, London, will act se seeretaries, end Mr. J. Gurney Hoare, of Loin. se treaeurer of the fend. NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO THE PRINCE 00N8ORT. The Council of the Society of Arta, taking a deep interest in the mimeos of the proposal to erect the national monument to the memory of the Prince Consort, their lamented Prefident, and considering that it is due to all the subjects of the Queen, that every individual amongst them, however bumble, should have the opportunity of con tributing his mite towards this object, have agreed to the following report : 1. The sutacriptioos hitherto have been limited almost exclusively to those of the wealthy and mercantile dames, whilst a very small portion has been subscribed by the people generally. The nobility and gentry, the City corporations, banks, mercantile firma, municipal cor porations, and the like, have been addreseed by the com mittee presided over by the Lord Mayor of the City of London. No steps, however, have been taken, nor dote it appear that any are contemplated, to make known to each individual man and woman constituting the body of the people, and residing either in the parishes and hamlets of the United Kingdom or in the colo nies, the memorial which it is proposed to erect, nor has any opportunity been hitherto afforded them of adding their contributions to the general fund. If this were done, all would affectionately unite with their Queen in relates a monument to the memory of the Prince who neglected no opportunity to promote their welfare. It is only through very extended parochial and other agencies that the necessary information can be generally given, and the Council has, therefore,detennined forthwith to invite in. fluentiel persons, representing all the great interests of the country, the Church of England, and other religious deno minations, as well as the great employers of labour, to unite with them as a committee to convey this informa tion, and to make such nerangemente as may afford to every one of her Majesty's subjects throughout the United Kingdom and the colonies, the opportunity of taking a I Prince Napoleon intends leaving Paris for Lon• part, however humble, in promoting the memorial, by sub. don towards the 10th inst. Re will be accompanied by scriptions, however small. The Queen, "followed the movement of her people, " Colonels Fer ri • Pi•lai " ad d. his sidle"4°4•mP• The churches in certain fashionable quarter s of has asked " to be allow to take part with them in doi ng honour to her beloved Prior;" and the Council, believing Paris are now crowded by ladies. La P e re Felix, L'Abbe Mermillod, Le Pere flandeau, and the Abbg Leclerc are the that the women of England especia ll y will rejoice to work most popular divines. At the palace, L'Abbe Filippa, the in concert with their Q ueen, in tend to invite ladies to be members of the proposed committee. i professor of mend eloquence at the Sorbonoe, ia listened 2. Should more funds be realised than will be required to to by their imperial Majesties. nag' of admission to carry properly into Wert the mainmast "on a male of the chapel are esgsnly sought for. sufficient grandeur," as stated I in the communication made A Naples letter of the 29th ult. says :—" A new by the Qesetes axamand to the Lord Mayer, it will be for orris, Loin Strozzi, by the Neapolitan maestro, Viceoosti, her Majesty, who has shindy pointed out the character of was brought out at the San Carlo o andieeos. pr n Thursday night, and the intended monument, to decide on the application of any was well received by a crowded The am surplus to some object of comprehensive utility which the donna, 141111110 de Vries, and the baritone, Aldigbieri, Prince Consort had at heart.—By order of the Council, I wen mush applauded. The tenor, Musiani, was not so P. Ls Nays Poem, Secretary. foetariata." (REUTZIel111.1101AXII.) REDUCTION IN THE FRENCH ARMY. PAM Arm 4. The Moniteur of to-day says :—" In order to lighten the burdens of the treasury, and to enter from this moment into the views of economy which presided over the establishment of the budget for 1863, the Emperor has ordered a reduction of 32,000 men to be made in the effective of the active army. The disbanding of the 101st and 102nd in fantry regiments, and the sale of 2,200 horses, have I also been ordered." THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION. MADRID, Antic 3. It is asserted that the Spanish government has expromed a desire that the triple alliance should clearly determine the interpretation of certain arti cles of the treaty of October relative to Mexico. ARRIVAL OF THE HAMMONIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Aran. 4. The Hamburg and American Company' a steamer Hammonia, from New York on the 22nd ult., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 87 passengers, 100,515 dollars in specie for England, and 134,400 dollars for Ham burg. 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Mr. Cronfard ; Hs & Las& Mr& Tnessi& and Mn. Cranford. —And CHILLY POUNCE. Kr. Itlrreat —Oonuence Gt. ffienWANIZ g_IOSDON BAIDIIL TO Dir-it: To-reasow —Monks& Atimesoon, !,a. *Oa LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 4. Mr. (;LAINfII,I6 has sometimes been accused of temerity in his financial administration, but that reproach died a natural death last evening when he opened his Budget for the current year in a statement as cautious and circumspect as it ever fell to the lot of a eiIIAttrELLOR of the Et turvi•ru to deliver. The manner in which the consummate Parliamentary debater addressed himself to a tedious and ungrateful task with all the exactnem of a workman and the fervour of an artist was a veritable triumph of mind over matter. For three solid hours, in the course of which he briefly but fully summarized the financial legisla tion of twenty years, touched all the springs of the national revenue, and examined all the con ditions and circumstances of public expenditure, the House thronged to the roof by an eager and attentive audience, hung upon the speaker's lips as though the story he was unfolding was • rhetorical romance rather than a dry debtor and creditor account, garnished with admonitions to prepare for the bad time coming. Mr. (l LA DITONS lays out his subject like an histo rical picture on a large canvas ; dashes in a broad outline, composes his figures into groups with a just sense of harmony and proportion, distributes his lights and shadows with a rare instinct of colour, and works up his effects to an exquisite finish. The defect of the whole is, perhaps, a slight ten dency to overload the design ; but the spirit of the conception, the zest and rigour of execution are irresistibly contagions ; and as long as Mr. (; LA AMYL remains MINIATILS of FINANCE the Budget will always be the bright spot of the Session, though the statement itself—to close the com parison—be neutral in tint, not to say opaque. It was pretty generally understood that the CHA NI 'MIMI of the EXcH Eyr ER had no striking novelties to announce last eveniug, and that the Budget would be little more than an annual stock taking in the ordinary course of business. So Mr. th.sosross began by apologising for the more than usually simple character of the statement he was about to present. This was, perhaps, by way of compliment to a House which in previous years had revelled in financial emotions to excess. A modest surplus of 150,0001. to start with, is satisfactory enough, no doubt, after the sweeping measures and the bold experiments of the last two years, yet significant enough to enforce the moral of strict and searching economy in all departments of the State. Three important branches of revenue have been cut away ; and commerce and industry have been assisted and strengthened by the opera tion. The resources of the country rise with every occasion. Within six months of the Commercial Treaty with Frazee coming into operation our exports to France had increased nearly four milliona--en incalculable result, as Mr. GLA D STON E-with • generous and graceful mention of Mr. Coserm's name—suggested, not to England alone, but to the peace and civilization of the world ; for, as the Post-office returns bore witness, it was not only the interchange of goods, but the constant friendly intercourse between the two great neighbouring nations that was rapidly and surely converting " natural " enemies" into necessary friends. Nor had this Treaty been signed a day too soon, since it had helped to make some alight amends for the disas ters inflicted on our industry and commerce by the American war. A blockade of unparalleled ex tent, and, as Mr. GL A ITATON freely owned, of almost unparalleled strictnesa and severity, and the crisis that was suffocating our staple in- dustry, are among those unforeseen contingencies in the face of which a surplus of 150,0001. is but a warning that the day for remissions is past, and that the day for reduction has arrived. We have entered upon a season of difficulty and distress, and the wont is yet to come. All those casual and exceptional resources which have buoyed us up in former years are now exhausted ; no more " indemnities" or windfalls are to be looked for. In the immediate future our path lies between "the " evil of fresh taxation or the far greater evil of " loans, and the earnest attempt to apply to the de " partments of our public service the principles of " a true and strict economy." At such a moment it speaks well for the c iurage and confidence of a CH A N.'ELL.,R of the EX , IItAJULR that he is able to exercise his ingenious and versatile activity in the reduction of wine duties and the commutation of hop duties, in devising supplemental licenses for publi cans, and an annual license for private brewers, and in developing by reducing the duty on playing cards. Such are the innocent recreations with which an earnest and sincere MiN mew of Fr. N. e relieves a mind oppressed by grave anxieties and apprehensions. Let us enjoy the tempered blessings of • painless Budget whilst we may ! Whatever Mr. Gisutivomr touches, if it be only to readjust or modify, he touches with a liberal hand. Cautious and discreet, but advancing always, and never looking back, he teaches the nation self-knowledge and self respect. With a rigorous impartiality he points out the only remedy for the wasting malady of na tional expenditure, without prejudice to the efficiency of the public service. As • Minister of the Executive (lovernment, it is his duty to pro vide for that efficiency ; as Finance Minister, re sponsible for the well-being of the people, he ad monishes his fellow-countrymen in no ambiguous language that it is empty clamour to protest against the permanence of the Income Tax, or to demand the reduction of the duties on Fire In surance, while the public expenditure remains un stinted and unchecked. HI Lf Mr. GLADITONZ WM accumulating facts last night in the House of Commons to show the necessity of a strict control over the public expen diture, the Earl of lieuovncaz, in the House of TOE EX-KING OF NAPLES. The Augsburg Gazette publishes a communication from Francis 11. to some person unknown, but whom the Union declares to be a personage of dis tinction. The document, which was copied into the official organ of Russia, the Animal de Saint Peters bourg, enumerates the reasons which have in duced the el-King to remain at Rome, in place of withdrawing elsewhere, as has been repeatedly suggested from various quarters. The document is too long for reproduction in extenso t but we find in the Union the following summary of its contents : _ _ -----___ . Francis IL maintains that he is not only well founded in accepting the hospitality of the Sovereign Pontiff, but slao that he has • right to inhabit the capital of the Boma• states, as proprietor of patrimonial property in them, as enjoying the benefit of the civil law which regulates them, and eousequentle as citizen, and that he is there legally a, well as literally at home. He declares that such residence suits him better than any other ; first, because he there neither embarrasses nor compromises anyone, since he only uses the liberty which indisputably belongs to him— and next, because he is there nearer to his kingdom and his subjects, now in arms for the recovery of Neapolitan nationality. Those mbjecte he has not called on to rise aphid the foreign usurper, thinking that the moment for that appeal had not arrived, but neither has he disavowed them ; God forbid ! On the contrary, filled with ad miration for the patriotism which animates them, urged by the same devotedness to the common country, and grateful for their heroic efforts, the glory of which he wires to share, he loves to call himself a bandit like them. Besides, he only waits a favourable opportunity to join their indefatigable bands. As soon as the propitious moment arrives, be will be seen to throw himself into all the dangers el the national war, which they support with such levied. his courage. Such is, in • few weeds, the summary of the statement. ' EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nos ors ows PARIS, TRUMDAT EVINDIG. In two or three recent letters I have spoken of the serious differences between General de Goyon and hi de Lavalette, which were the prime cause of the journey of the latter to Paris. I noticed the denial by the semi-official journals of a report that General de Goyon was to be recalled, and also mentioned that the Emperor was understood to wish that M. de Lavalette should return to Rome. I believe now that the too ultramontane general has been sacrificed to the more liberal ambassador. The idea whisk was once entertained of sending out Marshal Niel in a combined military and diplomatic capacity seems to be abandoned. M. de Lavalette will certainly return to his poet, and I think I may venture to say that General de Goyon is recalled. Madame de Goyon bats already arrived in Paris, and I regard as a blind the statement that she has come to pass two months with her family. A letter in the Opinion Nationale, dated Rome, March 28, says positively that General de Goyon was then making preparations for his departure. There is a rumour, which I think credible, that 14. de Lavalette has a commission to make a fresh attempt to reconcile the Pope with Italy, on the basis of the recognition by his Holiness of accom plished facts, and a guarantee by France of his present temporal possessions. Moreover, the Em peror would use his best endeavours to procure the joint guarantee of the great powers, and to induce' Italy to pay the Pope a tribute in compensation for his lost provinces. Advantageous as these terms are for the Pope, I think he will not accept them ; and then his refusal may possibly be the starting point of a new combination. I hasten to express my individual opinion that this arrange ment, supposing the Pope should accept it, would be no solution at all. It would be disgraceful to France and disastrous for Italy. Of course, Eng land will never join in the guarantee which the Emperor proposes that the great powers should give the Pope for the perpetual possession of Rome and St. Peter's patrimony. Tho Opinion Nationale announces that Victor Emmanuel is expected in Paris on a visit to the Emperor Napoleon, and expresses the hope that his personal representations of the intolerable situation in which Italy is now placed by the continued French intervention may produce more effect upon the Emperor's mind than the long phases of diplo mscy. The difference between England and France in the Mexican affair is considered very ticklish. It continues to be given out that Spain agrees with France, and will disavow the convention. The Bonne has substantially maintained the rise of yesterday. The Rents rase Sc. for cash, and fell Sc. for account, closing with much firmness at 69fr. 90c. and 70fr. 10c. Mobilier rose Of r. 25c. The Italian Loan fell 10c. Railways were extremely firm : Orleans rose 6fr. 25c. ; Northern, llfr. 250. ; Eastern, 3fr. 75c. ; Lyons, lfr. 25c. ; and Western, 2fr. 50c. Southern fell 2fr. 50e. The adjourned election for a vacant seat in the French Academy came on to-day. M. Octave Fenillet, the dramatist, is elected by 21 votes against 10 given to M. Camille Doucet. Although the great majority of the academicians is politically hostile to the Emperor, their choice of • successor to M. Scribe cannot be disagreeable to him, for M. 0. Feuillet was • favoured guest at Compiegne last year. WEATRZIL REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MD" Amin. 4. S 8.11. & Z. 'is D. Y. O. I. & S. -- --- —.— Naga . .... UN U 36 W.I.W. 1 1 10r OA 2 assinii "'sin 61 S 7 N.W. I li L - 10 & LW= AU 46 41 W. 4 4 1 33317102 .. 3348 46 66 MIA 6 b - 1 mioaceski ?MI 42 46 N. 3 b- 6 Puna= ..- NIU U U 8. 2 b - 1 Dawn KU 46 4$ Z. 6 0 - 1 Dunn . ..- KO 44 41 N.B. I 1 b - $ actutozoom. MU MI 44 N.N.W. 9 0 - I t1L4908414 UM a 41 W.LW. i 0 It - 1 la•aarool. 86.11 44 U N.W. 6 sr 6.411 $ nauoull - 31.01 t 7 46 N. I e I toms. sem 46 47 N.W. ' 9 • - - 00.11 W U 67 U 9 0 - 1 ftartuallN. NM 49 47 W. I.W. 4 • - $ Punua 14.06 43 47 SA 1 b - 3 Mama 30.04 49 43 N. s b- 1 !MAIM 30.111 46 46 ILL 1 1 -• 1 Jusu 30.10 61 60 W.LW. 7 za - 2 IPATCRDAT. SUNDAY. N. *rtydn.-W.to N.N.W. N.W. to N.K sad E., fresh. ... .. and N.L. fresh to moderate. Ireland.—W. to N.W. and N.W. to N.L. moderate to N.N.L. fresh to moderate. fresh. showery. Central.—N.W. to N.E., fresh, N.N.W. to LN.E., fresh to showery. moderate. L Coast.—N.W. to N.E., fresh. N. to L, fresh. some shower.. 0. Ensitan.L—N.W. to LICE., N.N.K. to F.S.E., strong to fresh to moderate, floe. moderate. EXPLANATION. B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to 92 deg. at mean sea level , each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-hundredth of an inch diminution and each 10 deg., above 22 deg., causing nearly throe-hundredths increase. B.—Exposed thermometer in shade. IL —Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Direction of wind (true—two points kft of mag netic). F.—Force Ito 12—estimated). G.—Cloud (1 tog). I.— Initials b, blue sky: c, clouds ,detached); f, fog; Is, hall; I, lightning m, misty (hazy: o, overcast ;dull) ; r, rain ; a, snow: t, thunder. ft., &1 -fall, or mow, or hail. since hat report, In inches and decimals. &—dea-clkturbance (1 to 9). The Hereditary Prince and Princess of Hohen solleni-Sigmaringen, guests of the Emperor Napoleon, have quitted the Hotel Bristol for Duseeldorf, where the Prince is to join his father, whose arrival there from Nice has been stated. " It is probable," says a Vienna letter, " that the Emperor Francis Joseph, whose return to Vienna from Venice was fixed for the 6th April, will come back one or two days earlier. The Emperor contemplated making an excursion to Oorite, where the Emprem intends to stay about a fortnight, before she returns to the capital." The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa announces that the two Princes Amedeue sod Otho of Italy are soon to set out, in company with Vice• Admiral Di Negro, on a general tour along the mote of the Mediterranean, commencing with Algiers sad Tunis, and visiting all the ports of the Levant. They are likewise to make excursions in Syria and Egypt, to visit the most celebrated historical sites of those countries. Tamberlik's benefit is announced at the Italian Opera, Paris. Double price is charged to hear this Parisian favourite. He leaves for London on Sunday. Zucchini, the famous basso•cumico, is engaged for Her Majesty's Theatre. The iron-plated frigate Invincible has arrived at Toulon, having on board Prices Oscar of Sweden, travelling under the name of Coast de RosenclahL The prince is to remain some days at Toulon, in order to visit the maritime establishments. At the Court of Common Pleas in the United States an action was brought against the American Telegraph Company for delaying the despatch of a telegram, by which a commercial firm lost the value of a mortgage worth 13,461 dollars, or nearly 3,0001. The judgment of the court was against the telegraph oompaay, and they were cast in damages to the full amount. The New York Times says :—" The commerce of this country has scarcely suffered appreciably during the past year, uotwitheteadiog the unparalleled difficulties by which we were on every aide threatened and beset. It is true that =imports, especially in articles of luxury, have declined, but still the total aggregate of our importations amount to mare than 331,000,000 dole.. against 362,000,000 dol.. for lee% and 338,000,000 del.. for 1859. On the other hand, oor exports have reached the very estisfactory amount of 388,000,000 dole. ; while in 1839 they were only 357,000,000 dole., and in 1860, 400,000,000 dole. A more complete refutation it is impossible to conceive, of the state ment recently made in various quarter., that 'the secession cosiest bad robbed us of half our foreign commerce.'" I~ ~' TIIII MONS TAX, YR. HUBBARD'S AMENDMENT. Mr. Hubbard intends to propose the following amendment on the secessdresdisg of the Inooms Tat Bill: " That the incidence of en income tax should not fall upon capital or property, and that when applied to the annual products of invested property it should fall only upon the net income arising therefrom ; and that the net profits, gains, or salaries of persons awl partnerships (nut being public companies) engaged in any trade, farm, w.:thu. facture, profeesion, or salaried employment should be subject, previous to assessment, to such en abatement ae may equitably adjust the burden thrown upon iotelliKeoce and skill as compared with property." TEE PROPOSED LICENSES TO BREWERS. The following are the keens of the resolution which the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to wove, on Thursday next, in committee of Ways and Mew, relative to licensee to brewers :—" That, toward, railing the supply greeted to her Majesty, there shall bt sod paid for the use of her Majesty, her heirs and sue. asses, the following duties of Excise on licensee to West beer (that is to say) :—For and upon every license to be takes out by any brewer of beer for eale—if the qthontity of beer brewed by such brewer within the year ending the 10th day of October next preceding the taking oat of such license shall not exceed 20 bane* the duty of 12e. 64. : end if the same shall exceed 20 barrels and not exceed 71; barrels, the duty of 11. 7s. 6.1.; and if the same shall exceed 50 barrels, the duty of 21.; and if thel same shall exceed 100 barrel and shall not exceed 1,000, then for every 50 barrels, and for any fractional part or number of as entire quantity of 50 barrels over and above the first 100 barrels, the additional duty of 165.; and if the same shall exceed 1000 barrels anti shall not exceed 50,000 barrels then, in sr a dditio n rt i: to the duty charge able is respect of 1,000 there shall be charged, for every 50 barrels, and for any fractional part or number of an entire quantity of 50 barrels over and above 1,000 barrels, the further duty of lee. ; and if the same shall exceed 60,000 barrels, then, in addition to the duty chewable in respect of 50,000 barrels, there shall be charged, for every 50 barrels, and for any fractions' part or number of an entire quantity of 50 barrels over and above 50,000 barrels, the further duty of 12s. 6d. ; and for and upon every such license to be taken out by any person who shall 51 , 4 become • brewer of beer for ale, the duty of 124. 6d. ; and there shall be paid by such last-mentioned person, within ten days after the 10th day of October next after taking out such liwnse, such further additional sum era, with the mud duty of 12a. 6d., shall amount to the duty latetebefen mentioned, according to the number of barrels of beer brewed by him within the year. The bathe aforesaid to be in lieu of the Ctwilig es now chargeable ou licensee to be taken out by brewers of beer for sale." SUSPECTED MURDER_ IN THE KINGSLAND• ROAD. CORONER'S INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning an inquiry was held at the White Hart Tavern, Kingslaud-road, by Mr. H. Raelea Walthew, the deputy-coroner for Fist Middlesex, touching the death of Elizabeth Hubbard, aged 39. It appears that the facts as detailed below in evidence were communicated to the coroner last Monday afternoon, as the funeral of the deceased was in the act of taking place, and he immediately issued his warrant to Mr. Wallei, the sumemo *Seer, to cause it to be stopped until the pre. seat iiMina was held. The oZcer accordingly pro. wads& altar the procession, which he overtook in Shore. ditch, when he bad the hearse turned back and the body removed from the coffin. The case excited great interest, and the court was crowded. Sergeant Jones, 22 N, attended to watch the proceedings on behalf of the police authorities. The first witness called was Isabella Baker,who stated that she was sister-in-law to the deceased, who was a married woman residing with her husband in Harrim's.buiklinga, Kiaplaod-road. She saw the deemed last Tuesday week, and aloe was then ailing, though net obliged to keep her bed. Witness called to see her on the following Thursday, and was told by her husband that she had died at two o'clock that morning. Witness went into the room, and law deceased lying on her face and hands in the bed. There were marks of blood on the sheets. lLn. Anne Bream, 93, Haniss's-buiklings, said—l knew the deceased, who resided is the house directly facing mine. so that I could see into her room. On Thursday week I beard Hubbard cell out to his eon to get up and light the Ire, which the latter did but not to his father's liking. I then saw Hubbard get out of bed and beat the boy savagely with a stick, striking him on the face and head, and leaving large wales from his eyes to his lips. The boy was sant out shortly afterwards to buy bread, and I spoke to him, and asked him how his mother was. He air . peered reluctant to speak, but at length he told me she was dead. I asked when she died, but he mid he did not know. I went immediately to Hubbard and asked him Low long his wife was dead. He said, "Since seven or eight o'clock last evening." I said, "Why did you not call in any neighbourer He replied, " I sent next door and they would not come." I sand, "Of course not, for they are strangers, only just come to live here. Why did you not tall me!" He remained silent. I then entered the room and saw deceased, and I noticed marks of great bruises on her face and head. Deemeate mother came in shortly afterwards, and, sera seeing the body and the marks, said to Hub bard that deceased must have been murdered, and he hung down his head and said nothing. He ebrenumudy resisted having the body washed, but her mother insisted, and it was found to be covered all over with marks of kicks and blows. I bad frequently men her with similar injuries inflicted by her husband. He was in the habit of making the most ferocious assaults spool her, and I often saw him knock her down while at her meals, and kick her with his heavy boots. I attribute her death to the systematic brutality with which he treated her. By the Coroner—l cannot socounti for the peculiar posi tion in which the body lay. The bed clothes were smeared with blood. By the Jury—Hubbard certainly stated the time at which she died to be 7 or 8 o'clock on the night before. He ap peared to have slept all night in the same bed with the 00/pBO. Catherine Harris gave corroborative evidence, and said that from Hubbard's manner and his notorious habit of nonarly assault' nt his wife she had no doubt in her owe mind that deceased had been unfairly dealt with, and she therefore went to the coroner's office and stated the fact/. Dr. L. Buechel! said that he had made a post mortem examination of the deceased. There were exteuaive din. colourations all over the front of the body. The brain and all the organs were highly congested, and the walls of the heart were thin and feeble. There had been low fever of a typhoid character, and he was inclined to attribute death to that immediate cause and feebleness of the heart. Violent ill-treatment would of course accelerate death under thaw conditions. The black marts on the face and limbo might be accounted for by the gravitation of the blood. a r t h :itr i one would be justified in ascribing them to violent blows. The Coroner said that, though the immediate came of death might have been a natural disease, yet if the coarse of the disease had been hastened by ill-usage, it was clear that some one was criminally responsible. The jury expressed a desire to have the evidence of the son of the deemed, as he might be able to prove what had occurred on the actual day of her death. The summoning officer said that he had served • sum moos for his attendance, but that he had been kept out of the way by Hubbard's friends. The Coroner said that he should certainly not conclude such a grave case without hearing the evidence of so impor tent a witness, and he should therefore adjourn the nowt to enable the officer to find and produce him. The inquiry was accordingly adjourned. Sir George Grey heir, it is said, appointed Mr. William Major Cooke, recorder of Southampton and of the Western Circuit, to fill the Toomey in the list of metier. titan magistrates caused by the decease of the late Mr. Radon. We (Stamford Mercury) are authorised to state that the Earl of Yarborough his expressed the risk to evince his respect and affection for the memory of his late lamented father by placing, at his own cost, • memorial window in the cathedral et Lincoln. It is probable, there. fore, that the subscriptions to the window will be die' continued. The ex-Queen Marie Amalie, accompanied by the Duke de Nemours, and attended by General Coast Damao and suite, left Claremont yesterday for St. Leonard.. ou.filea. Her Majesty travelled over the South-Faders Railway from Dorking, leaving that station at 1.45 p.u, and arriving at St. Lemur& at 4 p.m. Here curiae . ' were in waiting to convey the distinguished pail IS Starkey's Royal Victoria Hotel. On the Civil Service Estimates, Lord Elcho will move " flat an humble address be presented to her Ms. jesty praying her Majesty to be graciously pleased to Use a royal commission to inquire into the present positive 01 the Royal Academy in relation to the fine arta, and into the circumstances and conditions under which it ocupiei portion of the National Gallery, and to 'ingot such immures as may be required to render it more useful m promoting art, and in improving and developing public Sir Roundell Palmer's hymn-book is to be pub limbed by Mews. Macmillan cud Co., as a volume of tbor Golden Tremary Series, under the title of " The Book et Praks." Mr. Carlyle, who has found that it will require five volumes to contain his History of Frederick the Greet( has resolved (says the Critic) to publish t►e third volume( which has been printed off some time, by itself. The fourth volume, which is well advanced in type, will likely be kept , tack until the completion of the fifth.