The Express. — London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

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Aftersocia. 49. a. - - --- LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 28. EA.TEK DIONDAY, long kept by large classes of the people as a general holiday, is now become, as the grand Volunteer Field-day, one of our most important national anniversaries. Every year as the day comes round, from fifteen to twenty thou sand riflemen are moving at dawn from all points of the compass to some distant scene of action, to be marshalled at noon along the slopes and crests of some happily-selected battle-field, and engaged during the remaining hours of the day in the rapid manrolvres and harassing struggles that constitute the severest and most decisive test of a soldier's discipline and endurance. It need hardly be said thatour Rifle Volunteers have now repeatedly passed through this ordeal, not only with credit, but in a manner so praiseworthy as to have extorted in voluntary eulogiums from some of the most distin guished and experienced officers of the regular army. For three years past the Brighton Downs have exhibited, in actual evolution and on a scale proportioned to its importance, the finest volunteer force this country has ever produced, if not the only one possessing the primary requisites of permanence and efficiency which are essential to the idea of a truly national army. We still have, indeed, the Yeomanly ; and although it is possible that in some desperate emergency they might display against the foe that plunging martial prowess and singular valour that now excite the wonder and admiration of rustic youth, still the honest friends of these Bwoiian cavaliers would probably hesitate to pronounce them • really efficient aria of the service. The Militia is in time of war really efficient for the purposes of home defence, but it is only occasionally called out, and cannot properly be considered in the light of a volunteer force at all. Our wide spread army of Riflemen are, however, in the strictest and highest sense Volunteers, and they have now amply vindicated their claim to the characteristics of permanence ami efficiency, which it was at first feared such • force could hardly ever acquire. In the early days of the move ment there were the most serious doubts as to its stability and duration. The excitement of no velty, it was justly felt, would be sure to secure its temporary success, but the important question was whether a popular force of this kind would survive the national enthusiasm that produced it, and quietly consolidate itself on the practical but rather prosaic basis of regular discipline and un obtrusive drill. The general feeling was, natu rally enough perhaps, that it would not, and acting on this belief many influential friends of the movement laboured diligently at first to keep it up by all kinds of aiLificial stimulants, such as balls, rustic fkes, and brilliant holiday parades for the presentation of regimental colours worked by the fairest hands, and silver bugles accompanied by the softest speeches. These well-meant, and on the whole well-directed, efforts were no doubt extremely useful for the time. But the movement very soon became comparatively independent of such extraneous helps. Within the first two or three years of its existence there were signs of native vigour and growing strength which dissi pated the fears of its early ft;ends, and gave good ground to believe that the force, possessing with', itself the main elements of its own stability and progress, would follow its own law of develop ment, and become every year more firmly estab lished on a national and therefore on an enduring basis. These brighter anticipations have been com pletely realized in the more recent history of the movement. While the numbers have been well kept up, the quality of the force has improved every year. It has steadily gained in solidity of character, completeness of discipline, in power of endurance, and all the elements of soldierlike effi ciency. The important fact is that this result has been produced, not by pressure from without, but mainly, if not exclusively, by growth and develop ment from within. After the first feeling of novelty had worn off, the Volunteers settled to their work with the quiet energy and determination of Englishmen who are in earnest and resolved not only to succeed, but to excel. By the time the public excitement and enthusiasm on the subject of volunteering had subsided, they had not only gained a clear conviction of its solid usefulness and national value, but had learnt to take a pride and interest in their work for its own sake. Hardly a stronger or more striking illustration of this could be found than is supplied by the anniversary of to-day. The setting apart of Easter .Monday as a field.day, to he wholly occupied with laborious and exhausting exercises, is the work of the Volunteers themselves. The chosen pastimes of the Volun teers are iield-days, sham tights, reviews, night attacks, local inspections, and experiments in camp life. Under these circumstances it is cer tainly not surprising that this noble national force should have rapidly risen to a high pitch of dis cipline and general efficiency. And so long as the force retains this thoroughly practical and earnest character—so long as it voluntarily chooses such recreation as that afforded by the sham tight of an Easter Monday, the country will never want competent defenders. A treaty has been concluded between the United States and great Britain for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies under the treats. of let''. The ratifications of this treaty were exchanged at Washington on the 3rd inst. bt Court. WINDSOR CIABTLI, Mason 21ff. Her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, aoompanied by the Prime's Helen► The Queen, the Prime and Prisons el Wales, and the royal family bays honoured Mr. George Thomas with sittings for his picture of the Prises of Wales's marriage, whichgie is now painting at Windior Castle. MARCH T. Count de lanudio, and the Right Hon. E. and Mrs. Card well arrived at the Castle yesterday. The royal dinner party consisted of the King of the Belgians, the Prince and Princess of Wale', and the Princes, Helena, the Countess of Gaineborough, Lady in Waiting to the Queen ; the Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hoe. Mrs. Bruce, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Portuguese Minister, the Right Hon. E. and Mrs. Cardwell, Mrs. Ferguson, Dr. Holnpann, Mr. Sabi, General Count de Moerkerke, and Dr. Koipl, in attendance on the Kiog of the Belgians ; Lord Talbot de Melaka', Colonel Hon. A. Liddell, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel H. Ponsnoby, Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, Major Elphinstone, Mr. Buff, and the Mester of the Household. The Queen. the King of the Belgians, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the domestic household, at tended divine service this morning in the private ch►pel. The Hon. and Very Reverend the Deem of Windsor officiated, and administered the Sacrament of the Holy Com munion. The Countess of Gainaboungh haa succeeded the Comte= of Caledon u Lady in Waiting. The Ch smeller of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone re turned to town on Saterday from a visit to Sir Walter sad Lady Mary Farquhar, at Poleeden.park, near Dorking, and proceeded on a visit to the Bon. Mrs. J. Talbot, at Falcon. burst, Edenbridge. THE DUKE or NEwes...rn.e. —The health of the Doke of Newcastle is daily improving. His grace was yesterday able to leave his chamber. The Duke of.Rntland and his medical attendant, Dr. Kingsley, who had been staying in Constantinople for some weeks, sailed lately for Athens. The duke is greatly improved in health. The Duchess of Hamilton, Lady Mary Hamilton, and Lord Charles Hamilton lett Hamilton House, Arling thnatreet, Piccadilly, on Saturday, for Paris. Lord Charism goes from Paris to Dusseldorf. The Duke of Hamilton preceded the duchess and family in their arrival in the French eapitaL The Duke of Rissalda has arrived at Claridge's note:, from Paris. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived in town on Saturday from visiting his estate. in Lancashire. The marchioness, who is staying at Hatfield House, Herta, comes to town to-morrow, on her way to vial the Earl and Countess Delawarr, at BurAhnrst Park, Samar. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have been entertaining the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl Granville, the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Marquis of Hastings, Colonel the Hon. Henry Forester, Mr. Boothby, aid Mr. and Lady Agnes Des Vwitz, at Egerton Lodge, Maltonfifdowbray. The circle at present staying there will separate today. Lord :anti La.ly Willoughby de Eresby are re ceiving a select circle at Grunstherpe Park, Lincolnshire. Lcrd Stanley, M.P., leaves town to-day for Knowsley Park, Lancashire. for the holidays. Viscount Bangor has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Brighton. Mr. and Lady Jane Levett have arrived at their new house in Cromwell-road, from Wishner Park, Stafford shire. Colonel, Madame, and Madlle. Le Sage have ar rived at the Brunswick Hotel, derroyn-strest, from Paris. Berea d'Altoz has also arrived at the same establishment. Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Astley have arrived at Farragoes's Hoist, from Warm Hall, near Brigs, Lin ooloaldra. Mrs. Hope has arrived at Farranee's Hotel from Demdme, amr Darldag. Mr. and Madam; Cazalet have left Claridge's Hotel for Soothed. We understand that the interment of the mot remains of the late Lord Ashburton will nag oleos on _ - - - Thursday next. The Archduke Maximilian and the Archduchess Charlotte, in passing through Prague, took leave of the Emperor Ferdinand, and received on the 20th, at Vienna, a visit from all the member, of the imperial family. The official reception of the high functionaries of the empire and of the diplomatic body took place on the following day. Their imperial bighorns have already received the title of Majesty. G AR IBALDA'S RECEPTION ATI MALTA. (mow ova owns conzsponnar.) MALTA, limica 24. General Garibaldi arrived here with his suite on the 23rd by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Valetta, from Manselles. This vessel lay ekes off his residence at Caprera, and In a very short time the general sod his mite were on board. He is visiting Eng land for change of air, and proceeds on by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon to Southampton, and tikes up his abode with Mr. Charles Seely, M.P., after which he visits Colonel Chambers, who is now travelling with him. The genusl landed very early in the morning, and took sip his quarters at the Imperial Hotel. There was a taint attempt by some of the Mateo' to get un s bad feeling against him by hissing and calling him a Freemason, but this was completely overwhelmed by a burst of cheers, in which the Maltese vied with the Eoglish ; and the general has since expressed himself much gratified by the hearty welcome he received. The street and front of the hotel were so crowded that there was no passing, and the doors of the hotel had te be closed. The police made admirable arrangements. Only a few at a time were admitted, but all were enabled to see him, for he held one long levee from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., when be was so fagged that Colonel Cham bers insisted on his retiring. He mat on a sofa, his leg propped cep one chair, lathes sitting and chatting close to him as he received and shook bands with a coestant Stlo3lll. sion of visitors of all clues., among whom were many ladies. Some of the sergeaste of the English regiments —tall, fine. looking fellows—shook hands with the hero, and from their happy countensaces appeared extremely gratified at the hamar. ROYAL BVIIYOLLNCE.—The case of Julia Clarke , wife of a labouring man of Deddington, Oxon, who en the 151 A instant became the mother of three fine boys, has been brought before the notice of the Queen, and we have much pleasure in stating that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to forward a donation of 3/., which the poor woman 1 has received with much gratitude. 1 1 MEMORIAL TO LORD COMBERMEAR.—An influen tial movement has been set on foot for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the honour of Field•Maishal Via count Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H., to commemorate his long and most distinguished services as a soldier. It is pro i posed to erect the memorial in Cheshire, in which county Combermere Abbey is situate. Lord Combermere has reached the patriarchal age of 84. The noble lord holds the I office of Constable of the Tower of Loudon, and Custom I Rotidorum of the Tower Hamlets, to which he was ap pointed on the death of the late Duke of Wellington, on the nomination of the Earl of Derby, then Prime Minister. THE SPEtIAL SERVO 'ER AT ST. Paut's.—The series of epeeist services under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral was brought to a close last night, when the sermon was preached by the Rev. R. Mims% M. A., of Exeter College, Oxford, Rector of Great Marlow'. The services have been a great mMeell., many thousandsof persons having attended them, but there are no foods out of which to pry the ex penses, and they will not be resumed until next year, Many , persons whose advice is worthy of respect have suggested ' that an offertory oollectiou should be made each Sunday ' evening to defray the current expenses. No doubt ',very considerable sum would be raised by such mesas. TliE AR , HRISHOI. OF YORE.—The Archbishop of York has been paving a visit to his native town, White haven, Cumberland, during the put week. This being the first time his grace has been there since hi elevation to the archiepiscopal beoeb, the inhabitants turned out to do hint honour. The volunteers were drawn up as a guard of honour when he went to church, and the clergy and church wardens presented to his grace an address of congratulation in the course of the week. The archbishop, in replying to the address, expressed his appreciation of the goodwill evinced by the ye**, which he mid was no caninton support to a person in his position. The °Mos and duties of &bishop in these times were not free from difficulties, and looking at the future, be could not see that those difficulties were likely l to be diminished. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CALCUTTA. AND CHINAMAILS. By the arrival of the Calcutta and China Malls we have advices from Calcutta to Feb. 22 ; Madras, Feb. 28 ; Colombo, March 1 ; Singapore, Feb. 18 ; Hong-Kong, Feb. 16 ; Shanghai, Feb. 8 ; and Japan, Feb. 6. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1864. .t INDIA. The news from Calcutta by the present mail is re markably devoid of public interest. The Bengal Hurkarit of Feb. 22 gives the follow ing summary : It appears to have been decided that the Viceroy and council will leave Calcutta for Simla in April next, to return to it no mote as ► seat of government. The news can hardly be said to have taken anyone by surprise, as after Lord El gin's death a general feeling was abroad that the government of England would give permission or instructions to the new , Governor-General to fax his capital elsewhere. At present there is no other place to go to than Simla, but it is felt that that station cannot be permanently fixed upon, and some more central position must be obtained. Julibulpore or Kirkee appears the more likely spot to be chosen. Sir Charles Trevelyiut proceeds to Simla with the Viceroy. Rumours are afloat that he will go to England after the introduction of the Budget which will make its ap pearance in April. Although Calcutta will cease to be the seat of the civil administration of India, it will be that of army bead quarters. Sir Hugh Rees will remain at Simla during the approaching hot semen, but from the I oommeeoement of next year Calcutta will be the head. quarters of the oommander•in-cbief, who will make his tours of inspection during the cold weather. The military finance department is to be remodelled and placed under ' the military secretary to government, an arrangement which does not appear to give satisfaction, as it threatens to add to the item of military expenditure in budget. In the Legislative Council a bill has been introduced to give further effect to certain provisions of Act 4 of 1863 regarding our treaty with the Ring of Burma'. The bill authorising the punishment of flogging has paned the council. Sir Charism Trevelyan spoke at some length in oppo sition, but was ably answered by Mr. Maine. The provision' of the bill are mild enough, and the neeeseity for such a measure has been long acknowledged, notwithstanding all the sentimentalism which has been written and spoken against it. Of general news there is DODO stirring, save rumours q disturbances at Patna and Dinner., but the former place being thOothed of sedition, the government are watching it closely. The ship North Atlantic bound for the Northern Stater with a cargo of saltpetre took fire in the river on Sunday morning, and was burned to the water's edge. The calm of the fire has not been discovered. It is said that it was just as well for the crew that this fire happened, as Captain Semmes with the Alabama is reported to have been on the look out for the North Atlantic in the Bay of Bengal The Bengal Burl.ant of the 16th of February aaya in relation to Colonel Crawley : Colossi Crawley is now on his way oat to India, and to resume command of the Inniakilliog Dragoons, from which regiment several officers who were conspicuous in the Indian and English warts-martial are to be weeded out, and sent to other corps or placed upon half•pay. So far Colonel Crawley is entirely triumphant ; and, if be is a wise man, be will endure his triumph with modenttion and dignity, setting himself to the work of mending and reorganising a regiment which, there can be no doubt, was, and lamentably deteriorated by tends, clique quarrels, and ex treme laxity of discipline. _ . _ . According to the Times of India, the arrange ments for opening the Bombay, &rode, and Central India Railway to Surat will be completed by the Ist of April. CHLNA. The Orcr land China Mail of Feb. 15 contains the following : The put fortnight has been marked by no prominent incidents, but the slow current of events is not without significance. The portion of the provisos of Kiangsu which is south of the Yang-teze, and which includes Nan king in the east and Shanghai in the west, is, over half of its extent, win wader the sway of the imperialists The forces under Gordon's command remain inactive, pending advice from Pekin. It is almost time—though not quite—that these advioes should have been received ; sod there =clot be any doubt but that upon the nature of the imperial cabinet's reply will depend all further active mast once to the imperialiete oe the pert of the British govern ment. The English authorities are not likely to submit to any loss of treaty advantages which may be threatened by the proximity to the ports of a Tiepin( garrison. In this respect they will no doubt allow themselves to be guided by the merchants resident at the different treaty porta. The French authorities bare made out an independent cause of quarrel with the mandarins at Kanding. A French missionary was about to purchase land there, when the Fite° prohibited the treader. "The Zephyrs" have been ordered up to settle the matter. JAPAN. From Japan the news wears a decidedly pacific aspect. Ambassadors are again on the point of setting ont for Europe—a fact which may of itself be accepted as • guarantee against hostilities for some time to come. The Prussian treaty has at length been ratified, and the Swiss are said to have obtained a treaty. The American minister has pro cured several important tariff reductions, and the French minister has availed himself of the same privilege. (arcrmesj mecum.) THE SIEGE OF DUPPEL PRUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS, GRAVENST'ELN, MARCH %, MORLYG. The outposts of the enemy's left wing were driven in to-day behind their entrenchments. *The outposts of the brigade IFtaven have en trrniaied-themselves within 500 paces of the works ; a short but sharp engagement taking place. A heavy firs of grape and shell was kept up by the enemy from the entrenchments. IThe Prussians had twenty men wounded, among whom were Lieutenants Eckardsteia and Jasmund, of the Regiment of the Body Guard. Thirty prisoners were taken. A NEW HOLY ALLIANCE. The Parih correspondent of the Independawe has the following : " It is armed that • treaty has been signed between Garibaldi, Kosauth, and a member of the Polish National Government, for what purpose may be readily'conjectured, and that the object of Garibaldi's visit to London is to obtain financial resources to carry out this vast conspiracy. I give this as one of the thousand rumours to which the journey of the celebrated Italian patriot is attributed. But in any case, I doubt whether this levying of war will have the lout chance of producing any effect as long as the French government continues its determination not to give its support to the cause of the democracy of Europe.* Berlin letters mention that Prince Hohenzollern- Sigmarieges has left for the mat of war, to endeavour to effect a reconciliation between Prince Frederick Charles and 31arabal Wrangel, who bare had several dissension'. Two magnificent monis, one of gold and the other of silver, intended as presents to the two Kings of Siam by the President of the United States, were brought to Southampton by the steamer Bremen, oa Thursday, con sigsed to the United States canal at that port, who has to forward them to the East by the Oriental mail packet. DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL PENArD.—The Patric announces the death of Vies• Admiral Penand, commander hi-chief of the Mediterranean experimental "quadrat, whom Mem was recently aneonneed. The deceased, who was born in 1800, entered the navy at the age of 14. He was made lieutenant in 1828, and captain in 1838. In 1851, when in command of the Eldorado steamer, he accomplished • very pedlar expeditioe in the Cazamaaco (Sweeten, being then in command of the Preach sqoadroe oe that lotion. He wee recalled in 1853, asd awned Director of the Cabinet at the Ministry of the Maria,. Is the following year he was appointed second in command in the squadron of re serve to the fleet in the East. He afterward' was named to the command of the Bailie maselme, and took part in the operalleas spinet Sweaters and the Filled porta. AMERICA. (nurses The Royal Mau steamship Canada, from Boston on the 16th and Halifax on the 18th, arrived at Queenstown yesterday, at 5 p.m. She brings 52pas sengers,and 925 dols. in specie. She landed 169 sacks mails, telegrams, &c., and proceeded for Liverpool at 5.20 p.m. All well. The Canada experienced easterly winds throughout her passage. NEW YORK, MARcu 15, EVININO. General Hillock has been relieved from his duty as general-in-chief, and has been appointed chief of the staff in Washington. Lieutenant-General Grant has been appointed to the command of the armies of the United States, with his headquarters at Washington or in the field. General Sherman has been appointed to com mand the departments of Cumberland, Ohio, Ten nessee, and Arkansas. General Sherman's plan of campaign contem plated the capture of Selma, but the failure of Smith's cavalry to co-operate prevented him from proceeding beyond Meridian. Bishop Polk has issued an order declaring Gene ral Sherman's campaign to have terminated in gloriously, and stating that he was forced to leave the field with the loss of men, arms, and artillery. General Sherman has arrived at New Orleans, to consult with General Banks. Expeditions are preparing at Vicksburg, New Orleans, and Little Rock, for a co-operative move ment against Shreveport, Louisiana, and the trails- Mississippi region. General Longstreet has mounted his forces, and it is reported that he will proceed to North Carolina. The free-state government has been publicly in augurated at New Orleans, with imposing cere monies. The wife of General Beauregard has died in that city. At the funeral a great public demon stration of sympathy was made. Iu Kentucky the governor has protested against the enlistment of slaves, declaring that he will carry out the State laws against persons taking slaves without the consent of their owners. The steamer Mary Ann has been captured off Wilmington. On the 29th ult. the steamers Fanny and Syren arrived at Nassau from Wilmington. The ship Star of the West, which has arrived here, reports meeting au Italian frigate in a sinking condition on the 7th inst. The Star of the Wilt consented to lay by her all night. After 11 o'clock the frigate ceased replying to the signals, and in the morning she bad disappeared. She is supposed to have been the Re Galantuomo. The Jura and the Hansa have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. sEW YORK, Mama 15, Evcrucc. Money easier. Gold 60,1 per cent. prem. Ex change on London, bankers bills, 175 ; on Paris, 3.17 i. Stocks very firm. New York Centrals, 134.4 j; Illinois Centrals, 137 ; Erie, 123} ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 112. Petroleum, crude, 32c. to 33c.; refined, 51c. to 52c. NEW YORK. limit 16, MORNING. President Lincoln has called for 200,000 more men, to be raised by April 15th, when the draft for the deficiency will be made. Colonel Kilpatrick asserts that Dahlgren's in structions were to capture President Davis, and kill him if he attempted to escape. Public pro perty only was to be destroyed in Richmond. (By telegraph to Halifax.) NEW YORK, Masai 17, Evraum. Both Houses of Congress have passed the bill authorisiog Secretary Chase to sell the surplus of gold in the Treasury, with the amendment that the obligation to create a sinking fund, according to the act of February, 1862, shall not be impaired. Admiral Farragut has withdrawn the fleet from before Mobile. The army of General Banks is moving, but its destination is not known. A large Federal fleet, with 30 transports, is at the mouth of the Red River. NEW YORK, MAWR 17, Arraamoom. It is reported that the Confederates have cap tured three Federal regiments at Yazoo City. General Johnston has advanced his artillery from Dalton to Ringgold. The Governor of Kentucky has urged the peo ple to take legal measures fur the redress of griev ances. The Arabia and Edinburgh have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGMiCE NEW YORK, MAnce 17, EvErni. c. Money easy. Gold has fluctuated during the week between 60 and 63, and is now quoted 611 per cent. premium. The price has not been mate rially affected by the passage of the Gold Bill. Exchange on London : Bankers' bills, 176 ; on Paris, 3.15 f. Stocks firm and advancing. New York Centrals, 137 ; Illinois Centrals, 137} ; Erie, 1231 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 1111 ; Cotton dulL Midland upland, 74c. Flour heavy ; wheat declining ; corn nominal ; provisions quiet ; coffee steady ; sugar and molasses quiet. Petroleum dull. Crude, 30c. to 31}c. ; refined, 48c. to 49ic. QUEEN7STOWN. MARcz 28. The screw steamer Saint Andrew, from Portland, on the 12th March arrived here at 5.30 a.m. to day. She landed the mails and 18 passengers and proceeded for Liverpool at 6 a.m. Her news has been anticipated. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Modica 15, EVENING. Advices from Mexico, by way of Hannah, are to the Ist inst. The French bad occupied Lacea tecas. Juarez bad refused to resign. Yucatan had declared for the French, and Vidurri had pronounced against Juarez. The French had captured a Mexican steamer with despatches for Juarez. The Spanish government has notified to the European Powers that all the mute of Santo Domingo have been placed in a state of blockade. DE4PATCH OP THE BOMBAY MAILEL—The Penin sular and Oriental Compsoy's steamship Eliot& sailed on Saturday with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden. Bostbay, and Upper 13imegal, toptiwir with 24 first and 23 wood class passengers. The Elora took out on freight 7 boxes specie fot Alexandria, value in are trios 21,0001., and for Bombay 1,220 boxes specie value 406,0871. lna., of which amount 253,7501. is bar silver, 67,0751. silver coin, 65.0001. bar gold, 18,500/. gold coi n , an d emerakla sod watches value 1.7621. 10a. OUTWARD AMIRICAN M arI—The Cunard royal mall steamship Persia was despetebed from the Mersey on Saturday last for New York, with the Uosted States mails, about 100 passenger, and • large cargo. Oa Wedssaday next the lama. Company's steamer Etna will have Liver pool for New York, with mails for the Coiled States. The box at the Post.olime will be open for the receipt of letters. Le.. until 11 o'clock forenoon, and for despatch by way of Cork till 8.30 p.m., and with late foss until 9.15 p.m. HOMEWARD AMERICAS! MAILS. —The following steamer' are doe at Liverpool this week with the American mails :—The City of New York, Captain Kennedy, with ad vice. from New York to the 19th March, will no doubt resob Queenstown in the amine of to-morrow (Tuesday), and the Cunard steamer Australmian, Captain Cook, with dates from New York to the 23rd, is expected to reach Queenstown on Saturday neat. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colo- Dial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonise Islands. Deepatehes were sent to the Oovernons of Ousels, Malta, the Identities, Corlett, Hong Kong, Liman, the Australian Calwaira. and Gibraltar. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (711011 01711 Owl PARTS, SUNDAY Evurnro. K Armand bars appealed to the Court of Cessa tion against the judgment of the Court of Aix sentencing hint to pay 20,000 fr. damages to Maurice Roux. Unfortunately the Supreme Court cannot reconsider the evidence upon matters of fact upon which the Court of Aix acted ; all it can do is to see whether the judgment is illegal upon the face of it. Here is that judgment, which I have no hesitation in saying will in all time be a blemish in the history of French jurisprudence : Considering that although it results from the declaration of the jury that Armand is not guilty of having wilfully struck or wounded Maurice Roux that circumstance does not exclude the material existence of the fact but only its criminality, Considering that the court, being called upon to decide according to its conscience upon the civil action, is com petent and in duty bound, while respecting the verdict of the jury, and without oontraclictiog that verdict, to inquire whether Armand is the author of a material fact prejudicial to Roc t. and entitling him to reparation, Considering that it results from the dimension that A• .nand is proved to have, on the 7th of June last, load vertently (mated roitement) struck Matrices Roux, and that the blow so attack can be impute.' to Armond as a fault for the oonsequenosa of which he ought to be responsible, That this blow seriously injwv i the health of Maurice Rota, and rendered him incapable for a long time of re. smiling the exercise of his profession, and that the damages to which he is entitled are necessary to supply him with those means of existence which he can henceforth but in completely obtain by his labour, Sentences Armand to pay him 20,0 C Hr. recoverable by all legal means. _ _ _ The force of absurdity can no further go than the rendering of a judgment declaring Armand to have struck his servant " inadvertently" by the very president who in his summing up had told the jury' that there was no middle course, and that they must either hold Maurice Roux to be a per jurer and au impostor, or Armand to be an assassin. That was the truth. The statement in the judg ment of the court is a revolting subterfuge. There are rumours that the Mexican loan is still the object of great competition among capitalists here and that a fusion with the present contractors is on the cards. I believe, however, that nothing is yet settled. The Credit Mobilier will probably have nothing to do with it. There is a coolness between that powerful company and the govern ment owing to the determination of the latter to break up a long-standing monopoly by counte nancing the institution of a rival. The melancholy rumours of reactionary designs in the government counsels lend an interest to an article by M. Gadroult in the Opinion Nationale, headed "A vicious circle," wherein he gives excel lent expression to the wishes and apprehensions of the public mind. This article begins as follows : Why should political liberty, which is so thoroughly ac climatised in England. America, Belgium, and Switzerland, and which so rapidly took root in Italy, not be naturalised in Preece? It is now thresquartere of a century since our great revolution of 's9, and journals in France are still sub jected to the regime of warnings, that is to say, to the regime of good pleasure, and the most absolute arbitrary power. The electors cannot meet together to put questions to the candidates who canvass their suffrages. Yea of letters, professors, cams only speak to the public on the subject of their favourite studies by virtue of a permission which, after having been long refused, is on. fine day granted, nobody knows why, and then suddenly withdrawn without anybody being able to guess the reason. And even this audacious experiment of allowing learned men to lee- tare about hfootaigne, Verciogetorix, or Joan of Arc is some thing so little in harmony with the degree of liberty we are DOW permitted to dream of, that the rash minister who exposed social order to such terrible dangers is tabooed by the votaries of reaction, and in danger, as the rumour goes, of losing his Owe. What a singular thing ! It is in this France of ours that the theory of program and perfectibility took its rise. Pascal, Perrault, Target, Condorcet, Saint Simon, elaborated the bases of this fruitful theory, which, instead of regarding humanity as a sort of stationery crys tallisation, has shown it to be a living organisatioe, and one which, like everything that lives, grows and changes inces santly. By what singular contradiction is it that the country which gave birth to the doctrine of progress should be the one in which it is lass understood and less practically applied than any other. After showing how, under the first Empire, the Restoration, and Louis Philippe, such men as Chateaubriand, Royer Collard, Benjamin Constant, Casimir Perier, Thiera, and Guizot, were succes sively esteemed to be dangerous radicals, and how no liberty was ever gained from any government except by violence and revolution, he continues : The moment is eminently propitious and wall &open. The country is bent upon liberty—that is artain—and it does not want disorder. What is the government waiting for! If the hour has not yet rooms when will it come ! There is unhappily about the government a knot of men who are growing old and are frightened at all immvation. They fenny themselves still on the morrow of December 2, 1851, and would think all lost if liberty even of the most restrictive kind, so long as it was certain sod precise, and freed from the regime of tolerance and good pleasure, were to be granted. We do not hesitate to my that no people are more fatally condemned to proffer bed murals than these veterans of imperialism. They cams to power at • moment when order wee uppermost in meo's minds, and they can now think of nothing else, and are rumble to under stand what is going on under their own eyes. This situ►tion is eminently deserving of the Emperor'. serious meditation. He has frequently heretofore found happy solutioes in his personal inspirations. Why should be not be the initiator of liberty as he was the restorer of order! And what grander task could tempt the ambition of a sovereign than that of break ing once for all that vicious circle is which Fame bee been moving for the last three-quarters of • century, oscillating between despotism sad anarchy, without being aide to grasp that liberty which she nevertheless sees ready to her hand ! May we hope that we shall be understood PARIS, SATURDAY Evrnaro. Yon will probably be astonished to learn that after the jury had acquitted M. Armand, not only of an attempt to murder, but also of the subsidiary charge of cutting and wounding, the court, acting as a civil tribunal, and without a jury, awarded the prosecutor 20,000 f. damages against his master for an assault. There is something revolting to every notion of justice in the spectacle of a judge, foaming at the mouth with the excitement of a prolonged chase after a prisoner, and furious at the jury for not following the dictation of the summing up, taking upon himself, then and there, to pronounce a judgment against the prisoner, which can only be justifiable upon the assumption that the verdict of the jury was wrong. Nevertheless, such a proceed ing is perfectly legal in France, and the thing very often happens. Trial by jury has never been more than tolerated by French authorities, and they resort to all sorts of evasions to escape from the consequences of the institution. It is a common saying now in the Palais de Jus tice that the tendency of the day is to " correc tioualise" everything—meaning to say that crimes are reduced to misdemeanours in order to obtain a certain conviction for a minor offence before a tribunal of correctional police rather thau run the chance of an acquittal by a jury. In many eases they try a prisoner before a jury first, and, failing a conviction, bring him before the correctional police afterward:. This was done in the came of the unfor tunate governess, MisaDondet, whose trial I beard, and of whose entire innocence I was firmly convinced. She was accused of a series of revolting acts of cruelty towards children of an English family, and if the children told the truth she must have been • fiend incarnate. Her counsel, M. Nogent St. Laurent, pleaded that the children told lies, and the jury adopting . that theory acquitted ber. But subsequently an inferior court found her guilty on ' the very same evidence, and sentenced her to five years' imprisonment. Here, however, there was not the shocking circumstance of a conflicting ver diet pronounced in the same court and at the time. A case which in point of law was precisely analogous to the present oue, though the practical bearing of it was not so distressing, was that of the Duke de Gramont Caderousse, tried at Ver-aille, for killing Mr. Dillon in a duel. The jury aciieit ted him, but the court found that he really did kill Mr. Dillon, and therefore awarded damages t o hi, family. There it was obvious to every one that tier. was no doubt about the facts. It is well known that French juries cannot be got to convict iu the case of a fair duel. Nervertheless the public consciema cheerfully acquiesced in the decision of the judge that, the duke who in obedience to the so-called laws of honour had taken Mr. Dillon's life should make some compensation to his bereaved family. But in the case at Aix there is no room for any intermediate opinion. Armand was either 1%4°11', innocent or wholly guilty. Either lie never went down the cellar at all, and never laid a finger upon his servant, or he did his utmost to murder him. and with cold-blooded atrocity pretended all 41,,y long to wonder where he was, while he knew that the wretch was lying bound with noirdero,i cords in the dark cave where he had laid him. On the other hand Maurice Roux . i.- story must either be altogether true, or he is a vile perjurer and a barbarous seeker of inno cent blood. That was the issue the jury had to, try at Aix. Their verdict, after ten days' patient consideration, was that Roux is a perjurer, and Armand a maligned, innocent, and much-11.0nd man. The Procureur Imperial and the jtel 4 . - believe Maurice Roux's story; they think master did try to murder him, and being prevented by the verdict of the jury from punishing him for that crime, they give effect to their own °IMAM', by making the master pay the servant a great lump of money. The unsatisfactory reollt is a painful instanoe, indeed, of the fallibility of human tribunals. The technical excuse for the conflict offered by French jurists is that the Vt.r. diet of the jury only bears on the cnipabilit.,, an d does not pronounce on the materialit ! , of the fact ; and that an accused person may be the author of the act of which he is charged, and, neverthele4., not be " guilty." If it should be thought that thi• law which permits such a scandalous evasion ot trial by jury ought to be altered the press can .1 , . little or nothing to force the anomaly on the attention of the legislature. It is a ter rible thing in France to say a word against la chose jagee—the thing judicially decided. The infallibility of every tribunal is au axiom of law, and the press is condemned to say that the ver dict of the jury and the inconsistent one of the court are both right. The Pays says it is not lightly, and for Lucre form's sake, that the government of Stockholm called for supplies from the Swedish and Norwegian Assemblies, with the view of being ready to concert with the government of Copenhagen for a corn 'no ac tion. It thinks, however, that Charles XV. will coon lie himself at first to the occupation, in accord with Christian IX., of divers military points in Denmark. An army of 20,000 would suffice to carry out thi plan ; and this assistance would leave the whole Danish army free to act against the invaders. There was a fuller attendance at the Bourse, and Rente rose 10c. both for cash and account, closing at 66.10 and 66.15. Mobilier rose 7.50. There was considerable animation in railway shares. MESSAGE OF KING CHRISTIAN TO THE EIGSDAG. The Danish Rigsdag was closed on the 22nd inst. with the following Message of King Christian, which was read by the Minister of the Interior : We, Christian IX., ke., seed our royal greeting to the hip dag. The deliberations of the Ripdag close at a period preg. cant with important events. Many of your number, when you return to your homes, will find them occupied by the enemy. Accept our thanks for having quietly and undauntedly re mained at your poste in the Legislative Assembly, affording power{ al support to our government in the struggle for the country. Carry our greeting with you to all quarters of the lead. Tell your fellow.eitiseas that our heart bleeds at the thought of the sufferings of our faithful sub jecta on both sides of the Kanpur ; but tell them at the same time that our enemies little know the D&DO it they fancy the burdens they impose upon him will arouse th e wish within his breast that we should sacrifice the holy cause of the country. By threats of employing force our predeesseers upon the throne were induced to assign to the duchies of Holstein and Lanenburg a peculiar position in the monarchy, and the situation thereby rendered seosssary is now styled a breach of treaty obligations. An execution has been carried out in Holstein upon pretext of these obli gations, and bleewig is occupied as a pledge. During the execution in Holstein, and wider the protection of the troops of the German Confederation, free mope is given te the revolutionary movement directed against us. The occupation of Sleewig is made use of to treat that portiere of the country like a Prussian or Austrian province. Clerical arid civil officials are dismissed in crowds, the clergy and ponces in authority are carried off to prison upon frivolous pretexts and treated won. than common criminals; the monument to our leave fallen warriors is desecrated and tom down ; oar own initials are obliterated from all public buildings ; the use of the style " royal " is prohi bited ; the ancient flag of the country, the Dannebrog, ls made to give place to the revolutionary banner of 1848 ; the regulations of the special Sleswig constitution with regard to language are violated by as arbitrary decree. The enemy has not even bees content to stop bele. He has crossed the Hoeing's and now overruns North Jutland. Still we stand alone. We know not how long Europe will remain an indifferent spectator of the acts of violence committed against us and oar people. We repeat our easurases to the Itigadag. We are ready to do everything to obtain a peace which would be serviceable to the country ; bunt our enemies must be aware that the time is still distant when we or our people can be compelled to submit to a peace humiliating to Denmark. The last word of your King is you and to your coestitheinte is— Emdaraece ! God be with you! PROPOSED PIERENTAITON OP THE FREEDOM or THE CITY OF LONDON TO GAILIDALDL—The following mu. tion will be moved in the Court of 0013302011 Council by Mr. Jobs Richardson That the visit of G Garibaldi to England affordicg an appropriate opportsZ i rr the recognition by the Corporation of London of his long devotion to the canes of political liberty, bin numerous add of self•eacrilice in America and Europe, in the service of freedom, and espesially of his labours in preparing the way for the estellialunent of Italian liberty on the basis of law and order, and oonstitutiosal rights, it is resolved to pre sent him with the freedom of the City in a casket of the value of 100 guinees."—Cify Prue. I:erasion:a° Arronaarns. —ln a collection of autographs, comprising some very interesting letters of eminent reek of all countries end dunes, the sale of which has just been concluded by Messrs. l'uttick and Simpson, of Leicesteroquare, were, among others : a letter of Lord Byron to Bernard Barton, advising him as to following authorship as a profession— " You know what ilia the author's life assail, Toll, envy, want, the patron and the jail. " This letter sold for 54 Au encyclical letter of John Cal vin the reformer, treating of the mediatory office of Jams Christ is presenting the prayers of his people, 1160, sold fat 164 ; a short letter of Ling Charles L to Sir W. Killigrew , 2/. 2a. • a signature of Oliver Cromwell to a state letter , . 2/. 10a.; a letter of David HUM*. the historian, relating to Pitt, written before he was a minister, and wishing be would take a put in the administration, adding, " He could bring the Amerman* to Make greater concessions than any other man could do." sold for 34 7s. 6d. ; • letter of the great Duke of Marlborough to Queen Anne, announcing the surrender of the town of Duey, 2/. 121. ; two letters of Lord Nelson, 21. U. and 21. 12s. ; a receipt signed by Dean Swift, 21. 2s. ; a capital letter of General Wolfe to his uncle, informing him that be had been appointed • brigadier in America, 41. 10a. ; four letters of George Wash ington sold respectively for 21. 165., 3/. 6a., 3/. rta., and 8/. 12a. 6.1. The latter was a very important letter. written in 1788, when he was endeavouring to sub stitute a general confederate noveromeot for the United Stator, in place of the separate and independent action claimed by each State ; a letter of Joseph Haydn, the com poser, 31. 3s. ; a letter of J. J. Rousseau, 3/. 3s ; • curious saint/meting letter of Voltaire to Madame du Defend, 3/. is. 611. in this letter he asks, " a quoi servirait l'atheients? morteinement it ue rendre us In bowlines millirem." A letter of Schiller, relating to his own works, 31. 3e. • a very important and characteristc letter of Frederic the Great to Voltaire, entirely in the Singe haedwririag, 8/. lOa. Many other letters sold at equally high prima. itA. bill has pined the lower branch of the New ersey Legislature, authorising married women to devise their own property by will. Another bill is before the Senate, which provides that in case a husband is Mow, iu prison, or absent for a year. his wife may convey away her 1 mimed (right of dower, &c.) in his property.—Amercan PePer• NAS Ne. Mere WM Ardre Wen Galwi ysle Cape Qom ki7eli N. k set' As ib N.N. , lit t :N, t, sir, Neu been =Kay "4 1 wine palm Jailia 81, Ciel poli; VMS - 0 Ban heft 80til IRC4 Mt road la..