The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-31 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT 81KRVIC/03.—During the storms of t e as the pest y r ear m the B eans, oo stio u n i ai n Llfe ed m bot e lnsu rs tett r o. by its lit from different wrecks on our comas. The =ion & em u- Bonded £21,374 tu the same period on Its 'Bobcat eetablishments, surdslese os the life ffnintin boatsa SAM tor rewards tar r sada( AU end . The committee of the Indltetton earneetly APPEAL to the public:tor AS3I4 faNCE, to enable them to meet the continued Mary demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Bontributione are received by the Leaden sad Country Bankers ; and by the secretary, Elthard Lewis. Eon., at the In stitution, 14, John-greet, Adolph!, Landon. JOHN BROGDEN. ORIGINAL GOLD M A 1117 FACTORY, lf, COVENTAARDEN. JOHN BROGDEBPB 18-oarat GOLD CHAINS. JOll2l BIiOGDENI3 GOLD GITA.RD 011.1115 S. jOILN BROGDEN'S G OLD ALBERT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDICN'S GOLD BROOOH 0 HAMS. (PILIZE MEDAL AWARDED.; Awars PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAVELLING BAGS with square opeelnes. 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Murray Shore. and Mn. H. Manton , In Mims N. aid K. Noddies. BRITAMM. Ts Man, TIES CIABVB3T Hots—lo. 'ma Ker. 71010.—Master a. Sanders. —TICE SCOTTIMI CHIMP. Mr. Jamie, Anderson and leas S. Miles...WISS WELLS SHALL I ITIGH WAY= AT WITDON-1/I,TDAL 117 DAT Month% 185..... Ailiessas. I. ivitozzow Montag, lb. 6343......Afi5e5e5e, Ll. LONDON, SATURDAY. MABC,I:f Si. A now= narrative has reached this country from the western coast of the Adriatic. A number of unoffending people, not fewer than four. and, according to some accounts, as many se twelve, have lost their lives in a savage weal* made in the name of the religion of peace. At Barletta, a Neapolitan town of 23,000 inhabitants, about 33 miles from Bari, GO or 70 Italians have been accustomed for some time past to meet for religious worship and instruction, under the guidance of Pastor METRE. No other charge is made against them ; nor in the eyes of many of their neighbours could it be possible to imagine a more heinous crime, constituting as it did a breach of the Catho lic unity, and an impiety which might well draw the wrath of Heaven upon the town and neighbour hood. These poor people were denounced for a long time before they were attacked. During the whole winter the priests thundered against them from the pulpit, declaring them to be pests and plagues. Their appeals at length produced just such a state of mind as might have been expected ; a crisis approached, and on Sunday week last the authorities were warned that " something was " about to happen to the Protestants." The next day, Monday, was dedicated to the memory of a brave and good man, who in his day did what was right and noble notwithstanding the priesthood— St. JOSEPH of Arimathea. On that day, a priest named RUGGIERO POSTIGLIONE, described ease/MOO, stimulated his hearers against the heretics, and as soon as his discourse was over a large multi tude appeared in the streets, cheering for the POPE, and devoting the Protestants to perdition. They attacked the latter with sticks, and set fire to the house where they assembled. The Italian papers state that three persons were burned on a pile formed of their own household goods. This is too horrible to believe without confirmation ; it is sufficiently sad to know on the best evidence that several persons died the victims of fanatical hatred, and that a very large number were severely injured. The local authorities appear to have behaved with great pusillanimity, even if their pre judices did not make them passive accomplices in these foul deeds. The National Guard declined to go out on the side of the law against their infu riated neighbours. A handful of custom house guards—Barletta being a seaport--met the mob, drove them back, and arrested one of their leaders as he was hounding them on with a crucifix in his band. Soldiers subsequently arrived from Trail', and charged the fanatics with fixed bayonets, but encountered a fierce resistance, and had many wounded. Ultimately they prevailed ; and the priest who stirred up the mob and sixty-four others, including some monks, are in custody, and will be brought to trial. Such a narrative as this powerfully brings home to us the identity of human character in ages widely separated from one another, and the per sistence with which its types are maintained, in spite of the revolutions of time. In reading it we seem to be carried back to the thirteenth cen tury, to the days when Popes proclaimed a gene ral crusade against heresy, and authorised the people to supply by outrage their Prince's lack of zeal. Roomy.° Parrtorsonz, of Barletta, is the legitimate suoeesaor of ROBIRT the Pitaacaaa, the Halloo Hareticorum of Marrirzw PARIS. ft is of COMBO impourible that Pope Pius can regard acts such as these, worthier of INNO CENT 111. than of his own mild character, other wise than with disapprobation and sorrow. Bat it is another question whether they are not just such consequences as might have been expected to flow from some of his most formal teachings. IWe cannot forget that the POPE has expressly taught by his allocutions and pas toral letters, and especially by his latest Ency clical, that "the civil ruler has been invested " with authority from GOD to punish offences " against Catholicism simply as inch ; that there is " nothing intrinsically unjust in restrening all " non-Catholics by material force from the profs.- " lion and practice of those various religions which " they sincerely regard as true ; and that liberty "of worship conduces to moral corruption." (Dublin Revitto, April, 1865.) We do not say that these doctrines expressly warrant acts like those which have just occurred at Barletta ; we do not say that the Pore does not authorise the inculcation of other principles which, if allowed their full weight in a complete system of Catholic ethics, might not in some measure pre vent or restrain them. Bat see how the denial of gm eight to religions freedom works. The cen sures which the Pori has pronounced in special all3cutions against the Governments of New Grre- i° I t, II i , TOE 1 nada and Mexico, for perraii liberty of warship' in those countries, are kngipn eapbo u t the git tholic world. King Vic-ron EMMANUEL is in a like situation, obnoxious to exactly the same denuncia tions—a ruler who has forgotten his highest duty, and who robs the Church of her rights by the licence he allows to heretics. The priests denounce this liberty as a wrong done to Gon. The favourite text is brought out, to be perverted for the ten thousandth time : " Who will rise up for me against " the evil doers I Who will stand up for me against " the workers of iniquity Y " The preacher is eloquent, the people are superstitions, and haply burdened with the recollection of peoosdilloes which may be expiated by zeal. The rest follows naturally, and in due time we get a story like that which has now come from Barletta. We pity the victims of fanaticism, and we do well : let us also pity the fanatics, who are them selves in turn victims of the ignorance in which they have been reared. Their deeds shock us by their grossness, and yet it may be that, having re gard to the measure of light vouchsafed to them, they are not more guilty than some nearer to us, who, without their excuse, act as if Heaven were pleased to see men inflicting punishment on those who differ from them as to its will. If the penalties which, in the form of social exclusion, political disability, and pecuniary tributes, we maintain against certain classes of religionists have not even the excuse of this error, then we have little reason to pique ourselves on our moral superiority ever the authors of these outrages at Barletta. OUR OONTFAPORARIEB. (T 111.3 DA.I.) TM; DISTI7III4I.IICIII IM JAMAICA. After giving a summary of the main facts com- militated by its canespeadeat in the last intelligence from Jeassiea, the rinse says most of the of foes °ones:nod in mitring down the rebellion have new had the opportu nity of telling their own story. Upon the whole, they ap• pear ease esneisteat with each other, and iadicata less dimpocidea to Meaty everything nailer the plea of military seamanly than we might have expected. There are many meamptione in them, however, w►ich no civilian, still lem a lawyer, can possibly aceept, and some explicit or im plied admissions 'click aompromiw indirida.ls very deeply If it should ultimately prove that the allows bad really exaggerated their own misdeeds, to piste. the Jamaica publis, sr their military superiors, it will be a great relief to the English public, which bee felt tie shame of them refleated oa itself. Upon this question we met await the sordid of the communion ; but, whatever that may he. no amends hosorobk will be due to the feeling. of persona who tins mistake crimes far merits, sad credit themselves with revolting Wastes* end amity until made to understand that people at ►ems regard each actions with horror. The Daily Saes, Risme*, ansiyaing the evidence of the / alms, seas up by saving :—lt is now for governmeat to determine wheelers . oaken of either service who could be guilty of aria not merely of indiscretion, but of oold blooded malicious nevagery, are proper persons to hold her Majesty's onandesioa. We have now the explanations of the officers inculpated, and it is tints to mak whether more evidenes an be needed than their sown admission. Per if snob men remain in the army and navy, those services ca which we all look with national and social pride, whose hotter... has as yet bees uninspeached. whose gal lantry sad gentleness here been unstained, most bear the reproach of sheltering nem who have ordered women to be flogged ; who paraded flea, eon , damned and uscoodearaed, to witness executions ; who bribed a wife to betray her father to the gallows with the lure of her hasbead's life ; who held rep for imitation by their subordinates the sample of a brother officer who was " kerning like fee and whe did all this amidst a popu lation unfeminine& dimmed, abjectly suing for mercy. Referring to the act of indemnity paved by the Jamaica legislature the Daily News rays the English nation cannot be parties to murderers sad women-doggers pardoning themselves, and then coming home to smile triumpbaatly at our futile indignation ant our vain appeal to the out raged conitit tine. The Herald, while justifying the conduct of the govern ment and the officers generally, does not deny that there have been eases in which officers or private soldiers engaged in vindicating the law have olmmitted 'eta of unnecessary severity—perhape of wanton cruelty. Every mail from Jamaica serves to strengthm the conviction of the Herald that these instances we. e few acid Tara With the solitary exception of the charge of murder brought against the Pro vost Marshal, Ramsay, about which it reserves its eoliths., these gravamina, as a/siost white mite, appear to the Herald to resolve themselves into allegetions of unnecessary severity, deserving, perhaps, of reprim sad, but in no point of view eirAstel. Be the victims ton- hundrA or three thousand, says the Tekprapd, the question renew whether any of them were put to death midst tlr. illotality does not depend epos arithmetic. Stem and inexvible should be the punish ment for murder, reline, and revolt ; nor are we amoegst then who would have shuddered at even a larger weed of retribution, had th I guilt of all who suffered been clearly pretext. Bat we eaueot, f r the very credit of oar nee and name, to nay nothing of at '1 highs r coesideratione, tolerate tuts of melte' or savagrry which Walt be natural enough in Hayti tr Dahomel . Happily, the number of women dogged, like that of moo shot or hanged, proves to have bees flagrantly era 'grated ; but the dogging of women at all—under any csocreinble riremostanoss whataoever—is an outrage upon oer own manhoo I, and an offence against the eiviliastioa whose mi,isrers we sr , . Again, the muti liana of Vie des I—w t one not on what plea—le utterly and absolute' y able rent to our inducts. Another heavy Ira I of Janatcs evident*, writes the Star, has been laid upon the national consciences. Fiat, martial law was proclaimed bemire of unsupported allegations of oonspiracy, and when procaimei it was interpreted by the commode, of the sores* to mean that the whole popula tion were to be deemed rebels till they proved the ',pu trefy. No wonder that Warn of the direst cruelty flowed from each a spr ng. It wiol he the duty of the home go- Viesll2lllll, le trace the eel to irs fountain heed. They mud introit the mercers of oar eolocies that they are sot only is avid sots of trutaity which lower us to the level of sarapety, but te guard seams: any infringement of note dirty-bonght mistimes of persoeal liberty and civil wepanibility whieb, wherever the Brach flag dies, are the birtbright of her Majesty's subjects. THE WERKLY PRESS. TIM MORN But. The Saturday Review admits that for a variety of MIAOW it Is desirable 'hat the franchise should be redocad, and for a variety of other reasons it is desirable that a con siderable number of the smaller boroughs should have their political pawls decreased or takes away. A good reform bill would he a bill that, wale boldly reducing the franchise, distributed the setts so that *very class of Beglish 'misty should be fairly an 1 ads:lately represented, but the language in which the hill is defended is more then idle ;it is wild end extravagant. Mr. Bright's letter to his Etinniaglum orowit mats la a masterly example of all that a politician at such a (aisle as the present ought not to ' say. In the first place, ths bill is declarei to be an honest bill. It dye maim( but fix ea • figure for the franchise, ' and Mr. Bright acknowledges that the figure fired mamma Sublet the wrong one. Bat then this simple fragment of reform, doing nothing but fix on • wrong figure, has • subtle metal virtue strut it. It is apo , r thing in itself, bat ethically it is l'eantdul. The only attempt that Mr. Bright mates to eve • meaning to his words is by styles that what he likes about the bill is not its contents, but the reeo'nf on of the ministry to stand or fall by it. He can coax or be ma threshes, es well se abuse. Within a few hours after his letter was tai at Birming ham, he wee at Kaschesiter, protesting that, so far as Lord o foregear was semereed, he only called him a dirty eon. 'minter in the Pickwieldan muse, and meant by it that he was • meet estimable ram Rol:4mm of sound liberal pebetples and desosuded from a grandfather who had sap ported Orr Act -Co , n-Lsw League. And if coaxing fails, as well as abuse, the, the last, the intrast, and th e a b gr p si t ' means megithe used. Mr. Hight ill sal RPM his !` leashg." Let him only hem enough of them to lice the advisees to Westminster on the voting day, sad he will engage that MATURDAT '6, bill is onsied, u 'WOO Sir Robert Clifton was returned 'for Noildriblim, In Oho talon of the dnionfey Review the Mune adopted by the government affords a loophole for a large number of members who WWI to keep the ministry in, provided that a mere Franchise Bill does not become law. They are to vote for the second reading, end then the government will so complicate and hamper the question by bringing in dummy bills for redistribution that no one need fear that the Franchise Bill will paw. Mr. Oliphant and Mr. Binglake were charmed with this pro posal. It saved their principles, and restored them to their party, and reassured them in a v.riety of pleasant ways. The Saturday Review does not quarrel with them for this, but does not me why a man like Lord Grosvenor should be celled a dirty conspirator became he prefers saying what he mesas, and noting on what he thinks. Earl Grosvenor, speaking for all, whether crypto-toriss, like Lord Eloho, or sincere liberals, like the Spectator, who desire to see the Reform Bill made complete, had & ie.n wiles of a resolution pledging the house to accept no im perfect measure, and the government felt itself in danger. It was perceived in a moment out of doors as well as inside that the member for Chester spoke for the whig territorial lets, and without their aid a composite cabinet like the pre sent is, on a bill such as it has produced. oertain to be defeated. It was necessary to bend. and Mr. Gladstone in a towering rage offered the house a compromise almost se imbe cile as Peter Simple's promise in place of cash. He would have a bill drawn up express:ng the government view on the subject of redistribution, and after the great division would lay it on the table, net tabs debated or even discussed, but to be looked at and talked about in lobbies. He would not consider his bill even u a promise, but simply as a " view." Now between this session and the next Napoleon may be 'dead, snd reform mean manhood suffrage; or we may be at war, end reform mean a philosophies dream of the past ; or some new question may have arisen, before which reform will have lost even the little interest it now' ensiles. .Mr. Gladstone certainly would not aosept a bell at twelve months' sight on a firm which may not be in existence as sufficient payment of tame, yet that is what he is asking his empanels!, to accept. Indeed he demands cash down before he signs his bill, for e►erybody is to vote the seceed reading of the Reform Bill, that is, to "affirm the principle" of a blank reduction of the franchise before the goverement b 4 is produeel. The cabinet SWIM to cake late that liberals will hesitate to oppose a proposition to whirl they stand so deeply pledge UM astute usurers, they call on the creditor to admit his liability for disputed interest, and thee they will dismes in a friendly way the possibility of arrangement. Them is muter= in that idea, but it is not the sort of acuteness which prevails with the Rouse of Commons. In as article heeded "the Condemned Bill," the Press says it is such en ill-arranged and mischievous measure that it would be labour throws away to discuss its details. If its author, had not stumbled at the very threshold, by endeavooriog to separate two questions that ought to be settled at one sad the Mae time--eareely, those of the franchise sad the redistribution of seats—they could hardly =past to secure support for the nab changes which more in despair than la sober earnest they vesture to recommend. The Press waxes wrath against Yr. Bright for his Pr mingbam letter. sod says that its language cannot be passed over in silence, sod on the reassembling of the legislature we shall learn whether ministers have sufficient courage to visit him with the season he deserves. No man of truly independent mind, no matter to what party be may belong, will submit tamely to Yr. Bright's dictation. The appeal to physical fore* is the worst form of advocacy that eon be advanced, and it is rather unfortunate that woe other should have been urged in favour of the govern ment bill. Not all the raking of the tinders of party ohs, says the Examiner, prevent the steady glow of go blio opinion from making heel felt, and beaming warmer every day. The maloontents have dose their best to disprove beforehand that there was any popular feeling at all for reform. Failing in that device, they have eagerly denied the truth long after it had grown undeniable; and by the help of sup pression and misrepresentation have endeavoured to keep up the self-delnsion. Bat it will not do. One great town after another utters its calm but 110110k1101111 judgment is favour of the mode rate bill of franchise extension introdueed by minis ters. South Lancashire end the West Riding are sum moned by requisitionists of weight and influence to me.t for the ,awe purpose ; aid in the course of the 'caning week many sasemblages are to take place in different parts of town and country having the like object in view. The declaration of Mr. Gladstone on the eve of t►e holidays cleared away all pretence of mystification with regard to the redistribution of sesta. Unless the principle of a cautious and reasonable expan sion of the suffrage be adopted, it is useless to waste time in elaboratiog details of redistribution, mode of voting, or correction of venal vices. But that principle ones deliber ately asserted by the House of Commons, it is only just and right that the entire scheme foe its application should be set forth and explained ; and this is what government undertakes to do between the second reading and going into committee on the bill. The country appreciates the deference shown to its independent judgment, and now speaks its mind accordingly. In the view of the Economist the bill is expressly and avowedly a bill with unknown supplements, and ac cording to the nature of those supplements will be the nature of the contemplated change. If many new mein ben are given to large northern towel, and the ham:thin also lowered, the power of the working classes will be very greatly increased ; If only a few members are given• to such towns, then the power of these classes will not be much increased. Till we know how many such orate it is proposed to create, we are votiog in the dark. The bill cannot be ac cepted by the country, for the gist of it lies is appendices not before the country. Some liberal members of parlia ment have been satisfied with the promise by the govern ment that they would during sh's rovion lay titer supple mental reform bills on the table of the tons.. Bat no inch promise can satisfy the eonntry—out e doors nobody care. what is on the table of the house. We only know what is proposed. Who can tell what may happen before these deposited and ante-dated bills came on for dist:maim AUSTRIA AND PlOB5l/. Almost all of to-day's journals, both daily and weekly, cantata articles on the state of the relations between Austria sad Prnasii. As might be 'expected, war between the two great Garman powers is deprecated by all, ant by most the oondoct of Prussia is severely oommootedopos. The criticsl position in which these powers stand towards each other is admittel, and the malts to which a conflict is Germany might lead to ars dwelt ones of the moot serious character. tire (Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Yaws 30. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess el Wales, Princess Helena, and Priam, dr,ve oul yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four. Princess Louise, with Prinoesa Holmlobe Langembourg, also west out driving. The Prince of Wee rode on horseback, :oda ty Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel. Prince Arthur, attended by Elejor Elph , nstono, arrived at the Castle from Greenwich-park. The Queen, the Prince sad Princess of Wales, Prioeess Helens, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Arthur, sad the Prince and Princess of Hobenlohe Lawn. bourg, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, at tended divine service, Ibis morning, in the private chapel. The Honourable and Very Reverend the Dean of Windsor officiated. I Meier& Dickenson and Till, of Bond-street, had the hoector of a sitting from the Queen yesterday, for a sketch (after a photograph) of her Majesty. CABINET COTTNerr.—Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence, in Downing-street, on the 7th of April. Loan CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ST. JAMIB 2 B PALACE, RAI= 24. —Natio° is ketwity shwa, that hew Majesty's birlitiey will be celebrated on Saturday, the 96th of MAT next.—SYDNEY. Lord Obamlwalala.—Oweette. Hie Royal Highness the Duke at Cambridge, as Piel4-/4rshel Commandiag-la-Chief will, early I. the *G ents; week, eonnueacs a tour of iispeation of the digerent Nullifier, libations. The Duke of Rutland, Lord Loughborough, Mr. Cheney, and Mr. Gilmour hay, *sad the &ale mina bled at Dot.. Park, as a 'nit to the Earl and COWAN' of Oardigme. V **4llll ‘ ‘ i4Ar l G \That 't M k~ l _ INTELLIG • . AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. A despatch from Breslau of the 30th announces that Austrian troops to the number of 40,000 have successively passed through Pardnbitz and Kuenigs graetz, and are to concentrate at Theresienstadt, near the frontier of Prussia and Saxony. The Norddeutsche Zeitung of the 26th says that Austria is forming three corps d'artn4e, one at Cracow, one in Austrian Silesia, and one in Bohemia. The fortifications of Cracow, which have been enlarged and reinforced, will form the basis of the first corps. The troops in Cra cow, which were directed towards Bohemia, have been replaced by troops from Ga llicia The second corps will have a strategic direction, determined by the line of the Oder and the rail way between Oderberg and Velakirchen, and its flank will be protected by the Cracovian corps d'armoSe. The towns in the country are being filled with troops. The black and yellow brigade, the 9th battalion of chaaseurs, and a brigade of cavalry, are kept in Vienna as a reserve. The cavali7brigades in Upper Austria and the Radetzki hussars in Saltzburg and in other places are ready to march. The third army corps, which is being formed in Bohemia, will be provided with a large artillery force, which is being despatched chiefly in the night. The men on furlough have been called in, and it is probable that the Bohe mian army will take the offensive, whilst the other corps will act on the defensive. On the 23rd three extra trains, each conveying 500 infantry and large quantities of artillery, passed by Otstz. According to information from Upper Silesia of the 25th, the 12th battalion of chasseurs and six regiments of infantry, the Henedorf, Hanover, Joseph, Prince William, Mecklenburg, and Scbmerling passed through Cracow on their way to the Prussian and Saxon frontier. In the Norddeateche of the 27th other details are given of further movements of Austrian troops, and "yet," says this journal, " the Vienna press would have the world believe that the Austrian army is on a peace footing, and that the movement of troops to Bohemia is for the protection of the Jewish population there. The solicitude of the Austrian government for their Jewish subjects in Bohemia is no doubt praiseworthy. We can only wish that the same disorders which have disgraced some towns in Bohemia may not spread to other provinces, for otherwise, the whole Austrian army will be in motion." The Kretar Zeitung says that Prussia, on her side, must arm also, to be able to negotiate with success and to maintain pease. Austria, it says, would be able in four or five days to enter Saxony with 80,000 men, and should Von Benat unite with Austria, we should have 100,000 on our frontier. The Austrian journals, on the other hand, declare that Prussia is silently and secretly preparing for war—that Austria will only act on the defen sive, hut that Prussia has miscalculated if she thinks that Austria will be caught sleeping. THE FRENCH VIEW OF THE AUSTRO PRUSSIAN DISPUTE. The Prase of to-day says that M. Benedetti, the Ambassador of France in Berlin, had an interview with the King of ramais, and made the following representation : " France considers the maintenance of peace to be a neomaity for Europe. It is contrary to her desires that creations which may be resolved by diplomacy should, under any pretext, be decided by armies. The latter mode of action would injure the interests of all the fixates of Europe. If, in spite of all warnings, war should break out, France certainly will not be on the side of that power which shall have discarded negotiations." (1217121V5 FRANCE AND THE GREAT GERMAN POWERS. PARIS, Meilen M. of;this morning asp :—" The The C( position of France in view of the present difficulties in Germany is very simple, and is the result of a wise and far-seeing policy, which may be summed up in the word neutrality.' God alone can know if the crisis will be decided by war, but the impe rial government has provided for all contingencies, and, whatever may happen, France will not be found unprepared." PORTUGAL. LISBON, MAioa 30. The Cortes will close on the 20th April. The Official Gazette of to-day publishes a contract concluded between Portugal, France, Brazil, and Italy for a telegraph to America. OVERLAND MAILS. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, MAace 30. The China left at 6 a.m. yesterday, and the Euxine at 6 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter at Southampton about the 12th proximo. OUTWARD CALCUTTA CHINA, AND AUSTRALIANMAILS. YALTA, Itasca 30. The Manilla, from Southampton on the 20th instant, arrived to-day at noon, and left at 5 p.m. for Alexandria. The Nyanza, from Marseilles on the 28th inst., arrived to-day at 6 p.m., and will leave at midnight for Alexandria. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, MARcu 31. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 70 passengers, 1,9001. in specie, pearls value 43,000 rupees, and 619 packages of general cargo. Heavy south-westerly gales bad prevailed at Gibraltar, and several casualties bad occurred amongst the shipping. The Governor, Sir Riehard Airey, left Gibraltar on the 24th inst. for Seville, to wisness the religious ceremonies and processions of Holy Week at the Andel tibial' capital. Exchange on London, 491 to 1 ; on Paris, 5.13 ; Madrid, 1/ to 4 dis. Freights unaltered. arms* h 0 IN " 1 14114 snag& I wet 211 MO Ittereal Wpm were rerersea—mw, inc ware 1 •••••••••-••••, ---7 7 ' t - Ohiggeff ' .......--' The enormous development lately given by ' eau 0 . il,„; c ht Ad o an d th e lies cs, the left, i w. , DN A, i aged 3a. manager et me steamers • , .!_ tw os near& ladies to their back hair was lad week applied to imingslice that pegigiseay, probably unknown t ok bb a yowl( ma bin. l i sa l " miusder"7,4* .toward , f ir e : al at...."" d , m d iag a irssarea 6. _...1" the 4 r purposes. & " 1 " 1 " 1 " "wan ••• **PPed whin ea- mi. be bad always imejoyed exedles l health, sad died ulti. *mom b e k. m ;rt, Ireland . i r „,, w hims. tbo7 l'" mum teeing Belgium for concealing about 130 yards of Valen. I testily of typhus fever." brought rotted by Captain K. Brnare.". • mend mired I Mernet lam is what it culled the alUtrualL Elms thin Gar AL map has just been published by the Italian This la the •••••4 *ii belimdr " hia V ia l er p i p the rS ig * : neutral dimension of that eortioa of the coiffure is strictly mites was to have bed • .• - malt* 1 ponrusiset abewbp the degree of public fad:seam ia Tb omoo lma" of ott Pai w nl i d u j o y L oo t. Ws be sustained by the custom-hone offlo'als. melt psevisee by edoer• et was done about 30 years beak .------------ and en ------ "We learn," sap th e Gazette des Tribunaur, :in Frame by W. Chad; Depia. The rend* is tbs. th e ...On Ttt I N IC ester 11 that** amigos peceouseet by the Canned et State Cis teasideg of the people is awn sad more imperfect as yogi 11w Dim 'TO UTDOITT- HALL v ,..... ia 0 MEN the appeal of the Soetmoreuey family bat boss slimed by 1 dossed Metre smith ; the part the wet adveated it Tula. Immlulaff „...Wels• grlll.._. __footless*: Tel co mid wyfilk 80 •0 1 01 the Emperor. We an informed that the decision admit where lea population of a time's& there an only 4911 per Lmwm read i i M l i t ia = 'lelh way wa ry day matkli the appeal, a• 11 waseequently maintaire the hepsdat deems ems meth Mt reed sad Wei , * i le Lower Calabria the pre. 1 g u stsry, -- Q - a umber of other bides will e " bell t 1 of May 14, 1861, which ootf n the title of Dote de Wet portion is the high's . , Was 927: le Sic il y mad Barran h ; intermediese pasta. The new Rae will be la mistriain on Count Adalbrin de Talleyrand•Teriperd." i melds WO, and et Plenum is 757. I mammies*, to a boat of City mes. , 71.1111666 \XPRSB& (noit - bus OWN cm 'ROM PARIS. PARIS, Fatnax Eyeing°. The programme of the great and long-talked-of Th agr o i 3 c ca ult n u tral ral p in ar cl is ui co ry m is mi n tt o e w e, o containi nt in thea the nam es of M. Michel Chevalier, free trader, and M. Pouyer Quertier, protectionist, is composed with an appearance of impartiality. It was of coarse not to be reasonably expected that the government would refrain on this particular occa sion from so arranging the matter as to give its own views somewhat more than an equal chance of finally prevailing. The protectionists complain that instead of a set of questions being officially drawn up to be put to witnesses officially selected by the central and provincial oommissioss, " everybody " should not be al -1 lowed to come forward to say "anything." The question of agricultural distress is by no means the only one to be examine], and as for the special one of free trade, which I have no doubt will come safe out of the ordeal, it is almost swamped by the numerous subjects of the inquiry. The great object to be attained is declared to be to ascertain the actual condition of landed property, as compared with previous periods, to examine the systems of farming adopted, to show what improvements have been introduced, and what others remain to be realised; to de termine the difficulties and obstacles whioh farmers struggle against, and to seek oat the best means of removing the same. This general investigation will comprise all the facts and questions connected with the mortgage system, agricultural credit, wages, large and small farms, manure, cattle-breeding, roads, and the effect of the treaties of eommeroe and of the new -corn laws. For this vast inquiry to be effected within a reasonable time the operations must be simultaneous is different parts of the empire ; but in order to give the whole one common direc tion, the minister recommends the appointment of a supreme commission, with himself as presi dent, to be composed of persons versed in the prac tice of agriculture, or in the study of questions connected with it. While this commission should sit in Paris, district inquiries would be held in all parts of the empire. M. Emile 011ivier, who, se he warms with his work, improves in hie new character as a journalist, bas a better article under the heading of " Oil en sommes nous," than the first of the series, which was not very impressive. He pronounces in good set terms against " Democratic Ciesarisai," which he says Fresco will never stand. He repudiates as a vulgar error the too commonly accepted notion that liberty is an Anglo-Saxon privilege, and that 'Frenchmen are only fit to be led lace a flock of sheep by a paternal shepherd called, when he has 1 -charge of men, a tyrant. lie denies that any one man, whether Crew, Richelieu, loggia XIX.. Napoleon L, or Napoleon 111. is strong enough to think for the whole French people. In conclusion, he echoes the now growing cry foe " liberty "—" not English liberty, which the government may cry down as mach as it likes, but French liberty—that liberty which our fathers conquered by the sweat of their brow, which has its root in the Champ de Mai, in the southern muni cipalities, in the States-General, in the provincial, assemblies, and in the immortal decrees of the Con stituent Assembly." Prince Napoleon left Paris yesterday. In the morning he had an interview with the Emperor of several hours' duration. His imperial highness will be absent from Paris for about two months, most of which will be spent in Flccemes and Naples. It is stated that he will pay a short visit to Athens and the lonian Isles. The evening pre ceding his departure Prince Napoleon gave a select dinner party at the Tuileries, at which were MM. Emile 011ivier, Emile de Girard.* Emile Angier, and the Abbd Usti, who afterwards played on the piano some selections from his own works. The panic at the Bourse continues. At no period has the apprehension of a war in Germany been more intense. The heavy fall of the last two days induced many purchases for the realisation of profit. But nevertheless the Rente, though not closing at the lowest prices of the day, left off,with a further fall of 25c. for cash and 15c. for account, at 67fr. 75c. and 67fr. 774 c. Mobilier fell 3fr. 7k., and Italian 600. WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) SATURDAY, MARCH M. 8 &IL B. T.. WWI B.W. W. 4410 B.W. 29 89 441 W.B. W. 28.9345 8. su.ltli N.W. 90.0067 W.N.W. 0.09 46 N.N.W. 7W.1 N.W. 30.13110 N.W. 90.066! W. 90.!0 .9 W. *COI 61 99.9660 W.N.W. 19.06 30 11. 30.9669 N.N.E. 14.448 N.I. X 39.9046 W. 139_9667. 6. W. MIDAY. Op NoPTEUX MOODAY. &W. to &L, motionito to freak with mow _ ._ forothetii - iitiVrostoriy, klub to meditate. N:N. W. to W.B. W.. wsrsc B. W. to N. W, and back, fresh, with som. rile. fresh to isadseaSs. Varying winds, mode. BOOTIIIII. Mindy wvasely sod rate to freak with wasterty. fresh to rain in places. naodarste, pnerally fine. ZAIITIZI. As next ahoy.. As next above. Narthara=acallaa& Wastwa.lreland, Maas, and adjs. 0046111. Boutharasimdlik Mame rad Bay at Away. rastarsaddaatward lash/ aad Barth e... The Earl and Countess Granville intend to re main at Weimer Castle until the end of next west, as Ms lordship is fully expected to be present at the Oebitet Comma on the Ttb proximo. The Bari of Derby continues to regain strength after his attack of gout, but is still linable to !ewe London to recruit his health. The Countess of Derby's bleeds will be gratified to know that her ladyship is recovering treat her serious indisposition. _ _ _ Mr. HoHord, M.P., and Mrs. Holford left town oa Thursday for tiadr mat io Glookeestorshiro‘ Mr. and Mrs. Schenly and family have left Princes-gate for Pulp. " A strange anatomical phenomenon (says the Indepencisset Beige) has jut amerced at Tourney. A post-mortem exaraimatioe of a young aoa•eomtiriosed 'Aker, who had died ie the military hospital. hos shown that all the iateresl organs were reversed—thus, the heart SUPPOSED LOSS OP A STEAM WITS AL HANDS. The Glasgow Morning Journal of Thoradsh 1151 third edition, published the following " Greenock. Thersanfi 1 • 1 ., "This morning the steam-tug Jasper, bleed * Slerf. of Greansek, arrived here and Simkd. pad el* wreck of • steamer, which she had Pio kea lt= between Caswell and Port Patrick os w morning. It was supposed to be that of • small stash whit* had foundered. There was aim owe flostisli_ct this greater part of • saloon deck bosh V* tag 11 tli . picked np • cabin deck seat and a few *WI! It might lead to the vessel being reocg**L • to noon Captain Young, who was late annaisedhe 41_2! '• Arran Gads, identified the mat sod part of the Or a ' that of the Arran Oast* sad from the dasedpika ep deck. and other particulars, be bad no bssitatios ia In It was part of the wrist* of that well know* steamer, owned by Mews. Watson, of Glasgow, 41 ,_ of Barger, which was oe her way from the 0/ 01 London. The Arran Castle, as we noticed this week the Clyde ma Wednesday, the 21st, for the the purpose of being placed upon the poems* uf, " Dobi tha in S by rivir the Cork She sal e Water for dlutsees sto " am i e b r undar , hl ll thee nothing further has been heard or sets of his her crew. Greet fears have been entertalsof fhe safety during the last three days, as her ostacri bath on board and nothing . Ls' been heard of 0* It is feared that all have pensbel with her. Is b a h; posed mho went down durtog the boacr V* ° I be night. The following ars tome on board bean sader mew :—Alexander o 12 yeora, hie msweer• ; bito Bats, of Bangor, owner; William Campbell aol Campbell, brothers. eteverds, Glasgow • Je55 * 9 1. 1 . 11 2 1 , 4 , 01;sgew ; 010ir toldrigiaA id seri wais E= ntostrori tail/Awe Ts 2 ' ria.--14 Amosisil koi of A s web. alembsri ASIIIIIMOd lb. we% usemitin had bim here in middle sea, o sakbrabll loco 84. 1 Ix ' eablj to the e ofileera 1 .pecker workene the cam Ibezt, II easoolat AMEBIC il AND CANADA . XV, ' (mum's rnicaam.) erhAlr The Royal Mail steamship Ja va , fr au rN A v it pr r York on the 21st inst., arrived at 1.. 41 4 b3C.102. 12.10 a.m., today (31st March), with 8 3 ' . - : ase ,,,,,, n re of • gers. She landed 67 sacks of mails a n d t h ree , The I - ' • I &angers, and proceeded immediately f or Li• H., who was . All well. She wen detained at Ne w j„ . • SWF" Mr. RATIWID 1 hours by fog. The Java brings no e p ee * "woe of 4 (Per the Java.) • to Lie 3 NEW YORK, Mame 21, g, . aseatiss The departure of the West India aque d r * , , mums - Halifax, by the order of Sir Frederick H a% hin," One 1 confirmed. right tasty, in f In the House of Representatives, 1 4 , '. . that it i has introduced a resolution declarin g t i s i . 3' s ; ad Teak ; government cannot guarantee a Mexican ~, ' not, ke • g limn loan. After &short discusaien, th e . .. • h. rue, goon A was kir laid . iff`C ov all er. och has sent &statement to the 7. 15d, Hera rre": a 1 L. oboe now showing that the funds held by the go . ~ of the o the 10th inst. were 57,000,000 dollies *.. ' • w.: e and 65,000,000 dohs in currency Th e * *e -, .• (Loud dreceived a report from Mr. Stanton, ~ : •• ' • bill sad a there were 152,000 men in the Federal • ' to ' ,g a service in January last. !!! .• 1 eases. The house has adjourned until the last ~. • ffividoe of r. in May. A , aim. Worth, O Melees received here from Vera Craz toll ."' B , t e ; Trd ,' d inst. state that M. SaWard had left fo r hew. mi n i" won t he a Brownsville despatches state that a o f th e man w i n , O of-war had captured a vessel from the , be ware ad • 1 States, with arms for the liberal'', on the est ar w ' Tamaulipas, and had taken her to Ban. • r‘ '11" th higllif '' General Getty has released all the Bight • 'A mi d . i d busters. According to Matamoas meg 0 * Dr. Parrs e ford was permitted to escape, became, ha n om ~ " let a l bs a l proofs of the indirect participation in hi -• at.. harem d affair of officers high is the Federal smite, # that The Germania, Cri of Washington, 44 4 th Or c o r m Bill w ;„ Peruvian have arrived out. t •dm 'Reform di A oompanv of Federal troops was d uPetati t icia b a sa .m ol a i a i m iltr " , Is Burlington, Vermont, on St. Patri ck' in ' e s u t l i gui w it , w to guard against any Fenian demo eet ,d Irish societies in the States had public dog s =Worm b e the day, at which the speakers arin ee k it 'troy the ohs,. fidenoe in the mouse of the Fenian mon e y the eel istillii e ' ..ti seeitula COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENO2. said that ea bNEW YORE, KUCK 21, N w 'dwell ea ~ nt Money abundant. Gold, 1284. Be undid system i i. Landon, 13911 ; ditto on Pans, 4.10. (f&ughtle i 1 firm, but active : New York Osnitab, Pam" ,_ "L a e e : e i° ' Illinois, 116 1 ; Erie * 821; 540 1/ " 6 1 ' dit iet . Tit to " Cotton dull : Middling upland, 40e. Iliesal babe& of St Id wheat dull ; corn slightly firmer; polio it hem tits lit ill steady ; coffee heavy ; sugar slightly firs!; ee bet pothole lasses steady. Petroleum dull : crude, ft, l a. .. thee they w el l ,is refined, 38, 40e. Sales of cotton at V a t ,„ e lgiii ~ since Friday, 6,000 bales. Receipts sines ahamie.) " 1 37,000 bales. hr. a 301 1 an NEW main, maxi •C" . 19 ch The cotton market is depressed. Mat iddlii, o d 42c. The day's sales are 3 . 000 balm • h badops eat trimly d eh CANAD MOtTiiii&l e &lei asegy - wr ic :2.l l.....dopii :es °a A proosssion of Irish inhabitants penal* awed, said 6 • 2 city on St. Patrick's 'day and paid thifr rap* • oohed by eel of the Governor-GeasraL His eroding, hoe mei cries of 'No Lae which he made in reply, said that be sem** nand insulted m g demonstration as evidence of loyalty to he* hwi lsou. d ami Ept and as a protest against the pnem*of hi the mob kith h . seen who would disgrace the name of Womb l e eit tggoia se 311 , wanton attack upon a peaceful country. Thaw would vlift. thi l , cn dent of the $O. Patrick's Society Windowsill* . . u .. eir mato ° 1 rig of one of the finest volunteer battalions in tin ii -- I ich try was a proof that the Irish will, whoa moms right Hoe. back their loyalty with their stout right ems 5 o b i eFr i :l7: l NS Governor-Generals remarks were anthologist bra r. A. NI _. cheered. "" The Hibernian Society paraded Tornio gat Mr.Bessoci bs weld m Dl- The Toronto St. Patnck's Society dames& esi d e l b e 11 dal Fenian invaaion ' and pledged themselves heti " Hemmen I mr. the government to defend Canada. Thin* the sheathe declared the Irish Canadian catholks ern °°°° l P rior I asked Mr. ▪ thoroughly loyal body. piste sod 1 s Chief Justioa Draper delivered as ailus iel let mullet hol "" rad jury at Toronto, in which be to whether eel ew Irishmen in Canada desired s lap t mss is repll w tin, government, least of all by armed imam VI GI wetthiske-ho , re d the danger mewed imminent. It was sot win pedneed • 1 „„- t understood by the law of ultimo, nor s ion a E s imposed - ternal conflict that threatened them, bat it vOl perfectly se 7: armed invasion from a foreign country with* ' whetter tu: Oct the Queen was at pews by men wLose ads sit L tob bea L,,..r M. place them beyond the protection of national le ° Th. Omu er, who could not, therefore, be expected to ad s moo. (CM the conformity therewith, or acknowledge its crisp the Ine t eti ; lions. Their avowed motives included mum os tmon England for Ireland's alleged IMP dberetl MI WO . an ., iod They proposed to assail Canada as aBM H° believe W A of insult and annoyance mar ilk " the Metal eys their reach, and easier compared. The not sow Ito of success would be accompanied by dli gt 11114.14"d would earl cot ensued of &hi en:Lu ll ja nrestricted • •ntionsnest, tat animiabi , ith of willing thousands fend door Wes expanniet lap The country presented the aspect of and "Wei s t ir r i ) i bee re n ad fo y ll to ow de ed by the eh* ' go rinpbab sc., camp. The Canadians, whilst rely* Ce lbs U. tented. The row moan 11 calf - defence , and wits, ' if ha forc ve ed ifixu , shall , 63 le uli tb ri to wc cause. There can be but one remplion foe is . -stern, pitiless opposition to NIA s r:4; awn striking for Queen and country, bar the Libor wt and may God defend the right ! Re issla sod Etsral pa wee sddr 8 ' forees The to M otrat of Ga t,ooo rep re re g l u e lt i r i the orli esilidlia llt os t i volunteers on frontier service, 15,000 vend_ solved Its 3 ▪ ready for immediate service, and 80,000 lOW rv e :o n lT l P l reformers amisteseo 6 sage to the legislature stating that althrojt lee ballnottede Governor r er r o d e ofreallyewtoßberunealswlLdkohaint. seats as,.. peeNenne s American government had given retiofoch°7 owl owe . _ I 1 anon that their agents would perm th it ir oo p i: Tow - .. NI. I 4 parties to cross the frontier, yet _, I r MI . 2 might be eluded, sod, therefore, some .. ° 2 the militia should be called out to Rroties u• fr_ Laft.T.L 1 Sinai the Pott IS message, f e r , o p m laced iusul th L e whTohlee revenue m ot the rePi rsiot ol Irdtes, I i at the disposal of the government for pops° ° 2 defence. s ....-----.---•• Tail _ ___ We IA was thaw a PhYaw Th. -.. w. N.W. W.S.W. W. W.N.W. &W. a*. NW. W: eD W. co W.N.W. I ro W. cro N.W. ro W. sr e.w. = Nairn Aberdeen Leith Grammale Va!antis Cape Clear_ Liverpool Holyhead.— Peoanoe Brest Rochefort Plymouth Weymouth Porhinsouth T.;.Touth scare...rel ! Melds ... Heikier erb fb re Ic, Ben. ow. «~o!~ i 9