The Express. — London, England, 1862-02-28 00:00:00

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Sa. bed M packets. byYf chemists. grocers. IL VANE VACTtIitY. f. 1.1771.2 FORTIAN asseitt-at.. W. SECOND-HAND PIANOPORTIIII. CRAMS; IL L& and WOOD Dile • Imp reortioist el meow' Mad Woosierlis. by Ike amid solsensi =ism al grestly esdwvat prlsia—AlL Pairtis4Onsli. awn WATIJ Al' 110/11101 BILIDOL Tim sk 1114. Tossaiow —lls. to SYR— Arifirsizoa, lb. MS. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 28. WE are far from supposing that the French Senate, as at present constituted, has not its uses, designed or undesigned, in the Imperial system. It is obvious that a better was not to be obtained " for love or money," and the question was how to utilize this political sewage of the old rfgimes. The answer seems to be, that the Assembly over which M. TsiiriAtNO presides like • drill-sergeant disguised as a schoolmaster, serves the Empire, on the one hand, as a bugbear to the Liberal parties, bringing out the revolutionary farce of Bonapartism in strong relief, and, on the other, suppresses, or at least neutralises a certain number of influential malcontents, and plays off their reac tionary violence and legitimist leanings against the disaffection of incorrigible Republicans. This is the eternal seesaw which describes alike the foreign and the domestic policy of the Empire. There is nothing very profound, after all, in a system which everybody at home and abroad sees through, and which succeeds, at best, in alienating one party without securing the other. M. BILLACLT as • Minister without a portfolio may discharge the functions of an oratorical pendulum to perfection, but he cannot alter the, hour of day. Satis fied Senators and the outside may applaud the Minister's mellifluous equivocations ; but the hour moves on, and sooner or later the Chief of the State will have to make his election between his natural enemies and his necessary friends. One annual debate in the Chambers on public affairs is quite enough to save public spirit from sleeping the sleep of death. Old watchwords are sounded, old war-cries are re-echoed, old principles are restored to life. Timorous men cease to be afraid of the sound of their own voices, and earnest men take heart again. If the Emperor NAPOLEON desires, for a moment, to encourage agitation, the Senate plays his game. But a licensed ebullition of party rage once a year will never fit a people for free institutions, or teach the decencies of Par liamentary discussion and the dignity of Perlis, mentary independence. The liberal press, however, is improving the occa sion with all its usual ability and more than its usual boldness. In an article written with all his cunning of fence, M. SAINT MARC GIR•RDIN ex presses satisfaction at the vivacity of the recent dis cussions in the Senate. There is nothing very terrifying, he thinks, in the re-appearance of those old champions " Revolution" and "Coun ter-Revolution." order and Liberty will never be reconciled in France if they are not permitted to speak out. M. SAINT MARC GIRARDIN sarcastically suggests that Society has as little to fear from the level ling doctrines of a Prince of the Blood, as demo cracy from absolute theories of the hereditary monarchical principle expounded by a Legitimist so versatile ill his loyalty as M. ux La ROCHR JACQUCLEIN. Nor need those big words, " Revolu tion" and " Counter-Revolution," pronounced by discontented or docile linperialsenators, &term those political elders who fought the battles of ordered free dom under the Restoration and the Monarchy of July. At any rate, if unrestricted debatedegenerates into license, sileuc , 3 is nut order, nor are political animosities appeased because they are suppressed. Order and freedom are only to be recouci'ed by discussion; by the discussion of all pretensions, all rights, and all wrongs. It is not of violent scents in the Senate that M. SAINT MARC GIRARDIN, as a sincere though moderate Liberal, would complain, but of the attempt of certain zealous Conservatives in that to give the lie to history, and call it a " rectification" of notorious facto. Prince Nsetizeux, alluding to the return of the founder of the Imperial dynasty from Elba, reminded the Senate that, on the triumphal march of NAPOLEON from Cannes to Paris, the population in the South saluted him with cries of " Afire trills the "emi l itt..! pown with the nettles ! Doirti with " lA. priest, ! " This allusion to the priests threw the pious congregation in the Luxembourg Palace into • paroxysm of rage, and, at the sug gestion of M. us Persaiiisv, it was explained that the Pasees's words were " d bets les tetittrrs," not " n bus les pe:tres "—as though traitres were no: an equally injurious expression to the ears of Senators ! Nevertheless, as M. SAINT MAZE GIRAILDIN insists, the population of the South in 1815 did cry " trith the priests !" and it would be better to take warning from the truth of history than to falsify it. Why did the French people, after a year's experience of the restored 134.11: it WON tt, cry " Down with the emigris, the rp.hles, awl the priests," when NAPOLEON ap peared once more on the scene 1 Because the liovesiss had learned nothing and forgotten nothing, and had brought the " counter " revolution " in their train. Because, more over, N•POLEoN the FIRST had betrayed the Revolution which swept him to a throne ; had created a new and spurious nobility; had attempted to seduce the allegiance .of the legitimists; had re-organized the Church and signed the Concordat, in order to make religion itself an instrument of national servitude. These cries of the French people in 1815 are full of significance in 1862 ; and Prince NspoLrox, not because he loves the Emezeoa less, but because,let us suppose, he loves liberty more, felt, no doubt, that he was perform ing a conscientious duty to the Senate and to his Cousin,when he showed bow a people could remem ber, and how Kings and Emperors could forget. Creating titles, paltering with priests, coquettiag with legitinikt nobles, did not save the First Evr►aua ; will it iicrve the Third 1 This WY the question which Prince NAPOLEON raised, and which neither M. TROPLONG'II adroit defects of hearieg, DOT M. Briartrix's Wowed periods, nor M. lia ROCHeII courtly phrases, suffice to parry Cr pervert. THE LORD CHANCRILOR last night fulfilled a general expectation in announcing some important changes in the law of lunacy. The exciting cause of the proposed reform was furnished by the proceedings recently taken to ascertain the men• tal competency of Mr. WINDHAM, an inquiry which it is now 'stated on authority was conducted at an expense of 30,0001. To prevent the re petition of a waste so scandalous to the adminis tration of the law, the CHANCELLOR propose• for the future to refer cases of lunacy to one of the judges in Westminster Hall, to be tried there like any other question of fact. It is also provided that, subject to the discretion of the judge, the personal examination of the alleged lunatic shall be taken at an early instead of a late stage of the proceedings. But a yet more important change consists in the value which the new Bill assigns to scientific evidence, which is considerably less than has hitherto been attri buted to it. The LORD CHANCELLOR must expect to see the opinions he enounced last night hotly contested by the faculty ; although we believe that few candid members of the medi cal profession will deny that the embarrassments in which courts of justice have often been placed by the unphilosophical and arbitrary theories of the doctors, which they were expected to receive as authoritative, rendered some reform also- lutely necessary to the administration of the law. When the Bill is published it will be our duty to examine its provisions more precisely : in the meantime we are glad the matter is in good hands. The CUANCELLOR'S Bill was received, on the whole, with favour by the Lords. We must, however, note with surprise • remark by Lord Sr. LEONA/IDS as the recent triaL That learned person is reported to have said :—" It bad been suggested " that if the jury had been allowed to examine " Mr. Wistutut at the clue of the petitioner's " case it would have saved a great deal of expense. " But he (Lord Sr. Leo/rums) had no doubt that " the learned person who presided at the trial " pursued a proper course, and one which led to " the right result. Whether Mr. WINDHAM was " ruined or not was • matter of perfect indiffer " ence to the Court; all that could be " regarded was the due administration of justice," Of course the noble lord's language must not be construed too literally. Lord Sr. LZONARDS doubtless meant that any necessary trouble and cost must be encountered rather than a wrong judg ment should be given in the name of the law ; but the noble lord would hardly deny that the indirect consequences of the administration of the law are the proper concern of those who preside over our courts when those consequences are under con trol, and especially where, u in Mr. WINDHAIeS case, they involve a loss equal to the value of • considerable landed estate. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1862. cbc erourt. OSBORNE, FIB, 27. Prince Alfred arrived at Osborne a little before eleven o'clock last night, attended by Major Cowell, R.F. Viscount Pahumane arrived yesterday afternoon, and had an audience of her Majesty. Loral Palmerston left (),borne this morning for London. Mr. Cleland Barns had an interview with the President of the Board of Trade yesterday, sod presented memorials from the Chambers of Commerce of Glasgow, Steam Ship *weirs' Association, and individual stelunahip owners is Louden, Hull, Liverpool, Dublin, Glasgow, and Leith, against gmntiegpowers tomilway oompaniestoown steamers, Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Heligolaod, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the,lonian Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. THE PRINCESS ALICE. WINDBOR,.fte. 27. To-morrow her Royal Higbee% the Princely Alice will take her departure from New Lodge, Windex Great Park, the meat of the Belgian Minister, and proceed to the residence of Sir James Clarke, whom she will honour with her company to dinner. Her Royal Highness will sleep at the ',Weems of this eminent physician that night, and on the following (Saturday) morning proceed to Osborne, During the visit of her Royal flightier at the Belgian Minister's the has taken daily rides in the vicinity of Wisdeor Great Park, accompanied by Madame and Mite Yes de Weyer, and we ere happy to learn that the abort sojourn is this heathy neighbourhood, the change of air and seaway, has entributed materially towards resetablish. lag her health. Busy preparations are going forward at the Castle for the reception of her Majesty and the royal family, who, up to last night. were expected to arrive here on Thursday next, the 6th of March, but this morning it has been announced that her Majesty may not leave the Isle of Wight before the Tuesday following. The Copenhagen Dagbladet of Tuesday says : "Nothing has been said for some time respecting the supposed or meditated alliance of the Prince of Wales with bee Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark.. This silence, which is easily explained by the lamented death of the Prince Consort, has been broken. Some foreign Journals have stated that the Prince of Wales, on his journey to the East, has had an interview with the Danish Prim. c os, and that the betrothal has taken place. We owe it to truth to rectify that assertion, which must have arisen from some mittake, it being quite impossible such an interview could have taken place, as the august Princess has not for one moment left Copenhagen." Thu Earl and Countess of Hanlwicke have ar rived in tows from Sydney Lodge. The noble earl and her ladyship will leave um Monday for Wimpole 11.11, Cam• bridgeable,. The Karl of Chesterfield has left town for Melton Mowbray. Lorißobert Pelham Clinton has arrived at the Duke el Newcastle's residence, es Grltos•terraoe, truss Brightes. . . . . Mr. and Lady Mary Craven arrived in town yea ten* team Salim Mowbray, for a few days. Sir Frederick Johnstone has left the Earl of Crimea's seat, Ashdowse Park, Barks, sea visit to the Duke of &gaud, at Belson Castle. . . We (ilielting Puat) are requoited to state that the marriage in coatecoplatlak between Mr. Charles Mait land and tie Ht o. Eraser Stanley, daniltter of Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley, will not take place. A marriage is arranged to take place shortly between lb. Farquhar, eldest eon of Sir Walter and Lay Farquhar, and Mtn Baud, daughter of the Hon. Henry Brand, Y.P. . . . ----_ . Major-General &likeley, M.P., has arrived at his home is South Acidley-street, from his seat is Wilt shire. The Lady Catherine Balksley is ribmainlag with her venerable father, the Fad el Radnor. _ _ At St. George's, Hanover-square, ou Tuesday, the Hon. Leopold W. H. Powys, wood goo of the late, and brother to the present, Lord Lilian!, was married to the lody Mary Acheson, mood daughter of the &xi sad Coaster of Gusfoid. The 13ishop4 of Oxford and London spoke yester day on behalf of the Columbia Mission ►t the London Tavern meeting, held adder the presidency of the Lord Mayor. Major Richard Hart Kestinge, Bombay Artillery, whose name appears in the Gazette as having received from her Majesty the Victoria Cross, is the son of Judge Beatings of Dahlia. Mine Lotting" Pyne hawing recovered from her temporary indieposltlos, trill appear this (FM.;) and every evening esti' further Doane, as Lily O'Connor la the Lily of A-o LATNST INTELIAGENC& POLAND. The intelligence from Podolia announces seven teen condemnations to exile in Siberia. Among the condemned are Prince Pedroic, Counts Rzewnski, Kossakowski, kc. Six Polish students of the University of St. Petersburg have been sentenced to the galleys; 240 have been placed under the surveillance of the police. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE LEGISLATIVE CORPS. It is said that the Emperor has replied to the letter addressed to him by M. Itlorny, that he never intended to strike a blow either at the inde pendence or the dignity of the Legislative Corps. This imperial reply could be read in public sitting, but as its contents were known on , Wednesday by the deputies, it may have had the effect of enabling the commission charged with the examination of the project of an nuity to arrive at its conclusions with some chance of seeing them adopted, without any great repugnance, by the majority of the Legislative Corps. The abstentious may, however, yet be numerous. These conclusions would probably imply the adoption of the annuity, without reversion to the heirs of the annuitant. M. Billault was heard on Wednesday by the commission, and his explanations have, it appears, contributed greatly to soothe the susceptibilities of the Legislative Carps. It is also said in reference to this affair, that the repre sentatives of the advanced party, deputies; of Paris, Lyons, and Bordeaux, consider ing themselves personally attacked by the concluding reflections in the Emperor's let ter, were prepared to deliver in their resignations, a course which would have subjected the govern ment to animated electoral agitation in the three principal towns of the empire. The new letter of the Emperor will probably induce them to abandon their project. This they can do with much less diffi culty after all that has just passed ; and, seeing the present state of the public mind in France, it is im possible that the Legislative Corps, as it is now composed, can have before it a very long career. (aura's TZLZGRAMS.) FRANCE. _ resin, Pis. 28. The Monifeur of to-day contains a decree, according to which deep sea fishing, with nets and tackle authorised by the regulations, may be carried on at all times of the year at a distance of three miles from the shore. ITALY. MILAN, Fn. 28. The Perseveratma denies the statement that a coalition had been formed between Ratazzi, La Farina, and Minghetti, in view of a ministerial Icrisis taking place. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Penh=Lir and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Vectis and Delta, with the above mails, left Alexandria for Marseilles and Southampton respectively at sunset on the 27th inst. The Jeddo from Bombay, and the Nepaul from Mauritius, reached Sun on the 25th and 26th instant respectively. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. REACTIONARY PROCEEDINGS. (non OUR OWN 0011131OPONDINT.) PARIS, TININDAY EVEIRNG. This is a day of melancholy reaction. In the first place, the Moniteur contains a decree from the Minister of Public Instruction, suspending the lectures of the eminent M. Ernest Renan, the newly-appointed professor of the Hebrew, Chaldaic, and Syrian languages in the College of France, on the ground that he has "broached doctrines which offend Christian faith, and may lead to regrettable agitation." I have not yet had time to read M. Reflex's opening lecture, which was published in extenso by the Debate a few days ago. I therefore cannot tell what special offence it may contain to justify the charge in the Moniteur. But I know in a general way that M. Renan notoriously holds opinions analogous tothose of the authors of "Essays and Reviews." It was with this knowledge that the government the other day appointed M. Ronan, to the great disgust of the Monde and the Gazette de France. Whether the step was a wise one or not is much too large a question for a daily correspondent to discuss fully. But, at all events, it was taken with full consideration, and I cannot understand the policy of "putting a hand to the plough and looking back." As to the " agitation " which M. Renan's lectures are alleged to have been likely to produce, I can only say that a feeble attempt to hiss him was silenced by an overwhelming majority of students. His lecture was listened to with breath leas attention, and, as you may, perhaps, already have recorded, the students went to his house after the lecture to give him an ovation, and in his absence his venerable mother came to the balcony and bowed to the crowd. This day, in consequence of the publication of the above decree in the Moniteur, a large procession of students favourable to M. Ransil marched Co his house in the Rue de Madame, followed by a strong police force. There are reports of more arrests, but of this I know nothing. The next reactionary step of the day, and one ' more decidedly lamentable than the former, is a warning given to the Opinion, Nationale, and signed by the Oouut de Persigoy, for an article in its bulletin of yesterday, which, "On the occasion of expression of opinions by certain members of the Senate, contains insulting expressions towards one of the great bodies of the state." To enable you to judge of the merits of this warning I subjoin the corpus delicti—the very words of the incriminated article of the Opinion .Nationak. It is as follows : The stormy debates of the Luxembourg continue, and are commented on by the public. The nation is holding its grand anises and judges the speakers according to the principles of 'B9. The entire prose resounds with these discuasiorm The violence of the reaction is everywhere considered as the despair of the last hour. We are sorry for it on account of the Senate, which is the first body of the state ; but the expression of retrograde passions with which the majority of its members are animated, or rather blinded, hes produced as great a sensation abroad as in Pail and throughout France. [Here follow quotations from London and Belgian journals, referring to the recent turbulent debates in the Senate, acid contrasting Prises Napoleon's liberal sentiments with the intolerance of the old legitimism] MM. de Segur d'Agueseeau and de Larochejaquelin do not know the country to which they ■peak. They do not see with their own eyes, but with those of their fathers and grest•grsndfathars. Nothwith- standing the distinctions which they endeavour to draw, they represent in reality nothing but Bowl:maim Franco before the revolution. These gentlemen ought to be sit ting in the Spanish Corti•s at the present day. There at any Me they might, on strictly constitutional grounds, make war cm 'modern ideas and the liberal press, and cover themselves with glory by campaigns in favour of ultramost tanism. The Swish constitution is exclusively netball", and we have Put seen an honourable citizen, M. Matamoros, sentenced to imprisosasat with hard labour far partastaat Pr*P•Pnaiam- There is nothing in the above which has not been said by almost every independent journal in Europe within the last week, and I have seen infinitely stronger writing to the same effect, not only in the Opinion Rationale, but in the Temps, Prase, and Debate. What rational explanation can be given for the policy of the French government in taking part with the D'Aguesseaus and Larochejaquelins at the present crisis l It really looks as if the Emperor's digestion waa affected by the bitter east wind,and that indisposition rendered him most vulnerable to the feminine and priestly influences which are ever on the look out for a weak point. It is impossible that he can long go on in this way halting between two opinions. One of Dean Swift's papers upon " Trim , mere " would be excellent reading for him at the Present moment. The Opinion Nationale bad prepared an article on M. Renan's suspension, but announces that after the warning it has received prudence forbids the publication. The events of the day seem to me to add point to the observation I made yesterday about the ex treme tenderness of M. Billault in dealing with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The government by its present conduct holds out its cheek to the buffets of that jesuitical society, which boasts that it has an army of nearly 200,000 men, which makes a merit of not having used its influence to thwart the financial measure of the oonversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and threatens an emigration far more formidable than that at the time of the old revolution, if the go vernment seta it at defiance. The Bourse is very firm Bente rose 35c. and 25c., closing at 70fr. 900. and 71c. In other secu rities there was little change. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, nmaimay ta, II LL b. 1 L 13.1 D. If. C., I. IL 18. —— -, -- —i NADU . . UM 36 ft Z. 843 0.13 1 kaausie WU UXI N. 2 b —I 2 M NM 0 DI & 7 r S Mum KU 4.2 41 ILN.II, 4 sr 0.011 Ausuessi MP Se 37 L 2 b $ Poznan 30.0 II 32 B. 2 b 2 Cluirsr ISIS 29 22 1112.& 8 0 1 Unace. 30.27 40 88 &N.& 4 • 3 60•11.101000 M ISIO is is 11. 6 b I 11•86,001. bl2l 88 le N.I. S NI 2 iKM 41 46 1.K14. 4 • I rar= 86.10 83 U Z. 0 b 1 TatMoUTII MN 36 SA INS. 7 e 6 LONDON all ST 86 1 6 • 00142 UM U 88 N.& 1 a $ roarailuoill POSTLAND...- Wel 34 86 12.1. 8 a T PITNOVIII !WWI= PROBAILI. __ _ SATURDAY. SUNDAY. N. Britain.—N.W. to K, E. to N. and W., moderate to dente, *owe rain or snow in fresh. places. Ireland. —N.N.W. to X, mods- rate, fine. Central.—N.to. E., fresh to moderate, floe Coast.—N.E. to Sit, fresh. L England.—Easterly, fresh or strong, to moderate. fair. X. to X and 13. F., moderate to fresh. Aa next above. N. E. to S. S. E., fruit to mode rate. E. to S., fresh to moderate. EXPLANATION. B.—aerometer collected and redoosd to ps as. align I!! level : e7c171 . 61e - st7a7Mtialrilii,eaisinieft - satiosib of an luck diminution ; end mob 10 doff., above It deb., cerise nearly three-hundredths Mamma r..—Mtposed thermometer In shade. 11.—Ifolstened bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Direction of wind (tree—two paints kit of sarg. nettle). I.—Force (1 to 12—edbeated). C.--Wood (I to 9). I.— Initlsls b, blue sky :o. deeds (leteebed): fog Ughtains. to. misty (basy); evereset r, ran mew thander. H., ra in - fall. or mow, or WA dam Mit report, in incbes sad decimals. 9.—fteedletartalros (120 THE COST or THE WAREIOI.—We 1031112 by a parliamentary return which was issued this morning that the total cost of the Warrior, before being ready for ma, was 354,8851. The hull was 251,6461. ; the engines, 71,8751. ; masts and rigging, 18,5384 ; and tittiop and alter ations, 12,8281. _ _ - . . A return to parliament informs us that the Winos dee by the Greek `o►ernment in respect of the Greek Irani' 847,5441. Ilis. Id. The sum remaining to be discharged on the Sar dinian loon advanoed by her Majesty's government is 1,875,3891. 18s. 6d. The founder and editor of Notes and Queries, Mr. Thome, of the Paper-office in the House of Lords, has been appointed sub-librarian to that chamber. A memorial, influentially signed, has, we (Critic) beer, bees presented to Lwd Pahnerston, praying that Mr. Leitch Ritchie, author of several well known works, and at one time the editor of Ohasebers'e Journal, be allowed a pension from the Literary Fund. The Rev. James Sherman, who died at Black heath last week, has left a voluminous autobiography, which V to be published under the editorship of the Rev. Henry Mon. The prosecution of the Rev. Mr. Quinn, Roman catholic curate, for an alleged libel on Mr. Armstrong ea a landlord, is to come on at the, approaching Armagh anise& It is stated that the priest has secured the advocacy of Mr. Whitcalde, ILP., by a retaining fee of 100 guineas. The excitement about the trial is so great that the sheriff has resolved to inns= equal number of tickets for each aide, to prevent overcrowding and confusion in the ociart4touse. The captain of the steam frigate Descartes, at Toulon, received a telegraphic message on Friday last from the Minister of Marine to proceed forthwith to Alexandria with ammunition for the army in Cochin Chime. She takes out as passengers the Bishop of Pekin, with seven miss' ima ms and fifteen sisters of charity, two staff surgeons, an interpreter for the Chinese mission, and 100 seamen to sup ply deficiencies in the fleet in Cochin China. Mr. Ambrose L Kimball, of Haverhill, Massa ebussetts, who was tarred, feathered, and ridden on a rail, for expressing Southern sympathies in his newspaper, is not going to let his persecutors off unpunished. At the Superior Court at Salem, he has indicted six of the ring leaders among the townsmen, end the court required toil of 1,000 dollars from each of them, in order to take their trial on the charge. The Emperor of Russia has just decreed the gratuitous omosseion of two hundred equate yards of laud situated at Great Norskaia, Saint Petersburg, for the con struction of a church of the Germaa reformed religion. RICAPTION or Ma. CONSUL PANNE{ AT Dovia. —Yesterday the mayor sad corporation of Dover gave en officio.' reception to Mr. Consul Parkes, the narrative of whose captivity, io ooujunction with Mr. Locke, sad several other English gentlemen, in the course of the lets war with China, excited the deep commiseration of their fellow countrymen. Mr. Parkes had arrived in England a day or two previously, and was staying at the Lord Warden Hotel, where the gentlemen of the town council waited on him yesterday morning to cougratub.te him on his safe return to his native lard, after sufferings which had elicited the strongest sympathy and indignation of every Englishmen. FATAL Duet.—A letter from Kehl, iu the Coarrier da Bat Rain, states that on Saturday, the W.nd lost, a duel took place in the forest which extends be tween Korck and Legelahuret. The two advereeries were M. de Bonin, a first lieutenant of the Dragoon of the Prussian Guard, and M. de Roulet, of Neuchatel, for merly an officer in the Prussian cavalry. It was agreed to place the combatants' 15 paces apart, with the right of advancing five paces to fire. The two shoes occurred so simultaneously that the amends at first thought bat one of the parties had fired, but at the same moment M. de Roulet uttered a piercing cry, and fell dead, struck by the ball of hk adversary above the left eye. Imme diately afterwards M. de Bonin, with his second, Lieute nant itimelmann. repaired to the tribusal du baillage at Kurck to make his declaration relative to the duel which had just taken place, and judicial proomdiags were at coos commerical Two hours after the deal a relative ef IL de Roulet arrived at the theatre of the event, charged by the mother of the unfortunate young man, a wealthy widow ef Neuchatel, to bring about arecoottiliatioa betimes her only ono and M. de Bonin. H. de Roulet was a fine young roam 20 years of age, 11011 belonged to one of the most respectable families of the cantou of NeucheteL The pistols were pur chased the previous evening at Strasburg. A Irene& and a Baden surgeon were present at the rasooeuter. The body of M. de Roulet was conveyed to Neaehatel. GEOLOGICAL &GINTY, tlottaasaT HOUSl.—Papers to be read March 5, Ina at Burliegten.home, at 11 o'clock: 1. On the glacial origin of certain lakes is Switeerbuel, Wales, Scotland, and elsewhere, by Prohmor A. 0. Hammy, F.R.S., President Geological Society. 2. On the ppoesemm ' beds of Westmoreland. Cumberland, and DnfsrfesaMn by Pawnor R. Harlow% PALS., F. 0.8. THE BLOCKADE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN 1 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL. SOCIETY. PORTS. A parliamentary paper published to-day contains a ors of correspondence from the British minister at Wash ington, t h e consuls in the American ports, the admiral on the station, and the officers under his command, to the general effect that the blockade maintained by the Federal Feet is not effective. Lord Russell, however, declares his opinion on the subject in the following letter : " (No. 116.) "EARL Resent. TO LORD LYONS. " Foreign-office, Feb. 15. " My Lord.—Her Majesty's government have had under their consideration the state of the blockade of the ports of Charleston and Wilmington. "It appears from the reports received from her Majesty's naval officers that, although • sufficient blockading form is stationed off those port., v►rious ships have successfully eluded the blockade ; • question might therefore be raised as to whether such • blockade should be considered as effective. " Her Majesty's government, however, are of opinion that, assuming that the blockade is duly notified, and also that a number of ships is stationed and remains at the entrance of a port, sufficient really to prevent moans to it er to create an evident danger of entering or leaving it, and that these ships do not voluntarily permit ingress or egress, the fact that various ships may h►ve successfully escaped through it (as in the particular instances here re ferred to) will not of itself prevent the blockade from being as effective one by international law. "The adequacy of the force to maintain a blockade being always, and necessarily, a matter of fact and evidence, and one as to which different opinions may be entertained, • neutral state ought to exercise the greatest caution with re ference to the disregad of a de facto and notified blockade; and ought not to disregard it except when it entertains • con viction, which is shared by neutrals generally having an interest in the matter, that the power of blockade is abused by • state either unable to institute or mainhin it, or un willing, from some motive or other, to do so.—l am, kc., (Signed) "Itusam." The last of the papers in the return is the following letter from the celebrated Mr. Mason to Earl Elwell, written in London on the 17th inst. : " 109, Piccadilly, Feb. 17. "My Lord,—l have the honour to transmit to your lordship herewith (by permissooo) returns of vassals entered and cleared at the blockaded ports cf the Confederate States of America at the respective dates to which they refer. Your lordship will observe that the returns from the ports of Charleston and Savannah are only up to the 31st of October last ; from, New• Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, and Lamas, to the dates gives, in August ; and from Wilmington till 10th September. Your lordship will far ther observe, that in the list from New Orleans • large number were inland by the river Mississippi, sad therefore involved no question of • breach of blockade. Wishing to be perfectly frank, it may be proper to remark also, that others from some of the porta may have been quasi inland ; that is to say, through the estuaries and sounds along the tout. I state as au example, from New Orleans to Mobile, where the route for small vessels may or may not have been through the inland sounds. But in regard to the latter, I do not see why the obligations of • blockade do not extend as fully to them as by &Deese to the port from the open see. Those enciarissas sounds are auessible by joists from the sea, sod. if Dot guarded, the porta to which they lead may be reached as successfully by sea-going vessels of light draft through those channels u by • direct sea route. That the government of the United States so considered, is proved by the fact that the fals•t sea communication between New Orleans and Mobile, Charleston and Savannah, and perhaps other Same, is claimed to be blockaded by naval forces of that government. The transcripts herewith were those furnished to me by my government, to be communicated to your lord ship. Although purporting to be copies of the original returns, they were copies made at the proper department at Richmond from those returns, and are therefore au. thentic. I ask permission also to include herewith • printed list of vessels entered and cleared at ports in Cu'o• from and to the blockaded ports of the Confederate States. These, for the most part, are enumerated in September; and all for the months of November and December are, of worse, not included in the transcripts from my govern ment. This paper, seat to me from Havana, wee taken from official documents there by • gentleman of intelligence and integrity, well known to me, and worthy of entire reliance.' The marginal notes are of cone unofficial. The fact (assumed) of the arrival of the vessels cleared (at their ports of destination) wan matter of notoriety, from the almost daily intercourse between Havana and those ports. I have no official returns from my govern ment for the months of November, December, and January, to be accounted for in the fact that until very recently it could not be known when I might reach London. But, as your lordship is doubtless aware, breathe, of the blockade at most if not all of these porta by vessels of large as well at of small toeing., both inward and outward-bound, have been during the last three months, and yet are, constantly reported.—l have, Ac., (Signed) "J. N. Mason." A crowded meeting of this society was held on Monday evening, Lord ASJHBUILTON. president, in the chair. Among the accessions to the library and map-rooms since the former meeting were " Advice to Officers in India ;" Kennedy's " Ethnological and Lingui stic f Essays" General Atlas by Viischer; American Atlas, Jefferys; Ad. miralty Charts, ice. Several photographs of enclose. after the late earthquake, were exhibited by Mr. Hinclildf ; and diagrams illustrating Captain Bedford Pim's proposed transit route across Central America were also exhibited. Mr. Galton then read " Extracts from a General Report on the Brazilian Province of the Parana," by the Hon. H. P. Voreker, her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Rio Grande do Sal The second paper read war "Sketch of the Present State of the Republic of Nicaragua," by G. R. Perry, her Majesty's Vioe-Consul for that state. Captain Beoroao Pim, R.N., F.R.0.5., then read his paper on "Proposed Transit Route across Central Ame. rice. " The proposed route has its Atlantic terminus at Monkey Point, on the coast of Mosquito, where there is a secure anchorage formed by Gorgon Bay. The railway would extend from Monkey Point to Sea Miguelito ou the Lake Nicaragua, a distance of 60 or 70 miles. From San Miguelito the new transit route crosses lake Nicaragua and it is proposed to cut a shallow canal of 6 feet deep through the narrow neck of land of 12 miles broad which separates that body of water from the Pacific, and form a Pacific terminus at Salinas Bay, a harbour of great caw. bility. The entire length of the route would not exceed 130 miles. The author then drew attention to the commer. cal advantages of the new route, and expressed his wish to obtaiu all the information he could on the subject. An interesting discussion ensued, iu which Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Admiral Sir Edward Belcher, and Mr. Ger. stenberg took part. Captain Pea having replied to Mr. Gerstenberg's re marks, the chairman adjourned the meeting to the 10th March next. THE REVISED CODE OP EDUCATION AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. On Tuesday the Bishop of Oxford will present petitions to the Rouse of Lords against the revised code of education, and call the attention of the house to the pro posed alterations. Qn Friday next Lord Lyttelton will move the following resolutions I. the chamber of the Lords: "1. That certificated teachers and Queen's scholars have an equitable claim upon the government for the no. diminished payment of the allowances hitherto granted to them on certain conditions as long as those conditions are fulfilled. " 2. That this house approves of the principle of public aid being given to elementary schools according to their soccer is performing their work, and also of the principle of paid assistants in schools being engaged according to the market value of their set vices from time to time ; but that it considers that the manner in which it is proposed in the revised code to give effect to those principles is in some respects objectionable. " 3. That the provisions of the Article 40, according to which the proposed capitation grant is to he paid in respect of the attainments of the children in reading, writing, and arithmetse, are not satisfactory. " 4. That any system of public aid to schools ought to in clude some specific advantage to schools in which the branches of instruction above the elements are successfully taught. . . . "5. That the provision in section (A) article 41, is not satisfactory. " 6. That the diary and log book described in Articles 50.57, if required at all, ought to be more simply and fully explained. "7. That in the event of the government abandoning the direct coneerioo which it has hitherto maintained with pupil teachers and other assistant teachers in schools, it ought to be left without prejudice to the managers of schools to decide whether or not they will have such pupil teachers or unietants." On Tuesday Mr. Arthur Mills will call the atten tion of the House of Commons to the report of the select committee of last session on Colonial Military Expen diture, and move the following resolution That this hon./ (while fully reooguisiog the claims of all portions of the British Empire to imperial aid in their protection against perils arising from the conaequenom of imperial policy) is of opinion that colonies exercising the rights of self-government ought to undertake the main responsi bility of providing for their own internal order and se curity.* The army estimates will be moved by Sir G. C. Lewis in committee of supply on Monday next. • On Monday Mr. Wentworth Beaumont will ask the First. Commissioner of Works, whether, with the view of relieving the crowded state of Park-lane, there will be any objection to open Hyde-perk between Stanhope•gata and Areley-pte for the passage of cabs while the Inter national Exhibition is open. Mr. Griffith ou Monday will ask the Under tlearstary of State for Foreign Affair, whether information has beam received that the captain of the Sunder has bees arrested at Tangiers, at the instance of the American consul at Gibraltar and the captain of the Timmons ; and, if so, whether it is supposed that any pressure has been put on the Moorish government by the American officials, or any infringement of the independence of the territory of Marmon has taken place in such transaction. THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BETHNAL- WESEN.-DIQUEST.--(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for Middlesex, opened an inquiry at the Loral Nelson Tavern, Nelson-street, Old Ford-road, Bethnal-green, touching the death of Mary Ann Mehl" aged 26 years, and Louisa Mary Mobbe, aged 11 mouths, who were discovered on the morn ing of Wednesday last at No. 13, Nelson-place, near the chief entrance to Victoria-park. After hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdict - " That Mary Noble committed the wilful murder of her child, Louisa Mobba, and also took her own life while is a state of temporary insanity. SUICIDE OF A MEDICAL STUDENT. On Wedneeday afternoon an inquiry wax con ducted before Mr. John Humphreys, one of the coronenfor Middlesex, in the drawing-room of Dr. Blotchles., of No. 7, Tabernacle-walk, City-road, into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. You* Taylor, aged 21 yews, a medical student. John Taylor, a gentleman living at Paradise Rouse, Oxford, the father of the deceased, said be had not seen the deceased since Christmas last, when be spent a few days at home. One of his family received a letter from the deceased on Thursday last. It was written in a very incoherent manner, one portion being in black•lead pencil, and the other in ink. He knew nothing as to the cause of deceased's desth. Mrs. IdizabethilleTciley said the deceased was a pupil of her husband, and she last saw him alive on Ba nd night, about half-past 8 o'clock, when he came home, and shortly steamer& went into his room and locked him. pelf in. Mary Abbott, a domestic servant, was examined, and said that she knocked at the door two or three times on Monday morning last, but could not get an answer. She then called her master. _ ."17);. Bletchley said that upon finding the door fastened be cat away the side of the woodwork. and made a forcible entry into the apartment. He discovered the deceased lying on the bed in a comsed state, and the bed clothes drawn over him. He eaarcW the room, awl found • bottle in the wash-hand basin, which contained a small portion of ;Runic acid. The wit ness then searched the de ceased's pockets, and found two letters. One was directed to Mrs. It: letchley, and the other to • young lady who resided in the country. The letters were in the decemed's bead. writing, and bad been written shortly before his death. 020 of the letters ran as follows :—" My dear Mrs. Bletchley,—. V. , hen you receive this I shall be no more. I have poisoned myself with sir drachms of pruric acid, which I obtained from the shop. May the have mercy on me. and pm don me for my sins . Let my poor girl ' Lotty ' know this as soon as possible, and send her the letter as directed. Send to ray friends by the telegraph. lam sorry it should have occurred in your house, but I could not bear up against my troubles any longer. " FRANK TAYLOR." The deceased left a number of trinkets, books, and other articles to various persons, and gave his gold watch to the young lady mentioned above, to whom he had addressed • long and affectionate letter, which filled four folios of fools. cap ppm. Mr. Bletelley said, in answer to the Coroner, that the de• ceased had lately, when he came from the hospital, been in very lOW spirits, which was attributed to his non-succem at his late examination. Mr. Graham Bennett, a medical student, of No. 6, Fins. bury.circus, was then called, and said that be knew the deceased intimately. He had beard him express a fear that be would not pass his examination. He believed that the dread of failure had affected his mind. Mr. Taylor, the father, said, in answer to the coroner, that the deceased did not like his profession, awl had expressed a desire to go to see. After some further evidence had been heard, the jury re. turned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." FIBS AT NILWINOTON.--(THIS DAY.)—This morn• ing the workshops belonging to Widow Staples, chair manu facturer, No. 3, Cross-street, Newington Butts, were destroyed by fire. The property was uninsured, and the men have lost all their tools. The greater portion of Mr. Wood's premiums was also burnt down. The following certificate has been sent by Mr. Wood to the Royal Society :—" The timely arrival of the Conductor Summers with the escape was the means of our getting wifely from the fire, which was raging fearfully at the time.—(Signed) F. WOOD." HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.—The annual dinner in behalf of this charity was held in Willia's-rooms last evening under the presidency of Lord Elcho. In pro posing " Prosperity to the Hospital for Sick Children," the chairman said he found that when the charity was first established in 1852, there was no institution of the kind in London, though there was in the capital of almost every other country in Europe. There was no city perhaps where a children's hospital was more needed than in London, where 35 per cent. of all the deaths were of children under 10 years of age. One valuable feature of the histitution was the day nursery, when poor patients mold fora small charge leave their children during the day, and have them carefully nursed and tended while they them- selves were pursuing their daily occupation. He regretted to find that there had been a falling off in the funds of the hospital. It depended upon the public whether or not some of the bade should be closed. Subscriptions amounting to upwards of 1,0001. were announced during the evening. Exrinints or PROSECIPTIONS.—The bill brought in by Sir G. Grey and Mr. ("live, after reciting previous enactment, on this tabiact, enacts that—Where such costs, charges, and expenses as are mentioned or referred to in the said fifth section (14th and 15th Viet., c.. 55) are chargeable upon the county rate of any county, riding, 00 division of a county, the justices of the peace of such county, riding, or division of a county, in quarter sessions assembled, sod where such costs, charges, and expensed are chargeable on the rates leviable within any borough, liberty, franchise, town, or place which dose not worn bete to the payment of the county rate, the council or other governing body (including under that term where there is no other governing body the justices of the poses having jurisdiction therein) of such borough, liberty, WA' chime, town, or place, may from time to time submit to one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State such scale of payment. differing from that established by the regulatiet• of the Secretary of State in respect of such costa, charges, and expenses as aforesaid as they may think fit ; and such altered scale, if approved by the said secretary, shall be es valid as If it had beau made by him in pursuance of the sad act, subject to this proviso, that no larger payment shall he made out of the monies to be provided by WHO' went for the purposes of reimbursing any such local rate es aforesaid for payments made IS respect of such altered scale than would have been payable if the scale for the time being establiahed by the said Secretary of State had been in force. OUTBREAK AT THE DARTMOOR PRISON.—The convicts at Prince Town have for some time past been in • mutinous and dissatisfied state. On Sunday last they broke into open revolt, and it required the most strenuous exer tions of the warders and civil guardsmen to quell them. A week or so previously the governor and deputy governor were attacked by a couple of ruffians, but were saved from any in- Juliette consequences by the opportune interference of some warders. The two convicts who committed the assault were brought before the goverument inspector, Captain Gambier, and orders were given that three dozen lashes should be inflicted forthwith upon each of them. It is rumoured that the governor, W. Korrish, End his sr plied to the government authorities for a larg e r surrtY of troops at Dartmoor. There are now only about 150 guardsmen and warders there ; the number of convicts hell within the establishmeot being nearly 1.3 00 — Plymouth Journal. _ _ SHOCKING MINING ACCIDENT. —On Tuesday . 11 young woman, about 17 yearn of age, named F.licabet Husband, employed at the South Caredon Mine sea dreamt of ores, or what is locally known as " hal maiden," being late at her work, ran into the grinding house to escape the notice of the timekeeper, when by some means her drew caught in the machinery, acid she was crushed to death almost instantaneously. She lived only • few minutes after she was extricated. The mine surgeon was wilt for, but life was extinct before he arrived. The inquest will be held to-day, but as noose seems to blame but herself, no doubt the verdict will he accidental death.—Plynioutt Journal. .44it