The Express. — London, England, 1862-05-26 00:00:00

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The Thiry Rome Mean. Mayhem, Belmar* and A•kley ; Mr N. Moore, Mn. 7. Matthews, and the Wane Nelson..—Comiesee at re. .IBIITANN I A. Tits Eysinio, ODE LOT IN LIFE. Mesdames S. Lane sad Cranford—Entertainment+ by Mina Smythaon and J. G. Fordo. —And THE OLD MAID IN THE WINDING SHUT. Marl Clayton.—Commence at Si. HIGH WATS/ NI LOSDOS DAIDOL Tmo 25fe... Afternoon. Oft. {Ts. To-noilow—ltorelne. Ik. Afternoon. 30na. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 26. Tits news by the steamer America has probably been looked for in this country with more interest than any intelligence expected since the settlement of the Trent difficulty. But although it is highly and obviously important the crisis is still protracted. The great and inevitable battle between Wasr.x.sir and Las is still to be fought, and fought apparently for the defence of Richmond. For the statement transmitted by the last mail, that the Confederates bad crossed the James River, information which led some military commentators to believe that they had resolved to abandon Virginia to the enemy, is not referred to in the intelligence just received. On the contrary, the Confederates are represented as continuing an orderly retreat on the peninsula between the York and James rivers, and on the right bank of the Chickahominy. M'Ci.susw is said to be within two and twenty miles of Richmond, and only about three miles from the enemy. At Bottom Bridge, a point about seven miles further on the road to Richmond, it was supposed the Confederates would make a stand, but we are not told what advantages this place offers for defence. It is clear, however, that they are falling back on their capital, and tolerably certain that the great battle will be fought there. In prospect of this struggle the abandonment of Norfolk Navy Yard, and the destruction of the Merrimac are of great importance. By blowing up the Merrimac the Confederates resign the contest at sea. That vessel was virtually their fleet, her proteo tion having formed the only guarantee of the effi ciency of the few other vessels they could dispose of in the neighbourhood of the James River. Of late, indeed, the Monitor, with the iron-clad Galena and Nangatucket, had so far re-established the ascendancy of the Federal' on the water, even in presence of the Merrimac, that they had begun to treat the James River as their own, and use it almost as freely as the York River. But, although it was evident from her inactivity that something had happened to impair seriously the utility of the Merrimac, the memory of the Bth of March, when she shattered Federal frigates with a single blow, surrounded her with a terror very profitable to her masters. Now that she has dis appeared, the Monitor and her iron clad consorts will be available for other duty—perhaps to assist in the reduction of the defences of Charleston and Savannah, or, as the telegram suggests, of Rich mond itself. The real reason for destroying the Merrimac was probably the inability of the Confederates to hold Norfolk. The abandonment of this arsenal is certainly the most important of the facts now announced. It was no doubt wise to give up its defence, but only just as, under special circum stances, it may be wise to cut off a right arm. Norfolk has been in some important respects a base of operations to the Confederates for the defence of Richmond, supplying them with ammu nition and military stores. Its loss is irreparable. They will now be dependent on such supplies as they can obtain from the interior, while the Federal army may obtain all its wants either from Fortress Monroe or from Washington, by the numerous rivers on each aide of it. We read nothing in the telegrams of either Banas or M‘Dowitia., although the war is shifting to a scene on which they must soon appear as co-operating with MTLELLAN. A BILL AT TEN YEARS. Our ministerial contemporary, the Observer, with great equanimity, offers the following solace to discontented income-tax payers:—"Economy is a good thing, and a good cry. But the true economy is to see that the rmources of the country are fairly and efficiently laid out. It is also desirable to reduce the expenditure in every possible way. This has really been done for the last two years by the present government to an extent that if persevered in, and if possible extended for the next tee years, rill be very *visibly felt. And we repeat that the guveromeet arienot only resolved to persevere in these re ductions, but are convinced of the probability of being able to carry them out." BAST INDIA COMMUNICATION. trbe Court. suatom, NAT The Queen, accompanied by the Princes Alice, drove through the Balloch Buie woods yesterday. The Dachas of Athol was in attendance. MAT 24. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, arrived at Balmoral yesterday at 12 o'clock, and Prince Arthur, at tended by Major Elphinstone, arrived later in the afternoon. To-day is the birthday of the Qum,. A meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall was held on Saturday at the Duchy-Aloe, Buckingham-gate, St. James's Park. There were present the Duke of New castle, Lord Warden of the Stu:mance ; Sir William Dunbar, Keeper of the Privy Seal ; Sir William John Alexander, Attorney-General ; Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, Treasurer, and Lord Portman. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trftsury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chance llor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Deepatabes were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-offios to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governor of Quads. THE COVET BALMORAL—Her Majesty seems to be getting more at borne in her Highland retreat. She has daily driven out during the week—once to Banister, going down by the south side of the river, and returning by the north. She has also madea visit to BirkhalL On Sun day, the attendants at Court went to church at Crathie, bat none of the royal family were present. Rev. Mr. An derson preached. The Court will probably leave Balmoral on the 30th, starting in the afternoon, and travelling direct to London over n ight. —Aberdeen Her ald. _ _ _ Saturday was the anniversary of her Majesty's natal day. The usual ministerial and official banquets heretofore always given in celebration of the auspicious event were upon this occasion entirely dispensed with, but, owing to tLe gracious intimation of the Sovereign, trans mitted through the Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's house hold to the various public departments, the day was ob served as a holiday at the government office* and in the royal dockyards. The contemplated trip of Queen Victoria to Co burg has been made the occasion for addressing to her Majesty an invitation on the part of the Austrian court. It ia hoped that her Majesty, after a stay at Reinhartabromn, where she is to meet the Crown Princess of Prussia, will pay a viait to the Emperor at the palace of Greinburg, in Upper Austria. The Queen has directed that Colonel the Hon. Sir Charlet, Beaumont Phipps, 8.C.8., be appointed the receivsn•`eneral of the duchy of Cornwall. The offios is purely 'Downey. Viscountes Palmerston had a brilliant "recep tion "es Saturday night, in Piccadilly. Previously to the assembly the noble lord and lady received at dinner the Marquis of Clanricards, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Marquis of Martineau the Marquis of Beaumont, the Countess Cowper and Ladies Cowper, the Earl and Countess of Seseborough, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord Harris, Lady Victoria Ashley, Mr. George Russell, M. Davidoff, Mr. E. Ellice, le. The assembly was most numerously attended. The Countess d'Apponyi's ball will take place on Thursday, the sth, leatead of the 12th, of Jena The Marquis Camden entertained at dinner, on Saturday livening, at his madame in Grosvenor-square, the Marquis and Marchiooms of Londonderry, the Earl and Counteas of Ashburnharn and Lady Katherine Ashburnluun, the Countess Cawdor and Hon. Victoria Campbell, Vis count and Viatiotinteee Falmouth, Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis and Lady Julia Cornwallis, Lord and Lady Pelham, Vitamin' Hamilton, Lord Charles lona Kerr, Hon. Lionel Ashley, Captain Stewart, Captain Vaud.lour, km The Countess of Craven has issued cards for an assembly on Thursday next, at her residence in Charles street, Berkeley.aquare. The Earl and Countess Poulett have arrived at the family mansion in Hanover-square, from Minim St. George, Somersetehire. The Earl of Cathcart has left Maurigy's Hotel for Thornton-le-Street, near Think. Mr. Milbanke entertained at dinner, on Saturday evening, at his residence in Eaton-plaoe, the Duchess of Inverness, the Earl and Countess of Zetland, the Earl and Countess De Grey and Ripon, Lord and Lady Rivers, Load and Lady Egerton (of Tattoo), Lady Anne Beckett, Lady Rolle, Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke, the Marquis of Bristol, and Mr. Alfred Montgomery. The SalisMary Journal says :—" Some time goes we recorded the pleasing fact that the Most Hoo. the Marquis of Westminster had given to the trustees of the Women's Almshouses at Shaftesbury 2,000/. ; we have now much pleasure in stating that his lordship has most liberally added 3,0001. more to the same fund, so that the old women who are the recipienta of this charity are now, thanks to his lordship, placed in comparative comfort for the remainder of their days." On Friday evening Mr. Warrington Smyth de- livered •lecture at the Royal Institution "On Coal as one of the Great Materials of British Industry," on which oc casion the Duke of Northumberland took the chair. On Friday afternoon Professor Oweu delivered his fourth lecture on birds, at the Museum of Practical Geology, in Jermynetreet. The lecture was almost entirely devoted to the description of the character, of the eight orders into which naturalists have divided birds—namely, natatorra, grallatores, canon*, raaorea, incessores, 'radars', scanaorss, sad raptorea. THE LATE CALAMITY IN HOLLAND. UTRECHT, SAMAY. The fearful calamity which has recently occurred to Enschede can now be estimated at its real im portance. Seventeen-twentieths of the town have become a mass of ruins, and about four thou sand persons are homeless and penniless. A great portion of the property destroyed was uninsured, but the machinery employed in the manufactories was chiefly insured in English offices. The distress of the burned out operatives is very great, but liberal subscriptions of money and contributions of clothing are being sent in. A vast number of tents have been erected in the adjoining fields for the temporary accommodation of the homeless. The report that the fire was caused by lightning is incorrect ; it is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. In any case, a man has been ar rested on grave suspicion of having set fire to his own house for some ulterior purpose. Only one manufactory has escaped destruction, and the damage is estimated at upwards of a million sterling. Almost all the books and papers of value have been destroyed, owing to the worthlessness of the fire-proof safes employed. Several persons are missing, and it is feared they have been suffocated in the smoke. One hundred thousand guilders have been for warded to the relief committee from the sub-com mittees formed in the different cities of the kingdom. (ascrTit's rzcaoa&a.) FRANCE. PARIS, MAY a The Moniteer of this morning says :—" The Em peror having decided that, on account of the re duction of the effective of the French army, the corps of occupation in Rome shall be organised anew, General Goyoa has been recalled to take service near the person of the Emperor, who has nominated him a senator in proof of his high satis faction." The Moniteur also publishes a decree raising M. Chasseloup-Laubat, General Goyon, and M. Trigres to the rank of senators. On Friday afternoon Dr. Lyon Playfair deli vered the third lecture of his course at the Royal Institu tion, "On some of the Chemical Arts with reference to their Progress between the two great Exhibitions," the im mediate subject being calico printing. The Moniteur also reproduces the article of the Patrie of yesterday evening on the affairs of Mexico. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, MAT 28. The Tiptree, from Sydney on March 30, passed up the Channel off Plymouth this morning. She landed five passengers here. No gold declared. The Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams (of " Essays and Reviews ") having resigned the ofSce of vice-principal of St. David's College, Lampeter, the Rev. John James Stewart Perowne, B. D., of Corpus Christi College, has been appointed his SUCC4IIIOt. Mr. Perowne is lecturer in divinity at King's College, London. A letter from Romu says :—" Lady William Rus sell being sufficiently recovered from the long malady brought on by her accident in the Piaui di Spagna, in the beginning of the winter, has just left Rome for:Civita Vec chia, whence she will embark for Marseilles. Her ladyship was accompanied by her son, Mr. Odo Russell, who will return to his diplomatic duties in Rome after having escorted Lady William to Paris, where Mr. Arthur Russell will meet her." The chateau and park of Louveciennes, one of the finest properties in the neighbourhood of Paris, and formerly the residence of the celebrated Madame du Bury, has just been purchased for 503,000 fr. by M. Leopold Wer ner, a German banker. Mademoiselle Delorme, of the Theatre dee Varietes, the late proprietress, laid out an im mense sum in deonuting this princely residence. A Pontifical Zouave, who follows in the footsteps of the famous Gicquel, will woo appear before the tribu nals, to the great scandal of his party. The Zouave in question met in Paris with a comrade who had fought with him at Caatelfidardo, and took advantage of the confidence inspired by his fervid attitude at mar to pilfer him of a portemonnaie containing 700 fr. The theft was committed by the hero of Castellidardo while he was reciting, or thought to be reciting, the wan penitential psalms, which he had been ordered to recite by his confessor. Mr. J. D. Walker, who has been many years in the service of the Oriestel Bank Corporation, bar been ap pointed manager of the Chartered Bank of British Columbia and Vancouver's Island at Victoria. Mr. Walker and staff of officials left England on the 24th inst. for Victoria, with the view of commencing business at an early date. The charter and deed of settlement are arranged, and the latter will shortly he ready for signature. A correspondent of the Lahore Chroniele gives an account of the marriage of the sou of the Maharajah of Cashmere with the daughter of the Rajah of Chumba. The Cashmere chief came to the wedding with his whole court and 10,000 followers. The marriage presents were numerous and costly. According to the Rsjpoot custom, each chief on becoming a guest received a present of a hag of money, and on being dismissed by the Maharajah • handsome khillut with another bag of money. Daring the hours of the night the nuptial knot was tied,• form which is literally performed according to Hindoo custom, by tying the gar ment of the bride and bridegroom together, while the incantations are read. The bridegroom is a boy of nine, the bride an infant. The marriage ceremonies are said to have cost the Rajah 70,000 rupees and the Maharajah about 15 lakhs. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—We understand the special commission will open at Clonmel on the 16th of June.—Dublin Brewing Mail. On Saturday Lord Feversham visited the esta blishment of the Lerida* Society for the Protection of Young Females at Tottenham, sad inspected all the arrange mente of the house, preparatory to his lordship taking the chair at the anuu:d festival ou Wednesday next, at the Loudon Tavern. His lordship spent some time in the school with the children, of whom there are nearly seventy in the house, who are fed, clothed, educated, and fitted for rmpectable servios ; aod expressed himself much gratified with their orderly and cheerful behaviour, and with their cleanly and healthy appearance, as well as with the general arrangements of the whole establishment. Some members of the committee ware present. MR. AND Mali CHARLES KRAN.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, accompanied by their little travelling troupe, composed of Mr. Everitt, Mr. Cathcart, and the Mims Chapman, have again returned to town, and on Saturday night made their appearance at the Princess's Theatre, which they had not visited "Moe the tonolaatioe of their management, three years since. The play was Loris IL, and the audience was large and enthusiasts*. An occurrence took place on the 15th inst., at the Porta Maggiore, Rome, which demonstrates the com plete complicity of King Francis 11. with the reactionary leaders. A 646*ra—a name implying a sandalled peasant woman, of the Neapolitan province of Terra di Livoie— passing through the gate at 4 o'clock p.m. was detained, "from information received," by a party of French gen. dimmest, who, on searching her picturesque garments, found that she was the bearer of important despatches from his Bourbonio Majesty to General Chiavone. The ciariari was on her way, on foot, to Sora, a journey which she bad seve ral times performed before, • humble but trustworthy "cabinet courier." This morning was bleated the following report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the practi cability of shortening the voyage to India: "It appears in evidence that a passage between the Island of Ramiseram and point Territory, on the coast of Madura, in the Presidency of Madras, hal long existed. Since the year 1837, when operations were commenced by the Madras government, under the superintendence of Colonel (now Lieutenant-Geoerai) William Monteith, the channel has been deepened from three-and-a-hell to its present depth of 11 to 12 feet, low water, spring tides, at • cost a little exceeding 40,0001. It is stated in evidence that the depth Can be lea:eased to 15 feet, without an excessive outlay. The channel is largely used at all sea sons by th e coasting trade of India, sod the trade between India and Ceylon. From the lit of May, 1860, to the 30th of April, 1861, 2,447 vessels passed through, having ao aggregste tonnage of 20.5,529 tons as against 146,10 tons in 1869.60, in which latter year 21 English vessels and one Preach vessel made use of the channel, one of the former, the Blue Rock, a ship of 666 tons, drawing 13 feet water in ballast. The evi dence does not enable your committee to offer an opinion of the cost of deepening the channel to the extent required to accommodate the general trade for large Yawls ; hut it is clear that great beneficial commercial results have been already obtained at a very moderato cost. They are there fore of opinion that the question of deepening the channel and improviag the approaches is deserving of the early attention of her Majesty's government ; mad they soggiest that farther inquiries should be prosecuted on the spot as soon as possible, to ascertain with certainty whether the passage between Ceylon and the mainland of India can be made safe and practicable for the general trade, at a mode rate expense At the village of Rakowa, in Gallicia, the pri vate secretary of the landed proprietor has for some time honied himself destined to become the founder of a new religion. After writing what he conceived to be a new gospel for the salvation of mankind, the necessity occurred to him of proving its troth. A miracle was necessary is this age of unbelief. If Elijah went up to Heaven in chariot of fire, why might not he ? The poor man accord ingly set fire to his house, and burnt himself, though, as afterwards discovered from his will, he hail hoped to visibly soar to the skies. The other day, while inspecting the objects in their own mart 4 the Exhibition, one of the envoys of the Tycoon burst into an uneoatrollable fit of laughter. His merriment was contagious, and all the Japanese, gathering round a glass case, laughed till their aides must have ached. The provocation to all this hilarity was a riddle to the English bystanders ; but a solution was kindly afforded by the interpreter, who explained that the first Japanese gm tlempt who had startled those quiet precincta with his laughter had been tickled by the sight of a very common piece of dell, such as the poorest people of Japan sat from, tastefully displayed on an ornamental stand, with a gland covering. e +~H ~ .t THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVE 4 Ne, MAY 26, 1862. • --- • 4. - LATIIST INTELLICEME. AMERICA. I Captain Pinprick officially reports that in a "VP *!** naval engagement near Fort Pillow, one Federal PtUSSIA. . 11118012101 TILICIRAMIL) gunboat was mink and one disabled. M Grabow has been re elected preiklent of the DESTRUCTION OF THE MERRIMAC BY I The Baltimore American says that relieved THE CONFEDERATES. I prisoners c om i ng f rom Ri c h mon d on th e 12th i ns t. gresaist and a member of the Central Left have Second Chamber by 276 votes out of 2 88. A pro (Per America, aid Boston and Queenstown.) report that they passed the Federal steamers been re-elected vice-presidents. NEW YORK, Mar 13, Moasnm. Monitor and Nantucket beyond City Point, steam- The following was the speech of the President of General Wool, with 5,000 men, landed on the 10th ing towards Richmo n d. Th e G a l ena was a l so k o i.. at Willoughby Point and marched on Norfolk. A lowing. the Chamber after his election : legation of citizens met General Wool near Nor- The steamers Jamestown and Yorktown were at Gentlemen—At the beginning of my political career, in folk and surrendered the city. No resistance was Rocketts, near Richmond. 1840, I heard, in company with thousands upon thousands offered. General M'Cl e ll an ' a forces were at Cumberland, of enthusiastic Prussians, the following words from the lips of the King :—" The path of kings is watered with tears, if The Confederate General Huger withdrew hie Pamunka River, 26 miles from Richmond. they have not with them the heart' and minds of their pro- force, which it is supposed was much reduced in On the night of the 13th a skirmish occurred with plc." In those lofty words the great, the noble, and glorious numbers by reinforcing General Johnson. the Confederates, who were in their immediate principle of the union of prince and people was pronounced The Confederates blew up the Merrimac on the front. in its largest acceptation. From that principle flows the 11th, the late reconnaissance of Federal vessels i Rumours were current in Baltimore of the cap. power of liberty, the well-being of the state. This prin. being i n _ such force as to prove that the chance of tare of Richmond, but no confirmation has been ciple has been in all time the finest heritage of the Bohm successful contest was hopeless, and the Merrimac I yet received. zollern dynasty, the most precious jewel of the Prussian nation, which is so great in history ; and this union we, drew too much water to proceed up any of the COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. the representatives of the people, do not wish ever to see rivers. Money abundant. Gold 3k premium. Exchange disturbed. Its that which we wish to maintain—faithful General M'Clellan's forces have advanced be- quiet. Stocks steady. Cotton dull Breadstuila to our august King, and intimately bound in fidelity to the vond New Kent Court-house, within 22 miles of very firm. Provisions inactive. nodal. It will help us to keep sacred and inviolable the - constitutional rights of the crown ; it will help us to guard Richmond. faithfully the sworn rights of the nation ;it will destroy The Confederates were still falling back, having the electoral ay which has been for some time heard destroyed the railway from Weetpoint. The Con amongst the Prussian people, so faithful to their ocinstits• federate rear was three miles distant. lion, " The dynasty or parliament"—(loud applause) ;it The Confederate retreat is reported to be admir unites us all at the beginning of my functions in the reply, ably accomplished, carrying their waggons and pro " Nothing but the oomtitutional dynasty, with its coasti• . i visons in the day time and their troops by night : tutional Chamber of Deputies," (applause)—sad in the enthusiastic cry, Long li ve King William L and a ll the covering their retreat by a line of skirmishers august house of Hohenzollern " stretched across the country, driving in their A few details have transpired relative to the ad- stragglers at the point of the bayonet. dress which the chamber are about to adopt. It From the,best information it is supposed that the commences by protesting the firm and unalterable Confederates will make a stand at Bottom's-bridge, loyalty of the great liberal party ; it then ener- 15 miles from Richmond, the head-waters of getically blames the manner in which the elections ChickahoultnY have been conducted, and the attempts made to Captain Davis officially reports from the Millais bring the King into the contests of parties ; and it sippi above fort Pillow that eight Confederate concludes by announcing the satisfaction of the iron-clad gunboats attacked the Federal flotilla chamber at the attitude which has been assumed under Commander Foot. The action lasted one with regard to Hesse Cassel hour. Six Federal vessels were engaged ; two Con federate gunboats were blown up and one sunk. The Confederates then retreated under the guns of Foot One Federal vessel was injured. Corroboratory accounts received state that im mense quantities of cotton are being burned at Memphis, and most of the sugar and molasses are being thrown into the river. A secession plot to hand the town over to the Confederates has been discovered at Paducan, Ken tucky. The conspirators have been arrested. A large meeting of the Conservative members of Congress has been held at Washington, denouncing abolitionists and secessionists. A resolution was passed denouncing the confiscation measures. NEW YORK, MAT 13, EVINING. General Butler's proclamation of martial law in New Orleans was to the following effect : " The violation of property or persons protected by the Federal army will be punis ha ble with death. All persons must treat the .Federal flag with the utmost deference and respect, under penalty of severe punishment. The keepers of all public pro perty—whether State, national, or Confeuerate— must make a return to General Butler's head quarters. All shops and places of amusement are to be kept open in the accustomed manner, and service is to be held in the churches, as in. times of profourd peso°. The circulation of Confederate: notes among the poorer classes will be permitted as long as in considerate persons will receive them. Federal officers will be appointed to examine all editorial newspaper comments and correspondence before its publication will be allowed. All assemblages in the streets by day or by night are forbidden." President Lincoln has issued a proclamation that the blockade of New Orleans, Beaufort, and Port Royal shall cease from June Ist on the following conditions : Vessels clearing from foreign ports destined fo r New Orleans, Beaufort, or Port Royal, must obtain licenses from American consuls, which will be greeted upon satisfactory evidence that such vessels will convey no person, property, or information, contraband of war, either to or from the above ports. These licensee must be exhibited on arrival to the collectors at the above ports. When cleared outward from the above ports such vessels must have the collector's clearance, showing that the above conditions have not been violated. The violation of these conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of vmsel and cargo, and exclusion from the privilege of entering the United States during the war. In all other respects the existing blockade re mains in full force and effect, and is only relaxed in regard to the above ports. DESTRUCTION OF NORFOLK NAVY YARD BY THE CONFEDERATES. (Per America rid Boston and Roches Point) NEW YORK, MAT 13, ETZNING. At Norfolk the Navy Yard, Dry Dock, naval machinery, and all vessels, were found to have been entirely destroyed by the Confederates. The Federal steamer Galena has proceeded up the James River and silenced the Confederate bat teries at Day's Point. The Southern newspapers state that the Federal squadron had arrived off Fort Morgan to attack Mobile. The result of the attack is not known. QUEENSTOWN, NAT 25. The Federal General Pope officially reports that the Confederates, 20,000 strong, advanced upon his brigade stationed on the banks of a creek near Falmington, five miles north-west of Corinth. Pope's brigade held on for live hours, but finding that he could not sustain his troops without his whole force crossing the creek, which would have brought on a general engagement, Pope withdrew his forces. The Confederates did not cross the creek. The loss of the Federals was considerable ; that of the Confederates is also reported to be large. General Beauregard is still fortifying Corinth, in the neighbourhood of which the Confederates are reported to be iu immense strength. Both belligerents continue preparations for an extensive battle. The Memphis Avalanche of the 6th says that the mayor and aldermen of New Orleans have been sent to prison for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. The greatest distress for provisions prevailed in New Orleans. General Butler occupied the St. Charles Hotel as his headquarters. The general had sent a proclamation to the newspaper offices for publication, bat they refused to print it. A Federal guard was sent to the newspaper offices, and Northern printers were procured, by whom the proclamation was set up and published, proclaiming martial law in New Orleans. The House of Representatives has passed a bill abolishing slavery in the territories of (the United States by a vote of 86 to 50. (Per America by telegraph to Halifax and rid Queenstown.) NEW YORK, NAT 15, Baum. The New York Press thinks that the proclamation of Lincoln relaxing the blockade will end all idea of foreign intervention. A portion of General Wool's forces has occupied Suffolk. The Royal Mail steamship America (from Bos ton on the 14th and Halifax on the 16th), arrived here at 4.18 p.m. to-day. She brings 137 passen gers, and 61,153 dollars specie. She landed 182 sacks of mails and 11 passengers, and proceeded at 4.30 p.m. for Liverpool. All well. The Royal Mail steamship Persia, with the outward American mails, arrived here at 3 p.m. She em b..ried mails and passenris, and latest telegrams, and proceeded for New 1 ork at 4 p.m. All well. _ It is reported that General Siegel will reinforce General Halleck. L EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OW! PARIS, SUNDAY Evsenzio. The " five" oppoaition members have proposed the following amendments to the budget : • Art. I.—To add the following paragraph : That between this and the next session a parliamentary inquiry Mall be made as to the state of every branch of administration, the number of employfs, and as to the beet means of improving the public service, whether by decentralisation or by the reduction of too extravagant expenditure. Until the termination of this inquiry no new of6ces shall be created, and no vacancies rinsed by death, retirement, or resignation shall be dna up. On Art. 1, Ministry of War, 3rd section.—The effective is reduced by 1C0,0C3 men. Art. 60.—T0 add the following paragraph : The budget of the city of Paris shall be controlled, discuised, and voted by the Corps Legialatif in the same form as the budget of the state, so long as the municipal commission shall be appointed by the executive power, pursuant to Art. 14 of the law of May 5, 1855. Art. 63 (new). Plurality of offices is prohibited. No moon can receive the full salary of several *we, employments, or commissions in cases where the combined amount of remuneration would amount to more than 30,000 fr. All laws incompatible with the above provisions are repealed. - - J. PAVEL, E. PICARD, EXILE OLLIVIER, ALFRED DARIMON, HF.NON. The Moniteur de la Pot& publishes a decree for organising the surveillance of the French coasts. This service is confided to three heads of division, two of which comprise the Atlantic coast and one that of the Mediterranean. These high officers are to be commanders-in-chief of all the ships employed on coast service within their respective divisions. They are to study and superintend all means of improvement of the ports, and to consider all questions relative to harbours of refuge and fisheries, and to watch the defence of the maritime frontiers. It is announced that Miramon, the ex-President of the Mexican Republic, has arrived at Paris with his wife. The Pays, without making any refer ence to the above news, says :—" There is now no doubt whatever that Miramon will go to Mexico and act on bis own account, but up to the present time he is supported by nobody, and he has not the least chance of success." In the news that M. Lambert, the envoy from Madagascar, is gone to Rome, and that his master, Radama 11., is about to be recognised as king by all the European powers, the Opinion Nationale suspects " a new intrigue of the jesuita, supported on this occasion by England, for the purpose of obtaining the independence of the island." There is a party here which pretends that Madagascar belongs to France. M. de Persigny's circular, reminding the pre fects that, by the code, people taking military service, without permission, under any foreign government, forfeited their quality of French citizens, and that the men who had enlisted in the Pope's army ought to be struck off the electoral lists, was pounced upon by the clericals as unfair, because be made no allusion to the volunteers who had joined Garibaldi. Some of the prefect. wrote to M. de Persigny, to ask whether he meant to refer to the Pope in particular or to foreign service in general. The minister replied in a few words that he was surprised at the question, since the wording of the code embraced every ease of the kind. It has been, however, pointed out that the code only speaks of military service under a foreign "government," and that there are several legal decisions to the effect that taking part in a foreign rebellion does not come within the law. It follows, therefore, that Garibaldi's men remain French citizens, whilst the heroes of Castelfidardo do not. The Gazette de Prance, indeed—which holds the Pope to be suzerain of all Christendom —will not admit that the soldiers of his army can be said to be on "foreign service," but that pro position will have little success before the legal tri bunal which must ultimately determine the ques tion mooted by M. de Persigny's circular. The Pays states in the most positive manner that the King of Portugal's affianced wife is the Princess Pia, daughter of the Kiug of Italy, and sister of the Princess Clothilde. It announces, moreover, that the marriage will take place in September ; that the young princess, with her brother Prince Humbert, will pass a few days in Paris this summer, and that after her visit the envoys of the King of Portugal will proceed to Turin to make the formal demand for her hand. This intelligence, which I think may be relied upon, is interesting, because when the King of Portugal some time since informed his parliament that he was going to be married, he did not say I who the lady was to be, and although the first I name mentioned by public rumour was that of Princess Pia, the Princess Charlotte of Bavaria has since been talked of, and only yesterday the Inclependance Beige gave a long story of negotiations for an alliance with the Austrian Archduchess Muria Theresa Henrietta Dorothea, born July 2, 1849. M. Drouyn de Limy' has accepted the post of President of the Council of the Eastern Railway Company, vice Count de Segur, who has resigned, on account of the state of his health. The Moniteur of yertertlay says : in the Eoglish parliament, on the 19th Nay, Lad Pal merston estimated the strength of the French army on the lit January, 1862, M 816,000 men, of whom 646,000 were under arms and 170,000 formed the reserve. This estimate contains an error serious enough to call for rectification. On the Ist January, 1862, the effective under arms was sot 646,000 men, but 447,000—a number law than the former by 199,000. At the same date the reserve consisted not of 170,000, but of 165,000, malting a differenoe u< 5,(00. Tao total error, therefore, amounts to 204,000 men, or a fourth part of the alleged total. Since the lit January the number of men in active service who have been ordered to pass into the reserve &mamas not to 31,000, but to more than 34,020. The result of this 11111Ssure will be to raise the reserve to 203,000 men, sod ranee the effective of the active army to 400,000, making a total of 612,000 men. POLAND. (nox out owl 001111.8PONDINT.) WARSAW. M& 13. The political oppression in Poland has turned into a regular religious persecution. The Russian authorities in Poland perceive iu every religious practice a revolutionary tendency, and all their energy is directed towards suppressing them, or, at least, preventing them from serving as a rallying means for the Poles. The Poles, on the other hand, being deprived of any lawful government, of schools, public life, and even of freedom in social intercourse, shield themselves under the banner of religion as the last and invincible refuge for their national existence. Hence, the contest, although appearing to be waged upon trifling outside maul• festationa, is of the highest political significance. The Poles are not a bigoted people. They are far from submitting blindly to the church hierarchy, as is the case in other countries—f3pain, Ireland, Naples, tic. With them, religion is so far their religion as it conserves its national character, Every priest or prelate, so long as he is a patriot, can depend upon the veneration and submission of the people ' • but any clergyman acting contrary to the feeling of the nation is abhorred as a double traitor—a traitor to his calling and a traitor to his country. Thus men like Tijslkowski, Bialobrzeski, and Przyluski, are almost adored by every Pole, whilst such as Marszewski or Wierzchlejski are de 'Timed and disregarded, in spite of their episcopal character. - _ - The Russian government in Poland has increased its severity in the repression of religious manifesta tions, and as the people, yielding to the wishes of the archbishop, gave up the singing of hymns of a more pronounced national character, old church songs are now objected to by the police. No day without several people being arrested. After eal having decimated the male population, the military authorities now lay hands upon the other sex. Many of the latter are in custody, and several have been forced to conceal and to expatriate themselves. All the out-door church service has been prohibited, as well as almost all songs in the Polish language. The police authorities have issued an order to the clergy regulating their duties under threats of heavy punishments. Rube, the Director of the Department of Worship and Public Instruction, requested the archbishop to communicate this order to the clergy. This iusplting proposition was de clined with indignation by the prelate, and his reply to it ends with the following words : I oonclude by declaring that as I consider it • want (ides respect for my character, as first spiritual dignitary of the kingdom, to call upon me to communicate officially to the people the regulations of the police. I hope, sir, you will for - the future abstain from accepting such a commission. Among the Russian officers arrested at Warsaw is Count Tolstoy. Domiciliary visits have been made at the residences of some higher officers, Poles by birth--among others those of Generals Merchelewicz and G1eC7.406C; who were both em ployed last year in the civil administration at War saw. The residence of the Russian prince Babutof has been searled, and his papers taken away. General Krizonoiskoy is said to be the instigator of all these proceedings, their object being to prove to the government that the maintenance of pesos and obedience is due solely to his energy. Since the 3rd of Iday all the poste and patrols are strengthened, and on the Bth of May ten guns were drawn up on the Saxe-place. Transports of people, sentenced to penal servi tude in the ranks of the Russian army, ate leaving the citadel almost daily for Asia. A great many women have been arrested in Warsaw and in the provinces. Three other commissioned officers have been brought here in custody from Lublin, on sus picion of belonging to the conspiracy which is said to have been discovered. THE EMILY ST. PIERRE. It will be remembered that an English vessel of this name recently arrived at Liverpool, in charge of her master, steward, and cook, who had recaptured her from an American crew. She had attempted to run the blockade, and was fairly and lawfully seized by the Federal blocked• in; squadron, and then seut for adjudication in charge of a price crew. By dint of clever stratagem, and no small pluck. the three Englishmen succeeded in re pining poseession of the ship. and in navigating her to Liverpool. The American government has now requested her surrender back to them. We understand, however, that this demand cannot be complied with, as there is no municipal law that takes cognisance of the act of these three men as an offence, or indeed recognises such an injury suffered by a belligerent. Had an American cruiser met the Emily St. Pierre on the high seas, she might have seized her, and the fact of the rescue would have condemned her in international law. Bat there is uo municipal law which can warrant the English government in delivering her up to that of America, with w ho se request it is therefore bound to refuse compliance. —Pod. The Princess Clotilda, it is said, will take up her residence at St. Cloud for her confinement, the Emperor having placed that palace at her disposal for the summer. An inquiry is to take place to-morrow as to the muse of the accident to the Indian mall packet Manilla, which was nearly lost between Gibraltar and Malta, on her last outward voyage to Alexandria. Information has been received at the Spanish Consulate at Southampton, that General Prim, the Com insedsrdn-Chlef of the Spanish forces in Mexico, is load probably on board the West India mail packet doe at Southampton on Wednesday. Tai JAPANIRS MIESION.—This moralog the Japanese ambassadors, accompanied by Mr. and about Mx or eight of the principal officers to their suite, left London for Newcastle-upon-Tyre, starting from Eing's-cruas station and travelling as far as Yoik by the Great Northern Railway. The principal object of their visit to Northumberland is to see a coalmine in fall operation. It is said their own country, among other mineral products, contains coal, but that the people know little or nothing of the proper modes of working and rendering it available for use. Hence the trip of the ambassador, to Newcastle. There they will arrive about half-past 4or 5 this afternoon, end stay overnight at the hotel attached to the central railway station. The whole of Tuesday they will spend in some part of the coal-field in the immediate neighbourhood. Early ou Wednesday morning they will start from Newcastle for Liverpool, travelling as far as Carlisle by special train. On Wednesday evening they will be entertained at a banquet by the mayor and corporation of Liverpool They will return to London by way of Birmingham, making a short stay in the metro yells of the Midland Counties to see some of the principal objects of interest there. Their trip to the north will be more hurried than thee could have ebbed; bat expecting, as they do, almost daily the arrival here of Mr. Alcock, the English Minister in Japan (accompanied by a high official personage from their own country, beer log despatches), they are anxious to lore no time in return. log to London, consistently with the desire to edam all that is calculated to interest them in the three great towns which they bare elected to visit. Yesterday they paid a visit of ceremony to Baron &Wasiak, the Yielder of the Netherlands at this court, and the greater part of Saturday they spent at Hendon at a farm occupied by Mr. Claridge, the proprietor of the hotel at which they am quartered, and where they played at cricket and football, and en' gaged ia some feats of archery. Arraugernente have been made by the authorities at the Foreign-office for affording them a sight of the great spectacle on Epsom Dorm ou the Derby-day. They will travel by road in two open earrieges, each drawn by four horses, with a couple of pcatilions, and preparation. have been made for Oar Frreesptiou and entertainment at the grand stand. ig METROPOLITAN UNDERi:ROUND RAILWAY.- - Ou Saturday the Chancellor of the Exchequer and His. Gladstone, accompanied by about twenty of the nobility, eluding several peers, attended at the Paddington Stance of the Metropolitan Underground Railway, for the purpose of inspecting the line. Two truck@ lined with babe, with cushioned mate, were provided for the accommodatim of the visitors, who took their positions about 12 o'clock. !he trucks were drawn along the rails by horses. Oa amnig at Euston-square the visitors were received by Br. Jay (contractor), Mr. Cordell (chief manager), Ur. FOrkg (engineer in chief). and Mr. Johnson, resident engineer. At this point the permanent way is laid down, and the ?loco" are Ash-joietaL They then proceeded to King imma where they inspected the station, which is now rapiall ins towards completion. The visit was then era tinned - w onder the Fleet-ditch at Frederickatrest , and fr" theme to the station at Yietoria•street. From this Unmans the party returned to King'stross station, where their carriages were waiting to receive them.