The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON DRIDGI. Tun Daor—lionig. al. II& Timmosam—issing. Rm. Airs% Ilk Pa LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 6. A QUIVITION that more than one has asked him self this week is whether our victimised fellow eountrymen, the Engineers in the prisons of Naples will be benefitted by the recent change in oar Government ? Why Lords PALM aesrox and CIA.. 11.ENDON were so lax on a point which the former at least had made himself a character for being resolute upon, does certainly appear inexplicable. The only solution of it is that Ministers, after they have been • certain time in office, get so entangled in the net work of diplomacy sad alliance, that they are in. capacitated from thinking, feeling, or acting like independent Englishmen. The first act of the Daisy Ministry in this matter does not inspire us with mach confidence or hope. Lord MALM USURY has been pleased to instruct Mr. LYONS, who is attothe or Secretary of our Tuscan Embassy acting at Rome, to proceed to Naples, in order% watch the trials and support the interests of the two Engineers, PART. and WATT. We do not at all see how this was called for, or in what way it can produce benefit. The successive letters from our own correspondent at Naples, as well as those addressed to our cotenrporary, the Tim's, bear the strongest testimony to the energy, activity, and talent of Mr. Acting Conan! BABA", who since the rupture of diplomatic relations between the English and Neapolitan Governments, has been un ceasingly occupied in protecting English interests, with much credit to himself and advantage to this country. Our Consul at Naples, it is known, is pre cluded by illness from the performance of this duty, and this has afforded to Mr. adman, an humble member of the Consular Service, that opportunity of displaying capacity and seal, which is seldom vouch safed by our system to any one less than an Honour able. Under such circumstances, to depute one of the diplomatic body—a young man, too—to supersede Mr. BARBAIt in those functions which he hsa per formed so well, cannot have the effect of causing the duty to be better performed at Naples, whilst it casts an unworthy slur not only upon Mr. BAILBAR, but upon the whole of the Consular Service. Our Consols are men of the middle clauses, whilst diplomatic posts and honours are reserved for the highly eon- meted. It ia just the same u what we see in the Army—the higher grades for the nobly born, the working function, for the ignoble. Until of late, when ever a middle-class General had a chance, straight the Horse-Guards superseded him by a Lord. So with Consuls—directly they have a chance of distin guishing themselves, or w'h they do distinguish themselves, down comes upon them an Honourable Secretary of Legation, to rob them of their h-inow-s and throw them into the shade. We hope to see this remedied by a thorough reconsideration and reform of the Consular and Diplomatic systems; and we sincerely hope that Mr. WTBL, the member for Stafford, will persevere in his motion for a re organisation of those Services. Whig and Tory will noosed each other, and merely continue the same blunders and the same injustice, unless Parliament and the public take the matter seriously is hand. With all deference to Lord MALM111111:71T, we should—in the event of Mr. BARBAII. being deemed insufficient—have thought Lord Lvotss a far better negotiator in this case than his diplomatic son. The post-chaise that brings the young Secretary to Naples will make no new impression on the Govern meat of that country, whilst a summons sent from a British frigate would be listened to with at least respect. Count Carona, in his able despatch, has placed the capture of the Cagliari in altogether a new light. We ►now now that the vessel was not cap tured in the Gulf of POlialitTO, within the Neapoli tan jurisdiction. We know also that the officers and erew, at the time of capture, were not acting, as was asserted, in concert with the conspirators, which would have laid the burden of proving their innocenoe upon the accused. The steamer, it is now proved beyond contradiction, was captured on the high seas, not far from the island of Capri, and the Captain and crew, after having been detained by those who had forced them into a reluctant co-opera tion, were on their way back to report the facts of the case. Under these circumstances the capture was, and the trial is, illegal. The latter has been got up merely for the purpose of displaying how the petty tyrant of Naples dare treat an English subject ; so the presence of another Diplomatic Agent, weaken ing the position of the Consul, not strengthening it, merely adds to the triumph of King Bonn+. The mission of the Florentine Secretary of Legation can be of DO use, either to awe or to conciliate. If it was advisable to take a high hand, the per of young Mr. LYONS was useless. And If it were thought advisable to conciliate, and that • more experienced hand than Mr. Erma was re quired for the task, some unofficial person could welly have been found, well acquainted with Naples and Neapolitans, who could have negotiated the relishes of these suffering prisoners with more effici ency than Mr. LYONS. If he failed, there would hare been less disgrace, and we should not have had the appearance of making a step towards reconciliation with a Court which perseveres in this trial for the sole purpose, we believe, of mortifying and insulting this country. A Conservative Ministry might, without exciting much wonderment, have shown itself reluctant to introduce improvements in our domestic institutions ; but it certainly was not unreasonable to hope that coming into office unshackled by engagements or by alliance s , by promises or by intrigues, it might at least take a new, an independent, and a spirited view of any question with Naples in which ear national honour is implicated. Had Laud lefstnesecav adopted ruche view, and taken the line of Count Carova, ha would have gab le d h i . .• with the easatry. Instead of that, be track el Lad PAucusrox, admits mortal credit kollowo THE IXPRS,S, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, MS. the justice of the capture, the legality of the trial, and no doubt the amenity of the imprisonment. And he sends a Secretary of Legation, the son of a Lord, to be a new and unresisting witness of the infamous mockery of justice which King BOMBA has ordered to be played at Salerno for his own especial glory and our humiliation. 1. ; Mr. Disraeli, as leader of the Ministerial party in the House of Commons, has issued a Circular to the Conservative Members, soliciting their attendance on the 12th instant. It is understood that there will also be • strong muster of Liberals on the oc casion. TIM BR-ELZCI7OII3. OXFORD ELECTION.—(THIS DAY.) RETURN OF MR. HENLEY. (IT ELECTRIC TILZOILI.PH.) (FROM out OWN 00/11.18PONDRNT.) OXFORD, Evicianar. The election of a knight of the shire far the county of Oxford took place this morning in the Town Hall, Oxford. The attendance of electors was wamezona. The proceedings having been opal by the Sheriff with the usual formalities, and the candidate duly proposed and seconded, Mr. Henley, there being as opposition, was declared duly elected. SIR FITZROY KELLY AT IPSWICH. pt XLUCTILIO TILZOILAPI.) (ROW OVA OWN 00111111PONDINT.) IPSWICH, Sartinzat. Sir Fitzroy Kelly woe re-elected for Rut Suffolk lids morning. He delivered a deckled], and singularly liberal address. ARRIVAL OF THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have received advices from Bombay to Feb. 9, in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The •following is the summary of the Overland Bombay Standard of Feb. 9 : CENTRAL INDIA. SIR HUGH HOBlll3 COLUMN.-RELIEF OF BAUGOE. By the mail of the 23rd ultimo, we mentioned the arrival of Sir Hugh Rose and Sir Robert Hamilton at Sehore on the 10th, with the disarming of the Owalior Contingent, and execution of theaepoyswhich followed. The moveable column having assembled here in its strength, consisting of the 14th Dragoons, 17th Dragoons, 3rd Lancers, H.M.'s 86th Foot, 3rd European Regiment, 2 Companies Reserve, de tachment Sappers and Miners, let or Leslie's Troop head quarters, 4th Company Bombay Artillery, Ist ditto 2nd battalion, sth Company 14th battalion Royal Artillery and 21st Company Royal Engineers. The general marched north-west ward through Bhopal in the direction of San gor, and along the line of the Vindyah mountains. On the 20th they reached }Miles without opposition. The siege train was a march behind : it was escorted by a troop of the 14th Dragoons, the 3rd Madras Europeans, and Bombay Sappers and Miners, with Captain Hare's detachment of the Hyderabad Contingent. The force was expected to encounter some resistance at • strong force called Ratghur. On the 23rd, the detachment with the guns was ordered to pull on and join the main body. They reached camp about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, but without their tents ; having bivouacked the following night, they started on Monday morning under orders to push on, as the enemy were moving out to defend the ford by which they were expected to cross the river. Our troops, however, forded further down, and the insurgents thus foiled, crossed the country, and were able to fire a volley into the ad vanced guard as they entered the town close by the fort of Ratghur. A dragoon and native aubadar were killed. At 8 a.m. on the 25th, General Rose, with his divisional staff, rode round thefort,lf which a careful reconnoisance, which occupied the chief part of the day, was made. It is placed upon the pear-shaped summit of a hill, about 700 feet above the plain, the walls enclosing the entire of the wider end. Nearly the whole is surrounded by precipitous rocks, the only approach being by a narrow and steep ascent along the ridge. A part of the force made a feigned attack, when the General, with his staff, and 3rd European Regiment, crept up the narrow ridge. On the 26th the heavy guns were placed in position, and the fire opened, while the 3rd Europeans drove the enemy from the heights. The rebels had pro. claimed that, as the fort was provisioned for • year, and was considered strong, they - - were determined to maintain it to the last. On the morning of the 28th a large body of mutineers, concealed in the thick jangles around, attempted to relieve the fort. They assailed the rear of our camp and the videttes guarding the right rear of the force. They were at once attacked and driven across the river with severe loss by Cap tain Hare with the Hyderabad Contingent. The garrison now fairly lost heart, and two hours before daybreak on the 29th a portion of them endea voured to sally oat of the main gate, when they were driven b►ck by Captain Lightfoot's 9- pounders. The great body of them escaped by lowering themselves over the walls by ropes and scrambling down the precipice. Mahomed Fuel Khan, and another rebel Nawaub, were hung over the gate ; the utmost kindness was shown to the women and children. Sir Hugh Rose marched on the 30th in the direction of Saugor, leaving Ratghur in charge of the troops of the Queen of Bhopal, who had undertaken to keep open our commu nications. The enemy were understood to be concentrating at the village of Banda, eleven miles in advance of Ratghur, with a view of cutting off our communication with Mhow. They were at _ . . once attacked and driven with loss from their posi tion in difficult broken ground and jungle, which they obstinately defended. Captain Neville, of the Royal Engineers, who had distinguished himself in the Crimes, and had here volunteered as aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh Rose, was killed by a round shot. On the 2nd the force marched for Sangor,where it arrived the following day. This fort had been beleaguered since June, in constant fear, and not infrequent danger. It was reached and relieved without opposi tion ; upwards of one hundred women and children being amongst the number of those shut up. Twenty rebels were executed on the spot. RAJPOOTANA FIELD FORCE UNDER GENERAL ROBERTS. CAPTURE OF AWAH. We gave in our last summary particulars of the storming, on the 6th January, of Rowe, near Aboo, by a detachment under Major Raines, des. tined to form a portion of the Rajpootana field force. Since then 5,0001, worth of gold and silver coins have been discovered in the ruins, while fifteen fine caparisoned horses were captured in the neigh bourhood. We have to trace Raines's further pro gress in swelling up the detachment to the dimen sions of a column, consisting of the Bth Hussars, lit Lancers, H.M.'s 72nd Highlanders, 96th Regiment, 51st Regiment, Detachment of H. M.'s 83rd Regi ment,llth Company Royal Engineers, 2nd Bombay Cavalry, 2nd Troop Artillery, Capt. Aitkin's Bat tery, Ist Company 2nd Battalion Artillery, Leslie's troop, 10th and 12th Native infantry, with the siege trains. Sending back his sick and wounded to Deeps, Major Raines resumed his march on the 10th. On the 19th he was joined at the village of Jaitpoora, two miles from Awah, by a detachment from linaseerabad under Colonel Holmes, consisting of two companies of her Majesty's 83rd, under Major Heatley, Captain Browne'. Batteryof Foot Artillery, 600 of the Seinde Horse, two squadrons of the Ist Bombay Lancers, and a portion of the 12th Native Infantry, or including the siege Artillery from Ahmedabad, 14 guns, 840 sabres, and 1,100 bayonets. They had now reached the town of Awah, the fort of which was said to be garrisoned by 2,000 men. On passing near the walls the Nusseerabad detachment was fired upon, when Captain Aitken's Battery, and a detach ment of 11. M.'s 95th proceeded to their assistance, and soon compelled the enemy to withdraw within the walls. A reconuoisance was made during the' afternoon round the fort, the enemy keeping up • heavy fire from all points. It luckily proved harmless, and the camp was established in the course of the afternoon, 1,600 yards hom the walls of the fort. The defences con sisted of a mud and wattle embankment about forty feet base, sloping upward to the height of nearly fifty feet. The wall was loop-holed for matchlocks and jinjels, and was nearly impenetrable either by shot or shell. This was flanked by bas tie= mounting from two to three guns each. Some twenty yards in advance of the inner wall, WWI a high bank, also loop-holed, and protected by thorns and branches. And in advance of the whole an &battle, constituting Awah one of th e strongest towns in Rejpootana. Colonel Holmes, on the troops being united, as senior officer, took command. He considered the place much too formidable for an assault until a good breach had been established, and on the day the forces united, mortar and howitzer batteries were established 1,000 yards from the town. On the 20th and 22nd;tsto other bate_ ries, six and seven hundred yards in advance, were constructed. That nearest the walls wee armed with two 18-pounders and two 8-inch howitzers. The bombardment commenced on the 21st, and continued with increasing vigour as our batteries came into operation. A mortar battery was now advanced to within 300 yards of the wall. Preparations for breaching, with a view to an immediate assault, began on the 23rd. Meanwhile the storm which prevailed over the greater part of India descended with terrible fury in Rajpootana. The night was pitchy dark,Olie wind blow a hu , ricane, the rain poured in torrents, and the thunder and lightning overmatched the roar and blaze of our artillery. In the midst of the tempest, the enemy managed to escape, despite the chain of posts of infantry and cavalry, which had been drawn so carefully round that it seemed almost impossible to evade them. Their flight was first discovered by a portion of H. M.'s 95th concealed in riflepits within forty yards of the wall. The defence, considering the inadequacy of their weapons, was on the whole an obstinate one, an incessant but very ineffective fire having been kept up upon us from the first, which failed to occasion a single death casualty. About 170 prisoners were taken, of whom twenty-five were executed, sixteen guns, the whole of his park, with a large quantity of ammunition stores, grass, and grain, fell into our hands. On the Ist February the remaining wing of the 9th, with Sappers and Miners, about 500 in all, and a portion of the 2nd Native Cavalry, pro ceeded from Dena under command of General Ro- berts to overtake the advanced force. FUTTEYOHUR. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEFS FORCE . For the put three weeks the Commander-in-Chief has stood fut at Futteyghur, accumulating an enormous park, with ordnance stores, and means of carriage for an army of 15,000 men, consisting of H.M.'s 9th Lancers, 2nd Seikh Cavalry, four troops Horse Artillery, Battery of Royal Artillery, the Naval Brigade, with six 24-pounders, two 8-inch howitzers, 8 mortars, 2 companies Madras Sappers and Miners, 2 Bengal and 2 Punjaub ditto, 9th Lancers, Punjaub Irregulars, 11.M.'s Bth, 23rd, 42nd, 83rd, 64th, 82nd, 93rd, and a Regiment of Punjaub Infantry, with some 70 or 100 pieces of ordnance. Though nothing has been said as to his future measures it was quite plain from the first what his plans must needs be. His rear and flanks required to be cleared of the enemy before he could wheel round on Oade at Purruckabad, Calpee, and Bareilly, and while this was being done by himself; by Walpole, Windham, and Seaton, Jung Bahadoor was settling Ooruckpore, and establishing poets on the Nepaul frontier of Oude. Outram was maintaining him self at Alumbagh, and Cawopore and Allahabad were being strengthened. About the end of the present month Oude will bo invaded on all sides, the great overwhelming force under Sir Colin Campbell pouring down upon it from the north, the others closing in all around. Meanwhile the insur gents, still about 100,000 in strength, are for tifying Lucknow to the uttermost. The streets are being barricaded and the walls loop-holed everywhere. Earth works have been thrown up, and garden within garden strengthened, and the haughty Bengal Sepoy, who would not touch a basket, mattock, or spade in oar service, and who in the Punjaub mounted guard while the Europeans were throwing up entrench ments, now chews what he can do when he has no longer the indulgence of English officers to fall back upon. It is doubtless in consideration of this Sir Colin Campbell delays advancing until he has accumulated an artillery so overwhelming as to avoid as far as possible the necessity of a hand-to-hand conflict with an enemy posted with such advantage. He is expected to march about the 25th of February, and probably six weeks will suffice for the completion of the Oude cam paign. It is to be hoped that by May our war-worn troops, many of whom will by thin time have been a twelvemonth under arms, will be able to retire to cantonments, and seek rest for the events of the coming year. Since the mutiny at Meerut, the 6th Carabineers and 9th Lancers have lived in their saddles, while the 34th, 81st, 64th, and 78th, have scarcely since the same date been off their feet, or spent three days on end when they were not under fire. With all the dis- play of determination, the Lucknow insurgents we saia to be losing heart. A proposition of rood itional sur render is said to have been received, with the reply that every mutineer would be shot or hanged,that the rest must depend upon our mercy. The country people are said to be friendly to as ;it is the great in dare and Talookdars, the land proprietors, and great tenants, whom we reduced to order and obedience, that are our enemies. General Wyndham arrived at Delhi en route to Umhalls, on the 21st January. 13rigadier Hope Grant, bar Majesty's 9th Lineere, and Captain Norman, Assistant Adjutant General, also paged through Delhi, en route to Umbals, about the same time. A letter from Delhi mentions that there is very little chance of the es-Hind's recovery. He is end to be fast sinking.—Delhi Omens. The telief of Sanger was made known to the Bombay journals by the following from Lord Elphinatsee: " By a message from Bangor, dated February 3rd, we WIZ that Sir Hagh Rose's force reached that place on the 3rd, and relieved the fort and station. A Nit of Europeans who were there will be sent se MOM as possible. Upwards of one hundred are women sad children. No opposition was met with by our force betweett Ratghur and Saugor. Twenty rebels were hanged, beast those executed over the gate at Bateau'. Our troops are very healthy." A letter from Ferorepote, dated Wednesday, January 27, 1858, 9 p.m., says:—" A salute of thirtest guns, from the entrenched magazine, has just =nomad the arrival of Sir John Lawrence. His camp is pitched near the Kutcherry. The chief engineer in also here. The Rajah of Fureedkore, with retinue, is cutting a great swell with his 9-pounder guns after him,"—Lahors Chaoniele. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, Fes. B. The: Hon. Company'a steamer Feroza, with the Eng Wit Mails of the 9th J.auery, reached us on the evening of the 7th instant. The demand for money during the last fortnight hie greatly eubsided, and it can be easily had on first cla.s moss rides. We have to quote • deduction of 3 per cent. in tile Bank of Bombay rate& IMPORTS. Coteries Prices 000D0.—Our import market has pot on • rather active during the fortnight ; end pieces of all deseriptions we edemas-IL The prime of all they Goods have considerably imgroved. BLE•CDED AND FANCY 000DIL—BUILAKI are In good demand, se also Bleached Jaw:mete Book Muelins, of low quantities, continua In fair enquiry. In Bleached M•dapoilanwroso sale has been reported to us. Y•IiNS. —Both 4 mule and water • good amount of bud.. nine has been dons. Orange and green are also inquired for. EXPORTS. Corron Woot..—The ratan are higher than what we lad reported, though we have not heard of any purchases an European *comet. We quote Rs. 140 to 143 for Dar Broach and Surat; Dhollera Rs. 131413; Oomervuttee 130-31 ; Ktiandeish Re. 120; and Verevell Re. 120-22. TONNAGE.—Thera has been a very alight improvement ie he noted in the rates, our prevent quotations Was IL lee. to IL 12e. 6d. for Liverpool and London ; end Rs. 6 to 6 pa. candy for Chins. EXCHANGE.—Exchange on London remains the many and we quote 2s. Otd. fur six months' bank bills and 2s. ljd. fur documents. The prima of government sororities have improved, and we quote 4 per cent. loans at 16k dircount, and 6 per cent. loans at 7 discount. An earthquake has destroyed thirty persons at Corinth, and done touch damage to the town. The Limas were still going on and were exceedingly violent. Accounts from St. Petersburg state that Baron de Witinghof, captain of the eta and member of ea swami family, has bran condemned to the toss of his title MI rah, and sentenced to serve in the army as • pirate BAIL IS ooneequestos of having stolen registered letters el wag destined for soldiers. ebt et ourt. OSBORNE, Maas( 4. The Queen and royal family took their usual exercise to the grounds yesterday. The Prince Consort rode on horseback. Despatches were mat yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Gov of the Cape of Good Hope and the Governor of Canada. Deimatchae were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of Hong Hong, Ceylon, Malta, sod Gibraltar. (1110111 LAWT NIGHT'S oAsirrn.) BT. Juror's PALACE, FEB. 26.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Duchess of Manchester to be /distress of the Robes, in the room of the Duchess of Sutherland, resigned. MASTER OF THE HORSE', OFFICE, FEB. 26. Ths Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Moat Noble Henry Charles Fita-Roy, Duke of Beaufort, to be her Majesty's Master of the Horse, in the room of the Most Noble Arthur Richard, Duke of Wellington, resigned; end Colonel the Honourable Alexander Nelson Hood, late Soots Fauber Guards, to be Equerry in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Major-General Barkley, resigned. WAs-omcs, Itasca s.—The Queen has been ? .43 7 01na piseeed to give order. for the appointment of Lord Bowden, K.C.8., her 11surety's Envoy Extraredinery and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain, to be on Ord* Member of the Civil Division of the First Chinos Knights Cross, of the Most Honoru-able Order of the Bath; and of Percy William Doyle. F.sq., late her Menet?' Minister Plenipountittry to the Mexican Re public, sad Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Aiakew Larcom, R.E., Under Secretary to the Lad Lieutenant of Inland, to be Ordinary Members of the own Division of the Third Clan, or Companion' of the saki Most Honourable Order. DOWNING -STREET, MARCH s.—The Queen has been plowed to appoint John Reilly, Bp., to be police magistrate for the district of Kingston, in the blend of St. Vincent ; Prawn Ellis, Req., to be a member of the Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands; George Wall, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon ; Alexander Gordon FT* Esq., to be a member of the Leer !stirs Council of the Wand of Jamie.; and Alfred Whit man and Robert B arr y Dickey, Bare. ' to be members of the Legislative Coan Council of the Province of Nova &oda. The Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis of Harlington and Lsdy Louisa Cavendish are pacing the SOWS at Holkar Hail, Westmoreland. His grace Intends occupying Devonshire House soon after Easter. The Duchess of Sutherland left Castle Howard on Thursday, for Sootland. Her pros will coons to town neat week. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have betted cards for a large diaper party, this evening, at their mansion in Arlington-street. The Earl and Counter of Ellesmere come to Brldpwatar Houae to-day, from Worley Hall, Laaca shire. The Countess Dowager Granville has taken one of the fersimbed houses at Upper Norwood attached to the QUOillil Hotel. The Countess Delowarr and family will return to town the letter sad of asst week, from Bourn Hall, Cam toldgmbire. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly, Ili. (•,sing, at Cambridge Holum Lord and Lady Dacre are passing the anion at the Hoo t Harts, and will not return to town until attn. Easter. Lord Ward will leave Dudley House, in a few days, for Braley Hall, Staffordshire, Ldp O'I)onel and Miss O'Hara arrived in town, a Ira days Wore, from !rebind for the 61161/011. Her ladyebtp has taken a house in William-street, Lowaderaqttare. The Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary La- Doaohen will come to tows early next week, from visiting the Earl of Carlisle at the Castle, Dublin. Lady George Paget gave birth to a son at 23, Berkoley-square, on Thursday. Lady Louisa Mills give birth yesterday to a daughter at 9, Orcerrettor-oquare. Yesterday evening Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, gave an interesting account, at the Royal Instftutios, of the astronomical experiments sadmitakea by him ow the Peak of Teneriffe, in 1856, which wee illustrated by numerous photographs shown by the elude° light. The Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the President of Hs Board of Trade, hie appointed Mr. J. J. Henley his pri vate ascatary ; and the Earl of Donoughmore, Vice-Presi dent, has appointed Mr. J. W. Stratton his private sir cestary. The model gun, manufactured in Woolwich Arsenal, and intended for presentation to th e Emperor of the rma, ta, together with its appurtenances, now complete, sad awaits the inspection of his Royal Niemen the Prince Coasted. The present will be conveyed to Francs in charge of a captain of the Royal Artillery. The inscription maths gIIII conalata simply of the words—"To Napoleon 111. from Queen Victoria, 18.57." Mr. E. C. Egerton wu offered the Judge-Advo cateship in Lord Derby's ministry, but declined to accept It. The new comedy of The Lore Knot, to be pro hued at Drury Lane Theatre on Monday, is written by Stirling Coyne. M.Vieuxternpa has returned to the old world from America—Signor Field to London, from hie continental tour. " The mania," says the Athencrum, " is now for acton and octrowee who have not yet learnt acting to start es managers of theatres. This Mart, it is rumoured, may presently be taken by Mite Bwsnbornagh at the Strand Theatre. Pleasing and promieing the lady be, we know—but sa to her managerial power, discretion or esperiseee—the only comment can be " Well-a-day" for drama, serious or comic!" One of Lord Palmerston's last official acts was to mend & donation of 1001. to Mrs. Mogridge, widow of the popular writer known by the mow de plunge of . Old Ham- Pht.9-" Mr. Mnrray has issued, on a separate sheet, an index to Dr. Llvingstone's "Journal," with a couple of pages of new matter, relating chiefly to the wife of the mis sionary. Mr. Thornbury, author of " Art and Nature," has in program a life of Turner, Mr. Ruskin having assisted him with the MSS. and note-books of that grist painter. The Illustrated London News mays :—" The two most recent ex-Chancellors of :Le Extbequar bars sought, sad are still seeking, refuge in Homer. Mr. Gladstone has mat the third volume of his book about Homer (' about k sad about it') to the press at Oxford; and Sir George Lewis has—forgetting figure., in which he excels—written • letter, of Lord knows how many 'bests, to his prede cessor in the Exchequer, touching Homer and his men sweentore—the Scottish °mien, it is said, not omitted. Lady Jute Om reeding Plato (in Lord Stamford and Warrington's park) is nothing oompared to Mr. Gladstone sad Sir George Lewis quarrelling ainkebly about Homer within sight of Mr. Massa, and fresh from unpoetic figures and dry estimates." HAerroe COVRT AND KEW. —From a return to parliament lowed this morning It appears that during the year 1867, 173,710 visitors were admitted to we the apart ments and *Wes at Hampton -court. Of that number 47,794 visited the palace on Sundays. The visitor' to Kew during the year numbered 301,798,—m0re then half the number—viz., 185,699 having visited the gardens on Sundays. The greatest amine of Besday visitors at liempto• Court were la Ilay, bet the iseest number of visitors on other days wee In J. Zsw was visited by the largest 'umber of Sunday visitant Ia ATIVEPI, sad ea other days la hum WORTH WILTS. DEVIZES, FRIDAY, Mama 5. The re-election of Mr. Botberon-Eete..ourt, the new President of the Poor-law Board, took place in the Corn Exchange, Darius, this morning. The right hon. gentleman wss proposed by G. H. W. Hem eaon, Esq. ((late member for Devizes), and seconded by W. Cotsoartn, Kg., of Chip/Anhwei; and there being no opposition to his return, was declared d uly elected. Mr. ESTCO RT said thirty jean bad elapsed since he first entered the walls of parliament, and his course of con duct during that period had shown that he had no ambition or appetite for Ake. On Wednesday in last week, however, ha received a visit from an old friend, a member of the House of Coatroom, who was weal known to be in the confidence of Loyd Derby, who said he had come to him (Mr. Estcoart) with a menage from his lordship, to ask him to accept the office of President of the Poor-law Board. The reply which he (Mr. Estcourt) made was My dear old friend, It is out of the question it is oat of my line. I do not wish foe It, and there are others who will do it quite es well, and who would be gra tified and pleased by ft." Some further ocavereatke took place, but the result was Mr. Estcourt's scespt ce of the office. The right bon, gentleman then p to say that most of them had, he supposed, read the eloquent and magni ficent speech which was made in the House of Lords, on Monde last, last, by Lord Derby, in which his lordship ex the course which he intended to pursue ; and without Wool sa them by going over the same ground, he (Mr. Estoiart would only y that he felt proud and glad to have enlistedhimself under such a leader. The change of govern ment which had taken place was not a change which had been brought about by a hostile collision of parties; the latego velment had gone out by their own inherent weak Dela, because they had of late appeared to the country deficient in that energy and that straightforwardness which they had taken credit for twelve months ago. After a few remarks upon the two bills which have peculiarly marked the present session of parliament, viz , the Conspiracy Bill and the India Bill, Mr. Esteourt made• few remarks upon the subject of church rates. He said his only object In wishing to see any altera tion in the present system was to get rid of tho scandal which it caused ; but his opinion was, that in parishes where the majority were against a rate being granted, those who were averse to it should be compelled to fill up a return, stating to what religious denomination he wished to contri bute the amount to which the property he occupied was liable. By doing this no man could may that his conscience wee violated. To the ballot Mr. Estcourt expressed himself as decidedly opposed ; as well as to any organic changes in the constitution, although he was desirous to improve the existing institution, of the country. Very few persons were present. COCK ERMOUTH. Lord Naas was re-elected for Cockermouth with. out opposition on Wednesday. Theprooesdings took place in the Court-house, which was filled by the burgesses, but the business of the day was conducted in the most orderly moa ner. His lordship was very well received. In in eddies, while touching upon the Conspiracy Bill he end, " I believe the law of England la strong enough to cope with such designs. I believe that on the statute books will be found a law relating to conspiracies to murder sufficient to deal with such came ; a law will be found sufficient to punish such attempta, and, if it is not sufficient, lam sure there is no man in England who will object to its being changed. But I believe it will be found that there is a sufficient law, and that ere long it will be put in force." Alluding to his own office Lord Naas observed I had held it before, and certainly my experience of it did not altogether agree with the description given by a gentleman who held it for four yeses —a gentleman well known in this town—the Right an. Edward Reesman. (Laughter.) I observe that in a speech which he mad* to his constituency of Stroud he stated that the office which I now have the honor to hold was excessively highly paid, and that there TIPS very little to do. Gentlemen, it will not be for me on the present OCCIIIIiOII to enter Into the question of rimy, bemuse perhaps, I might not give a very Impartial opinion on that point —(laughter)—but so far as the labour of the office is concerned, though I do not pretend to the trensoendent abilities of the gentleman who held It so long, yet, for an ordinary mortal with ordinary abilities, it teems to me that there is sufficient to occupy his time for every hour of the day." Hu Lordship having resumed hie seat, several questions were put to him, in answer to which he said he we. not in favour of the ballot. He could not promise to support en extension of the franchise to 101. householders in counties. As to the property qualification for members, he cared little about the point. lie believed that if one rogue got into parliament without a qualification he generally found some other rogue to enable him to make one. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to Mr. Wood, the bailiff, TEE POLICY OF TEE NEW CABINET. A government that fears to resist any popular cry whatsoever, for fear of forfeiting its character or losing Its place, would in a few years be the ruin of the *pantry. We now re quirestateamten whose antecedents Justify them in a deliberate and regulative policy, while their dispositions guarantee • generous and enlightened creed. We fully believe that the intelligent classes of this country are alive to the evils of precipitate change, and have begun to recognise the profound truth of the poetic maxim that "raw Mate is the half-sieter of delay." All that they now require from their rulers is en sernrance that they are sincere in their professions of reform. This given, they are too prosperous to be In • hurry for crude measures. Like rich men they can afford to wait. And under the circumstances we cannot doubt that the government best adapted to the occasion is one in which liberal minds sre united with conmery alive opinions.— Press. The policy of the Derby government is an adop tion, with jolt difference enough to swear by, of the measures of their predecessors, including, we fear, Mr. Vernon Smith's India Bill. The answer to Count Walowaki, which, 'tier the vote on Mr. Milner Gibson's amendment, it was easy to write, has probably by this time been written. Questions of principle—such as &location, the Jew Bill, and Church-rates—are to be open qucetions. Parliamentary reform is allowed to "loom "—an injudicious arrangement, which will not secure the forbearance of reformers, and will yet alum the enemies of reform. And so, in plain words, the Derby government is to get on as long and as well as • government on sufferance can ander institutions which re quire the government to command a majority in the House _ _ of .- Review. Lord Derby has in every point of importance accepted the measures of the late administration, and it becomes evident that the two great parties are become constitutional critics rather than constitutional opponents of each other's policy. Personal ties, not political convictions, us now the bond of the two great sections in the state, and, as an inevitable result, the exclu siveness of those ties must soon be rel►xed. If Lord Derby is to retain office long, it must be as the premier of a liberal administration; but as soon as Lord Derby's administration is recognised by the country as liberal, England will assuredly not be willing to loss the help of its ablest statesmen merely to gratify the personal predilec tions of a knot of friends. The theory of a change of cabinet has always been, that where principles of govern ment are different, statesmen cannot act together; but if it be found that Lord Derby can carry on, without any break, the policy of Lord Palmerston, the theory will be changed. We should then only have to sort men who bold substantially the same principles, into two classes of admi nistrators and critics—to remand those to the opposition benches who out serve the country beet by their pronounced faculty for fault-lading—and to recall those to the minis terial beeches who serve the country bast ►y a pronounced faculty for organising. It is scarcely doubtful that, in case of such a restitution*. It would be found needful to recruit the opposition benches by securing them the critical aid of the most eminent mambos of the present goverumsat, and to recruit the ministerial benches by bringing back to them the administrative ability of the most eminent members of the re sent opposition.— Eassornia. Tha present government meat be prepared foe the &Apes odearien, rid dr unheard berebreee, dr- Wert by an rem may. Het re Coarchrar to *War DIM A sr be the ems =Lord Pahmernmee. let Me new beau rempeat se it will. The Widow we Mere will be WNW to the jedgak—Are. EXPRESS FROM PARIIs; (11011 001 OWN 001 PARIS, FIIDLT Rmiugo. The Moniteur !laving obstinately refused to give publicity to the Emperor's apology for the bullying military addresses, keeps a wonderfully sharp look ont•lest anything should incidentally appear in its °oleo/its which might offend tho pet colonels. To day it says:—" We reproduce from the Times of March 2 all that part of Lord Derby's speech which relates to the attempt of January 14 and the Con spiracy Bill." On looking through the report which follows, it will be perceived that his lord ship's disdainful rebuke to the colonels is kept out of sight. The phrase "tree valour never indulges in bombast," which called forth a cheer, ie sup pressed ; and by a wilful mistranslation the prime minister is made to hazard a con jecture that the colonels in question were never in the Crimea at all, and could not have known the English troops, instead of saying, as I see by the Times report that he did, " I should be surprised to find that those who were the authors of these intemperate addresses were, in reality, the most distinguished among those glorious soldiers of France who, in many a hard-won battle on the fields of the Crimea, fought and bled in honourable rivalry with their British allies, and have therefore learnt how to appreciate British bravery and British co-operation." You see, therefore, that a speech pronounced under the sense of high official responsibility by one of the greatest living masters of language—a speech prepared with the express object of giving to the cabinet of the Tuileries all the satisfaction that was possible, consistently with the situation—is just as liable in France to the scissors of the censor as the articles of liberal journals, whose (so-called) excesses are, in reality, though the time may not yet be rife for stating the fact diplomatically, the sorest grievance of a government which abhors free dom in all its shapes. The Minister at War has sent a circular to the colonels of regiments, desiring them to grant no coves whatever except in cases of extraordinary urgency. The Independence Belge, a journal which it cannot be too widely known is new essentially under the control of the French government (al though, in order to conciliate its various readers and keep up its circulation, a certain latitude is allowed to some of its correspondents), says, in giving this news, that none of the malicious inferences that have been drawn from it are well founded. This may be so ; but what are the true reasons for the measure? But a short time ago we were told that reductions in the army were the order of the day. What can be the reason for the change ? The Emperor's quarters at the Chilons camp are to be considerably enlarged, as his Majesty intends to receive a great deal of company there this year. The authorisation which the Sledle has long enjoyed of being sold in the streets is withdrawn, the Minister of the Interior being annoyed to find that though the journal has lately been completely gagged its circulation is increasing. This inter ference with the particular mode of selling a journal which has been frequently made of late, is an eva sion of what little remains of common right. The laws do not give the government any specific power of favouring one journal more than another in respect of being sold in the street ; but the keepers of newspaper stalls most have a licence from the Prefect of Police. The mode of action, therefore, is to tell the stall-keepers that if they pll a par ticular journal their license will be withdrawn. To the evening papers the privilege is a very serious matter, and the Press* has suffered immensely by the withdrawal of it ; but to the Slick, which depends mainly upon subscribers, the consequences of this petty ofilcial hostility will not be very mate rial. But what matters? The authorities are only playing with a mouse, which they may destroy at will. The young Prince of Oude had a private audience of the Emperor this morning. Another reception at the Tuileries, which, if not important, will at least provoke immense curiosity, is that of M. Louis Veuillot, of the Mayers. The Courrier de Paris publishes a letter from a M. Dessin, dated Calais, March 4, contradicting a statement which has gone the round of the Paris papers that the port of Calais was blocked up with and. The writer says that in consequence of heavy weather the pickets could not for a certain time get out of Dover harbour, but that there was nothing to prevent them from making Calais. The Bonne has relapsed to-day, in consequence, as I hear it said, though I am far from vouching for the fact, that Lord Cowley has resigned, on account of a disagreement with Lord Malmeabury as to the wording of the answer to Count Waleweki's despatch of Jan. 20. The Rente fell 25c. for cult and 30c. for account, closing at 69fr. and 69fr. 15c. Mobilier fell 10fr. ; the Orleans Rail way, 21fr. 25c. ; Eastern, 7fr. 60e.; Mediterranean, 10fr. ; Southern, 6fr. 25c.; and Western, 10fr. ARRESTS IN FRANCE. Le Nord of this day publishes the following telegram : _ "MARSEILLES, FRIDAY. " Several hundreds of persons arrested, in all parts of France, in pursuance of the late measures of safety, have reached Marseilles. They will be placed in the Chateau d'lf, waiting their removal to Lambessa (the penal colony in Algeria)." GENERAL BEDEAU AND THE FRENCH EMPEROR. The Independance Beige of yesterday evening publishes the following letter from General Beduin : Sir,—l have read In your number of the id of March, mid in your correspondence from Paris of the 2nd, evening edition, that a deems authorises Generals Chartgarnier and Bedesu to return to Prance. In thus describing the mea•ttre Oaken in our case, an error is made which it is u well to rectify. " 111 1852 and 1853 t►e French government, wishing to authorise the return of several members of the Legislative Assembly thought that a decree was neccarry to annul a decree of exile. The Ifondeur of the Ist of March, 1868, does not contain • decree; but a simple authorisation ad ministratively revocable. This authorisation, made public at a moment in which the government deprives a great number of Frenchmen of the most ordinary guarantees of Jude., has evidently for its object to divert public opinion. I have no wish to lend myself to such • design. I re member, moreover, that in order to arrest me six year' ago, they pretended to accuse me of a plot against the safely of the date, and the dep6t of military store.' However stress' my dears to return to France, I most before all in tide mane protest on behalf of law against arbitrary measures.—Receive, air, &c. " GENERAL A. BEDEAIL" It is on the 29th of April next that the Credit Mobiller will hold its samara maul nesting, sad will give ma accoeut of Its opsratkers. The directors affect great mystery as to what those operations restated la. It is me tal* that they wen very fsr, fadeed, from being so hairnet es thaws of mord* years ; bat from what I ham they will measly east& a dividend to be deeland.—Paris Corre spondent tithe imwevise. eif •CA Cain capti bale WWI 11411 it II chill nat.e tron Lai Cot left per to sib Par all an( led 1111 E. 7 tic; • b, Ihe