The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-17 00:00:00

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But, u com pared with the exhibition organised by his late col league, Lord PANIWRE, on the conclusion of peace with Russia, it may fairly be urged on behalf of the ex-Secretary of the Admiralty that his startling rockets and in-odorous bouquets cost far fewer hours of the public time than those of the ex- Minister for War cost thousands of the public money ; and that while the latter served only to gratify the favoured dwellers in the metropolis, the former are fitted to amuse the reading population of three kingdoms. For ourselves, we are not disposed to take exception upon such ground to the display of Monday last. Differing essentially as we do from Mr. OseoaNe in the temper and tendency of many of his observations, we frankly own that we cor dially anent to the general proposition be laid down, that it is highly desirable upon each occasion when a change of Government takes place, that the new Administration should be called upon to state the general principles on which its Members have united with a view to the conduct of public affairs. We admit, of course, the convenience of the opposite doctrine ; the facility it affords to coalitions of all kinds for getting under weigh when they have no genuine papers to show; and the impediment which the establishment of the rule might occasionally offer to sudden combinations of heterogeneous elements having little in common beyond the desire of office. But the public at large will be rather disposed, we think, to value it all the more on account of these objections, and will hardly be led to forego the hope, that hereafter it may come to be recognised and enforced, by the recollection that its advocate in the present instance was for five years a holder of political office with men who could never be either pushed or persuaded into put ting forward a programme. On this point Mr. DIiRAELINI answer was comically complete. Ile was equally successful in his comparative list of " open "questions." It is rather too bed to find the honour able and gallant Member for Dover upbraiding a Tory Government with inconsistency because Mem bers of the Cabinet declare that they will Vote for the admiasion of the Jews, he himself having until yesterday served under a Premier who twice within three years conferred Cabinet office upon im placable opponents of that measure. Lord fitments- BURY wai named Privy Seal and had actually accepted the office without a word being said upon the subject ; and everybody knows that it was not upon the Jew Qaest.on that he subsequentlymeigned the post. It was then tendered to Lord Humowne, and accepted by him with a stipulation that he was not to be expected to vote as Sir Joan Psafttormt, Lard STANLEY, and Mr. Disaszu are willing to do. And yet Mr. ()smuts is scandalised at the in coherency of the New Government on matters per taining to Religious liberty. Similar retorts were pungently given by the Cruireiu.toe of the Ee- CTIECIIIKI on the subject of Church Rates and the Ballot ; and so plainly was the conviction of the House expressed after hearing both these accom plished masters of oratorio fence, that it was at beat but a drawn battle, that Lord PAutraerron was fain to treat the affair as little more than a passage of arms in sport, and thereby to save him self and the main body of his adherents from the reproach of a reptiles in their first attack ender the lead of Mr. Ossoist. For ourselves, we prefer the tone assumed by Mr. HORSMAN and Lord lons RUSSELL towards their adversaries. We do sot believe that it was by dint of any manceuvre, either justifiable or disreputable, that the majority of Lord PALMERSTON was brought to nought. We are thoroughly convinced that it was by his own abuse of power, legislative and ad ministrative, that that power was overthrown. In stead of dissolving Parliament in 1867 upon any broad or permanent system of policy, such as the country would have responded to, Lord PALMERSTON availed himself of the opportunity, as he believed it to be, of forming in the House of Commons a personal faction, made up of men of all shades and degrees of opinion, and pledged to nothing but adherence to the Administration of which he was the head. We pleaded earnestly at the time against the injustice and folly of such a proceeding—but we pleaded in vain. No other cry but that of Palmerstonism was pet forward by his colleagues, friends, and supporters at the hustings; and the ablest and oldest Liberals were in too many instances conspired against, and by Tory help supplanted and betrayed. A few mouths elapsed, and the country came to its senses. Lord PATJEZILSTON was not, in deed, ashamed of his triumph over prostrate and dis abled Liberalism ; but the people were. Silently, but steadily, they set about repairing the grievous blunders they had made ; and many a warning was given during the autumn and winter to the over-con Meet Minister that public feeling was on the turn, Lord PALMERSTON would not be warned. He be lieved in his personal following in Parliament, and disdained even to affect any desire to consolidate or widen the basis of his Ad ministration. The whole patronage of Government was recklessly surrendered to assist him for aristo cratic jobbing, without even the pretence of party purpose or object to excuse it. Private character and political antecedents were equally disregarded. Every department of the public service was be coming stuffed and crammed with paupers of quality THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, BR or paraffin's; and before Parliament re-assembled at the beginning of last month the prevalent feeling oat of doors had turned from confidence and hope to one of mingled disappointment and disgust. Even then it might not have been perhaps too late to retrieve great Orion. Had Lord PAL3tERSTOI4 shown any disposition at the beginning of the session to take up his three times dishonoured Bill in favour of Reform, and had he been able to lay upon the table correspondence to show that he had maintained towards foreign Powers the attitude and bearing worthy of a British Minister, great faults and mani fold shortcomings would have been forgiven, , even though not forgotten. But the crowning infatuation of all consisted in his unconcealed desire to conciliate the Conservative Opposition by the abnegation of Liberal principles. Instead of a Reform Bill we bad an Alien Bill ; and instead of any indication of a wish to abandon the exclusive and grasping spirit of administrative oligarchy, Lord PALmnawrott took to scolding and snubbing the House of Commons. We all know the result. And now we have a Ministry on sufferance which does not pretend to know its own mind on half the questions of the day ; and we have two or three dis united Oppositions, animated aparently by different desires, and professing different ♦iews. Of one thing they may, however, be assured, viz., that the country is in no mood just now to see all public business interrupted or set aside for the grati fication of mere personal animosities. If Mr. Disuszu and his colleagues behave with circumspection and fairness in the distribu tion of patronage, and if they produce measures intrinsically deserving of support, public feeling will sot abet any reckless or premature efforts to die place them. Lord Psurrizroz and his personal following had their chance, and they wantonly threw it away : Lord DEEBT and his friends must now have their tarn for a time. They must be blind Indeed if they do net see that they lie at the mercy of out-numbering competitors for power, and that their sole chance consists in their making up their minds, and that promptly, to play for the support of the People. Tux DEBBY Cabinet have been well advised. Mr. lllsitaxu, having become convinced of the real importance which the nation attaches to the vindication of its honour in the affair of the Cagliari, has executed a dexterous flank movement,:by which he has contrived at once to retrieve his own position and to damage that of his opponents. Fastening on Lord PALMERSTON'S declaration, that the late Go vernment were again engaged in considering this question immediately before their retirement from office, he has arrived at the conclusion that the pre sent Administration are entirely unfettered in the bailees', and that it has become their duty without fear or favour to do that which on ma ture deliberation they may think "is for the " interest of law, right, and justice." It may be somewhat difficult tome by what precise process of reasoning Mr. DisaaiLl had arrived at the con clusion that the incoming Administration could have been precluded by any acts of their predecessors from doing that which, in their consciences, they might believe that the "interests of law, right, and justice" demanded. It is almost equally difficult to per ceive how a mere statement like that made by Lord PALMERSTON—a statement to which, as Mr. DISRAELI declared, a painful, minute, and laborious search among the papers in the Foreign-office offered no clue whatever—could in itself have had such an effect as to make that course right which would otherwise have been wrong, or to remove restrictions which could for a moment have been regarded as binding. This, however, is a point for political casuists to determine. The results, not the process which led to them, constitute the only matter of serious mo ment. Whether logically or illogically, Mr. DISRAELI has formed the determination to treat the whole question of the Cagliari entirely de sore, to submit the case to the present law advisers of the Crown, and not only so, but to lay before Parliament and the country, with all reasonable despatch, every paper to be found in the Foreign-office relating to the affair, including those opinions of the late law officers which according to a venerable mystification of the Treasury Benches it has hitherto been the fashion to withhold. The country, which is tho roughly in earnest in the matter—the country, which is thoroughly impatient of the mode in which the bturinese has hitherto been neglected—the country, which feels the dignity and the character of Eng land to be as much involved in the persons of these two humble engineers as though they were the nephews of dukes or the cousins of earls, will have seen with satisfaction the statement that the whole matter is to be finally sifted, with a view to prompt, energetic, and unfettered action. The country re quires nothing more than justice, but will be con tent with nothing less. We understand that on the morning of the 9th inst., a Queen's messenger arrived at Rome with important despatches for our representative there, the Hon. R. B. Lyons, and that a few hours after wards Mr. Lyons started for Naples in company with the messenger. It was expected at Rome that ten days or a fortnight would stance for the " satis factory termination " of the affair relative to the engineers. THE LATE CHANGE AGAINST MR. BUTT, M.P.— This morning wee boned a blue book, composed of the report from the 'elect committee on Amur Ali Idoorld'a claim (Corey's petition), together with the proceedings of the com mittee, minutes of evidence, and appendix. From the record of the proceedings of the committee, it appears that in the fourth resolution adopted by the committee—running "That on or about the month of August, 1861, Isaac Butt, Esq., received from his highne se another sum of 3001., but it does not appear to your committee that such payment to Isaac Butt, Esq., had any reference to proceedings in pulls, ment,"—Mr. Sidney Herbert proposed to leave out the words "that smelt payment to Isaad:Butt,lisq., had any reference to proceedings in parliament," for the purpose of adding the words, " for what object such payment was made." On a division, however, Mr. Sidney Herbert was the only mem ber of the committee who voted for the amendment. A fifth resolution wee proposed, with the others, by Mr. Bouverie, but on a division was supported only by Mr. Sidney Herbert end Mr. Bouverie, and was accordingly rejected. It was as follows :—" That no proceedings in parliament were taken by Isaac Butt, Esq., in 18.57, on the subject of the Ameer's claims, but that in 1856 the said Isaac Butt presented a pa- Utica from his highness on the 27tk day of June, gave notice on the 4th day of July of an intended motion by himself on the 'abject, and moved on the 24th dsy of July for papers on the subject." The total expenses of witnesses examined by the committee amounted to 1201. 14a. THE CHURCH ESTATES COMMTSSIONERS.—This morning was issued the seventh general report of these commiesioners, dated the Ist of this month. The commis sioners state We have daring this year approved the terms agreed upon in 269 cases; 241 being cases of sales of reversions, and 18 cases of purchase of leasehold interests, and the value in fee of the estates so agreed to be dealt with exceeds 800,0001. The aggregate number of cases enume rated in oar yearly reports u approved is therefore 1,341; and the value of property dealt with exceeds 6,000,0001. In six cases we declined to approve the terms proposed." A further sum of 100,0001. has lc'en paid over to the common fund of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in respect of the surplus proceeds of eafrasehlseatents com pleted. bt eourt. Her Majesty the Queen and hie Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Priors of Wales, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the PrisicesessAßoe, Hahne, Louisa, and Beatrice, left Osborne at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Chsrehill, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Ifejor-Glaaral the Hon. C. Guy, Lord Colville, Captain the Hon. D. de Rat, the Heater of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs. Her Meieety and the Royal Family embarked at the Trinity Pier, Cowes, on the Film Royal deem yacht, mowed to Gosport, and travelled by a special train on the South Western Railway to the private station at Vauxhall. The Queen, the Prince, sad the Royal party entered seven of her Majesty's carriages, end, woorted by a party of Light Dragoons, proceeded to Buckingham Palace, whore they arrived at 8 o'clock. Her Mejany end his Royal nighttime were received et the Falsest by the Marquis of Rueter, Earl Delama; the Dike at Bessiwt, Viscount Newport, the Sari of Vandals, Lord Reset, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, and Coked Francis t?ey teser, The Berl of Virulent and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore have enc. envied the Berl of Caithnese and 84 Edward Bowater u the Lord and Groom in Waiting to the Qum. The Her. George Prothero had the honour of dining with the Queen at Osborne en Monday. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Coups, arrived at her residence, Clarence house, St. James's, yesterday afternoon from Frogmen. The Prince of Wiles visited the Royal Duchess. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were— the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Mahnesbury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakingtoo, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Right Hon. I. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. Previous to the Cabinet Council about 160 rumbas of ties Home of Commons had a o3abranite with the Earl of Derby and the Chancellor of the Bachequer, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. Deputations from the Mercantile Marina Service Aarocia dons of the kingdom bad an interview with the Right Hen. J. W. Henley and Lord Donoegbmore at the Board of Trade eu s f ater C. iay. The deputations consisted of Mr. T. B. H. M.P. Mr. J. C. Rent, M.P.. the Hen. Ralph Dutton, .P. From tha Liverpool Assodabon :—Capt. L.Reed (chairman), Mr. W. 0. Campbell (deputy chairman), Mr. T. B. Thomson (secretary), Captain Powell, Captain B= in e, Captain Anderson, Captain Corbett, Mr. R. Lamont, W. Harrison, and Mr. Thni. Baines. From the Southampton Association:—Captain Engledue (chairman), Captain Snub dopey chairman), Captain Powell, and Mr. W. Camb ; and from the London Association: Capt. Hen •p e, Stavesaptain Gibbs, Captain Ede, Cap tain nthrie, Captain Trebling Captain Mayo, Cal an Iseesonger, Captain D. B. Cook, Captain D. Cook, Jun., Captain Lumley, Captain Gribble, Captain Strickland, Ca,p tain Thatcher, Mr. A. W. Barclay, i(r. H. Edwards, Mr. Jas. Jackaon (secretary); and Captain Avery. Despatches ware sent yesterday from the Colonial-elks b the Governors of the West India Islands, and to the Gover nors of Malta, Ceykm, Hong Hang, and Australia. wen received eeterday at the Colonial-office from Lard •d High Com of the lonian Islands. THE CHINA MAILS. that there must be in the course of this year a gene ral fall of prices in France. Howe rent in Paris most come down with other things. I see it stated in the London organ of the Derby government, that the affluence of visitors to Paris is now so great that it is difficult to find apartments. This is a woeful mistake. The way bills of the South Eastern Railway Company will tell a very different story. ITALY. -.- PIEDMONT. THE CONSPIRACY BILL. Letters from Turin state that the committee of the Chamber of Deputies appointed to examine the bill on the crimes of conspiracy and approval of political amandnation, as also on the composition of the jury in such cues, terminated its labours on the 13th, by declaring against the measure by Ave votes to two. The deputies who voted for the rejec tion were MM. Brofferio, Gastaldetti, Valerio, Cotta, Ramusino, and Farina. MM. Miglietti and Buffs, who formed the minority, declared their intention of presenting a new bill on the subject. HER MAMMY ZEVER.-(THIB 1111.) This afternoon her Majesty held a levee, the second this mason, in St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal afghans the Prince Consort arrived from Buckingham Palace escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, and were received at Bt. James's Palace by the Zed De Is Warr, the Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Newport, Vice Chamberlain, Marquis of Exeter, Lord Claude Hamilton, Lord Colville. Her Majesty's Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on duty in the state saloons under the command of Earl Talbot. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort on entering the throne room, were attended by the Duchies of Manchester, Lady Churchill, Hon. Emily Cathcart, Mar quis of Exeter, Lord Steward, Earl De la Warr, Duke of Beaufort, Earl of Verulam, R. Ormsby Gore, Esq., and eaters of her Majesty's household. A very large crowd metanbled to witness the proceerion. DEP-UMW 01 TSB COM PROM OSBOANIL PORTSMOUTH, MAacn 16. Her Majesty and the court left CoWee es routs from Osborne at two o'clock this afternoen, is the steam yacht Fairy, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman. Previously to the embarkation of her Majesty, the Diadem, 32, steam frigate, Captain Peter Crscroft (pro tem.), saluted the royal standard on peening Osborne es routs to Spitheed from Lisbon. As the Fairy approached Spithead ales wee saluted by the Renown, 91, Captain Forbes ; the enrages, 31, Capt. T. Mason ; the Racoon, Captain Paynter ; and the Diadem, the man of which vessels manned yards and cheered. Her Majesty was also saluted from the garrison battery, and the Steeliest, Captain Hewlett, in harbour. On heading along side Clarence-yard at 3.16 she was received by Admiral Sir George Seymour and staff, General Sir James Yorke ficerlatt and dad, Captain Superintendent Dams, and other °Mows of the port. The royal train left the Clarema-yard, Gosport, at about halt-past three o'clock. (PROM LUP NIGIVII GAZITTIL) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'6-0271CR,MARCH 13.—Notice it hereby given that her Najesty will hold Levees at Bt. James's Palace on the foKowing days, at two o'clock : Wed nesday, 17th, and Wednesday, 24th instant. N.B. The Knights of the several orders are to appear in their collars at the levee on the 12th instant, it being a collar day. Wittnium., ileum 13.—The Queen to been pleaaed to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Beal, granting the dß** and place ol Advocate-Generei, or Judge Martial of her Idejeety's forces to John Robert Mow bra _y, EN. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 13.—The Queen by been pleased to appoint Richard Janus Corner, Eeti., to be Mist Justice of the supreme court of her Melesty's forts sad settlemeuts on the Gold Coast, and Amster to the native chiefs within the protected territories near, or atacent to, the said forts and settlements, also E. B. Watermeyer, Esq., to be one of the three Palette Judges of the supreme court of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; Henry J. Woodcock, Ep. to be Attorney - General for the Island of Antigua ; William Aurelius Harland, Esq. M.D. to be Colonial Bur geon for the Wanda Hong Kong ; and Joseph B. H. Col lings, Esq., M.D., to be Auditor-General for the Island of Molts. The Archbishop of York and the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave have wind at their tows mansion in its*rave. equare.from the Palace, Bisbopethorpe. Lord and Lady Churchill have arrived at the St. Wargo' s auto!. Lord and Lady Guernsey, accompanied by the Um Major Finch, have arrived at Claridge's Rotel, from Peekington Hall, near Coventry. Lord Middleton has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Sir Robert Throckmorton and the Mines Throek. morton have arrived at Edwudie Hotel, froze Bnekland. Sir Francis Scott has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Great Barr Hall, near Birmingham. Sir Frederic and Lady Smith have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Sir Charles Tempest and Mies Tempest have arrived at the same establishment. Mr. Grenfell, M.P., and Mee. Greaten, have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for town. The Countess de Rayneval, widow of the late Ambassador of France at Rome, has just aspired at pine from a complaint of the cheat. The countess had not then received the tidings of the death of her husband. The Count de Flandre will attain the age of twenty-one on the 24th inst., when Oke will take place in different places of Belgium. In the House of Commons to-morrow evening, Mr. Secretary Walpole proposes to nominate the following u the select oommittes on the London Corporation Regula tion B111:—Lord John Russell, Sir George Grey, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Mr. Thomas Baring, Kr. Aldermaa Cnbitt, 81r James Duke, 81, John Shelley, Mr. Baines, Mr. Milner Gibson, Sir William Hasthooie, Mr. Hanker, Mr. Edward Egerton, Mr. Ker lispaer, Mr. Lyall, and Mr. George Clive. THE BEEAREE's LEVEE. , —The Speaker will bold a full-arm laves at his house on Saturday ant, the 20th indent, at a quarter peat tea o'clock, and not on Saturday, the 27th instant, at prtorlonaly amnpd. THE LATE SIR HENRY LAWRENCE.—Her Majesty has been densely pleased to declare her intention of con firrlag a yea the solo of the late Sir fiery L aw . moos. It le also the Intention of the Court of Directors of the Bast India Company to propose to the Court of Pro primes the grant of an annuity of 1,0001. a year. LOSS OF THE CALCUTTA STEAMER AND MAILS. FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAM: The following telegram from Mr. Acting Consul. General Green, was received at the Foreign Office, via Corfu, March 17, 4.30 a.m. ALEXANDRIA, 13rx MARCH, 1858. The steamer Granada arrived at Suez yester day afternoon from Ceylon and China. The Ara from Calcutta was totally wrecked on the night of the 18th ult., off Trincomalee, with the total loss of mails, cargo, and baggage ; but the passengers and crew were all saved. No intelligence of importance from China had been received here by telegraph, and the steamer will kayo with China mails on board before the delivery of the letter here. Teh is still a prisoner on board her Majesty's ship Inflexible. It is reported that the natives of Canton are afraid to be seen speaking to Europeans. GREEN, Consul-General. We (limes) have received the following despatch from our correspondent at Alexandria, dated March 13: " The Colombo leaves thia afternoon with the China mails. "Lord Elgin and Baron Gros are still in the Can. ton River. " No additional troops had yet arrived. "Two hundred and fifty-three thousand pounds treasure for the Bombay Government were on board the Ava. Twenty-eight thousand five hun dred pounds have been recovered. "The passengers included several of the Lucknow refugees." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (112 111 AND suns, TELBORAPI4 PARIS, WIDNISDAY. M. Boitelle, Prefect of the Yonne, is appointed Prefect of Police, replacing M. Pietri, whose [resig nation on account of ill health has been accepted. (rILON 0171 OWN CONNISPONDINT.) PARIS, TVESOAT EMIINO. I am u yet without the means of knowing what effect has been produced :in England by the diplo matic correspondence between the Earl of Moline.- bury and Count Walewski, which, having been laid on the table of the House of Commons last night, is published in the Moniteur of this morning. My own impression, in which I am borns out by the small modicum of public opinion that can be collected in Paris, is that the correspondence does not justify Mr. Disraeli's description of it. A reconciliation _ _ can hardly be said to be cordial and satisfactory when one of the parties haughtily declines to carry on any further correspondence on the express ground that he has been misunderstood. The concluding aver- merit of Count Walewski that the Empero;is con tent to rely " purely and simply on the good feeling of the English people," is susceptible of a good many interpretations. but doe. not, I think, mean that the French government will be satisfied with whatever we do. It is most confidently stated in a quarter likely to be well-informed on such a subject, that the Minister of Marine has sent a circular to the maritime pre fects advising the French navy to be put on a war footing by May 1. Dr. Bern, the Swiss Envoy, had an interview with Count Wiipwski this morning, in which, it is alleged, all &Midis between the two governments were satisfactorily arranged. It must however be remembered, that there were three separate ques tions—the refugee question, the new passport regu lations and (which was the most thorny of all) the establishment of French copula at various new stations in Switzerland. It is, I think, doubtful whether all these can have yet been finally settled, and the more so, because a telegram from Berne, dated this day, states that the Federal Council has, according to usage, inquired of the cantonal govern ments of Bale and Neufchatel whether they have any objection to urge against the ezequatur being granted to the new consuls. This day being the birthday of the Imperial Prince, who is now two years old, a mass was cele brated on the occuion in the chapel of the Tuileries, which wu attended by the Emperor and Em press and the child himself, with a certain degree of pomp and ceremony. After mass the band of the Ist Grenadiers of the Guard played a serenade under the Empress's window. This is the regiment on the muster roll of which the Imperial Prince is inscribed as an " enfant de troupe," and in cons_ sequence all his little comrades were on parade with the band. Prince Jardine continues to be very ill, although the Moniteur announces every day that he is better. This morning the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris was sent for to see him. The Bowie continues in a state of atrophy. The diminution of the interest on Exchequer Bills by per cent. produced a slight improvement, but busi ng.o woo rre 7 1.11. Tko Route woos 160. for reale and sc. for account, closing at 69fr. 40c. and 69fr. 45c. Mobilier was much depressed, and fell 12fr. 50e. Railways dull, but a trifle better. The Prase says in its weekly commercial re view : There Is again no change in the general situation of cora meecial affairs. The goods in the wholesale warehouses (MA I a vary slow sale, and their accumulation is likely for some dm to come to form a serious obstacle to the re vival of business. Several firms have availed them selves of the facilities afforded by certain discount houses, and more especially by the Comptoir Bonnard, to ob tain advances on deposits of merchandise. Advkes from foreign markets hold out no hope of any activity In the ex port trade for some months to come. There is glut every where, and prices are too low to tempt our merchants to make any new purchases of the manufacturer. At Rouen and Mulhouse every littlo business is doing itichoap thews, and the same may be said of almost all the other manufac turing towns. AU the tisanes manufactured with a view to exported= remain on hand, although offered for sale at a heavy loss. Lyons and St. Etienne are very dull. Raw silks have again fallen. The most favoured markets are those in the north, where mixed tisanes are made. At Elbeuf the manufacturers have succeeded in getting off most of their old stocks, but only by making concession in prices. Roubaix, Lille,and Turooing,maintain their exceptional pwition. Cereals saweary calm ; there is a further tendency to fall in most of the markets, and ;oracularly at the Halle of Parisi bat, not withstanding the low quotations of torn end Boor, apseulators dew no disposition to enter upon new tranaactim The Mali confirms the report of the P as to the stagnation of buskers, and continues to com plain of the absurd obstinacy of holders of stocks in standing out for impossible prices rather than sub mit to losses which postponement can only render more heavy. I have not the least doubt putting together a great variety of information which I have received of late, THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS IMPRISONED AT SAURNO. (YlOll Offi OWN SALERNO, Kum 10. The trial, which was suspended last Thursday evening, was resumed on Monday ; and as a boat is leaving to-day, I think it better to clear off such matter as is worth recording. With regard to the sanitary state of the prisoners, which is always verified at the opening of the court, nineteen were reported ill, with certificates, yesterday morning. Farther details you will hear in the narrative of the trial. The " interrogatorio " of the prisoners elicited stronger and stronger evidence in favour of Captain /hula and the crew, many denying that they had ever said what was imputed to them, and others re tracting what they asserted had been extorted by fear of death. In fact the strongest witnesses for the crown (amongst the prisoners) have deposed during the trial in favour of the captain. Thus Marta—who wee made to say that he had seen the captain in " Pianissimo accord° " with Pisacane, walkingwith him arm-in -arm, and eatingwith him— on being called op beside the Procurator-General to identify the captain, denied that he knew his person, or that he had ever said such things of him. Another important deposition was that of Eugenio Limbarii, because, in the case of the crown, his name appears amongst the strongest witnesses against the captain. He was brought down to court on horse back, being very ill. He denied all that he had said against the captain and crew, affirming that in con sequence of illness he was confined below from Ponza to Sapri, and could not be a witness of what was going on above. He never went on deck until he had to land in Sapri.. The officer who wrote the deposition put down just what he liked, and as he observed, " This is the commander of the Cagliari ; this is he who distributed the arms," he, Limbardi, being vey ill and frightened, and believing the officer, replied, Yee." Alter giving this evidence he was ordered to be taken off to the hospital. So was Pellegrini, after giving his evidence. Vincenzo Martino, who was ill though in court, protested against the Urban Guards, who had robbed and beaten him, but the Procurator-General (illegally as it apiears to most people) , opposed the insertion of such protests in the prom verbal, as being useless, not connected with the cause, and as " being the result of previous agreement to discredit the public force." Yet such things are. Besides the persons above mentioned, many others deny or retract their depositions against Sitsia, say ing that when they spoke of the captain they meant not the captain of the vessel but the captain of the enterprise, namely, Pisacane. To give you a just idea of the sanitary state of the prisoners, besides those already mentioned there were removed from the court to the hospital immediately after giving their evidence, Achille Godano, Pasquale Anneal, Vincenzo Esposito, Gen naro Garguillo, and another whose name I do not know. The e ug of yesterday was much occupied with the examination of some prisoners regarding letters which they had either written or caused to be written from Ponta to their friends, and which letters were supposed to contain equivocal expres sions. The letter of one was couched nearly as follows : " Dear Mother,—Aßer having embraced you, I beg you to send me two shirts, two pair of pantaloons, and some money. I have only one carlino a day (or 4d.) to live upon, and can scarcely drag on (firare arants). It is not more than enough for my lodgings." (One carlino a day is the government allowance for a transported man.) "How does that affair go on ? And tell me the name and surname of my brother and sister ?" By " that affair," he explained that he ' meant a former demand which he had made for money. With respect to the names of his "brother and sister, " he had been four years an exile, had never he ard from them, and he meant to say he had almost forgotten their names. A letter of Pasquale d'Angelo was next brought forward, bat no ingenuity could screw anything cri minal out of it. An old man, named Domenico Cirolla, was then called. He was almost too ill to stand ;he came limping up the court, and the President ordered a chair for him. He was without shoes and stockings, and one foot was wrapped in rags. His letter was to his wife, and contained these " equivocal " expree aions, that his affairs " fiorivano," were flourishing, and he " hoped this year to see her." " What mo tive was there," they asked him, " for this hope ? " " Hews' in exile ' genre condanna: (without sentence), and he aliays hoped for a grazia (pardon)." Poor old man, a grazia he will indeed receive, but it will be that of God. He hobbled back to his seat amongst his fellow-prisoners. Shortly after wards I heard groans resounding throughout the court : they became louder and louder. An officer and gendarmes went to the spot, and Cirolla was carried off to the hospital on the back of a fellnw-prisoner. At the same time another was ordered off to the same place, and bad to be sup ported out of court. Another prisoner's letter contained this " espres sione equivoca a Griminess "—" Dear brother,quanto primo, spero di abbracciarvi." " You have yet 39 months to remain in exile; what, then, wu the ground of your hopes of soon seeing your brother again P" said the Procurator-General. He answered, "It was everywhere said that the Hereditary Prince was going to be married, and that there would be an amnesty." Two other " equivocal letters" were cited, in one of which the prisoner said that " his liberty was sure by a certain month, for he lived " in una epoee—alluding, as he explained also, to the report of the Prince's marriage ; and another saying, " Mia pens e finite—alluding to the ap proaching expiration of his punishment. It ap peared to me that the President was rather ashamed of such letters as these being styled " equivoche e criminose." During the day one or two other persons spoke in exculpation of the captain ; and, with one or two exceptions, a cloud of witnesses has appeared en tirely in his favour. During the day another man was taken off to the hospital ; and the usher reported another ill in " convulsions." There has been great hesitation this day in imputing robbery and cruelty to the public officers who arrested the prisoners. This, of course, was to be expected after the quasi prohibition by the Procurator-General yesterday. One or two protests of this kind were made to-day, but they were not listened to. A spirited observa tion was made by cue of the prisoners on Monday : —" The Procurator-General accuses us of robbery," said he, " but the real thieves were the officers of justice." What the spirit was which animated those who took part in the apprehension and custody of the prisoners has been already explained amply in the depositions and confessions of nearly 200 prisoners read or repeated in open court. Many might infer, too, from the following fact, that there was a more especially hostile feeling towards Sardinian subje c t s . lam not, however, disposed so to generalise. Still the fact is worth mentioning. " One of my crevr," said Captain Sites, "by name Girolamo Fromento, was ill when we were in the Vicaria. He was or dered to be removed to the prison -hospital of San Francisco; but to be taken there his hands were bound together with a rope. Who are you Of what country are you P said the acting gen darme. ' I am a Genoese' answered the pri soner; And lam a Neapo litan; was the observa tion of the gendarme, drawing the cord tighter with a sound expressive of the effort." In my report of the early days of the trial I stated that it was resolved in the last instance to call in " periti" to decide on the actual position of the Ca gliari when taken. Two captains of Sardinian mercantile vessels and a captain of the Sardinian navy arrived here a few days since to execute the " perizia ;" but as their arrival was premature the two former have left for the present. The Sardinian government is, therefore, following up its declara tions with that tenacity and spirit which have dis tinguished it throughout. In the provinces of Bari and Leeee a great number of arrests have been made of late, but for what pur pose I cannot ascertain. I am not surprised, how ever, at the fact, as Naples has for some time been • prey to suspicion of a sufficiently dark character. The Minister and Prefect of Police are said to have passed three days at Gaeta in the last week ; whilst there the fate of several prisoners lying under sentence was decided. The subaltern authorities are said, in their absence, to have taken advantage of their position, and to have made quite a razzia upon the people. All who presented themselves at the barrier without passports were arrested, and sent off to the Vlcaria. Many of the country people especially suffered, who were formerly in the habit of entering the city without passes. The truth is, I believe, that a great number of arrests were made, and the prisoners sent off to the Vicaria, remaining there till money was offered for their liberation. It was a good speculation for the officials,in the absence of the superiors. The Journal of the 4th March again calls our attention to shocks of earthquake in the scene of the late devastation. The wretched survivors of the calamities of December in Montemurro (where 5,000 were killed), on the 26th of last month, felt three shocks just before dawn of day, and afterwards, about break of day, they felt an earthquake so strong that they fled in fear from their barracks with cries and lamentations. Their fear amounted to sonsternation when they heard that the ground in the country had opened and closed again. At Viggiano severe shock was felt, and some walls fell to the ground. Balvares also, on the 23rd ult., was shaken, but in a slight manner. On the same day, towards evening, there were heard at Saponars, with an interval of thirty seconds, two subter- reasons thunder claps, like two discharges of cannon. THE WEST INDIA MATTA 8017THAMPTON, WIMNESDAT, 1 Li 4 The La Plata ham arrived with the West India mails. She left St. Thomas on the 3rd instant. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 1,212,809 dollars. She has brought home 40 passengers. The West India Islands are generally healthy, and the appearance of the crops is all that can be desired. The monetary crisis has diminished at Valparaiso. The civil war still continues in Peru. Several mercantile houses have stopped payment in Demerara. It is positively affirmed that M. de Pereigny his tendered his resignation as ambaseador in London ; and that, in the event of its being accepted, it is probable he may as succeeded by the Duke of Grammont. Thin last, however, in only conjecture as yet. The Duchem of Grammont is English, and otherwise it is thought that such an appoint ment would be well received in England. ht. de Persigny's resignation has revived once more the rumour of 11. Walowskre retirement, and the appointment of the former to succeed him—with what tenth I cannot say.—Cone spondent of the Times. Charles de Radio, the accomplice of Orsini in the attack of the 14th of January, was brought before the Imp.. rial Court of Paris on Monday to hear the lettere Welt read by which the sentence of death pronounced against him on the 26th of February is commuted to hard labour for life. Radio, who was attired in the convict dress of gray cloth, was escorted to the bar of the court by awed gendarmes• Letters from King George's Sound received bytbs last Australian mall state that a gold-Held is understood is have been found at that settlement. The discovery was masts by a convict end another man, by whom several sped mans had been brought in. A party had been formed to pro. cad to the spot. A report lately presented to the Emperor Alex. ander oontains the following statistical returns relative ta landed property and serfs in Russia —The number of fami lies who are landowners amount to 127,000. Out of them 2,000 poems, from 1000 to 10,000 serfs ; 2,000 from 600 to 1,000; 18,000 trot. 100 to 600; 30,000 from 21 to 100; sad 76,000 have lees than 21. The total number of peanut staff of the nobility amounts to 11,760,000, and those of the crown to 9,000000. There are therefore 20,760,000 pent= anxiously waiting for an improvement in their condition. A parcel received at the Poet-office of St= has been the cause of much perplexity to the an This parcel, which appears to contain either lace or silk, is addreeeed "The mast beautiful lady in Stuttgart." A com mission of ladies wee appointed to decide the question, bde singular to say, no two votes were recorded for the mate person, and the question Is still in easpenee.—Galipswei. LORD EGLINTOUN'S CHAPLAINS.—The of ere the chaplains of the new Viceroy. As war to be ex. =ed ag th ii : g r i t h l tirades a full share of clergymen who law for their hostility to the system of na tional education :—Deanof the Chapel FtoyaL Archdeactort Omit dawdle chaplain. Deans—St. Patrick's, Itaphoso and Emly. Arolutesoons—lleath Dublin, Waterfat, &- Rem. magh, dialog, Cork, Kildare, Pains, and Asdigh. rends—Dr. Butcher, D.D. ; Thomas McNeeee, George Sidney Smith, D.D. ; W. Le Poer Tenth, D.D.i H. D. Sadler D.D. ; Ralph Sadler, D.D. ; S. CMOs D.D. • Mortimer; O'Sullivan, D.D.; H. Vanchoyle, kismet Dat ; :(l2 . trgs Scott, Hon. Bernard,_ Luke Foully E. Whateiy, C. Leone, Rae Crawford, 2..P r rlock, and J. Han. EARL STANHOPE.—The visit of this nobleman fa Aberdeen has been fixed for the 24th and 25th of the prated month. The town council of that city, at a mee on F w rijza l adopted the following resolution That ems the , of the visit of Earl Stanhope to be installed es lord Rector of Marlachal College, the freedom of the city be cm fared by the town council upon his lordship, es kelt tribute of respect to his eminence in literature, his pro found acquaintance with the history, antiquities, and art d our country ; his enlightened reel to diffuse a useful tow ledge at them among all classes of the nation • and the libanl sad progressive character of his political antics:M." His MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The announced slant swim of extra "farewell performances" commenced art reside; with La 71roviata, in which Madile. Piecolealei and Signor Giuglini sustained their celebrated characters of Violates and Alfredo with the usual success. The boase was crowded to the ceiling. On Friday next BOX Ginglint takes his first " benefit "in London. The opera" to be La Zisgora (The Bohemian Girl), in which the sdai• rable tenor will personate Thaddeus, and Moak. Spezia, Is Ai ftrit time, Arline. THE NEW BOROUGH JUSTICES AT WOLTERRAIIN ton.—We understand that the mayor received a liner ye' today (Tuesday) from the Lord Chancellor's seer stating that hie lordship considered the office heidbrgs Mathes incompatible with that of a justice of the pesos bar the borough, and that the Lord Chancellor, without est reformat to Mr. Simkiss's individual fitztee for the oilleso felt obliged to decline confirming his appointment as trailfor Wolverhampton, on the sole ground that the of poor-law auditor is incompatible with that of m aglstraill far the same borough. The addition to tho commission ef the pesos will to simply the six mimeo mentioned in the pendia of the Town Council.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. A LARGE FAmay.—We notice the death of Mr& Murray, widow of Mr. William Murray, sometime brae at (Ironton, Carmyllle, at the ripe age of eighty-six. old lady has left behind her sixty-five descendants, acanthi of ten children, thirty-seven grandchildren, and WOOS great-grandthildren.—Mostrost Standard. AN EAGER SEORTBIIAN.—An amusing incident occurred at the Wick shore the other day n , A mane sportsman had succeeded in shooting a wild duck atone distance from the shore. As the wind was at the time Mies lug strongly from the north, accompanied by maannit min showers, the wounded bird, to the doges of tit= wee gradually driven so far seawards as to be en reach except by a boat; but, not to be undone. the OM threw doom his fowling-Om, stripped himself clothes, and, though the temperature was many 411 1011 Wow ft-'mgaz point, plunged Into the water, and swim allet the bird. We wish we could my his temerity was reellfill. In addition, however, to the disagreesbkmess of bla bait bl failed to smut the duck, and, but for the amigos et v e l spectator, would himself have been the second rinks et sporting propenaidee.—John o'Groat Joirsai. Mr. N be taken — Mr. T. whit bet of Lords should b in the so adhere to Rothschi ter tall th epeak af meat of of re YL Th e BYI Th already e Lord J of - r — eicti The 51 ropy en eau. 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