The Express. — London, England, 1862-03-20 00:00:00

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Mlet•Limema iTarva44 rad R. aftylow—Conumemce al atot_wasia AT LOIDOS BALDGL ---- - - - -- MI Ailt.44llllMilli a. UM.... Alllamw" 4 11 . 6506 Taressaw—lignift 111. Ina ..- Allinip" bik. MIL LONDON, THURSDAT. MARCH 20. Tit Civil;ani, have just pub- hiked their sevesth Report. Considering the extravagant prejudice against the system of exa mining the officers of the Civil *orrice at its first institution, and the thousands of young men who Lave wised through the ordeal—some success fully, but many unsuccessfully—the fact that no single case of harsh dealing on the part of the Coniminioners has been established, is conclusive proof that they have exercised their powers with singular tact and discretion. The novelty of the present Report consists in the fact that in the Treasury at least the competition has been converted from a sham into a reality. Until the subject was examined by the _ _ Select Committee of the House of more it Wu no thing for a Minister, after proclaiming his desire to throw open his patronage to the public, to nominate three youths, of whom two were mere incompetent dummies, so that the third might seem to win the appointment, not by the favour of the Minister, but by the superior power of his abilities. The remedy for this was very simple. It was proposed that before any nominee entered into a competition, he should be bound to pass a preliminary examination in certain elementary subjects, such as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Having passed this test, it was thought that he might then enter as a competitor for the situation. This new system has been tried since last April, and the necessity for its introduction is abundantly apparent from the statistics just published. It appears that out of 594 persons nominated to compete, as many as 302 failed in the preliminary examination. Seeing that the failure must have been in some elementary branch of knowledge, these 302 cannot have been persons who ought ever to have been nominated at all. If they had been allowed to compete they would have been sham candidates, and their presence in the examination-room would have given a semblance of reality to the contest which it did not in fact possess. But the change does not stop here. The Parlia mentary Committee h►d observed that where the convenience of the public service allowed, several vacancies should be competed for at once, it being obvious that a competition between 30 candidates for 10 vacancies is more likely to result in the ap pointment of young men of talent and industry than if each place were competed for by three candidates separately. Accordingly, arrangements have been made by which as many situations as possible may be competed for at ono., so that the best candidate out of the whole number may he selected. These are changes in the right direc tion. But unfortunately they are confined to the Treasury ; and even if they were generally applied, they would fall short of a really open competition. The only important case of a real competition is that of the Civil Service in India. It is esti.. factory to find that the number of candidates steadily increases. In 1856 only 56 were exa mined. In 1861 as many as 176 were examined. 4)u the other hand, it must be observed that the number of appointments has increased front 20 in 1855 to 80 last year. Considering the l►rge emoluments which belong to those who obtain these appointments, it may seem remarkable that the number of candidates is not larger ; but, as the knowledge of the advantages which these appointments offer becomes more general, the number of competitors will increase. At the same time, it must be observed that by the publication of the examination papers and of the performances of the candidates it is tolerably easy to anticipate whether any particular individual will stand much chance of success ; and than who are not likely to succeed, no doubt hesitate to encounter certain defeat. It does not appear whether the inquiry which was understood to be instituted in India for the purpose of ascer taining the merits of the new system is concluded. But it is certain that up to the present moment no public complaints have been made against it, or if made, they have not been authenticated. It is sometimes asserted that the new race of civil servants will be drawn from a lower clam of society, and, in fact, will be less gentlemanlike in tone than the civil servants of former times. The facts annually published by the Commissioners are a conclusive answer to any such allegation. I hit of the 171 candidates last year, there were 1:1 the sous of officers in the army and navy ; there were 39 the sons of clergymen, one of whom was the head of a college ; there were 6 the eons of physicians ; and, besides the sous of lawyers, there were 15 the sons of independent gentlemen. The position of the candidates under the new sys tem has certainly not been lowered. Tried by any other test the conclusion is the same. Although the age of the succeseful candid/son varies between 19 and 23, it appears that wit of 171 candidates 147 had been without occupation since leaving college, and out of the 82 successful candidates four had been tutors and 75 had been without occupation. Again, having regard to the please at which the candidates received their education, it is clear that they must be drawn from the upper strata of the middle classes. Out of 171, there were 36 from Oxford, 34 from Cam bridge, 27 from Trinity College, Dublin, 7 from the Queen's Universities in Ireland, and 20 from the Scotch Universities. It was feared that Scotland would probably ►ufer niore than any other part of the empire by the inauguration of the new sys tem. As everybody may be assumed to have an aunt at Bath, so it might have been assumed • few years ago of every Scotchman that he had an uncle or a cousin in India. It is probably with reference to the alarm which wee felt by our irri table brethren of the North that the C 0111.131411- sioners state that of the five first candidates four were Scotch by birth and education. This is only one illustration of the benefit which public competition confers on the education of a tountry, awl the noble results which it produces. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1862. It was but the other day that we recorded the melancholy death of Mr. Lout at Oxford, who, though born of very humble paresis in Scotlad, was enabled, under the reformed statutes which opened the colleges, to obtain an entrance into Christ Church, and to become one of the leading academical men of his time. Had it not been for the system of competition he might have been compelled to remain in his original obscurity, un appreciated and unrewarded. The only extension of the principle of open com petition is in the case of the engineer boys and dockyard apprentices in the several naval yards. The probability is that the report of the Education Commissioners made it difficult for the Admiralty any longer to maintain the monopoly of these ap pointments'. And the fact that many of the nominee boys who were studying mathematics could neither spell nor write—a fact which was demonstrated by lithographed fac-similes of their youthful handiwork—was too conclusive against the nomination system. The publication of some fac similes of the work of some candidates nominated by ministers and public men would materially hasten the more rapid application of the competitive principle. It would show that political patrons are not more careful about the intellectual merits of their candidates than they seem to be about their moral character. Out of 444 rejections last year as many as 47 were on account of character. Be tween 1855 and 1861 the number rejected for this cause amounts to 154. How long will it be said that the system of nomination secures even honesty and good conduct? LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRIISSLL The Voiles Zeitung gives a singular account of the measures which were taken on Tuesday, the 11th inst., the day on which the Prussian Chamber was dissolved. Hall-cartridges and hatchets were distributed in the barracks, and every preparation made for a street fight. The Diet of Coburg-Gotha, enlightened as to the personal sentiments of the King by the dissolution of the Prussian Chamber, has ad journed its vote upon the military °pavan don recently concluded between the Duke of Gotha and the Prussian government—a conven tion which requires the sanction of the Diet to enable it to take effect. A similar resolution is expected on the part of the states of Saxe Weimar. These signs of the isolation of Prussia from the more liberal states have excited some comment in the Prussian journals. The leading mind of the new Cabinet is M. Von der Heydt, who represents the unpopular traditions of M. ManteuffeL The Cologne Gazette says that Baron Vincke has expressed his readiness to enter parliament in the next session. EXPRESS FROM PARIS (no* °us owx .) PARIS, WILD/1380AT Rirzwste. In the Corps Legialatif to-day M. Baroche, in reply to the violent protectionist speech of M. Pouyer Quertier, began by saying that he had heard that speech with the utmost pain—not on account of the harsh expressions which had been repeatedly addressed to him personally, but on ac count of the effect which that speech (full of enorm ous and deplorable exaggeration) was calculated to produce both in France and abroad. (Numerous marks of assent.) He hoped to prove to the cham ber not only that the treaty of commerce did not deserve the reproaches which had been addressed to it, but that France did not deserve to be described in that discouraged and almost des perate condition which K Quertier had depicted. Franoe and French industry, which had so often given proofs of courage and energy, would not on this occasion have to make any such great dis play of those qualities as had been supposed to tide over the present crisis. The cause of the crisis was to be found in circumstanosa not applicable to France alone but to other countries. The Bourse was languid during the greater part of the day, but became somewhat animated towards the close. The Rents left off, with a rise of 5c., at 69fr. 55c. and 69fr. 65c. Mobilier rose lfr. 250., and the Italian Loan 15c. The Orleans Railway was in great demand, and rose 201 r. ; Eastern rose 7fr. 50c. ; there was not much change in the other General Douai dined with the Emperor yester day, previous to his departure for Mezioo with re inforcements. He had a long private conversation with his Majesty after dinner. There is already a rumour that he is destined to supersede General Loreucez, whose health, it is given out, will not stand the Mexican climate. The best known work of the late Henry Scheffer is the picture of "Charlotte Corday protected by the section against the fury of the people," which is admired by all visitors of the Luxembourg, and has been repeatedly engraved. His portraits of Armand Carrel, Casimir Delaying., Louis Philippe, Orfila, Mgr. Sibour, Ary &heifer, and Louis Blanc, are some of the best of this century. He leaves two children—the one a painter, who bids fair to keep up the artistical reputation of his name, and the other a daughter, the wife of the eminent professor, M. Ernest Henan. I am happy to report that the French govern_ ment has prohibited the officers of the army of occupation from wearing the decorations which Francis IL took upon himself to give them after the fall of Gaeta—just as if he had been still King of Naples. ITALY. (now 017 Z ow* ROME, MARCH 15. The clouds which for a moment were lifted seem gathering again over this unhappy land. From Turin and from Paris the news is equally gloomy, and all things here have resumed the leaden aspect they wore before the Carnival. It is not when the government of Italy seems inclined to leave them to their fate, and when the Emperor is declaring he will not withdraw his troops, that the Roman liberals can or ought to force on the crisis. If it come, it will be more the doing of the Pontifical government than their own. From the proceedings of Friday in the Corso, it would seem as if the Holy Father were not unwilling to try the favourite Italian remedy of a little blood-letting on his well beloved children. Di Angelis has been released. Venenzio and about thirty others are stall in prison, and will pro bably there continue. To give you an idea of the manner in which domiciliary visite are managed by the officials here, I may say that having forced their way into the apartments of one gentleman during his absence, they proceeded so diligently to search for proofs of his revolutionary principles as to take some studs in his dressing-case bearing the Savoy cross (the commonest ornament in Florence) as evidence against him. Proceeding further to search his photographic album they arrived at por traits of Victor Emmanuel and Cavour, and the filthy wretches entrusted with the execution of Pontifical justice actually spat on the photographs till they were ruined. Ou the whole the disco veries of the abirri have been of less importance than at first was feared. The list of names ob tained was only of subscribers to Cavour's monument, and even this criminal conspi racy was mainly concealed in cipher. Driv ing over the Ponte Mammolo (four or five miles from Rome) the other day, I saw some of the new strong gates they have been putting up at all points of escape from the city. It seems they have been rendered necessary by the endless de sertions of the French soldiers, and also of some of the Pope's own troops. The wretched remains of the Irish brigade still linger, and on the Pincian and everywhere through the town they may be seen by twos and threes lounging about iu their spinach-aud-eggs Zouave uniforms, their good humoured red Irish faces making a curious contrast to the sallow and dark-eyed Italians. They must be unhappy enough, poor fellows, if they have come to their senses and discovered what sort of a govern ment it is they have coins to support, and what service they have preferred to that of Queen Victoria. The doctrines preached so lately by one of their own priests in the Rotundo, in Dublin, on the duty of resisting "tyranny " (like that of England), would sound rather curious over here. Though the holy church claims to be one and unchangeable, I strongly suspect that such ethics preached in Roaer would bring the moralist into the prisons of San Micheli the same afternoon. " The peace of Europe must not bedisturbed for Rome," says Ratazzi. The case is very much as if a patient were lying helpless and suffering from a disease of the heart ; a new physician is called in, who hears the old one was trying various remedies. Superbly he decides, " What ! disturb the rest of the system for the sake of the heart I Perfectly out of question. Draw out the disease by phlebo tomy, blisters, sudorifica 1 Do you think I will allow my patient's stomach to be unsettled, and his cuticle injured, for the sake of such an unim portant organ as his heart I I would not allow the heel of his boot to get into hot water on such an account. Let the heart stop as it does. We shall get the patient through without it, I dare say." It is rather amusing to find some of the English papers asserting that "the Romans held an indig nation meeting in the Forum ou Thursday, when 20,000 people met to protest against the interference (of Goyun) with the Carnival." From my letters of last week you will have seen, first, that the meet ing in the Forum on Thursday preceded the seizure of the Corso by Guyon, which took place on Friday; secondly, that Friday . being no carnival day, no interference with carnival doings was in question ; thirdly, that it was anything but a protest against interference with the Carnival for which those 20,000 patriots assembled in the Forum, since their own noble address was itself a protest against any carnival being held at such a period of national disgrace, and their rendezvous was given at the Forum to prove their contempt for the scene in the A letter from Rome of the 15th says :—" Father ilreseiani, of the Company at Jesus, the principal editor of He Cieilid Candice, died yesterday. He was reputed to be tise best living writer of pure Italian. His strong reit , elm %snap did not prevent him from writing several neva. wbkilk are remarkable for their style, sod but for bis being a Jesuit be would have been elected a member of the Qin= asedsmr." AMERICA. PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROPOSITIONS ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION. NEW YORK, Hawn 7, Moanuro. (Per Hibernian, rid Londonderry.) .- President Lincoln, in his /damage to Congress, urging the passing of a joint resolution for co-ope ration with the Slave States by means of pecuniary aid for the gradual emancipation of slaves, says : If the proposition does not meet with the approval of Congress and the country it is at an end ; but if it does com mand approval, it in important that the States and the people interested should be at once notified, so that they may consider whether to accept or reject the proposaL The Federal government would find its highest interest in such a measure 'Leone of the most efficient of self-preserva tion. The leaders of the insurrection hope that the govern ment will be ultimately forced to acknowledge the inde pendence of some part of the disaffected region, and that then all Slave States north of each parte will say, "The Union for which we have struggled being already gone, we now choose to go with the Southern section." To deprive them of this hope substantially ends the rebel lion ; the initiation of emancipation completely deprives them of it. The point is not that all State' tolerating slavery would very soon, if at all, initiate emancipation, but that while the offer is squally made to all, the more Northern States shall by such initiation make it certain to the more Southern that in no event will the former ever join the latter in their proposed Confederacy. I say initiation because, in my judgment, a gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all. The current expenditure of the was would very soon pur chase all the slaves in any named State. Such a proposal . does not claim for the Federal govern ment a nght to interfere with slavery within the State limits, it being left a matter of free choice with the States to acospt or reject the prepped.. The war continues to be an indispeaseble means for the restoration of the union. The practical acknowledgment of the nations] authority would render war unnecessary, and it would at once cease. U resistance continues war must continue, and it is impos sible to foresee all the incidents which may follow it. Such means as may seem iodispensable, or may obviously promise great efficiency towards ending the struggle, must and will come. In the proposition now made, though only an offer, I ask whether the pecuniary aid tendered would not be of more value to the States and private persons concerned than are the institution and property in it in the present aspect of affairs. While it is true the adoption of the proposed resolution would be merely initiatory, and not within itself ' a practical measure, it is recommended in hope that it would soon lead to important results In full view of my pest responsibility to God sad to the country, I earnestly beg the attention of Coagrer sad the people to the subject. The New York Times thinks that President Lin coln's plan will not achieve the end proposed. It will not induce any Slave State to dismrd slavery. It will be attended with expense too overwhelming to be regarded favourably by people having upon their shoulders a present and prospective debt of several thousand millions. The New York World approves the message. The New York Herold thinks the message will be well received by the conservative element both in the North and in the South. The New York Tribune strongly approves the message, and thinks it seals the fate of the re bellion in every Christian land. No civilised nation will ally itself with the South, knowing that the Union and liberty are one and inseparable. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says that Mr. Seward is preparing a de spatch! on Mexican affairs, in which the determi nation of America to resist all European designs of establishing a monarchy upon the American conti nent will be energetically set forth. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO PORTLAND. NEW YORK, MAIM 8. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald mays : The excitement in regard to President Lincoln's message increases. The message has taken all parties by surprise. The majority of the escudos sad representatives are asps pared to express themselves upon it. All are afraid of it, and all are afraid to oppose it. The Radish look blank, and while they claim there is in it • ooneession to them, they are prepared cautiously to oppose it. The Con servatives are anxious to sustain the policy commu nicated by the President, but fear they maj tai lke ..trapped into some departure from their position. In this predicament the Preeidentb message must sleep in the committee-room until the gentlemen have made up their minds in reprd to the matter. It is reported that a flag of truce has arrived at Fortress Monroe, from Norfolk, with the com mander of • French steamer, who represents that great excitemend prevailed in Norfolk. The hotels were swarming with officers, mostly from the Gulf States, the Virginia troops having been all sent away. People dreaded the destruction of the city in case of an attack. A strong force was concentrating at Suffolk, to check the advance of General Burnside, who was reported to have occupied Winton in force, and to be moving on Suffolk. The reason given by the Confederates for not re turning Colonel Corcoran is, that maps and draw ings were found on his person. The Richmond papers mention the arrest of a number of Union men, principally Germans. Detectives had broken into the room of some German turners, and found two American flags, and the goddess of liberty painted on the wall. The Union colours and paintings were seized and con fiscated. The Confederate House of Representatives has passed a resolution by 71 to 77, recommending the military commanders to destroy all tobacco and cotton, to prevent its falling into the enemy's hands. A resolution was also passed asking the President to inform the house what foreign vessels are doing in Hampton Roads. The Richmond Disp at ch says :—" A vessel draw ing 16 feet of water recently pealed out of Charleston Harbour.iSpeoie is quoted in t ißishmond at 40 to 50 per cent, premium." A despatch from Atalata, Georgia, says that the Federals have taken possession of Murfreesboro', and that General Sidney Johnson has retreated to Decatur, Alabama. The Confederate steamer Merrimac was lying near the Norfolk Navy-yard, with flag flying and crew on board. She draws 23 feet of water, and is described as looking like tho roof of a sunken house, with the smoke-chimney protruding from the water. The St. Louis Democrat says that the Confe derates have from 5,000 to 10,000 men at New Madrid, and four gunboats. CIVIL SERVICE ISTIMATZB.-(THD3 DAY.: The Civil Service estimates 1,2, and 6, for the year ending March 1,1863, were naiad this morning. The sum required in class 1 for public works and buildings is 695,2151., being a decrease as com pared with 1861-2 of 139,4511. The chief items of increase are an increase of 54,5191. for Holyhead and Portpatrick Harbours, and of 29,1581. for public buildings in Ireland including Kingstown Harbour. On almost every one of the other items there is a decrease ; for example, a decrease of 63,3751. for new Westminster-bridge • of 50,5001. for Westminster bridge approaches • i 2,045/. for the new Houses of Parliament ; 20, 6061. for lighthouses abroad ; 15,0001. for the new Foreign-oilice, &c. Class 2, salaries and expenses of public depart ments, shows au increase ou the previous year of 24,5631., which increase is spread over the whole of the items, the largest one being for poor-law commissions. The total sum required is 1,473,6251. We observe a remarkable diminution in the estimate for printing and stationery, the sum required for the coming year being no leas than 73,509/. less then the amount voted last year. The saving effected through the remission of the paper duty, has, however, been more than distributed in additional charges under other heads. The estimates in Clue 6, superannuation, re tired allowances, 'gratuities, ec., are 10,7421. less than in 1861-2, this reduction being caused by the non-appatranoe in the present estimates of the item of 10,0001. voted last year for Probate Act compensations. The total amount of this year's estimate is 338,896/. bt Court. WLNDSOR CASTLE, Mown 19. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and Prisons Louisa, drove out yesterday afternoon. Colonel the Hon '4 Hood attended on hornbook. The Earl of Clarendon arrived at .the Castle yesterday, and returned*. London to-day. A Deputation from the Manchester Chamber of Com merce on Colooial Affair had an interview with the links of Newcastle yesterday M the Colonial-offlos. The Chan*lke of the Exchequer left London yesterday, for Windsor Cstle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colooial•ofttos, from the Governor, of the Australian Colonies, the North American Proviocss, Ceylon, and Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Hong. Kong, and Idahoan. The chamberlain of the Princess Frederick of Prussi►, Baron de Stockinet. arrived ►t Berlin .on she 17th from England. Her royal highness is stated by the Berlin journals to have err►aged to prolong her stay at Windsor until the 31st. His Excellency the Atnbasnador of France and the Countess de Flahault entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at Coventry House. . . His Excellency the Hanoverian Minister arrived in Greaveaor-place oa Tuesday from the Ceetineat. The Duchess of St. Albans and Viscount Falk land and Lady Diana Lleaurderk have arrived in town from St. Leonard's. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegan come to town tomorrow, from Here&ld House, Uxbridge, for Me mama. The Marquis of Hastings has arrived in town from Brighton. 111.111 ,The• Earl and Countess of Fife entertained at diener List evening, at their residence le Grasmere-plata, the Duchear of Inverness, the Duke of St. Altar, the Earl Russell, the Countess of Newburgh, the Countess of Isis me!, Lord sad Lady Comoros, Lord Lhifferin, lady °ether's* Ricardo, Mr. Mildmay, &e. The Earl of Dalkeith, M.P., has left 13elgrave square for Simian, Selkirk. Lord Hoary Scott, M.P., is staying at Btsckpole Court, South Wales, on a vial) to the Earl and Countess Cawdor.. Lord and Lady Abercromby have lett theClarew lam Hotel for Perk Lord and Lady Calthorpe and the Hon. Miss Oslthorps arrived at their residence is Grosvenor-equare yederany, from Perry Hall, Birmingham. Lady Molesworth has issued cards for an aseseably on Wednesday next, at her residence in Eakm plece. . . . . The Speaker gave hie eistlk full dress dinner last erosion to the following members of the HOMO of COM moos : —Lord A. Vane Tempest, Lord Richard Grosvenor, Hon. Coked Rowley, lion. C. H. Transit, Hon. Captain Ponioaby, General Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir Wm. Verner, Sir Jobi Weigh, Colonel William Wynne, Quit. Johnson, Mr. K. W. Crawford, Mr. Bovill, Mr. Bendy, Mr. Franklyn, Mr. Getty, Mr. John Hardy, Mr. Massey, Mr. Onslow, Mr. Palm" Mr. Wyld, Mr. Whalley, Mr. Walker, Mr. Stasi land, Mr. flasollett, Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. H. B. Sheridan, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Powys, Mr. Mike, Mr. Mundy, Mr. Macdonagll, Mr. Tomes, Mr. Lever, Mr. Malcolm, Mr. header, Mr. Alfred DIM 11•011 (secretary). Rev. Henry Drury. The right boa gentleman will hold his levees on Wed nesday next, Much 215, and on Wednesday, April 2, at 10 o'clock p.m. The Mayor of Southampton, Mr. F. Perkins, has invited Garibaldi to visit his worship nod the town over which he presides as chief magistrate when the Inter national Exhibition is open, and has promised the illustrious Italian en English private and public welcome in South. amptoe which should testify the estimation iu which his post talents and services in the cause of human freedom are held in this country. We (Times) understand that the Admiralty are about to take a teals of Lord Ashburtoes mansion and grounds, on the shore of Stokes Bay, which have been recently purchased by the War Department. It is the in tention of the Admiralty, when the homes and grounds are handed over to them, to at the mansion up as a college, to which we presume seagoing tenders will be attached. It is situated at the western end of Stokes Bay, imnssdiatigy opposite the Palace of Osborn*, and the lawn extends to within 50 yards of high-water mark. Alderman Salomons, on the Bth of next month, will call the attention of the House of Commons to the establishment of a branch of the Royal Mint at Sydney, New South Wales ; end to move for a select committee to consider and report on the expediency of legalising the cir culation in the United Kingdom of the sovereigns coined at that mint. GARIBALDI AND THE VIENNESE. The Diretto of Turin, of the 17th, publishes the following letter from Garibaldi : TO ITALIANS. Vienna has been inundated, and numbers of families have been reduced by this scourge to destitution. Shall not the Italians send a word of sympathy to these unfor tunate people? Are they not bowed down, like our brothers of Venice, under the heavy yoke cg a despot? Do not they also aspire to redemption, and did they not prove it in 1848 in fighting the mune enemies that we were fighting in Italy and in the Lame nun? It is time to cease the fratricidal rivalries of nations, upon which tyranny has based its Wilke. Yes, brothers, hold out the band to the mdereasate ViSllOlOO, and you will have the applause of ceneciearm the emancipating spark of the universe. SPAIN. The Merin of Madrid ar : The committee appointed to decide whether Spin ought to pay Prime 100,000,013 of reels for Invading the country in 1873, and destroying the constitution, is of opinion that the money must be paid. This does not surprise us, as all the members of the committee, two excepted, are public functionaries. The matter, however, will give rise to a serious debate in the parliament, in which M. Olosaga will take part. THE PORTE AND MONTENEGRO. FRONTIERS OF HESZEGOVINE, MARca 10. After nine months' solicitation, Omer Pacha has at length obtained permission from the Porte to attack Montenegro. He proposes to begin the campaign by operations against the Valley of Zeta, which will be attacked on its two extremi ties simultaneously. The Pacha of Scutari is ordered to concentrate troops upon Podgoridza to watch Rieke., and, if practicable, commence an attack on that aide. Another corps d' arrnsge will take Oatsko for its basis of operations and en deavour to invade the enemy by Nichsieh. To replace the 5,000 Bachi-Basouks sent to Ore bigne (query this name), 5,000 more are to be recruited in Albania, and placed under the com mand of the fierce Ben-Aga-Cengi. According to what is known of the preparations of the Monte negrins, they will make no opposition to the entry of the Turks into the Zeta Valley, which they consider of no importance as a defensive position. But they will attempt to cut off the retreat of the invading force, and their means of getting provisions. Several general officers have lately arrived at Mostar to receive the orders of Omer Pacha. Among them is Abdalla Pacha, general of artillery, whose reputation is considerable. Omer Pacha has several light rifled cannon, so small that a mule can carry one on its back, and he proposes to give two of these to every brigade. His army is in a better state than it was, most of the men having new clothes, and being provided with camp equip age. Nevertheless it may be said of this army it is better furnished with superfluities than necessaries. Omer Paella's escort has caoutchonc cloaks, brought at great cost from England ; and the Mostar hos pital, which is very short of lint, has a good stock of burgundy and claret, which Mussulmen will not taste. "Luxury and misery" seems to be the motto of the Turkish administration. CHINA. SHANGHAI INVESTED BY THE REBE The Telegraph to India Company (limited) re oeived the following telegram at 10.5 last night in ten houts from the company's new station atJubal, in the Red Sea : " THE OFFICES IN CHAZOI AT VIRAL TO C. L. FEEL, ESQ., LONDON. " MARCH 19, NOON. "The Odin has just passed Juba, having on board the Japanese Commissioners. Odin reports Shanghai closely invested by rebels. Lord Elgin arrived at Calcutta Ist of March." (111.1011[1e8 TZLIGUIDI.) THE ITALIAN MINISTRY. TURIN, liAics 20. A rumour is current that M. Farini ham accepted the poet of Minister for Foreign Affairs. SPECIE FOR THE EAST. SOUTHAMPTON, Mown 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Moo Han, sailing hence to-day, takes out specie 203,0281. 10s. in dollars, 83,5801. in bar silver, 12,8781. in gold ooin, and 3,8821. in sovereigns. A Madrid letter has the following :—" The fire which broke out in the historical palm. of Segovia in which the artillery school was placed, has done much damage. The superb Aleaor of John IL, Henry IIL, end of Isabelle the Catholic, the most remarkable and the beet preserved monument in Spain, has been almost entirely destroyed, the walla alma remaining. All native and foreign artiste must remember the rich armour of the collection of the Kings of Castille, contained in the palace of Segovia. The 3m spread with such rapidity that nothing could be saved of the property of the college, in which there was • rich library of 12,000 volumes." Prince Ottajano has boon named president of the rams which are to take place in de Champ de Mars, Naples, on the 24th and 26th. The prima amount to 20,000 fr., and twenty borers are entered to ran, one race beieg with gentlemen riders. Several officers hews obtained permission from General be 11 Marmon to ride. A letter from Berlin, of the 17th, says :—" • certain degree of sensation hes been caused here by en inci dent which lately wok place at Frankfort. M. WlTeedoes, the Prussian representative, pm a grand ball to which all the officers of the 30th regiment of Prussian infantry were invited, but only the Wesel, • captain, and an officer of the staff attended. As M. D'Ersedoin did not receive any letters of excuse, as he might have expected, he wrote to the colonel, but that Asp not having produced aay madden tory malt, he has addressed • complaint to the Minister of War." The author of the robbery of 90,000 thalers, committed at the residence of Count Blankemee at Berlin, has been discovered in the 800 of the clergyman, S. de Ma rlow. The father having exchanged values to the amount of 800 florins at a banker's at Frankfort, the police of Berlin were informed of it ; led as the son, who was stu dent of theology at the University of Berlin, was known to hod a disorderly life and to have contracted debts, the Wet sad son hays been both arrested. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS. In the Confederate Senate, on the 26th ult., Mr. Henry, of Tennessee, submitted the following pre amble and joint resolution, which on his motion were referred to the committee on finance : Whereas, it is desirable to encourage the planters of tobacco and cotton in the Confederate States, and others who are bona. fide owners thereof, to destroy, by burning or otherwise, those articles, rather than that they should fall into the hands of the enemy ; be it therefore resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States that alien& who shall burn their cotton or tobacco, or otherwise person the same, to prevent these articles from felling into the bands of the army or navy of the United States, shall be fully indemnified by the government of the Confederate States, upon proof of the number of pounds of tobacco or cotton so destroyed, and proof of the necessity of such de struction to prevent the enemy from getting possession thereof. In the House of Representatives of the above date, Mr. Holt, of Georgia, offered the following resolution, which, ou motion, was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means : Resolved,—That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of restricting and limiting by law the production of cotton in the Confederate States during the continuance of the war and bleckade, and also the expediency of the Confederate government taking into its own control, by purchase, advances thereon, or otherwise, of all the cotton now on hand, or which may be grown in mid Confederate States during the existence of the present wet and blockade, sad that said committee report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Perkins, of Georgia, introduced a bill to prohibit the importation of productions and manu factures of the United States into the Confederate States. Referred. In the Senate, on the 27th ult., Mr. Clark s of Missouri, submitted the following joint resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States of America,—That the honour of the government imperatively demands that the existing war be prosecuted until the enemy shall have been expelled from every foot of soil within each and every one of the Confederate Settee ; and no proposition of peace shall be considered which contem plates, however remotely, the relinquishment by this go vernment of any portion of any of the States of this Con federacy In the House of Representatives, on the 27th, I Mr. Miles, from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill for the appointment of a coulinAnd ing-general of the armies of the Confederate States. BRITISH AMERICA. PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND, FEB. 26. The house has voted a reply to the address, pro fesaing its readiness to meet the Canadian proposals for the establishment of a reciprocal free trade among the British North American provinces ; and for an assimilation of their respective tariffs. It expresses regret at the non-appearance of the Im perial Commissioners' award on the land tenures. Both houses have voted an address of condolence to her Majesty. HALIFAX, Maus 6. The mail steamer Canada arrived here at noon on the sth inst. — The Gold Mining Bill is still under discussion in the Legislature. The financial statement shows deficit of 125,178 dole., chiefly on customs, which is mainly attributable to the American civil war. The markets continue dull from protracted, stormy weather. Railway communication trough. the Lower Provinces has been very lar from snow-storms, but the rails are now clear. The steamer .driatic, after being cut out of North Sydney, Cape Breton, was again caught by ice. A telegram, dated Plaster Cove, Cape Breton, sth, however, announces that the raft of Canso was clear of ice, and that vessels were passing. NEWFOUNDLAND, ST. JOHN'S, Komi 3. The government candidate Kavanagh, bah been elected over Hogeett, the opposition candidate, by a majority of 265. NEW BRUNSWICK. Colonel Inge.ll, of the 62nd Regiment, contradict, the statement that any men were frozen on the journey through New Brunswick. A fatal collision has occurred between a wood train and a passenger train on the New Brunswick Railway, near Rothsay ; two persons were killed. Mr. Tucker, Lloyd's surveyor, and several others were seriously injured. BERMUDA, FEB. 36 (vii Halifax). Parliament has been further prorogued till the 2nd ApriL Arrivals : 19th, her Majesty's ships Liffey, from Halifax ; 221 d, Racer, from New York. Sailed : 19th, Rinaldo, to cruise ; 24th, Spiteful, for New York, and Melpomene, for West Indies. The Diadem would leave for ingland on arrival of the Orlando from Halifax. The Confederate steamer Nashville arrived in 17 days from Southampton. She took in coal from the ship Mohawk, in St. George's harbour, and again put to sea. The mail steamer Merlin, on her passage to Halifax, rescued the crew of the American ship Northern Chief, from New York for Liverpool, abandoned. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, Makes 19.—APPOINTMENT9. tenant G. J. G. Pureell, to the Excellent. Second Master J. B. Johnson, to the Tribune. Midshipman B. Morris, to the Tmfaigar. Faxidneers D. McFarlane, confirmed as engineer in the Indus ; and W. Feciarb, confirmed as first-clay assistant, ts in the Indm, as supernumeraries. fft" ant-Payroaster in charge W. B. Risk, to the Jackal. Clerk J. B. Andrews, to the Rogue. The court-martial on Captain Robertson was re sumed on Tuesday. The proosedinge, like those on Monday, related entirely to collateral circumstances, and not to the main subject of inquiry. Private Burroughs was examined to prove that the archery meeting, ao frequently referred to in previous parts of the cane, took place after the 6th et July, 1661. Mr. John Owen and Private George Morrow were also examined in reference to the archery meeting. Sergeant-Major St. Aubert wee the next warms, and deposed that Major Jones had in• flitted punishment on Private Ward for insolence to a megeont. The prisoner then handed iu a paper, stage; that he had been desirous of examining his wife as a wit. nese, but as it was merely in reference to the archery meeting that he proposed to examine her, he did not think her evidence neoeseary, as there had already been suMciect evidence on the subject. The court then, at the prisoner's request, adjourned to Friday, to give bins time to prepare his final statement. TINITIXONIALI TO THE MB HIONIANDIREL —Mr. Turner, of New Bond-street, has just manufactured two pieces al plate, subscribed for by the inhabitants of Ras and Cromart , for presentation to the dams and Ron oommind officers of the 78th Highbuidas, en the return of the regiment from a lengthened sojourn in India, during which it performed most gallant services, especially in the war of the Punjaub and in the late mutiny. The officers' testimonial is a group of limes, in silver, representing an episode of the Indian mutiny, spiritedly arranged, omitt ing of a mounted o ffi cer (Lieutenant-Colonel Wlntyre) and private soldiers engaged in combat with two natives over • dismounted cannon, in bronze. The group stands on a triangular plinth, with truncated corners, each containing a group of trophies, nags, in bronze, surmounted by a Nag's bead In silver, which is one of the regimental badges. Oa the front side of the plinth is a ban relief in silver, re pramting the relief of Lucknow, in which action the .Bth Highlanders, as will be remembered, took a prominent part. The other sides are occupied by silver plates, stir rounded by deer, grass and thistle border, on one of which is engraved the inscription, and on the other the elegant badge of the regiment, surrounded by a scroll containing the names of the different actions in which the regiment has been engaged. The piece of plate for the non-commis stoned officers is a vase, with stag's-head momenta, en graved with the same inscription as that of the officere, sad surmounted with an elephant button, the badge of the regi ment. The cost of the two testimonials is about 6001. INSUBORDINATION IN THE SECOND LIFE GUARDS. A contemporary says :—" We have every reason to hope that a very serious circumstance which is stated to have occurred lately at Windsor, in one of her Majesty's household regiments, will be made the means of restoring the corps to the position which it ought to hold in the army, and which • few years since it did hold. For • con siderable time the 2nd Life Guard", as • regiment, has been going down hill. We can obtain officers for the West India Regiments or the Gold Coast Corps, but not enough to fill the ranks of this once favourite household regiment. Retirements have been frequent, accessions scarce. Generally speaking, it has had no more than half its proper complement of subalterns for the last seven er eight years. Complaints of irregularity and laxity against those who should set an example of discipline have been made. The corps, in almost every respect, appears to have fallen into • most unfortunate sod unsatidactory state, and we only hope that the oc currence to which we allude may have the effect of bringing matters to • crisis. A military contemporary stated that one of the junior officers, who had lately come from ono of the smartest corps of the line, had occasion to find fault with some of the details which it was his duty to look after, and inflict some small punishment on those who were in fault. On his next n he was greeted with groaning' and hooting', l i e rn ante bringing his captain to sustain him, the latter was treated with • similar display of derisive insubordination. The commanding officer would appear to live in London, although the regiment was at Windsor, but on his next visit this serious affair was duly brought to his notice. He ex &mined some of the men who were supposed to be impli cated, but neither of the officers in whose persons the Queen's authority was so disgracefully insulted. He intimates to the subaltern that he is not again to punish the men, and as regards the latter, appears to have told them they most be better boys in future. The astonishing part of the case is that he absolutely makes no report whatever to the authorities, who first learned the facts from the columns of our military contemporary last Saturday. Ws are glad to say that the Duke of Cambridge acted with the most praise worthy promptitude, and on Monday General Lawrem.an, the inspector of cavalry, was deiwteleti to Windsor to • preliminary inquiry into the whole circumstances." THE Neese FBANd AMERICA. —The intelligence from America which we publish today is the mod iso• wtent which has reached this country since the United States split into two Republica. The first offer has been made by the North. President Lincoln proposes to abo lish slavery in the South by gradually buying up the slaves with the Federal revenues, leaving, however, to each State its present right to continue or to discard the " ievu• tutiou " itself. The object is avowed to be that of recover. big to the Union the Bonier States. The means of poi' chase are not set forth. It is only suggested that a eocitinuance of the expenditure now applied to the war would soon suffioe to purchase this expedient towards palm This proposition is important, not for its intrinsic likelihood of acceptance, but simply because it is a proposition. and LI the first bid made towards putting an end to the war. We may hope that others may follow, and that the North may gradually rise in its offers until something acceptable has been put forth. The only reply of the South to Mr. Lincoln has been a resolution of the Confederate House of Representatives to burial' cotton sad toliavo that may lo in danger of felling into the hands of the invaders. Meanwhile the snow has fallen on the district that seem" the armies of the Potomac sad Manama, and (several hffllellan is again prevented from advancing. In every point of view this proposal of the Podolia President am' great scope for speculation, and perhaps some glimpse 4 hope ; but it is for what it may herald, and not for what , t fs Timtv. V Cl h a, it tl CI b I a ti iQ I a $1 a U a 31 V ta of E bl w di to hi el 0 al C it to tl al lE is of b bl tl 0 ar 11 a aI Is ei a 1 ' i