The Express. — London, England, 1862-03-05 00:00:00

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W sac ttataterth. art Mn. Y. M.M.how —Cocastanca at 11. slat w~tn ATLUXDUS MOO& DAT—Wanklas. " Allenesa. M. —iterelag, Ansiasse. /am - LoNDoN, wEIiNSIIDAY, MAftell 5. \.mcM have been &IS of two distinct mo tions on the subject of likockade, which are to be brought under the consideration of the House of Commons within the next few days. Their aim and purport are very different Mr. Ganooar proporee to call attention on Friday nest to the actual condition of things on the coast ol the l'ontederate States, with reference to the 'anemia abuse of Federalism and widely extended franchise. Ministers have taken tied* lime of non intervention, and will not shrink fella maintain* it ; and the leaders of oppordien, Adam their real feelings may be, are too anxious to keep their hands clean just now to take up such a cause as that of a pro-slavery crusade. Mr. Hozsrau.'s intended motion is of a widely different and far higher character. It proposes a declaration in the most general terms, that the present state of international law is unsatisfactory as regards both neutrals and belligerents, and com mends the same to the early attention of the Go vernment. It is understood that Mr. Conlin( was about to have submitted a resolution of this kind had he not been anticipated in giving notice of his intention by the Member for Liverpool. It may be confidently anticipated, howevea, that the peat advocate of the extended immunity of neutrals will develop more fully than it has yet done the policy of which the foundation was laid in the Protocols of Paris six years ago, and upon which nothing pre:- Badge has since been built. Every well-digested plan that emanates from Mr. C;AIDZA, is certain to receive attentive consideration. What the m elee limita are within which he would circumscribe in future the right of blockade we do not under take to say. But it cannot be concealed that as a question of national policy the subject is one involving the gravest interests, and in the present transition state of naval warfare it is not easy to calculate precisely what the effect would be of a renunciation on our part of a power which has long been regarded as one of our moat efficient means of maritime hostilities. We all desire, however, to lessen the horrors of war ; and if the future limitation can do so, we should rejoice to see it does. efficiency of the embargo laid o© their trade by the Federal republic, and the intneeptien of neutral ships seeking to eater Unit harboun. The leanings of the Member for Gal way as between the belligerents have never been disguised. Before tune or opportunity had been given for the reduction of the great Southern revolt be would have had us recognise the independence of the Secessionists. The general sense of inter- national propriety stifled his premature proposals ; and during the interval that has since elapsed, though not much has been done by the North to crush rebellion, few public men of any character or weight have ventured to recommend openly the violation of friendly ties with the United States fur the sake of encouraging and fostering the creation of a great slave-holding commonwealth. But now that victory seems to have decisively set in in favour of the Federalists, and that the spirit of rebellion evidently droops, Mr. GICOUZY once rbe Court. OSBORNE. KAICH 4. Her Majesty drove out yesterday morning, ac opapaaied by Pnece Mice. Colonel the Hoe. A. Hood silsadsd as boesebtok. Hit Royal Mattoon the Duke of Braliaat embarked floe looming for Gilicaltsz. Townley Parker, Esq., Mayor d Prestos, arA Mr. AWN man Spenser, asonespenied by the Marquis of Meningitis, LP., and Camel Wilson Patten, LP., lad ea interview with the Right Hoe. Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home. Mice. The Committee cm Education of her Majesty's most How marskia Privy Council held a meeting yesterday at the Closecil-odien Present Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Eight Hoe. C. P. Villiers, and the Viee-President. l)espetebes were rent yesterday from the Colosiel-alles to the Lord High Commissioner of the losise Wanda. LAT The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven come to town at the latter sad of the week, from Ashdowee Park. The Earl of Vernlam has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkelay-square, from Bournemouth. The Earl of Wilton is entertaining a select party at iwirtes Lodge, Melton Mowbray. Viscount and Via. sesonas Grey de Wilton have arrived at Egerton Lodge, from visiting,he Earl and Countess of Craven at Ashdown, Park, Berks. The Earl of Sefton comes to town to-day. His lordship and the Countess of Sefton sod Lady Caulk Moly sous leave town in a few days for Crostatli Park, whims they intend to receive company. Frances Countess Waldegrave left town yesterday . . more comes tors ird to question the right sad power of the American Government to vindicate the integnty of that constitution which has sub sisted for eighty years, and under which • greater number of the human race have enjoyed the blessings of civil and re ligious liberty than under any save our own. A twelvemonth has not elapsed since the first shot was tired in anger, yet a British Perlin. rent will no doubt be told, if not in so many words, by plain implication, that foreign Powers have a right to interfere in what is strictly • domestic quarrel, the excuse being, that the measures taken to repress sedition have shortened the supply of one particular article of trade, and curtailed the means of profitable manufacture. If tho proposition had any semblance of emanating from a genuine sympathy with the 'Lackner of employment in Lancashire, wo should feel very differently towards it, although our con on a viait to the Duke and Dulcet d'Auxuale, at their seat in Weroesterakre. _ _ Lord and Lady William Powlett leave town to day for their residence at Beth. Lord Hatherton has left Thomas's Hotel, Bey kslepsquars, for Tidiesley Hall. A marriage is arranged to take place shortly between Majoe•Generat G. free. Meson sad lady /maces Legge, daughter of the late rid at Duftessh. Mr. Monckton Milner, M.P., mom to town to day from visiting Baron and BUXOM do Rothschild, at Mentmore. viction of its impolicy and impropriety would be the same. But it would be an affecta tion to pretend a belief that the Mem ber for Galway is inspired by any solicitude about the price at which " shirting' " can be sup plied at present rates of raw material, or that his patriotic soul is stirred within him by the unpin fltablenses of spinning more "round yarns," or of weaving " domestics." The Member for Galway has a soul above such vulgar considerations. Be fore cotton had risen in price or mills had begun to work short time, he was eager that England should salute the new flag of slavery ; and the political resctionista, who were ready then as they are now to abet his anti-popular purpose, were moved, not by care for the diminished profits of espital or the diminished wages of labour, but by the fanatical hatred they cherish towards a government hailed on popular institutions. But whatever his inspiring motive, Mr. G awoke must not be permitted to plead double. If he impugns the continuance of the blockade on the alleged ground of inefficiency, he must rely upon high political reasons, such as those which may be supposed to have swayed the Conference of Paris iu 1856 ; but then he cannot be entitled to pray in aid of the privations said to be attributable to the efficiency of the blockade in inning the price of cotton. la a deltic chows run ; either cotton would come to us as usual if it was allowed by the Federalist', but ships will not let it ; and then the blockade is effective ; or cotton does nut come though it might, owing to the in-' efficieucy of the blockade ; and then it is harm less. But Mr. Gainoay cannot hold with both at one and the same time. The majority of the donee of Commons will be little inclined to commit themselves hastily to any declaration on the subject. By the papers recently placed in their hands they have learnt that thirty-four ships, carrying 726 guns and 10,000 men, were employed during the whole of the autumn and winter in the blockade of the Southern coast, and probably are aware that since Christmas several large ships fully manned have been placed on the station. Considering the minim of the service and the cost of it, they eanuot be made to believe that the American Government is not in earnest in its efforts to sus pend the commerce of the Southern ports until they shall he reduced to submission ; and the pal pability of this earnestness, as it has bon well put by Loid RUMILLL in his last de spatch on the subject, is one great test of the genuineness of a blockade. Then as to its results. The correspondence of British consuls and others with the Admiralty, while it shows that a number of small vessels, and so:ne few large ones, have from time to time ei•-ded the vigilance of the cruisers, explains that the former were generally coasters of light draught, which by hugging the shore, and dodging through the lagunes, kept out of the reach of the blockad ing squadron, while the latter for the most part availed themselves of the darkness of the winter nights, facilities which henceforth will not avail them. A thirst for knowledge compels Mr. 1. , .E001tY to ask for more recent correspondence. V.e suspect that if he bad it he would not be much the wiser on the subject of successful eve cons of the blockade. Had many ewes of the kind lately occurred we should have been pretty sure to lave heard of them. ". he Member for Galway will perhaps achieve all he expects by having ona evening fall of miscel- The marriage was celebrated yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square, of the Ent! Jermys, eldest eon of the Marquis of Bristol, le Geraldine, yenned daughter of the We General the Hon. Gimp Ammon. _ _ We regret to learn that Mr. George Clive, M.P. far Hereford, and Under esesstary for the Hasse Department, wars seised on Monday afternoon with as attack of paralysis of a very serious character. Mr. Clive was at the Home office between 3 and 4 o'clock when the attack took place. He had complained of some indisposition during the day, mid bad been apprehensive that some seizure was impend ing. Daring yesterday Mr. Clive's condition was critical, but a late account last evening was more favourable. The Times obwirves that the late Mr. George Rankine Luke, student and tutor of Christchurch, whale death, from the upsetting of 'Aoki cm the leis, was recorded in yesterday's Express, was am of the most remarkable students who ever came up to Oxford. "He won all the principal University distinctions, but his extreme modesty and retiring disposition might have prevented a casual ob server from seeing that there was far more in him than is necessarily implied in any number of academical decorations. A scholar is the beet seam of the word, he united with scholarship great intellectual force, which could not have failed to raise him to eminence. During the last two years he had been quietly growing io reputatisi, and was exer cising a great and beneficent influent» in the University by devoted and unremitting attention to his mil' The statement in the Morning Herald that Mr. Smith O'Brien has challenged War Hobert keel to meet him in hostile combat in France or Belgium, far his reflec tions on the cabbage-garden rebellion, is ridiculed in the Dublin Express. It alleges that somebody has been at tempting to " disturb the proverbial gravity of its oostem pormy, sad practising a joke upon it." On Tuesday, the 25th, Mr. Walpole will move that this louse will immediately resolve itself into a com mittee to insider the best mode of distributing the parlia meet.'" mate for education now administered by the Privy Oostusil ; sad, in committee, to move certain remin ds's' with referrer° to parts of the revised code. Mr. Leslie intends on Friday to ask the Lord advocate whether, in the event of an Educations Bill for Illentland being in contemplation, government would emosent be the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into avid report upon the subject of and circumstances dhotis' mberation generally, prior to the introduction of any new measure or any change in the system at present in question Icatbad. Mr. Slidell, the authorised agent of the South Amass Oaks, has had interviews with the French Minis ter of Amiga Affairs, but not in any official character. Mdlle. Titiens has accepted an engagement at Barcelona, sad has left Paris far that city. INT clirsok THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1862. iirrmAAL IE. • ITALY. '• Tire raw , mmultir A Turin letter in the Constitution'sif' gives the following at a summary of King Vidor Em manuel's letter to Baron Ricasoli : His Majesty commenoes by storm* his regret at seeing that hie ministers consider the situation sufficiently grave net be hesitate throwing the ootintry into the unceetaiety of a ends. As for himself, he cannot decide either to me* m be mien the resignation of a cabinet without ledereheei more fixed in the opinion of the "Whom! The Isst political vote of the Cham ber el Dspetire ems* be interpreted by him as a vote of enelidesee obtained by the msistanoe of that majority of "Web, in oonstitedieel states, every minister should be the pereonification. The Weber, obtained that vote principally by making • large ~mien to the extreme lett, whisk reentered the signification of the vote rather rquivoial. Consequently the King, witile reserving to himself • fun liberty of deciding on the emigration of hie ministers, en gages them to inform the parliament of it at its first meeting, which will tube pin°, our the 6th of the moetb. The Ring then replies ia 1s te boa Bisisoll's letter, aid regrets that ea mend essedges the Waldo of Baron Ricaadi should have apensi them the policy followed previously by Count Omar end Mesa and by means of which Italy had been constituted. To the reproach which Baron Airmail respectfully made to him of often consult ing other counsellors, the King replies that such • course is not forbidden by his duties aa • constitutional prinee ' and that if the minister wished to make a grievance of it, them would at least be much to lay no both ads. A Turin letter in the Temps narratee the fol lowing : After every council of the ministers the numbers of the cabinet are accustomed to proceed in • body to the King, to make what is celled a report. Five or six days ago, after this report, the King relied M. Maw& into the recess of • window, and, is a convsnations aside, but not so secret but that woe persona present could catch fragments of it, the King expressed to the minister the uneaminme which bad been excited in him by the variations so distressing and se prolonged of the " situstion," and the little sympathy which an important portion of the political world of Turin manifested for the cabinet. After some minutes' conference the King took leave of M. Ricasoli, who separated from his Majesty with this phrase, which I cite dot because of any political importance it has in itself, but because it has an impress of that haughty precision and that confidence in him self which are the distinctive features of the character of Y. Iticaaoli, " Let your Majesty continue to amuse yourself and leave your ministers alone." M. Ricasoli added :—" It is fine weather, there is no longer any eliding, and I wish to take advantage of it by a ride no horseback." That the words which I have median's& had in the mind of Ricasoli • double sense—as I am assured was the case—is not very material ; bet it is certain that that is not the language of a minister who feels himself to be falling. and Justice, are now definitively filled up as fellows :—Minister for Foreign Affairs and ad interns Minister of the Interior, Signor Ratazzi ; Minister of War, Signor Pelitti ; Minister of Justice, Signor Cordova. In a meeting of the members of the opposition it was decided that it would be dangerous to the casmtry to call Signor Cordova to the peat of Minister of the Interior. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE PALIK.A.O PENSION. The Dfbabs of to-day ventures to treat at some length the question of the pension to General Montauban, which comes on for discussion to-1 morrow. " If," says the Debate, " the exceptional reward which has been voted to Marshal Pelisaier, and which ought to be considered an exception, is conferred to-day upon the Commander-in- Chief of the Chinese expedition, it will be given to-morrow to some one else. As high feats of arms are not rare in France, we can already see, without overtaxing our imagi nation, constituted ender the empire of the prin ciples of 1789 a military nobility, and by the side of the only hereditary right which the constitu tion recognises, another one which it does not recognise. Is it pretended that out of respect for fhe crown the Legislative Corps ought to pre clude itself from examining under what cir cumstances it votes on the bill which is brought before it ; the character and na ture of the propuwill reward what the public interest requires, the needs of the Treasury, the preservation of its own dignity ; and, all this well examined, from acting accordingly ? Those who sustain such a thesis, are they not rather maladroit friends of the con stitution of 1852 ?" The Debate proceeds to expose, in a vein of cautious satire, the weakness of the arguments of those who would hush up this dispute by a servile sur render on the part of the legislature, and to contend that the government would have nothing to com plain of in the rejection of the pension—an act which would show the free play of the imperial in stitutions and the independence of the great powers of the State. "To tell the truth, however," says the Debate, in conclusion, "we are only now reason ling hypothetically. A compromise may take place between the crown and the assembly ; the bill may be modified by common agreement ; and as the unforeseen, under the regime of the constitution of 1852, plays a part in affairs which we have before had occasion to point out, some incident may arise which will satisfy the dignity of the Legislative Corps, and permit it to accede in a certain degree to the wish of the crown, without involving another departure from the prin ciples of the common law. We need not say that if this compromise does take place we shall be far from feeling aggrieved. We do not like conflicts for the mere sake of conflicts." the baron should not accompany his Majesty to The Bourse—it being Mardi Gras--was very thinly attended, and little business was done. The Sante fell 45c. for cash and 16c. for account, clos ing at 69fr. 65c. and 70fr. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. wefe without change, and remain 800. below par, at 99fr. 70c. The Crifdit Mobilier fell sfr., and the Italian Loan 16e. The Orleans Rail way rose 7fr. 50e.; Southern, 10fr.; and the other lines from 2fr. 50c. to 51r. AMERICA. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND " The Prussian government," says the Frew of to-day, " retrogrades step by step. It has aban. doned the Hessian people, and united its action with that of Austria ; it has recoiled in the Chambers apropos of the German ques tion ; it has recoiled apropos of the recognition of the kingdom of Italy. If the govern ment recedes, the representatives of the people advance. The commission of the Chambers, with the view of conciliating the ministry, bad modified in a more moderate sense certain parts of its proposition relative to federal reform. The ministry in rejecting even this modified scheme has shown its reactionary spirit. The Chamber bas not been less frank ; it has uow withdrawn its con cessions,and, maintaining its project in all its radical character, has shown that it is above all liberal and 'democratic The rupture must come very soon." (nurse's TZLIGIANA.) FRANCE. IMPERIAL RELIEF TO DISTRESSED WORKMEN. PARA, listen 5. The Menifecr of this morning contains the follow ing announcement :—" The Emperor, in view of the present difficult position of the workmen at the peat industrial centres, bid ordered the minister of his household to send 250,000 francs from the privy puree to the prefects of the departments of Rhone, Loire, Seine Inferieure, and Nord, to be applied for the benefit of the workmen." The Muniteur also announces that the applica tions for the oonvendon of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Routes now amount to 110 millions of francs, and that the number of Obligations Trentannaires presented for conversion is 428,173. The ifonikur states that the Corps Legislatif will hold a public sitting this day at 1 o'clock, to receive a communication from the government. THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY. TURIN, MAscii 6. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, War, HER MAJESTY'S LENT PREACHERS. The following gentlemen have been appointed to prence Won her Majesty, at the Chapel Royal, 84. Amens, for the preset Loot : Monk 8 (Ash Wednesday), t h e Lord Bishop el Leman ; Mesh I, the Rev. Richard Hervey, DAIL, prebendary ef i Bt. Fade and rector of Horosoy ; Marsh 9, the LrB Bishop al Durham; March 12, the Rev. Dr. 0.:. Vanillas. Chancellor of York sad vicar of Domestic; March 14, the 11ev. F. C. Cook, M A., preacher ef Lire. adn's lan sod one of her Maiesty's impeders of schsais; March the Lord Bishop of Hereford ; March 19. 18a Row. J. s. Wood. M.A., moon residostiary of Worcester Cathedral ; March 21. the Hoe. sod Rev. W. .1. Brodrisk, moon reedeotiary of Wells Cathedral ; March 23, the Lad Bishop of Chester; March 26, the Rev. Iran N M.A., moon residsatiery of Westminster ; Marsh 28, the leer. E. Banks', M. A., moon residentiary of Oise. sister Cathedral ; March 30, the Lord Bishop of Wen maw ; April 2, the Rom Thome Randolph, Mk., mew issidestiuy of et. Pees Cathodes!, and rector of Ilea Hadlem. err Wore ; April 4, the Rev. Charles Klepity. 1L A., peetemsr modem history in the University o f ; April 6, the Lord Maw of Olostestsr and Bristol ; 9, the lbw. Gawp We re tb• Lye! Ileepi, Chasm ; A prig Oardin,ll.A., App s the Rev. Dr. Genibens. Lead Bishop el 84 roes ; 13 (Palm A = B„. ilw Legg Bishop Wereonter, for Grace ths GREAT FEDERAL SUCCESS. -4-- CAPTURE OF 15,000 PRISONERS. (Pee hawks, by telegraph to Barton and from Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Fla 18, MOIIIIING. _ The Confederate garrison at Fort Doonelson, with Generals Buckner, Bushrod, and Johnson, surren dered conditionally on the 16th inst., sitar three days' hard fighting. The Federate captured 15,000 prisoners and an immense quantity of war mate rial. General Floyd, with 5,000 troops, escaped during the night. Fort Donne!son was attacked from the river by six Federal gunboats, which were badly disabled previous to the surrender. The Federal land forces captured the upper redoubts which commanded Fort Donnelaon. In the course of the attack the Confederates cap tured one Federal battery, which the Federal' soon recaptured. The Federal' are supposed to have numbered about 40,000, and to have bad 300 killed, 600 wounded, and 100 missing. The exact number of the Confederates is uncer tain. Their loss is supposed to have been likewise heavy. General Grant, who commanded the Federal", has been promoted to the rank of majorveneral. The Donnelson victory has caused intense excite ment throughout the whole Northern States. Arrangements are being made for a mass meeting to be held throughout the country on the 22nd inst. to celebrate the victory. The news was received in the Federal Congress with enthusiastic cheers. Commander Foote, with two gunboats and eight mortar boats, has proceeded from Donnelson up the Cumberland River to capture Clarludield (Ten nessee). It is supposed that the Confederates will offer further resistance at ClarksBeld. The Confederates have entirely evacuated Bow ling Green, and it is considered probable that they have concentrated their whole force on the Cumberland River. The Federal General Buell has likewise assembled a force of 80,000 men on the Cumberland River. The Federal generals Nielson and Mitchell will move on Nashville rid Franklin. . . A despatch from Fortress Monroe states that it is reported from Norfolk that fighting had occurred near Savannah, and that that place had probably been captured. In Missouri the Federal' were still pursuing General Price. The Federals had captured several officers and a considerable number of privates be longing to General Price's army. The New York Times considers it fortunate that the Federal government has reserved its action on the Mexican question, as the Federal government is thus left free to pursue a policy which in due time will restore independence to Mexico and ex tinguieb European hopes of a monarchy in the New World. _ . The committee on military affairs have reported on the bill appropriating 100,000 dole. for survey ing the telegraph route between San Francisco and the Amoor River. The report of the survey is to be presented before January, 1863. QIJEENSTOWN, It Aim 4. The Royal Mail steamship America, from Boston on the 19th, and Halifax on the 21st, arrived here at 7 p.m. to-day, with 47 passengers and 50,840 dollars in specie. She landed 114 sacks of mails, and proceeded at 7.20 p.m. All well. The America experienced severe easterly gales all the way across. MATH= REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) wasissay. MY= 4 a AX. B. L /6. A . O. L 10. 8. Nun 29.48 W. • —— 5 Unarm 26.57 1$ B.LW. o 1 Lunt BIM= Autoeux IWITRO9II..- 90.4 U U 8. h 1 GALWAY 8a291.98 . 26.70 111 U W. ■ I 4tmanovtouo9. 29.78 II —8.8. W. 9 4 GILIGOLAND lumarou ? 2675 1111 16 5. • V ii = g u T° 2.40 44 46 A.W. • 9 Tr CU S YAIIIO9III bumf 29.97 U 31 B.W. $ 4 D— - 00288 19.99 38 W. $ 1 16803moora 29.96 16 92 B.W. 6 4 ■ 91.94 41 16 88. W. 6 9 b 8.06 11 MUMS Paguice 119.81 64 42 8.13.W. 6 9 r 6 THE HOUSE OP COMMONS AND sr. masoaaars CHURCH.-(THIS DAY.) There is an old fiction that the House of C,m• mono adjourns until 2 o'clock on Ash Wednesday in order to enable the Speaker and the members of the House of Commons to attend divine service in St. Margaret's Church, in which parish the Legislative Chamber is situate. In times pest Sir It. H. Inglis, Mr. Spouuer, and a few other gentlemen used to attend, rari m. 04 in gurgite taste, although one "of the spacious galleries was set apart for their accommodation. To-day, there being "no home," there was a terrible blank, no members from either aide of the house having attended the service. The ordinary prayer for Ash Wednesday were read, but there was no sermon, mid the House of Commons service w.ne u dull an affair as can well he imagined. ARRIVAL OF KING VICTOR EMMANUEL AT MILAN. MILAN, Masai 5. King Victor Emmanuel, accompanied by Admiral Persano and Signor Pelitti, has arrived here. His Majesty was enthusiastically received by the people. THE CRISIS AT LISBON. LISBON, FRIPRUART 27. (Per Albs:Ara via Southampton.) The resignation of Thiago Horta, Minister for Public Works, has been accepted. He is supposed to have resigned in consequence of some misunder standing respecting the recent reoompoeition of the ministry. The portfolio of the above department is tempo rarily held by the Marquis de Loubf. The new premier commands a small majority in the Chamber of Deputies, but can scarcely count upon the peers. Little surprise would be felt if the Marquis Saldanha were called upon to form a new cabinet. The appointment of Senhor Lobo d'Avilla as Minister of Finance does nut give general satisfac tion, and the funds are somewhat depressed. It is expected that the long-agitated question of the Sisters of Charity will again be brought before the Cortts. The conversion of convent property into govern ment stock is progressing, but the measure is re garded with mistrust, and has not up to the pre sent benefited the public hinds. Her Majesty's ship Investigator arrived here this morning. The weather has been very tempestuous lately ; several disasters have occurred on the coast and in the Tagus. Trade is exceedingly bad. Political changes, the death of Dom Pedro, tie American difficulty, and the rigorous winter have concurred to stop business. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Exchange on Loudon, 63} ; on Parisi, 532 ; on Amsterdam, 42k ; on Hamburg, 471; on Genoa, 28. Three per Cent. Renter, 47. Coupons ditto Deferred, 431. Lisbon Bank, 550 milreis. Oporto Commercial and Mercantile Banks, 268 milieu'. 8017THAMPTON, Itasca 5. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 14 passengers, 2,5331. in specie, and a cargo of 815 packages of merchandise. THE BRAZIL MAILS. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 27. (Bur Oneida MA Southampton.) General Metre is again at the head of the govern ment, and the country is quiet. It is confidently expected that peace will be fully restored before the end of next month. European adrices of the probability of a war between England and the United States had restricted operations in produce. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mow ou owx PARIS, Trimur EVIENINO. Tlao following Aw limn in the .11fonitnar have painfully surprised Paris to-day : The authorities have been for moan time past op the tram of guilty intrigues, and hare jest arrested the principal ring leaders, who are sow in the bands of justice. What can be the meaning of such a vague and sinister paragraph in the government journal 7 No light is afforded by the evening papers, for they have received peremptory orders to make no com ments whatever on the dark official announcement. All that was publicly known of political " intrigues" in Paris up to this morning, was that there bad been some effervescence among the students on the _ . subject of M. About's Gaeasna and M. Ernest Renan's lectures; and that, under the pro bably mistaken belief that a student had died from injuries received in a scuffle with the police, a great many young men had projected a mourning procession to the Mont Parnasse cemetery on this day—Mardi Gras. But in all this there was nothing very serious except u a symptom of the revival of political feeling which has been long dormant. The laconic note in the Monitenr, however,gevidently refers to matters of much graver import. Unless wo are to suppose that the government has some immediate object to gain by making mountains of mole-hills, nothing short of "privy conspiracy and rebellion" of the most dire kind could justify such an alarming pro clamation. lam not able to give the solution of the enigma. The only data I have to form an estimate of the magnitude of the ease consists in the rumours I hear of the numbers of the arrests. It is said that many hundreds of persons have been arrested. All the men suspected of having been chiefs of barricades at former insurrections have been clapped into gaol. Among the prominent names mentioned are those of Messrs. Greppo and Miot, formerly representatives of the people, MM. Genesee, Assolant, and other writers in the Conrrier du Dinianche, M. Horn, an eminent writer on financial matters, whose papers in the Revue Confensporaine and other publications are well known, and M. Hamelech, a lecturer of the Hall in the Rue de la Paix, and a correspondent of the Pkare de la Loire. Of course a great deal more will be heard of this affair, which now highly excites but very partially gratifies curiosity. The Inclependattee Beige was again seized to day. I hear, and think the news probable, that M. Fould tendered his resignation in consequence of the Emperor sending to the Mcmiteur, without consulting him, the unfortunate letter about Count Palau?' dotation, but the Emperor refused to accept it. One object which the government has gained by putting off the debate on that unlucky question till Thursday is that the " conversion" will then be over for good or for evil, and the operation will not be affected by the result of the vote. The minority against the address in the Senate consisted of six only, viz., four cardinals and the Marquis de (Ulnae and M. de Segur d'Aguesseau. M. Billault pleaded hard for unanimity, and very nearly gained his cause. But it is difilcult to con ceive what benefit can accrue to the government from a nominal vote which ignores the hostility on heterogeneous grounds of such speakers as Prince Napoleon, M. Pietii, and M. Larochejaquelin, be sides many others. The Moniteur only speaks of the change of ministry at Turin as a rumour ; there seems, how ever, to be no doubt about it. A letter in the Corresposdancs Blither gives as the true reason for Baron Ricasoli's resignation the desire of the King, intimated through Prince Carignan, that .-- THCPSDAY. 'MAY. N. Brltaln.-B.W. to ILL and ILL to P.W. and N.W., fresh, N.N., fresh, some snow. or strong. Ireland. - ILL to W., fresh to LW. to N.W., fresh. As next above, strong to mode rate. L Omit. —L to S. and S.W., 8. to W. and N.W., fresh. strong, some snow, or rain. IL Ragland—S. Z. to W.,atenes, ILS.W. to N.W., fresh. nley V *wee strong, with rain. CaistraL —As nut above. MXPLANATIOS. IL—Barseastsr corrected and mimed to St _ level ; each 10 feet, of vertical Mae, cawing about onalsondnvith of an inek diminution and each 10 deg., above 32 deg., cousins malty throsdatindredths increase. K—ltspomd thermometer in Mate. AL—Moistened bulb (tor evaporation sad dew point). D.—Direction of wind (true—two points left of set node). I.—Force (1 to la—estimated). C.—(loud (1 to 9). L— : b, blue sky . c. clouds (detached) : f, fog; h. ball ; I, lkinitt7 (bag) : 0, overcast (dull) : r, min : %mom t. thunder. li rain-LA or snow. or Mil. Mace lest repot, In inches and decimals. 6.-Berdietarbesae (i to 9). Z.—am. at masa r! A deputation of Dutch artiste presented three days beck a splendid album to the literary and artistic cir cle of Antwerp, as a souvenir of the fits of August last The album codeine drawings by all the erne* with pieces of poetry, and extracts from the most celebrated Dutch authors, most beautifully illustrated. At the same time a smaller album was presented containing photographic por- Unita of all the Dutch artist* sod authors who attended the fetes. After the presentation a grand dinner, of 120 coves', was given to the deputation, at which M. Loos, pre sident of the circle, and burgomaster of Antwerp, presided. "A magnificent fancy ball," stye Golignani, " was given on Sunday evening by the Princess Ma ' thilde. The costumes offered • deeding coup trait, the history of all times end of all countries being laid cadet reetribution. The Emperor and Empress went through the saloons more then once, and remained to a late hour. The ban continued until 7in the morning. The preceding even ing the President of the Legislative Body gave a fancy ball, which was alio exceedingly brilliant. The Emperor and Empress also honoured this fête with their presence. The cosipany ocienisted of the notabilities of the official world, and of the aft. of Parisian society. M. de Lutrotb repro. seated a rives, and glittered with an immense quantity of dimmed.. Cheat de Demidoll wore a black costume of the of Louis and was revered with dimmed*, and the famoan &say was attaehed to owe of hi eigeillettes. The Oceatem de renlipy were a splendid Mime* me tame" NORTE MIDDLAVII ToLUNTEITR BALL. A ball in aid of ihe band fund of the 29th Middlesex Bile Corps, which is commanded by Limit.-Col. Vimount Enfield, M.P., took place on Monday evening, at Freemasons' Hall, and was completely successful both in a pecuniary point of view and as an agreeable volunteer re. union. Between four and five hundred persons were present, the male sex including (in addition to most of the officers and a large number of members of the regiment), repre sentatives of the Hon. Artillery Company, the 'a ictorias, the Six-foot Guards, the Middlesex Artillery, the West Middlesex, the Queen's, the Blooinsbury, the 19th and 20th Middlesex, and other leading metropolitan corps. About a hundred ladies and gentlemen sat down to supper. The musical errangementa, under the direction of Mr. Corduroy, were very satufactory, comprising a selection of the newest quadrilles, waltzes, ; and the charm of the scene was enhanced by the tasteful and gratuitous floret decoration of the ball by Mr. Salter, nurseryman, of AmpthilLsquare. Two volunteers, Mesas. Humphrey and Johnson—the former remarkable as the winner of no lees than three prizes at the annual shooting competition of the 29th last autumn—ably officiated as marten of the ceremonies. Bo sustained was the interest of the ocration that no lase than 240 persons partiCipated in the final dance. THE CCVET•MARTI4L ON CAPTAIN ROBERTSON. At the court-martial on Monday, Sergeant- Major M'Claughey was briefly examined on behalf of the primer, sad stated that he never knew the prisoner to attend morning and evening stables in 1881, except in August and September. The prisoner then intimated that he bad coneluded the evidence for the defence, and requested the court not to call on him to read his defence until all the evidence was closed. The president said that the prosecutor had announced his intention to im pugn the credibility of his (prisoners) _wituemea, and also that the court intended, a ft er the defence, to recall some of the witnesses to explain certain points which have arisen during the trial. The prisoner would then be at liberty to call other witnesses, and to make a second de few* if he pleased, sad the prosecutor would be at liberty to remark on the entire man Captain Robertson thanked the court for the intimation given him, and requested an adjournment for two days to enable him to pre. pre a statement by way of comment on the evidence. The court granted the application. Captaiu Henry, Colonel Dickson, Colonel Bentunek, an Cornet Farqur were then re called, and examined at considerable length by the president on various matters deposed to at previous sittings, relative to eocansunications between the pri. soner and Colonel Dickson. Captain Henry stated that he did not consider himself responsible for Cap tain Robertson's honour after the conditions imposed pon him. The prisoner bad said be would not meet ' llifolonel Dickson until he had lodged the price of his commission. Colonel Dickson, is his examination, stated that there never was any legal impediment to the meeting, and he characterised that plea as a wilful lie and mil. statemeot, invented by the prisoner and his friends to screen himself. When &eked, What did you mean by raying, on the 17th of October " 1860, ' When I have settled with you legally I will settle with you personally'"? Colonel Dickson replied, " What I meant was, that when he had signed a release, which he might have done the next day if be chose, I would thee horsewhip him. If be had called me out, I was ready to meet him. I may add that my quarrel with him was of a per sonal nature, and had nothing to do with legal or military matters at all." Colonel Hentinck, in reply to the Ti.:,..drast, denied that he ever gave directions to Adjutant to obtain agitators' to • dommiset reflecting on the prisoner's ebtradirr. Oclosel Dickson said his quarrel with the primmer trees frees circumstances long prior to 1860, and that he would have given him satisfaction for the insult offered to him at the club if it had been demon. ded. Colonel Bentinck assigned as • meson for showing the document previously referred to, that he wished to support the statement he had previously made to the Deputy A.dja faint-General relative to Captain Robertson. The proceed ings were then adjourned to Thursday morning, when Cap tain Robertson's &Mires on the evidence will be received. It is said that the 18th regiment of the French line bee received orders to hold itself is readiness to leave for lf sties, and that it is to repair to Cherbourg for an. berkation. . . --- Prince Napoleon's two speeches are going to be translated into Italian unarm the inspection of the prince himself, and 100,000 copies of this translation will be struck off and sent to Turin. His imperial highness dined on Situ day at the Tuileries, and had a long conversation with his imperial cousin. Baron du Jardin t Belgian Minister at the court of Holland, three days back gave a magnificent ball, at which were present the King and Queen, the Prince of Orange, Prince and Princess Henri, Plume Frederick and the Princess Mark, his daughter, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, end the Princess Anne. ASH WEDNESDAY AND THI CHAPELS ROYAL. The morning the Bishop of London preached in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace. The Lord Chamberlain seated the Queen, the sermon being supposed to be "before her Majesty." His lordship pissed a high (Mogi= on the charioteer of the late Prince Consort, and expressed the deep regret which the nation felt at his un• timely death. In the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the sermon was preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Ullman, Dean of St. Paul's. ST. JAatze's PALACE, MAZCH 3. —Tho Queen has been pleased to appoint Miss Harriet Lapel Phipps to be one of the maids of honour in ordinary to bet Majesty, in the room of the lion. Eleanor Stanley, resigned.— Gazette. MARTHA OF THE Homes Orrice, ROYAL MIT/I, Pogue% Mama 3.—The Queen has been pleased to retain the Serldooll of the following Equerries to the Prince Con sort :—Lieutemant.Colooll the Hon. Dudley Charles Fit: Gerald de Res, lit Life Guards ; Major Charles Taylor Du Plat, Royal Artillery ; Wooed Henry Frederick Ponseeby, Grenadier Guards ; Colonel the Hoe. Arthur Edwin' Bar. diage, C. 8., Coldstream Guards. Thane (Amos will per form the duties of extra equerries to her Majesty.—Gamftr. FORILION-OfFICI, MARCH 3. —The Queen has been to approve of Mr. A. Henry as oonsul-paeml at the pleased Good Hope for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. - Onowir-ornca, Maws 1.-311E16[1ER RETURNED TO SERVE IN The PRYER' Peausnarre—Sir John Charles Dalrymple H But., of Park-place, ie the county of Wigtown, captsin, K N.,for the borough of Wskefield, ic the room of William HenryLe ua thare, Esq., whose election has been declared void DEATH 01 SIR HUNOIRFORD HOSZTNE—We have to record the death of Sir Hungerford Hoskyts. Bert, at the advanced age of 86 ythre. Be was bora in 1766, and succeeded to the baronetcy is 180'J. He is amended by his eon, Bungerford floskyna, who was adulated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he took a third class in classics in 1827. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT AND THE COUNT or PARIs.—At the general monthly meeting of tai Boyd Institution, held on Monday, Mr. W. Pole, M.A., F.R.S” treasurer and vim-president, in the chair, the follow ing letter to the secretary, from the Comte de Parisi was read:—" Washington, Feb. 2, 1862.-84,-1 have ust received notification that the members of the Sofa Institution, among whom my brother and I had the honour of being admitted last year, were to meet on the 13th of January to draw up an address to the Queen en occasion of the redden and irreparable lose of the Prince Consort. While loyal England was offering to her afflicted Sovereign the tribute of a unanimous mid touching sym• pithy, ay man in the world felt the lima of the Prix" whom inteU y teas, energy, and untiring exertions had been darns, a too abort career exclusively devoted to the pro gress of civilisation and the benefit of mankind. But the extent of that loss can only be fully appreciated by those who bad many opportunities of witnessing that domestic happiness so cruelly interrupted, and who will always keep, with as much gratitude as regret, the vivid remem brance of one who proved, sot oily a kind relation, but s friend to all their family. We therefore deeply regret not to have heard of that meeting in time to send from this tant country our sincere adhesion to the homage paid to his respected memory by the illustrious society over which he so often presided • and not to hove been able to avail our selves of our *Ales% as member. of the institution. °MeV in the thwamsethos where we should have been most anxious to do so. I beg you, sir, to convey to the presided the expeeesion of these regrets, and I remain verb truly yours, LORIS Pitmen D'Oattine, Comte& Peril. A Lisbon journal, La Purify Industrielk,statei that some men employed in digging a well at Seville some days since, found a flight of steps, at the end of which sass • door. This they soon burst open, and entered a milted room, the ceiling of which was supported by six pillars. At the foot of these lay four mummified hum° bodies attached by a chain. Oes of there was a barefooted monk. The shoes of the other three were in a good state of preserratioa. The clothes wise all in the style d the lad °satiny, bat all rotten, with the exception of oea garment, which was silk. It is supp osed . that ibis ro om was one of the dungeons of th e loqualtioa, and that the four prisoners bad been starved to death. I J