The Express. — London, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA) RAILWAY LOAN, wood ander the antharily of the Itaileay Loan Act el the Lelinittere .0 Vittoria, No XXXII , dated Melbourne, 24th November, t a ll. hitituled An Art to authorise the rah telt of Motleys fee She Camiructlon of itallways," to to 'sp e w by the Male of debentures. hearliti interest st W rote of it per mourn per annum. in amounts 14 CI,OOO, 4600, sad 4100 melt, secured upon the consolidated revenues of Vidalia. end reMieM able us the W October, lent The COM MITTEE appoinamt by OW efs mareisted Amlrallea lianas aa burnt. Is this enatuirr of Gee Government of Tickets bw she negotiation of the Mum Loma HIkUY OIVi NUTICIC that they will he ready to receive TENDZILit at the Landon and eamoter hank. at Two o clock precisely, on the afternoon of TI y:irct V, the I:th instant, for 6:1,07$,000 of the above named Whew are.. at u peke lad below the minimum of N. 103 per cent.. hone by the .1 noralian Government. The tenders to be .nhlreme.l to the Chairman of the Committee, and endorsed fouler. fur the Victoria Us pre Cent. tome." In COMO of ...pull's "(teenier' be)und the amount to be lewd, they will be subject t.• p r o rata diminution. - A depart .7t 5 per cant. otiti; amount of each tender mint be peestowdy paid to the London and Westminster Bank, or to the London Joint 'Moth Bank, and the Bankers* receipt for the same cul.wed with the tender. Suck tenders will then he 015 4 t. 1 In lbw presenco of ail so attending and read pablicly. and the Puy' bowers fombwith declared to be those who hat , , At r eted the bask- .1 pries not under the mid minimum rt.^ dt*henturell M co.ntrwcted fur will br olritst rAlr to the sulwerihen., at the London and Westminster Bank. .0 Monday, the 30th April nett, upon payment of the balance due thereon. 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IDOR WATER AT LONDON 11111001. TIM Dar —Mensits& tt 7a....lhweras. Tk 39m. Tapeastow —Motets& ik Ira. ...Abantera. ih. sum LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 13. WE believe it would be a libel on the intelli gence of our extra-metropolitan countrymen to assume that they regard the great National Insti tution in Bloomsbury with the same sort of interest and curiosity as the Museum iii Baker street. The first visit of our country cousins is doubtless paid to the ingenious Frenchwoman's establishment, where one can pass an hour in the highest and the vilest company, from WILLIAM R PTA to Dr. Senoras; inclusive, and be en tertained by prime ministers, field-marshals, monarchs, burglars, and assassins, unawares. Probably even the second visit of our provincial friends is not to that majestic structure which has sprung from the mustard-seed of Sir Halm SIAIANE . A liberal gift ; probably they take it third or fourth on the list of sights to be "done," and then only scamper over it in a confused, per functory, and bothered manner, with a stupefying sense of being fearfully and wonderfully ignorant, and a prevailing stuffiness of brains and stiffness of necks. Nevertheless, there is a considerable public above and beyond the vulgar mob of sight seers and holiday-makers, and above and beyond the habitual score or two of readers and students to whom the British Museum is worth all the rest that London has to show, and who enter the building in the grateful and religious spirit of pilgrims. Not only is the library a precious poe. session to many a bookless yet devoted learner, not only are the sculptures a feast to many an uninstructed yet sensitive and discerning eye, but the natural history collections are an inexhaustible treasure to thousands of humble and earnest inquirers. Flippant partisans and empty courtiers, ready official speakers and dull committee-men in Parliament, are apt to regard the British Museum question, which recurs with increasing force every year, as one of many in which rival influences dispute the tricks and honours. But to a large and increasing number of solid and serious minds out of the reach of party intrigues, the question how the British Museum shall be rescued from impending chaos, and its light made to shine before men, is a question far outweighing in importance the rise or fall of ministries, or of empires. The official soul has no conception of the value of all that concerns the growth and cultivation of science to hundreds of quiet and contentedlyobecure people to whom politics are the chaff of circumstance. Cabinet Ministers who go down six at a time to outvote the impartial judgment of trustees, take little thought of the fact that to poor and busy men miles and moments are of consequence, when they come in haste, or from afar, to drink at the national fountain of knowledge in the West Central district, for to Cabinet Ministers and courtiers the interests of science may be the second considera tion, but a nice little job is the first. Happily the duty of the English press is to represent public and p erma nent, not personal and passing, claims. We are accustomed to pay more respect to the needs of a friendless student than to the manoeuvres of all the Cabinet Ministers present or to come. This is why, perhaps, we feel a little prejudiced in favour of that " Memorial of the promoters and " cultivators of science on the proposed severance " from the British Museum of its Natural History " collections," which was addressed to her Ma- EATS'S Government two years ago. This docu ment was si,fnedeery eminent name in science in this country, and it condemned in no hesi- THE EXP: tating or doubtful terms the proposed breaking up' of the Natural History collections In the Museum, and their removal to any situation &stoat from , the centre of London. Of course the memorialists fully admitted and deplored the alarming hyper trophy under which the building in Bloomsbury laboured then and lingers still. The most casual and careless of Easter Monday sight-seers must have ls , cit struck by the plethoric and congested appearance of the Museum. If a taxpayer, and acquainted with Blue-books, he must have felt aggrieved by the eternally provisional "pecking " of antiquities, of which it may be said, with far more truth than of the serpent at the fair, that they " came over in two ships," and probably may have figured in some shape 'or other in the Naval Estimates. if a believer in the " School of the Pi .pliets" may have derived cutistaa• tion from the thought that the authorities of the Museum were evidently making ready for that momentous epoch when the last edition of " The "(;neat Tribulation" will be committed to the flames. if a naturalist, he must have grieved to hear of inamemible drawers and cases crammed with specimens, and irrecoverably consigned to the unrelenting keys of bewildered custodians. All this is patent, notorious, and regrettable enough, and the memorialists of 1858 made no secret of it ; but they insisted then, and insist still, that the malady is not incurable, nor does it even demand a change of scene and air to the favoured land of Gotha, southwards of Hyde-park. There is no denying the fact that the South Kensington interest is powerful. AU the men of science in the United Kingdom are hardly a match for it. Not only does it include that distinguished sect of dikitanti who date from 1851, and whom we will take the liberty to denominate Lea Important., but it can bring half a dozen Cabinet Ministers to the front at a moment's notice, and browbeat the trustees with considerations of "economy." The British public is probably as desirous of economy as any six Cabinet Ministers are likely to be ; bat it would rather pick some other hole in the Miscel laneous Estimates than be duped into sacrificing its National Museum to the caprices of ever so sublime a clique. There is something (specious no doubt in the proposal to make the building in Bloomsbury a vast depo sitory of ancient art and universal literature, and to transfer its Natural History collections to the various government institutions or voluntary asso ciations to which they specially belong. But the memorialists opposed this suggestion (under which South Kensington lay in ambush) on the double ground that these special institutions are insuffi cient in space for the reception and display of the collections, and that to separate them would be to destroy that very unity and harmony which they are designed to demonstrate and teach, and would necessitate a transference of a large propor tion of the national library, or a very expensive purchase of a new and special one. The memo rialista appeal with great confidence to the ad mitted fact that "by far the greater number of " visitors to the Museum consists of those who " frequent the halls containing the Natural His " tory collections." To these visitors a central locality and a single collection are indispensable, and the memorialists are justified in demanding that " such a vast and harmoniously related " accumulation of knowledge gathered together " around a library illustrating each department of " this noble Museum," shall not be dispersed in deference to foreign crotchets. Supposing, then, that the testimony of all the men eminent in science in the United Kingdom avails against the South Kensingtonian interest, what is to be done for the British Museum as it stands, or, rather, as it sinks underthe weight of itstreasures—magma inter open imps I The memorialists are quite prepared to solve this seemingly desperate problem, and it must be confessed that their solution has the merit of extreme simplicity, and requires very little "moving." It is to extend the area of the Museum northwards by " the purchase for imme " diate requirements of a comparatively small " number of leases," and a negotiation for securing the ultimate reversion of the land. This com plete and comprehensive plan disposes of the factitious economy of the six Cabinet Ministers and their patrons, since, according to the memorialists, "it involves only& gradual acquisition of the land, and consequently an expenditure extending over many years, whereas the acquisi tion of a similar extent of grass land at Kensing ton, and the building thereon, must be paid for either "at once or in the ensuing three or four "years." It is well that the public should be in possession of the plain facts of the case ; for though we have not yet arrived at that millennial epoch in which the perfection of gunnery having finally reduced the science of wholesale homicide to an absurdity, we shall be able tq transfer twenty millions from the Army and Savy Esti mates to the British Museum, the British people is not so barbarous even in 1860 as to grudge to civilization a tithe of the millions it is obliged in self-defence to spend in powder and shot. THE VACANT JUDGISHIP.—We (Tire a) hew 7114110 D to believe that the vacant judgeship will be con ferred co Mr. James Wilde, Q.C. The MITROPOLITAN iouct. —A parliamentary return, issued this morning, shows that 18 superintendents in the metropolitan police and 175 inspectors have been promoted to their present situations from the force ; 21 inspectors have been in the army and 4 in the navy; 18 superintendents and 14. S inspectors have been appointed without having previously been in the public service, civil or military, all having joined the police as constables. The number of police constables reported by sergeants or acting sergeants, was 2.983 in 1857 ; 2,578 in 1858; and 2,456 in 1839. In 1857 1,318 entered the force, 257 were dismissed, and 769 retired (resigned). In 1858 the number who entered was 1,040, the number dismissed 299, end the number who retired 654. Last year 898 entered the force, 213 were dismissed, and 800 retired. Of thorn who resigner' during those years, 5013 have received pension., and 143 gratuities ; a large proportion of the remainder who resigned, as well as those who were dismissed, were men who had been but a short time in the force. The Dublin Earning Mail gives the following names and the amounts attached to them as the distribution of the sum of 10,0001. which appeared as "remuneration to l directors in paid-up shams" in the accounts of the Trans►t. !antic Royal Mail Company, recently published :—John 0. Lever, M.P., 2,5001.; G. 0. Lascaridi, 2,5001.; T. 0. Stock, ; Sir A. M'Nes, 7201.; Harvey Lewis, 7101.; Lord Bury, 710/4 Sr P. IL Fleetwood, rum. ; Thomas Howard, 710/.; John A. Roebuck, M.P., 7101. Tee NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TOIL THE Puller VON or SOCIAL Senner..—A general meeting of the local committee appointed to mks the neemary arrangements for the meeting of t►e amid Seism, Asocietios, to be held in Glasgow in the lest week of September next, was held in the Council Chamben es Wednesday. Sir James Campbell, in the abeence of the Iced Provost, was celled Co the chair, and explained the objects of the ineebnfi. Mr. sheriff Bell moved, seconded by Principal Fairbaire, " That the General Local Committee agree to act sad lend their infIUODOO to get subscriptions, and to ad. vanes generally the objects of the .societies." The Rev. Dr. Hill afterwards moved, seconded by Mr. W. P. Paton, " That the following be appointed a sub-committee for all purposes other than finance and accommodation : The Lord Provost, chairmen ; Sir Andrew Orr, vice-chair man; Bailie Cooper, Sheriff Bell, Rev. Dr. N. Macleod, Rev. Dr. Celia, Rev. Dr. Buchanan, Rev. Dr. Lithe, Pro fessor Wm. Thomson, /MO Jamieson, Esq., Jas. M'Cld. Lad, Feq.. Alexander Harvey, Esq., John, D. Campbell, =Ohs Carrick, Fem.. P. R. Dove, Esq., , &q.. with power to add to their number, and to sub-commii" Sir A. Allmon mo►ed a vote of thanks to the chairman, and the meeting separated. Subsoliption lists having been plena on the table, amnia; at 440/. wea subscribed in the room. frbe tourt. ROYAL PAPILION, ALDERAMOTP CAMP, THURSDAY, APRIL 12. Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by the Princess Alice and Princess Leiniagen: The Hon. Flora Ma cd onald and Colonel the lion. A. Hood were in attendance. The Prince Consort and Prince Alfred rode on horseback. The Queen's dinner party in the evening included the Rdlowing : Prince A Prineem Alice, and Princess Leiningen ; Lieut.-General Knollyyss ; Brigadier-General Lord George Paget, Commanding Cavalry ; Major-General Lawrence, Ist Bde ; Colone l t, 2nd Brigade ; &ipd-General R 3rd Brigade ; Major- General Forster, Deputy Adjutan ; Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, LC` 8., Deputy QuartennasterGeneral ; Major the Hoe. 8. Calthorpe, 11th Dragoon Guards ; Lieut.- Colonel Knox, 18th Human ; Lieut.-Colonel Robertson, Military Train ; Lieut.-Colonel Lord A. Russell, Ride Brigade • Lieut.-Colonel Carleton, Coldstream Guards ; Colonel Brooke, 12th Regiment; Major Hood, Mth Regi nolt, : Lieut.. Colonel Peacoeke, Int Battalion ltith Regi ment ; Lieut.-Colonel Grant, King's Own Light Infantry Jldrtia ; Major Cowell, ICE., an Major Elphinstone, K.E. The band of the 11th Regiment played during dinner. This morning her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice and Prince*, Leiningen, drove round the camp and visited the hospitals and some of the officers' and sol diers' quarters. Her Ma' s t was attended by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Flora and the Equerries in W Th aitin trincee • Consort and Prince Alfred rode out, attended by Captain Du Plat. Lady Churchill has succeeded the Marchioness of Ely sa Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. Ou Tuesday evening the King of the Belgians entertained his Royal Highs= the Prince of Wales at the palace of Brussels, the company at the dinner including the Duchess of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, the First Secre tary of the English Legation, and Lady Howard de Walden and Seaford. Later in the evening the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Brabant and their suite, went to the Theatre Royal, where they witnessed the Pardon de Pfoer. vriti. On Wednesday rooming, at half-past nine, his royal highness left Brussels for Coburg. The Earl of Beverley is passing the season at Torquay. His lonlabip will not arrive in town until June. Viscount Campden has arrived at his residence in Portaaaavequare for the 60111111:6. Lord and Lady Feveraham are expected in town la a few clam from Dancombe Park, Yorkshire, for the sessoa. Lord and Lady Lovaine come to town to-day from Albary Park, Otuldford. Lady Caroline Townley'a soirees &mantes are laid to take place on Tuesday, the 24th instant, and on Tuesday, the Ist of May. The Countess of Cork gave birth to a daughter at No. 1, Grafke-streat, on Tuesday last. A grand ball, which was attended by upwards of 100 of the nobility and gentry, took place at the Town Hall, Windsor,on Wednesday last, the lady patronage. being Mdme. Van de Weyer, Lady Emily Seymour, Lady Mary Hood, Hon. Lady Phipps, Mrs. Richard Howard Vywr, and Mrs. Roberta; and the stewards included Colonel R. H. Vyae mil the officers of the Royal Horse Guards, Lieutenant- Colonel Baker and the °Moms of the 10th Royal Hussars, Colonel Mark Wood and the officers of the Coldstream Guards, Mr. William Vanaittart, M.P., Mr. G. W. Hope, M.P., and Captain Bulkeley. Dancing, to the music of the band of the let Life Guards, commenced at ten o'clock and terminated at a late hour. It is stated that her Majesty's ministers intend during the present session to int/Woos a bll constituting the Red River settlement, in the amain of British North America, one of the ordinary colonies of the crown. The Forte, 51, screw, now at Spithead, will em bark for conveyance to the Cap§ of Good Hope, hi, Excel lency the Hon. Sir George Grey, Governor madOommander in-Chief of that colony, and family. According to present arrangements the Forte will sail for her destination on Tuesday next. The Secretary of State for War has issued a circular, calling the particular attention of all the engineer °Moms to the necessity of exercising the strictest economy of the public funds in the design of works and buildings for military purposes. A Paris correspondent writes :—" At the after noon promenade on Good Friday, the gre►t crinoline strug gle was renewed, and the advocates on each side, of course, hoped for the utter demolition of their antagonists. But, in my humble opinion, the matter still rests in state quo, the advantage remaining on the side of the evince line wearers. It is true that some of the leaders of the ton (amongst others the Princess de Metternich and little. Errasse) have decided upon appearing without the much abused article ; but, on the other hand, the Gomtesses de Morny and Wslewska have enrolled themselves under the imperial banner, and persist in wearing crinoline. Can any fashion gain that Eugenie does not sanction! It is not very likely. And then, again, there is another motive that, in conjunction with the convenience of the crinoline, will at least for a time prevent its desertion by the ladies. In the desire to appear mart', that class which in Paris is large enough to form en army, and which is delicately but comprehensively stigmatised by the n►me of the Devi-Monde, has entirely left off crinoline, and its members may be seen any day in the principal thoroughfares crinolineless, starched, petti °ostler—good portraitures of that renowned English dairy maid, Dorothy DraggletaiL This, then, is the idea to be taken from my remarks—for carriage and for dinner and indoor dries crinoline may be laid aside if desired; but for walking it is de rigneer, on account of the reasons I have mentioned above." There are at Paris at the preeent time 19 pro testant churches in fall operation, 97 protestant clergymen, and 2,500 children regularly attending protestant Sunday schools. A letter from Berne of the 9th Bays :—" Sir Robert Peel, who arrived here the day before yesterday, is the object of great attention from the leaders of the two political campi— now one party—for the conservatives are not a whit less ardent in the maintenance of the national rights than their old antagonists." FEHTIVITIZE IN STAPPORDSHIRE. —Tag PERKINS EARLDOM—The festivities were resumed on Wednesday even i ng w ith another ball at the Shire-hall, to which Lord Shrewsbury's tenantry and tradesmen were invited to meet his lordship and his guests. The corn. p i ny wee scarcely so numerous as on Tuesday night, but the dancing was of a more spirited cha racter. The ball was opened at about ten o'clock by Lady Gertrude Talbot and one of the principal tenants. The Marchiouess of Lothian, the daughter of Lord Shrews bury, also danced in the opening quadrille. Her ladyship was magnificently attired in the diamonds inherited from the peat Lord Castlereagh, the uncle of her husband. Yesterday most of the Earl of Shrewsbury's visitor. en in the sports of the hunting field. The Earl, Lord tre, and moot of the visitors returned to the hall about 2 o clock, after the ran across the chase, and then coin. menced the other principal feature in the day's rejoicings. The labourers on the estate and the school children from seven adjoining parishes, amounting together to between 1,600 and 1,800, were su pplied in the farm buildings ad joining the hall, and in temporary erections put up there for the purpose, with a dinner of meat, bread, plum pudding, and ale. The remaining pastimes have foe some years been sinking into disum. The greased pole wait to be climbed, and there p into ruse. be jumping us the sack, and other kindred, and, if only by repute, well.knovrn village pastimes of the middle ages. The bane at the hall sat with Lady Shrewsbury in front of the hall, and witnessed the gambols of the villagen and their children. At night there we to be an exhibition of fireworks. To-day (Friday) Lord Shrews bury makes his public entry into Alton, and takes formal possession of his newly-inherited estate. THE MANCHESTER WORKING MAN'S COLLROZ. A general meeting of the council and students of this, col lege was held on W Wednesday evening in the large room of the college of the Mechanics Institution. Mr. Oliver Hey wood preeided. Mr. A. Ransome (one of the honorary secretaries) made the following statement of the p osition is which the college stands at the present time :—The number of students entered for the last term was only 89, showing a decrease of 46 as compared with the filet term of the present session. The new students numbered 18 against 24 entering during the corresponding term Let year. Of the 46 new members who registered in October last 21 only again joined the classes. The number of members of the Mechanics' Institution was 15, showing a decreaw of 12 as compared with the last term. There were 135 members of chime as spurt 195. This number was thus distributed : Mechanics F il ;e algebra 10, arithmetic 11, chemistry 11, soologi: e. lah history 12. English la nguage 37, Greek 5, Latin elementary) 18, Latin (advanced) 18. - Geomet ry and logic (e had been propmed) were not formed, be came a sufficient number of names had not been banded in. The discontinuance of the logic class led to the withdrawal of eight or ten members. The student.' committee, elected at the last term in accordance with the regulation, had been I working very well in securing that bond of union within the college and amongst the members which it was so very de sirable to see _prevailing. Several lectures had been deli vered by the Rev. Canon Richson, the Rev. W. Kr. Thomas Turner, F.R.C.S., and two by 11; 31. = Nelda ; but the average attendance had not been more than 30 or 40 out of 480 students altogether. He hoped the leetweve in the present term would be better Weeded. The teachers of the various classes then made statements with regard to the operation of the classes under their tuition. •tv.. ,SS, FRI DA Y EVE XING, APRIL 13, 11160. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. NAPLES AND PIEDMONT. A Turin letter states that at a meeting of Neapolitan refugees, held on April 8, it was re solved, by a majority of 80 against 4, that the annexation of the kingdom of Naples to the con stitutional government of Victor Emmanuel was a proposition deserving of support. A committee was at once appointed to further the views of the meeting. Among the members are MM. Poerio, Dufacca, Mancini; and Conforto, members of the new Italian parliament, Le Farina, president of Italian National Safety, Pinia, and Interdonato. Among the Neapolitans who voted with the majority were M. Platino, a man of large fortune, who has lived in Rome ever since 1848, La MAAR, an eminent military writer, Pornasi, a well-known medical professor, and the poet Miraglia. FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. MEMORANDUM OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. PARE, FRIDAY, Aran,l3. It is stated that the cabinet of the Tuileries is about to address a memorandum to the powers who signed the final act of Vienna. The aim of this memorandum is said to be to establish, by strategical considerations, the unimpeachable proof that, if Frame ever had an intention of menacing the neutrality of Switzerland, she could do so notwithstanding all the guarantees stipulated in the treaties of 18lb, since the military road leading from Franco to Germany through Switzerland now no longer exists, neither in the territory of Faucigny nor of Chablais, but at another point not included in the neutralised districts. The Cabinet of the Tuileries hopes by that to show that the annexation of Savoy to France does not virtually deprive Switzerland of her strategical position, neither does it involve any of the dangers put forward beforehand by the Federal Council of Berne. The Independence Belge ha the following : It becomes more and more probable that no Congress will be held on the Savoy neutrality question, and that the difference will be terminated by a direct arrangement be• tween the two states more particularly interested. Various combinations are reported. They tend to maintain intact the cession made by Sardinia to France, giving, however, • guarantee for the safety of Swiss neutrality. That guarantee would consist in the concession of a strategical frontier, which, without granting to Switweland all she now claims, would nevertheless be of a nature to offer her certain satisfaction, apart from all idea of terri torial aggrandisement. It is proposed to give her up all the shores of the Lake of Geneva, and the slopes of the mountains which separate the contested provinces from the Valais, to cover the passage of the Tate Noire and another important defile, in • strategical point of view. A letter from Berne, dated the 9th, says : The Federal Council held two sittings to-day, which never occurs except on very urgent business ; and which is consequently a symptom of the gravity of the situation. The greatest anxiety is felt as to how the Great POW(121 really will act, es it is known that England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia are agreed to recognise the rights of Switzer. land, while, on the other hand, it is also known that the idea of a conference, demanded in the circular note of the sth of April, is not equally relished by all. Great activity is displayed in the military department. GENERAL GARIBALDI AND THE CESSION OF NICE. TURIN, Ann. 12. General Garibaldi, in an interpellation made in to-day's sitting in the Chamber of Deputies, affirmed that the voting of Nice will be effected under French pressure. He censured the action of the provisional government of Nice as attacking the liberty of the vote, and concluding by proposing the adjournment of the vote in that province. After the rejection of several orders of the day, implying disapprobation of the government, the following order of the day was adopted by a great majority :—" The Chamber, hoping that govern ment will maintain the constitutional guarantees, and efficaciously provide for the liberty of the vote in Savoy, passes to the order of the day." SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 12. The son of General Ortega has presented a petition to the Queen, requesting her Majesty to spare the life of his father. A search is being made for fugitives in the north• west provinces. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. MARSEILLES, Aran. 12. A letter from Naples states that the combat at Palermo was very bloody, most of the insurgents having perished at the barricades. Several monks of the convent were seised and imprisoned. Rein forcements have been sent into Sicily. The commer cial steamboats have been put into requisition, and the army in Sicily will be augmented to 30,000 men. Prince Castelcicala has returned to his poet as governor of the island. Prince Filangieri has arrived in order to confer with the King. The panic at Naples on the 6th instant was general, but without consequence. THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, Aram 11. General Lamoricibre has issued an order of the day, in which he declares that he has not hesitated to resume his sword when required by the Pope. He continues thus :—" Catholic Christianity is the life of civilisation. Europe is threatened by revo lution, as it formerly was by Islamism. The cause of the Pope is that of civilisation and liberty." The General concludes by exhorting the soldiers to have confidence in the success of the cause which is entrusted to them. ROME, Ann 12. The Duke of Rochefoucald has given twelve rifled cannons to the Pope. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNLKO. The Moniteur of this morning contains the usual monthly return of the Bank of Franoe, which allows the following results as compared with the March account : DICILUSED. Cash -5 millions. Bills discounted, not yet due OS Advances 11 Current accounts 6 ~ Treasury balance 53 1-3 „ INMURZD. - . __ Bank Notes --- 32 The principal alteration is the decrease of more than two millions sterling in the government depo- sits, which has caused an increase of a million and a quarter sterling in the notes in circulation. The bills discounted and bullion are both rather lower. TURKEY. VIENNA. Ann, .12. Baron Prokesch, the Austrianin — teniu7sCiTat Constantinople, has demanded and obtained leave for six months. He will be replaced ad interim by Count Ludolf, councillor of the Austrian embeaity, who (being here on leave of absence) will start by the next mail steamer for Constantinople. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWIC, FIUDAT. _ _ The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw saineeer City et llasehester, Captain Cummings, from New Yurk on the ;Slat ult., has arrived. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. - (nom ous OWN conserommwr.) EARLS, THURSDAY EYUINO. I have not hitherto noticed the slavish addresses bearing the signatures of various inhabitants of ob scure villages in Savoy which the Moniker has been publishing daily for some time past. The Emperor's secretary himself could not write better French than these simple-minded Savoyards are supposed to do ; and for fulsome adulation the compositions to which their names are appended may challenge comparison with the most sickening productions of experienced French functionaries. Just by way of a specimen, I select for translation one which has the especial merit of being short : AddreA, t.. t 11, Emperor of the commune of Albeue, pro vince of Chambery. Aire, —The mountain, of Savoy trembled with joy when they blow that you had Awes them for the unassailable limits of th-. vet French empire. The inhabitants of the commune of Allen, by the orpn of their edministniturs, and in accordaace with all the inhabitants of Savoy, hereby aasure you that they are delighted to belong to the great and heroic French nation and to its august head, whose word is the law, and wito,e e whom is the admiration of Europe. In order that this model address may not go forth to the readers of the Express uncombed for by the ostensible antliors, you will perhaps find room for their nam.•., which are :—Travers, don teur, syndic ; Pena, assesseur et greffier ; Philippe Laurent ; B. Miguet, curd d'Albens ; J. Pellissier, vicaire ; Peine, juge ; Mermel ; Boutron ; Boissat ; Mermet, conseiller ; N. Canet ; Bontempa ; S. Canet ; Bosset, notaire ; J. Pison. A scheme is on foot for enabling the citizens of Savoy and Nice residing in Franee, of whom there are a great many (including the organ-grinders and vendors of white mice), to vote for the annexation without taking the trouble of going home. It is, I believe, quite certain that the reiterated assertions of many French journals that Switzer land has abandoned all hopes of a congress to con sider her rights, and has resigned herself to treat directly with France, are, to say the least of them, " premature." The story of a proposal by France to declare a neutral zone all round the lake of Geneva, is treated as a canard invented by the Belgian journals. The Gazette de France says that Mgr. Dupanloup has refused the cardinal's hat offered him by the Pope. While expressing his gratitude for the spe cial mark of affection and esteem implied in the offer, the Bishop of Orleans told the Holy Father that if he were to accept it, his sincere devotion to the cause of the temporal power would certainly be attributed in France to interested motives. Police spies, who, like the fellow-traveller of M. Veuillot, worm themselves into people's confidence and then suddenly tell their friends to consider themselves under arrest, have hitherto been fur nished with a card, which it behoved them to pro duce when the moment came for showing them selves in their true colours. But it having been found by experience that the card is frequently forgotten or lost, gentlemen in this peculiar branch of the public service are now required to wear a plate worked into their braces bearing the inscription, " Prefecture de Police. Suret6 publique." The spy, therefore, has only to unbutton his waistcoat and point to the spot where his heart should be, and the victim understands at once into what hands he has fallen. General Triczel, sometime minister-at-war under Louis Philippe, and afterwards tutor to the Count de Paris, has just died at the age of eighty. At the Bourse the Rents opened very firm, not withstanding a rumour that the Bank of England had raised its discount. As it was thought that the Bank of France would follow the example, the news produced little effect. Later, however, when the London telegram brought as a positive fact that which had only been a report, there were a good many sales, in consequence of which the highest prices of the day were not sus tained. The Bente, after having been quoted at 70fr. 30c. and 70fr. 46c., closed at 70fr. 20c., and 70fr. 25c., with a fall of bc. in each case. Mohilier fell 2fr. 50c. There was little change in railways. A money changer of the Faubourg St. Honori, with whom many English residents kept small banking accounts, has absconded, taking with him all the cash in the till ; among the sufferers, I am afraid, there are a great many to whom their losses must occasion serious inconvenience. ITALY. SARDINIA. (nom oaa srscuz. 001111161.0NDENT.) TURIN, APRIL 9. Some interest will be given to-morrow to the hitherto monotonous and tiresome proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies by the election of the president, vice-presidents, and secretaries. The ministers have decided on supporting Signor Lanza, who, however, does not seem to enjoy the full sympathy of his honourable colleagues. The majo rity of the Chamber, and especially the members of 'Emilia and Tuscany, are more inclined to support Commendatore Buonoompagni, whose services to the national cause have been so numerous and so great. By his gentlemanly and courteous manner the former Governor-General of Central Italy won golden opinions, and had he been supported by the government, his election to the presidential chair would not be doubtful. Although the necessity of not dividing the minis terial majority on the one hand, and the wish of showing their deference to Count Cavour on the other, will induce the Chamber to accept the ministerial candidate, I have heard a great many deputies complaining of the step taken by the government. They feel, and per haps not without reason, that the ministers would have done better to exercise no pressure on the house in this matter. The consequence of this little official intrigue is, that the opposition will support Buonoompagni's election, so that the honest Conunendatore will be turned to-morrow—much to his disgust—into a protege of a party with whom he has no sympathy. General Quaglia, whose state of health seemed to have improved, died on Saturday. His funeral, which took place yesterday, at 6 o'clock, gave the Turinese an opportunity of offering a great ovation to Garibaldi. The gallant general, having accompanied his colleague to the grave, was recognised by the crowd, and on hi s way back to the Palazzo Carignano he was enthusiastically cheered by a dense crowd of people which thronged the adjoining streets to suffocation. Garibaldi was therefore obliged to thank them, and he did so in a few hearty words. He said that the cheerings of the people showed him that if the Nioe question were to be decided by a popular vote the fair city would not be lost to Italy. Although no body will be disposed to censure the population of this city for having so warmly cheered the member for Nice, it strikes me that this mode of express ing political opinions to open-air assemblies is hardly compatible with the dignity or the interests of a countrl which enjoys the benefit of a free parliament. Public demcmitrikliun'. fall to rouse popular passion, and passion is not the best element in polities. Victor Emmanuel will start for Central Italy on Sunday next. Count Cavour, Mamiani Jacini, and Corti, will accompany him. This l ast named gentleman, a distinguished Florentine, has been ap pointed Minister of Com merce to-day. Fariui and General Fanti will join the king at Bologna, on his way back from Florence. The Prussian Wildenbruch arrived here yesterday evening from Tuscany, and from what I hear his Excellency lia been pleased with the state in which he found th.f newly-annexed provinces. TANGIER. The following is from the Gibraltar Chronicle of the sth inst. : . . _ . .. . AniMperial order had been received at Tangier for the public execution of the two men implicated in the late murderous attack on Mr. James Drtunniond Hay athl the crew of the torque Znleika ; and Sunday last was tix..l fur carrying the order into effect. Early in the after..., three colonels of the Sultan's Bokhary horse arrived Tangier for the purpose of seeing their royal ter's order duly executed. Escorted by a nunier military guard, and heavily fettered, the unhappy cried. nail were soon afterwards led from prison to the prin cipal market-place, Rol 1 a space having been cleared in the DMA of the dense crowd which bad assembled tie,., a party of soldiers with loaded muskets were drawn up within it, and prepared to discharge their terrible duty. These preliminaries had scarcely been completed when further proceedings were arrested by the arrival on the ground of Mr. Reade, her Majesty's consul, ioa,annoo• I by Messrs. James Drummond Hay and Green. Mr. had been instructed by her Majesty's charge d'arfain, u, state that, although the prisoner, had been found guilty ..f participating in the murderous attacks which had led to the death of the unfortunate mariner John Stymy, it wasdoulaful whether either of them was the actual perpetrator of the murder ; and therefore, at his interceation, her Majesty the Queen of Englan d had been graciously pleavvl to direct that his Majesty the Sultan should be moved to commute the punishment of death for that of imprisonment fora lengthened term. He requested, there• fore, that the authorities would abstain from giving imme. dist; execution to the Sultan's order until a reference had been made to his Majesty. After some demur on the part of the authorities this request was acceded to. The natives who had locked in peat numbers to the market-place, se long as they were under the impression that the execution was about to take place, showed , by their silence, their ap• predation of the justice of the sentence. They, however, greeted with loud shouts of satisfaction the announcement that the lives of the unfortunates had been spared. and poured blessings on the English for their merciful inter cession." THE VICTORIA LOAN. It has been decided that another public bidding is to take place for the unallotted balance -1,078,000d.—0f the Victoria Six per Cent. lien. The committee of the Associated Australian Banks issued a notification that they will re. ceive tenders at the London and Westminster Bank, at 2 o'clock on Tuesday next, "at a price not below the minimum of 106/. per cent., as fixed by the Australian government." The conditions are, in other respects, the same as before, and the entire amount must be paid up at the date origi nally fixed, viz., the 30th mgt. It is mentioned that " in cases of equality of tenders beyond the amount to be issued, they will be subject to a pro rata dimi nution." The purchasers will be "declared to be those who have offered the highest price not wider the said minimum." Several points in this supple mental notification are objected to. The manifest attempt of the committee to obtain an advance of or per cent, over the reserved price is regarded as close dealing. Objection is principally taken, however, by the persons whose tenders were ac. oepted yesterday to the attempt to deprive them of that prior claim to a further allotment which they have virtually purchased by tendering in ignorance of the minimum price, and in strict accordance with the conditions originally put forward. In the approaching distribution of the balance they have undoubtedly a claim beyond that of the general public ; and if their claim be ignored, many persons will hold back upon any future occasion. An address to the chairman of the committee is in course of signature in the Stock Exchange, setting forth the manifest injustice which this course inflicts on those who subscribed on Wednesday. It urges with reason that the precedent should be adhered to which was established by the committee themselves upon a former occasion, when, under similar circumstances, the claims f the previous successful bidders were entertained preferentially. The letter has already been signed by Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co., Sheppard', Pelly and Co., Robins and Barber, LOUIS Cohen, Haggard, Hale and Pixley, Joseph &beg, and other respectable firms. AIR. SPURGEON ON THE SOCIAL EVIL. Yesterday morning the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon preached a sermon on behalf of the Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children, at the Rev. W. Brock't chapel, Bloomsbury-street, New Osiordetreet. The atten. dance was large. The rev. gentle selected for his text John viii., 10, 11, " When Jesus bad lifted up himself, and saw no one but the woman, he said unto her, WOMAN where are those thine accusers? bath no man condemned thee ? ' She maid, 'No man, lord.' And Jesus and unto her, 'Neither do I condemn thee ; go, and sin no more.'" Many men, he said, who were reek. ing in filthiness were allowed to mingle with the church; but the ppoooor fallen woman was looked down on and despised. A Chxvtian minister might walk with a man who was said to be a "little too fast," and nothing WU said ; but if he was seen talking with a poor fallen woman, endeavouring to rescue her from her evil life, she was not called "fast," but something worse, and some evil intention set down to the credit of the minister. What, he asked, was the difference! He could not see. He felt if he went on he should condemn the men for their sin. It was but the other evening, when coming out of a crowded meeting, he saw a young Idly accosted by a respectably-dressed gentleman, who began speaking to her. His feelings were roused, and he wished he could have knocked the man down. Had it been done to some poor woman, he might have offered up a prayer for her ; but to see a man doing ouch as set to a respectable girl—a man who would go home to hu family, go on the 'Change, and pretend to be s gentleman —was more than he could bear. If he Wad rather strong in his feelings he could not help it, for he could not see why the sin of the man should be slurred over, and that of the woman brought forth. He wanted, lastly, to tell them what they could di towards following out the example indicated in the text. They had been putting far away from them those who had been tainted with this sin, and the effects of it might be seen every day and every night. They had thrust them out from every village and city, from every borne of ex• ample, from every association that might lift them heav ward ; and where were they now ? They woke up all of a sudden, and cried out against the great social evil, which they bad helped through their apathy to create. What, then, weri they to do to put • stop to it! Now that the law hal proved a failure, let them try what tho Gospel could do. The Society for the Rescue of Young W.'men an d child, ' was doing great good by the holding of midnight Ineetingx. At the Southwark meeting he believed upwards of tweet' • six fallen women were taken to the Refuge. The society to which he bad referred had undertaken not only the ta.li those women, but of feeding them; but their iLeAs were exhausted. Through the midnight meetings they fat received so many that they required more than 100'. p.'t day to support them. After they had been in the soeiety for some time, they were sent as servants where they w, not known, where they could regain their charactep , and begin the world again. If there was anyone who ,nub! refuse to contribute on that morning to such a benevolon% object, he did not envy him. He trusted, however, tho•- would be very few such, but that all would give to tie ut• most of their power, that they might house the Isor ere tune who were Trilling to fine to the ark of refuge t,• from their evil ways. THE ITALIAN ARMY. —The Lombardia gives • effective Mrength of the Italian army at 173,000 nal, ti:. , distributed Infantry : 52 regiments of the line, 2,600 strong, 135,200; 26 battalions of Beretgberi. 600 strong, 15,600. Cavalry : 16 regiments, each at . 0, men, 9,600 ; ssquadrons of Guides, at 160 men each, 'l'. Artillery : 32 batteries of Field Artillery, at 1:0.1 men is 4,200 ; 20cotn5es in garrison (and 2 in depot), at each, 2,800. neers :20 companies (and 2in 1. ". each 150 stron g, One tegument of workmen, To these must be added the train-corps, the military , missariat, the Royal Carabineers, and the training panies. _ _ _ LTILEADFUL DEATH ors LICENSED WWII" ALLYR On the sth inst. Mr. Vallack, the coroner for Derby, official inquiry into the death of Mr. William lord of the George the Fourth, Is , nnard.itrect, INI by M••• Hannah Brod Word, a neighbour, said she knew tle was in the habit of brewing for himself, and on W”loe- , ,l'• she knew he was going to " trash." About live ...vbs.'' , morning the daughter of the deceased called the wily— . mid her father had been nearly scalded d, up, ran to his house and found him in hie bedroom. ll* was scalded from head to foot., and blood WAS nmu i na f' his feet, the akin also peeling off. He told her that lar carrying a bag of malt on his shoulder, to put it int , th . ttlhs Wholl bf stepped g ren es i a o Jai nn the ...Au,. fell over into the boiling water. He lived till 14 • but retained his faculties to the last. Mr. If. T. tit • surgeon, said he was called to the deceased between 0; 7 o'clock on Wednesday morn ing . He was in great a.: and wan scalded all over. He had also swallowed s olo.. hot liquor, and was much scalded internally. Mr. W assistant applied all the remedies in his power, but ti.. . 1 ceased never rallied, and died about 1.2 o'elo , s. the coroner hist summed up, the jun - returied • " Accidental death."—Nortrng/tont .earn'.