The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-15 00:00:00

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Twing • bar ßoussßa—The NEW 00008 are now reedy, sod Gontiorta k. do Dot dad rice for • good pen of Veneer can depend on the best mated& et ItAICILTON tad mirrorck us. suss& swim 21 •Wr Ma' Tits Bills for the gistratioci of Chemists referred by the Howe we may take advantage -_ point whisk seems to have been altogether over looked in the House and by the promoters of both 11/11011011111. The Pharmaieutical Society and the United Chemists and Druggists are understood to exclude women from their examinations, and, though a oonsiderable proportion of the shops in the trade are kept by women, no provision is made in sitherßill for testing their qualifications. Parliament will ontainly not countenance any putting down of a respectable and wen-qualified class of trades people ; and doubtless,. all that is necessary is that the facts should be brought under the notice of the committee. According to the Census, about one-fourth of the women of Ragland who live by their industry live by the profile of shopkeeping end other enter pries' of that oleos ; and of these several hundreds are chemists and druggists. There oan be no oc cupation more appropriate for them, end there can be no reason whatever for excluding them from a business which, if it is suitable for them, must be advantageous to their neighbours. It must be by mere oversight that they are virtually excluded by the providona of both Bills, by no provision being made for their being tested and reglitered. Hitherto so many of the trade have practised without having passed an examination, that women have not felt much injured by their exclusion from that test ; but if henceforth no chemiands ist can follow the trade without having eed and registered, the hardship will be such as Parliament will surely refuse to inflict. It will not indi rectly deprive several hundreds of respectable tradeswomen of their occupation and mesas of living. As it will hardly be questioned that women are able to learn as much as it is necessary for chemist. and druggists to know, while their dispensing ability has never been questioned, all that is necessary is that, in the new measure, the examining body shall be required to admit to examination applicants of both sexes, without distinction. It is probably enough to point out what is wanted ; for the days are happily put when people of either sex can be pre vented by law, through jealousy or prejudioe,from opening shops and conducting trade according to their ability. In some branches of manufacture and art men play the tyrant still ; but, now that half a million of our countrywomen are conducting by their own industry establishments founded on their own capital, there can be no fear that the one class of chemists and druggists will be put down by law, if the Legislature can be timely put in mind of its duty. Cbe Court. r. -141:5 p05.a u 1 1 7811 . OrCeetcFl:epode • ge of the delay to notice, •AT ghe erpreoli. TO 00warc1rpxyrre. Amami:mei Intended tor " The Rome London by mast be at the Mc* IfeaveA ► atreM • by T. d i Zt on the day of publication. HAYMARKET. Oa Drew Monday, Even?, Mr. Bathers la the sew esesilion, THE WOMAN IN KAMM. Mx Blailkal SS 1111. =ka zi l Beellee—With (by desire) LORD DUNDRIARY AND DONE FOL. Mr. Belhera.—Aad WY BRAVING. LYCZITIL On laden Monday April It end daring the week NIMPOON AND CO. Yemen. lbw s and 301=1/1111 ML Zliworthy and Horsznan.—And MOUNTNISANK. Mr. n & reder sod Mader lechtar, Mr.Wkidleoinb ; Mins Loeherot. Nee. nick°. 11./TANNIA. Thu IVOIIII9, 111877.10N1C TAbLEAIJX. Illustrating the guadeat plays of Bitskunpenie aad other clandcal dramatlnta Grand Concert and caber Entertainments& Mews. A. Lloyd, W. Bandall, Proleseer Enka, tdpieß Wian &Covello,. to HIGH WATLZ AT LONDON-DIMS. 111:11 DAT Sarnia& IX I4m....Attersoolo. DAA. loagoziow Morals& AL Mat.....Aftersoce. SL. 140. LOIVDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 15. Tama is no possibility of mistaking the im port of the news from America brought by the Australasian. The great drama of which Virginia has so long been the scene is visibly reaching its catastrophe. The Army of Virginia, of which the Confederates were so justly proud, has been thoroughly beaten after three days of as fair fighting as any in the history of the war. It now appears that the battle of Friday, the 31st of March, of which we published intelligence on Thursday last, was the first of a series which was to decide the fate of Richmond. It will be remembered that on Wednesday, March 29, four days after the repulse of Lsit's assault upon the Federal lines, GRANT moved out of his entrenchments south of Petersburg to advance upon his adver saries' communications, intending apparently to reach and put the Southside Railroad, by which supplies reached Petersburg from Lynchburg. Bp his despatch, which we published two days ago, it appeared that on Friday, March 31, he was met by Lee, and that his left, with which he had hoped to lap round Las's right, was defeated and driven back upon the Boydton Plank Road. The day before, the Federal General SHZILIDAN had been defeated in an attempt to reach White Oak Road and get in Lza's rear. On Friday SHIRIDAN sustained • second defeat. Bat the tenacity of the Union General-in-Chief was superior to fortune. On Saturday, April 1, a new combination was made, by which SHERIDAN'S force was considerably strengthened, and a determined attack was made on Lsz's right. This movement was crowned with brilliant moons, LEE was signally defeated at Five Forks, his right being completely turned, and his position at Petersburg rendered untenable, while Rich. mond was placed in great periL On Sunday Guirr ordered an advance along the whole line. SHERIDAN moved forward and seized the South side Railroad, the object of so many fruitless attempts, tore up the rails, and captured a large number of prisoners, while in the direction of the north the Confederates were forced back into their entrenchments after • severe struggle. This result appears to have left General Liz no alternative, and in the evening he moved out of Richmond and Petersburg, after destroying the Confederate rams in the James River and the for tifications on its banks. On Monday morning early General WErnia, who was left in command of the Federal troops on the north bank of the James, entered and occupied Ricmond, capturing many cannon and a large num ber of locomotive engines and railway cars. La", being deprived of the Southside Rail road, retreated north of the Appomattox in the direction of Lynchburg, followed by Gamer, of whom, however, he seems to have got a good start. His line of retreat was strewn with ar tillery, ammunition, burned or charred waggons, caissons, and ambulances, and small arms without number, unmistakeable signs of the dispirited and disorganised condition of his army. At the dates of the latest advices Las had not been overtaken. Wilson's and Sutherland's stations, from which GRANT sends his two last despatches, are on the Southside Railroad, while Liz was apparently making for the Danville Railroad, be yond it, by which he might reach Lynchburg through Burkesville. SHERIDAN, however, with his cavalry, was in the neighbourhood of that The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have left station, and MEADE was following him with the town lot Battle Abbey. &Mai. After Raster their gnome object of intercepting the fugitives. will reside at the family mansion is SR Jams's-square. In battles such as these the losses on both The Karl and Countess of Wilton are expected to sides must be very heavy. The numbers of eer i es t. town me t, wai t wee k from E y e. L e g ge , Milton killed, wounded, and prisoners returned by corre- Kowtasy. spondents are mere guesses : the generals them- Captain Robert Williams, Comptroller to the selves do not at once know exactly the numbers Household of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, died on which irresponsible persons are so ready to give. I Weameodar M° ll 'in• Tae KIEO or ran Buoistrs.—Should the King General GRAM roughly letimatee the number at prisoners he has made at 12,000. He has, of ,of t on ot he a t e r T 2l : hellihneo permitibh: will I.7l'o:Worl'hiervicir, to course, taken an immense number of guns, all her melody, and : ill morn to Bru Zj ii. the works surrounding Petersburg and Richmond h T HE ORDER OF THE GARTER..—WHITEHALL, having fallen into his possession. The importance I arsu.lo.—Tbe Qmsa, as sovereign of the Most Noble of his groat victory, however, is not to be mea- , Order of the Geller. has been tre4lo•l l 7 Pleased by letters sursd in the ordinary statistical manner. He has I :l7: 4 "% r a h i e L u rcl i t h i ht ra :, Islgt,th i Ltral7 h ,.. 4 ll°. taken the capital of a Government ; he has shat- totem and regulations amity almond in rega r d to instals toted the largest, best, and last army of the tie s , 3. t d io , knight o( M: s un : id l most noble ordr, ian7 Gwrg•• Duke of Confederacy. General Liz may reach Lynch- in vested w ith th e m a w th ereo f, g e n pow„ so d aut hority burg, where his remaining supplies are, but to exelCise all right. std_tt,i!B,l_ll°_l4_6,4 ad bee ~ to • knight cannot maintain himself there, because his " * "4,P i r sad ‘L iph toemally in- communications will be wholly in the power 'tilled, say damn, rule, or usage to the contrary notwith• of his enemy. He will be fortunate if he dst —A severe can muster a third of the Army of Virginia we., t. " ttripetot in soothiNiteese.ABg7k. lt. B. Wing there. Besides his losses in killed, wounded, Sold-Baker, who was the liberal candidate in 1859, al and prisoners, he will be weakened im- againo yerreelheraillaZiatiatiti.nterßilattaTebe oonserlityieve:hare mensely by straggling. Thousands of soldiers members, tlr. T. W. Brunton, M.P., sad Kr. J. W. Parry who would scorn to desert will now take their yi" , s l i i.V323l 1111' ;! , retire, it will be remembered, at own view of the condition of affairs, and return `L a ' r . Z .D n deaso.sm.1,. aro sear easva.eing the else * with a satisfied conscience to their homes. It ton in the cosservative istareek and Sir T. B. Western, may even be doubted whether General Luz will the liberal cand llatr: Zu m ld i traTe .• large rosette g ed ull consent to lead his gallant men into another fi ght aohn „,,th,„„„ i nam i ,f„ Ha rw i ch, caw himself now that the hopelessness of the Confederate for Out baronet, bat will pro . bably solicit the suffrages el another constitusecy. On du that Mr. H. J. &Awls may canoe has been demonstrated even to Mr. Davis. possibly he induesi to ace Unveil as a eusreatiu ma &lsle he South Row THREE GREAT BATTLES. RICHMOND TAKEN BY GRANT. has beilk order to removed from W sllllDran w nuaumussm, . ----- organise the negro recruiting in Virginia. Gold 1501 COMMILIWILL INTELLIGENCE. 141 W YORK, Arm 5, Woos. Money abundant. Gold closed on Saturday at 154, and opened ou Monday at 149. It further declined to 146, but has sines recovered, being now quoted 148 f. Exchange on Lon don, 161. On Paris, 3.50 f. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 88f ; Illinois, 98 ; Erie, 58; 5.20 United Metes Bonds, 1081. Cotton heavy. Middling upland, 37. Flour heavy. Wheat very dull. Corn dulL Provisions slightly firmer. Coffee quiet, Sugar dull. Molasses steady. Petroleum quiet . crude, 330. ; refined, 52c. (From the Time cforrespoodset.) NEW v 09.14 Aram 4. Seely on Sunday morning Grant ordered a gene ral advance, while Sheridan continued to press upon the Confederate flank, and after desperate fighting, lasting throughout the day, they succeeded in breaking through the Confederate linsaLat dif ferent points, and seizing the South Side Railway- The Confederates then retired to their intrench manta immediately about St. Petersburg.iDuring the night they evacuated the city, though the movement was not discovered by Grant:until yes. terday morning, when he despatched thelbulk of his army in pursuit. At about the same time General Weitzel, com manding the troops left by General ,Ord to hold the Federal works north of the James, discovered that Richmond had also been evacuated, and at 8.15 announced to the War Department that he had occupied the city, capturing many cannon i and a large quantity of railway rolling stock. He also stated that the citizens received him with enthu siastic expressions of joy. A fire which broke out in the city was speedily extinguished. Non-official accounts state that the abandon. ment of the city commenced on the 26th, and that on Sunday night the Confederate rams on the James, and the fortifications on the banks of that river, were blown up. Grant reports this morning from Sutherland, 10 Imiles west of Petersburg, that him forces were I I occupied yesterday in collectingConfederatesoldiers, who, together with abandoned arms and other war materials, were scattered about the country. No trustworthy accounts of the losses in killed and wounded have yet been received, but they are stated to be very heavy on both aides, and include many general and staff officers. The Federals claim the capture of 12,000 prisoners. There have been great rejoicings throughout:the country in consequence of this success.' In this city the courts adjourned, and business was almost entirely suspended. Congratulatory meetings were held, church bells rung, and salutes fired in Wash ington ; the different departments of the Govern ment were closed, and the employs granted a holiday. Mr. Seward, Mr. Stanton, and Generallßatler addressed the crowds in the streets. The public buildings in Washington were illu minated last evening in celebration of the occupa tion of Richmond. Vice President Johnstone addressed a meeting, and agreed with the crowd that President Davis, if captured, ought to be hung twenty times higher than Haman. It is officially published that the national debt on the 31st of March amounted to 2,366,955,077 dole. The interest charge on the debt was 64,016,631 dole. in gold, and 38,819,899 doles in currency. Montreal despatches of yesterday report that the friends of the Confederate raiders threaten to attempt their rescue by force. Mr. Seward to-day issued a proclamation offering a reward of 1,000 dole. each for the arrest and conviction of persons who have entered the United States from countries where they are tolerated, and committed capital felonies against American citizens, and 500 doles reward for the conviction of residents of the United States who have acted and abetted the invaders. The proclamation is believed to be intended to apply particularly to the Con federate raiders in Canada. An association of negro.e have applied to the Controller of the Currency for authority to establish a Freed-man's National Bank. Aram 5, Noos.. Latest despatches from General Grant, at Wil son's Station, 25 miles west of Petersburg, yester day, report his forces still pushing forward with the hope of overtaking Lee, whom he believes to be north of the Appomattox, retiring towards Lynchburg. He states that nearly all the houses in the country have been turned into hospitals for Confederate wounded. He adds that he will con tinue the pursuit as long as there appears to be any use in it. (astrnes Tnzawi.) CANADA. MONTREAL, Aran. 4. _ - Considerable excitement has been caused here in consequence of a threatened attempt to rescue the St. Alban's raiders. It is said that a letter has been received from Mr. Seward, stating that, in view of the action of the Canadian government for conspiracy and bre►ch of neutrality, the United States will not proceed with the demand for the extradition of the raiders. Further proceedings will, it is stated, take place in Upper Canada, as the plots all originate there. The St. Alban's banks have received the money voted by the Canadian Parliament. ITALY. TURLN, Arm 15. The n Conte di Carour, of to-day, says :—" We learn that Signor Vegezzi, formerly Minister of Finance, has left for Rome, having been despatched on a mission." DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Arum 11. Yesterday the law throwing open the navigation of the Danish omits to those nations reciprocating 1 the concession received the royal sanction. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, AP= 14. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Navarre, from the Bemis, arrived here this morning. RIO DE 'TAMER°, MAWR 24. Exchange on London, 25f to 28 ; on nixie &67 to 3 . 73 . Coffee, good first, 6,000 to 6,700 reis. Shipments in fortnight 07,866 bags, of which 19,751 were for the Channel. Sales, 53,000 bags ; stock, 110,000 bags. Freights, 565., 00s. BASIL, Mann 29. Xxclionge on London, 26 to 94. Sow 1,900 to 2,500 rids. Cottons, 18,000. PRRNAMBIIOO, Ariu..l. Exchange on London, 24 to 24. Sugars: whites, 3,200 to 3,400 rein ; browns, 2,250 rein. Cotton 14,000 to 14,500 rein. The Oneida, with the outward mails, arrived at Pernambuco on the 27th March. RETREAT AND PURSUIT OF LEE. (sstrrsa's ricsoam.) The Royal Mail steamship Australasian, from New York on the sth inst., arrived at Queens town at 4.30 a.m. to-day (April 15), with 67 pas sengers. She landed 112 sacks of mails and three passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 4.40 a.m. All well. The Australasian experienced easterly winds ball way across the Atlantic. NEW YORK, * Aram 5, Noox. After three days bloody battle, Grant occupied Richmond and Petersburg on Monday morning. Lee retreated north of the Appomattox, in the direction of Lynchburg, closely pursued by Grant, who was capturing numbers of prisoners along the route. Correspondents estimate Lee's loss at 15,000 killed and wounded, 25,000 prisoners, and from 100 to 200 guns. Grant's losses are 7,000 men. Gold 1481 Official reports from General Grant to President Lincoln received on Sunday announced that severe and bloody fighting had been progressing around Richmond during Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. At noon on Monday it was officially announced that Petersburg had been evacuated, and that General Weitzel had occupied Richmond eatly that morning, finding the city in flames, which he was endeavouring to extinguish. During Sunday Sheridan had torn up the South side railroad, and captured three infantry brigades and several bat teries of artillery. Grant has roughly estimated that he captured during the battles 12,000 prisoners and 50 guns ; many guns were also found in Richmond. After the evacuation of Petersburg, and the capture of Richmond, Grant started towards the Danville-road, to cut off Lee's retreat. The latest despatches from Richmond are from Weitzel, of Tuesday's date, simply stating that large quantities of railroad stock have been found there. Early on Tuesday morning Grant telegraphed from Sutherland Station : "Ten miles from Petersburg, towards Burks ville, Sheridan has picked up 1,200 prisoners to-day, and 200 to 300 more have been picked up by my troops. The majority of the arms left in Lee's rear were scattered between Rich mond and where his troops are now lying. The retreat was marked with artillery ammunition, burned or charred waggons, caissons, and am bulances." Grant's latest despatches are dated Wilson's Station, Tuesday, and report that his army was pushing forward in the hope of overtaking or dis persing the remainder of Lee's army. Sheridan's ,cavalry, with the sth corps, waa be tween Wilson'al station and the Appomattox, General Meade following. All Lee's troops re taining anything 'like organization had gone north of the Appomattox, apparently heading for Lynch burg. The Confederate losses were very heavy. Stragglers were found in all directions. The pursuit had been so close, that the enemy bad probably destroyed the greater part of the transportation caissons and munitions of war. It waa.believed that the prisoners taken on Monday would exceed 2,000, and that from March 28 until now Grant's losses in killed, wounded, and captured, would not reach 7,000, of whom 1,500 to 2,000 were captured, many of them being slightly wounded. Grant would continue the pursuit as long as there appeared any use in doing so. Correspondents concur in stating that the turn ing point in the battles before Richmond was a bloody engagement at Five Forks on Saturday, which was won by Sheridan turning Lee's right, thus rendering his lines in front of Petersburg un- 1 tenable, and compelling the evacuation of Richmond.' Sheridan's attempt on Thursday to reach White Oak road and get in Lee's rear was unsuccessful. On Friday, Sheridan, although reinforced by War ren, was again driven back. On Saturday, Sheri dan assumed the command of Warren's as well as his own corps, and is said to have displayed great generalship, capturing, disabling, and rendering unavailable fully one-third of Lee's army. The attack along the whole line followed on Sun day, the Confederates being forced back from their entrenchments. Lee retreated during Sunday night. Before evacuating Richmond the Co nfederate blew up the forts and rams on the James river. Very little property was destroyed at Petersburg. During Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Lincoln was at City Point. He visited Petersburg on Monday, and is said to have been in Richmond yesterday, in Davis's house. Unprecedented enthusiasm prevails throughout the North. Sherman is at Goldsborougb. Johnston has made no demonstration since the battle of Benton ville. The Confederates are principally posted on the Goldsborongh and Raleigh Railroad between Smithfield and Raleigh. They are strongly forti fying Raleigh and Weldon. Some reports state that the Confederates are north of the river. They have an iron-clad ram in the Upper Roanoke River, which is expected shortly to move down to Plymouth into the Sound. The Federal cavalry, 20,000 strong, is reported to have reached Carling station 20 miles from Bristol on the 28th ult. It is reported from Lynchburg. on the 27th ult., that they had fallen back to Greenville. Stoneman's cavalry has occupied Boone, North Carolina. Canby arrived at Danby's Mills, 10 miles from Mobile, on the 23rd ult. Grainger's corps has moved by land from Navy Cove, and nearly reached Danby's Mills. An engagement between the monitors and shore batteries was believed to be progressing on the 23rd. Canby's cavalry was raiding near Mont gomery, Alabama. He had cat the Alabama and Florida Railroad. The citizens of Montgomery had been called to defend their city. A Federal transport, from Wilmington with troops and refugees, has been burned off Cape Hatteras. More than 500 persons were lost. The Confederates have captured the propellor Talnacent, and converted her into a privateer. She has since captured several schooners. General Ortega has arrived at Santa FIS, en route for Washiugton, to confer with the Federal govern ment on the present state of things in Mexico. Mr. Seward has made a speech at Washington, stating that, if the people approved :it, the policy of the United States after the war would be non interference in the domestic affairs of other eoun- WIMASOR CASTLE. Arm 14. The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, and Prisms Louise, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Bess of Windsor adminis tered the sacrament of the Holy COMMIIOiOO. The Bev. J. St. John Blunt, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, preached the sermon. To-day is the birthday of Prises= Beatrice. Her Majesty, scocirepanied by Primes' Helens, drove in the Great Park yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruns. Prince Alfred sad Princess Louise went out riding, attended by Lady Churchill, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Lieutenant Haig. The Hoe. Lucy Herr and the Hoe. Eleanor Stanley have succeeded the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hoe. Flamm Seymour as Maids of Honour in Waiting. ROYAL BIRTHDAY AT WINDSOR.-(THIS DAY.) This morning, aa the anniversary of the eighth birthday of her Wye Highness Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodora tell upon Good Friday, the celebration of the suspicious event was reserved till to-day, when the usual royal honours were paid. At au early hoer this morn ing, the bells of the Chapel Royal of Bt. George and the church of St. John, New Windsor, rang out merry peals, while a royal salute of 21 gum was fired from the artillery in the Long Walk, and duly answered from Forts Belvidere and the Royal Adelaide frigate at Virginia Water. The Prisons Beatrice is the ninth and youngest child of her Majesty and the late Prince Consort. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES. SLNDRINGHAN, Ann, 14. On Tuesday the Prince and Princems of Wales, I Wooded by t►e Countess de Grey and Major Grey, and so oompanied by Major-General Lord Piney, Lieutenant- Colonel the Hoo. and Mrs. Byng, and Viscount Hamilton, drove out in the neighbourhood of Sandringham. On Wednesday their royal highnesses, attended by the Countess do Grey and Major Grey, and accompanied by Earl de Grey, Viscount Goderich, Major4enesel Lord Henry Percy, Viscount Hamilton, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. H. end Mrs. Byag, drove from Sandringham to the neighbouring waterieg-pleos of Hunstanton. The royal party alighted at St. Edmunds, where a populous town is fast springing up, and viewed with considerable interest the lofty cliffs, which ere nearly 101 ft. high, and are very interesting to the geologiet. A visit wan also paid to the famous Ring teed Downs, formed by a long valley of beau tiful tuff, which wind, from Hnoenuston Park. The party returned to Sandringham in the retain. On Thursday their royal highnesses and party walked sod drove out. This tuning the Prince and Primus of Wales, attended by the Countess de Grey, lieutenant General Kindly; Major Grey, Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Hohmann, and aocom panied by Earl de Grey, Viscount Goderich. Major-General Lord Henry Percy, Viscount Hamilton, and Lieutenant- Colonel the Hoe. H. and Mrs. Byog, attended Divine ser vice at Sandringham Church. The Rev. G. B. Mum, E.A., rector, officiated and preached. - 1865. Micros Amos.) CANADA. QUEBEC), Noon IL It is finally settled that the ministerial mission to ,Inglend is to consist of the Hons. Nears. J. A. Macdonald, G. Z. Cartier, A. T. Galt, and George Brown. It is expected that they will sail by the steamer leaving Boston on the 12th pror.. The Quebec Pays recommends that Mums. Dorton and Merrier be sent to England as a depu tation from the Lower Canada minority in order to counteract the effort of the government delegates. The virtual failure of the Confederate project has placed the government in a position of difficulty. The purista and oorruptionists sunk for a time their long-cherished hatreds and party quarrels to usher in a millenium for Canada and rally round the newly-uplifted banner of " Federation." The ministry, now some nine months in office, were simply allowed to govern the country on sufferance ; the one grand object of the coalition being to bring about a new era for the whole of British North America► In this they have partially failed, sad now they are held together only by the slightest bonds, in which a rupture may occur at any moment. Indeed, there is s well-grounded rumour afloat that there already exist dissensions in the cabinet ; so that ere long the government of the province may again be brought to a " dead-look." When Mr. George Brown first joined the coalition be is understood to have stated that if the Confe derative union was not carried he would not con tinue in the administration. The country unquestionably is on the eve of a mighty change. Possibly everything will continue quiet until the ministerial delegates return from England, which will be about the middle of June. Much will then depend upon the report they will be enabled to make as to the disposition of England towards her Canadian colony. The late debate in the House of Commons and the explicit statements of Lord Palmerston have done some thing towards allaying those fears engendered by the general tone of the English press and the popular impression as to the aggressive intents of the neighbouring republic. The government of Nova Scotia, considering that the Federation project is seriously delayed, propose to proceed with certain railway works which had been placed in abeyance until the question of a Federative union was determined. A New Brunswick paper denies that Lieut. - Governor Gordon has applied for leave to resign ; and states that be took no unfriendly part in the great Confederation contest just terminated in that province. Some of the Royal Engineers have proceeded to Montreal to advise as to the fortifications. The inhabitants of Sherbrooke, in the Elate townships, have been collecting choice specimens of ores, woods, grain, flax, and sundry local produce and manufactures, to be forwarded to the forth coming Dublin International Exhibition. Similar efforts are making in other parts of the province. The Governor-General has authorised the forma tion of a drill association at Montreal, to be called "Lady Alexander Russell's Own Cadet Corps," to be composed of the pupils belonging to the English Cathedral SchooL The postal subsidy to the Grand Trunk Railway is to be largely increased. THE SUEZ CANAL MEETING. ALEXANDRIA, Aria 5. Alfred Christian, merchant and banker, Presi dent of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, arrived here to-day, and with other delegates from the various like chambers of Europe, were to assemble at the reaidenoe of M. Lampe in the afternoon, when they will be invited to a grand banquet at the Hotel Abbat for the following evening, preparatory to starting for Suez down the new canal, or rather the initiatory channel through which the two seas already flow, so as to allow boats to communicate between the Mediterranean and Bed Seas. At Cairo the delegates will be severally introduced by M. Lamps to hi,. Highness the Pacha of Egypt. THE MALTA AND ALEXANDRIA TELEGRAPH CABLE. MALTA, Arzn. 10. The Fanny Lambert., screw steamer, arrived here yesterday from Bengazi to relit, refuel, and take in a section of electric submarine cable to replace and repair that which is broken between Bengazi and Alexandria. During the time this steamer has been at sea on this second occasion she has experi enced such stress of weather that little success has attended her operations towards the reco very and repair of the broken cable, but we trust to see the same accomplished early in May. She brings back the telegraphic staff, composed of Messrs. Temple, Gibson, Saunders, Fryer, Toss, Stacy, Wiodle, and 12 labourers, be sides Mr. (*sines, of the Tripoli branch office. EFFECT OF THE AMERICAN NEWS AT LIVERPOOL. GREAT CONSTERNATION.-(THIS DAY. (n 'memo (nom ova ow' a The defeat of Lee and the capture of Richmond have caused general consternation in Liverpool. Th . . morning, although there is a holiday in the cotton market, it is believed that buyers can command theirown terms. As to the Confederate loan transac tions are niL The reported losses of Lee are by some believed to be exaggerated. Five-twenty United States Bonds are in great favour. A Quintal( or GUAIDIA/011111P.—The Hon Charles Leardaki preferred as applicalke yesterday to the board of guardians for the parish of Marylebone, at their ordinary eseettag, soliellivg that Wes illegitimate pr i x of the scoria Mary SandelA, who had died Is prism. might be delivered ewer to hie ewe in assord awe with the mother's wish, made Mows in the follow. bg doom:set :—" L Mary Sars ima las do hereby give autlio ray to the His. cud r e, of 5, Queseutreet, Mayfair, to take my three oh , Asa, William, am Mary liarsileld, out of the Marylebooe workhoses ; and I do hereby express my wish sad mulct that the said childree be give* lip to the said Hon. Charles Lands* to be brought up se he shall appall* in the Raman cads. • Leith, in which 1 hive lived, sad is whke lam doter re wed to die. - (Signed) A. Williamson, A. Fisteher, Mary fluslield ( h er nark). Xillbsek Musty Priem, Apeii 1, ' 1886." The boo. gentleman explaiaed that ft was his rah to place the eldest of the 'Andrea. who wes a girl 16 years of sv, in asivies, and to mead the other two to school who they would be educated is the religious faith of their mother. A dLeaeioa ensued, is which Mr. Burr, the chairman, Mr. Shaw. and Mr. Taverner took part It was urged that the gmedises were truster of the children became they were Kin. pianists, mid their mother had died is prism. A. the mother wee dead, it was not thought that any =at of hers relieved the board from its re its. The children were now at • mks! (Pre teshint), sod until they were 6t to earn Oak own breed, they ought eat to be given ap ; after that tine they eashl follow what religion they _ pleased. Os moral sad Isgal moeade the request should be denied ; Temally, bream Yr Sha w, who wail • leader in the argument, was dubious al the genaimsees of the decease% which be dieeol had been writhes: by • Rama catholic priest ; besides, Me dr mearel to it Isabel sElmewlY alike ; sod legally, became be thought such • guarillambUs iti tt be sser n t ai r s he estab lished by the mother for bar was sell s ad void in law. A moths wes pqatsadarrid nassigeowily that the request of Mr. lregdaM he refused. The hoe. pretkinae, on Miss galled before the board, and lahrmed of its ducitiogi =Premed his surprise at It, bat was told that the matter was settled, and pea argument. The Onondaga Indiana want to %spa up their fetal domain, mid Eyelike white peoples—Neto Tor k paper. 111Pittliti FROM PARIS (nos' on awl PARIS. Panne Ennis. The clerical party will, I think, derive small oou fort from M. Thiers' advoesey of the tempo% power. Throughout his wonderfully eloquent spe e d he betrayed the ocnisciousneas that be was plead 4 • lost cause. He seemed to have a malicious plea sure in proving to the satisfaction of an Ludic* not at all indisposed to agree with him, that g et Italian war was the dust of a series of false step ; terminating in the Convention of Sept. 15; b ut he did not venture to suggest that it was now dale able or possible to retrace those steps. Accor to him it was very unwise of France to set up It as a first-rate power, and he apprehends that se will one day join England or Germany, or perhap s both, in a war against France. But, although le. muting the destruction of the separate dates of Naples and Tuscany (he prudently said nothing sh e ' Modena), he does not recommend anything sowild an attempt to re-construct them. In his opus * Italian unity was • bad thing for Italy as well a for France; but he admits that the Italians ac e the best judges of what concerns their own interest, and that the beat men in Italy are unanimous is favour of unity. He would it were pomade s e form a close alliance with Austria ; but oely, es at least principally, because he fears the ne w struction of that dangerous alliance between h e three great northern powers which it wee th e object of the Crimean war to break up, and l e does not dream of restoring Austrian rule in Italx He bitterly regrets the convention, but fully sten that France is bound by it, and he repeatedly es. pressed his conviction that within eighteen wads the French army will certainly leave R ost He rididuled the idea of their go* back again after having once left, and std not even hint at the evasion of the convention fn. quently suggested—that of maintaining a na g French garrison at Civita Vecchia. Wlsen he French army goes, the Pope, M. Thiers grieve h think, will go into exile ; for be is firmly pomade( that the reconciliation between Italy and the P► pacy, which the French government pretends to to. Have it has laid the foundation for, will never !oh place. The Italians will be prudent, and not* prive themselves of the benefit of the *Ater d tie convention, which is clearly in their favour, by I. tacking Rome or exciting the Romans to rise he hellion. But when the French army and the Pegs shall have left the Eternal City, Victor le mound, quietly and without violence, e reign therein, and France will then have plied herself in such a position that it will be utterly ad of the question for her to undertake a second lisp of Rome—not this time against a handful of sr publicans, but against the numerous and well disciplined army of a great kingdom. All thee things M. Thiers thinks will surely happen, and hi whole speech, exquisitely worded and highly is tereating as it is, was but a chapter of lamentations that there is now no help for them ; for the feeble expression of a hope in his peroration that Prase would get out of the convention "if she could with honour," clearly implied that the speak. saw no honourable way out of it. M. Thim, while carefully guarding himself against bag supposed to hold any ultra-catholic views, be looking at the question merely as a heed statesman and a firm adherent to the ice trine established by the great revolatice that all forms of religious worship should be equal in the eye of the law, ingeniously argued that for the government wantonly to destroy the temp:eel power, or, having the means of saving it, to &Ike it to be destroyed without some very grave sad urgent reason, was to oppress the consciences d S 6 millions of French catholic., who believed lid the head of their church required to be • soveniga in order that he might direct the spiritual affair d that church with independence. He claimed so favour for catholios because of their being 1* immense majority in France, but that circumdake was assuredly no reason why they should enjoy lees liberty than members of other religions. " Humanly speaking"—and this proviso M. Thin said he was anxious to repeat a hundred times—the fate of the catholic church was in the hands of Francs; and although be was far from contending that it would, under all and any circumstances, be the duty of the French government to preserve sad perpetuate the Pope's temporal sovereignty ; when there was no danger or difficulty in prevent. tag it from dropping, and when, on the other band, there were many and serious reasons founded is justice and sound policy why it should be pow served, it was, be contended, religions persecution in effect, to let the Pope be placed in such • pans that he must quit Rome. He did not believe in tie possibility of a free church in • free state Oi any large scale. No government in Europe wadi ever let the church enjoy the immense Wain which the undisputed patronage of lonsbopeits and livings must ever confer. The come quence of destroying the temporal pome would be not that there would be • free church his free State, but that the church would be is*, power of the State. He bad known all the m& bishops of Paris in his time, and he had made an of them himself. He greatly respected them A but he should not have liked to have confided* any one of them the power in France now wielded by the Pope ; and his reason was that Notre Dm* was far too near to the Tuileries. The latter 5* ment is not devoid of force, but while it pits to the ueoesaity of snore liberty in France of 111 kinds, I cannot think it conclusive reason nlll the citizens of • great nation should to condemned for all time to bare their religions affairs managed by a foreign potentate —more ego sully when that potentate is the author et tad encyclical which K Thiess admits to be " retina I table," but which M. Emile 011ivier, in his ophillsi and (in many respects) admirable reply, said tons not regrettable in the sense of being issued Way and unadvisedly, but was a well-considered, berate defiance of modern Mesa, and a DOWN/ consequence of the position which the Papacy la . assumed. One argument of the adversaries of the tenpin power and the most cogent one of all, was not Ken by M. Thiers—viz., that, as a matter of fact, lin Pope's temporal power has long ceased to exid. M. Emile 011ivier greatly added to his reps' tation as an effective debater by answering on got spur of the moment, and very fully, N. Third carefully prepared oration. His speech is ad indeed comparable to that of M. Thien as • doer rogation, but it touches practically upon most ed de points raised by him. He powerfully repadiliai M. Thins' idea of an Arminian alliance, which ho said had, whenever adopted, brought midortselso upon France. 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