The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-16 00:00:00

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TIM Rrinirrn, THR UMILTY MOTHRR. Mrs. t Yarn*ld. hy Mr. W I. ►ykln+nn aod Mr. C. Woodmmi.— YR MVSSELToR 3&1 IL Jacobs rd Um LIMO. Woookr.—And THERSia. Rim Z. Homer. IBM WATIII AT MOW WW 1& T Dal —Namara As. Nes .... Mawr" IL 17e. 1 *••••••/ —Mumis. ft •ft..... Ationissi o Th. Us LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 16. Axone the numberbus Societies for the relief of distress in this classic land of wealth and cha rity, there is one which from time to time only, and then almost by stealth, drops its sorrows into the ear of that ti uly catholic confessional—this pub lic press. It is not a Ragged School Society, nor a Reformatory Society, nor a shoeblackSociety,nor a tract Society, nor a church rate or church build ing Society, nor a Society for the defence of altar screens and high candlesticks, nor an evangelical Society, nor • missionary Society, nor a Society fur the relief of poor bishops, nor • Society for adding wings to episcopal poison. It is not a Society panelists' by Convocation, paraded at May meetings, or championed by tailitsast Archdeacons. Vet it is eminently a Church Society, and every penny it picks up 'nen stray Samaritans is honourably and unostentatiously disbursed among the working and suffering Levites of the Establishment. We defy any human being—though he wore the son in-law of a bishop—to read without a thickening in the throat the short and simple narratives which occasionally find their way into print through the modest agency of the Clerical Fund and Poor Clew Relief Society. How these things look through the medium of cassocks and lawn sleeves the lay imagination is powerless to conceive. But to our thinking, neither Groans Eucer, in these exquisitely pathetic "Scenes of Clerical Life," nor Ilexes; in his story of the country Core, hes presented anything more affecting than the true tale of his own personal experiences which • Country Curate sent some three weeks since to the secretary of this Society. We leave to the conscience of our clerical readers to deter mine whether his case can be safely pro nounced exceptional. Let us hope that in au age of enthusiastic zeal for the increase of Bishop', for the crectiim of churches, the preserva tion of " the fabric," and the promotion of sound principles of private judgment in matters of faith and architecture, that highly picturesque figure in the poet's village landscape, the pauper curate, may receive some consideration, if only from an artistic regard to proportion. The poignancy of this poor curate's letter is not so la in what it reveals as in the lifelong struggle which its very reticence be trays. Surely the most terrible stress of poverty is not thu poverty that begins and ends in rage, not the poverty of hooseless, penniless vagrants, for whom beggary has all the zest of a profession ; is it not rather the genteel, respectable, respensible poverty, bound to keep up appearances and to set an example of smiling contentnieut with that social order which it helps to hoW together in the capacity of a moral and spiritual police Is it not the poverty which accepts with a chastened gratitude the admonitions to unworldliness and self deuial which fall at fitting seasons from episcopal lips? Is it not the poverty of a curate, " nearly sixty years of age," whose income is " not very much shove 901. • " year," who, "to eke out his income," and to escape debt, is " compelled to have recourse to charity"t The Country Curate, whose letter we are taking as a text s is in solo charge of his parish, " the Rector being non-resident." Although he has not a large family (and in this particular, at least, his case is perhaps exceptional among country curates), " it is only," he says, " by tasking ingenuity and " economy to the utmost that we can get along " with anything like comfort and keep up ap " pearances." With an income of not very much above NO. per year, though " not a very large " family," anything like comfort seems a very calm end moderate phrase. Here is a gentleman of liberal education, obliged to wear a black coat and a white neckcloth daily, and to he looked up to by 'his parishioners as the highest product of civilization, who cannot belong to a book club, cannot call in a doctor in clue of illness, cannot drink a drop of wine, or even beer, for his stomach's sake, walnut ask • friend to stay with him, cannot give Ills wife and children • change of air, "on ae " count of the expense." Nor does he complain angrily or bitterly of these obscure privations. "Of course," ho writes, "we have to live spa " rings. 1 have even had to give up malt " liquor entirely--although, from advancing " years, and not very robust health at any time, " I shisuW have been glad of it. I feel the want "of it, but I cannot afford to pay for it. There " fore, Igo without." And this is not the wont. The Socii ty provides clothes as gifts to the poor clergy, The Country Curate testifies to the fact how aeeeptublu thesis gifts of clothes must be. For years he confesses to have been in the habit of buying secoud-hand clothes into : mite in some dis tant town. He has " dreaded the thought of " being accidentally discovered" by his neigh bours and parishioners in the act of buying a second-hand hat or pair of shoes. His own case is only one of many. He knows other unbolt,- ticed clergymen quite as badly off as himself ; bet the dread of publicity is so great among them that their next-door neighbours have no sus- • pirion of their wants and struggles. The parishioners would lose respect for the beet of curette if they ►new him to wear • second-hand hat and some unknown layman's cast-off shoes. So the Curate endures, in silence and secrcay, the aching shame of all these petty degradations. The Romanist will refuse to pity a married clergy, and will point with derision to the unexplained physiological fatality which makes poor curates predestined fathers of large families. Churchmen in high places and well to do may declare these miseries to be the fruits of unblessed extra-parochial seal. li rat the comio , ,n sense and sound feeling of the put lie will mule r aceept celibacy with all its vices as the alternative of pauperism with all its he- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1861. niiliations in the working clergy, nor lose sight of the fact that these poor curates " in sole charge " are found in the parishes most richly en dowed, "the rector, as in the present case, " being non-resident." The cause of these crying scandals would be patent enough if we could suppose that the Church of England was not so much the Church of the people of Eng land, as the vested interest of a close and powerful corporation. On the other hand, it may be pleaded that poverty is a primitive apostolical virtue, and that the, spectacle of a famished and bloodless curate is a sort of moral satisfaction to the poorer orders of society, and a quasi-justification of popu lar indigence ; just as the pomp and circumstance I of • spiritual hierarchy is a justification of the wealth and splendour of a lay aristocracy. We know not to what extent this logic may be more or less consciously prevalent in the public mind ; but we willingly concede that in all churches, as by law " established," the inequality and in justice of the social conditions around them are not unfaithfully represented. Tho interests of what is called the Church are something infinitely higher than the interests of tho poorer working clergy, who, however, are encouraged to believe and to teach that poverty on earth is an unde niable purport for the world to oome. WHIT-MONDAY AND THE VOLUNTEERS. We are requested to state that there will be a large pthering of Volunteer Corps, leader lend la Repst'►psrk, best Yowls) , (beteg Whit-Mondai ), at half-past four o'clock. Len' R.olst. k, Colonel Lindsay, Colonel Money, Colonel Colvtlle, Major Boupell, the lion. T. Bruce, and several other coinniaudiug utfieers, with the consent of their dif ferent corps, have preinieed to attend, and a sham-tight on • small scale will probably be organised. Further particulars will be publidied on Bstunlay. Any other corps that may feel inclined to take part in the preceedings is requested to communicate with one of the commanding orlioers ahovenained, who will (if neces ear)) at once make aminements with Lord Rauctigh for its iming attached to ear eat et the regular butlilions. et De etourt. The Prince Consort held a Levee, by desire of the Queen, yesterday afternoon, in St. James's Palace. Hi Royal Highness arrived at 2 o'clock, escorted by • detachment of the Royal Horse (bards from Buoiingham Palace, and was received by the Great Officers of State of her Majesty's liourelialgL The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Edward' ei ; Saxe Weimar were present at the Levee. The Prince Consort was attended at the Recnplion by the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Steward, and the offleers of the Queen's Household. The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were introduced in the throne room. The diplomatic circle was at. tended by the Turkish, French, Persian, Austrian, and Russian Ambassadors ; the Belgian, Bavarian, Greek, Netherlands, Portuguese, Prussian, Brad. ban, Saxon, Swedish and Norwegian, Spanish, and Danish Ministers ; the Italian Chargé d'Affaires, the Charge d'Affaires from Ecuador, the Assistant Secretary of the United States Legation ; the Duke of Newcastle, one of the Queen's principal Secretaries of State (officiating for Lord John Russell, Secretary fur Foreign Affairs), and Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Edward Gust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, was pre vented by indispositioa from attending the Levee. The general Mule was attended by most of her Majesty's Ministers. One hundred and eighty noblemen and gentlemen had the honour of being presented to the Prince Consort. Among them were the following : Mr. Ballot Brett, on bring appointed one of her Majesty's cot:noel, by the Lord Chmicellor. Major liencral 114.411 lirtiuke, on appointment to command the troops in the Windward sail Leeward llamas, by the Duke of Cambridge. Mr. Lewin Knight Bruce, by the Lord lattice Knight Brice. Como:ander John B>nit, on return from China, by the lion. Frederick Byrer Hr. ber 31ajesty's consul for St. Catherine's, by the Lord Chamberlain in the absence .4 Lord John nusselt. Lord Frederick Cavendish, by the Duke of Devonshire. Lord rhenium, on his marriage. by Lord Colville. Captain thieve, Cruikshank, by Viscount Huey. Dean .4 Gerry, on hi. promotion to the deanery, by the Sari of gt. Germans. Mr. ‘i Wiens Henry Devonlt, Mirk !Sheriff of Ilauspehlre, the Earl of Cameroun. Earl of Dude. Captaha *Award a. Vanxluore, R.N.. oa * Int ment as Cap fain Superintentkiit of Chatham Do e , by the Duke of Somerwl ••—•- - -• Lieutenant. Colonel A. If. ?Tease, en return troy service M Survtlor.tteneral 01 tleuth Australis. by the General Command- Inelu.rbtrf. . _ _ Mr. George Galt). High Sheriff of Sussex, by Viscount Sydney. Major Wilberforce Orealhed, C. 8., on appointment as mein tent inUltan secretary at headquarters, by the Duke of Cam bridge. The Marquis of Hastings, on appointtneat to MOOS Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, by Hari Uowe. Mr. Mermaid limes, on receiving a Patent of Precedence, by the Lord Chancoli or. Captain llomberston, M.P., by Field Marshal \rheostat Com. brewers., Lieutenant.heneral Knotty's, on his appointment as Viste•Pre. ',bleat to the \\match of Miltlary lueshon, by the Duke ut Cambridge. Lieutenant Knollys, by his father, Lieutenant-General Ktiollys. Adadral the Earl of Lauderdale, on sueerssling to hts title, by Lord Creroonie. The tarl of Lincoln. on hts marrlaire, by the Duke of Newmatle. Tart !Culver', by the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. John Markham. her Ilajestra vice -count itharatime, China, by the Karl of alithseelairy. . . . . . Mr..b;lon Memel, Mauls, on being appointed the Recorder of Leeds, by the Right Hun. SD G. C. Lewis, Mr George Mellish, on His being appointed ono of her Ma jesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chance Oar. Lieut.-Colonel Ilunrn. by Colonel frrancia Seymour. Colonel Luke &myth O'Connor, let West India Regiment, on re:timing from Africa and proceeding to command his Regiment In the West leaks, by the Deputy AdJutantellencraL The Right lion. Thome, O'llagan, on his appointment as Attoniey.General for Ireland, by the Right Hon. E. Cardwell. Mr. Francis Sandford, on appointment as seeretary to her Ma. Jext)'s Comnsisaloners for the Ifillibition of DP" by Awl Oran. title. Lord ModYs. ols succeeding to the title and receiving the royal permission to &acme the name of itantlys, by the Lord CLAM berlain. — YrTHold. lisssan SwaMeld, High Sheriff for Dorsetshire, by the Eight Hon. Sir G. C. Lewin Vice. Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, on appointment to the command at Plymouth, by the Duke of Somerset. lion. Wm. stout, on his return from Naples, by the Duke of Newcastle, in the absence of Lord John Russell Lord Thurlow, by Lord lieuuiker. 11r. Westuticott, ILA., by Earl Granville. klnjorGcncral Windham, on leave from India, by the Duke of Cambridge. Archdeacon WrSght. chaplain to the forces, on appointment to the sirchde.tconry of Columbia, by t h e Duke al Newcastle. Her Majesty, aoconipaided by the Princess Alice, Prin ce= Helena, l'rincess Louise, and Primer Beatrice, arrived at Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes before seven o'clock last evening from the White Lodge, Richmond-park. In attendance were Lady Caroline Barrington, Lieut..Ge newt! the Hon. C. tarry, and Colossi likklulph. After the Levee, the Prince Consort rode out on horse bock. Coasters* de Neuilly, with the Princess° de Joins villa, the Due tic Nemours, and the Comte de Paris, visited the Queen, at the White Lodge, yesterday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. COMIC wall Lewis, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Her bert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right lion. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Ablerley, the Right lion. C. P. Vil liers, and tLo Right Hun. Edward Cardwell. Her Majesty s Commissioners for the International &hi bijou far lArd held a meeting at their offices, in the Strand, yesterday. The Finns Committee held a meeting yes terday. Colonel Dealer had an ieterview with the Duke of New mall, yesterday. Mr. L. Maolinnoti had ALao an interview with his Gram, at the Colosial.ofike. Desmtehes were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governor of Canada. Tae Patties OF Ntt.t•».—His Royal Highness the Prioce of Wales has been solicited to attend the ioauguration of a new Mallory' Home at Oreatßiumouth, and has intimated in reply that if his prearnou would pro mote the welfare of the inatitutiou he would %not be un willing to go down, but he minuet consent to any public . . demonstration. The Prince bee also been applied to to ky the first ■tone of a new corn exchange about to be eroded at Bury St. Edmunds, but has replied that his other en moments will render it impossible for him to acept the invitation. His Royal Hihneaa the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Earl and Countess of Derby by his company at dinner yesterday, at their resident, in St James's-atuare. The royal duke, attended by Colonel the lion. 4611201 Mea dowsld, arrived shortly before eight o'clock. There were present to meet his royal highness the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the FAO and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Cownlanes Villiers, Hui and Couutess Spencer, Viecoent Oreterbury, Viscount Hiaohinbrooke, Viscount Holineedsle, Lord Stanley, Lord and Lady Raglan, Mr. and Lady Au puts Start, km. Covers were laid for twenty guests. The Countess of Derby, later in the evening, had a "recep tion," which was very fully &Mewled. The Countess of Asitbumbam gave her first ball last evening st, Ashburalum House, Dover•etroet. The Earl and Countess Spencer leave town to day for Althorp Park, Northampton, for a week or tan days, The Counteas Cowper had an aaamnbly last evening, at her resiateco is 81 Jounsa's-aquare. The Dowager Counts,es of Essex's dance is fixed for Woodsy, the 28th of May. The Dowager Viscountess Ashbrook has returned to the Burlington Hot.!, from Windsor. Lord and iady Charlta Brim cume to town to day, bum Tottenham Perk, Wits. Colo it sal Mrs. Henry Anuytage have left lows for YrWebbed. Mr& Arcedeckue's ball will take place on Friday, the 24th last. The Duke and Duchess of Rozborghe, accom panied by the Marquis of Bowmoot and Lady Charlotte lanes Km lAN, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, for the Mason. Lzvly Emily Foley has arrived at the Clarendon Rotel, Albemarle-street, for the is-mon. Mons. and Madame Oaaiwir Puriur have left the Clarendon Hotel, for Paris. We (Tins^o are happy to learn that the rumour which provided recently, of Mr. Waltlcirave's resignation of the ofgoe of private secretary to the Speaker, is incorrect. Mr. Waltlegrnve will continue in the Ake, the duties of which be discharges in a manner so satisfactory to the house and to the public. The Wok Amass of yesterday announces the death of Thomas F armer , Esi., who was one of the most annual • east supporters of the Wesleyan denomination. RA NIA ILITLK Fau 1:1(1111PITAL. —Thu number of patients treated at the Senoritas Free Hospital for Wnmea end Children . ArtilM111•0111". during tho w in k ma g i icy U, w 979, of wake 124 wen am sum LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. TURIN, MAT 16. Yesterday-a governmeal bill for a. line of railway from Naples to Ancona vas laid on the talSe the Chamber of Deputies. S a 'The Chamber then ,adjourned until SaturU went. On Monday Signor Ricciardi will put a question to the ministry with reference to certain events at Naples. TURIN, NAT 15. The Opinione of to-day says :—" M. Salamanca loft Turin this morning, after having signed a convention fur the construction of the Roman railways." NAPLES, MAY 15, 10.10 P.M. The National Guard of Naples fraternised with the army yesterday evening, and a grand dinner was given in the San Carlo Theatre. More than 9,000 persons were present. The Chevalier di Nigra will leave for Turin on Saturday next. It is generally believed here that the French garrison will soon quit Rome. The Bourbon party at Rome is preparing fresh expeditions to the Abruzzi. Naples and the provinces are quiet. NAPLES, NAT 16. At the banquet given by the National Guard to the army yesterday, Signor Toppulli proposed the health of the King of Italy, and of the army, &hi& was drunk with general enthusiasm. The Chevalier de Nigra and Signor Durand° replied to the toast. Much regret is expressed at the approaching departure of the Chevalier de Nigra. SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 15. There u no fear that tranquillity will be dis turbed in Africa. The Vortespotidencia Aufogrqfa of to-day says : " It is not true that England has diplomatically interfered in the question of Mormon" AUSTRIA AND RITSSLL PARIS, UAT 15. It is asserted that M. de Budberg will replace M. do Halahine as Ainbasandor of Russia at the Court of Vienna. • DENMARK. A letter from Berlin, of the 12th, says it is stated in diplomatic circles that Lord Palmerston has again proposed to the cabinet of Copenhagen his plan of 1848, for dividing Schleswig—the north part of the duchy to be incorporated in Denmark, and the south to be annexed to Holstein. It adds that the Danish government will not couseut to this arrangement, as it would deprive Denmark of the frontier of the Eider and of the Dannovirke. CIVIL CONTINGENCIES. A detailed statement was is..ilesl this Morning of the expenditure charged against the vote for Civil Con tingcncies in the you ended March 31, im;l. We extract a few particulars :—The special mission of the Earl of Elgin to (Ague eat 11,000/. ; the expenses of Lord Dufferin in Syria amount to 2,0001. ; the mission to Perim fur nego tiating the commercial treaty of Jan. 21, 10(60, and supple mental conventions, 5.1913. lls. 11d. Lord Bloomfield was allowed 2,5001. for " outfit " upon proceeding to VlOOO4 ; and Lord Napier the same sum upon proceeding to St. Pe tersburg. lir. C. Alison, minister in Persia, received 1.4001. for outlit ; Sir C. Wyke, minister in Mexico, 1,300/. ; Lord A. I.oftns, minister at Berlin, 1,000!. The entertainment of the Empress of Austria and suite on boanl the ()shore° cost 1161. 10s. 61.; the entertainment of the &rola/Isadore from Morocco entailed expenses amounting to 2,331/. 2s. td. ; and the reception of the Persian ambassador, 229/. 12s. 101. Among other items are the entertainment of the King of Mosquito and servant during passage between Bluefield. and Greytowo, on board her Majesty's ship Gorroe, 8/. Ms. ; conveyance of the Earl of Carlisle between Kingston and Holyhead, 1501. ; passage expenses of the Bishop of Newfoundland on returning from a visitation of Bermuda, 60/. ; passage expenses of the Bishop of Kingstown during • visitation of Bahamas and Turk's Island, 121/. 95. ; enter tainment of the Bi.hop of Bartadoes and suite on hoard her Majesty's ship Hydra, while on a tour of visita tion through his diocese, 541. lle. ; passage exp.:mica of the Bishop of Antigua during a visitation of his diocese, 371. Se. lid. ; entertainment of refugees from Nieman on board the Argos and Hannibal. 22!. Os. 3.1.; entertalumeut on board Her Majesty's ships llaunibal acid Janice Watt, of the craw of the steamer Orwell, in ocemequence of the seizures( that reveal by the followers of Cessna Garibaldi, 11/. 14e. ; passage allowance to the Bishop of Antigua, 100/. The Speaker's state carriage has been reraired at a cost of MV. 10e. ; as expense of 1,4151. 7s. lid. was incurred by erecting galleries in Hyde-par*, fur the volualeer review of June lad; 6001. was paid to Mr. H. B. Loch, upon his arrival in London with the convention put ting au end to hostilities in China, "living the usual present greeted on such an oocaaiou." 7,6731.7 a 101. has been paid to Pepple, ex-King of !loony, "in fall discharge of his claims upon her Majesty's government in respect of certain proceedings of British authorities on the African coast in conunuon with the slave trails." Tirr Co:moan-rum or TRA. —A parliamentary return issued this morning shows the quantity of tea annu• ally consumed in the United Kingdom, with the average rate i.n.l amount of duty collected thereon ; alto the average price, inclusive and exclurive of the duty, and the average inantity consumed by each individual of the PoPylotion frfromlBol to 1860 inclusive. Th e i ncrease i n the quantity consumed has been singularly steady, fluc tuating here and there, hut recovering the following yam, with • new impetus. We take the particulars at the commencement and the end of the period covered by the return. In 1801, when the average price per lb., inclusive of duty, was M. 20., the quantity of tea *Dimmed in t h e United Kioudnin was T. 1,730,1501134., aad the amount of dirty received thereon wee 1,123,068. In 18110 as many am 71%816,39411e. were concerned, the average price per lb., in. eluding duty, being Is. lOgd. The average quantity cos coned Ly each individual of the population was 2114 10oz. is 1840, and 111.. Boz. in 1801. The average rate of duty per lb. laid by the consumer wee Is. 2A. in 1801,and Is. sd. in 1860. INTECNATIONA L EXHIBITION OF 1862. —The gun make feud up to last night exceeded 400001., and further subscriptions to it are expeaterL The building for the Ex. liihitioe is proceeding most satisfactorily, and the demands for space by intending exhibitor' pour in daily to an extent far exieediug what was ever contemplated. Eolith:Mime have Leer: received by her Majesty's Commissioners from • number of foreign government, of the appointment of era. missiouers to represent the products of the respective coun tries. information ha...deo been received by her Majesty's Conimisdontre that local committees have been formed in the following towns .d the United Kingdom, to omelet in preparing work■ of industry for the Exhibition: Birming ham, Belfast, Bath, Gravesend, hlowciter, Hertford, Newark, Newerstle-ou-Tyne, Staffordshire Potteries, Steektoo-on-Tess, fiterford, alai Walsall. Intimation Las beer. received from nearly every town in the kingdom that it will be represented at tho Exhibition. Mr. Diliby Seymour, uu the 4th of nest month, propos*, to move, as an amendment to Mr. Whalley's motion on the Marnooth College Acta, after the words " consolidated fund," to inert " and also to consider the expediency of withdrawing all other stnte endowments and grants for ecclesiastical and religious purposes in Ireland." _ . . The Pneumatic Despatch Company are proceed ing rapidly with their trial works. The pneumatic pipes sad the greater portions of the machinery are on the ground and in coons of fixing, and the whole will be I. operation in about three weeks. The site selected for the expo:imolai eway i. on the bask of the river, closely ad joining the new railway linage at Chaise I, the temporary WM of the ground having been granted by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company and the London and Brixlitos Railway Company. The pipes are of the Leonel form, thirty Inches is height, and the length now in souse of erection is one-quarter .1 • mile. Al soon as their °po tation has been inspected by the pull,• they will In re moved, and pwrmatiently fixed between the General Post. °Mee and Bloomsbury. RZFRE.ENTATION or FLINTAHIRE.—The vacant wet caused by flie recent decease of the Hon. $ I. Modys is sot unlikely to he warmly contested. Lord Richard Cheroveaor, son of the Mminis of Wssiminister, is already is the field se a eatidelate in the liberal interest. while tie ormservstives. It elated, intend to put forwent Mr. Haden, of Kimmel Park, as the representative of the Melissa awl interests of that party in the minute. At the elective, however, the liberals were sufficiently strong to rehire a candidate of their own views, 111,4 there is little &OA of their wises should their opponents costars to prosnke a costae. The British chaplaincy at Wiesbaden has Neu conferred epee the Nay. James Gnus Wine, M.A.. of Ht. John's &G College, Oaftml. 'seemliest of All Heists, Ch ar d. stork. le the eese of Mahal:wry. The potato crop in the Channel Islands is a moat luxuriant one, and large expertatioes of new potatoes from those Wombe into this musky are eipected to otesemintos to about a wears time. FRANCE AND SYRIA. PARIS. MAT 15. The discussion on the petition in favour of the occupation of Syria was continued to-day in the Senate. M. Billault gave an historical outline of the events in Syria, and said that the almost powerless state of Turkey obliges the great powers to act with extreme circumspection. He mentioned the negotiations that preceded the occupation of Syria by French troops, which was prolonged until the sth of June, notwithstandirg some objections. England, he said, only consented to the prolongation on the express condition that it should be the last term. With regard to the or gauisatiou of Syria, the government has weighty reasons for supposing that the proposal to appoint a Christian chief only who would govern the whole population of Mount Lebanon has great chances of being adopted. The only thing to be done, there fore, is to execute the convention, and evacuate Syria on the sth of June. If the withdrawal of our troops has lamentable consequence'', cer tain persona have accepted a great responsi bility. Should blood be shed because our counsels have been misunderstood, we shall call Europe to witness to the immense responsibility it has in curred. (Sensation and applause.) It is not France who evacuates Syria; it is Europe. When France supports a cause of her own her acts are free, and she does not withdraw. (Marks of approba tion.) What will now be the conduct of the Emperor ? France will not forget her duty. The transports which are to bring back the troops will leave six vessels, which will cruise in the waters of Beyruut, and will be the terror of the mnnlerers. Eugland is aware of this, and associates herself with us. Her flag will Boat in the Levant side by side with ours and that of Russia. And then if necessity requires them, other measures will be taken. M. Billault read the circular of M. Thouvenel, dated May 3, ex plainiug the course which France will follow, and concluded by saying that France being freed from the mandate of Europe in regard to Syria, recovers all her individual liberty. Ho thou pro posed that the Senate should pass to the order of the day. (Great agitatiou.) The Marquis Larochejaquclin expressed his satisfaction at the miuisterial declaration, and said that he should vote for the order of the day. The order of the day was then adopted almost mmuimously, there being only two dissentient votes. AMERICA. NEW YORK, MAT 4. (Per (Sty of Washington, vii) Queenstown.) President Lincoln has Waned smother proclamation calling for 41,000 volunteers, 23,000 for the regular army sod 18,000 seamen. A deputation from Western Virginia has informed President Lincoln that Western Virginia would support the Union if the people were armed. The chartered steamer Atlantic has arrived. She reports having reinforced Fort Igtekens success fully, and without resistance on the part of the Secessionists. Baltimore is quiet. A report on Federal rela tions, very hostile to the Federal Government, has passed the Maryland Legislature. The majority of the committee aro reported to be Secessionists. The Governor of Missouri iu his message to the Legislature condemns the action of President Lin coln's administration. The steamer Northern Light has arrived from flan Francisco with 870,000 dollar's in specie. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter'a office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The Pere, from Southampton on the 4th of May, arrived at Malta on the 13th, at 4 p.m., and left at midnight for Alexandria. The Vet** from Merman on the 12th, reached Malta on the 14th, at 11 p.m., and left at 4 the next morning tor Alexandria. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. . . Mom Obey* amaseroxvirr.) • PARIS, WIMICSDAT EVENING. The (lobate in the Senate on the Syrian petition exldnded to such a lesgth yesterday that M. Bil lault war compelled to adjourn the ministerial ex- Phisations till to-day. .Y9st will not probably be abM s to find room for any report of the speeches ; and; indeed, the interest in them will be entirely merged in that of M. Billault. General de Ca& telbajac said that the opinion of the French Senate would be of immense weight both in France and Europe ; but I venture to think this a mistake, and that the honourable general would have done well to have stretched the modesty which he pro fesses individually so far as to include the Cham ber to which he belongs. In point of fact there is not a more insignificant body politic in the whole world than the French Senate. They represent nothing existing—nothing but the policy of the Emperor after the coup trit,tf, and which policy he has, happily for himself and the country, now re nounced as dangerous and unworkable. M. de Larochejaqueliu and the cardinals and fanatics who spoke against Prince Napoleon on the Roman ques tion were the speakers on this occasion, and their object now, as then, is to damage the Emperor by representing him as neglecting his duty as eldest sou of the church. They profess, indeed, to be animated by no feeling of opposition, and to prove this they blandly cite the Empe ror's own words when he first started the Syrian expedition. But this is a shallow device. They know very well that the Emperor did at ono time mean to remain in Syria, if not permanently, at least much longer than was stipu lated by the treaty, and they also know that the firmness of the other powers (and principally of England) has forced him to modify his intentions, and therefore they seek to plat* him in contradio lion with himself. Count Segue d'Aguesseau made a furious attack upon England, and talked about France drawing the sword. Nobody in Paris cares a farthing rushlight what the senators say, because they enjoy no consideration and possess no power. Bat M. Billault's speech, the substance of which you will have by telegraph before this letter, is looked forward to with intense interest. The reiterated assertions of the hidipcaddrice that negotiations are going on, and approach a conclusion, for the evacuation of Rome are again denied by the Pays and Patric. The first of these journals says roundly that the statements of the 'Belgian journal are " altogether unfounded," and that "the stutu quo is maintained at Rome." The language of the Pattie is, however, much weaker ; it merely says that the gaits quo is " provisionally " maintained—a fact quite consistent with the ex istence of negotiations for putting an end to it. The Opinion Nationale and Presle both say that the rumours of negotiations are "confirmed ;" but I am afraid the confirmation to which they allude rests only upon the paragraph of the independence, now contradicted by the semi-official journals. " It appears from authentic documents," says the Patrie, " that France now possesses 475 vessels, of which 349 are steam and 126 sailing. Among the steamers are 37 screw liners ; 6 screw iron cased frigates; 17 frigates, paddle-wheel and screw ; 47 corvettes, ditto; 126 steam advice boats, and 44 screw transports. Among the sailing vessels are 8 line-of-battle ships, 25 frigates, 13 corvettes, 21 brigs, 26 light vessels, and 33 trans ports." The journal adds :—" It is very long since our navy presented such an imposing ensemble." The Bourse, after opening well, became very much weaker. The Rente clo4ed at 69fr. 441 c. for cub, and 69fr. 63c. for the account, with a fall of 100. and 60. The fluctuation ranged from. 69fr. 75e. to 69fr. 59c. Mobilier fell sfr. Railways were about 2fr. 60c. lower. Several small houses at Lyons have stopped payment on account of the American crisis. Count de Nieuwerkerke is shortly going to Rome to take possession of the Campana Museum, which has just been purchased by the French government. The price paid for this esteemed collection was 3,700,000 fr. A theatre for operettas and ballets in about to be erected on the island on the lake of the Bois de Boulogne. I have seen a copy of the following letter from Garibaldi, addressed to the Polish General Micros lawski, which has not, I believe, yet been made public : Geode, May 4. My dear friend,—The great strug;le of the suppressed natioaalities is at hand, but no man can precisely foretell the hour. We must be always ready ! Therefore, say to your countrymen what I tell the Italians :—" Tho money iseocesary for • million of muskets must be had." The bravo Poles, who at the time of the Warsaw massacres showed that they knew how to sacrifice their lives for their country, will not shrink from devoting a tort of their in comes for the same cause. You, general, and your friends, are ready to give your lives for Italy—be assured that I sad my friends will do as much for Poland. To General Illernalawaiti. O. GARIBALDI. REVIEW BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. Os Tuesday the Emperor Napoleon reviewed near the racecourse, Buis de Boulo,;ne, the infantry, cavalry, and artillery of the Guard now in garriem 'in Paris and ►t Termitic,. nom troops were com p osed of the second division, commanded by General Girnou, consisting of • battalion of Foot Chasseuri, Ist, 2ial, 3rd, and 4th regiment, of Voltigeurs, a regiment of Lancers, two regiments of Horse Artillery, • division of Foot Artillery, and a detachment of Ponto•iers and Engineer'. The whole formed a magnificent body of troops of about 15,000 men. As the weather was most farm-- able, au immense concourse of spectators had assembled, and the number of carriages was unusually great. His Majesty arrived about four, with a brilliant staff, and accompanied by several officers, among whom wore three in Ensile:l uni forms. The Empress drove up almost immediately after in an open carriage, with the Pnneo Imperial by her side. His Imperial highness at once mounted his pony, and weut with the Emperor through tho make of the different regiment; amidst loud cheers. His Majesty, having distributed a number of crosses and military medals, returned with, the Prince, and placed himself near the Empress's carriage. The troops then filed off before their Majesties in admirable order, and as they marched from the ground proceeded to their quarters. THE LATE COUNT TELEILL —The report of the ymatmorfres cumin:Aim made in the case of Count Teleki has leen published. The brain was found to be much coo muted, and the appearance of the heart and other internal organs pee reason to suppose that the count must have endured great bodily suffering. THE INTHMUR or Sum—FORMIDABLE COLLEe now or WHCELBARROWD.—A traveller who is now villain the works of the Isthmus of Sues sash the Sae* the fol lowing details. dated El tinier, and instant :—" The central service of the supplies and the administration for all the points of the Isthmus is organised at Damietta. From 6,000 to 7.000 Arabs are now employed. There are upwards of 2,000 at Timsele, where the works are carried ma with an intelligent activity which must secure sure re sults. I was surprised to ass them masses of Dative work men using with the 'vastest facility all the French tools and improved nachisery. Courageous and persevering effort, were necemary to organise all those works, which aro carried on with the greatest order sad precision. The mummy advances towards its object and it will attain it. The materiel employed is immense. The wheelbarrows alone are more than 14,000 in number; there are steam saw mills; machiucry for cutting metal sod wood, hoepi tale, bakehouses, butchers' shop —in fact, nothing is wanting." AMERICA. (MOM • COEIRE8P01114117.) CHICAGO, Aram 28. Until within the last 48 hours it can hardly have been said " Washington is safe from the traitors." The evacuation of Fort Sumter by Major Ander son's force took place on April 13 ; and of course from that moment the sentence was for open war. Nine days after that date, on the 22nd instant, not more than 4,500 Northern men had made their way to Washington, of whom a large proportion were the militia of the district of Columbia (many of them at that time of questionable fidelity to the North) ; and it can scarcely be doqbted that it 10,000 Southern rebels had appeared before Wash ington any time between the 13th and the 23rd instant, the President and his cabinet must have fled, and the national archives and public buildings have fallen into Jeff. Davis's bands. From this disgrace wo have been providentially preserved, though I can hardly say that we owe it to the prompt activity of the North so much as to the lathes of the South. While I write there must be near 20,000 fighting Northern men at Washington ; the communication with the North through Chesapeake Bay, rid Annapolis, is opened, and there is plenty of force to keep it open, and, in proper time, to burst through the barrier which has been erected against the passage of Northern troops through Baltimore, and every one breathes freely once more. It would be vain to attempt to describe to you the agony which those days of terror and shame, finam Monday, the lbtli, to Monday, the 22nd, brought to every loyal Northern heart. As to the ultimate result of the struggle, no one who is not blinded by prejudice can pretend to have a doubt. The North has burst from sleep, and woe be to the puny rebels, misguided by their leaders and en feebled by whisky and a southern sun, who stand in the way of the hardy eons of New England But many a cheek flushed with shame, many an eye shot fire, as the thought came Lome during that memorable week that the national metropolis might fall into the hands of the rebels, and the loath some Goddess of Slavery might ride above the capitol. If the South bad followed up their suc cess at Fort Sumter by the capture of Washington it is not too much, for one who known this impas 'humble people, to say that, in all probability, for every mouth during which the struggle will now last, it would that' have Mated one year. Few people who witnessed the excitement of these last ten dive will ever forget their incidents. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago , and Cinoinnatti have gone mad with rage ; and I am constantly reminded of the saying of the late Lord Ellesmere, that if he were asked who were the most military people of the nations of the earth, he should say the United States. All party differ ences have melted away before the glow of patriot ism, and the North is now 19 millions of homoge neous freemen, borne along upon a current of enthusiasm, which is strangely characteristic of this American people, who, in their best exemplars, combine with the fire and glow of the Frenchman the stern and steady purpose of their Eng lish sires. Through every street and alley of these several towns, the eager volunteers are marching by thousands ; the stars and stripes float from every building • the fife and the drum give everywhere "dreadful note of preparation ;" and no one can fail to observe the ready alacrity with which men fresh from the plough and the loom acquire 'moldier-like precision and habits. You are familiar with the same paradox in England as regards your own voluuteers, and have seen how much more malleable as a soldier is the intelligent, self-relying, well-educated civilian than the Russian serf or the reluctant conscript. Certainly America will plead forcibly in favour of Garibaldi's theory, and against La Marmora's. Chicago, from which I now write, Ls aglow with • its own enthusiasm—not quite so intense as that of New York and Boston,tbe twin leaders of American sentiment, but not less uuiversal and deep-seated. Many towns will be injured and thrown back by the war ; but it seam to me that the same good fortune which has built up Chicago like Aladdin's palace will attend her during awl after the war, if she gets rid of her present incubus—viz., a most corrupt and unsound currency. Her two groat staples, grain and pork, have risen, and are likely to be in vast request during the war ; and when it is over her happy position will secure to her pre eminence over her present rivals, Cincinnati and St. Louis. The latter of these is in a slave state (Missouri) which has not yet seceded, but which seems saved (if saved at all) by the skin of its teeth • the former, Cincinnati, is on the .dividing line between slavery and free dom , and it seems likely that timid capital, scared by this fmeete, will take root farther from the border. The United States arsenal is likely to be moved from St. Loins to Chicago ; and the general senti ment of this city seems to be that the war will be to the State of Illinois what the Irish famine has been to the Emerald Isle. Three noticeable fed& seem to stand forth from the history of these last two weeks. Thu first is that the South, which appeared to be very wisely steered during the long vacillation which followed , Mr. Lincoln's installation, hue been wanting in energy or in resource since Fort Sumter fell into their hands. 1 have said that a bold dash at Washington could hardly have failed to be moms& ful before the 23rd inst. As matters now stand, the discomfiture of the South, whether it come soon or late, is inevitable, and, in my judgment, cannot long be averted, if the blockade of Southern ports is complete. Mysecond feet is that the government at Washington have, even now, hardly risen to a level with this momentous crisis. That the calm sagacity of General Scott, and the honest good sense of the President, will he vindicated in the end, I have no doubt ; hut it must not be forgotten that (deny it who may) Washington has only just escaped front a great danger. It would be easy to point out two or three other instances of short-sighted care !estate:es, snider a mum of which we are still smart ing. For mouths past Pleven states have been in open rebellion, and Virginia has covered her in tended treason under the thinnest disguise. Under such circumstances why was not the government areeual at Harper'm Ferry, in Virginia. denuded of its arms 1 Nothing but the apparently spontaneous action of au United States officer, named Captain Jones, has saved these arms (by their destruction) from falling into the rebels, hands. Ag ain , why were not preparations made for securing the United States vessels in Gosport Navy yard, and reinforcing Fort Monroe, directly the first gun was fired ? Fort Monroe is one of the most important fortresses in America. It com mands the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, and ad joins the navy yard at Gosport, in which nine or ten United States vessels, awl among them the famous frigate Merrimac, were riding. If these ships had been placed under the glum of the fort they might have been saved, aud every ship is at this moment very valuable to the government. They were scuttled in order to prevent their falling into Southern hands, and a terrible sacrifice of national property is the result. My thinl fact is of less width, but of great significame. It relates to the noble conduct of the State of Massachusetts. Before a single New York moan was in Washington, and when only a handful of Peunsylvauiana had arrived, a Massachusetts regiment forced its way through Baltimore, and brought its seasonable aid to the beleiguemd capital. Almost simultaneously, two Boston steamers landed 1,000 Massachusetts troops at Fort Monroe, amid secured that fortress against all fear of attack. Lastly, just as the re nowned 7th Regiment of New York (the first men from that state), were hovering off Annapolis, an other Massachusetts regiment joined then], and together they were strong enough to disembark, without molestation by the Maryland rebels. If the government is saved (and what lover of freedom tan doubt that she will be 1) it will be due less to its own sagacity than to the spontaneous uprising of a people in arms and to the prompt loyalty of Massachusetts. A Toulon letter says :—" The first-el:1m sailing brig Janus is now being fitted out bore to serve as a s of instruction for the young Alan of the squadron of evolutions. 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