The Express. — London, England, 1865-03-02 00:00:00

IFEBOALT SERVICE& —Duriug the donna A./ .. v ./ 7 ... met, she boots of the National Lifeboat laelltation owed alperisons from different wrecks on our coasts. The lastttntion bag also expended Z 19,631 14c Id. in the same rWOip: lb Lifeboat establiabonesda, in additioa to growths/ an rewards for saving 618 shipwrecked mums by its wad east weans. The Committee of the lretitalloo tame* APPEAL to the pubdc for ASAISTANCT, to enema these to nest We continued heavy demand/ on the Inaidtntlon's jog Weit2eawshibilahmesta.. - Zootribistlons are received by Mears. WWi wad Co.. Berries .ad Co.. Coetts and Co., and by all the Loudon sad coenstr, beaker% sad by the Searetary, BA&lrd law* Ba., as the In statattee, 14, Johnetreet. Adelobt. OILN BROODEN. O - RIGINAL GOLD ORLIN MANDBAOTORY, CIOVENT-6ALNIN. rOHN BROODENS GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROOMS'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROODICNS G OLD ALBERT CHAIN& JOHNBROGDINIGIOLDBROOOHCHAINS. RRICCIEBERI we wait Supp er for you after W rwarasizsas. at WAIN . laU not. ght enirrox. TO 00112ISPONDIGNT9. 6dwilleoweate blooded for " The 'twee," London reentry =neat be at the Mee. 10. Botwarteatreet, by Two ow the day el publication. HAMAREHT. Ms HYMNING, FISH OUF OF WATER. Mr. Compton. DAVID GAIHICIL—L3ED DIINDRIARY MAIMED AND DONS FOIL Hawn. Sathorn, Staid, and lineknono Mao Snowdon.—And PRIM& Msavarnix. mi. Compton. retsouirs. TIM HYMN% HILLT-STLINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS. awl Till STALUTS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. Lay, /1. Mar. D. Many, I. Nebo,. N. 'wider, sad Maim Ms. E. Yin." Mime Bowie wed Gwynn.. LYCZOIL Tire Musk SIMPROVINDCO. Mr. Emery and Mu 110ADSIDA INN. Ram Yachter. Wlddlcomb. Rypatrfek. Giardina, Rayazood Mu." Elswodby. Add TWO IN THE SUSSING. Mosom. Wlddloomb and Emory. SMITANXIA. rum ZOMmos, TWINY MAW& —And LITTLE Busy BEE ; of, tbe Old LW of Tfuesdasolle-strast. Mesdames *Use aod leetbor Jacobs ; Mimed. tbst•rats Amtadmalls —Comoros at ballyast HIGH WAY= AT LONDOY•HkIDOL me — ma:QV & ad rha. a016.11110W Monathe, aL 1830......Aii1120011, en. I. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2. Ir is a fortunate thing for the world that if practice is rarely found associated with preaching, it is often to be discovered apart from it ; and though the magniloquent theories upon woman's mission seem fated to remain as barren of results as the kindred speculations upon woman's rights, we can still congratulate the gentler sex upon having shown by the most satisfactory process that this much abused expression has nevertheless a real meaning. In rural districts the simpler modes of life and the more intimate connexion of class with class have always kept alive the tradition of feminine usefulness, and amidst much that is fussy and ill-judged, the young ladies of the Rectory or the Hall have been a real power for good amongst the poor of their own neighbour- hood. It is scarcely wonderful, however, that when this unpretending machinery came to be trans planted to localities for which it was not adapted it should absolutely and hopelessly break down. Amidst the thronging crowds of our great cities poverty is apt to wear its most forbidding aspect, and the energy of individual effort grows faint before the hopeless spectacle of the evil with which it has to contend. In comparison of the great mass of human misery which Bea at our very feet, and surges upwards to our very doors, the benefit of isolated action seems so infini tesimal that the most sanguine temper might ahead be excused if it looked on with folded arms, or passed by with averted glance. Happily, however, the consciousness of weakness has been productive of better consequences. If the closed ranks of that vast army are unassail able by a mere guerilla warfare, there may be a better prospect of success for a combined and organized attack ; and of late years Englishwomen have given ample proof that they no longer regard their ministrations to the poor as something to be laid aside daring the London season and taken up again when they go out of town. We do not say that it would be anything wonderful if they did think so. Men are too much absorbed in the business of life to rail at women it they are equally absorbed in its pleasures. But we may still rejoice that so many of the latter have found it possible to satisfy the requirements of society without ignoring those of distress. We are not disposed, indeed, to magnify unduly the claims of the British father, and if this slightly in consistent personage is content to breakfast by himself five mornings in the week because his daughters have been dancing till four o'clock, it is difficult to see much ground for his irritation at being condemned to the same fate on the sixth because they have gone out early to the hospital. But we own to feeling greater sympathy with the needs of man in the abstract. There is always a latent danger that philanthropy, when viewed through the distorting medium of the feminine conscience, may take the form which SYDNEY Swan attributed to charity, and that A may do her duty to B by sacri ficing the happiness of C. It is true that C may be nothing more than a husband, a lover, or a friend, but for all that he has his rights, and it will probably be found that the pos sibility of female usefulness upon any adequate or extended scale will depend in the long run upon the recognition of this fact. The principle of association comes in very oppor tunely as a preservative against both the dangers we have mentioned. The sense of power which springs from a common effort will be the best anti dote to that restless individualism which wears its heart out in trying to do everything, or sits down in despairing acquiescence, and makes up its mind to do nothing ; while the knowledge and fore thought which are the natural acoompaninunds of combined and organized labour will be able to find scope for the unequal powers and varying oppor tunities of many different workers. The hour or two in the week, which may be all that a young lady has to spare from her or dinary pursuits, will be turned to the best possible account, when the employment of them is regu lated by the arrangements of a general scheme ; whereas, if she had been left without guidance in their distribution, her self-sacrifice would have been absolutely thrown away. It is encouraging, therefore, to read the list of agencies of this de scription which the Bishop of LONDON was able to enumerate in his address to the "Ladies' Diocesan " Association "on Monday. Homes, hospitals, refuges, orphanages—are all so many oppor tunities of utilizing the desultory efforts which by themselves would have been probably destitute of any result, so many ways of ' combining into one great mosaic of good deeds the' fragments of time or labour from which, in default of such a process, it would have seemed hopeless to look for any solid good. But there are two objects among the many which the Bishop commended to the Association which seem deserving of especial notice. It has become almost a common-pines to praise the enlightened charity which has filled the wards of our great hospitals with the sick poor, and turned to the benefit of the inmates lahrir all the But we are apt to forget -- centage of these patients are neoessarty charged as incurable, in order to make way for others upon whom the physician's care nay be bestowed to better purpose. It is hard to imagine a position of greater misery than that of the sufferer who has to return in this way to the home which be left a few weeks before in all the excitement of anticipated recovery. The certainty of irremediable disease is at best a poor exchange for the prospect of restoration to health, and the loss of the comforts of a hospital will be all the more keenly felt when it coincides with the loss of all hope of being ever in a condition to dis regard them. In this direction, therefore, there may be room for e most beneficial extension of the system of hospital visiting. The care which soothes the weary hours of the in-patient will be all the more appreciated when it follows him to his home, and appears no longer as a mere auxiliary agency, but as the solitary representative of the care and attention he has left behind. Press ing, however, as such a necessity is, there is another form of misery of which the de maim F'' 1011 ids are, if possible, more clamorous. The sufferer we have been speaking of is at least at home ; and at home, even in the greatest depth of poverty, there will hardly be wanting a certain rough and untutored sympathy. But the inmate of a workhouse infirmary has but small chance of obtaining even this. He has no thing to look forward to but the perfunctory attendance of • pauper nurse, or the occasional passage of an overworked Union doctor. In his case, therefore, beyond almost any other, there is a call for a woman's compassion, and need for a woman's tenderness. It is impossible to overrate the softening and humanizing in fluence which might be exercised by a discreet and regular system of workhouse visitation ; and though its introduction would hardly, at least at first, be popular with the guardians of the poor, they would hardly be able to resist it if it were pressed upon them with sufficient organization, unanimity, and persistence, except at the cost of an admission that there was something in their pauper treatment which they preferred to keep in the dark. !Mt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Maack' L The Queen, with the Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Primes &Maim, arrived at Windsor Castle yesterday at half•psst 6 cieloek p.m., from Buckingham Patios. The Marchioness of Ely, Ledy Caroline Essington, Lady Augusta Stanley. the Hon. Corollas Cavendish, the Han• Flom Macdonald, Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, sad Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps were in attenclanos. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Primus Bastsim, went ant walk* this morning, attended by lady Augusta Stanley. Frios, Leopold, attended by Mx. Bar, arrived at the Castle from Bankingkeia Palace. The Duthie' of Bo:burghs has relieved the Marchioner st Ely in her duties as Lady in waiting. Lord Talbot de Mabihide and Captain Sir W. Hosts have eneoseded Lard Methuen and Lieut.-Colonel Kingsoote. as Lord and GIVOIS in waiting. The Prises of Wales rode ea bareback yesterday attar none, attended by Liettt.-Oolonel Koppel. The Prism, of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by tits Hon. Mrs. Brute. The Hoo. Mn. Bruce has succeeded the Hon. Mrs. Stator as Lady in waiting to the Primate at Wales. Lieut.-Colonel Koppel has succeeded Major Teesdale as Equerry in waiting to the Prince of Wales. A deputation of errantly tankers, consisting of the Hon. Alexander L Melville (LimoßO. Mr. Vase, (ftuntbiiidea), Mr. CoMeld, M.P. (Ipswieh), Mr. Paget (Leicester), Mr. Tweedy (Truro), and Mr. Cobb (Hall), had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Conseil resumed its sittings yesterday in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were Lord Kingedowe, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Tomer, Air James Colville, and Sir Law moos Peel. Despatcher were sent from th e Colonial-office yesterday _ _ . to the Governors of the Wont India Islands and British Columbia. It is stated that the Queen will hold another Court on the 13th inst. at Buckingham Paws, which will be limited to the English nobility and a select few en joying her Majesty's intimate friendship. DIJWITURE OF Panics ARTHUR FOE THE HOLY LAND.—Hie Royal Highness Prism Arthur, third eon at her Majesty, left Ragland yesterday ow a three mouths' tour in the Holy hand. The Prince loft the Londoe-bridge terminus of the South Eastern Railway at half-past 10 tam., accompanied by Major Elphinstone, Dr. Jolly, and other members of his elute; and travelled by the special tidal train to Folkestone. His royal highness arrived at Boulogne about 3 o'clock, and would break his journey by sleeping at Amiens. To-day he proceeds to Paris, and thence he will go to Marseilles, where the Enchantress has bean ordered to meet his royal highness, and convey him to Malta. The Prince will first touch the Rasters lands at Egypt, and will theme go over la great part of the route taken three years lime by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Her Roya l Highness the Princess Mary of; Cam bridge is esperted to arrive at St. James's Palms to-mor row, from a lengthened visit to their Royal Righomme the Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strolls at *Unlit& The Marquis and Marckioneee of Bristol have arrived ie Paris Iron London, on their way to Pan. The Earl of Bradford is much better, and is now stated to be out of danger. The noble earl is staying at hie mat, Westmlimrk, Shiffail, Staffordshire. The Earl and Countess Russell had a dinner party yesterday evening at their residence in Claeshean. plan. Among the company were Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount and Vimountess Amber ley, Lady Theresa Lavin sad Mir Lister, Captain Colin Campbell, R.N., Mr. Adams, Mr. Arthur Rural, Mr. Stopford, Mr. Fonblaaque, Mr. Panizsi, Mr. Forster, Ito. A marriage is arranged between Lady Adelaide FaOdin', daughter el the Berl of Denbigh, and Mr. Chas. Murray, nephew of the Berl el Mansfield. - . A marriage is to take place between Lady Mary Lamellae, sister to the Feat of Halewood, and the Hou. Robert Meade, second son to the Earl of Clan williern, aed Equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; also between the Hon. Alias Pitt, fourth daughter of Lord and Lady Rivers, and Captain Arbuthnott ; and between Ydlla d'&reo and Sir J. D. Acton, 3LP., eon of the late Lady Granville. The Earl and Countess of Minto have arrived at the Hotel Hirabsair, at Paris, on their return from Italy. The Oro/ states that the celebrated Eland diamond has been purchased by Mesas. Canard, of the Haymarket, foe Sir Jamsethe Jehehhoy, of Bombay, for 20,000/. The historical interest attached to tisk hone is remarkable, and quite authentic. It formerly belonged to Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, then passed into the poseersion of the Sand family, from when it took its same, ultimately became one of the crown jewels of Fran.., was worn at the corona. Hoes of Louis XIV. and XV., and was stolen at the seek of the Tuileries is 1789 ; it then passed to the Quer of Ferdinand VIL, of Spain, who gave it to Godoy, Prises& h Pair, and from him was transferred to the Demidoff family, Be last powesssors. Mr. J. F. Maguire, M.P., author of "Rowe and Ur Ruler," and " Fatima Mathew, a Biography," is stated to be engaged in the generation of a biographical memoir of the late Cardinal Wiliam& M. Plon, the Emperor's printer, hoe issued • notiee that the first volume of the •• Hietaire de del. Cow," which was to appear yesterday at Paris, °inset be published until the early pert el seat week, the 0010021101 maps which socompeny the work sot being yet reedy. The series of concerts •t the Tuileries will com. memos on Monday evening next. The moat eminent artiste of the Graad Open, the Italians, the Opera Camino*, sod the Theatre Lyrique will be bawd in turns at these mueicel Mee, which will be coetioned to the eod of Lest. LA I U$ THE AMERICAN MAL '6- Alt‘ The New York lierald of the 18tb ult. thus com ments upon the latest news of Getieral Sherman : Branchvine wee captured on the Itch tut, by Sherman's forces, after three days' hard fighting. A courier from our army reaolted Snitkettle on the 12tb, sad communicated the news of the victory to Admiral Porter. The Rsohmoad papers to the 15th make no mention of the battle, but raj port Branchville evacuated. The rebel war department probably purposely withheld the unwelcome intelligence of the diameter from the public. This sautes of General Sherman is of great importanee, and the rebels know it well. "If Sherman takes Branch ville," says the Richmond Examiner, " he cuts our great railad artery, and General Lee will have to gather Me mapping from other quarters than the rich storehouses at south•western Georgia ;" and on the same day on which this statement was printed In Richmond the Sentinel of that city—the Davis organ—announced that Branchville had fallen into our hands, and that Sherman wee already 17 "glee north of it. Thus two more of the delusions im posed upon the Southern people are done with. They bad been told only the day before that Sherman would find a " lion in his path," and would be met by Beuregard with the army that was lately in front of Nash. villa, under Hood. But the Sentinel declares that BIM. regard sad his army were absent, and that it was impos sible to light for the poseration of the most important point in South Carolina or even to attempt it. The ',seminar hinted some days ago as other means of communication with Georgia besides that by the "greet railroad artery," and now it admit' that there is no each other comm/nicer tion at all, and that Georgia and Richmud are hopelessly separated. Branchville is a central point between Columbia, Augusta, and Charleston. Columbia bee probably been raptured ere this, rendering more complete the destruction of the enemy's lines of communication. By the articles extracted from the North Carolina and South Carolina paper we see what will be the probable effect on the political situation of Sherman's march through the latter State. We see that it will develop a more dis tinct and positive Union sentiment than even his march through Georgia did. The Raleigh Progress contrast, his army with the Southern armies, and says it is not " a loose mob, prowling on the country to oppress friend as wall as foe," but is, on the contrary, "an army of discipline, vigour, action." It sus Roth's": to prevent the junction of Sherman and Terry at Raleigh and their permanent lodgment there. It thinks that the rebel legislature ss in its last session, and that when Sherman comes the legislators will run away ; bet " the people will atey where they are," and make the beet of it, as the people did in Savannah. South Carolina goes even further. It is declared that the people of that state " want the beet peace they can get, and want it now." Even the Charleston Mercury believes that a majority of the people of South Carolina " would jump at peace, with reacesstroation." Evidently the rebel rhodomoutade is pretty well ran out, and the end is Dear. GENERAL LEE'S LAST APPEAL (Prom the RicAmond Dispatch, Feb. 15.) We invoke all good citizens, wherever it is in their power, to place before deserters and absentees from the army the last appeal that General Lee will ever make to them to return to their duty and resume their place under the flag. It well be seen that a full and free parka ia now offered to all who will come back within the spe cified time, but that thenceforth no pardon' will be granted either to those who refuse the present offer or to those who are hereafter guilty of desertion. We are sure that General Lee must deeply deplore the noose sity of snob determination. No man has a kinder and more benevolent heart; no official, civil or military, has a more honest and profound sympathy with the private soldier. He feels their sufferings as his own ; and they are well aware of the fact. Indeed, his (tenderness to those andel his command has been regarded by some as the only defect in his military character. For our part we honour him for it ; but when such a man feels the necessity of pro claiming that, if the present offer of executive clemency is not regarded, there will be no more pardons hereafter, we feel assured that he means all that he says, and that he will be as inflexible in the execution of his duty as he is humane and merciful in seeking to avoid the terrible necessity. We therefore earnestly entreat all the class whom he oddness to avail themselves of this last offer of pardon, and to return to the standards which they once illus trated by their valor, and to the comrades who are ready to welcome them once more to their Bide. The most die contented must now see that Lincoln is only aiming at the complete subjugation and ruin of their native land ; at the elevation of the negro to an equality with them selves, and compelling them to fight longer and more dreadful wars spinet France and England than they will ever be called upon to fight under the Confederate flag. No one pretends to deny or to doubt, no Yankee hesitates to avow that, as soon as the United States succeed in putting down " the rebellion," they will drive Francs from Mexico and England from Canada. The troops for that purpose will be drawn from the conquered South ; sad unless the deserters expect to pass their lives in a encosseful escape from military duty they will be famed into the front of this battle. Their only hope as indivi duals in that of their country—in a triumph and resistance to Northern despotism. There is no safety for any man except in the path of duty. We invoke the deserters and absentees to listen to their beloved commander, and hasten to retrieve their own honour and the flag of their country. Let them come back at once, and, with the blessing of God, our independence is secured. ROME. DEPUTATION OF FOREIGN ROMAN CATHOLICS TO THE POPE. An address of foreign mitholics to the Pope was presented on the morning of the 25th ult., very few English being present. The assemblage consisted principally of French, Belgians, Italians, and a sprinkling from other countries, in all numbering about 80. Count Almeida, a relative of the Duke of Saldanba, acted as whipper-in. As each person arrived he was requested to write his name on a sheet of paper, though it had been agreed that the address should not be signed, except probably by the president, Lord Stafford. Lord Stafford read the address, which was in French, though the Duke de Caraman and other French gentlemen were present, and the Pope replied in Italian, in a speech of a conciliatory character, and in a clear and dis tinct voice. The assembly after receiving the Papal benediction visited Cardinal Antonelli The following passages occur in the address : We contemplate in your august person the double ma jesty of Pontiff and of King. We venerate this temporal power, eoneecrated by Divine Providence, and which in its weakness is yet more venerable and stronger than all the powers of the earth surrounded by form. . . . . Bat raising our eyes to this spiritual authority so gloriously monied during 20 years by your Holiness, we thank the Divine Founder of the obumb for having constituted in this imperishable chair the souroe of instruction sod the bond of unity. At this moment, above all, when still resound in our MS the accents of the ever memorable Encyclical in which your Holiness, enlightened from or high, has am. I damned collectively the errors of these times, measuring at ono* the extent of the evil and the opportuneness of the remedy . . . to your awed word entire catholicity submits with complete devotion. The Pops replied, according to the recollection of one who was present, in the following terms " Jerus, before his death, offered up a prayer to heaven and addressed his diedpLy enjoining them to remain nailed in the faith. . This has been verified and proved by the demon 'Walden of today, as those assembled represent all the different parte of the globe. Let them remain staunch and united in the faith, and exercise charity--not only that which is usually understood as cherity--kindoess towards others, or philosophical charity, bat tree charity." His Holiness repeatedly mid that the temporal independence of the Pope wee absolutely necessary to the free exercise ci his spirituel power, es this must bo preserved from the strifes of the ambitions of the earth. When inculcating the duty of charity be added : " We have been attacked meet vehemently, but those who anathematise tts we will Ulm; those who vituperate us we will pardon, cad p ra y est the Holy Spirit may illuminate them and teeth them whet is right." he. Several times while the Pope gave his benedic tion the people knelt down. He spoke fluently and f fir,‘ irtrfxm .t MARI - With ok fine voi ti o, accent, appeared to be * • good heathy evidently tired of the Si& foot and hand kissing of the 80 persons present. Among the foreigners present were the Prince Bohenlohe, the Duc de Regina, Chamberlain of the ez-King of Naples, the Due de Caraman, the Mar quis de Rostanig, Count Almeida, M. Beauval of Beaulieu, and Liszt, of course. Among the English were Lord Stafford, Messrs. Langdale, Murphy, Chichester (Captain), Joyce, Fitzherbert, Leigh, Ryder, Palmer, Weld, Selby, &c. Lard Van, and his son, Sir John Acton, and many other English catholics no* in Rome, were not present, " being," writes the correspondent of the Times, " strongly opposed to the spirit and letter of the address." THE REPORTED LOBB OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP GALATEA. We learn on inquiry at the Admiralty that no information has been received there of the reported loss of her Majesty's frigate Galatea off Cape Henry, on the coast of North America, beyond a report received at Lloyd's, w►ere it is not believed. Should any further intelligence be received it will be immediately made public. (ulna's LIVERPOOL, Kama 2. The reported lose of her Majesty's ship Galatea is doubtless unfounded, since private letters, from Norfolk, of the 11th and 12th ult., say she was still in the Roads, where she would be perfectly secure. Papers say, however, that two barges tilled with men belong ing to the Galatea were sent on the 12th tilt, to rescue a boat which had broken adrift from the frigate with one man in it. The barges were carried by the storm on to the beach at Cape Henry, and it is supposed that all hands perished. A steam tug was sent to their assistance, but was compelled to put back by a storm. This doubtless accounts for the rumoured loss of the frigate. RESIGNATION OF THE PORTUGUESE MINISTRY. LISBON, Msace 1. The Duke de Louie and the other ministers have resigned. The Marquis of Sada Bandiera has been charged by the King with the formation of a new ministry, which is not yet formally constituted. MEXICO. PARIS, MARCH 2. Official despatches received here from Mexico announce that General Bazaine has completed the investment of Ojaca. It is expected that the army of Porfirio Diaz will not be able to escape. THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH TO INDIA. OONSTANTINOPLE, Fat. 27.• The New Overland Indian Telegraph line is now officially open. Messages have been received from Calcutta in twelve hours. The Marquis de Moustier, the French Ambassa dor, is leaving Constantinople, to be succeeded by M. Benedetti. • This telegram did not roach London until the tad imt. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, 11Auce 1., The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Oneida has arrived here from the Brazils, and will leave for Southampton this morning with 52 pas sengers, 2,3451. in specie, 985 bales of cotton, 562 rolls of tobacco, 589 bags of coffee, and 185 pack ages of sundries. The Oneida experienced strong north-east winds and heavy head sea from St. Vincent (Cape Verde). The Parana was at that inland on the 20th February, with the outward mail of the 9th February. RIO JANEIRO, JAN. 28. (By Tologyaph from Ligon.) Exchange on London, 25i, 26. Coffee good first, 6,600 reis to 6,700 rein. SLipmenta aince the departure of the last steamer, 74,326 bags, including 22,800 for the Channel. Sales, 71,200 bags. Stock, 80,000. Freight, ISO& Exchange on London, 26. Sugar, 2,000 ; white, 2,000. BAHIA. Fs. 13. Cotton, 22,500 rein. PERNAMBUCO, Fn. 1& Exchange on London, 27, 97!. Sugar, 3,000 brown, 1,900. Cotton, 22,000. The Bearn arrived here on the 13th inst. SENATOR FOOTE IN ENGLAND. This gentleman has Maned an address, dated •' Goldes:arose Hotel, the Strand, London, Feb. U, 1866,' to " the sovereign people of the Stated Tennessee," in which he enters into a statement of the reasons which led him to disconnect himself from the Legiolative Ootineih of the Confederate States, and to seek refuge in England. Three months ago," he says, " owing mainly to the grime and undeniable mismanagement of the military and civil tioncorns of the Confederate Staten by Hr. Davis and his cabinet emaciates, abettad and sustained by an incompetent and servile Congress," it beams evident to every men of die. oernment with whom be had intercourse that "unless an early and an honourable pesos could be speedily effected, the South would be inevitably ruined." Yr. Foote coeclodes his Wren with entreating his countrymen to lose no time in returning to the Federal Union. "It is far better, in my deliberate opinion, that yon should do so, and do so at ones than to take the chance of future military SUOMI under Jefferson Davis and his present official as and rely upon them for the future restoration of your liberties, atter they shall have been once completely surrendered to the most unfeeling and degrading despotism that has existed in the world eines the days of Dionysian of Syreamea" Mr. Seward seems to have est but little store upon Kr. Feete's propositions, the only dacha reply returned being the following peculiarly curt memorandum : "Department of State, Washiegton, Jan. 31,1866. " A communisation addressed to the Secretary of Stabs by Henry S. Foote, an insurgent who hes voluntarily come within the military lines and is held is custody within Major• General Sheridan's command, has bssa received and has been submitted to the President of the United States. Any farther information which the prisoner may think ft proper to impart to the government may be °communicated in the same manner as the oommunioation which is now acknowledged. " klajorZeneral Sheridan will, if Yr. note shall choose, pass him back within the Insurgent lines, or will seod him forward to tfajor•General Dix at New York, who will be instructed to allow him to pam without unmeismary delay beyond the jurisdictioa of the United State., not to return during the a:scant:onos of the war without leave from this department (Signed) "Wm. R. Szwann." TEE ROBBERY IN COHNHILL. —Yeatord ay two more of the gold watches stolen from the shop of Yr. Walker were Ached up from the bottom of the Thames, at the place near temporary bridge, where j a diver has been at work daily 'Woe Saturday. These , make eight now which bars been reoovend from the bed of the river in that way and the search, which has j beat thus far attended with so much saeosss. will of comes be continued from day to day. After cis of the watches bad been brought up by the diver • keg Interval followed without any further MOW and the pollee-odkun who sueerinteed the operatioe began to despair of 111 any from a belief that the confederatee 140 411 Z thrown them iato the river might base Jut had as even belf-doem aniseed them as thetr share of the spoiL Could a seventh, or say other odd amber, they mimed, be found their \speed recovering more would be 1111111111111614 and the search Ina diesontlemed ea Tuesday evenhig with that moan ; shortly after 10 chaoticeseeraly mends( the diver's inertia= were farther rewar ded by the reenvery of two mem and the work In now ocesegusetly paweatd with fresh ask There le said to be sheet aft. ai waiter at yew tide at the spot when the search le befog made, and the plea is guarded day and night by river mammon, to prevent unauthorised persons sounding the river on Odr own account, in the hope of obtaining some of the miming Wv101147. , 4ato '71855. , ALTID AND "ED BAILEY AS FOOD RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS, ------. - " This morning was Mined for the information of parliament a preliminary distract report of exprionnts undertaken by order of the Board of Trade, to determine the relative values of numalted sad malted twirl es food for stock. The description sod awake of animals subjoined to experiment, and the data of earn experiment, amen follows :-20 cows, in 2 lots of 10 each, 10 week' ; 20 oxen, in 2 lots of 10 mob, 20 weeks ; 80 sheep, in 5 kite of 12 each, 20 weeks ; 48 pip, in 6 lots of 8 each, 10 weeks. Mr. John Bennett Uwe& who writes the report, enters into a descrliam of the plan of mob at of experiments. The general result is that in only one of the oomperative ex periments—which was with sheep —was the increase is /tee weight higher, and the amount of food required to yield a given amount of increase lower with the malt than with the barley ; and in that instance the amounts were very arty the same in the two oases. la all the other comparative trials, whether with oxen, sheep, or pip, the advantage was with numbed barley, end it wee so in a greater degree than it was spinet it in the single instance referred to. It sans that the radio of them new experiments are imaidant with those dais& in an official inquiry mama in 1804 by Drs. Memos and R. D. Thomson with oows and with oxen, and also with those obtained at liothaated is 1848 and 1849 with sheep. "The general conclusiou is," writes Mr. Lewes, "that a' given weight of barley is more productive, both of milk (of cows) and of increase in live-weight of fattening anima, than the amount of milt end malt-dust that would be pro duced from it. There le, besides, the met of the =lag process to be taken Into account. There would appear, therefore, to be Do advantage in malt over the barley which product.' it as a staple food for healthy milking cows or fattening animals. The opinion is entertained by may, however, that a certain ansonnt of malt is benedelsl whoa given in admixture, and in change with other food, to young or weakly animals. or in finishing' or ' making op. for exhibition or sale ; that is, when the object is to pro duce a particular result, Irrespective of the economy re quired in ordinary feeding." THE GOVERNMENT INSURANCES AND ANNUITIES. This morning were issued the regulations respect ing government insurances and annuities made by the Post. muter-General for the purpose of carrying out the provi sions of the late act in so far as his department 'immersed. Various post-offices are to be appointed to main proposal", and the regulations show the forms which are to be used. Any person desiring to insure his life can obtain the form necemary at any money-order ethos, and must deposit it at one of the offices authorised to receive it. A short and plain abstract of the regnlatioos, together with full sad clear illustrations of the tables of premiums, and Metro:- dons as to the course to be followed by persons desiring to insure their lives or to purchase government annuities, will be prepared for the information of such persons. THE ABOLITION OP SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. On Tuesday evening • large party assembled at the Treysiyan Temperas, Hotel, Manchester, at the in. vitation of the executive of the Union sad Emancipation Society, to " milebrate the paring of the antialsery amendment of the United Stake Constitution." Mr. BARIUM, one of the honorary secretaries, reed a re port, of whirr we make extracts :—" Sias 1863 upwards of 300 public meetings have been held, besides Mother meet ings for general and special business ; and about 566,000 documents, tracts, pamphlet; and books have been par Belied and circulated throughout the kingdom. The strength of the parent esciety has been consolidated by the formationof about 50 auxiliary societies, which the seen five have found soarer of musks stirrers, enabling them to opine into close contort with the surrounding districts, of which the auxiliaries formed the mares, and being alio the best mesas whereby the works of the association could be die triltuted, oorrespoodesce maintaised, end the pascal utility of its agencies promoted. The executive have the satis faction of stating that the efforts of curtain members in both houses of parliament to oblate from this country a recognition or iatervention on behalf of the alaveholdere proposed empire have signally filled, and they believe that the unsay memorials presente d by them against sorb P Sties have bad some share is effecting such results.M executive cannot but appreciate the friendly manes in which Anglo-American questions in the critical times of the shahs have been diseased by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affair; Earl Roesill, and the United States minister, the Hon. Charles Francis Adams ; and they feel it a duty to express the opinion that the fi rm bat °oscilla tory mode by which the United States legation has fulfilled Its difficult and important miser°, together with the high character of the minister, and the personal esteem entertained towards himself ad his 'Moist secretary, have manly oontributed to that amity between the two satiate whian happily is sow so well sad firmly ' established. The eremitic* have presented coopetulatory address to the American people d. ne their Presides; Arabs= Lincoln, on the peat tram they ashieved on the Bth November, when they the nation should live and the people should be free ; else on mineral other occasions, when the event justified the executive in speaking to them on your behalf. An addrese was also presented to General Garibaldi, as a true friend to liberty, who in reopoose thereto expressed his emphatic approval of and sympathy with the object' this association sought to WIWI. Orb. In conclusion, the executive desire to =eke a sprig e tion of the munificent docatiose of ha, r by e tretr president, Thomas Bayley Potter, ~ for which, in addition to his large enbeeription, they_ reined their thanks, and trust that he will continue to ell his honour able position until the labours of the executive saes to be requited." Mr. J. H. EATCOURT moved the follewieg resolution "That this meeting, in receiving the nursery of the re port of the Lillis and Emasoipasis Society, joyfully rests- SIMS the fact of the adoption by the Cowen ditto USW Stake of an amendment to the Federal ocarMtvition for the abolition and prohibition of slavery throughout the Unica, believing that, ere long, every loyal state will approve and ratify that wise and just reasintioo, thereby Ankles the death blow to the slave power by removing from the republic the virus of model cor ruption and political an tagoaism which has been the sours of sectional strife and national disaster." Mr. 8. POPs soosudsd the noolutiou, whist, laying bats supported by Mr. MACKIX, of Wuragtoo, wr ousted mutinously. - - - The foll Owing resolution was then moved by Mr. E. HOOlOO, mounded by Mr. Emsot, supported by Mr. J. C. Edwards and Mr. Barber, sad carried antainsoualy:— " That this meeting affectionately and fraternally con gratulates the coloured people of America on the of einanoipation, sines the elastics of Abrams more especially since the proclamation of January 1,1863, fully blieviag that the amendment of the Amowiese constitution will not only lift their lee( oppressed and despised race from a condition of ahattelhood, bat will aid mately roofer upon them all the rights, jrilagag, end blessings of social freedom and political uality The chair having been taken by Mr. T. .R. Wilkinson, a cordial vote of thanks was given to Mr. Taylor for priding, and for his continued services in connexion with the nudely; and the oompliment having been duly acknowledged, As ptomains were brought to a close. A letter from Rome of the 25th nit. says " Bolls, of course, hare been the order of the evening, and the mod brilliant of all was that given by the Frau% Am bassador on Tuesday /voting, in the Pause Cabana. The tapestry of one of the rooms has an historical interest, inas much as it was given by Cardinal llasarin to his niece as her marriage with a Colonise. An emerald aschlace given ou the manse occasion by his eminence is now In the poem aion of the Princess Bospigli si There win about 1,200 pumas present, consisting of the flirt et the Romans and foreigners, who did ample justice to a meet richercht supper, one of the items of which was trust, weighing Mb. snob, from the Lego Maggiore. Lest evening there was a vocal and in strumental canon* at the Peluso Doris Pamphill, at which the diet talent in Rows emistal7llessrs. Beebe end Miltlota presiding at the pima and the Doane Lea* Madames Chobneley, &mai, and ahem tiling part most ellectividy in the vocal picas. Th. eacert Ira rennet able as being the find occasion in whiedt the Taanheaser made was ever performed is Rona. At midnight the Lei great masked ball look plies. ad it was warded. sad treat off well" Lew RiPORTING.—The members of the council, appointed anomalies of the ahem ci the bar era mittas,_an as follow : Lisseobah-lan-3r Fitzroy Kelly. Kat., IL Q.C. ; W. T. & Dsafei, Esq., Q.O. Inner Temple—m Fenytb, ULF_ George Merlibea wh i t, ge%. Q.e. Middle T T. W. Greene, Ea., Q.c.; I. Xereklm, Fos : , O. Low lealitation-e. W. & Coehaoe, Peg. ; iMara MMus, Pa., Prediteet a the law lathed/ea. The Attresey-Oeseral, tbe fielieltorAemmal, sad tbe Queen &dilate me M. Aloe members. Mr Pitney Kelly le eleirems, and Mr. Muriel viorebstretea of the semen • mei Mr. Jima T. Hopwood, of Linoole's inn, Ins Hopwood , bee wound the seem tart'. LAW INTELLIGENCE-. (THIS DAY.) COURT 07 PROBATI AND DIVOBOI. (mon the Jim* Ordiorry.) RICHARDSON V. ISCRAILDSOIL Mr. per, QC., and Dr. Stinks far the *km ; Mr. Pow Q.C.; for the defendant. The testator, • isurnermas Waders. at Liseleny, Lineelashilw, died in Deemsbee, 186:1, huh., will of ilispeovions hise,amecuted in favour of bin elsean. 127 • saistap with hie fact wife's sister. Probst* ma al. mated by the tedator's brother, Cornelius, or to that the paper Wore the court was net the el u s demand. Evidence was, however, given establishing th e n u m. Meaty of the document in the dewed possible ressme ; eel the opposition was abandoned. Sir J. Wilda thereupon decreed probate, ead earlirawl the defendant in coats. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (TRW DAY.) THE SAFFRON-HILL YIIRDEIL-TRILL OF GREGOBIO. This morning having bean appointed for tits trial ol Ors port° /fermi for the tosnalanglatar of Michas! Eiarringto N , good dial of intermit appeared to be created to Mar gis Jai*, %lee took bis mat on the beach at o'clock, and the primmer was plead at the bet. B e e , y may gesteally drama, and seemed quite ode sad eac,, posed, wearing a determined expreedao of oonntema ta , The iedictmeat baring been read (not, the p r i m , celled upon, through en Interpreter, to plead. TM iatatpretatios at his mama trea, 17 saiabartme ; I did it io wilddesa.• The learned Jodie said that wea clearly aO K c g id "I 111 auk d - Th. prisoner elected to be tried by a wired jury. Mr. Sarjeant Bellantine (specially realised) sari il l. F. H. Lewis were counsel for the prosecution. The priers. WU undefended. PI loisP trii - ~- we* 10. wee I wok A oral bm Iny The leased Judge said the rise wu one of coecidear g difficulty, and the prisoner was a foreigner • la e a u feel obliged if Mr. Montage Williams wou ld verb th case on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Serjesed Salentine said the case was one wiie would certainly present some difficulty, and cm Air woad require their mod eeriest attention sad Mew* The primes: was about to be tried upon a charge spa which one man hod already been committed, set would be for the jury to me that justice wee desk It would be a most monstrous thee if it were to be dead that one person should step forward and take epos emit the responsibility of a crime which bad his. oramittel by another, and suffer the punishment which ought to be ea demon. by him, and he was sure the jury eau bring to bear all their judgment in eodevemieg to arrive et the truth of the matter. The emu* took pen in the neighbourhood of Saffieddll, where there are a number of Italians lasted. th the night of the 26th of December, in the be. is question a sundae of Englishman wore sesierid is what was called the tagatelle.rocen. The de mead, Michael Harrington, was there, sad the be stabbed sad bad died there could be no doubt, sad thee were two other persons stabbed at the same time, and the cud be very little doubt that all the parties were would by ems person, and the question would be where, be puma was the prisoner at the bar. In sib . Men he the Englishmen mumbled at the bon* there were a number of Selena The game wee mend the Italians, and it appeared that hi bear bed bees there in the come of the using, and bedlam severely beaten ; and the *ideate be would has to lay before them was, that the prisoner broke into the nu Id struck right and left. There was no aides's, bower, that the prisoner was seen with a knife before be war is. When the deosesed man was struck he was loaded dies, and the man Pelizzioni, who had already bees on. rioted for the same mines, was immediately teen d ; and it would appear that Pelesioni was the Id men de entered before Harrington was knocked den ; bat las there was the fact, that although that would *pea, se knife was loud upon Pelizakei, or near the spot whore the comma* took plus. The prisoner, however, had goes himadistely to ow of his friends, without having had say time for refledion ; he told him, with awry appeaser of grief, that be had stabbed three persona. Blade that fact, the prisoner was up to that time in a very seer fortable situation, and at the time had 3/. sad upwards dm to him for wages, but he went away aid did not eel appear at hie employment, only claiming his wage' through a third person, and he was not seen again until its was take in Birmingham. It also appeared that on the night at the occurrence the prisoner gave a knife to a vitae, Os would be celled, named Chitty. and asked him to the can of it, and that knife was just such a were as would bare inflicted the injuries from which the booed man Harrington died, whereas there was the most implant fact that there was no knife found on Peliarioni or we ihs • spot. The learned counsel said be believed that a POP man named Negretti—an Italian gentleman of looped.. in this country, to whom greet credit was due for do so new in which he bed endeavoured to come at the rid—, oeived some information whisk led him to go to Breregbele where he saw the prisoner, end told him ilbak was about to suffer the penalty of the law for the msdiser Harrington, and the prisoner said that he should and ode for whet be had daze, and he made the statement wild be , already alluded to. In conclusion, the learned..ud mil if la the warm of the sedates there should be asp alias • to show that Pelizzioni had committed the mime be bell take siege to have him milled, cad would ask bles le! quertion. Ham Haaneh Shaw said—l am the wile el Bow me t the landlord of the Golden Avatar, on bibea-bill. I * collect the evening of the 26th Decembers and I seediel • lay hushed being struck, but I don't know she *Mb him. I saw Harriegton and Gregor* time Ingebtr. esi eaof stradag w Gregorki hinfte y hold of By som e meoltosnii, ini ent rion wes ispothet any from him, sad went into the bagatelle•roni. Gregorio wad into the tap-room. I recollect the stabbing in the been on that eueing. There were three complained being stabbed, Harrington, Itebbsok, and Bannister. 1 use Harrington carried out of the house. I saw Gregor, quarter of sit hour alter that—he came to the tar ad del for his hat. His brother was with him, sad I saw deed upon the brother's band. I opened the baptelle.room dew and asked if there were any bats there. Gager said bio bat was be that nem. Some one gave me two, and I bet ' them over the her and Gregorio and his brother took We away. ..,.........—...--. by Mr. Mootegue Williams—l 1,1111 Pik amoised at the trial of Peliarioni. I saw Harrington takes out cd the boom. II scold not ham boss more *so le minutes after the scuffle I alluded to. I saw Pelham' takes into enstody. I did not see the primmer then whim le was taken into custody. Imw anthills that inmedel 11 1 the bagateUe-room. Giovanni Mogul rid—l am brother of the primmer. 8 6 ; boa bessita this wont/y . llomm. We are both freanwthile I kaow the Golden Anchor on Satires-hid I woodmen the BM December from mix to half-past six in the Whom ant I wee there I maw my brother them My s Uwe bed a dispute with the landlord, and I wee in di • baptelliwroom with my brother sad mother ma, swesimi Ihressi, after the quarrel with the landlord. There eel 16 ar 18 Eindielinas is the beptelksroons. A dister ou l e i j ol6 took piece. I west into the room Int, sad the s street' at me with sticks, end streak at as before Malim• —• ----i ! mitered. Directly I got into the room I received a blew • the head with a stick, sod was kicked. My face me mail with blood, men have the sow now from the wooed I ceived. I mid to my brother, " Brother, *Py me r ad I raw my brother us, his knife. I la him put bit band is his posted and pull out the kW* • I Meow Harringtos. He wee always is that hems I saw Haningtoa wee dandiag there, sad arm Y. the row, ban I ems* tell who remind MI be gat blow. Haskell* praised is my brother's knife. I and out by the deer, which Ma different door to theme • I watered and whiskies& into the bar. I left in the mum. I did met gee Polissioalia the a = l room. dear M which I entered end the door at wk ill 11 left meat right meow I my hat is Ur .--i and got it aboat to minutes after. I sew m b = "l :22 l him bat at the Isms time. I saw my brother ofierwerm_ • in Johawlaset, sear the plain wine, we lived. 1 1 i wag shoat half-pin maven or eight. I did sot Iniew h : 4 brother woo gam to leave Lambs that mitt s J e w' I. at eight A** the sent memenng at Mr. , sari be told me that he and the, at the sight below , hoard be was gala( la tie asentry. He did not tell MO% I after/made sesolved the wimps OM eras dm to my irdla —3i. 17s. I reesival it es the Thunday followieg. I 4 not ezambed ma either gide *Se led trial. Oramemadsed by Mr. M.Willimme—l have knees Pair: dad. I beard beams damp& with this ode s . lain; ease bore at the Mel. I blew ama mimed scut'' m i reresedier sedat a blEst the her beton tie dielarimea 14 did sot tell bier be* Wane, the Dmilase were MINI* I was sot celled w the gamer was mandried before Oa nagialtates