The Express. — London, England, 1861-03-30 00:00:00

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THE REVENUE Tag Customs for the quarter show en increase of nearly 230,0001., arising chiefly on corn, rum, brandy, and wine, and also on the new stamp charges. The increase in the items mentioned amounts to 400,0001., but it is reduced to 230,000/. by a falling off in other items, chiefly tea, tobacco, and wood. On the quarter there is an increase of about 350,000 f. in the Emirs, arising from the ac celerated payment of the malt credits. The increase would have been greater but for a loss upon spirits, owing to large quantities having been removed from bond in the corresponding quarter of last year in anticipation of the increased duty. Under the bead of stamps there is an increase of 50,0001., arising from the new duties imposed last session. In the land and assessed taxes there in no variation. There is a decrease on the quarter in the income t►s of asarly 2,000,000 i. ; but it arises from the change in the mode of collection. The Post-office shows a small decreewe on the quarter. In Crown Linde the variation is unimportant. Under Miscellaneous there is • decrease of *early 400,0001., duo to a repayment by the Spanish Government in the corresponding quarter of last year whicb dues not occur in tbo quarter just ending, and diminished receipts from the ea. a old stores. The net general decrease on the quarter, owing to the causes explained, is expected to be from 1a00 0 7.101. to 1,800,0001. The general decrease en the year will be under 1,000,0001. The customs are deartased by 1,100,0001. to 1,200,0001. This is rather more than the amount anticipated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his budget, but it arises wholly from the warehouse and other charges collected by stamps, and not from the chief articles affected by the tariff. The excise for the year shows a de crease of about 900,0001. instead of the 1,000,0001. increase which was expected—making a re duction of about 2,000,0001. below the esti mate. This diminution is attributable to malt and spirits, the causes being the bad quality of barley, the anticipation of the increased duty referral to in the quarterly account, the diminution of the stock of spirits in the hands of the dealers, and partly also diminished consump tion. The decrease has been lessened by the transfer to the excise of the game duties, included under taxes. In stamps the increase on the year will amount to about 300,0001., arising pertly from the new duties, and partly from a general increase in the stamps revenue. There is a decrease of rather more than 100,0001. in land and assessed taxes, but it is only an appa rent decrease arising from the transfer of the game duties to the excise. In the Property and Income Tax there is an in crease on the year of about 1,300,0001., caused by the increased duty and the altered mode of collec tion. In the Post-office department there is an increase of about 90,0001. TLere is an unimportant variation in Crown Lands, and on Miscellaneous a decrease of about 360,0001., occasioned by a falling off in the receipts from the gale of old storm LORD PALM LIMON has just made another oomaion for one of those extra. parliamentary ap pearentell in which he indulges more than any other public man. Having accepted the Lord Wardership of the Cinque Ports, an office de scribed as of ancient institution and some local advantages—his lordship was obliged to go through some well-known formalities at Tivertoe. When ever the public hears that Lord PALIMUITON is about to be re-elected, it knows exactly what will be in the newspaper report next morning. His lordship will make a prosperity speech, the inevit able Mr. Rowet,rr►s will tell some home truths, like the " confederate "at an entertainment of natural magic, and the veteran House of Commons' debater will condescend to employ his Olympian banter to cover his harmless questioner with ridicule. The only novelty in the proceedings last Wednesday —"the ceremony,' as a Ministerial contemporary appropriately styles it —was the introduction of • military force. "The Rifles," we are told, " were " drawn up in front, and the strictest order was " maintained." Of Lord PAtiminerox'a speech all that can be said—and it is the highest praise his lordship has ever sought for his oratory—is, that it was admirably fitted foe the time THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 30; iSeI. and place. For the last two days we have no doubt it has been believed at Tiverton that " the internal condition of " the country is satisfactory and good," and that the present session of the House of Commons, short as its first stage has been, has proved fruitful in valuable measures of legislation. There is not a captain of yeomanry who heard his lordship, who is not fully convinced that to effect financial re forms in the administration of the army and navy is the same thing as to diminish the protection of the kingdom. Lord PaLmeastow might have stopped here. It matters little to the country with what representations he thinks it worth while to amuse his audience at Tiverton. But he chose to speak of the people of other constituencies in a manner which will create some surprise. What will the electors of Edinburgh and Salford say at being quoted at Tiverton as opponents of Parliamentary Reform f Of course Lord PAL- NnurroN expects that those towns will send anti- Reformers to Parliament at the next election, or he would not have taken the liberty of drawing argu ments from the votee of Mr. BLACK or Mr. 111A8ALY. It may be so; but we venture to pre dict that when these great and enlightened consti tuencies return obstructive. to Parliament they will not return them as supporters of Lord PAW/M.Bl'ON. Then it further appears that the silence of the country denotes approval of the abandonment of Reform by the Government. We have heard a great deal of this same silence. Since the first night of the session we have read in a great many newspapers which lend a facile support to the Go vernment that there has been a great deal too much of it, and that it was threatening to prove fatal to the Ministry. The betrayal of their chief trust has been followed by silence where there was formerly clamorous support of the Government. The discouragement of the Liberal constituencies, first caused by the languor which Ministers ex hibited in the Reform debates last year, has made so great way that seat after seat has been lost, until Lord PaLmmurrow, who is so valorous in presence of the Tiverton JACK CALL, consents to hold the Government for the convenience of his opponents. While Lord PALMS:LWOW was amusing the popu lation of Tiverton with politics carefully con structed for that meridian, a business-like meeting was held at Manchester, under the presidency of the Mayor. The Town Hall of that city was crowded by people who bad left their business to express opinions about Parliamentary Reform, very unlike those which had found favour in the pet Devonshire borough. It is not forgotten at Manchester that the admirable conduct of the unrepresented classes was one of the reasons assigned by Lord Jone RCSNELL in 1852 for believing that the time was come for extending the franchise, and it is no wonder, therefore, that the paltry excuse foe break ing ministerial promises—the default of tumultu ous assemblages—is rejected with the contempt it deserves. There is good reason why the friends of Reform everywhere should meet to take counsel together ; but there is no occasion, no opportu nity for a repetition of the alarming demonstrations of 1831 and 1832. The wrong now done to the unenfranchised has not happened through antago nistic statesmanship, but is a consequence of the abdication of statesmanship. A straightforward minister, like the late Duke of WZLLIWOTON, may be summarily dealt with, but it takes time to being justice home to tricksters. It was at Manchester, not at Tiverton, that a working man pronounced a sentence which is worth two minutes' consideration by those politicians who are not too old, or too hardened to profit by it. After reviewing the course of the Government, in kicking down the ladder by which its members had climbed to power, be said, "Let it go forth to Europe that it is the " demoralization of the higher classes, and not " that of the lower, which is threatening the nation " with disorder." €De €ourt. WINDSOR CASTLE, Mracti 29. Divine Service was performed this morning in the private Chapel ot the Clatle. Present, the Queen sad Prime Consort, the Primo et Wales, the Crown Princess et Perlis (Prioress Royal), Primer Alton Prisms liehma, sad Princess Louise, the belies sad seedlimess et the mark sad the domestic household. The Hue. arid Very Hey. the Dean of Windier admiali• tared the Holy Ssertakint. The Rev. H. J. Mame, View d Wiadeor, preached the germs. WRITS:NALL, MAIM 27.—The Queen has been *mei to direct letters patent to to passed under the (met seal of the United Kiagdom of Great Britain and Inland, grunting onto tho Bight Honourable Henry Jobs Viscount Palmer*" K.G., the oMos of Constable of her Majesty's Cagle of Dover, and also the dike of Warden and Keeper of bsr Majesty's Cinque Pork, and the office of Admiralty within the said Cinque Porta, in the room of Jamas Andrew Nam& M Dalhousie, demised —Garter. Tax DUKE OF NEWCARTLL—We (Not/int/ham Amnion believe we may announce thet his game the Duke el Newcastle has been aopointedGovernor-General of India, ea enevemor to Viscount Canning, whose term of office i. ex pired. The probabilities are that the noble dyke will leave England during the month of May. We have also heard that the office of lord-lieutenant and costes rotulorum of the county of Nottingham will be held pro tem. by the Right Floe. the Speaker. Arrangements have also been made that the family seat of Clamber shall be occupied by the Earl sad Counts of Lincoln during the probable five years abeam of the noble duke. Frances Countess Waldegrave has issued cards for esessablies on Wednesday, the 10th, and Wednesday, the 17th of April. Lord and Lady Digby have left Belgrave-square for their seat is Doreetehire for the Easter holidays. Colonel and Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant are pones t►e season at the Duke of Grafton's seat, Wake field Lodp, Northamptonshire. We (Yorkshire (staaelle) are happy to state that Lord Loodseborough. at the date of our latest intelligenee reepestiag him. wee is the wejoyment of ezoellent health. In one of his sporting 1151111114101116 on the Nile, hie lordship shot no fewer thaa 1,000 mow Of thew, forty-two were brought lowa at owe shot. The description of fowling pies@ teed by his lordship may be judged of from the above Ail These amuse ensorsions are taken in a deck post, properly fitted for the service. issi night the fund now being raised, under the supine of the Lord Mayor, foe the relief of the appalling deelitudies Is Upper led* amounted to about 4,450/. Dining yeekaday, though a kind of dies now, the nuns for warded to his lordship exceeded 200 f. On Thursday evening the London Gunmakers' Company entertained Sir W. Armstrong at dieser on the ammion of his receiving the honorary freedom of the cow. peaty, which was conferred upon him by a unanimous tees. halloo. "for the important services he bee rendered to the na tion by his grist impreemesete in the science of gosnery.* The vieton preset waited chiefly of officer' and gen• these is the goverszesse department officially connected with Ilemines, sad eamprised, among others. Colonel the Hoe. Nit A. Conkie, 1.C.8.; Colonel Wire Fos, Mr. Bowen, DireetorCeemal d Contracts ; Colonel Lamy , LA.; &finis 311111111, LP. ; Major Bad&ley, R.A.; Mr. Aiming." Royal On Paslam &a The Council of the Society of Arts have given le the Noels Bebesi of Art permission to hold an Eshibi• ties d roe Arts their peat more, io the Adolph', leg the most► it Jam The profits of the exhibition torn he applied to the ►uilding of a new school of art. Her Majesty bee appointed Mr. Smirks, meld- Met, to be the Treasurer el t►e Royal Academy in the mom of Kr. Hardmisk, who, slier may yam' senile, has setkol from that poet. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. WARSAW, 113Auos 30. The concessions granted by the Emperor have not satisfied the people. The wearing of - mourning has become more general, and a much greater number of people appear in the national costume. The journals advocate the necessity for mode ration. The concentration of military continues. Unarmed citizens, doing duty u constables, patrol the streets. The 24 delegates are again acting as a provisional municipality. WARSAW, MAICH 29. Reports are current that the censorship of the press is to be abolished. M. Wielipolski has given orders for the elaboration of a project of law similar to the French press law. It is expected that from to-morrow foreign newspapers will be delivered without the oblitera tion of those portions of the same which might be displeasing to the government. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Manchester Captain Holcron, from New York on the 16th inst., has arrived. She brings 6 cabin and 58 steerage pas sengers. News anticipated. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Knee 30. The Royal Mail steam-ship Tasmanian, Cap tain Weller, with the West India and Pacific mail, has arrived here. She brings 123 passengers, 1,774,195 dollars in specie, and 2,546 packages in cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 17th instant. The Atrato arrived out on the 16th instant. _ ----.. The West India islands were generally healthy. The steamer Plantagenet, of Liverpool, arrived at Colon on the 11th inst. The Bogota, with the mails for the South Pacific, was on shore in Guaya quil River. The mails and passengers were for warded by the Valparaiso, for Callao, on the 3rd instant. - . Prince Alfred left Barbadoes on the Ist inst. for Bt. Vincent's, intending to make from that place the tour of the northern ialanda, terminating at Jamaica. A vessel with GOO Chinese immigrants had arrived at Callao, where they were offered for sale. They were expected to fetch from 300 to 400 dollars per head. In the river Magdalena the government flotilla had been captured by the forces of the state of Bolivar, and Senor Galin= made prisoner. In Bolivar: the government party under Betancur were defeated and the leader shot. Two vessels had arrived at Demerara, with 786 immigrants from Calcutta. The weather was un propitious, and manufacturing operations were somewhat retarded. At Barbadoes crop operations were proceeding vigorously. Several shipments of sugar had been made, amounting to over 2,000 hogsheads. Several other vessels were loading. Exchange, at 30 days' sight, was quoted 490 dole. The weather at Trinidad was wet and unsettled. Sugar making proceded under difficulties, and ruling rates were anything but calculated to pay the cost of manufacture. At Jamaica preparations were being made in honour of the Prince 's expected visit. The Bank of Jamaica had declared a divideni of four per cent. for the half year. Trade continued exceedingly dull. The produce market was also dull, and sugar and rum bad de clined in consequence of the low price in the Eng glish market. Coffee was scarce ; sales were made at 465. to 48s. for good quality. Rum was offered at S3d. for proof. Sugar was quoted 16s. to 18s. for fair quality. Charters for London for sugar were taken at 40s. Exchange on London, 90 days, i per cent. premium. INDIA. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (BT TILIGRAPII TO POINT Di GAUL) CALCUTTA, Mime 1. Shirting', grey, unchanged, moderate demand. Mule twist firm, but nothing doing. Raw silk neglected, down- ward tendency. Indigo season reedy closed, no change in prices. Copper : Sheathing inquired for, at former rates ; ditto tile, English, quiet. Sugar : Little doingfor &gland and Europe. Rice : Less doing, few fresh engagements. Salt petre : 5 per cent. refraction, Si rupees; market dulL Lin seed : Shipments contracted. Jute, no champ ; shipments in February 2 3.000 bake Hides : Prices firm, stocks re duciAaate.shipments mall. Shellac sold at lame decline. - - First class credits, 21 to 2s. id. Government paper, Fours, 74 to 80j ; Five-andei-Half per Cents., 1001 to 101. Bank discount unchanged. Hooey easy. Freights to London, dead w eight, 675. &L ; for jute, Med. TURKEY. The Levant Herald of the 20th instant says : The newly embodied red& and recruits from the recent conscription are arriving daily in the capital. Yesterday evening strong detachments of both came in from Ismidt. Two thousand cavalry will be embarked in a few days for Beyrout. Five steamers are being prepared for their transport, and the faros will, on its arrival in Syria, be at once directed against the Drum of the Ledja. We are in formed that the question of the secularisation of the mosque property—to which we have more than once referred in as;ail—has formed the subject of earnest, and there is every reason to believe resultful, deliberation at more than one cabinet council during the past week. The following is from a Constantinople letter in the Gazette du Midi : The acts of hostility committed by the Montenegrins have caused much irritation among the Muasulman popula tions. Those land pirates, not content with attacking, us is usual with them, people against whom they had no previous declaration of war, have perpetrated tho most atrocious acts against defenceless old men, women, and children. Two companies of Turkish Carabineers were surprised by them, and cut to pieces. The Porte, on re ceiving that intelligence, gave orders for the immediate de parture of four battalions of Choiseul" for the confines of Montenegro, who were to bo embarked on board vessels of war of different sizes. Unfortunately this order, which was given nearly • month ago, could not be executed, in consequence of the funds intended for fitting out the squadron being applied to some other purpose. The vessels still remain In the arsenal, and the unfortunate in habitants on the frontiers of Montenegro continue exposed without defence to the depredations of their eternal and audacious enemies. I must add, in order to complete this picture, that a Turkish vessel of war, while endeavouring to land some troops at a port near Cettingen, was fired on and driven off by a body of Montenegrins. The Ottoman go vernment, to avoid the disgrace . of a second check of the kind, obtained from Austria "on to effect the landing at one of her porta in the Adriati c. ITALY. The Austrians have suddenly evacuated the portion of Mantuan territory lying on the riglt bank of the Po. It appears that this move, which has no strategical importance, has been decided on in order, it asserts, to prevent desertion, rendered peculiarly easy by the vicinity of the frontier. A Turin letter of the 27th says : The bureaux of the Chamber have unanimously rejected the bill introduced by the Minister of War for granting 10,000 fr. • year as • national recompense to General Cialdini. To pass such a bill, it was considered, would be setting • bad precedent; besides, it would have had the effect of perpetuating • reminiscence of civil war which cannot be too soon forgotten. Another argument against the bill wee drawn from the example of Garibaldi, who remains as poor as ever after the conquest of • king dom. General de lamarmora, whose interpellations and the result they obtained you already know, this morning sent to the King his renignation of the command of the caps d'armfe of the Mincio, in face of the Austrians, the most difficult and most important military position in the country. The Unita Ita lian of Genoa states that although General de Lamarmora has offered his resigna tion, it is by no means probable that King Victor Emmanuel will accept it. NAPLES, MAace 29, 6.30 ?At. An unimportant demonstraiiou has been made by about 400 persons styling themselves Garibal diens, who demanded money at the Ministry of Financa These persons were dispersed by the authorities with great moderation. The republican newspapers are raising unjust accusations against the government. General Rocca has published an otder to the effect that no person may wear the Garibaldian red flannel shirt without being able to prove that he has belonged to the Garibaldian volunteers. Yesterday the police confiscated some five-grani pieces bearing the effigy of Francis 11. , which had been sent from Rome. The Holy Week has passed tranquilly at Naples and in the provinces. TURIN, MARCH 29. The Chamber of Deputies is adjourned until Tuesday next, on which day Signor Massari will bring forward his interpellation in reference to the affairs of Naples. MILAN, MARCH 29. Several editors of French newspapers who were on an excursion to Venice were, immediately after arriving in that city, roughly expelled by Governor Toggenburg, notwithstanding that the visa of the Austrian embassy at Paris was affixed to their passports. PORTUGAL. A Lisbon journal states that the parish priest of a place called Lavre is arrested on a charge of in fanticide. Haying seduced a girl, who became while living with him the mother of a boy, he baptised the child as soon as it was born, and im mediately afterwards strangled it—thus affording an extraordinary instance of the compatibility of sincere religious belief with the settled determina tion to commit the most ferocious crimes. It is well known that in the Roman States there used to be professional assassins who would kill • man for 10 solidi, provided they were permitted to give him time to say • prayer ; but if required expressly to kill him without a moment's notice, the strain upon their conscience was such that they required double the money. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARc9 29. The Emperor has sanctioned the proposed re organisation of the political administration of Transylvania, by which that province will be restored to its former position of autonomy. HUNGARY. TEIKESVAB. ILtscii 29. A sanguinary conflict took plan at Lippa be tween the German and the Rouman inhabitants on the occasion of the elections. Three persons were killed. Fifteen persona were seriously and many slightly wounded. PERTH, MARCH 29. The Official Jaffna/ announces that the proposi tions of the Judicial Conference have received the royal sanction. The Prince Primate will arrive in Buda on the 2nd April, in order to open the Hungarian Diet. TURKEY. PARIS, FIUDAY. The Paris papers publish a telegram, dated Con stantinople, March 27, asserting that in conse quence of an invasion of Spam, in Albania, by Garibahlians, the representatives of the Powers had insisted on the Porte's sending a mixed commission to the Herzegovina The same telegram warts that the Porte had refused to submit to the Powers before promulgation the reforms it intends to grant, apprehending that Russia might again take up the project of a permanent conference at Constanti nople. The Powers are Raid to have insisted upon com pliance with their demand. LORD ELGIN. TRIIMME t ImAL Lord Elgin arrived here t o -d a y on the steamer Terrible. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. COPENHAGEN, Yaws 29. M. Raastoff, Minister for Holstein, has been compelled to tender his resignation, on account of having failed to declare to the Estates of Holstein that by Article 13 of the Provisorium the Budget had been already submitted to the Estates, not withstanding that a resolution had been unani mously adopted in the Ministerial Council deputing M. Raastoff to make this declaration. The King has accepted his resignation. M. Hall, President of the Council, has provi sionally assumed the portfolio for Holstein. ITZEHOE, Yawn 29. According to advicee received here from Copen hagen, the ministry will not onibmit the budget to the Estates of Holstein, on their re-sweembling on the 4th of April next, but will state that the regn 'Miami in reference thereto are contained in para graph 13 of the Provisional Constitution. " • EXPRESS FROM PARIS. OWN ODA OWN PARIS, FR/DAT Evizniga. I see by the lithographed correspondence which goes into the provinces that the article in last night's Patric, complaining of the Orleans princes having attended the funeral of the Duchess of Kent --and which, by the way, is reproduced in this morning's Constitutionnd—has "given rise to all sorts of conjectures," and is connected in some minds with rumours of the " mobilisation " of a large French army on the eastern frontier of France. From the same authority I learn that very serious egforts are making to establish the " autonomy " of Ireland and the lonian Islands. I doubt whether you will easily bring yourself to attach much im portance to these rumours, which, I suppose, serve a purpose here. The Presse, quoting a passage from a leading article of the Daily News of March 28, in which it is stated that the French army is at present the hope and strength of the liberal cause in Europe, and that, although the " presence of the French army in Rome is no doubt a protection to the Pope, it is equally • guarantee to Italy against Austria, and a security for the peaceful abolition of the temporal power," appends the comment :—" It would be difficult to reflect with greater precision the true sentiments and aspirations of public opinion in France." The Presse says of the attempted reform iu Venetia : The Emperor of Austria has published an ordinance con cerning the mode of electing Venetian deputies to the Coun cil of the Empire. It was not worth while to take this trouble—no deputies will be named. The assembly in which the representatives of the Venetian people are to sit will be held in the Cpitol, and not in Vienna. Where is the Venetian who would betray Italy for Germany, and abandon his mother for • step-mother ? The new electoral ordinances promulgated by Austria are merely a concession ♦a point of form. The Emperor want, to hare it believed that be really governs the people whom he only oppresses. . - The Bourse (which in Paris is open on Good Widay) was even more thinly attended than has been usual of late. The Rente gave way 10c. or 150. in the course of the day, but recovered for the close, and was finally quoted at 67fr. 75u. for cash, with a fall of Sc., and at 671 r. 80e. for account, with a rise of bc. Mobilier left off without change, as did most of the railways. Orleans rose Mr. 60c., and Lyons Ifr. 25c. The Cebu* Mires rose sfr., closing at 95fr. At Lumen, in tho department of the Gard, two young men have been arrested on suspicion of having murdered their sister, Francoise Aberlin, aged 18. The motive for the crime is said to be the fear that their sister might marry, and so diminish their reversionary interest in the family property. A letter from Vienuw of the 26th says :—" The day befcee yesterday Mdme. Caine( loft this city forLoodon, where she is to sing at Covent-garden Theatre. Collies, who is • great favourite with the Viennese, was nearly smothered with wreaths and bouquets on Saturday, when she sang for the last time as Leonora in the ?Tension. The managers of the Vienna Opera-house would fain have re-en gaged the Hungarian star (the Hungarian word means ' stall, but her terms were too high for them. If Mr. Cr) should give Halevy's Join* this season, the London public will find that Madame Carnes is a great tragic actress as well as • test-rate singer." The Malta Times of the 16th lint. mays :—it seem% to have been determined to distribute the British fleet in the Mediterranean into area divisions. The fleet to he stationed at Malta, under the immediate orders of the Commander in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Faushawe Martin ; the second for the coast of Syria, under the command of Rear-Admiral Munday ; and the thikd for the Adriatic, under the com mand of ReirAdmiral Decree, formerly holding the post of Captain of the Fleet. Vice-Admiral Martin bad transferred his flag from the Caner to the Neptune, aisd Bear-Admiral Decree hoisted his flag (blue) on board the Omar, sad, with the Algiers, left forCorlii. Rear-Admiral Zoaday will leave in about a week on board the Hannibal , 91.1(or Beyroot. The Cressy and Jeans Watt are to nags tog the prinutat CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Athena, Captain Clarke, arrived at Ply mouth yesterday from the Cape of Good Hope, Arc., with mails and passengers. Her dates are : Cape, Feb. 21 ; St. Helena, March 2 ; Ascension, March 6. The Athens bad a long passage, 351 days, having missed the trade winds, and had several days calm. She brings 44 passengers ; nearly all from the Cape. She reports ships Renown , Newcastle, Windsor Castle, Holmadsle, Coldstream, and Alma, and her blajeaty's ship Prometheus, at St. Helena • and the Sir W. Peel, Alfred, Mars, and indomita ble at the Cape. The following summary of the news is from the Smith African Advertiser : We have to report that Sir George Grey returned to the seat of government from his overland fron:ier tour on Thursday last. His progress through the various towns and villages along his route was something quite trium phant ; and for each of the innumerable and conflicting parties with whom he came in contact Sir George, with his usual tact and skill, had something conciliatory to say or some beneficial and probably popular scheme to suggest. In Beira* where his visit was expected with the mast anxious interest, the inhabitants seem to have been tho roughly satisfied by the interviews he held with them ; although it is somewhat hard to discover in what they are politically happier now than they were two mouths before. One benefit, however, his Ex cellency is determired to secure for them without delay— good law in a regularly constituted local court; and the leading circuit member of the Cape bar has within the last few days received the offer of the new judgeship at a salary of 8001. a year. Immediately on Sir George's return to town the previous rumours of his appointment to the government of Canada were renewed with an increased air of probability ; and it was deemed likely that be would leave South Afnca within a few weeks at mast. We have good authority for stating that no such appointment has ye. been made ; and we CAD state positively that in any case his Excellency will not leave the Cape before the close of the parliamentary session, the opening of which has been fixed this week for the 26th of April. The war in China baying been brought so speedily to so auspicious a close, alarms proportion of the troops engaged in it are now on their voyage to old England. Within the last fortnight no fewer than a dozen transports have put in to Table Bay or Simon's Bay for refreshments, and a few of *ern to lad parties of invalids for the Sanatorium at Wynberg, in the near vicinity of Cape Town. The health and spirits of the troop on board the various vessels gene rally are of the very bat, and there has happily been no.hing repoled in any degree resembling the tragic fate of the passengers of the Tasmania twelve months ago. One unfortunate disaster, though not attended with loss of life, occurred on this alai tea days since. The transport Miles Barton, with nearly 400 men of the 3rd Buffs on board, under the efficieet acs- mend of Major King, struck on a sunken rock eastward of Agulhaz, and has become a total wreck. The misfortune occurred in the darkness of midnight and while a heavy sea was driving before a strong south east gale ; but so ad mirable were the discipline and coolness of the men, and the skill and firmness of the officers, military and naval alike, that on the following day every soldier was landed in perfect !safety on the adjacent shore. It was the brave old story of the Birkenhead again, where happily however the courage and calmness displayed were rewarded with the success they so abundantly merited and were so well mica lated to achieve. The deal!s will be found in another part of this paper. The passing preemies of our military visitors has bees welcomed gladly by all classes of socieq, and has been the means of exciting much pleasant feeling and much needed excitement. The peripatetic agriculturists of the western province have been - bolding their great annual shoo this year at Worcester, a distance of 90 miles from Cape Town. The district itself is one of the wealthiest and most productive in South Africa; its capabilities are boundless ; its soil is fertile to an extreme ; it is abundantly supplied with water, which, by irrigation, can be directed to every acre of its extensive area ; and it seems almost equally adapted for the rearing of stook, the productioo.of wool. or the growing of corn, fruits, and wine. The wines exhibited at the show astonished all who examined them; and one gentleman present, who is one of the principal exporters for the Eng lish market, testified to their merits in the warmest terms. Our colonial agriculture ham certainly made rapid progress within the past few years, and these periodical shows are contributing greatly to advance it more. Another and no less important aid most soon be applied in the shape of public experimental farms, some of which will ultimstely ripen out into agricultural colleges, not much inferior to those which flourish now so admirably in many parts of England and of Germany. In our ecclesiestical world the first topic that demands passing notice is the Diocesan Synod of the Anglican Church, which closed its labours on the ?4th ult. On this our re marks most be brief—in the first place, because the ground is somewhat tender, and in the second place, because the practical results of the 1161111100 amount to so very little. In fact even its principal supporters seem disposed to reckon It a decided failure. The principal object of the meeting was the proper adjustment of the finances of the church and the formation of an adequate Sustentatiou Fund. To effect this it was proposed to meanies a board of finance, presided over by the bishop, and composed of clergymen and laymen in fair proportion. The scheme, however, was opposed because it would to some extent diminish the powers of the bishop, whose authority was held to be supreme in matters financial, quite is much as in matters spiritual ; and a commission has been appointed instead of it to aid and advise the bishop in his work, but with no power to vote oe any questions that may arise. This seem ing distrust of the laity has naturally excited a good deal of dissatiafactioo, and will, it is feare d, very materially in terfere with the *seems of the projected fund.' A subse quent d . • that arose on the question of patronage tended sti 1 more to confirm the dissatisfaction resulting from the previous decision. it was Meted In our last summary that the railway works were prescreening well, both in the country districts and at the terminus in Cape Town. The present advancement of the works may ho briefly stated thus :—From the Cape Town terminus station in Ailderlev.street, to a distance of seven or eight miles across the Downs, the rails are laid, and in some portions of the line ballasted with iron-stone of a superior kind, which has been named by the government and the company's eneineers—both of whom have shown an evident desire to facilitate the early completion of the work. The continuation of the line from the eighth mile to Knit's River is almost cemplete—the enttings end embankments only requiring what is Mehra. orally called " trimming "to finish them. Rut there are no permanent rails laid ; one-third of the culverts have yet to be made; the erection of two important bridges —one at Salt River and another at Eljes River—has only just been begun ; and, although it is known that stone-ballast will le required overt very considerable portion of the line, nothing has been done in the way of provbling it, further then the opening of one or two pets of metal, which are yet unused. From Erste River to 'Stellenbosch there are rani some heavy cuttings and a considerable portion of earthwork to be made, besides bridges to be erected. stations to be built, crossings and rails to be laid. /sc. Of the works beyood Stellenbosch it Is unnecessary to my anything, as it was never expected that they would lie finished before the ex treme contract time—October next. Wages still keep steady at the undermentioned quota tions. There is little or nothing to record in the state of the labour market, with the exception of a greater demand for goal servants than the previous month. Irish labour has not been objected to, which shows that English and Scotch emigrants are mares. This is somewhat gratifying, considering we have still a great number of Irish out of employment. The Royal Albert being shortly expected, the demand for labour this week has not been in great as at the beginning of the month. I hope in my nest to give • longer and more detailed report, but at present there is no change worthy of / ante. Rates of Wages pee Month.—Female seeks, with or with- out washing, scoring to esosbility, If. ga. to I/. 10s. ; housemaids, 11. os. to V. 10e ; mars, 11. to 2/. • men cooks. 21. to 21. 10s. ; palmed ma cooky 31. to 31 . 104. board wages for coachmen and outdoor servants, 104 to 41. 10s. Carpenters (good workmen), 6s. 6d. to 7s. per day, but most artiaans.are paid aoeording to capability. THE LATE WAIL WITH CHINA. • (MOS TEE LONDON OA/ATM) INDIA•OFFICI, MARCH 27. The Secretary of State for India has received s general order by his Excellency the Governor-General of India, and a despatch 4i:comp:laying it, from Lieutenant- General Sir J. Hope Grant, C.C.S., commanding her Majesty's forces in China, of which the following are copies: GENNEAL ORDER HT RIB RICELLENCY TIN GOVERNOR 00111RAL OF mu. Camp, Jubbulpore, Jaa. 17,1861. His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India has much satisfaction in publishing, for general in. formation, the subjoined letter, dated the 21st of Novem. her, 1860, from Lieutenant-General Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.8., commander of the forces in China, bringing notice the services, during the campaign in that country, of the native troops of all arms which proceeded to China from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The Governor General congratulates the troops on the high testimony which they have earned for themselves from their distinguished commander, by their exemplary c on d uc t 'in camp and garrison, and by their valour in the field. And it is au additional source of gratification to the Governor. General, and a matter of which the troops may justly be proud, that their brilliant conduct in the field excited the admiration not only of their British comrades, but also of the French troops which served in the same campaign. It will be tho grateful task of the Governor-General to make known to her Majesty's government the report of Lieutenant-General fir Hops Grant, and to bring pertica. lady to notice the officers specially mentioned by him. TO THE BIGHT HOE. TEI LEL CANNING, 0.C.&, Heed-Quarters, Tientsin, Nov. 21,1880. My Lord,—Peace having been concluded with this country, and many of the native troop serving in the exp. ditionary force being about to return to India, it becomes my duty to bring to your Excellency's notice the services of the regiment. and corps of her Majesty's Indian army which have been serving during the campaign. The Ist Mikh Irregular Cavalry, under Major Probyn, and Fane's Hone, under Captain Fame, have performed their work most admirably. On more than one occasion these regiment. have been opposed to and have successfully charged • vastly superior force of the enemy's cavalry, and their conduct in the field has excited the admiration of the French as well as of the i English troops. It ia not only on the field of battle that their services have been so important during the recent cam paign, but in performing the numerous other duties re. quired of them, of an infinitely more harassing nature, p a . kola, escorts, ad reconnoissances, as well as the task of carrying letters almost daily between Tientsin and Pekin (a distance of 75 miles) for upwards of a month, during which they were frequently fired upon ; their garde.' have been of the utmost value to the expedijon. I beg to recommeid Major Probyn and Captain Fans to your Excellency's most favourable notice. The two companies of Madras Artillery, under Captain Hicks, and the two companies of Madras Sappers, under Captain Shaw Stewart, rendered good and useful services In the operations which preceded and led to the full of the Taku forts. The latter corps was most energetic In working without relief at the construction of the batteries, 'adhere always shown themselves to be cheerful and will ing workmen. A detachment of the former corps, under Captain ifeclntyre, was summoned from its station at Chusan to the assistance of Shanghai, and was fortunate enough to reach that city on the day it was attacked by the rebels, and to assist in repelling their attacks. The regiment of Loodiana h was stationed at Shanghai during the attack of the rebels on that city, and, under the eomnuutd of Lieutenant-Colonel Walsh, contributed to their repulse. The Bth and 15th Regiments of Punjab Infantry have accompanied the army in all the active operations in the field, and although, owing to the nature of the operations, thy have not come into collision with the enemy so fre quently as they have perhaps wished, their services have not been of the lees value to the expedition. The 15th Punjab Infantry, however, was particularly forward during tie action of the 18th of September ; and on the 21st of September a detachment under Lieutenant Harris distin guished itself by crossing the river and capturing a gun which had opened on our lines. The Bth Punjab Infantry had been ably commanded throughout the campaign by Captain Brownlow. Captain Shebbeare, an excellent officer, the commandant of the 15th Punjab Intently, was unfortunately compelled by ill health to leave just when active operations were commencing ; but the regiment has been efficiently commanded by Lieutenant Banda. The 11th and 19th Punjab Infantry have been employed in garrisoning tho depots, kr., whilst the 3rd and 3th Bom bay Native Infantry and the 21st Madras Native Infantry have formed portions of the garrisons of Hong Kong and Canton. _ _ TieTs much pleasure in informing your Excellency that the behaviour of the Indian troop■, both in camp and in gammon, has been everything that I could wish, and it has given me much satisfaction that the course of events has enabled me to send a considerable portico of them back to their homes in India before the end of the present year.— I have, &c., (Signed) J. HOPI GIIINT, Lieutenant• General, Commander of the Forces. The Nationalit fa of Turin says :—" The French legation, in the passports which it now delivers to French• man, designates all the provinces of the Italian Peninsula by the title of Kingdom of Italy.' " We read in a Florence letter of Monday last " Italy has lost one of her greatest men. Vincenzo Sal• ravioli is no more. Ho expired at Piss on the evening of the 21st, after a gradual sinking of his strength, caused by complaints of the heart and of the lungs, leading to a general break up of his whole system. Although the Florentines bad been prepared for the event for some time put, and bulletins announcing his rapid sinking had appeared daily in the public journals, it was not without • great shock that they received the intelli• genre of the death of one who had lee; filled a large spate in the public eye, who had been closely associated with the national movement during the last 15 years, who bad greatly contributed to advance that movement by his writings, who had discharged the duties of • Pro visional Minister of State in the critical times from the flight of the Grand Duke and hie family to the annexa tion of Tuscany with the Sardinian State, and who, finally, was not only the most brilliant forensic orator modern Italy his produced, but the most delightful social cama panion known to the present generation in the Dakar et Florence." According to the Italian journals, several depu tise, following the example of the government, have pre• seated a proposition for granting to General Garibaldi, bY way of national recompense, a pension of 150,000 fr. a year, reversible to his son. The retirement of Garibaldi to Capron luu not lessened his popularity, and the Mil= journals state that deputations of the workinens' societies from all parte of Italy are assembling at Genoa to proceed to the island to pay their respects to the general. AMERICAN MAIL.—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAV.—* The Roysl Mail steamer Persia, which sailed today for New York took 50,917 f. in specie. i Tae ONIAN ISLANDS.—The Mann Obsertvr says :—".l3y the Stella, screw steamer, arrived here yester day, we learn that her Majesty's ship Orion had pr oceeded to Zante, in consequence of tho excitement exi.tiog there regarding the causea which led to the prorogation of the lonian parliament" MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CHILD. —A brief out. line of • lamentable catastrophe that occurred in the locality of Eye bat week him been communicated to us. It appears that on Wednesday last, two children about twelve years of age (a boy and gull. the offspring of widowed sisters, left their home to go " woolling" in the marshes . bordering me the town. During their einem* • violent storm arose, to the inclemency of which the children were exposed ; and as they did not return at the expected hour, their sb• lance occas ioned much anxiety, and the mother of the girl went out in search of them. She had proceeded n consider• able distance without discovering any trace of the missing pair, but at last espied the boy trudging slowly homeward' alone, and in a state of great exhaustion. Inquiry about his cousin soon elicited that he had been unable to get her along, and that he was endeavouring to reach home to obtain help. The distressed mother hardened with the boy to the spot where he had left the girl, but she was not to be found there, and • more •' extended search proved squally fitittlesa. With feeling that cannot he described, the distracted parent returned to Rye with the boy, who survived the effects of his cr. posure but • few hours. On the following morning. We corpse of the little girl was foetal in the marshes, where she had wandered about in the darkness of the night until bar enfeebled frame lowed to the ngour of the weathers and she fell down and died.— Awe CArowirk. A NOVEL MODE OF PUNDIHMINT.—A worth,' fanner (formerly a corn miller), residing on the banks of the river Data, appeared with his foreman before the bench at Pickering, on the 18th inst..eliarging him with al4 obedience ; the evidence was of so ambiguous a nature that the magistrates deemed it very pomer the parties shoal pay the expenses between them. This judgment failed to appease the anger of the worthy farmer. find he bit upon an • ingenious plan to punish his refractory servant. On the Werd• neaday following, being • very stormy day, he requested hie servant to tarn a wheelbarrow up side down near • pile 0 ! bricks • at the same time desiring him to turn the wheel nr the ba'rrow with the right hand, cod to hold on with the left hand • brick, which proem• of brick grinding be lir vented as • modem penally,. for disobedience (the whey.' barrow being done over *ith • (malt coating of gn. „ta r ,, every morning to prevent the workman resting o o " Surely the worth• genius is deserving of an official sr pointinent in the (!hathisin Dockyard, to assist in alippreseng the insubordination of the convicts.— YorlsAire Gazette. WU witl reps be a Fidi nigh vole the , Pre* the Witt than Mr. Pier WTI lan DOW Buck priac piece melo, with riche bia re has b the X is pre Miss 1 The the Pi makes prineli atreo4 Amen mum The the IC Carth eDger suidel also b Meta( The dnune clever ezeelli comed Freed Koala; Trutt, rh,; of T impiw acted follow which tion a debuts SAD L*uri of lig! 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