The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-25 00:00:00

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Ose. lb& rad .dsd NM Loseill—liad MILL= AND JIM IN. —o , emosase al 7. P‘PICIUW‘ Twn Tvr.t.n, TPISICE Mk& llksuiv Ireebter. P-re, .h.r.p. sad fleagems: Ills Ile al,l TIII 111 A% I. PICTIoN. Measea t Matthews red Width- Innobe X.. •C. L•ciareg at It Hants. lIISITAVNIA. Twig ' , memo. iII.Y MIINNOR. MeeduessW Cniutard, an.l Law —miner.* by Mr. WM. Pourtimoto *ad Mr H •y•lney —YI: Y4:4o:L'Holt 1101 . 011111 L MANIC Jacobs twltW I..ita. Yceder. —And ZINUARELLA. Mn IL Boaster. NIGH *ATLI AT LOMPOC MUM TO AL Its. To.akellOW —Manila& as. r .... alkawisis. aWm LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 25. Poxrrne and history would be greatly simplified if the outward form of transactions were • safe guide to their real character—if, for instance, we might say of every revolt that it was a movement favourable to liberty, and that any attempt to repress it must be tyranny. This age has often been called to witness the disruption of old states and the rise of new ones by the process of seces sion. Men are alive who can remember the American war of independence, and in Europe, since the peace, we have seen the kingdom of Greece established by the courage of its people with territory torn from Turkey ; while in Italy the dismemberment of independent politics societies has been going on for the last three years and is still proceeding. It happens that all these movements have been, happily, in the interest of liberty and good government. This time last year it might not have occurred to us to write of the connexion between liberty and independence as casual and local. We might have been excused for taking it as fixed in the laws of modern progress. But at least it is certain that the secessions and disruptions of which we have seen so many, have been until now undertaken in the inte rest of freer and better government than that of the States rent asunder. So close has been the associa- tion of revolt with liberty, that we had almost forgotten that it could be otherwise, and that some of the most odious tyrannies the world has seen have been commenced by a war of independence. But it is argued—Revolt is revolt, and rebellion is rebellion, all the world over. The American colo nists; wanted to go free, and Gummi rat THUD tried to bold them by the sword ; the Southerners' also want to go, and Mr. LINODLN tries to detain them by force : if you do not blame Mr. Asaanan LiecoLs you cannot condemn King Ozoaos. By the same rule we might say, CALL WILLIAMS, being unjustly confined, broke out of prison ; JONATHAN WILD broke out of prima, therefore JONATHAN was unjustly confined. It is in vain to attempt • philosophy of the pretended right of revolution. The only justification of revolt is its necessity, and that is enough. But in the present cam, to judge of this necessity, so far as • people neutral indeed, but not indifferent to the fortune• and character of 30,000,000 of its brethren, is called to do, we must ask why the Southwest.* want to get out of the pale of the freest constitu tion the world ever saw, and what they mean to do. It is more than waste of time---it is mystifi cation—to wrangle about the so-called right to revolt, as if that were not a contradiction in terms. Those who wish to show that the Seceding States have any credit to gain by appealing to the prece dents of the Revolutionary War, must show that the objects of the founders of American liberty and those of the southern leaders are similar, or at least not contradictory. Of course no such de nionetration is forthcoming. When the English public reads that rasextisr acid PATHOS Haeav combining their talents fur the assertion of liberty, and Jarreassus Davis and Mr. Srarraes laying the foundations of an empire destined to expand freely to the West and South by the multiplication of bondsmen, resemble one another in carry ingout the principles of the Revolution, we cannot but respect the profound feelings with which Americans must see the fathers of their country thus dishonoured. The principles of Hexer and F . IN would have prevented the CAWS of this secession by anni hilating slavery had they not been successfully strualed against by the party which it is now pretended reproduces the principles of the Revolution. Is it not admirable that men should invoke on behalf of the projectors of a vast elaveholding State the names of men who have borne the most solemn testimony in favour of liberty I Let us hear what Pieraice HISS; who is brought forward so readily as the prototype of & Secessionist, said:—" Is it nut immuring that at " A time when the rights of humanity are defined " and understood with precision, in a country " above all others proud of liberty—that in such " an age and such a country we find men adopt " lag • species of violence and tyranny which our " more rude and boisterous but more honest an " meters detested, • principle as repugnant to " humanity as it is inconsistent with liberty r' The fatal political consequences to be apprehended from slavery were always weighing upon the minds of the authors of their country's independence. They saw that it would destroy Republicanism. But the temper of the men who now have place and power at Montgomery is very dif ferent. The Vice-President of the Con federation, in a solemn speech, made recently, after referring to the known aversion of JETTTABON to Slavery, as politically and socially, as well as morally, wrong, said :--" Our new Government "is founded upon exactly the opposite idea. Its " foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon "thegreat truth that the negro is not equal to the " white man ; that slavery, subordination to the " superior race, is his natural and moral condition. " This our new Government is the first in the hi s tory of the world based upon this great phy " skid, philosophical, and moral truth." Such is the liberality of the nuw state. This is the cause which we are invited to identify with the Revolution merely because both WASHINGToN THE EXPRESS, and his colleagues and Assisi and his accomplices had to cast off some restraints before they could commence the work of building up a Government. It was the free and righteous republic which justified the War of Independence. It is the dark and nefarious absolutism of the designs en- tertained at Montgomery that damns this move ment of Secession. The Free States of the North declare that the wicked scheme shall not be carried out—that the American Continent shall not be blasted with slavery, but be preserved for the multiplication and expansion of free com munities. We are told that the South claim to be the best judges of their interests, and hold that those interests require independence. We have not the least doubt of it. And if they can make that independence good they may become like the earthquake at Mendor.&—a "great fact," which men must perforce recognise. But until then the prayer of every true friend of liberty must be that an independence, vowed in advance to enterprises which defy the morality sad violate the interests of mankind, may never be attained. irk fours. OSBORNE, MAT 24. The Prince of Wales, atten:leti by Maior•General the Hoe. R. Bruce aad Major Teesdale, arrived yesterday 'Herron from Medially-hall, Cambridge. Her Majesty sad the Prince Consort, SO eompacied by the King of the Dodgier, the Coast of Fleaders, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alio., Prisms Helena, and Princes Louise, embarked in the royal yacht Fairy, and @teemed op the Bouthomptom Water. Her Msjesty returned at half-peat eaves o'clock. The ladies sad gentlemen in waiting were I. atteadeace. To-day, the ariverwuy of her Majesty's birthday, =heti. cities took place in cousequeoce of the mourning. Her Majeaty'a Corninimionera for the Exhibition of 1862 met yesterday at their offices in the Strand. Lieutenant -Colonel Stiadwall, who has been appointed General Superintendent and Munger of the Exhibition, entered on the discharge of his duties yesterday. Her Majesty's Commissioners have received notice of the appointment of a Joint Committee of the Chambers of Commerce arid Trade at Bremen, to act es a Commission for the exhibitors from that town. Dr. Victor Buhmert will be the Secretary to this Commission. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town of Thursday evening for Hawarden Castle, Fluitahire. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. Mike from the Lord High Commissioner of the laden Islands and the Governor of Canada. The Prince Consort will preside at the inaugur ation of the Royal Horticultural thrdena, at South lea. sington, on the sth of Jose, accompanied by the junior members of the royal family and the illustrious visitors 'Lying at the palace. Au address will be received, memo rial tress planted, ke. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury entertained at dinner last evening his Excellency the French Ambassador and Mdlle. do Flaheult , Emily Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset, the Marchioness of Claoricarde, the Earl of Duracell* the Marquis of Hartington, Lord and Lady Foley, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, the Earl of Makmeribury, Viscount Chide°, Lord Loughborough, Lord sad lady Charles Bruce, Viscount and Viscountess New. port, Colonel the Him. J. Macdonald, and the Earl at Dudley. The Earl and Counteal of Aberdeen have re- Woad to &Ovid from Egypt. 111. lordship continues is a habits sada of health. The Lady Charlotte and the Lady Dorothy Wentworth fitzwilliant have arrived at Edwardes Hotel for the emona tram Hawardea House. Sir John and Lady Catherine Boileau have ratweisol to town from visiting Sir Jute and Lady Pollan, at Itsolsolmisa, Huts. General Angerstein haa left the Brunswick Hotel, latutmotreet, for Westing Hill, Norfolk. Mina Coutta entertained at dinner, on Wednes day wooing, at her residence in Strathmatrset, his Easel limey the American Minister and Mrs. Adams, the Marquis of Tiallfteardise, the Earl and Coruna, of Eris sad Lady Alma Draw the Earl and Cogan= ml Yestiesleld, Via. semi sad Visomeatess Falmouth, lady Modem Wellesley, Lady Lopes, sir Thome sad lady Oedemas, Osionel sad lady When*, Harcourt, Sir James Kayo Ilbuttleworth, Oaaeral and Mn. Wyndham, Mr. sad Mrs. Bulb►, Mr. Gralihunt, Mr. Peagelley, Mrs. Yeaday, Professor nada, Professor Wheateloas, Mr. Jolla Abel Smith, he. Kra, William Paynter's concert, yesterday, at her reeidenes I. Belgraviowprine, was wemerenely sad inidesehly attended. The artiste@ premed weirs Madame Abend, Madame Nemo, Mifflin Pampa, Siam Bekirt, and liver Omani. Mr. Benedict presided at the plaaeforte. Lord Pelham, eldest son of the Marl of Chichester, win (rays the Seam Express) shortly lad to the bymeseal altar the beicatifal and emosplielied deaghter af the Hon. Bir Joha D. Bligh. ef Babcock Home, Budgets. A marriage is arranged to take place (says the Ihooderiend Herold) Wave. Mrs. J. Hughes, widow of Wesel Hu has, es I the Right Hoe. Wei. Hutt, M.P., vie ..preeeleat el the Board of Trade. Lord Herbert has appointed Major-General Sir Z. Loped, !C.C.S., to be permanent Uoder-Secretary to Us War Department, far the military division of the Wee. It ix conxidered not unlikely in nautical circle* that early its the present summer the Clianeel meet, is the owns d its cruise, will, is sureessios, visit Xilrani Hares, IDublia Bay, Belfast Lamb, Derry Lents, sad Us* Clyde, malting a short stay in each. The Lent Reeder et the Middle Temple, Dr. Robert Q.C. aad D.C.L., read ia the hall of the society, oe Tbumisy ~ming lest, oa his retirement from the Milos of Roeder, • piper on "Jarisdirtios," which was listened to by the Menem of the Bench end Other members of the society preheat with marked ioterest and attestioo, and the learned Reeler on tearing the chair wee warmly spplauded. Dr. Pbillifnor• is the first Master of the Beach wh. , , stem the year lfißit, has revived the eeriest practice of pablic readings of papers on law by the Reeder+ of the lam. Memoirs of the late General Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peoio.ular war, are in course of pre peratima by • ever relative of the Napier family. Mr. Moy Thomas is engaged in writing a Life of Lady Wortley Montage, which will, we (idioms/0 under. Mead, comprise the substance of more than five hundred letters of Lady Mary, her husband, and eon, hitherto ea pabliehed, besides a fragment of as autobiography of Lady Mary, and other family papers, all of which have been placed at Mr. Thomas's diepsaal since the feast publka- ties of his edition of her sort,.. Dr. Gray, who bag lately attacked the authority of M. Cluullu's book of Unveil, is elm of opinion, it appears, that "Dr. Livinptene is • vest humbug." M. Chains elneme :—" I am therefore mewled by being placed on • get with that illustrious explorer. This at least is certain, that tie naturalist who work. at home, safely sad luxe. rtswity hard i• his mu•enm, has now through my travels fa Asi an foredo the opportunity of acquiring the know ledge of the species. The r.,turn which Dr. Gray makes sea, ressiuds ml o 7 the ape Coat grins a malicious aural at the hand that has just gives it • daisty." The Meawe. Moak l ropose to give a dinner at Greenwich in c_lebration of the cornpletMe of tbeir mag nificent edition of the " F.ncyclopmlis, Britennica," on the sth of Jane. The Maater and Warden, of the Paintere' Corn pally ars getting up an Exhibitiora of Work. of Decorative Art. A private view will take place on Wednesday nest (Derby Day !), at the Oompaily's Hall, Queenhithe. The anniveritary meeting of the Royal Geogra phical Society will be hell at Burlington Hones, Piccadilly, ea Moeda,. The Gold Medal* " for the encouragement of geographical mimes and discovery" will be awarded to (*sprain John 'lusher Spike for his discovery of the great African lake Victoria Nyeosa, ke., and to John lVDotrall Stuart for his exploratioa of the interior of Australia. Mr. Watts (says the A th..afrent) hes expressed lie intention to leave to the nation, at his death, the valuable and interesting collection of contemporary por traits be has been for Wale years, sod is still forming. Among the pennons who haws eat to him from time to time may be mined Mr. Tennyson, Sir John Lawrence, Mr. layArd. Mr. Holman Hunt, the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Gladstone, and the Lord Chancellor. LATEST INTELLIoENI.E. RUSSIAN DESPATCH ON THE 'MAMA_ TION OF SYRIA. The following is the despatch addressed by Prince Gortchakoff to Count Kisselef, on the sub ject of the evacuation of Syria : TO we ZICELLJINCT COUNT 111148ILEP. St. Petersburg, May 14. M. Count,-- In proportion ea the term fixed for the evacuation of Syria approaches its expiration, we cannot but view that eventuality with increasing apprehension. Your Excellency was requested at the last conference at Paris to express the conviction of his Majesty the Emperor that the premature creation of the occupation, before a definitive orpaisation and the instalment of a regular power had replaced the guarantees acquired for the Christians by the presence of the European troops, would entail calamities which the great powers ought seriously to take into =- adoration in the interest of humanity and in that of their own dignity. We rate with regret that none of the *►eats which have since happened, or the =oust" which have reached us, are of a nature to dissipate these fears. We is. them even shared by foregoer, of all eons. tries resident in Syria, whose interest and whose very existence are at stake, and who have attested the una nimity of their wishes by a petition addressed, in the most peraimg terra, to the great power of Europe. Be so good, M. Count, as to discuss this subject with the representative. of the cabinets who shard in the last deliberations. We believe we should be wanting in duty if we did not call their attention to the dangers which would follow a recall of the troops if it were to take place pre cisely on the day fixed without any regard to the critical situation in which Syria would be left, and leaving unful filled all the preliminary conditions, which, in oar opinion, should have supplied the place of the guaran tor of which the Christ= populations will see them selves soddenly deprived by the departure of the troops which received from Europe the mission of providing for their safety. In such a oue it only remains to us formally to decline, es we have already dose, all responsibility se to the results of a deter sileatioe, the coosequeoces of which we have foreseen red iotheated. Your Excellasey is invited by order of our august master to allow no doubt to exist on this head to the minds of your oollesgues. —Receive, M. Count, kc., GorrceAcorr. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, MAI 25. no Royal Mail steamship Arabia, which arrived here at 4.15 a.m. to-day, landed all letters except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 4.45 a.m. All well. She brings 120 passengers, and 13,950 dole. for Havre. She left Boston on the 15th, and Halifax on the 17th inst. NEW YOWL, JILT 16. (Per Arabia by telegraph to Halifax and viL Queenstown.) The remains of Washington have been removed from Mount Vernon by the Virginians. The Federal government has notified to the foreign powers that it will cease to hold intercourse with soy foreign power which recognises any com missioners from the rebel states. The report that Breckenridge is to command under Major Anderson is probably untrue. A proposition is before the convention of dole gates in Western Virginia to separate from the eastern part of the state, and form a New Virginia. Over forty counties are represented in the conven tion. The Governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania have pledged the states to protect the unionist. is Wes. tern Virginia. COMMERCI A L INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY it (By telegraph to Halal.) The cotton market is firm. Middling Upload, 141. Flour dull. Au active hosanna doom in wheat for export. Good Takata, are firm, but inferior decliniog. Cara no chimp& NEW ORLEANS, MAT 15. Sales of cotton to-day, 1,500 balm ; middling, lli to 14 FRANCE. PARIS, MAT 25. The Moniteur of to-day contains imperial decrees nominating MM. Brenier and &mum as senators. ITALY. TURIN, RAT 24, Enarnia. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies questions were put by several members respecting the approaching celebration of the national fate. Signor Minghetti, Minister of the Interior, re plied, and stated at the same time that the dis turbances at Milan had ceased. BARE, IiAT 22 (via Nanolke). . . Christen, one of the military leaders of the reactionary movement, has returned to Rome. It is smarted that encyclical letters are being secretly circulated with the object of exciting agitation among the clergy. The French police is on the alert to prevent the enlistment of brigands. NAPLES, MAT 23. M. di San Martino, the new lieutenant of the King, has hewed a circular in which he intimates the intention of the government to uphold legality above the mov e ments of political parties. . _ He instructs the functionaries to whom the cir cular is addressed to listen to all complaints and diverse opinions, but not to entertain any accusa tion unless accompanied by proofs. In conclusion, be urges the strict execution of all orders trans mitted to them by the government. MILAN, XAY ft Tranquillity prevails in this city. The attitude of the troops, the National Guard, and the majority of the inhabitants is admirable. About 100 pawns have been arrested. POLAND. 'WARSAW, NAT 23.7. The law relating to the redemption of cousin& sory labour by the peasants in Russian Poland has been published. It indicates four different methods by which the redemption may be effected. The peasants will be finally relieved from all compulsory labour on the Ist of October neat. AMERICAN MAIL LIVERPOOL, FirmaDay. The Royal Mail steam-ship Australasian, which sailed to-day for New York, took out 221,3001, liti. in specie. Yesterday's Mundeur states that Mr. Dayton, the United States plenipotentiary. had had an radiator of Prime Napoleon and the Princtes aothilde. The Monifetir publishos the names of divers pennies in the humbler ranks of life who base recently proved their honesty by delivering into the bands of the police articles of value found by them in the streets.. Among them are :—Elisa Vernier, a newavender, who (mod • banknote on the Boulevard Muettnartre ; Claude Bent. Lemployed at the Prefecture of Police, w h o f oun d ee h ee h. h i dee ; t we boys named Pilot sad ABaia , mod respectively tee sad ohms yam, who found a parrs con taining 111 fr. is the Rae Droste; Pindaric Maillard, • fruite-er in the Martha St. Rework who fused a gold watch ; Agatha MaaPier, a wello_wwidwa.....whw (mad • gold brooch mthe R ue d e Rl eo ll ; newt maw, • journeyman whip maker, who (mad • gold bracelet art with diamonds, in the Rue Retire der Petite Champs ; H. Bonoefey, a 'ennui et t h e imi ns d on 4satre-Yeata, who returned • belt oat. Wining 1.0 00f. in gold, left in • bath-room by an American ; and two lad. named Wagner and Muller, who found a gold watch on the Pont d'Austerlits ; Guillaume Catcher, waiter in an hotel. Rue du Bonlot, who found hankmotee of the value of I,ooof. in the Rue Richelieu. In almost every come the owners of the property generously rewarded the basalt Madera • r. SAXIMIkt "EnNDTG, M" sb o q T 861: EXPRESS FROM PARIS. WWII on Ow PARIS, FRIDAY ETEVING. At the usual weekly reception of the corps diplo matique at the Foreign-office to-day, IL Thouvenel was so long engaged in conference with the English and Russian representatives, that be was obliged to put off his audiences with all the other foreign ministers till to-morrow. The protracted talk on this occasion related, there can be no doubt, to Syria and the East, and more especially to Prince Gortchakors recent despatch thereanent. As I see by the evening papers that Lord Cowley has accompanied Count de Flahaut to England, I pre sume that his secretary of legation, Mr. Grey, must have been with M. Thouveuel this morning in his place. The Pays contains a very curious paragraph, which is probably the result of the diplomatic con versation above referred to. After alluding ' to the mention made by the Nord of the Gortchakoff despatch, it says : This despatch and the sending of a Russian frigate to Beyrout [we have heard hitherto not of a frigate but of two fiesta] have occasioned a certain sensation. News. mongers have seen in it an indication of a closer under. standing between France and Russia. They have drawn conclusions which there is nothing to justify. The rela tions between France and Russia are such ea ought to be desired. [Such a definite semen°, is this must surely satisfy foreign powers.) The two powers ace speed as to most of the questions, which agitate Europe. [Query, can ea much be predicated of any other two European powers at the present moment!) Bat from this data of Wage to as alliance, and, ►bove all, to ea offensive &Mame, there is a great distend. And besides, limos and Rada do ant believe [so they think in nelson] in the existence of any imminent danger such as produces an alliance IA this kind. IiSVIEWS." The above paragraph, with its peculiar phrase ology, is evidently semi-official. I cannot tell exactly what has happened to the Freemasons. A placard is exhibited on the door of their Grand Temple, in the Rue Cadet, stating that all meetings are suspended, by order of the Prefect of Police. But as I find that the brethren held a meeting yesterday, at which the election of Prince Napoleon was solemnly confirmed, the step taken by the Prefect of Police may have been in tended to prevent Murat and hie friends from holding the meeting adjourned by him till to-day, at which they intended to dispute the election. The craft may thank Murat for introducing the police into their brotherly lodge. I learn from a good private source that M. de Persigny has received the Emperor's commands to draw up a report setting forth the reasons which militate in favour of a dissolution of the Corps Legislatif. The Prase and other evening papers give u "Latest News " two facts which I sent you several days ago ; first, that the French government is about to establish a uniform telegraphic tariff of lfr. for each department, and 2fr. for all France ; and second, that 22 Russian governments (I be lieve I said 27) are in a state of revolt upon the question of the emancipation of the serfs. _. _ The Bourse was totally devoid of interest, and extremely dull. The Rente fell Sc. for account, closing at 69fr. 40c. In railways there was scarcely a fractional change. M. About rends an extraordinary communication to the Opinion Nationale, of which the following is the substanoe :—On Wednesday, May 22, there was a funeral at the church of St. Pierre, at Mont martre. The defunct was a young married woman, the wife of M. Canard, living at Montmartre. The chief mourners were the husband and the wife's father, M. Boillet, of the Rue Faubourg St. Denis, No. 55. The two families being much esteemed, as many as 300 friends followed the corpse to the church. When the coffin was placed before the altar, and while the father and husband were weeping bitterly at its head, a beadle cried out in • loud voice, " Please to go into the offertory." As the mourners remained waiting to hear the funeral service performed, and nobody moved, the beadle re peated his injunction in a more commanding tone. Still no one stirred. (I think it should be ex plained here that to leave the corpse in the church and go into a separate room to offer alms is not a usual proceeding. The common course is for a priest to go round with • bag to the mourners as they sit. Had this been done in the present instance, few, doubtless, would have abstained from offering their mite. As it was, the probability is that the chief mourners, in their grief, did nut understand what was re quired, and their friends naturally remained with them.] An uncle of the deceased, M. Rouen, Rue de l'Empereur, No. 64, remonstrated by a gesture ; but the officiating priest exclaimed from the altar. "Oh ! you want prayers, and you will nut come to the offertory ; " and thereupon he rushed furi ously past the coffin, and went into the sacristy. One of the mourners, M. Donnuartin, an old schoolfellow of M. About, followed the priest, and found him pulling off his vestments. Hu told him that he was commit ting a gross breach of duty, and received for answer, "If you want prayers you must pay for them." Being very urgently called upon, however, not to leave the weeping relatives in their distress, he ultimately put on his robes again, returned to the church, threw some holy water on the coffin, mut tered a few words, and again retired, without per forming the usual funeral service. M. Donimartiu again followed him, and asked, "Is this all r' " Yes," said the priest, " I am not bound to do anything more." One of the mourners, on leaving the church, exclaimed, " What a misfortune to be • catholic Such is M. About's story. It is an ez parte one, and doubtless will be answered on the part of the priest. But as the case occurred not in Spain or in Rome, or in a French village, but within the walls of Paris, there can scarcely fail to be a thorough investigation. The Opinion Nationale heads the statement, " Avis aux morts— pas d'argent, pas de prieres." Dowictzu-anznz, MAT 35.—The Queen hoc been pleased to appoint Chula Mamarsl. Eeq., to be a member of the Legislative Conocilof the Island of Prime Edward; Frederick Warner, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Trinidad ; and Donald Fraser, David Canserou, and Alfred John Lingle y, Erin., to he members of the Council of the Island a Vancouver.— filerzette. AKKt V A L FROM SZBAJITOINIL — Tiro Cowlitz, Captain Potter, has arrived at this port from Piebourfo. pol, laden with a cargo of old rope, hoses, end guns. The work of raining the sunken vemaels from the bar boor prove. a very difficult and perplexing one. Can Potter informs us that the operation of getting under one vessel, the Twelve Apostles, oocuoied upwards of four months, and the rime r the case it respect to other weasels, for during the time they have been im mersed they have sunk about 20 feet into the mud, which I has t 3 be removed Ly divers before the chains can be ap plied Colonel Gowan has yet some 31i vends to Mies. Nothing whatever ha. been done as yet in the way of re building the barrack., and hospital. The vicinity of the Bolan, the Malakoff, the (larders Battery, the heights of the Alma, and other fortifications, are yet the scene of almost incessant labours on the part at the poor Jews and Tartars, who have dug to the depth of 25 feet below the forte in search of goo, and shot and shell, loads of which are being daily o away. Of hones, ton, although numerous cargoes have bees brought over to this country, the stock does not appear to be exhausted. The Russian government are apparently very still as regards the naval and military departments. For the promotion and facilitation of commerce, however, a patent slip has been constructed, and we la.lieve that • new shipping dock Is about to be man—Ha Pookd. TM! /4Pia DUTIES. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has put upon the order book of the House of Commons the following settee of motion :—" Schedule (D).—Specifying the articles upon which customs duties are to crass by this act. The duties of customs chargeable upon the goods, wares, and merchandise next hereinafter mentioned, imported Into Great Britain and Ireland, shall MOO and determine on and after the Ist day of October, 1861 (that is to say) : —Paper, viz.: Brown paper, made of old rope or cordage only, without separating or ex tracting the pitch or tar therefrom, and without any mixture of other materials therewith ; printed, painted, or stained paper hangings, or flock paper; for printing or writing ; gilt, stained, coloured, embalmed, and all fancy kinds, not being paper hangings or paper fit fee printing or writing ; waste paper, or paper of any ether sort not particularly enumerated or described, not other wise charged with ditty ; inillboarda ; pasteboard books : via., being of editions printed in or since the year 1801, bound or unbound, admitted under treaties of inter national copyright, or if of or from any British pose:with. Prints and drawings : viz., plain or coloured, admitted under treaties of international copyright, on and at the option of the im porter ; single ; bound." THE BISHOP OE SALISBURY c " ESSAYS AND The case of the Bishop of Salisbury v. the Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams will be removed by request from the diocesan court of Sarum to the Court of Arches at Doctors'. commons, and will he net down for hearing after the long vacation. There are many circumstances connected with the forthcoming trial which an of the highest importance to the interests of the church, and which are worthy, there fore, of being thus early noticed. Dr. Rowland Williams, the defendant, is a member of King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1841. He was Battie's Univers ity Scholar in 1848, but his name does not appear in the list of those who took honours, because at that time King's man were presluded from competing with menthe.. of other colleges Two or three yen ago Dr. Williams was pre. tented by his college to the vicarage of Breadchalke, Wilt shire, and it is this which brings into under the episcopal recognition of the Bishop of Salisbury. He is the author of the second article in the " Es says and Reviews," entitled " Bunsen's Biblical Researches.' In the course of the debate which took place at the hat meeting of Convocation a right reversed prelate, whose judgment is entitled to the highest reaped, expressed as opinion that the author of this essay was not so much stating his own views as giving an historical account of those of the distinguished diplomatist to whose writings hereferred. Should this be the view taken by the Court of Arches, the case of the Bishop of Salisbury must esossearily fall ; but we believe we are correct in saying that his lorchhip will rely, Ant, upon the general tendency of the coney in question, and, secondly, upon purges extracted from it, which tend to throw discredit upon Revelation, arising out al the discoveries of modern science, and which demi °sprees the individual opinions of Dr. Williams THE mrzieNarioNAL EXHIBITION OF 1862. DITZBRUPTION TO THE IGIOGBIBB OF TEE BUILDING. The works for the new building for the Inter national Exhibition of 1862 have not been allowed to proceed without interruption, as objections were taken to the mode in which it is proposed to be constructed, by the building surveyor of the district, who refused to sanction wooden staircases or a felt roof, as both being opposed to the as. s uiremests of the act of parliament. A power, however, is seated in the Metropolitan Board of Works, under the 116th section of their act, to give their ruction to works of an exceptional chanicter, and this sanction was readily and unanimously given on Friday fret, but it appears the dis trict surveyor denies the authority of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and will require the magistrate of the district to give his opinion upon the question. There is no doubt he will confirm the Board of Works in their decision, and it is gratifying to know that little delay will be caused by this interference, as the time lost in actual building is employed in collecting and preparing mataiale, which will on resumption facilitate the progress of the works. Up to yesterday evening the guarantee fund amounted to 404,0001. Her Majesty's ecUlMiaiiolloll yesterday received in formation that B e remen had appointed • commission to superintend the srta and industry of that country, formed of a joint committee of commerce and trade. Dr. Viehter Barnet, Syndicate of Chamber of Commerce, had been Dominated to conduct the correspondence. Ineuspect to South Australia, G. G. Walters, Esq., of -court, London, has been nominated to superin tend the interests of that country. For Tasmania the commission will coosist of Fred. A. du Cross, Esq., Joseph Milligany, Eaq., and dimes A. Y oul, . The legislature of Belgium will in the course of nest week consider a bill to authorise the application of 250,0001. for the purposes of the coming exhibition, and it is rumoured that the Emperor of the French will ask from the French Chamber a large sum for a similar object. Her Majesty's commissioners have received information that local committees have beam farmed ia the following additional places of the United Kingdom : Gloucester, Hertford, Hartlepool, Ipirwiels Kidderminster, Newark, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northainpton, Oxford, Stafford, Walsall, sad Worcester. no demands for spas for the United Kingdom far exceed what ma passiMy be pasted, as half theintilding will be reserved for foreign exhibitors. We regret to hear that the health of Mr. M. D. Hill, the Recorder of Birmingham, is in such • precarious state uto necessitate his leaving England for Germany for • time. A festival iu aid of a proposed monument to John Banyan will be held in the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street, on Monday next. In addition to the usual attractions of the Polytechnic, • number of Bunyan relics will be exhibited, with a model of the intended restoration of Banyan's tomb in Banhill-fields burying ground. Mr. C. Horsley's Gideon will be performed at the St. James's Hall on the 12th of next month. Mr. Mellon is to conduct. The band will be that of the Musical Society, and the singers will be Miss Stabbach, Madame Laura Baxter, Messrs. Sims Beeves, Champion, Henry, and Weiss. Mr. W. Searle has taken the Surrey Theatre, and will assume the management nn Saturday, June 1. Miss Marriott has undertaken the direction of the Standard Theatre, and commeoees her season no Mors day nest. The pairomgere to and from the London-bridge Station on Monday numbered 54,38 t, and to and from the Victoria Station 18,304; making, together with 4,500 season ticket-holders and others, the enormous number of 87,188 passengers in and out of the London ends of the line in one day. On Monday we bavo the M.C.C. and Ground v. " The Colt.'" at Lord'a, the Gentlemen of Kent v. the Players of Kent at Maidstone, the All England Eleven v. Twenty-two at Bedford, and the Surrey Club v. South. gate at the Oval; and on Thursday. the M.C.C. and Ground v. Staffordshire Hunt at Lord's, and the United All England Eleven v. Sixteen of the University at Oxford. ZOOLOGICAL G • RDENS. —Tile total number of visitors to the prices of the Zoological Society, in the Regent's-park on Whit•Mnnday, was 115,979 ; this was the largest number of persons that has ever been admitted to the gardens in one day since their opening to the public in 18'34; the nearest approach to this number having taken place on Whit-Monday, 114-57, when there were 23,014 visi tors. It is gratifying to learn that, under such extraor dinary eircurnatances,no accident of any kind took place ; the animals were in no way disconcerted by this great addition to the nand number of spectators, nor did the garden sustain any damage. It may be added, as en interesting incident of the day, that a fine female giraffe was born during the fore noon, and seems likely to do well in spite of its first appear. lance at so inconvenient unoment : —,4 thew/was. . . MR. A. STZUAZT, M. P.—A long letter from this gentleman, dated from Itaoffshirei, May 20, appears in the estsibridge CAroairk of to-day. la the course of it he says: —" It was right in medical advisers to say that lights, a crowd, and late boon might do no good. Happily they were wrong. I returned that night to Dr. N inslow's establishment, merely because I was in , formed that it wee contrary to their rules for patients to sleep out. Steps had already been taken to obtain a regular discharge ; and as I foresaw that public Red-Tape ism, and that alone, might cause • few day's delay, I left four days following on my own responsiliilty. My friends at Cambridge may be satisfied to learn that since then I have, in my native air, and giving moderate atten tion to my private business, been enjoying the best of health. • • • I should not be slow to ewe& to any intimation from old supporters either that I bad failed to express their senti wrote, or sou likely in future not to be what they would wish their representative to be, otherwise I have no menet intuition of resigning into their hands the trust committed to me. as by the first week in June at latest, and sooner, should I foresee a vote of first-rate ouneequence, it is my hope to he in my place at Westminster, with every con fidence for most of the remaining weeks of the session, with at lust ordinary regitlantv." THE FINE ON MIL. ALDZILMAN FERNAND/Z.—The lee of raw . impued upon Mr. Alderman Fernandes, of Wakefield, for refusing to answer certain questions in the ease of " The Queen v. Cluoienworth," has been paid by that gentleman during the present week to Win. Gray, Faq., the Ceder Sheriff of Yorkshire, on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Fernandes, as our readers are aware, was ordered to be "detained and kept in safe custody" in York Cattle fee the term of six calendar months, and ie now in prison on that commitment. —Yorkshire Gazdte. THE DERBY PROPHECIES. "Beacon," of Bell's Life, selects the following hones u those which are likely to be found at the starting. post on Wednesday next : Horses. Probable Riders. D!ophantus......Edwards Hones. Probable Riders. The Drake Aldcroft Athennone L. Snowden Aurelian J. Ginter Rays.!lieu H. Griunhaw Seven Dials Bopp Robin Hood W. Boy., Nautilus B. Snubs Grouse Charlton ...J. Osborne Xlarikoff G. Fordhim liettledrum Kildoosa -Clements Rouge Dragon Weth. .its Bombardier Kendall Challoner For winner the woe writer names DIOPHANTOB, Dundee sad Kettledrum finishing together, "unless separated by the Irish Bombardier, who, like Barbarian, in 1852, may be found to have aimed at quarry not so far above his reach as the discharge lately fired at him by the ' instal helms' would seem to imply." For the Oaks "Bacon" declares in favour of NillllllS. "Observer" of The Field names either lasaixory or Dmtrom for the Derby, and next to them, Dictator and Kildonan. For the Oaks he names Nennue. The fist of "Touchstone" of the Ere is Dictator Diophantus Dundee For the Oaks, Nemesia Lava Bilverissir .., " The Sphinx" of the Sunday Times names Dundee (1), Dictator (2), Imaus (3), for the Derby ; and Silverhair (1), Nomad' (2), Fairwatar (3), for the Oaks. " Harkaway " of the /forming Mendel writes:—" Having heard that John Scott's Derby-team bad arrived at Leather. head, I resolved to run down yesterday, and this morning (Friday) rose with the lark in order to be prevent on the Downs. Lord Derby and Lord Exeter came down this morning, and stoat 9 o'clock they made their appearance, accompanied by the prime of trainers and about a domn hones. Robin Hood was the first to catch my eye, but I don't like him. He stands 16 bands and an inch, and is big enough for • dray hone. Klarikoff is a more compact animal, and was closely annued by two or three touts, who profess to know a race hone when they see one. Their verdict was against him. The Drake took my fancy. He is very long, and covers a deal of ground in hie strike ; did. croft will ride him, sad those who have laid 50 and 100 to 1 • against him, believing that he will be an absentee, will be, anxious to back him when they see him strip in the paddock next Wednesday. Silverhair was also out, and goes well— her action being free and true in her gallop. This morning they had only or two abort but sharp canters, and, having their clothes on, but a faint idea can be formed of their con. dition. After they had been out about one hour and • quarter Mr. Scott ordered the horses in, and I had the good fortune to be allowed to accompany Lords Derby and Exeter through the stables after the grooms had dome them up. They all looked as fit as it was possible to make them, their coats shining like satin. If the Derby is to be won by an out. Oder, the Drake will be the horse. Robin Hood belongs to Lord Derby, and although I should be delighted to see so good a man pull it off, I am afraid his chance this year ia but a small one. Knight of St. Patrick and Knight of the Thistle are not at Leatherbeed. My correspondent at New market has written to the effect that Diophantus took 'a two-miles' gallop yesterday morning, and pulled up fresh and well." The eighty-first anniversary of the most popular and general of all English holidays bids fair to gunmen any of its former celebrations. At Epsom and the neigbbonrhood most of the available for both " nun and beast" has been secured. The Grand Stand has been re. painted, and Mr. Deeding, encouraged by the demand for private boxes and stables, has increased that accommodation by the addition of another row of private boxes since the Spring Meeting. Although somewhat bard from want of rain, the running ground, thanks to the are bestowed upon it., is in otherwise good order. The railway accommodation will, as usual, be found " equal to the occasion," both the London-bridge and South Western Companies having made admirable arrangement' for transport during the week. On the Derby and Oak, days cheap trains will leave London-bridge and Waterloo stations up to 9.15 a.m., and express trains from 9.30 to 2. p.m. Cheap trains will also leave the Victoria station up to 9.30 a.m., and fast trains from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. On the " off " days the hut trains will not commence running until 11.15 and 10.56 cm. respectively, until which hours cheap trains will be despatched at intervals. Much time may be seved and crushing and confusion avoided, by taking tickets in advance. These may be ob , taieed for both make, at Tattersall's, at the offices of the respective companies, and several other localities enumerated in the advertisements. Drarauerivz Fuss.—Yesterday morning two of the most serious fires that bees occurred in or near the metropolis for some time took plies. Tire most extensive was between the hours of two and three o'clock in a large range of premises belonging to Mr. H. W. Dove, carpenter and builder, Brent-street, Hendee. The building is • very extensive one, rod oomprised workshops, barn, stables, and dwelling-house. The discovery was made by the polio*, who immediately raised an alarm, when messengers were despatched for the engines of the London Fire Brigade. On their arrival, the firemen foiled the premises in one man of flames, which were also attacking the neighbouring pre mise*. The engines got to work in en admirable manner, under the direction of Mr. Staples, the district foreman, but the flames continued to spread with great rapidity. At last the building fell in with • tremendous crash, jeo pardising the lives of the firemen, who, however, thou gh ex posed to great danger, kept to their post, and copious streams of water were thrown upon sad into the blazing premise", but the flames were not extinguished until the premises of Mr. H. W. Dove, carpenter, Brent-street, Hen don, was burnt to the ground. The extensive premise* of Mr. W. H. Burton, builder ; Mr. Phillips, carrier ; Mr. coal merchant, and others, were also dama ged by fire and water. Another destructive fire took place in the Old Kent-road shortly before two o'clock, on the premises of Mr. G. Hurst, furniture dealer, Watt's terrace, and was not extinguished until the premises were burned dime, and the adjoining houses very cotieiderably damaged. Cease unknown. The loss will fall on the Sun, and other offices. THZ CASE or THE REV. Ma. IiATCH. —A mis statement of what took place before the Lord Chief Bernie chambers in "Hatch,. Lewis," on Thursday last, has gained publicity. The report represents that the application to the learned judge was for • certificate for costs, instead of which the certificate required to be given by the Lord Chief Baron is simply • certificate that the cause was a fit cause to be tried in • superior court and not in the county court. The verdict for 40e. entitles the plaintiff to coots ; but unless a certificate is given by the judge those errata are only given on the county court scale, which would lie "imply nothing ma compared with the actual costa in a suit of such a nature as the p resent. Th e application made to the L o rd Chief Hams by Mr. Garth on the part of the plaintiff, and op posed by Mr. Charles Pollock on the pert of the defendants, was fcr • certificate to this effect, rind his lordship's refusal to give his decision until the first four days of the term will in all probability lead to • motion on the part of Mr. Hatch for • new trial. CAPTURE OIF SHARKS ON THE IRISH COAST.—OH Saturday last some fishermen were engaged at their usual avocation (Made Kinsale Harbour, when the nets were found to be entangled in something. After some trouble they succeeded in drawing them in, and to their astonishment discovered that two of those monsters of the deep known as tasking sharks had their t a il s en t ang l e d in them. The animals made no struggle, having been, it is supposed, overcome by the fright, and ropes h a vi ng b een ti e d to their tails, they allowed themselves to be quietly towed &shots. They were measured, and one, from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, was 2$ feet long, and the other 21i. Two tons of blubber were taken from each of them. It IS sup posed that a number of sharks must have been outside the harbour, as a revenue cutter afterwards met another 'boat the same place. There being a harpoon on board, it was immediately plowed. and darted into the clerk's sid,, which at once started off at full speed. All the rope of the harpoon was soon run out, but the animal did not relax in its efforts to get away, and such was its strength and the violence of its struggles that it drew the vessel several miles out of its course, while the blood from the wound is• flicted by the harpoon tinged the sea around it. Finally. the rope snapped, and the monster escaped.- Cork RATIII incr. ACCIDSNT ON THE DUBLIN JUNCTION RAIL. WAY. —We regret to state that, on Tueollay night, accident, attended with serious and very destructive Tema`, occurred to the night mail train from Dublin. Thu train had approached near the main line station, about ten o'clock p.m., when (from the breaking of an axle, it is believed) a scone of dire confusion ensued. Th e t ruc k s got off the rail and were in en instant dashed right and left over the rails; some of them were even Buog over the rocks at the left lila of the road. Aix of the trucks were Numbed and the josas they contained greatly injured, if not altogether destroyed— much es whiskey in punchenno, butter, and various other commodities. There were fortunately but a few passenger carriages, and their occupants escaped uninjured. The •a 1 being completely blocked up, however, the psanrogers act obliged to remain where they were until the arrival of as engine with carriages, which were telegraphed for to Bow down. —Newer_ Telegraph. CRYSTAL PALACR.--MITVITH SHILLINII AND STI . miner DAT.-41ZDAT, MAT 24.—FOURTH OrERA C° 3 / . csirr.—Adminioes oe payment. 1,318 ; ditto be "a" ticks* 2,l3o—total, 3,448. The li against I *mete of 1( Panama the b ec i i were i t , that pod , ship (i v the Dr . the lk S hip iihoul ■ Lionel Tht %ad a tioue order Dr. in lon lived now a thiap i halt, wuUIHJ Tho To]. To h i To h a T. Ha B 7 d Hy bl go B 7 do 4, 0811 • By atii B! oft O g BY ri