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Lase Tit MIN OW isitmotp CIIJITLL tin little Woodsy. - And 1112 LITTLIt JOCKILT. L Jambs. 1101 WATIR AT LOTTION AUDIT. TAN Day.44•17/11, 1k ..ATareass. ft 10.. Tamossuw—lionim 1k lio.....Allsessm 4m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. Inc the Ittport of the Education Commissioners there is no subject which deserves more immediate attention than that which concerns charitable endow ments. Tho subject is not only discussed at great length in the Report itself, but it appears that there is a separate Report on the Charities, which will shortly be published. It might perhaps have been expected that any such special inquiry would have been superfluous, for a Charity Commission has been in operation for several years, with a separate establishment and a host of clerks and inspectors. If they have no great power to reform abuses, they still have ample power of inquiry, and indeed it appears that such inquiries have been made, and their results have been laid before the Charity Commissioners. These Reports of the Charity Inspectors, however, are never permitted to see the light. They are carefully excluded from the annual Reports which the Charity Commissioners lay before Parliament ; though it cannot be doubted that if these memo rials, instead of being buried in the lumber rooms in St. James's-square, had been made public, some vigorous effort would ere this have been made to render these splendid foundations more useful. If Parliament is still to be called upon to contribute a sum little short of a million sterling towards public, education it is not very unreasonable to insist that the money already devoted to education, shall pro duce all the results of which it is capable. The public taxpayer, when he is called upon to supply further aid to education out of the public ;Me, P entitled to require that the educational charities shall be turned to good account. "We " believe," said the Commissioners of Inquiry into the operation of the Poor Laws more than thirty years ago, " that if funds now destined to the " purposes of education, manyof which are applied " in a manner unsuited to the present wants of " society, were wisely and economically employed, " they would be sufficient to give all the assist " ante which can be prudently afforded by the " State." But as yet they have escaped all attempts to render them more efficient for public purposes. Opinions may differ as to some of the proposals of the Commissioners contained in the Education Report which has just been published, but it is impossible not to concur in the statement, that "in recommending the continued expenditure of " public money for the assistance of popular " education, they feel it their duty to consider " all the existing sources from which aid may be " derived." And for this purpose they recom mend in the very strongest terms a better employ ment of the existing charities. There are two sorts of charities to which the Commission direct attention. There are, first, those which, by the terms of the foundation, are devoted to education, and, secondly, those which, though intended for the poor, are not at present applied, but which, according to the opinions of the Commissioners, ought to be applied to education. There seems to be considerable difficulty in ascer taining the annual amount of these two sets of charities. According to the estimate made by suc cessive Commissions from 1818 to 1837, the former amounted to 312,544 f. According to the lam authority the income of the latter amounted to 167,9081. It is admitted that these estimates are very considerably under the present value. But unfortunately the Charity Commissioners are able neither to state the increase which has taken place in their value, nor the precise number of children for whose instruction they provide. Confining ourselves at present to the educational charities, it is abun dantly clear that they do not produce results pro portionate to the pecuniary means employed. It would be difficult to select a more glaring owe of this waste of endowment than that Oi Christ's HospitaL It seems that the governing body of the institution had some doubts as to whether it came within the scope of an inquiry into popular education. They probably had never read the charter, which declares that they owe their exist ence to "the pity and compassion" of King Zowaan VI., when he looked "on the miserable " estate of the poor fatherless and mother " lees children, and sick, sore, and impotent " people." It is certain that at the beginning the children in the Hospital really belonged to the poorer classes. But this, with many other in junctions of the royal founder, is to a great extent ignored. According to the evidence of Mr. GlL pis, the Treasurer, the amount of a parent's income which disqualifies a child for admission is not and never hes been defined. Within the last 20 or 26 years the number of children whose parents have an income exceeding 3001. a year has considerably increased, and in some few instances the income of the parents has exceeded 6001. It can hardly be supposed that even the Almoners of Christ's Hospi tal can seriously believe that these are the children for whom the foundation was originally intended. The real objects of the royal benevolence are not the present children of Christ's Hospital. A few of them sent from the parochial schools which have rights of appointment attached to them, may fulfil the original intentions of the founder. But the rights of the poor whom King Euween proposed to benefit have been confiscated. in stead of obtaining those benefits to which they are entitled, their children are educated at their own expense, or out of the public funds. The history of the usurpation is instructive—its magnitude le startling. It shwild be observed that the re- venues of the Hovital in the year 1859 amounted to the enormous rum of 53,9301., of which 6,0007. was derived from the " benevolences." or donations of 500!. each, paid by twelve gentlemen on being appointed (;overnora. This vast revenue is absorbed Ly the expense of educating and maintaining 1,100 or 1,200 children, mostly of the class of well-to-do parents. The sum, therefore, spent upon each of them is 531., to which the parents contribute not one farthing ; whereas it should be remembered that the children of the really " poor " and independent are educated at the cost of 28s. a year, a considerable proportion of which is contributed out of the public purse. Nor should it be forgotten that London has derived more aid from the public funds than almost any district in the kingdom. But who are those favoured children? Who holds the key which unlocks the door of this metropolitan trea sure Are these appointments, like the scholarships of Oxford and Cambridge, the foundations of Eton and Winchester, and the military schools of Woolwich and Sandhurst, open to the lad who proves himself of the greatest capacity I Do thew presentations, as used by the authorities of Christ's Hospital, exert any influ ence proportioned to its wealth and fain. on national education I Far from it. It is the deli berate opinion of the Duke of NIWCASTLE, Sir Jona CUL11111.416, and their colleagues, that these presentations do the very contrary. The evidence is conclusive that those funds, as at present admi nistered, instead of inducing parents to bestow special care upon their children, induce them to neglect their offspring. "We have been inun " dated," mays Mr. Glirtw, the Treasurer, "with " children who did not know their letters." "We have had children," he adds, " who, after they " have been at Hertford"—the branch establish ment for younger children—" for two years, have " hardly been able to spell." Again, the Trea surer declares : "We were positively met upon one " occasion, when a child came for admission, by the " factthat he reallydid not know his letters. I asked " the mother what she was about ; she was the "mistress of a national school, and I said, What " ' can be the reason of this ?' The reply was, " We knew he was to have this presentation, and " therefor , we did not take the trouble to educate him " at all.'" " How not to do it" has generally been considered one of the most favourite official problems, but not even the Admiralty has reached the height of paradox which has been attained by the Almoners of Christ's Hos pital. With a revenue of more than 60,0001. entrusted to them for the promotion of education their ingenuity has enabled them to employ it in such a way as to discourage education and to de moralize parents. And the means by which this result has been obtained are worthy of note. Of the 485 Governors the vast majority are what are called Donation Governors—that is, they have their right of presentation by the expenditure of 5001. The rights of presentation thus purchased extend to all the places of the Hospital except about 100. The rights are so absolute that it is doubtful whether the Hospital has legal power to refuse any child, however ignorant, presented by a Governor. Lest year, for the first time, it was attempted to refuse say child admission who could not " read " fluently the four Gospels." But one member argued 3 "I have Made myself a governor here, "and if I choose to send my boy to this, which is "a large charitable school, it is your duty to teach " him ;" and the argument, on being referred to the solicitor of the charity, was declared valid. If the solicitor be correct, what follows?—that the revenues of a public institution amounting to 57,0001. are subjected to an absolute right of pri vate patronage for the sake of an additional sum of 6,0001., and this without any shadow of justi fication from the terms of the Charter. It is not surprising that the Education Report recommends the discontinuance of the system of Donation Governors, and insists upon a reorganization of Christ's HospitaL But it is surprising that these abuses should have so long continued, and that the Charity Commissioners seem to have made no inquiry whatever into the subject. Tex multiplication of Hospitals for the treatment of maladies separated for that purpose from the general and complicated varieties of disease, and the peculiar merits claimed for institutions of such an exclusive character, form a topic which was 'very usefully discussed last year in that " dead " season " but for which so many important public and social interests would never get the attention they deserve. And although, as must happen in a general discussion, much that was advanced wee too vague to be of practical value, the fact was made clearer to the public mind that on the whole neither the interest. of science nor the public have anything to gain by establishing our organisations of medical relief upon the minute subdivisions of disease. While, however, this was the chief nett result of the controversy, while it is now made clearer than ever that the study of disease at once in its unity and variety is best subserved by the maintenance of great hospitals, where disorders of all types are brought together, it has never been questioned that there are forms of human suffering which from their very nature require the existence of special institutions. To-day, departing from our usual practice respecting public charities, we wish to say • few words on behalf of one of these. We do so for • special reason. There are some modes of benevolence which assert their own claims and powerfully attract assistance. There are others which, although they may be even more useful, are not suited to ostentatious appeals to the public. To those whose kindness is regu lated by discrimination, we wish to recommend the present situation of an isolated and much needed charity, St. Mark's Hospital, in the City. road. This institution, founded for the treatment of a class of diseases the most painful and repulsive, suffering in its most afflictive form and aspect, the penalty of no sin, no crime—not even of excess —end from which neither high nor low, rich nor poor, can claim or count ou exemption, was established in 1835, and is now dispensing its benefits upon a larger scale than ever. It is not, therefore, a novel project of doubtful utility, nor • decaying institution from which the vitality is de parting, that we recommend to a larger measure of public support. The question here is not com plicated, as is often the cue with public charities, with any interests other than those of the suffering poor ; it is one of the simplest that can be imagined —it is to what extent the public will enable the Hospital to dispense the peculiar relief it cable to afford. No complaint is made that the claims of the charity have not been recognised so far as they have been heard. It his been enabled since its foundation to succour and relieve 13,500 patients, and its later years have been those of its greatest prosperity. It now makes up thirty beds, and re lieves about three hundred in and four hundred and fifty out patients • year. Its managers are gentlemen well known to tha public, and it should be men tioned to their credit and that of the officers of the Hospital that the cost of patients does not exceed 21. Os. 9d. per head, including every expense and outlay connected with the establishment St. Mark's Hospital has thus attained • recognised status, it has overcome the obstacles which ful and benevolent. But at the present time it needs the help of the public. As the nature of the benefits dispensed become better known, the demands upon it become more numerous and urgent. It is now more than ever the resort of the afflicted poor, many of whom, after having exhausted their means upon the un principled empiric, have been by him hopelessly consigned to a miserable existence. A debt, not too large to be extinguished by a slight exercise of the public benevolence, but which impedes the development of its usefulness, has to be extin guished, and if the range of its benefits is not to be contracted, its funds must be speedily reinforced. Unable to appeal powerfully to the imagination of the public, we simply state these facts, and rely on its compassionate regard for sufferings which cannot obtrude themselves on public notice. beset all undertakings in their early stages, and grows in the estimation of the thuught- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, jou. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ogs OWX PAttL% TOZSDAY Evwiio. The translation of the remains of Napoleon L from the provisional vault in the chapel of St. Jerome in the Invalides, where they have lain for twenty years, to the grand crypt destined for their permanent resting place, was accomplished at two o'clock this afternoon. The Emperor, the Empress, the Imperial Prince, Prince Napoleon, Princes Lucien and Joachim Murat, and the other mem bers of the imperial family, were present at the ceremony, as well as the members of the imperial household, the marshals and admirals, and the Governor-General of the Invalides with his staff. The coffin was removed to the crypt, which all visitors to Paris have seen, and which is only a few yards from the temporary grave, by twenty-four Cent Gerdes. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris performed vespers. After the ceremony the Em peror reviewed the Invalides, and distributed crosses to some of the pensioners. The Murat movement goes on. The Patrie announces as " latest news " that General Ulloa has arrived in Paris, from Naples, with a petition covered with 750,000 signatures, praying that Murat may be King. Is Muratism then really to be dealt with as a serious matter 1 Is it for this that Baron David, one of the many left hand members of the family, wax so emphatic in pro claiming the unity of Italy to be a Utopia 1 Is this the explanation of the reticence of MM. Baroche and Billault 1 These questions must be answered, and that soon. Muratism, if patronised by the Emperor Napoleon, would be an alarming breach of the understanding which prevents him from being regarded as a public enemy in Europe. It has long been thought, and Napoleon 111. has gained immensely by the supposition, that he had renounced that part of bis uncle's policy which consisted in carving out king doms for his own relations. Better the old divine right of legitimist& than a mushroom divine right of a Corsican family to manipulate universal suffrage all over the world. The pretension will be a canes be2li. I f the Emperor really thinks of sticking up Murat at Naples, he must be preparing for a ge neral war. The Phase, in reproducing from the Pays, Patrie, and Constitutionnel the manifesto of Prince Murat, observes that it is " regrettable to see Prince Murat speaking in terms which ultramon tanists and counter-revolutionists might adopt, of that glorious movement which has already con stituted a nation of twenty-two millions of citizens, and will certainly make Italy one and indivisible." The Opinion Nationale speaks with contemptuous indignation of Murat's canvass, and refuses to give his letter a place in its columns. The treble-dyed traitor, Liborio Romano, is the man who has lately been working the Muratist intrigue in Naples. On Thursday the Emperor will review the Ist division of the Ist corps d'armie in the court of the Tuileries, and it is said that in the course of the next and following weeks he will successively review all the divisions of the army of Paris. In the present anxious state of the public mind on the question of peace or war, it is not surprising that this announce ment should occasion much speculation. The Bourse was much disturbed by the news of the revolt at Agree'', and the various rumours of war. The Rente fell 35c. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at 67fr. Wk. and 67fr. 70c. Mo biller fell 10fr. The Orleans Railway fell Bfr. 750. ; Lyons, tifr. 25c. ; and Eastern, Western, and Southern, 3fr. 75c. each. Northern is unchanged. M. Brian, an ex-prefect, has been appointed pro visional d irector for one month of the eonstitutionnel and Pays, which, you are aware, belong to M. Mires. The Debuts, in an articleexplanatory of the sense in which it understands the much abused word revolution, took occasion to express its pleasure in the belief that the moment was not far off when the government of France, following up the decree of November 24, would think it nut dangerous to restore to the country the full and entire enjoy ment of its rights. The Pays objects very strongly to the use of the words " restore," and " rights," because they imply the restitution of something which has been at a former period taken away. Now the Pays argues that the imperial government, whose powers are all sanctioned by the plebiscite of 1852, never took away anything from the country. Therefore it Wales for the use of the word " gift," and not " restitution," as applied to the decree of Nov. 24, and upbraids the Dibata for its imperti nence in talking about public "rights." Such advocates 118 the Pays represent the empire in the most odious light possible, and revive pages in its history which people would be glad to forget. Thus, according to the Pays, the catch vote of 1852 was au absolute and unconditional surrender of French liberties into the bands of the Emperor, his heirs and successors, for all time—posterity is irremediably bound by the vote, and can only hope with fear and trembling for concessions of the mere motion of the monarch, such as the Czar of Russia may grant to his serfs. A more damnable doctrine and position could not be propounded. The Duke de Modena is about to leave Vienna for Venetia. General Cabrera, Count de Meters, has ar rived in the Austrian capital from Modena. We read in the Oat Deutgche Post of Vienna : " Our subscribers are entreated to pardon us if they failed to receive our yesterday's (Saturday's) number, as it was seised by the authorities. We reprinted the affidavit of ' Kcesuth, published by the English journals, and which several eveniug journals of Vienna and of the provinces bad given the day before without molestation. in fact it is not possible to speak of a trial which is proceeding before the eyes of Europe, and in which Austria plays the prin cipal part, without citing the documents, even though they contain false statements. Moreover, we took special care to accompany the affidavit of Kossuth with ' some very energetic comments, notwithstanding which the authorities have acted with rigour. The Vienna Gazette announces that the Wanderer and tho Press, which had given the document the day before without being seized, will be prosecuted. Let us hope that these proceedings will throw some light upon the principles involved in this matter —principles upon which it is indispensable that a liberal ministry should have a definite opinion." The Martinique journals give detailed accounts of the reception of Prince Alfred at Fort de Frame and St. Pierre, where he arrived on the 7th ult., on board the St. George. As the prince was on board as a midshipman, serving like others of the same rank, the commander of the St. George was obliged to refuse any personal invitation to his royal highnem, whose incognito was to be strictly observed. But in order to have the honour of his company at dicner, Admiral de Maussion. de Candi, the governor, addressed a personal invitation to Captain Egerton, accompanied by blank invitations for him to fill up as he pleased. On landing, the whole party accompanied the governor on horseback to the Forts St. Louis and Desaix, where they found the garrison drawn up in line at exercise. As if surprised by the unexpected arrival of the governor, the troops presented arms and rendered military honours. On Captain Egerton 's complaining of this apparent infriagement of the incognito, the governor replied that, being under 1111111, the troops could not omit rendering the military honours to himself. A salute of 21 guns was also fired as the prince entered each of the forts, and for this also a similar excuse was offered. The public rejoicings on the occasion of the priuce's visit were most brilliant. Their) were a dinner, a hall, an illunduatioo, sod fireworks. CD, Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Aran. 2. The Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal) attended by Countess de Brithl, Countess de Hohenthal, and Count de Furstentein, left Windsor at seven o'clock this morning for Berlin. The Prince of Wales accompanied the Crown Princess to Dover, and returned to the Castle five minutes before four in the afternoon. He was attended by Major-General the Hoc. K. Bruce and Captain Grey. Captain Grey has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel as Equerry-in-Waiting to the Prince of Wales. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. DOVER, TOZISDAY. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia and Princess Royal of England arrived at Dover this morning a few minutes before eleven o'clock, by special train of the Southampton Railway, en route for Berlin. The Prince of Wales accompanied his sister as far as the purt, and did not leave her until be saw her wife on board the John Penn mail packet, which was specially retained to convey her Royal Highness to Calais, by which route she reaches the Prussian capital. A concourse of fashionably dressed spectators was as sembled at the railway station—among them the Mar. chioness of Ely, who happened to be staying at the Lord Warden Hotel, and who was reeogoind by the Princess Royal apparently with much pleasure, as soon as the train had come to a stand-still, and warmly shaken by the hand. The Bishop of London, and Lady Augusta Cadogan, were also among the spectators. Their Royal Highnesses were officially received by Brigadier-General Garnek, who haiku* succeeded Major-General Cranford in the command of the garrison, and who was presented to the Prises of Wales by Colonel Cuppage, IL A. In addition, Captain Trinott, R.N., the naval superintendent of the port, Brigade-Major Jaws, and other officers were present, besides the Mayor of Dover (Mr. J. Birmingham), and Mr. Gordon Thompson, the deputy-chairman of the South Eastern Railway Company. On alighting at the railway station their Royal High. nuns proceeded to the Lord Warden Hotel, whence • tele. graphic mesasge was despatched to her Majesty at Wind ier, announcing the safe arrival of the Princess Royal at Dover. The stay of her Royal Highness, however, was of very brief duration. In about ten minutes carriages with mounted postilions drew up to the door of the hotel, and the Princess Royal and suite, still accompanied by the Prince of Wales, were driven along the Admiralty Pier towards the place of embarkation, the ground being kept by • detachment of the 21st Regiment, and • guard of honour of the GOth Rifles being drawn up at the landing stairs. The parting of the Prince of Wales and the Crown Princess of Prussia, hurried as it was, was not witnessed with. ' out emotion by the spectators, and the whole proceedings were marked by an absence of the demonstrations usual on these occasions. Their Royal Highnesses and their at tendants were of course clad in deep mourning, and mourn ing habiliments prevailed to a very large extent among the crowd of persons assembled both at the railway station and the Admiralty Pier. As her Royal Highness stepped on bond the packet the sun shone out with all the gladness the fickle month of April can be expected to exhibit, and although • stiff keen prevailed, rendering the passage aerosol the Channel direful ' to the contemplation of ordinary landsmen, the weather was all that so excellent • sailor as her Royal Highness could desire, and gave promise of a fine day for the conti nuance of her journey homewards. Mr. Churchward and Captain Sniithat were in attendance upon the John Pena (Captain Matthews), and the latter remained on board while the packet made the psesage. The Prince of Wales returned to the Lord Warden, sad, after partaking of a slight luncheon, left per special train for London-bridge • few minutes after twelve o'clock. The arrangements for the arrival and departure of the royal thins were made with the thoughtful attention usually exhibited by the station superintendent at Dover, Mr. E. T. Way. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDOK _PLYIIOII3III, WIDIVIDAY MOIIIING. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has "Mani hers, accompanied by General Foster and Colonels Chapman, 'creole, and Bingham. His Royal Highness was received by Major• General Hutchinson, Commander in Chief of the district ; Colonel Owen, Brigade Major Kirk, Captain M'Kinnoo, and Lieutenant Ricamington, aidse-de camp. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Earl and Lady Constance Grew Tenor, and Lady Blantyre are staying with the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, at Cliefden, Bucks. Thu Countess of Westmoreland ham arrived at Curzon House from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, at Badminton. His lordship is expected in town on Friday from Northampton. The Earl and Countess Stanhope have returned to their residence in Grosvenor-place from Cherening Park, Kent. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the Hon. Peregrine Oust will leave town on Saturday on a visit to Lonl Churstoe, at Lupton Heels, Devonshire. Lieutenant-Colonel and Lady Florence Cust are aborUy azpoetod in town from a tow of Virile A rnamage is stated to be arranged between Mr. J. Eyre, a Emma catholic gentleman of large property in Ireland, and the Lady Milford. Her ladyship ia a daughter of the Earl of Wicklow, and married in 1854 u his second wife, Robert, late Lord Milford, whose title became extinct on his death in 1857. Mrs. Washington Hibbert's first ball, at 34, Dover-streak Piccadilly, is axed for WedoeKlay, the Lt of Xsyl Mr. Newton, Mr. Levern's predecessor in the British meoulate, has just returned to Boma, with the intention of examining and reporting to the British govern ment upon the term cotta and Etruscan gold and jewel departments of the thimpana collection, which there is moms probability will be purchased for the British Museum. The selection recently made for the Remiss govirnmeot has not impoverished the collection in the departments just mentioned. and some of the special prizes upon which the Czar now congratulates himself, such as the Etruscan warrior's silver helmet, were ever considered 68 of dubious authenticity by the British connoisseur agents. THE GRAVE OF "L. E. 1.." TO Till ZDITON OP TIII Exnums. Si;—! OgseiWelniour paper • question about the grave of "L E. 1," steeps Coast Castle. Having just returned from the spot sad lasing bees preesst when the governor laid the emus, I ma corroborate Mr. Blacklock's statement. The tablet referred to by Dr. WWilliani is isserted into the wall of the steps leading to the Palaver Hall, at the rear of "L E. L's" grave. Themes ism the =Melt The tee red tiles marking the grave basing very much worn 1 had them taken up and rewind, sad bare portions of the old ones by me. Major Cochrane, commanding the Cold Coast Artillery, has taken an admirable photograph of the tablet, with the inscription, a °TY of which is in sly prerion. and affords another proof of the correctness of Mr. Blacklock's atatemeeL I am. he. WM. LATH. NOBLE, Captain Royal Esigiaears. Caked Park, Reading, Apnl LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. The following appears in the Opinione of Turin of Sunday last : We have received, by a despatch from London, intelli gence that her Majesty Queen Victoria, in responding to the proclamation of the kingdom of Italy, has informed the Marquis d'Azeglio that she will receive him in future in his official character as envoy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary of his Majesty Use King of Italy. The Swiss federal government has also announced to Chevalier Joctau that it will be happy to continue with the government of the King of Italy the friendly relations which it hoe hitherto maintained with tho government of the King of Pardinia. We have reason to believe that this official recognition of the kingdom of Italy by England and Switzerland will be followed ere long by a similar meg nition on the part of other powers. The Unita Italiana states that General La Marmora has withdrawn his resignation. The same journal states that clandestine enrolments, made contrary to the wish of Garibaldi, have been discovered, and that the government is taking ener getic measures to put a stop to them. A communication from Naples of the 26th ult., in the Patrie, says : Oar tine Hungarian legion is about to receive imposing reinforcements. This morning the C,4hise arrived from Constantinople with 186 Hungarian volunteers, among whom are several officers who distinguished themselves in the war of independence of 1848. On landing they were received by the officers of the legion, and General Veehter congratulated them on their arrival. They soon after took the railway and proceeded to the garrison of Nola. The next packet from Constantinople is to bring 200 more Hungarians. The military bearing and the discipline of the legion is irreproachable, and the officers belong to the first families in Hungary. (Rwria's TURIN, Aram 2 In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Hassan made an interpellation in reference to the affairs of Naples. He maintained that there would be no safety for Italy unless she was united. He criticised the present organisation of the Neapolitan provinces, and proposed several reme dies, one of which was the suppression of the Council of Lieutenancy. Signor Paternostro expressed his regret that a factious minority had caused anarchy in Sicily. MM. Amari and Crispi are expected to reply to this accusation. The minister will answer the interpellation to morrow. GARIBALDI. GENOA, Aram 2. Garibaldi left Caprera on Sunday evening last, and has arrived here. It is believed that he will proceed to Turin. TURIN, TOISDAT, AMC, 2. • Garibaldi left for this city immediately after his arrival at Genoa to-day. He had • conference with the King at noon, the result of which is not yet known. FRANCE PARIS, WEDNVIDAY. The Moniteur of to-day announces that Count Rodolph d'Ornano has been raised to the rank of Marshal of France. The Constitutionne/ publishes an article, signed by its secretary, M. Boniface, explaining the letter of Prince Murat to a friend at Naples, which has been published in some French papers. The article says that the letter was only written for the pur pose of giving some explanations, and adds :—" We are authorised to declare that this document is al together of an individual character, and in no way engages the policy of the government, to which it is evidently contrary." RI7f3SIA. The Journal of St. Petersburg of the 25th has the following : Yesterday (Sunday), ►t half-past 1 o'clock in the after noon, a touching demonstration was witnessed at Edenbu.-g. As the Emperor, accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duke, was leaving the winter palace for the weekly inspec tion of the Michel Riding School, • deputation of workmen and peasants, sent by a crowd of seve ral thousands, assembled in the square, presented themselves to his Majesty, and expressed to him in simple and touching language their gratitude for the measures which have recently accomplished the abolition of serfdom. The Emperor, in his reply, after reminding them that eman cipation had been the desire and the preoccupation of his august father, who had commenced the work, gave the de putation some wise and paternal advice as to the Chris tianly, honest, and orderly conduct, which It was necessary that the newly-emancipated should observe If they wished to find in their free condition all the benefits of self•respect and interest which it can secure to them. His Majesty, having then left the palace, was loudly applauded by the immense crowds of people, workmen, peasants, &c., who pressed upon his passage, and covered the vast square throughout its extent. ST, PETERSBURG, TOTADLT. It is said that Prince Gortchakoff has addressed a circular, dated the 90th ultimo, to the Russian representatives abroad, stating " That Russia and Europe have witnessed the proof that the Emperor, far from deferring, takes the initiative by granting reforms, and prosecutes them with perseverance." " The Emperor," continues the circular, " desires that what lie has granted should become a reality, and open to Poland a path of regular progress." WARSAW, TUISDAY. Another proclamation, addressed by Prince Gortchakoff to the people, has been published, which says : " The important moment compels me to again address to you words of reason. "The institutions which have been promised you guarantee the dearest interests of your country, religion, and nationality. These institutions will be sincerely carried out. " Avoid disturbances, which the governmeut cannot approve, and which would iinpedo all pro gress." HUNGARY. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Patric of this evening publishes news from Vienna announcing that the Emperor had rejected the democratic programme of the Hungarian leader, M. Desk, who demanded the absolute separation of the administration of Hungary from that of Austria. The Emperor declared that he intended to abide by the reforms lie had already granted. It was thought that, in consequence of this state of things, Baron Schmerling would with draw his resignation. VIENNA, WEDSZADAT. The Oesterreithische Zeitung says :—" Upwards of 250 Hungarian volunteers, provided with Mol davian passports, have embarked for Constanti nople, with the intention of proceeding to Naples." TURKEY. CONSTINTTNOPLE, M►ece 27. Sir Henry Bulwer has presented a project of financial reforms to the Porte, advising the publi cation of the budget, retrenchment iu the expendi ture, the consolidation of the public debts, and the issue of guaranteed paper money. This scheme hae been well received by the Divan. Troops have been hastily sent tothe coast border ing on Montenegro. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, TIIIINDAT. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara , Captain Moodie, from Boston on the 20th and Halifax on the 21st ult., arrived here at 5.20 p.m., landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 5.35 p.m. She brings 28 passengers. She was de tained off Halifax 28 hours by a snowstorm. She experienced strong easterly gales all the way across the Atlantic. The steamships Canada and Palestine, from Liverpool, had arrived out. The New York Herald publishes in full th 4 [sew tariffs of the Southern and the United States. It praises the former, but condemns th e latt er . It was stated iet no duties would be imposea on goods passing through the Confederate States for states beyond their jurisdiction. Mr. Charles Adams had been appointed United States minister to England, and Mr. William Day ton minister to France. Mr. Lincoln still refused to receive the Southern Commissioners. It was expected that Major An derson would withdraw his force from Fort Sumter on the 23rd tilt. The mode of surrender had not been decided. The barracks on :the river Brazos and at San. tiago had been surrendered to Texas. A collision was anticipated in Texas between the unionists and the secess►onists. The Southern Congress had adjourned until May without adopting the uew tariff. North Carolina had voted against the holding of a convention by a majority of 1,200. The Louisiana Convention had rejected the Southern Constitution. It was stated that the Havre customs authorities had notified that ships belonging to the seceded states would be received on the same footing as those sailing under the Federal flag. The Philadelphia banks had resumed specie payments. The Canadian parliament assembled at Quebec on the IGth ult. It was stated from New Granada that Mosques& continued triumphant. The Jamaica Rouse of Assembly had voted 1,0001. for the reception of Prince Alfred. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Manes 19. Stocks fluctuating. Erie, 32 ; thiaois Central, 80f ; New York Central 78i. Exchange : Bankers' bills, 100 g to 101. Breadstuff, and cotton firm. Sugar in fair demand. Coffee quiet. Freights steady. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 18. Cotton : Sales 22,000 bales. Middling, llf to 121 c. QUEENSTOWN, Wrzninstur. The Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama, Judge P. A. Rost, of Louisiana, and Colonel A. Dudley Mann, the special commissioners of the Southern Confederacy to England and France, were to sail from Savannah on the 27th ultimo for Southampton. THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. LISBON, Aran 2. The Royal Mail steam-ship Oneida, with the Bra zil and River Plate mails, arrived here this even ing. She brings 24,626/. in specie. At Rio Janeiro, on the 12th ultimo, exchange on London was quoted 28 d. The coffee market was firm. The prices of superior sorts had advanced 100 rein since the 25th February. Good first was quoted, 61.00 to 62.00 reis. Shipments since the departure of the last mail 119,704 bags, including 36,802 for the Channel. Stock, 70,000 begs. Freight 455. to 50s. At Bahia exchange on London was quoted 24. Cotton, 82.00 reis. Exchange on London at Pernambuco, 24. Sugar Browne, 90.00 rein. ; whites, 43.00 reia. per arroba. LISBON, APRIL 3. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Oneida, with the Brazil mail, will leave for South ampton at 7 a.m. to-day, with 37 passengers, 24,826/. in specie, and 3,220 bags of coffee. INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND. Today the mail which leaves for Bombay, rid Marseille', carries 20,0001., the first English instalment to wards the relief of the starving population of Upper India. This large contribution, raised, in leas thee a week, under the auepioes of the Lord Mayor and the committee of gen. tlemen who Bit daily at the Mansion-house, has been forwarded to Sir George Clerk, the governor of that pre. sidency. with an unlimited authority to transmit it in such proportions to the Lieutenant-Governor of the different districts in which the famine prevails as his local knowledge of the varying circumstances rosy Bug pit, and with all possible despatch, in order that it may be expended in the purchase of food for the destitute. tie. cognising in this emergency, above all others, the applies bility of the sentiment, Bis dal, qui rite dot, some of the speakers at the recent public meeting in the Egyp tian Hall, and notably Sir Blward Ryan and Mr. Vas. sittart, speaking from their wierience in India, appealed to those who might be disposed to give to do so ill time to have the very earliest opportunity by which their contribu tions might be remitted to the scene of suffering. Only three working days may be said to have since elapsed, sod behold the result, so significant of the national generosity -20.000/. spontaneously offered by the inhabitants chiefly of tbo metropolis to mitigate a great public calamity, and probably but a tithe of what will yet be given if the enter. ncy, as there is ground for apprehending, should render it necessary. Down to last night the aggregate amount of the dons. biotic forwarded to the Mansion House was about 17.3001, of which upwards of 6,000/. was sent in the course of yes. terday alone ; but the committee, anticipating to some ex. tent the public benevolence, will despat^h the larger sum which has been mentioned by the mail of this day. Among the contributors yesterday were the Marquis of Lansdowne, 50'4 Messrs. N. H. Rothschild sal Sons, 3001.; the Lon don and Westminster Bank, MO/. ; Mr. Joseph Goff, 1001.: Messrs. Child and Co., 100/. ; Menem Forbes, Forbes, soil Co., 1001.; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1001. The reception of Mr. and Mrs. MOD n 011631114 on their first appearance in the Thestro Royal, Dublin, oe Monday night. wss quite enthusiastic. The people 4 Dublin are proud of Mr. Boucicault's splendid income the truthful delineation of Irish character, because be is not only an Irishman but a native of Dublin. His Excel• leocy the Lord Lieutenant and party occupied the vice regal box. On Monday there was an exhibition of toot races and other athletic sports in the Rotunda•gurdess, which his excellency also honoured with his presence. Colonel Hennocque, deputy of the Moselle, has presented to Prince Napoleon en address, signed by 42' of his constituent., respectfully congratulating his impend highness on his speech in the Senate, and particularly os the liberal opinions he had expressed. Colonel Hennocqut, in presenting the address, told the prince that the feel*: set forth in it was the expression of the great body of Le constituent., and that the number of signatures would bare been much more numerous had time permitted. The giant oratorio was performed on the night , 4 the 25th ult. in the San Carlo, Naples, and went off vrrl well, notwithstanding the opposition of the cardinal. The instrumental and chorus parts were admirably execute]; the vocal parts were, perhaps, feeble. A peat pecnlisom in the performance was that many ladies belonging to de first families in Naples assisted in the choruses. Interesting reinuants of sepulchral mwutmrets continue to be discovered in the prosecution of the railway worts at Rosen. Where the line crosses the Appian Way, at a short distance outside the farts San Sebastian, a magnificent basement of an ancient tomb, probably of the Antonini period, has been ut• covered. The letters indicating the dimensions of the monument, " XXXV ;wades in fronte," are in a Oa Roman style. Other portions will perhaps two cp• A fragment of frieze has ales been ezesvak.d, from its style, may be attributed to the Temple of Yaw, the ancient Clivum Martin having occupied the slope fr.d the modern gate to the River Almo, on the Appian We''. Two sarcophagi have been likewise exhumed. Their ems , rcenta indicate a later period, and one of them has a Lao inscription in Greek characters. TUN OUTWARD WENT INDIA AND PACIFIC MAD. —SoUTHAMPTON, APRIL 2.—The Royal Mail CompstY 4 steamship La Plata, Captain Hammack, sailed hence t 0.14; at 3 p.m., with the fortnightly mails for the British AS foreign West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific, Central Amema and California. She took out 108 passengers ; whom are air C. L. Wyke, Mini s t er Pl en ip o tentiary t+' tEe Mexican Republic; Mr. Johnson, attach.... to the Britat Legation at Mexico ; Major Miller, Rey. W. J. li. Rea'l'er' Dr. Realm. Captain Herley, Ca ptain Luke, Lieute'° Borawick, Dr. Johnson, an.l the Rev. 0. J. Hanford. La Plata takes on freight French ie. 3,11 W. , French jewellery, 7.0.56/. ; English specie, ,0, T ec 29lV. ; lish jewellery, 1.2021. ; also a full cargo ..f FlrloCh English merchandise.