The Express. — London, England, 1861-03-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1861. SECOND-HAND PIANOPORTI. I 4 RAM MALI. asi Ow km I Imps isoolumll at ISCOI4 basil br Ihe most sitaiald "mill Mood pins. llevalwiripst irbt earprews. rn COIRIPPON DINTS. Idvertheamra4 Icara.lad for "fl. fapriaa London Ramada, Paper. oast b• at Out Odle*, 10. licamateatisat, by rya Mardi as Oa day a pabUcatiaa. HATIIAILI IT. Tlllq ta, A Mitt IN DIVVIITLTIEN, Marra Rowe, rs. It•ven, Clark. Compton. and Suckstone. Ilea MIAs% ‘t ok in., Dos Yana, stlrUes. Mir Y.DAytIon.—AM WIVES LADY DILL AND HU CHI LD1DN....c 4 4. 0 . 1 . at T. LADY o r Mk Int. Prrfron. TUX ► Math . ... anti P otts; lIA Wasiak IL L= Ileallk—THILICI 11 %kill I.ls Jr. Meaaours: Mir C. ladareg....tad—HOWLV ul. f. Mr. Widdicualb. 111 n Ilse y. R. JAIIIIIIIII. Tat+ Mom. IR WIVICS JOVANAL—TIII DY.O► R. ls.A.Wlips sad Ram: lesklaibue ...And EN DYNLION. MUM. C. TM, sod Belmar* . Woes St. Caro,'Urban, Mad affaii.—COMCO at Wilma 7. LLITAII !A. Thviamitso. TEI VICTIM Or DINDIPATION. Mears. J. Reynolds sad Cranford. Muss M Cbglas ud IhArning LINK. ay. The Mims sad Ds MD* Ms Ors. Lane. ~AMOIL LANKA AND 'LUZ WATIIDL Mrs. IL l'arnold. Mon IVATIA AT LOSDON WAAL MS DAT —/Agosiag. l as.....Aawri•A IL In. To-aoaatnr—/A•rabi, ft Ift.....Allwasse. OA ♦fL LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 18. Tits inaugural Message of President laztem..N has arrived, and fulfils the expectations which • few days ago we ventured to express. We need not spend words in aggrandizing the importance of a State paper which hail been so anxiously ex pected in every centre of commerce and credit. Thousands of keen intelligences will this morning scan every word, to gather from Mr. LINCOLN'S language the portents of peace or war. We have only alight and secondary evidence of its effect on the Amerisan public, but that effect, so far as it is shown in the tendency of the market for public securities and the ab- eence of democratic exacerbation, was favourable. We have news by way of Halifax to the ith, three days after the delivery of the Message, and reports of any violent consequences attributable to it would have been transmitted by this channeL Mr. Liecotx declares in the clearest manner the permanence and inviolability of the Union, and the nullity alike of the acts of violence and the solemn resolutions of the South. He further emerte his determination to maintain that Union to the utmost of his ability. " The power confided in "me shall be used to hold, occupy, and "to pewee property and places bel o n g _ " lag to the Government, and to collect " the duties imposed. Beyond what is necessary for "these objects there will be no invasion or force." These words certainly appear to commit the Pas sines? to • course in which hostilities appear almost inevitable. A Chief Magistrate intending to maintain the Union could not say lees ; but the hest that Mr. Lisivue could say must, under the circumstances, challenge tremendous risks. We turn to the assurances by which the new PRES! DINT seeks to win confidence in the South. He urges upon the people of the Slave States that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property, peace, and personal security are not endangered, and 'motes one of his former speeches, in which he had said , " I have no pur " pose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the " institution of slavery in Stites where it exists." As no Southern, not even Mr. YANCEY ; of Ala hems, ever sincerely believed that the Republican party contemplated the liberation of the slaves, we pass by this emetic's, and look for the signs of a real concession to the South. There is one, and only one. Mr. LINCOLN intimates that a more effective Fugitive Slave Law may be granted. This may surprise those friends of emancipation who have only slightly studied the antecedents of the new PIM, near; but many months before it seemed likely that Mr. Lincoln would attain that high station, a speech of his recognising the right of the South to such • law was quoted in elec tioneering pamphlets in the United States. The amendment of the constitution, by the insertion of an article precluding the ac tion of the Federal Government against slavery in States where that is a domestic institu tion, to which Mr. LINCOLN professes his willing ness to accede, is not likely to have much value in Southern eyes. The general tone of the new speech is highly conciliatory. Its most striking feature is constitutionality. Mr. LINCOLN offers the South all it can pretend to ask under the con stitution of the United States ; but be makes no sacrifice of the principles on which he was elected. II we do not greatly mistake the American people, his Message will receive the adhesion of the vast majority in the North, that majority on which he must rely so much for support. As to the South, we have seen enough of the influences and pie ikons by which it is led to decline to speculate on its decision. But on • review of the whole situa tion we cannot disguise from ourselves that the Passtmuir's Message seta the probability of war in a strong light. the condition and prospects of our navy are discussed a very gamma opinion is ex pressed that, with the enormous number of ships of war of all the ordinary descriptions we possess, the charge for building more wooden vessels is one which ought not to be incurred. We have at this moment very nearly 700 ships of war, 562 of which are fitted for propulsion by steam. We have 53 screw line of-battle ships afloat, and 14 in construction, or under completion, but we ars particularly strong in the smaller vessels Then, why build morel This is a question which, under ordinary circum stances, would never occur to the official mind, which reasons rather —We have yards, and timber, and men got together expressly to build ships ; why then stop ? That we have enough and to span, may easily be shown to be no reason at all. But there is one argument which will tell even at Devonport—it is absolute want of money. The goverumeut proposes to go on building gunboats and sloops. If the House votes the money, we shall get vessels which we do not want ; if it refuses, we shall keep it in our pockets, and be just as strong. We uoderstaod that to-night, if the naval estimates come on for discussion, Sir Morton Peto and Mr. Lindsay will oppose the voting of more money to be spent on wooden ships, and will give the friends of economical administration in the Hou.w .1 Couuuuos as opportunity of recording their ♦ltem. Oar of the most encouraging baton* of th• past week has been the reduction in the rate of discount of the Bank of France from 7 to 6 per cent. ThM movement marks still more strongly the discrepancy lut■een the value of money hem and that current ahmad. It is a very reniarkshis fact, that the English is now the dearest of any of the great money markets of the world. This is • state of things which cannot last, seeing how much better we are provided with capital than any other community. It seems very reasonable to look for a roduction in the Bank of England charge to 7 per amt within a fortnight. In the event of affairs in America taking a fresh turn for the worse, the Bank would merely have to retrace their steps. Meanwhile the trade of the country looks to the Bank for some relief, and the position of their accounts will fully warrant the Directors in granting it. Twelve millions and a half of bullion and an 8 per cent. rate of dis count have, we.believe, never been witnessed in conjunction before, since the establishment was founded. On the adverse side there is probably no event which has attracted so much regretful atten tion as the adoption by the Northern Ameri can Union of the Moaatu. Tariff. It seems really astonishing that, at a time when the prejudices of France are being irresistibly worn away, when Russia is entering upon a path of free com mercial development, when Spain is awakening from the torpor of ages, and when regions—like Japan and China—hitherto sealed up, are being opened to mercantile enterprise, America, whose boast it has been that she is the pioneer of en lightened improvement, falls back upon a policy of restriction and illiberality such as one would imagine to be a relic of the peat century. When we see how completely American legislation ap pears to be based upon mere local or personal motives ; when we mark the indecent haste with which, the moment the restraining presence of the representatives of the Southern States is removed, the Northern protectionists rush in selfishly with a programme framed in their own interest, and certain to widen the breach be tween the disputing sections of the nation, the want of patriotic feeling which they betray be comes really lamentable. Their conduct tends to justify the bitterly regretful remark, uttered be fore now by American lips, that " there are no " statesmen in America," none who are capable of forgetting faction and class interests, in the grand cause of the country at large. It is dis graceful in the present crisis of American affairs foe these narrow politicians to be driving in the wedge of disunion with might and main, for the effect of the new fiscal legislation must inevitably be to render a reconciliation between the North and South impossible. The enactment of the Moslem. Tarif4 the moment the Southern representatives had withdrawn, is a sel fish defiance cast by the North at the South. Pre sident BUCHANAN is a Pennsylvania man, and, it is said, has been willing to curry favour with his native iron interest, even at the cost of his coun try. It it not as if the new tariff were only mo derately restrictive ; it is, in many respects, prac tically prohibitory. What else can be the effect of raising the duty on foreign iron from 6 to 16 dollars a ton in some instance, and from 7to 15 dollars in others ? But, besides being most oppressive, the new regulations are vexa tious and impracticable in the extreme. They seem to have been, and probably were, framed with a view to keep out foreign products. We know of old how damaging a policy of this kind always proves in the long run, and to none so much as to the nation which endea vours to exempt itself from the healthful influence of foreign competition. But we shall suffer also. Our trade will be diverted from America into other outlets. We have very little faith in the deve llopment of the smuggling system which one of our contemporaries appears to contemplate with so much interest. We have never heard of a large, re munerative, or really valuable trade being carried on through the agency of " desperadoes " of this class. One of the most discouraging features is that, as the Congress which enacted the new tariff constitutionally expired on the 4th instant, there appears to be no hope of the obnoxious legislation being revoked or even amended until next session, which will not commence until December. There is thus ground to fear that our trade with America will retain the one-sided cho ' ratter lately acquired by it, for, even if that i country declines to take our commodities upon the former terms of free interchange, we shall still continue to take her cotton, breadatuffs, and pro visions, as long as she supplies them more cheaply than we can get them elsewhere. The third annual exhibition of hyacinths and other spring flowers at the Home Nurseries, Highgate, has attracted numerous visitors during the laat few day,. The present collection of hyacinths is probably the largest, the most beautiful, and the mast varied that has ever been exhibited in the vicinity et London. The life of the Duchess of Kent, subsequent to the death of the duke, was summed up very modestly by herself in • statement which she made by way of reply to an address of congratulation presented to her uti the °ma nias of her daughter coming of age. " I pass over the earlier part of my connexion with this country," she said. " I will Welly observe that my late regretted consort's cir eamiessome and my duties obliged us to resido in Germany ; kat the Duke of Kent at much inconvenience, and I at great gensanel risk, returned to England that our child should be ' ban and bred a Briton.' In s few months afterwards my infant sad myself were awfully deprived of father and bus load. We Mood alone—almost friendlies and alone in this cask, ;1 could not eyes speak the language of it. I did not hesitate how to act. I gave up my home, my kindred, my dn ties"(theressecy of Lei ningen ), "to devote myself to that duty rata was to be the whole object of my future life. I was supported is the executioe of my duties by the country. It pissed its tramt in me, and the Regency Bill gave me its last set el coefulsoce. I have in times of great difficulty areidsd all ossostion with any party in the state ; but, if I fume deft es, I have never ceased to press on my daughter berdeales. as as to gain by her conduct the respect and ellestiesa of the people. This, I have taught her, should be bat list earthly duty as a constitutional sovereign." Colonel R. H. Dawson, C. 8., Royal Engineers, bead el the Barmy Department of the Tithe and Commons Itarileame Osminianoe, is, we regret to learn, lyiog danger. mid 7 m at his meideees at Blackheath. He is suffering beta mageeties et the leap. Diva OF LORD LILFORD.—WO have to mmeimee the demise of Lord Lilford, who expired cm Fri. illey lest at Lakin! Hall. the family seat, war (handle, after • prelearded and painful illness. Thomas Atherton Powys, Dana UM:ad, of Lillonl, county Northampton, in the pear :LOsast Britain, was the eldest of the six sous of sussed lord, by Henrietta Mena, eldest daughter end whsle of Mr. Robert Vernon Atherton ' of Alberto's Ha, Innesehlre. He was born the Tarl De cember, 118/1, sad es Um death of his father is July, Dr2S. , be succeeded to the title as estates. The decamped nobleman married on ' the 24th May, IiCIO, the Hoe. Mary Flizabeth Fox, daugh ter of Henry Richard. third Lord Holland, and sister of the late lord. By her ladyship, who survives him, he leases Moue four sous sad six daughtan. The late peer was edu cated at Christchurch, Oxford, when he was *mood class in claesics Is lOU. His lordship wee for several years • lad In waiting to her Majesty. He is saomeadad is the family hinesours sad large estates in Nertheimpeeneldre sad Lan iodine by his eldest sun. the Has. Themes Lyttelton Powys. bora March Dttl, and married in 1859 to Him Dnedloia, youarst daughter of Mr. R. W. Brandliog, of Lbw llodorth, Northumberland. Toss LATE JOHN a MANDSTILLR, Eat.—We meet to ansotines the death of Mr. Jobs Henry Mande ville. late Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Be public. which took place at his resides°, ea Saturday last. pars in Suffolk is 1773, sod educated at Dedham School, Mr. Ihiadeville hail almost attained the advanced age of Sit, mad he was the oldest surviviag member of the diplomatic senden Hie loop career embraced an extraordinary variety isaidealseed wrests. As a boy to enteral the navy ; be rub =Ylisid • commission in a dragons regiment ; he was U he the British swat in Frau* for the exchange Wen the peace of Amieas ; he was attached ha Wleitworth's embassy. be was secretary to Sir Arthur !we Vilma in 1805, and lie afterwards send ia the 111beinee Fraskfort, Cosetantiaople, Lisbon, Paris, Ike. In MS he ems appointed minister plenipotentiary at Hanes Ayres.where be remained for eleven years. Mr.hlsin deviVe gnatexpericoce .4 public affairs, and his memory, which extended over the greater part of a century, rendered him a meet agreeable companion. and be continued to fill a ili4ingoislied place is society to the last day of his protracted gbt Court. THE LATE DUCHESS OF KENT. WINDSOR CASTLE, SATualmr. _ . The Queen, Prince Consort, sad Princess Alice, left Buckingham Palace a little before 7 o'clock on Friday even ing, and proceeded to Windsor by a special train on the Great Western Railway, attended by Major-General the Hoe. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Colonel Bid &digt, and Sir James Clark, On arriving at Windsor, her Majesty, the Prince Con sort, and Princess Alice drove immediately to Frogmore House, and remained there. The Duchess of Kent expired this morning at half•psst 9 o'clock, without pain, in the presence of her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and Princess Alice, and the Duchess's at tendants. Telegrams to announce the melancholy event were at once despatched to the Crown Princess of Prussia, tho Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the King of the Belgians, the King of Prussia, the King of Portugal, the King of Hanover, the Duke of Coburg, Princes. Hohenlohe, and other relatives of the deceased Duchess, and also to:Viscount Palmerston and her Majesty's Miniitars. The Prince of Wales, who bad been summoned from Ma dingley Hall, Cambridge, arrived at Frogmore House at 12 o'clock, attended by Major-General the. Hon. H. Bruce and Colonel KeppeL Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Rime Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice arrived at Windsor from Buckingham Palace at twelve o'clock, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, and Major Elphinstone. Princess Helena joined her Majesty and the royal family at Program House. About seven o'clock yesterday evening the Queen, Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena zaine from Frogmore House to Windsor Castle, where her Majesty and the royal family will remain. The Duke of Nemoure ►nd Prince Philip of Wurtemburg came to Frogmore in the forenoon, having heard of the Duchess's dangerous illness, and were admitted to the pre- since of the Queen. Her Majesty's health has not suffered, notwithstanding the heavy affliction with which her Majesty au been visited. The Marchioness of Ely has arrived as Lady in Waiting. SUNDAY. Divine service was performed in the private chapel of the Castle this morning uy tne deo. !and Veryltev. the Dean of Windsor. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. A deputation on the subject of the Prison Act, Scotland, had an Interview with Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, on Saturday, at the Rome-office. A deputation from the vestry of the hamlet of Peng' had an interview on Saturday with the Rt Hon. C. P. Vil liers, at the office of the Poor-law Boa rd,Whitehall. Despatches were gent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of ths West India Islands, British Columbia, and the Bahama. (FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. WHITEHALL, MARCH 16, 1861. This morning, about half-past nine o'clock, the Duchess of Kent departed this life, at Frogmore house, to the great grief of her Majesty and all the royal family, after long suffering, which she bore with exemplary patience. The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Priam" Alice, who had arrived from London at 8 o'clock last night, and remained during the night at Frog more, were present when the Duchess of Kent expired. All the theatres were closed on Saturday evening by order of the Lord Chamberlain, by whose direc tion a circular woe addressed to the different managers Large posters were exhibited at most of the houses, an nouncing that, in consequence of the melancholy event, there would be no performance, but that, with regard to boxes and places engaged and paid for, tickets could be ob tained in exchange for other nights during the ensuing week, or that on Monday, on application to the various box-offices, the money would be returned. Amongst the exhibitions Dot under the control of the Lord Chamberlain which mani fested on the part of their lessees or managers that loyalty and good feeling for which Englishmen are proverbial were the Royal Colosseum, the Polytechnic, Madame Toasted's, the Gallery of Illustration, Ac., whilst most of the West end and royal tradesmen entirely suspended the business of their establishments, and others placed op some of their shutters, with an announcement explaining the circum steams under which they had done so. This was very general in the western and north-western suburbs of the metropolis; and, indeed, the sympathy which was evinced wherever the death of her Royal Hig hness was mentioned was general. At the weekly meeting of the Representative Council of St. Marylebone, held at the Court-house, Mr. Chumhwar deo Charles Carr in the chair, notice was taken of the event. Sir James Hamilton, Bart., the crowu churchwarden of Marylebone, moved the following resolution : " That this vestry, having heard with sincere regret of the death of her Royal Highest' the Duchess of Kent, the mother of our beloved Queen, resolve, from re spect to her gracious Majesty and to the memory of her Royal Highness, that the board do adjourn so soon as the re port of the scrutineers now engaged in the election of guar dians of the poor of the parish for the year ensuing shall be received." The motion was carried unanimously. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal (the Primer Frederick William of Praia) is expected to arrive this evening from Berlin on a visit of condolence to her illustrious parents at Windsor. The Countess Apponyi's assembly, which was Hied for to-marrow night, is postponed, in consequence of the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are ex pected at Stafford House to-day from Trentham. The duchess dowager will remain at Trentham for the present. The Marchioness of Salisbury's assembly, an nounced for Wednesday next, is postponed in consequence of the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Pelham left Arlingtoa•atreat on Saturday, for St. Loortard'aou-Sea. The Earl and Countem of Dalkeith left the Duke of Buceleueh's residence in Belgraveaquare on Saturday, for Boughton House, near Kettering. The Countess of Kinuoul's dance has been post poned. _ _ The Countess Dowager of Cawdor has arrived at bar mideoce in Tilney-greet, for the NUM Frances Countess Waldegrave's assembly, an- Bounced for Wednesday next, is postponed in consegnence of the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. - - Lady Margaret Beaumont has left town on a Agit to Berea and Baroness Meyer de Rothschild, at Meat :nom Lady (Hamilton) Soymour's party, which was to bets tam place tine evening, has been unavoidably post poop& Lady Cecilia dal V.eux's dance is postponed. Lady Molesworth's dinner and evening party to their Royal Highnesses le Comte de Paris and le Dec de Chartres, which was flied fur the 214 inst., is unavoidably postponed. The President of the Royal Society, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., gave his first soirOe this season on Saturday laat, at Burlington House. The rooms were filled by a peat number of very interesting objects in art and science. Lord Brougham, who is at present residing at Lis rills at Cannes, is expected to return home immediately alter the Boater parliamentary mem. The noble and learned lord Is in excellent health. He purposes to make a sheet stay in Paris, on his way home. Mr. Ernest Clay, first paid attach 4 in Mexico, is appointed paid attache et Para • Mr. Johnston, unpaid attache at Hanover, is appointed ;aid ►ttache in Mexico. Quartermaster Collins has been appointed a military knight of Windsor on the lower f oun dation, in the room of Major King, removed to the vacancy in the upper foundation, caused by the death of Captain Heyday. " • • _ . The R e v. James MacDonell has been appointed assistant ►ad successor to the Rev. Alexander Wood, in the pariah of Reeetnarkei, in the presbytery of Channory, and county of Ross. . _ _ The Queen bee presented the Rev. Donald Mur ray Simpson to Moorle, iu the presbytery of Mull and county of Argyle, v■ant Iw the transfer of the Rev. Donald Tadyen to the pariah of Ardnmourchan, in the manse pew *kg- LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. TURIN, MONDAY. The Opinione says :—" We believe we are enabled to announce the surrender of Civitella del Trouto." TURIN, MARCH 17. The Official Gazette assumed to-day the title of Official Gazette of the Kingdom of Italy. In this day's number is published the law by which Victor Emmanuel 11. assumes for himself and successors the title of " King of Italy." MILAN, MAscH 16. The Perserevanza states that popular demonstra tions took place in several Venetian towns on the occasion of the birthday of King Victor Emmanuel. TURIN, Itasca 16. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Maochi presented a petition, signed by 8,560 citizens, urging on the government to use its in fluence with the Emperor Napoleon, in order to obtain the speedy withdrawal of the French troops from Rome. Signor Macchi demanded that the chamber should declare the urgency for the discussion of this pro position. After speeches delivered by Signors Brofferio, Bixio, and La Farina, the chamber declared the urgency for the discussion by an unanimous vote. NAPLES, MARCH 15. The Council of Lieutenancy have tendered their ieignation, which, it is believed , has been accepted. . __ It is asserted that King Victor Emmanuel will come here and make a stay of several months. MESSINA, MARCH 10 OM Marseilles). Numbers of persons were wounded by projectiles during the late bombardment. A violeat gale has raged here. ROME (vs.& Ksasauss), MAica 13. The Pope will deliver an allocution in the Consis tory to be held on the 18th inst. It is asserted that General Bosco is about to enter the military service of Piedmont. THE EMANCIPATION OF THE RUSSIAN ST. PETERSBURG, SUNDAY. The following is s summary of the imperial mani fee° proclaiming the emancipation of the serfs, dated the 3rd March (Feb. 19, 0. 8.), and pub lished this day: The proprietors of landed property preserve the rights attached to the same. The landed proprietors are, however, to cede to the pesaanta, for their permanent use, the dwellings with the ground which will be allotted to them anew by law, in consideration of the payment of dues. During this state of things, which will form a transitory period, the peasants are to be designated "tributary peasants." The peasants are permitted by law to purchase their dwellings, and, with the consent of the land lords, the land also. The peasants will then become free landed pro prietors. This new order of things is to be carried out throughout tl'e Empire within two years, and until then the peasants remain in their former state of dependence upon the landlords. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. On the 2nd inst. the new Tariff Bill, recently passed by the American Congress, received the signature of Mr. Buchanan, and it is now law. The new tariff goes into effect the first day of April next, but the last section of the bill provides that " all goods, wares, and merchandise ac tually on shipboard and bound to the United States, within fifteen days after the pas sage of this act, and all goods, wares, and mer chandise in deposit in warehouse or public store on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be subject to pay such duties as provided 'by law before and at the time of the pas sage of this act; and all goods in warehouse at the time this act takes effect, on which the duties are lessened by its provisions, may be withdrawn on payment of the duties herein provided." POLAND. WARSAW, Miami 17. Moukhanoff has left Warsaw. Illuminations have taken place in conaequenoe. PARIS, &mei. The Patric of We evening contains the following telegram, dated " WARSAW, MARCH 16. "Prince Gortachalcoff has announced that reforms will shortly be granted, that a council of state will be instituted, and that all the towns of Poland will have elective municipal councils." " The municipal elections are to commence im mediately." . . The aim) journal says :—" Great fermentation prevails in the lonian Islands." POSEN, MONDAY. A proclamation of the Governor of Poland, Prince Gortchakoff, warns the inhabitanta of Warsaw in a most serious manner against making any demonstration. This warning refers especially to a projected procession of the ladies of Warsaw. Leszczynski replaces Moukhanoff as Curator of Poland. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY MORNING. The Monifeur of to-day says :—" Some newspapers have announced that M. Mooquard was about to resign the poet of secretary which he occupies in the Emperor's cabinet. His Majesty never had the intention of separating himself from M. Mooquard, with whose services and devotion he has not ceased to be satisfied." TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 6. The Grand Vizier has tendered his resignation. The Sultan has refused to anoept it. The project for consolidating the public debts has been renewed. The Sardinian Legation basbeen destroyed by fire. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Fn. 16. aT TILZOILIPZ TO PODIT Da GALLIC.) (trey shirtings, heavy advanced 1 anna, and light 2 minas. Mule twist advanced 2 pie on 40ts and SOM, other numbers no change. Raw silk quiet. Indigo no change. Copper sheathing in good demand at previous rates. Copper tile, English better inquiry, 4 amiss higher; Australian unaltered. • Sugar nothing doing. Rice drooping, moderate shipments. Saltpetre no transactions. Linseed small stocks, shipments trilling, and no tonnage available. Jute quiet, exports moderate. Hides, little doing for Europe, and supplies short. Shellac nominal. _ _ Exchange on London.—Barings' credit, 2s. ld. ; government securities, Four per Cents., 84 to 801 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 to 101 g. Bank discount unaltered. Money easy. Freights advanced 5a., and very firm. The Bavarian Government has sent to Paris a oommiseary of police, Rohoehen by mime, charged to study the regulations relative to markets and the sweeping of streets. The Atlantic Steam Packet Company's steamer Hibernia left Southampton yestenlay for Galway; a gale of wind dead on sod was blowing at the time, sod it was not expemed that she would venture out in the Channel until it lulled. She would probably anchor in Yarmouth Roads. The directors of the company inspected the Hibernia on Satuclay, and ideothe Columbia, which will make a trial trip to a few days. The Anglia, ►nother new steamer built for the company, Is expected at tionthomptoa in a day or two. The company have also purchaeed the Adriatic from an American company. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now oux owx PARIS, SUNDAY EVITING. It is rumoured that M. Rechberg , the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, who has just arrived in Paris, is here for the purpose of treating on the subject of a plan proposed for the settlement of the Italian question. This news may possibly be of the first importance. The Miele makes the following observations upon the curious fact that all the deputies—the Plichous, Keller*, Flavignys, &c.—who have so bitterly as sailed the government upon the Roman question, were men of its own special choice: The electors blindly returned the men recommended by the minister and supported by the prefect and the mayor, and then these honest electors felt sure that all was right. If you had asked nine•tenths of them the next day whether their deputy was white or black, red or tricolour, they would have been at a loss for an answer. They only knew that they had elected the candidate of the minister, the prefect, and the mayor—in short, the official candi date. What could they do more I And now we see this strange phenomenon—the government candi dates ungratefully rend the hand which caressed and advanced them ; and the very ministers who took so much pains, wrote so many circulars, and gave so many recommendations to get these men elected, are now hard put to it to defend themselves against their attacks. There are four of these men who have already made speeches, and almost gained a reputation. Let no mention their names, lest we should be open to the reproach of hiding a candle under a bushel. MM. de Flaviguy, Ph chon, Kolb-Barnard, and Keller are the men who, regretting, no doubt, that they have had no opportunity of defend ing the temporal government of the Pope with arms in their hands, have, to show their courage, fought a parliamentary battle of tbistellldardo in the Corps Legislatif. With all the respect and courtesy due to speeches delivered in a French parliament, we beg to give our candid opinion about these gentlemen. At the time of the elections of 1852 and 1857 the government was on the best possible terms with the clergy, and that for the very good reason that it did everything that the clergy wanted. These were the honeymoon days. The bishops held their pro vincial councils, the religious corporations had in their hands the instruction of youtli, while our poor communal schoolmasters were performing the humble duties of bell.ringers, sweepers, beadles, &c. Vast associations were organised under the pretest of charity, and when the authorisation of the g cerement was not forthcoming, it was very coolly dispensed with. Convents were built in all directions, and propagandist institutions of the kind which the trial of Canon Mallet has just made us aware of, grew up till they numbered 30,000 initiated, andl3o houses. In these houses young girls are concealed from their parents and from the researches of justice. In these golden times the press wu nearly mute. We did indeed run the risk of raising a cry of alarm, but it was not listened to. The day of reckoning, the quart d'Aeurr de Rabelais, has now arrived. id.Drouyn de L'huya was yesterday elected a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in the place of the late Horace Say. PARIV ;l i I I NDAT EVENING. The debates in the Corps atif yesterday and to-day have been unexciting, and chiefly taken up by protectionist groans, and unavailing speeches by second-rate orators advocating the right of the house to have a serious voice in the taxation of the country. The most important incident for English readers in the debate of yesterday was the following declarrtion of M. Bsrocbe, in reply to very pressing questions as to whether the prohibitory tariff would be retained to the last hour fixed by the treaty of commerce with England. . . . To-day the subject was again referred to, and M. Baroche made the important declaration that if the government should be persuaded that the ma jority of the French manufacturers thought it advantageous to anticipate the date of October 1, it would, feeling how serious a thing it was to act against a solemn promise, consult the Corps Lightlatif upon the question whether it was for the interest of France that this promise should not be kept. This declaration was received with considerable ap p lause by the protectionists, who hope for a majority. M. Baroche added that possibly no bill on the subject might be presented. Unless the government felt that there was a press ing call to put an end to commercial uncertainty by removing prohibitions at once it would let the time fixed by the treaty run out . My own strong impression, from a bearing of the debate, is that the Corps Ldgislatif will be asked in a way not to be refused to remove prohibitions within a mouth instead of waiting till the autumn. K Magna will reply on Monday on the finance question. The Bourse was firm, and there was rather more business doing than there has been all the week. The Rente rose 10c. closing, both for cash and account, at 68.35. Mobilier rose 2.50. Railways were from 1.25 to 2.50 higher. The Mires securi ties remain with scarcely any fluctuation. The price of bread, which has been stationary in Paris for many months, was raised to-day to 16 sous 4 centimes the 41b. loaf, being an advance of 4c. A funeral service for the victims of the late events at Warsaw was performed at the Madeleine to-day, and attended by almost all the Poles inParis. Among the emigrants present were the venerable Prince Adam Czartoryaki and his son Stanislaw, General Dembinski, General Klapka, and Count Potocki. The Abbi Deguerry, the our of the Madeleine. preached a funeral sermon, in which he spoke of the manifestation of Warsaw as a decisive moral victory. The protest of 150,000 Polish citizens had been so imposing that the Czar was forced to admit the justice of their demands. " The Poles would recover nationality, and in their struggle of right against iniquity all truly French hearts were with them." PRINCE ALFRED IN THE WEST INDIES. Her Majesty's ship the St. George, with Prince Alfred on board, arrived out at Barbadoes on the 22nd. He landed on the following morning amidst a degree of popular enthusiasm never before witnessed in the colony. The lauding took place shout 10 o'clock, at. which hour the Governor appeared in an open carriage, drawn by four horses, and was saluted by the members of assembly, the council, the military and naval officers. The General Commanding the Forces arrived soon after. The Royal Artillery marched slowly to the buidinkplace, and the various societies who were to join the procession, took up the positions assigned to them. At a quarter past 10 o'clock the roaring of the cannon announced that hi Royal Highness had left the deck of the St. George, and shortly after he landed in the presence of thousauds of Barbadians who were waiting to offer him a most cordial welcome. Loud cheers burst upon the air from the specta tors. The bells sent forth their merry peal, and the hearts of all were truly glad. The Prince courteously acknnwledged the enthusiastic reception by the frequent motion of his rap to the people. He was received by the Governor and the General Commanding the Forces, and conducted to the plat form amidst the continued cheering of the assembled thou sands. Everywhere the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Tower ing arches were erected in the streets with the superscrip. tins, " Welcome, Priem Alfred, welcome," " The Lord bless thee, Pnnoe Alfred," " God save the Queen," kc. A levee was held in the Reception-room at Government house shortly after the arrival of the Royal party. The Council and House of Assembly presented addresses to his Royal Highness, as did the clew. The Moravian and Wes leyan ministers, the American Consul, the public officials, merchants, planters, and other gentlemen of the island, at- tended the levee. The day's proceedings closed with • di j. user at Government-house in the afternoon, and • ball at eight, followed by a grand display of fireworks. At Demerara preparations were going on actively for the reception of his royal highness Prince Alfred, in anticipation cf his honouring the colony with a visit. Invitations had been issued by the Governor and court of policy for a grand ball and review of the troops and local militia. Triumphal arches were being erected, and every preparation made to give his royal highness a loyal reception. The New York Herald, describing the proceedings of Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, says:—"President Buchanan and Chief Justice Taney listened with the utmost at. tention to every word of the address, and at its conclusion the latter administered the usual oath, in taking which Mr. Lincoln was vociferously cheered. The Chief Justice seemed very much agitated, and his hands shook very perceptibly with emotion. Tho inauguration of to-day makes the eighth ceremony al the kind at which Chief Justice Taney his officiated, having administered the oath of office successively to Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, and Lincoln. The ceremony wag exceedingly impressive. Mr. Buchanan accompanied Mr. Lincoln to the main hall, and there took his farewell leave of him, expressing the hope, in cordial terms. that his administration might prove a happy and prosperous one." AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, &Tut The Royal Mail steam-ship America, Captain M'Cauley, from Boston on the 6th, and Halifax on the Bth inst.., arrived here at 11 p.m. yesterd a y. The America brings 29 passengers. She landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 11.46 p.m., all well. PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL SPEECH. NEW YORK, bloke 5. The ceremony of Mr. Lincoln's inauguration as President took place yesterday at Washington. The following is a summary of the speech delivered by President Lincoln on the occasion. After a few preliminary remarks Mr. Lincoln said : Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a republican ed. ministration their property, peace, and personal security are endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause foe such an apprehension. I quote one of my former speeches in which I declared that " I have no purposes directly or indirectly, to interfere with the in. stitution of slavery in states where it exists." I believe I have no lawful right, as I have no inclination, to do so. Those who nominated and elected me placed on the platform for my acceptance and as a law for themselves and me the following resolutions: "It is resolved that the maintenance inviolate of the right. of the states, and especially the rights of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to itsown judgment, is exclusively essential to that balance of powee on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend. We denounce lawless invasion by armed force of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as the gravest of crimes." I now reiterate thin* sentiments, and press it upon public attention, that the property, peace, and security of no sec. tion are endangered by the incoming administration. There is much controversy respecting the delivering up of fugitives from service or labour. The following clause is, however, plainly written in the constitution: "No person held to service or labour in one state under the laws thereof escaping into another shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such ' service or labour, but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due." To the proposition that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause shall be delivered up, all members of Congress are bound by oath. I take the official oath today with no mental reservatinis, and with no purpose of construing the constitution or laws by any exceptional rules. I enter upon my task under great and peculiar difficul. ties. The constitution of our liberal Union, heretofore menaced, is now formidably attacked. I bold that in con. temptation of our universal state and of its constitution the union of these states is perpetual, and shall continue to execute all its express provisions. Our national conatitn. tion and our Union endure for ever. No state upon its own mere motion can get out of the Union. Resolutions and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and acts of vin. knee within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary accord. jog to circumstances. I therefore consider the Union un. broken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take are that the laws of the Union are fully executed in all the states. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as a declared purpose of union. That it will be con. stitutionally defended maintains itself. In doing this there shall be no bloodshed nor violence unless forced upon national authority. The power confided in me shall be used to hold, occupy, and to poetess property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties imposed. Beyond what is necessary for these ob. jects there will be no invasion or force. Where the hosti lity to the United States is so great and universal as to prevent citizens from holding offices there will be no attempt to force obnoxious stranger among people that object. The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished to all parts of the Union. I understood that • proposed amendmeot to the coma. tution has passed Congress to the effect that the federal government shall never interfere with the domestic institu tions of states, including that of persons held to service. I will say that I have no objection to this amendment being made express sod irrevocable. After an appeal to all parties to consider the subject well and calmly, Mr. Lincoln concluded as follows: In your hands, dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. Government will not assail you, so that you can have no conflict with. out being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have most solemnly to protect and defend it. lam loth to close thus. We are not enemies, but friends, and we must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart in this broad land, will yet swell chords of union when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. Much cheering took place when, during the deli very of hie speech, President Lincoln made any allusion to union. Thirty thousand people were present ; no noise, confusion, or disturbances of any kind took place. Everything passed off peacefully. The New York Herald says that not a single pledge or proposition with regard to the future is contained in the inaugural message from beginning to end, and that it abounds with threats and curl. ning. The New York Times praises the inaugural speech warmly. In the Senate the Corvin resolution had been re jected by 22 to 19 votes. The Tariff Bill was signed on the 2nd instant, anal will come into operation on the Ist of April. Lord Lyons had notified to the Washington government that the British government will not recognise the blockade of the southern ports, unless such blockade be complete and effectual. It was stated that the French government would shortly give a similar notice, and that this course would be followed by the leading European powers interested. Advice§ from Mexico state that the confiscation of church property continued. Thirteen nunne- ries were suppressed on the 13th of February. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Mance 4, EV1317/40. Unusual excitemeot prevails. Stocks, which open e d w ith. out change, filially tended upwards, owing to the President's message. The Bank returns show a decrease of over million dollars in specie. Exchange on London : Bankeze bills, 105 i to 106 ; commercial bills, 104 to 11151. Cotton unchanged. Freights dull at heavy rates. Neadatuffs lower. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 4. Cotton sales to-day 4,500 bales; middling is quoted 10f to 111. [LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX] NEW YORK, Balm 7. None of the steamers overdue have arrived. The Texans have ratified the Recession ordinance. Houston is reported to have resigned the governor ship. It is stated that an encounter will probably take place at Fort Brown between the Federal and State troops. The Southern Commissioners have arrived at Washington, and will communicate the object of their mission to the President on Tuesday, the 12th instant. INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORE, Mama 7. The markets are unchanged. Stocks are quoted NI follows : Illinois Central, ; Erie, 314 ; New York Cen tral, 774. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Africa arrived here at 6.30 p.m. to-day, embarked the mails, passengers, and telegrams, and proceeded fur New York at 7 p.m. All well. The Africa experienced strong gales from the Routh-west ou her passage from Liverpool. The Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln has been definitely arranged as follows :—Secretary of State, Wm. H. Seward. of N.Y. ; Secretary of Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio: Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, of Pa. ; Secretary of Navy, Montgomery Blair, of Md. ; Secretary of Interior. Caleb B. 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