The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

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Coartiod. —Awl A MilleACirtni 711 RA. 1 Impadis led Ilemyeres: WA t 'format ICON WM= AT LONDON =IDOL lOW DAT —lllmnis lb. e 5..... Aitersoss. *. Aftrassi. lib. atin. LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 4. Ur to this time the action of Government in re ference to the Volunteer movement has been, if slow and hesitating, at least in the main in the di rection of encouragement. The fears of placing arms in the hands of the people, which have so heavily weighed on the spirits of such of the Tories of the old school as yet are to be found among rural game-preservers and Pall-Mall philoso phers, and which have found ezpresaion in the speeches of certain Lords Lieutenant, have not till now been openly professedbyourrulers. They have accepted the services thrust upon them by the nation of an army of a hundred thousand men, they have received with a good grace • national contribution which, had it been levied in taxes, would have added ten millions to their Estimates for the year. All that they have been 'eked to do, and all that they have done for this, is to supply such arms as the regular troops might not require, to permit the purchase of super loom; ammunition at cost price, and to spend a few thousands in the salaries of Inspectors and Adjutants. What more has been done has not been in the way of assistance, but of regulation and restraint. The common law right of the in habitants of this country is to wear arms at their pleasure, to use them in such exercises as they think fit, to form such associations as they choose, to appoint and remove their own commanders as they deem proper. All these natural and inhe rent rights of free men have been taken from Englishmen by statutes of no venerable antiquity. The reign of Gwent 111. , when the need for reform in our political institutions first began to be whispered, was the epoch when this restraint upon our personal liberty was first imposed. What Government has lately done in permitting the Volunteer movement has been no more than the relaxing of prohibitions which Govern ment so recently enacted. All the labour which certain Departments have undergone, and for which they claim so much credit, has been caused by the retention of the powers which Government en recently assumed. But for these recent prohi bitions and powers the movement would have sprung into full organization by the force of its innate vitality. AU armed, the Volunteer Army would have leaped from the national brain and heart. It would have drilled itself, officered itself, established its own rules, supplied its own equipments. It is well to remember, when Grrvernment asks praise for its fostering patronage, that without Government interference in any shape, left only in poseessionof those rightsof which till half • century ago we were in immemorial possession, we should hare had long ere now a larger, better organized, better disciplined, and better officered army than even that of which, tied down by red tape as it has been, ore are so justly proud. But the War-office Circular of the ith January, which we printed a few days ago, appears to inti mate that, even in thus merely relaxing prohibi tions, Government begins to think it has been too liberal. Lord Hassear has chosen the mo ment of his quitting the House of Commons to show his distrust of the people whom that House represents. finder pretence of a boon, an insult is offered. The Minister recites the successive steps which Government has taken in supplying rifles to such corps as might require them ; he then an nounces the wish of Government to relieve corps which had purchased their own rifles of the cost they had incurred ; and he concludes with declaring that whether or not they choose to sell their rifles on the terms offered, they will not be permitted to use at drill or on service any but those fur nished by Government, and of which the property, and the power of resumption, rests with Govern ment. Now that we may see the true sense and purpose of this Circular, let us look first at the pre tences which are put forward to justify it. First, we are told—or seem to be told, for the Circular is in genious in its casuistry of phrase--that Govern ment from the first wished to supply rifles to all Volunteers. But the records of the Wei-OSM themselves bear witness that no corps was at first accepted except on condition of equipping and arming itself without cost to the country, and that the supplying of a few Government rifles for immediate drill was, long afterwards, the first germ of the idea of furnishing arms to all Volunteers. In the next place, Lord H enlarges on the necessity of • uniformity of arms. Nothing cer tainly can be more essential, to the extent of being fitted to use the same ammunition ; but he admits that all the rifles now in use, whether public or private property, are of the Government gauge of bore ; and it is the fact, that in the regular service two varieties, differing only in length, and in being fitted with sword or bayonet, are now eased, and that the arms of the Volunteers are, with out exception, of one or other of these regula tics patterns. It may be added, that it is the short rifle, which the Horse Guards has deemed the most suitable for the Rifle regiments of the line, that has been selected by such corps as have purchased their own rifles ; and that if in a bat talion there be some armed with short and some with long rifles, there has been found no difficulty or inconvenience in distributing them in separate companies. Finally, Lord H alleges the importance of keeping the arms clean and in good order. This also is an undeniably true persposi ton. but it scarcely needs to be asked whether a man is likely to take most care of • rifle which belongs to Government or of his own. In both cases, certainly, care ought to be enforced; in both cases inspection should be systematic and frequent ; in both cases officers and men should be held re- I sponaible for due attention to so necessary an ele ment of efficiency. But will any inspection, any responsibility, be so powerful to secure the result as the mere fact that the arm, belong not to THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, when no one knows what trouble the future may bring forth. Meanwhile, it is to be observed that manufacturing industry in this country, despite all the immediate drawbacks, is at present far more active than it is either in America or France. Our security lies in the multitude of our customers. Whilst our trade with America is unnaturally dull, and that with the Levant disorganized, the Australian markets appear to be in a fair way of recovery from their long depression, and those of China and Japan are hopefully opening. Government but to those who use them and keep them 1 Nor is it unworthy onnidera tion that rifles which belong to Govern ment are reqiured by Lord BIREZZI'II cater to be kept in store, where they must of necessity be cleaned by the armourer and his assis tants, because there cannot be accommodation for each member cleaning his own, immediately on the conclusion of drill or practice, while such ea belong to the members and are taken home by them, are cleaned by themselves or under their immediate instructions. It is obvious that the former method does not provide, as the latter does, for the volunteer being able, if called out for ser vice in the field, to keep his arms in order. The transparent flimsiness of the pretexts put forward to justify the order cannot hide its real intention. Nor is the offence which it conveys removed by the occasional relaxation of the strict- nos of the rule regarding lodging rifles in store, which the Circular of the 7th of January autho rine, or by the subsequent departure, notified in the Circular of the 29th of January, from the demand that Volunteers shall submit to • com pulsory sale of their arms. The later order, indeed, obviates the injustice of requiring the transfer, at the Government contract price, of arms which must in all cases have cost • fourth more, and in many instances five times as much. But the rule still remains that, for the future, Government will not permit the purchase of their own arms by the members either of existing or of future corps. All must belong to Government, and of all Government will assert a right to resume possession at any moment. It is to this prin ciple we desire to direct attention. Divested of apologies and of temporary exceptions, it is • de claration that Government distrusts the people. It is the principle of the disarming acts of Ireland and of India. The purpose is to discourage if not to prevent the acquisition of weapons by private per sona, and to make all dependent on Government pleuure. Such was not the principle of our fore fathers, when every yeoman was bound to have his bow and his sheaf of arrows ready for the de fence of the realm. Such is not the principle of Switzerland, where every man's rifle hangs over the fireplace which it ia to protect. We must look to conquered races to find examples of such an insult. Nor even there shall we find it paralleled. A free nation has vowed its energies to the defence of its QUILIN and its fatherland—officialiam replies by an imputation of disaffection, disloyalty, and by precautions against rebellion. Tnv whole of the Greek trade is disorganized. Five houses in this department of business stopped payment on Saturday week, and three or four more on Saturday Let. The larger houses have for some time past been preparing for the storm, which they foresaw was almost inevitable. It is hoped, therefore, that they are now beyond the reach of its effects. This belief is confirmed by the known wealth and large available means possessed by many of them. But as regards the smaller houses in the trade, the prospect is one of serious embarrassment Their outstanding engagements appear to be quite out of proportion to their immediate resources. From the excitement and alarm which are reported as prevailing in mercantile circles in Constantinople, there is too much reason to fear that the reliance which is placed upon assistance from their con nexious in that quarter may be falsified. It is evident that for much of their embarrassment the t;reek community have to thank M. MIRES and the other speculators who were concerned in the late abortive attempt to. get up a loan. Many Greek firms were encouraged to plunge up to their necks in the troubled waters of Turkish finance, in the belief that the success of the loan would enable them to extricate themselves with a large profit. M. Mixes' failure, which is ill-disguised by a flourish of trumpets by his organs in France, has really put his friends into a hole. It has also involved in their misfortune many persons who were induced to trust the Turkish Government in the idea that they would shortly be put in command of funds, no matter at what sacrifice they were obtained. The whole affair is very lamentable for Turkey. It was lamentable to witness the terms to which its Government acceded in the hope of procuring an immediate supply of money. It has long been lamentable to see the extent to which the Greek and Arme nian capitalists are able to prey year after year upon the poverty-stricken exchequer. Still more deplorable is the utter improvidence betrayed by the saute Government in assigning to its coeditors its finest revenues, in order that it may be enabled to keep up a system of extravagant expenditure. Finally, the events now occurring are full of discouragement to our trade with Turkey—a trade for the promotion of which we have made many sacrifices. The Levant trade will be purged of some of its impurities, and its false paper system will have the knife applied to it ; but before the good effects ultimately expected from these changes occur Turkish trade will have to pass through a trying ordeal. Confidence is shaken, and will not soon revive. There will probably, therefore, be a considerable check to commercial enterprise in that quarter. Meanwhile, the country is being once more drained of gold, in order to sustain the credit of the more important Greek houses in France and England, whilst the paper of all the mend and third class firms is being universally thrown out by discounters, in spite of the credit able balance-sheets which are said to be likely to be presented by many of the failed merchants. The feeling of distrust and suspicion which was lately concentrated upon the well-abused leather trade has now settled upon the Greek and Levant trades, and the effect is felt in many branches of industry in our manufacturing diXtriets. We regret to observe that the complaints of slackness in various departments of trade are rather increasing than diminishing. Although, with the cessation of the foreign drain of gold, and with the improvement in the American exchange, the prospects of the money market have decidedly brightened, there are many considerations of an adverse character in operation at present. Amongst these are the high rates of discount, the extreme caution which prevails in monied circles, the numerous failures in the Greek and Levant trades, and the withholding of orders for our manufactures from America. The latter consideration is perhaps the most important of all in its effects. The consolatory view to be taken is, that as the pecu niary position of America becomes easy her trade with this country will resume, at least to some extent, its ordinary channels. Enterprise must be checked as long as political disquiet prevails in the United States ; but aethe great bulk of the articles which the Americans take from us are pee-eminently articles of utility, it stands to reason that, as long as they have the pecuniary ability to procure thom—and their ability is at present ' undoubted—they will continue to do so. It will probably be different with France, the consumption of whose silks, and other luxurious or fanciful productions, may be rigorously curtailed in America, at a time Clic Court. WLNDSOR CASTLE, Fm. 2. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday. The liaison and Prince Comport, accompanied by Princes. Alice, rode out on horseback this morning, attended by the Hon. Hofttia Stopford, Sir W. Hosts, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Lieutenant-Oolonel the Hon. D. de Roo. Prance Arthur rode out on horseback, attended by Major Elphinstoma R. E the royal dinner party in the evening included the Prioc.• Mice, Lord and Lady Rokeby, and the Hon. Elisabeth Montag', Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Colonel Sir C. Phipps, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellealey, the Hon. Hrs. Hidalulph, Major Elphin• stone, R.E., and the Dean of Christchurch, who arrived at the Castle in the afternoon. The baud of the Royal Horse Guards played during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the drawing-room. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe has euereeded caninTPonsonby as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince Consort. SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Consort, the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Helena, and Princes. Louis., the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and 'the docosetie household attended divine service this morning in the Private Chapel. The very Rev. the Dean of Christ church preached the sermon. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Tmwury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell; the Duke of New castle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy Governor bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on Friday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Trustees of the International Exhibition of DM met on Saturday last at the Council-offioe. Present, Earl Gran ville, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., and Mr. C. W. Dilke. Mr. W. S. Lindsay bad an interview with Lord John Russell, at the Foreign-office, on Saturday. Earl Granville gave an official dinner on Saturday at his residence in Bruton-street to the following party :—The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Orey, Lord Stan ley of Aldmiey, the Right Hos. C. P. - Villiers, the Right Hon. Edward the Furl of St. Germans, Viscount Sydney, Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harrison. The Jediciid Committee of the Privy Council sat on Sr tardy in the Council Chamber. Camel ware heard and withers' examined in suppppoortt cis petition for • prolonga tion of Adams and R cherdaon's patent (construction of railways). The case was not coneltuled when the court roes at four o'clock, and the further h p until Mooday (this day). The Lards aring was postponed t were—Lords Cron worth and Chelmsford, the Justices Knight Bruce and Tumor. Despatches Were sent on Saturday from the Colonial- MBee to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Loop, labnan, and Cards. DEPARTURE OP THE COURT FROM WINDSOR. This morning her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the members of the Royal Family and suite, left Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace. The royal party proceeded to town by special train on the Great Western Railway, and left Windsor at half-past twelve o'clock. A guard of honour of the Scot. Fusilier Guards and the Windsor Ride Volunteers were in at. Madame at the station. According to the present arrange ment the Court will visit Osborne early in the ensuing mouth, for a week or ten days, and at the latter end of March return to Windsor Castle for the Easter holidays. The Court will visit Scotland at a much earlier period this year than heretofore, and it is expected that her Majesty will keep her birthday at Balmoral, the 24th of May, at which time it is said the Princess Royal, Princess Frederick William of Prussia, will be visiting her Majesty. It is understood that the Queen will hold levees at St. James's Palace on Thmeday, the 14th lust., Wednes day, the 20th inst., and on Wednesday the 13th of March next Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Nary honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have re ceived a select circle at Kirubolton Coatis during the past week, the guests including the Earl and Countess of Claren don and Ladies Villiers, the Earl of Sandwich, the Coun tess Cowley and Lady Feodorowna Wellesley, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord Frederick Paulet, Sir Chas. Rules% dm The Marquis of Lansdowne comes to town to-day from &wood. The Marquis of Ailesbury arrived at his mansion is Pall-Mall on Saturday from Tottenham Park, near Marl borough, Willa. The Marquis of Salisbury comes to town to-day from Hatfield. Her ladyship and family will come to town co Wednesday. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have arrived is town from Portman Castle, Galway. The Earl and Countess Grey have arrived at their trunnion on Carlton-terrace from Howick Castle, Northumberland. Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Haroourt, X.P., come to town to-morrow from Neasbam, where they have been receiving a succession of visitors. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for an assembly this evening at Cambridge How. The Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison•have arrived at the House of Commons, from Oeeington Hall, Newark. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Yrs. °Wisteria come town to-day, from visiting Lord end Lady Lytteltoo, at Begley, nem Worcester. Lady Moleaworth entertained at dinner last evening the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hoe. Sir Charles W oo d, Lord se c t Logy Wodehouse, Mr. Loch, Berm Rothschild, Lord Torrington, the Bight Ben. C. P. Villiers, ha. The Rev. Evan Napes°, M.A., of Trinity Col lege, Cambridge, chaplain in ordinary to t►e Queen, who, • few weeks since, wee presented by her Majesty to • mann reuYmtl•ry in Westminster Abbey, has resigned the no tarise of Heydon and IrmingL•d, Norfolk, which be hes held shin 1831. The united bemoans, which are worth 31M. •ye•r, have been conferred by the patron (Yr. W. E. Halves.) upon the Rev. George Shand, M.A., of Queen's College, vicar of Goesterick, near Thetford. Tb. University of Oxford has elected Mr. John Stainer, Mos. Hie. Ch. Ch., organist of Magdalen College, to the booourable position of university organist, recently vacant by the decease of Dr. Stephen Elroy. Mr. Stainer, who is only twenty-one, was formerly a chorister in St. Paul's Cathedral, and at the early age of seven evinced a precoMous talent by his ability to extemporise a fugue on any given subject. The address of the House of Lords, in answer to the speech from the Throne, at the opening of the session, will be moved by the Earl of Sefton, and seconded by Via. count Lismore. Mr. Frederick H. Whymper has been appointed a sab•inspector of factories. Mr. Smale, of the equity bar, has been appointed attorney-general ►t Hong Hong, in the place of Mr. Adams, who has become the chief Justin. Mr. &sale is well known sii having been for many years a reporter in Chancery. This appointment has given general satisfaction to the bar. , 1 SECOND EDITION. EXPRESS OPPICI, Monday, 4.90 p.m. OPENING OF THE FRENCH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Reuter has received the following telegram : PARIS, MONDAY Armiroox. The Emperor to-day opened the legislative session in person, and delivered the following speech : " MM. SENATORS AND DEPOTIRS, "The opening speech of every session sums up in ' a few words past acts and future projects. Up to the present day this communication, restrained by its nature, has not put my government in very intimate relations with the great bodies of the state, and the latter were deprived of the power of fortifying the government by their public adhesion, or enlightening it by their coun sels. I have decided that every year a general exposition of the situation of the empire shall be placed before your eyes, and that the most important diplomatic despatches shall be deposited upon your bureaux. " You will also be able, in an address, to mani fest your opinion upon what has been done, not, as hitherto, by a simple paraphrase of a speech from the throne, but by the free and loyal expres sion of your opinion." The speech having glanced at the former practice of the Chamber in this matter, proceeds to allude to the care with which legislation is now conducted, and to institute a partial comparison be tween the present constitution and that which existed before the revolution of February. It then dwells upon what ought to be the internal policy of the country, and points out the importance of making the necessaries of life as cheap as possible. It continues :—" It was with this object that we reduced the duties upon raw materials, signed a treaty of commerce with England, arranged to contract others with neighbouring countries, and facilitated everywhere the means of communication and transport. To realise these economical reforms, we have renounced 90,000,000 of annual receipts, and yet the budget will present to you a balance without there having been any necessity of having recourse either to new imposts or to loans, as I announced to you last year." After a paragraph relating to Algeria, his Majesty continues : " Abroad I exert myself to prove in my relations with foreign powers that France sincerely desires peace ; that without renouncing a legitimate influence she does not pretend to inter meddle in any way where her interests are not in play ; in short, that if she has sympathies for all that is noble and great, yet she does not hesitate to condemn everything which violates the law of nations and justice. " Events difficult to foresee have occurred to complicate in Italy a situation already so embar rassed. My government, in agreement with its allies, has believed that the best means of averting the greatest dangers was to have recourse to the principle of non-intervention which leaves every country master of ita destinies, localises questions, and prevents them from degenerating into European conflicts. " Certainly I am not ignorant that this system has the inconvenience of appearing to authorise grievous excesses ; and extreme opinions would prefer—some that France should make common cause with all revolutions, others that it should put itself at the head of a general reac tion. I shall not allow myself to be turned from my path by either of these opposing promptings. It suffices for the great ness of the country to maintain its right wherever it is incontestable ; to defend its honour wherever it is attacked ; and to lend its support wherever it is implored in favour of a just Call Bo. " It is thus that we have maintained our right in bringing about the acceptance of the cession of Savoy and Nice. These provinces are now irrevocably reunited to France. It is thus that, to avenge our honour in the extreme east, our flag, united to that of Great Britain, has floated victoriously upon the walls of Pekin, and that the cross, the emblem of Christian civilisation, again rises above the temples of our religion, closed for more than a century. It was thus that, in the name of humanity, our troops went to Syria in virtue of a European convention, to protect Christians against a furious fanaticism. "At Rome I thought it my duty to increase the garrison when the safety of the Holy Father seemed to be threatened. I sent my fleet to Gaeta at the moment when it seemed that it would be the last refuge of the King of Naples. After leaving it there for four months I have withdrawn it, however worthy of sympathy may have been a royal unfortunate so nobly supported. The presence of our vessels compelled us to lay aside the system of neutrality which I had proclaimed, and it gave rise to erroneous interpretations. But you know that in politics men are reluctant to believe in a purely disinterested proceeding. " Such is a rapid sketch of the general situation. Let, then, apprehensions be scattered and confidence be re-established, and why should not commercial and industrial interests take a new flight 1 "My firm resolution is not to enter into any conflict in which the cause of France would not be based on right and justice. What have we, then, to fear? Is it that a united and compact nation, numbering 40,000,000 souls, can dread being dragged into contests the object of which it does not approve, or of being provoked by any threat I The first virtue of a people is to have confidence in itself, and not to allow itself to be excited by imaginary alarms. Let us, then, look calmly into the future with full confidence in our strength as in our loyal intentions. Let us, without indulging in exaggerated prejudice, devote ourselves to the developmant of the germs of pro sperity which Providence has put into our hands." 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LETTER OF THE PRINCE PRIMATE OF HUNGARY TO THE COMITATB. The following is the letter of the Prince Primate of Hungary to the comitata : Honourable Comitate ! Estimable Patriots I To oos tribute to the happiness of our dear country, to secure its prosperity, such has ever bees the chid aim of my life. Therefore, I desire notating more strongly than to see reestablished the edvantager of the conetitu- tional existence enjoyed by our fathers and by us during • series of years under crowned princes. The Almighty, who rules times and epochs, who destroys empires and founds them anew, has blessed my efforts, and thus it happens that his Majesty, following his former inclinations, accedes to the desires of the nation, and has restored to the country its constitutional existence. In virtue of the supreme reso. lution, the comitata were organised ; provinces violently separated from the territory of the country have been restored to it; the language of the public decrees and of education is the Hungarian language; and with satisfac tion we learn that the Diet and the government of our august sovereign are to be expected as indubitable facts. We now possess the germ of the constitutional life ; the good intentions and the promise of our lord and sovereign are the guarantee that we shall also witness the fructifics 800 of the germ. I bless the Almighty, who has permitted me to see the morning of the day of the resurrection of my country, and has enabled me to exclaim with the nation, "The country has risen from the dead ! let us return thanks to the Almighty." But I experience very grave anxiety in learning that the construction of the new edifice ia not in some points con ducted with that prudence, that patience, which the importance and difficulty inherent to the matter require, and which are the necessary conditions of a happy solution. Dear patriots I—Your ardent love for the safety of the country tranquillises me, and makes me hope that you will not badly construe it if one of your brothers who has reached the evening of life, and, anxious on the subject of his country's prosperity, addresses to you some words of counsel. For so great a work as the regulation of our country's affaira, great preparations are necessary, in order that all may be executed with fitting circumspection, and that the edifies which we desire to see arise, magnificent and im pregnable, may be placed upon a sure and solid basis. It is especially in the execution of a work of such grandeur and of such extensive bearings, that precipitation ought to be avoided. We should shun all premature steps— act' contrary to the written decree; steps which, besides being an obstacle to the development of affairs, produce, instead of order, the anarchy which God wishes to spare the country so often tried, and provoke measures of order on the part of the authorities. If, with • manly perse verance, we have suffered, our eyes turned to the Most High, only nourishing in our Warts a wish to see the sovereign tender us hie hand in sign of reconciliation as he bas now tendered it, let us at least have some months of patience until our affairs receive from the Diet • solution in • permanent form, with the co operation of all, and so not alienate • sovereign animated by the purest sentiments, and who approaches us with the olive branch in his hand. The country finds itself now, as it has done at many other periods, in a situation of difficulty. Dear friends of the country ! permit me in my sincerity to tell you that your patriotism will be of very slight value, if just at this moment you withdraw the aid material to the prince and the country ; if just at this moment you refuse the psyment of taxes, the necessity for which, moreover, is so pressing in our own interest. I hope that you will understand me if, by virtue of my position in the country, sad following the example of my ancestors, I now intercede between the sovereign and the nation. May these words, full of confidence, testify my high esteem for you, my fra ternal love, ►nd the hopes which I entertain of your patriot ism. lay the blessing of Cod descend upon the prince and upon the botuatry. JEAN SLITOWSKT, Cardinal and Prince Primate of Hungary. Gnat, Jan. 16, 1861. Baron Vay, Chanoellor of Hungary, has ad dressed a letter to the Cardinal Primate relative to the late imperial protest against the proceedings of the comitata. The Chancellor says that if these proceedings ooutinue, the meeting of the Diet must be indefinitely postponed. Meanwhile he pledges himself for the sincerity of his sovereign. "No one," he says, " can have had better opportunities than I have of satisfying himself how sincere and earnest is his Majesty's wish to adhere to the path of legality, and to fulfil the legitimate wishes of the nation ; my position gives me facilities for perceiving each day more and more the hopes which the high qualities of our sovereign authorise the country to cherish." ITALY. GAETA. The Nord, of to-day, contains a letter from Paris in which the following statement is made :—" The French corvette the Solon, now at Messina, touched at Mola di Gaeta, in order to deliver a letter from the Emperor Napoleon to Francis 11. The reply to the letter has arrived at Paris. Francis 11. replies to the Emperor Napoleon that he is determined to defend the place until the last extremity, and to bury himself, if need be, under the ruins of the fortress. So the bombardment will continue. But probably it will be carried on but feebly, the Piedmontese being half inclined to content themselves with bloelewling the place by sea and land." MUM'S ROME, FEB. 3. According to advices from Gaeta to yesterday's date, the siege continues without any remarkable incident on either side. The place replies but moderately to the fire of the besiegers. TURIN, SUNDAY MOBMG. The Opinion says :—" Count Brassier de St. Simon will to-day present to his Majesty the cre dentials confirming nis appointment as ambassador of the King of Prussia at Turin." TURIN, SUNDAY EVENING. General Room, in his report, announces that con fidence and tranquillity are returning throughout the whole frontier of the Abruzzi. The town of Sors has presented an address to General Sonnaz expressive of gratitude for his exertions to restore tranquillity. The peasants compel the demoralised reactionary bands to surrender to the Sardinians. ROME, Jax. 29 (via Marseilles). A despatch from official quarters states that Schiavone, one of the chiefs of the reactionary bands in the Abruzzi, has surrendered. Fighting continuos to take place, and a spirit of revenge is displayed on both sides. Villages are set on fire, and Sardinian officers have been cut to pieces. Sardinia has claimed the restoration of the sol diers who were made prisoners by the Papal Zouaves, and has arrested the Bishop of Sabine as a hostage. BERNE. Fris. 3. The Federal Council kiwi been officially informed that the Italian elections even in the Two Sicilies have been favourable to the ministry. VENETIA. BERLIN, Buz DA General Lamarmors has repeatedly declared that Sardinia has no intention of attacking Venetia. Re has made no other political declarations. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY MOILIONO. The Monifeer publishes an imperial decree regu lating the sittings of the Senate and the Corps Legislatif. The projects of the addresses of the Senate and the Corps Legieletif will be drawn up by commis sions, composed of the presidents and one member from each committee. Both addreeese will be voted paragraph by pa. ragraph. Any amendment to the addresses will only be dis cussed when signed by five members. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Mosnar. Numbers of the Hungarian soldiers on furlough who had been ordered to return have already arrived at their quarters. The semi-official Donau Zeitung gives a denial to the news published by some German journals, that a treaty relating to the Danubian Principalities had been concluded between Russia and Austria, DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 2. The Danish Diet has been closed. The King, in his reply to the President's speech, said: " Should they come near us my people will de fend themselves if I call upon them to do so." The semi-official Berlingake Mende, in publish in,gthis speech, makes the following remarks : Should German troops enter Holstein without being called upon to do so by our Sovereign, and oontrary to his wish, a violation of territory would then take place, and the Federal Diet would in fact have declared war against Denmark. War, at the present moment, would be inconvenient for Ger many, and is consequently convenient for Denmark. A state of armed peace exhausts the strength of a country and weakens popular enthusiasm, without which a small people cannot make war. By a blockade we can now damage the commerce of Germany and ruin the Prussian ports for a long period. The conflict must, therefore, now terminate either by war or by negotiation." INDIA. CALCUTTA, JAN. 11. The Viceroy refuses to communicate to tho Indian Council the papers concerning the Mysore grant. News has been reqeivedliere that the lauding of the American ambsAsadors had been repulsed at Japan. India is quiet, but indiscretion is shown by the inoome tax officials. dead. Capt. Simpson, of the 2nd Light Cavalry, is SPECIE FOR INDIA AND CHINA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nernst The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, sailing to-day for Alexandria, takes out in specie—gold coin, 18,0001. ; bar silver, 76,7861. ; and dollars, 20,647/. SPECIE FOR THE CAPE. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY. The Union Company's screw steamer Celt, sail. ing to-day for the Cape of Good Hope, takes out is specie--sovereigns, 3,0001. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Orien tal Steam Navigation Company : HOMEWARD, BOMBAY, AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Orissa brought the above mails to Suez, ar rising there on the 25th Januar). The Ellora, with the heavy portion of the mails, &c., left Malta at noon on the 31st ult., and may therefore be expected at Southampton on the 9th inst. OUTWARD MAILS. The Ceylon (from Southampton on the 20th) reached Malta at 4 p.m. on the 29th, and sailed at midnight. The Euxino (from Marseilles on the 28th) arrived at Malta at 1 a.m. on the 31st, and sailed at 6 a.m. for Alexandria. The Singapore (with extra London mails of the 12th to the 18th November) reached Calcutta on the 26th December. The Nubia (with English mails of 90th to 26th November) arrived at Calcutta on the 29th Dec. The Bengal (with those of 4th to 10th Dec.) arrived on the 10th January. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom OUR OWN COI PARIS, SUNDAT ECIMUIG.. The Courtier du Dimanche appears to-day with out giving any explanation for the delay iu its pub lication. There is no article by Count d'Hausson ville. A paragraph signed by the secretary, in the name of the proprietors and staff of the paper, says : We can but register in silence the double blow which is struck at us. But when our chief editor, B. (Janeiro, is expelled from France, which be had made his second coun try, we think we break no law, and that we but fulfil ■ duty, in giving him • public assurance of our sympathy, esteem, and regret. Whether far or near, we can never forget the services which he has rendered, nor cease to think of the services which his independent and courageous pen may yet render to the liberal cause. It is these services which had naturalised him amongst us. I cannot help remarking as curious a little slip of the pen in the " latest news" of the Pattie, a government paper, which is to the full as " insult ing to imperial institutions" as the article for which the Courrier du Dinaaache was warned, and its editor sentenced to expulsion from France. The gravamen of M. Clanesco's offence was that he questioned whether universal suffrage, when guided in a particular direction by a strong hand, al ways and infallibly represented the sound opi nions and true interests of a country. This reasoning was construed by M. de Persigny as an attack upon the " basis of the French government," whose power, wrongfully seized at first, has beyond doubt no other legal sanction than that derived from universal suffrage very consider ably manipulated. But now the Patrie is so indis creet as to write :—"M. Liborio Romano, who directed the elections at Naples, has got himself named in six colleges ; but this circumstance has not pro duced a good effect, for this personage does not inspire much sympathy in Italy." So here we have it admitted that the man who "directs" . an elec• tion succeeds in his object with as much certainty as the man who directs a cotillon, and that his being returned is quite consistent with his not being liked. The only news in the Courrier du Dimanthe is one which I think very doubtful. It is informed by a correspondent that Francis IL has established a subterranean communication between Gaeta and Rome, and that it is through this tunnel that all the intelligence spread through Europe from Rome has been sent. The Pattie professes to know that Garibaldi, in his last interview with Victor Emmanuel, de dared that he gave up all idea of any attack upon Austria in Hungary, directly or indirectly, and that his only wish was to fight under the orders of the Kiug whenever the right moment should arrive. Viscount Rambourgt, member of the Corps Legialatif, has been sentenced by the Court of Troyes to twenty days' imprisonment for a libel upon the mayor on the occasion of the municipal elections. The part of the plunder of the Emperor of China's Summer Palace which was reserved for Napoleon 111. arrived in Paris yesterday, packed in thirty-three large oases. We may expect to see some of the curiosities in the Louvre very soon. cer mo for mug but whi aim thri toll Lae it t Gin Be f«, big his in 1 the Pct eel cee eat Jel dre No COT 1 bal the atec the Stp be Wei