The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

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Terry.—A w'RAP OF PAPER. Messrs. A. Wins end : Mew Herbert and lira A. Wigan. —Aad VIE PADUA Or MAMMA —4Arameareaa Wt-post 7. SMANNIA. Two worm THE milk L Yarisal. ni by 11r. W y. Partisan.. ae,l Yr. C. Woodman TrI i trYeALLTOK MIN I. Jacobs and the tattle Wender.—And THEIII4.E. Xis. L Iluaott. WIWI WATER AT LOWEION ERIDOL TO DST —limning. Afternoon. 4)t 11.. 10,11111111 DOW —Mynas, U. Andriaoce. 4L 47a. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 13. Norwmerrasottro all we have heard during the last ten days of further resistance to the Budget, we doubt whether any of its opponents in the House of Commons will venture to appeal this evening from the decision already pronounced by • majority of that House in its favour. The second reading of the Bill, which is founded upon the whole of the Resolutions recently passed, and which is framed with the intention of presenting the entire of the financial measures of the Govern. ment at one view for the approval of each branch of the Legislature, stands first upon the orders of the day. To raise the question whether or not it should pass that necessary stage would be to put in issue the still more com prehensive question of confidence or no confidence in the Administration. Lard Patzsaarox and Mr. Gtaisiroxic could desire nothing better calcu lated to sustain the stability of their sway. The Budget is confessedly a compromise between the opinions regarding expenditure and taxation which the Fear Loan of the TREASURY and the CHANcELLUR of the EXCHZQUIR are supposed to represent, and which unquestionably have many earnest supporters respectively in the ranks they jointly lead. The proposal to reject such a coin promise would necessarily compel the House to choose not only between Paper and Tea, or • penny more and a penny less of Income Tax, but between moderato and violent counsels on the most sensitive of all subjects, that of finance. Wo need be under no anxiety 111 to what the decision would be. The majority of the House has already declared, by its vote on the previous question, put to it in the almost theoretic form of a resolution, that it is con tent to accept the reduction of • million of income tax, and of six hundred thousand pounds of paper duty, as the amount of remission of national burthena of tho present year ; but it has declared at the same time its opinion that both of these changes ought to be made. These are, in fact, the two wheels upon which Mr. thaovirows's Budget rolls, and to intercept either of them would, it was felt from the first, arrest the pro gives of both. Nothing has occurred since the vote referred to, calculated to alter in any sense the position of things. Every man who voted in the majority against Mr. Ilossrstes amendment is certain to vote for the second reading of the Bill ; while it does not by any means follow that every man who made the mistake of supporting the hon. Member for Liverpool will consider him self bound to vote against the Bill which em bodies what the House then determined on. Indeed, we may without hesitation say, that several who helped to swell unavailingly the list ut the minority on that occasion would be found wanting were their help relied on ag►in. Public opinion has calmly bat clearly ratified the woe course taken by the Home of Commons in affirming Mr. flimiciroma's Resolutions without alteration or reserve, and another division vir tually on the Wee question would only serve to show the increased weakness and want of unity that prevails on the t opposition side. Nothing, we repeat it, therefor•, could be more acceptable to the Caaxe nl. 1.4.1 t of the ExcitwOvaa than the opportunity of obtaining a decisive confirmation of the verdict pronounced in his favour. Will the Tories so far gratify him? We suspect not. With a view, however, to a vexatious course of delay at • further stage of the measure, we shall not be surprised if an attempt be made to-night to revive discussion in a desultory form on the relative powers and privileges of the two Houses. The apologists of the usurping pre tensions of the Peers in respect of taxation will possibly argue that the Budget Bill ought to be divided into two or more parts, in order that opportunity might thereby be afforded of reject;ig one part and of sanctioning the remainder. The Lords ought to be left in the enjoyment of their unconstitutional prerogative, and every facility ought to be given them of repeating their too celebrated performance of hint year. It is hardly worth while to waste a sentence or a phrase on men who are so blind as to affect to reason thus. The combination of financial measures as por tions of one financial scheme, in one financial Bill for the year, was long the established practice iii Parliament ; and a very good practice it was, on many grounds that need not be here recited. It is enough to reiterate what has many times been said, that the course now taken by Mr. Gxsuerolts is simply a, return to the good old ways of the Constitution. The very forms of the House indicate that the Minister should ho free to adopt either course, as may seem to be most convenient ; for they dis tinctly prescribe, when resolutions are adopted in a Committee of Ways and Moans, that the same shall be embodied in "a Bill or Bills." There may obviously be occasions in which time will be rived by dividing the work to be done in two or more parts. When a Budget consists of a great many branches, and these require a great number of provision, to work out their details, it may be more convenient to dispose of one portion com pletely in the Lower House, and send it to the Upper, in nub s that the latter may not be kept idle until the former has completed its work. But in general no such necessity can exist ; and the present is no exception to the rule. There is, moreover, a strong and palpable inducement thin year not to separate the Budget Bill into separate measures. If a collision THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1861. between the two Houses is a thing to be avoided, it is of no ordinary importance to save the House of Lords the trouble of considering a second time the prudence and propriety of their course last year regarding the paper duty. If a separate mea sure, similar to that of 1860, were sent up to the Peers in 1861, it might possibly be put to their Lordships as a point of dignity whether they should not persist in the ill-advised course they entered upon twelve months ago. We fully believe that the good sense of the Peers would withhold them from committing so grave an error. But it is highly desirable to avert even the discussion of such a question, not for the sake of the enemies of the Peers, if there be any, but for the sake of the Peers themselves. The Minis terial measure as now framed possesses, amongst others, this great recommendation, that it saves the conmir propre of the Upper House by asking their assent, as in former days it used to be asked, to the whole of the financial arrange ments of the year embodied in ono Bill. The most sanguine stickler for lordly privilege has never asserted that a money Bill could be altered in the Upper House ; and the most rigid cham pion of the rights of the Commons will hardly contend that the House of Lords might not, if it pleased, reject a Budget Bill altogether. Practi cally wo know that such a course is never likely to be taken, and practically we need not trouble our heads about it. But what would be danger ous to the amity of the two Houses would be the presenting repeatedly the temptation to the Peers that they might reject one out of three or four money Bills, and thus substantially subvert the exclusive power over them which the Consti tution has vested in the representatives of the people. Any proposition, therefore, however covertly made, to break up the present Budget Bill into separate measures, will be resisted by reasonable and sensible men, alike on the ground of prudence and of principle. Wait it to be asked what word would best ex press the sense of the commercial circulars and other reports which reach us from various parts of the kingdom, the answer would be—uncertainty. Than uncertainty there is, as Messrs. Joerrn Taavans and Sons justly observe, no greater enemy to commercial enterprise. Our merchants can adapt themselves to a state of war or of peace —to a high value of money, or to a low one—but uncertainty paralyses their transactions. It is a condition which engenders more impatience than any combination of actual adverse events. Manu facturers and shippers at present do not know what to be at. The American crisis is oversha dowing our industry. The whole of the cotton trade is involved in uncertainty in an especial de gree. We do not know whether the usual and necessary quantity of cotton will be grown ; and if it be grown, we do not know whether it will be permitted to reach us. We do not know yet whether there is really to be war in America. Everything, it is true, points in that direction, but in the cotton trade, in the corn trade, in the metal , trade, in all branches of our manufactures, in the Money Market, and in the Stook Exchange, there is a general indisposition to do business, prin cipally because the idea has continued to float through men's minds that the American difficulty, after all that has been said and done, may prove susceptible of arrangement by other means than that of a long and desolating civil war. Then everyone pictures to himself the immense effect that would be produced were even the mere prospect of an arrangement to be opened. How great would be the effect upon the price of cotton I What merchant can bestir him self boldly in ordering supplies from India sad other regions, as long as there is a chance of the ground being cut from under his feet? What would be the consequence upon the value of money, upon the bullion movement— glutted as the New York banks are with gold ? What a rebound there would be in all kinds of public securities, home, foreign, and American We are not drawing a fancy sketch. Evidences of indecision of this kind run through nearly every commercial record that comes to hand, not merely from our home trading centres, but from abroad and from America itself. The cir cular of Messrs. T. H. larmanaut and Co., of Liverpool, assigns, as the real explanation of the quiet which prevail■ in the New York cotton market, an impression entertained by many per sons there that, now that the North has practi cally proved its power to reinforce and hold the capital, it is not impossible that an armistice may be arranged between the contending parties. A single day's news may throw these surmises to the winds, and may convert indecision into certainty—perhaps a certainty of the gloomiest kind. But we are convinced that in these considerations are comprised the real mo tives of the pause which is observable in commer cial enterprise in every part of the country. It is the 11111110 in America as here. Take another example : the commercial editor of a leading New York journal descants upon the fall in Missouri Bonds, and upon Missouri finance generally. Re shows that the financial resources of the State and of its banks are limited at present to a certain sum, and if that sum be appropriated to furnish the contingent required from it towards the (Southern) ConfederCa army, there will be no means to meet the interest duo two months hence on Missouri Bonds. The State can, ap parently, according to the showing of our con temporary, accomplish one of two things—it can either furnish its military quota, or pay the in terest on its debt, but it cannot do both. But it of the mode of reasoning which prevails in America, with regard to the present extraordinary events, that the New York journal goes on to argue that the holders of Missouri Beads need not sell in haste, because sixty days must elapse before the next dividends become due, and sixty days may produces radical change in the whole polities' situation. When such uncertainty as this prevails in America, it is not surprising that our trade is affected in a similar manner, though, happily, not in a similar degree. The commercial classes must have pa tience and wait, trusting in the prospect of a re turn of moderation amongst the Americans, and in the recuperative energies which have often been exhibited by our trade under conditions of equal gloom. Meanwhile the firms connected with the Ameri can trade derive some consolation from witnessing the increasing unpopularity with which the MOR- A! LL Tariff is regarded in the United States. Nearly all the principal American journals unite in denouncing the new retrograde legislation. They condemn it not merely from its commercial but from its political action, which is really of a revolutionary character. INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FOND. —The total amonot neeived in aid of the Indian Famine Fund up to featardAy afternoon was 88,0001., of which 1000/. was received daring the day, including 191 f. 10e. 101. from Newbury p hot., beim.. n further instalment from Cambridge, r ee k* a t o tal .4 11001. from that town ; and a furth e r instalment of WI. 17s. 2J. from Bath. CD* Court. WHITE LODGE, RIOHNOND.PARK, MAT 11. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Alice, west to Frogmore Howie thin morning, and returned in the Airman. Ilse Majesty drove to Twickenham station, where a special bean el the South-Western Railway was in waiting to con vey her Majesty to Ratchet. In attendance were lady Caroline Barrington, Lieut.. General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel Biddulph. The Prince Consort went to London this morning, attended by his Equerry-in-Waiting, and honoured the Exhibition of Antiquities and Objects of Art at Ironmongers' Hall with a visit. His Royal Highness afterwards presided at a msetiog of the council of the Duchy of Cornwall, held at the Duchy office, Buckingham-gate, St. James's Park. There were also present the Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir William Dunbar; the Attorney-General, Sir William John Alexander; the Treasurer, Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps ; the Duke of Newcastle; the Lord Portman ; and the Secre tary, Mr. Janice Robert Gardiner. The queen with Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, visited Hampton Court Palace on Friday aftersooo. MAT 12. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, the Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louise and Prince Leopold attended Diviae service at the White Lodge this morning. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting and the domestic household were also present. The Hon. and Very 11ev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left Buckingham Palace yesterday to visit the Prince of Wales, at Madingley Hall, near Cambridge. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Mort Honour able Privy Council had a meeting, on Saturday, at the Council.offme. Present : the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Somerset, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, Lord Kingsdown, Lord Herbert, Secre tary Sir George Lewis, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hoe. E. Cantwell, the Right Hon. Dr. Lushiegton, and the Right Hon. R. Lowe. Her Majesty's Advocates and the Queen's Attorney- General and Solicitor-General were in attendance. The Parana Ambassador had an interview with Lord John Russell, at the Foreign-office, on Saturday. Despatches were received OD Saturday, at tho Colonial• office, from the Garreraors of Malta sod the Mauritius. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Canada, sad the Bahamas. VISIT or THE PRINCE CONSORT TO THE CITY.— On Saturday the Prince Comport, attended by Major Du Plat, visited Ironmongers' Han, in Fenchurcirstrest, for the purpose of inspecting the exhibitions of works of art and rend which adorned the noble ball and suite of rooms on the occasion of the oomersaziose given by the company. His Royal Highness, on alighting from his carriage, was received by Mr. Richard Burkett, the muter, Mr. J. W. Bailey, and Mr. C. L. Lucktun, warders of the Company, as also several members of the court, who had the honour of conducting the Prince through the various apartment.. The Prince's visit lasted upwards of an hour, and, on leaving, be expressed his satisfaction at the col lection be had witnessed, and paid a high compliment on the members of the company for cultivating so interesting an exhibition. A Cambridge letter of Saturday says :—" His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by his equerry, arrived here by the mid-day train to-day, on a s sit to bis royal howler the Prince of Wales. Prince Arthur's return is Ind for Monday morning. The Prince of Wales met with as occident while boating yesterday. His royal high- DM and Captain Grey were amusing themselves in • small boat. known here as a " tub," on the river at the back of Trinity, and near Gerard's Hostel-bridge, when one of them lost his oar, and in an attempt to reoover it the boat was upset, and the prince and Captain Grey were precipitated into the water. Fortunately the water is not deep at this spot, and the Cam cannot boast of width anywhere. As intense was at hand, and the prince and his companion were soca oe shore again, the only inconvenience ex perienced being a wetting. This was soon remedied by • ohmage of clothes at college, and the prince was able to attend the boat races in the evening, patronising for the purpose • miniature steamer which plies on the river, called the Little Eagle." Their Excellencies Baron and Baroneaa Brunnow entertained at dinner on Saturday night, at Climbs= House, his Excellency the Persian Ambassador, Mira Djiffer Khan, who was accompanied by Mira Hassan Khan and Mabomed Aly Ap. Amongst the company present were his Excellency Baron Bentinek, his Excellency Count Lavradio, his Excellency Count Vitathum, his Excellency Moos de BMe, Chevalier Ohveira Sylva, Chevalier Santos, Baron de Billing, Mr. Bartoldi, Mr. Phipps, end Mr. Sabouroff. Their Excellencies the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess d'Appooyi entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday evening at Chandos House. The counter received company after dinner. The Earl and Countess Vane have arrived in town. His lordship hu taken a residua In Prinee's.gate for the season. Lord and Lady Camoys and family have arrived is tows from Stew Park, for the seems. Lady Llanover left Loudon last week for South Wales. Her ladyship will nut return to town until after tbe Whitsuntide holidays. We (Post) underataud that the noble premier has glum instructions to have • chapel built solely st his owe expense at Les, in the pariah of Rooney, on his lordship's estate. Soule parts of his estate are distant three miles from the parish church, and the walk in winter is not only • long but • very dirty one. His lordship also gives Use ground, sod proposes to build • cottage near the chapel tor a widget schoolmistress. The Xaliabiery Journal says :—"On the 13th and 14th Mat. Wells will be no doubt very py, in conse quence of the muster of the battalion of Rides, which include the Prome, Wlncauton, Rameston, Shepton Mallet, Glastonbury, Weston. and Wells Rides, in the Bishop's Park, for inspection by Colonel Luttersll. The 14th will he looked former! to with much interest, in consequence of the inerriage which is to take place at the cathedral, be tween Mr. Dickenson and the Hum Mies Eden, daughter of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. It is something like 100 years since the hat marriap took place in the cathedral." Mr. Charles Frere, examiner of petitions to private bilk, has been appointed by the Speaker to the office of taxing•master to the House of COWMAN, in the place of Mr. Lefroy, deceased. The salary of the office to Mr. Lefroy was 7001. a year ; but the amount of business did mot appear to warrant that the office should be maintained as an independent office, or be endowed with the full ability. We (Times) understand Mr. Frere takes the office, bolding it in c iojuottioo with his ofsoe as examiner of petitions, at the reduced salary of 2001. a year. So by this arrangement a saving is effected to the public of 5001. a year. - In the South Dock Ward, Dublin, on Friday, Mr. Richard Wilson was unanimously elected in the room of the late Alder nan Kinahan. Mr. Wilson was the con servative Lord Mayor elect to succeed Miamian Campbell, but having declined to attend a Lord Mayor's banquet at which Cardinal Wiseman was to be the principal guar., end at which the Earl of Eglinton and other high personages connected with the government had declined to be pregent, the liberal majordy refused to have him is Lord Mayor, and on the first opportunity afterwards he was ousted by the same party from the ourporatios. A trial trip from London round to Southampton took place during Saturday awl yesterday in the Mooltue, the last addition made to the steam fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. This vessel has been built to run between Southampton and Alexandria ; her design was by Mr. James Ash, and her builders were the Thames Iron Company. The Mooltan will go to sea with a greater amount of modem improvements in bee than ►ny vessel which has ever lift our shore., and her SUOCC4I6, if a success it is to be, will open up a new era for steam navigation. General Idiranion, the ex-president of the Mexi cali republic, has just arrived in Paris, accompanied by his wife and children and several relations. Lista, the famous German pianist, is now in Paris alter ea sleanies of many years. The other eveuing a thief got into the dressing_ rooms of the Opera Comique, Paris, during the performance of Sa:rano Rom, and passing for one of the troop of walk. nig gentlemen, slipped on • brigand's costume, with which he forthwith leesnted. He sold the drem for the trifling sum of 2fr., and has since been arrested. A uew volume of M. Fraueois-Victor Hugo's translation of Shalicapere has just appeared, containing The TWO tlentbnerit of Velona, The Merchant of Venice, and ds ;Nu Lehe it, with an introduction and nut's. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. OCCUPATION OF THE TWO SIMILES. The following paragraph, which in some of its parts is subject to caution, appears as latest news in the Patrie: A Turin letter of the 9th ears that the entire kingdom of the Two Sicilia' is about to be occupied by troops. This measure has been judged necessary in order to bring the Neapolitan population to the principle of unity. In conse quence almost all the Piedmontese army will shortly take up positions in Southern Italy. It is stated that the Sardinian cabinet, having resolved not to assume the offensive towards Austria, has determined to withdraw its troops from the line of the Mincio, which is guaranteed by France, and to send into the Neapolitan provinces a part of the force now in cantonments in Lower Lombardy. (escrea's mussel's.) TURIN, MAT 13. The Gazetta di Torino of to-day announces that Signor de Martino will leave on Thursday next for Naples, as lieutenant-general of the King. The resignation of Prince Carignan has been accepted. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, IUT 13. A report is current, which, however, requiree con firmation, that the Polish and Czech members will leave the Reicherath, on account of the discussion of Saturday last on the address in reply to the Emperor's speech. Another report asserts that Croatia has deter mined to send representatives to the Reichsrath. VIENNA, MAy 11, Evannio. Both Horses of the Reichsrath sat to-day. Baron Schmerling, Minister of State, presented fourteen bills, among which were a new press law, a matrimonial law, and a law decreeing the invio lability of the persons and the irresponsibility of speech of the members of the Reicharath and the deputies to the Diet. VIENNA, MAT 12. The Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of yester day, voted the address in reply to the Emperor's speech, after a most animated discussion of eight hours. The Czechs, Poles, and the aristocracy party of great landed proprietors, proposed amendments in favour of a federal system. These amendments were rejected by a majority. HUNGARY. PE 111. MAT 12 . Negotiations have been commenced with Croatia relative to the future position of the military frontier. PARIS, MAT 12. The Petrie of this evening says • " It is asserted that the Austrian government has determined that in the event of the adoption of the address proposed by M. Deak, one last effort would still be made by Austria for an arrangement with Hungary. Should this attempt fail the Austrian government would dissolve the Hungarian Diet." FRANCE. PARIS. MAT 12:. In yeeterday's sitting of the BenateadisciMion took place on a petition demanding the revision of the maritime convention between England and France. The committee proposed to refer the petition to the Ministries for Foreign Affairs, Marino, and Com meroe, which proposition was supported by Admiral Cecile, and opposed by M. Michel Chevalier and M. e. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. IL&DRID, MAY 11. Solyman the brother of the Emperor of Morocco, with some kabyle tribes, is said to oppose the pay ment of the war indemnity to Spain. The Emperor, however, shows himself firmly re solved to pay it. MADRID, MAT 12. It is asserted bore that England is about to send a squadron to Gibraltar. It is likewise reported that the Moors have humbly explained the difficulty they will have in paying the portion of the indemnity due at the end of May, and offer to pay as much as lies in their power. SWITZERLAND. The members of the government of Geneva have tendered their resignation in a body on account of the ill-treatment sustained by James Fazy, chief of the government of the Canton of Geneva, uct having been found by the jury to constitute a viola tion of official dignity. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, &MAT. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara left Boston on the Ist and Halifax on the 3rd May. She arrived here at 1.40 p.m., and brought 98 pas sengers and 1,200d015. for England. She landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 2 p.m. All well. The Royal Mail steamship Persia arrived here at 7 a.m., embarked the mails, passengers, and the latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 4 p.m. All well. NEW YORK, Aratt. (PIS NIARAGA, VIA QUZEJUITOWII.) The telegraphic communication between New York and Washington has been re-established. 18,000 armed troops are now in Washington, and the capital is said to be perfectly secure. The prospects of an immediate collision have diminished. A reactionary feeling is displayed in Baltimore. The Federal flag has been hoisted on the custom house. The test vote in the Maryland legislature showed a majority of 38 against secession. The levy of troops and war preparations con tinued with great zeal throughout the Northern and Southern States. The Governor of Virginia had issued a proclama tion, ordering all military companies to remain at their homes until ordered out by competent authority. It is rumoured that the Tennessee Convention has passed a secession ordinance. It is expected that martial law will be proclaimed in the district of Columbia in a few days. Authentic reports state that President Lincoln has informed the Governor of Virginia that should any more movements of confederate troops take place north of Richmond, an immediate attack would be made by Federal troupe on Norfolk and Richmond. Washington advices state that the Governor of Virginia had informed President Lincoln that he would allow no confederate troops to pass through Virginia for the invasion of Washington. The New York Herald publishes a letter from San Domingo, stating that the government of Hayti had protested ag►inst the action of Spain in seising Domingo. The Adriatic has arrived out, and the Arabia at Halifax. President Lincoln him issued a proclamation, de claring a blockade of the poets of Virginia and North Carolina. The Bremen went ashore last night at Coney Island, but was got off, and arrived here safe this morning. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TIABALIFAX. --- RimFYoil:J - 6i 2. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided upon willing for a loan of 14 millions of dollars. There is no appearance of an attack on Wash ington. Jefferson Davis's message to the Montgomery Congress was delivered on the 29th April. It states that the South will resist subjugation to the direst extremity. The City of Manchester has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, NAT 2. Exchange on Loudon, 105. Stocks dull. New York e lm t r o s , 12. Erie, 19k. Illinois, 58g. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 14c. 13seedstuffs quiet. Provisions heavy. Pork and lard lower. NEW ORLEANS, MAT 1. In cotton only small sales have been effected. Middling is quoted lOic. to 11c. Exchange is nominal. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY 00X OWN PARIS, SUNDAY Evmama. The Prase remarks that while all the ordinary journals and latest letters are agreed that Count Teleki died by suicide, the Moniteur alone appears to have a doubt upon the subject, and in its bul letin only admits suicide as an "hypothesis." I think the Prase attributes too much importance to the Moniteur in this instance. The writer of the bulletin had in all probability no instructions be yond the intelligence open to all the world, and it is unlikely that he meant to insinuate a suspicion of a murder. Count Teleki was an unusually nervous and excitable man, and his friends are not surprised to bear that be committed suicide. The Austrian government has crimes enough to answer for. Let us not imagine an additional one. The Pays—which, under the direction of M. Granier de Caasagnac, is the enemy of the liberty of the press as of all other liberties, and was de nounced yesterday by the Prate as the only journal in France that stands up for slavery—now con firms, in the following ungracious terms, the news that the Emperor is going to do something for the per: We have moon to know that a bill is in preparation. As to its clauses nobody yet knows anything. We believe we may, however, state that it will maintain the principles which form the basis of the existing legislation, but will modify certain regulations, so se to bring the law into more complete harmony with the decree of November 24. This is in the French phrase porter pour ne rien dire. The " basis" of the present legislation on the press—that of 1852—is despotism, and it follows from the principles of November 24 that such a basis is a bad one. The question now is how far the bad basis is to be uprooted. A ministerial journal of Madrid of May 7 gives a not very clear denial of the rumours circulating about Morocco, asserting at the same time that the Morocco government does not refuse to pay the indemnity, and that Spain will not allow it to shrink from its engagements. The masonic lodges of France are about to meet to elect a grand master, and there is no doubt that Prince Murat, on account of his being a pretender to the throne of Naples, and,as such, the represen tative of ultramontanism, will be deposed, and Prince Napoleon elated in his stead. PARIS, SATURDAY Evinnwa. The confirmation of the news that the French troops will evacuate Syria by June 5 produced a favourable effect on the Bourse ; and, although the highest prices of the day were not maintained to the close, the Rente left off with a rise of 15c. for cash and 10c. for account, the last price being 69.50 f. and 69.45 f. Mobilier fell 1.25 f. The Lyons and Southern Railways rose 3.75 f. each, and the other lines were about 1.25 f. higher. News has been received in Paris that the govern ment of Morocco has not only made defaiSt in re gard to the last instalment of the war indemnity which it had contracted to pay, but has given notioe that it will not be able to pay any more money at all. This news has made a great sensation at Madrid. It may perhaps lead to a new campaign, and possibly to a ministerial crisis, as the adver saries of Marshal O'Donnell will be likely to do their utmost to turn the circumstance to account. Spain, it will be remembered, holds Tetuan as a guarantee for the money due from Morocco, and the continued occupation of that place by Spanish troops will be an additional European complication. M. Veuillot's pamphlet, " Waterloo," is out to day. The author's theory is that Waterloo was a victory gained by the protestant over the catholic nations of Europe, that Louis Napoleon's expedi tion to Rome and the restoration of the temporal power was the revenge of the catholic nations, and that at this moment the protestanta are meditating a second and more terrible Waterloo, which shall result in the suppression of the temporal power. This view must be admitted to be original. Although it so happened that England and Prussia, two of the parties to the last coalition against Napoleon, were protestant nations, it never before occurred to any historian that the catholic religion was the victim of Waterloo. The eminent protestant preachers, MM. Ahanase and Etienne Coquerel, wrote to the papers to add their names to those of their brethren who protest against M. Guizot's oration in favour of Itomannim. The Russian goyernment, following the example set by Prussia, has determined to grant visas to passports issued to Italians in the name of the King of Italy. Austria is still recusant, but she stands alone. It is announced that Mrs. Paterson's appeal will positively be argued early in June. It was fixed for May 30, but was put off in consequence of M. Allou, Prince Napoleon's counsel, having another engagement for that day. M. Berryer, who has entirely recovered from his indisposition, will sup port the appeal • and M. Chain d'Est Ange, the Procureur General, will fill the public minister's chair. SPAIN. The Spanish government has decreed the organisa tion of a permanent squadron of evolutions, on the plan of the French experimental squadron. Rear- Admiral Pinson is appointed commander of this squadron. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAT. The Royal Mail steam-ship Ls Plat,' arrived here at 9.15 a.m. with the above mails. She brings 196 passengers, 42:1,230 dole. in specie, and 1,800 packages of cargo. By the earthquake at Mendoza 8,000 lives were lost. Whide families were swept into eternity, and those who escaped are left homeless and atsrving. The catastrophe cast a gloom over the whole of Chili, as many of the leading families of Santiago, who had gone to reside at Mendoza for political reasons, hays perished. The commercial community of Valparaiso will suffer heavy losses, as a large trade was carried on between the two places. The commerce of Valparaiso is recovering from the recent heavy failures ; but confidence is far from being restored. The news from Bolivia is discouraging, the country having been very unsettlod since the departure of Linarez. Peru was in en exceedingly unsettled and disorganised state. A revolution was hourly expected to break out. Business was dull in Lima ►nd (Ulla°. The difficulty of procuring exchange caused great trouble to merchants. American gold was selling at 30 per mat. premium, sod drafts on England were not to be had. In Valparaiso bar copper was quoted at 18 dollars. Exchange on London, 60 to 00 days, 44d. ; freights, 675. to 755. The ship Novo Polo, boars! from Audralia to England with 200 passengers and 6,000 on. of gold dust, put into Valparaiso on the 2nd of April, in a very badly damaged state. She was struck by un iceberg, which dismasted her and mused other damage . . . At Jamaica the Cotton Growing Company had determined to plant several thousand acres immediately, so that the crop might be in Manchester before the close of the year. The legislature had been prorogued by proclamation to the Dith of May. Trade was exceedingly dull. Coffee was quoted 42a. to 445.; sugar, 13s. to 20s. Exchange, 90, 60, and 30 days' sight, I. and 14 per cent. prom. Al Demerara the weather was fine foe the crops. The market remained much in the same state as the last mail. The Clairmont and lied Riding Hood had arrived from China, with nearly 600 emigrants. The weather at Bsrbadoea continued wet, retarding the reaping of the old cane crop. The market was well supplied with breadstuffs. Exchange on Lawton, 30 days' eight, 490 dollars. The Lahore Muni , * publishes the annual list of victims to the wild beasts of the Punjab jungles. In 1860 there were 9 men, 4 women, and 432 children killed, and 55 persons *lured, by wild beasts, chiefly wolves. In 1859 sad 1860 government paid 14,386 rupees as rewards for the destruction of 4,225 wild beasts end their cubs, and yet in the same period one thousand children were destroyed. The Portuguese Chambers will be opened on the 20th inst. MI question of the Sisters of Charity continual undecided. It was probable that the Portuguese government would issue a decree dissolviog this religious body, and ordering the French Sisters to leave the country. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. THE MASSACRE AT DAHOMEY. The Royal Mail steamship Armenian, Wild, commander, arrived at Liverl on Saturday morning with the maths from the West African Coast, Madeira, and Tape 'riffs. A native missionary, who witnessed the " grand custom" of the King of Dahomey, mays that mom than 2,000 male human beings were slaughtered, and about as many females and young children, besides enormous numbers of deer, tur. key, buzzards, and other fowL In a commercial point view it has also been productive of evil. The West Afrinen Herald says :—" We learn that besides the terrible sacrifice of human life caused by the Dahoman ' grand custom', it has also had the effect of, in a great measure, putting a stop to trade in that part of the country. All the principal people have been compelled to repair to the capital yd borney), and remain there to witness thia custom. In ah, we understand there were, when our informant left that town, few people but women cud slaves. The palm nuts were rotting on the trees ; commerce and agriculture were languishing grievously. It will be a mercy, indeed, when some civilised power shall undertake to put down this abominable kingdom of Dahomey, the terror and scourge of one of the finest portions of Africa. We learn that the British government are sending 200 men to Abbeokuta to assist the natives of that town in defending themselves against an apprehended attack from the King of Dahomey. This will have a great effect, and if followed up properly will re. suit in the destruction of the Dahoman power. There la roi doubt all the surrounding tribes fear and detest Dahomey, she will not let anybody alone. Without even the shadow of a pretext she invades the territories of her neighbours at pleasure, ravaging the country, burning the villages, and carrying away the unoffeoding and unprepared inhabitants to death or slavery. The kingdom of Dahomey is the main stay and 'support of the slave trade in the Bight of Benin. Her wars are predatory excursions to keep the slave market constantly supplied. The Dahomaus live entirely by war. They are essentially a nationof plunderers and warriors. They cultivate little ; their commerce is insignificant, they soloist altogether on the proceeds of their predatory excursions. Let us be rid of Dahomey, and the slave trade will receive a blow which will go far towards destroying it in the Bight of Benin." The article then proceeds to enumerate the various customs (including the King and all his retinue) which ought to be abolished in the kingdom of Dahomey, and in their place it says make factories and government stations in the Bight of Benin. You (the English government) will soon be to take away your cruisers ; you will no longer turn pale at the failure of the cotton crop in America ; and millions of the African race will bless the band that brought them freedom and regeneration. Among the King of Dahomey 's army there is a troop called the Amazon Guards. The West African Herald thus deeribes them :—" The Amazon Guards, as they have sometimes been styled, are the most extraordinary troops that we have ever heard or read of. They are :LOW in ' number, all females, and display such a degree of ferocious bloodthirstiness and hardihood as to bear a greater resem blaoce to a host of mad tigresses than to human creatures. They utterly despise death; they show no mercy to any living being in war; they are mad after blood, and seem not to know what fear means. They are in fact a troop of devils, so to speak, whose hideous wildness of manner, and the savage madame of whose demeanour in times of excite- ment is so appalling and inhuman, as to have led many well-judging persons to opine that these dreadful crea tures are periodically subjected to the influence of some species of drug w hich has this effect. The dress of the Amazons consists of a pair of loose trousers, an upper garment covering the breast, and a cap. They are armed with a gun, knives, and daggers ; some have blunderbusses, others long elephant guns, while the remainder merry the ordinary musket. In their military exercises they display_ good discipline, as wall as wonderful dexterity and agility. THE COLONELCY OF THE 60th FOOT. The following appointments appeared in Friday's Gazette : 41st Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir Richard England, C.C.S., from the 150th Regiment, to be colonel. vice General Charles Ache A'Court Repingtou, C.R, de ceased ; April 20. 50th Regiment of Foot—Major-General George Mortis Eden to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant•Genenl By Richard England, G.C.8., removed to the 41st Foot; April 20. The Army and Nary Gazette of Saturday has the following remarks on the appointment of Major- General Eden : It is just • year since it was our most disagreeable duty to call the attention of the public to the appointment of as officer to the colonelcy of a distinguished regiment, whose main qualification consisted in the fact that be had for seve ral years filled with credit • civil office near the person of the Prince Consort. As a soldier his claims were not to be mentioned beside those of many other officers of his rank before whom he was preferred, and the whole transaction created a painful feeling in the public mind, which reached its highest point when the Secretary of State for Wet said in his place in parliament that it would be • " mean and cowardly" thing to joass over this court soldier in favour of the many camp soldiers who were his seniors in the Ka rim, and who had fought and suffered in the field. Of the appointment, made since then to regimental colonel cies, some have been good and some indifferent. The Gazette of !sat night, however, contains one so utterly unjustifiable, so incomprehensibly bed, that we are almost forced to the conclusion that his royal highness the General Commanding.in.Chief, at • loss to decide between con flicting claims, must have put the names of all the generals on the list into • lottery, and drawn that of Major-General Morton Eden to his own and that officer's intense astonish ment. By no other means can we imagine such an appoint. meat to be suggested ; and when Mr. Baring comes to justify it in the House of Commons, we shall be curious to know for what reason he will say it would be " mean and cowardly* to avoid such • selection. Major-General George Morton Eden entered the service in 1822, and him military career has been one of uninterrupted peace. He was promoted from the Scot. Fusilier Guards when the regiment wagon its way to the Crimea, and since then has held the command of the west ern district. This' is in one word his history, and thin his claim to the first-class reward for distinguished service,, which the colonelcy of a regiment admittedly is. There have been appointments of men without any claims on the grounds of active service, which were yet not wholly unac. countable ; but General FAlen's nomination to the 50th Regiment I. incomprehensible to a most perplexing ex tent. It is to be accounted for on no principle as yet ac cepted, or even propounded, with reference to these matters. We exhaust every species of claim to such a re. ward when we enumerate the grounds upon which colonelcies have hitherto been bestowed. They are, 1. Seniority on the ; 2. Seniority in the army ; . Distinguished service in the field ;4. Meri torious and efficient service iu time of peace or in the colonies, If General Eden has been selected for the first reason, a mean and cowardly act line been done io passing over 21 generals who stand before hits. if lie has been selected for the second, it is • mean and cowardly act to neglect tho 75 generals who were io the army before he was not a very small proportion of them hosing been soldier, when he was yet in his nurse's arms. If be has received this substantial prize for the third name, it is a most meau and cowardly proceeding to prefer him to—we will say at random—General Elliott, with his five Penin sular clasps, his Waterloo modal, and his Indian service. —to Sir Thomas Frank. or Sir Edward Luprd, both fresh from rendering able anti substantial as well as pliant sec. vice in India—to Major-General Napper Jackson, with his ten clasps—to General Bell, or General Macpherson, or some fifty more men who have braved climate and battle tiehl, and who bear honourable scan upon their breasts. If General Eden hen gained this reward fur the fourth reason, meritorious service, it is mean and cowardly to neglect for him the fifty-eight generals on the good-service list foe which he does not seem to have been thought eligible, although he is considered • fit recipient of the swain reward of a regiment. We shall even suggest a fifth rev son, and suppose that it was thought right to give the Guards a turn, and appoint a general from that service toe colonelcy. But even here we are still perplexed ; for if this were the actuating motive, it was mean and cowardly to rue over Lieutenant. General Colville, Lieutenant-General Stair hope, ah.l Major-General Angeratein, who are all before General Eden. The more we turn the thing round, the more we examine it in various lights, the more we are puerlid to guess how on earth such an appointment could coins to be made. About one thing, however, there is oo uncertainty. This act, coupled with a few more of a some what similar, though perhaps of a lees unpardonable eta* meter, will have struck a final blow at the present ailed. nistratiou of military patronage. The Duke of C.inibralgc's term of office expires on the 15th of July next. If he were anxious to get up a storm among those who constitute public opinion against his re-appointment, he could hardly have devised a more efficacious means than this selection of Major-General Eden- - This is gofer very just ; but the Duke of Cambridge could Lot have appointed General Eden without the consent of a cabinet minister, the Secretary of State for War. When Lord Herbert justified the appointment of General Grey in parliament, he said, "The Secretary of State is responsible for these appointments ;" and then he gave the sub stance of a discussion whi c h h e h a d held with tie General Commanding-in-Chief as to the grounds and propriety of his recommendation. Mere per sonal changes in the chief command of the army will not prevent appointments like these, if the responsibility of the War Minister is not toads a reality. Tho Cochin Courier mentions a case of kidnap ping which occurred during the stay of the Arab shire Sir Edward Parry, in the port of Cochin. A Moplah passenger enticed a native boy of 11 years (A age on board the vessel with a view to sell him as • slave in Arabia. The father missed his son. tb° ship was searched and the boy found. The Colony says "the system of kidnapping natives of India to he gold in Muscat and Zanzibar is a monstrous evil which is As suming fearful proportions. Many painful iird:mce , ha ve con:e to our knowledge when) Arabs have contracted mar' eves with women on this coast with the deliberate poles' faun of selling them into slavery at Zanzibar." char g T e d hom tlurie g tacky. the pr clothes, congrege who e tts Witness, wu lod e stoners m led gent t° , go out by Witne Mr. At Witoe madded t code o f A milk po Mr. At W toes Theatre thieves. The pH TR" ; F enentiel Botanic c. celleoey members • replie4 et s tt:ous of deferee c ,, time time the same i t . 0 ! 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