The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-04 00:00:00

TORN BROCIDSN'S PARIS FIRST CLASS ikP sad LONDON PAU/ NlDAULltaaatactary, Hop 1110, Novint Laudon, W.C. atuditahmeat b dotal at 6, sad oa fellffll at 1 o'clock. ÜBJUMBIER I you will see your friends at Lb ZITANIr sitar ts Opirs. We shall sup aim the Orpreos. TO 00.1111113YONDJOTIL dvonlassaents Intended toe ••• TM Uprose Loodoa imams must be at the Odic* 10, 1104M110611,110. ' 3 O TA oa the day of BATIMILICCT. TIIM Image, TBltii WUXI APT= MAI3.IIII I L—TNII WOMAN IN MACY& Mart &Ahem tioakrtamt and Compton Mari, Nit +lc= rarisaavuro. Maas L. Ingo and N. Wright Tins iv wow HIANT-DSZING3 AND VIDDLNIITRINON. —ARRAN NA POGUIL News. D. DoiAmen, Rffora& D. a . H. Vaadenboft, D. flaw, D. Nana, Daybook. monsjg) BowAcquat and Was Olver.—Aad AK AMPLZ AruLOGY. 011711. Om Tamar Wady, Aprlll7, it 111.• produced a Drama, entitled THE DIOUNTIBANY, lawhit& Mi. tackler willsrtorat the priacipal character. Boa calks apace diar from 11 6. anitinnlA. run MEM THE YAWS MOrD111: OE, TEX PAM= GRIAIDIADt. 11r. Z. Leslie sad Min A- Cater.- KW B. Con. soy.—Pr.Amer HOWL - Opfer Mak* sad Ids Nodose Dag. —AAA THY TON= OP MOLL —Ocionesse at INlAgsglill HIGH WAX AT LONDON-BRIDGIL TWO DAT Wanda ID. Ila....Alkmas. Sh. 61a. T O MAMA HA. Ilia.....Abasooo. DD. ula. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 4. teinty of the river, and their owners ... r _ at times that their motive polio Fa half a mile round the mill the land is leak to swamp, whether the water is backed as of old, or got rid of as fast as possible in all relay seasons now. But worse, in the opinion of the dwellers in the Thames basin, is the decay of their trading by means of their highway. The navigation is utterly ruined, they ail ; and they have lost a fine trade thereby. Worst of all, say the doctors and the clergy, and all sensible and benevolent citizens of the great towns and busy villages along its course, is the calamity to the public health of the state into which the river and its fertile and beautiful basin have fallen. Fever and ague, rheumatism and cholera, spring up whore once health was the natural condition of the inhabitants. All that fair country which lies between the uplands that enclose the valley of the Thames is thus suffering morally, commercially, and in the health, wealth, and pleasures of its inhabitants by the mismanagement or neglect of the river itaelf. Dr. ACLLND, in whose company the Prinoe of WALL% followed up so many foreign waters, has spoken out about this our domestic river—so dear to both the Windsor and the Oxford man t His words are listened to by others besides the Panics ; and he is backed by other high authorities. There is no question, as fir as we have ever heard, of the necessity of a sensible and scientific River- System, if we are to benefit, and not suffer by the natural drainage of our country. Let us begin with the Thames basin, regulating the course and flow of the waters from the springs in the Cotswolds to the junction of the Thames with the salt water. The London sewage must be conveyed away in a channel of its own ; but we can do little or nothing with the Thames itself at any point of its lower course, except by ooming down from the upper. Cases we begin at the beginning, we shall mix more or leas of harm with any good that we do ; for the reforms of lower portions of a stream are often obtained at the cost of injury to the higher. Let the Pam-a and the whole company assembled this day, there fore, rejoice in the great work so admirably done ; but always as the first reform of a series —as the removal of one evil of many--as a mis chief which would not have been taken in band first, but for its enormous magnitude. Mr. T. Mazza diesoz4 has moved for a Committee to inquire into the management of the Upper Thames. Let us hope that they may so work as that the Pluses may one day stand at the springs among the hills, and follow down the restored royal river to the sea, finding it secured at every point by science, utilised by commerce and convenience, and at once more wholesome than ever to the folk who live beside it, and more lovely and inspiring than ever to the poet and the angler, and the oarsman, who repair to it for sweet holiday, in autumn mornings and starry nights. THE act which the Prime of WALES has performer to-day is in every view worthy of his position and dignity. To open the Main Drainage Works of ear metropolis is to do the most that can be dose by a single movement for the health of its inhabitants, and the life of no small number of them. It is one of the honours of our time that, after • series of mistakes, and • host of fearful consequences, we have pledged ourselves to purify our royal river, and our imperial city is promised pure air and sweet water. The observances of this day may be regarded as an act of penitence and reparation for the sins of our ignorance and haste, and a pledge of good intentions towards the public health from this day forward. It is to be supposed that the Pauses, and every member of the legislature, and every enlightened citizen present at the open ing of the works to-day, is aware that the relief of the Thames from the sewage of London is one of several procedures necessary to restore to the river its proper quality, and to its shores the wholesomeness, beauty, and productiveness which they once had. This first striking achievement is perhaps the greatest ; and it is so great that there may be some excuse for people who are careless about what must follow, and unoonscious of the novelty, the magnitude, and the embarrassment of the task which must and will be accomplished sooner or later—of organizing the water system of the whole Thames basin. Enough has been said and done within the last few weeks about the con dition of the Upper Thames to satisfy us that many who were present to-day are aware that they are witnessing only the first stage of • vast national work ; and it would add to the weight and influence of the proceedings of the day if some of the speakers were to make this avowal, openly and impressively. What we have already done is this. Discover ing, at the bidding of scientific and benevolent men, that in all our populous towns we were living in foul air, and subjecting even our wells to defile ment by the way in which we formed accumula tions of filth in pits, we took the first advice offered us, and altered our domestic drains so as to carry off the filth to the nearest stream, and in London, of course, to the Thames. By the former practice we poisoned the air everywhere, and a good deal of the water; and by the latter method we poisoned the water everywhere, and as much of the air as its stenches could reach. During this interval various discoveries were made, having an important bearing on what we should do next. We now know that common earth is the best deodorising agent yet applied to sewage ; and, again, that sewage is a powerful fertiliser of the soil. The works to be opened to day were undertaken with the single object of relieving both the city and the river of the sewage of a vast population. The cost and the enormous labour would be well bestowed on this single purpose, always provided that the refuse really was conveyed completely away ; but the in terest of the celebration is much heightened by the new prospect of the sewage being made, not only to respect human health and life, but to create new supplies of food for the support of more life. Whatever may be the precise methods adopted at first for applying this manure to pas toral and agricultural purposes, there can be no real doubt in anybody's mind of the destination of sewage being fixed from this time forth, and its essential uses at length ascertained. Whether it shell be engrossed by farmers, or spread abroad over meadows, or deposited on sands to convert them into green fields, we all understand that it is to be cured of its stench, snd converted into sweet milk and butter, or wholesome bread or beef. All this will take some time, perhaps, but it will be done ; and when it is done people will be sur prised to find how much remains to be done. There is our royal river, once so queenlike—pure, tranquil, majestic, yet gentle and winning, engrossing the love of all poete—what is its aspect now t At three miles south of Cheltenham, at the foot of the breezy hills, we may still see it pure ; and here and there below we may recognise some thing of our beloved Thames in some brimming reach of its channels, and some tranquil windings I His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and among the meadows ; but elsewhere, what wreck I and ruin, and mischief done and suffered ! The T hi er &d k a i l e Eti ihful aras bassy i . had a a top-sq uar e. „ last n ic y co an w ia c g re part the fish with which it was once all alive have no more _His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Conn. encouragement—no better means of living—in tee. Appooyi, his Excellency the French Ambassador, his the upper course of the river than among the Excellency the Spuds& Minister sad Madams Comps, drains, and gasworks, and chemical works his Excellency the Mexican Minister, his Excellency the of London and its suburbs. The rivers It a li an Minister, Lieutelant - Geteral Hon. Sir Edward Cast, Mr. sad Mrs. Hammond, Mr. Laynrd, M.P., Rear which replenish it no longer come down pure ; for Admiral R. S. Robinsoo, Major-General Francis Seymour. they, too, have flowed past towns and factories or I ea; ma Said 8 . Rey; ou The Earl and Cnter works, and have brought down their dirt. Its I R um en were prevented from attending the dinner party by channel is subjected to new dangers by the ops- gnus in their family. His Excellency the Russian Am ration of agricultural drainage which destroys all i baseador was also prevented by indisposition from beteg regularity in the flow, and discharges the waters, j Prossellt not by a constant dribble but in occasional floods. I The Countess Wachtmeister gave birth to a son Then follow the mischiefs of an impaired channel, I on the Zed instant at the residence of the Swedish and L ega tion, Tee countess sad intent are pro obstructed in one place, and deprived of its ' Nwwe g ian grassing favourably. banks in another. The scenery exhibits shoals The E arl and Countess Spencer will entertain a in the stream, the crumbling down of the margin, , distinguished party at Althorp Hall, Norttaniptossehire, by which the muddy and unfragrant waters spread during the prompt m a .. themselves lazily over green meadows, which they The marriage of Viscount Chelsea with Lady convert into • sickly swamp. Boating has lost ire Beatrice Craves will take place an the 10th el next month. pleasure whera the channel is choked with an in- I Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton will domitable new weed, or where the mud stinks stay at Egan°. Lodge until after Croxton Park Rams, OD the banks, or as it is stirred up from the bottom. when they return to town for the seasoo. Where there was a steady flow before there is A Mr. Davis has just been sent out of Rome in now a" stagnant overflow. Where there were a very ex summary manner . He was to have recited sc J o g ai deep reaches there is a sunk waterway, with a ‘,411..Lb b it tself, for . ihel !lame s drama, chain of pools. There are lock-gates hanging awry, 7 1 . v b": Leer of ' Re m . ; r bt... .. aa te r b i e per , and breaking op wherever there are breaches to let which was coarse saver g ranted. eeswe.t_lte__ the water through ; and weirs in fragments, letting tote d in t h e large l oom of t h e Hotel d. Ruses ; b 7 t. " . o :e the waters eddy round their remains, but rendering polies authorities took Oases at his lecture, sad ordered DO service to the mill above. The water-wheel to aix him ont of Rome in twesty-fenr s. bean, a meted *Asada looks as if it was hoisted up to dry and crack , or at the mixes MEGA day be overgrown w i t h weeds,. Where the are derlttc:s Yea. ru mntir Q ed at the Liverpool &96/AS yestee. Edward James, •c world be a candidate air working order they are embarrassed by the uneer- Roc hd a l e h i t h e liberal taws*. sip cam 1 9 44, APR' utTnit itimaaaiiNum. ork TIZIOSAML) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PERUVIAN. (Via (itetequila.) The following us the heeds of the news brought by the Psrarion : of their Nopeilskeice and maintenance *So ♦ • bill was also paired sitEMis ing th e Secregry of the Treasury to borrow three millions in coin for the army supplies. If so much cannot be borrowed in gold and silver coin, gold dust and foreign bullion will be taxed 25 per cent. It is reported that two British subjects, named Pratt and Green, were arrested in New York on their arrival from Nassau, and incarcerated in Fort Lafayette, charged with aiding the equipment of the rain Stonewall. A military commission will try them. Advice. received here from New Orleans state that General Walled had left on a special mission to Matamoras to make arrangements for the sur render of the refugees. It is denied that Cortinas has abandoned the im perial cause. The Tribune says the semi-official Mexican papers contradict the cession of Sonora to France. It is reported from Halifax that the Nova Scotian government, abandoning the hope of an early union of the provinces, will submit the federation scheme to the maritime provinces only. The Toronto Globe thinks this will compel the Canadian government to adopt a new policy on the whole subject. The Australasian has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK. Limo 25, 5 P.m. Money easy. Gold 157. Exchange on London, 1621. Stocks slightly firmer ; New York Central, 91; Illinois, 991 ; Erie, 56 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 105 g. Cotton dull ; middling Up land, 40. Flour doll. Wheat good inquiry. Corn quiet. Provisions slightly firmer. Coffee heavy. Sugar and molasses dull. Petroleum quiet ; crude, 33 ; refined, 53. Stocks and the markets generally have slightly rallied from the late extreme depression. NEW YORK, Knox 25, EVI2IIIIG. Johnstone reports that he had attacked and de feated Sherman near Bentonville, capturing three Buns. Sherman rallied, and remained entrenched 'n Johnstone's front. Southern papers report that Hardee had gained a victory on the 16th at Averysboro'. Ihe Federal lose was 3,000, that of the Confederates smalL It is reported that Sherman had occupied Golds boro', and the Federal' Mobile. Gold, 156 f. NEW YORK, Meson 26, Momma. The Ridtmond Dispatch states that Sherman has made no further advance, and that no more fighting has occurred since Johnstone repulsed Sherman on the 19th. It also states that Hardee gained a very important victory on the 16th at Averysboro' on the Cape Fear River, halfway be tween Raleigh and Fayetteville. Johnstone telegraphs that the Federate lost in that engagement 3,300 men, and the Confederates 460. The Raleigh papers describe the battle of the 16th as having taken place near the junction of the Black and South rivers on the Fayetteville and Goldsboro'-road, 15 miles below Bentonville. Sherman attacked Hardee in his entrenched position and madethreedesperate charges, and was each time repulsed with great slaughter. Some acoounte state that in this engagement Bragg's troops were driven back, compelling Hardee likewise to retire to prevent his being flanked, and that Hardee in withdrawing abandoned two guns for want of trans portation. Other papers say that Hardee aban doned nothing, and that the Federal. were fairly and completely beaten. In the engagement of the 19th inst. both main armies are stated to have been present. Sherman was advancing towards Raleigh in two columns, one moving due north from Fay etteville, the other north-west from Newbern. Hardee fought the former and Johnstone the latter. Richmond papers of the 23rd state that Golds boro' had been evacuated, but was not occupied by Sherman. Northern papers report that Sherman occupied Goldsboro' on the 19th, and regard the successes claimed by Johnstone as unimportant. They think the result will prove favourable to the Federal& A report reached Memphis yesterday from Holly spring that Mobile had been evacuated, and that the city, with an immense quantity of war material, was in possession of the Federal.. The 4th Army Corps was marching from Knox ville to join the Western Virginia campaign. Stoneman's cavalry, 6,000 strong, have left Knoxville, and are moving towards Western Vir ginia. Ten thousand Federal cavalry have left Eastport, Mississippi, to destroy the remaining railroads in Alabama and Mississippi. Two negro companies have paraded at Rich mond, and the impression was that they would make good soldiers. The Confederates claim successes in Florida and Louisiana. Mr. Lincoln's visit to Grant has caused the re newal of peace rumours. ANOTHER PAPAL ALLOCUTION. The Montreal Gazette reiterates the statement MEXICO AND ITALY. that Federal agents are ascertaining the views of The Journal de Rome of the 29th ult. brings us the Canadians on the annexation of Canada to the the Latin text of the allocution delivered by the United States, and that Robert J. Waller had in • Pope the secret Connstory held on the 27th. visited Canada with that object. The Pope, touching on Mexican affairs, said : The steamer Matilda has been captured. Although we have been greatly afflicted, spinet our be- The Hamm takes out 135,000 dots. in specie. lief and expectation, by the sad things which have hap- NEW YORK. Massa 26, Evicting°. penal lately in the Mexican empire, despite the dernonstra- Johnstone reports on the 20th that on the even- beloveda illiel eon intellimea several esus , t, a t r e " Fan e he p L a r te o 7 demensiwohy our ing of the previous day he attacked and defeated the nevertheless do not deem it our duty now to speak at large enemy near Bentonville, capturing three guns. "The thereupon, for we are consoled by the hope that the Emperor, enemy rallied on fresh troops a mile in the rear, seriously remembering that the catholic religion and but was forced slowly back until 6 p.m., when re- Its salutary doctrines contribute powerfully to the °siring reinforcements be apparently assumed the temporal prosperity and tranquillity of peoples, will wish to abandon the . path on which be has h and until which was resisted without di ffi culty pdy entered, and satisfy our very just desires and until dusk. This morning the enemy entrenched demands by acceding to the prayers and requests of that himself. Our loss is small. The troops behaved eetholic nation, by rebuilding the church from its ruins, admirably, but a dense thicket prevented active protecting its venerable rights, its liberty, its sacred operations." bishops, its ministers, and its institutions, end by especially The Northern journals regard the engagement maintaining en intimate concord with the bishops, as the teachers of religion and justice, and as la so well becoming a merely as a repulse of Sherman's adva nced g uard. eathae Priam' Schofield has advanced from Kinston, and joined The Pope then goes on to praise those bis ho p s General Sherman, forming the right wing of the wbo have defied civil authority where the privileges latter's army. of the church have been touched. He says : Deserters report General Hoke to have been These venerable brethren, united by unshaken a ff ection killed. Bragg bad 40 , 000 men before Kinston, and r espect to us and to this church of Peter, mother and with whom he attacked Schofield outside that town. mistress of all churches, not frightened by any danger or He intended to march into Newbern. A thousand trial, and putting all human cousideratious aside, utterly refugees were on their way to Wilmington. unconcerned as to utiust decrees promulgated by civil The wharves on the landing between Fayette- authority against the church, glory highly in intrepidly ville and Wilmington are piled with resin, turpen- defending and sustaining, either by word of month or by writings, the truth and catholic unity, tine, and cotton valued at several millions. our rights and powers, the authority, the supreme Deserters report that there was an organised liberty of the !church and of this apostolic me. army of deserters in the western portion of North In letters recently written either to us or to Carolina. the faithful committed to their care, they openly Lee and Grant's armies are reported ready to and publicly glory in rejecting and condemniss the move. things which are condemned by us, and am not weary in P i poe n g themselves with sacerdotal strength to t h e cr i m inal The Confederates have erected a battery for apposing and efforts of men who are our enemies, inculcating firing on the railway trains running from City healthy doctrise upon the faithful, and guiding them in Point to Hatcher's Run, the shell, however, fall t h e pat h, of safety. short. These just praiser are due, first of all, to the venerable Lincoln is visiting Grant at City Point, it is said bishops of Italy ; for though exposed to the gravest in for the benefit of hie health. juries and perseoutioe, and harassed in every masseur, nietry, they have never ceased to Sheridan is preparing another movement for the w purpose, it is supposed, of intercepting Johnstone's arrays fuiltfihlli s pecial ug tb eir ul i animity the episcopal voice, to atrocity protes t against all the condemnable and most us retreat. just laws promulgated by the sob-Alpine government towards The Confederate force appeared at White House the church, its sacred institutions, its ministers, its rights, yesterday, manifesting great activity, and whoa the almost innumerable, sad in every respect Richmond papers say that Sheridan had not sacrilegious acts of audacity committed by the ease germa n:lent. The same bishops of Italy, wi th truly marvellous damaged the Orange and Alexandria Railroad so e nergy and c onstancy, valiantly combating for Jesus Christ much as was anticipated. and his church, in their solicitude for the safety of their A combined land and naval attack was expected flock, fear not to suffer even exile, prison, and all other to be made on Mobile on the 22nd. tribulations, following in this the illustrious footsteps of the The despatch boat Laura made a reconnaissance apostles, who w r,.. t _j a y ously away from the Presence of the On the Bth, within four miles of Mobile, drawing a enesulf b eca use .....r e Hamm of h J ad es been made worthy to suffer out us. heavy fire from the Confederate batteries lining rag e7 g r, while sympathising with all OUT heart in the grave the harbour. sorrow, of those reparable brethren, and while considering The Confederate Congress has replied to President their sufferings as our sufferings and mixing our taus with Davis's message, stating that they will defend their thei, of lineadac ercies . s d er i ood hn of m au hle ala n a ha tion ts ths belov babes ed action on all legislative questions. They blame nee I Fat herthe catholic bish in virtue of a special help of Davis for want of promptitude in making known i who are so affectionate to us sod this Holy See, showing the wants of the country, and censure the ; themselves strong for the spirit of the faith, and fighting admonitions contained in his message as being cal- ; with manliness for the defences of the Holy Church. culated to create discord and dissension. President ! In the meantime you, venerable brethree. in such Davis, replying to the notification of the adjourn- ' calamitous times, in t i mes of loch Pont peril fo r souls. matinee accordiag to your excellent piety, in it to meat of Congress, says that, so far as Congress had offer with us fervent prayers to God, that by His Almighty not acquiesced in the opinions expressed in his power. He may aid and console this Apostolic See exposed recent message, he hoped it would prove he was t o so many outrages, the Church torn by so many wounds, mistaken, and that he purposed to defend and pro- sod Christianity aid the civil Commonwealth afflicted by tect the country to the full extent of his powers so marry calamities, —in order that, mercifully shedding and resources. arm all the treemires of His divine gram, sad of his The Confederate Congress has lamed an en- marry, He may canes ell P ee Plea all attic"' to &eke"- Wee, love, and venerate Him end He whom He has met, °enraging address to the people declaring that the H y see. our Lord Jesus Christ ; sad that, °wi m p( all His conquest of the Confederacy is geographically im- pro mpts with diligence, they may eater epos the toed that practicable. Confidence is expressed for the achieve- i labs* is life Mih6. WINDSOR CASTLE. Aram 3. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Hoe. Florence Seymour, drove io the Grist Park this morale.. Potatoes, Louisa also went out driving, attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish. Princess Helena rode in the Home Park. The Prince sod Prime's of Wales and Priam Albert Victor left the Castle this morning for Marlborough-hones, attended by the Osuatess De Grey sad Major Grey. The Duke and Dnobees of Argyll sad the Dean of Christ Church base also left the Castle. The Prism of Wales and Prince Alfred attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon at St. George's Chapel. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, Lieutenant Haig, sod Dv. Bernhardt, went to London this afternoon. Major•Genseel Seymour and LieatenartColonel Du Plat have succeeded Lord Alfred Paget and Colons' the How. A. Hardinge as Equerries in Waiting to her Majesty. Li.oteneet•Gsneral the Floe. Sir Edward Cast had the honour of as audience of the Queen to present his new volume, " The Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years War," which has been dedicated to her Majesty. The Pro sentation copy of the work wait illustrated with photogra phic portraits from the galleries of Vienna, Munich, and Dreaded. The Priors and P6llOllOl of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, returned to Marlborough.liorrre yesterday morning 4 from visiting the Queen at Windsor Castle. Their royal highnesses were attended by Countess De Grey and Major Grey. The Prince of Wales presided at a meeting of the governors of Wellington College, at the New Palace of West minster. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by Countess De Grey. The Prince of Wales visited the studio of Sir Edwin Lai:Auer. in the afternoon his royal hi;;huess went to the House of Lords. The Prince and Princess of Walt*, accompanied by Prince Alfred, and attended by the Countess De Grey and Major Grey, with Lieut. Haig and Dr. Bernhardt, in waiting on Prince Alfred, honoured the Philharmonic Society with their presence at the Hanover-square Rooms in the evening. A meeting of the governors of Wellington College was held yesterday at the Palace of Westminster. Present : The Prince of Wales, President ; the Earl of Derby, Vice President ; the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Earl Stanhope, the Earl of Dalhorude, the Bishop of Osfoed, Lord Redesdals, the Right lion. & H. Walpole, Sir James W. Hagg, But, John Walter, Esq., H.P. ; Thome Baring, Erq., Y.P. ; Henry R. Con, Esq. ; the Rev. E. Benson, 8.D., Head] Master, Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot, Hoe. Secretary, and Mr. Chance, Secretary. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonisl-olfloe from the Governors of Canada sad the Bahamas. Des patches were soot to the Governon of Gibraltar, Malts, Ceytoo, Hong Hoeg, sad Lhasa. FRANCE. - ----- THE "MONITEIIR" ON THE DEATH OF MR. COBDEN. • PARIS, Arm 4. The Moniteur of this morning publishes an article on the late Mr. Cobden, which concludes as follows: "Cobden on his death-bed had the happiness to see the politico-economical work so grandly under stood by Napoleon 111., shedding its rays over the whole of Europe under the direction of a man of the French empire. In this France was faith ful to her initiatory mission. Cobden was able to understand France, and he loved her—she will never forget him." The same paper announces in its bulletin that Joseph Karam has given his submission to Raoul Packs& in consequence of an understanding between the latter and the Patriarch of Syria. li4 6 • THE PLAGUE IR RUSSIA. An order bas been Natio Dunkirk to put in qua rantine all ships arriving from Russia. This mea sure of precaution has been necessitated by the epidemic now raging at St. Petersburg. THE FIRING UPON THE NIAGARA AND SACRAMENTO. (uum's arum) LD3BON, IL Alt CB N. The Confederate ram Stonewall arrived here on I Sunday afternoon and out anchor in front of the Old Packet Stairs. Shortly after the Portuguese authorities went on board and notified Captain Page, her commander, that the vessel could only be allowed to remain in port 24 hours, a period suffi cient for coaling purposes. At the same time com panies of artillerymen were sent to the Bugio Forte, to St. Julian, and to Belem Tower. The Portu guese war vessels were put in • state of readiness, and swivel guns were sent on board two of them ; the steamers Minden') and Jaques being appointed to see that the law was observed. During Sunday and Monday crowds of people visited the Confederate vessel, all of whom were treated with great courtesy by the officers and crew. The Stone wall is a vessel of 600-horse power, iron-plated, carrying only 3 guns, Armstronp ; these are of very heavy calibre, and are called "baby webers" by the officers in a spirit of irony. Her crew numbers only 86 men ; at her bows she has a very large ram. The officers of the Stone wall state that she went into Ferrol a few days ago, and found there the Sacra , mento and Niagara. She was ordered by the Spanish authorities to sail within twenty four hours, and did so, after having ooaled and provisioned. Tte day after she again went into' Ferrol, and left again after being twenty-four hours in port, not wishing to compromise the Spanish authorities. She did not again return to Ferrol, but remained outside the bar for 16 hours making signals day and night, but the other vessels did not come out. The Spanish papers also give this information. It must, however, be taken with reserve. On Monday afternoon, the Niagara and Sacra mento, Federal corvettes, were signalled off liabon bar, and it is said the Stonewall hoisted her blue peter about the same time. The two corvettes came up, and cast anchor near the Belem Tower, and were officially warned that they could not sail until 24 hours had elapsed after the leaving of the Stonewall. The Mindello and Jaques war steamers were appointed to watch the proceedings of the Federal ships, which kept steam up, and did not 'then ascend the river. The feeling of the Portuguese authorities was a determination to see the law fully observed. On shore much excitement was displayed, and the relative merits of the vessels were freely canvassed. Admiral Sartorins who is now bore is said to have declared that tLe Stonewall with her iron sides and heavy cupola guns would prove quite a match for the two Federal corvettes in the event of a conflict. The Stonewall sailed about noon to-day (Tuesday), leaving the Niagara and Sacramento anchored to the west of Belem Tower, nearly in front of the quay and Jeronimite Convent. Some four hours afterwards the Niagara and Sacra mento weighed anchor and moved towards the bar. The commander of Belem Tower, who bad received instructions, observing this, called the artil lerymen to the guns, and fired a 12-lb. shot at the Niagara, which sailed in front. She did not, however, stop, and six more shots were fired from the tower. At the seventh shot the Niagara turned round, came back towards Lisbon, and cast anchor in front of the Old Packet Stairs. The Sacramento followed, and brought up near to her. It appears that three of the seven bells struck the Niagara, somewhat damaging her poop. The Federal captains allege that they had no intention of following the Stonewall but were about to turn round and take up other anchorage ground. The Governor of Belem Tower appears to have had orders to act as he did in case such proceeding'. were taken by the Federal ships, but the instructions given to the commander of the guardahip were not the same, because the port is under the War-office, the ships under the Ma rine-department, and unfortunately circumlocution prevails here as in England. This affair is now affording matter for diplomatic correspondence, but the general feeling is that the Portuguese government acted with great spirit, and their con duct will be endorsed by the public opinion of Europe. RUSSIA. I3T. PETTJUSSUBD, Arno 3. The proprietor and printer of the newspaper Viezt (Dispatch) and Count Orloff Davidoff, who were sentenced by a tribunal of first instance to two months' imprisonment for having published the Moscow address, have, at the instance of the Minister of the Interior, been put on their trial before the Criminal Court of St. Petersburg, which will revise the sentence. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MARSEILLES, Aram 4, The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived here at 10.30 p.m. yesterday. The mails leave for London at 11.30 cm. to-day. ►g" EXPRESS FROM PARIS THE FRENCH PRESS UPON MR. COBDEN'S DEATH. (nom otri owl onzurosom.) PARTS. NONDAT EVININO. All the French papersooniain tributes to the memory of Mr. Cobden,whose death is felt as a cala mity in France almost as much as in England. The "'ruse appears with a black border round its front page. M. Emile de Girardin, in his necrological notice, expresses the opinion that but for Richard Cobden Sir Robert Peel would now be for gotten. If Cobden was never a minister of Queen Victoria, it was because he declined the proffered honour ; but he was " minister of enlightened public opinion" in a country where that opinion is sovereign, and puts down "even the pretended ow_ nipotence of the Times," which, after opposing free trade, rallied to it at last. He considers Cobden to have been more powerful in England during the last 20 years than all the home and foreign secre taries of state put together, for no matter what they may have said in their speeches or despatches, Cobden changed the whole course of English foreign policy. Europe could not do better than appoint a day of general mourning for Cobden, but at least M. E. de Girardin is determined that one journal (La Presse) shall go in mourning for him. Referring to the immense results which Cobden achieved by public meetings, M. deGirardin draws the timely moral that the Corps Legialatif is fearfully blind now in 1865 to vote against the liberty of public meeting and to give a fresh con secration to the antiquated clauses of the penal code of 1810. He concludes with the exclamation, "Oh ! Cobden ! forgive us for this ingratitude." The Constitutionne, by the pen of IL Paulin Limayrac, its chief editor, writes on Mr. Cobden as follows : Is the death of that gentiewea Beaked lass ow of her mast illitstrions e,tiseos, and wascazie oaken one of it. loftiest sad purest lights. The lest tier we bed the homer of eosin Mr. Cobden he snake about Fames sad her ernweisa la terms which sr* eeirwed co oar atemery, sod still wore deeply oa oar bout The future will wit perhaps sdas ell the views of the fauradar of the Arta- Cors•Law League, bat it will aadeabeedly mete a &dr giddied pesidea to the lodsfatigsble Wader cd a peel*. ides. It is enemata that the Empress is about to appear before the world as an authoress, and that, as a companion book to the "History of Cesar," there will shortly be published a " Life of Mary Antoinette," by Eugenie Empress of the French. At the Bourse, after a good deal of fluctuation, the market closed rather heavily. Bente for ac. count rose 150., closing at 67fr. 75c.; for cash them was no change. Mobilier fell 10fr. The Lyons Railway rose 7fr. 50c. MAIN DRAINAGE OF TIER METROPOLIS. COMPLETION OF THE WORKS. (THIS DAY.) This day the Main Drainage Works of the Metro. polls were opened by his Royal Highness the Priam of Wales, the whole proceedings being, if of a singular, yet of a most interesting character. As the works have advanced, constant sad full notices of their progress have appeared in th e Express. It will be remembered that to carry o a t all the works, three great main lines of intercepfiag sewers have been necessary—a high, a middle, and a low level sewer—on each side of the Thames. It is the Low Level at the southern 'Atha which the Prince has opened to-day, and all the works are now complete, save only th e Northern Low Level, which, having to run nude the Thames Embankment, cannot, of course, b, yet constructed. This Northern Low Level Sewer, however, only diverts about one-seventh pert the northern sewage, eta that virtually from this day forth the Thames may be said to be tolerably per i . The Prinoeembezked this morning at the Speaker's stairs at the Houses of Parliament. The Chad steamer was in readiness, and was neatly fitted op with carpeting, cushions, and flags. At half. past 10 Mr. Thwaites, chairman of the Metro. politan Board of Works, accompanied by Mx, Tite, M.P., and Mr. Bazalgette, the engi neer, came down and awaited the arrival of his Royal Highness. Ou the terrace, there assembled shortly afterwards several peers and members of parliament, amongst whom were the Duke of Sutherland, the Archbishop of Ceuta. bury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, Earl Stale hope, the Marquis of Harlington, Sir George Grey, Lord Clarence Paget, Sir William Dunbar, Lord John Manners, la. Soon after 11 o'clock the Prince of Wale appeared, a ccompanied by Prince Alfred and the Duke of Cambridge, and attended by Major Teesdale and the Hon. R. Meade, his Equerries; and Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Chid Equerry to her Majesty. His Royal Highness wu attended to the boat by the Speaker of the How of Commons ; the right hon. gentleman, however, did not embark, but remained on the terrace until after the boat had left the stairs. As soon as the Prince went on board the royal standard was hoisted, and in a few minutes the signal vas ' given, and the steamer started. There was ample accommodation on deck for a number of paaseagees, but not more than fifty altogether were assembled. At Barking the royal party will land, in order to inspect the northern outfall near Barking Creek. The royal party were expected to reach Bark* shortly before 1 o'clock, and after spend ing about half an hour in the inspection would embark and steam across to the Thames Conservancy pier at Crossness on the south bank of the Thames, whore they were to be re ceived by those who had proceeded by the special train. The Low Level Sewer which drains Putney, Bat . terse% Nine Elms, La mbeth, Newington, South. wark, Bermondsey, Rotherluthe, and Deptford, ir about 10 miles in length, and its size varies Irma Oft. at the commencement to the two main severs, which are 7ft. by 7ft. at its termination. This line communicates with the pumping station at Deptford that raises the low level sewage into the main southern outfalL Four engines are used fa this purpose, each of 125-horse power nominal, and capable, together, of lifting ten thousand cubic feet of sewage per minute to a height of eighteen feet. From this point the great tide of refuse pawn out by the southern outfall sewer, which, unlike that on the northern side of the river, is constructed for its whole length of nearly eight miles entirely underground. This sewer, nearly 12ft. in die meter, was taken under the town of Woolwich at s depth varying from 50ft. to 80ft below the sulfate, without casualties or settlements of any kind. The Crossness reservoir into which this outfall tows at With-marshes, is 6i acres in extent, and, like that at Barking, is formed on the peaty soil by brisk piers on brink arches, covered in with earth. The pumping engines, by means of which the sewage is lifted into this reservoir, are almost identical in power and general arrangement with those at Deptford Creek. From the reservoir at Craft as at Barking, the sewage is di= into the river at high tide. The cum quantity quantity of sewage to be lifted be these engines at Crossness Point will ordinarily be about 10,000 cubic feet per minute ; but during the night that quantity will be considerable re duced, while, on the other hand it will be nearly double on occasions of heavy rainfalL The lift, slio will vary as much as from 10ft. to 30ft., according to the level of the water in the sewer and the reser voir into which it has to be raised. The invitations to-day included an immense num ber of members of public bodies. The members of the Metropolitan Board of Works were, of course nearly all present, the most conspicuous pour Rion being assigned to their energetic sad assiduous chairman, Mr. John Thweiteso the two Houses of Parliament, the Lord Mayoral London, the sheriffs, the judges, and re presentatives of various public bellies. The bulk of these visitors were conveyed in two sperm trains which left Charing-crose respectively at S minutes past and half -past 10. The Lord Mayer and other civic authorities were in the fine of these trains, and the platform was for half an hoer crowded with well-known legislators and other leading celebrities. The weather was fortunately splendid, a mid/ atmosphere having, as the morning advances, given way to a brilliant sunshine, and a genial VI temperature. The Plumeteed station of the ZOOM Kent Railway was reached about 12 o'clock. The journey from Plumetead to the outfall works a distance of about three miles, was performed over the contractors' junction ; and soon after oar ral hundred persona were engaged in viewing thous works which when in full operation are la once to restore salmon to the Thames and to protect the health—such, at least, w a s the original pretext for their construction—of the veal population of the capital. The Princes were expected to return at 3.20 from Crossness, after the opening ceremony .4 luncheon, to Charing-cross station by a spy train on the South Eastern Railway, a saloon hav ing been sent down for the purpose by Mr. Knight. Tas Drira or Ms. Colour.--SiDOS the public asaolumeateat of tho death of Mr. Cobden there hare boa s ameroos Gall, of ooadoleoo, at the lemeeted enthral, essidssos ia Suffolk-street Amoopt this visitors hero toss Mr. Vallee; M.P.. Mr. J. B. Beath, M.P. Mr. Chula 011ph, XL, Mr. Seely. 31.1%, Mr. Samuel Garool, Lord Mew Manisa Lassos, M.P., Mr. W. B. IWO* M.P., Mr. Bosky, M.P., Mr. Baits, mi.., mt. 11.1'.. Mr. Scary Fawcett, Mr. Adams, Mahler a tho Usial alaso, Mr. WO. TOMO/. MI. Gado% breast of tho doessosd, has mind from Msasismier, it Is sold, mails is Loeb* lig ibo tssavel of the resod= to Danford, Mt~ i Sb heed, it is doiskisly enraged, will Wit 10 10 4 asst Wag: It is expoolod that as fared . 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