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Tut most striking feature of the present time is the simultaneous and almost universal convulsion by which the North and South of great Empires break asunder, awl refuse to continue under the same government, or pursue the same political path. We find this as wonderfully exemplified in the old world as in the new—in China as in Amenea--and in Central Europe, where the Latin race inhabiting the Italian Peninsula insists with more vigour than it has shown for many centuries that the Alps shall be a political as well as a geographical boundary, and that Germans or Gauls must cease to dictate in the sunny and tempting climes adjoining them. It may be also remarked in these several cases of sepsiation, that although collision and blood shed have been in some cases unavoidable, yet there is a 'general tendency to accomplish the severance without making it the cause of a pro longed or internecine struggle. The followers of Tsseisn have conquered China south of the Yel low River, and have made one memorable attempt to extend their triumph northward. But they have failed against the sturdy Tartars in the pro vinces adjoining the native regions of those pas toral hordes ; whilst the Tartars themselves, how ever victorious, refuse to follow up such advan tages by marching south. Each side remain, en trenched in his portion of the empire, which seems irrevocably divided, however our diplomatists may bare thought fit or found it necessary to ignore the fact. There aro not a few who augur a similar result in America, where a majority on either cos aids or the other must leave a minority too proud, too powerful, and too free to submit to inevitable domination. The experience of the last ten years has shown that they could not sit in the same assembly without imposing laws one upon the other, most inimical to their material interests and ab horrent to their moral convictions. When wedded life reaches this phase, a divorce court is the only remedy. In Europe it must be a subject of supreme sa tisfaction to every lover of peace and nationality to behold Italians and Germans gradually settling into a just appreciation of each other, and pre paring to separate without renewed war. The declaration of the Prussian Chamber, that Italy, in freeing ttielf from the Austrian yoke, neither touches the interests of Germany nor offends its pride, is one of those noble and philanthropic de tlarations from which men must blush to dissent. And tits effect of this declaration uponSuabian and Bavarian will be even more important than any consequences that might be expected in Prussia Bata It would be curious to inquire into the laws which regulate tho repugnance of races or of countries subject or infeodated to stronger ones. The sentiment is most intense, and the suffering most intolerable, where the civilisation of the con quered country is superior to that of the conquering, and where subjection implies retrogradation of every kind. Such was the nature of the yoke imposed by _Austrians upon Italian+. And the senti ment is scarcely less strong in those races which enduring conquest and oppression have, like the Poles, been'ground down to the level of i the barba rian' of their conquerors, c r like the eristian races subject to the Turks, forced even below it. Another cause of hatred is the attempt of one race or section of a country to impose upon another • kind of civilisation of which the superiority is denied and resisted by the recipient. The inhabi tants of the Southern States of America abhor the industrial and intellectual activity of their Northern brethren. Their views of religion, of man, of his duties, his tendencies, and aspirations, are as dif ferent in the two regions as if centuries and oceans rolled between them. The Northern prides him self in the independence and affluence won by his industry and acuteness. The Southern boasts himself as lonl•of a rich and productive soil, as well as of the black labour attached to it. He enjoys the privilege as one of a superior race, and holdshis head high in the pride as well as the igno rance of feudalism, which scorned the mechanic as the equal of the slave. To compel such • race to accept the civilization, or be subject to the moral and intellectual code of the North, is to wed the fourteenth century to the nineteenth. There is something also in the nature or cha racter of a race, which, whilst impelling to con quest and domination, renders its rule intolerable. We are obliged to own that the Teutonic race make the most insufferable masters. The English themselves, notwithstanding their high and good qualities, are not beloved ; whilst the Germans, so honest and good-natured in their own home, make themselves the bugbears of every population foreign to them. The Germans undoubtedly have carried many valuable portions of their peculiar civilization into Slavic countries. They have been the beat politicians, the beat engineers, the best professors, the most intelligent manufacturers and traders in the countries eastward of them. Bat not even the boons they brought could recon cile the Slavonic or Magyar races to the hands, and the harsh characters which conferred them. This is the effective bar to the extension of Austrian dominion south or south-eastward of their centre. Serbs and Roumans reject and re pudiate their alliance or their rule with an invete rate hatred of which we have no conception. What is still more remarkable, and still more in accordance with, and in exemplification of, the remark commencing this article is, the complete disappearuice of that love and respect for Russia, and for that dependence upon her, once observable throughout the Danubian races. The faithlessness and tyranny of the Russians during their occupa tion, their defeats even by Turks, and their mani fest inability to cope with the West in war—these, with the increased intelligence of tho state of Europe, have encouraged the races of these regions to think for themselves, and to reject Russia as the most dangerous of aids. The North in this is repudiated by the South as much on the Carpathians as upon the Alps. And Russia will as vainly attempt to dominate the Euxine and rule Constantinople from St. Petersburg as Austria to lord it in the valleys of the Po and of the Arno from Vienna. To render the South independent of the North lama in truth been the aim and the principle for which we have ixen unconsciously struggling from time immemorial. To keep Spain independent of France, Italy free from itatranamontane neighbours, and leave the Gneoo-Christiapopuhition at liberty to settle their own quarrels withihe Turks, without undergoing a Northern yoke—such has been Eng lish policy. A combination of events and opinions have now come to concentrate towards this same principle, and promise to establish it for ever, we trot, beyond the necessities of more than diplo matic intervention. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.--CABINET COUNCIL.- Summonses have been issued for a C.ibinct Council on Wed. nesday next at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Viscount Palmerston has deferred his departure from Headlands until Monday next, when his lordship will be acoompsnied to town by Lady Palmerston. Earl Granville, the Lord President of the Council, arrived in Brag-street yesterday from visiting the Earl and Countries Spencer, at Althorpe Hall, North ampton. The Duke of Newcastle comes to town on Tuesday next from Clumber.park, Notts. The Lord Chancellor is =peeled to arrive at Stratbeden-house, Knightabridpe, early in the ensuing week from the Isle of Wight. The noble and learned lord will entertain the judges and leading members of the bar en Monday, the nth inst., the first day of Easter Term. The Earl of Eglinten has arrival at hig residence la Upper Belgrave-atreet, from Scotland. • ViscountPalmeteton hu deferred his departure from Broadlanda until Monday next, when his lordehip will bs sozompanied to town by Lady Palmerston. The Lord Chancellor in expected to arrive at eiratheilen Rouse. Knightsbridge, early in the ensuing week from the Isle of Wight. The noble and learned lord will entertain the Judges and leading members of the bar on liesday, the Ifith instant, the first day of Easter Term. Lord and Lady Colville will return to town coyly sett week from Beiroir Castle, where they have been staying on a visit to the Duke of Rutland. Lon) and Lady Leigh have left Fenton's Hotel for Brighton. Lord Gifford, who has been suffering from rheu matic fever for soma months past at Tottenham Park, Dirks, is now programing favourably. Baron and Baronew Meyer de Rothschild have arrived at their residence in Piccadilly, from Mentmore. The Hun. Mrs. Barrington sn ci Miss Vanier have left the St. Heorge's Hotel for Paris. Miss Burdett Ctutte has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Married, at St. Jameoex Church, by the Rev. Alfred Bowyer &milth, rector of Attlaburgh, Edward Hazy, Esq., ace of the late William Bury, Esq., of Ilnry, Imassahirs, to Cicely Abipil, daughter of the late Sir Edward Bowyer Smijth, Bert., of Hill Hall, Essex, sod widow of the late Hairy Bullock, Fin, of Faulk beanie Hall, Easex. The Di+hop of Labuan will preach the Kennon tcrirnorresr at the special evening service in Westminster Abbey. The Rev. Alex. Poole, If. A., has been preferred by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the per - Meal curse, of Bonne, in the county of Gloomier, vacant by the mignstion of the Rev. W. M. Hitchcock. Thu Rev. D. H. Doudney has been admitted by the Lord Bishop of GinnorMer and Bristol to the newly onestituted district of Rt. Luke, in Bedminats,, Bristol, on the nomination of Richard Drake, John Drake, John Cox, Wm. H. Con, sad Edward T. loskip, Lova, the patrons. The Rev. John Hartley has, upon his own peti tion as patmn, been isatittiMd by the Lord Bishop of Glom water and Bristol to the vicarage of Childs Wi c kh am , in the county of Gloucester, 'Arent by the death of the Bee. W. Hartley. Thu Lord Mayor of Dublin gave a dinner on Thursday main, including, besideo noblemen and mem. berm of the Town Council, a number of gentlemen from the country who are in town attending the Cattle Show. Nearly 130 oat down to dinner. The timid toast, were componded to by the Earl of Claucarty, on behalf of the Royal Dublin Society ; Mr. Dag, for the judge' at the Cattle Show ; Mr. Rich/aeon, far the exhibitors • and Lord Talbot do MALIAN for the Apienitaral Socie ty of Ireland. The Marquis of Watorford gated thanks for "The resident nobdity and gentry of Ireland;" the Hon. Mr. Hancock for " Railway interest, ;" and Mr. Quinlan for "The Prem." Archbishop Callen has addreassul a pastoral letter to his clergy, exhorting them to advise the people to make strictly accurate returns to the census enumerator., alleging that correct statistics are favourable to their church, of which he gives an instance. A parliameetary turn showed that there are 58 protestant officers in the Hi bernian Military School in Phisoix Park, enjoying salaries to the amount of 2,3181., while the Roma. catholic officers holy 1141. 11s., there bring 274 protestants and 132 Senna catholic children in the school, which he thinks a mall proportion of Roman catholic*, considering the pre possisnusea of Roman catholic soldiers in the army. . . The Conunimioners of the International Exhibi *is of 1012 held a meeting at their offices in the Strand yergaday. - The President and Council of the Microscopical Beeiety of Logsdon have Used male fur as evening reception ea Wednesday sett, at King's College. The yearly meeting and dinner of the Ethnologi cal Society will be held on Wednesday, May 15. Mr. Orawfard will deliver the customary address. A bust of William Pitt, by NoUrbane, line been posnented by Lord Granville to the National Portrait Chlimy in Westminster. A small miniature of Mn. Fry. with Newgate•ban io the back•grourd, has recently beim added to the collection ; whilst a head—life eise- -of Horace Walpole, by some unknown artist, her been suspended on the staircase. Herr MoU l na's Abraham is to be given at Exeter Mall, ow the 17th. with all completeness. The singers will be Newhoes Lmenens-Sherrington and Swinton-Dolby, Messes. Sims Reeves, Wilbye Cooper, and Santley. Herr Maligne will cooduct his own oratorio. The solo singers on whom devolves the task at carrying through Boethoven's Nuts Snlenitia, no Friday as* are Mesdames Rudersdorff end Ssistoe-Dolby, Messrs. Sims Reeves and Lewis Thome (rang LAS? moan. ft (warm.) 8?. JAmne's PALACR, APRIL I.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel the Lord James Charles Moray to bo Qwsa bas aa aho Estra Groom is Waiting u to Milimeale:l4. The Frederica Elisabeth Br bees uce to Bliftr i e:t Wears of the Bedchamber b her Majesty. LORD CIRAMBIRLAIT'II 01PIFICI, APRIL 4.—Notice is hereby gives, that the State Apartments of Wisdom Orals will 1,. opal to the publis ea or after Mosby best, the fhb iastaot, owlet the usual regulatioes. Dowxixo-sraner, Arun. 4.—The Queen ban been to appoint Frederick Ancients' Percy Wend, t Fen., r i nseeivergeocral of Rowans for her Majesty's Forts sad Ilettlemests on the Gold Cowl _ - CIIOWN-OTTICE, APZIL RZTVIINTD TO ewers DI TIM PUSCR Pant-INTENT. —Borough of Tiver ton Henry Jahn Viencent Palinerston. of Broadlawle, in the county of Southampton, Constable of her Maleety's Dude of Dmrer, and Warden and Keeper of lwr Majesty's nape Porta. County of Smberland : The Right H on . Sir David Dundee, of Oehtertyre. in the county of Perth, Is the TOM at George Granville William Ler...ou Gower, corn wady called IllarriLSOßffacd, now Earl of Sutherland, in the Pestese et of Prince M. Worontsow that enclosed in this letter was a slip of paper containing the following words : Prince Worentsow has a ready means to obtain the pub• lication of his pedigree in the form he desires in a Russian heraldic work. He has only to make Prince Peter Dolgo roukow a present of 50,000 silver roubles, and everything shall be does as he wishes ; but there is no time to lose. Prince P. Dolgoroukow affirms that on being in formed by the marshal that such a slip of paper was found in the letter, and asked to come to look at it, he considered the proposal as an insult, and insisted that the original should be regularly pro duced, and a judicial inquiry into the authorship ordered. That upon the refusal of the marshal to consent to this, he, the Prince P. Dolgoroukow, well knowing that it would have been useless to sue in the Russian courtsof law against a powerful adversary, applied to the Minister of Police, Prince Basil Dolgoroukow, but was told by him that any inquiry was out of the question in a case where a marshal and a chevalier of the Order of St. Andrew was concerned, and that he could not even transmit Prince P. Dolgoroukow's letter to the Emperor. That he was about to publish a statement of the whole case when, three days after his interview with the Minister of Police, and while dining with the Countess de Meyendorff, he received the news by telegraph from Odessa that Marshal Prince Wo rontsow was dead. That the statement of the Cour tier du himanche that Prince Worontsow had lithographed the note attributed to him is untrue. That the note in question is a forgery. Such is a summary of the case according to the respective statements of the parties ; and under these circumstances the family of Prince Woront sow bring their action against both Prince P. Dol goroukow and the Courrier du. Dimauche. They charge that the note asking for a bribe from the prince is no forgery, but is in the handwriting of Prince P. Dologoroukow, as will appear from • comparison of the note with the letter in which it was enclosed. They ask for damages at the dis cretion of the court both against the prince and' , the Courritr du .Dimaneke, and that the judgment may be inserted in six journals of Paris, two of London, and two of St. Petersburg. On the other hand, Prince P. Dolgoroukow brings s 9 cross action praying for damages. Prince Simon Worontaow, the son of the late marshal, has arrived in Paris to be present at the trial, M. Mathieu is counsel for the Woronteow family, DL Marie for Prince Dolgoroukow, and M. Gus tave Chaudey for the Courrier du Dipnanche. INDIA. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. HUNGARY. PESTR, SATURDAY. The opening of the Hungarian Diet, as well as of all the other provincial assemblies, is definitively fixed for to-day,with the exception of the Gallician Diet, which will be opened later. The re-organisation of the tribunals of Transyl vania, and the transfer of the administration of justice to the judicial authorities formally estab lished there, has been sanctioned by the Emperor. PESTH, SAITIIDAY Mortinso. The first sitting of the deputies is to be held in the Hall of the National Museum. That of the Magnates will be held in the Hall of Lloyd's. The inam,uml ceremony will take place at noon. POLAND. WARSAW. FRIDAY EV121770. The city presents a very gloomy aspect. The deepest mourning is worn by every one of the inhabitants, without exception. The theatres have been closed for a fortnight. Last night a crowd of about 3,000 persons assem bled on the spot where the victims of February fell. Prayers were intoned before the picture of the Virgin on their behalf. The crowd afterwards dispersed, shouting the words, "Until we meet again." The military, which were stationed a short dis tance off, made nu attempt to interfere. WARSAW, SATURDAY. The demonstration which took place on Thurs day night before the picture of the Virgin was repeated yesterday evening. The crowd again dispersed without being inter fered with by the military. The cause of the prevailing agitation is the sup pression of the delegation of citizens for the main tenance of public order. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SATURDAY. A "Te Down" has been celebrated in Bt. Stephen's Cathedral, to inaugurate the opening of the Diet. ITALY. A Milan journal states that General La Mu mma withdrew Lis resignation upon the conditions that a great entrenched camp should be established on the Italian side of the Mind° ; that La Rocca di Brescia should be fortified, and that his corps d'arin4e should be of the effective strength of 60,000 men. All these conditions were complied with. VIENNA, FirEiLT. The Outerreichiaelte Zeitung of to-day says : " The ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany yesterday sent to the European Cabinets a protest against the as sumption of the title of King of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel. " It is expected that the ex-Duke of Modena and the ex-King of Naples will send a similar protest." TURIN, Arm. 5. Liborio Romano has arrived at Genoa. It is stated that he is seriously indisposed. The discussion on the affairs of Naples was con cluded to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Mingbetti, the Minister of the Interior, rejected the proposals of Signor Ferrari relative to an in quiry into the state of the southern provinces. The debate has been very animated. The vote on the orders of the day will be taken to-morrow. SPAIN. MADRID, Anus 6. The Duke and Duchess of Moutpenaier have left for England, on account of the illness of their mother, the ex-Queen Marie Amelie. The committee charged to examine the press laws have presented the project of a new law to the Cortes. FRANCE AND ROME. DRESDEN, Ann, 5. The Dresden, Journal of to-clay publishes s tele gram, dated Parisi, sth April, stating "on good au thority" that the Emperor Napoleon had given a distinct assurance to the Pope that the French troops would not leave Rome. TURKEY. VIENNA, FRIDAY. The Oesterreichische Zeitual of to-day Pays that the news of the landing of General Mieroedawaltie in Albania is doubtful. MOSTAR, Amin. 5. The insurgents have trade a fresh attack on Poglizza, but were repulsed by the Turkish troops, after a tight which lasted four hours. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATCRDAT. The Royal Mail mteera.ship Niagara, which sailed to-day for New York, took 35,032 i. iu specie. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-aloe from the Lord High Commissioner of the halm Wanda Despatches were mat to the (overoore of the North American provinces, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and Bt. Helena. General Count Muravieff-Amuraki has been permitted to retire from office as Governor of Eastern Siberia, at his urgent request, niece he could not obtain more money to carry out his great schema of oolooketloa on the Amour. The Siberians have given a magailcest banquet in his homer, and have presented to him a silver clock of the value of 8,000 roubles. The hands are is the shape of two pens, sad the Sores represent the dates of his more important operations in Siberia, especially his treaties with China. A manuscript of John Huss, hitherto unknown, was discovered a few days time by Profaner .11ofler In the Imperial Library at Prague. It la a fragment of a diary written at Constance. A few days !duae the entombment of the heart of the late Kiss of Prossi.i'. in the mausoleum at Chartorten burg took place with the utmost privacy, in accordance with his Mujesty's will. The Queen Dowager was preseat at the sal mad solemn ceremony. By the terms of the late King's will, his library, oonsistinz of about 40.000 volumes, was left to his brother, Kiag Wilburn, with the exception of the works of art, which were bequeathed to the Queen Dowager. The doubt, however, arose whether works eon tsining woodcuts and other illustrations were to be included 'la the " works of art," as waU as the countless art jouruals is the library, and the question has been decidud ia the affirmative. A medal has been placed in the sarcophagus with tbe sees sostsining the remains of the Emperor Napoleon 1. Os ems side are two groups of old wuTiors depositing wreak, sad on the reverse is the bead of Napoleon 1., with the following inscription :—" A mark of respect to Napoleon 1., Emperor of the French ; offered by his old aoldisee, remnants of the armies from 179 to 1815, and deposited in the tomb of the met man on the 2nd April, MI, the day of its inauguration under the reign of Napoleon Emperor." _ _ _ There is story of an abb4 who has invited a friend to partake of a dish of ortolan/. He preferred them done in hotter, his friend in oil, had directions had been given accordingly. The friend came early, sod, while talking, fell down in • fit and shortly died. As not • moment was to be lost, the abbe ran to the head of the stairs, and called out, "Do them all in butter." He then took measures fir proper di. awl of his guest .—r unes. Yesterday the 47th Rw.: nient passed through Liverpool, ea roars from Dover to Dublin. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova owl PARIS. FRIDAY Evurnta. The Pays—which invented the famous 750,000 Neapolitan signatures to a petition calling for Murat to reign at Naples—is now fain to an nounce that "the Emperor has written a letter to Prince Murat blaming the publication of his manifesto." The Petrie, with more par ticularity, says that the Emperor, faithful to the policy which he has constantly pursued with regard to Italy —a policy exclusive of all family ambition, and of all ideas of conquest—has written a letter to Prince Murat expressive of these noble sentiments, and consequently disap proving the manifesto. It is nimoured that Prince Napoleon, after es corting the Princess Clothilde as far as Genoa, where he will be met by Victor Emmanuel, means to make a rapid excursion to Syria. _ _ The Minister of Public lnstruction has issued a decree against the use in public schools of an ultra montane publication called the Almanach Rlustre du Rosier de Marie. It is said that K Ganesco has received permis sion to return to France. The Bourse is again firmer. The Rente rose 15e. for cash and 100. for account, closing in each came at 67fr. 75c., the highest price of the day. Mo biller rose 3fr. 75c. The Eastern Railway rose llfr. 25c., and the other lines were from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. higher. The Roman railways were much inquired for, and rose 7fr. 50c. The Caisse Miris rose lfr. 245 c. The Tribunal of Commerce yesterday dissolved the company of the Caisse Mire, and appointed official administrators to wind up its affairs. On the part of Count de Oerminy it was stated that, by instructions of the Minister of Finance, he was obliged to resign his post. An advocate who ap peared for M. Mires said that, though that gentle man maintained the protest he had made against all that had been done with regard to his company since his arrest, he had no objection to offer to the present application, and acknowledged that Count do Gorminy had rendered immense services to the company. The tribunal declared the company of the Caisse-Gindrale des Chemins de Fer dissolved, and appointed MM. Bordiaux and Richardiere to wind up its affairs. The first volume of M. Gamier Pages' long-ex pected " History of the Revolution of 1848 "is published to-day at Pagnerre's. The Opinion Nationale is not satisfied as to the identity of the person who represented herself to be Sophia Bluth, and signed a statutory declaration before Mr. Venn, the English notary. It observes that the testimony of this Sophia Bluth was much wanted to explain what had become of a child supposed to have been born in the house of the Canon Mallet at Douai, and that it is very odd that she should have disappeared just at the moment when she was wanted to depose in a court of jus tice. Certainly, if it be the object of Sophia Bluth to explain satisfactorily the charges made against Canon Mallet and several French and Belgian con vents, of having concealed her from her parents, the publication of • letter, dated Oakley-square, London, representing that she is now in England of her own free will and consent, is not sufficient. The public would like to know what she is doing, and when she was last in a religious house. A curious libel case, which excites extraordinary interest among the Russian aristocracy in Paris, was called on this morning in the First Civil Chamber, but the bearing was postponed for a fortnight. The parties aro Prince Peter Dol goroukow, a Rusaiau nobleman long resident in the capital, the heirs of the late Marshal Prime Worontsow, aide-de-camp to the Emperor of Russia, and the Courrier ds Dimasche. It appears from the pleadings that about • year ago Prince Peter Dolgoroukow published in Paris a book en titled " La Veriti sum la Russie," which drew a most degrading picture of Russian society. All classes and ranks, from the highest to the lowest-- civilians, soldiers, nobles, bourgeois, and serfs—were branded as venal, abject, and corrupt. The author did not confine himself to generalities, but cited many instances in which the names of very high personages were mixed up with startling revela tions and scandalous anecdotes. The conclusion of his work was that the empire of Peter the Great was in • state of social decomposition, that it bad already descended to the level of a second-rate power, and that nothing but the most vigorous and radical remedies could save it from going to pieces. Shortly after the publication of " Ls Verite sur la Russie," there appeared a review of it in the Cowrie,. du Dirnandie, signed Michousky. The reviewer seemed quite disposed to adopt the accu sations of the work against Russian society gene rally, and as if to give greater weight to them, he pointed out that the author was a Muscovite boyard, and a descendant of the popular patriot, Jauob Dolgoronkow. But before proceeding to analyse the book, M. Michousky referred to certain anterior publications hostile to Russia, and more particu larly to that of M. de Custine, as being untrust worthy, and then wrote the following passage, which contains the substance of the libel com plained of : Some little time since we were on the point of reviewing a work which on the face of it was highly interesting (it was a gen,rologic biography of the aristocratic families of a for ign country), w:ien we were shown a letter addressed by the author to a prince whose pe Hires was to figure in the collection. This letter asked plumply and plainly for • douceur of 50,000 roubles, in consideration of which sum the writer undertook to destroy donne:mote in his possession which, as he alleged, threw serious doubts upon the lineage of the person to whom he was writing. The noble prince. indignant at what we should call in France a shameful eAnntal/P, had several thousand copies of the letter litho graphed and distributed for general information, and one of these ropes having Mien into our hands iodated us to take no further notice of a work which we could only re gard as an infamous libel. Of aurae we have no ■ppre. hensioss of this kind with regard to "L Verdi: sues Ia Rorie." Notwithstanding the saving clause at the con clusion, the paragraph in the Courr;er dtt Dimmiehe was ladutecl at Prince Dolgoroukow himself—at least so he maintains by his action. During the last years of his residence in Russia, he published a collection of genealogies, in four volumes, wherein, among the persona whose pretensions to ancient lineage were in his opinion inadmissible, he men tioned Marshal Prince Michael Worontsow, who claimed to be descended from the family of the boyards Woroutsow, whereas in fact that family was extinct in 1576, and the nobility of Prince Michel Woronstow, who had nothing in common with them but the name, originated so lately as the eighteenth century. Prince Dolgoroukow says that be was frequently solicited by Prince M. Woront sow to alter this statement, and the latter promised to furnish documents proving the correctness of his pretensions. The promised papers, however, were never forthcoming, and when the fourth volume was in the press the author wrote to the marshal to express his regret that in the absence of them it was impossible for him to make the rectification desired. Now it is alleged by the representatives SEVERITY OF THE FAMINE. By the arrival of the overland mail we receive letters and papers from Bombay to March 12, Cal cutta, rid Bombay, to March 3. The Governor- General had returned to his seat of government, and the Governor of Bombay had returned from his tour through Guzerat and Scinde. The ac counts of the famine are as bad as ever. The Bombay Gazette says : An eye-witness declares that the statements which have been published of the extent and severity of the suffering are in no wise exaggerated. Extensive districts throughout the North-West, which in times of prosperity are like the " garden of the Lord," are now uncultivated and ileser).. The oared* have not been sown, in most mass, for want of rain ; in other mass, for want of seed, the seed having been consumed fur food, and the Bunneas refusing to advance, as there is no prospect of a remunerative re turn. The prospects for the future are as dark and gloomy, therefore, as the present distress is grievous. The people throughout the country have contributed lib-crally for the relief of the sufferers. Bombay has given one lac and thirty-thousand rupees. Calcutta has given an equal sum. Aid from Madras is yet to be realised. What would such an amount of money do, even under the most fa our able circumstances, to save three millions of people from perishing fur lack of bread I A more gigantic effort west yet be made throughout India. It is most vexing to find, that owing to the want of facilities for inter-communication throughout the country generally, the money contributed is consumed in , earriage more than in grain. The Oue(4 Oetzelk writes: 'For three months this province has been supplying the North-West with corn of evert description; but instead of the Zanteendare transporting it themselves, traders end dealers from across the Ganges have to bring their own conveyances to carry it away. This at best most be • most awkward and unsatisfactory process, since the cost of transit (for conveyances miming and returning) must be as much if not Ilion) than that of the groin itself ' • so that when food is even brought to the doors of the starving, dear at the original purchase, it must sell at famine prices. This want of free and easy modes of transit—that is, sim ply, of made roads—is general throughout the country, and Is the greatest obstacle in the way of relieving the sufferers. England's bounty is expected to flow in ere long, in answer to the appeals that have been made." The . lifofesseilite, of Feb. 26, gives the following account of the relief asylums that have been esta blished at Delhi : Sir Robert Montgomery visited the relief asylums at Delhi on Friday at mid-day, accompanied by the members of his staff, all the civil ollicen, and nearly all the mem. bent of the General Relief Committee. 'The Lieutenant- Governor proceeded to visit the asylums, and learn with his own eves the confirmation of the reports be had received of the deep distress abroad. There are three groat asylums at Delhi outside the city—one at the Kboodoes Bagh, the original relief house, which admits only the most aged, infirm, and feeblest objects of compassion, as well as the latest arrivals, who are committed to the civil surgeon for treatment. In this there were some eight hundred. The amend place is the great enclosure of the Eedgab, in which from six to eight thousand receive a meal a day. The third refuge is outside the Delhi Gate, where from three to four thousand meemble daily. This was visi.ed first. Almost, if not entirely, middle-aged women with sickly young children formel the assemblage, of whom half were widows. The last piochesi of want were not discernible here, as timely relief had been afforded, and bad began to tell. Brigadier Brown had formed the groups into regi mental dispositions with great precision. No hurry, or noise, or confusion. All received their tickets, presented them at the door. obtained their meal,' flour and salt, sod went on their way, poor things, into thkir looely unfriended homes to eke out their scanty day me3l, the next morning again to congregate at the .1110 poordinuse. If these people were not fed, in three days they would infallibly fall into the condition of the secoudclass of sufferers, which we will hereafter describe. . . After minutely inquiring into all details connected with the first section, so excellently organised and superintended by the Brigndier, the Lieutenant-tioveruor proceeded to the Eedgah. As he came to the gates n crowd of miserable objects yelled outside for admittance within the precincts. These had been excluded as being fit for work. The yell outside subsided as the gates were closed, and • melancholy scene presented itself. One-half the enormous anis was com pletely covered by wasted tiles of human beings. In every direction and in every posture of apathy, disease, des air and prostration, were lying about the hollo w-e yed wretched victims of the dreadful visitation, almost too far gone even to care to creep among the long rows of rap, squalor, and half nakedness. . . Sir Robert laced slowly down the lines amid almost unbroken and 'Knife' silence, pausing now and then before some gaunt and wan figure to ask whence be came, to be answered only by mute gesture or exhausted effort at articu- Latino. Out of more than mix thenand not one could be pointed out as fit for a quarter of au hour's ordinary work. It was painful enough to reflect, after viewing the remnants of human beings whom charity lead reached, open the thousands who must hove been and must he perishing in the highways and hyeesys The distribution of chuppatties and dall to this gather ing takes four hours a day. Lally, Idahesh Las aide largely nut of his own purse in the support of these people, and Mr. 0. Wood. Assistant Commissioner, aids zealously in the charitable, but painful business of superintending the alleviation of so much human suffer big. Each of the homeless beings, as they receive into their tattered shreds of garments their food, peas out through the wicket to lie about and nestle among the rocks and stases until the next morning —not a few perhaps to die iu the interim. Lich has a wooden ticket hound round his right wrist, which lie I. sot to remove. The men's tickets are oblong, the women's square, and the children's hexagon. Thus, nu one can present a stolen ticket and get double food. 'Nor ciao he possess more than one, an it is tied to his wrist, and by tio other way of presentation, and at no other than at the appointed time, will the bearer be entitled to food that day. They enter until 12 a.m., doors are then shut ; they are 'mustered and inspected at 1 p.m, and food is distributed until all here received. Thud° fit for work are daily eliminated, and sent off to work with passes. Hie Honour expressed himself com pletely satisfied with the arrangements, sad after desiring that the rule should be relaxed, this aloe, oo the occasion of his visit in favour of the vociferous crowd outeide, passed on to the third and last wand asylum. This is enlarged from the original poor house which has always been as existence at Delhi. The peculiarity of the last+nentionod asylum at the Eedgah is , that hope is afforded that many will recover after a week or a fortnight, and pan out again fit to earn sustenance by daily labour. But at the Koodseah High it is almost past hope. Here death steps in and relieves daily from eight to nine of their sufferings. The coming spectacle of human woe hero exhibited surpassed all that mu be written about it, and adequately justified the earuest ups peals for aid, as well as the munificent responses to they appeals. With their skeleton shapes just covered by skis hanging in thick wrinkles, the famished are brought in, some to struggle into life, most to die from the mere effort at eating. The hideous and repulsive aspect of these cases is utterly lost in the unbounded sympathy felt, as well as the regret that more cannot be done to arrest the scythe of the destroyer. All the arrangements are admirably roe , ducted by the respected assistant of the treasury, Mr. De ! tiruyther• Many hundred imploring beings owe their lives to the humane arid disinterested exertions of one who had to flee from the infuriated mob at the first mutiny, and for weeks suffered every privation aud misery with his family in the jungles. Is there any sense of shame or gratitude among the Asiatics! Will the spectacle of returning good for evil in this, sod many other instances, on the part of the British community, and a government, though only a few years after a city and district were doomed to retributive justice and confiscation for the %greatest crimes, c u ing forward with sympathy and aid in the cause of common humanity, to rescue its inhabitant+ from misery and death, leave no lesson upon their minds? The news from Sikkim is unsatisfactory. Our troops are represented as being in the heart of the country, and finding' it abandoned by the inhabi tants. The Englishman has letters from Sikkim stating that the envoy, the lion. Mr. Eden, had issued proclamations calling on all the sirdars to come in to him. Some basse replied by asking him how they would be treated, and the answer has always been, "In a friendly manner." The Bombay Telegraph speaks of • revival of Thuggism in Oudh : In many of our Indian provinces the people appear to be rapidly retrograding. Old customs of a ba-Mirous character have been revived, and it is said that the Thugs have once more commenced their nefarious operations. Only a short time ago, some 17 persons were found murdered at Oonao in Oudh; and from circumstances observed, it was thought by Thug& Notwithstanding the efforts of the police soul the special agency of the Thuggee department, no trace of the murderers has yet been discovered. Oudb, it will be re membered, was a great resort of Thug gangs, in the good old times, when the profession flourished, and before Colonel. Shemin rooted out the system ; it is, therefore, more than probable that many of the fraternity still linger about the scenes of their former exploits. It is the nature of this crime to revive whenever a state of anarchy and confusion arises, such as Oudh was in during the revolt, or when ever the special measures organised for its suppression may be relaxed. It does not speak much for the Oudh police, that such a wholesale murder should pass undisco vered while it points to the inference that Thuggee la beginning to "look up" in the province. Side by side with the rumoured intentions of government to reduce the Thuggee and Dacoity departments as being " no longer needed," we read in an upcountry paper of dead bodies being lately found in the district of Cawnpore bearing marks of strangulation ; and also is other districts of Oudh, The ordinary police are wholly inadequate to deal with organised gams of Thugs, and It is due to the people of the districts where the system shows signs of revival, that the measures that have hitherto proved effectual for Urn suppression should not be disturbed. Sir Patrick Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras army, Lea resigned his command and taken his departure for Bngland. The death of Dr. Dealtry, Bishop of Madras, is announced. GARIBALDI AT TURIN. - The Italie of Turin of the 3rd instant says : Garibeldi's arrival caused a great sensation among the populace of our city, and lies occupied the first place in the thoughts of the public, who hail been previously informed of his departure from Caprera, by a telegraphic despatch Published in all the journals. But as it is believed that the illustrious General's journey is well known to the govern ment, there has been no anxiety on account of it. General Garibaldi arrived from Genoa this morning by the first train. He took up his quarters at the house of onset his friends, Colonel Misson. Several of the officers who served under him accompanied him. Imme diately on his arrival a great number of persons hastened to welcome him. The general, though he is just now suffering from rheumatism in the right leg, caught lately in bailding a wall at Capron, refused the as sistance of his friends' arms in going up stairs. About noon a great crowd assembled in front of the house and set up loud cheers for Garibaldi. A window was opened, and General Sirtori came forward and told the crowd that his illustrious friend was not very well. and accordingly had de puted him to thank them for their expressions of sym pathy- HIGH PRICES FOR MODERN PIeT'CRKE.—TIIO sale of the Countess Lehon's pictures, at her incidence in the Champs Elyseen this week, gave the following prices A Falcon Chase," by Dreux, 3,0501 r. ; "Departure for the Chute," by the same, 3,050 fr. ; " A Fox Hunt, by the same, 7,000 fr. ; " Pupils quitting a School in Turkey," by Diererop!, 34,0001 r. ; "Dreugit Horses," Ly the same, 2,200 fr. • Woman in a Bath, " by the same, 3,000(r. "An ipisode of the Battle of the Cymbri," by the name, 2.5,0001 r. ; " View in the Fe 4," by ' listilikat a 6,4000 r.; " A Painter et his Easel," by Xareoe. airs, 11,200 fr.• " A Wallachia.. Cuariet," by Him, 4,000 f.; " A Sea Mamie," by Beckhoyeen, 4,900 fr.; " A Young Mother," by Peter 1f00g,3,650fr.• " Lady with • Laplog," by the same, 5,000 fr.• " A COncert of Amateurs,' by Netechar, 4,450 fr.; " T he Hurdy.gurdy Player," by Ostade, 31,400 fr. ; a picture by Ilembnindt (a portrait of the ortist'e sister), 3,000 fr.• " Calm at Sea," by Van den \'elde, 20,000 fr.; and " A Sporting Dog," by Welds, 15,600 fr. STRIKE IX THE SUBURRI OF PARDS.—A number of the calico printers employed at Putesen and Summed struck work three days ago, and the majority of them had not resumed yesterday morning. Acemblages were formed but no disturbance took place. Eight of tie men, Belgian and Swiss, who were the ringleaders in the strike, have been arrested. Many of thole belonging to the place, who were at first taken into custody, have been set at liberty, and, regretting what they have done, are about to again enter on their occupations.—Grafignani. A STEAMER BURIED Ili ICIL-1n the latter part of last year the Edward Hawkins, rerew steamer, 700 taus btu then, trading between St. Petersburg and Cottoor's-cluirf, Tooley-street, on her homeward passage down the Gulf of Finland, got ashore at Lavansare, one of the islands, and before assistance could arrive from f'roustadt to lighten the ship the frost set in, and in the course of a few weeks the tee accumulated in the vicinity of the stranded vessel to such an extent that it was supposed she v/01114160 crushed to pieces.. The hull, mast, and rigging, owing to the heavy seas sweeping over them, became a solid block of ice, and she was packed in ice to the depth of 20 feet, which was driven in by the westerly gales. Since the weather has moderated, and the severity of the frost loosened, the cap tain and crew returned to the ship, and with assistance from the Russian dockyards resumed their operations foe getting the steamer off. By a letter received from Cron stradt by Lloyd's Salvage Association, we learn that the ship has been successfully reisekautt fleeted, and the ice cleared away. Steam wes gut up, her eoginee tint being much in jured, sued she was run at full speed to Knells harbour for shelter until the ice has completely broken up. Although ode is there sheltered it was considered edvisalde to sink her, and she now lies on an eves and sift ground in 12 feet of/water, and ens wen as the porioilia:ol gales expected at this season of the year huvo pascal over and the ice direr peers, the water will be pumped out of her and she will proceed to London for general repairs. A SHIP DE.sTROTED BY FlRE.—Yeaderday the subjoined report was received et Lloyibe from Captain Chas. Axon, master of the brigantine Tanuiree, 136 tons, belong ing to Exeter, which was totally destroyed by fire on Mon day last, while lying off Exmouth :—" About g o'clock at night, the weather fine, and the wind iu the north-west, blowing moderate, au alarm was raised that the Tamura° was on fire. I was on shore at the time, soul on proceeding off in a beet found a number of boat) ammel the vessel, and a great many persons on deck exerting themselves in various ways to extinguish the fire which was caging in all parts of the vessel, and the flames were issuing from each of the hatchways. Seeing the almost hopeless condition of the vessel, I ordered the fore rigging, Ac.. to he cut away, and attempts were made to scuttle Tier, lint failed. The fire raged fiercely, and by half-peat 3 o'clock the following morning she was burnt clean out, presenting a mere and shortly after she sunk in about three fathoms water. I cannot account for the origin of the She was yeutly laden with oaks. shipped by Messes Anthony Hems, et Middlesborough, and oinugued to Mr. itielmel Railway. of Exmouth. All hands escaped by being takes Id. The lee of the vessel awl cargo is estimated at 2,2te1i." BRUTAL MANKLAUGHTEK AT DALToN. —An in quest was held on Tuesday annum at dtaltew, in the torn , ship of Kirkhenton ' on the body 41 John Dransueld, alias Hirst, aged twe nty-seven years. It appoared from the I evidence adduced, that about 1 o'clock or the night of the 25th ult, the deceased, a man ionosl Paul Keys, and several others, were drinking at the Black Ilene Lee, Dalton, and the two fonnee• commenced a quarrel about some halfpence, which the deceased said Kaye owed him, but which Kaye stoutly denied. The decayed ehalleuge4l him to fight, and milled off his mat. Knee de dined, and they left the house, but had no sooner 410•14. so than the deceased renewed the quarrel, and repeat.A the challenge, which Kaye accepted. They stripped and fought near the garden wall for several minutes, heavy blows arid j kicks being exchanged. They closed and fell, end after a severe struggle both regained their feet, when Kus kicked the deceased, and after sever a l other blues the deceased gave up the coated, and complained of a revel pain where be had been kicked. He was token hoine,s!l Ur. Oaribfler, surgeon, of Moltgrsen, near Iluddersfie, was sent for. That gentleman found that the poor fellow' bladder had been burst. The deceased suffered the " 1.4 excruciating pain, and died from the effects of the injures oa Saturday sight last. The jury returned a verdict °, MO' slaughter against Paul Kaye, and he was committed for trial at the York Assizes upon the coroner's warrant. 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