The Express. — London, England, 1861-03-21 00:00:00

PY THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH HA RXONIIIIIB—NEW MODEL.— cum. sum mg cii.. 111. larsit4tresS. erSirews• f 0 aiIaISPONDLYTS. 14nrttsemalb latroded for •• 1b• Y.:press ' London Inning Yaprr, b• u the once, 10. Bouveriestreak by Two smart as OM limy of pabiattoo. .11.• t . Y4K ET. Tins Musa A DEKIIIN DIviIiTLTDOIL Nam ROWS, V wi r n. Roars. Mork. ecaigAnn. awl Lib:lmam . kl,t Atlettag, w maw Mir Y. xt/rilog. Min F.llaydon.—Tt 11011Nti TII TAIII.O. lle. Comploa.—And TILE 211." N AND TUX WIND. numcotNA. Tnq Emma. ThRICR h RRIED. Mr. Mare aad Mho C. leeks! —And UNLIT. Ileum redder, Graham. Shore, Srltora hea.lowa sad Potty. Maas llawurthy. Wes heath. sr. home. Tine EVINTNO, MY Wll7lll JOURNAL—THE MLR or ST. Thor 7. . Hewn. A. Isee and ramery. Me. Ds&lmSare White KN 1)1,' IoN. Weeny C. Yams sad leineere ; Mimes St. CilMel, Herbert, aud Somer.—Commence M Imitpeet 7. BRITANNIA. TRIg rnernen. TIIR VICTIM OF DIAAIPATION Mean. J. R. ‘ , l And i'reufer.l Misses E. Clines awl li.ornhur —LC/I• LI •I. er Ihe )(Moe and Ito RBls*. Mr L Jar.llts, Mrs./Jule. n•I tiktLßJo LANDO AND 1111.11 MATINS. Mrs. E. lisza.l.l. 1101 WA AT IXISDOT DIUDOL TIIIIDry-1 . la& Sk Abu. ..Albotheaft Ob. Oa TOibfiboi-111ooslos, fib. Abb.....Albormoim lOtt. Wa LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21. Lcccsantae will have, if possible, a Lancashire man for her new representative. The resolve is only another expression of the self-respect and self-de pendence which have made Lancashire what she is. If every other county and town in the United Kingdom were animated by a like spirit, what a Parliament we should have, and what a people we should be. Nature has elsewhere been far more profuse in her gifts. The soil of a great part of Lancashire is far from prolific, and the climate is damp and ungenial. While golden sun shine makes other places glad and gay, the heavens are often overclouded in the valley of the Mersey and above the l'endlo Hills ; but unconscious of disadvantages or indifferent to them, the inventive and persevering inhabitants have reclaimed mo rasses and tunnelled hills, brought sterile fields into a condition of fertility, converted the mud-banks of their rivers into vast docks and basins for the building and shelter of a huge mercantile marine, built great cities full of unrivalled factories, and have studded the whole ' face of their wondrous region over with churches, schools, luxurious mansions, and comfortable workmen's homes. And all this, or the greatest pert of it, has been done within the memory of men now living ; and by men who were either born in Lancashire, or who early fixed their residence there, and became in habit, sympathy, and feeling identified with the community amongst whom they dwelt. Ten years ago, for example, South Lanca shire sae represented in Parliament by a Liver pool merchant and a Manchester manufacturer, both of whom were born in Ireland, but both of whom had settled early in life in the great seats of industry, to whose prosperity and credit their own individual success contributed : for Lancashire has never been characterised by any mean or narrow spirit of national or sectarian jealousy. Nevertheless in the main her people have relied upon them selves for all they have and are ; and now, when they are about to obtain another representative in the legislature, they instinctively look round to ON where they can find amongst men of their own stock, one who may fitly be the spokesman of their wisher and their wants. Mr. Ctsnerruirs is pre eminently worthy of their choice, on every pos sible ground, and they have accordingly resolved to make choice of him if he will consent to be chosen. His father came from Scotland to Liver pool when a young man, and made his fortune there ; but the CHANCELLOR of the Exensuota, if we mistake not, is a Lancastrian by birth. He is something more. He is • statesman capable of appreciating in all its greatness and grandeur the value of Lancashire industry and enterprise : he is an orator capable of compelling an ignorant and hostile senate to do justice to commerce and manufactures. In the long struggle against restrictive tariffs begun in 1842, and hardly ended yet, Mr. Gtiogross has borne an active, prominent, and fearless part. He was Sir Roamer PEWS second self throughout the long discussions which preceded and accompanied the Repeal of the Corn Laws ; he was the most powerful and eloquent supporter of the Repeal of the Navigation Laws ; and, finally, he has himself proposed and carried through Parliament two great Budgets, based upon the principle and embodying the spirit of fiscal reform. With the single exception of Mr. Connor, there is no one whose Parliamentary ca reer has been so distinctively identified with the promotion of the interests in which those of Lan cashire are bound up ; it is therefore most natural, grateful, and wise, that in giving away the new seat, the constituency should look to the man who has beet earned it. But will Mr. Otreeroye accept the offer ? Will he reign the representation of Oxford University, to undertake the far more onerous duty of repre senting South Lancashire 1 Will he sever the ties that for so many years have bound hint to that ancient home of learning, and expose himself to all the vicissitudes and vexations inci dent to the mpreeentation of a great popular con stituency 1 We are not in the secret of what has taken place recently between the enures:lion of the Bleaserven and those who would fain beguile him northward ; but we are bound to say that we equally respect the motives that bare actuated them in making the proposal, and the ambition that has prompted him to incur the risk of enter taining it. For risk there is undoubtedly, where a man who has Ice many years occupied a safe and inexpensive seat, socoveted and distinguished se that of Oxford, publicly entertains, or at least does not repudiate, the suggestion that he should relinquish it, and does so several months before it is possible that the new scat offered him can be ready for his acceptance. But whatever be his other faults, want of courage has sever been imputed to Mr. fiLassrroes, and be probably thinks lees of the homed than any of hie friends or admire's. And the specific inducement 1 We sin imagine that it is great in his eyes. Some thing of the old charm which Oxford and its confides., had for him has probably peeped away. Ilia early dream of identifying the State and the Church is gone ; and he himself must feel that he has modified many of the political opinions for the sake of which be was first called to sit for the University. With the moat earnest convic tion of the rectitude of his intentions end the consistency of his aims, be cannot be insensible to the fact that between him and the governing influences at Oxford there no longer exists that oneness it, which he and they formerly rejoiced ; and although were his reelection opposed to-mor row, ea that of Sir Rouser Peal. was in 1829, Mr. Clisterniiie would we are sure demonstrate most eloquently that he was still ea worthy of Oxford me Oxford deemed him fifteen year. no, wo can quite understand that to a sensitive and scrupulous mind like• his it would in a certain sense he a great relief to have done with the con tinual murmurings of discontent by which sob riously he has of late been pained. A decided majority of the electors of Oxford would unquestionably return him again were there an election to-morrow ; but to a man whose mind is constantly occupied with large and comprehensive views of national policy, the success of which depends in some degree upon the freedom of his own individual action and the con fidence he feels in his own representative strength in Parliament, it would indisputably be a great advantage, as well as satisfaction, if he were member for an influential and enlightened section of the work-a-day community, instead of being hampered and fettered, as he must necessarily be no long as he sits for a conservative school of learning. We cannot refrain from noticing one circum stance connected with the movement recently made in South Lancashire, which appears pecu ' liarly deserving of comment. Nonconformity is per haps nowhere so strong in point of numbers as in the manufacturing districts ; and no one in the rank of statesman has lately taken • course less calculated to win the peculiar favour of Dissenters than Mr. GLADOTONIL But no sectarian feeling has been permitted to have place in the present instance. Great services in the cause of progress have justly been deemed to outweigh any shortcomings on • particular question or two ; and Mr. OcAnsroNs'il unpalatable speech in support of Church Rates is forgiven and forgotten for the sake of his gallant defence of the rights of the Commons against the taxing usurpations of the Lords, and his earnest pleading in favour of Electoral Reform. It has been felt that acts and words may be, and ought to be, pardoned in him that could hardly be over looked in other men. This is the true spirit of popular justice, and we should be sorry to see it ever departed from. Toss time is rapidly approaching when the long pending dimensions between the Emperor of Annals and his Hungarian subjects must be brought to a definite issue. The controversy has been carried on ever since the close of the Italian war, and at every step the Hungarians have gained something. Their constitutional rights have, however, been very partially recognised, and their wrongs very imperfectly and reluctantly redressed. The Imperial Government has never yielded more than was absolutely necessary to meet the exigencies of the moment, and the want of a thoroughly honest, straightforward policy has throughout destroyed the moral value of these concessions. The EMI mos and his advisers have put off any definite settlement of the Hungarian claims, and prolonged • painful and irritating period of suspense, in the hope that divided councils would weaken the national movement, or an armed revolt give them an opportunity of suppressing it by force. These sinister hopes have been signally disappointed, and the crisis can now be delayed no longer. The Hungarian Diet is to assemble at Buda on the second of next month, while the Imperial Council of the New Constitution is summoned to meet at Vienna on the twenty-ninth. The approach of the inevitable conflict has not in the least altered the relative position of the two great parties in the struggle. The conduct of the Imperial Government in dealing with the Hungarian nation has been all along shifty, vacillating, and insincere, if not absolutely treacherous. The Exentoa's vague but swelling promises have always been miserably dwarfed in performance, and the expectations he intentionally raised have been uniformly disappointed. The patent of October promised in general terms almost everything the Hungarians had asked, but the hopes it excited were rudely dissipated by the autograph letter of January, and utterly destroyed by the New Constitution of M. Scioszatuto, promulgated at the close of last month. The latest news from Vienna shows that the same spirit and policy still prevail in the Imperial oouncils. The EXPEILOI, in a conference with the Hungarian Magnates, is reported to have declared that while he will "respect the rights of the " Hungarian nation to the fullest extent, ho will " never tolerate any infringement of the rights of " the crown." If the Enemies really meant to deal fairly with the Hungarians it would be impos sible for him to hold such language as this, for the rights both of the nation and the crown are do fined by the coronation oath, which Estancia JOIIIIPH has never yet taken. On the other hand, during all these difficult . vexations and disappointing negotiations the atti tude of the Hungarians has never changed. They took their stand at the outset on strictly legal grounds, demanding the resto ration of their constitutional rights and pri vileges, and they have throughout firmly maintained their position. The nation and its leaders have never been induced either by pro mises or threats to abandon for a moment the vantage-ground of their own laws, and this is the explanation of their pest success as well as the true secret of their present strength. The Imperial advisers at Vienna have been driven to their wits' end in attempting to conciliate by delusive schemes a people who have not only adopted such a simple, straightforward programme, but who under the most trying circumstances have adhered to it with such noble patience and constancy. M. SCHYLBLINCeII famous constitution, that was to have worked such wonders, has produced no prac tical effect in the kingdom for which It was specially designed. It has indeed, naturally enough, excited • feeling of indignation and con tempt, but it has not in the least affected the posi tion or policy of the Hungarian people. It has neither excited popular commotion*, as many hoped it would do, nor paralysed the political leaders of the national movement. Neither Baron V•Y nor the recently elected Lordis•Lieutenant of counties have resigned. Both the nation and its leaders strictly adhere to the legal and constitutional policy they have determined to pursue. The nation is so united, indeed, that the old Imperial policy has now scarcely a chance of success. The most zealous, lavish, and unscrupulous agents of that policy fail to excite either disunion or disturbance. The representatives to the Diet are elected in the most regular and orderly way, and the Diet will no doubt assemble to discuss and reject the new Constitution, and insist on the restoration of the notion', legal rights. The people are perfectly unanimous on this head, and the latest intelligence from Hungary shows that, despite M. Scumsausso and his new Constitution, they will not recede • single step in their just demands. In prospect of the meeting of the Diet three counties/ have already given detailed instructions to theii representatives on the constitutional points at issue. They are to insist on the sittings of the Diet being held at Pesth as of old, instead of at Buda. They are further to require that repre sentatives of all the countries belonging to the Hungarian crown be summoned to the Diet. This also is • strictly legal and just demand. Transylvania, Croatia, and the Banat belong of right to the Hungarian crown, and were arbitrarily divorced from it by the present EMPEROR for his own try:is:humus ends. A few weeks ago, , when it was of the first importance to coacilials the Hungarians at any price, Fitaxem Josara indeed promised that these countries should be re united to Hungary, but he has already virtually broken his word by encouraging, under the form of kis Imperial sanction, the assembling of a sepa rate Diet. The other main points on whioh the representatives are to insist in the Diet are—the formation of a Hungarian ministry, the absolute right of the Diet to vote men and money, and the preservation intact of the Pragmatic Sanction which formally guarantees the constitutional rights and privileges of the nation. These in structions sufficiently indicate the spirit of the country at the present moment, and the course which the Diet will inevitably pursue. These de minds, though no doubt large, are, however, neither arbitrary nor illegal. They are strictly constitutional claims, and must in the end be granted, if for no other reason, because Austria has and can have nothing save temporary and de lusive schemes to offer in place of them. The partisans of the Austrian Government pre , tend that the Hungarians are unreasonable in their demands, but nothing can well be further from the actual truth. The Hungarians are not only justified in insisting on the restoration of their Constitution, but they are bound to do so on the broadest grounds of policy and public duty. Austria is utterly disorganized. It has no Con stitution of any kind, imperial or otherwise, but only a cabinet of portfolios and a large standing army. In every other respect the Empire is a mere name. There are, indeed, a number of dif ferent States and nationalities, but there is no bond of union between them. There is no inter nal principle of union, no spirit of patriotism or nationality to keep the heterogeneous mass together. And there is no external machi nery in existence for uniting them. All kinds of expedients, now constitutions and the like, are indeed devised in rapid succession for this end, but they are all alike delusive and vain. Hun gary, on the other band, is an actual kingdom, a living nation. It has historical traditions, an ancient constitution, and a united people ani mated by feelings of devoted patriotism—an en thusiastic spirit of nationality. It is irrational to ask or expect that a real kingdom like this should sacrifice itself to a mere geographical expression, the phantom of a nominal empire, such as the Austria of to-day really is. ebt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, 11Aim 20. The Earl of St. Germans, Lord Steward, and viscount Bury, Trimmer of the Hanish*ld, arrived to-day with the &Admen of 000doleace to her Majesty from both Howse of Parliament. Sir Charlee Wyke had an interview with Lonl John Reseal yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches were suet to the Governor el Canada. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing -street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. THE LAT, DUCITEAS or ICILYT. —An address of onsdoleacer to the Queen, on the death of her Majesty's august mother, was resolved upon yesterday at a meeting of the Manebsster City Council. Their Royal Rieman's§ the Duchoea of Cam bridge aad the Princess Mary have left their residence in the Ambassador' Court, At. James's Palace, for Cambridge Cottage, where their royal highness* purpose to rmide in comparative retirement for six weeks, in consequence of the death of the Duchess of Kent. His Excellency the Marquis d'Aseglio, the Sar dinian minister at the court of St. James's, is, it is nunoured in diplomatic circles, about to be raised to the reek of ambassador. We are informed the persom net of the legation will be largely increased. His Excellency is in treaty fur a commodious mansion in Groevenorsquare, as the future residence of the embassy. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have arrived at their residence, in Lover-atreet, from Bracket Hall, Herta, for the 111611011. The Earl and Countess Howe have arrived at Carom Hon% from Gopeall Hall, for a few Jaya. Lord and Lady Herbert's intended entertainment to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has been poet posed owing the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess d Lat. Bir Richard Levinge, Batt , M. P., has left Stevens' Hotel for his seat, Knockdrin Castle, comity Westmeath. At the Royal United Service Institution, on Monday evening, Captain E. P. Halsted, R.N., read the 'scold portion of his paper "On Iron-clad Ships," to • crowded audience. The main object of this part of his paper was to show the advantage of employing iron in the construction of ships of war instead of wood, and that in ships plated with iron to resist the penetration of shot, it is better to apply the armour to iron ships than to wooden 001116. The Rev. H. C. Minchin, M.A., has been in stituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the vicarage of St. Mary de Lode, with the perpetual curacy of May Trinity annexed, in the city of Gloucester, vacant by the resignatioo of the Rev. W. L. Coghlan. Fatima, the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. Mr. Thomas Duncombe to-morrow will ask the filscrisbary of State for the Home Department bow Sir Masa Mayne became possessed of, and who translated far bin, " the Koasuth Note," manufactured by the Messrs. Day, upon which he gave Sir Richard Mayne instructions ; sad, whether the said note was the same that WWI after wards exhibited by Count Appooyi in the Court of Chan eei7. The Standard Theatre, Shoreditch, has been mined fee s Reform meeting on Tneeday next. Simnel Morley, Fag., will mei& Tun Exuternosr or 1862.—The Committee of Advice requeeted by the Commiwionere for the Exhibition • the commie.' ' of 11162, Ii amid .....ownwerouers with their ennead as to the fire nels derparigeent of the exhibition, held their ad. learned secedes at the Society of Arts esloriliay. Lord Stanhope, on the motion of Lord Lrioway was called to the chair. After considerable dienedis, in which Mr. Hurlstone, Sir Charles Eastlake, Mr. Redeems. Lord Echo, Dr. Coleridge, Lord Oversteps, Mr. Tao Taylor, Mr. Frederick Taylor, and Lord Tao tee leek part, the committee came to the fonerrigs seeds dew :—With regent to the foreign schools to be repro. seabed Ie the exhibition, that it should be left to each eneetry to fix the limitations under which its selections ehsnid be made, each being informed of the space allotted and of the understanding that the selection is to be Mae with a view to exhibit the present condition of the subsea. With regard to the English school, the committee mom to the decision that the collection should include the weeks of masters who have lived since 1762, so as to take in Hogarth, Hudson, Reynolds, Gaiasborough, and Wiliam. MR. GLA 1.14T0N E. —With reference to a paragraph which appeared in the Times and other newspapers, stating that a deputation hail waited on Mr. Gladstone, soliciting him to be a mediates fur the third seat proposed to be given to Mouth Lancashire, and that he had given a favounr bk reply, we can state that no deputations from South Lancashire hare seen or proposed to we the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that no question 'subsea pot or answer given between any such deputation and him, nor is be a party to asy proceedings that may have been taken in that quarter.—Gsarifion, libreli 20. Ma. ROILBUCK •ND rue CONSTETURNII4.—At meeting held in Sheffield, on Mooday night, Mr. Councillor Booth in the chair, it was rewired that a copy of the fol lowing resolution be forwarded to Mr. Roebuck, and a preampe reply requested :—" That in consideration of the wide-spread surprise and regret with which Mr. Roebuck's recent speech on Indite affairs has been received, this gnast• lag deems it an imperative duty rompecefully but yaw* to re.iuest that gentleman to par a visit to hie soseliessets, for the purpose of fully explaining the views ermscisludi la the belorednastioned speech." LATEST INTELLIGENCE RIISSLL-POLAND. On the 16th instant Prince Gortchakoff issued the following proclamation to the inhabitants of Warsaw : To put an end to the attempts of those evibminded per sons who try to get up demonstrations in the streets, no matter of what nature they may be, it is again made known by these presents that all manifestations are illegal and dangerous to public tranquillity, and that consequently all assemblages in the squares or streets with a view to mani festations or processions whatsoever which are not ordered by the ecclesiastical suthorities are strictly forbidden. Inhabitants of Warsaw, listen to my warning, and do not compel me to employ painful means to put down dir order by armed force. The police authorities are charged at the same time to communicate this present warning to all householders, so that they may inform their inmates of the same, in order that no one can pretend to be ignorant of it. Telegraphic advice@ of the 18th announce that the Commission of Safety continued its functions under the presidency of General Lewinski The commission had placed itself in communication with all the prin cipal towns of the aingdom, where, according to its instructions, the same sort of urban police had been formed as at Warsaw. In consequence of these well-advised measures the pacific movement was extending to every province. The Committee of Education was to commence its functions on the 20th inst. One of its first steps would be, it is said, to ask for the restoration of the University of Warsaw, and to maintain the principle of national education. ST. PETERSBURG, MURSDAT. The Jaime/ de St. Petersbourg of to-day says : " The reports spread by several foreign journals that some of the great powers bad proffered advice to the Russian government in reference to the dis turbances at Warsaw are totally unfounded." The Borsenzettimy announces that the prohibi tion to export or import government credit notes and treasury bills has been removed. Telegraphic despatches received from the pro vinces state that the imperial manifesto proclaim ing the emancipation of the serfs has been every where received with enthusiasm. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, THURFIDAT. The elections to the provincial diet have every where resulted in the return of liberal members. The city of Vienna has elected the following : Minister Baron Schmerling, almost unanim ously ; M. Kuranda, a Jew, and editor of the Ost- Deutsche Post ; M. Franz, a protestant ; Dr. Muhl fold, a barrister ; and Dr. Berger, the counsel who defended Richter, and, in 1848, liberal member of the German parliament. WURTEMBERG. A Stuttgard letter of the 16th says : " After five days' discussion on the question of the Concordat, the Wurtemberg Chamber of Depu ties has this day voted, by a majority of 63 to 27, the proposition of the minority of the committee, rejecting the convention concluded with the Holy See. Nearly all the eminent members of the chamber took part in the discussion, which became rather angry towards the close. Two of the catholic members voted with the majority, and three or four protestants adhered to the govern ment, all the votes being given exactly according to the religion of the members. The proposition brought before it was thus worded : " The Chamber of Deputies will be pleased to decide that it considers as non-obligatory the convention concluded on the Bth April, 18A7, with the Holy Bee for regul►ting the affairs of the Catholic church in Wurtemberg ; that, con sequently, it protests against the execution of that conven tion, and respectfully prays the government to set aside the ordinance of the 21st Dec., 1837, relative to the publication of the said convention relative to the affairs of the Catholic church, and to regulate them by ordinary legislation." PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE POPE TO VENICE. MILAN, THIMUSDAT. _. _ The Perseveranza asserts that the priests are ex ercising a pressure on the Pepe with the object of inducing him to proceed to Venice. Bellegarde is now in Vienna conducting negotiations to that effect. It would appear, however, that Austria fears the responsibility which such a step might in volve. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ITALIAN MINISTRY. TURIN. WZDZITSDAY. _ . It is asserted that the Minister will to-day com municate to the Chambers the intention of govern ment to modify the powers of the Councils of Lieutenancy at Naples and Palermo. A conse quence of this resolution would be the modification of the ministry, into which several members from Southern Italy would enter. TURIN, WIDKISDAT EVINING. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Count Cavour announced that the whole Ministry had tendered its resignation, and stated that he had advised the King to form a Ministry according to the new elements of the kingdom. It was, he said, the intention of government to deprive the Councillors of Lieutenancy at Naples of their poli tical character, and to reform the organisation of the Council by placing it under the central government, which would be responsible for all its acts. In consequence of the resignation of the Ministry the interpellation of Signor Massari, announced for to-day, was not discussed, and some other questions, of which notice bad been given, were postponed. The Chamber of Deputies stands adjourned until a new Ministry has been formed. In the Senate, the Minister Multi presented a project of law granting a life annuity of 10,0001. to General Oialdiui, as an acknowledgment of the services he has rendered to the country. TURIN, Wzinneume, 11.30 e it. Count Cavour has been entrusted by the King with the formation of the new cabinet THE SURRENDER OF CIVITELLA DEL TRONTO. (orviLlat..) ASCOLI, MARCH 20. After a well-sustained fire, which lasted four days, Civitella del Trouto has surrendered to Ge neral Mezzacopo. FRANCE. PARTS. WrDNLADAY. The debate on the address was continued to-day in the Corps Legielatif. M. Allard, the government commissioner, op posed the amendment of M. Jules Fevre, relative to the administration of Algeria. The amendment was rejected, and paragraph 17 was agreed to. The paragraph relating to the annexation of Savoy and Nice was then discussed. Count Deboigne explained the motives which de cide] the annexation, one of which, he said, was the anti-catholic policy of Piedmont. M. Lubonia said he shared the feelings of satis factioa expressed by Connt Deboigne on account of the annexation, but he vindicated the policy of 21, 1861. Piedmont, which was so unjustly attacked, and con tested the reproach of irreligion. He supported the policy of Piedmont in Italy, which responded to the national sentiment, and would lead to the establishment of the Italian nationality either by confederation or by unification. Never (he said) has Piedmont acted ungratefully towards France. Italy and Piedmont will never forget the generous deeds of France. The two nations will always be sisters. Paragraphs 18 and 19 were agreed to. On the paragraph relating to Syria, M. Gullaumin proposed an amendment, the sense of which, although agreeing with the address, was more distinctly expressed. M. Nogent Laurent lamented the feeling of dis trust which prevailed against England. He ad mitted that the French troops had not left Syria at the date first fixed, but it was only because tran quillity was not re-established. England was wrong in supposing that the object of the occupa tion was to deprive her of the route to India. The French, he said, occupied Syria simply from motives of humanity. M. Baroche said that the whole world was in favour of the maintenance of the patronage of France over the Christians in the East. He con sidered the address satisfactory. France, he said, intends completely to fulfil her mission. He ex premed a hope that the international commission would soon accomplish its mission, and said there was no reason for attacking any other nation on account of this question. Paragraphs 20, 21, and 22 were then adopted. M. Inuit declared that the government would energetically carry on the expedition in Cochin China. Paragraphs 23 and 24 were agreed to, after the rejection of two amendments of MM. Jouvenel and Lelut, in favour of the King of Naples. The Chamber then adjourned. SPAIN. MADRID, THURSDAY, The Correspondencia Autografa asserts that the difference between Senor Calderon Collantes, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. Adolphe Bar rot, the French Ambassador, has been arranged in a satisfactory manner. Advises from Lisbon state that the opposition had resolved upon continuing their attempts to over throw the ministry. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EMING. The discussion on the Algerian question is going on to-day, General Allard replying from the govern ment bench to Jules Favre's speech. In the Russian chapel in the Rue de Berry a thanksgiving service for the recent imperial mea sures relative to the serfs was celebrated the day before yesterday. It was attended by numerous Russians residing in Paris. The weather yesterday in Paris was exceedingly boisterous, violent gusts of wind prevailing during the whole day, accompanied by hail, sleet, and rain. Tiles and chimney-pots were flying about in all directions. "The Pope," says the Patrie, " at the Consis tory held on the 18th at Rome, is said to have ad mitted the newly appointed French bishops." The Bourse was in an " expectative" attitude, waiting to know whether the Bank of England will lower its discount. The Rents closed at yesterday's prices. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. Railways were just a shade lower. ITALY. (rsox ouR ova NAPLES, Rases 14. Victor Emmanuel's birthday ! and it has been preceded by the surrender of the citadel of Messina, intelligence of which I sent to you by telegraph yesterday. The details I am not in ion of yet. It was decided iu council on Tuesday night that no directions should be issued with regard to festivities, everything being left to the good-will of the people; at the same time it was resolved not to throw any impediment in the way of the great public rejoicings in the course of preparation for the saint or name day of Garibaldi ou the 19th. This month and the next are pregnant I think with great events. Great military movements are being prepared. Thus the four divisions now under the walls of Gaeta are ordered to be in readiness to march to Bologna ; the third, which is in Parma, under General Durand, will come to Naples • and the sth, amounting to 8,500 men, will pr o ceed from here early in April to occupy F rosinone. There is an understanding, as it appears to ine, between the Comitati .in the Papal States and the authorities here, and we are at the begin ning of the end. Frosinone, an you know, is not in the Patrimony of St. Peter's ; but once there, the Piedmontese will not stop, and great events are looming in the distance. You will have already learnt from other sources that • conflict has taken place iu the above-mentioned province between the French and Papal forces. The 71st Regiment of the line was ordered by General Guyon to start for Rome, to disarm 700 Zourves, who were iu Anagni, but the latter resisted, and, according to our latest official reports, which do not bring the final result, one French officer bad fallen and 43 French soldiers had been wounded. Such untoward facts will occasion great irritation amongst the French. Forty or more French legiti mists have arrived in Rome, as it is re ported officially, and active preparations were being niado fur the invasion of this country, but the counter-movement of which I apprise you will in all probability concentrate the inquietudes and efforts of the Papal government on the Papal States. The Roman government, which is much in want of money, has been trying to make some, and at the same time to conciliate the good-will of a great power, by sacrificing solemn promises, and alienating property which should have been con sidered as essentially Italian. A contract has been formed and signed between it and the minister of Ruasia, ou behalf of the Emperor, for the sale of all the gems of art, once belonging to the famous museum of the Marchese Campion'. 50,000 scudi is the paltry sum agreed upon, and I hear that the greatest irritation has been created by this fact among the Romans, who may possibly prevent the alienation of Ouse precious u jb mtg. At the time that the museum was made over to the Papal government in payment of obligations iucurred by the Marchese, it was agreed by word that the museum should not be sent out of the country. So bent, too, was Cam pane in maintaining his valuable collection entire that he refused to give up a part of it to the British government, who offered him 30,0001. ; or to the French government, who offered three minium of franca. The Marchese has sent • pro test to the Papal government and to the Russian minister against such an act, but of course it ham been ineffectual. Antonelli and Visconti are said to have been the principal agents in suggesting this sale. I introduce theme facts here in the hopes of creating a public feeling on the subject, for the artistic and scientific world is much interested in securing the entirety of a collection which may be regarded as a monumental history of Italy. The ecclesiastics are working hard here to create i ti m m lis e poae of the th; 3o m ur i troubles, and one of their most recent efforts m hal ent b . " l n n t k' he mi litary the tr om ps vweerem always confessed and whitewashed shortly before Easter, and I believe that it is the general custom of the Roman catholic world so to do. The Italian government has, however, wisely left the army to do as it chooses, for the ostensible reason that many of the sellers are protestant*, but really, I believe, to withdraw them from the sinis ter influence of the clergy. The reverend confess sore, however, by virtue of the 20th article of a do. current I sent you a shorttiiiie since, are compelled to refuse, and do refuse, absolution to all who took any part in the campaign of Umbria and the Marches, and to all who may hereafter enter into the Papal States, insinuating the duty of abandoning their superiors in the event of such an enterprise being undertaken. The result of such proceedi ngs in a purely Neapolitan army might be productive of the worst consequences, but the Italians of the north are too enlightened to be much affected. In Southern Italy much trouble is occasioned by the refusal of the priests to absolve those who voted in the affirmative for the "plebiscite," and complaints are made daily to the Councillor of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Wives are stirred up against husbands, and the most odious features of the confessional are now brought out fully to view. One of the events of the day which is much talked of is the resignation of the once popular minister Liborio Romano, with which you have already been made acquainted by telegraph. My opinion is that it has been desired and has been urged on by the central government, and that it had become necessary. I give you Romano's state ment of the case in the following letters to the Cay. Nigro and the Prince de Carignano. To His Royal Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy. Royal Highness,—On the arrival of your highness 'mooed us you perceived the great difficulties which embarrassed the administration of them provinces, and with great wis. don you proclaimed the necessity of concord amongst honest citizens, in order that the government might avail itself of all able and honourable men, and proceed strictly and arduously in this new direction. Animated by the feeling of conciliation, I was induced to take part in the new council, hoping thereby to be able to organise vigorously the civic guard, first prop of civil liberty ; hasten actively public works, by which food and labour would be provided for the people, alrmdy oppressed by the dearness of provisions, and elevate the different branches of public administration. But unfortunately these hopes were frustrated, as much by positive and powerful misunderstanding, which arrest amongst the members of the council respecting tLe appeal to government, or through absolute want of the pecuniary means promised by high authority, as by obstacles thrown in the way of those who were to procure them. This is the reason why discontent prevails in public opinion, and that government no longer enjoys the suffrage of that majority proclaimed by the memorable " plebiscito." In this unpleasant state of things I consider it my first duty to submit to your royal highness that, in order to render government strong and compact, and universally acceptable, it is necessary 1. To reform, promptly and radically, the council of lieutenancy. 2. To take the most energetic measures to protect order and public security . by means of the cooperation of the troops and of the civic guard. 3. To organise and arm the latter. 4. To provide in the same way for the nationalloan of the fifteen millions, and demand further supplies for public works. improve the different branches of public adminis tration by calling to the service of the country all the honest citizens, to whatever party they may belong. Submitting all these considerations to your royal high. ness, and being besides called upon by my peremptory duty to proceed to the national parliament, I pray you will accepli my resignation. L Roneno. Naples, March 12. _ . What new arrangements will be adopted I can not precisely tell. Some say that Mancini will be entrusted with the portfolio of the Interior, but I think that the abolition of the lieutenancy is immi nent. AMERICA. QUEV.IffrOWN, WIMNISDAT EVINING. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Edinburgh, Captain Brooks, from New York on the 9th inst., has arrived. She brings the United States mails, and 33 cabin and 95 steerage passengers. She landed the mail for Ireland. The Arms Bill had passed the Southern Con gress. 50,000 men would soon be ready to take the field. In political and commercial circles at New Orleans the general opinion was that President Lin coln's inaugural speech meant war. In the Virginia Convention an ordinance solving the political connexion of Virginia with the other States of the Union had been referred. In the Missouri State Convention the report of the committee on federal relations was to be pre sented on the 9th Mgt. It would declare empha tically for union, and recommend the adoption of the Crittenden resolutions. North Carolina had voted against the holding of a state convention by a majority of 1,000. It was stated that certain officers of the Federal Army at Washington had been offered lucrative situations by the Confederate States. It was reported from Washington that the rein forcemeat of Fort Sumter had been decided upon, General Scott having declared his opinion that re. inforoements could be easily thrown in, and with little loss of life. All the United States ships now in the Pacific and Mediterranean had been ordered home to northern ports. All the troops now in Mexico and Texas had also been recalled. The Southern Commissioners would not be re• cognised at Waahington. It was stated that on their return to Nont! mery, President Davis would demand the surrender of Fort Sumter. The commercial intelligence by the Edinburgh boa been anticipated. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENLY°. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Cana. dian, Captain Graham, from Portland, Maine, on i the oth nst., has arrived here. The following is the Cabinet of the Southern Confederacy as at present constituted :--Secretary of State, Robert Toombs, of Georgia ; Secretary of the Treasury, C. L. Memminger, of South Caro lina ; Secretary of War, Leroy P. Walker, of Ala• hauls ; Secretary of the Navy, Stephen M. Mallory, of Florida ; Postmaster-General, John H. Reaga n, of Texas ; Attorney-General, Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana. The first formal meeting of the new cabinet of President Lincoln was held on the 7th inst. It lasted two hours, but it was not known that any thing had transpired. The diplomatic corps made their first formal visit to President Lincoln on the 7th , in accordance with custom. Mr. Lincoln was addressed ou behalf of the body by the representative of Portugal, and re plied in a brief speech of welcome. It was Raid that Major Anderson, now in com mand of Fort Sumter, would be nominated to the generalship of the army lately made vacant by the removal of General Twiggs. All the three commissioners from the Southern Confederacy, appointed to negotiate with the United States government for the transfer of the public property, had arrived in Washington. They had not yet officially announced their presence or object to the government, but were expected to do so soon. It was supposed that President Lincoln would refuse to hold any intercourse with them. In the Senate, on the 6th, Mr. Clingman gave expression to his condemnation of the tone of the President's message, and interpreted it as meaning war. Mr. Douglas, in replying, regarded it as cal culated to cont . peaceful relations, and as pro wising reconciliation between the sections. The State of Tessa was out of the Union. From New Orleans it was stated that the people had ratified the ordinance of secession by a majority of from 40 to 50,000. General Houston had resigned the governorship. Ex-Secretary Floyd had arrived in Washington, for the purpose of appearing before the Criminal Court to answer an indictment found against him by the grand jury in couuexion with the stolen Indian trust bonds. The pony express, with three days' later news from California, had arrived. The news was not very important. Business was slightly improving. The steamer Northern Light had arrived from Aspinwall. She brought later news from the South PaciSc and Central America. A difficulty was anticipated between Peru and Ecuador. LIVERPOOL, Wromm Ar, The Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia, Company's steamer K angaroo , w hi c h sa il e d to-day for New York, took only MOO& in specie. miu pier the Mex ture hers wen it WI her who ensu ried but 114.0 und4 pftt wre whit Cum eigL forte 'bee Whi doul the offie• entr tem Job eons in t atani may the findi Cow ante &at was Opp men date waiv the I offs A. waa up f may at 4: steal Port ala; a s e are fax liod Kw eau Pia aft