The Express. — London, England, 1860-03-16 00:00:00

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Lynn& . 2 Tonnol2 Lae —TES MITIMMAN —Aad INIVILW T 11 ANIMISM Mama Quoins! sad irATICIII AT I,4OITDON Tons DAT Alaning Ilk . Aflieseek AL I. Tu-swasow—liragitai, 7r. fla .... Awns" Mk as. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH it Ties House of Lords have at length had an op portunity of displaying the superior wisdom to which they lay claim in affairs of high policy, by discussing in all its varied aspects the Commercial Treaty with France. The public, however, will hardly consider that in this instance their Lordships have shewu that they poems either deeper saga city or keener wit than their less pretentious fellow-legislators of the Commons. With few exceptions the arguments on both sides used last night in the Upper House were the seen that we have had so often reiterated during the last six weeks in the Lower, and for the most part with their point worn off. On the government side this was in some degree inevitable. An Adminis tration, when it has to carry &great measure through two Houses of Parliament which sit separately but nnitiguoualy, and distinctly yet practically in pre sence of one another, cannot venture to vary much the reasoning or the language it makes use of. Whe ther it be good or whether it be bad it is safer to stick to one story than to try the efficacy of different tales. This is so in any case, but especially so in the present, where the tone having been once set by the great musician of international concord, it would have been worse than folly to strike any note in another key for mere sake of novelty, as far ea his colleagues or supporters were coucerned. Considering the persusaive power Kr. Gl.arsrtuea's arguments have been found to poems in one Assembly, it warn not to be expiated that Lord Woi.rmoras and the Duke of ARGYLL would ven ture to depart from them materially when ad dressing the other. Yet, considering on the other hand the dismal and iliseistrons faihsre of the line of reasoning urged by the Opposition in the Com ment it aught have been anticipated that Lord Ilair would be able to do something better than Kr. Honsinaw, and that Lord DERBY would have endeavoured to obliterate the recollection of Mr. Dniamixes recent failures. Our readers, how ever, will find little beyond a compilation of the arguments with which they have been familiarised of late on the general policy of the Treaty and the Budget. It was quite right that the subject should be once more debated, and that before anal dismissal to the shelf of contemporary history it should undergo the scrutiny of a body of critics so far removed from ordinary commercial iIIHUCILOS as the ifouso of Lords; and it is emi nently satisfactory to tied that it has passed through that ordeal without the detection of any Saw or defect that might have escaped the notice of a more excitable body of jurors. The Address in the Peers was appropriately moved by Lord Termites, who for so many years had filled the afire a President of the Board of Trade, and by whom the repeal of the Navigation Laws was carried ten years ago. The maiden speech in the Upper House of a veteran debater, recently SUlslartuned from the Lower, has a peculiar interest for those who care for the personal characteristics of Parliament. To our thinking Lonl Tat PITON has improved upon Mr. Lasso .'area : no one certainly could have performed the task assigned to hint with more judgment, good taste, and efficiency than the newly-created baron. The seconder of the Ad dress, Lord Coss, could hardly be expected to' command the same degree of attention ; but there are evidences of promise about the noble earl'. speech, and proofs that he is not wanting in the intellectual qualities to which he has hereditary claims. The ablest, if not the pleasantest speech of the night was that of Earl Gasv. Its design &reins to have been that of a comprehensive suns- ' :nary of objections to con 1111111111 l treaties and popular budgets in general, and to Mr. CUSDIJIriII Treaty and Mr. Guinevoet's Budget of the pre sent year us particular. And it cannot be denied that Lord I:siry contrived to repeat in the enures of an hour and a half nearly all the disagreeable thimp that we have heard a.. often said already on the eubject. But tln-re was neither the spice of Sir Htou CAlttn«, nor the spite of Mr. Homaxe. He lordship's speech reads lumberingly. It 'es like a heavy - laden train up an incline, the engine working at low premium, plenty of smoke, less man than usual, and not the least danger of getting off the rails. Lord Hese moved no amendment, but was simply Conant to be Nee-contrait. Re did not choose that the House of Lords should sham the moral responsibility of Ministers ; but he was still snore I unwillusg to take epee himself the individual responsibility of alienating a counter-scheme of THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E ' Ipolicy in the shape of a distinct resolution. He likes to differ from his old friends, and loves to make them feel his power of armorial, ; but he does not want to turn them out of like or to throw the councils of the country into confusion. The most telling portion of his address was that in which he adverted to the intelligence just received from Turin regarding the annexation of Savoy. Acquitting Ministers fully of having been bribed by the Commercial Treaty into secret acquiescence, at variance with their public protests against the extension of French territory to the summit of the Alps and the shore of the Lake of Geneva, he vehemently upbraided them with having signed the Treaty while the Annex ation was impending. They ought rather to have demanded guarantees against the execution of the project, which they had reason to believe was in contemplation, before concluding this en gagement of amity with France. But, supposing the guarantee refused, what would Lord Gan , have had Ministers dot Go to war for Savoy No one disclaims the notion more loudly than he. What then I Throw the Treaty into the fire, with all the peaceful advantages it promises, and all the salutary embarrassments in the way of a warlike policy on the part of France which it is calculated to create T Where would have been the consis tency or honesty of such a course? A Ministry entertaining the opinions of Lords Gast, OTT/L -IMNS, and MONTT...AO= would never have nego tiated such a Treaty at all ; but to ask men who thought, as the country thinks, that it was wise and just and good to negotiate such an industrial alliance to rend it maunder, because NAPOLZOIf 111. would not be dissuaded by them from exacting a paltry and discreditable price for his services to Italy, is to propose to honourable and responsible statesmen, what no statesmen with a due sense of honour or responsibility could think of for a moment. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. 4831TRAL ITALY. The Official &set& of Tu . rin of the 13th pukliees addresses to the King, all numerously signed, from the clergy of the Valumina, Cremona, and Pia cenza, expressive of their conviction that the ques tion of the Romagna is quite distinct from the in terests of religion ; they conclude with professions of devoted loyalty to the throne of Sardinia. A communication from Modena of the 12th, in the Nonl, says : General Cialdini arrived here yesterday from Lombardy. After tweetpuine years' exile, the general has revisited hie native soil to thank his fellow citinens for the raadidateahip which they have offered to him. On his snivel being an noticed, the people and a great number of the officers of the National Gaud went to the railway station to reoeive him, end all the windows of the Bee Victor Emmanuel, through which the posed would pass, were speedily decked out with the national Sags. His reception was quite en ovation. Count Cavour, on the 12th, received a deputation of Roman exiles, who requested him to present an address to the King of Sardinia, in which they call his Majesty's attention to the wretched state of their fellow-countrymen, and express their deep regret that Rome, Umbria, and the Marches cannot also vote their annexation to Sardinia. "But if," the address concludes, "in the midst of the terrors with which tyranny surrounds them, those populations be informed that your Majesty has kindly received the words we have addressed to you in their behalf, they will still continue to bear, with manly firm ness, the cruelty of the oppressors, until the long wished-for hour shall draw near when they may ,break their chains and rally round your standard, in order to give additional sinews to the army com manded by your Majesty for the independence and liberty of the Italian nation." A letter from Turin, in the Opinion Nationale, contains the following : Neapolitan emigrants are beginning to arrive in the rest of Italy, in numbers nearly as great as thOSO from Venetia. Several urine at Genoa every day, and neatly all are per sona distinguished for their superior talents and amid posi tion. With respect to the question of annexation for Cen tml Italy, a person of whose veracity I have no doubt amazes us that it is the intention of a great majority of the Romagna' to turn Protestants rather than fall again under the goverument of the Pope in may form whatever. TURIN, TrunDAY. The returns of the voting in the titmilian pro vinces are complete. The numbers in favour of an nexation to Piedmont are as follow : The Itomagna, 202,669 Modena . ...... ......... 116,621 Parma 88,511 The number of votes fora separate kingdom has not yet been announced. FLORENCE, FIUDAT. The total result 'of the votini in Tuscany is follows : Total number inscribed on the lista, 386i44b. For annexation . 306,571 Separate kingdom 14,925 Cancelled 4,949 DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. TREATY WITH TRANCE. Moroi - To agree with the Commons is the Address to her Majesty ma the subject of the Treaty al Clomanareo with Treace, arid to All ati the hiank is that Address with the words (" Lords 'pintail end temporal. and") (the Lord Tatttou) : ohjected to (the Esri Grey) : qUeetloll. " Whether to agree with dm Commons in the said Adam., lc. r —C'oateehh 66 ; eoe-coutente, 38. covrisTs. loan. &Ulla WM. UAW. Campbell. Mt. Germans Churchill Menemfle WSW. Itharieebeiry Ciandetele Weir,. Newasetk. Sommers Cranernrth Poneonhy Ilsnorsoo. hymen Dartrey Mere and Mel. swoon* visromin. Do Manley ilossidolt Absalom Eversicy it a lla k.o ble Manley of Al /kfakd Dry &tin Culloden =seta& !bury Neuron, of Term Wed. INSIO.S. May Uter i a Court Mau. Carllele Oluste ld Kra/NW Allard= Cheater Suusdoia deekley , ailinoss Hereford LIMO itindrldus Clonrodin Loudon. MO A.a"Losuo. Limurie Talbot 6e I *a = Lemons oe hide TaiM Dude ABM Laiudesbereusli Titre =si ikli' Clump . /.7viukei Women Wedshouse W Naas Motu= Methuen WyrZV l' leses NOW.OO/171WTD. Drill [MIL, mamma WILDS. Marlliorotigh Duly Iltradtedd de Doman Rat Doll Grey iedeilge. Illlgby laillklikaill. Hartiwirke LOILLW Osseibeton bath Malenesbury /Maser Oventase b a th Portarilagtoo Inersers er:rle flalialady. leanney Ilostoti /111/4/. Plarewabory. Owls/Word Dalkon Mahn* ViaPANT& Chunks alrellield Camargue Doogadecia Coldiestor flooded Masud Exmouth Colville a Cal. Thurlow De la Warr 11..1 ews Wynford. PAINA. Tor Alislnd Manchester. Duke e r tl w rf en r : % P ramual Drayhronke, lard cawdor. Lad Lytalloirst. Lord koarker,, Uri Warwick, Earl Petra Lord teuuthafaidok Lord Mathertau, Lord Walatarrimm, Lord l'anicrbur), an hhishop Fenton., Earl laaadowue, Marquis Templeuides, lord ne Court. OSI3ORNE. Dimwit IL Prince and Prinoeas Leiningen left Osborne ye . The Yarehirroraa .4 Ely and the Hon. Bondi& ett.inford have wised as Lady Gad Maid of HY/W/Al is Wonting to the Qom. A deputstion omelet* of Viscount Middleton, Sir Theme Aid. Mir Thelma Mazto., lb. nee. M.P.. Mr. S. Gunny, M.P.. Mr. Abel Suitlt. .11. M Calthoepe, Mr. Hoary Sykes Tlientea, Mr. J. Gamey Wawa Mr. T. Powell Beiten, Ilyilain the Mow P. Ilawle, Wiel•Abeleal it H. Hops, Mr. Drama Chnney lb. A. Mina, M.P., Mr. H. IL Mc Andrew Johnston. the lisewnaries et the Claw& Mesisey, and the Socretaries of the Waileven . lad as ill benign with Vbeausd Pabesseton Hr. G. *l .y ILP. , Ind an es the bard d Tiede with the light Wm W. grit " the sub ject et light dues. Hr. J. C. Ireart, H.P.. Hr. O. Italy, Mr. basey, Mr. E. Harvey, and Mr. Diteatid, beretary. • ispelistion hem the Ref.wa Amaidiva, Liverpoul, tnhomailid timiams *A We tioneellies yodesity. His Excellency the Austrian Miniater and the Ceantass Appoayi eatartaimal a Wed cycle at dimwit. Wt enesing at (Nudge Howe. The Maniuim of Sligo has arrived in town from Inland. His 1.44.14 hes tad% twidellos h Bt. Own for the sommoit. The Marchioness of pownabire had an assembly IRA even* at her nmasittst in Belarsreequare. The Earl of Linoula and the lion. Spencer Lyttletuo hero Monied to Loudon altar a abort visa. to Zoom. Lord and Lady Foley have arrived in Grosvenor ' square, treat visiting °social the Hon. Thomas cud Mn. Adilinnirin hi the Isle 9( Wight. I Lord and Lady Worsley are expected in town in • ter de^ from Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire. His lord ship lam taken • readrase is Portman-square for the season. Lady Moleawortk received at dinner, on Weallell day evening, hie Excelleney the French Ambriador and the Counter de Persiguy, the Duke at Homemade awl Lady Buren Yelhra, Choke, the Itaremis cot Lowdown*, the Earl sad Counter .4 Shetrebery, Virieutat sad Viscometer Paluierston, Mr. Hareenrt, M.P. sad Prater t'onntess Wallegrare, Loot sad Ls* Strawy et Alderley, the Might Hon. W. E. Waimea% M.P., sad Kra (Madame, the Anthony art lady de Mothseltild„ Lord H. Limos, M.P., Count Janouert, Mr. Berri Oelicars, M.P., sod Mr. Chichester Yuriosen, ILP. General the Hon. Thomas and Mr.. Aahburnham ars about to proceed ea a coatiuental tour. Lad Fitzwi'ham gave a grand dinner at his lord- WO residence in Grosvenie.rquare the Bth inst., to more than 10E14 the officers d the Ifiiiiishire West Riding Vetenteirr Corps. The dinner via of the most rtrAereld kind. The earl responded to the treat of Ina health being drunk in • kindly and liberal spirit that caused great enthusiasm. A bell WAS given at Dublin Castle on Wed nesday evening. invitalions for which were ironed to the principal wieldy end pair, now is town. Hi Excellency the Luni.Lieutenent wen prevented being prenint, in eon sequelsee of the death of th e Constees 4; nuoille. The Rev. M. W. Itayow,vieer ofloi;Tket Laving too, hes accepted the iectualtemy et &tat Mary's, Weet Br. ',tiptoe. Tag Lows' Cows male OR Cnoaca RAT - Tisk soceziag the preosedinsp .4 this ournisittee sad the minutes .4 'widower were printed. The repurt has idreedy hien pwhiished. The Witewesse Warned this ssesiew were the Rev. W. Chaseparys, Mr. C. Erwin (churchwarden .4 Rotlieriiithe), G. rode, thr E L Parrott, Hart, T.o4miu Smith, Esq.. end T. B. Bustin& Esq. The siniority is the committee wripswed 4, rennnineedieg say Ineasers—virtuelly the anti-elsurch nine minority -euweleed .4 Lord ittanley d Alderley, Lord Illonnogle, wad Lord Lysedes. Ma. COWIN. —We understand that Mr. Cobden le expected to arrive ia Perim, hem Casale, ea Tuesday meat, to meet 11. Chevalier aad the principal free-truism et Fumes - ;Oka er FRANCK. The Moniker of to-day contains • decree nomi nating M. Michel Chevalier senator. The Monikur also contains a report of the Minis ter of War, Marshal Randon, proposing, as the ideas of war are receding, to reduce the effective of the battalions of Chaireurs from eight to six compa nies, the force which existed before 1853. The report is followed by s decree of the Eruperor apprvviug the ministerial proposal SAVOY. The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition), writing yesterday evening, says : " At the moment I write Savoy and Nies are pro bably annexed to France, by munic►pal manifesta tion rather than by universal suffrage. In certain cases of annexation a manifestation is speedier and more certain than popular suffrage ; and should annexation be contemplated in any other direction, Savoy might serve as a precedent. But, what will hardly fail to produce much sensation in Europe, is the fact that the whole of Savoy is taken by France, and nothing left to Switzerland of what she has a right to. This, I must say, is contrary to the de claration of the French government that the inte rests of Switzerland should be cared for ; those in terests meaning the annexation of the 'neutralised provinces to Switzerland on the annexation of Savoy to France. These promises are, it appears, dung to the winds ; and Switzerland will be left as exposed as she can well be, and easy snow, through her, elsewhere. This will be beard with consternation in Switzerland ; and it may not be regarded with absolute indifference throughout Europe. The Swiss government protest against this wrong. They have protested at Turin ; and I hear that M. Kern, Minister of the Helvetic Confederation in Paris, has already handed to M. Thouvenel, French Minister of Foraign Affairs, a protest against any measure haviag for object the annexation of Savoy to France. Moreover, the Swiss government will address a note to the powers represented at the Congress of Vienna, inviting them to maintain the status gnu in Savoy, and the guarantees of neu trality accorded to Switserbuid in a part of Savoy." DRESDEN, Tin /WAY. The official Dresden Journal publishes a powerful article on the annexation of Savoy, in which it says : " The whole blame is to be attributed to the policy of England, which shook the basis of peace agreud upon at Villafranca, and to the moire atti tude of the other Powen on the 'mi.-realisation of the treaty of Zurich. To offer any opposition at the present moment would be too late, as the an nexation of Savoy to France may be regarded aa an accomplished fact " THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. LI VIRPOOL, FaIDAT. - - - The Canadian steamer Anglo-liaxen reached Liverpool this morning. Her news is generally miticipstest, via tjusenstown. !She did ad leave Portland until the night of the 4th instant. ro•muluiDAy. The Liverpool, New York, &ad Philadelphia Company's Deemer Vigo. Captain Jetlard, from New York tie the 3ril inst., has arrived. Her mom has been in a peat meow* anticipated. Two euilliooe of dollar of the new Six per Cent. Tweaury hills were Weed oa the 2nd drat, and sold immediately. Advicae had teen received from Jamaica to the 10th Feb. The weather was highly favourable to sugar making, and the crops were expected to be materially over hat year's. The Wanda were healthier. Oa the 2nd the New Yet* stock wedged cloned Inn et en advance on speculative alarm Money easier. Exchange es London a Incites lower. Paris steady. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Fn. R. Grey shirting., 50 reed, Gibs., 3r. lb& to 4. per piece ; MAJapolisms, 50 reed, 31ba., per piece. Bow ll'ateeilaguei, 15r. to 1.7 r. Oa per mew. Jute : ilereaswerfe, 2r. 14.. to 3r. 4► per hale. Boger : Tint qua lity, Or. 4e. to Os. le. per moan& Iron, flat, Ur. to 31r. per mood. ealtpetre, Mr. per fy. maned. Libeled Arm, 3r. r to Sr. la. ; low to vaildlag, 9r. 12e. fs Ir. 51.. Freights to Wand : Tor eaktprtrr, 50e. ; rem Wt. to pa K ; Wise, Mk to 100 t. NIWG, MARCH 16. 1 COLOKBO, CEYLON, IPnw;jll. nein She native crop al careen very short. FM," 80a. SHANGHAI, JAN. n. Maim is pettitkromplioded, owing to the Chinenhal• &ye. Teli Una. Import. Grey shirting% to oittim, US to 1.91 nets ; 61 to tif arnica 1.96 to titan ; to 7i conies, 145 to 160 tons ; H.H. armlet long ein, 7.5 been Lawl, A 2 to 15.3 teas ; iron, 3.2 to 1.5 teak Freight. to &glad : Per tea, 30a. to 40e. ; TO'. Liirstrous fires at Nagaiaki and Jokuhama have destroyed • large amount of European property. yOO-CHOW-FOO, Jmr. 19. Tee Ito 2 taela lower. The quantity to complete seeent's yield is expected to be email, and higher rates are cowl. deadly looked for. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor ous ow' PARIS, TIMIDLY EVICMO. I have some reason to think that the French go vernment is so deeply impressed with the over whelming demonstration of Central Italy in favour of annexation to Piedmont, that a change for the better has taken place in its councils within the last few hours. Yesterday the disposition was to challenge the annexation of the Romagna'', and to press the King of Sardinia to negotiate further with the Pope. It is said in government circles to-day that this idea is abandoned, and that events in Italy will be suffered, for the moment at least, to follow their natural course. I am assured that Dr. Kern, the Swiss envoy in Paris, has presented to M. Thouvenel a formal protest against the propoeed annexation of Chablais and Faucigny to Frame. A similar protest has been made at Turin. The Bourse has been steady. The Rents closed at 68fr. fie both for cash and account, with a rise of Sc. and 10c. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. Railways were fully Iran 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher. The amount of business done was not large, but the general tone of the market is decidedly better, no appre hension being felt that either the affair of Savoy or the annexation of Central Italy to Sardinia will lead to any immediate difficulties. I am not able to give you from personal observa tion any account of the trial of the Bishop of Or leans for libel which commenced to-day.. The room in which the court sits only holds eighty per sons, and was very nearly filled by the judges, counsel, attorneys, offices of court, and the parties interested. The few tickets issued were distributed among high functionaries and some friends of the bishop. Among the privileged persons who obtained access to the court were Prince Napoleon, Marshal Magnan, M. de Royer, M. Dupin, M. Benoit Champy, M. de Montalembert, General Oudinot, M. de Broglie, jun., M. Abattucci, M. Napoleon Dam, sad M. Mint• The press is not allowed to publish any report of the proceedings. You will remember that the libel complained of by the Siocle is an allusion of the bishop's, in which, speaking i by way of contradistinction of certain individuals as men of honour, he insinuated that the writers in the Surfs were men of no honour. M. Senard opened the came for the Sidcle. He is one of the very best lawyers at the bar. You will remember that he was for a short time in 1848 president of the Constituent Assembly ; his early forensic honours were gained at Rouen, and it was not till after his election to the Assembly that he enrolled himself among the order of advocates in Paris. M. Senard was not only a political supporter but an intimate private friend of General Caraignac, who was one of the principal proprietors of the Sack, lam told that the greater part of his speech to-day consisted of a history of the Bikle from its foundation by Odillon Barrot and others to the present time. He laid himself out to prove the honesty and con sistency of the journal, and with a view of dis proving malice towards Mgr. Dupanloup read extracts from several articles in which that prelate was well spoken of. In regard to the libel charged there was very little to say. M. Simard super abundantly showed that the expressions objected to in the bishop's pamphlet were not sumoeptible of any other construction than an imputa tion upon the " honour" of the men of the Sick. M. Berryer, for the bishop, adopted • to qualms line of argument, and dwelt particularly upon certain passages from the Seek in which those holding the same opinions as the bishop (I am not sure whether the bishop per sonally was alleged to be pointed at by the articles cited) were assimilated to " Basil," a character in the comedy of Figaro, which is the standing type in France of a sanctified hypocrite. M. Berryer, while arguing for the liberties of the church, was led on to pronounce an eloquent panegyric upon liberty in general, and the applause which fol lowed some of his burning words provoked a mild reproof from the presiding judge—M. Devienne, the first president of the Imperial Court. He said that the court had " patiently " heard M. Berryer and trusted that the audience would reepeet itself. Upon this M. Berryer—who, notwithstanding the weight of seventy years and upwards, is active as • war hone—sprang upon his legs, and with au appearance of intense surprise, requested the court to say in what respect he had been so unfortunate as to deserve the reproach of trespassing upon their " patience." M. Devienne replied that he had made • digression about liberty which was perfectly irrelevant to the cause, and was understood to add that liberty had no greater friend than the Emperor. At the conclusion of M. Berryar's address, the court adjourned till to morrow. In all probability M. Plocque, who ap pears in another action against the bishop, brought by the heirs of his predecessor in the see of Orleans, Mgr. Rousseau, will speak to-morrow morning, and M. Chair d'Eat Ange, the procureur-general, will sum up his opinion on the two causes together. M. Jules Fans was not in court to-day, but the 14i;lie says that his absence is owing to his being engaged at Lyons on a special retainer, and that he has written • letter, wishing the journal success. I have heard doubts thrown upon the accuracy of M. Dupia's doctriue that bishops are not entitled to be celled " Monaigueur " by crowned beads. He asserts that Louis XIV. always addressed a bishops. " Mousigneur l'Evilque," but I am told that the Grand Monarque evaded the question by calling them Muss—pronouncing the syllable, which might stand either for Monsieur or Monsigueur, just as it is written. However this may be, Queen Elizabeth, quite as great an authority in matters of prerogative as Louis XIV., was in the habit of giving bishops their lordly title even when she was angry with them. "By God, my lord, I'll unfrock you," is a phrase of the English history of her time which I well remember. A letter frciut Rome gives some particulars as to what may he called the /ono colooptracy :—" The word hav ing hese gives to deprive the governuseut of the important moans of the lottery, the abstentious were most nume roua la the lottery-office, rear the Pantheon, not one third of the usual number of tickets were sold for the draw ing ul the nth Nob■ely amiss, sir,' mid one of tLic clerks; 'on the night before the drawing, when we usually have a crowd of cust o mers, we only had one musk.' The friars, it is notorMas, are much addicted to trying their luck is the loleerr." THE CALCUTTA MAIL. The Bengal Hurkare of the Bth ult. reports that " the last embers of the rebellion have been trey has, out." The aid of Jung Bahadoor and his o combined with the action of our troops, has discouraged the few miserable remnants Of the rebels. They are accordingly coining in in large numbers and surrendering themselves. In Sumbul pore they were dispersed by Lieutenant Valiance and Captain Bird with the Sebundee levy. The whole of Bengal and the North-west Provinces are quiet and restored to order, and there does not seem any thing like a disposition on the part of the natives to revolt again. " This calmness," says the Hurkaru, " may be deceptive, but at any rate while we hold the present strength of our European force in India, there is no likelihood of the events of 1857 and '5B being re-enacted. Another pru dential measure which will tend to prevent the re- . currence of an outbreak is the reduction of the native (army to a larger extent than has been hitherto adopted which will soon come into opera tion, and thus not only render such an element unnoxious, but effect a great relief to the pre sent exhausted state of the finances. Our friends at home may form some idea of the formidable na ture of the native army, when they are told that its total strength amounts to 149,000, inclusive of the military police, which amounts to 57,000. Now, when we come to consider that the European army bore is scarcely 57,000 in consequence of the loss of 10,000 of the ex-Company's European troops and the many European regiments that have been sent to China and returned to England, the danger of having such a large native army may be easily con ceived." The Commander-in-Chief has published a gene ral order breaking up the Saugur and Trana-Gruga Brigades. The duty of the latter has been most effectively performed, and " the operations con ducted in Bundel Kund and the Saugur and Nnrbudda territories have displayed a like energy and perseverance, and have also been followed by very successful results. The large range of coun try over which Brigadier Wheler was desired to operate has been traversed and re-traversed by the troops, until it has been determined by the Governor-General's agent that the time for mili tary action has passed, and that the final pacifi cation of the turbulent districts comprised in it is the legitimate task of the police." The Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief were expected at Loodianah on the 28th Jan., Jullunder the Ist Feb., Umriteur the 7th, and Lahore 12th. On the 19th Jan. the Viceroy held a grand durbar at Umbel', at which compli- ' meutary speeches were made to the Rajahs of Jheeud, Putialla, and a few other chiefs. His lordship granted to the two princes sunned, not only exten sive estates, but a perpetual right of adoption, and hoped that the noble Phoolkean house would endure for ever. Mr. Wilson has resumed his duties in the Legis lative Chamber. It was believed that he bed decided upon the abandonment of the octroi on cities, and the introduction of a license bill. An other measure contemplated by the financier was believed to be the issue of a state paper currency. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. DISASTROUS FIRE AT BARBADOES. The Shannon arrived at Southampton this morn ing with the West India mail Her dates are : Panama, February 27 ; Demerara, 26 ; Barbadoes, 27 ; St. Thomas, March 2. She brought seventy four passengers, amongst whom was Mr. Seymour, superintendent of Honduras. Amongst her cargo were specie, bullion, and pearls worth 461,099 dollars, the chief portion of which was silver. Her Majesty's ships Imam; Gladiator, and Racer were at Jamaica ; the Atalanta and Skipjack were at Antigua ; the Gorgon at Greytown ; the Cossack at Cartagena ; and the Valorous and Jasper at Vera Cruz. The Shannon brings news of a terrible fire at Barbadoes, which has laid the capital almost in sae., and of the murder of Captain Lambert, commander of her Majesty'. ship Vixen, at Lima. The fire bt'oke out at Bridgetown, in Barbadoea, on the 15th ult. ; it destroyed the best portion of the town, and did damage to the amount of a quarter (some believe half) of n million sterling. Not above 30,0001. worth of the property which was destroyed was insured. The following is a fist of the principal stores, lumber yawls, dm., destroyed by the fire : Mr. J. H. Shannon's prevision Mere; Mr. S. B. Arthur's ditto ; Messrs. W. Seca and Co.'s ditto ; Messrs. James A. Lynch's ditto ; Mr. Samuel Boxill's ditto; Messrs. W. D. Spencer and Co.'s ditto; Meson. M. B. Iwo and Ca's ditto; Moms. W. Kell and Co.'s ditto; Messrs. F. A. Clairmont° and Co.'s store ; Mr. J. B. Massialis lumberyard ; Messrs. E. Knight and Co.'s ditto ; Messrs. James Smith and Co.'s ditto ; Messrs. Geo. W. McClean and Co.'s ditto; Mr. William Hewitt's ditto; Means. John and George Al- Isyne's ditto ; Messrs. A. Jones and Co.'s ditto ; Messrs T. Crompton and Ca's (partially) ditto ; Menem Barrow and Dominates dry good establishment ; Messrs. D. P. Cotton and Co.'s Me and grocery witablishments; the Com missariat buildings; Mr. A. G. Drinan's printing office; Mrs. Clinckott's ditto ; Mr. B. I'. Young's two hardware stores ; Mr. Edward King's ditto ; Messrs. Griffith and Jeffrey's store ; Mr. John Gill's druggist eetablislunent; Mr. Fidler's dreg and .sta. tianery establishment; Mr. Stuart'. druggist establishment; Mr. Catford'■ hair-oMting establishment; Meson. P. KU kitty's and Co.'s stores; Mr. William florin (pertially) timber-yard; Maws. Trowbridge and Co.'. Mom; Mr. Mae Alpine's Auction Mart ; Mr. N. H. Wain:ed . .; ditto ; Mr. Morris's cabinet-maker's shop ; Menem Curtis's sail-making establishment ; Mr. B. Alleyne's pro. Maio. Mora Labour is plentiful at Barbadoes. Labourers are working regularly awl willingly. Cams looking well and ripening fast. In some districts sugar luts been made ; the yield has net been first rate, but the quality good. The following are the particulars of Captain Lambert's murder from the Lima eonviipoudent of the Panaum Star : LIMA, Fut 12. I have to record that another victim to the atruci clues neglect of this government has been added to the list of assassinated foreigners, headed as it is by H. B. M.'s late Charge d'Affaires here, Mr. Sullivan. Captain Lionel Lambert, corunander of H.S.M.'s war steamer Viaen, left in perfect health his hotel at three o'clock in the afteru non to take • bath in the river. His friends were expecting him to dinner, but he never returned; he must have leen murdered between half-past three and fire o'clock. The body had been wafted down from the spot where the deed was dale at least half a mile or more. He was not in uniform, but on his person • closed dispatch, addressed to Captain Miller, was found. His rings and watch were stolen, of eourse—the miserable booty of the murderer... The I deceased had not died without • struggle. I t , the past 'sorbet examination it was found that, be sides the fracture on the back of the head (caused, it is thought, by • stone), his forehead was fearfully cut, and both hi. wats were black from the struggle in which he het his life. The damned wax a louse officer, having distinguished himself during the Crimea& war be was young (twenty-sin years) for the responsible office which he held, but not too young to inspire the confidence sad esteem of all who knew him ; and his loss is not only deeply lamented. but will he severely felt by all Meals of the circle be bad formed in Lima. The remains ware interred yesterday in the /Littlish burial grimed of 1 Bellavists ; the funeral was attended by the members of the foreign diplomatic body, the Ake/sof the various men of•war and of the other vowels lying in the harbour, by all the English merchants in Lima and Callao, and an immense concourse of sailors and English artisans formed a long procession from the beach to the cemetery. The usual honours were observed when the body was lowered to its final resting plus. EXTENSIVE SHOPLIFTING AT READING. Mrs. Elizabeth Ledger, the wife of a musician and dancing-master at Reading, underwent a final examine bun on Wednesday before Mr. Andrewea, the late mayor, and Mr. T. Morris, a borough magistrate, on the charge of stealing a large quantity of drapery goods. The robberies perpetrated by the prisoner are without parallel in the borough for extent, and seem to show that she has bad an irresistible penchant for plundering drapers' shops. Her detection was very remarkable. It that she visited the shop of Mr. Steven • bacon factor, on Friday evening, and trade purchases to a moderate extent. Her conduct while there excited the suspicion of Mr. Steward, and, as she wore a large cloak, her bulky • nee - led hint to fancy that she had committed some dishonest act. As she was about to quit the shop he intinuted to her his suspicions, and ex. • desire to see whether she had anything c o n cea l e d pressed her huge cloak. She affected to be greatly annoyed and eurprieed at the intimation, but, us Mr. Steward was firm, and expressed his determination that she should not quit the place without Ids being satisfied as to whether she hatedyting, she yielded to au examination, which re of in the discovery, not only that she had some Mr. Steward's geode which she had not purchased, but that she had in her possession scene gown pieces, having on them the private marks of the drapers from whose shops they had been taken. She was thereupon given into the custody of a police officer, and removed to the station. Here la more minute search was made, and articles were found conclusively proving that she had not honestly obtained the goods in her possession. She was lodged iu the Bridewell for the night, sod, by direction of Mr. Superintendent Peck of the borough s polioe, officers were employed on the follow ing day in making inquiries at the different drapers' shops. The property found upon her was soon identified, and as several losses had been previously reported at the station, it was deemed advisable that search should be made 'at her lodgings, she having been separated from her hus band. Polies-sergeants Cox and Seymour acted in accord ance with instructions given to them, and on examining her bedroom found an iiumense quantity of goods, the pro ' duce of robberies for months past. The articles found comprised stair covering, memories above 20 yards, ladies boots, table cloths, cotton prints and other dresses, shawls, merino, limey woolsey, flannel, patent socks for boots, and perfumery to a considerable extent. In mother room were discovered 200 yards of cotton print, sad • great variety of other articles • there were also fa.scy stationery, and things of • similar description. The prisoner, it appeared, carried on the business of • dreasonaker and milliner ; she visited drapers' shops to buy articles in her business, and the rob beries were committed while the shopmen had left her at the counter to get the articles she required, all of which were carefully concealed under her cloak. Her respectable appearance disarmed the tnulespeople of suspicion, and although the articles were soon unmet, she was never sus pected. The discovery of her robberies has created quite a sensation in the town. She has been committed for trial ta several charges. DREADFUL MURDER AT EHRENBRZITSTRIB; The small town of Elmenbreitatein, which lies at the foot of the gigantic fortress that name, has been just frightened out of its propriety by the ssumminsion of a dreadful murder within its quiet precincts. At the Coblents Carnival on Shrove Tuesday no character wan more conspicuous than Herr Mader, a well-to-so proprietor a tavern adjoining the Post-office in Ehrenbreitstein. Disguised as • buxom matron, supposed to le celebrating her " silber•JureAtest," or 25th anniversary of her wedding. die', be sat in a huge van drawn by eight horses. Bested by the side of his °moon, he dispensed nods and smiles to the admiring crowd. A band of musicans, in mo. Moque dresses, occupied the front of the vehicle, while humpbacked cook, appropriate attire, waited on the w • fend, and replenished the spacious bowl of Rhine wine, rom which both bride and bridegroom indulged in frequent potations. do too evening, at the bat masque at the theatre, he was again the observe** of all observers, his jovial countenance darkened by no shadow id the fate im. pending over him. On the Thursday night following haven brutally murdered while asleep in his bed, with his wife and child, the occupants of another bed in the same apartmeat. His head was hterelly ionashol to piece. with the repeated Mows of an axe found lying at the foot of the led. About 3 o'clock, some hour* after the cononisaion of the deed, a ser vant who slept in a room above, was attracted by the cries of hismiatreas, who was found tied hand and foot behind the door of the room. She declared that about 11 o'clock two men suddenly entered the apartment, and at once proceeded to their bloody beanie , nue striking her sleeping husband a succession of blows, the find of which lutist have been instantly fatal, his c pinion at the same time threatening her with a similar fate if she made the slightest noise or resistance. She was then gagged and bound The men then proceeded to rob a weretaire 1.11 the adjoining apartment of nearly 200 theists, and then &tamped. It is importable to describe the senoction °cordoned by this shucking tragedy in Contents and arenbreitsteiu. The funeral of the murdered man, who was highly esteemed, was at tended by an immense multitude, and gossip was rile m to who hail perpetnited the shot At length, after UM country had been urea for many miles, suspicion fell upcn those nearer loose. At a respectable school in Coblenta wes a teacher nailed Keller, a welleslinated man, of pre. possessing manners nail person, but of looe morals. It was whispered lie carved on a licentious intercourse with the wife of Moder, a young and attractive worsen. On the day preceding the murder, lest after the termination of the Car nival, he hired a bean' mil blouse. The former he returned on the following day, but the blouse use not been forthcom ing, and the aceount he gives of it is highly an matidactory ; but suspicion is not confined to him. His paramour, the wife of the niunlerol man, is deeply implicated. By entries in Keller's memonindum-book it appears he has lately received lensiderable sums of matey from the woman ; but the durkest dice very Is that of a bloody footmark near the serretaire containing the money of the unfortunate man, in the nem adjoining to that in which he slept, and which exactly corresponds with the foot of the wianau ; but WI she uses dilolltilVerell bound hand and foot and incapable of 'WWII'S, it Is presuniel she herself assisted to ride the seeretaire, mai then submitted to be bound, in order to give an appeenthoe of her being rather a victim than an accomplice in the deed. However, Keller Is in prison and the woman under strict surveillance. At the July assizes at Neuwied, where the trial will take place, the facta, etch a* have been collected, will be fully disclosed, and the guilt or lament:Kea the suspected penal' pronouneed. In the noontime the imminent* excited the greatest interest in the mighbourhol. The Committee of Joint-dock Rinke yesterday determined to roconunenell to the private twtablisluuente• that the general hour for cloning on Matunhiys should be fixed at 3 o'clock, instead of 4 o'clock aa nt presume. The question will be decided by the private hankers I W Monday next, and no doubt is entertained that 3 will be the hour adopted. The agitation Oh the question commenced by the expression a desire on the part of a majority of the lead ing commercial houses that the closing on fistunlaye should take place at 2 o'clock. . . _ Although thu Coututodoro Puny, just arrived front Melbourne, W. 1.1 11$ days at sea, the cabin passengers have signed an Wanes, stating their entire satisfaction with' the sailing and ouoiluet of the ship, mal attributing the pro. tatted psalm° to mhos and coutnoy winds. The Duchess tie Malakoff and her infant (laughter are both in excellent health. M. Thouvenel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has just given a grand banquet, at which all the heads of the diplomatic body, both French awl foreign, now in Paris, were preeent, The Marquis de IA Valet's., French Amber Nader to Constantinople; Baron Grua, the Minister to China; and Marquis de Turgot, Ambsuander in Switzerland, were among the guests. A letter from Nienee, of the 13th, stye :—" Our theatre yesterday narrowly tramped de.tructiou by tire. About 11 o'clock a ere brake out in a part .4 the building near the stage, and wax spreading rapidly, when two en. gins were brought to bear upon it, and suceeeded in pre. venting it from sprawling. M0m...! th e d e coration. were destroyed, but more by lowly twain than by burning. The cause of the fire i. unknown. This i. the .econd twupe that the theatre has had within the last few months. The two. forrnancee will nut be suspeutlel more tium two or three days." _ _ The first journal et-or published in Morocco has Jae appeared. It la printed nt Tetuan, in the Spaniel language, anti is distributed grttuitoualy. It taloa the name of the Echo of Trermo. It gives r faeounible no. count of the male Of living at Tetuan. The Moor., who are naturally generous, give up their nesue umt furniture to the ffiriniatils, treating them u» vietora au.l aline. The town is very animated, and will, it is emirates!, soon become • place of sortie importoisv. A printing-office and a lithographic establishment has recently been fortiesl for the first time in 4:reettland, sad • work published by it lea just made it. appeanntiee. A. German journal in intiitioning the fart 144:1% : -" It is ens titled the Kaktdit and is a collection of legend* written awl printed by untiven in the Vreeland language with • Danish translation. The work is embels liehed with twelve eugraiings uu e.t.a executed by • native (the Greenlandera are skilful iu Anil work), and contains also eight national soup with words anti music, and &hurl titer forma a volt as intureating at it is originaL" .