The Express. — London, England, 1860-05-07 00:00:00

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This alteration points, of course, in favour of enterprise in the cotton manufacturing districts. All may be inferred from the course of the market, the pro spect of our obtaining a supply of cotton fully equal to our utmost requirements is unusually promising. The total stock of cotton at Liverpool is now considerably upwards of a million of bales, and exceeds by 600,000 bales, or about • quarter of a year's consumption, the quan tity held at the corresponding date of last year. The quantity of cotton on the way to this country both from America and India is also rather larger than last year, and the stocks in the American ports present an increase of about one hundred and twenty thousand bales. In the high rates now quoted for our cotton manufactures, both yarns and piece goods, and in the moderate price and full supply of the raw material, there is every ground for confidence in the continued prosperity of a branch of trade which contributes more largely than any other to the profits of the nation, and which imparts life and animation to • hundred other departments of business. The course of trade at Manchester during the last week has been satisfactory. Both for India and China a considerable amount of business has been done, and buyers have come forward rather freely for the South American, German, and Mediterranean markets. A fair business is like wise going forward for home consumption, not withstanding the backwardness of the season. Prices in many instances are firmer ; and where any concession is made by sellers, it leads at once to large transactions. The important articles' adapted to the requirements of India and China are particularly steady. In consequence of the condition of the cotton market, the margin of profit on some kinds of goods, such as "domestics," is now larger than for many years past. AU these details are of a favourable tendency. From the woollen districts, the reports are less favourable. A diminished business is going for ward, both for exportation and home consumption. The falling off in the demand, combined with the very high price of the raw material, is causing some amount of machinery, at Bradford and else where, to be stopped. The spinners are rightly of opinion that it is not safe to accumulate stocks at a time when wool is so dear. The bulk of the business going forward is to supply immediate wants, awl in execution of absolute orders. There is evidently, however, an entire absence of the spe:ulative spirit which has occasionally been dis played ; and all the particulars afforded con firm the opinion that the woollen trade generally, though dull, is in a sound and healthy position. Nor is the state of employment by any means unsatisfactory, considered as a whole. At Itochdale, for example, it is noticed that the flannel manufacturers are quite indifferent to accepting any large orders, unless at conside rably advanced prices. In the hosiery districts the immediate demand appears to be slack, but there is plenty of employ ment for the operatives. The reports respecting the textile manufactures of Belfast and Dundee describe small stocks, steady prices, and a gene• rally healthy condition of trade. The iron trade is also unmarked by the activity which prevails in the cotton districts, being rather dull. There are, however, few complaints of want of employment : the absorption of most kinds of ironmongery goods is large. From the Scotch ports, the exports of pig iron during the nine weeks ending the 28th April amounted to only 97,513 tons, against 126,697 tons for the corresponding period of last year. There are nevertheless some signs of recovery, for the de creer°, which in March was 19,920 tons, amounted in April to only 9,261 tons. Now that the effects of the strike have passed away, the course of this trade may be steadier. The lateness of the spring is..unquestionably retarding business in a vast number of internal c h anne l s . What is termed the opening of the home spring trade has thereby been deferred to a h later period than usual. The influence of the check interposed by the state of the weather is far more important than careless observers may imagine. The present generally favourable condi tion of business and of employment is therefore the more satisfactory. In the drapery and some kindred branches payments have been thrown into arrear, through the difficulty of selling goods. This state of things is felt both by the wholesale and retail houses, for where the latter are com pelled to ask for a little indulgence, the operations of the former must be proportionately restricted. At the west-end, for example, many complaint' may be heard of the dulness of trade : the incle ment weather and cold east winds cause everybody to keep on their sinter garments, and check shopping. The advent of warm weather would give an immediate spur to trade in a great varieti' of branches, cause a freer circulation of money, and stimulate confidence in harvest prospects. The latter consideration is now beginning to en gage prominent attention in mercantile circles. The monthly mail from one of the most important of oar colonies—Auntralia--has just been delivered, and commercial people are concerned to observe fresh evidences of increasing embarrassment in those markets, particularly at Melbourne, in con sequence of the recklessness with which fresh sup plies of inordinate amount are still despatched from this country. In addition to an extraordinarily long list of minor insolvencies, four large mercan tile failures have occurred at Melbourne and one at Sydney. Money was very tight, the banks extremely cautious, business—so far as regards Melbourne—excessively slack, and the entire trade of the colony anxious and ember rammed. Every mail brings earnest appeals to shippers on this side to hold their hands. Many kinds of goods were absolutely unsaleable, even at a heavy loss. Of some important articles it is estimated that there is now in Melbourne a quan tity equivalent to about two years' ordinary con sumption. There will be trouble in this direction =ball caution is observed, and perhaps the best I way of enforcing the hitherto rejected lesson of moderation is to warn the houses engaged in the trade that their paper is likely to be scrutinised more narrowly for the future. One of the mer cantile circulars from Melbourne alludes in terms of bitter derision to the recent pro jection in London of a new company, whose operations were to be specially devoted to supply ing the colonial markets with malt and other liquors. The glutted state of those markets en tails almost a certainty of loss. At a time when a project has been announced, under promising auspices, for extending banking accommodation in the Cape of Good Hope, a brief glance at the commercial statistics of that colony may not be out of place. They indicate a very satisfactory rate of progress, and an important extent of general trade, in consequence of the highly favourable geographical position and large internal resources of the colony. The gross value of the imports into the Caps was 1,588,3931. in the year 1856, 2,637,1921. in 1857, 2,493,8971. in 1858, and 2,577,8671. in 1859. The value of the goods entered for actual consumption in the colony was 1,512,2691. in 1866, 2,505,9751. in 1857, 2,385,5401. in 1858, and 2,379,0301. in 1859. The largeness of these figures serves to show that at the Cape, as in Australia, and in every other colony populated from this country, an excellent market will at all times be found for our commodities, if the supply be kept within proper bounds. British settlers in distant colonies retain most of their old tastes, and are, in many instances, as good customers to the mother country, and almost as valuable contributors to her general profits, as if they remained at home. The value of the produos exported from the Cape was 1,818,0801. in 1859 against 1,651,6621. in 1858, 1,833,7001. in 1857, 1,240,6251. in 1856, 970,8391. in 1855, and 666,3971. in 1854, show ing a very rapid increase. As a producer of wool the colony is making great progress, the exports of that article having been 19,490,1941 b. in 1859, against 16,981,1131 b. in 1858, 17,695,2221 b. in 1857, 14,920,9881 b. in 1856, and 12,014,3151 b. in 1855. This branch of industry is susceptible of great extension. THE EXPRESS , MI ITALY. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CONFERENCES. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's (Ace : VIENNA, MAT 7. In reply to the proposals of France, England consents to adopt u basis of the conference Article 92 of the final act of Vienna, which refers to the neutralisation of the districts of Chablais and Faucigny. England reserves, however, the right of making at the said conference proposals relative to the modes of this neutralisation. The declaration of Enema is likely to increase the probabilities of the assembling of the proposed conference. PARIS, MONDAY NOltrCiO. bag an article by ita chief editor, M. Grandgaillot, condemning the efforts which are being made to cause the fall of Count Cavour. It details the difficulties which have been successfully overcome by Piedmont, and points out the political importance which she has acquired by the consent of Europe. It extols the policy of Count Cavour, and commends him for resisting the efforts of those who would exceed that policy. This article also clearly declares that Europe, and France particularly, will energetically disapprove aggression, and that the work of Piedmont is no more to extend her boundaries but to assimilate herself with the annexed provinces. TURIN, MAT 5. King Victor Emmanuel arrived yesterday at Modena, and went to the cathedral, where he assisted at the celebration of aTe Dews. A great concourse of persons were assembled, by whom the King was heartily cheered. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. VIENNA, MAT 5. According to official intelligence from Naples to the 4th instant tranquillity had been restored throughout Sicily. The firing had °eased. Only a few arrests had taken place. The Opireirm publishes the following despatch from Sicily, dated Wednesday, the 2nd inst. : " The insurrectionary movement is spreading throughout the Wand, and is spontaneous and ge neral. The royal troops are in possession of the towns, and are blockaded between the sea and the insurrection in the interior." TURIN, ILty 5. Cbc Court. The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice, and attended by the Hon. Beatrice Bpi, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel Biddulph, sad Lieut. Colonel Poosouby, rode on horseback on Saturday morning. . . . . _ Prince Leopold and the Princesses Helens sad Lows took a carriage drive. The Queen and Prince Consort and the Princess Alice visited the Botanical Gardens in the Regent's-park in the afternoon. In attendance were the Hon. Emily CNithcart, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Charles Fitzoy, and Lient.• Colonel Ponsonby. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prin. case Alice, afterwards took a carriage drive. The Prince Consort rode on horseback. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice, honoured the Royal Iteli►n Open, Covent garden, Iritb their presence in the evening. Theroyalsuite consisted of the Visoonnteir Jocelyn, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Methuen, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Liw tenant-Colonel Ponsonby. Mr. Vernon Heath, photographer, of Piccadilly, had the honour on Wednesday last to explaia to Prince Alfred, at Buckingham Palace, the principle of an improved stereo scopic aunera, designed chiefly for preserved sensitive plates. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Consort, the PTIDCOSP Alice, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Helena and Louisa, and Prince Leopold, the ladies and gentlemen of the court and the domestic household attended Divine service in the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Bishop of Loudon preached the sermon. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Do sheet. The Ministers pre sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Doke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hou. Edward Cardwell. A deputation on the subject of the Bleach Works Bill had an interview with Mr. Clive, in the sbeence of Sir George ('. Lewis, on Saturday, at the Home-office. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial race from the Governors of Mauritius and the Australian colonies. He:.patchee were sent to the flovernmi of the Cape, St. Helena, Natal, and the North American pr o vinces. The Queen has been pleased, ou the recommenda tion of the lord-lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, to appoint Mr. Edward Huggins, of Brent-lodge, Finchley, • deputy-lieutenant of the metropolitan county. Mr. Huggins has also been appointed to the deputy-lieutenancy of the Tower Hamlets. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur. accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, visited Mr. Maysll's photographic exhibition in Regent•atreet on Saturday. Their royal highnesses afterwards sat to Mr. Mayall for photographs, - The Earl of Statufonl and Warrington in suffer ing from a serious attack of bronchitis, at his residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square. . - - Viscountess Palmerston had au assembly on Bstunlay evening ►t Cambridge House. Previously to the assembly, the bolds viscountess entertained at dimmer— The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Count Alden, the Earl of Liatowel, Frances Countess WaMerano and Mr. Harcourt, LP., Lord Otho Fitsgendd, Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley, Lady William Russell, Lady Victoria Ashley, Hon. Henry Cowper awl lady Florence Cowper, Hon. Frederick Hyng, and Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. The marriage was celebrated on Thursday Lat., • Mortlake Roman catholic church, of the Right Han. J. D. Fitzgerald. judge of her Majesty's Court of Q 1111.1 1 .11 Bench in Ireland, and late AttorneyOemeral, to Mims Jane Southwell, the sister of Viscount BouthwelL The service was performed by Bishop Grunt. Among the general company were the Earl of Carlisle, Right Hon. Edward Ind Mrs . Oirdesil, Min Washington /libber' add the Misses Hibbert, Sir J. Bernard Burke, Mr. L Waldron, ke. The newlyinarried pair afterwards left town in • oatringa.•ad.foor for Tenbridirs.wells, ew resat to Paris. Lord Malmembury has taken the Deer Forest of Oisstasuser. SPAIN. The official Gazette of Madrid, of the 2nd pub lishes a report and an official decree relative to the amnesty which has been proclaimed for political offences. These documents are followed by a royal order to the effect that the Count de Montemolin, and his brother, the Infant Don Fernando, are to be taken by a government vessel to any foreign port they may like to name. All individuals (in cluding the pretenders) in custody for enterprises against the dynasty and the institutions of Spain, are to take the oath of fidelity to the Queen, before receiving their liberty. GENEVA, MAY 5. The Federal Council has again insisted upon the greatest possible acceleration in the assembling of the Conference. The cabinet of Turin has made a proposal to the Federal Council for the construction of a railway through Switzerland to connect Italy and Gin-many. The operations for establishing the boundary line between France and Piedmont commenced on the lot of May. BERNE, MAT 7. The Federal Council has issued a fresh circular note demonstrating the strategetic importance of the neutralised provinces for the maintenance of the neutrality of Switzerland. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 5. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties, during the discussion upon the affairs of Pohl • -Holstein, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron von Schleinits, in reply to a question of M. von Blanckenburg, said that the Prussian government does not coiccide with the views of M. von Vincke, in reference to the Federal Diet. Prussia does not consider the organ of the German Confederation as merely existing, but as having a right to exist. In the same sitting Baron von Schleinitz stated that questions had been addressed to him from two different quarters as to whether an alliance already existed, or would be concluded under certain emer gencies, between Prussia and Austria. The Baron declared, in reply, that no such alliance existed. BERLIN, MAT 8. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties, the Minister of Finance, in introducing two projects of law with the view of obtaining from the chamber a grant of extraordinary supplies for military purposes, said : By these measures the provisional condition of the army after the mobilisation of last year is to be maintained. Their execution requires a credit of 9,000,000 dialers for the Minister of War from May 1, 1860, to June 90, 1861. In order to meet these expenses We additional tax of 25 per cent. hitherto paid is to be continued until July 1, 1861, and the surplus from 1859 is to be used. The ministry for the present requests the chamber to vote the said amount without requinng a special account ; such an account woukl, however, be laid before the next huidtag. The stale reserve fund of 12,000,000 dialers would remain un touched. The question whether the landwehr is to be liable to two or three years' reserve duty is not considered in the present projects of law. SPAIN. There seems no longer any doubt about the un conditional submission of Count de Montemolin to Queen Isabella. The French papers publish the text of his abdication of all pretensions to the throne of Spain ; it is as follows : I, Don Carlos Louis de Bourbon and of Bnigarua, Count de Montemolin, solemnly say and declare io the face of the world, that being thoroughly convinced by experience of the inefficacy of the various attempts made in favour of the rights which I believe myself to have to the succession to the crown of Spain, and being desirous that neither on my account, nor even in my name, any more efforts should ever be made to trouble the public peace and the tranquillity and repose of my country, the happiness of which 1 wish, do hereby in the most spontaneous manner and of my own free will, meaning that no objection shall be made on account of the state of imprisonment in which I now am, solemnly renounce now and for ever the rights of which I have just spoken, protesting that the sacrifice which I have made on tbealtar of the country is the result of the convic tion produced by my last check that any efforts that maybe made in my favour must always produce civil war, and that I desire to avoid at any sacrifice. In consequence I pledge my word of honour never more to consent that my Bag shall be raised in Spain or any other territory of the Spanish monarchy, and I declare that if unhappily any person whosoever should be found in future to invoke my name for such a purpose I shall hold that person to be the enemy of my honour and reputation. I declare at the same time that u soon as I shall be in the full enjoyment of my liberty, I will renew this declaration to the end that the spontaneity with which I make it may never at any time be doubted. May the welfare and felicity of my country be the result of this rearifice. Given at Tortola, April 23, 1860. (Si r ) CARLOS UM DE BOURDON AND DI BRAG ANZA. The renunciation of DUD Fernando is couched in similar terms. By the alteration and acceleration of the conti nental mail service rid Dover and Calais, the Overland Bombay mail that left Marseilles at 10 o'clock on Thursday manna( arrived in London at 5.45 on Friday afternoon, or 3t bourn, thus enabling She belie mail to be delivered in London and in the province. twelve hours earlier than here. tutors. EVE/ITING, MLitt) FRANCS AND SW -..-- It is clear that K Thouvenel is bent upon tiring out the diplomatic world by the number and length of his diplomatic notes. Two fresh circulars have lately been published relative to the Swiss question and to the neutralised provinces of Savoy. Their prolixity does not render them forcible. It would indeed be scarcely possible to string together a longer list of fallacies and errors than these docu ments contain. To refute them all would be a hope less task. One or two salient points may be selected from the net. The ground upon which K Thouvenel relies in his note of the 7th of April is, that the neutrality of the provinces of Chablais and Faucigny was established solely in the interest of Sardinia, and as a compensation to that country for the territory ceded to the Canton of Geneva. Without relying upon the treaty of 1564, which M. Thouvenel, on his own authority, declares to have been duly abolished, it may be observed that the terms of this treaty are peculiarly applicable to present circumstances. "None of the parties," it . • says, " shall be at liberty to alienate, by sale, ex change, or in any other way, the towns, fortresses, country and people to another prince, lord, town, country, or district whatsoever ; in order that the one party may 'secure the other from all foreign, importunate, or burthensome neighbourhood, and that each may in turn be similarly secured." Surely M. Thouvenel is not serious when he attempts to prove that it was in consequence of the abandonment of the treaty of 1564 that the Swiss abstained from protesting against the French inva sion of 1792 and 1798, the result of which was the annihilation of the kingdom of Sardinia, and the temporary occupation of Switzerland. But to come to more recent times, one authority may be cited, the validity of which M. Thouvenel cannot contest, since he appeals to it himself, viz., the Congress of Vienna. During the very first sittings of that Congress—that is to say, in October, 1814—a question was raised of giving to Switzerland frontiers on the northern side of Savoy, such as would enable her to defend her neutrality, which was considered as a matter of European importance. This is proved by the protocols, and they bear evi dence that if the district of Gex was not reunited to Switzerland, it was out of consideration to France, and at the instance of Talleyrand. Similar motives, in addition to the circumstance that Switzerland did not wish for any considerable increase of terri tory, also prevented the annexation to Switzerland of Chablais and Faucigny ; and it was at the sug gestion of Genevese delegates, at the Congress of Vienna, that, in the absence of any means of obtain ing a good military frontier, the neutralisation of the provinces in question was proposed to the assembled Powers of Europe. A special note of the Swiss deputation brings into prominent view this necessity, whether for the purpose of covering Geneva, or to provide for the defence of the passes of Valarsine and of Meillerie, which command the road to the Simplon. The Swiss plenipotentiaries, no doubt, ob served that the King of Sardinia could not but find this advantageous to him, especially at a time when the greater part of Southern Savoy was French ; and accordingly in the following month, on the 26th of March, 1815, M. de St. Marian, the Sardinian plenipo tentiary, lays down officially, as one of the condi tions which Sardinia required for the cession of a small increase of territory to Geneva, the neutrali sation of Chablais and Fancigny ; but the most im portant condition, and that which constituted the consideration of the cession, is that the imperial fiefs which had been united to the Republic of Genoa, and which were provisionally administered by the King of Sardinia, were to be finally united to the Sardinian States, in the same way as the rest of the states of Genoa. Such is the true account of the cession of a little bit of territory made by Sar dinia to Switzerland, and of the compensation given for it. Again, it was Switzerland who, on the oocasion of the second peace of Paris, commissioned her plenipotentiary, M. Pietet de Rochemont, to ask for an extension of the neutral line to certain por tions of the province of Genevois, which France restored to Sardinia. This neutrality, however, was no longer a matter of importance to Sardinia, when once the whole of Savoy belonged to her, and was rather a hindrance to her than otherwise ; and it was evidently imposed on her for the sake of the neutrality of Switzerland, and in the in terest of Europe. Accordingly, on the 20th of November, 1815, the great Powers formally record by a solemn act that "the neutrality and inviola bility of Switzerland, and her independence of all foreign influence, are in the true interests of the whole of Europe „ (Que la neutraliti et l'incioiebi de la Suisse et son independence de took influ ence itrangere sont dans les rrais isiterlts de PEurope entitre). And now what is to be said for M. Thouvenel's second note, in which he endeavours to prove that Europe, in establishing the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland, never dreamt that she would be called upon to defend it, and only granted it to please her powerful neighbours 1 If so, how could this neutrality be in the interest of Europe 1 Why did Europe attach so much importance to Switzer land possessing the passes which lead to Italy, and above all that of the Simplon 1 Surely it was not that France or Austria might make use of them when either of them thought fit. We appeal from H. Thouvenel of the ith and of the 14th April to M. Thouvenel of the 4th of February, who concludes his note of the last-mentioned date, addressed to the Swiss minister at Paris, with these words : " The Emperor has directed me to tell you that, if the annexation should take place, he will have great pleasure, out of sympathy for Switzerland, for which he continues to feel a lively interest, to make over to Switzerland as its own territory, and as • part of the Helvetic Confederation, the provinces of Chablais and Faucigny." If Europe, by tacit consent, or out of base com pliance, should sanction M. Thouvenel's views, Switzerland would have but one of two courses to follow. She must either abandon her military system, which she has organised with so much care for the last fifty years, and for which she has made such great sacrifices ; or she must keep watch and ward, her arms in her hand, until the day comes, and it cannot be far distant, when she will have to show that in accepting her neutrality as a benefit, she has also understood that it entails upon her the obligation of endeavouring that it should be re spected by something else besides protocols. Her choice cannot be doubtful. In the meantime let us hope that Europe will protest, as Switzerland has protested, against the str►nge doctrines of M. Thouvenel, which are but the forerunner of future attempts to overturn the established order of things in Europe. The Prince do Joinville sailed in the Royal Mail steamer Europa, for Boston, oe Saturday, under the name of Franoole d'Arr. He appeared to be in ex, Aleut healtk, and we (Lirerpoot A(bion) hear he ia on his 'ray to the Brazils. it•or le. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now oua owl! PARIS, SUNDAY EVl2ll2to._ The legitimist journals continue to doubt the authenticity of the submission of Count de Monte molin. They publish a despatch from Trieste, dated only yesterday, affirming that the Countess de Montemolin knows nothing of the kind. This might not go for much, but then they ask—and certainly with a good deal of point—how does it happen that, if the Count signed so long ago as April 23 the document reported by the Corte spondencia, he should remain all this while in pri son ? why slid not the Madrid Gazette publish such an important letter the moment it was received ? These pertinent queries receive no answer whatever from the evening papers. The Pays gives, as the latest news from Turin, two facts of importance. Ist, That Garibaldi has resigned his rank as a general in the Sardinian army, from which it is to be inferred that he wishes to hold himself free to aid the cause of Italian unity in Sicily ; and 2nd, That the Prince of Syracuse has been banished for his letter to the King, which first appeared in the Daily News. The Pays, however, gives this important inteWgenoe " under all reserve." The Charivari, replying to the Pays and other government prints which call Garibaldi a filibuster, on account of his presumed intention to draw his sword in Sicily, calls upon them to distinguish his ease from that of General de Lamericiere. If it be true that Garibaldi has no business in Sicily, what business has Lamoricibre in Rome T Again, what distinction is there in principle between the subscription for Garibaldi's muskets and that for St. Peter's pence ? The Charivari only sem this difference, that the one subscription is destined to succour the oppressed, the other to maintain tyranny and oppression ; the one is altogether optional, while the other is to a great extent im posed by those numerous religious societies which form in France an imperious in istperio. The Constitutionnel gives a positive denial to a story told by " a foreign journal " to the effect that the imperial prince having been a naughty boy and very impertinent towards his mother, the Emperor had stripped him of his rank of corporal in the guards and had had the stripes torn off his uniform in the presence of a body of soldiers with all the ceremonies used in the case of an ordinary military degradation. The object of this libel, the Corwtitutionnet says, is to inculcate the belief that the infant prince (four years old) is naturally of such a bad disposition that he can only be cor rected by measures of extreme severity, whereas the Constitutiorine/ would very frequently have recorded anecdotes showing the extreme goodness of heart and sweet disposition of the child had it not feared to be accused of flattery and of inventing infantile sayings such as were formerly put in the mouths of the King of Rome and the Duke of Bor deaux. The legal question whether by the law of France an action lies for a libel on the memory of an ancestor, which was lately resolved in the negative by the Imperial Court, on grounds which I ventured to commend as consonant with sound law and right reason, is to be solemnly re-argued before the Court of Cessation. M. Procureur-General Dupin, a high authority I admit, when his judgment is not warped by political considertitions, is dissatisfied with the decision, and proposes to maintain in person, before the tribunal of the last resort, that the present Bishop of Orleans ought to be fined and imprisoned for having expressed in writing a severe judgment upon the character of Bishop Rousseau, his predecessor in the see, who was gathered to his fathers half a century ago. The Nord says that M. Berryer is going to Lon don to plead a great cause in an English court, and that the judges have consented to hear him in French. I cannot believe this story. It is most unlikely thaM•any English court would relax in favour of a French advocate the rule that only par ties or their counsel—by counsel being meant mem bers of the English bar—sre entitled to be heard. There are very few English judges, and certainly no court composed of three or four members, who could follow a speech in French ; and the chances are indeed very much indeed against the advocate on the other side being able to answer it. The thing could of course only be done by consent of all parties, and on that condition I am far from saying that, under special circumstances, it would be objectionable. Indeed it has often struck me as one of the possible consequences of increased intercourse between the two nations, that in suite involving questions of international law French advocates might plead in English and English advocates in French courts. But Ido not think we have come to this as yet. Countess Lobau, the widow of the marshal of that name, died on Thursday in Paris. BARDIN lA. tllOll A coaazarosossrd TURIN. NAT 2. Yesterday parliament again met, but only to be adjourned to the 4th, most of the members being as yet absent, either with the King; or engaged in the preparation for the supplementary elections, which are to take place on Monday next. It is rather remarkable that the reactionary party makes no endeavour to be represented in parliament, not even their most distinguished leader, Solario della Margenta, offering himself as candidate, though the electors have only to choose between the adherents of Count Cavour and those of the a:- minister Ratazzi. In general we may say that the nation displayed more common sense at the election than could be expected. The deputies were elected without peculiar regard to the precise shade of their political opinions, but with the de sire that all the notabilities of the country should take part in the first Italian par liament. Even Cesare Centres return - had nothing to do with his ultramontanist tenden cies ; it was his reputation as a historian which sent him to the Carignan Palace. Now, however, the parties begin to develop themselves more dis tinctly, and yesterday's Gazette del Popolo took the bull by the horns, by comparing the results of the different administrations of Ratazzi and Cavour. Ratazai's first administration, according to that paper, resulted in the defeat of Novara ; the second in the return of a chamber (in 1856) in which the Austro-clerical party nearly got a majority ; the third, in the discontent of the Lombards, and a complete standstill of the question of the annexa tion of Central Italy. The great liberal minister is, in fact, no statesman. To-day the Diritto, the reputed organ of Ratazzi, recriminates that the re sponsibility of the annexation of Nice falls exclu sively upon Count Cavour ; that Ratazzi would never have ad m itted that cession, and thetas:yew:are hensions of France might have been a ppeased by constituting Nice an independent neutral county. In the face of the annexation of Chablais and Faucigny this idea is certainly surprising enough. It is a sufficient criterion of the political wisdom and statesmanship of Ratazzi's party. T h ey admit the pressure of France; they kilow'that NiCe could not remain united with the kingdom of Italy ; but they believe that Napoleon would have consented to the formation of one more neutral miniature state, unable to defend its neutrality, a refuge for all those who might plot either against him or against Victor Emmanuel. If the opposition can not make out any stronger case against Count Cavour, it will not be difficult for him to get the treaty with France ratified by an overwhelming majority. KING' VICTOR RAIMANUEL'S ARRIVAL AT BOLOGNA. A letter from Bologna of the 2nd says : " The 15,000 men of the garrison and the National Guards were all under arms at one o'clock. It had rained all the morning pitilessly; it rained at one harder than ever. Out the poor troops turned, cloaked and hooded, the her saglieri with draggling cock feathers, the lancers splashing with streaming wit pennons, the infantry wally tramp ing in dx inches of mire ; there was rolling artil lery, rattling state carriages, laced liveries, banners, gay cloths and devices, the arms of the cities, the mourning flags for Venice, Rome, Naples, and Sicily, all varieties of finery, with their bright colours washed away by the streaming rain, with their bravery disfitoired by • thick coat of mud. Constant drizzling, drenching, deluging--deluging, drenching, drizzling as denser or lighter clouds sailed along the lowering sky. The King was ex pected at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, hut it warn reasonably supposed that the heavy roads would slacken his journey across the Apennines, so that all men and things would have to melt in all that wet till a much later hour. Towards 3, however, there was something like a break in the clouds, and it had actually almost entirely ceased to rain at 3 when the cannon announced that the King was one full hour before his time. The very suffering endured, the prolonged misery to which men and women had nude up their minds, enhanced the thrill of joy which the first report of artillery sent through every man's heart. Here he was. The roar of the multitude preceded him, loud enough to drown the scores of drums and jingling music which greeted him at every street corner. Here he was! Here they were . A squadron of lancers ; then a squadron of mounted militia, four carabineeni, then the royal travelling carriage —an open carria ge — the King with Parini on his left, with General Cialdini and a numerous staff riding in a motley retinue before, behind, and all round ; then more carriages, with a mob of court and state dignitaries ; then more cs:rabineers, lancers, and yeomanry, the whole cortifte wet, splashed, and spattered; beaata, king, ministers, courtiers, and generals. one grand layer of mud ; and thus they wowed down the street of San Stefano, across the Cartolerra Nuova, into the Strada Maggiore, to the Piazza del Gigante, and came to alight at the door of San Petronlo. Two of the canons and about fourteen priests were scraped together in sheer defiance of the rebellious Cardinal Archbishop. The 7'e Daus was sung. At the Town-hall the King was accommodated with another—a drier, but, des ; a close—carriage. He thus traversed the other half of the city, went out at the gate leading to San Michele in Bosco, the famous convent on a hill half a mile from the convent the only mansion for royalty Bologna t e- i t. o hat boast. The view of the gay convoy as it wound up the ascent, escorted by hundreds at prancing steeds, by hundreds of waving flags, and scarcely protected by thousands of glittering bayo net. from the vast ebbing and heaving crowd which pressed and clamoured around it on all sides, is something to be remembered by all who witnessed it. Somewhat exhausted and stunned, but apparently in good health and spirita, the King took possession of his convent home, where his trusty premier, Count Owner, who had just arrived by railway from Turin, welcomed him. The King had to run the usual gauntlet of deputations, adilreoes, he., and had twice to show the sun of his countenance to the storming multitude outside ; and dinner was served when the toil of his royal day wee over." Mr. B. C. Stephenson, of the Treasury, has been appointed private overetary to the Home Secretary, Sir G. C. Lewis, in the room of Mr. Maurice Drummond, ap. pointed receiver of metropolitan police. Mr. William Doria, now secretary to her Ma. jesty's mission to Persia, has been appointed secretary and charge d'Affaires at Parana. Mr. W. B. Eastwick, formerly in the service of the government of india, has been api pointed secretary to the Persian ministry, in the room of Mr. Dori► The gun factories are now at work night and day on • prodigious scale forging the Armstrong guns of all sines, from 6to 100-pounders. It is expected that 1,200 guns, chiefly of the larger description, will be made this year. During the nine months since the factory has been in operation forty-eight complete batteries of Geld artillery have been turned out and equipped for service, as well as 200 40-pounders for naval use, besides • large number of 100. pounders in progress of manufacture, and which will be ready by the Ist of August next. Captain Vine Hall, who has been appointed to the command of the great ship, is the brother of the Rev. Newman Hall, of Surrey chapel, London. Captain Hall has had an immense experience in the command of ships of the first class, in the Mediterranean, South America, Australia, and India. "Argue," of the Post, says :—" Pullinger Las been talked of very much as connected with the turf, but it is extraordinary to think he never saw a race in his life, although he had Clementhe and several others in training in connexion with a gentleman at Reading. I regret to state, however, be has victimised Mr. Parr out of 6,0004 worth of securities, which he deposited in a box in his charge at the bank, and which it is feared the directors will not refund." From the same authority we learn that " William Day's bones are all to be sold on Bath race. course, as in future he is only going to train for his em ployers ; and those who wish to posies* the Promised Land m►y like to hear they will have to write a cheque for three thousand guineas for him ; and as a trial horse he is worth every shilling of the money." "See," Says the Times, " what the ' embank. meet of the Thames' would do for us. It would save us the closing of the Strand and Fleet-street for a couple of years, and that saving is worth something. It might says us St. Paul's and Somerset House, and we have not got so many public edifices or public offices that we can afford to put these two buildings into jeopardy. It would give us a fresh thoroughfare, and a most delightful one. Imagine a grand open quay all along the Thames—a river no longer polluted with filth and exhaling stench, but running in • deep and pleasant stream between strong embankment.. Why, it would be the finest walk in London : so that we should gain a place for the sewers, a new main road, • msg. nificent promenade, and a pure river all at one stroke! No wonder the Prime Minister dilated on the 'great ad vantages which would arise in every point of view.' No wonder that a committee explained these advantages two years ago. No undertaking was ever suggested which pro mised so much, both in what it would save us and what it would give us." HIS ROYAL HIOHNMS PRINCE ALTRED.—III consequence of the breaking of a piston rod, or some other derangement of the machinery, her Majesty's steam screw frigate Euryalus, 51, Captain Tarleton, which left Spithead on Saturday fur the Cape of Good Hope, put into Ports mouth Sound yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, and saluted the flag of Port Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.B. About 1 p.m. • number of liberty men landed from her yawl. Shortly after the paddlewheel steatotug Confiance went alongside the frigate, and his Royal Highness Prince Alfred proceeded to her to Hamoase where • four-oared gig, supplied by the flagship Impregnable, was in attend ance. On lamling, his royal highness was received by the Port Admiral and Admiral Sir John Pasley, and went to Mount Wise, where he partook of luncheon. After a visit to the Earl of Mount-Faigcumbe, Winter-villa, Stonehouse, the prince embarked in the gunboat (linker, and rejoined the Euryalus. The repairs of the machinery may occupy some days. To-day the royal visitor will inspect the De. vonport arsenal and Keyham steam yard. ACCIDENT AT THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—On Saturday night, Dinoralt was performed at Covent-garden, by desire of her Majesty, who was present on the occasion. During the progress of the last art of the opera an explosion of one of the instruments by which the magnificent concen trated light in the shadow dance is produced took place. The report, which was one of terrible volume, created great consternation for the moment through t the house. It was speedily ascertained, however, that the only person who sustained any injury wag • boy, the :lOU of the teenager of the light, whose face was dreadfully contused and burnt. He was immediately carried to Charieg.cross Hospital. where he was promptly attended to, and was in a condition to be removed to his home in the course of an hour. Her Majesty manifested great anxiety as to the result of the explosion, and received front Mr. Gye in person an assur ance that no serious calamity had occurred. She renewed her inquiries en leaving the establislimeut at the close of the performance. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.--• Haydn's Creation will be performed on Friday next. 11th May. Principal vocalists :—Miss Burps, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti. Bum•Seen.—Since the discharge of the two stable boys several circumstances have cane to light in eon sexion with Buccaneer and the Two Thousand. Lord Portsmouth is iu possession of information to connect cer tain members of the ring with the lads iu question ; and his lordship hopes to be able to bring sufficient home to the parties implicated for a Jockey Club, if nut a legal in. vestigation. —Ma me/rake ES,r . THE RECENT FORAY AOAINRT BETTING MEN IN LIVERPGIIL.—The gentlemen who were arrested on Tuesday night last, at the Albion Hotel, Livery,ool, li.tve taken legal advice, and the consequence is that they hare retained Mr. E. James, Q.c., for the purpose of prosecuting the parties who were instrumental in their arrest. The act of parliament for the suppresOon of betting houses states that " arrests by warrant under the suppression of betting houses law can be only made in the metropolitan districts, and that in all provincial towns information must be laid in each case, and complicity proved in each instance, before convictions can be =dn.' . It is state"! that in Manchester the betting men have instituted similar inwectlitigs. I I It. 7, J.