The Express. — London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

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Bernina& Tomerviems cATIII.IEI The of Monster. Mn. or, Myr Ye as Uproar. Mr. )11..n. MW Mbar Jacobs. sad Mir A. ..Ariri TMI OUN6CRIPI *tam & Mai. Maim Xra.t Iriameld. MR WATER AT LONDON =DON TEM DAT —llenalrg, 11l Aftwarsaa. 111 teed Roariaow—Sonim Allessies.l TI LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7. Tea voice of pub& reason has so far prevailed that the Parochial Assessments Bill has been referred to a Select Committee. The objection first taken in these columns to the machinery of the measure, as regards assimilation of rating in counties, has been widely and generally endorsed throughout the kingdom. Petitions have poured in rapidly from all quarters, proving the healthy sensitiveness of opinion to derogations from the right of local self-rule, and its hostility to every change in the direction of official centralization. Several of these petitions have been printed by order of the House of Commons ; and some of them are well deserving of attention. That from the Vestry and Churchwardens of Sunderland truly states that "in the management of the "county-rate basis, the justices, though invested " with ample powers, have most signally failed to " secure uniformity of assessments," and that " the effect of the proposed Bill would be simply " to constitute the occasional county-rate commit " tees permanent boards, and would not effect " uniformity of assessment." They then proceed to ask that the work may be entrusted to assess ment boards formed on the elective princi ple, rather than to those set forth in the Bill, which would be exclusively taken from the Bench at Quarter Sessions. " The " churchwardens and overseers of the different " parishes forming the Poor-law Unions would, if " incorporated, secure such a combination of " interests with perfect local knowledge of the " value of property as could not fail to secure " uniformity of assessment throughout the Unions " at least, and thus greatly reduce, if not entirely " abolish, the existing inequalities more effec " tnally than by any county board." In point of fact, nothing can be less deserving of being stereo typed than the magisterial method of procedure in matters of local taxation. The inherent vice of the system is irresponsibility ; and if we had no practical proofs of its mischievous working, we might safely assume the fact. There is no reason in pretending to believe in the value and vitality of electoral control in towns, and then turning round and:declaring that its absence makes no difference in the rating and expenditure of counties. Black may be better than white in the estimation of country gentlemen and of those who would conciliate their favour ; but black cannot be the same as white, and it is not in the power of Parliament to make them otherwise than opposites. Why, then, insist on enacting both in one and the same statute? The mode in which assessments for county rates are now imposed by the justices of the quorum does not now satisfy the intelligent portion of the agricultural community ; and reformation ought to begin by taking the irresponsible power out of the headstrong and heedless bands that now exercise it. When the present Lord Dian was Secretary for Ireland he intro dueed a measure for the reform of county taxation in that country which has been found ex tremely beneficial, and which has tended to allay feelings of discontent much like those which prevail on this side of the Channel. Previous to 1832 county grand juries in the sister country performed the same fiscal functions which persons of a similar class per form with us in their capacity of magistrates of Quarter Sessions ; and they did so without any control on the part of the ratepayers. By a legis lative change then introduced, the approval of a majority of ratepayers duly chosen in each district was made indispensable before any new expendi ture could be incurred ; and thus the arbitrary authority of the proprietorial clam was compelled to give place to a mixed and modified system. The question of uniform assessments did not arise in Ireland, because in that country a general valuation having been made under the direct bon of Government, all localities were obliged to take it for a basis of rating, within certain limits. We allude to the legislation of the period primarily for the purpose of pointing out the salutary and sound analogy it affords for what may hereafter require to be done in English coun ties, with reference to local expenditure : and in asmuch ea no public survey or mi.:mire exist. with us, to which all may be brought as to a standard, we submit that the popular element, if introduced as regards rural expenditure, ought likewise to be insisted on as regards rural taxation. The resistance offered by the London parishes to the further progress of the Bill rests upon some what different grounds. At bottom there is the same legitimate distrust of everything like centra lisation ; and our great town communities justly resent the idea of their being handed over to the magistrates of Middlesex and Surrey, to be assessed in whatever way those suburban worthies may choose. Many of the parishes of the metropolis have, moreover, distinct local Acts of Parliament, under which they have hitherto managed their own affairs ; they warmly resent the notion that these specific statutes, under the sanction of which vast building investments have been made, are to be swept away. They pray by their peti tions to be specially exempted from the opera. Lion of the Diu. The Horns SICKITAIT is under stood to have intimated that he was not dis inclined to consider such an exceptional provi sion when the measure should be before the Select Committee. Southwark and Marylebone may thus swaps for the present the irresponsible arbitrament of an assessinent board composed exclusively of county . magistrates ; but sooner or later the ques tion will return—Why should a different basis of valuation exist in them from that which prevails in the surrounding parishes f If in the interval these great towns do not assert their municipal manhood, and become finally severed from the couu- r ties to which they no longer rightfully belong, the ever encroaching wave of centralizing assimilation will break over them likewise. Bristol and other large cities demand similar special exemptions, upon the ground of local Acts passed for their particular use and benefit. The Select Committee will, one way or other, have a laborious duty to perform. If they alter the Bill so as to take a large category of places out of its scope, it will to a great extent cease to afford the advantages pro raised by its introduction, of general uniformity throughout the kingdom. Yet this is perhaps its only chance of becoming law this year ; for there is nothing so difficult to carry as a Bill which, be cause it provokes the political enmity of no great party, leaves individual members of all parties free to follow the admonition and advice of organized bodies of their constituents. It is in such cases that vested interests make themselves most effec tively heard. Every long undisturbed institution is more or less overgrown with parasitical plants of this description, which in a certain sense help to defend the old edifice from the first attack made upon it. Sir Iticaann Birrnau. has learnt this truth in the course of his assaults on the law of bankruptcy ; and Sir COaMIWALL Lzwis is very likely to find himself baffled by an almost intangible combination of un-notables, acting together from common instincts, and imparting concert and organization to a movement that em braces far wider and nobler considerations than those of mere parochial perquisites and positions. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1861. submitted a oommunication concerning the project of the constitution of 1859, and also a project of law relating to the provisional position of Holstein. ITZEHOE, WIDNISDAL The following are among the royal proposals submittal to the Notate' of Holstein The project of a constitution, to be valid for the whole monarchy. The establishment of two legislative chambers, the upper chamber to be composed of thirty mem bers, appointed for life. A . tlii3iinct position for the army of Holstein. Holstein to contribute two millions towards the expenses of the state. COPENHAGEN, WEDNESDAY. Government, besides making proposals respecting the common constitution and provisional arrange ments, offers to Holstein a revised special consti tution for interior affairs, with a responsible minister, independence of judges, freedom of press and of association, habeas corpus, religious liberty, financial competency for the Estates, and inviola bility of its members. SPAIN AND THE SLAVE TRADE. MADRID, Ma.aca 5. In to-day's sitting of the Senate government an nounced that they had resolved upon stationing cruisers on the coast of Africa. These cruisers would be authorised to visit Spanish and English vessels, in order to prevent the slave traffic. The ministry seized the opportunity to again repel the accusations of Lord Palmerston in regard to the slave trade, which accusations they stigma tise as unjust. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Euxine with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at it o'clock last night. The mails left for London a io p.m. The Massilia, with the heavy portion of the mails, &c., left Malta at 10 a.m. on the Srd, and may be expected at Southampton on the 12th lust- The Ottawa brought the Bombay mail to Suez, and the Nepaul that from the Mauritius, both ar riving on the 26th of February. OUTWARD MAIL. The Pees (from Southampton 20th February) and the Valetta (from Marseilles on the 28th) reached Malta on the 2nd of March, and sailed on the same day for Alexandria. SPECIE FOR LISBON. SOUTHAMPTON, TIIIIIIIDAT. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, sailing hence to-day with mails and pas sengers for Peninsular ports, takes 20,0001. specie in sovereigns for Lisbon. AMERICA. (IT xi. =mei ruzza&) IMPORTANT SPEECH OF THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT. In a speech before the New Jersey Legislature, Mr. Lincoln said : " The man does not live that is more devoted to peace than I &M. (Cheers.) None who would do more to preserve it, but it may be necessary to put the foot down firmly." (Here the audience broke out in cheers so long and loud that for some moments it was impossible to hear Mr. Lincoln's voice.) He continued:—"And if I do myduty and do right you will sustain me, will you not ? (Loud cheers, and cries of "Yes, yes ;we will.") Received as lam by the members of a Legislature, the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded as it is by perils ; for if it should suffer attack now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage." LIVERPOOL, WIMXESDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Petrie, which sailed from New York on the 23rd of February, arrived in the Mersey about b o'clock this evening. The City of Baltimore called at Queenstown yesterday, and a summary of her news was tele graphed from thence. The reception of Mr. Lincoln at the City Hall, New York, on the 20th, was a most flattering testi monial of respect to the elect chief of the nation. Mayor Wood, in a short speech, welcomed the President, and hoped he would prove equal to the crisis ; and Mr. Lincoln replied, modestly wishing he could bring as good a head as heart to the work, and expressed his devotion to the Union. About six thousand citizens were admitted to the gover nor's room, and either shook hands with or bowed to Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln made a brief address. Mr. Lincoln left New York on the 21st, for Washington, aid Jersey City. At Trenton be visited the State House, and made speeches before the Senate and House of New Jersey. the latter of which was significant and important. The presidential party proceeded, and reached Philadelphia in the evening. At Philadelphia the reception was enthusiastic, as it was also at Harris burg, where the party arrived in the afternoon. The proceedings in Congress had not been of an important character. A murderous attack was made at Washington on the 21st on the Hon. Chas. H. Van Wyck, the republican member of Congress from Orange County, New York. Mr. Van Wyck was returning late at night from the residence of the Hon. Preston King, and while on Preston Hill, was suddenly assaulted by three ruffians, who approached him from behind. One of the villains made a ferocious lunge at him with a knife, piercing all his clothes, a folded copy of the Congressional Globe, and a thick memorandum book, but not touching his person. The second assailant also made a simi lar thrust, which was also ineffectual, and both were knocked down by Mr. Van Wyck, who drew a pistol and fired at one, when the third made another attempt on his life. All three made off upon the report of the pistol. It is supposed that one must have been shot, although no clue has yet been ob tained by which to determine. Mr. Vau Wyck is confined to his bed, but is in no real danger. The celebration of Washington's birthday in New York, on the 22nd, was characterised by a populrr participation rarely witnessed. The First Division paraded in unusual strength ; the lino of march teemed with spectators in holiday attire, and the city assumed an appearance worthy of a gala day. The troops were reviewed by Governor Morgau. The Order of United Americans celebrated the day by an oration from the Hon. H. Maynard, of Ten nessee, at Niblo's Gardens. Mr. Maynard reviewed the causes which have led to the present unhappy crisis in our national affairs, attributing it entirely to the mischief-makers, backbiters, and elan. darer of both sections of the country, who make it their business to misrepresent and abuse the people of the opposite section, and to excite ill-feeling between the North and South. Ex- Judge John W. Edmonds delivered an interesting address before the Republican Central Committee, in the evening, speaking in reference to the poli tical crisis of the country. He cited the action of Washington in quelling rebellion by force of arms, but argued that, under the circumstances, we could neither concede to the South nor coerce them. He favoured the middle ground, of letting the South alone. The Peace Conference at Washington had come to no vote at the time the steamer left New York. There was a prospect, however, that some plan of adjustment would be agreed to by a handsome majority. In the Southern Congress, at Montgomery, the following resolution had been offered and adopted : RaoProd—That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of laying an export duty on the cotton exported from the confederate states to any foreign country. The President has nominated and the Congress confirmed the following members of the Cabinet Seem ary of State—Mr. Toombs ; Secretary of the Treasury—Mr. Memmiuger ; Secretary of War— Mr. L. Pope Walker. A telegram from Fort Smith states that the over land mail had been seized near Fort Chadbourne, and that all the property of the company within reach had been taken possession of. A report was also current that Forts Chadbourne and Belknap had been captured, but this is nut confirmed. A telegram from Nebraska City, Kansas, dated the 19th, says :—" Old Fort Kearney was taken possession of last night by a party of Secessionists, and this morning a Palmetto flag waves over the fortress bearing the inscription, ' Southern Rights.' Great excitement prevails, and efforts are being matle to take the fort by the Union party. "LATER.—An attack was made on the fort this morning at 10 o'clock, and amid great excitement the Palmetto flag was torn down, and the stars and stripes raised in its place." Governor Brown, of Georgia, in view of the fact that the arms seized by order of Superintendent Kennedy, in New York, have not yet been sur rendered, has seen fit again to avail himself of his peculiar system of reprisals. He has seized three New York vessels at Savannah, with the intention of detaining them until the arms are de livered up. San Francisco sdvioes are to the evening of the 6th ultimo. There had been several heavy failures in the dry goods' trade at San Francisco. Hostilities had again cornmeneed between the whites and Indians in the vicinity of Humboldt Bay, and thirteen of the latter were reported to be killed in one onslaught. Dates from British Columbia are to the 27th January, and from Oregon the 2nd ult. On the 24th January there was a large sale of real estate, belonging to the Hudson Bay Company, situated near the centre of Victoria, realising 121,000 dols., Ebt court. OSBORNE. Mciers 6. Captain the Hon. J. Denman arrived yesterday, mad had the honour of dining with her Majesty. The Priam Consort, attended by Major-General the Has. Grey WA Colonel the Hon. A. Harding., crooned over is the royal yacht Fairy this morning to Portman* mad pro ceeded to visit Chichester Cathedral. 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, Sir G. Coruewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward CardwelL A deputation from the Tees Conservancy Commladoners, relative to the establishmeat of breakwaters at the estimate to the river Tees, bad en interview with Lord Pahnernion yesteiday. The Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862 met yester. day, at their onion, 454, West Strand ; present, Earl Oran. villa and Mr. C. W. MIPB. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Courted had a meeting yesterday in the Privy Orancil-cake with reference to an ordinance of the Oxford Uaivinwity Commissioners relative to St. John's College, in the University of Oxford. Al=hes were received yesterday at the Colonial the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governor of Canada. VISIT or TER PRISON CONSORT TO CHIC-11E1TM Otrumnat.—His Royal Highness the Prime Consort, at tended by Goseml Hon. Charles Grey, Private Beaetery, and Colossi Hoe. Arthur Hardioge, Equerry-is•Weikfag, strived at Chichester by special train from Osborne yenta-- day at eleven o'clock. He was met at the stake by his Grace the Duke of Richmond, Lord Henry Lennox, M.P. for Chichester, and It G. Raper, Reg., Mayor of Chiches ter, and proceeded hi the bishop's carriage directly to the celliedrel. where he was met by the Lord Bishop, the Very Rev. the Dean, Canoe Pilkingtoe, Rev. C. L. Swainson, and Mr. Gilbert Scott, the architect, white, hay* inspected the rules and remalead i• the bulliliog about an hour, his Royal Highnew, accompanied by the Doke and his own suite, went to Moulcomb Lodge, in Goodwood•park, where he partook of lunch. He left Chichester by special train at two o'clock.—Brighten Gazette. The Prince Rudolph Leichtenstuin has left Claridge'■ Hotel, fur Southampton, to embark at that port for Madeira. The Duchess of Inverness entertained their Royal Highnemes the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at dinner lent evening at Kensington Pelona A select party wereiovited to meet their royal highnesses. The domitee; du Pereigny and family left Albert Ode Howe, yestenlay, for Folkestone, on their way to Parts. Viscountess Palmerston Lae homed cards for meseabbei oe Sato:dam the eih and 16th inst. Lord and Lady Churchill have left the St. Gages Hata lasdy Charles Wellesley has left Claridge's Hotel on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness d Exeter, at Bart sigh House, Stamford. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pierrepont have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Northamptonshire. The Hon. Frederick and Mrs. Walpole have left town on a tour in Spain. The Right Hou. Laurence and Lady Jane Peel have arrived at their residence in Greet Btanhopsatroe►, from Brighton. Thu Right Hon. the Speaker gave hia fourth par liamentary full-dress dinner yesterday evening to the follow ing : —Lord Dunkellin, Hon. Charles Carnegie, Hon. Philip P. Bouverie, Hon. Colonel Coke, Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, Hee. P. J. Locke Kiog, Hoe. Captain Hanbury, Hon. Owen etenkry, Sir Philip Orgy Egerton, Sir John Ogilvy, Sir John Troilism, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Sir John Hanmer, Sir Alissatier Aelaod Hood, Sir Jervoise C. Jervoise, Colonel Sir Wm. Ruseell, Sir Joseph nutoo, Colonel M. Biddulph, Mr. Almaden Copeland, Mr. Aldorman Salomon*, Mr. A. H. Baring. Mr. Sentinel (Norfolk), Mr. Beale, Mr. limunish, Mr. Bineencint, Mr. Black, Mr. Hochman, Mr. Dalglish, Mr. W. Ewart, Mr. North (Hastings), Mr. Oiles Puller, Mr. Hussey Puke, Mr. Augustus Smith (Truro), Hon. O. Les& WeMegrave, and Rev. Henry Drury. The right lea. ipmelsrma afterwards held a levee. During a great portion of Tuesday a large num bers d persons assembled in Sackrille.street, outside the O, be 114,1, Dublin, in order to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Yehurter). An extraordinary number of letters was re ceived by her yesterday, all congratulating her in the warmest terms on the successful termination of the trial. Dr. Cullen has Wiled a very lengthy pastoral on the eve of the national festival, in which he reviews for the twentieth time in the course of a few months theaffairs of Italy ; and, as a matter of course, his views ars DOW devoid of novelty as they have always been of liberality, or consideration for the condition of the Italians in thral dom. The powers of evil and the spirit of darkness are still playing, the preLvte says, their fantastic tricks on the soil of Italy, and making not angels nuly hut all good men weep, for the dominance they have obtained where clerical aseesdaDey abouhi over be supreme. " At Newmarket," write " Argus " of the Post, "the Turkish bath u all the rage for hones, and several small ones have already been constructed. Bat the highest testimony to its efficiency is an application made to the Turkish Bath Company in Loudon, from some of the prin. cipal inhabitants, to construct a bath for race horses there, on the true Urquhart principle. And should the request be complied with, as I have reason to believe will be the case, one of the greatest emitl revolutions in the training of race horses will have been accomplished at the capital of 'The Turf.'" Not many years ago it wax a rare and startling thing to see a judge on circuit attending a Roman catholic chapel io his roles. Now it seems that novelty is o• the other side. The spirit of the Newry TeleyenpA hail bee. refreshed by the attendance of the two judges at Armagh Cathedral. It mys that a similar occurrence had not takes place for the last fifteen years, and that " it reminds every one of the good old days—it proteete•t sovereign, • protestant parliament, and laws founded and built upon the principles of the reformataen." Their lordships were accompuniol by the sheriffs, and received by the viten choral and dignitaries of the cathedral, who conducted them to the lord Primate's seat. A gold coin, hearing the inscription of Henry v., King ni Keglaud "and France," and the arms a the t wo coun t r i es , w it found buried a few days hack ease Hat_ geur, which else , : the King, it may be remembered, hod besieged. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (71011 001 OWN 00111ESPONDIWL) PARIS, WZONENDAT EVEIINO. In the Passe, M. Peyrat remarks upon the great importance of the debates in the Senate as evidence of the good effects of the decree of Nov. 24. "Because within the last ten years public spirit has been paralysed and eclipsed it was thought to be dead. But three days of free discussion, a few words resolutely pronounced, have sufficed to re vive it" After warmly praising Prince Napoleon's speech, with the exception of "two or three un fortunate, or, at least, ill-timed phrases" (alluding to his attacks upon the men of 1848), the article expresses the opinion that the government must already feel itself immeasurably stronger in con sequence of its having dispelled the "atmos phere of darkness" with which it was surrounded. M. Peyrat continues : A government which relies upon the people and main tains and respects liberty is rarely abandoned in a crisis. The English government is most certainly a string one, and yet there is no government in the world compelled to reckon so much with free writing and free speech. Conti nental Europe was for ten years under the yoke of Napo leon—free England alone maintained the struggle ; a pal pable proof that freedom of discussion is so cause of weakness. The silence of the Chambers and the journals is in many ways hurtful to autho rity. By suppressing or impeding freedom of discussion the government shrouds itself in dark ness ;if its agents are guilty of abuses, the government is held responsible, though it may very likely be ignorant of them. Free discussion renders abuses for the most part impossible ; it enlightens the government when it is de esived, and at all event, prevents it from wilfully shutting its eyes. The Bourse continues to be remarkably stagnant K Dupin's not that certain financial pirates were let loose with " letters of marque" to prey upon the public has made speculators very shy of vari ous securities which but lately were in high favour. The last settlement is considered to have been highly artificial, it being now known that many Rentes, taken up, as it was supposed, for money, were bought by "capitalists" without a penny, who borrowed at a rats of interest impos sible to be honestly accounted for. These myste rious transactions are stigmatised as reports Rualz— a name borrowed from the celebrated manufacturer of false plate. The Rente closed at yesterday's price, 68fr., for account, and at 68fr. 5c., with a rime of 10c., for cash. Mobilier fell lfr. 25c. In railways there was not much change. M. Marie Martin, whose name was familiar to the English public some time ago in consequence of a violent pamphlet which ho wrote about Irish grievances, has retired from the Conatitutionnel, his conscience as a Roman catholic not permitting him to write in a journal which supports the doc trines of the Guerrouniere pamphlet. The inauguration of M. Vela's statue of Manila, which it was at one time thought would be post poned till a later period, is now definitively fixed to take place on the Piazza Maria Theresa at Turin on March 22, the anniversary of the insurrection of Milan and Venice in 1848. A great many Parisians are going to Turin for the occasion. Prince Czartoryski, whoee family liekl such an position in the Polish emigration, dined at the Tuileries on Monday, and it it said that there has been a meeting of Hungarian and Polish notabilities at the Palais ltoyaL It is reported at Paris that M. Wagner, discou raged at not being able to conduct the orchestra for him self, at the first representation of the Tanithanser, wishes to withdraw the work. The Anti de la Religion publirthes a, letter from Rome, which says :—" Pius IX. appease to consider every thind at au end. ' Your noble devotedness,' said his holiness lately to some volunteers, 'is now useless, for all is finished. I have already said the same to several bishops of France, and to that of Rennes in particular.' " _ The nuirid journals describe the opening of an iron bridge acmes the river Aragon, on the Pan - melons and Saragossa Railway, and state it to he the moat remarkable work of the kind ever constructed in Spain. It has been completed with much rapidity under the control of M. de Salamanca and Mr. Kennard. A history of the revolution in Europe in 1848 will soon oppear. It is from the pen of X. Gamier Pees, former 111..y0r of Paris, former member of the provisional government ; arid, curiously enough, the publisher of the work, IL Pavony, was slim a member of the same govern ment. The work will consist of four parts—the Reedit. Lion of DWI in Europe ; the Fell of the Monarchy ; the 24th of February, Ifttfl ; and the provisional government, comprised in eight volumes. - • ROYA L GU/GRAPHICAL Err.—At the meeting ou Nor:ov the 11th inst., at Burlington House, the follow. ing rape's will he read :-1. Account of Excursions made in less°, J.ipan, 'uy Consul Pemberton Hodgson. 2. Travels in Siam. by Sir It. If. Schomburgk, Corr. F.It.G.S., com municated by Sir It. I. Murchison. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. MOTU'S TEL 101611.) INDIA. FAMINE IN THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES. BOMBAY, Fn. 12. The famine in the north-west provinces is assum ing a more serious character. The failure of the spring crops appears to be certain. The inhabit ants of Cutch and Frarancord (1) are also starving. It is feared that the famine will exceed anything of the kind within memory. Singular frauds have been detected in the elec tric telegraph office. The Bombay Timm says : "The paper currency bill is to be remodelled or abandoned altogether. " The tariff on piece goods and yarn is to be re duced. " The Inam commission is breaking up." WARSAW. THE PUBLIC FUNERAL A correspondent at Warsaw writes on the 2nd : —" I have just returned from the funeral of the victims of the 27th, and I hasten to tell you that all passed off in perfect order. It is impossible that you can form any idea of the imposing spec tacle. The whole city and surrounding districts took part in it. The number who were present is es timated at 150,000. Order was maintained solely by students and citizens ; not a public agent, not I a soldier, showed himself throughout the day. General Paulucci, on horseback, was the only man who wore a uniform. All the schools, the girls and young men, the congregations, carrying tlagS, to the extent of at least 100; more than 10,000 work men, and the whole city, marched in serried ranks. The bishop and the Christian ministers of all sects walked before the coffins, which were all alike, of black wood with silver nails. Some martyrs' crowns and large olive branches were placed upon the biers. The rabbi and the Jewish clergy fol lowed the bodies. In the spirit of toleration and fraternity, the managers of the ceremony proposed to the rabbi that be should walk by the side of the bishop, but this he declined because the Jewish law prohibits his walking before a coffin." cam'• WARSAW, MARCH 7. The addreva to the Emperor now bears 60,000 signature& POSEN, MARCH 7. Advioes received here from St. Petersburg state that a brother of the Emperor will shortly leave for this city. POSEN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Prince Gortachakoff has appointed • delegation of twenty-four citizens of Warsaw, eight of whom are alternately to sit at the Town-hall, for the purpose of arranging measures for the maintenance of public order. This appointment has produced a satisfactory impression, and it is hoped that order will not again be disturbed. The revolutionary party is small, the people being convinced that any rising not supported by foreign intervention would have no result. The garrison of Warsaw is being nightly in creased by other troops. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, THURSDAY. An imperial autograph letter sanctions the assem bling of a Berrien national congress in Karlowa.; under the presidency of the Patriarch Rajacic, before the opening of the Hungarian Diet. The congress is to be composed of Servian deputies only. The inhabitants of the other provinces belonging to the now united Greek church are Algot* be repre sented, but only for matters of religion and public instruction. PRUSSIA. BERLIN. MAD= 7. According to reliable information Prussia has, in the conference on the affairs of Syria, proposed a compromise, tending to the prolongation of the French occupation until June. BERLIN, Manca 6. The investiture of the King with the Order of the Garter has just taken place in the White Saloon of the Royal Palace. During the ceremony the court did not wear mourning. There wore present the Queen, the Royal Princes and Princesses, the high military functionaries, the Ministers of State, and the highest functionaries of the court. The English commission who had brought the insignia of the Order of the Garter to Berlin were conveyed in a state carriage drawn by six horses, and in two state carriages, each drawn by two horses, to the Royal Psdace, where they were received by the Governor and the Lord Chamberlain. The Marquis of Bresdalbane addressed a few words to the King in English, stating the object of his mission, after which the investiture took place. FRANCK PARIS, TBCRNDAT. . - The Moniker of this morning announOtli that Duke Teacher de la Pagerie and General Montau ban have been appointed senators. The Mondeur also contains decrees appointing several Vice Admirals, Rear Admirals, and other high naval functionaries. PARIS, WZDNIIMDAT In to-day's sitting of the Senate the committee appointed to examine the draft address proposed the following amendment, which was agreed to : " We remember the deeds of our friends of Sol ferino and Magenta, and it is therefore our duty to take them into consideration." The amendment in favour of the temporal power of the Pope was then discussed. Senator Casablanca, in the name of the majo rity of the committee, opposed the amendment, and requested the members to have confidence iu the government of the Emperor. He maintained that neither the committee nor the government dreamed of abandoning the chief of the catholic church. Senator Bourquency and the Duke of Padua supported the amendment. Senator Barthe like wise defended the amendment, and reproached Piedmont for having followed the advice of Eng land and despised the counsels of France. M. Bareche opposed the amendment, considering the draft address was quite sufficient. He main tained that there was nothing to indicate any in tention ou the part of the government of with drawing the French troops from Rowe ; ou the contrary, everything tended to show that they would reuminthere. The amendment was then rejected by 79 against 61 votes. The further discussion of the address was ad journed till to-naorrow. PARIS. WZDEREDAT. The Moniteer of this morning announces that the interest on Treasury bills has been raised to 3) ' 4. and 41 per cent., according to the length of tuue they here to run. DENMARK. ITZEH WEDNESDAY. The Estates have been ope ned to-day. M. Plessera has been elected President. Government and the property sold was unusually high, indi cating a confidence in British Columbia progress. Some Oregon capitalists were about shipping flour from that state to Liverpool. Savannah advices are to the 18th ult. The carnival had passed off with unusual gaiety. Nothin g of importance at Savannah. Sugar market very heavy and tending downwards. Stock, 135,000 boxes. Freights improved. Vessels scarce. Sterling Exchange, 111. SOUTHAMPTON, Tectimmir. The North German Lloyd's steamer New York, from New York on the 23rd ult., has arrived off Cowes, en route for Bremen. She brings 89 pas sengers, 250 dols. in specie for England, and 500 dols. in specie for Bremen. On the 2nd inst. the New York passed a large paddle steamer with red funnel steering westward. The New York was detained several hours at ,ea in consequence of a leaky stern pipe. The British schooner Quickstep had been abandoned. She was picked up at sea and taken into Boston. On being pumped out, four dead bodies were found in the cabin. General Miramon was still at Havanuah. Apartments had been token for hia family, who were expected from Vera Cruz. The exiled Meal. can bishops had also arrived at Havannab, from New Orleans. The sugar market was heavy with downward tendency. The New York commercial news has been anticipated. LONDONDERRY, WEDICIIIDAY NIGHT, The Canadian screw steamer North American, from Portland, Maine, on the 24th ult., has arrived here and landed all mails, except those for Liver pool. She brings 16 cabin and 14 steerage passen gers. Her political news has been anticipated. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK:Firs. 23. President Lincoln has safely arrived at Washington. The steamship New York has sailed for Bremen. Stocks are lower. New York Central, ; Erie, 311 ; Illinois, 78. The markets are gene rally unchanged. - _ _ NEW ORLEANS, Fn. 22. The cotton market is unaltered. Sales of the week, 82,000 bales. Receipts during the same Period, 72,000. LIVERPOOL, WZDNLIDA.T. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Vigo, which sailed this after. noon for New York, took 248,5401. in specie. HUNGARY. (neon cars owe coassarceneorra PBerH, Fez. S. Our political sky is overcast. The state of siege at Fiume, which forebodes no good to peaceful constitutional development in Hungary, brings us, on the other aide, into a most midair able collision with Croatia. Fiume, the seaport on the Adriatic, has au Italian population, which how ever clings to Hungary, and has a decided antipathy against Croatia. Before the invasion of Jellachick the town and district bad always a separate Hun garian governor, but in 1848 the Ban of Croatia oc cupied Fiume and annexed it to Croatia. After the diploma of the 20th of October, the inhabitants, freed from Austrian bureaucratic oppression, re membered their ancient allegiance to Hungary, and claimed the re-annexation thereto, by an ad dress to the crown and a deputation to Vienna. Their wishes were not attended to. On the contrary, a new county was formed in order to swamp the Italian population and Hungarian sympathies by adding a strong Croatian population, formerly ouustituting the separate district of Buccari, to the district of Fiume. Serious disturbances were the natural result of such a policy, which together with the fear of a Garibaldian invasion induced the Ban of Croatia, General Sokchevich, to proclaim martial law. The county of Pesth remonstrated against this violation of the law in an address to the Chancellor of Hungary, and requested likewise that Fiume should be re-united to Hungary, taken out of the jurisdiction of the Ban of Croatia, and put under the governorship of some distinguished Hungarian. The Croatian county of Agram took this address for the emanation of a hostile spirit of Hungary against Croatia, declaring that Fiume, by her geographical position, cannot but belong to Croatia. The county reaolved, therefore, to protest against the state of siege by au address to the Ban, but to cut off her amicable relations with the county of Pesth. Thus we were again threatened with rival claims which might easily embitter the feel ings and trouble the peace and alliance but lately concluded between Hungary and Croatia. The county of Agram seems to have felt how in opportune was the meialution against Pesth, and tried to neutralise the bad effect by send ing an address to the Emperor in favour of a com plete amnesty for all the political prisoners and exiles. This step is certainly significant enough, since there are no Croatian exiles abroad, all the refugees being Hungarians, and belonging to that party with whom Croatia was at war twelve years ago. We cannot but acknowledge the delicate feeling of the Croatians which led them to such • noble resolution, and we hope the Hungarians will reciprocate it by laying less stress upon the question whether Fiume shall belong to the crown of Hungary through Croatia or in a direct way. In fact, the Hungarians ought to face the question of the different races in Hungary boldly, and if they think that the irrepressible conflict with Austria draws near, they should try to ally themselves with the Croatians, Serbs and Roumans, by the most extensive concessions, even by yielding to their prejudices some points which by historical right belong to Hungary. If, on the other hand, the leaders of our movement believe that a reconciliation with Austria is possible, and that the Hungarian ministers at Vienna pos sess sufficient influence over the mind of the Em peror to have all the laws of 1848 re-established, then they might insist upon all their old rights and claims towards Croatia, the Serbs, and Boltzmann. And let us not forget that, if the more recent laws from the seventeenth century down to our days call Slavonia and Croatia "p astes adneme," the expres sion of " regna socia, implying federation and state rights, is not unknown to our more an cient laws. Let us under the circumstauces forget now for ever the annexed parts, and let us acknowledge all the claims of Croatia as a federal kingdom, let us extend these claims even to the Slavouians who scarcely pretend to them, but let us be true friends with the Croatians before the wiles of Vienna involve us both in a new war. The tidings from Vienna are indeed ominous ; we hear that the Chevalier Schmerling prepares a new draft of a theoretical ooustitution for the whole empire, as bungling and centralising as Baron Bach's notorious stillborn organisation, which was to surround the throne of the Emperor with democratic institutions. It is said that a central Diet is to supersede the functions of the Hungarian Diet—that all the questions of the taxes and duties, of income and expenditure, of the post, telegraph ? railways, means of communication, commercial intercourse with foreign countries, the public debt, and everything concerning the army, are reserved to the iniperial parliament at Vienna, by which the Hungarian Diet at Peeth or Buda would become • mockery and delusion. Should this news prove true, tlwn the way of reconciliation is at once blocked up. We cannot believe that any Hungarian minister would ever countersign such a draft, or that the Diet could be induced to send a delegation to the central parliament. FrancisJosepli may once inure rule Hungary by the sword—he has duce it fur full eleven years—or he may govern the country 0010 6 ' tutioually by a responsible ministry independent of German ministers, but Hungary mints be ruled by a Vienna parliament. Any attempt to enforce on the Hungarian municipalities the laws hissed at Vienna by Germans, Bobeininus, awl Galician, must lead to revolution. A moat disagreeable case in the county of Abut' . increases our apprehensions about the future. A certain Zahar, an ex-soldier, tried there to excite the peasants against the proprietors by telling then the fable that th e gen t ry d es i re to re.ture the old feudal laws about s e rf age an d v ill e i nage , and that spftche Turin, Austria fore aca tinue ta there is the 2nd the illeg of Euro really lx Stephen laws, he be Emp become Amor Angers, 1 Anges), h ■manits of his mo who was The B scandal— Brother whose res ting crimi He has la The lab graceful tioosak in " A del Assizes of of the der answer be four youe but she a restored could not come of those of 1 of the So and Wad vent to a tories are perjured made mei pretext Jews. n were so sane. 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