The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

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Beeklashant Whits. —And . or. the Naughty Boy tbaterkni tortheitoon . Maws. C. Young a: Relotott: Misses st.Casee, Herbert, de Romer. kitITANNIA. Tm, Esaxcsa. TIIE TUE MIRE. Meurs. Pitt, I rry . Jess Lou,s lobs. sad Newham . Mdlle. C. ftepase, Vl , ' jr *sins. Mrs. W. Cranford.—Awl A 3110A4AGE YEUM 111 E -Li. Messrs. Asysolas sad Arnythsuo. Mrs. X Yarsold. HIGH WAT AT LONDON 1111DOL 77n3 DAT —Maas_ IL SUL—. Ariasaa lob. ITAT. 1.-loliQW-.46.1111111111. 13a..... AtliesaL l lL 50s. - - - - LONDON, TUESDAY, JA N. 22. OUR liberal friends beyond the Straits are tooling forward with • reasonable anxiety to the result of the preliminary discussions about to open in the Imperial Senate on the Decree of November 24. Up to this hour it must be con fessed that this "Great Body of the State" has borne its honours meekly, and has accepted the burden of a salary for life with • silent acquiescence worthy of the best historical traditions. It was only a year ago the world ascertained that the Senate actually talked. The Mundeer, indeed, had solemnly reminded it of the exalted functions it was designed to fulfil, and the liberties it was authorised and expected to take ; but such was its diffidence, that it could not be prevailed upon to tale even the Mmaiteur at its word, or to give up to mankind what was meant for its Master. Lest year, however, the Senate awoke one morning, and found itself famous. The Roman Question was in everybody's mouth, and on the Roman Question the Senate had spoken out with a will and a vivacity which made that number of the trunitolr quite a lively publi cation, in which the Voltairian juvenilitiss of M. DUNN lightened the protesting thunders of a cou ple of Cardinals. The public had been coons• tinned to regard a Senator with the reverence due to a grave personage in • splendid livery ; but no one imagined that the Luxembourg was • retreat for plain speaking or public virtue. The vulgar belief had been that only questions of etiquette, ceremonial, and costume were debated under the presidency of M. Taorteii. This absurd mis apprehension could exist no longer ; and from that day to this the Senate has been seriously regarded as the depositary of the plans for the promised "crowning of the edifice" of the New Empire. In this capacity the Senate is now convened to consider and sanction the constitu tional changes announced in the decree of Novem ber 24. The publicity of its debates cannot fail to provoke the ardent curiosity of a public so long unaccustomed to the echoes of • political Assembly. The altered aspect of the principal journals is a cheering and decisive symptom of the revival of public spirit among our neighbours. Their tone and temper, resolutely and calmly expectant, bears witness to a strength of purpose, a dignity of feeling, and a wise moderation which deserve, if they do not command, all that the friends of free. dons can desire. Ten years of gloom have dimmed but nut extinguished the hope of better days. Names, in themselves signs and pledges, are re appearing in the liberal press at the foot of articles which recal the days when French journalism was a continual combat of wit, logic, and eloquence unsurpassed in Europe. It is a gain to the cause of freedom and progress everywhere that France should recover the use of a weapon which she has known how to handle ea bravely and brilliantly as her sword, and that is saying mock of her pen. The preliminary sittings at the Luxembourg have no doubt a special interest for our contemporaries in Paris, because the Senate is not only called upon in the exercise of its constitutional preroga. bye to set its seal upon the liberal provisions of the Decree of November 24, in their genseel effect upon the relations between the executive and legisl►tive authorities; it will have more particularly to define and regulate the material conditions of the enlarged publicity which is promised to the debates in the Legislative Corps, or the Lower Chamber, as we may now be permitted to call it. According to the terms of the Senates-Consul tun', the reports of debates are to be drawn up by secretaries placed under the orders of the President of each assembly. Theme reports are to be ad dressed every evening to all the journals. Short-hand report+, in fell, of the debates will be inserted in the official journal only, on the following morning. It is self-evident that the im partial and complete publicity of the debates is inadequately provided for by this article of the Decree of Nov. 24. The unofficial (not to say independent) journals are compelled to take an official abridgment of the debates, under the hands of Presidents of the Chambers, who are not elected but appointed by the Err►Ea"x. In all debates' of importance, it must be a material impossibility for journals published in the evening to take advantage of the only report they are entitled to publish. The full report of an impor tant debate, as it might appear in next day's Moniker, no French journal of the ordinary Nine could reproduce ; yet, by the terms of the Senates- Consultum, the choice must lie between the abridged reports supplied by the Presidents of the Chambers too late for journals which are des• patched by the evening mails, or the Monitear's report u.... tease, for which no journal save the .V...t..0r can make room, and which must be copied from the Monit. or in extenso, or not at all. If the Senate is sincerely anxious to inter pret in a liberal muse the intentions of the Decree, it will surely not reduce every journal but the Moult sr to nub a dilemma as this : either to accept the official abstract at an hour (in all important came) too late for pub lication, or to copy, two days after, the report of _lf nit-or—which is materially impossible. It is not pretended that the Mukikat is in every body's hands, or on everybody's dead wall in town and country ; nor can citiamse who are not ropier readers of the Abkiterir be expected to take in the official journal for the sake of a full report of the debates in the Chambers. Either then the independent and unofficial press will be allowed to take its own reports, as in the old parlia mentary days, or the publicity of the debate in the Chambers will be to all intents and pur poses restricted to the columns of the official journal, which is something like a contradiction in terms. If we could venture to hope that English opinion on such a point would not be " suspect,' we should take the liberty to hint that the Senate might amend this article of the Decree in an enabling sense, by simply leaving to each journal the dis craion and responsibility of its own report of the debates. Chartered libertines and anarchists, as English parliamentary speakers and public writers probably appear to the well-regulated mind of an Imperial Senator, they have at least a considerable experience in favour of leaving to the privilege of Parliament the proper and only check upon the privileges of the Press. This, indeed, is only one of the questions which are submitted to the constitutional decision of the Senate ; but it is one in which we may be excused for taking a sort of fraternal interest ; and the way in which it may be settled will have a sensible in fluence upon the revival of constitutional liberty in France. For, after all, publicity is the vital air of liberty : and the conditions of publicity are the conditions of its life. ALL TEAS as MERCHANTS' PROFITS. T mast aoraiONO, ••••••••4at 91 . Per 111. moat Bantam na Ca. 1116 liadorleidgr. ay. PARISIA- 1 4 PAPER HANGI2IOB, at the Jars —v. a. tliaralX. Marl a, 0.1./01.D. I7&LII. dose te tlr Arincsn's Mel". pulls FIRST CLA M SS sad LONDON PRIZE lAM ATIICIDTuS awl 11100 Dre, ..4.IIWWITIL 4 aoIJIWELLIJUI. W ry tleerietiretzest o Orruht-genies, W C . LOO.lOll "1 I r, ut done ell • 12 the evening, ant ea em...b..). !MIL THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY - 22, /861. iffbe Court. WINDSOR CANTLE. JAIL 21. Prince Philip of Wertemberg arrived yesterday on a visit to ber Majesty. The Queen. with Princess Alice, walked sod drove in lies Home Pak this morning, and visited the Duchene of Kent at Frogmore. The Prince Consort, accompanied by Prioce Philip of Wurtemberg, went out Rhooting, attended by Lord Camoys, Lieut..Colooel Kinpcote, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Poosonby. The Hon. F. Stonor had the honour of shooting with the Prince. Viscount Palmerston and the Hon. F. and Mrs. Stoner have left the Castle. A deputation of New Zealand colonists, consisting of Sir Charles Clifford, of Wellington, Mr. Newman, Mr. Brodie, and Mr. Nathan, of Auckland, Mr. Ward and Mr. Jell, of Nelson, Mr. E. D. Sweet, of Marlborough, Mr. W. B. Bray, of Canterbury, and Mr. John Morrison, agent for the New Zealand government, had au interview with Ibis Once the Duke of Newcastle at the Colonial-Aloe yesterday, Main to the present state of affairs in New Zealand. The trustees for t►e International Exhibition of 1863 met at Lord Granville's private reidenos on Thursday lus► The meeting was attended by Pori °twine. the Marquis of Chandoe, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. C. Wentworth Nike, sad Mr. Thomas Fairbeirn. Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yesterday morn ing from Windsor Castle. Hi lordship left town in the afternoon for hie seat, Bromeliads, Hata.n A deputation ou the licensing question, coediting of Messrs. Curtis, West, Sedgeley, Ogden, Keeley, Cooley, H.H. Dean, and Harding, had an interview with Sir Gawp C. Lewis yesterday at the llome•ofhce. THE PRINCE OP WALES. CANBRLDGF., liompar. Hie Royal Riglumina with the Hon. Major- General Bruce and Captain Grey attended Divine service on Sunday morning at Hadingley church. The Rev. Thos. of limmateel CoUege, Cambridge, and vicar of Ma illingley, officiated. The church, which is within the ilethesise of Mai*ley Hall, contains many monuments to tbs sessabers et the Hinds and Cotton families. His Royal Highness rawainad at flailingley throughout the day. Tee Lairs LOILD Zusimarox s. —This deceased echlernaa, who died a few dare dace, at Bournemouth, only succeeded his uncle, the late Governor of Bombay, in July last, in the Scottish barony. The late peer was the only mu of the Hon. Admiral Chas. Fleemiog Elphitietosa, sow of Jolts, 11th Lord Elphinstooe. He was born 11th Dee., 11119, wed wee unmarried. His lordship wen formerly I. the 17th Lamers, and at the close of the late war held the inak of Lieut. Colonel conimamilas the led Light Illegoawo d the German Legion. The deemed =blame is enc. needed, we believe, by Commander Wm. Buller Fullerton Elphiestess, of her Majesty's ship Hemet, now 15th Maros laphhtsicee, Also Noe of the ktte Lient..Colonel Jaa. D. B. Illphkeeleme, by his sexed marriage with Anna Maria, rely child of the late Ms Edwd. Buller, Bart., of Domani, 10eruwalL The present peer is in his :lard year. - . Tan DIMS OF BusIITALAND. —The bulletin re ceived bon Trentham yesterday announces that " the Dube Y Ow on well, and had an excelleet eight." Dtniag the Mans el ►ice grace a despatch has been daily forwarded to her Mejeety at Whidaor Castle, conveying • medical repast elt the condition of dm sable 'eyelid. His rave Henry the Sardinian Minister left town yesterday as a visit to Viscomat and Viscountess Palmerstoa at Drosdlasds. The Earl Granville leaves town to-day for Alden lain Park, Shropshire. Trauma Couuteaa Waklegrave and Mr. Harcourt., M.P., hare been entertainisg the following emptily at Nuaehant Park during the put week :—Hte Royal High ness the Duo d'Aumale, hie Excellency the Belgian Minister and Miss Van de Weyer, the Earl of Sefton, Viscount and I Vireatatess Enfield, Lord and Lady Honeys, Lady Guam mil the Hoe. Misses 'Una,' (2), Hat. Thome Manor, Hon. 1 Rubs Ashley, Sir Henry Cultured, Lady Therms Lewis and ML Lister, Genera! Peel sod the Mbar Peel, Mr. Hates Van In Weyer, Mr. and Nn. St. lawn Glyn, Mr. Fertesens, Yr. Orerifell, Mr. Alderacee, the Misses Money, Mg Ward Brabant, Mr. Augustus Harcourt, N. Louis litananin, Lady Suifiekl wan edely delivered of a eon on the 10th inst., at Harlsitams Room, Northamptonshire. Lady Stuart de Rotheray arrived at the resi dents el the Countess Dewar &eters, is Groeveuerplsee, es asteaday, The Right Rev. the Bishop of St. Davit's has srriard at Kaurigy's Hotel, from Abergwilli Palma, Car marthen. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis &Amor arrived et their residence in Hortfoidatreet, yesterday, from Winer, Castle. Sir John Acton has lett town fur Aldeuham Park, Shropshire. Viscountess Feilding gave birth to a (laughter on Sunday, at Downing, Flistakire. At a meeting of the members of the United Service lastitutiou held last night, Cliptain Fishbonnse, R.N., in the chair, Lieutenant-Colonel G. Man, late of the Royal Military Coilium, read an interesting paper on "Ancient War," illustrated by 22 dissolving views of pat 'MINIM merit. " Perhaps the best instance," observes the TOXIN, "of how money ease ►way in old useless grooves in that of the difference el pay between the Horse Guards and the Blues. The Hasse Guards and the Blum have the same duties, the same raak, and arc identical in everything accept Fey. The Horse Gaud' receive 3d. • day or per cent more pay them the Blue► This has gone on for many years. At last the anomaly struck 1.01110 meditative individual, and he damned his leisure to an historical inquiry into the matter. After much official search he discovered that the differonee originated is thin wine Many years ago, the Blues being at Windsor and the Horse Gua•de in London, the London barracks required repair, sod during these repairs the Horse Guards wore necessarily turned out of barracks and allowed threepence a night billet-mosey. In a few months the barracks were repaired, and the Horse Guards went back ; but that billet-money, that threepence, has gars on unexamined and been punctually paid through all the sec. coedits; wean. No lynx-eyed member peering through the estimates has ever men it. It has grown to Was of thou. sands, and is simply the revolt of the omission • clerk to make • miememodum is a book many yearn ego, when the Heim Gussnla west hack to their regular quarters." LATEST INTELLIGENCE GARIBALDI AND THZ SPRING CAMPAIGN. A writer in Bu/lkv's Correspondence says he has reed a letter from Garibaldi, declaring that be cannot adjourn the work of the deliverance of Italy unless the Italian parliament relieves him of the solemn engagement he has contracted in the face of the world. This news, if true, is highly important, for the general opinion is that Count Cavour's ministry is sure of a majority. General Turr has returned to Turin from his visit to Caprera, and has communicated to the journals an account of some of the proceedings on the occasion of his visit. In presenting the " star" to Garibaldi, on the 13th, General Turr made the following remarks : General,--The thousand who disembarked with you at Marsla, with whom you conquered at Calatafimi, and pleated at Palermo the fag of liberty, victoriously sur mounting every obstacle, present you toglay, through us, this star, which we hope you will accept as a souvenir of dangers pest and a pledge of those that are to come. No ; those who survive that thousand, whom you once called the remains of ten basis, will not be wanting at the next appeal which you make. Garibaldi, moved to tears, replied : Rest assured thit no gift has ever been more dear to my heart than this which is offered to me by my brave com panions in arms. Tell them that I accept it willingly, and thank them. I count again upon them when I shall carry to your beautiful country, 0 Cenral, the aid of oar arms, Wan I have sworn upon the grave of those gallant Hunga rians who died for Italy that we, I talians,we would replace them, as it is our duty. On the same occasion General Turr presented to the daughter of Garibaldi the new year's gift sent to her by King Victor Emmanuel. Garibaldi, who was present, smiled and said, " Thank his Majesty King Victor Emmanuel as much for me as my daughter for this new demonstration of true friend ship." This is all that General Turr has, up to the pre sent time, communicated to the public respecting his visit to Caprera. But it is known that he re presented to Garibaldi that disembarkation on any part of the Adriatic coast would be followed by the passage of the Po by the Austrian army, to which the Sardinian army could oppose but a feeble re sistance. General Turr was received on the 19th by Count Cayour, and was ou the next day to have an au dience of the King. THE SARDINIAN TROOPS BEFORE GAETA. The following order of the day was addressed by General Cis'dial to the Pied°iontese troops before Geste at the conclusion of the armistice, which expired on the 19th : aoldiers!—Grave considerations have induced the govern ment of our King to accede to the wishes of hie Majesty the Emperor of the French to suspend hostilities lentil the evening of the 19th. The French fleet is leaving, and there will be but one vessel in the waters of Gaeta, which in turn will sail on the expira tion of the armistice. The Emperor wishes perhaps by this to afford to the piece an honourable means of abandoning a hopeless contest, and so to pat ea end to oedema Whisks el blood. I know not whet reception will be given at Gases to these humane intentions and this last diplomatic attempt; but I know that in any cue the King and Italy have con fidence in the power of our valour and in that of our fleet to give to the siege a different solution and one more conformable to our wishes—to combat and not to treat, end that they rely more upon our arms than upon diplo matic councils. Soldiers! for many years the road to victory has been familiar to you. Traveno it again, and respond to the hope of the country by penetrating through the breach into Gaeta, and unfurling the Italian banner and the Cross of Savoy upon the old tower of Roland. (Signed) CIALonn. ROME, JAS. 21. The Russian, Prussian, and Portuguese Minis ters have returned here from Gaeta. There now remain at Gaeta the Papal Nuncio and the Ministers of Austria, Spin, Bavaria, and Saxony. PARIS, TUESDAY MOLE DIG. The Monikur, in its bulletin of to-day, says : " The presence at Gaeta of the Ministers of Aus tria, Spain, Saxony, Bavaria, and Portugal was not foreign to the resolution of the King to conti nue his resistance." The Moniteur also states that all the foreign vessels, even those chartered by the King, have left Gaeta. ALTSTRLL VIKIOIL, JAIL 22. The Grand Cross of the Order of tit. Leopold has been conferred on Count Apponyi, the Austrian Ambassador at the court of St. James's. HUNGARY. PESTH JAN 21. --- The following resolutions of the Emperor have been despatched to the Stadtholder of Buda by the Chancellor of Hungary : The election to the Committee of the Comitat of those persons who are refugees from the coun try, for political meows, are null and void. Severe punishments are to be inflicted on all persons who refuse to pay the taxes. The Comitata are prohibited from making any ordinances in reference to taxes. A vote of the Diet alone can bring about . a change in the tribunals now existing, or in the pre sent civil and penal codes. The practical establishment of the institutions panted by the constitution of 1848 is prohibited, and the public functionaries are ordered to oppose it by the most severe measures. In case of refusal the Committees of the Comitat are to be either sus pended or dissolved. The assemblies of the Comitat have no executive power, and are cousoquently not to be allowed to issue ordinances. The imperial diploma of October 20 will, how ever, undergo no modification, and the concessions granted to Hungary will remain unabridged, PESTI& JAR. 2& The imperial manifesto of the 16th inet. wee reed in yesterday's sitting of the committee of the ooze i tat. It was unanimously riwolved to adjourn the dis cussion of the same to the general assembly of the comitat on the 11th February. The Clamor Public° of Madrid mays a report was current that two high personages, one of them a female, had heat arrested, and that " strange rellloo/1" were missed for the WOOL The Rspana also refers to the matter, aid says that it has reason to believe that a female had been taken into custody for having brought from Loudon a amber of the bonds of the loan which Don Juan wants to rains. The Madrid Gazette of the 17th stater' that the notification which appeared in its columns on the preceding day, that court mourning was to be worn for three months for the Count sod Countess de Montanan's, Wu " an error of a subaltern offietal," and it adds that there is to be ale wart mourning for them, but only s family one. - - " M. Thouvenel," says a Paria letter in the Nord, " hue just addressed two new circulars to the diplomatic agent. of France in foreign countries ; one relating to the alkir of Gaeta, end the other to Syria. They are reported to contain mad pacific declarations." The Memorial de is Loire, a St. Etienne journal, says that the Question of arming the whole French army with wiz-barrel revolvers i, wider consideration. It is pro posed that the infantry ehoehl carry the pistol fastened to the and the cavalry on the right of the saddle. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, MomAz Swum. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Captain Anderson, which left Boston on the 9th inst., and touched at Halifax ok the 10th instant, arrived in the Mersey at 4.16 tLis afternoon. We take the following telegrams from the Boston journals of the Bth instant, as showing the latest phase of the secession movement when the Canada left Boston : A Washington telegram of the Mit inst. says :—" Mr. Thompson. Secretary of the Interior, resigned to-day on tits ground that troops had been sent to Charleston by the steamer Star of the West, when, se he alleges, there wail a distinct understanding on the 3lst December that none were to be ordered South without the decision of the Cabinet. " Rumours of an attack upon the steamer Star of the West are rife, creating an intense excitement. Nobody can give any authority for them." [The late telegram, rid Halifax, already published, states that the Star of the West war fired upon by the Caroli nians, and that consequently she did not land her rein forcementa.] The report that orders have been issued by the British government to consuls at the ports of seceding states to refuse certifiates of clearances to English vessels, is denied. It is said that Mr. Bunch, the British Consul at Charleston, recognises the de facto government by granting such cer tificates. Agents of so Ahern states continue to arrive for the pur pose of purchasing arms. The government for the present refuses to sell any to state or private parties. An agent from Mississippi dada for the north to-morrow to procure arms, although it is said the supply there is not abundant. A number of the leading secessionists here are urging upon Governors Hicks, of Maryland, and Letcher, of Vir ginia, the necessity of demanding of the President an im mediate removal of United States troops from Fort Wash- The armament of Fort Washington is in excellent con dition, and preparations have been made for firing red-hot balls that will burn any vessel which may attempt to pass the forts for hostile purposes. The oaval department has received information this morning that the revenue cutter Dobbin, lying in Mobile harbour, has the United States flag flying, with the Union down, and the Palmetto flag flying at the mainmast. This act, on the part of those having the vessel in charge, is considered open revolution before the secession of the state of Alabama. A gentleman from Charleston says that the merchants. alarmed for their property, have removed their valuable goods to the interior. Business is at an sad, and some of the stores are closed. Traders are the first sad greatest lowers by the secession movement. The hotels at Charles. ton have few patrons, and their business for the winter is ruined. JACKSON, MISVSKIPPI, Jay. B.—The state convention met this forenoon. A resolution was adopted to amend the constitution of the state, so as to authorise the borrowing of money for the purpose of military defence. The stand ing committees were appointed, including one to prepare a secession ordinance. A despatch was received stating that Georgia was determined upon immediate secession. At a military parade to-day a flag with fifteen stars was carried. Then was a mimic battle, skinnishiog, &c. An ordinance for immediate secession has been unanimously agreed upon by the committee of fifteen. It will pass the convention to-morrow in secret session. Nzw Our Azz, JAIL B. —ms majority for immediate se cession in this city was 380. NOR -TOLE, VISGUIIIA, JAN. R.--Schooner S W. Ltittrel, of Staten Island, has been seised for a violation of the Vir iginia inspection laws. It is reported that active measure s are being taken for the defence of Fort Miuwoe. A special despatch from Richmond, Virginia, to the New York Herald says that the committee of the House of Delegates will report a bill for a con vention. The election of delegates is to take place on the 7th of February, and the convention is to meet on the 18th. The question relative to increas ing the military force of the state was referred to a committee. A resolution proposing to appropriate ten millions of dollars for that purpose was also re ferred. It is the general opinion that Virginia will secede about the 20th of February. The Alabama Convention was in session at Montgomery. A committee had been appointed to report a secession ordinance. A resolution in the House of Representatives at Washington, approving the course of Major Ander son at Charleston, and sustaining the President in not recalling him, met with violent opposition. A very lively running debate sprung up. Some were greatly excited, and when the resolution passed, imprecations and curses were heard distinctly. Florence, of Pennsylvania, and Vallandigham, of Ohio, were the only northern men who voted against it ; not a southern man for it. The senators of those southern states which had called a convention adopted the following resolu tions :—First—We recommend to our states im mediate secession. Second—We recommend hold ing • convention at Montgomery, Alabama, on • day not later than the 15th of February, and establishing • southern confederacy. Another resolution was passed, considered confidential, but understood to pledge the senators to remain at Washington and defeat army and navy, appropria tion, and other bills, if proposed. The Washington correspondent of the New York I Herald says : The vote aeon the resolution approving the 0011,90 of Major Anderson and sustaining the President in not recall ing him, is regarded by the southern men as indicating a majority favourable to the passage of a force bill. They are intensely incited this evening, and threaten vengeance if a force bill is attempted to be passed. The Republicans also regard it as showing a majority in favour of such a measure. It is stated that much dissatisfaction exists among the German and Irish volunteer troops at Charleston, who are taken away from their business and homes to perform military duty, while the secession leaders are enjoying the luxury of treason comfortably and without any personal exposure. The Bth of January, being the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, was devoted to a great consumption of gunpowder all over the Union in honour of General Jackson's victory ; and in most of the northern states, in honour also of Major An derson's course at Charleston. The occasion was also seized in the New York State Senate to pass a resolution to present a sword to Major Anderson. General Jackson's proclamation against nullifica tion was also read, on the motion of Mr. Spindlay. A Washington despatch states, upon reliable information, that Senator Cameron has declined a seat in Mr. Lincoln's cabinet. Two hundred men with 130 horses left Fort ' Leavenworth for Baltimore on the 7th. The correspondence between the South Carolina commissioners and the President of the United States is published in eztenso. On the second com munication there is the following endorsement : —" This paper, just presented to the President, is of such a character that be declines to receive it" Alabama military companies were in possesAion of the forts at Mobile under instructions from the governor of Alabama. The message of Governor Letcher, delivered to the Virginia legislature on the 7th, discusses the affairs of the nation at considerable length. He renews his proposition for a state convention, to decide upon the course of the state in the event of disruption, which he considers inevitable. He condemns in decided terms the course of South Carolina in taking steps to dissolve her connexion with her sister states without consultation, and declares that he would uut even have iuuie usiun to Ler Lal it wit been for uncalled for reforeuccs to Virginia in the last message of Governor Gist. After rehearsing the terms upon which he believes that the Union might still be preserved, Governor Letcher closes this portion of his message with the declaration that he will regard any attempt of the general go vernment to transport troops across the territory of Virginia, for the purpose of coercing another state, as an act of invasion which must be repelled. The House of Assembly, in accordance with the governor's recommendation, unanimously adopted a resolution providing for a state convention. In the United States Senate, on the 7th, Mr. Ten Eyck, of New Jersey, presented a petition of citizens of that state, which was referred to the judiciary committee, requesting Congress to autho rise a national convention, to meet at Philadelphia on the 4th of March. Thirty-three memorials, asking for the submission of the Crittenden resolu tions to • vote of the people, were presented by Mr. Bigler, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Crittenden then spoke at some length in favour of his propositions, and was followed by Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, who made a characteristic speech, full of " fire and fury," general dissolution, and the tramp of armed men, concluding with a declaration that if the south was denied her rights, "she would invoke the God of battles, and trust to Him for security and peace." Congress was not in session on the Bth, owing to the anniversary of the battle of New Orleaps. A congressional committee, appointed by the caucus of the border, slave, and free states, agreed to a proposition substantially the same as Critten den's compromise, except in two points. First, it guarantees a jury trial to a fugitive slave in the state from which he may have escaped. Secondly, in the territorial claws.; it provides that Kansas be admitted at once ; the remaining territory to be divided by the Missouri compromise line ; all north to be for ever free, and all south to be orga nised into territory in which neither congress nor the territorial legislature shall interfere with slavery; but when any sixty thousand square miles has a hun dred thousand population, it is to be admitted as a state, free or slave, as its people choose. The pro position was pending before Congress. A New Orleans telegram says :—"Private de spatches from Vera Cruz state that the liberals took the city of Mexico, Dec. 25. Miramon, finding no support, immediately resolved to capitu late." The brig Tolova, and barque Mary Kimball, both slavers, were captured off Cuba, taken to Key West, and delivered to the United States Marshal. The commercial intelligence has been in a mea sure superseded by the later news, via Halifax, already published. The Boston A dvertiser says sterling exchange had slightly advanced there, and the best bankers' bills were held at 1051. The weekly statements of the New York city banks present the following changes as compared with the week preceding : Decrease in loans Increase in specie Increase in circulation 410,701 „ Decrease in untirawn deposits 711,164 „ The New York Evening Post of the Bth says : The closing Wainer is exchange for the Boston mail is at rather higher rates ; 1041 to 106 was readily paid for best bills on London, and 5.374 to 5.40 cm Paris. The past week has been one of the liveliest in cotton far some time pest. The sales have been large, and prices have advanced from le. to lie. The demand has been partly speculative, bet chiefly from the home trade, who have better facilities for buying here than at the south during the financial derangement. LATEST rid BOSTON. Cotton firm, and prices unchanged ; sales, 5,500 bales. Flour bas a declining tendency ; superfine state, 5 dole. 25c. to 5 dol.. 30c. ; extta ditto, 5 dole. 45c. to 5 dole. 55e. Wheat dull ; white, 1 dol. 50c. ; red, 1 dol. 37c. ; white Canada, 1 dol. 52c. to 1 dol. 55c. Corn has a declining tendency ; mixed western, 68c. to 70c. York firm. Lard firm and scarce, at 105 c. to 10Ic. Spirits of turpentine firm, at 33c. to 37c. Rosin firm, at 1 dol. 25c. Rice steady. Freights to Liverpool quiet ; flour, 3s. 3d. ; pain, 11d. to New ORLEANS, JAN. B.—Cotton dull ; sales, 8,000 bales at for middling; sales of three days, 20,000 bales ; receipts of three days 20,500, spinet 35,500 same time last year; receipts up to this time less than last year, 225,000 bales ; receipts at all the southern ports less than last year; 586,500 bales. Freights :—Cotton to Liverpool, 11.16 d. Exchange on London, lA to 3. The latest stock quotations have already appeared in the latest rid Halifax. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Wellesley, Captain Smith, from Melbourne, on the 4th November, has arrived in the Channel en route for London. She brings 33,000 ounces of gold. She landed eleven passengers. A great robbery has been committed on board. (From the second edition of the Tirade.) PLYMOUTH, TUUDAT MORNING. The clipper ship Wellesley, Captain John, belong ing to Messrs. R. and H. Green, of London, has landed nine passengers here. She left Melbourne November 4, rounded Cape Horn December 13, and crossed the line December 29. Much ice, some of a very gorgeous appearance, was observed in the South Pacific. One ice Wand, seven miles long, was passed, and one berg grazed. In fact, the ship was obliged to heave to on several occasions to avoid collision. The gold dust brought by the Wellesley is 33,000 ounces, valued at 132,000/., and with pas sengers 100 ounces, valued at 4001. The cargo consists of 1,274 hales wool, 114 casks tallow, 42 casks hides, 269 bales leather, 69 bales abeep skins, 2,560 bags copper ore, and 60 packages sundries. She embarked 50 passengers, one of whom, Mr. Henriquez, died on the paNsage. She also lost Mr. Eyre, a midshipman, by death. A considerable number of small vessels were seen in the South Atlantic. The Bucephalus, home ward bound, from Valparaiso. The Wellesley has landed three mail bags here. The Roxburgh Castle, from Melbourne, has passed up Channel. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY E% ENING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus Captain Hall, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 13 passengers and 2,6451. in specie. The Tagus had fine weather throughout the pas- H.M.5. 81 St. Jean d'Acre and the Portuguese squadron were at Lisbon. On the 20th instant the Tagus exchanged colours with a steamer bearing the Greek flag at the main, and with the British schooner Staghound off Fal mouth. LLSBON, JAm. 17. On the 10th instant the Minister of Finance pre sented bills to the Cortes proposing a further re duction iu the cuatoms tariff. Exchange on Loudon at three months is quoted 54i ; ou Paris, 526 ; ou Ainsteniam, 44i ; ou Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 5 23 ; Three per Cent. Rental, 147} ; Coupont,, 462 ; Deferred, 38. The Bank of Lishou, 56:1 milreis ; the Commer cial and Mercantile Bank of Oporto, 200 milrei.. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor OM OWN PARIS, Moaner EVISING. The telegraphic news that, in consequence of the declaration of the blockade of Gaeta by Admiral Persano, all foreign ships have quitted the port, is interpreted by the Prase as comprising the French corvette Muette. This is, however, I think, doubtful. The Pays and Patrie, without throwing any light upon the above question, say that the telegram requires explanation, because the blockade "not having been recognised by any power cannot be notified." That is what they say, although the phrase seems to put the cart before the horse. They proceed to explain that the Piedmontese admiral has received orders to invest the place by sea, and act as if the blockade had been recognised. In short, says the Petrie, there is " a blockade in fact but not in law." This tallies very much with what was said some time ago, that when once the French were out of the way, Admiral Persano would feel strong enough to take the law into his own hands with regard to any other naval power which might pretend to assume a bullying attitude. The Muette, I think it likely, will remain at band during the siege, and will supply Gaeta with lint and medicaments for the wounded. News has arrived that the bombardment has commenced by land and sea, Francis 11. having refused Cialtlint's conditions of surrender. The evening papers speak of the probability of an understanding between France, England, anti Russia, with a view to a peaceable arrange ment of the Schleswig-Holstein question. The Minister of the Interior, without loss of time, sent the following answer to M. Emile 011ivier's letter, which I transmitted yesterday : Paris, Jan: 19. Monsieur,—You have asked, conformably with Article of the organic decree on the prom, for an authorisation to found a political journal at Paris. It has been my duty to molder your application at the same time with many others of the same kind, and I have just decided that this authorisation cannot be grunted to you. Receive, monsieur, the assurance of my distinguished consideration. The Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the Interior, F. DE PILBEIGET. This letter is a heavy blow and a great dis couragement to the hopes founded upon the decree of Nov. 24. The Bourse, after opening with weakness, became firm at the close in consequence of a piece of news which 1,1124 known in London on Friday, that Russia has agreed to exchange thirty millions of gold against a like amount of silver with the Bank of France. The Rente closed, with a rise of 25c. and 15c., at 67fr. 50c. and 67fr. 40c. Mobilier rose 10fr. Railways were from 2fr. 50c. to 6fr. 25c. higher. ITALY. THE RECEPTION OF PRINCE CARIGNAN AT NAPLES. (I , IOY OCR OWN ; NAPI,II,..JAy : 15.. I could give you only some ieivdetaile Of the reception reception of Prince Cerignan in my Saturday's letter ; but it was so decided a success that I must return to it. All Naples is talking of the new lieutenant, and augurs favourably from hia appear ance and manner. His royal highness is a man of few words, but there is a bonhomie about him which is taking ; he has a pleasant smile, too, and then the Neapolitans have found out that he is "so like the late Count of Syracuse," the idol of all the lower daisies. The Count, as you know, was the brother-in-law of the Prince, and this more than fancied resemblance is the more singular for that reason. But let me give you a little history of the entry of the Prince ; how our ships were the first to blase away as soon as the royal standard hove in view ; and how their salute was taken up as soon as the royal steamer entered the port, and how a thousand flags decorated the vessels, native and foreign ' in the offing and in the port, I have already told you. Count Farini was in waiting for the Prince, and together they drove off to the palace, amidst a partial shower of bouquets. On the line of road was assembled a vast crowd of people, who shouted their " vivas" with voice enough, at least, whilst a portion of each of the twelve battalions of National Guards, a very fine new regiment of Marines, and two battalions of Pietimontese troops, were on duty near and around the palace. Soon after his arrival the Prince made his appearance on the balcony, which overlooks the square of San Francesco Paolo, and which was crowded with curious spectators, who had come out to see their new Governor. It appears but a short time since that I saw Ferdinand standing in the same spot, and holding out his infant child to re wive the benediction of a saint whose gaily deco rated wooden image was being carried in procession below, followed by many of the ignorant and ser vile nobility who are now scattered about Europe. It was a pleasant contrast to see the Lieutenant of the constitutional King looking down on a free people, and passing in review the best defenders of their liberties, the National Guard. The Prince was evidently much pleased with their bearing, and watched their manwuvres with the greatest interest. Twice he made his appearance on the balcony, talking familiarly with those around him, and when he left everyone was loud in his praises. His royal highness, therefore, enters on the duties of his government under the best auspices, and every well wisher to the Italian cause must pray that he may succeed in restoring order and good feeling. • FRANCE AND PRUSSIA. The Vienna Prase says : Prince Murat brought to Berlin not only letters of con• dolence and felicitation. addressed by the Emperor of the French to King William, on the occasion of his accession and the death of the late king, but be was charged to es• press anew the Emperor's desire and wish to live on the best possible terms with Prussia sod the hope that in the negotiations relative to the treaty of commerce, Prussia would show the saute seal and the same goodwill as France, sad thus give new guaraotees for the prosperity of the two states and the maintenance of peace RUSSIA AND CHINA. A lettor from St. Petersburg contains Rome ac count of an additional treaty concluded by General Iguatieff with China. The letter says : This treaty has caused great satisfaction in our political and commercial circles. According to this additional cos station, Russians will be able to visit the inland commer cial places of Chiba situated on the route from Kintcha to Pekin ; Russian merchants will have the right of trading with the merchant. of Pekin, and will participate au all the advantages accorded to allies. They will be able to trade freely along all the watercourses of the frostier, visit the fairs of Outonga and liatechgar, and establish factories sod consulates at such places as they choose. PRUSSIANPOIAND. Several letters from Posen state that the Polish agitation in that province is increasing steadily. It is said that agricultural associations are made the centres of the movement, and that the object of many of those societies is purely political, as they are composed exclu,ively of Poles. It is also stated that a disposition i-, shown to deal with none but Polish merchants. A letter from Berlin of Jan. 17 says : The Polish section of the second chamber, which probably this session will displ great activity in behalf o f Polish nationality, is to present aa sassedment to the address, de. =tiding for the Poly s living under the sceptre of Prussia the same rights's Pr Assis claims for Schleswig and Holstein At the Italian Opera Verdi's sew work, Cu Bobo ia Markers, WAS produced Let week for the first time in Paris, attracting, as might be expected, a crowded house, composed chiefly of critics and dilettanti. The opera bee been pl a yed at =ay of the theatres of Italy, but by no means with the success of the Troratere or Riaoletto : nor is it likely to become so popular as some of the maestro's mv iusis productionn. The principal pans are given to Penco, Alhoni, Mdlle. Bats, !brio, and firariani. I