The Express. — London, England, 1865-03-18 00:00:00

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Tim Mum, HZAZT:BIIOIGS AND IIDDLZETRINGB. TEI IMAMS OF LONDON. MainATlnlng .1. W. Zs Mahar. Murray. J. Masan, Facrodat, sad H. Maas : Idea H. Hanks. Wan Daniell and Gwynn*. —And AN AMPLE APOLOGY. LYcztrit. Zwartisk A HAIFAHiII THE WEDDING.—THE aTIANOZIL. Wain. Zrter, Hanstaa,Wlddloaatklttiostaisic : MAIL Hearin sad Mrs. norm.—Arad THE BOAD.ILIDI INN. XL Emery and Mu limo/thy.—Commence at I. BRITANNIA. nut SriMM. Tlll4lDiiiiiiii KV&—IIIDAB. Was &thee I' agoba —Dwain by IWO,. C. Ilbrphsa. —And TWINTY 8111AW6 —Commeac• at halt-past SIGH WATIII AT LONDON-BEIDGE. TO DAY L laifiali. ill Igia....7.4tise;;M: gb. gra. Taggoanow Ilesslag, Q. gers.....Attorsoos. <IL Üba. LONDON, 13ATURDAY. MARCH 18. Tax great contest between labour and capital now going on in the iron trade deserve. all the at tention it can receive from the disinterested portion of the public. Nothing more serious has presented itself in the social history of our times. Writing while the breach is not irreparable we shall hope for the best, but it is clear that if something is not done speedily to bring the ironworkers and the ironmasters together, we shall witness a war of classes terrible to think of. To that result events seem too sorely tending. What we witness now is but the developed form of a movement which began about the time when the working classes, disgusted with the rejection of their petitions for the Charter, renounced politics and turned their attention to their social position. Those who hold forth the prospect that the present look-oat will break up and destroy the union of the men and put an end to strikes, can have paid very little attention to what has been passing before their eyes. What we now see is only a beginning of the application of the power of combination by the mass of the people. They have proved the efficacy of that principle and found that it is real, 'and he must know little of human nature who imagines that they will ever renounce it. The care of all well-wishers to our composite and artificial society should be, that both masters and men may learn to understand their interests, and be more solicitous to prevent needless suffering than to vindicate a dangerous privilege. We have repeatedly expressed the conviction that the North Staffordshire ironworkers acted very foolishly in striking against their employers when it was proposed to make a necessary reduc tion in their wages. The paddlers' union was equally wrong in assisting them with funds, as it did, until a fortnight ago. At that time it was evidently the intention of the general body of pad dlers to follow • course of action which they had formerly found successful, and to beat the masters in district after district, striking first in one locality and then in another, and supporting the men who were " out " by contributions from those who were "in." It will be generally allowed that the masters had a perfect right to combine for the purpose of neu tralizing this policy. But how were they to do it It is said that the masters are only now pursuing against the men the very tactics which the latter have employed with effect against them. But it is not so. In the case of former local strikes the workmen not on strike have employed their wages to aid the men out of work. Corresponding action of the general body of masters would consist, under these circumstances, in assisting the master. whose business had been interrupted by this strike. But another course has now been taken, and the men's counterpart of the present action of the masters in locking out the ironworkers all over England, although they are ready to take the masters' wages, would consist in their striking work all over the kingdom because the masters of • limited district had locked out their men. But this is a course they have never yet taken. It is this locking out of workmen who have no quarrel with their masters, but are ready to work on terms approved by their employers, which constitutes the novelty of the present case, and strikes impartial observers with astoniahment. The great qqestion now is how the general body of working men of all trades throughout the country will regard this attack on their class. If they act on the maxim "every one for himself," it is probable that, after • period of suspense during which much suffering will be borne, and many industrious men will leave their native land, and large openings will have been made for the advantage of the foreigner, those ironworkers who remain will go in at the reduced wages. But if the trades generally act according to their known habits and sentiments ; if they stand by the ironworkers, as the meeting on Wednesday night pledged them to do—then should the masters per sist in their present resolution, there is only one possible issue. In that case the Masters' Union must break down. The Ironmasters' Union may be stronger than the Ironworkers' Union, but it will be weaker than that Union aided by all the other Unions. The assistance which the ironworkers may receive from the general body of working men is practically unlimited, whereas the ironmastera have done their utmost when they have closed the works. While the masters claimed to fix the wages payable in their establishments, public opinion was unanimously on their side ; but since they have assumed the right of prescribing to the men, not only how their wages shall be earned, but how they shall be spent, and of punishing the contented workers for the fault of men on strike, they have rapidly lost ground, and are consolidating the ranks of their opponents. The masters are in danger of deceiving themselves when they attempt to compute how much suffering an Englishman will endure rather than submit to treatment which he believes to be unjust, or the extent to which -~ ~ J ~ . . Englishmen will aid their breth „Mating in- . justice. It is not to be wondered at the mintage rE; should feel irritated at being get UAW wfth their associated men on a new footing ; bit they would do well to look at the facts. Circumstances in vite the man to set a higher value upon themselves than they have hitherto done. While scarcely any improvement has taken place in their lot at home, they are being sought out by communities who regard them as sources of wealth. There are at this moment in England agents with unlimited funds, duly accredited as representatives of per sons of responsibility, ready to take them in any numbers to the United States free of cost, and guaranteeing them alike against bounty brokers and the draft. And we know that our own colonies are making great exertions to induce them to go thither. An opinion is spreading among the men, created in great part by injudicious speeches in Parliament and elsewhere, that this is not a country for the working men, and they are accord ingly thinking of other communities where, as they say, they are " more thought of " than here. We 1 must expect to lose an increasing number of this portion of the population. Still we should like to see a better feeling prevailing between those who remain and the employing classes. The men, how ever, should be well advised, It is not wise to leave home and country from mere pique, and if any have settled intentions of emigrating, a strike is not necessary for that purpose. Moreover, only a small proportion of the men can emigrate, and the effect on the wages of those who remain behind will be checked by the increased use of machinery. Above all, no scarcity of ironworkers could make it worth the while of the masters to pay wages which would leave them lees than the ordi nary profits of trade. A notion is extensively prevalent that England is in some way the natural and necessary home of the iron trade. Bat this is not absolutely true. With coal and iron stone, and capital and labour harmoniously com bined to work them, we can no doubt keep the lead we have acquired. But, as our scientific contemporary the Engineer observes, "English " iron owes nothing of its almost universal em " ployment to paramount excellence of quality. " The ores of Belgium, France, Sweden, and " America ars, as a rale, better than ours—richer " in metal, not unfrequently more easily worked, " and giving a finished product at least equal, and " in many cases superior, to anything our fur " naces and mills can turn out. For years " we, nevertheless, supplied the world with " iron—thanks to an abundance of coal, " and to foreign wars which interfered " with the progress of the industrial arts " abroad. Of late, however, this very desirable " state of affairs has been undergoing a change, " and continental masters find that they can " supply continental markets at a price which, " although fairly remunerative, tells fearfully on " our foreign trade. Iron has, therefore, fallen "in price." Workmen who want to work steadily on in the old country should think of these things before they combine to strike. The difficulty which preens just now is caused by the act of the meters ; but the men should remember that they began the strife. We regret that the opportu nity offered by the meeting held at York yesterday was allowed to pass away without any effort on the part of the workmen to come to terms with the employers. We would hope that the door is yet open for reconciliation, and that something may speedily be done to cheek the extensive mischief with which we are all threatened. INVELLLGENCE. MAIL ": 4 - Ina AMMICAN • -.4sSe. ignftEsql FROM F. amwm OWN COIIIIPNIDI r.) PARIS. FIUDAT EVINIIO. The New nrk Herald of March 7, commenting upon the " situation says : General Sherkimes movement ep the Shammies& Valley, in co-operatics with the armies of Sherman and Schofield i• the Carolinas. and Sc. arfailla immediately under the eye of General Grant, meet very soon biting about the evacuation of Richmond or the oomph** isolation of General Lee from his last remaining some= of subsistence. The capture of the MAW reenneet of the rebel column under Early, with " that bed old man " himself, is an important achievement. Sheridan's occupation of the railway junction and rebel commierary depot as Charlottesville lea still more import ant sumer ; bat the edva•tsges he has thus sesured for • an those &wine raid nos Lee's vital which determine the fan of a belimignered army. Sheridan, at Charlottesville, hold. on of Lee's vital lines of ocaamnsicatios with Lynchburg. It is not neamary to storm or lay siege to the fortification of that city in order to gain the other line. It may be tapped and broken up between Lynchburg and the Berkville junction of the Dan ville road, and at that junction, or below it, the Danville road itself may be out off. The ion of those roads to Leo will moos compel him to leave Richmond in sawn of food for his soldiers ; but how ahe to drive back Sheridan He can do it only by a superior tons of cavalry ; but Lee la deficient in horns, and hie beet cavalry leader, Cannel Wade Hampton, with his best troops of that ern; is off somewhere in South or North Carolina Weed, from all moan* including A. P. Hill's satin corps, Lee has despatched to Joe Johnston, in North Carolina, all the troops, infantry &ad cavalry, that can safely be spared from the del GOON of Richmond, is order to prevent, if possible, • junction of Sherman with Saba told. How, then, Lee is to maintain his lines of supply with Lynchburg and Danville, without abandonieg or losing Riohomed, it is difficult to conjecture. His °wadi fiat in any wrest is beyond remedy. Embraced now is as *mental to the mainteosnos of his army as his army is to the maiatesaace of Richmond. If he cannot an his way without giving tip the city, in giving up the city he will have so further nee for his army, for his Southern Cools deraoy will Instantly fall to pieces. &chewed is the last prop which holds it together, and Lee Itimeelf is evi dently prepared to ride the (animas of Davis and Souther' indepoedesos lea anal struggle for Richmond, desperate as the chasm may be against the enveloping combinations of General Grant. There is now, in fa* smother alternative for Lie. Toe Richmond joarnals truly say that io his present situation the lass of Richmond is the end of their stroule. Bat while Lee is weakening his army, right and left, to main. tale his lines of supply, Grant, right and left, is closing around him, and watching for biz opportunity. A few more days of these northwesterly winds of Much will be very apt to being us the tidings of the fall of Richmond, the flight of Jeff. Davis, and the collapse of kis oonfedetsey. The following are the official deapatchea relative to the defeat of Early : City Point, Va., March 5, 11 a.m. ROL Ifotwio M. fit;atom, r 7 of War. Deader. to this morning report that Sheridan had routed Early and captured Charlottesville. They report four mai meats having goes from here (Richmond) to reinforos Early. (Sipped) U. S. GRANT, Lieut.-General. City Point, Va., Sunday, March 5, 2 p.m. Hoo. E. Y. Stanton, Secretary of War. Deserters from every point of the enemy's line confirm the capture of Charlotteeville by Gem Sheridan. They say be captured Gen. Early and his astir* force, consisting of 1,800 men. Four brigades were reported as being sent to Lynchburgh, to get then before Gen. Sheridan, if possible. (Signed) U. S. Cruet, Liwat,Geo. _ City Point, Virginia, March 5, 4 p.m. TUE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVEIING MAROR 18, 1885. You will probably have observed that the Con stitetioneel denies the whole story given—with some variations—by the Times and Pattie, that M. de Bartiges had intimated to the Pope the positive intention of the Emperor to withdraw from Rome, and that his Holiness would do well to provide him self with an army of his own. The new journal, L'Epoque, contains some very apropos reflections upon the present conflict be tween church and state in France, which it con siders as "not the least curious feature of our curi ous epoch," more especially when we remember what a widely different state of things existed in the early years of Napoleon M.'s reign. Between 1852 and 1859 the French government was on more than intimate and friendly terms with the church, for it enoouraged its encroachments and actually lent the support of the civil power to many of those pretensions which it now turns round and condemns. This is a very true remark, and that it should be made by a Paris newspaper only just founded is a sign of the times. The Epoque goes on to observe that in raters for the Emperor's patronage the clergy (with a few honour able exceptions) looked with a benignant eye upon all the excesses of authority in every department of the State. The belligerents of to-day are, there fore, old allies, who have recently quarrelled, and this consideration should have made the liberal party cautious about taking part in the strife. At any rate the liberals, if they would have profited by the split between church and state, ought to have taken good care not to be divided among themselves. But they, unfortunately, have acted otherwise. Instead of patiently watching for an opportunity to make a common effort they have plunged precipitately into the fray, and taken dif ferent sides. Some bold with Oiessr, some with Peter ; and probably they will get small thanks from either Peter or Ceessr, because not only does their divi sion render them too weak to arbitrate between the contending parties, but it prevents them from ren dering any such sufficient parries to either as to found a title to gratitude. Their mistake is the more to be regretted, because neither party being quite in the right a neutral attitude would hay. been so easily justified. In the debate in the Senate neither the defenders (official and officious) of the church on the one hand, nor the government speakers on the other, tell the whole truth. The clerical advocates make a great parade of liberty as the only thing they claim for the catholic church ; but when they come to be pressed a little it is easy to see that what they really regret is not liberty but power. The clergy did enjoy complete, absolute liberty under the Republic of 1848, and everyone knows how materially it contributed to the overthrow of that government. But during the early years of the Second Empire, those good times now so deeply regretted, the church in France was powerful ; it was not free. It will not do to say that these are convertible terms. The Prime Minister of an Oriental Sovereign is powerful,not free ; the pioneer on the banks of the Ohio enjoys perfect freedom, but has no power. The catholic church was powerful in France when it could exclude from the schools professors whom it disliked ; but it was not free when the eloquent Father Lacordaire was forced to retire to the provinces in obedience to the frowns of power, or when the three leaders of the religions liberals, the Bishop of Orleans, M. de Fal- lolls, and M. de Montalembert were either in retirement or in opposition. But if the religious orators in the Senate (leaving Ride the Archbishop of Paris, whose position is a peculiar one) deceive either themselves or their bearers when they ask for liberty, whereas what they really want is a good share of power, it scarcely lies in the mouth of the present government to use the arguments which its official and officious advocates do against them. It was not the church that broke the alliance which so harmoniously subsisted till 1859. That alliance was broken by the government on ' the day when it embarked in the Italian war. The clergy foresaw at once that the upshot of that war would be to shake the temporal power, and those who had theretofore more closely ad hered to the imperial government thenceforward began to fall away from it. This is what nobody will s►y in the Senate ; but it in reality underlies the whole debate. The Galilean traditions now so affectionately spoken of were never so badly treated and ignored as during that alliance between church and state which existed unbroken up to the date of the Italian war. There is nothing, therefore, in consistent in the conduct of the church, or at least of that part of it which for so many years acted in unison with the government. There is nothing seditious in the governmental church—quite the contrary. And in spite of the heavy blows it has received of late, it is quite evident from the tone of the cardinals in the Senate, that even now it would be very glad to make peace. The Archbishop of Paris would accept very moderate conditions ; the other prelates would be harder to deal with, but even their terms would contain nothing very shocking to the power which directed the destinies of France from 1852 to 1859. The Bourse, after an undecided opening, became a good deal better for the close. Rents rose 20e. for cash and 10c. for account, leaving off at 67fr. 20c., and 67fr. 15c. Mobilier rose 12fr. Rail ways were I.fr. or 2fr. higher. The Spectator says :—" Mr. G. W. Hastings, the emmtery of the Social Seisms Amosistioe, of which Lord Brougham is president, ham samouneed that a interring denial of the charge Would spinet the latter in relation to the Patent-aloe modal will immediately be hid before the oommittee, sad that the whole meneation will be completely refuted. Mr. Hastings has, we believe, been in permed communication with Mr. William Brougham. sod by telegraph with Lord Brougham. If this be so it will only taro cut as we bad anticipated. Lord Brougham is nob a great man, but be is not the kind of man to engage in a iob of this sort. His temptations have never lain in th►t dins:dies, nor would it in this ease, even in the lowest pos sible sines, have been worth hie while." _ _ _ " Argus" of the Post says :—" Mr. Conolly, the attentive owner of Ssechsrometer sod other bonne—who., departure after Shrewsbury for the Cosfedeeste States I announced to your readem—l am sorry to say has sot been ambled to prosecute hie trading vesture, as, by authentic appoints, he was captured immediately on his arrival on the rout, the port of the harbour in which his vessel anchored is the night having, unknowe to the aegis* lees captured a few days before by the Fedoras. The absence, therefore, of the bon. member from the house, as well sa from the Spring Meetings, may be excused." Seventeen states in America have already ratified the ooestitutional amendment to abolish sod prohibit ' slavery in the United States. Tics LATE Doss OF WKLLIZOTON'S LETTER& It is said that Sir Roderick Murehisoe, on behalf of the trustees of the British If ammo, was the drat to asquelot the Duke of Wellington with Lord Robert Idoettign's in- Motion of dispceiag of the Sparrow Oarrespeedeses. The British Mem= authorities suddenly thought that the fact perebasiag was eq uivalent to a publicaties, which they knew the sat or Unseat does sot allow, oasis with the eneweit of the ,or lie heirs. As will be seen, how ever, letters of the late Duke of Wellies's's were sold is the Cattle Library, sad we apprehend that the right to mil was set stipulated for in lega farm by All w ri ter. In whatever the ad el publication may eerelst, its perforation serkialy aware be eonaidered as effected by • simple die ! pmal.—Lasiar OWARLESTON rnwita ITS NSW RULERS. The New Tbek Traosme of the 2nd contains a p,leeg letter from a special correspondent at Charleston de `esdhing the city under he new rule. In the course of his letter he ssys "The first national soldiers that landed in Charleston the capacity of masters of the rebel city, were the South Carolina ingress (thank God) of the Twenty-first United States Coloured Troops. There wu elm a detachment of the pliant itsmachuselts Fifty.fourilt, who were the first negro troops to demonstrate on Southern soil the splendid fighting qualities of the ooloured race. They were the heroes of Fort Wagner, where Sbaw lies buried 'under his Diggers,' ea the brutal ruffians reported. The Pennsylvania 52nd formed the rest of the locoed of occupation. On Tuesday evening, about 7 o'clock, we hood prolonged and hearty cheering is a neighbouring street. I ran in the direction indicated by the sheuts, and found that the Itamachasetts 55th (coloured) Regiment had just landed the city. John Brown's body Iles • moldering In the grave, John Brown's body lice a ?soldering In the grave, John Brown's body Ike a moldering In the grave, His soul is marching on I Glory I Glory I Hallelujah ! Glory ! Glory I Hallelujah Glory I Glory I Hallelujah ! We go marching on I Well hang Jeff Davis on a crab apple-tree, We'll hang Jeff Davis en • erab - We'll hang Jeff Davis on a crab apple-tree, e- r e , tree, e, As we go marching on I Imagine, if you as., this song cheated with the most rap turous, most exultant emphatis, by a regiment of aegro troops, who had been lying In sight of Charleston for two years—as they trod with tumultuous delight along the street. et this pro-slavery city, whose soil they had just touched for the first time—imagine them in the dim light of the evening, eating es every side groups of their own ram— men, women, maidens, and little children, who greeted them with a joy that knew no bawds save that of physked ability to empties itself flay—imagine them, as they &biased their song of triumph, unite with equal seitacy in joining is that other thrilling melody : Down Iwith the traitor. 11Pe7i th Imagine them cheer, am only triumphant troops can cheer, in honour of the 'stare and stripes,' mid Massaohalette.' and Governor Andrew,' sod you may omeoeivs (albeit very faintly) the sublime and unequalled comae that I had the privilege of witnessing on Tuesday might in Charleston. I heard a lieutenant of the 55111, in command of the Company I, give the ceder—'Shoulder arms,' and in • minute afterward' shook heads with him, for he was an old acquaintance. Who do you think he war? The sea of William Lloyd Gamiest ! At every public building the tidy negro sentinels can be seen, halting citizens, ordering theca back, or ezaminisg their panes. They ere well behaved gentlemen, and con treat very favourably with some of the rebel citizens. The negro population, hers as everywhere, are eager to be taught. Hitherto the barbarous laws of Mile heathen state have forbidden anyone to teach the loyal popula tion—that char', at least, who are loyal without ifs or buts, many other form or style of qualifkatiou :the ooloured people. Send along the teachers, Maseschusette and New York, without an hour's delay. Preparations will be made at once to receive them, end to met them to work as loon as they arrive. General Webster appreciates the importance of this movement, and will give it every aid in his power. We visited all the slave pens and broke them apse. What a tale of wickedness these letter books do tell! We carried off, among us ell, the entire correspondence of these establishments, the bell, the auctioneer's block, the locks, and one sign. Over one slave-trader's desk are now inscribed these : " ' TEXTS FOR THE DAT : " ' I am an Abolitionist; I glary in the mime'—Wm. Lloyd Garrison. "'Proclaim liberty thronhout ell the land, mato all the inhabitants thereof.'—liniah. " ' Pat a pike in the hands of a slave and you make a man of him.'—John Brown. " ` Feb. Z.T., 1865.' " I write thin last paragraph in the editorial rooms, down town, of the Charleston Mercury. The window glees and sub.. are shattered by shot. Over the mantlisideess, is pencil-Bank; are written these lines, which show that the irrepressible spirit of radicalism (but on the tight side sew) mews to iahabit the office still :—' For President I. 1868, Wendell Phillips, of lifisseachumats ; for Vice-President, Frederick Douglas, of New York.' Shades of Calhoun— how are the mighty fallen ! sorely, the peat nullifiers bones must rattle in impotent rage at the overthrow of his heathen philosophy."' Hon. E. M. Stanton. Secretary of War. Refugees coofirm the statement of deserters es to the captured General Early sod nearly his entire fortis. They say it took plane on Thursday lest between Staunton sad Charlottesville, end that the defeat wee total (Signed) U. S. Garr, lieutimmt-CleastaL Secretary Stanton, in publishing tho above de spatches, says, under date of March 5, " General Sheridan and his force commenced their movement last Monday, and were at Staunton when last heard from. Major-General Hancock was placed in charge of the Middle Military Division during the absence of General Sheridan, with headquarters at Winchester." (ascrra's FRANCE. PARIS, MAiton 18. The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an article signed by M. Limayrsc, demonstrating that the apprehensions of American aggression in Mexico are chimerical, and stating that the relations be tween Spain and Washington have never ceased to be of a most satisfactory character. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Mutca 18. The mail steamer Britain arrived here this morn ing, with the Cape mail. She left the Cape on the 11th ult., St. Helena on the 19th, and Ascension on the 23rd. She brings 50 passengers. At the Cape the next parliament had been sum moned to meet in Cape Town, on April 27, when the most important business to be dismissed will be the annexation of British Kaffraria. Against this project the Kaffrarians were dm claiming. The extension of railways and telegraphs wrllalsooccupy much of the time of the parliament. In the western province the present line of railways is to be extended still further into the heart of the country. In the eastern province all preliminary arrangements had been made for the construction of a railway between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth, and the government only awaited the voting of the necessary sum for the construction to commence the works. Affairs on the frontier were pacific. There had been some equivocal proceedings of the Basutos, but no outbreak was expected in the Traaskeian territory. Future trouble was expected from the increasing power and warlike demonstrations of Kreli, since he bad been permitted to return into the country from which he bad formerly been driven. The Tambookies, his enemies, had also been permitted to occupy part of the same country. The British resident was in a delicate position, and had much trouble to prevent a collision between the two parties. Trade was steady in the colony, the import market quiet, and money easy. The new eastern district court had been opened at Grahamstown. The English Church Diocesan Synod had been held at Cape Town, under the presidency of the Metropolitan. The Synod amended its previous acts, in accordance with the judgment of the Privy Council in the case of "Long v. Bishop Gray." Two great agricultural shows had been held ; one at the Paarl, the other at Port Elizabeth. The steamer Queen of the South, from Calcutta, left Table Bay Feb. 11, and the Diamond Com pany's steamer Eastern Province was also to leave that port on the 23rd, both vessels for England. The President of the Free State, Mr. Brand, was at Bloerafoemfontian, and the burghers had left the frontier for their homesteads. The Minister of Public Works attached to the Notified goreromeut has r*es►tly published ► list el the prime* beildiogs that have bees repaired and restored &visa the lest fire years In Rome. They are the Baths of Titus and Camellia, the Tanabe( the Scdpiss, the Cameo, the Colman el Trojan, the Orate limainans, the Panthers, the Forum of Augustus, Nalis Aqueduct ; and, without the walla of Some, the Palace of Lanais at Frascati, the Pyramid of Oertius, Adrian's Villa at Tivoli, the Etruscan Yoantments at Condo, sad the Conduit at Tishah. COI Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Yana 17. The Queen took an airing in the grounds this waning. Princess Helena reds in the Home Perk. Priam Leopold took a carriage airing, attended by Mr. Buff. The Hoo. Caroline Cavendish and the Hors. Florence Seymour have succeeded the Hee. Flora Macdonald and the Hon. Emily Cathcart as Heidi of Honour in Waiting. A. deputation of the royal reception committee of the corporadoe of London, coesirting of Mr. Alderman Bose, M.P., Mr. Deputy Lott, Mr. Deputy Bone, Mr. Deputy Snelling, Mr. Samuel Gibbous, and the Town Clerk, waited upon the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough house, yesterday, to present to their royal highnesses the medal struck to commemorate the public entry of the Princess of Wales into the City of Loudon on the 7th of March, 1863. The Prince of Wales went to thellonse of Lords in the of tersoon. A deputation from the Fisheries Preservation Associa tioo, consisting of Lord Llanover (the president of the as sociation), Lord Ebury, Mr. Wieldier's, M.P., Lieutenant. Colonel Hon. Fans Keane, Sir Alexander Gordon Cum ming, Hord Robert Montagu, M.P., Major• General Jamas Ramsey, Mr. M. T. Smith, M.P., Mr. Henry Fenwiek, M.P., Mr. P. Hood, Mr. Frank Bookland, and Mr. W. Fisher, bad an interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, at the Home-office, yesterday, on the subject of the pollution of riven. A deputation of merchants, banker, broken, and traders of London, Liverpool, and Manchester, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey 4 the Home-office, yesterday, on the subject of South American beef. The deputation wee eacompanied by Mr. Cox, M.P., Mr. Hurt, M.P., Mr. Horded], M.P., Mr. Cheatham, M.P., and Mr. Bright, M.P., and consisted, amongst other; of Mr. Madden, Mr. E. B. Fripp (Liverpool), Mr. Stuart (Banchester), Mr. H. L. Keeling, and Mr. J. Fair, Consul of the Argentine Republik. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured the Stilled Theatre with his presence last even ing, attended by Colonel Koppel (equerry), the Duke of St. Albans. and Colossi Fielding. RETURN OF PRINCR ALFRED FROM TUE CONTl xi:cr.—His Royal Highness Prince Alfred landed at Dover yesterday afternoon, on his return from Germany, having travelled from Ostend in the government yacht Vivid (Staff-commander Sullivan). The Prince, who was attended by Major Cowell, Captain Haig, and the Queen's courier M. Kann*, upon his arrivaL at a quarter to throe o'clock, proceeded to the Lord Warden Hotel. His Royal Highness was received at Dover by Sir Luke Smithett, Captain Bruce, R.N., and Mr. Knight, of the South Eastern Railway, After partaking of luncheon, Prince Alfred and his suite were conducted to a state carriage attached to the 3.45 mail express train of the South Erten Railway, which am- Toyed his royal highness to Waterloo-bridge dation sad thence direct, without change of carriage, to Windsor, Mr. Knight having charge of the train. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge en tertained a distinguished party as dinner hat evening at Glenoester House. Park•Lne. The Duchess of Somerset has left the Admiralty, Whitehall, or Bulatrode Park, Books, for a few days. The Earl and Countess Russell have issued cards for diaper parties as the 23ed and 30th asst. The Earl and Countess of Wilton, with Viscount and Visoonnteea Grey de Wilton, will remain at Egerton Lodge till after the 7th ot the mania( mouth, ea they in- tend to receive a large ratty daring the Crontompark meeting• The Earl of Bradford eolith:lnes gradually to improve is health. The medical reports daring the last _ . . . .. fur days have bow favourable. The Lord Ililimp of London will leave town this day fee Windsor Guile, to remain ea a visit to bet' Ilayasty until Moody. His lordship bee, we believe, bee. mat. ea aided to prance is the Queen's private chapel within the Castle tomorrow. His Excellency the Right Hon. Sir Frederic& 811100, G. 0.8., will loom iron Wit mot to alter c. Ida duties r Minato , Piesipotaitiary to the Wad Stars go. varmint. GENERAL SHAWN AND THE CONSUL (Frew the Nap York Harold, March 5.) On the arrival of General Sherman at Savannah, he saw a large number of British Saga displayed from build- • ings, and had a cariosity to know how many British consuls there were there. He soon ascertained that these flap were on buildings where cotton had been dared away, and at once ordered it to be seized. Soon after that. while the general was busily engaged at his headquarters, a pompom gentle man walked in, apparently is great baste. and inquired if he was General Sherman? Having received an affirmative reply, the pompons gentleman remarked, " That whoa be left his residence United States troops were engaged in re moving bin cotton from it, when it wee protected by the British flag." " Stop, sir," said General Sherm►n, " not your cotton, sir, but my cotton ; my cotton, in the name of the United States government, air. I hare noticed," continued Gene ral Sherman, "a great many British flags here, all pro tecting cotton ; I have seized it all in the name of my government." "But, sir," said the consul, indignantly, "then is scarcely any cotton in Savannah that does not belong to me." _ _ _ " There is sot a rimed of cotton here, sir, that dose not beloeg to me, for the United States," responded Sherman. " Well, air,' said the consul, swelling himself up with the dignity of his office and reddening in his fad, "my government shall lieu of this. I shall report your ow duct to my government, sir." " Ab ! pray, who are you, sir l" mid the general. " Consul to her British Majesty, sir." "Oh ! indeed !" responded the general. " I hope you will report me to your government. You will please say to your government for me, that I had besot fighting the English government all the way from the Ohio river to Vicksburg. and theme to this poles. At every step I bare enoountered British arm, British munitions of war, sad British goods of every description, at every step, sir. I have met them, sir, is all shapes ; and now, sir, I fad you claiming all the odds, sir. I intend to call up= my go vernment to order me to Nissan at ode." "What do you purpose to do there '" asked the consul. somewhat taken aback. " I would," replied the mmersl, " take with me a quail. tity of picks and sho►els, awl throw that cursed rod hill into the sea, sir. You may toll your goverommt that, sir. I would shovel it lam the sea, eir ; sod this I would pay far it, sir—if 000mary. Good day, air." The Royal Sovereign is ordered to undergo an ordeal of some 12 or 14 day.' experimental work madam the Isle of Wight wider the direction of Sept A. 0. Key. C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Excellent, whoa km geousry capabilities will be fully sad preetioally developed wader every possible conditice. The funeral of Sir Robert Sehomburgk, the well-knows naturalist and traveller, and the introducer of the Victoria Regis into Germomy, took plass ea Tuesday at the cemetery attached to the Jemmies Church at Boehm. Amongst the IIiCKLTDOIII were the &Wish Ambassador (Lard Napier), the Minister from Paraguay, the Prussian Minister for the leterior (Coast Enlanberg), sad may notabilities of the eciestille world of Berlin. We read in the City article of the Times : " A report that the Confedentte meats at Liverpool, Mean. Frasier, Treabolm, sad Co., bed refused Mod three bills draws upon them by the Confederate wow meat, lees berm be circulation. The bat simply ie the they were refused soesphince far weal of advisy bat an act expected to lie over beyond a few days." A New Zealand paper states that an egg of the gigantic exiled New Leaked bird ass hes been dug vp eh Heiken', ie the middle Mead, bevies bees feted buried with the skeleton at a Maori. The egg is 10 leeches long. 3 bail r diMMAIII, sad of a dirty white 0010illi. - - . The moos of the esientifi4; Teasley isestasee of the leyel Horticultural Society tam phial ant Tiessasy. Tim Punic &mane But. —The secoodre: i A radio`` dthe Pais Mel& WU is the Hesse of Leeds isan for Moeda,. the WU let The ammo opeses Neese exteseive Worse the maaaageaseat el the pa mho& at Kees, itegby, is Harres. LORD LEY'S REPLY TO Hi CRITICS. Viscount Amberley last night addressed g erciwded meeting of am-electors of Leeds is the moo 1011. At the cosclautio, • reesialko woe digital dialathig the approval of the wowelielore el Lord Aube/Away ti s 'woad liberal eiadida** for the borough, sad rallies east the elective to ware so efforts to mare ids lerdtbigy return to parbeatiot to ocojaseMes with Mr. Baines, pi s present member, at Use mat general eteilko. _ _ Lord Amoral" in the 0001ee of his address, Andel% some of the strielares which have bees par= apse* speeches et Leeds. He mid :—" Very grave seimepeme g , tattoos have appeared with regard to th. memo it has been my duty to take oe the subject el the ae. Marion of the soffrage. (Neer, hmr.) It k ee been said that I have asserted, retracted, and rise seined attain opinions upon this great =Nest of week. tall's= policy. In order to abut this entirely =foes* charge, it will be Iseumbent on me Leidy to recall le your zeoollectiou the history of this maw. (Cibeers.) Having been invited by the Working Ilen's Reform Asee. elation, I came down to Leeds in January, an made II speech up= the sulvieet el reform containing certain pie. oinks. Ia that speech I did not allude particularly to the measure which has been brought by Mr. Beier Wale tba Howe of Commons. But I expressed opinions very Imaq able to a further extensive of the suffrage. (' Hear,' w e e applause.) Haviag oonse here on Wednesday ls night I e asked to pledge myself to support Mr. Baines* bill is the House of COIUMOOL There were aerials objections to eel doing that—objediems which unfortunately I was net Neap fully to explain at the merest, bat which, although u m , did not render me unfavourable to Mr. Babes' LA ri g made it difficult for me to give that positive pledge. am ever, in answering one of the quake= that were pet i s me, I stated in the most distinct manner—unfortnaately I have sot the words by ins, but still these words are re, ported quit* =neatly in the Times—l stated that I elk seeker adhered to the opinions =pressed in my epea s k January lest. I added that I bad outsides= these *am several times, and that they appeared to me perfectly ma rect. (Haar, hear.) Now, having made this statermat, would at least have been candid, before saying that I be( retracted the opinioas el that speech, to have take* mos notice of the positive =sternest made by myself to the a,. buy effect. (Loud cheers.) We were on Webs* sight under the disadvantage of Wise somewhat in a hwy. Perhaps if we had had more time to consider the make the result might hare been a little different. (Roo I might have entered, Weed I should certainly hue entered, into • fuller =paid= el my views, ad such an exposition would have prevented the rmolukee which was passed. (Hear, hear.) Unfortunately, =sem, beings. sag hurried, sad not having time for cooties, tioo, 1 wee not prepared with the statement I aids lad night, which has base accepted am satisfactory to the Week electors. (Cheers.) Let me, however, again refer to tiat . statement in order that I may explain dbtiaetly what it wok It has bees mid that I retracted on Wednesday eight my former opinions, and that I reamerted them lad lig% Neither of them assertions is trim (' Hest' and ebeem.) I retreated nothing twos Wedsesday eight which I elated addressing you last January, nor did I retract last aide what I had said on Wsdnesdayorith the single napkin II one incorrect staimaset upon a matter of fast Othenne I did not retract anything upon either of tines ocessime (Rear and chime.) Bat I mid lest night that I entertsissi certain °Wieling to M. Baines's bill. The objections I as. pinned, and I also added that it was these which did pm. vented me giving the pledge demanded. The main men indeed the one runs which weighed seriously with es was that, desiring a larger measure than that provided W the bill of Mr. Baines—(loud chars)—l was afraid that ths aloption of that bill might rather retard the advent of this larger measure. (Renewed cheers.) I therefore stated that, though on the whole favourable to Mr. Bainses and inclined to vote and support it, I was sot prepared is give a decided pledge. In fact my psalm is so very cor• redly stated in the excellent article that appeared RI morning in the Leeds Mercury, that I will vesture to nets the words In order to maks it clear. (` Hen,' and chess.) " 'Boas may be inclined to lament the scruples which, while in all inOindiiy they would not prevent him ring for the Borough Fraechise Bill, deter him from giving • positive pledge to yield it at all times an nonditiral support. But these an minor points, so ling as we an inner, as every liberal elector by this time most *net Vienna Amberlsy what he ha d always for ball • genies and hearty parliamentary,, onner—(' ban and cheers)—favourable to measures which go quite es to as Mr. Bsisra's bill, if not somewhat further.' (Loud al prolonged cheers.) That is a very precise statemeat, and perhaps if other writers had waited • little in seder to know whet I redly did say Lit night, they would not have Woe into the errors which I have now been obliged to mints (' Hear,' sad cheers.) There appeared, however, in the Vasa of tide owning an elaborate report of what occurred as Wednesday night, and a brief telegraphic summary of what occurred 'eat night. (' Rear, bear,' and a voice That's like them., In that telegraphic summary one single point of any speech In brought into especial promineeoe, whilst everything she is so enppreesed—sappreeeed in such a manner sa estisel) W pervert my real meaning. (` Hear,' and cheers.) New, the imivitable irepromion which most be 'seamed to ,vary reader of the Times is the abeolutely false impression died having refused on Wedeeeday to give the pledge. I give it on Thtusday under the preware which has bees * upon me. (Oh, oh.). All my friends on this Oedema know I did not yield my pressure—(hoer, beac)—bat fled the speech made last sight was a free sat of my owe, made bemuse they bad already, in tin most *rem MlDeer, agreed to accept me as beim( favourable to the broad and liberal measure of parliamentary reform.' (Resewed chests.) At the meeting of the members of the Royal In. =Ratko yesterday evening a lecture was delivered by En Balfour Stewart " On the latest Discoveries concerning the Saes Surface." TM discoveries which formed the =Wan of the keno» did not relate to the coristituesto of the body of the sue, but to its photosoope and the spots on the nal. disc. " Mr. Macliee," says the Athenceats, " has made • copy of his magnificant cartoon in the House of Pugs. me= ; which copy will be sant to the Royal Academy this year. Many will be glad to bear this mews, for the greet picture is as yet unknown to the public.' Mr. Feed's contribution to the Royal Academy Exhibition represses= a party of Highland folk witness* the departure of some emigrant relatives—a girl and an old man are the principal figures. Mr. Holman Hunt's picture of " Our Saviour in the Temple," which is now at Bristol, after a lengthened tour, will next appear in Dublin and remain there during the approaching Exhibition. The private view of the French Exhibition will Saks place ea the Bth proximo ; the gallery will open to ihe public ea the 10th of that month. The Lords of the Treasury have ordered the iron building, at Brampton, popularly knows as the bailees, to be taken down, and under proper regulating' to be given to the three quarters of London which most require the scoommodatiaa of large edifices for exhibit's= sad other public purposes. Mr. Carlyle's work on Frederick the Great will be easapletal sari week, by the publicatioa of yob. V. ad VI. Madame itudersdorff has been singing in Park. We (Gardeners' Chronicle) understand that the stbatallea twatutitise of the Royal Agricultural Society al iteglaad have Inally resolved to report to the attune then esemainselation that a nun of 3001. bo set apart atonal,' for prime to be awarded by those who conduct the loaf examinations, auperinteoded by the Oambridge and Oxford Vaiversities. We read in the Illustrated Times :—"On Monday Mild Lad Pilawrites had a dangerous tall at the Haws el Commens. He was guise through one of the doorways whoa ems ens es the other side pushed epee the sprite door sad knotted the amble lord dews. He was, however. quickly ateleted up, bawd to be unhurt, inarchid late the Muse, fell asleep eawstortably, and was sot reused use It wee time to rise to sloes the debate. It Is wesderful that the amble lent ass ped ao well. eansideing his act, and that he fell upon a stem doer." The surgeons and physicians to the guardians cd the poor will be the medical referees employed by the Po werstseet for life insurers sad annuitants. Our Boulogne correspondent, writing yesterday, says p•-•" Lave, who wandered hie two Whim, by dame. lag Wm in the Idea.ia Revelator me tried yoisier day, all IL Omer. and oesdemsed to de th. It is or pow that the exesative will take pion hare." An oil well in Jackson, Michigan, ha n g been sunk tes t . i MO feet. It intended te sink it to the th el $.0 03 t The deepest ell well at premed is 2,600 feet. 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