The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-22 00:00:00

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Runner. nat WATU AT ulnas WOOL TO DAT —alsoube. ik. *a.— Afternoon. On. 4m. TO11•1111.011-11enki. go Afitosem. 6100. LONDON, WEDNZBDAY, MAY 22. "THE United States have accepted this civil " war as an inevitable necessity." Such is the declaration of Mr. sew sae in his despatch to the American Minister at Paris. The Secretary of the United states Government must have pon dered well those words before he consigned them in • document to be laid before the first power of continental Europe. But they express • fact, one which has not received sufficient attention in England. It is often lightly asked here why the two sections of the American Union cannot sepa rate, and live peaceably side by side. Those who thus speak have bestowed but • slight and super ficial attention upon the nature of the causes of disagreement. The question may be met by another,—if nothing hinders them living peace ably aide by side, why should they separate and sacrifice the Union, which is their common strength and glory T The statesmen of the North know full well that, however quietly they might acquiesce in the separation of the South, there could he no peace between Governments founded on principles so radically antagonistic as those em bodied in the respective Constitutions of the Con federacy and of the United States. The promise, if seriously given, would not and could not be kept. We have heard • good deal of the Morisiot doctrine, and the determination of the citizens of the United States never to allow any European Government to transfer its institutions to a fresh portion of the American continent; but the United States Government might with much less danger to its tranquillity allow this than permit the formation of • great Slave Power stretching from the Ohio to the Gulf. There is nothing in the forms of European governments more inimical to the peace and freedom of the non-slaveholding States than the political doctrines openly proclaimed by the Secession leaders. If the Confederacy could establish itself it would manifest itself to the world on the very morrow as a propagandist, aggressive, freebooting State, per petually menacing its neighbours, and embroiling them in hostilities. Its large idle population of poor and turbulent whites form the appropriate material of filibustering forces, and would be ever annexing somebody. The extension of the area of slavery, it should be remembered, was the very question on which the present rupture has taken place. Severed from the Union, the South would send out its bands in all directions, and carry slavery far and wide. The acquisition of Mexico is one of the commonest promises made to their adherents by the Secession leaders. Is the first nation of the American continent to per mit that T Certainly it could not; it is therefore better to meet the mischief in its early stage. The only object the South have in separating is, that Slavery, hitherto limited by counteracting principles, may henceforth become sovereign, expanding itself, and pervading and moulding every institution of government. And experience proves that the growth of Negro Slavery is the measure of the decrease of the white man's free dom. Where the black man is held in bondage the white man is deprived of the commonest liber ties, and must neither speak his mind nor exercise his industry. If President LIWOOLN prevents the execution of the Southern programme, preserving the abundant constitutional rights of the Southern States as members of the Union, we shall say that he hes defended the cause of liberty, and not a whit the less because the dominant party in the South has its own projects for rearing an empire of tyranny and oppression. If it becomes necessary for that primes° to draw the sword, we shall say that until the millennial day come when the sword shall be beaten into the ploughshare and the spear into the pruning hook, war can bo waged for no higher object than to maintain the Constitution of the United States over the length and bread.h of the Union. From the first Mr. LINCOLN has uniformly declared that he will do this. Every new declaration he has made has illustrated his consistency and steadfastness. It seems to be maintained in some quarters that because the Go vernment of the United States is so free, its Head ought not to defend it. We do not see why a good Government should have denied to it rights of self defence which are couceded as • matter of course to a bad one. The general common Government of the United States was created for this purpose —to maintain and defend the Union. The notion that a minority of • nation is to be allowed to secede when it cannot have its way, although its rights have been respected, is destructive of every prin ciple of government, and has never been recog nised by any statesman. The States that now pretend a right to go out of the Union have seve rally relinquished their claim to independent existence, in order to share the sovereignty of their own territories and of those of the Union with the other States compacted in one collective body under the general government. They can not resume their full sovereignty as of right. If any of them could do it, it would be, not States which, like Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri, mi. copy territory acquired by the diplomacy of the Union, without reference to the wishes of the inhabitants, but States like Virgi ma, for instance, which helped to form the Union. Vet Virginia, in the articles by which she ratified the Union, used language which implicitly dis claimed the right of secession. Her words are, that " the powers granted under the Constitution are " derived from the people of the United States." It is this sovereign body, the people of the United States, and not the Governors or Legislatures of the separate States, who have to decide on the question of union or disunion. And with them also rests the question of peace or war. If the vast majority of tbo people decide that the Union and its full Constitution shall be maintained—and the population of the Free States is to that of the Slave States as 20 to 9—they have the means of carrying out that decision without trenching upon any rights in so doing ; and they will save this generation from • shame, and bequeath their children • blessing instead of a curse. tbt Court. OSBORNE, MA, 21. The Quern and Prince Consort, accompanied by Princes Mice and Prince Louie at Reese, drove out yeater• day alterno. u. Lord Charles Fitzßoy attended oa hereetack. Despatches went sent yestentey from the Colooinl•ofgco to the Lord High Commissiooer of the lonian Islands. • The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort entertained • select party at dinner on Monday evening at Curzon House, The Countess d'Apponyi has issued cards for a concert tomorrow evening at Chandoe House. The Countess Cowley and the Ladies Wellesley have arrived at Lord Ebury's residence in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, from the Embassy, at Paris, for the lellloo. Lady Rolle has left town for Brighton for a few de's. The Hon. Mrs. Joacchoe Percy has leaned cards fore daaseeoa the Mat lost., at ZS, Graavaeor-squaria . lAdy Blackett's ball is postponts.l until , Tuesday, tido 184 Jabs. lady Colthnrat's evening male party will take plass as Tuesday, the 28th inst. at her house in Wilton women& The marriage at Mr. Granville Levemon Gower, of 'flimsy Park, Surrey, with the Hon. Sophia Leigh, youngest daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Lord Leigh, w eoleuslesd yesterday at St. George's. aseroveruquere, in pewees of • numerous assemblage of the relatives sad Irks& of both families. Early in the ettenexa the eiewly-weided pair left town for Stoneleigh Abbey. Warwireelairs, the seat of Lard Leigh, where they will pass tie beeerasse. The bride wore • very hand some and unique travelling dress, composed entirely of Osurntry ribbon of • delicate lavender shade. This dress end car of • similar style in blue and white, worn by Lady WLeigh, were mesh sad deservedly admired for their elegem, beauty. The death ix announced of the Right Hon. Lady Leseard'a, is bee eightv6nt year, at Boyle Farm, Theme Digas. ea ileaday last. A Turin letter mays General Lord Clyde has beim =timely well neared both here and et Milan, wises he was present at reviews with Generals Li Marmara sad Cbddini. lie has left Turin for the fortified camp at Paisesa." oa4nani says :—" Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., Yr. A. H. Layard, M.P., aad Mr. Blanchard Jerrold have arrived is Paris to afford the British working met, now in This city, any help or advice they may require daring their short chit Mr. Layard is at the embassy. Sir J. Paxton at Hotel Metrics, Mr. Jerrold at Hotel Windsor:* MR. COBDEN AT HOME. We were much pleased on Saturday last to meet oar respected neighbour. Richard Colxlen, Feu., M.P., cm his way to DunfonL It nosy seem strange to mantes Ma Cobden merely u a asighboar, bat when we saw him in the omnibus u tmosteatatiossly as ever, we forgot the states man of the oomaturchtl treaty, and only recognised the good old 'Neighbour whom we hed learned to honour long before the days of Freeel eeenewelsl treaties. There are many taxman In store fee Yr. Oolidet, but there will be nose dearer to him them the hearty affection of his neighbours and Meads at Danford.—Chichester Journal. !HE CIVIL WAR IX AJIRRIOA AND LITTERS OP MARQUE. (nom ous OWN LIVERPOOL, Temper. We are credibly informed that there are at present in the port of Liverpool sinsral vessels undergoing repairs and being fitted up for the purpose of privateering. These vessels are now awaiting the return from America of parties istsmsted in this buomassring business, with this necessary "diploma" from Montgomery, the seat of the rebel government in the south. In the Liverpool under. writers' moms, yesterday, the following significant notice nes posted op: NAV YORK, MAT 8. "'he Montgomery Conference yesterday p are d an _ act recognising war with the United States, and authorising the gratis of letters of marque and reprisal, for which appli• Wire are very numerous. A proviso announces that free ships arks free goods, and 30 days are allowed to federal womb in the ports of the Confederate Statee to return lams.' The general opinion in Liverpool is that this last act of the inithern government will be the mane of infesting the NY with a honk of unprincipled adventurers from all parts of the glol*, who will have no respect for the Sig of tither the Barnette Mate or tie Federal Union, but who will attack friend and foe iodieerhwlnstals, aid nose • revival of those bloody privateering Wants so inearson towards the awl of the last, and the beginslret of the present cen tury. In the Prince's Dock, yesterday, for the int thin shies the civil discord in the United States, an American vend hoisted the flag of chi, Confederate States in an Eng. Ihri port. " Crivalaors " SOUTH. —T he subjoined Inger, 'dammed by a southern house to its rorreepondest• at New York, may be taken as a maniple of those which are daily received. The writers do not hesitate to allude to Muir default of payment u the fulfilment of a patriotic duty Naelmille, April 29.—Itear diThe unholy war New WRltVgi by the North anima the Mouth has m de migod all oar business delectations that we cannot promptly meet our notes falling due at News. —, Philadelphia. Our arrangements to raise mosey were agreed upon, sad we could even have anticipated some of our paper but for the tmuhles consequent upon the perfidy of an waninistration from which we were induced at item to lope for pekoe This last le dmissi us at any prim, and, betsad, we are penned the bonen of civil war. In jus tice to meshes an iedividaals, end as • slating we cannot mate a eseadeetial debt at home to mist aye dee to a bootee priple. We do not mean by for to repudiate our deist to the North ; by no means, but lain& 11 all We have, Wide& In three or four times our iadehtedases, is wet swept hors an by this unjust strife, to my the Mame teething we tire, as soon as quiet and safety will enable That we have among our creditors pemoual and political friends only make.; this necessity the more We would prefer that our miles should not be protested. sod, to avoid thy, we inclose a list of our New York creditors, with the request that you me ea.sh of them, and explain, or let them see this letter. Your prompt attention will much °Mite truly yours, A—, A— and eo. —, New York." CONNICIIOIATION Or Tall EIVICDAT &Han Juan.= a? HALM X.—Yesterday 11 7 70/leant epeetacle was pre metad at Halifax, when a Suedapechool demonstra tion took place la the anufacturers' Pieoe Hall. In eluding spectators, upwards of 38,130 persons were assent • bled on the seesaw. Immense preparations had been made for the event, sad the day was reganied by the borough as a geoeral hohday. Occupyiog the area of the hail were 27,681 gmsday-school teachers, scholars, and experienced vocalists. In addition, there were 2,800 'spectators, bolding half-crown tickets, 4,600 am alig ditto, and 1,520 at sispence--making a total of 18,181 penes present—the population of Halibut withia about 1,1 . :10. Eighty-mven schools were pressat from all parts of the extensive parish of Halifax, cad evils so far as Holinfirth, 18 miles distant. Of this number, Zi haloaged to the independent denomination, 18 to the Wesleyan methodist, 13 to the methodist free church, 10 to the methodist new coopering, 8 to the primitive me thodist. 7 to the *Met, and 8 " carious,'" including the Haifa' {tagged School, the Halifax Union Workhouse School. &c. Almost say stunts of wheals might have ham obtained to take past in the ergewwwiaation. The eldest of the committee of saagenass• was to make the smosna l ly of scholars eels* I. Mbar yards I. collect the seniors ent of the autelnals shone. m. Sunday schools of the thatch of Woad took as past I. the affair, we have they glace the Jubilee of 1131. The hymn" saw few in mustair, and were mg to the Ses " Jubilee." " Gems." " Descsienes." and " Wetness." la acidities to this liasdas "Hallslalah Marne we wag with mar. woken preneem sad les The premeds will ancrant anent MC which win. ter aspas a. will be divided swag the various schooie for the purchase of books. The freeholders el the New Forest are preparing a politica against the hill sow before parliament, impos ing the mown to charge le. Bd. far each beast, 3.2. for each amp, and dd. for each pig depsinored on the forest in the shape of quit-rents, and thus abolishing the rights which the cow pOlllllllllll. TEE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, PENINSULAR MAILS. t3OUTHANPTON, Max 22. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, with the Peninsular mail, has arrived. She brings 54 passengers, 2,9901. in specie, and 1,400 packages of cargo. She spoke the Ceylon on the 1 21st inst. She brings the following news : LISBON, MAT 17. It is expected that a measure will be brought before the Cortes to reduce the duties on sugar. It is also said that the duty on saltfish will be lowered, which is important to parties interested in the New foundland fisheries. Baron Forrester was accidentally drowned on the 13th inst. His death caused a profound sensa tion both here and at Oporto. The weather is very warm. The show of grapes is excellent, but symptoms of the vine disease are strongly developed. The Oneida, with the outward Brazil mail of the 9th inst., left Lisbon on the 13th instant. The steamers Mine, from Liverpool,and Carolina, from Glasgow, have arrived. The Gladiator left Lisbon on the 12th for the coast of Africa. Exchange on London, three months, is quoted ; Paris, 527 ; Amsterdam, 421; Hamburg, 4131 ; Genoa, 525 ; Bente', Three per Cents., 48j; Coupons, 461 ; Deferred, 40 ; Bank of Lisbon shares, 588 ; Commercial and Mercantile Banks of Oporto, 258. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ISON OVB OWN PARIS, TULSDAT EVINTIO. Everybody is talking to-day of Prince Murat's challenge to Prince Napoleon. The newspapers, however, do not dare to speak of it. I have no further information on the matter beyond what I sent yesterday, but I think you may take it for granted that there has been no bloodshed. The note in the Moniteur, tardily contradicting the existence of a letter said to have been written by the Emperor to Prince Murat several weeks ago, is manifestly connected with this affair. Prince Murat, who in his government of the Freemasons seems to have shown a thoroughly Napoleonic contempt for law and decency, has dissolved the meeting assembled to elect a new Grand Master. But the central masonic lodge in the Rue Cadet is at this moment crowded with leading members of the craft, who claim to proceed with the election on the ground that the Grand Master's powers have expired and that his decree is void. As the Freemasons' corporate existence lies at the mercy of the Emperor, he, of course, will decide in the last resort what is to become of them. DE de Persigny has attained a reputation for honesty and liberality of which, I have no doubt, he is deserving, but he is "choleric and rash," and not unfrequently makes mistakes. He must, I apprehend, be already aware that his circular ordering the prefects to seize, extrajudicially, any publication by any exile is a terrible bluoder. He has not only betrayed a fear of Orleanism which many of his colleagues repudiate as humiliating to the empire, but he has so completely overlooked the provisions of the law applicable to the subject on which he writes that the impo tence of his intentions is on a par with their folly. The Dibats, the Union, and other journals ask triumphantly what he means by the "administra tive seizure" of a pamphlet. No such thing is known to the law. The Moniker has frequently boasted that in regard to books, as distinguished from the daily or periodical press, the government could exercise no repression except by a strictly legal prosecution. The law is a stranger to the distinction drawn by M. de Persigny between a book written by an exile and one written by any body else. In telling the prefects to seize all such works "administratively" and to await his farther instructions he has given illegal orders, which ought to be disobeyed. If, indeed, be had told the prefects to send to him the names, foe transporta tion to Cayenne without trial, of all persons guilty or suspected of being guilty of propagating the writings of exiles in France, he would not have exceeded the powers which ho enjoys under those odious laws of public safety which some patriotic members are about to bring under the consideration of the Corps Legislatif on the occasion of the debate on the budget. But this I should hope at least is not what the minister means. He assumes most illegally that the code authorises special and exceptional proceedings against a book written by an exile. It is pointed out that the terms of his circular comprise literary as well as political writings. Victor Hugo's lightest poems— Je ne songs. p;s 1 Res; Depuia j'y pease toulotus— would before the recent amnesty have been as liable to arbitrary seizure as an Orieanist pamphlet. M. de Persigny's lame excuse that a pamphlet like that of the Duke d'Aumale is protected from criticism by the very fact of its being prosecuted draws down upon him a bitter sarcasm from the Debate. This journal, alluding to the notorious cloud of semi-official pamphlets which did appear in answer to the Orleans prince, says that the minister must of course be now understood to mean that obscure replies of this character are of no account, and that under such delicate circum stances "uo writer who respects himself, and none whose words carry any authority, would would willingly take on himself the task of reply ing." Even the Cunatitutioiniel (advice having evidently been taken in the matter) is ashamed of M. de Persigny's circular. This govern ment organ reproduces M. Gueroult's stringent article of last night, and, while agreeing that nothing can be more " harmless" than the pamphlet in question, so far makes game of its leaders as to pretend that M. de Persigny's circular is iu reality nothing more than a delicate attention to the Orleans princes themselves, its real object being to protect them from the ferocious attacks which the loyal subjects of the Emperor in France cannot be restrained from making upon them, unless their writings are kept from the public view. The French papers have not yet spoken of M. do Flahaut's sudden arrival in Paris, which, however, I confirm. I am also enabled to add that he has returned to London with instructions from the Emperor of a conciliatory character. The Bourse was calm during the greater part of the day, but the Rents attained a rise of 15a for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 69fr. 45c. and 69fr. 50c. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c. Railways were from lfr. 260. to 2fr. 50c. higher. A corporal of the guards, named Mugarits, who, u substitute for the Imperial Prince, acted as treasurer to the squadron to which his imperial highness belongs, ban unfortunately disgraced the regiment by absconding with the funds entrusted to him. He has been sentenced by a court-martial to five years' inipriaonment with hard labour. The Siamese Ambassadors and suite are expected to olive in Paris about Saturday neat. The French go- vernment have rented for them a handsome furnished hotel in the Champ Wake. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH BUDGET. A Paris letter, in the Nuni of Brussels, says : I now send you the detail of the amendments proposed by the committee of the Legislative Body in the budget of 1862. The deputies have never before shown themselves so severe, for they propose to reduce the expenses by no less than about nine millions, which nearly mel lows up all the augmentations suggested by the Go vernment. It appears that the Council of State has re fused to secede to these modifications, and the result will evidently be that the discussion will be unusually warm. In the budget of the Ministry of State the 30,000 fr. for the cost of representation of the minister is refused, as well as an increase of salary to the Secretary- General and to the clerks, the creation of an In spector-General of Libraries, ►nd a round sum for the fur niture of the ministerial palacie ; the increase for the cor respondence of the Emperor, the monuments, missions, &c., is also objected to, as well as the annuity to be paid for the purchase of the Hotel Batumi. All the augmentation demanded for the department of Foreign Affairs, as salaries to ambassadors, ministers, secretaries, or con suls, is rejected. In the department of the Interior tho directors.general are maintained at 15,000 fr., anti the credits demanded for advancement rejected. In the Finance, a refusal is given to the increase in the num ber of referendary councillors in the Court of Accounts, and the augmentation of the salaries of inspectors and clerics. In the War Department, the committee wishes to maintain the effective of 1861 without admitting the increase of 100,000 men, called for by the addition of the three new departments ; and the extension demanded for the staff corps, the reorganisation of the artillery, the augmentation of the regiment of gendarmery of the Guard and for clothing, is refused. As • set off, the committee adds 3,000,000 ft to the ens set down for provisions, and 4,013,000 fr. for forage, wo w that the estimates are made too low. I• Algeria 20,000 fr. is taken away from the rimy of the Governor. General ; the earns sum from that of the Director-General, and more from that of the clerks dee Central Admioistra• Lion. In the budget of Public Works a refusal is given to increase the salary of the Seeretary-General, and the 12,500,000 fr. of trentenary toads is struck out by the committee and inscribed on the Public Debt. The committee also wishes to inscribe on the badget of public works the 35,000,000 fr. of great works which are to be executed in 1862. All this makes con siderable changes in the figures. The budget as presented Who government amounted to 1,930,000,000(r. (77,000,000/.) The committee propose 21,000,000 fr. of reduction, and oa the other hand an increase of 60,000,000 fr., making the total 1,969,C00,1X3fr. The equilibrium ia, however, still maintained, the committee having admitted that the re ceipts would be increased by 35,000,000 fr., making a total al 1,970,C33,0001r. (nearly 79,000,0001.) DEATH OF SAID-BEY, THE DRIIIIIE CHIEF. The Itichfipendance Beige of yesterday says : " News reached Beyrout on the 14th that Said- Bey Djemblad, the celebrated Drums chief, whose trial and condemnation have been so much animad verted upon, died in prison. Convicted of partici pation in the massacre of the Christians, his execution was demanded by France, but was suspended at the instigation of England. The Porte, in order to get out of the difficulty of decid ing in favour of one of the two western powers, is accused of having put the prisoner to death in the old Ottoman fashion. But, as acts of this kind have passed away even in Turkey, it seems more fair to suppose that he died of the anxiety caused by his captivity." ST. PETERSBURG, MAT 22. The Journal de St. Peterabourg of to-day publishes a letter addtessed by Prince Gortchakoff to Count Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador in Paris, in which the prince says :—" We call the atten tion of the representatives of the foreign cabinets to the danger incur/ad by the departure of the French troops from Syria. For our own part we decline to share the responsibility in regard to the results of such a resolution, the consequences of which we have foreseen and pointed out." TOULON, MAT It The whole squadron left yesterday for Syria. Six vessels will remain in the port of Marmoritza. ITALY. MILAN, BUT 21, Evortmo. The Capittdary Vicar has prohibited the clergy from taking part in the approaching national fête. The canons and cures of the city have replied in a respectful letter that they will obey, but that they disapprove of the measure. 8 r.u. Some popular demonstrations have taken place against the Capitulary Vicar. The escutcheon on the door of his r&lace was de stroyed by the populace. Thu national guard hastened to the spot in order to prevent the disturbances from assuming a graver character. TURIN, NAT 21, Evismici. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Teochio directed the attention of the house to the recent circulars issued by Count Hochberg on the state of things at Venice. He said :—" The people of Venice do not desire the domination of Austria. The opposition to the Austrian govern ment in Venetia is not provoked from without." He concluded by recommending Venetia to the attention of the King and the Italian parliament. Count Devour thanked Signor Tecchio for having brought this question under the consideration of the house. He said that Signor Tecchio had proved by his speech that what Count Hochberg had alleged in his circular notes was wrong. Count Cavonr then continued : "I do not doubt the present liberal intention of the Austrian ministers ; they will always, however, meet with insurmountable obstacles iu Venetia. This fact is principally important from its influence on public opinion in Germany, where liberal ideas are now progressing." The following order of the day was then adopted: "The Chamber having heard with extreme inte rest the recital of the sufferings of Venetia passes to the order of the day." - ROME MAY 20. K de Cadore will be entrusted with the affairs of the French Embassy at Rome during the absence of the Duke de Oramont, who will return to France in June to drink the waters of Vichy. ___ . ILESUNA, hi AT 20. The decree ordering w levy of the people for the army has been published, and received with enthusiasm. NAPLIS, MAT 20. Prince Carignan has left for Turin. POLAND. THORN, MAT 21. The official Gazette of Warsaw says :—" The bills relating to the reforms to be introduced in the kingdom of Poland have now been drawn up. " MM. Platanoff and Karnicki have left for St. Petersburg, for the purpose of obtaining the Impe rial sanction to the bills. " A portion of the troops have been withdrawn from the public squares of Warsaw," AFRICA. GALWAY, NAT 21. The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Prince Albert sailed hence to-day at 5 p.m. for New York, via St. John's., with 278 passengers, and t►e telegrams. 1861. NICE. The following is an extract from a letter, dated Nice, May 14 : The annexation has led, here, to an increase of local tax ation for which the people of Nioe were hardly prepared. The municipal revenue which a few years back averaged but 70,000 f., or about 3,0001. (the produce chiefly of octroi duce), has this year to be raised to 600,0001., and it is said that to meet the expenses of next year 800,0001. will be required. To get together this money the old local imports are being extended to every conceivable article of consump tion. Eggs and chickens, which were exempt, are now to pay, the latter 21 each, and the former 2d. per dozen. Shopkeepers are to pay for their sun•blinds, at the rate of li franc per month for every yard of blind. Lime is to be taxed, dogs are to be taxed, fruit barrows in the street are to be taxed, and even seawater is to be taxed, when fetched in barrels for a bath. Of course, the few people in Nice, once favourable to annexation, have now ceased to be so ; and the extra police for which these taxes are imposed, including a large secret service of spies, is exceedingly unpopular. Scarcely a night passes without some rioting between the townspeople and the crews of the French ships stationed here. The manners of the French sailor are coarse and offensive, and when he talks of "oft cochons de Nixon" within the hear ing of the parties concerned, he naturally gets a blow for his pains. Arrests are °optionally taking place from this and other causes. Prior to the annexation Nice had doubled its size and population within ten years. Whether its prosperity has net noir received a check time will show. The promise is th►t Nice shall be "la ville la plus belle et la plus police. de IA France," and the promise will doubt ees be kept ; but, strange to say, there are people to whom the beauty of the French police system offers no attractions. It appears from a despatch, printed this morn ing, from Mr. Crawford, her Majesty's judge in the Mixed Commission Court at the H►vannah, dated Feb. 5, 1861, that the slave trade carried on from Cuba is more extensive than ever. During the year 1860, 24,895 slaves ►re esti mated to have been landed at Chiba ; 3,642 were captured. On Monday Mr. William Dayton had an audi ence of the Emperor Napoleon, to deliver to his Majesty the letters accrediting him as Minister Plenipotentiary of the United State, of America, and was afterwards received by the Empress. Mr. Dayton was conveyed to and from the Tuileries in a court carriage, and with the usual oeremoniaL A letter from Florence of the 15th asps :—" The weather here is now delightful, and Florence is arrayed in the full beauty of summer to receive the swarms of visitors that always come here 'en passant' at this season. Eng land, Ireland, France, and Germany—nay, Syria, Turkey, and even China, have sent their represeatativis this year, and Florence rejoices. Among other notorieties are Alex andre Dumas and Mario. There is to be a great ' Mies National Exhibition' here in September and October, which will make amends for the rather bad season which we have had up to the last7influx of foreigners." The Madrid Gazette of the 17th contains a royal decree which sets forth what dignitaries of state ghat' attend at the palace on the occasion of her Majesty's confinement, which is now shortly expected. It also announces that the little Infanta Donna Concepcion, who bad been exoeedingly ill, is oat of danger. M. Cli•11.1i'll TRAVALS.—A letter of Dr. Gray, in the columns of the Alhentrum, has elicited the following from M. Chidllu :—" I hope that neither in my book nor in my lectures I have pretended to be infallible as a naturalist, artist, or traveller ; yet I maintain that I have discovered in Equatorial Africa the new mammals and binds given as such in the list at the end of my volume. All of these were described in the publishe d proceedings of two of the most scientific societies in America (with which Mr. Gray ought to be acquainted), some of the birds as far buck as 1856, and I defy him to produce specimens existing in any European museum before that time. My map, at which he sneers, is a mere sketch map it is true, but it was carefully prepared from dear , Tenons made on the spot with the compass, and I will vouch for its general accuracy. My illustrations, prepared, not in this country, as he averts, but in America, were taken either from my own rough sketches or from the actual objects, with the exception of four or five out of a total of 74. Would it not have been mere fair of Mr. Gray, before giving vent to insinuations that I had never visited the countries which I describe, nor collected in Shoes countries my natural history specimens, to have applied to my friends at ()orison sod on the Gaboury ',hoe names are mentioned in my book Mr. Gray pretends to be in communication with the missionaries and traders in those parts, and there. fore this course would have been the more obvious, as be would have gavel himself from the imputation of uttering mere calamine—l am, sir, your obedient servant, B. P. Du CHAILLU.—May 21." CRYTraL PAL/XT.—The Whitsuntide festivities drew 15,706 persons to the Palace yesterday. They will be continued this day and to-morrow, when they will he brought to a close. The fourth opera concert of this semen will be given on Friday ; and Mr. G. W. Martin's National Choral Society will perform a selection of glees and part-songs on Satarday. Durrsuerrne Frig AT • LITZZPOCIL Comma WAll6lloo3G—Early yesterday morale; a Are broke out in a block of warehouses in Sefton-street, Liverpool, la which • large quantity of cattea belonging to Messrs. lase Lowe and Co. ' Leech, Harrison, and Co., Marriott and Co., and other merchants and brokers, amounting to 8,000 bales and upwards, was either wholly or partially destroyed. Up to the time of the despatch of our correspondents parodied evening the damage dOOO was estimated at 10,0001., bat as an adjoining cotton warehouse bad become ignite d that time, the extent of the damage will probably far maid the shove sum. The loss will fall on the Royal 101l1111=41 Company, the Liverpool and London, the Queen's, the Lan cashire, Scottish Cokes, Provincial and General, San, Phenix, Unity, Royal Exchange, London Corporation, and other SUICIDE or A BOY. —The town of Halesworth was thrown into a state of great excitement on Wednesday morning last, by • report that a youth named Burgess. about thirteen years old, boarder at Mr. John Msanall's academy, bad committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near the Gas-house. The boy partook of breakfast as usual, and it is supposed that on going out of Mr. Memnon house lie went direct to the pond and committed the tub act. It is a melancholy fact that within the last twelve months four persons have committed suicide in this town, three out of the four having been drowned in this pond. An iuqueat was held on Friday, when the following verdict was returned :—" Found drowned, but ho• or by what means no sufficient evidence to show." The coroner and jury requested the attention of the surveyor% to the pond where the accident occurred, as it does not appear to be sufficiently protected. They consider that no blame was attached to the schoolmaster, Mr. Mannall.—lpseeirk Journal. FATAL FlauT NEAR SHIZIPEILD.--011 Monday morning, at an early boor, • brutal content occurred at a place called Hollins Bush, which is • few miles from Sheffield. The combatants were two men, named Thomas Thorpe and Thomas Holland, who reside in Sheffield. and they met, accompanied by several other persons, at four o'clock In the morning, at the place named to fight a pitched battle for • sovereign aside. The contest had proceeded about an hour, each combatant having during that time been much bruised, when Thorpe received a blow which deprived him of consciousness. He was carried (bearing marks of severe punishment) by four men to a public•howie, and on his arrival there was found to be dead. The four men declined to leave their names, and the police were soon afterwards in search of them. Holland is in custody. RIOT AT WREXHAM BETWEEN VOLUNTEERM •141111 MILMA.—On Monday evening a painful collision occurred at Wrexham between the 7th Lancashire Artillery Volun teers (tanbark Hamilton of Liverpool, commandant), and the Denbighshire militia. The volunteers were on a holiday excursion, and the militia, having on Monday closed their allotted number of days for drill, &e., fraternised with the volunteers. No hoe ile feeling was manifested mitil the latter were marching to the station in the evening to pro ceed homeward, when they were assailed by the militia, and a violent encounter took place, during which sticks and stones were so freely used that one of the militia was, it is feared, mortally injured, and many men on both sides very much hurt. The pollee interfered, but without avail. At length Captain McGinn arrived, and fortunately his in fluence was powerful enough to withdraw the militia, when the volunteers returned home. The men had no bayonets else the scene might have been a most sanguinary oise. ALARMING AC:CIDENT TO A VAN OP LUNATICS.— On Thursday the female lunatics of the Bodmia Asylum were sent. as is usual in fine weather, to Polseath beach, in At. Mincer, to enjoy the sea breezes. On arriving at the top of Poluath hill the driver of the van, owing to a sudden jerk caused by loose stones on the road, was thrown out, and broke his leg. One of the nurses, who was sitting by his side, immediately jumped out, and the reins were left dangling. The poor unfortunate souls inside, finding something was wrong, began to be uneasy, and their cries and gestures must have frightened the two horses, who set off at great speed down the hill leading to the beach. The van was upset, and many of the inmates bruised and damaged. We hear one woman had her ribs broken. The driver was removed to Mr. Wilce's inn , at At. Waver, where the limb was speedily set by Mr. Trevan, of Port Isaac. The medical oak& of the Bodmiu Asylum soon arrived. under whose are the sufferers were removal the game night to Bodmin. We certainly think that in these salutary expeditions more than one man should accompany the party ; nut only in case of accident, but in the event of sudden violence on the part of any of the unfortunate crea tures who form the party.— Wester'. Naming New.. Three of the indigenous inhabitants of the Andii nun Isles have been taken to Rangoon. They appear to be oriental negroes of the same race as the degraded aborigines of Pspua and Australia, THE REV. MR. HATCH'S CASE.-(THIS DAY.) This morning the Rev. Henry John Hatch, M.A., who in the sittings after last term obtained a verdict against Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, his attorneys, for negligence in conducting his case (when he was indicted at the Central Criminal Court), attended at Westminster Hall, in company with Mr. Holt, his solicitor, and oth er gentlemen, and had a lengthened cons ul tation with Mr. Mon tagu Chambers, Q.C., the reverend gentle man's counsel. It is the intention of Mr. Hatch through Mr. Chambers to move the court for a new trial on the ground that although the verdict was io his favour it ought to have been accompanied with substantial damages, when the charge of negligence was proved to the satisfaction of the jury. The sum of 40s. awarded by the jury does not entitle the reverend gentlemen to costs, unless upon a certificate from the Lord Chief Baron, who tried the case. It is understood that the appli. cation for the new trial will be made tomorrow morning, and there is a rumour in Westminster Hall this morning that Messrs. Lewis and Lewis will not offer any opposition, inasmuch as it was their intention to move for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against cvi. dente, and in direct opposition to the summing up of the judge. CHARGE OP FORGERY AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. At Bow-street yesterday, the Rev. James Roe, a clergyman, about 40 years of age, was charged with forgery, and with having attempted, by forged instruments, to defraud George Hartwell Roe and others of the sum of 8,000/. . _ The warrant had been placed in the hands of Inspector Whicher, of the detective force, who succeeded, after dili gent inquiry, in tracing the prisoner to Hatton-garden, where he was taken into custody. On being placed in the dock the prisoner did not present • very clerical appearance, having cultivated a large beard and moustache. He was a gentlemanly lo c o r r b % person, but mid nothing during the examination,probably by the advice of hie attorn e y. He was defended y Mr. Abrahams, solicitor, of Bowatreet. From the opening statement of the solicitor for the prose cution, Mr. Humphries, it appeared that the prisoner was • nephew of the late Mr. Edward Roe, of Sutton, io the borough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, who died on the lit of January, 1830 . The deceased left • will, dated the 25th Dec.,l&sB, having a codicil dated the 30th of thou-tine month, and appointing George Hartwell Roe and John Orm Roe, the prisoner'a cousins, as residuary legatees. By this will legacy of 500 i. was bequeathed to the prisoner, who, how ever, claimed a much larger inheritance, alleging that foul play had been enacted, as by a former will, in existence shortly before the death of his uncle, he (the prisoner) had been made a residuary legatee. He went down to 31andes• field to inquire into the circumstances attending the death, and the alteration of the will so immediately preceding his death, and he caused an inquest to be held on the body . of the deceased, which resulted in • verdict of ' Natural death." He then commenced oeedings against the residuary legatees, and thtrial was appointed to take place at Chester, when the validity of the will was confirmed. Administration of the estate was then proceeded with, but pending these proceedings, namely, in June, 1860, a most extraordinary letter was received by Means. Brocklehtust, the bankers, of Macclesfield, from Messrs. Johnson and Cooke, the prisoner's London solicitors, apprising them, as the bankers of the deceased, that a cheque for 6,000%, in favour of the prisoner, and drawn by the deceased on the day before his death, had accidentally turned up, together with a letter written by deceased to the prisoner, as follows :—" Macclesfield, Deo. 30, 1&,8. Dear James,-1 am being made to do what Ido Against my wish. If I am gone when you oome do use this money for your family." This letter purported to bear the signature of the deceased, and the enclosure consisted of a cheque purporting to be drawn by him in favour of the prisoner fog the above amount, being dated the same day. The executors under the will were at the same time apprised of thin discovery, and continued to be very careful indisposing alleged feestate. Some correspondence ensued, the genuine.' nese of the letter and cheque in question being disputed p but the solicton replied that, after investigating the markt, they had reason to believe that the documents were genuine, and • bill in Chancery was accordingly Sled. The answer was put in And the litigation proceeded. Now, it did so i that there was • very extraordinary paragra ph in the will of the deceased to this effect " I also direct ray executors to take up all cheques that may have been left unpaid at the time of my decease ;" and it would be open to consideration if this very paragraph had not suggested the course of pro ceeding subsequently adopted by the prisoner to obtain • large sum of money out of the estate, as much at least as may have been in the hands of the bankers at the time of the uncle's death. The following depositions were read by Mr. O'Brien : George Hartwell Roe examined—l am a jeweller, residing at Market-hill, Cambridge . I was executor to the will elf the late Edward Roe, deceased, late of Sutton, Mucks. field. The will is dated Dec. 25, 1858, and the codicil Dec. 30 1858. The damaged died Jan. 1, 1859. At the time of his death he had a balance at his banker's of between 1,660 f. and 1,700/. John Orm Roe and myself were residuary legatees under that will, and the Rev. James Roe was left a legacy of 5001. In or about June, 1850, a claim was set up by Johnson and Coote, solicitors, of 5, Gray's• inn-square, on behalf of the prisoner, in respect to • certain document which had turned up, likely to affect the residue under the will. In October, 1860, a chancery bill was filed by the Rev. J. Roe against myself, which set up a claim for 6,000 f. upon a cheque purporting to have been drawn by the late Edward Roe on Messrs. Brocklehurst sod Co., of Macclesfield, and to have been enclosed in a letter by the deceased to the prisoner on the 30th Dee., 1854 After the bill was filed I called on Mr. Johnson at his office, and he showed me the cheque purporting to have been signed by deceased, and the envelope in which it was said to have been enclosed. I believed them to be • forgery, and filed my answer to the said bill about the 7th December. I had frequently seen the deceased write, and I still believe the letter, cheque, Ike., to be forgeries, sad from information since received I believe the stamps, par. porting to bs the Post-o9les endorsing stamps, on the en velope, are forgeries also. I have seen the letter, cheque, and envelope which are now filed in the Record and Writ Clerke.office, Chancery-lane. James Penzton, examined—l em a stationer, of =. King street, linow•bilL About the third week in June, a permit whom I supposed to be Mr. C. J. Wyld, of Cbeltenhare (the name and address given), called on me, and gave me an order in writing for an endorsing stamp. He afterwards sent another onler for a second %temp, which I employed Mr. Barrel:, of 15, Fleet-lane, to execute. The stamps were sent by rail to the above address, and other orders having followed, I declined them, and referred him to Mr. Surrey himself. Abraham Surrey, engraver, proved that he hail occasion ally done work for hiat witness, and remembered the order in question. Witness executed two endorsing stamps, and ' afterwards had interviews with the supposed Mr. Wyld„ who, on two or three occasions, Peet back the stamps to be altered. The gentleman called at hie shop first about the Bth Au,gust lust, producing the stamps and fittings, and says ing he was sent by Mr. Perraton. Witness said--He raked me if I would mind puling an hour or two with him, as one two heads might be able to accomplish what he wanted. I had criginally formed the stamp in a semicircle to contain ten letters. He now said he wanted it altered to contain 12 letter. He remained with me, in my shop, the whole el four days while I was trying to make the alterations. Tali were completed, and I gave him the stamps ou the lltk August. The two stamps contained letters which would make—one of them, Macclesfield," and the other, " Bath." The letters would spell these words, if so placed. I also made him fi gures " I," " 59," and also "2." The letter " J." wax also made. During the time the gentlemal was with me my son William was in the shop. " also. In December last be called upon me againirn ds id asked if the stamps arrived, and he said " Yes." William Surrey, son of List witness, proved that he saw the gentleman, in August and December, and in January last. On being taken to Doctors' Common, by Mr. Johnson he saw the same gentleman. Mr. Johnson said to witness,. " Is that the person your father made the stomps for?' amd witness replied " Yes." The gentleman shook his held sad put up his hand. I understood he was the 11ev. J. use. The witnesses having identified the prisoner as the person in question who paned as Mr. Wyld, Mr. Humphreys said he would now apply for a remand. These depositions, upon which the warrant was granted, sufficed for this purpose, and he would go into the ivilence at the next examination. Mr. Corrie—'fhat w quite eoongh for n remsnd. Mr. Abrehame—l can offer substantial beil if onr worship will swept it. Mr. Carrie declined to admit the prisoner to Luil. The as wee then remanded for a week. UNWHOLEEONE consequenco of tho discoveries recently made at Chatham of the unwholesome character of the meat furnished on aeverel recent n•raeieoe by the army butchers fur the troops at that garrison, the moat stringent regulatioua have been adopted, under the direction of Major General Eyre, commanding the district. to prevent • recurreuce of such practices on the part of the contr►ctors. With this view, the aasislant-conimimry general of the garrison, accompanied by an offi Nom:idly selected for that duty, and one of the sergeants connected with the barrack departmeut, will ate terd at the slaughter-houses of the contractor each morning, and, after inspecting the animals select"' to be killed, 91 order to ascertain from perwinal inspection that they are in all reelects fit for fool, will witness their being killed, and as soon as they are dressed will place his seal en the carcase of each. On the arrival of the meat at the several barracks for distribution to the troops, the seal, will be examined, in order to ascertain that they lass not been tampered with, after which it will he cut up for the troops. By these promutions nothing but really good meat will in future be allowed to be sent to the barracks for the use of the soldiers. Assist.-Commissary-General Ibletson has not only condemned meat at Chatham on several mass micas, he has also condemned meat at Sheernma, and both bread and meat at Maidstone. Fresh supplies in those mem were purchased at the cost of the contractor'. The beef thus condemned wars not diseased. It was, how ever, of inferior quality. DEATH ►aoat TIM BETE Or A VICIOtIi The Liverpool borough coroner held an inqueet yeatenlay on the body of Thomas liglio, • oowkeeper, who died us the Royal Infirmary on Saturday from lockjaw, Wiring been severely bitten on the arm on theSth instant by a pony. In the course of the inquiry it transpired that the pony was of • most vicious nature, and that another person is now con fined in the infirmary from injuries received from it. This ment ag tinder I and the appeared issued in Mr. Will on then debt of 4 SUMS wel Mr. Fole Mr. Folej ensued be saw hie o then said proceedia the facts the Law to the pn Mr. Ito Their 1, !mad to This writ pleaded n( 111 the pro verdict writ afterward' weight of The Coo COLT" The So lis dissolution Gurney be The COIL GRAY thia Coe diamial but the eou had thereto poi apnt a d kr C. Cr Wag nothi of the cowl order, bow the fall col LA? In this cm petitioner, The court Tho new aPPeArell in however, ti the 153 cau for judicial riBbto. and 1 are 36 colon to be heard im 1 Pauper ( POnnttate e. This was a and contents The plaint attended • h Inverness o number. At east was not Cross -exam In the padre pocket-Itsodl pm society to thee. 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