The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-23 00:00:00

41 .• ( 1 •,,, • vibe ex Legg. Aitearthensents la =tl for . The Topcoat; Larks Wowlog mom most be at the 0111 too, It, 90101,10401114 by Two Oink ea the olog of pablisitios. THOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. -llerslag, IL Its Mann" 6116 Wm 16-2aLlaif -Masa& 711. la Maw% M. U. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 23. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. _PROGRESS OF THE BOMBARDMENT. (IT ZLICTRIC Glom Till 01 of DAILY ItRIM) PAR,IS, BIINDLT. The Osiris, which arrived at Marseilles yesterday, brings Constantinople news to the 12th, and from Hamiesch Bay to the 10th, at noon. The bombardment had continued without inter ruption, the principal attack being on the left spinet the Mast and Central Batteries. The embrasures of the Russian batteries were ge nerally demolished, and many of their guns dis mounted. Three hundred French guns fired at once. The attack on Malakboff Tower wee more feeble; 100 guns, served by English troops, directed their fire upon Karabelasia, and poured showers of balls upon the Russian barracks. The operations, however, were difficult, owing to wind, rain, and the soaked state of the ground. The Russians reply slowly to the Allied batteries, and their losses were much more considerable than oars. Half an hoar after the bombardment had commenced, three Russian batteries were silenced. The French battery, Number 28, wu also destroyed, and the captain killed. _ Although the principal fire wan directed against the Mast Battery, the Malakhoff Tower was greatly damaged on the right side. A Russian powder magazine has blown up. The south-west wind driving the smoke upon the town much annoys the Russian aim. Omer Pacha had arrived at Ksmiesch. The Egyptians occupy the heights of Kasatsch. Shocks of a violent earthquake had been felt at Constantinople and Smyrna on the 11th. The Monotony of this day (says the Post, second edition) publishes a despatch from General Canto bat, who, on the 17th, writes that the tire of the Allies continued to maintain its superiority, without being too prodigal of ammunition. The attack up to the present time has been almost exclusively made by the artillery, but the engineers are combining their practical efforts, and have succeeded in forming several approaches, notwithstanding the difficulties el the ground. ST. PETERSBURG, FWD/a. General Gottaliskoff wiles from the Crimea, under date of the 16th :—" The bombardment of Sebastopol has con tinued without interruption slam the 9th. Thanks to the heroism of the garrison, who repair during the night the Wary caused by the fire of the allies, Sebutepol, ea the 16th, is almost In the same state of defence us on the 9th. The losses of the garrison, if the hellish Are ( fat 'reefer) to which it has been exposed be taken tato account, least be coasidered as very moderate. Nothing remarksble has transpired la the other parts of the Crimea."—Deily ' Nere. On lILICTIIO /IST OP ?111 DAILY DIWIL) FRANKFORT, Elaruanky. Apartments taken at the Hotel Angelterre for Lord John Russell, on Monday. have been mantes sanded till further orders. VIENNA, SATURDAY. It IA positively stated that at the eleventh Conference the Plenipotentiaries of the Western Powers est forth their demands on the third point, relative to the limitation of the Russian naval force ia the Beek Bea, and to whisk do med. Austria is said to have adhered. Lord Jobe Russell is to leave or Readay.—Datly News. HAMBURG, Aram 20._ Admiral Saunders Dundas, with twelve sail of the lies, four bigatas, sad al: sarvatte• (all staaaasts), has Wend the port of Hid.—Deify Nom (AY SUINAZINE AND 111711 Z ININGIAPN PARIS, BANDAY. '!tie Emperor arrived at 7 dabs* this evening.— DIAN Nam SPAIN. MADRID, Aria. 20. The Cartes to-day adopted the 2nd and 3rd articles of the WI fat the Sale of Church Property. Rein foreseisats are to be sent to Mellila. in Africa, for the pretatioa of the presidia, or government prince.— Daly Nam BRESLAU, Arm 21. There is a rumour that the Slog of Prongs will meet the Empties of Rusin in this city, in the be ginning of May. The Austrian journal, the Dasrbs, says that mea sures have been taken in owe of any decisive event warring at Sebastopol, to have the news at Vienna in " three times twenty-four hours." The Earl of Perth bas published &letter in defence of his sou, Lord Forth (late of the 42nd Regimes% whom I esadsat is the Crimea has be= the subiart of mine in. • plmeant allosions. In this totter, the retiremest or dig- i =bail of Lord Forth from the eon= is attributed to an damnation with hie colonel on being ordered to p into the treschre, his lordship refusing, on secoust d in-health, to p ustil ho bad had his dinasr. Os being taut= with Imagine, he changed his =ad. "This inset =fortunate altoreation, =stag, I deplore to my," writes the Zul, " in pest messure from my son's Wettest= to his military duty, sad west of sabordisatioa to the orders of Colossi Cameron, hoe been the feandetios of the may may tame, eliaderoes, sad &baud fahehoeds which hoes Ma se uncharitably sat ab nit regarding lam, sad which it was eat of ray power to deny until I hod amertaised from Ta rim pumas who were on the spot, sad from Colonel Ca meros himself, the truth of this =at painful affair." We (Pod) are gadded to eats that the electric SOW see saaelly Ida frees %tulles to Vim, sad will be essay fee see imaertew, the 24tb. By this engage swat. tatelligesee teem the .Mat bealleartees ia the Claims my be twelve' i• Links vials shy ho=ll. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENIM, APRIL 23, 1855. gut &S The EaWOW and Smgreel hi t i t s ibil Finn& took leave of the Quinn e Beturday as th o u, lo w s t o Part. This Imperial Majesties were ass. goad brg Mfr Majesty; mad Prises Albert from their 'Oats In Asir carriage at the /mad Natrona of the palace the Clem being satimgesiod toy the Prince of Wales, the Primes* Rol, Prime Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Imalma, Mee Arthur, and Prince Leopold. SW Dab= of Hest (attended by Lady Anna Maria i llemoom Lady Fanny Howard, and Sir George Cooper) and Se Duke of Cambridge (attended by Colonel Tyrrwhit) bad arrived at Buckingham Palace at a quarter before 10 (Meek, and also accompanied the Emperor and /Impress to tie pawl hall in company with the Prince of Wang's. VW great officen of state and the household, via, Had Osman Lord Steward ; the Marquis of Breadalbene, Lord Chamlealain; the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Hemel tM Marquis of Aberoorn, Groom of the Stole to Priam Albert; and Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain, proemial the illustrious party through the corridors, and down the grand staircase to the entrance. The followiag ladles and gentlemen of the court were also in attendants,: ThaDadiess of Wellington, the Vicounteas Canning, Lady Oardim Barrington, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Fiera ilandemdi, Hon. Mary Seymour, Lord Riven, Lord George Lamm Ss Edward Bowater, Sir Frmeriek Smolt), the Witto s ;et re Household, Major-General Wilde ' Lord Chnios Filmy, and Mr. Norman Macdonald. All she gentlemen were in uniform. Osilie Grand Staircase and in the Hall were meted the Yeemmsof the Guard, under the command of Captain Hoo doos's% the Ems in waiting. Viscount Sydney, the Cap tain of the Cape; Sir George Lee, the Lieutenant; sad Colonel Fitmaeurioe, the Adjutant, attended. • A Guard of Honour of the Grenadier Guards was on daty in front of the Grand Entrance, and on the appearance of the Boyal party, the band commenced playing .. Portant pour 1* eyrie." Ms Emperor and Empress took leave of the Qum at the entrance. Their Imperial Majesties also took leave here of the Royal family and the Prises of Lelningen. The Em press wee then handed into her carriage by Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge, who were in uniform, and both wore the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor. -- -- - The Emperor, who wore the uniform of a French general with the riband, badge, and star of the Order of the Garter, and the star of the Legion of Honour, next entered the carriage (an open one drawn by four horses), end we followed by Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge. In the carriage next to that of their Imperial Majesties were the Princess d'Eseling, the Countess Wa',mkt, Mar shal Count Valliant, French Minister of War; and the French Ambassador. . -.. . Four of the Queen's open carriages and our followed, conveying In the fins, The Marchioness of Ely, the Countess de Montebello, Lord Cowley, end the Count de Montebello. In the second, Baroness de Malaret, Duke de Bunn°, the Marquis de Toulongeon, and Lord Alfred Paget. Its the third, Colonel Count Ney, Colonel Fleury, Count Teacher de la Pagerie, Lieut.-Colonel Boucher, and In the fourth, Earl Somers, Major General the Hon. Charlie Grey, Colonel Seymour, and Colonel Tyrwhitt. The royal cortege quitted the palace at twenty minutes peat ten o'clock. The moon from the Palace to the Bricklayers' Uwe station of the South Eutern Railway was composed of the Royal Horn Guards. Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge accompanied the Emperor and Empress to Dover, attended by their Gentlemen-in• Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Buckingham Palace at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the Duke of Cambridge afterwards proceeded to his residence in St. James's Palace. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French invested the Duke of Cambridge with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour on Wednesday at Windsor Cattle. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Leiningen, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service in the private chapel ;of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The Duchess of Kent visitel the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday at Gloucester Howe. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon. It was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, and Viscount Canning. The council eat three hours. Several deputations had interviews on Siturday with the President of the General Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall, with relation to the Metropolis Local Manage ment Bill. The first deputation consisted of Mr. B. J. Southwell (vestry clerk, Mile-end Old-town), Mr. H. B. Bathurst (clerk to the Trustees, Hamlet of Retold!), and Kr. John Holt (deputed by the Board of Trustees) Mr. Thomas Bevels (Chairman of the Board of Pave _ mint), Mr. W. Barnett (of Bethnal-green), Mr. Robert Brutton, (clerk to the Commissioner of ditto), Mr. Thos. Brookfield (Treumer of the Board of Pavement of Christ church, Spit&Melds), Mr. Thai. B. Tanqueray Winsome (clerk to the Commissioners of ditto, and Old Artillery Ground), sad Mr. Richard Bills (vestry clerk and clerk to the Commissioners of Pavement of Holy Trinity, Minorisa). They iron ineredimed by Sir Williams Clay and Mr. C. J. Butler, sembeen kr the Tower Hamlets. Mr. Goddard (tor Bow) aced Mr. Dunstan (for Bromley) also attended. A deputation ken Shoroditch, consisting of Messrs. Gee. Pares, J. Long, W. Southgate, R. Allen, W. Davis (clerk), W. *eggs (surveyor), and J. Dettmann (inspector). A lopesties hese Limehome, conaistiag of Mr. S. D. Skillat, mad BD. Wan (ratty clerk). From Hackney and Stoke Newness s Mr. G. Offre, J.P. From St. George-in.the- Bast ; Ns. Howell, man clerk. Likewise representative, of Übe sevaral parishes of Whitechapel, Spitallialds, Shore ditch, Boosaley, Bow, Mile-end Old Town, kJ ile.end New Town. Bethnal Green, Old Artillery Grossed, sad host Omen of property in Shomditeh, and other parionn. The dopuntiou from the Woolwich Local Board of Health also had ea interview en Saturday with the Premi um of** General Board of Health. The deputation eon ebbed of the B,ev. H. Brown (chairman of the Local Beard), Dr. Riehardaon,and Yemen. Dixon, Stunt, Bemays, Lewis, Davis, Mason, Pidooek, and Jackson, and Mr. Sarjent (auk to the Board) ; and a deputation from South wark, conaieting of Mr. A. Pella% M.P., and Mears. [ Merolla, Pocock, Martin, Bronzy, Newman, sad Dr. Chalice, also in relation to the same Inkiest. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial. dam to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Dee. pashas were received from the Governors of Ceylon and the Mauritius on Saturday. The Herald amen that the result of a conference, held at Windsor, between the Emperor of the French, Lord FabiusMas, Sir John Burgoyne, and other distinguished persons, was that, the magotiatione failing, the Emperor will proceed forthwith to the Crimea, to superintend or command the military operations there. The Empress will accompany him. The same journal says there is no truth in the rumour that oar Clasen will visit Paris on an early day. "Foreign affairs, in connection with the possible de parture of the Emperor from Fratee, will prevent any psi• tics smarmiest as to the promos of (lases Vietoria and the Primes Cement is the French capital." - - - Saturday was the day for the reception into the Preach Asa/Imq of the WC new members ieurodeoed into its midst ea Impertel deem. Mr. Hudson and the Doc de Grammont, the British sad Pres& Ambeisedon to the Coast of Tulin, are sow at Genoa to witness the embarkation of the Flatmates' troops fee the Lomat. Lord Stanley of Aldsrley and family have arrived la Doves-owed from Italy. . _ _ The Earl Granville, who mat with an accident by the horn he was driving is a cab stumbling on Cosstitu tiowhill, ea Tuesday last, has suffered considerably, and was prevented from joining his colleagues at the Cabinet Council on Saturday. The Earl of Cardigan has been on a visit at Bad adatea, and attesded a side meet of the Dake's hounds, at Tate, where a brilliant field aesesabled. The Miniater of Pruasia at our Court was absent hen the dijavair given by Count Wakweld after the Ins• mid visit to Guildhall, last week ; bet the premise of M. sad Madame Trades is seipmg to dep t hs * het VI asy igalisliall. IRATRE OF OUR IMPERIAL 1 The week of porn* with ito feasting, its orow6 g i and iq excitement, terminated on Saturday last with the departure of the Emperor and Empress of the French from the land which had given them a noble welcome. The arrange ments for the journey were as nearly as possible the barn' as those whisk bad ,been observed on their arrival, end were carried out with the same satisfactory amount of suocass. Mr. Rich and his brother directors of the South Eastern Company received the Imperial party at the Bricklayers' Arms Station, where the Lord Mayor about the same time was delivering his consignment of the municipal notabilities of Paris. The journey down was performed with as much speed as was cessistent with safety, but, probely, from a sudden change of the hour of departure from 11 to 10 o'clock, the same crowds were not observable at the various stations as on the day of arrival. The directors escorted their illustrious:guests down to Dover, and at the termination of the journey, received from the Emperor the assurance that all their arrangements bad been completely satisfactory, saving that they bad resulted in taking him too quickly out of England. Through the excellent arrangements of Mr. Way, all delay at the railway station at Dover was avoided, and the illustrious party proceeded at once to the Admi ralty Pier, where the Mayor of Dover was waiting to make his adieus, and Mr. Churchward and Captain Smithett tab see their Imperial Majesties safely on board the Lae mail boat, Empress, the vessel to which was allotted the unpre• oedented honour of conveying the Emperor and Empress _ _ . book tonna,. Our old friends, t►e Bucks militia, were also there, looking rather uncomfortable under the influ ence of the stiff north-east breeze to which they had been ' exposed all the morning, and several military bands, which treated the Emperor to an air of which he must by this time have some faint ides, namely, " Portant pour la Eyrie." The stage had been newly covered with scarlet cloth, and every thing made comfortable and trim under the experi enced eapetinteadenee of Captain Herrick. The Emperor wads his adieus to all kis Irian& In succession, shaking bands warmly with Prince Albert and the Dale of Cam bridge, and presenting a magnifieen., jewelled enuff•box to . .. .. . the ideyor of Dour. The impress wee also all smiles and eondeseension, and took an affectionate farewell of the Marchioness of Ely, who had been her lady-in-waiting during her sojourn at the English court. The two Royal Princes bad the honour of kissing the Empress's hand, and immediately after, his Majesty and his Imperial Consort stepped on board the noble vessel which they had selected for the voyage. The Empress is quits • new boat of great power and symmetry, twin packet with the Queen, and, like her, devoted to the postal service between Dover and the French ports. She had been selected by the Emperor himself in preference) to any of his own war Mainers, and certainly by her performance she did full justice to his Majesty's discrimination. She was on this occasion commanded by Captain flmithett, and Mr. Church ward, director of the company, was also in attendance. Her consort, the Queen, under the superintendence of iCap tain Moore, was appointed to accompany the E.npress, and both vessels steered gaily away from the jetty in company, and as the vessels moved away, the immense crowd. that lined the shore bid the Emperor farewell in a cheer such as he is not likely again to hear unless he repeats his visit to this country. The French corvette Corse manned yards and fired salutes, and off went the two steamers at a dashing pace of about sixteen miles an hour, followed by the Corse and Black Eagle, and one or two other vessels. Some an noyance was created by the discourtesy of the captain of one of these vessels in crossing the bows of the Black Eagle and Empress, and thus fairly smoking our imperial guests and the Lords of the Admiralty ; but the strong breeze soon blew away the blacks, and the speed of the mail-boat left the offending vessel so far behind as to make her efforts at annoyance completely harmless. About this time the braes, began to freshen considerably, and the escort of war steamers might be wen rolling in a way that looked rather uncomfortable to inexperienced eyes. The Empress, how ever, plunged fearlessly through the short chopping sea for which the channel is remarkable, and her illustrious pas sengers kept the deck defiant alike of spray and sea-sickness. The speed of the two mail boats soon left everything be hind, so that whoa they entered the port of Boulogne the only vessel of the squadron is sight was the Corse, which vessel, it mast be admitted, showed for a screw steamer a very creditable rite of velocity. During the voyage, the directors of the company, M. De Clebsetal, Mr. Cburchward, and Captain Jenkings, were presented to the Emperor, acd received from his Majesty repeated commendations of the efficiency of their arrangements. He asked al ques tions as to where the ship had been built, the amount of horse power, &c., exhibiting not only interest, but know ledge, in the very important subject of steam machinery. The reception at Boulogne presented a striking contrast to the English ovations of the previous week. The crowd at the landing-place was by no means great, nor was the cheering so loud or long continued as to render the operation Very diatreming to the lungs of the performers. However, cheering is not the fashion in France, and it is a question whether in England the practice is not sometimes carried to an absurd extent; but the reception was pronounced to be , a geed NM by those who have had experience of similar ex hale's= of French approbation. A good many people oar- Maly shouted " Viva PEnspereur," and one man added, "Bon Maur," and the speaker received a special and of reeepition from the Emperor. When stepping on shore the isaperor and Empress seemed in perfect health, but the &high tabaseador, who had been their fellow gamengsr, had evidently suffered from sea sickness, The Imperial carriages were soon at the water side, mid the military and local authorities stepped on board M miaow tbe Emperor. After a very few moments spent la ems poseip, the whole party, headed by fdarechal illezegsay d'Hilliere, drove off to the Marine Hotel, a megni hunt structure, which has recently been devoted to the eseommodation of the visitors at Boulogne. the incidents et the journey might here be said to have terminated, but that the Empire?, while expressing to Lord Alfred Paget s delight at his English reception, intimated that if his lordship would remain a day, a review of a portion of the @my of the north would take place. The vicinity of the amp made Its arrangement a matter easily managed, and ameedhaily yesterday the Rey French had the only spec tacle in which they seem to take much interest—namely, a grand military parade. Thirty-two thousand men wel mentioned on the sands in the front of the Royal Hotel, end went through some of the leas WA eate but more imposing of their military manoeuvres. The spectacle could hardly have taken plus under more favourable circumstances. The sand formed a splendid parade, the sea a most refreshing background, and the men ef-wer in the *Meg completed the belligerent upset of the whole proceeding. As the road that runs past the hotel is several feet higher than the sands, the people who crowded it had en admirable view of the troops as they turned round the little headland which conceals the camp at Honvault from Boulogne, and the eye became almost weary in watching the dense 111111411 of men who cams on for upwards of an hour, and with military precision took their places on the review ground. The usual distracted galloping of the officers then task place, and the word of command was yelled with more than ordinary fierceness, while the limpet' incessantly kept up that monotonous bray which is one of the least agreeable peculiarities of the French army. While the troops were being fused, the Emperor and Empress, accompanied by Lod Alfred Paget end the usual suite, proceeded to Omsk and were absent for about three-quarters of an her. On their return • numerous crowd had collected mod the hotel, and very considerable anxiety was evinced ee see the Emperor and Empress. One English lady of pe tite end "nodal figure, but true Insular energy and deter neinallems Mitt her way to the front teaks and exclaimed la WO* "Gel Idles the Empress," when her Imperial "West, turned 'ruefully round, and recognised the he 'Mae with • meet gracious Inelnatio• of the bead. A peer MINIM next attracted the imperial notice, and bet Majesty Mopped over and put an alms into her hand, an act whisk underfally enhanced her Majesty's popularity. By this Ilse the arrangements for the review had beta seargieesd, sad the Emperor mounted his famous Englhh elms; wile the Empress seconded to a baloney drags* ml& rasa velvet and gold, which had Dena lowed la - of the hotel. The imperial eat was maw seas sal met brilliant, as all the mien aalheme of the lasimasside Friuli army. The AM pressgang was the dielelhaties of the erases and 111111/11/ which had 'neatly been awarded to the army of the north. Fifty-one crosses and a great number of medals were distributed both t o the officers and soldiers, the Engem la puma sager intending the distribution. His miler this ma dean the lines, suletiag as he passed, ail ibartly after esemihd to the road, where, right la Mae of the hotel, he eat ble hone motionless as a states, mess at the salute, while the inunesse body of men on the sands defiled before him. It would bs imP titoing bl e e d tod ly "y attractive tha the snilltq spectacle bla then The height of The road afforded to all g fail view of the ▪ and enabled them to distinguish each separate mass of troops, to watch the columns as they marchied rased, and so see the young aiderd•-camp as they careered backwards VIBITMUI sad forwards with the necessary orders. As each re giment same up, its eagle was lowered, the Emperor 6:.ed his bat, and the soldiers raised a measured cry of • L'Empersur ;" bat the people in the road made no d e , onara :ion whatever. It took nearly an hour and a half to march thd whole of the regiments past, but his Majesty n tined tett; his poet until the last regiment had pawed, when he enine ,b,:tel retired to his hotel. t ;;ii Cress of the Legion of tt must not be omitted. Amongst the deo:nations, Honour presented to Captain Smith.: Captain Bmithett was summoned to the Imperial Hotel at about 11 o'clock, and having been moat graciously received by the Emperor, was presented with the decoration, which was fastened on his breast by one of the ladies of the court Messrs. Churebwerd and Jenkings had valuable diamond rings, and the chief engineer of the Empress a Issue gold medal, presented to them. The Emperor had in sisted en paying the expenses of the voyage, when the directors reluctantly named 201. as the price, but his Majesty at once ordered 401. to be paid, with en additional 201. to be distributed in gratuities to the crew. While presenting these gifts and decorations, hie Majesty again, and most warmly, expressed his satisfaction at his reception in England, and the arrangements which had been made by the railway and steamboat companies for his safe and comfortable traveling. With these few inci dents the narrative of the visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to England may be fairly allowed to ter minate. NAPOLEON 111. IN LONDON AND BOULOONE. Fox the last week the Farms of the Feasts has had no sinecure of it. If the English people re calved him hospitably, they have repaid themselves ' by making him exhibit himself incessantly. One day he had to receive the diplomatic circle, and visit Guildhall in the forenoon and the op era at night. Another he had to perambulate the Crystal Palace in the forenoon, and exert himself at a ball in the even ing. Two or three times every day had he to exhibit himself to oar sight-seeing publics—eating, speaking, sr dancing, as the case might be. And if they had got their will, he would have crossed the country at the heels of the Royal buckhounds in addition. her when be returns home is it to find repose. After a pretty rough taming and tumbling in the Channel oa Saturday, he had to be up betimes yeo- Wel at Bakens to attend mess, review ten thou sand bayweeb, and distribute honours and decors dons ; and finally to proceed to Paris by railway, which capital he reached about seven p.m. There is Dot a public performer at the Opera half so hard worked.: Some pseudo-philosophers may rail at all this as idle show and waste of time. Perhaps we may overdo, in Europe, this public exhibiting of our ralers--ezact. too much from them in the way of self presentation ; yet a considerable amount of it seems indispensable to the carrying on of government. Even in the North American most democratic democracy, the PRESIDENT and his lady—when he has one—are pretty hard worked at levees and other Presidential receptions. And a very superficial analysis of the human mind will serve to convince say one that a "raving for personal display is a powerful instinct in most people, and intimately associated with the greater number of men's active impulses. The same instinct which makes the Indian braes paint himself, and the warrior of a more advanced stage of civilisation array his person in gaudy uniforms, or bedeck himself with orders, is powerfully at work in the minds of those who are ambitions of civil distinction. Alen are rarely contented to do good as legislators or public teachers, unless they can at the same time show the world that it is they who do it. To this we owe our stately ceremonials, civil and ecclesiastic. And the self-gratification of the actors in these pageants has undeniably the advantage of impressing the multitude more profoundly than mere abstract reasoning could do. Show and parade are, therefore, results of a law of nature, and in the organisation of a free and wise government it ought to be the aim of statesmen and legislators not to dispense with them, but to keep them in due subordination and enlist them on the side of rational and beneficent institutions. Popular government would have to contend at a sad disad vantage against absolutism if it were to be denied the privilege of gratifying the craving of the people for show, and the desire of public servants to parade themselves. It is this feature of human nature that renders so important a question that has of late been mooted, though u yet only in a partial and desultory manner—the question of orders of merit. By far the greater part of our European orders are so consti tuted as to strengthen the court against the people. France alone possesses an order which whilst it is, on the one hand, eminently adapted to link the people to a constitutional throne, is, on the other equally well adapted to stimulate men to aspire to admission into it by real services to the people. Something of the sort is much wanted in England at paint ; in the first place to "apply a buttress to the throne to compensate for the gradual weakening of the aristocracy of birth ; and, in the second place, to enable the champions et popular rights to gratify that craving for personal distinction innate in human nature, without deserting the cause of the people. Such is the general reflection suggested by " a week in the life of the Emperor of the French." A reflection of a more limited nature, but of scarcely Iwo prodigal importance at the present moment, was suggested by the closing act of that week. The review at Boulogne will be admitted by all who wit seemed it to have been a most imposing spectacle. There was little of mere gaudy show about It. There wu a simple severity—a sternly practical expression about the serried files along which the EMPEROR rode, distributing decorations. Everything about them appeared to be calculated for use, not for show. The EMPEROR and his staff were brilliant ; a few golden eagles with gorgeous banners dependent beneath them, appeared at intervals along the line; bat in the dresses, arms, and accoutrements, the esodort of the men and their efficiency in war applaud to have been the only consideration attended to. There was much of martial beauty' about the display, but that resulted from the healthy vigorous appearance of the soldiers, and their tidiness; from the accessories of loos lity and weather; and from the associations con jured up by the spectacle. Beyond the dazzling hedge of bayonets stretched the broad, pure waters of the sea, beneath a cloudless sky, with a couple of steam-frigates, decorated with flags, in the distance. The third NAPOLEON was there—not in his bodily presence alone, but in the thews and sinews of ten thousand of the elite of the youth of France, skilled in the use of their weapons, and moved as one great machine by his volition. It was a tremendous in carnation of mere human power. It was witnessed on a spot where little more than half a century ago the powerful coast-defences, and threatening flotillas of France, were narrowly webbed by a mighty British fleet. Now, with the exception of the two frigates alluded to, the sea was free from astiamaab; the am had become a highway oonneot lag two united nations. In the beginning of the esntury France and England were exhausting each other's energies and resources in a conflict provoked by the exorbitant claims of a worthless and effete dynasty. In the middle of the century France and /Inland are combined to exert their powers as the dimples' of civilisation. Long may this entente cordials of the nations and their governments endure ; it augurs well for the cause of civilisation—not in Europe only, but throughout the world.—. Daily News. TIE LATE ACCIDENT TO LOILD STS2IIIOPI.—We me gratified to leers Lord Stanhope is going onus favour ably as meld be Impeded after his wine accident en Thunday last, in St. Paul's Churchyard, while on ditty with his regiment. Boon after the sad accident, a tele graph's message was forwarded to the Bail and emote* of Chesterfield, at Bretbypask, Derbyshire ; and on Friday t►e noble Me sad mutes@ sad Lady Evelyn Stanhope come to town. Dr. Ferguson, the lemon of the regiment, and the 'medical gentlemen called in directly after the mei. dent, an in atteadaase on his lordship, and eengalae hopes ere entertained of his early recovery. The fracture was ably redneed before his lordship's removal to the Be gent's•park Barracks. The Queen, the Doke of Cambridge, and a host of the nobility, sent Sr made inquiries yesterday after the condition of the gallant yosersobleman. The Salisbury Ammo: says that the induction of the Bev. L. N. Humbert, formerly of St. Ohm's, South wark, sppoioted by the Bishop of Winchester to the Mae tenhip of the hospital of St. Cross, vacant by the acsepted resignation of the Berl of Guilford, will take pleas is a few days. The Rev. H. Holloway has addressed a lacks to the Bishop, calling upon his lordship to talcs pressedliss agendas Berl of °Wildfowl, wader the Chard' Dialiglias Act, fee haring, as a beneficed clergyman (s.maw to own allegation) within this diocese, supplied the disilmileat with moat' to the ezteat of 8001., in the 11W MOIR Is lad " v. lamb." NAPOLEON 111. AND THE LITERARY ASSO- CIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF POLAND. The following is a copy of the address presented by thte Aisociation to the Emperor of the French on his recent visit: , .—.. To His Majesty Nspo:eos the Third, Bmperor of the French. Sire,—Amidst the universal voice of congratulation which hu hailed the auspicious visit of your Imperial Ma jesty and your august consort to our beloved sovereign, we should not have sought to addrem these words of welcome to year Imperial Majesty, if we had not believed that in the principles which we have sought to jnaintain and laboured to disseminate, there resides the power of rendering per petual that strict alliance and cordial amity which happily subsists between the two great Western Powers. Your Imperial Majesty has already declared, in words which mark a new epoch of European history, " That the time of conquests is irrevocably passed, and that it is not by extending the limits of its territory, that a nation can henceforth become honoured and powerful, it is by placing itself at the head of generous ideas; by making everywhere to prevail the empire of right and justice." Such are the words which your Imperial Majesty has inscribed on the united standards of Francs and England ; they are words of hope for the oppressed, and of repose for the world. It is not, Sire, our design to urge their imme diate application to a nation which, as the statesmen of all countries, and of all political creeds have affirmed, has been the victim of injustice the most flagrant, and per fidy the most foul. We await, however, with confidence the hour when Europe awakening to the fearful retribution by which such crimes, when unredreseed, are inevitably visited, will seek to avert the punishment by repairing the wrongs which she bu perpetrated or permitted. To save from impending ruin a nation which, though separated by its faith from the European family, yet possesses noble quali ties, that command our admiration and sympathy, is a righteous work that hallows the alliance by which it his been effected ; but to raise from the dust a people profess ing the same religion with ourselves, once the generous champions of Western civilisation, and still possessing all chivalrous traditions which lkat its basis—this would be an achievement that would bind together the powers that shall units in its accomplishment, by a link that centuries would have no:power to sever—this would be not only to inaugu rate but to establish the empire of right and justice, on a firm and enduring basis. We have the honour to be, Sirs, with profound respect, your Imperial Majesty's most humble and most obedient servants, the Council of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. Oa behalf of the Council, BREADALBANI, Vice-President. W. LLOYD lizasszcz, Hon. Sec. THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION (THOM THE COMMISSIONER OE THE DAILY NEWS.) PARIS, APALL 20. THE FINE ARTS. _ A widespread discontent reigns in the artistic world of Faris. Artists are moodily fetching away their rejected works, warned that if they do not at once seek for them they will be unable to obtain them before October next. I predicted this discontent when I heard of the principle upon which the Fine Art Jules had determined to act. Whether the beet re sults of an universal exhibition are attained by ad mitting only men of acknowledged talent to the con test, is a matter open to discussion. I think that this course is, in every respect, a mistaken one. A nation has more interest in the promises than in the accom plishments of her rivals. To know how France will probably stand, in art, twenty years hence, is surely more interesting to her neighbours than to learn how she stands—or rather has stood. I have heard, for instance, that the works of one of her moat remarkably original artists—Gustave Dore— have been nearly all, it not all, rejected. Horace Vernet, Ingres, and Co., reign supreme masters of the galleries, and deploy their canvas by acres to be filled with the breath of Fame. A little more modesty—a little sense of the struggles of their younger brethren—a smile here and there for rising men, would have pleased everybody better. As it is, the English visitors will recognise in the French Fine Art department much that they have long since seen at Versailles, nearly all they have seen at the Luxembourg. Indeed, the Luxembourg Gallery has been so seriously drawn upon, that, ac cording to general rumour, it will be closed through. out the ensuing summer. I have seen Gerome's figures, representing the maritime nations, destined to ornament the phare, recently turned out of the Central Hall of the Palais de 'lndustrie by Prince Napoleon. Some of these figures are exquisitely drawn ; and the artist has succeeded, by a wonderful variety of attitudes, in relieving the monotony which sixteen figures, all holding oars aloft and standing in a row, would present under ordinary treatment. It is to be hoped that the phare destined to be ornamented with these graceful designs will be placed in some conspicuous position. Speaking of the Exhibition generally, I may assure your readers that extraordinary activity has prevailed here during the last two or three days. I went over the Palace and the great machinery gallery yesterday very carefully, and at points was surprised at the progress made since the beginning of the week. Spain is now very busy in the north western gallery ; Austria shows decided signs of progress in the southern galleries ; and crowds of people begin to swarm the French space. In the British section Minton and other exhibitors are very forward ; and some of the English decorative furniture is already displayed. Mr. Digby Wyatt's distribution of the Indian collection in the south-eastern corner of the building is also progressing rapidl. The cen tral hall, however, is still almost desert ed. The flags of different nations begin to peep over the galleries— still further reminding us of our London Rshibition. The English flag is of those already floating in the building. It is said to be the union jack of the mer cantile navy—not of the royal navy, and that it should therefore be hauled down; but I am not cer tain that the mercantile finis not peculiarly adapted to a Palace of Industry. Certainly our merchant men have more to do with this Universal Exhibition , than our men of war. Yesterday workmen were laying down bitumen pavement before the principal entrance to the Palace, and on both sides I remarked the gardeners had made great progress with their planting. Today is the last on which goods wilt be received. They are arriving in immense quantities, I believe. Yesterday the arrivals while I was in the building appeared to be very heavy. I am informed that three or four hundred packages have arrived for the British section alone this week. THE LIBRARY OP THE HOTEL DE VILLE has just bad olossifbal the political and historical manuscripts which were bequeathed to.it by 11. Thou et, member of the last Constituent Assembly. A number of manuscripts re lative to dramatic art, and particularly to the French Opera and the Thiltre Francais, bequeathed some time back *b M. Scoffers, commissary of polio', have also been and may now be consulted by the public. About 6,000 volumes on the policy, Winery, geography, AL, of the United States, have bees plead is two spe6alrooms. which are to be thrown opus to the public at the ocantenessnent of the exhibition. The total number of volumes in the City Library L at present about 70,060 and amengst them are many relative to the history of Facie and of Assiut lases. FRANCE. (MOM THE CORIIIISPONDENT OP TEN DA ILY NEWS) PARIS, SUNDAY E VENING. A telegraphic despatch from Vi enna , d ated this day, states that the Conference of y es t er d ay lasted four hours and a half, and ended with out any con eiot pended, an t i ;tai Lord n he to c ti o c n h f i e n r g en th ce e s k a n r o e lty : lll:cl Point. It i s a dd ed m John Russell and M. Drony n d e Lh uys have taken leave of the members of the Congress. This y 1 that lus merely a private despatch, and entitled to no more credit than the many others on the subject of the Conference which have proved to be erroneous. Nevertheless, I venture to predict from my know ledge of the "situation," that this will turn out to be correct. The material fact that the French and English Plenipotentiaries have taken leave, would not fall within the pledge of the members of the Congress to keep their proceedings se cre t. . .. On the subject of the present attitude of Austria, the rumours are most contradictory. The last nom ber of the Austrian Gazette formally affirms that the three Powers are in perfect accord. The Tins Gazette asserts that Austria will persist in her "pie. sive attitude." A telegraphic despatch in the Petrie, dated Vienna, this day, denies the truth of the ru mour that the Austrian army was about to be pat upon a peace footing, and says that, on the contrary, armaments continue with increased activity. Very sinister rumours from Sebastopol have been current all day on the Boulevard. Decided reverses, both on the part of the French and English, are spoken of, and it is said that General 13oequet is killed, and General Canrobert wounded. The Rate, which opened at 70fr. 30c. (10c. higher than yester- day), closed with great depression at 69fr. 75e. These Bourse rumours are entitled to the minimum of credit, but it is impossible not to listen to the; when we know that authentic news must have been received and is suppressed. The following tele. graphic despatch, reporting the death of General Bizot (the general commanding the Engineers in the French army of the East), is, I deeply lament to be. lieve, worthy of credit : BCCILAREEIT, APRIL 21. Sebastopol, April 17.—The bombardment continua. Several Russian batteries have been destroyed, but they have been repaired in the night. The fleets are still ism. ties. General Blunt (ef the engineers) is killed. There is a talk of a duel likely to came off between General Lawoavtine, Commandant of the National Guard of Paris, and Baron de Ravinel, a member of the Corps Legislatif. In the debate on the budget M. de Ravinel, objecting ti the high piy given to the general and stuff of the National Guard, ob. served that the suppression of the entire force would make much less sensation than the bill for pitting a tax on carriages. It appears that the general sent a hostile message by two aides-de-camp the next day. Baron de Ravinel explained that the official re. port of his speech hsd misrepresented him, and pro. mised that the general should find in a note in the Moniteur all the satisfaction he could require. This promise was kept. The Moniteur, for the first time, published a letter from a deputy, complaining that the only report of the debates allowed by the con stitution, and which in theory is infallible, was not correct. But it is now said that Baron de Ravinel, who bears the reputation of a wit, has made funny remarks in private society, which General Lawcestins resents. The aides-de-camp have waited on the deputy a second time, and a meeting is thought to be extremely probable. _ . The unseasonable and severe weather of the last three days occasions much uneasiness on account of the crops. A blue sky and treacherous sun has been accompanied with a persistent bitter north-east wind, which blows off the young buds, and blossoms nipped by nightly frosts. This morning the thermometer was two degrees below zero. It is said that a fifth of the bees in France have been killed by the severity of the winter, and that much of the honey was so severely frozen as to be spoiled. THE POPE'S NARROW ESCAPE. (PROM THI (DENT OP PRE DAILY NEWS) _ _ ROME, APRIL 14. The day before yesterday his Holiness was u nearly as possible crushed to death in the monastery of St. Agnes extra moms, where he had been dining with a select party of cardinals and prelates, besides the dignitaries of his household, and the French and Austrian generals commanding at Rome and Ancona, De Montreal and Hoyos. The accident occurred as follows :—The Pope having for some time entertained a strong wish to visit the Alexandrine basilica and catacombs recently discovered about seven miles from Rome, on the Coazzo estate, belonging to the Pro paganda College, fixed upon Thursday, the 12th inst., for examining the excavations, and invited Cardinals Marini, Patrizi, Schwarzenberg, Archbishop of Prague, Carvalho, Patriarch of Lisbon and a great antiquarian, Antonelli, as well as several prelate?, amongst whom the Prince Archbishop of Vienna, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of Verona, Newport, and Burlington, besides the two generals and eomo diplomatists and laymen of rank, to accompany him in his visit to the venerable remnants of early Christian architec ture. It so happened that the Roman steeplechases were to take place on the same day, and the course was on the same road as that to be followed by the Papal cortfge, which induced Prince Doria, the pre sident of the racing committee, to wait on hisHolinem to inquire whether the races had not be better put off to another day, but Pio Nono, with his custommy affability, requested that the public might not be dir appointed, and the only change made was conse quently one in the hour, so as to give his Holiness time to get back from the catacombs before the amateurs of horseflesh blocked up the whole road. The Pope having visited with great interest the catacombs, the oratories of Saints Alexander and Eventius, and the ancient Presbytery, where inscrip tions had been placed in his honour, sat down in the venerable marble episcopal chair, and addressed a discourse to the pupils of the Propaganda College present, exhorting them to a courageous discharge of their missionary duties. His Holiness then inspected the several burying-places of martyrs, and distributed relics to those persons around him; after which he examined the plans presented him for the erection of a new church on the spot, admired the beautiful mosaic pavement just excavated and offered to him by the Propaganda College (which is to be placed in the Vatican), and having expressed his entire stir faction at all he had seen, prepared to return to the moautery of St. Agnes. Whilst proceeding myself to the more profane amusement of the steeplechase had an opportunity of meeeing the Pope and all his suite—cardinals, generals, and prelates included. The day was moat lovely ; and Pio Nono, radiant with pleasure, looked as handsome and a ffable as ever, giving his gracious benediction to the numerous racing partisans hurrying in the opposite direction, with a smile which seemed to say " Chacun (1 son So n In the cloister of the monastery of St. Agnes his Holiness entertained his distinguished guests et dinner, in a large hall on the first floor, and sub sequently admitted the pupils of the ropagelndi College to kiss his foot. At this moment about 150 persons were collected together around the Popes when an awful tremor manifested itself in the floor ing, which hie Holiness instantly perceived, and en deavoured to prevent his guests from being alarmed at, assuring them that it was the shock of an earth quake, a phenomenon with which his residence an nuncio in South America had rendered him some what familiar. However, before any further con jectures were broached the floor gave way, With hideous ruin and combustion dim, and Pope, prelates, cardinals, generals,'solciiete , and scholars, were precipitated through it, without order of precedence, amongst filling beams and frapeats X