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Beneath the inno cent disguise of a niers parliamentary form his keen eye discovered • deep-laid plot—nothing less, indeed, than a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the Government to "subdue the House "of Lords," and revolutionise the State. The hour was late, the conspirators were pushing on their nefarious scheme, and not a moment, there fore, was to be lust. Happily, Lord ROILIT was equal to the occasion. Having detected the treacherous design, he promptly rose, and, with the stern enthusiasm of a patriot, the comprehen sive knowledge of • statesman, and the choice language of • scholar, denounced the attempted treason against the Consti tution. In the public duty he thus per formed it is hard to say which appeared to the greatest advantage, his highbred courtesy, parlia mentary knowledge, or command of expression. Perhaps, however, the last is entitled to the palm. The Cimiremunt of the Exeurcurint, who of course is to be considered the arch-conspirator, had stated that the course the Government pro posed to pursue of taking the report that evening was the settled and invariable routine of parlia mentary practice. The noble lord was " &boo " lutely aghast at the audacity of that statement." He indignantly denounced the proposal as " the " lever that was to alter the Constitution," and stigmatised the action of the Government as an attempt to " override the independent judgment "of Parliameut." It was perfectly clear to Lord Rosin Co - u. that no Government ought to be •flowed to persevere in such an attempt at twelve o'clock at night. If the country is to go to the bed, if the Constitution is to be destroyed, let it, at least, be only after full discussion and in open day. " Whether the course we are asked to take " is wise or not," said the noble lord, "it is too " important, and goes too deeply into the prin " ciples of the British Constitution, to be discussed " at this late hour of the night." It is mournful to reflect that this patriotic effort to serve the country reeled on the merest and moat obvious delusion. The conspiracy so sagaciously detected and indignantly denounced was • mare's nest The course which entered so deeply into the principles of the British Constitution was, after all, only • well-known and thoroughly established point of parliamentary practice. And so far from there not being time to discuss it at twelve o'clock at night, the whole matter wee settled in five minutes loon after the meeting of the House yes terday afternoon. We are bound is fairness, however, to my, that Lord ROBCRT was not aka* M his delusiou. It seemed to be shared by the majority of Members on his own side of the House, sod was certainly very warmly espoused by the leader of the Opposition. It is well known 'that the noble lord has not hitherto been, either in or out of the House, one of the right hon. gentleman's warmest admirers or most cor dial supporters. Rut it was delightful to witness on Tuesday evening how forward Mr. DISMIAJZIwas to kiss the roil, and how eagerly he opposed his band, if not his cheek, to the 'miter. Hu cheered the noble lord on, and fooled him to the very top of his bent. He confessed with charming frank ness and magnanimity, "that he had listened with " satisfaction to the noble lord, having never " heard more constitutional opinions expressed in " more effective language." " I hope," continued the right hon. gentleman, " that on Thursday the " no'..le lord will be prepared to take that part in " our debates, in which, I think, he has greatly dis " tinguished himself." Whether the noble lord's temper and vocabulary in addressing the House are precisely of the kind to merit this sort of enlogium from the responsible leader of a great party we need not stop to inquire. The point to be noticed is that when Thursday evening arrived, and the report which so deeply affected the British Constitution came on, neither the right hon. gentleman nor his henchman the noble lord had anything to say about it. The leader of the Opposition and the indignant patriot below the gangway had come at length to under stand the true state of the case. The " time for "redaction" Mr. Omani demanded a week ago, but which up to Tuesday evening ho had made so little use of, ho has evidently since then turned to better account. The result of this calmer and more dispassionate view orthe matter was gips rent in the course the right hon. gentleman adopted last night. Ho very wisely stated that he would offer no opposition to the Report of the Resolutions being received at once, and they were accordingly received without further discussion. This is as it should be, and shows, we would hope, the return of the Conservatives to a better mind and a more strai3htforward policy in their dealing with the Budget. By thus acquiescing in the ordinary procedure of Parliament the Opposition do not, of course, give up either the right or the intention of .liticussing fully those parts of the achenie to which they specially object. No ono wishes fora moment that they should do so. All that the supporter, of the scheme desire is • fair stand-up fi,bt. But a petty policy of intempe rate interruptions, vexatious delays, and merely factious interference with the usual Mina of par liamentary procedure, is utterly unworthy of any Part/ that aspires to gain the ear of Parliament or to secure tl.e conlitictice of the country. And IP THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 161. it is because the opposition to the Budget has more than once shown a tendency to take this undignified form that we have noticed the curious episode in this week's debate, which brought out Lord RuISEHT CECIL as an autho rity on parliamentary procedure, and Mr. Dtanatiu as his admiring critic and eager friend. That unfortunate episode is over ; the leader of the Opposition has put himself and his party right with the house, and no more need be said about it. If there is to be another fight, let it by all means be fought with undiminished spirit, but at the same time in mutual good temper and with honourable weapons. The vindictive temper and malignant vocabulary of Lord RODUCE CECIL are quite unnecessary in parliamentary warfare. De feat, though no doubt vexatious and sometimes humiliating, is not dishonourable. But imbecile and malignant efforts at revenge are sure to rouse the scorn and excite the just contempt of all generous and manly minds. he hastening southwards with such fervent speed, the citizen soldiers of the Northern States of America hare more reasons in their minds than may have yet occurred to distant observers. They go in obedience to the requisition of the PEZ/41- DINT ; and they go to defend Washington. This is true ; and it would suffice if there were no further reasons. But we are beginning to obtain glimpses of a war policy which has commended itself to the citizens, and in which they will probably be so generally agreed as to carry it out, under the leading of the Federal officers, and the countenance of the Federal authorities. They hasten to the frontier to save their free soil from the tread of an invader. The student of human nature may find matter for thought in the fact that the Northern men are already assert ing that it is not a civil war that they have been plunging into. The hatred between the two sec tions is so fierce, and has long been so keen, that they do not know the feeling of fellow-citizenship. They have lived, as citizens of Sovereign States, under Governments and institutions so different, that there is nothing in their case resembling that of a people dwelling under one sole Government, who part off into warfare. Every American lives under two Governments, and the nearest and most interesting is the State Government, in which the respective States differ more widely than many nations on the European continent. The point which will interest the observer is the love and pride of country which stimulates the Northern citizen to deny that the conflict is really civil war. To him the beloved Union is not dis solved, beanie the real Republican States were never before so closely united. The Republic is not disgraced, for it is as strong in the love and pride of the people as it ever was ; and it must be a great and noble polity which can command such de votion as the world witnesses now. Such being the feeling of the Northern host, on its march southwards, the enemy is regarded as foreign ; and the invasion of the soil of the Free States is to be repelled as that of • European foe would be. "To the frontier," then, is the cry. There is business to be done there, besides guarding Wash ington from assault. The railroads have to be protected, and the telegraphic wires restored. The communications from the frontier, and all parts of it, must be kept open. There meat be a free pas sage secured from the food States to the frontier ; and the Ohio must be kept in Northern hands. The scarcity of food in Washington cannot last long if communication with Ohio is open. Pork from Ohio and grain from Indiana and Illinois can be had in unlimited quantities. It is here that the importance of the public opinion of Western Virginia appears. It is plainly seen in Richmond, and all through the Eastern districts, that the Western farmers will never join the Secessionists. They have been desiring the abolition of slavery for a quarter of a century, so that there can be no doubt which way they will go now. This being tho case, and Pennsylvania being on the other side of a new line of Maryland soil, there can be little difficulty in feeding the army when ince its needs are appa rent ; and, if fed, there can be no force in Vir ginia, or Maryland, or both, which can withstand the attack of the North. Here we arrive at the deepest thought of all which have prompted the speedy march. The aim is to preclude • worse than a civil—a servile war, by appearing in the Slave States as pro tectors of the planters, while liberators of their slaves. Whatever may be the decision as to action on the latter point, there is the strongest interest about the other. Here the citinan army may feel that it is • civil war after all. There is scarcely a family on • plantation which is not related more or less closely to some Northern clan. Many a young man of that host is marching towards a sister's home ; and many a grey-haired citizen, in garrison at home, is thinking day and night of daughter or niece trembling at the idea of either hearing or not hearing the tramp of regiments from her old home. To appear among the plan tations, to guard the proprietors, and to support the Union party which is known to be strong in every State, is probably the great hope of every man that has entered Washington. Few, or none, perhaps, have any doubt of the emancipation of the slaves following of course. It seems as if no other issue could be possible. The leading Sams sionista are not alaveholders, as we have repeatedly shown ; and there is not a more important fact in the whole case. The alaveholders can never now hope to go on as before, if they wished it. The negroes will be abundantly excited : and they can never settle again as slaves. Nor will the Northern men submit for a moment to the suggestion that they shall go on to suffer in their liberties as they have suffered hitherto, for the sake of sustaining slavery. They have suffered too much already, in reputation, in political and social morality, and in their patriotic feelings, for this abominable in stitution ; and they will take this best possible opportunity of freeing the slaves, to prevent their freeing themselves in their own perilous way. Such seems to be the prospect ; although it must be less certain than the aim of protecting the white proprietors, and planting • flag for the Union party to rally to, within each Slave State that can be reached. Virginia will probably put down her own Secession party very soon after seeing what the Northern army is like ; and Virginia once rendered harmless or helpful, the Free States may pretty well do what they please. This view will not appear over-confident to any body who has means of estimating the compara tive forces of the two parties. There may be more misfortunes to be undergone by the Free ! section at first, from their unreadiness, and the unscrupulous readiness of their enemy ; but, what ever difference of opinion there might have been in London ten days ago about the respective chances of the belligerents, the news of the arm ing and marching of the Northern forces must have shown where the real strength lies. This leads us to one more consideration of great weight. It remains to be seen what effect will be produced upon the Seoemionists by their discovery that the North can and will fight. Hitherto they ' have simply and sincerely believed that in warfare the game would be their own. They have through out assumed, without misgiving, that the Northern men have not pluck, or endurance, ox martial spirit, or any soul of antagonism in them. If this appears too absurd for belief, let it be remembered that the Secessionists are not without warrant for a part of their assumption, and that their own position accounts for the rest. We must remember the political submissiveness of the Free States for a long course of years—a submissive ness which the South has only erred in ascribing to the wrong sort of cowardice. We must re member, too, that the Southern people have all their lives seen work done only by slaves, so that they naturally conceive that all who work are slavish. Any miserable fellow who earns his bread by toil in their region is lower in their eyes than the negroes, and he is usually as degraded in fact as he appears to them. Their notion is that the North is peopled with degraded white workers like these ; and they have never formed the con ception of bands of citizens like the fishermen of Marblehead, and the quarrymen of Quincy, and the farmers of New York—men of valour and patriotism, who leave their boats on the shore, and the pick in the rock, and the plough in the field, to save the Republic from receiving any harm. A little time will show what the Seces sionists think of the unexpected enemy they have chosen to bring down upon them selves. The Northern men ought, at the same time, to feel that this war is their retribution for political unfaithfulness. They have chosen to be ill-represented in the government ; to be repressed by their own leaders ; to submit to the disgrace of political subserviency ; and to postpone their popular government to the aria• tocratic assumptions of a section of the Union which has never been really republican. They are now undergoing the retribution of their sin. We cannot join in any exclamations about the unex pected and astonishing character of the convulaion; for, as Lord Psurrairrosr says, any one with com mon foresight must have expected it. Nor can we join in any cry about the horribleness and in credible dreadfulness of the issue of this long con troversy. We sympathise rather with the solemn joy of the Free States, who feel, even at this hour of crisis, that there is something more precious to a self-ruling people than " blood and treasure." We congratulate them on having at last thrown off their burden of iniquity, and found themselves free to eased their old liberties, and recover the esteem of the best part of the world. They will show us now, at last, what popular self-government is. The crisis brings out its virtue in fostering love of country, and a capacity for self-sacrifice and union of heart and hand on great occasions. These men have a country and a polity which they can fight and die for. The time past, in which a miserable vice in their polity demoralised and disheartened them, will be a lesson for the future ; and this season of retribution and emancipation once over, they may start afresh, and show the world what popular government may be and do, when freed from the curse of complicity with the grossest tyranny which man can exercise over mres. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COIOIONII-IEAT E. _ THE PAPER DUTY. Considered in Committee:—(ls the Committee.)—Motion made and gnostic° proposed, "That the Duties of Cus toms chargeable on the articles undermentioned imported into Great Britaiu and Ireland shall cease and determine on and after the I.t of October, 1861, viz. :—Paper, as denominated in the Tariff, Billboard, Pasteboard, Books, as denominated in the Tariff, Prints and Draw ings as denominated in the Tariff :: e —Whereupon motion made sad gaieties put, "That the Chairman do report rjr", and ask leave to sit spin :"—(Mr. Maguire :) Committee divided ; Ayes, 64 ; Nees, 10U. . . AaNIL J. H. nonswesy. 1. P. Philippe J. IL Barn* N. J. Hopwood, J. T. Puller, C. W. barrow, W. H. Mahan, Lard Quinn. P. Belignitt. G. B. Nemberetae. P. & Ildley. Sir M. W. Beettedr., G. W. Jerrie Capt. AGSM J. J. (*.le, J. L. leliewleis. & T. Rowley, IL T. Cason., T. N. Peleyn. C. J. Du Cabe C. K uid eV u. P. Bernier, 11. IL Duncuemir. L Mt J. Smith. Auguste. Dune, Mr & Smith, Abel Duane, M. Oen. Spooner, IL Ydwerde. Major V s : : hu'Pe. J. B. Namseatia. J. X J. W. Talbot, C. IL INta•Gerekl, W. /. Mass; To tor, CaL Parsler, Mr O. MIIIIII" Lott J. Tamer, J. A. Gard. L S. Nees, lad Whitmore. IL J. Cl o:u ce ri. 0. Noel, G. J. Norte. Oat TZLLIIIIIL Maguire. J. P. Oar% J. X. Poskw. Major Brady, J. *oil. _ . Agnew, Sk A. theta& N. Z. Monson, W. J. DorreHJ. /Inlay, A. L Norris, J. T. Baines, K. Pollamba, P. Z. Ogilvy. Mil. Baring, T. G. Forster, W. IL Pigmies, B. Barnes, T. (lathery, Sir W. P. Pabiseentok Visa Baiter, W. L Garin, Major Pease, H. Beaumont, S. A. Gibson% T. M. Feed, F. Bellow. IL M. Gladstone, W. Peal, Slr S. H. Liam I. 6oldsmld, Sir F. H. Phillips, G. L. Blenrowe, .1. G. Gordon. C. W. Pigott, Serif.. Boueerie. P. P. Gower, F. L Pilkington. J. Bruce, 11 A. Greene, J. Proby, Lord Burhanon, W. Gregsoo, S. litoterhibi, B. L. de Boller. Sir A. W. Grey. sir G. itothechild. B. H. de Rory, Viscount Onmeenor. Hart lthopell. W. 800, 1. Hadfield, G. flalomons, All. Buxton. C. !holey, Lord Seymour, Sir M. Cain!. J. Hervey, Lord A. Smith, J. B. Cardwell, Z. Hudglansou, G. Masailand, H. Castierrear, fleet. Howard, C.,W. Stansf(l.l, .1. Childers, H. C. Hutt, W. Sykes. Col. Cline, G. Kershaw, J. Tolleroache F. I. Coning/tun, W. Kinglake , A. W. Villiers, C. P. Cranford, L H. Hingsoote, Col. Waldron, L =.. 1 Imola& J. H. Law*" Wenows, J. N. Wmflad, J. P. Davey, Z. Lawson, W. IL W. Whitbread, S. Din , 7 ll , L L. Lee, W. White, J. I:Melm Zer; : j x. . 0 r C . C. Lewis. Air G. C. Williams. W. S.I Lowe. B. Wood, Sir C. 11'M abon, P. Dunbar, Slr W. Martin, J. TILLIMS, Dunlop A. M. Miller. W. Brand. H. B. Eno t., is, J. Mitchell, T. A. thistobLull-1114••• J. C. Moncruiff, J. seu, E. H. ITALY. (non on on TURIN, MAy 6. I scarcely need tell you that, with the exception of an engineer or contractor looking out for a job con nected with the railway and harbour schemes of this ambitious and inventive land, and a few commercial travellers from Manchester or Bir mingham on their way to inquire into the market ing capacities of Central and Southern Italy, we have no English visitors here just now. You know better than I do how zealously, in the month of May, our countrymen keep it up at hom e . I n th e London season, under the stimulating influence of parliamentary and fashionable leaders, combating in debate, crowding into the Royal Academy, into concert-rooms and drawing-rooms, with the Opera, and what not, a certain pitch of social excite ment is attained by either sex, which marks the flush and flow of British life towards its mighty head. But, I have, to observe that the aspect of Turin at this moment, and in this extraordinary year, is very different from that which may have ap peared to our autumnal tourists,who come this way after the season, when the city life of each conti nental city, as well as of our insular population, is at its natural ebb. It is not th a t th e s t ree t s of this brave town present any signs of luxurious gaiety and elegant distraction, for it yields the palm to Milan, Florence, and Naples in the display of ar tistic graces, and in the pleasures or splendours of existence. But you cannot fail to be struck with the business-like air of Turin just now, as becomes the provisional capital of thegreat Italian kingdom. Four or five hundred best and chosen men, from every province of the Peninsula, except those re maining still under a foreign yoke, have been sent to this corner of their common country, to provide for its interests by thoughtful discussion of govern ment and laws. They are, of course, attended by friends and supporters, by the multitude of depu tations, of petitioners, place-seekers, agitators, news paper people, and busybodies who must hang upon the skirts of a legisktive body ; and this influx of political visitors, in a city of less than 200,000 souls, is almost as conspicuous as it would be in our own metropolis, if Westminster, to the south of Charing-cross and Pall-mall, without London to back it, formed the city of parliament by itself. I cannot better describe to you the visible effect of a sudden enlargement of the institutions of freedom and self-government here, which after having been wisely and manfully exerc ised by Pied mont for thirteen years, are extended in 1801 to a new realm of twenty-two millions of people. The old Chamber of Deputies, to which we so often turned a listening ear and a yearning heart, in that sullen decade of reactionary despotism which ensued after 1849, remains in the Cangnano Palace unchanged, with the simple hangings and furniture of crimson velvet, and the seats of that compara tively small assembly, just as when 1 looked in there once before, in 1857, when the voice of Pied mont was like one crying in the wilderness, and none but you in England cared to hear. May the reverential gratitude of Italy preserve this chamber, preserve this noble city for ever, as a monument of the purest and staunchest devotedness of those who, having got their own bands untied, laboured at all costs and risks to deliver their brethren from bondage. But we are in haste to enter the hall of the Italian parliament, I mean this Lower House ; for the Senate holds its sittings elsewhere. It is • semi-circular structure joined on to the back of the Palazzo Carignan° ae you have doubtless heard. I cann o t see an ything to admire in its form or decorations; and the enor mous height of the roof is worse for hearing than that of our own House of Lords. But it is merely a temporary structure ; and who knows but the parliament may hold its next session in one of the matchless palaces of Rome I I will, therefore, say nothing about the edifice. In five or six concentric curved rows of benches, one row rising above another, the deputies are placed, with the back of the next lower seats as a narrow desk before them. The queetors and secretaries of the chamber are ranged opposite along the straight wall, which, adorned with a clock and a bad portrait of the king, king, forms the chord of an arc. The President's chair and table, with the vice-presidents, confront the assembly; and there, upon the very floor of the house, almost in a pit half surrounded by the ascending benches of the members, we see a long table, with eight or ten chairs, for the mi nisters of the day. In the middle chair I think you would like to see a stout, hearty-looking gen tleman, just on the elderly side of fifty, whose broad cheeks and gleaming spectacles, with his hair made grey and thin by so much anxious toil behind that ample forehead, give him quite a fatherly expression of face. I once heard • flippant young lady say that he looked like dear Mr. Pickwick ; he might certainly be the chief figure in an English Christmas scene. Whilst the debate goes on, if a tedious or impertinent orator be on his legs, you may see this ardent elderly gentleman playing rather impatiently with something in hie right hand, or even getting up to walk or stand about on the floor. But if there is any speaking well to the purpose, whether on the ministerial or opposition aide, he smiles and nods at every point in the argumeut, turning quickly to one friend or another, as if to invite their attention to what is being said. When ho rises to address the house he speaks in a clear and rather sharp voice, and in a most informal and conversational manner, looking straight at the per son to whom he replies. The vivacity and earnest ness of his nature are betrayed by a vehement motion of the hands and arms, as well as by the Itemise of his quick utterance, and by the unstudied force of language lie employs ; the accents of friendly appeal, and almost of entreaty, are mixed with those of frank joviality and prompt, sincere explanation ; the whole man is addressing himself to convince you, and to secure your confidence in him. All Italy and the two great nations of Western Europe have assented to his propos als, just. I are in the main so undeniably wise and I should like to see the services of any English statesman in our days acknowledged by such tokens of universal respect and affection as Count Cavour experiences in the streets of this city, when he walks rapidly home from the Chamber, gazed upon and saluted by all classes of the people, as if he bore a sovereign title. I have mentiooed the old Piedmontese and the new Italian Parliament ; both of the ono and the other this great man has been the guide, the strength, and the soul. Cbt Court. WHITE LODGE, RICHMOND•PARB, MAY 9. The Queen anti Prince Consort walked and drove in the Park this morning, sceompanied by Princees Alice sad Princess Helena. Rioter Louise cad Priem, Beatrice also took their usual exercise. The following noblemen and gentlemen had an interview with Sir George Censorial Lewis and the Lord Advocate, yesterday. at the Home-office, is support of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Sill : His Grace the Duke of Sather. land, Lord Colville of Colman, Lord &hough, Sir James Ferguson., Bart., M.P., the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, ILP., Sir A. P. Gordon Cumming, Bart, Sir Archibald Hops, Bart., Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., Sir George Aber washy, Bart., Mr. Elias Cathcart Mr. Richard Hodgson, M.P., Mr. 0. S. Barrett, M.P.,'Mr. J. T. Hopwood, NI. P., Mr. J. Dyes Nicol, Mr. D. Fortes Mitchell, Mr. Jopp, and Mr. W. Loch. A deputation from the South Eastern Railway Company had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gi bs on yesterday, at the office of the limn] of Trade. The depu tation consisted of the Hon. Jame. Syng, chairman ; Mr. H. Rich, M.P., Mr. C. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. A. Beattie, Mr. S. Teuton, Mr. G. Thomson, and Mr. Ehorall. The secretary to her Majesty's Commlosioners for the Ex hibition of ISM had an interview with Secretary Sir George Lewis, at the Home.oflice, yestenbty, for the purpose of presenting the fourth report o f th e Commissioners to the M "e wn. Despatches were received yesterday at tho Colonial.office from the Governor of Malta. The Earl and Countess of Durham have arrived is town for lb. season. General le Comte and Madame Elehledoraky have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermmetreet, frost Bt. Petersburg. LeAV Macdonald Lockhart's (of Lei) ball is post poned from Tuesday, the 21st, to Tuesday, the 28th inst. Mrs. J. H. Vivian has issued cards for a ball on Friday, the 17th Met., at her residence in Belgrave•equare. Mm. Arcedeckue's first evening dancing party is lad far Tbarsdey, the 23rd hot. Lady Mildred Hope gave a grand ball on Wodnea slily evening at Atidow Noun, Connaught place. which was very faminotiably Weeded. The Duke d'Aumale, the Count du Ps* and the Duke di Chartres honoured Ler ladyship with their presence. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. The Correspondancia of Madrid of the sth, which, as is known, is a semi-official authority, contains a new declaration on the St. Domingo affair : No more doubt need be entertained of the fact that the government consents to St. Domingo becoming a new part of the Spanish nation, and proclaiming it such in the pre sence of all Europe. The only thing that prevents it from doing that formally is that it has not yet received the neces sary document, but a courior has just arrived at Cadix with them. The government will give an account to the Corte of its reason for accepting the annexation. MADRID, Mar 9. The Correspondanek Autografa of to-day says : " Spain has at present entered into no engage ment in reference to the annexation of San Domingo. Slavery, however, is not to be intro duced. The legislation will be the same as that now valid in the Antilles." MOLDO-WALLACHIA. His Highness the Prince, in reply, a few days ago, to the deputation which brought up the address of the Chamber in favour of the union of the two assemblies into one, said :—" Gentlemen, I appreciate the gravity of the step you have taken, and I am happy at being able to inform you from positive assurances which I have received that the union is henceforth an accomplished fact. Your resolution will have this good result, however, that it will prove, in spite of wicked reports to the contrary, that union has always been the national wish of the two Principalities. lam proud, gen tlemen, of the encouragement and support I receive from you towards the consolidation of our na tionality." SICILY. lIIEBSINA (in* MAT 5. No popular rising Lae taken place, although one wan expected. Great Roominess, however, prevails here. The troops are encamped outside the town, for fear of being taken by surprise. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, WZDNILIDAT, RAT 8, 9.26. p.m. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer with the above mails has arrived here from Alexan dria. BOMBAY MAIL& SOUTHAMPTON, MAT IA The Ellora, with the heavy portion of the Bom bay and Mediterranean mails, arrived off Hurst Castle at 11.15 a.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. IVION OITI OWN PARIS, THURSDAY Evalrega. This being Ascension Day is a general holiday, and the Bourse is closed. Some of the evening papers do not appear, and those that have come out contain nothing remarkable. The wind has changed to a warm quarter, and there is a nice spring rain, which, though annoying to the holiday folk who have been caught in it while promenading in new dresses, coincides with a new moon, and promises a cessation of the dreadfully cold weather we have had for nearly a month. The Moaiteur contains a note repeating the assertion—in contradiction to the statement of several journals—that no greater severity has been used towards M. Mires than to other prisoners in the like case, or than the laws and regulations allow. It does not, however, give any hint as to the period when M. Mires may be expected to be brought to trial. K de Lesseps has just stated at a public dinner at Trieste that within a year and a half from this time the piercing of the Isthmus of flues will be so far advanced as to allow vessels of 100 tons bur den to enter the oanaL This is not au altogether improbable prediction, though I should be sorry to guarantee its fulfilment ; but be does not say when the ships which " enter " at one end will get out at the other—that is the question. The interchange of parcels between France and England is now—since the Ist of the month— greatly facilitated by new arrangements of the South Eastern Railway. Formerly you could not book a parcel from Paris farther than London, and there were many difficulties about the customs which are now removed. A parcel directed to any principal town iu England may be taken to the company's office in the Boulevard des Italiens, and the carriage paid through at once. Thanks to the new tariff, there are scarcely any articles likely to be sent by parcel upon which customs duties are payable, but if there should be any the company will arrange the payment. Paris has hitherto been very poorly supplied with public reading-rooms, not indeed as to number, but as to quality. With the single exception of Galig nani's old establishment, there has not been 'hitherto a single newspaper•room at all comparable to what may be found in most second-rate towns in England, to say nothing of the splendid halls in Glasgow, Liverpool, and other groat cities. The cabinets de lecture which abound in the metropolis are dreadfully dark, stifling places, in which elbow room as well as air is so scarce that it is a wonder to me how people cau be got to sit in them, as they do, for hours together. Within the hat few days K Molini, the well-known librarian of Florence, has opened a grand suite of reading-rooms on the Boulevard Montmartre, next door to the Theatre des Variitis, such as has never been seen in Paris. There is a plentiful supply of French and foreign papersconveniently classified on various tables, and it is a perfect luxury to read in a well-stuffed arm chair I wheeled just to the spot you may fancy, and com manding a view of the Boulevard through broad plate-glass windows. If it be true, as the Indi petidemee Beige reports, that the Emperor is going to make a liberal law on the press, so that people may safely subscribe to foreign journals without the fear of their being seized, or, which constantly happens more or less, " delay ed" at the post-office, 'reading-rooms on this scale will multiply. At' , present M. Molini stands alone. The University of France has just admitted to the degree of doctor of laws, "without examina tion," Dr. Hoechster, an advocate of Cologne, who was proscribed in 1848. There is only one pre vious instance of this extraordinary favour being granted, namely, in the case of the unfortunate Count Rossi who was assassinated at Rome. The Cologne Gazette states that the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, husband of the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, has had about thirty copies printed, for private circulation, of a work that be has written en the Brazils. The work, which is said to possess much ability and humour, is dedicated " To Charlotte, the companion of my travels and my life." A few days since tendert; were received for the supply of 40 locomotives for the Russian railways. There were numerous offers from English and French manufac turer.. but the contract, it is mud, is given to Cockerill and Co. of Liege, who presented the lowest tender, 63,000 fr. the A manufacturer at La Villette, near Paris, has ob =.ed a contract for the suply of 500 waggons for the railway from Alicante to Sen i le. Another Paris manufac turer has obtained a contract for the supply of 1,200 tons of iron for the same company. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. —.— The Nord publishes the following as the text of a despatch addressed by Count Rocliberg to the Aus trian ambassador in this country, under date 27th April : _ _ _ The journals lately reproduced a despatch addressed by Count Cavour to the Marquis d'Aseglio, dated March 111, 1861. Although the publication in question has, if lam not mistaken, had no official character, it has, however, at tracted our attention, and it would be difficult for me to let pass entirely in silence all the assertions contained in that document.. . . I shall not undertake to dismiss here Count Cavour's opi nions on the present condition of the countries now subject to the Piedmontese rule. The character and effects of that rule, the manifestations and events of all kinds that pre coded and followed the annexations, aro facts which belong to the province of history. It is to history that it epper Minato judge of their worth, and we would not encroach on those rights. It will be enough for us for the moment to re-nark what a striking contrast the bloody disorders and repressions of which Southern Italy is every day the theatre present to the brilliant colours of the picture drawn by Count Cavour. But what it is important that I should refer to here are those passages of the despatch to the Marquis d'Ateglio which relate to Venetia. We ought especially to give • categorical denial to the assertion that no other 41)1411Th• meat is possible in Venetia than that of a st a t e o f awe. Although accustomed to see our adversaries employ the arm of calumny against nu, we are yet astonished to God what is so notonnusly Incorrect contained in an official document. The state of siege, removed almost imme diately after the cessation ;.f hostilities in IMO, has rot been since established at any point of our Italian provinces. As to the other reproaches directed against the Austrian administration in Venetia, I can only refer to me previous despatches on this 'abject. They have already long since placed at your excellency's disposal materials sufficient to enable you to correct the erroneous impressions that have been spread among the public, and to cast back upon the quarter to which it is due the responsibility fur a state of thinp which places an obstacle to the complete realisation of the generous intentions of the Emperor, our august matter. We will then dispense with enumerating once more all the difficulties which have been raised against us from without, all the provocative measmns of the committees which are organised and carry on their operations under the eyes of the Piedmontese government, in a word all the culpable ma. nreuvres which are made use of to paralyse and render im. possible all conciliatory action, to excite and keep up fer. mentation among the peoples by representing them se groaning under an intolerable yoke. If the Italian rntjecta of the Emperor do not entirely profit by the benefits ac. corded to the other parts of the empire, it must be awl. bated to the effects of these perpetual instigations from without. We are surprised, moreover, that Count Cavour con. times to affect such cousideratioa for the self-styled victims of military rule, when the Piedmontese government does not shrink from any of the severities of that rule, which its gents apply so rigorously in Southern Italy. The echo of the fusillades in the Abruzzi might, it seems to us, have now drowned at Turin the cries of grief about which lately so much noise was made. But the last complaint that Count Cavoar brings against us seems to me the strangest of all. If, to make use of Count Cavan's own expressions, the position which the treaty of Zurich had este. bliahed between the government of the Emperor sod that of King Victor Emmanuel is now sensibly modified- -if that position is abnormal, difficult, and dangerous, whose fault is it! If King Victor Emmanuel sigoed the prehmi. aeries of Villafranca, and if even before those preliminaries had had time to be converted into a definitive treaty of peace the acts of Piedmont were in formal contradiction with the stipulations which he had engaged to respect ; if, lastly, in omiaequence of these very acts more than one article of the treaty of Zurich, aocepted by Piedmont, has remained a dead letter, on whom should fall the in Count of the consequences ?ifit i s a wrong Count Cavour's eyes to keep to oneself recognised and incontest able rights, if it is a wrong to have constantly given proof of moderation and a austere love of peace while confining oneself to opposing by reserves and protests the most flagrant violations of right, then we must admit that we are in fact guilty of wrongs from which we cannot exculpate ourselves. It would take too long to examine hero in detail all the actions of Piedmont, and to compare the wrongs she has committed with those she attributes to us. I shall content myself then with adding that we can appeal without fear to the judgment of every impartial mind, and risk confidently whether it is the acts of Austria that, since the peace of Zurich, have stained Italy with blood, and continually threatened the peace of Europe. Such, B. Is Comte, are the reflections I have thought it my duty to communicate to you. I beg you to be good enough to make use of them with Lord John Russell when you have au opportunity of conversing with him on the affairs of Italy. Corte Di EiCHBIJki. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE CASE OP THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ANDERSON. This morning a series of despatches, &c., occu pying upwards of fifty peges, respecting the above cue, were Maud. On the Bth of October, last year, Mr. W. D. Irvine, her Majesty's charge d'affairea at Washington, transmitted to the Foreign-offies • note from General Cass, requesting her Majesty's govern. meet to issue • warrant "to deliver up the person of • man of colour named John Anderson, who has been charged with the commission of murder in the state of Missouri, and who has fled to Canada, and has now been arrested and confined in the jail of the town of Brantford." Our foreign minister at once directed the necessary steps to be taken for complying with this application, " should there be no objection thereto." Before January in the pivotal year the whole facts of the case had become loosen through the legal proceedings at Toronto, and the Duke of Newcastle sent immediate notice to the officer administer ing the government of Canada, that the extradition could only take place by a warrant under the hand and seal of the governor, and that in any cue he was to abstain from completing the extradition until her Majesty's government bad had further opportunity of considering the qua non, and, "if aeceesary, conferring with the govern ment of the United States on the subject." The judgment,' in the Court of Queen's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas at Toronto are printed entire. Respecting the writ of habeas corpses issued by the Court of geen's Bench in Kw land, the Duke of Newcastle write, to "the officer admaaw tering the government of Camila" :—" The writ is sup posed to be directed to the sheriff or jailer in whose cos tody Anderson at present is, and it is, therefore, possible that you may not be called upon to take any action in the matter. But in the event of your being called upon to do so, I think it advisable to instruct you that you are at liberty to follow such advice as you may receive from your law advisers after full consultation with them." Lord Lyons, writing to Lord J. Russell from Washington on the Bth ult., says, " When I despatched the requisition for the surrender to Canada, I was out aware that John Anderson had been a slave, or that there were any peculiar circumstance, in the are. If, however, I had bees aware of all the facts, I could not, of course, have done otherwise than forward the requisition to be dealt with by the proper authorities in Canada." Meenwhilo the prisoner bad been liberated "on the ground," writes Lieut.. General Sir W. Williams," of a tech nical informality in the earlier stages of the promos before the committing magistrate." The following despatch from Mr. Dallas, late American minister in London, to a member of his own government, is the only other document of general interest : " Legation of the United States, " London, January 16, 1861. " Sir, —Since the acknowledgment made in my note of the 20th of December last, of No. 291, I have had the honour to receive from the department the despatches numbered rin, 293, 294, and 295. The claim made by the United States upon the government of Canada fur the extradition of one Anderson, • fugitive slave, charged with the crime of murder, committed in Missouri, has awakened, as of course, so much interest in this country, and has invoked so much professional astuteness to defeat the operation of the Xth Article of the Treaty of 1842, that I have thought it expedient to place in the possession of the department the annexed papers relating to that subject. It is sauna, necessary for me to remark on the pungent and unmet. pennieug hostility to social bondage which prevails throughout this country; that, as it has already led to giving by statute to the American slave who deserts his ship • discriminating immunity over the freemen, so it cannot be expected to shrink from another manifestation in the interpretation of an international convention for the mutual surrender of culprits. In truth, it may be end generally, that in British opinion the .lotus of slavery inca. pacitatee the individual for contract or crime. Yon Al notice that Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, of the Queen's I Beach, has with ' surprising celerity' allowed • writ of Artless corpus, addressed to the jailer in Canada, to issue ; sod that Anderson will, thereupon, be brought here, notwith standing the very full and deliberate decision of the Colonial Court of Queen's Bench ordering him to be delivered up. The learned judge appears to have stated, among the reasons for his decision, that the case 'affects the coustruction of • treaty which is matter of imperial concern.' It may, perhaps, ho thought expedient that on the argument of the question, the inter pretation given by our government should, in some form, be distinctly communicated. I beg to add that, to avoid del d the ample report of the shorthand writers is for war without having been lint copied in this legation.— I have, &c. (Signed) G. M. DALLAS. "Hon. S. J. Black, Seonotary of State." - - --- THE RATIONAL ART ONION. This Art Union seems to proceed. under very favourable auspices, although it is too young to boast of what it has done It the way of purchases of works of art or 0001111iNi01111 to artists. At all events, the list of Mille' it ham on its prospectus is highly respectable, and, indeed, im. taming, and also very reassuring. if any doubts were enter• tained of ultimate success. With one of the prsueiples adopted by this society we fully concur--it does not give on engraving to each member. It is obviously impossible that each subscriber of five shillings to this Art Union should become the possessor of any beautiful or valuable work through membership alone, and the practice of giving " engraving to each member is of no benefit to art and wasteful of the means of such a society. The picture chosen is gene• rally of a low class, and the engravings ere too numerous to be faithful translations. "By the circulation of the same I print to the extent of many thousands it becomes entirely depreciated, and the income of a society intended for the cultivation of taste and the encouragement of artists is alienated from its legitimate purposes." This Art puma seeks to unite the advantages offered both by the London sad Glasgow Art Unions. .1 portion of the prises co'si'es of pictures, Pariau statuettes, drawings, photographs, NC.. purchased by the society, and also awards of a certain money value, which may be employed by the fortunate pos- Noisier himself in the purchase of pictures from any exhi bition. We approve of the principles of this Art Union, and therefore wish it success, and refer the reader to the eociety's prospectus for further particulars. THE EDUCATION COMMIfitHON.—The reports of the Assistant Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of Popular Education in England have new boon issued, forming Vole. 2,3, and 4 of the Lamming cations in connexion with the oommission. Among the motions set down for discussion this evening on the order book of the House of Cornrow , is the following :—The O'Doooghue, to more the following resolution :—" That, as the great majority of the Irish people desire the restoration to Ireland of her native Par• 'lament, and as the desire is founded on reason and justice, and is fortified by imperience, it is the duty of this hou , e to do everything in its power hi facilitate the restoration of Irish legislative independence." ad Jot not oas ant wish and I col • fe% She; hut cum: Mr. toff lie Om surr.ebc Th e h 4 Pph e d ass e t.. Mr. p His sll hi e the cot ! ooly The h 1, 4 th e order to