The Express. — London, England, 1860-04-05 00:00:00

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This &URI& • grami OPNCIIIT sad DRAWING ZOOM ZN TUTAINIIENT taw Yrs; law lb. v . Madam Pan . ec Illyeara. lb. lOW.= Man Cam& sad Sow, 41t,‘ , &c. NIUE WATII AT LONDON /IDOL Ms DAT 1k MIL Aheionak lh 39. h. 7 . o4 NoioN—fiseolog Ok ..• • Alloossa. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5. it semes that oar liberal brethren over the water are not the only victim& of a mystification which ought to fetch the Rev. LAVILLNIA *MINE out d his grave. The dread Ennilphia n form of excommunication which that learned divine put into the in"ittit of Dr. YG.p , and which occasioned flack reminiscence that our ►ray swore terribly in Flanders, is adopted in perfect reverence and good faith se the literal formula of the most awful ecclesiastical commination by some of our Parisian frhmds to whom we owe an apology when we remind them that in their own immortal Rapt ure—al the Rev. Laminar BTeatrit only followed at • respectful distanc►—they might have found forms of cursing quite as rich, and ample, and minute am that which drew a whistle of sweet human pity and bewilderment from nick T.ohy. Do our eihafrirrs, whom we trust we may still be permitted without treasmi to either country to call allies, remember a certain appeal to St. ANTHONY, in the Preface to the " History of Gargantua the "great," to visit with the most dreadful judg ment "all unbelievers in this Book"? We cannot allow M... Away (nor do we believe Mr. Shandy himself would have been willing) to have all the credit of an admirable stroke of satire which belongs of right to his great and beloved master and preceptor, the Curate of Hendon. There is no subject which more ckarh Is longs to the domain of the creator of Gargantua and Pantagruel than ecclesiastical cursing, and with all our regard for the Mh•ndean connexion, we will not suffer any part of a territory an a,,, rut and renowned to be annexed by his follower mal du. iple . It was RAIIIILAIN by the way, who, being on a visit to the Vatican in the suite of • Cardinal, his friend and patron, when his Houma,. asked what be could do for him, replied—" Make me incombustible." RAIISLAIS badmen so many heretics kind at Chinon, his native WWII, that he apprehended all orthodox blase of triumph as the natural end of a humourist's career nn an age of Faith. It is noticeable, how ever, that the curse which he besought Br. AN irlioNl to bring upon all unbelievers in his book was, like the form of exonnim iiiiiiiiiiiii just issued from the Vatican, conceived no general terms, without specifying names, or penmen.. In this re spcet at least the authorities at Rome have fol. I..ak .1 a s.y.e ious example, and Cardinal Asixo skl.l.l. u Itl4ll no .101114 of various reading, has pro bably bad recourse to the wisest precedents. Cut THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EV M. Lope BLANC AB A I sub' I M. Li BL tTesi s, St. John's 'daysigh e Mysterious Agencies in France towards the enr of the Eighteenth Century "—was happily selected. In our own enfeebled days mysterious personages and agencies of a milder sort are said to be extant in a few privileged coteries • but the men of whom M. Louis Mane was to speak are better known lie the fererunners of a GreatTribuhitien with which the world has not yet done • and it was in glancing at the society that danced , dallied, and disbelieved on the threshold of the Rsvoturime, that the lecturer, himself a sou of the Revolution, earried into power and cast into exile by the Revolution, made his audieuce feel the genius of France, with all her splendid errors and aspirations. Clearness and liveliness of narration, an epigram matic turn, and a quick dramatis instinct, are the usual characteristics eves of indifferent French writers ; but in all these it is known that V M. Louis Blanc excels, and he adds the higher quali ties of earnest feeling and sincere faith in the nobler destinies of mankind. It is this ardent acorn of baseness, and this heartfelt human charity, that give to the lecturer's richly modu lated voice tones that thrill through an audience; and we may oteerve, by the way, that M. Louis Blanc's elocution, the intonation and pitch of the voice, the easy unembarrassed delivery, accompanied at fitting moments by at spon taneous action, is a study for public s era. In his account of the " Convulsionnaires,and of the Boscrucians, of the sempiternal Count St. Germain, of Bt. Martin and Mesmer, and of the salons and alcoves in which the sorcerers and necromancers found their favourite adepts, the lecture brimmed over with anecdote and illustration. It was a pic ture in which the lights and shadows are distributed with a cunning hand, and allthe figwvis are in keeping —flashes of wit lighting up a distance of weighty and impressive thought. The sketch of Cagliostro was • chef d'oviere of brilliant narration, and the moral of his life and story was finely pointed by a burst of moral indignation at the worship of success, at which the British audience started " like a guilty thing," and cheered with all the responsive enthu siasm of remorse. But it is only fair to M. Louis Blanc to state that the lecture was wholly free from any taint of political predilections. It was the cultivated and informing talk of • man of the world, • man of genius and a true gentle man, on a subject which he knew by heart, and in this consisted its rare and peculiar charm. We have considered the first appearance of this distinguished man as an English lecturer worthy of something more than a passing record, and it only remains for us to say that M. Louis Blanc was in troduced to the audience in a few kindly and graceful words of welcome by Mr. Hepworth Dixon, and that among the noted celebrities present around the platform were observed Mr. Thackeray and Mr. Robert Bell, who expressed their admira tion in cordially flattering terms. Mr. Home, too, the celebrated Spirit-Rapper, was among the most attentive (and amwopriate) hearers on the foremost bench. The success of this lecture I was so decided that M. Louie Blanc has already accepted an engagement to deliver four lectures on " The Salons of Paris in the 18th Century " (a capital subject) at the Marylebone Institution, and it was whispered that he had received messing invitations from the great towns in the North. It is sometimes the honour and good fortune aI England—the sanctuary of political sufferers—to arrimilate, as it were, their genius, and to make it, by • sort of transfusion, her own. Thus it is that it Louis Blanc is added to the ranks of the choicest interpreters of our language, and we believe that it is in common with all our countrymen that we heartily wish him success in the honourable and interesting career which he commenced on Tuesday night at St. John's-wood, and which he will not NOM be permitted by his friends and admirers in England to bring to a claw.—Daily News. THZ LATZ BARONE*. STRATHZDEN. —Tlie Loral Clummidlor, Lord litratheden, and other members of the family, left town early yestenlay morning to assist at the funeral of the lamented baroness, at Hartrigge, Roxburgh. shire. The funeral is appointed to take place to-day. _ _ The mortal remains of the late Earl of Longfonl have peen removed from town for interment in the family vault in Ireland. A troop of the deceased earl's regiment, the 2nd Life Guard., escorted his remains to the railway station. The DuMin (Jazett4 Iraq the following additional bequests froth • millimmire : -Thomas Polio, late of War. ren-puint, Down, gentlemen, deceased, has bequeathed 1,000/. to Miss Mary &Ragan, the then superioress of the Roman catholic convent of Ht. C 1.,., at Newry; to the Roman catholic bishop of the diocese of Dromore, 5001., in trust for masses for the repose of the souls mentioned ; 40/. for mouth by the clergy of the diocese; 301. to be applied to the education of the pour children ; and other MTN amounting to 4,0001. Mademotaelle Vietoire Bane, the favourite vo calist, ham fast been married at St. Petersburg to Sir John Hessen T. Cnumiton, K.C.8., her Majesty's Iliaiater at the mud of Rumba. Sir John, who succeeded ea second baronet on the death of him father, the late Sir Philip Crampton, Surgeon. General to the femme in Ireland, in 1858, was formerly Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, and is now in his Shy-third year, having been born in 1807. Circular were yesterday issued through t h e department. of Woolwich Arsenal, announcing that the general busineu of the establishment will be closed for the week this (Thursday) evening, and will not be resumed until the following Monday morning. The ceremony of haying the foundation-stone of the Welters College, at Plymouth, took place yesterday, amidst much rejoicing. The college was established in 1752, to educate young men for the Christian ministry amongst Congregational dissenters. It at present contains 20 students preparing for the university ; and facilities are afforded for the admission of lay students. Yesterday (Wednesday) the annual conference of the Lancashire Congregational Union was opened at Liver. pool. The pruceedinp were private. A pamphlet published by the Bishop of Nimes haws been seined M. Eugene Vealllot has written a " History of the Siuppressian of the Ungar'," but bar not yet found • publisher. Baron Vincent de Tuyll de fiereeekerken, cham berlain to the King of Holland, has just died at the Hague, quite suddenly, from the rupture of a bloodireeeel. He had gone to visit Lord Napier, and was found dead by his ser vant a quarter of an hour after his return home. The Archduke Maximilian of Anatria arrived at Trieste on Monday, on board the Austrian steam frigate Mandela The Archbishop of Florence wu received on the 31st at the Pitti Palace by the Prince of Carignui, with whom he had a long convenatiou. His royal highness after. wards visited some of the hospital., and on his return re ceived a deputation from the clergy of Florence, who pre sented an address oouched in terms expressive of the great est devotedness to the Italian cause. In the evening the Prince Lieutenant went to the Pergola Theatre in company with Baron Itimsoli. The house was brilliantly illuminated, and the prince had several times to rise and acknowledge the enthusiastic cheers with which he was reeeived. A vote of 8,0001. has been pameed by the Victoria Parliament to be applied to the exploration of the Austra lian continent, and a committee has been formed to carry out the organisation and control of a party for that wpm. In every portion of Australia it haft been re marked that snakes have been unusually prevalent during this summer, and several persons have suffered from bites. Joon &Arun, the Maltese sailer who behaved so nobly on the occasion of the wreck of the Royal Charter, bee arrived at Melbourne in the Great Britain, and has been warmly welcomed. A purse was to ham been me. genteel to him at Cremorne, but owing to some nthunder standing between the mayor of Melbourne and Mr. Coppin, the presentation did not take place. A purse containing forty sovereigns was given to him on the boards of the Royal, by the manager of that theatre. Seventeen of the crew of the hirer! transport Havering, stranded at Plymouth, were brought before the &onetime, migistmtes on Tuesday, un a charge of insub ordination and refusal to do duty, and were sentenced to two mouths' imprisonment at Exeter. LA` APRIL 5, ITELLIG: Dreividiutt i Es ciL A Y T PALERMO. The following official telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office this ramming : " NAPLES, APRIL 4, 9.30 p.m. " Factious persons have attacked the troops at Palermo, but were bravely repulsed and dispersed to the cry of ' Viva il Re !' " The city is tranquil." THE CARLIST MOVEZICINT IN SPAIN. MADRID, Aram 4. ___. . When the troops became aware that General Ortega had deceived taws as to the object of their movement, they refused to march, and to his cry of " Viva Carlos seis !" they answered by shouts of " Viva Li Reins !" The general took to flight., accompanied by four persons, of whom nothing is known, and was pursued by his own troops. Hopes are entertained that General Ortega will be captured. The troops whom he bad misled made their submission to the Queen on the arrival of General Cerida. Tranquillity reigns in the Balearic Isles. No agitation prevails throughout the na tion. All the deputies at Madrid have presented an address expressing their devotion to the Queen. if our friends in Paris hare forgotten their RABE. LAIR and taken Mr. Shandy's ecclesiastical learn ing too readily for gospel, at all evicts they are not alone in their innocence. No leas a person than M. Loris Viicitsar—nee Boanerges of the religious press, the martyr and confessor, "shaking both his sides," who, if not the salt of the earth, was at least the grog set of the altar—this famous personage, it appears, has been fairly tamed and trotted out, and made to shew his paces, by one of those engaging travel ling companions whom one occasionally meets with in foreign travel, whose gloves and manners are so faultless, whose principles are so accom modating, and whose opinions are so cosmo politan. "All things to all men, that we may catch some," is the newest version of an apostolic precept which these polite professors of easy public virtue with decorated button-holes and a rather imperial cast of countenance sedulously practice. Their name, if they had only one, would probably be "Legion," and their business is to go round about the earth continually, and sometimes to " possess" travellers with guileless hearts and unwarytongues. 1 One of this noble brotherhood on whose zealous ser viette the great fabric of the Empire rests has lately " possessed" the unsuspecting conscience of M. Loris Veriturr. The story is worthy of a niche in the annals of our time. As soon as the Univers was suppressed, and its editor's occupa tion as a defender of the faith was gone, it appears that M. VIUILLOT, on the unimpeachable principle of U feet rivre, was induced, amongst numberless offers of aid and succour from the faithful, to accept at the hands of an eminent capi talist of the race and faith of little Moirrasa a post of a purely secular order, but responsible and remunerative in a high degree, and not absolutely inconsistent with apostolic functions. M. Vzime tor (for such are the distressing exigencies of the nineteenth century—such is the practical irony of an age of doubt) had become an Inspector of Railways. In this utterly terrestrial character and capacity M. VIOILLOT left Paris for Civita Vecchia, in the service of the New Jerusalem of industrial enterprise. On his way to Marseilles he met with a charming person, a pilgrim like himself, bound Homewards, though not so fortu nate as to be an Inspector of Rail ways. However, the pilgrim's conversation was so pleasant, his manners so winning, and his "views' so unexceptionable, that before they reached Marseilles, the Inspector and his friend were inseparable. Together in the steamer, together in the railway at Civita Veccha, together at the hotel in the Eternal City, these two simple Arcadians moved and lived and had their being. The TORQUIN•DA of the Univers, a very lion to the public, is, we dare say, a lamb in private life—a type of ingenuous confidence and simplicity. His heart was won, and all that woe upon his heart his tongue spoke. When M. ' VIVILLOT was obliged to return to Paris, was not his friend also sick of the Eternal City, and only too glad to accompany him home, if be would but wait a day or two longer} Of course M. VIVO.. LOT waited for his friend, and home they carne' together, and to the same hotel. M. Vecittor walks out to take a bath ; his friend walks straight to the Prifecture de Police, and from the Prifeeture de Police ; meanwhile other gentlemen go forth to M. VLUILLOT'II apartment, and proceed to make a raid upon his luggage. Fresh and smiling from his bath, H. Vsuiturr returns to his hotel ; furious and amazed from his hotel he sallies out to the Pr4fecture de Police, and there—yea, there—the first person he en counters is his "own familiar friend," into whose faithful breast, like a pious penitent to a re cording angel, he had poured all the confidence of his burning seal and holy hate. Let us forbear to ask how M. VLUILLOT looked at this discovery. To fly to the NUNCIO, and tell him what had come of it was, as novelists say, " the work of a moment ;" and for the NUNCIO to fly to the Foreign-office, to threaten to leave Paris, and to get M. VIUILLOT'S baggage and contents re stored, was 'an operation equally instantaneous. Whether M. Vseittor really was concerned in a plot to turn an infuriated Papal Bull loose in the provinces of France loth not yet appear ; but the next time he pays his respects to his HOLINOVI at Rome we recommend him to re member the Cur 4 of Met-DOWN petition. Burning for heresy is unhappily out of date, and M. Icarus VEUILLOT is too sound • catholic to need to be " incombustible " in any state of being ; but as a I man of a simple and ingenuous nature, as an In spector of railways, as a pilgrim, as a traveller with 1 despatches to a NUNCIO in his carpet bag, should he not ask the Pure to make him—invisible I Or Court. WINDOOR CASTLE., WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort nide out on horseback yestenlay afternaosi,socompanied by the Prince of Wales, Princess Alin, and Prince Alfred. Is attendance were the Hon. Fleenor Stanley, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Captain Du Piet, and Captain Grey. The royal dinner party in t►e evening included the Primo. of Wales, Prince.. Alice, Prince Alfred, Prince.. brining's, the Dean of Windsor and the Hob. Kra. Wel inlay, Captain Grey, boil Major Cowell, PCB. The Queen and Prince I 'onion, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, walked in the Home Park this morning, and visited the Durhess of Kent, at Frogman. Princess Alice visited the Prince's of Leiningen. Princess Helena rode on horseback. Viscount Palmerston left London yesterday for Windsor Castle. The Duke .4 Newcastle left London on Tueeday evening foe Chunber-park, Notts. Te Clian.ellorof the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone left tows cm Tumitay ...ening, for Brighton. The Lord Chaim ellor will be prevented from giving the wood reception to the judges and member. of the liar at the conateacentect of Faster Term. Despatches were received at the Colunial.office, yes. terday, from the Governors of Gibraltar and the Falkland Is lands. CONIIIIIMATIoN Or NIA ROYAL HIOUNICAM PZINCI ALM/M. - (TA In DAY.)— This morning the confirmation of hi s Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert took place in the chapel at Windier Castle, his royal highness hat. iug been examined on the previous day by the Dean of Windsor in the presence of her Majesty and his Royal High ness the Prince Consort. Her Majesty the Queen Marie Amelia, and his Royal Highness the Duke de Montpensier, sccompanied by the Marchioness de Beauvoir, General Gum, Colonel Velardr, and • numerous suite, arrived at Orilli.e's Clarendon Hotel, Albemarle street, last evening from Cluvatuat. Viscount Palmerston returns to town this after noon from Witrisor Castle, sari in the evening the noble viscount and 'inmates' leave for Broodlands, agar Ramey, for the Pester holidays. The Duke of Montrose left town yesterday for ?olds Csatle, near Welshpool, to par the Haler ream with the KM awl Countess of Powis and family. The duchess poi to Parb few the holiday'. The Earl Spencer arrived at Spencer House, St. Jeans's, teat evening, fmm Althorp Hall, Northampton. shire, and goes to Wadies Castle today, to be present as Groom of the Mid, to the Prince emend at the eta 'relation of Prince Alfred. Sir Roderick Murchison left the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, os Weds's*, for Paris. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli harslet% (3ns+reaor•pte for Husbtatien Manor, Bucks. FRANCE. A note in the Moniteur of this morning points out the happy influence exercised on the French export trade by the treaty of commerce with England, especially for productions of the south, wines, spirits, and articles de Paris. THE EXCOMMUNICATION. The Conatittitiminel of to-day publishes an article by M. Orandguillot, stating that the effect of the Papal excommunication is to immediately break off the diplomatic relations between the Sovereign Pontiff and the Prince excommunicated. Nothing similar has taken place in reference to the Cabinet of the Tuileries. The object of the note in the Moniker was not to provide against the effect of the excommunication, but only to recall the prin ciples of our civil independence and to re-eatablish the true doctrines of the church of France. EVACUATION OF LOMBARDY BY THE FRENCH. The evacuation of Lombardy continues with great' regularity. The corps of occupation under the command of Marshal Valliant in Italy consists, it may be remembered, of five divisions of infantry and one of cavalry. The Ist of infantry is com manded by General Autemarre, the 2nd by General Uhrich, the 3rd by General Bazaine, the 4th by General de Failly, the sth by General Bourbaki, and the division of cavalry by General de Rochefort. The cantonments of the troops extended from Brescia, near the Lake of Garda and the Mincio, as far as Piacenza, on the frontiers of Parma. The whole of the troops have already begun the move ment homeward, which is effected in the most re gular manner. Nine vessels of the French navy have been ordered to Genoa and Nice to bring away the troops. Among them are the steam frigates Vauban, Descartes, Eldorado, and the mixed transports Mayenue, Finistere, and Aube. NEAPOLITAN TROOPS FOR ROME. A letter from Turin of the Ist, in the Conatitu home:, says : I an happy to lie able to announce to you that the quer. tine of the aff►irs of Rome has been freed from one of the meet menacing obstacle. to a pacific solution. The re placing of the French troops at Rome by a Neapolitan garrison, the sole plan calculated to conciliate the exigencies of Europe with the security of the Holy See, has hitherto always been strongly opposed by the cabinet of Turin ; and quite recently Count Cavour, in reply to overture. node to him on the subject, declared that, in order to render swum the new royal possessions in the Romagna, it would be hi■ imperative duty to protest against any entrance of the Neapolitan troops into the states of the holy see. Ceding, however, to the prudent counsels of the imperial government, Count Cavour has modified, with no doubt a sentiment of regret, but still in a marked manner, his attitude of distruetand hostility towards the government of Naples. He haa consented not to protest, and not to oppose, the entrance of the Neapolitan troops into the Roman States, but on the express condition that the Neapolitan government shall make before all a solemn declaration that the entrant)e of its troops into the Ponti fical States should not constitute a danger for Romagna, and should not be a menace against the Pielmoutese troops which occupy that province. A declaration to that effect is stated to have been made at Naples, and to have been offi cially oommucicated to the Piedmonteee Minister residing in that capital. This news is affirmed to be true by last evening's Pay.. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter, dated April 1, says : The government meets with a severe disappointment in the affair of the new loan. The subscriptions do not amount to o•e-half of the sum asked for. This check i■ equivalent to the loss of a battle ; it shows how little confidence there is in the prospects of Austria. Neither the aristocracy, the clergy, nor the opulent bourgeoisie, have supported the loan. The Progress publishes to-day an article written by • representative of the Austrian nobility, which very courageously declares that the government must not reckon upon the support of Ilia order, so long as it excludes the country mini any participation in the conduct of public affairs, and it recommends "passive patriotism." People are astonished that this article has escaped a warning. For my own part, I do not think the Finance Minister is much surprised at the result of his attempts ; he will in the end have recourse to a "forced loan." SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Ann 4. The National Council, by 106 against three votes, and the Council of State unanimously, have voted the extraordinary powers demanded by the Federal Council. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 38 (vii Marseilles). A corps d'artu&u bee left Monsustir to encamp between Montenegro and Bervia. The sou of Priueo Miloech has refused to come to Constantinople to receive his investiture. The Governor of Caudia ham imprisoned forty two Greek priests who had declared themselves esthetics. The ambassador of France has inter ceded ill their behalf, and has invoked religious liberty, which has been promised. INDIA. Bombay journals of the 13th ult. have been de livered this morning. Mr. Wilson's financial measures continue to re ceive favourable criticisms from the Indian press. Lord Canning had reached the North-west limit of British India. He arrived at Peehawur, - pealed by the Commander-in-Chief, on the 22nd of February. At a distance of five miles from the city their excellencies were received by the commissioner, and some young chiefs of the division. At about a mile from the city Major- General Sir Sidney Cotton, the deputy commis sioners of Peshawur and other districts, attended by the chiefs and principal native gentlemen, - r ` I• , , were . paiting to comvoy the vicereg a l p ar ty t o t h e residi of the oommiednmer, where the viceroy received an address, milil.ten in letters of gold, from the chiefs awl residents of Peshawur. 0, The rebels have melted away. With the excel)_ don of Feroze Shah, Adil Mahomed, and a few others, all the leaders have been trapped. The Terai may be said to be clear. The Beg-um and her ' son, Brijis Kudr, are at Nye Kote, and it is thought. : that Jung Bahadoor will wink at their remaining' there, " as certainly," says the Bombay itandard, "we shall." The survivors among the wimen who fled with the rebels into Nepaul have been sent into the interior, and will doubtless intermarry with the Nepaulese, there being a lack of women among the hill men. The Nepaul troops still send in parties of rebels—sickly, wretched, and covered with vermin. A small force of 150 British and 100 Guicowar's troops, with four guns, have marched from Baroda to Rajpeepla, to settle one Damjee of Sagbarra, who has been restive for some time past. The Waghers in the Dwarka district are said to have settled down quietly. Whether the country will be restored to the Guicowar remains to be seen. On the 24th February Bourne's steam train, in tended to tow barges on the Indus, met with a sad disaster. One of the steamers left Kurrachee to go up the river with a train of barges, and when outside the harbour, connecting the gear of a barge, a stern-plate of the steamer started, when she filled imme diately, and sunk in twenty-four feet of water. Happily no lives were lost, and the barges were safely towed back. The company have ether steamers, and a great amount of materiel, an fuel, &c., but the accident is looked upon as a very serious one. His Excellency Lord Elphinstone was about to proceed to Mahableshwar, where he will stay for about two months for the benefit of his health. The news of the commercial treaty with France is welcome to the merchants of Bombay. It interests them to know that cotton will henceforth, pass free into France, and that other European ports besides London and Liverpool are opened to their trade. It is anticipated that there will be very large shipments of cotton to Havre this year. AUSTRALIA. We have received files of papers from Melbourne, dated February 17 ; Sydney (by electric telegraph), February 17 ; and Adelaide, February 16. At Melbourne the previous month had been un marked by any political incident of an unusual kind. The Nicholson cabinet still keep their places. The parliamentary session holds on its course—the Assembly being engaged upon the estimates, and the Upper House being occupied in dealing with measures which are either of minor interest, or which will require to be entirely recon sidered in the Assembly. "Thin country, in point of fact," says one of the journals, " never seemed further from a political crisis." The following is from the Melbourw Commercial Report : Melbourne, February 16. The trade of the colony, which, for the past five months, bas been in so depressed and gloomy a state, has received but • mere shadow of relief since our last. The little im provement shown has been more in feeling than in fact. Credit, which had during the present month fallen to • state almost amounting to a panic, has in some measure re vived, but the greatest caution is still exercised, and the banks are exceedingly chary of diecounting any but first clams bills. The unaccountable influx of all kiwis of mer chandise continues on as great a wale as ever, and the ad vice+ are still of continued heavy shipments miming forward. While this continues no improvement in business can pos sibly take place. There is a fair average oonsumptiou going on throughout the colony, but the dealers purchase as spar ingly as possible, naturally supposing that our large and daily-increasing stocks must soon have the effect of still further lowering prime. There have been some attempts made to raise the value of a few articles, such as oats, butter, brandy, candles, sugar, and tea, by introducing a speculative inquiry, but, except for Martell's brandy, Belmont candles, and butter, there were no actual transactions on speculation, and, even in these articles, the purchases made were very limited. The stocks generally are too extensive for much impression being made except by purchases of such magnitude as no one in this market is at all disposed to make. The trade up country is exceedingly quiet, and, in consequence of the gold production greatly &Magog, from the want of water, the demand for goods by the diggers has been very limited. The gold returns for December were 190,726 oz. 10 darts., and January 160,415 oz. 10 dais., showing a decrease of 30,311 oz. This is partly to be attributed to the yield falling off from the great scarcity of water, and partly to the combination amongst the diggers not to sell to the banks at the low rates offered. The R. M.S. Columbian sailed from Port Philip Beads at 9.20 a.m., 18th ult. On the 20th, a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. N. and R. Outheridge took place. The suspension of this firm (who are deeply interested in the Geelong and Ballarat government railway contract) tended greatly to increase the depression and want of confidence prevailing. On the 22nd there were rumours of many impending failures of conse quence, but which, we are happy to say, have not beau verified. Fmm the 24th to the present time the arrivak of goods have beau unusually heavy. On the 30th ult., eight ships arrived from various port. whore kr,,rreguto tonnage was 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Feb. were half-holidays, and little or nu attention wee paid to business, from the excitement reused by the great interoulouial cricket matches. sth Feb.—The Great Britain, screw steamer, arrived after the extraordinary passage of 55 days. Oa the same day a telegram announced the arrival of the Northam, RAILS., at Nepean Bay, bringing the English December mails. She arrived in Nepean Bay on Saturday, 4th Met., at 3.30 p.m., and in Hobson's Bay on the morning of the 6th inst. The effect of the mail's news was to throw • still greater shade of depression upon the markets, rn hope* were strongly entertained that shippers would have at least seen the absurdity of following the blind eoune hitherto pursued, and that advice* as regards shipments would h►ve been favourable. The firmness of the wool nuuket and the assurances of peace are the only redeemable features in the advice's. The number of letters and newspapers received per R.M.S. Northam, 6th inst., were—letters, 49,499 (including 977 registered letters); newspapers, 77,242. The Sydney people have refused, to assist in the poporeil fortnightly mails via Sues, and are again agitating for the Panama route. The number of iimolvencies amongst traders and small dealers occurring in this colony is greatly on the increase. Since the arrival of the mai: business has been perfectly quiet, and, beyond email orders for immediate consumption, nothing has been doing. The money market is abundantly supplied, and money upon undoubted security is readily obtainable at 10 per cent. for trade purpoaes ; the tightness is very little relaxed. The amount of goods offered for sale by auction has been unusually large, but the indispositkie of buyers to come forward has enabled the auctioneers to dispose of but com paratively small quantities of the goods offered. Within the last few days there hsa been a little more doing in business, and holders of prime butter are asking 15d. Candles are also more in demand. Flour and wheat are dull, owing to arrivals. The program made by many of the uew gold mining corn ponies towanla completion is very satisfactory, and, with good management, there is but little doubt that most of them will give very large returns. It is estimated that half an ounce, or 10 diets. to the ton of quartz, will, with econo mical nianagement, give 100 per cent, per annum. Should the operation of these couipenies prove suc cessful it will give a new leans of prosperity to the colony, but other% iqe the lose and disappointment will be severely felt. Thu Nelson Reef Mining Company had their first crushing lately , and the result was 1,014 oz.. of go ld f rom 20 ton,, of quartz, or over 50 ozs. of gold to the ton. There are also several other instances of noes, extra. ordinary results. Amongst thew, at Bendigo, in les, tu n five days, Messrs. Wittscheibe and Co., of the Vi. - toris Reef, obtained 1,150 ors. from u lot of stone raised ; again, at the end of January, a few days' worfr igo . duced 1,401 ozu. ; the following week produced :PC, and the last week 501 ozs. --the whole crushed at a .mall etearweeeine. The beabank Company last week ebtained• 161 ounces from 15 tons ; and at Reedy Creek, from Doyle's Reef, 1,644 were obtained from 115 tons of quartz. Them is all unlimited field for profitable investment in the reefs of this colony, and we are surprised, with the vast am o u n t of unemploged capital lying idle in England, that EN:lid % capitalists have not availed the naelves of so favourable an opportunity. We, however, expect at no distant pei t o see a great development of our gold fields by Uo :to, o f capital from home. The exchange.. stand thus :—To England, 60 days' par; 30 days' eight, 3 per cent. ; sight, I per cent. To Madras, Calcutta, or Bombay, 2s. Id. ; Ceylon, 31 per cent ; China, 5 dohs ; Mauritius, 3 dole. ; New Zealand, I per cent. ; Sydney, per cent. NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, B. 17. Mr. Forster's Bill for the abolition of State aid to religion meets with great opposition from the Roman catholic party, and it is thought likely that the government will either resign or dissolve the house upon the question. Bills were introduced yesterday for the regula. tion of the sale of laud, and for the taxing of laud. They were read a hrst time, and the second read ings were fixed for that day month. Considerable interest is excited by the discovery of new goldfields 26 miles from Bathurst. The accounts from the Snowy River—where another discovery has been made—are now very favourable. Fearful ravages have arisen from the late tlooqls. Whole families were drowued at Arabian and Shoalhaveu. Wool is dull. Mr. Mort has just sold lad bales at a reduction of from Id. to list. upon the prices which were ruling before the arrival of the last English mail. It is generally quoted at a retitice thin of 2d. per pound. The Castilian brings 600 Chinese. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Oxon ova owe COIRRESPONDOIT.) PARIS, WROXIDIDAY EVENISC. Count de Peraiguy has arrived in Paris from London, to pawl the Easter holidays. M. Laity, senator, an old private friend of the Emperor's, and a man who less frequently been spoken of as likely to be prefect of police, left Paris yesterday for CheminSty, charged with an extra. ordinary mission. I hear that the Pope's Nuncio, Mgr. Sacconi, threatened to leave Paris unless his letters, seized upon the person of M. Louis Veuillot, were at once delivered to him, and that lie received them yesterday, but with the original seals broken and a polies wafer in theirstead. It is rather& strong thing to open ambassadors' letters, and the fact of M. Louis Veuillot having been the bearer of them is a very insufficient excuse. lam not surprised, therefore, to learn, that upon reflection it was thought expedient to medogise to the Nuncio, and to assure hint that his correspondence was violated by "mistake." The Pope's police have arrested at Rome K Silvagni, formerly, and when the Marquis Migli orati was Chair; d'Affaires, au attachd to the Sardinian Legation. The ()pinion Nationale tiotieos as a fact likely to "augment the apprehensions of England," the contradiction by the Mouitoo• of the rumour that the government intended to reduce the army by two companies a regiment. The Bourse was firm ; the attempted Carlist movement in Spain is known to have been altogether abortive. The Relate rune 10c. for cash and 25c. for account, closing at 69fr. 80. i. and 69fr. 13c. Mo bilier rose 7fr. 50c. The most important event of the day was a decline of 18fr. 75c. in the Eastern Railway ; the other lines were rather higher. The Monde, showing au ignorance of its own re ligion which is really wonderful, treated as a libel upon the church the reproduction of the form of excommunication which happens to be quoted in "Tristam Shandy," and said that it was impossible to argue seriously with a journal capable of repre senting the inventions of au unscrupulous novelist as the words of holy church. The fact is that the form in question was really used by the church in the middle ages. It may be found word for word in the Ileeneil des Historiens des (looks et de in Prance of Dom Bouquet, pages 612 and 613, which anybody may go and read in the Ili/diet/64m de ['Arsenal. The Prose is sentenced to pay a fine of 2,000 fr. for a libel upon the council of discipline of the Lyons bar. It intends to appeal. A brother of the Ece/-s Chreirlines of Metz is prosecuted for having used insulting language towards the Emperor in a lecture to his pupils. M. I3ethruont, who was yesterday followed to the grave by ministers, judges, poets, historians, and an immense crowd of his mourning brethren of the bar, and who hail for pall bearers M. Dupin, Procureur-General of the Court of Cessation, M. Devienne, the First President of the Imperial Court, M. Chaix irEst Ange, Procureur-General, and M. Plooque, hatunaiet• of the Order of Advo cates, was the son of a baker iu the Faubourg St. Antoine. His parents had the utmost difficulty in Paying the expenses of his education. Although one of the most finished and elegant orators of the French bar, and a Irma of moderate political opinions, his plebeian origin was an enduring link between him and the democrats of the popular quarter of Paris, who always looked upon him its their especial representative. THE SIUSTRIAN PROTESTS. 'Fite following is the circular despatch from Count Rechberg to the representative's of Austria at the foreign courts : Vienna, Manl 25. In the course of tact year we found it requisite oil au vend occasions to direct the serious attention of the ca. billets to the acta of the Piodumutem government as tend. leg to disturb violently the territorial relation. exivting in Italy, and to violate the treaties that form the Isaa•s of the public law of Europa•. These acts have just been c.a. automated by the decree. of hi. Ilajway the King of Mar. (bilis, under date of the 18th and •4•2 lid instant, in sir tee of which the states of P a rma, Modena, Tuscany, cud the Ito. magua have been auuesed to Piedmont. Whilst confining himself for the moment to jonitesting against these :ate, which overthrow, not only the political orrauivation of Italy, for which all the European powers c operated in the negotiations of 1815, hut which atoll° loamy flagrant iufnu•tious of the rights particularly guaranteed by these seine treaties to .►stria, the Emperor, our august toaster, sincerely desires to evince a moilenitioe that doubtless will be app reciate4l by the governineut. that put a high value on the maintenance of pease. By the subjoined despatch, copy of which will be transmitted to the cabinet of Turin through the kind me• ilium of the Prussian legation, we have protested against the said decree. of annexation. I beg you to real the peaeut despatch and the one to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to leave cope. of them w ith •— Accept, Lc.,