The Express. — London, England, 1861-03-28 00:00:00

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ZION WATU AT IMMIX SMOOT. TM DAT —Manila& IL Ilds.....Allrifeaa, M. 10.. 101110111011—Manilag, 311. 41a.....A11ersoota, 4A. 1.. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAIZCII 28. SIR JOHN RARSDRN having induced the West Riding to elect him as a Reformer, thinks himself justified in doing all he can to thwart any measure of Reform. Lest year he was one of those who with professions of friendship did their best to damage the Government measure ; and this year, because the Ministerial Bill is not re-introduced, he objects to any other being attempted. The failure of the general scheme last session was ascribable mainly, he tells us, to the opposition it encoun tered from the Liberal aide of the House. He forgets to recall the fact that of its insidious oppo nents under the mask of advocacy he himself was one ; yet now he seeks to take the benefit of his own wrong, and makes his conduct last see lion a justification for more open tergiversation in this. The ministerial measure of 1860 proposed to conifer a 61. borough franchise, and from that measure Sir JOHN Riateree did not then venture openly to dissent ; in 1861 be plucks courage from impunity, and coolly announces his determi nation to vote against the identical proposition as brought forward by Mr. SAINLX. The measure of last year likewise enfranchised the 10!. occu piers in counties., and in that portion of it also the bon, baronet acquiesced ; but now to make all square he votes against that also, thus delibe rately repudiating the two principles when em bodied in two separate bills which he affected to support when combined in one. This is what may be called the high-flying style of desertion—desertion alike of friends and of principles—of friends by whose aid, and of prin cipks by whose profession the pre-eminent post has bean gained, which the recusant thus betrays. It is certainly well worth while sacrificing time and nosey at every general election to put fine gentlemen into Parliament, who, when they get tier*, think it shows blood and a tree aristocratic spirit to trample on promisee and to treat with amen the wi.lies of their constituents. With what face will the managers of the next party hocus-pocus ask the middle classes to vote for their Conservative-Whig candidates, after what we have lately seen t Whether another general election be distant or near we know not : one thing we know, that whereas we were blind, now we see. If Mr. Bstess' Bill, which is soon to be offered for • second reading, were any novel or undisoussed project of franchise extension, there might be some excuse for refusing to vote for it. We ourselves have never said that we regarded a 61. rental as a perfect test of capacity for the use of the suffrage ; on the contrary, we have never shrunk from de claring that, after its adoption, large numbers of the working classes would continue outside the pale of the constitution whose admission we should consider most desirable. But we are willing to take what the whole of the Liberal party in Par liament were content to offer, and it is because that offer has not been made good by the reintro duction of the measure promised at Willis's Rooms, that it has become the duty of an independent member like Mr. Barris to produce it afresh, and to press it upon the deliberative attention of the House of Commons. A majority of that Home, after several nights' debate two years ago, declared that without a lowering of the borough franchise to this extent at least it was impossible to expect general contentment in the country, or that confidence would be reposed in the administration of affairs. A minority, strong in talent, influence, and numbers, denied that such a reduction of the borough franchise was necessary. Appeal was made to the nation ; and the nation believing the majority to be 'linear., ratified its decision at the hustings. Profiting by the opportunity thus afforded, the leaders of the majority expelled their rivals from power, and seated themselves in their room. What has since happened we all too well know. The question was trifled with last session by those who had no right to trifle with it, and covertly betrayed by others. But the majority have not yet as • party burned the ships in which they sailed into power : that is a feat still to be performed, and we shall not believe in its possibility until it has been done. It will not be the fault, however, of men like Mr. Romanis or his brother-in-law, Sir JOZN RAMSDIN, if the vengeance of displaced Toryism be not wreaked on the Whig party by their own hand. Reform, according to theme gentlemen, is to be baled by loud and lavish promises of concession, which it is allowable to laugh at whenever their exaction is practically demanded. It was in this sense that the hon. Member for Stroud undertook to pinch the ears and pull the noses of his constituents last Christmas for presum ing to call him to account, and insinuating that he had changed aides. The Member for the West Riding, with less wit but hardly lees effron tery, ventures to claim credit for seal in the came of Reform, upon the ground that he his refused to vote for Mr. Loam Kixe's Bill, and that he means to do the like by that of Mr. Barites. We should be curious to know what the speculation of the hon. baronet is in making this announcement, or whether he really believes the men of the great county he misrepresents are such idiots as to be duped by gilt-edged imposture of this description. The Liberal party in Parliament would have ren dered themselves accomplices in the deplorable act of their courtier chiefs had they tacitly consented to the abandunnient of the great principles of extended suffrage. It was bad enough that a Cabinet which owed Its existence to the assertion of these principles should have arbitrarily and wantonly laid there aside ; but it would have been immeasurably worse for the sake of all eon eased if in that hour of lamentable dereliction independent men had not been found ready to snatch from the ground the fallen Beg, to bear it THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1881.. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.- aloft, and to rally their comrades round it. Mr. LOCKS KINo and Mr. BRINES have undertaken the performance of this duty, and they both deserve well of the country for having done so. Public opinion has not changed, though the convenience of cliques and coteries may have altered ; and Parliament is, or at least professes to express con stitutionally the voice of public opinion. One third of the entire House of Commons reiterated the other day their deliberate conviction that the electoral qualification franchise in coun ties ought not to exceed 10!. in rent. It is true that a small preponderance of votes rendered that declaration abortive as far as legislative progress during the present Session is concerned. But the value of the vote of the 220 who supported Mr. Loess limo is not to be mistaken. Their vote stands as a protest which no juggling or jesuitry can get rid of, against the reactionist conspiracy to withhold popular rights. And that protest will be repeated by numbers, we hope, still greater when the Borough Franchise Extension Bill comes on for a second reading. The cowardly absence or open apostasy of certain defaulters will surprise and dishearten no one who has watched what has been passing for some time before their eyes. We trust that the eyes of the constituencies, however, will be fixed on their members with scrutinising gaze, and that no shuffling or shirking will be suffered to pass unnoticed. MISSION FROM THM SOUTHERN STATES of AMERICA TO ENGLAND AND FRANCE. (From the New York Herald of March 16.) The new federal government at Montgomery, Alabama, of the seven seceded *Aeon states, has appointed Hon. William L Yancey, of Alakerna ; Judge P. A. Rost, of Louisiana ; and Colonel A. Dudley Mann, is special commissioners to England and France, for the pur pose, first, of securing the recognition by those great powers of the independent government of the Confederate States ; and, secondly, to propose such southern commer cial reciprocities as English and French statesmen will not be apt to decline. The lion. Thomas Butler King, of Gowen, has also been selected by the cotton states to visit Europe, to make arrangementa for direct trade from the continent to the ports of the South. Upon this important mission we understand that Mr. King has already sailed, and that his associates will soon follow. What will be their reception in London and in Paris' According to the oracle of the new northern regime at Washington, these southern commissioners will be con temptuously ignored abroad, as the savant re presentatives of • new power among the na. time which has no actual existence, but which is only the mere jack-olaetern of a fleeting exhalation. But the intelligent observer of European affairs in their relations to this continent will have discovered that among the statesmen and politicians of England and France the rise, expansion, and development of our southern secession movements into an indepen dent confederation are more and more regiuticel, from week to week, as momentous revolutionary evade challenging a serious consideration. "King Cotton," in this matter, stands before my Lord Palmerston and his Imperial Majesty of France, as • veritable potentate whose demand cannot be set soda The necessities of the cottoo mills of Manchester, when put to the teat, will supersede the abolition love feat of the Duchess of Sutherland. From the commercial necessities of and advantage, to England and France, thus suggested, it is by no means attain that these treaty commissioners from our new southern confederacy to those powers will be as cavalierly treated as the Montgomery ambassadors to Washington. Os the other hand, upon the single issue between the new high tariff bill adopted by the government at Washington and the low tariff schedules of the southern confederacy now in force, French and English interests will appeal strongly in favour of the south. On English iron, cotton and woollen manufactures, and on such French pro ductions as silks, laces, wines and brandies, the differences in the duties range from 10 to 20 to 50 and 60 per cent. between our new northern and southern tariff laws; and as upon those imports from 10 to 60 per cent duty can be saved by taking them into Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, or New Orleans, instead of discharging in Borten, New York, flulidelphis, or Baltimore, the reader will compre hend the fora of the argument in favour of direct European leads with the Beath. The laving is the mere choice of • seaport of ten or fifWen millions of money upon fifty millions of their goods, destined for the same consumers, must exert a powerful influ e•os Rpm the governments of France and England in favour of the southern confederacy ; but when its commissioners shall propose ;to rater auto still more inviting com mercisl reciprocities by express treaty stipulations, they OM hardly fail of a successful hearing. Apprehensive, as matters now stand, of earionalomes to its treasury from the diversion of foreign imports to the South, the government at Washington is mustering a formidable borne squadron of war vessels for the purpose of enforcing in southern ports our northern tariff law. To overcome this difficulty, the Southern Commiesioners will say to Lord Nintendo(' and Louis Napoleon, you have only to recognise the independence of our new confederacy. Then the blockade by the United States of our ports will be nothing to you, until the government at Washington shall have de clared war splint us, and, as in that contingency, seven at eight other southern states stand ready to Join us, you need not have any fear of the final Woe, or of the 'aspen sion of the cotton culture by the narc► of hostile armies over our plantations. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, TaossaAT. ----- The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen, Captain Wessels, from New York on the 16th, has arrived. She brings 96 passengers, but no specie. The Etna, from Liverpool, arrived out on the 14th inst. The government of the southern confederacy had appointed the Hon. William Yancey, of Alabama, Judge Rost, of Louisiana, Colonel Mann and Mr. Butler King, of Georgia, as special commissioners to proceed to England and France for the purpose of obtaining the recognition of the independence of the confederate states, and make such com mercial arrangements as their joint interests may require. It was said that the Baltimore sympathisers with the secession movement would be the first to offer resistance to the Federal authority. Captain Hill, commander of the United States troops at Fort Brown, Texas, had agreed quietly to surrender the fort to the secessionists. A dispatch from Montgomery states that a bill had been introduced to make a Court of Admiralty. It was announced from Mexico that Mr. Mat thews, British minister at Mexico, had officially recognised the Juarez government, and that the difficulties with the British government were being adjusted. Advice. from Havanna were to the 9th instant. Iluoinain w•e somowh•t improving. Money was • little easier. Exchange on London, 60 days, 9} to 10} prem. Fan Francis co advices were to the 2nd instant. The news was unimportant. The state of trade had undergone no change. Nothing important had transpired in the Legislature. POLAND. WARSAW, Mims 27. The following reforms have been proclaimed : " The present regulations for public instruction in Poland are abolished. ji spec - la oommisoon for public worship and instruction, under the direction of M. WielopoLski, is appointed, for carrying out reforms in matters relating to public instruction. " National establishments of a superior class for public instruction, and especially an academy for legal instruction, are to be opened. "A Council of State is to be established, com posed of members of the clergy, dignitaries, and the most distinguished persons of Poland. "The nett of petition is granted to the nation. " The government councillors, the district coun cillors, and the municipalities of the larger towns are to be elected by the inhabitants." SPAIN. MADRID, ?Liam 27. It is stated that if Senor Rios Rowe raises a discussion in the Cortes on the interior policy of the Government, Ministerial supporters will endeavour to bring about a formal vote of confidence in the government. PORTUGAL LISBON, MAscs 27. The Chamber of Deputies has been dissolved. The ministry, under the presidency of the Marquis de Loul6, will continue to direct public affairs. INDIA. BOMBAY, MAACK 1. Lord Canning returned to Calcutta on the 18th February The troops had advanced by three marches into Sikim. The country is abandoned by the poople. Colonel Harvey, of the 43rd regiment, is dead. The English mail of the 4th Feb. has arrived. Government securities—Four per Ceuta., 78i ; Fives, 94g. CALCUTTA, FKIL 27. Exchange and government securities are un altered. Freights, 759. !Mt Court. WLND9OII CASTLE, MARCH rr. Lady Churchill luta succeeded the Marchioness of Ely se lady in Waiting. %MO Losweefela Asa left the Ceatle for the Continent. LORD AND LADY PALMERSTOIV AT TORQUAY. Lord and Lady Pabnerston arrived in this beau tiful tom by the express train, in the aftemomt, on a visit to their distinguished relatives the Earl and Concklin of Shaftesbury, who, with their family, have been residing f..r some time at the Cove, which was occupied by the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, while soioarning here during the simmer. The noble premier and his lady were received with military bosom by the gallant vollutteers of this lowa, and we believe it is not a little singular that some years since—when the volun teer movement we only thought of by a few, who were Men generally looked upon m over-patriotic, if not visiossry enthaskata— whim some 60 odd brave spirits— all hewer to Devonshire for the fact—formed a ride corps in Ude place, his lordship was received with the an., kvely dermeetratioa, and that he even than complimented the proud little band upon their soldier.like appear ance. 0a the Feint occasion the rifles were under this sammend of their faithful and well-tried commander, Ospsia H. B. Rodway, who is the senior carer, and the artillery, which forms a most respectable force, under the commail of Major E. Vivian. The former were drawn up ea the platform ►t the railway station in open column, and on to arrival ei to train presented arms. The noble m alight/re boa this earthen was presented by Hajar Vivian to Captain Rahway, with whim he warmly Asa beads, aad walking down between the maks, spin smeollinsetel Me espial* on the smart look and soldierly lees* of the Mee. The Artillary Company fired a salute of IP pas, an attention to which his lordship is entitled se Levi Warden ei the Cinque Port.. Notwithstanding a rather heavy downhill of rain, there were many persons purest who gave a hearty welcome to the distinguished meson.— Western Morning New. ROYAL PRIMITIL —A messenger from his Royal Highness the Prism of Wales bad arrival at Chicago, with name primate (or the Hon. John Wentworth, mayor of that sty. The primate mosisted of two Imentitsl pointer issa—e male sod feuale—end two minable illouthdows ieser—a ma sad ewe. The gilts were brought all the way from Imgbad for Mayor Wentworth, to be preessted to tun se as whims el the spprecistios el hie amices, rm. dared Amin the Pramee visit —Ceaseless Naas Yrare or PRIME ALYZED TO CAXADA.—A de 'patch from the fleceelm et BIM for the Weenie lee been remind by the Gevenaer-Genical, dialog that his Royal Highnen Prince Alhed will visit Canada this sumer. He will probably ems be Quebec with • polka al the fleet en the North Amps elation, and twang through Maeda by the lam raelli his heather did lest year. It la not ex pected that the goverment will *wane any demonstration in his honour, but it is probable weveral of the municipali ties wilL His Royal Eligbanes, ft is stated, will arrive in the middle of dups.—Canadian Ncwa The Countess of liefton's second ball will take pleas ee Tuesday, the 16th proximo, Matted ot Wednesday, the 17tli el April. Lord Harris ham arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Derkeley-aquare, from Brigb tom A gentleman, on the part of the directors of the Western Back, Glaagow, has offered 200,0001. for a settle awn al all the widow. at law now in dependence. The liguidatess, who had aamed this sum, recommend it to the seseplame of the shareholders, with whom it now Dee whether the Wankel AO be brought to a close or sot. The Irish papers announce the death of Martin Joseph D.L, formerly member for Galway comity. Yr. she, who had been for some time ailing, died at the aubhousr Galway, where ho was staying during the missy aad from whence he was unable to return to his emidwase at Dallygluain Park, Atbeory. The National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George shiest, Westminster, will be freely open to the public on Lett Mooday, , Tuesday, and Wednesday, from 10 to 5 cfekek. At other times admission is restricted to Wednes days and fistordays from 12 to 5 o'clock. Tickets an so lamer 'squired. DIA= or THI LADY JANE Plll.--The Brig/Mon eilluene el yeeleeday says; "It is our mournful leek to eanimsee the death of the Lady Jaye Peel, wife al Lure. Peel, Req., which riminacholy event ceenned yesterday merehig, in Leaden. Her ladyship was born in 1798, was daughter id the fourth Doke of Richmond, and sitar of the hie sad mei of the present duke. For many ]care pest we the favourite residency el , Peal sat his estimable partner, and during that P title* nnsetemledioe, their acts of ralaineesee, M° 4 priests_ paterwaiy, the WSW of Peel bee beams endesred le ear readmits al ell einem Ll=that of thimble lady sow removed from en by death. The town of Brighton may be truly mid thereby to have suffered one of its greatest losers. By bee nnaterom acoluaintance and in the aristocratic circles is whist her ladyship moved many a sorrowful regret will be uttered, teatifying to her private worth and friendship, piety, and Christian virtues. For the poor, especially the young, she had ever a kind word and helping h ,and • and to those institutions foe the relief of the sick and distressed As was of the most meeetial anietaimes by her countenance and advice, and the liberal demniimis and subscriptions of herself and husband, by whom end several children their bereave ment will be deeply leinented." DirciinCTlox or TIM ROYAL ClLiarrina.—This morning . the ancient and royal charities of Mauuday Thurs day, originating in the mega of Edward 111., will be deli vered to 42 aged men sad 49 aped women in Whitehall Chapel with the usual formalities. The number of each with the et the Queen. The Bishop of ea Oxford, Lo rd High Almrer will officiate, and will be masted by the Rev. Dr. leaf, Principal of Bing's College the Sub-Ahnoner), the Rey. Francis Garden, M.A., Sub- Dena of the Chapel Royal ; the Rev. I*. Vivian, the Rev. Thomas Helium., and severed of the Westminster clergy. There will be a service in the chapel preparatory to the distributers of the Queen's gifts. ROOST SonooL—The numbers at Rugby this half-yesr are 473 boys, being 10 more than last half-year. The highest number io Dr. Worth's head-mastership was 351 ; in Dr. Arnold's time, 375 ; when De. Tait, the present Bishop of London, was head-mater. 491; in Dr. Goal. bare's days, 466 ; so there are sow 96 boys more than at the period of Dr. Arnold's deatle.—Tiame. RADLAT COLLEGE. —WO MS informed by SD Oxford eorrespowleet that Dr. Sewell has resigned the we/doeskin of Rmiley Scholastic Eembliehment, and that an ieveetigetioe, originating with Mr. Hubbard. M.P., is now being made into the Malicia/ condition of the college, which is alleged to have been conducted on far too extreve. pet a scale, especially as regards the enonnoes sxmactitem ea old wood earring, plate, and curimities.—Record. CIIANOR or Nutt.—Since his yelping advocacy el Austrian policy (says Pend) Mr. Roebuck is no low the " Deg Tee? or" Me ism/ emit* nn Auto., Mien. Sir Samuel Cunard, Bart., has forwarded, on be. bat of the British Aug North American Royal Mail Steam Ship Company, a liberal demotion of 50f. to the Royal National Lifeboat Inerientien. William Overington, of Philadelphia, United Blake. has also forwarded to the Lifeboat Inatitutis• $ denation d 6f FLOATING THE GREAT EASTERN OFF THE GRIDIRON AT NRYLAND. It having been determined to float tho Great Eastern on Tuesday last, preliminary preparations for the purpose commenced on Monday. A number of seamen, stokers, he., arrived on that and preceding days. Steam was got up, and the eagles@ tested. She floated ea Monday, the tide having risen satisfactorily. On Tuesday Captain Islay, the Queen's pilot, was actively engaged all day in arranging and perfecting his plans, which Meg before high water were satisfactorily consummated. Two little steamers—the havenboata—were attached to the larboard bow, and for some time laboured hard to divert her head southwardly. As this was acoom- Oohed her various ponderous mooring chains—those which had effectually secured and preserved her during one of the most tempestuous winters that has been experienced in Milked Haven for years past —were gradually and satia. faciceily slackened, and ultimately let go, and at the precise momeet—the period of time when the tide was at its height, when it was neither flowing up nor running down, when it had no influence in propelling her one way nor another, when everyone thought she was fixed for at least another tide—that experienced pilot (chewing vigorously, erg the cud of bitter disappointment, but his bit o' hooey, as none can more vigorously do when be has an important service to perform) enunciated his commands for "all to let go," "turn ahead." " port your helm," " gently starboard.'s As if be had a four-cared gig to navigate, he passes the Own rocks, rounds the Weir Point, and runs the gigantic fabric to a position off Milford in the most satisfactory, the moat efficient manner possible. She is to lay there and receive coals and cargo, and will must probably leave for New York on or about the 16th of May, sear which time, when fitted and furnished for ass, she will be a source again of universal Wreathe and Interest. ANDERSON, THE FUGITIVE SLAVE. TO TIFF 13)1701 OF TO EMIR& Sta,—By the last Canadian mail I had a letter Sam a gentleman in Montreal, dated the Nth instant, of which the following is as extract : "Anderson, the fugitive slave, arrived here a day or two ago, and caned upon me. He will resign here till the first steamehip leaves for &ear% when he will take passage in it. His arrival in England may be looked far about the 25th at May.* ThiA - king that probably this aim may be of intend to your reatisra,-1 am, ha., FRANCIS W. CAMPBELL, IL D. Saliba*, March 24. THE GRAVE OF "L E. L." TO TIT =WOO Of SET MITTIML Sts, —ln last Thursday's Express I observed a letter from Dr. N'lVinism, late of the Niger Expeditiou, on the subject of "L It. L.'s." pave at Cape Coast Cantle. Allow me to explain the apparent iacondsteney betwese his statements and those contained in the from the Express, to which he Wen. In that paragraph it was stated that until lately there was nothing to mark the spot when "L. E. L" was buried, but that a marble cross has now been placed over her grave by the governor of Cape Coast Castle. Dr. N'William, en the contrary, siesres that he himself visited the spot away years ago, saw the marble tablet erected by Govensor Moslem to hie wife's memory, and copied therefrom the Latin inscription which he quotes in the letter referred to. Now, these statements Sr. both correct. A glance at the locale ri the bury ing ground of Cape Coast Castle will explain the seeming - die. wormy. The British officers who die there (and, alas I thew name is legion) lie buried within the area of the castle walls, under the burning flagstones of the parade ground • and amongst those lies "L. E. L." The tablet referred to is inserted, of course, in the castle wall. But still, one might be at a loss to discover the exact spot on that level area under which rest the ashes of the poetess • hence, I believe, the kindly and considerate act on th e Part of the present governor of inserting in the pavement over the grave a white marble crone, with the simple . Inscription, "L.E. L. Judging, however, from the teeinsony of one who has also visited the sacred spot, Umlaute' of "L. E. L," was from the Mut distinguishrd by ten red Wee placed over It. These, however, being uninecribed, might sadly escape astir*. I ant, Ac.. JOHN BLACKLOCK. Kirkcudbright, N. 8., March 25. A letter from Ems states that the Empress of AVOWS. 011 her return from Madeira, will per some time et that watering-place, in company with Les lister, the Queen of Naples. _ _ _ "We are assured," says the Italie of Turin, "that the votes of the Chamber of Deputies for the uomin. alias of a secretary, in place of M. de Saw* will he given •• a tienionstnition to M. Silvestro the only Rouses deputy who has a seat is the chamber." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, I[iaca 15, 6 P.Y. The New York market is eager. Thie banks are actively competing with the discount brokers far mercantile paper. Choice names have been pained at 5 per cent. Brokers are borrowing at 5 per cent. on call. The foreign ex change market is more active. Bankers have raised their rates for bills on London to 1061, and oa Pans to Mr. 30c. The stock market is steady. The demand far treasury notes and government stocks increame daily. New York Central closed to-day at 781 to 781 ; 321 to 321; Illinois Bonds, 981, 99. Cotton tirm. Balsa : 900 bales ; middling upland, Ilk. to 12c. Freights unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH O. Bales of cotton to-day, 6,500 bale& Middling, 111 c. to 12c. Sales of the week, 48,000 tales. Mock, nearly 312,000 balm Freights for cotton to Liverpool, id. LONDONDERRY, WIDNESDAT. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North Briton, Captain Borland, front Portland, Maine, on the 16th inst., has arrived, and landed all mails except those for Liverpool. The Etna and Arabia, from Liverpool, had arrived out. The late nominations of President Lincoln had been confirmed by the Senate. Governor Houston had refined to recognise the Texas Convention, considering that its functions ended when the secession ordinance was passed. He proposes that Texas should join the Southern confederacy. The Convention claims full powers, and will dis place Governor Houston if he maintains his refusal to take the oath to the State. It was rumoured that Governor Houston was raising troops on his own account. The new Southern tariff will come into operation on the Ist May. Compared with the United States tariff, 30 per cent. duties are reduced to 25 per cent., and 24 and 19 per cent. duties to 15. The tariff also contains a large 10 per cent. sche dule, and a small free list. The Alabama Convention bad passed a resolution varying the permanent constitution of the Southern Confederation by 87 to 6 votes. The Supreme Court had decided the great Orleans case in favour of Mrs. Chimes, giving her the pro- perty of the late Mr. Daniel Clarke. She gains 10,000 to 15,000 dollars by the decision. Captain Hill had surrendered Fort Brown. Advises from Vera Crus to the Bth state that the British Minister had recognised the Juarez govern ment. Havannah advice were to the 9th inst. Easiness in sugar was more active. Stock, 160,000 boxes. No. 12 was held for 4 Teals. Exchange on Lon don, q. . (azom's Tarawa.) THE ITALIAN CHAMBER. IMPORTANT SPEECH BY COUNT CAVOUR. TURIN, Lip= 27, EVGIIIIO. The discussion on the Roman question was re sumed to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Chiaves spoke against the transfer of the capital of the kingdom of Italy to Rome. Count Cavour refuted the arguments brought forward by Signor Chiaves, and maintained that it was urgent that Rome should be immediately de clared as the capital of Italy. The transfer will, he said, "take place in consequence of a law adopted by the chamber, and without any disturbances. The time for it will be fixed by law. We offer to the spiritual powers of the Pope all the guarantees for its liberty and moral force which a friendly government can ever give to the papacy. I hope that public opinion will very soon be disposed for the proclamation, and that France will agree with us in this matter." Count Cavour supported Signor Buoncompagni's pro posal, which was almost unanimously agreed to by the chamber. The debate then closed. PARIS, WIDNINDAY EVENING. The Patrie of thin evening says : " Five vessels have arrived at Genoa bringing back the troops from Messina. These troops will immediately proceed to Bologna, and will form part of the 4th corps d'arntie, under the tx)mtnaud of General Cialdini. "The first division of this corps &arm& has already arrived at Ferrara, and protects the lower line of the Po, behind which is placed the Austrian corps (ramie." HUNGARY. VIENNA, 11Ancti 28. According to the announcements which appear in the Vienna journals of to-day, the Emperor will not open the Hungarian Diet in person, but will proceed later to Buda for his coronation. TURKEY. PARIS, WIDIMIDLY Evinroo. The Patrie oontaimi the following : "The disturbances in Bosnia have not had any serious result. The Porte has satisfied the claims of the Dltissulman chiefs by restoring to them their former rights." CONSTANTINOPLE, MAace 10. The Levant Herald publishes the scheme of a forced loan for twelve millions of Turkish pounds, which is under the consideration of the ministry, and which, the Levant Herald states, is likely to be carried out. " The amount is to be receivable within two years, and repayable in ten, with 6 per cent. interest." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (niox ova ow PARIS, WIDIfERDAT EVORNG. In the Pretty, M. Peyrat institutes a comparison between the Pope's last allocution and the famous bull, "Exurge Deus," which was burnt by Luther in the market place of Wittemberg. " The cry of distress of Leon X. proved that the cause of Rome was not the cause of God, for its sole result was the separation of a third of Europe from the papacy." The Prase anticipates as disastrous • failure for the manifesto of March 18, 1861. It proceeds to describe the present state of the Roman government in the following terms : This government Is poorer and more deeply in debt than even Austria. Its financial system, as was said the other day in the Corps Legialatif by • deputy not open to the charge of being irreligion; is based upon alms. Without a treasury, without credit, without financial resources of any kind, without an army, detested by the population, abandoned by foreign governments, unable to reckon even upon the support of Austria, where is the strength of the court of Rome? On whom and what does she rely? She has endeavoured to provoke a moral insurrection among oatholice ; her journals received and executed a sta crordre ; her secret agents have beaten up all Europe ; the ultra montane episcopate ham raised the battle-cry ; and all these combined efforts produced nothing but the famous army of Castelfidardo. The temporal papacy can only be restored in on. of two manners—either by • spontaneous return to its rob of the Marches, Romagna, and Umbria ; or by a gene ral coalition, which, after having annihilated our armies, shall restore the throne of France to the Bourbons and power to the legitimist party. The idea that the enfran chised populations will spontaneously return to the yoke of the cardinals is an aberration too wild to be entertained by even the most rabid ultramontanist. The hope of • coalition in favour of legitimacy is a chimera, which may possibly be cherished at Rome in the concili►bnlas al Mgr. de Mfrode, but which no man of common sense in Femme will be at the pains of discussing. What signifies then the Pope's allocution ? At a former period, and in • situation morally, materially, and politically different from that of the present day, it might have been, in • certain degree, • satisfaction to self love, and • reserve of old rights against prescription. Bat now it is not even that. In repudiating all the demands of the French government., the temporal papacy deprives itself of the only force which it had left. It releases the imperial government from the too generous engagements which it had spontaneously contracted, and finds itself face to face with triumphant Italy, and reduced to a state which makes it impossible to recover what it has lost, or to keep for any length of time the remesat of power which—thanks to the protection of our soldiers—it still has. The allocution speaks in the name of the catholic, apostolic, and Roman church. Now in the ninth century this church suffered the defection from its bosom of the Greek church with sixty millions of believers; in the sixteenth century it lost a third of Europe with eighty millions of Christians; it is not therefore catholic, via., " universal." It is not apostolic, for there is nothing apostolic in the acts of the court of Rome, in the policy of Cardinal Antonelli and Mgr. de Mirode, or in the conduct of those crusaders who, as M. Granter deCassagnachappilyssid, dress themselves up ea "Torte" to defend the cross. [The Papal Zonaves are alluded to.] It is not Roman, because the Romans will not have the temporal papacy at any price, and would have demolished it ten times over, but for their respect for the French flag which protects it. The tempo ral papacy is only maintained by the Austro-Jesuitic and ultramontane party ;it a degenerate institution which is worn out; its existseoe ts artificial—it is the existence of • patient In the last stage of consumption. There was a panic at the Bourse in consequence of rumours of which there is no confirmation, and which are quite opposed to the tenor of all the latest authentic news, that the Austrians had crossed the Mincio, and that war between Austria and Italy would begin immediately. The Rente ' fell 25c. both for cash and account, closing at 67fr. 90c., and 67fr. 951 r. ; Mobilier fell Orr. 25c. Most of the railways were from Mr. to 6fr. lower. The Caisse Mires fell upwards of 6fr., closing at 90fr. Madame Bandraud, the mistress of Reynaud, the murderer, of whose trial at Grenoble I gave an account the other day, hid herself in a church while the trial was going on, to avoid being called as a witness, and has since returned to her hus band's house, whether to be well received or not does not appear. The fears of her having com mitted suicide, turn out, therefore, to have been unfounded. The Minister of Marine has decided to establish eight electric lights on the coast of the department of the Seine Inferieure. These eight lights are to be placed at Cape de la Hoye, Cape Antifer, Etretat, Feoamp, St. Valery.en•Caux, the point of Ailly, Dieppe, and Treport. The object of these lights is to maintain a communication with ships within sight of land, and to transmit the news rapidly to the interior. A contract was concluded at the Murine•oftice at Havre on Seturday last for the construction of these eight light.. The tiport states that K de Salamanca, the Spanish capitalist, is now negotiating with the heirs of M. Scribe for the purchase of the deceased writers hotel in the Rue Pigale. The price, it is said, will be be 1,200,000 fr. The Chamber of Deputies of Stuttgardt has just voted a credit of 000,000 &wins for extraordinary expenses of artillery. Among the additions to be made to that branch of the service are 40 riled cannon, of which 20 will be east at Louisburg, and the remainder purchased from Prussia. FRENCH CON.—Why is the Gazette de Francs unlike the Opinio* NOrionok t—Because the one is for the Papoutt, sod the other for the Pa 144.4. POLAND. __.__ (nom A WARSAW, MAlics,l•l6l. The excitement of the population here, called forth and still sustained by the impolitic conduct of the government, has nut only not stilled, but is even increasing and spreading. Circumstances of the most diverse nature are the cause of this. In the first place, the general discontent a t th e con . cessions hithe rto published ; and next, the expo. rience gained during the recent manifestations, in consequence of which the conviction has spread in the town that it is not every regiment that is dis poem; to enter into serious collision with the people, and that even if they were, they could easily be routed with sticks and stones. An incident which occurred here last Thursday, the 14th, went far to confirm this opinion. You are aware that the castle is full of soldiers. In one of the rooms some Cossack,' and artillerymen began to quarrel over their play. The artillerymen noisily aax:usedst,he I Cossacks of striking and firingat au unarmed crowd, and of breaking the cross. The Cossacks, on the other hand, taunted the artillerymen with rebellion against the Czar. From words they came to blown, and the fight that ensued was so determined and bloody, that it is said there were upwards of twenty killed and wounded. I have the best authority for asserting that the above account is correct in every material particular. It matters little whether the numbers are truly stated. What is most important is that such occurrences as the above tend to strengthen the prevailing opinion as to the efficacy of sticks and stones to subdue the soldiery. More. over, hitherto the capital and the provinces have, as by a common instinct, acted in concert. The sig. natures to the address, collected in all parts of the country and among all classes of the people, the funeral services performed in all the towns and villages, the mourning worn by the whole country, and numberless other proofs of the prevalence o f the same feeling in all classes, and chiefly among the peasantry—all this increases and spreads from day to day the nation's sense of its strength. This is beyond a doubt a revelation for which we owe to Providence our warmest gratitude. In all circumstances, and in every possible course of action, the capital must be powerless without the concurrence of the nation ; and the nation can only carry its intentions into effect when supported by the unanimity of all classes of its population. This revelation, then, is the most important and felicitous that could be wished for. It must be confessed, too, that it also exercises no small influence on the dispositions of those persons whose ardour excites some fear at the present crisis. Spite of all this, the conduct of the government is still inexplicable. I will not speak of, the impolicy of its conduct in every respect; but I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that it seems to do everything to raise a storm. It excites the people through its agents in every way ; some of them , almost openly, endeavour to persuade the Poles that they can conquer without arms ; num. berleu forbidden books, .pamphlets, proclamations, and anonymous letters, circulate among the people, and even arms are here and there slipped into their hands. Nothing but the highest moral courage, untiring watchfulness, and uucensing labour, can prevent the occurrence of what at present no one either can or does wish for. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 22nd state that some members of the Carlist party were clandestinely circulating in Spain the last proclamation of Don Juan, and also other documents, in which " the ministers are calumniated, and the Queen is in. sulied." The semi-official Correspondancia declares " false, absolutely false," a report which was cur rent that the government had made propositions to the Carlists in the hope of winning them over to the constitutional party. Some journals having declared that the government will never recognise Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy, and others having, on the contrary, affirmed that it is prepared to do so forthwith, the Epoca states that the truth is that no decision has yet been come to on the subject, and that the Cabinet will " not separate its policy in the question from that which the great Powers of Europe may think right to follow." Some of the inhabitants of Parma, a* place near Barcelona, had sent an address of congratulation to Garibaldi THs GEE= CHitscH.—The Journal of St. Peters burg. publishes the following imperial reeeript, addressed to his Eminence Philaretus, the metropolitan of Moscow : " Most Eminent Metropolitan of Moscow, Phihsretus,—ln year incoment solicitude for the cousolidation and prosperity of orthodoxy in our well-beloved country, you have just given a fresh proof of the holy and ardent zeal that animates you for the interests of the church, by underfelt. iog and completing a collection of sacerdotal mow malts and sacred vessels fur the village churches of the diocese of Mohilev, churches restored according to our in. 'Unctions. At a single pastoral word from you, our first capital, which bad only just terminated its aid to the orthodox churches of Turkey, has imposed on itself new and important sacrifices, and in a very short Epees of time has made a gift to the diocese of 3folulev of objects radio. passable for the celebration of divine service, a large num. bet of which for their elegance and value would be fit to adorn the temples of a capital. It is agreeable to me to ex press . to you my cordial gratitude for your care so worthy of eulogium and crowned with complete success, and I cargo von to thank, in my name, all those who have assisted you is this meritorious work. Recommending myself to yo prayer, I remain ever your affectionaW —ALEXANDER. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY AND PENINSULA MAILS. —BOUTHAIIPTON, MARCH 27.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Peres, Captain Jamieson, sailed hence today, with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, and Upper Bengal, together with 30 Arst and 10 seoced,claes passengers, amongst whom are Colonel Poke. Ensign Brown, Ensign Murray, and Assistant-Surgeon Gregory. The Pem took on freight 698 boxes specie, value 198,004/. ; consisting of bar silver, 182,0001. ; bar gold, 10,0001. ; sovereigns, 5,5001. ; rupees, 240/. ; and jewellery, 5641. ; also a full cargo of general nierchandic. The company's steamer Tagus, Captain Reeked', likewise sailed hence to-day, with the usual Peninsular mails for Spain, Portugal, Lc. She took 32 pancreas, includin' General Mason Captain Prentis, Captain Sandemas , and Mr. Kennard ; also specie, 3,0001. in' sovereigns, and a general cargo. Tux RELIOIOES DENOMINATIONS AND THE Scsooot —The national' report of the Educational Coin. mission contain' a table, in which are arranged side by side the per-centageted scholars in the week-day schools and in the Sunday schools connected with the different religious denomi. nations. This table brings oat statistically the fact that all the religious denominations, except the church of England sod the Roman catholic*, show greater interest and activity in the establishment of Sunday schools than in the establish. meat of week-day schools. It would seem that in their opinion the Sunday school is more potent than the week-day school in attaching the young to their respective congregation.. For example, the church of England, which has 76.2 per cent. of the week-day scholars educated by the religious bodies, has only 45* of the Sunday scholars ; the Roman catho. lies, who have 5 . 52 per cent. of the week-day scholar,, have only 1:5 of the Sunday scholars. With these figures we may contrast the following :—The Wesleyan body (nl,l con• nexion) has only 3'91 of the week-day scholars (being the fourth iu numerical order with respect to week-day schools), hint it has 19 . 0 per cent. of the Sunday scholar,. Apia, the congregational body (i.e. the b o dy o f i n d e pendents) has only 21 per cent. of the week-day scholars. but 11'2 of the Sunday scholars. Again, the baptists have only 1 of the weekday echoing, but they have 6'7 per cent. of the Sunday scholars. The primitive methodists have 'O9 only of the weekday scholars taught by the different religious bodies, but they have 51 per cent. of the Sunday scholars. The methodist new connexion body has only '1 of the weekday scholars, but 22 per cent of the Sunday scholars. The united methodist free churches have only 1:111 of the weekday cholera, but as many as 2* per cent of the Sunday scholars. There is a very considerable in. mean in the number of scholars on the registers of the Sunday schools belonging to the primitive methodists. When Mr. Horace Mann tabulated the returns from their schools he found the number of scholars to be 98,294. The more recent returns made to the Education Commission show that in the primitive methodists' Sunday schools there are 136,929 scholars. In 1851 the unitarian week-day schools contained 4,306 scholars; the returns tabulated by Mr. John Flint, registrar of the commiesion, thew a totaI 4 . CISS scholars. In 1851 the unitarian Sunday schools eoetained 15,279 scholars; the last returns give a total of 13,142 scholars No returns, however, have been made from the school" connected with this denomination in Wale*. FREE EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE or GOOD Hors -- The ship Rajasthan, of 700 tons, Captain Maned. owned by Messrs. Teighe and Smith, of London, sailed fiats Southampton on the 27th instant for Algae Bay. with a freight of emigrants selected front th e agricultural sr, artisan classes by Mr. A. C. Saunders, acting on behalf of the government of the colony. They comprise 39 married couples, 62 single males, 60 single females, besides children —l2 an 264 sada, e q ual to 229 i statute adults. The ecni.. grotios to the Cape at the colonial expense, under the local act of 1867, has now reached a total of 8,002 for ti van :171i had g the I oerta wee 0 capita mods claw. MID, bad b hoped -- The aPPoil As for sti to attA eicasi moat age. Mr. • jure he eel tioa ? It w whose bited petty The him, spew , SAMOS JoAl A o l ie h w l court, and di neighb vPsil ta gentle' Kr. & to Ran to him ou and to he cou known ma* leave, -- and th _ _ Mr. told. have h fine hi House Cut telarts , the M. the ch heed of the ice dent co Person. She gm tl Pretty