The Express. — London, England, 1861-04-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, RAPIIRDAY, APRIL 13. lir the Italians have been condemned for cen turies to languish under a yoke of severer ecclesi astical bondage than any other European nation has known, their long-delayed redemption promises to be in the genie proportion more signal and com plete. Little more than two years ago Central Italy wee still afflicted with the intolerable misery of a pitiless priestly despotism, upheld by foreign bayonets. Some Catholic writers, indeed, had not seetalad to assert that this wretched state of things was just and aspaszy the misery o: Italy, according to their opal and profane dictum, being essential to the well-being of the world. The facia of history were continually appealed to in support of this appalling declaration. Gallant efforts had been repeatedly made to eman cipate the bondsmen of Rome, but always in vain. The most ardent friends of freedom were disheartened, and began tofear that deliverance was distant if not hopeless. That the prescriptive victims of Papal despotism would speedily enjoy anything approaching to full religions liberty seemed the very wildest dream of the enthusiast. Yet that dream is now realised. The greater part of the Peninsula enjoys • larger amount of reli gious freedom than is found in any other conti nental State. In no oilier country has the true principle of religions liberty been laid down with equal breadth and distinctness, or carried out with the same impartial sincerity. The present Government of Italy has set • noble ex ample in this raped. Instead of evading the difficulties of the religious question, it ham dealt with them at once in the most simple and direct manner. No one can reed Count Callous's speeches on the subject without being struck with their aingular courage and openness, or without feeling sure that • policy so large and just in itself, and so firmly yet temperately maintained, must triumph. Count Csvor it goes at once to the root of the whole matter. lie desires to secure for the new Kingdom of Italy the possession of full civil and religious liberty. And all experience roves that this can only be effectually accomplished in oue way—by a total separation of the temporal from the spiritual authority. Theone great truth which history teaches with greater force and emphasis than any other is, that the union of thew powers is fatal to the best interests of mankind. When the crozier and sceptre are held by the wane band, endless disorders and confusion arise. Each destroys the natural and legitimate influence of the other; and in proportion to the close- ness of the union, the ends of good govern ment both in Church and State are de feated. Religious truth is invariably corrupted, and civil freedom crippled, if not altogether de stroyed. The Church invested with temporal au thority becomes indifferent to the purity and strength of that spiritual power which alone it is entitled to exert. Being able to command it scarcely seeks to persuade, and mom by degrees to relyon material insteadof nioralforce. The anarchy and confusion produced by this united authority on the civil and temporal aide, are equally conspi cuous. The tremendous sanctions ci religion are introduced into the details of common life, and things indifferent arbitrarily condemned or forbidden, till all personal and civil freedom is destroyed. " No greeter calamity," Count Csvoca justly says, " can befall a people than " the concentration of spiritual and temporal power " in the hands of the government. When these " powers are united liberty disappears, and the " role of Caliphs prevails." The whole history of Europe for a thousand years confirms the truth of this statement. The cruel and bloody wars that for centuries desolated the fairest used most flourishing portions of middle and Sostemen Eu rope were waged between the Ilneenoe and the Pore for the possenion el this united power. lu these frightful eiroggles civil order was broken up, law and justice utterly disregarded, and all social right, for the time being. destroyed. The effect on the Church was, if possible, more disastrous stilL Religious truth was well nigh destroyed, and but for the periodical efforts of Reformers within and without the Church,Christianity would have been trampled to death by a mob of tonsured ruffians. Even when the Reformation came the true antidote for these evils was not adequately recognised. The alliance between the two powers was still retained in a modified form, and it still produced the same fruits, only the union being much less absolute, the evils were far lighter. But, as Count CAVOVIL reminds us, full religious freedom is not enjoyed even yet amongst the most enlightened Protestant nations of Europe. NVherever there Ma dominant hierarchy traces of a persecuting spirit still appear, and acts essentially intolerant remain unrepealed. And even where there may be nothing amounting to serious religious oppression, the sinister effects, of the alliance will be felt in • tone of repulsive assumption, and a policy of petty superiority and small social persecution. Still, since the time of the Reformation, the progress, la all Protestant countries, has been steadily in one direction. The growth of opinion has been more and more in favour of religious freedom, as well as in favour of the explicit recognition and practical adoption of the principle on which it rests. Italy is now even more fortunately situated in this respect than the Protestant countries of Europe. Having suffered for a longer period and in a severer form than any other country, all the evils of that hated alliance between the Church and the Crown, it is prepared to abandon it at once and for ever. The union, moreover,; having en countered no check or hindrance, has wrought out its worst results. It has, in fact, hopelessly destroyed itself. In every country the union of the temporal and spiritual authority in the Government has been justly regarded as a conspiracy against the rights of the people. But elsewhere this union has often been tempered and modified by popular in fluence, if not to some extent placed under popular control. In Italy, however, the alliance retained to the last its true form—that of determined, un mitigated antagonism to the rights and welfare of the people. It was quite certain, therefore, that on the first day the voice of the nation could be heard, the hateful union would be dissolved. Now that their political emancipation has come, no one has a word to say in favour of perpetuating the ecclesiastical tyranny. No attack on the temporal authority of the Purs is needed. When the foreign support which sustained it is removed, it falls naturally of itself. "A power,"saysCount Csvota, " which does not rest on a national basis, which " necessitates an absolute antagonism between " the people it governs and itself, has no longer " the possibility of existence." There is another respect in which Italy is favourably situated for the adoption of the policy of complete separation which ' Count Civet: e announces. Whilst the people unanimously oppose the temporal authority of the Port they are at the same time to a great extent Catholics. "There is in Italy," as the Prime Minister of Italy suggests, "less antagonism " than almost anywhere else between the religious " sentiment and the spirit of liberty, because the " liberals there are more catholic than in any " other country, more so than in Belgium even." All the great authors of Italy have applied them selves to the solution of this very problem—to reconcile the Papacy with the nation. This will at length be accomplished by the severance of the temporal and spiritual power. Count CAVOIM justly anticipates the triumph of this just, patriotic, and truly Catholic policy. "By " persevering firmly and resolutely, with " out disturbing ourselves about momentary " misunderstandings or possible perils, we shall " soon win over the best part of the religious " world to recognise the loyalty that inspires us. " It will be recognised that what we propose is " the only means of ensuring the legitimate in " flueoce of the Church in Italy and in the rest of " the world. In a short time, I hope, voices will " rise from the midst of Catholic society and will " tell the Pore Accept the terms which libe " ' rated Italy offers you, for they restore freedom " 'to the Church and add to the lustre of the " Holy See ; accept these terms, and the Italian " ' nation, while completing the work of its libera " ' tion, will remain the most faithful of all to the " ' genuine spirit of religion.' " The French Exhibition will close o the 20th somewhat earlier than usual, males ream fee ma ex. Whitton of royal pictures—that is to say, Mr. Phillip's Marriage of the Prisms Royal, sad Mr. Wisterhalter's portraits of her Majesty sad the PrieesComewt. Two Dew pictures by M. Franc have been added. The improvements at Netley Abbey are now completed. The aerie and modern brickwork, which cos coded Bone patios of the besatifsl uthitsentre of the abbey, have been removed. The base of the mien= end the pavement of the chased of the chapel an sow also =pot= to view. About 3,0C31. has been expended on the improvements. The Rev. Mr. Kell and the Mesas. Skelton, local antiquaries, ware pemtitted a few days since to search for the crypt, and they employed persons to dig a consider able depth under each of the altars, but then was no sign of what they sought for. The soil they dug into was slimly, and probably was t►e 01010 that no crypt wee built, or it might have been frees the fact that the spot ea winch the abbey MY built it bat little shove high-water mark. A small charge will in future be made to visitors, to pay for • custodies of the ruins. " At length," Bays the Army and Navy Gazette, "we are able to announce to our readers that an issue of 100-pomace rifled Armstrong guns has been made from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, eleven of which arrived on the 11th instant at the gm wharf, Portsmouth, in the Bala. lam tramport, far the use of the Mips. The carriages, both ea the revolving Bile end truck principle, are ready for the gum and they will be issued without delay as fast m the Mips are ready to receive them. We may also look for a reemtpdos of experiments from the Excellent against the lraa•platsd dike of the Sirius and Griper, brought to an untimely done by the stripping of the grooves of the gun ea a former occasion." A letter front Biarritz states :—" During the peat winter several English families hare made their home at this pisesset place, the community seldom numbering less thee IC3. Biarrita is w Li known in summer as the resort of gaiety and fashion. It is now likely to be well frequented during the winter, mainly by those who seek a quiet and eironamieal place of residence. Some time ago an applica tion was made to his Majesty the Emperor for aid towards the Greed= ci an English church. On Easter Sunday the ehaphin resolved from him a donation of 2,000 franca. An address has been forwarded from the English residents through Mr. Graham, the British Consul at Bayonne, and Lord Cowley, thanking the Emperor for his liberal contri. indion--• fresh proof of his Majesty's good will towards &g•" " Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde," says a letter from Toulon, " are, it is said, about to visit this piece, where they will remain a week, the genie of Admiral Bouct-Willanmes, at the Maritime Prefecture. It is sot thought that they will p to Italy till after the new Italian kingdom lies been recognised by the French govern ment. The object of the prince's journey appears to be the inspection of the maritime improvements in progress at Tadao." REFAVOMTATION or TYNEYOUTII. —Mr. Hugh Taylor isesiell ao eddrom to the electors laat right, resigning bls oat. He misuse hie seat because of his brother. (Mr. Thome John Taylor's) death. Mr. Nathaniel Grace Lam bert, of Durham Hall, Uxbridge, • coal miller and liberal. j e wakes of as a candidate, but • meeting of the electors waif be held on Mooday eight, when the names of several gelatin m ises, it is anticipated, wall be submitted to th e i r &oh 11LanatAos WITH • DECI•AID Wlreld SISTER.— The following are the vesolutioas adopted at the meeting yesterday at Wid Rooms :—" That this meeting is con vinced that any alteration in the marriage law which per mitted marriage within the prohibited degrees was fraught with great danger to religion. morality, and f a mily life." " That this meeting will endeavour to promote be. every means in its power effective resistance. to the bill before the Howe of 4 'ommone for legalising such marriages." "That the aseertitm that the working chimes desired such en alienate is the wrings law as is proposed, is not foomided on feet." Bcridmrw 3(tirrrmt roes Tea vuo - txn Tosiday—Stadistiall, 8. "lediscritniaating income Tax " Mr. Warburton. Royal Institatioe, 3. " Fishes." Professor Owes. Regimen, 8. " Flostiog Railway at Forth, he.," Mr. BaU. Etbanlagical, 8. " halite Tribes M.N. of imadall Um." Dr. Hector mad Mr. Vass. Wed nesday Society of Arts, 8, "Coates Supply," M r . Crawford, Netaaeriogkel, 7, Comae. Thanulay—Lis• was 8, " Ciroulatros of Blood la Pegea ;" " PAW Ri sme . of 11;aelliomala," Mr. Maalonall Mewled, 8, "Elmer,. city and Gunpowder," Professor Abel. Royal Inetantioa, •'• Electricity," Professor Trodall. Royal, "Effect produced on Deviation of Compare by Length and Arrange. meat of Compass Needles, tad es a sow Mode of Corms•ting the Quadrantal Deviation," by Memra. Smith and Erma*. Anticywrim, 84. Friday—Royal Inatitution "Tree Twigs," Mr. Ruskin. &turd:iv—Royal InAitution, 3, Somme of Language," Professor Max Midler, Asiatic, 3, " Native klublory of Kingdom of Burn," sit doun. --•-- A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the residence of Viscount Palmerston in Piccadilly. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell A deputation, consisting of Mr. Ayrion, M.P., with the Sub-Treasurer Chairman, and Secretary of the Amex-Wien for the Repe al of the Mums on Knowledge, Mr. R. T. Rawlins ( RR 'rexham), Mean. Baldwin and Wright (Bir mingham). Mr. /timber, and Mr. Thomas, had an iaterview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his edictal residence, in Downing-street. Lord Hotham, M.P., Admiral Duncombe, ILP., Mr. James Clay, M.P., Mr. Joseph Samos, M.P., Mr. T. B. Horde& /LP., Mr. J. C. Evart, M.P., Sir Matthew W. Ridley, M.P. the Hoe. Mary G. Liddell, M.P., Mr. Somerset A. Beaumont, M.P., Mr. W. Jackson, M.P., the Right Roo. T. B. Headiam, M.P., Mr. Buchanan, M.P., Mr. Welsh, ILP., Mr. C. Ewing, M.P, Mr. Bouvet*, M.P., Mr. Denim, M.P., Mr. Merry, M.P., Mr. D. Sey mour, M.P., Lad Ashley, M.P., with deputations from the eorporatioos of Hull and Newcastle ; from the Trinity houses of Hall, Newcastle, sod Leith ; from the Tyne Im pt Commissioner., teem the pilots of Liverpool end =l 2 e, from the Carebree Light Trustees, and from the Clyde Navigation Trustees, had an interview with the Right Hoe. T. Milner °Nam and the Right Hon. W. Hatt yes terday at the Aka of the Board of Trade. The Committee for advising her Majesty's Commiesioners for the International Exhibition of 1862, in matters cou nseled with the fine arta, met at the rooms of the Society of Arta, in the Adelphi, yesterday. Present : Earl Stan hope, in the chair ; Earl Somers, Lord Llanover, Lord Taunton, Lord Echo, 1L P., the Lord Chief Baron, Sir C. Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy ; Mr. Frederick Taylor, President of the Society of Painters in Water Colours ; Mr. Henry Warren, President of the New Socie t y of Painters in Water Colours ; Mr. Thomas Ashton, Mr. & Field, Mr. Tom Taylor, and Mr. Le Neva Foster, Secretary. The Cloremiseionere for the International Exhibition of INS held a meeting at their offices in the Strand yesterday. A deputation respecting the Loodoo Wine mad Cal Duties Continuance Bill, and other bills, Mr. /fowl:may, M.P., Mr.Sornereet Beaumont, M.P., Mr. Baines. M.P., Mr. Liddell, M.P., and Mr. Ingham ; and a deputation of Goal ;wows, ernsiating of Mr. Wood, Mr. Philipson, Mr. Mot, Mr. Booth, Mr. J. W. Day, Mr. Hewlett, ° M I TT Knowles, Mr. T. Knowles, Mr. J. B Pope, Mr. H. Morton, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Day, with Mr. James Dixon, Mr. W. Page, and Mr. W. Milner, of the Coal Exclaims; and Mr. Parkes, parliamentary agent, bad an interview with the Right Hon. Sir G. Corsewall Lewis, yesterday, at the Home. *Sm. Dispatches were seat yesterday from the Ooloaial-office to the Ooversore et Goads, the Bahama, and to the Lord High Oossaidower at the keine Labiate, WILL 01 ran LAIII Docaaae or ICIMS.—The will of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kest was proved in the principal meshy on the lid of this smooth by the Prisms Consort, the sole executor. This will, smarting from so distinguished a parmesan as the mother of her Majesty, will, we (Illtuinaid News) are assured, be read with peat interest by all dame. Ceder this conviction we give the document entire :—" This is the lest will and testa ment of me, Victoria Maris Louise, Duchess of Heat and Strathern. I hereby revoke all other wills and codicils made by me at any time heretofore. I give, devise, and bequeath to my dearly-beloved daughter, her Majesty Qom' Victors, all my rod and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever whereof I may be seised, possessed, interested in, or entitled unto at the time of my decease, to bold the woe unto my said daughter, her summers, and assigns absolutely. I appoint my dearly-beloved son-in-law and Nephew, his Royal Higbee.. AIWA of Semi-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort, sole exelatter. Is witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this 90th day of March, 1860. Vicromt." "Biped and declared by her Royal Highness the Cachou of Kest and amities) as and for her last will and testament in the premises of us, who, in her pre once (all being present at the smash at her request, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names so wit ness.. —G. Cooper, principal equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rest, Frogmore ; Ramsay H. Cooper, clerk in the Wer-ollek residing in Frogniore." The will of her late Royal Highness exhibits • pufect specimen of beautiful penmenship. It is written in a style of remarkable neatness and perspicuity, and is so exceedingly brief as merely to occupy a portion only of one side of foolscap paper. The personalty was sworn under 10,0001. His Excellency the Brazilian Minister, Madame do Gansll2o Mersin, sad family lava left Caveadiak-square km Park Lord Colmlay has left Fenton's Hotel for Edin bulb. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stonor arrived in Hertford-street yesterday from Sown Park, for the seems. The Hon. Thomas Howell-Thurlow, Attacbd to ilia &Whiney the Earl of Elgin, has arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermynwirest. Lady Moleaworth entertained at dinner, on Thursday evening, his Royal Highness the Comte de Paris, the Austrian Ambassador and the Coaster Apponyi, the Duke of Newcastle, Vireciant Falkland and the Duchess at St. Albans, Lady Diana Boatlark and the Duke of fit. Albans, Maria ilarchlonese of Ailarbury, the lifarchieoese of Claaricarie, Mr. Harcourt and Franca. Countess Walde grave, the Earl and Countess of Clareadon, Loed sad lady Herbst* of Lea, Lord Colville, Hon. now Stoner, Mr. Lumley, and Mr. Hayward. Sir t. Ruabout, Bart, has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, horn Seziseot, Gloucettersbire. We (Somerset Journal) hear that A. E. Way, &q., M.P., has returned to England, and is sufficiently canvalmont to take carriage exercise. The Lord Chanoellor has appointed Mr. M. J. F. Brickdale, of the Middle Temple, to be one of the con veyancing counsel of the Court of Chancery, in the place of Mr. Bellenden bet, resigned. The weekly meetings of the Royal Society were resumed on Thursday bat alter the Faster recess. General Baia% treasurer and rice-president, occupied the char; sad a paper was read, "Oa the action of a plate of metal oa an inclined plane wheel dilated and contracted, and upon the ascent of 'laden,* by the Rev. H. Moseley, Canon of Bristol, F. R. S. A new apropos eketeb, the joint production of Mean. W. Breath and A. Halliday, will be produced at the Adelphi on Monday evening. It is entitled The Census. Mr. Mullett advertises the re-opening of his singing chums, which will aseeceble in the Kunio Hall, Siore-strast. A commission from the Treasury is now sitting (says the Army mid Nary Gazette) in the southsweet district, for the purpose of examining the system of w omen in the civil branches of the service, with a view, we believe, ultimately of centnilisiug the payments entirely in the hands of the commissariat, or the bolders of the mili tary chest, very much on the lame principle as has long been in vogue in our colonies and other foreign possessions. Metiers. Hurst and Blackett are preparing fur publication —" The Court and Society horn Elisabelh to Anne, illustrated from the pipers and portraits at Kim. hellos," edited by the Duke of Manchester; '• The Okavango River; er. Plantes of Travel, Exploratico,and Adventure," by Mr. C. J. Anderson ; "The Life and Correspondence .01 Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.K, from hie Private Papers," by Major , Deneral K. Napier ; "The Life of J. M. W. Turner, A., from Original Letters and Papers, in the pceseseion of his Executon, Friends, and Fellow Academi• clans," by W. Thornbury ; "A Saunter through the West- End," by Leigh Hunt; "The Life of the Rev. Edward Irving," by Mrs. Oliphant; "Henry IV. and Marie de Medici," by Miss Freer, 2 vole., with portraits; "The Re. creations of a Sportsman," by Lord William Leeson; "The Secret History of the Court of France nailer Louis XV.," by Dr. Chalice ; and "Sketches from 11111.14" by Lady Charlotte Pepys. At the principal telegraph stations the state a the weather and the direction of the wind throughout the kingdom at 10 ►.m. daily, is now 11.1101rb. Oa a large map of the United Kingdom, hung in the lobbies of the Mafiosos, a circle about half an inch in diameter eurreuods each wa wa sod principal city, on the circumference of which cir cle names expressive of the different kinds of weather, and also the initials of the different points of the compass, are printed. Two small watch heals, one red and the other white, are ioserted in each circle. By msans of the lianas the state of the weather and the direction of the wind throughout the country is indicated, and the progress of ships known to be on our rust can be pretty accurately guessed at from day to day. It is expected that these maps will become in general use amongst pereoni interested in shipping, who ma ham the hands in the circles regulated by Use telegraph enamehy every day. at sight, 98. OQ Madras, 30 days' sight, 97 to 97i. OD Chime, 60 days' sight, 211 r. to 212 r. - _ Fright to London.—Cotton, 3/. se. ; seeds, 21. 12s. 6d. to 21. 15.. To Liverpool.—Cetion, 31. 2s. 6d. to 31. se. ; seeds, W. Ts. &L ; to China, 14 rupees. Money tight. Government securities, Four per Cents, 78 ; Fives, 94i ; Ftsrands-Half per Cents, 100. Bank rate of dimwit on private bills, 13 per cent. Loans on government securities, 11 per oent. Males opium, 1,690 rupees. COCHIN CHINA. SINGAPORE, MARCH 9. Letters have been received here from Sagon up to the 28th February by the chartered steamer Granada, announcing that on the 24th February an attack was made by the French and Spanish forces (the latter only 200 men in action) on the Annamese ; and, although the allies came off vic torious, it was a much more serious affair than was expected. Five forts were taken, and also a fortified camp, with a large quantity of ammunition and arms. The lose of the Anuamites cannot be ascertained, as they invariably carry off their wounded. Twenty prisoners were only made. _ _ The lo:usof the French is stated to be Lieutenant- Colonel Tesard, and Midshipman Le Regniere killed. The general and five officers wounded, and 300 rank and file killed and wounded. Spanish loss, b killed and 36 wounded. A Spanish colonel also wounded. The day after the steamer left a new expedition was to be organised to follow up the success, and it was hoped that part of the country where large quantities of grain were stored would be secured. Meanwhile, rice had advanced to 1 doL 136 c. Next mail will give particulars of the engagement that was expected to come off on the 29th ult. LATEST INTELLIGENCE POLAND. A letter from Warsaw of the 9th says : Yesterday, between 5 and 6 o'clock, a nrimerons crowd again assembled before the royal palace, in accordance with the intention announced the previous evening to repeat its demand. At the same moment, a post-chaise crossed the square, and the postillion played on his horn the national air of Dombrowski, " Poland hes not yet perished !" This, so to speak, electrified the people, and though without arms, they attempted to force their way into the court yard of the palace. Then the cavalry charged and the infantry fired. Several young men, some of them carry lag crucifixes, attempted to separate the people by leading part of them into the streets in the vicinity of the Podwalc and the Senatorska, but they found the entrance to the streets occupied by infantry. New volleys were fired at the people. The number of persona killed and wounded is not yet known, but it must be considerable. The soldiers carried many dead bodies to the palace, and other victims were sent to St. Roch's Hospital and the European Hotel. Whilst these sanguinary scene" were taking place in front of the palace, between 3,000 and 4,000 persons, and among them many women and children, collected round a statue of the Virgin at the opposite end of the square, and on their knees began praying and singing hymns. Detachment. of infantry made several attempt. to disperse them, but without success. At length, at nightfall, the troops were withdrawn, and the crowd quietly retired. In the evening a deputation of the citizens went to the palace and requested to see Prince Gortchakoff, but he refused to re ceive them. General consternation prevails. It is feared that bad news will come in from the provinces, as the die• solution of the Agricultural Society has there caused great exasperation. In the course of the demonstration of the 7th, an aide•clecamp of General Chrulow committed suicide by blowing out his brains at the palace. The director of Mince, M. Lenski, the director of the bank, M. Miepo kojaryscki, and the governor of Lublin, M. Maekiewics, sent in their resignations on the morning of the Bth. (sztrruis THORN, RwruitoLT. Three generals havo arrived at Warsaw, from St. Petersburg, to assist the Governor, Prince Gortchakoff. The Council of Municipality of Warsaw has not been dissolved, as was stated, but is functions have been restricted. Troops are continually arriving at Warsaw. General Chruleff has proceeded with troops to Lublin. It is said that serious agitation prevails in that city. BRESLAU, Ann. 12. A proclamation of Prince Gortchakoff has been published to-day at Warsaw, in which he accuses the inhabitants of having hrown stones at the troops, and thereby caused the death of two soldiers and wounded ten others. HUNGARY. Earesoss. The majority of the Upper House desire the re establishment of the Hungarian laws which were in existence before 1848. The liberal party of the country demand the maintenance of the laws adopted in 1848 by the Hungarian diet. The sittings of the Lower House have been ad journed for eight days. ITALY. TURIN, SATURDAY. The Italia announces that the King yesterday signed the decree relative to the southern army, and states that the measures which have been ordered will satisfy the demands of the volunteers. The Dana adds that the differences between the majority of the Chamber and •Garibaldi ou that question have been arranged. TURIN, Arur. l2 The authorities of Sinigaglia have brought the Bishop before the tribunals for having given in structions to the confessors to undermine the au thority of King Victor Emmanuel. The Opinions publishes a correspondence from Verona, announcing that numerous Austrian emis saries had crossed the frontier of the kingdom of Italy on the sides of Lombardy. The same journal states that the works connected with the fortifica tions of Pols have been suspended. ROME (vu MAsaimuse), Aran. 9. A letter written by the Prelate Liverani against the temporal power of the Pope, and printed at Turin, is circulating here. Cardinal Antonelli is said to be preparing a reply. NAPLES (vu MAiumuas), Ann. 9. The garrison has been reinforced by 10,000 men. Bishop Trotysa has been arrested. Excepting a demonstration made by the women of Chiajm, tranquillity prevails here. The Abruzzi are also tranquil. A battalion of the National Guard has been despatched against Aversa. PARIS. FRIDAY. The Patrie of this evening says :—"The news of the disembarkation Italian volunteers at Spit= has been confirmed. The number of these volunteers who have taken refuge in the mountains of Dal matia is about 500." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FRIDAY. The Oesterreichische Zeitunt of to-day states that in 247 Venetian communes, the first elections to the general Council of the Empire have already commenced ; in Parenao, however, only nine electors qualified to vote took part in the elections, while 24 abstained from voting. VIENNA, FRMAT. The eulogistic speech on the memory of Count Batthyany was not delivered, u has been stated, by Prince Eaterbazy, but by Count Michael Katerizszy. BULGARIA. BELGRADE, SATURDAY. 102 families have arrived here in safety from Bulgaria, which they had left in order to escape the persecution of the Aga and, other Turkish authorities. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Mews 16. (By Telarsph to Point do Gallo.) Grey shirting' quiet and prices barely main tained. Mule twist slightly lower. Raw silk nothing doing. The indigo season is nearly closed. Copper sheathing in demand at 41i t T. English tile as last quoted. Australian wanting at previous rates. Sugar, prices steady. Considerable ship ments have been made for Europe. . . . . Rice less business doing, but prices maintained. Saltpetre tending downwards, 5 per cent. refrac tion, Br. Shipments rather heavy. Linseed quiet and prices easier. Small imports of new. Jute, heavy purchases at advanced rates. Hides, prices steady. Stock moderate. In shellac nothing doing, prices tending downwards. Exchange on London, first class credits, 2s. old. Government Securities, Four per Cents, Bto 81 die. ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents, 101 to 104. Bank rate of discount unchanged. Money con tinues easy. Freight to London, dead weight, 65e. to 628. Od. ; light freight, 77e. 6d. to 80s. Freights from Akyab, 4L ss. to United King dom, and 4!. 15a. with Continental dame. Ships much wanted. The telegraph line is completed between Akyab and Calcutta. BOMBAY, MARCH 15. (By Telegraph to Point its Celle.) Exchange oo England. 2s. 1 9-161. to 3. lid. Exchange as Clkio.6l. 60 asye sight. nominal ; 30 dap' siiht, 96 ; AMERICA. LONDONDERRY, Flunky. The Montreal Ocean Company's screw steamer 'Bohemian, Captain Orange, from Portland (Maine) on the 30th ult., has arrived. Her political news is virtually no later than that brought by Prince Albert ) rid Newfoundland. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred left Barbadoes on the 12th ult., for St. Domingo. Mr. Schutz had been confirmed by the Senate at Washington as Minister to Spain. Mr. Clay, who declined this appointment, goes as Minister to I Russia. The Texas Legislature had approved the act of the Convention deposing Governor Houston. The New York Post says Mr. Reid, who left in the Arabia for Europe, Is a defaulter to creditors to the extent of 40,000 dollars." Advioes from Matanzas to the 22nd ult. state that the sugar market was dulL Molasses active, but real lower. Exchange on London, 10 to 101 pre mium _ _ --- At Havannah business was depressed. One mil lion dollars were en route from Spain, to assist the currency of the island. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Dimwit 30, Emma. Exchange on London is unaltered. The cotton market is firm. Middling Upland is quoted Mc. to 13c. Breadstuff's, provisions, and freights are unchanged. . . NEW ORLEANS, Lace 29. The cotton market is Arm. Middling, nie. to Um EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rsiott ova ow, PARIS, FRIDAY VIIMING. I call attention to a very puerile attack upon England, under the signature of M. Oueroult, in last night's Opinion Nationale, because I am assured on what I think good authority that the article was in reality written by Prince Napoleon. The Opinion Nationale this evening inserts an address to the French people, signed by Mr. Pease and Mr. Henry Richard on behalf of the Peace Society, praying for an alliance with France. M. Oneroult, in announcing the demonstration of these gentlemen, says that he is quite for the English alliance, but then he would have it an "active alli ance, and not &cowardly neutrality between justice and iniquity, between liberty and oppression." In other words, M. Oueroult, as his article of yester day proves, wants England to join with France in making a emus belli against all the world, of what ever France may, for the time being, choose to call the cause of justice and liberty. This sort of "efficacious" alliance will, I apprehend, as little suit Mr. Pease as it will the English people and government. The Bourse was much agitated, and the Rents fell 25c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 67fr. 50c. and 67fr. 55c. Mobilier fell 7fr. 60c. The Orleans Railway fell Mr., and the other lines from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. The Caine Mirbs rose nearly Ur., closing at 100 fr. The Pays is hood enough to say in its " Latest News" to-night, that the prorogation of the lonian parliament " naturally" indicates that England, in pursuance of her policy of emancipating "nationa lities," as evinced in the case of Italy, is about to consent to the desire of the lonians to shake off the British yoke. The Journal du Havre says there is a talk in diplomatic circles of the Emperor paying a visit to King Leopold at Brussels, by way of returning the visit made by the latter sovereign to Biarritz in 1859. The French have had some fighting in Cochin China. Ou February 17, General Vassoin was wounded, and a colonel and an officer of the navy were killed. The French troops killed a great number of the Annamites. The report—which, having seen it in a litho graphed correspondence, I notioed as a report—that Lord Clyde was here " on a mission to the Em peror" is totally untrue. The gallant general is travelling entirely for recreation, and lie abstained from going to the review at the Tuileries yesterday, in order that he might not obtrude himself upon the notice of the Emperor. In a day or two he will leave Paris for Venice, and possibly for Corfu. Ile is wonderfully strong, and at 75 takes lung walks which would tire map) , a young man. . _ The Court of Cass atoll to-day, upon entirely technical grounds, quashed a part of the judgment against Canon Malet, and referred the case to an axsixo court to reconsider, without a jury, not the verdict of guilty,which stands conclusively recorded against him, but simply the sentence of sir years' imprisonment. This judgment of the court was pronounced against the opiuion of Procureur- General Dupin, who argued that the original sen tence ought not to be interfered with. A letter from Naples of the sth says :—" Last evening a drama, entitled John Came, was performed! If a year ago I had been told that a piece so called would be represented at Naples, I should have thought the prophet mad! The pion is a traisalation of a French one by IL Marc Fournier, Lee Libertine de Centre, but the woad title has been made The Liberals of Geneva, the word 'libe. ?sr possessing great charm for the Italians." A letter from Rome says :—"The German journals, which for the last three weeks have been coo. @hotly announcing that the King of Naples is about to leave this city, will be surprised to hare that apartments are being prepared for his Majesty sod all his family in the Papal villa at Caseelgoodolfo, and that the King intends to pass the spring there. His Ifijvvty has received from Paris a magnilkeetly bound copy of the speech of H. Keller, in the Legislative Be*, es the Italian and Roman questions." INDIA. BT the arrival of the Overland Mail we have received letters and papers from Calcutta to March 8. Of the famine the Englishman says : In the North-west week follows week and! still little or no change takes place in the scene where huinne is, as yet, the moat neat feature. In our last overland we coo. gntalated ourselves en the doom of an improvement, and we wish we could more positively repeat those congratula. tons now. But our news, though scanty, is far from encouraging. As we said before, every possible means have been tried that money or energy could compass, but there is a hitch somewhere. The central committee have balances in their bands; but the local committees either will not apply for, or cannot obtain, assistance when they require it. Colonel Baird Smith is on his tour, as spatial famine commissioner, but as yet there has not been time to hear of any reports from him. Rain has not fallen, and irrigation is now becoming a matter of much and serious interest. Experiments have been suggested, and the subject is now occupying the attention of some of the most intelligent engineers in India. Setting aside the present evil, and looking only to the future, there is a pressing necessity for the introduction of some economical and efficient scheme for preventing the recurrence of such painful events, so far all human power can avaiL It is to be hoped that such scenes u we dailymed of—boysdropping dead before dtk bungalows, and two thousand dead bodies seen by one regiment on its downward march from (lawn pore, will call forth all the talent and energy we may have at our disposal to prevent our ever reading the like again. The prospects of the indigo districts are described as being very bed. The disposition of the ryots to refuse payment of their rent is said to have assumed " a formidable aspect." Mr. Lushington reports : rampt among native remindars, whom ryota rarely ever think of refusing to obey their demands, the prospects are my limited. In the Bengal Indigo Company's district only 9,000 beegaha have been sown against 76,000kat year, smiths greater part of this quantity is south of Bongong, where at present the ryots pay rents readily, and have taken ad- - Vance'. At Jingergatcha, Batmbarea, Bath, and Hobrah, and some others, the concerns are nearly dosed. A commission has been appointed in Calcutta to report on the arrangements necessary for carrying out the amalgamation of the armies. The work will occupy six months. On the 6th ult. Lord Canning, as Chancellor of the Calcutta University, conferred the degree of bachelor of arts and bachelor of law on a number of young men, including one Christian, several Hiulloos, and a few Illabommedans. The ceremony took plate in the Town-ball, before a large audience representing all classes. Lord Canning, in a speech of half-an-hour's duration, reviewed the history of the university and the state of education generally, urging the importance of doing more for the higher classes, through whom alone we shall ultimately attain that desirable object, the government of India by Indians. CHINA. The most interesting item of the news that comes to us from China relates to the murder of the American interpreter at Yeddo, as announced by telegraph. The China Mail gives tha following amount of this unfortunate affair : This unhappy gentleman, it appears, bad been frequently cautioned, especially of late, to be mole careful of worm" himself to maltreatment. Why he more than anyone elm should have been so cautioned is at present only dimly''' . hinted at. It would seem that his accurate knowledge of the Japanese language had brought him acquainted with sec tun nefarious designs of the anti-foreign party at Yeddo, which, it was supposed, could only be concealed effectually by his removal. He, however, paid no attention to the am called cautions. On the night of Monday, the 14th Decent. bee, he was returning from the house of the Pardon minister, where he bad been dining. He was accompanied by three betty sad four mounted Yakunins, but woe way laid by a body of seven or eight armed Japanese, who struck out the lights carried by his servants, and rushed, yelling, upon their victim. He spurred his horse and galloped off, but did not escape receiving several sword wounds, which subsequently proved fatal. 1n the meantime one of the Yakunins, whose horse had been wounded, dismounted and proceeded to the American Legation fur saretance. This was obtained, and several medical men, including two waive doctors, were soon in attendance, but their aid was of no avail. The unfortunate gentle. man, after receiving the last rites of his church, expired about midnight. He was buried on the 18th, his funeral being attended by the governor and all the ministers of legation. :Shortly after, the miniskire of the various embassies at Japan quitte d Yeddo, with the exception of the American minister, who declined to leave, saying that his life was as safe in Yeddo as it had ever been. Among the last of Mr. Harkin's public acts appears to have bean the assistance be tendered towards the orclasion of the Premien treaty with Japan, which takes effect two years hence. It is not reported that trade has been at all niter land with by these events. AUSTRALIA. From Melbourne we reoeive ad vices to Feb. 23, from Sydney to Feb. 19, from Adelaide to Feb. 23. The Me/bourne Herald thus sums up the political history of the month : When the Heads ministry mime into power they had to face the task of accommodating an extravagant system of expenditure to • declining revenue. Calculated on the sale of former years, the estimates for this year amounted to about three millions and a half sterling, whilst the probable available iocorno from the established sources rose only to three millions. The ministry proposed to make up the dit. fereoce by imposing new taxes on certide articles of luxury, on stamps, and some other duties. But the Assembly met them at once with an emphatic refusal to 11111 C. Lion any new taxes, and a demand for sweeping re trenchment At lengt h, after several nights of sharp dis cussion, an amendment was moved by Mr. Joseph Wilkie, a member for one of the country districts, sud seconded by Dr. Evans, to the following effect :—" That the estimates submitted by the government be withdrawn, with a view to their readjustment, so that the whole amount of expendi ture may be brought within the revenue for Is6l, as esti mated by them at three millions, and that no reduction be made ou the estimates for roads ad bridges, or in the aid for local representative bodies during the present year, or for the supply of water to the goldholds. This amendment was carried by a majority of 34 to 27. The ministry took a day to consider upon their position, and the next evening Mr. Heide@ announced that, after what bad taken place on the previous night, the ministry had placed their resignations in the hands of the Governor, and that his excellency had been pleased to accept the same, conditional on their holding office till their sae mason were appointed. He went into a brief statement of the position in which they found themselves by the adverse and somewhat oondicting votes of the louse; OM' eluding that they could not carry on the business of the country under the restrictions imposed upon them. A vote of 300,000/. in advance for the payment of salaries and current liabilities was then taken, and the house adjourned for a week. This was on the 31st January, and from that date till the 16th February the public business was at a dead stand still. On the 15th Februnry, Mr. ileales announced in tte Assembly that his excellency hod requested himself and his rolleagnes to resume office, and that they had consented to do so. When the house next met, Mr. lie-ales went at some length into a statement of the tmancial position in which the ministry felt themselves placed when they re signed oleo • and stated that hi, and his colleagues had gone over the estimates of their respective departments, sad up to the present time they found they could make reductions to the amount of 300,000/, lie then asked for a week's further interval to allow of the revisions in the estimates being fully carried out. On Tuesday next tbs main business of the session will recommence. This is exactly the ministerial position at the moment we write. Of the goldfields the Angus writes : Owing to rations causes, the „total yield of gold has been well maintained up to the present time, and there is little reason now to expect any falling-off during the re :minder of the year which has commenced so hopefully. Only a few days since enormously rich quartz was struck ui te this i groned, the gold being taken out in plows esti* by pounds instead of ounces, and nrrengosrer is fast resuming its place of pre-eminence as a sold' producing district. NEW ZEALAND. The following is an extract from a private letter: NEW PLYMOUTH, Fin. U. Ny lad was despatched Jan. 11, per Prince Alfred, IA Manei Twelve months have elapsed since the commencement of the Taranaki war, and the state of opinion here respecting it may be inferred from the fact of an address to his Excellency the Governor being this day in coupe of signs' tare, imploring him to favour New Plymouth with a visits end stating that the unsatisfactory conduct of the war up to this time renders his presence urgently desirable. Our present force amounts to 3,000, Major.Geueral Pratt and most of the men being northward at the Waite" where during the past five weeks they have got over olla mile of ground in carrying • "sap" towards the ifaori ride pita in advance of W. Kingi's stronghold, which, whet , reached, were found to be empty. Encouraged by O. absence of so considerable • fords, the natives bas . concentrated themselves in greet numbers in the immedne vicinity of the town, so that it runy be mid that the whole of the country beyond our entrenchments is held by in n : and within the last month many thousand pounds worth of I 7 . a "I o cis recei ss t boon this syste imei their Peeih the b takes seee D d 1,1 0 eee trucks the e l m laiureo