The Express. — London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I NSCREECTIONARY MOVEMENT IN SICILY. PA kin. Ana & Th. Pntret 4 thia evening puhlokikee the follow- Ily : . _ "NAPLES, Ann 4. 'S.litifilia perm's'. hare attacked the troops in P.deneo. The solliels. shouting Viva brai eIY repulsed the inoirgentii, of whom • great her were killed. The population took no part the ni.mtipeut. The city is tranquil." The AiteW Abs., in prominent type, publiehee the ing article, aigucil M. Trenchant : The news from Sicily announce 4 that the e , stutry was tranquil, notwithstanding the attempts ..f the English to create agitation, which are t.s. eviket mit to be noticed. It ii asserted that foreigu agents are endeavouring to organise a party demantling the annexation of Sicily to England. This party is making an active propaganda, and is employing every mesas in ins power, all ot which it is expected will fail, because Sicily has the example of the lonian Islands before her eyes. All the powers ought not to belies vigilant in onler to prevent the repetition of so deplorable an set." Arm. 3. The Lio•eiri Zritatv publishes the following telegram : " Intargenta have• attacker) the Neapolitan troop. is Palermo. The colilieri shouted ' Viva it Re ! " antl r;puliseil their aatailautc. The city was tranquil." SWITZERLAND. OENEVA, TEVISDAT. Professor de la Eire has been appointed Minister Extraordinary at London for the Striae Oonfotlera tig .la. The Federal Council has addressed a circular to tilt powers who signed the treaty et Aix-la-Chapelle, dvniaieliag the convocation of a congress. T..-atorrow fresh troops will arrive at Geneva. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Ist have arrived. They publish an order of the day addressed by Mar .hid O'Donnell to the army in Africa, com plimenting it on its bravery and its.• patience tinder hanlithipa. The order mentions that .iuov the army had been in Morocoo, it had fmight two batiks and been engaged in twenty three combats. The treaty of commerce to be con- eluded with Morocco will, it is said, be in substance the same as that between England and Morocco of 1856, hut will he more advantageous to Spain. It was reported that the Moors intended to pay 21M1,000,000 Deals at once, and would try and hormw the remainder in England. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. trust oca ows CORIMPOWDECT.) PARIS. THOLIDAT EVIVIING. You will remember my telling you about a week Ago that the goveniment journals would very soon he instructed to accww England of an intention to taki. Sicily, and so confident was I in the source my information that, altli.mgh fully alive to the .Longer" which beset a corrtepondent who ventures to prophecy, I added that I should probably soon nmind you of my prediction. It happened, by the ourre*t Accident, that I hail become aware of the iistetstiou of the Emperor to dictate this line of t.ictice ; and I was, therefore, very sure that, ea .i.pt in the event of a change of purpose, which pi.isibly my denunciation of the coming event might have contributed to bring about, no lung tune would elapse between conception and execu tom. The time for the fulfilment of my pledge has ni.w arrived. I read in a limiting article of this .vening's Patric : bear from Palermo, ender date of lefareh Zr, that Prince de Caatekicala, lieutenant.general of Sicily, hail just Eft that city for Naples on leave of absence. The country tnisquil, notwithstanding the English agitation which it impesulf e sot to take entice of. We are emoted that frnitn auest• ars at tr.. moment endeavouring to organise • Party to demand the annexation of Sicily to England. Thu party i. most active and 'part, no MMUS to attain ita end. It will fail, however, in spite id the powerful patron .l4e wish it 'obeys. foe Sicily has before her eyes the ex . 4 the lonian Intend. ; severtheleee it behoves all the •••••• ry 1., he Oa the watch to prevent such a depkeettl• cos. oirriation. M. tiratwlguilh.t exclainui in the Colutitutioreael, "At length we have before us the text of the ex ' •ation." The " we" of M. GrantlguWot is used in an editorial sense, and does Not mean that the public whom he is addressing has an op portmity .4 forming their opinion upon the docu ment. It is rather presumptuous to suppose that the French nation is content to see through M. cratitlguillot's apectacles. The publication of the hsull in ipestion was expressly prohibited by the .V....iftar a few days ago. M Onuidguillot, who, as a privileged individual, has, it would appear, lavis allowed to see it, now demonstrates with a cogency (1 argonaut quite sufficient for official l'orP"se.t. that the excommunication is no exonunitudeation at all, but only a " poli t teal protest from the temporal Sovereign .4 the Ronan Stater," and that it is pre . i-elv hecause there is no offence in it whatever tint the French government has taken the severest iaeasures to keep it out of France. The Pays and have both received orders to argue in the -.o w way. The excommunication, they say, does :ind cannot extend to Francs, blame the Fr. itch army continues to guard the Pope in Rome, ‘l,l the Pope's Nuncio still remains in Paris, Ra s the tint and necessary consequence of • e onuatinication is the breaking off of all diplo .tue relations. In order to maintain the propel they are instructed to make out all .4 these jourhals misrepresent the tenor the excommunication, they speak of it as ..ly directed against the " usurpers and invaders" • f the domains of the church, whereas we know ,! it extend*, in very comprehensive terms, to all -stators, abettors, and comforters of the parties actually accomplished the duel. The car- WlWile ;perches to the Senate are reported this day's Jl.4itetir, distinctly say that the I tido 31 My under Prince Napoleon, by driving thy Austrians who protected the Romagna', " 3 ' the proximate cause of their rising and throw ..' off the Papal y..ke. It is clear that, in their ' ,, tels at laud, st.4l they are more authorised inter ; '..rs of the Pope's intentions than M. Grand the rico 11111 l unication must extend to the F •.,..i t Emperor. The publication by the Moniker of the debate P. the Senate of March 29, is an historical trrent • the find importance. The veil of Berney which ;• ano.titution of 1852 thrown over the delibera n. of that body, has never before been ruled. Ti... AMU/ging part of the bionnei... 1/1 that the pub although in the .ifooileor, is altogether illegal. It is au act of mere arbitrary power (bow which only pager% unchallenged because it is done mauler an authority which takes an •pecal delight in 'Mowing itself above all law. Tio• Emperor, when he made the people THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY, .XV Ivote his emit/intim', which declares that I the debates of the Senate mei secret, forgot to make an exception in case he himself should choose to authorise their publication. If the Senate did their duty they ought now to denounce this exceptional publication as " n noon - at t utiosisl " It is, however, a valuable criticism on the imperial institutions that the Emperor should feel the necessity of having recourse to pub licity in a case not contemplated. M. Dnpin's speech is a monument of learning, - logic, and elo quence, which might have a most beneficial effect upon the country. It completely exhausts the cluieagainst ultramontauists. TheOpinionNationale, remarking upon the novelty of the publication, regrets that, having no alternative between re producing the three pages of the Moniker and leaving it out altogether, it is obliged to adopt the latter course. I believe the Opinion mistakes the law. The debates in the Corps Legislatif must either be taken just as they are in the Itmo deur, or let alone. No comment, no analysis is permitted. But the publication of a debate in the Senate being altogether illegal, no rules exist for the conduct of the public papers. They will commit an illegal act by noticing it in any way, and it would be no answer to a prosecution in a court of law to say that they had copied the whole from the Monikur. The Bourse opened with animation, and a large business attecded with considerable fluctuations has been done in the Rente. The highest price of the day was 70er. 15c., and the lowest 69fr. 66e. The closing quotations were 70fr. a d 69fr. 90c., with a rise of 90e. and Ifin Mobilierse Mr. The Orleans railway fell Mr. ; the other lines were 1f r. 2.1 c. to 2fr. 50c. higher. The Pays says it is authorised to announce that the New Turkish Loan will be negotiated at Paris by the Ottoman Ambassador and the capitalist+, who will find the money without the intervention of any third party. The period for the operation will be fixed hereafter. The uncertainty about the retreat of the French army from Rome and the occupation of some part of the Roman states by Neapolitans, still continues. The reiterated assertions that the King of Naples has finally determined not to interfere are not ac cepted as authentic by the official journals. The latest news ou the subject is the following para graph in this evening's Pays: Negotiations one going on between the Courts of Rome sad Naples relative to the entry of Neapolitan troops into the States of the Church ; the result of these negotiations ie not yet known. The conjectures one way or another reported by certain journals are therefore, to my the least, premature. PROTEST OF THE GRAND-DUKE OF TUSCANY. ` 0 The protest of the Crand Duke of Ttnewhy against the annexation of his dominions to is published at length in the French papers. Its sense is as follows : As long as he hoped that respect for treating and senti ments of justice might still prevail spinet intrigue and ambition, he had maintained silenift, ' brat recent events tending to the destruction of his house and the happiness of his people, render it his duty to speak and appeal as In Italian sovereign to the justice and loyalty of the European powers, When in the beginning of 1(467 the dissensions between France and Sardinia and Austria made war seem imminent, the government of Tuscany hastened to announce its nen. trslity to the power. of Europe. This proposition, agreed to in Vienna, was about to he accepted by the other powers, when, in consequence of the events of the 27th of April diplomatic gave way to revolutionary action. The move ment wee long in preparation by the Piedmontese govern ment, and Its emissaries arrived at Florence on the 213th and 27th, and at once took the dirertioo of the insurrec tionary movement, and the command of the Grand Dotal troops. The conduct of affairs was then entrusted to the Morris of Lajatico, but he, on repairing to the aeration Legation, the headquarters of the insurrection, found that the abdica tion of the Grand Duke was under diesamica, and, being unable to defend his authority, he himself patented hie sovereign with the act of depoeition. In presence of this outrage the prince, whose generous intentions were so cruelly misunderstood, was forced to consult his personal dignity, and refusing to subunit to the abdication required, he protested against the violence to which be was subjected, and withdrew from the country. The war soon led to the armistice, and the preliminaries of Villafranca, which 'penally provided for the restoration to their States of the Sovereigns exiled by the revolution, ' and for the formation of an Italian Canfedeestios. At this moment Leopold IL, wishing to remove au taxes of ancient disagreements, abdicated the crown, and the Gaud Duke Ferdinand was recognised by almost all Europe es the legi timate Sovereign of Tuscany. The treaty el Zurich, signed by . the King ef Sardinia, consecrated again the rights renreinued at Villafranca ; bat • new event had intervened. The revolutionary authorities of Tuscany, docile slaves to the government to which they owed their existence, had convoked an assembly and voted their annexation to Piedmont. Thus, by • disregnrd of all public law, a government, bound by the ward rind signature of its king to preserve a strict neutrality towards, if not to support the Grand Duke, so far neglected its mowed duty as to excite a factious manifestation his authority ; and while the Emperor of the fai thful to his pro mises, was advisiug moderation, his ally, prating by the =of the French army, was peneksg the pokey of the last phase of which is asweatioe. Before facts like these silemx is no Mager allowed, The Gnarl Duke protests against acts, the very principles of which Rinke them null and void, "gainet the violation of treaties, against unworthy lIIIIIIICOMITIS, soden the employ ment of these new means of usurpation of the votes of popu lar assemblies. He appeals to the sovereigns of Europe, to the Patio. of the Emperor of the French, and to the Tuvans themselves, who have enjoyed • prosperity of which they were justly proud for more than a century under his family. If they have been deceived into believing that their independence will be ensured by union with Sardinia, he calls on them to undeceive themselves. Italy has none but moral strength to defend her against powerful neigh bour', but by muting with a central state they are exciting the distrust of parts of Italy and creating a dengerona an tagonism ; and when the ambition which Yu soceeeded 42 the centre makes an attempt upon the swill, Italy will be again torn by civil war. If the Italian Otededsestioe led bees formed, the lead would have devolved epos Nanny • but as it is, Florence will be no more than the chief towt; of a Piedmotttese department. The Grand Duke concludes by hoping that the reason of his people may not reseals perverted. "The day may come when the injustice of which I am the victim shall have reached its end, and that day will end me ready to devote to you all the power of my existence." (Signed) FERDINAND. Dresden, March 24, 1960. ITALY. THE OPENING OF THE SARDINIAN CHAMBERS. (ROY OCR RPICIAL CORAZEPORDIRT.) TURIN, Ana, 2. The 2nd of April will henceforth be reckoned one of the brightest days in the Italian calendar, for on it the gallant King of a noble nation was permitted for the Snit time to address the repre sentatives of 12,000,000 people, who by their valour and their concord have at last reoonquered their independence. In spite of the Papal excom munication about 270 deputies and as many sena tors were present this morning at the opening of the Sardinian parliament. It really does seem that the spiritual weapons of the Vicar of Christ have last their edge, for honourable members and most noble senators looked as jolly as possible, in spite of the unpleasant names bestowed upon them by the holy wrath of the Vatican. The news that the bulks of excommunication had been published at Rome was confirmed whilst I was leaving Bologna for this city, and I may truly say that every per son to whom I spoke during my journey was actuated by OM sole sentiment, that of pity for the poor old man whose power to punish falls so far short of his inclination. The same feeling prevails in this capi tal. Here, as well as at Bologna, Modena, Puma, and Alanandria, everybody is disposed to laugh at Cardinal Antonelli, and seems quite resigned to dispense with holy communion and confession, I should the clergy follow ad lift rant the orders of ' Rome. Although Piedmont is a catholic country, ten years of liberal institutions have borne theirfruits. All the week the railroads have been bring fug to the capital thou/muds of people every day. It has been next to impossible to find a room, or even a bed, for some days past. On my arriving here yesterday I had to run about the town for five long hours ; and if it had not been for the kindness of • friend, I should have had to spend the night sub Jove, or at best under a portico. The streets of Turin, as is always the case during popular festivals, have been elegantly decorated with num berless banners, pennons, festoons of Bowers, and similar orniuneuts. All the main streets were full to suffocation of people with joyful faces, hasten ing to the Plana Castello, all animated by the thought of greeting the king ?ilea- Om en.. As eleven o'clock struck, Victor Em manuel, followed by a brilliant staff, alighted and ascended the grand staircase of the Pala:no Madams, where the deputies, senators, and about a thousand privileged persons, who were fortunate enough to get cards of admission, were waitinkfor him. I was of this number, and amused myself by looking at Count Cavour and Farini, who were ex changing hearty shaken of the hand with senators and deputies, when a tremendous cheer out of doors made us aware that the King had entered the whir/ of the palace. Victor Emmanuel entered the great hall with a firm step and ascended the throne bowing to right and left amidst the most tremendous shouts of "Ervin il Re." The cheering inside the house was instantly echoed beck by the cheering of the crowd outside. When silence had been restored Parini invited the new deputies to take the oath of allegiance according to the constitutional law of the country. This done, the King began to read the royal speech, which you will by this time have re ceived by telegraph. It is a noble and dignified speech, and has justly rased the hopes of all Italian patriots. No pen could describe the thrill of enthusiasm which ran through the audience when Victor Em manuel, in firm, distinct, and ringing tones pro nounced the worts—" Firm as my forefathers in the catholic dogmas and in the respect for the chief of the religion, ff the ecclesiastical authority em ploys spiritual weapons for temporal purposes, in the security of my conscience and in the tra ditions of my ancestors, I shall find the strength to maintain intact the civil liberty and my authority, of both of which I only owe an account to God and to my people." This, and the end of the speech, in which the King said that Italy must henceforth be for the Italians, were the two passages which were most applauded by the audience. The reception which waited Victor Emmanuel in the streets was such as is sel dom given to princes. It was the real and solemn manifestation of a happy people that knows how much it owes to its sovereign. It was an outburst both of gratitude and of hope—gratitude for what has been achieved, hope for what is still to be done. To the cry of " Long live the King of Italy," was often added, " Let us not forget our brethren of Venetia." Cavour and Farini were not of course forgotten by the crowd ; they had a right to the gratitude of the Italians, and they had a good share in the oration offered to the son of Charles Albert. The Chamber of Deputies has held a short sitting, at which the members of the bureaux were chosen. This evening we are going to have a splendid illumination of which I shall send you some account to-morrow. A frightful accident occurred on Wednesday on the Versailles line to Peri.. An outside passenger reaching forward when the train was approaching a bridge, his held coming in contact with the •towe•wnrk was literally 'emend frvt ►i. body by the violence .f the roncussimi. 9ha trunk was seen to follow the heed es it a...lashed from lb. rinwey cerriege. INDIA. At a sitting of the Legialative Council on March 4 Mr. Wilson moved the first reading of a bill for the introduction of a paper currency. The follow ing is an outline of his speech : When he had the honour, a fortnight since to make hie financial statement, it would be remembered that among the needed reforms of the administration of India few things bad been considered o f more importanc e th a n the adoption of a well-considered improvement in the currency. In fulfilment of the pledge then given, he now proposed on behalf of the government to introduce this bill, which embodied principles of the soundness of which there could be no possible doubt ; but he felt anxious only that he should find the power of fully expounding and clearly expressing principles and measures of Duch great importance. Wh a t ever diffe rence ofopinion might exist on some points , there was but one opinion in England or India that the present system re quired great amendment—it was most unsatisfactory, and called for prompt remedy. He detailed the well-known defects of the cumbrous aystem based upon the standard of • silver coin, the risk and cost of the necessary transfer for which from district to district it was difficult to estimate ; one mark of its cost was bit Charles Napiefs declaration that at that time not fewer than 30,000 native troops were occupied in the guard and transport of treasure. Even if it could be considered solely as an economic question, it would be one of great importance. To-day he wan prepared to propose for remedy • scheme at once large and oompre hensive ; the government felt it their duty not to legis. late pieeerneal on such • vital question ; but to pat before them a well-considered plan based on mound winch pies so wide as to embrace all India, capable of being ex. tended to any required limits, yet mewed by checks within itself which should prevent possibility of wrong or failure. In the peculiar ia.sition of India it would be well to premise what was the object proposed to themselves, in order to deckle upon the best means of its attainment. Starting ' with the fact that from time immemorial silver had been the standard of Irsibrin monetary materna, he sketched forcibly the evil attendant upon its difficulty of transport, upon the withdrawal of so much of the precious metals from profitable use to be locked up in the unprofita ble form of coinage ; upon the limitation of com merce and great loss attendant upon remittance of • great bulk of silver from out.districts to-day to be retained possibly to the same districts to-morrow; and having explained the theory of commerce which lies at the bane of all currencies, that they are the condensed modes of exchanging commodities, he proceeded to declare the determination of government to do nothing in the pro changes which could by any possibility involve any pond of faith through which the public could suffer loss by the adoption of any charge in standard or system. He illustrated the enormous development of Indian commerce from the retort's. which showed that whilst the average im portation of bullion for the years 1836-40 was 4,000.000/., the average of the last four yews was nearly 12,000,00 W., and that th is was all required for the coinage was proved byfits being taken toithe mint for conversion, though there was • charge of 3 per cent. upon 'the coinage He ran over the theory of exchanges through which nations, and banks, and individuals conducted their business operations. He ably exposed the fallacies by which • gold currency, either at • fixed value or • musing been supported, and s h owe d by th e ovaries., cd m'a irallir• and Austria how it must inevitably fail here. He declared • double standard to be • misuomer—the thing could not exist ; and so arrived at the purpose of the government to adopt • sound and well-ronaitlered paper currency, leaving the standard unchanged and retaining its full value. There would be thus a great profit in the release of the precious metal from its profitless form, and a well-regulated paper currency would not be an addition to, but a substitution in • cheap arterial for, the existing coin. He illustrated the inconvenience and absurdity of the present mode by an allusion to the sealed begs said to contain 1,000 re. which were circulated by endorsement, probably without actual value, in the North-Welt Provinces. He then developed the govern mental scheme of paper currency, the leading points to be *mired by which were—first, absolute convertibility ; me condly, doe limitation of the issues. The outline of the provisions of the bill are: That there shall be an absolutely convertible paper mu mm, in the form of notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 1011, 500, and 1,000 n. each. That these notes shall be made a legal tender as between individuals, and receivable in payment of revenue and all demands of government. That the issue shall be by the agency of commissioners in Calcutta, Bo:l t m, and Madras, fully empowered, bound to observe theregula tions l a id d own , an d released from all obligation to o yin this respect env other commands than those of the Legislative Council That there shall be a division of all India into circles, each presided over by • deputy commissioner at the central town of each circle. The notes all to be manufactured in Calcutta, and the notes of each circle to be at all times convertible into specie at the treasury of the circle and also at the presidency. The commissioner in Calcutta will despatch notes to the dis tricts for distribution to the public in exchange for silver. That every commissioner shall retain at all times, and un der secure checks to ensure it. one-third the amount of the notes issued by him in silver, and the remaining two-thirds in public securities. The whole was described as being • secure and self-acting system based upon the lane department of the Bank of England ; and security against forgery of the notes will be ensured by the adoption of all the well-tried means of the Bank of England through whose manufacturers and ma chinery the paper is to be made and the preparation of the notes to he effected. He proceeded to show how this system would yield a great mat to trove rnment, and as no private company could compete in circulating an issue against the govern ment, the provisions in the charters of the Presidency Beaks permitting them to issue notes would be rescinded under due notice, and with all possible mre that their inte rests should suffer as little as possible under such a change. He alluded to the intended means of utilising the treasury balances, seldom lase than 10 to 12 cram., and also to mesas already in operation of getting out from England tan Lithe of copper coinage • u well as to establish new copper mints in Calcutta and Bombay. Arias thus detailed the mini points of 1. A laid sturdard of silver, & Au absolute coovertibilionf paper, & Full security for reserves to cover the issues, he wound up with ao assurance of his conviction that the great interests of India which were involvedwouldhe secured, and the measure prove a sure taws of powi PsurAnwit7. At a later stage of the day's Yr. Wilson an. Doomed that government had Beady =arid, and would soon submit, a Consolidated Ovate= DESTRUCTION OP A WORSTED MILL AT MANCHESTER. At a quarter to seven o'clock yesterday morning, the workpeople in the worsted mill of Meson. Lemming and Markendele, at Manchester, beaune aware that a fire had broken out in one of the rooms on the ground floor. The building is situated in Water-street ; it is five stories high, and is connected on every story with • six-story mill occupied by the same firm, and known as the new mill. The old mill has existed about forty years, and having become setarated with oil, every part of it was easily inflammable. The fire spread upwards from story to story and from room to room with • rapidity that has perhap never been exceeded, and in lees than 15 minutes the whole of the old mill was in a state of combustion. At the first outbreak • messenger was sent to the Manchester fire brigade, and before seven o'clock Mr. Rose, the super intendent, arrived at the mill with two engines and coal: panies of firemen. All the available hydrittite in thri neighbourhood were brought into use, and • moat abundant supply of water was obtained instantly, but the whole of the old mill was already enveloped in Mamas, and there was little hope of saving even the new mill from • speedy destruction. The moat determined efforts were made by Mr. Rose and the firemen to make their way from the 'staircase into the new mill, but, besides the intense heat, they had to struggle with vapour of a must nauseous character, and for some time all access was impos sible. At length the roof of the old mill falling in, there was free egress for the heat and smoke, and, fortunately, the wiad blew it away from the new mill, so that the firemen had room to breathe as they worked, or this build lag must have shared the fate of its neighbour. All its flows were filled with the suffocating smoke, and mull portions of the rooms and machinery were on fire, but jets were token into each story, and after an admirably sus tained exertion on the part of the men during nearly two hours, they obtained the mastery. Five jets were worked up the staircases into the rooms, two others from Messrs. Leeming's yard, and four from the roof of a three story building adjoining. Meantime the old mill had been utterly destroyed, floor after floor fal. ling in, and also a portion of the wall'. Valuable aimmtamie was rendered by the workpeople, and also by • large number of persons from neighbouring esta blishments ; among others, from that of the Bridgwater Trost, as well as by the Salford Fire Be4ade. The nesh =premises of Rows. Hamby, F&lkner, and Co., carriers, were in considerable danger ; but at an early period of the fire Mr. Rom stationed a couple of dn. mm in the rooms, and by the aid of the ware housemen the fire was preveated from communi cating. Two jets were directed on the burning building from a barge in the river Irwell, which was immediately below. The fire commenced (through friction, it is supposed) in a worried drying machine, which made about 1,300 revolutions per minute, and very soon the stench was so overpowering its to drive the wor kp eople out of the building. No person was injured, but all the hands employed by the firm are thrown out of employment at a time - of bush trade, as the destruction of the old mill com pels the stoppage of the other. The damage will amount to between 16,0001. and 20,0001, and will probably be covered by the insurances. The energy and perseverance of Mr. Rose and his firemen elicited the highest praise from those who witnessed it, and It was matter of evident astonishment that • much greater ruin was averted. .—A con- MORSMAN AND HIS CO: temporary has this morning published • long letter from Mr. Borman to the gentleman who proposed him at the lent election, in which the right hon. gentleman enters into an elaborate defence of hie recent con duct in Parliament. In the outset be says that the report of the proceedings of the recent meeting of his constituents which had been sent to the London newspapers was so untruthful] "that even foreign journals have bees able to use it largely to prove that Lord John Reesell's recent declaration of the policy of his cabinet is condemned in England, i nas m uc h as the member who elicited that declaration has been discarded by his constituents." The letter concludes as f o ll o w s : " I opposed the financial meaouresof the government; Icon demn their Reform Bill ; and, if a fitting opportunity be given, I may censure their foreign policy. In this comes I believe I shall ere long be sustained by the voice of the country, not excepting the electors of Stroud. But, should this last hope unfortunately sot be realised —should Stroud be an exception to the general feeling— and, when the time for reviewing my public conduct arrives, should the constituency of Stroud not approve it—l can aware them and you that I shall be the first to sever, though with much sorrow, a connexion which, under such cirmunidances, must be u embarrassing to me as it would be distasteful and unfair to them." iroclirtT or LONDON. —At the rocathly general rr.eeting, held _yesterday at the society's house, Hanover-square the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart., V.P., in the chair. Lieut.-Col. A. F. Steele, 9th Lancers; Major C. W. Henesge, Bth Hussars; and Messrs. John Morant, J. Hepburn, jun., J. Pearson, George Cockle, and Herbert Prodvra, were elected fellows of the society ; an d Messrs. A. E. Durham, R. B. Follett, J. J. Gossett, J. B. Bateman, and Captain the Hon. F. Egerton, were pro posed as candidates for the fellowship ; and Herr H. Oaths, of Heligoland, and Edward Blyth, E N of Calcutta, were proposed as corresponding members The report from the council stated, among other subjects' of interest, that since the bat general meeting the menagerie had been further enriched by the addition of two specimens of Balieniceps rex end a specimen of Sieboldia maxima. it also stated that the number of visitors to the gardens to the end of Much had considerably exceeded 26,000. The changes proposed to be made in the council at the approaching &uni versity were read. Ma. RYDER'S SHARE/MARIAN READINGS.—Last night Mr. Ryder, of the Princess's Theatre, gave a reading of Macbeth, at the Hanoverequars Rooms. ThU gentle man is well known as an actor of Rome pretension, and a careful elocutionist, and as in a few remarks with which he prefaced his reading he stated that he had given very cm- siderable attention to the works of our greet dramatic poet, and this play in particular, apart from mere theatrical con siderations, it may be supposed that he possesses some qua lifications for what, after all, is the arduous task of sustain ing the attention of an audience single-handed through a tragedy wLich, perhaps, of mart others, needs the aid of the accessories of the stage for its realisation anywhere out of the study. It must be confessed that the selection of Aferifielk for a simple reading was not wholly judicious, but nevertheless the enetp and complete understanding of the text which characterised Mr. Ryder's efforts enabled him te get over the primary difficulty with some woes& In the mode of delivering the text which he adopted there was rather more acting than reeding, and perhaps a little more study of light and shade would have rendered the attempt more in keeping with the object in view. Still it is not to be denied tint Mr. Ryder did not fail to fu the attention of • large ameniblage of persons, and from to time time was greeted with considerable applause. Tax Ilunnar.—A meeting of grocers, tesdealers, wine merchants, tobacco manufacturers, and others was held in the committee-room of the Town-hall, Birmingham, yesterday (Thursday), the mayor, Thomas Lloyd, Eq. in the chair , to consider the proposal of the Chancellor of 'the Exchequer to increase the customs duties on certain articles one-half per cent. There was • fair attendance of the wholesale and retail dealers of the town sod district. Mr. A. Biggs moved the first resolution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Impose additional charges on articles paying customs duties would preen most severely upon the traders in these artiele., inasmuch as such additional duty would fall solely upon them." Mr. Moore seconded the motion. Mr. Barrow, in supporting the motion, said the addition of ono. half per cent , would he so small that the retail trader would not be able to make anv increase in the . ;Moe of his articles to cover the additional duty, while, ID his own case, it would amowit to a sum equal to 4d. additional in the in come tax. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. A consethree was afterwards appointed to draw up a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in opposition to the proposed additional import, who were authorieed to present the same in the name of the wholesale and retail dealers of the town and district. Fn AND SUPPOSED Low OP LlM—This morn ing about three o'clock a Are broke out in the bedrooms of Mr. Evans, coffeehouse-keeper, No. 9, Upper Welliugton street. The Chandos-street, Holborn, and other engines of the brigade were soon on the spot, hut the premises were nearly destroyed. A cousin of Mr. Evans, named James Evans, perished in the duster, his body being found in the first floor. Aiwa:lons Arrxierr.—Yesterday a box contain ing about a dozen matches was found in a bale of cotton stored is the Clarence warehouses, Dickson-street, Liver pool, and was brought by Mr. Brancker to the Exchange News-room, where they lay for inspection the whole of the day. The matche. were evidently American made, and the box bore the following label : " Bush and }Myer, supe rior friction matches, manufactured by 8. R. Van Duxer, wholesale dru g gi s t. 198, Greenwich-street, New York." The lacifers were certainly put in the bele for an atrocious pumas', but by whom is not likely to be ever knows. Had ignition taken place on shipbosad thiamine would, acmes, have been only a matter of conjecture. —Liverpool Poet. MALLNCNOLY Casuavrx.—The life of a fine Young woman, daughter of Mr. Ward, farmer of East Ville, has been sacrificed to the incautious depositing of arsenic in as improper place. The deceased, who was about years of age, went to a cupboard ' for some sulphur for medical purposes sad took from the shelf what she ooeceivai to he that drug, in a powdered state, and swallowed It with some treacle. Shortly afterwards she was seized with 'stolen' vomiting, and on her mother enquiring the cause, it was discovered that arsenic had placed in the cupboard, unknown to t h e an ever, had taken it instead of sulphur. Medical assistance was late ; she promptly procured, but was unfortunately too . _ uanY sank an'i died. inquest was accefore idental t al C. Esq., OCANIlier, _when a 'imbo death wee retumed.—Snsatforlg Mercer,• and shne 0, APRIL 6, 1860.. MONEY MARKET. ONE ceoloor. Good friday being kept as a close holiday, no busingss is going forward in the City. THURSDAY Evvrixo. The funds openod this morning at advance of i per cent, and as soon as it became known that the weekly court at the Bank had broken up with out altering the rate of discount, .a fresh rise of I took 'place. In the afternoon some sales were pressed,'" and a relapse occurred, the closing quota tions being scarcely better than those of yesterday, although the improvement on the Paris Bourse is unusually well supported. The lees favourable in fluencee in operation this afternoon appear to have been merely speculative. The share markets were likewise better. British railway stocks were particularly buoyant, specula tive operations for the fall being met by a con tinued bond fide absorption of stock by the public. Holders continue to derive great confidence from the remarkable increase in the traffic especially on the lilies in the manufacturing districts. Great Northern " A" stock rose about 3 per cent. to-day. The engagements of the 4th having been met; the dividend period being at hand ; and a large amount of money having been drawn from the Bank during the last week or two, the discount market to-day was less stringent. In exceptional instances, transactions took place at 44 per cent., but many discounters continue to ask 41 to 5 upon good bills. At the Bank business wait brisk but decidedly less extensive than of late. On Saturday next little business will probably be done, as many . persons have already made arrawe mentos for taking a holiday until Monday. The Stock Exchange, however, will not be closed on Saturday. At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rents, opened at 69.90, and closed at 70 for money, and 69.90 for the end of April, showing a fresh advance of Ito per cent. since yesterday after noon. Lonso - " -- Is, which closed yesterday at 90 to 4 for the 11th of April, opened this morning at 944 to 1, rose to 941 to 1, and closed at 944, " sellers."' For money the last price was 944 to 4. The official , business report is as follows ;—Three per Cent. Oonsols, for money 941, 1 ; ditto, for amount (11th April), 944, e, 44 ; the Indian Five per Cut stock 1859, 1041, 4 ; ditto, for account, 105 ; the Indian Four per Cent. Debentures, 1858, 961, j; ditto, 1869, 964, 4 ; the Four per Cent. "su fficed " rupee pa 87 ; ditto Five per Cent., 98, 981, 97S ity ; ditto, Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 104; 1 1 . The British ernment Five per Cents. were also officially marked 1094. The Indian rupee paper was again inquired for and dearer. The Indian Five per Cent stock of 1859 was steady, at 1044 to 1. India bonds were dealt in at ss. to Is. dia., and Exchequer bills at 9s. to 13.. prem., showing • recovery of ls. The foreign stock market was firm. Turkish bonds improved in the morning, the Loan of 1854 being marked 80, and that of 1858, 624 : a re action took place in the afternoon, and the final quotations wire scarcely better than those 'of yesterday, being, respectively, 794 to 4, I and 61/ to 62. Mexican bonds were fairly supported, at the late improvement Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Old Five per Cents., 981 ex div. ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1852, We ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1858, 91 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1860 (scrip), par ; Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates, 100 ex div.; Equador New Consolidated, 12/ ; ditto Provisional Land Warrants, 3 ; Mexican Three per Cents., for account (16th April), 224, 221, 224, 22 New Granada Active, 15 ; ditto Deferred, 44 ; Por tuguese Three per Cents., 1853, 421 ; ditto, for ac count, 424, 42 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Conte., 97 ; Spanish Three per Cents., for account, 484, 484 ; ditto New Deferred Three per Cents., for aooonnt, 341; Turkish Six par Cents, 1854, 1 79/ ; ditto, for account, 794, 80 ; ditto Six per Cents., 1858, for account, 02, 62f, 611 ; Venezuela Three per Cents., for account, 264. The withe New Brazilian Loan was fi rm, closing at dia. to par. The nu mbers are published of bonds represent ing 37,0001. of the Brazilian Loan of 1824 (Roth schild's) and 15,2001. of the Loan contracted in 1824 by Messrs. Thomas Wilson and Co. and others, which have been drawn for redemption. In addition, bonds of various Brazilian loans, to the amount of 47,1001., have been purchased, being below par. There were again no operations in gold at the Bank The amount of gold shipped by the Lincolnshire, which sailed from Melbourne for London on the Bth of Feb., appears to be 21,828 oz., worth 87,0004, instead of 32,000 oz., as reported in the telegram received yesterday. To-morrow being Good Friday, the negotiation of foreign bills took place this day. The rates re main very firm, and in several instances the tendency is still upwards. The quotations are shown below : Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.161 to 1 • ditto short, 11.14 to 1; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.16; to ; Antwerp, 3 months, 25.321 to 71 ; Hamburg (ms. haoco), 3 months, 13.51 to 6 ; Paris, 3 days, 25.10 to 171 ; ditto 3 months, 25.35 to 40 ; Frankfort-on•the-Maine, S months, 1171 to 1 • Petersburg (per rouble), 3 months, 341 to ; Vienna (60.), 3 months, 13.55 to 65 ; Triode ditto ? 3 moat , 13.65 to 65 ; Madrid, 3 months, 491 to 1 ; Cadiz, 3 months, 491 to 1 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 30.40 to 211 Genoa, 3 months, 25.45 to 50 ; Naples, 3 months, 401 to 1; Palermo , 3 months, 122 to 1,• Messina, 3 mouths, 122 to 1 ; Lisbon, 90 days, 525 to 1; Oporto, 90 days, 521 to 53. The Melbourne advices announce the supeusion of Messrs. N. and N. Gutheridge who were deeply interested in the Geelong and Ballarat Government Railway contract. The following is from the London agent of the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company : TO TIM =MOIR OF TEN lIMPUBS. 36, Cannon-street, City, London, April 5. 81r,—As it was generally expected by the shareholders of this company that the mail just delivered would bring us the act of parliament (colonial) confirming the transfer of the line (long ago concluded between the proprietary and the government) I beg briefly to state the position of affairs by the latest date from Melbourne : Feb. 17, 1860. The law officers of the crown had founded en act upon the report of the commissioners of audit, and the govern ment had given notice that on the 17th of February it would be moved for leave to bring in a bill to empower the government to conclude the The president of the comp l an jue addevissed the Commis sioner of Public Works, under date 13th February, stating that "as an act to authorise the transfer could not in all probability then be obtained prior to the departure of the mail, and as payment to the shareholders (m England) could not, therefore, be made on the sth April," when the fourth unpaid half-year's share interest would fall due, ft would be desirable that the government should state up to what period arrears of interest on the share capital would be computed and paid off with the principal. To this the secretary of the government railways depart ment had replied (16th Feb.), that as Melbourne was the place of adjustment, it would be in every way inexpedient to accede to the proposition that interest should be allowed on the shareholders' capital after the sth April, when the money will actually be in transit (to England)• government will have take Th u us p.i then i o t: of ould the appear iine (p th r:v t ided tke the bill pained), on the 6th April (this day), and th at the two years' arrears of interest at 5 per cent. would then actually be " in transit" to this country. the company' s the commissioners' report on the audit of accounts, n or of the bell framed by the government to carry an d m y present communication is simply I regret to rev that I have not received copies of either negotiations had not utterly gunk intended ndthob:dliPeitorchhon,f)itthathatttboure English churns on the colony, to the extent of nearly h alf a millMn sterling, would be dealt with as early as the rressure of local and more important interests admitted.-7 8. J. Cooez, Managing Agent. Private advice/ from Buenos Ayres express a confident hpe that peace will not be agrun ' turbed, and t hat trade and enterprise will continue to flourish. Bank shares to-day were firm. Union Bank of Australia have advanced, and there were inquiries for London Chartered Bank of Australia, and English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered. Ca- nada Land shares were rather flat. London Gene ral Omnibus met with a few inquiries, and closed at 1 8-16 to 111 prem. The closing quotations for the shares in new rune, 2Lt o undertakin gs were as follow :--Ocean Marine luso prem.; iiddn and Provincial Marine, 5-16 to 4A prem. • Universal . Marine, to prem. • Buenos Ayres and San Fernando Railw a y, 2k• to p er ,, ; and City of London Brewery Prefer ence, if to prem. The Midlaad Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 4,5211. ; the Nprth Eastern, au increase of 3,277 f. ; the Lanai and York shire, all increase of 3,035/. ; the Manch es ter, Shefbekl, and Lincolnshire, au increase of 638 1 . ; and the Eastern Counties an increase of 1,185!. The weekly report of the Liverpool cotton market , shows little chore^e in price. Saturday will be a close holiday in that market. The subjoined weekly summary of the produce markets is extracted from th e c i rcu l ar i ssue d thi s evening by Messrs. W. J. and R. Thompson : Although there has not been much activity in the colo nial market" during the week former prices have, with few exceptions, been maintained. The demand for coffee con tinues good, and the small quantity offered has met with purchasers at extreme rate& A good irigiujey bras prevailed for saltpetre affusts and some few parcels have found buyers at last week's quotations ; but on the spot there ts not much doing. Mee Is still in active demand, and the mar ket very firm. The -:des of sugar on Tuesday went off heavily, and occasionally at lower rates ,• but today_there is a rather better feeling, and toe market close, stoadlly. All descrip tions of 'mice are dull of sale, and white pepper has declined fully id. per lb: Tea is flat, and rather lower prices have in some instances been accepted. The markets have closed for the usual Fester !edidays, and will re-open on 'Wednes day next, the 11th inst. MINES. TIitIIISDAY EVIIIIIO. The mining market to-day was to some extent under holiday influences. Business was rather quiet, and little change occurred in prices. The principal transactions were in shares in Tre loweth, Ureat Wheal Alfred, Great Retallack, East Wheal Russell, Lady Bertha, and Providence mines. 3. Foreign and colonial mining shares were quiet. Those of the Great Northern per Mining Com pany of South Au4tralia were d Subjoined is our usual weekly report of the metal market : The market is still flat. Some considerable purchases have been effected in copper at the recent reduction, and prime for all description' are very firm. Iron continues flat., and quotations are a Mile easier ; Scotch pig, however, keep pretty steady, at last week's decline. Lead exhibits rather leas firmness. Spelter has changed hands to the extent of WU tons on the spot and for arrival, but the market ears little animation. Foreign tin is a trifle easier, wldle English is without change. Tin plates are iu mode rate demand. _ . At a meeting of adventurers in Wheal Agar, held this day, the amounts showed a cash balance against the under taking of 2491. 2d. ; but there are arrears of calls to the amount of 42W. 103. A special meeting is convened for the 10th of May, for the purpose of declaring forfeited all shares upon which the calls due on the 31et January last shall then remain unpaid. The Colombe Mine accounts, presented at the meeting held this da!,, showed a cub balance in favour of the Mill, of 463/. 6s. lld. RAILWAYS. E n'Cuwit. The Stock Exchange is shut to-day and no list of prices has been issued. THE FATAL POACHING ATTRAY AT BEACHWOOD. Burro —Six prisoners were brought up for examination before the magistrates at Hensel Hempstead on Wednesday relative to thin affair. They were taken down to the West Herta Infirmary, where Cook bee, to see if he could re nine any of them. After they were placed before himCM scanned them all, and then said he could not swear to any of them. He said after be was shot a man came to him and dotal over hint, and asked him if his name was Bargees, and whether be was badly hurt. This man had a gruff voice and very bushy whiskers. Cook was asked whether either of the men before him was like that man. He replied " That man resembles him, " pointing to the prison er Bliss. Cook also said tha t the DAD who spoke to him wore a coat and a cap like those worn then by Min. Burgess, the keeper who escaped unhurt, swore that be recognised Cane as one of the men by hie voice, which he said was peculiar, and with which he wan well acquainted. li Ina proved that Cane, in com msny with Bliss, fetched his gun away from a whitemnith's On the morning before the murder, and that the two were together at about a quarter to 12 on that night at (lane's house, which is a mile or two from the scene of the murder. Cane's gun was found next morning to be broken in a part which the whiteernith had recently mended, and it appeared also to have been very lately used. This last circumstance wan found to be the ease also with Bliss's gun. An there was no evidence to criminate any of the other prisoner., two of them were discharged from custody, and the other two were retained on warrants resulting from other charges. Cline and Eliss were remanded till Saturday next. lINTosrrNATELELVS-TA/LERB.—OD Thursday last, over 400 emigrants took their departure from thin country for America by the mail steamers which left Queenstown for New York and Portland. While the steamers were in the harbour a considerable number of country people, friends of the emigrants, accompanied them on beard, to bid them farewell, intending to return either by boat or by one of the steam tenders, which they supposed would remain No e. To their dismay, however, the mails being placed on board, the steamers got under weigh, being bound under heavy penalties to be on the route by a given time, and before any means could be procured to send the arties ashore the steamers were es route te, America, having 26 of them on board. Several of tkule un lucky individuals, who have DOW a journey of some 5,000 miles before them to America and hack, had actually left their carte and some of the members of their families behind them in Queenstown, and the inconvenience and alarm occasioned by the unwelcome trip to which they have been treated may be easily imagined.—Cork Coasts- A IttYWLWAY RAILWAY ENOINE..--011 Tuesday morning last, an engine winch had run away from the terminus of the West Cornwall line at Penzance, was se cured at Cern Brea. The Sight of the runaway was tele graphed to Truro, where the officials were on the look-out for its arrival, and consequently delayed the departure of the first morning train from the Newham station. The occur rence took place as follows :—On the arrival of the lest trsia at Penzance in the evening, the engine is run under a shed, its coke raked out, and during the night is thoroughly cleaned. In the morning some men light the fire of the engine, and thus things are in trim for the driver and stoker, at 6 o'clock On Tuesday morning this pro cess had taken plasm at 5 o'clock, and the engine cleaner had retired for a moment. On his return the engine was gone. He had left the regulator open and the break up : the fire had caught quickly, steam ewe, and away went the riderless puffer over the wooden viaduct at Chyandour, smash through thegates at Marazion station, slowly up the incline, 60 miles an hour down steep gradients, over many unoccupied crossings, through nume rous pairs of stoat gates, by St. lees road and trivia, Owinear road and Camhorne, until its breath was nearly gone. The first of a pair of gates near Pool it opened, the second it tore up and bore along the line on its cow-catcher. until at (' e rn Brea some one saw it coming at an abated with the gate in front., jumped on it, and thus *soured I tr ed, truant—most fortunately not the slightest harm having occurred except to the gates aforesaid during its unrestrained MD of 16 or 17 miles. An engine was sent from Penzance in pursuit, but could not overtake the runway, and, there fore returned forthe conveyaneeof the uptrain.—PfraoidA Jounstif. Gaorkomax. Somsrx or LONDON.—A P special general meeting of this society will be held on Aril 18, at 8 o'clock, p.m., previous to the ordinary general meeting, for the pas rpom of considering the advisability of holding the society's evening meetings at Burlington House in "lay and June next. At the ordinary meeting the following tamers are to be read "On the practice of the London CL * ty in Norfolk, as proved by a well at Yarmouth."—By J. Prestwich, Eaq., F. 0.8. 2 "On a Well at Bury Cross, near Oosport."—By James Pilbrow, Esq. ; and some other communications. OXFORD, WORCNNTIZ, AND WOLVERHAXPON RAIL WAY. —A special general meeting of this company was held at Worcester yesterday (Thursday), to consoler and decide upon the proposition for amalgamating this com pany's line with the Worcester and Hereford, and Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford, and leasing the Severn Valley line—all under the new title of the " West Midland Rail way." The bills now before parliament were ((vein number, viz.: 1. Fur amalgamating the Newport, Abergavenny. and Hereford, and the Worcester and Hereford with, the Oxford Worcester, and Wolverhampton line. 2. A bill to enable. the company to lease the Severn Valley line. 3. A bill for making • railway from Tenbtu7 to the Severn Valley. 4. A bill or making a railway from Stourbeidge to Old Hill ; and 5. A bill for making a branch line to Bourton-onthe- Water. Resolutions approving of the bills were agreed to. At an extraordinary meeting of the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway Company, held yesterday in Lon don, a resolution was carried for the leusiug of the line to the Dundalk and Enniskillen Company. The Stamford Mercury states that there is a very . active demand for farms in Lineolnehire. Mr. Rainy, the horse-tamer, is coming to the . east. He will find, we fancy, that people are rather wiser in the east than in Europe. Some of the horse dawk com panies may possibly offer him • few hundred rupees to tame many of their "pets ;" but we think he .al have some trouble in finding private individuals to " subscn'be " so handsomely m did the nobility and gentry in England. Mr. Bang, however, ban already a considerable for ' tune, OM can afford to expend a ion of it in travelling round the world and being —lllofruilite, Feb. 21. I