The Express. — London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

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Matthews rod Vim 4' LANrlrreq.—A6l HAumer. Mcura r, Ms..re, Herman Yoshi. Ilsolows, smut Tottrr. Elsrrurthy and Illos Death. NIUTAWNIA. Tins Em it,IL ENGLAND. THE HOME GT TICE FREE... Milling by Mr. W. M. Pother= Roil Mr. H. Nyalney.—ElLY OCo \ NOR NI, vianies W. L ..h,d.K Taiwlsild I". A0..1 YE NIVSAELTOE ROUGHER. TRALlitio mom_ WATER AT LONDON IMUKIL sins iss..7.7Awas7sso.l am T1N1C414..W —MO/14//g. Ilk. Os—. Allsonsk ILL 100. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 3. THE alienation of the representatives of Ireland from the Liberal party in Parliament is a subject on which wo have hitherto refrained from com ment ; not becaua it had escaped our observation, or that we were at any loss to account for the fact as it stands. It is some time since we pointed out the reasons why we anticipated the result which has now occurred, and warned those in whose power it lay to mitigate in a great degree the operation of the adverse influences we knew to be at work, that it behoved them seriously to consider the isequences of neglect or obstinacy in the course they lad entered upon. The result has justified ‘ur warnings. In the late division— avowedly a party one, and one upon which the predominance of IVhigs or Tories in the councils of the Crown confessedly was staked—three fourths of the Irish members voted against Lord PA LIIIZUMN and with the lieutenant of Lord D►.aav, while of the remainder but eighteen recorded their votes on the other side. Let us discard for a moment the petty and distracting incidents of tha recent struggle, and look at the fact broadly, and with reference to its more deep seated causes. From the time when Mr. CANNINO succeeded in forming • Liberal Administration, in 1827, to the death of Lord lisassomorou, twenty years subsequently, while occupying the poet of Viceroy of Inland, • majority of the representatives of that country, varying from sixty to seventy in number, were invariably found in the ranks of the Liberal party in the Hama Commons. Every great measure of program that obtained the sanction of the Legislature during that memorable period had ; their cordial and constant support. Irish Toryism never faded, indeed, to send its contingent to the , reactionary host with which the Reformers had to contend ; but, taking the whole course of the great struggle for religious, electoral, municipal, and commercial freedom, which lasted throughout the SOOMINWTO adnimistrations of Mr. CAwsrso., the Duke of W mud • ..roe, Earl (i key, Lord MELeutll,ll, and Sir Rulliir Past, the annalist cannot fail to note that upon the cohesion of the English, Scotch, and Irish Liberals success continually hung, and that without the important aid contri buted by the last-named auxiliary, peaceful and constitutional triumph would often have been un attainable. How, then, comes it to pus that this goodly array has gradually been dispersed ; and why is it that at the present moment the party of reaction boast that at the next general election the number of Liberal representatives from Ireland will be still further lessened? How is it that even of the moiety to which they are reduced in the present Parliament, not more than eighteen aro to be found willing to identify them selves with a Government which professes to adhere to the old formula of civil and religious liberty 1 There are those amongst us who are ready to answer these questions off-hand, by telling us that in Lord Metnoraxe'ii time the Cathohca were kept in good humour by lYCosemx, and that by his means some fifty or sixty votes were always secure for the Whigs ; whereas now that Catholic politic are changed, most of these aro cast into the opposite scale. Nothing can be more fallacious than such a mode of pretending to account for the fact before us. At no period of his surprising ascendancy as a popular leader did O'Commett succeed or, indeed, attempt to ob tain the return of a majority of Catholics over Pro testants by the Liberal constituencies of Ireland. Many of those constituencies were wholly beyond the sphere of his influence, and, as a matter of fact, it is only necessary to state that throughout the brilliant epoch of Liberal triumphs to which we have referred, from thirty to forty Protestant Liberals were always scut to Parliament from Ireland. Nor are the proportions materially changed at the pre sent day, there being actually but nine and twenty Irish members now in the House who profess the creed of Rome. Still more un tenable is the assertion we sometimes hear, that nearly all of them are partisans of Lord DERBY. But fourteen out of the twenty-nine voted on Thursday last against the repeal of the Paper Duty, while nine voted with Ministers, and six were absent. In the face of these figures it were mere trifling to discuss the matter further, on ma twists grounds. We frankly own, indeed, and we do so with regret, that relieious exasperation contri butes to a certain extent to widen the breach un happily existing between those who were once poli tical friends. Hut what we wish to point out is this, that men religious predilections do not and cannot account for the serious diminution of the Liberal party in Ireland, or for the unconcealed indifference felt by many of its members in Parlia ment as to the ascendency of this or the other set of men in the councils of the State. Exactly the same number of Protestant incuibers as of Catho- lic members from Ireland voted the other evening with Lord PALIIERSTIDM ; and the rest were in the adverse lobby or nowhere. We cannot, therefore, account by mere reference to creed for what, in point of fact, is much more due to other COMO& When the present Government was formed the expediency and necessity were strongly urged upon its chiefs of having a distinctive popular policy for Ireland. No regard, however, was had to the representations then made. Of legisla bon in the preeressive and popular sense no intelligible promise was given, and during the two years that have since elapsed not a single Act rela tive to Ireland has Leen passed to which any sup porter of Ministers ("gild at the hustings venture to point as a justificatiun of his votes in their THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1861. favour. Itis no use saying in the mere spirit of cavil—what could have been done 1 Where there is a will there is never found wanting a way ; and when there is personal knowledge of the wants of a country, and personal sympathy with its feel ings, in poets of responsibility and power, suitable objects of beneficial legislation naturally present themselves, and suitable means of dealing with them in statutable form have no need to be searched for. But when a country long divided and mis ruled is handed over to half-a-dozen individuals to govern, not ono of whom is identified with it by birth, education, property, or connexion, it is not strange that jealousy and distrust should strike deep root amongst the excluded race, and that when their administrative masters are in jeopardy they should give themselves little concern about the matter. What would Scotchmen think or how would they vote, if, instead of having two seats in the Cabinet, a fair proportion of secondary positions of trust and confidence in the Imperial executive, and the whole of their local administration to themselves, no man of Scotch birth had any voice in the political concerns of Scotland, or any seat in the Cabinet of the Empire I' The flatterers of Lord PALmelorros may say that in thus treating Ireland he does right ; but if so, then all we can say is that Mr. CANNING was wrong, the Duke of WELLINGTON was wrong, Lord GREY was wrong, and Lord MELBOURNE and Sir ROBERT PEEL were wrong. it were super fluous, however, to discuss the question. Every tree is known by its fruits, and the baneful gourd of official monopoly is no exception. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 0111011 OR OWN COI PARIS, SUNDAY EVININCL The note in the Mostiteur announcing that two books are to be prosecuted for attacks upon the clergy tends to confirm the rumours which have been circulating within the last week that, to use a favourite phrase of an eminent Queen's counsel, the church is enjoying a "streak" of favour. This measure may possibly be praised as impartial, but I regard it rather as evidence of vacillation and weakness. I have not seen the works incrimi nated, but judging from the worst that has been said of them by the ultramontanist press, they contain no libel which the government ought to prosecute if it means honestly to fight out the great battle against Popish pretensions which it has begun. The title of the most important of these pamphlets is, " Crimes, Misdemeanours, and Scandals which have occurred among the clergy in these latter times." Surely it will not be said that in the absence of false statements there is anything libellous in bringing together in one volume the very many cases which are to be found in the legal reports within the last year or two. Such a com pilation, on the contrary, was die to the public, and heads of families would do well to peruse it. The admissions of "Brother Philip," the superior of a fraternity to whose care parents' have been in the habit of blindly entrusting their children, cannot be too widely disseminated. In the legal journals to-day I find reports of pro secutions against two priests, which occupied the sixth and seventh Correctional Chambers all day yesterday. The first case was that of the Abbof Clergeau, honorary chaplain to the Archbishop of Sens, who is accused of having cumulated the duties of his sacred calling with the practice of usury on a large scale, awl of having embezzled upwards of two millions of francs. The other affair, which was heard with closed doors on account of the indecency of it, was that of the Abbif Copes, successively vicar of Lyons and Moulin, and lately a priest of St. GermainL'Auxer rob' in Paris. He is accused of robbery and of indecent and other assaults upon his pupils. Nei ther of these trials is over. The day for the trial of Mires is at length fixed, pursuant, as has been already stated, to express orders from the Emperor. The Droit, whose authority may be depended upon, says that his case will come on before the sixth Correctional Chamber, presided over by M. Massel, on June 6. It is confirmed, therefore, that after all his long and cruel preventive imprisonment the prosecution is but for a delft (misdemeanor), and not a crime. The offence for which he is indicted is " swim'- , ling (escroquerie), abuse of confidence, and the dis tribution of • dividend not justified by an inventory." M. Felix Solar, the proprietor of the Prase, is included in the indictment, but he has escaped to England and will not probably surrender to take his trial. It is announced, some what unexpectedly, I believe, that Count Simeon, Count de Poret, Count de Chassessot, and Baron de Pontalba, are cited to appear before the court as being jointly and severally responsible in a civil action for the acts imputed to M. Mires. The Indipendome says that at a council held by the Emperor during the masonic dispute! between Prince Napoleon and Prince Murat, it was se riously proposed to abolish freemasonry iu France, but that the proposition was not carried. K Blanqui and certain alleged accomplices are to have • trial, instead of being dealt with under the law of public safety. The Emperor has not failed to let M. Thiers know and feel how pleasant it is to his Majesty's feelings to think that the author of "The Consulate and the Empire" is to pocket the imperial gift of 8001. Some doubts having been expressed whether the terms of the creation of the prize authorised the Academy to confer it upon one of their own mem bers, Count Walewski, as Minister of State, has written M. Thiers a letter overflowing with polite ness, in which ho tells him that the "august author of the decree has a right to interpret it," and that he decides in M. Thiene favour. M. de Meow, member of the Corps Legialatif, has just died of apoplexy. He was little known, and owed his position entirely to the great success in life of his son, who was the famous Prefect of Police of the coup d'itat, and is now a senator, and Pre fect of Marseilles with special powers. M. Liszt, the pianist, who was already an officer of the Legion of Honour, has just been promoted on the occasion of his present visit to Paris to the rank of commander. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The news which I gave two or three days since, that Prince Napoleon was going to the United States, is confirmed by the Parse ' which says, that after visiting, in company with his wife, the Pnuoess Clothilde, Nice, Ajaccio Bartle, Tunis , Oran, Algiers, Malaga, Cadiz, ind Lisbon, he take leave f her in the latter city ; the Princess will return to France in the Jerome Napoleon, and the Prince will cross the Atlantic in the R eins Hor tense to visit New York and the principal Ameri can ports. His absence from France is expected to extend over three months. It is odd to think that he will be in America at the time when the report of the trial (on appeal) of "Paterson e. Bonaparte" will arrive there. The government journals contradict with singular acrimony the statement of the Indipendance Beige, that Count de Persigny was about to reside for the summe- season at his estate of Chamarande, coining to Paris twice a week only to attend ministerial councils. I should not have thought, in these te legraphic times, that there was anything reprehen sible or unusual in a minister, who has no parlia mentary duties to attend to, sleeping a little way out of town during the hot weather. But the Pays treats the news as a " miserable calumny," and is particuhrly indignant at the idea that a Minister of the Interior could possibly be absent from Paris at a time when general elections fur the councils general are going on. There is great isaiecti iu this argument. The rules for conducting elections are very distinctly laid down by law. The prefects and their subordinates iu every department have full powers to see the law carried out. No inmate, no resistance to lawful authority is to be looked for in any quarter whatever. Thu government candi .l..tes are all nominated already. Nothing remains but the mechanical operation of the ballot. Under thew circumstances it is difficult to conceive any legitimate necessity for incessant supervision of the electoral _process by a Minister of the Interior in Paris. Thu awkward confession of the Pays but too clearly points to intervention not avowable— to illegal, but familiar, " administrative " ma noauvres for preventing the return of independent candidates. These journals also say there is no truth in another piece of news given by the indipendance, viz., that M. Thouveuel had addressed a protest to the Courts of Vicuna and Madrid against certain propositions for the settlement of the R0111:111 question. I must say, however, that I never re member a period when the assertions or denials of the reputed seini-otficial journals of Paris were of less authority than they are now. They work up as " latest news" any scrap of gossip which may be doled out to them from any ministry, without being at the pains to keep up the least coherence between the statement of to-day and that of yes terday. The additional liberty enjoyed by the press since November 24—making it less perilous to publish " false uews"—is abused by these journals for the purpose of palming o ff stale and doubtful statements as new and official, A curious piece of "latest news" is given in the Fer.sse. This journal (which by the way is decidedly not officiai)says under that heading that "the Pope has set on toot negotiations with foreign powers for the preservation of his territory, and that Francis H. is indisposed to quit Rome." I pre sume that the Presse must have some sort of founda tion for putting this statement prominently for ward as an "actuality," otherwise I should have thought that the Pope had been carrying on nego tiations in the interest of the temporal power long enough to be convinced of their futility, and that the unwillingness of Francis 11. to go away from Rome was a fact too well known to be interesting as news. The Senate yesterday rejected, withouta division, • petition from certain ultramontanista of Cahors, and vigorously supported by Cardinal Mathieu, praying for the repeal of certain articles in the Code which render priests liable to prosecution for attacks upon the government. The insertion in the Monitcur of Dr. Veron's article against a dissolution of the Corps Legislatif, although a symptom to be regarded, must not be considered as conclusive evidence that the doctor hasgained his cause. His pleading shows that a dissolution is feared by the house. It is more easy to think that the Emperor wishes to pay him a barren compliment by ventilating his not very forcible arguments than to suppose that his Ma jesty is converted by them. The Bourse was heavy, and very little business was done beyond the necessary operations of the settlement. The Rente closed at 69.30, both for cash and account, with a fall of sc. and 10c. Mobi lier fell 1.26. Railways were a shade lower. Cbt Court. The Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Priapism Alice, Prince Arthur, the Princesses finless, Louise and Hi 114600, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, the Coast of Flanders and Prince Louis of Hew, left Osborne at 3 o'clock on Saturday afterwoo, crossed from Osborn, Pier is the Fairy royal steam yacht to Gosport, and tra velled by a special train oo the South Western railway to the private station at VauxhalL In attendance were the Countess of Caledoo, the Hon, Caroline Cavendish, bed Charles Fitz Roy, Colonel Francis Seymour, Major I:lphinstone, Count de Moerkerke, D. Keep), Major Burnell and Baron Westerwellcr. The Royal party proceeded from the railway station in several of the Queen's carriages, escorted by a detachment of Lamers, to Buckingham Palace, where her Majesty arrived at 10 minutes before 7 o'clock, tad was received by the Earl of Mt. Germain, Viscount Sydney, the Marquis of Ailesbury, Earl Bps weer, Lord Camoys, Lieutenant-General the Moo. C. Grey, sad Major-General Wylde. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Come wall 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, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhi bition of laii2 held a meeting at their offices is the Strand, as tiettaday. Wenatchee were emit cm Saturday from the Colmolai aloe to the Gammon of the West Jodie Woods, British Columbia, sad to the t:orernore of the North American Provioors. - Prince Lonpold remains at Osborne, attended by Lady Cording Harnogtoe. The Couetem of Caledon has succeeded the Duchess of Atheis se the Lady in Waiting to the queen. Lord Comm has succeeded Load Hants as the Lord in Waiting to her Malay the Hoe. A. N. Hood aid Lieutenant-Colonel tiilles. D. de Roe have relieved Lon' Charles Fitakoy and Major Du Plat in their duties as the Equerries in Waiting to the Queen and the Prince Consort Yesterday the queen and Prince Cowart, the Princes. Mies, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Helena and Louise, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and tho demesne house hold, attended Divine service in the private chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Bev. Professor Jerold°, D. D., preached the sermon. The King of the Belgians and Prince Lois of Hesse were present at the service. His Exeellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess do Malianit entertained a select circle at din. ner on Saturday evening, at Coventry House. Later in the evening the Countess de FLlhault had a small evecing party. The Countess of Malnicabury had an assembly on Saturday evening at her new residence in Stratford place. The Earl and Countesa of Scarborough are at promot staying at Brighton. The Ear and Countess de Grey and Ripon entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday evening at their residence in Carhop-gardens. The Earl and Counter of Galloway and family bays arrived at their reeidence in Eatoa•riume. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained a West party at dinner on %Mislay evening, at Cambridp Hosea Admiral the Hon. Henry and Mrs. Roue enter tained the Earl at lentos sad Loh Egidia Moutgemerie, Lewd sad Lady Colville, Lord sad lady Naas, Lord Beadlesham, Sir Hugh H. and lady Campbell, and Mr. G. P►yaa, at diaper as Saturday last, at their residence in Berkeley-square. The QIIneU has appointed the Rev. A. R. Grant to the rectory of Mitcham, in the diocese of Hy. Mr. Spencer St. John, 113 W Consul-General at Boni*, has been appointed Consul-Genera sad Charg6 d'Alene* to the Republic of Hayti, in the room of Mr. T. Neville Usher, who has retired after a service in the island of many years. Mr. George Benveouto Mathew, now Secre tary of Legation to Mexico, and who has lately been acting as Merge d'Affaires to the Mexican Republic, has been ap pointed Cause d'Affaires and ConsulGeneml to the Nepali& of Guatemala in the room of Mr. Fagan. Mr. Thomas J. Callaghan (of the Irish bar), at preistit chief magistrate at Hong Kong, baa been appointed toadmitiister the goverment of Labuan during the absence of the governor, the Hon. E. Edwards. Mr. Oallaghan has also received authority from the Foreign-office to act as Ceseal-O•neral, in the mom of Mr. St. John. It is pro bable (says the 0/wrrer) that the two offices may be united, and a saving thereby effected. A very iutwresting ceremony tuok place at Kings kiwi' on Thuratay, which attracted crowds from the city to that fashionable and rapidly rising town. About 4 o'clock the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with his eta, the com mittee et the " Taylow. Fund," and a brilliant company of ladies sad gentlemen, met on the deck of the Ajax to take put in the public recognition of the noble conduct of the maw of that Tree 1, who rekeil their lives under the gaideaes of ►he late Captain Boyd. ILmay circuinstanctui are occurring to prove that Inked is rapidly advancing in prosperity. Trade in Dublin 1. rice assrly twice as eztco.ivo AS it was haltiadosen years lines ; and of this no better proof can be askluced than the reedit building of • large graving dock at the mouth of the harbour. Into this capacious bun the Connaught, belong ing to the Holyhead mail service, WWI recently floated for main, ad hopes are entertained that it will soon revive • hunch of tn.le which was nearly extinct. Another evi dunce of the activity now being displayed in Ireland is the seeennement that a hue of river boats, built on the Ameri cas priachik at Newcasti...oo-Tyne, are about plying per. imeasatly between Dubin and Kingstown. The cabin and ahem are to be on dock, which, el it is carried to the out side of the padllea, is 30 feet wide. A movement Lax been commenced at Manchester to obtain such a modific•tion of the customs' regulations se will allow dirtet impartatioo and exportation for that city. Tweety-five years tuck • ship mail was proposed for this object, and subsequently the deepening of the river 'moll, • scheme on which Mr. Cubist, of Loudon, an d M r. F a i n bairn, of Manchester, gave • most favourable report TM plan now cootemplated, however, is of • more limited character—namely, simply to procure permission to tran ship goods into lighters without inenrriug those charges to which they are now liable through being unshipped at Liverpool ; and • menorisl to the Treasury and Customs t o this effect was ordered to be prepared sal prenatal LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. HONK, MAT 31. Three vessels laden with counterfeit money bearing the effigy of Francis 11. have sailed for Amalfi. TURIN, Juice 3. Count Cavour is recovering. The national fete was celebrated yesterday, with great splendour. TURIN, Jun 2. The Chambers have been adjourned until Wed nesday next. Count Cavour haft again been taken ill, and was bled twice in the course of yesterday. However, no serious fears are entertained as to his recovery. POLAND. CRACOW, MAT 31. Yetttenlay there was a promotion in the streets of Warsaw ; order wee not, however, disturbed. The troops are still encamped in the streets. HUNGARY. PESTH, Jim L A very stormy discussion took place to-day in the Lower House on the proposition of M. Beak relative to the address. Forty-six metpbers who are known to be in favour of voting an address to the Emperor renounced their right to take part in the discussion. M. Bonis declared.that this was merely a party maw euvre. SYRIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jum 1. The International Conference propose to accept the Austrian compromise, according to which the Staronitce would be governed by a Caimaean taken from the tibehab family, and the Drusec by a Mucculman, both to be under the Turkic!' Pacha. PARIS, Jaws 1. A despatch has bees received here from Con stantinople, dated May 30, asserting that in the sitting of the International Conference on the 29th May, it was resolved to establish in the Lebanon one Christian government, the chief of which should be of the religion of the majority of the in habitants, and be directly dependent on the Porte, and not on the Pacha of Beyrout. FRANCE AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN, fiATLIWAT Emma. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, the treaty with France for the construction of a navigable channel between the Rhine and Maine Canal and the Soar was approved, after a pro tracted discussion. An amendment to adjourn the discussion until after an estimate of the expense of carrying out the project bad been laid before the Chamber was rejected. INDIA. BOMBAY (via Malta), MAT It Mr. Laing brought forward hie budget for 1861- 62, and made his financial statement in the Legis lative Council on the 26th April. The budget is satisfactory, there being no deficit. The Amalga mation order is badly received by the Indian officers. The Bcinde railway was opened on the 11th May. • THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Jc!re 3. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Magdalena, from Brasil, left Lisbon for South ampton yesterday at 7 a.m. ' with 136 passengers, 35,6871. in specie, and 2,000 bags of coffee. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Ori ental Steam Navigation Company : The Valetta, with the mails from Bombay, Mau ritius, ea was to leave Malta for Marseilles on the Ist insiant, at 5 a. m. The Massilis, which left Marseilles with the Indian and Australian mails on the 29th May, reached Malta on the 31st at 10 p.m., and was to leave for Alexandria at 4 the next morning. AMERICA. UEENRTOWN, SOWDAT. The Royal Mail steamship Africa, Captain Shan non, arrived off the harbour at 4.46 a.m. She brings 88 passengers. She 'snded all mails, except those for Liverpool, and 18 passengers, and pro ceeded at 5 a.ni. all well. She left New York on the evening of the 22nd ultimo. The steamers Canadian, Edinburgh, and Persia had arrived out. QUEENSTOWN, SATURDAY Nicer. The Canadian screw steamer North American, Captain Aiton, from Quebec on the 18th ult., has put in here disabled. The Nova Scotian had arrived out. The news by the North American has been anti cipated. NEW YORK, Mar 22, 2 P.M. The Confederate Congress has ordered the emis sion of a loan for 50,000,000 dollars. Three-fifths of the amount are to be issued in bonds bearing 8 per cent. interest, and redeemable in twenty years, ei t ar4 and the remaining 20,000,000 dollars in notes without interest. General Butler and nine Federal Regiments hays been ordered to Fort Monroe. Advicee from Washington state that the Federal government will make no immediate aggressive movement. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald announces that the Federal government has resolved to declare war against any power that should interfere in the present dispute ; that Mr. Lincoln's administration is willing to adopt the code of the European Congress of 1856 in regard to privateers ; and that it had informed Spain that she would take possession of San Domingo at her Poril• President Lincoln has accepted the regiment of Canadian volunteers. The New York press diseusscs the statement re ported to have been made by Lord John Russell in Parliament, that England would regard the South ern privateers as belligerents, iu a tune highly hos tile to England. - _ The Governor of North Carolina has telegraphed to President Davis that the accession ordinance has passed unanimously. The people of Virginia will vote to-morrow on the secession onlinanoe. The North Carolina Legislature has voted five million dollars for the war. The Governor of Kentucky has warned both the Federal and the Confederate troops against making any movement on Kentucky soil, and declaring a strict neutrality. The Federal government has seized all the de spatches which have accumulated within the laid twelve menthe in every telegraph office throughout the Free States. The blockade of Charleston has been raised, the frigate Niagara having left for the Gulf of Mexico. Several vessels have arrived and sailed. A British ship has charteredli;Mi tor cotton at 20. per pound. President Davis has arrived at Pensacola, and was received with enthusiasm. A Federal steamer has destroyed one of the bat teries defending the approach to Norfolk Harbour. More riots have taken place at St. Joblen, New foundland. The troops fired upon the mob, killing two. COMMERCIAL LNTELLIGENCE. Stocks are dull, and lower. Illinois Central are quoted 652 ; New York Central, 711 ; Erie, 211. Exchange : Bankers' bills, 106 to 106 t. The cotton market is dull and heavy. Middling Uplands, 112. Corn steady. Flour improved. NEW ORLEANS, Mar 21. Cotton, middling, 112 c. Freight to Liverpool, ld. to 12d. LIVERPOOL, Joe! 1. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, which sailed to-day for Boston at 1.40 p.m., took 82,8611. 10a. in specie. QUENNEtr9WN, Floartr, Juni2. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia arrived hero at 1.30 p.m., embarked mails, passengers, and latest telegr:uns, and proceeded fur Halifax and Boston at 4.10 p.m. All well. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The following is Mr. Duncombe's reply to addresses that he baa received in acknowledgment of hie advocacy of Hungarian right. and independence in the Home of Commons. "TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY or Tile COUNTY OF ZYOLTOM. " Gentlemen,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the address passed by you on the 9th of April last, in which you have deemed me worthy of being the recipient of your thanks for having raised my voice in the Parliament of England in vindication of the rights and liberties of your noble country, and in which you record your sense of respect for the free English nation. "The wrongs which Hungary has endured have long round deep sympathy in England. The memorials of that sympathy in past centuries are not unknown to you. When the great struggle in defence of your inherited laws and constitution took place, in 1848 and 1819, England was roused into anxious hopes for your success, and the moral sense of our people was outraged at the spectacle of the beaten armies of Austria being saved from utter destruc tion and your liberties and constitution crushed by the tyrannical intervention of the arms of Ruses, in defiance of the laws of nations and the sound principles of European policy. "lie assured that although certain venal portions of the press of Europe may seek to blacken your institutions, the true character and value of those institutions is better under. stood in England than is agreeable to the friends of demo. tiara. The remarkable resemblance of your institutions to those of England is not unknown to Englishmen, and you noble perseverance in maintaining the life of those institu tions commands the respect of my countrymen. " Do not despair or be deceived, I entreat of you, by the halting and hesitation of officials entangled in the meshes of diplomacy—some of these, I regret to say, value the unity of a nominal Austrian empire above the sacred causes of liberty and nation►l independence ; but the voice of public opinion, in admiration of the firm and dignified attitude of your Diet, has been so loud and so universally expressed, it sets them at defiance; and rest assured that the course which the English Government shall take will be narrowly watched by the Parliament and people of England—to whom that government is responsible. " As to myself, in raising my voice whenever I have been able in ;alkali of the rights of Hungary, I have only ful filled what the deep convictions of my conscience assure me is the cause of right ; and I shall not cease, while I have the power, to raise that voice in behalf of so sacred a cause " I have the honour to be, gentlemen, " Your very faithful and obliged servant, " May 28, 18GL" " THOUAS SLINGSBY DeNCOIII.IE. VENETLL The Trieste jounials announce that the Emperor of Austria formally promised Count Bembo and the Marquis de Canossa, who had come from Venice to pay their respects to his Majesty during his visit to meet the Empress, the speedy publica tion of the Statuto for Venetia. The Archduke Albert arrived at Trent on the 26th May, to inspect the works which are being executed in the citadel and the fortifications along the road to Rica. The next day the Prince left for Borgo, Valsunana, and Feltre. After inspect ing the fortifications in the latter place, he will go to Venetia. Trent is now the central point of the fortifications of the frontier, which are of vast extent and extraordinary solidity. DENMARK. It is stated in the political circles of Frankfort that the report of M. Pfordten to the Diet on the question of Holstein and Denmark expresses the opinion that the last concessions of the Danish go vernment are insufficient, but abstains from speak ing of what are called measures of federal execution. Under these circumstances the Danish question will cease to be a subject of disquietude, and will be treated purely u a diplomatic one. The great powers will consequently have time to seek for a pacific solution of the matter. GERMANY. The P est-A rapt Go :At: states that the military conference at Wurtsburg will take into considera tion the choice of the staff and of the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the troops to be col lected in case of need, and also of the headquarters of the generals commanding the different corps. All these matters will be discussed and decided on, so that if any emergency should arise nothing will re main to be done but to appoint the general-in-chief. All the decisions taken at Wurtzburg will be im mediately communicated to the Federal Assembly. Tiie Eureeolt NAPOLEON AND THE CLERGY.— Tbe following note appeals in yesterday's libraittur : " Religious questions have lately given occasion to discus sions, the independence of which the government has not thought itself able to restrain, though it all the while de plores their excesses'. These discussions tend to worm a more passionate character, and violent attacks are made every day by means of the journals and brochures against the catholic clergy. The government, whose duty it is to make religion and its ministers respected, invites the writers to the moderation which some of them have discarded, and it is resolved to procure the remission of attacks of such a nature as might degenerate into offences against the lawn. Acting on communications made to him by the Minister of the Interior, M. le Garde dee &eau:, has just commenced proceedings against two brochures, the one entitled 'C r imea. Offences, and Scandals amongst the Clergy in these latter days,' and the other ' The little Books of the Rue de Ileums.' A prosecution has been immediately coin. rimmed against the authors of these publications." A RESOLUTION BY GARIBALDI. —The Unitd riancina of Milan, a Mazzinian organ, publishes the fol. lowing letter from (:ai:baldi, dated Caprera, 10th ult. : ..Sir,-1 sin much obliged to the Unitary Italian Society of Palermo for the honour it has done me in choosing me for its honorary president. Having learnt from the English papers that there is a plan afloat for giving Sardinia to the Pope, I have conceived the idea of submitting to the consi deration of your society, to which I have the honour of belonging, the following resolution, the principles of which should be propagated, not only among the members of the society, but also among the Italian people generally : Considering that Christ, by consecrating upon earth equality among men and nations, has deserved gratitude and love, we belong to the religion of Christ ; considering that the Pope, the Cardinals, the Sanfedists, all the merce naries of Italy, and the spies assembled at Rome, are the chief obstacles to the unitlmtion of Italy, by their pro. yoking and fomenting civil war, we do not belong to the religion of the Pope. In consequence of the above cond. durations, resolved:—That the Pope, the Cardinals, Ice., shall shut up shop Irombiar tattrga) at once and betake themselves to some country as far away as possible from Italy, thus allowing this unfortunate Italian nation, which they have been torturing for ages, to constitute itself dee. uitively.'—l ern, with affection and thanks, yours,— Gaireaum." ITALY. MOW 001 OWN TURLN, TRUILSDAY. First of all, to repair an omission, when a lady is in the cane, I ought to say that Garibaldi's daughter, Teresina, with her husband, Major Stefano Canzio, has been welcomed by the Genoese, amongst whom she will reside, in a very cordial manner. The marriage took place last Sunday in the general's private chamber, in bin plain farm-house at Caprera ; it was the vicar of the neighbouring isle of Mad dalena who performed the nuptial office. The happy couple sailed next day to Genoa, where an acclaim ing populace greeted their lauding on the quay, and six young girls, in the name of all their sex in that cityy, crowned the bride with flowers. io-day is Corpus Christi, one of the four major festivals and most sacred annual functions of the Roman catholic church. From this day will be dated throughout all Italy the first public and for mal sign of a coming practical separation of church and state. I told you that the magistracy had been ordered, and the municipality had resolved, not to take part officially, or in their corporate capacity, in this or in any other religious ceremony, excepting of course the Mace and the Te Delon which, in some of the Italian towns or parishes, the local clergy way voluntarily contri bute to the national festival of Sunday next. In that instance there would be a mutual and un constrained rapprochement between the civil and ecclesiastical dignitaries, but tho limitation of their authorities would remain distinct ; and even for that measure of deference towards the religious sen timent and its ministers the logic of liberalism has found the government policy very much to blame. The Minister of the Interior, while be recom mended the syndics and communal councils to in vite the clergy to join in the new political festival on Sunday, gave them no directions about joining themselves as heretofore in the old religious festival of Thursday ; but the Minister of Justice addressed to all the judges, and the Minister of Public Inatruo thou to the rectors of all the universities, au order to abstain from walking in the usual procession of the Host. I steed in the Via Dora Grossa this morning, when the procession , starting f rom S an Giovanni's Church, was passing by without the w on t e d ac companiments of temporal authority and rank ; I assure you that the oomments of the people I over heard were expressive leas of regret fur the diminished pomp of this spectacle than of satisfac tion with the principle thus asserted. " Render to Italy and to her King," it seemed to say, " the things which are of civil institution, but refer to the individual conscience alone the things which belong to the worship of God." So the procession, this time, had • purely reli gious character. The sisterhood of nurses in the hospital, and the little orphan girls, in their clean white muslin, each with her little cross, her book, and her fan—the men enrolled in other charitable associations, such as those who take care of the in sane in the lunatic asylum% and those who bring the drowned back to life—these mere lay agents of Christian beneficence led the way. They were followed by about • dozen confraternities of the several parishes, each with its crucifix, or pictured • saint or of • Madonna, borne aloft as a standard between two enormous candles, blazing high above the heads of thecrowd. Every man or woman —2,000 or 3,000, perhaps, in number altogether— had a burning taper, and the dropping wax was greedily collected by a swarm of street boys, who harassed, like flies hovering along a team of oxen, the aides of the procession, and even audaciously nibbled at the clotted tapers in the bearers' hands. The members of these parochial societies, wearing for each au uniform of serge or canvas, are persons mostly of the working classes, who assist for a small payment at funerals or other ceremonies, under the direction of their curate. Then came the friars, two or three different orders ; the bearded Capuchins, in rough brown frocks, who inhabit a convent romantically situated on the hill beyond the river ; the Dominicans, more daintily arrayed in white with black scarfs ; then came the young men from the Training College, where they are brought up to the clerical profession ; then came the parish priests of Turin, and lastly the canons of the cathe dral, in their proper robes or vestments, with the Vicar Capitular, under a lofty and sumptuous canopy, holding the symbolic object of this demon stration in both his hands. Forty or fifty gentle men, as private persons, walked behind, and a I picket of the 45th Regiment, merely to preserve order, brought up the rear. Last year, and in former years, am told, the court, the ministers of state, the senate and chamber, the civic body, the magistracy, the military, and the university, were either present or directly represented on this occasion, epd four of the Pielmontese nobility sustained the canopy which sheltered the chief ecclesiastical person in this diocese the Archbishop of Turin, as you are well aware, being Monsignor Franzoni, a rebel to the kingdom, and therefore now for some years past resident in France. In the Chamber yesterday the question of I recoguiniug military grades conferred by sundry provisional governments iu the year of abortive Italiarn revolutions, 1848, arose again, out of • discussion on the bill to provide retiring pensions for those army offices who threw up their commissions in the Austrian, Neapolitan, Papal, Tuscan, or Modenese services , for Italy's sake. The point was to determine whether, for example, an officer who bad been captain or lieutenant in some regular service, till he got appointed major, colonel, or general by the dictatorial government of Venice, Lombardy, or Rome, should have his pension reckoned according to the lower or higher degree of professional service. Career agreed to an article propertied by Teochio, fully ladmitting the claim of all Venetian slicers who came forward to serve the royal and national go vernment in its war for the whole of Italy two years ago. But he would not consent to esta blish as pensioners on the existing Italian king dom any men who, after serving under the Triumvirate at Rome in 1849, stood aloof in 1839 front motives of republican opposition, when Victor Emmanuel summoned the Italians to the field. I wish you to observe this distinction, because an effort has been made by the ultra-democratic party to cast some odium on the prime minister for his treatment of the defenders of Rome. lie frankly adopted a resolution, declaring that those who fought for Rome (against the French, re member) had deserved well of their country; and he promised another bill to provide for such of them as hued since offered their swords to Italy, in the last war. The upshot of the debate yestiw day waxen "order of theday,"riroposed by General Biel% that the Chamber should take note of the minister's declaration, and that all who hail ever fought for the national independence were worthy lof public esteem. An article was also agreed to, I specifying the case of those Neapolitan Lacers in 1 1848 who, alone with General Pepe, chose to dis obey Ferdinand's order of recall, and to march on wards against Austria for the deliverance of the Venetian provinces : the survivors of that exploit are to be aired fur in their declining age. Those paltry German courts are giving themselves very considerable airs—l don't mean in the affairs of their owu Federation, which the Daily N•tr' has lately disclosed, surprising many of its mailers here. e Vi at any c e,g thisa document royalty country,Baiia made a n w au i n t sd o h h u rt in i neKtepi theult i ag i :totiu name o u u s i k r , r : tain ial in the Kiug of Italy ! And the email monarch reign ing in Mecklenberg, whose title in the Ahniiiia,h Je Gotha I can't remember. probably a Grand Duke. also declines to riser a passport or a docket bear ing record of the sovereignty of 22,000,000 souls ! Wherefore the consuls of those German princes are now deprived of their e.erglititter in the kiugulom of Italy, which may probably not have to welt much longer fcr its diplomatic recognition by Itupssis. and France. The Prussian Gazette announce* that the King of Prussia, on hearing of the late duel, ordered the militar" authorities at once to commence a court martial INS General Maateuffel, and the Minister of Justice to prooreut e M. 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