The Express. — London, England, 1861-03-02 00:00:00

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Every act of the Pied luontese Government has been perfidious and hy pocritical towards the superseded Courts of the centre and the south of the Penineula, and san guinary and oppressive towards the people of the conquered provinces. For a conquest by stealth, surprise, and treachery, Lord NORMANDY evidently thinks it has been. Spontaneous discontent, in surrection, and triumph, we •re assured there has been none. All has been the result of secret machination and profound plot. The innocent King of the Two Stows was, in evil hour for himself and crown, duped into appointing • Cabinet of secret emissaries in the pay of Artenm Exusweet. Had it not been for this fatal mistake, his fleet would not have deserted or his army been beaten in the field, and his ex-Majesty's dominions would still be subject to his sway. What manner of men they may be whom this most noble friend of despotism expects to believe his assertions without proof, he has not vouchsafed to tell ; but proof Ire gives none, and the only authority he cites for the highly coloured statements of deception and cruelty with which he favoured the House of Lords last night, is that of anonymous paragraphs in Bourbon and Papal newspapers, interspersed here and there with a fragment or two of an official despatch. As specimens of the candour and justice which cha racterise Lord NORMANDY'S allegations, it may be enough if we note two, different in their kind, but identical in the spirit that dictates them. The Cross of Sr. MAURICII has for the second time been offered by Vicron EIRMANTRL to M. GAL, LINGA, who many years ago was, by his own con- Ismion, guilty of entertaining designs against the person of the late King CHARLD ALBIIRT. Early in the reign of the present sovereign he was for given, and recommended byCount GAVOCR for the decoration in question. Some objection, however, baring been publicly made at the time, he re nounced the distinction, and has since remained unconnected with and unnoticed by the Govern ment. The cause of the recent offer on the part of the Kieu to confer on him the insignia of the Sardinian order is not stated ; and Lord Nos- MANDY is quite at liberty to excite the indignation of mankind, if he is able to do so, against the man who meditated the assassination of the late K ix°. But in common decency and fair play the noble Marquis might as well have stated that M. (humans was at the period alluded to but eighteen years of age, that he did not actually attempt to execute his design, and that, according to his own version of the story, he was misled by enthusiastic devotion to Republicanism, and by impatient re sentment at the abject thraldom in which Piedmont as well as the rest of Italy was then kept. Other version of the affair we have none ; and voluntary confessions intended to criminate former associates are notoriously unsafe foundations to build upon. But Lord Noanaear is not troubled about the character or conduct of M. GALLIDIGA itself, and be only introduces his name for the purpose of casting another reproach on VICTOR EMMANUEL. He therefore lays bold of just so much as suits him, and no more ; and then asserts gravely that a decoration has been conferred by the King of ITALY on the baffled assassin of his father. The other illustration to which we refer is that which relates to the proclamation of General Ptmetti for disarming the brigands and insurgents in the Abruzzi. The noble lord appears to have read at some length the violent and arbitrary language of the proclamation, in order to excite the indignation of his hearers. But he chose to forget to mention the rather signifi cant fact, that no sooner were the terms of the document brought under the notice of the Government at Turin than it was peremp torily cancelled and publicly disavowed. ibis was done within fourteen days after the first pub lication, and we have never seen it asserted upon any reliable authority that during that brief inter val its threats were ever put in force. What, then, is the equity, policy, or common sense of making wholesale charges of cruelty and oppres sion against a Government with which we are on friendly terms, because it had in its service a hot headed officer, whose language it has been ome peUed to disown I Has the British Government never made mistakes in the selection of its servants, or has it never been compelled to dismiss or disavow them f Haa Lord Misnam, forgotten his own administrative blunders in thu choice of subordi nates ; or is he too old to remember instances of unfitting appointments with which his name was once familiarly associated f The truth is, however, that he 'veins to be one of those men who are incapable of distinguishing between facts that ars facts and facts that are not facts ; just as COLZIIIMS , meal to say some men bousht books wilbOnt knowing " whether they were really books, or Nay not " books." In his overflowing enmity to the new Kingdom of Italy and to its new KING be pours forth without discrimination the contents of his autumnal and winter gleanings from gossiping letters, reactionary journals, ultramontane pamph lets, and garbled extracts from the Blue Books. THE EZPRESS, SAWADAIT . EVENING, MARCH 2, 1861. * his intention, as we gathered from his original' notice, was to call attention not only to the mis deeds committed in Italy, but to the moral accountability of the British Government therefor. With the eiceptioh, however, of a flippant fling or two at Lord Joint RrssELL about Church-rates and Parliamentary Reform, Lord NORMANDY forgot his friends at demo; and Lord Woosnorsr [eit it necessary at the commencement of his reply to apologise for seeming to offer a defence where no substantial attack had been made. Possibly that is a pleasure to come. No opposition was made to Admiral Des cants's motion for the appointment of a commit tee to inquire into the constitution of the Admi ralty administration, and the discussion het night assumed an unusually personal character. The general opinion among those, whether in the House or out of doors, who have studied the working of the present system, is, that any change made should be in increasing the responsi bility, and therefore the internal authority, of the chief of the department. Considerable sur prise is expressed in communications we received yesterday from officers who have held important commands, at the decidedly favourable language in which Mr. Wernisaan felt at liberty to speak on Thursday of the state of discipline in the Navy. The hon. gentleman's information is, of course, to be respected as of official authority. But it is in striking disagreement with that which reaches us from the Mediterranean and the Cape, and we know that it has caused astonishment amongst officers who take the deepest interest in all that concerns the contentment and efficiency of the service. . LATEST INITILICIENCE -,,- RUSSIA AND POLAND. DISTURBANCES AT WARSAW. THE TROOPS FIRING UPON THE PEOPLE. (num% Tzmaimis.) ST. PETERSBURG, Kam 2. The following despatch, dated Warsaw, Feb. 27, has been received here :—" Riotous assemblages are forming in several streets. The troops have been pelted with stones, and replied by firing on the people, killing six , and wounding a similar number." The following despatch, dated Warsaw, Feb. 28, has also been received :—" Order has been re established. In the event of fresh disturbances taking place, a state of siege will be proclaimed." HUNGARY. PESTI', lieun 2. The municipality of Peath has seut a deputation to the Tavernicus, to request the removal of the imperial police. The judicial conference has resolved upon re establishing the district courts of justice. ITALY. NAPLES, ILutca 1, 4 r.m. This morning Prince Carignan paid a visit to Admiral Mundy on board the Hannibal, and was motived with great honours. The English fleet will leave to-morrow for Malta. The frigate Victor Emanuel goes to Messina. The Neapolitan nobles who bad fled the country are returning every day. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVINUFG. The diacnamion on the draft address was con tinued to-day in the Senate. Prince Napoleon, in his speech, said : " I am astonished at the violence of the discus sion. I leave to liberal opinion in Europe, to the patriotism of the Italians, to the 200,000 soldiers who, with the Emperor at their head, made the campaign of Italy, the task of repaying to the insults which you have listened to. (Cheers.) The empire represents modern society, its progressive tendencies, and the liberal principles of 1789. (Loud cheers.) The peoples are not mistaken if they rely upon Napoleon lIL, who will not fail in his mission." The Prince then recalled the words of the Em peror respecting Gaeta, and said : " Count Macke ren has confounded the words ' pity ' and sym pathy,' the latter being only felt by the Emperor for the glorious cause of Italy, and for the allies who have shed their blood at our sides at Magenta and Solferino." The Prince defended the English alliance against the Marquis Larochejequelin, and said : " That alliance is not with some particular ministers, but with the great ►nd liberal English people. It is an alliance with which we can defend the great principles of liberty and progress." The Prince justified the policy of Piedmont in Italy, and maintained that the unity of Italy was favourable to France, of whom (he said) she was the natural ally. He uttered some sympathetic words respecting Venice, but said that he should deplore any untimely attack. He foresaw that Italy united would soon demand Rome as her capital, and continued : " The difficulty is to ensure the independence of the Pope, who cannot become subject to another sovereign. But by securing to the Pope the right aide of the city of Rome, with a papal garrison and a papal budget, guaranteed by the Powers, his in dependence would be ensured." The Prince was essentially opposed to the union of the temporal and spiritual power, which would be subjection of the conscience. ,(The sitting is adjourned.) THE SIEGE OF MESSINA. TURIN, FRIDAY ETLYINCI. The journal L'Dalia says : "According to despatches received hero from General Cialdini, the resistance of General Far gola, governor of the citadel of Messina, arises from orders received by the latter from Francis 11. "The siege will be commenced in a few days." DENMARK. COPENIIAGEN, The Berlingske Tidende of to-day says :—" cording to reliable information, the Minister of State for Holstein will proceed to Itzehoe in the quality of commissioner, the nomination of M. Rowentlowa having been withdrawn by govern ment." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Max °us OWN PARIS. FITDAT EVIIIIIDIO. It is stated in au accredited lithographed corre spondence that within the last two days there has been a talk of a note received by Prince Metternich front the court of Vienna, which he has communica ted to M. Thouvenel. In this note, as it is asserted, the Austrian government declares that it will never recognise Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy ; that if France recalls her troops from Rome, she will immediately replace them by an Austrian army, and that if the revolution makes the least movement in Venetia or Hungary, she will cross the Mincio. The correspondence, while admitting that it does not know far this rumour may be founded, adds that it has produced a considerable sensation in the political world. After my letter of yesterday, containing a sum mary of the opening of the debate in the Senate, was despatched, the Marquis de Larochejaquelin proceeded at tremendous length to attack the Italian policy of the French government. He quoted largely from the blue books, to show that the Pope and General Lamoricihre bad been deceived and betrayed by French promisee. This recusant legitimist, who, since he donned the senator's uniform, has been repudiated by his own family, now endeavours to regain caste by standing forward as the advocate of the bishops. The sharp look out kept by M. Troplong, who presided at the debate, prevented him from making any very direct onslaught upon Pontius Pilate, but Le was very hard indeed upon Herod, Caiphas, and Judas, under which typical names the Bishop of Poitiers designated Victor Emmanuel, Garibaldi, and Cavour. In the course of his speech he asserted that a recent French minister at Rome, Count de Rayneval, since deceased, encouraged the Roman government not to grant reforms, thereby acting against his official instructions. This accu sation was vehemently repelled by M. Thouvenel, Count Walewski, and Prince Napoleon, and IL Troplong repeatedly and authoritatively called upon M. de Larochejaquelin to retract his words, but he firmly refused to do so, saying that he was able to prove what he advanced. A most important speech was made by M. Pietri, who roundly declared that the temporal power of the Pope was " lost" by the fault of his own counsellors, and that the only thing now to be hoped for was to save his spiritual power. This statement was received with noisy marks of dissent by many senators. When it is remembered that K Pietri is a Corsican, that he was made a senator as a reward for his services as prefect of police of Paris, and that only last year he was confidentially employed by the Emperor in Savoy and Nice, the great importance of his speech will readily be con ceived. To-day it is understood that Prince Napo leon will speak against the court of Rome. It is worthy of remark that the old legitimist senators, in supporting the cause of the temporal power, artfully inculcate a jealousy of England,and taunt the Emperor with having followed English policy ever since Villafrance. Their tactics, how ever, which would only lead to a general war for the most quixotic purposes, will not prevail against the opinion of the country, which is certainly em bodied in the emphatic declaration of the draft address of the Corps Legislatif that the two great requirements for France are "pesos and economy." M. Pistri's speech quite realises the idea of an address sketched by the Siede, which suggests that it should run something in this way : Bire,—On grounds which it is unnecessary to discuss, you have felt bound to grant complete protection to the Pon tiled government. Events stronger than your will have decided the fate of Italy. The princes for whom you dis played so much generosity hare lost all hope of ever re amed* their thrones. The Pope, deaf to all your warn ings, ham lost his temporal power by the force of things and his own multiplied faults. But one mission now remains to be fulfilled, which is to reconcile if possible the Pope with the King of Italy ; but if your good °Blocs cannot succeed is realising that object, if you encounter only obstinacy and ingratitude on the part of the Holy Father's advisers, faithful to the principle you have pro claimed you have only to withdraw your troops, and leave the issue to the necessity of a compromise, which the Pontifical government will feel when it shall be no longer protected by the arms of France. The Bourse was almost stagnant, and the Rents left off at yesterday's prices. The Caine Mires and the Porte of Marseilles rose sfr. each. Railways were higher; Western rising 10fr., and Orleans and Lyons bfr. each. The Pays treats as a fable the news given, as it says, by English journals, that the Bishop of Pekin has been banished from that capital by the Emperor of China. The Patric traces the news above contra dicted to an English journal of Hong Kong, which said that the French bishop, Mgr. Moulin, had been arrested and was iu the grektest danger ; it says that this statement is not only untrue, but that, ac cording to all the latest advioes, the relations of the French missionaries with the Chinese govern- ment were very satisfactory. The following are the members of the Legislative Body who have inscribed their names to take part in the discussion on the address :—Against : MM. de Flavigny, Gouin, Kolb-Bernard, Plichon, Kel ler, Amyl, O'Quin, de la Tour, de Cuverville, d'Audelarre, Ouyard-Delalain, and Jubinal. On the paragraph relating to finances : MM. Devinck and Gouin. On that relating to peace :M. d'Au delarre. On that relating to Italy : MM. O'Quin, Mellon, de la Tour, Anoel, Guyard-Delalain, Greyfitf, de Belleoombe, and Ducks. PRUSSIA AND ITALY. Herr von Vincke, the mover of the resolution in the Prumisn Chambers in favour of Italian unity, writes as follows to the Perseveranal : The journals report that an appeal is being made in Italy for offering me a testimonial for a motion in the Prussian parliament, via. that "it is for the interest of Prussia, and of Germany generally, not to oppose in any way the con solidation of the unity of Italy. Animated by the liveliest desire of witnessing the constitutional unity of hely under the sceptre of her brave king, Victor Emmanuel, I thick it my duty to call to mind that my motion--cousidering the occasion and motive of it—was not intended toe:press sym psthy—a thing barren enough in politica—but to indicnte in the interest of Prussia and Germany the lino of conduct which the Prussian government ought to follow in the opi nion of the Chamber of Deputies ' that is, to abstain from all interference—even diplomatic in terference—in the affairs of a nation as great as it is full of goal intentions towards Prussia (as I have a right to presume); of a nation which fights for its unity, the fulfilment of which by pacific means is for the interest of Europe, and on which flennany hopes that she may count in case of opposition being made in the name of Europe to the abuse of force by any power whamoever. For these reasons the undersigned feels it, however reluc tantly, to be hie duty to refuse a mark of recognition, on the part of Italy, of a proposition which he made as a Prussian, and in the interest of Prussia. Consequently, while warmly Manikin so many Italian patriota, I ask them to devote the product of their subscriptions to the aid of the families of the brave soldiers who have recently taken the fortress of Gaeta under the royal flag of his Majeaty Victor Emmanuel G. vox Vacua. The Giornale di Verona (a poor authority) of the 25th ult., says that llassini is now at Caprera " to arrange the next expedition with his lieutenant, Garibaldi." General Teacher de la Pagerie, who is related to the Emperor Napoleon through the Emprem Josephine, has for someday, Well very seriously ill. He is upwards of eighty ye in of age. The disi before yesterday the Emperor paid him a visit. HUNGARY. pros ous ows PF3PA. Pu. Since my loaf letter the Hungarian crisis has passed through 'different important phases. The counties, nothing daunted by the bullying tone of the royal order in council of January 16, and un moved by the advice of the Cardinal Primate, con tinned to protest against any unilateral change of the laws of 1848, and the county of Pesth sent a most courageous address to Vienna, reminding Francis Joseph of the oath of all his predecessors, and of the violations of the constitution by several of his ancestors, which never could subdue the spirit of the nation, and always resulted in the new confirmation of the old rights and 13rivileges of the kingdom. The county quotes all the laws upon which she takes her ground, and clearly shows that it is not Hungary but the government that is in the wrong. The unanimous and unflinchingresolution of the nation to stand by the law seemed to make a deep impression at Vienna, but suddenly the bright hopes of Hungary darkened. The eminently pacific speeches of the Queen of England and the Emperor Napoleon revived the absolutist tendencies of the Court party, and since it became known how actively Sir Henry Bulwer bullies Prince Couza of Moldo- Wallachia, in order to put a stop to the prepare tions of our exiles, to whom we are mainly indebted for the concessions already given, the reactionary party has gained new strength. M. Schmerling, the renegade of liberalism in 1848, whose fatal policy at Frankfort treacherously prepared the complete 'failure of all the endeavours of the Germans to arrive at German unity, returns again to the old plans of Baron Bach. Hungary is to be governed in the interest not of Hungary, not of Austria, but of the German provinces of Austria, and the means for it are once more the old Austrian 1101471111111, repression and the state of siege. Schmerling wishes, indeed, to be more cun ning than Bach—he does not show his absolutist tendencies so openly as his predecessor ; he speaks of constitutional forms, but his plan is centraliza tion and bureaucracy. The fact that, according to the Hungarian constitutional system, the officials do not command, but obey—that they do not o ne the law, but have to execute it under the control of the county meeting, goes so muoh against his grain, that he believes the county administration to be equivalent to anarchy. He speaks now of Austria's mission toteach Hungary whatadministastion means. Belonging to the German nation, which among all the nations of Europe has most completely lest all traditions of self-government, he does not con ceive a state where the executive official should not be under the direct control of the central govern ment. Such being the case, he tries to stem the Hungarian movement, and to return once more to centralization. Since, in September, 1848, he suc ceeded at Frankfort in proclaiming the state of siege and still continuing the debates of parliament, be really believes that a constitution, elections, and legislative assemblies may be reconciled with the state of siege. But he forgets that if German metaphysicians and philosophical lawgivers could combine martial law with free discussion about the rights of man and about the attributions of a German emperor, the primitive Hungarians have not yet reached the same degree of doctrinaire civilisation. We are fully prepared either for the state of siege or for a legal parliament ; but we cannot blow hot and cold in the same breath. If martial law is to be proclaimed there will be no elections and no parliament. We understand despotismhave learned to understand it by the experience of twelve unhappy years : and we understand liberty; but we do not understand, and we repudiate despotism under the cloak of con stitutional liberty. Fiume, our seaport, has already been placed under martial law because the town repeatedly expressed its desire of remaining united with Hungary; and we fear very much that other parts of the kingdom will soon be put in a state of siege. The Baron Vay came on the 14th down to Pesth to meet the lord-lieutenants of all the counties, and to take their advice. He was downcast, and openly avowed that his position becomes untenable. He told the lord-lieutenants that unless the counties pay the illegal taxes, the reactionary party will get the upper hand at Vienna, and the hopes of a reconciliation will soon have to be abandoned. Still the lord-lieutenants de clared unanimously that nothing less than the laws of 1848 can satisfy the H uugga and they requested the Cardinal ate to go to Vienna and to try once more to induce the Emperor not to insist upon illegalities and to observe the law. His chances m i ght have been somewhat bettered by the surrender of Gaeta, had not the Archduchess Sophie, the mother of the Emperor, within the last month regained some of that iufluence which she so fatally exerted in 1848. Since at that period she suc ceeded in rousing Croatians, Serbs, and Roumans against Hungary, the same policy is again resorted to. The Austrian officers and the taxgatherers, who have now nothing to do since nobody pays taxes, go about and incite the different races against the Hungarians, and try by all means to bring about collisions between the people and the army. They bind the Hungarian cockade to the tails of their doge, they insult those who wear the Hun garian colours, they speak in public places agaivat the men whom Hungary loves to honour, but the common sense of the people has until now bravely and wisely resisted such provocatives. Whether our Croatian, Serb, and Rouman brethren will be wise enough to resist the wiles and promises of Vienna time will show. Twelve years of prac tical oppression ought to have taught them how little Austriakeeps her promises, and how dangerous a business it is to save her. England ought like wise to know that to save Austria does not pay ; but, unfortunately, the agents of the English government do all they can to estrange Hungary from England ; they speak about the necessity of galvanising the corpse of Austria, of keeping that state alive which has lately become a mere geo graphical expression. Thus the hopes of Hungary turn towards Napoleon, and when the fatal hour of Austria strikes—and strike it will, it must—inde pendent Hungary will be the ally of France, not of England. Nothing can save Austria, as an empire, but the restoration of the laws of 1848. The state of siege will send at once more men to prison, into exile, to the gallows, but it will soon destroy Austria. We had for a while the hope that everything might be peacefully arranged ; now we see once more that liberty must be bought by the blood of martyrs and of heroes ; and Hungary was always the moat fertile soil of martyrs and heroes. In the Italian Chamber, during the discussion on the bill referring to the future title of the King, Senator Pena.) made some objections to the title of "King of Italy," which he thought resemWed the old feudal forms too much, aml therefore might be much more advanta geously replaced by the other form—" King of the Italians." Count Crvour, in reply, remarked that the Queen of England was not called Queen of the English, although the English were the nation which understood liberty best ; but that if it were objected that the English are characteristically attached to old customs and traditions, be would quote an instance of a people who had no feudal traditions whatever, viz—the North Americans, who called the chief of their government " President of the United States," and not " President of the Americans." After this explanation, Senator Panto withdrew his objection. _ A report has been recently presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences on the deterioration of Egyptian wheat which has been going on during recent years. The causes are stated to he the want of new seed, and the bad quality of the land selected for sowing wheat. A perfectly successful attempt has been made to illuminate the Courts of the Tuileries and the Place du Carrousel by the electric light. The generating apparatus is placed in a cellar under Marshal VailWWl' apartments in the Tuileries, and the illuminating power is so great that the onlinary gas-jets seem absolutely light less. The appearance of these localities every evening is that of an animated fair. The cost of the electric light Is stated to be considerably less than that of gas. A Munich letter says :—" The winter course of lectures, held in the chemical lecture-room at Baron Liebig's, hal begun very well. The lectures began towards the end of January, and continue to the 20th of March. The most interesting one hitherto was delivered by Professor %delude& on the Russian Theatne.* Etc dour*. OSBORNE, itAICH I. There wan no addition to the royal dinner party rederelay. The Queen and Prizes Caesar! walked oat in the forenoon. A deputation on the subject of the Salmon Fisheries bad an interview, yesterday, with the Right Hoo. Sir O. C. Lew* at the Home.odice. A deputation on the subject of the Westminster Improve ment Bill bad an interview, yesterday , with the Right Hos. Hos. W. F. Cowper, at the oMee of her Majesty's Works, Wlitebsll-place. Mr. Kershaw and Mr. J. It Smith bad an interview with Mr G. C. Lewin yesterday, at the Rome-cdflee. were received yesterday at the Colonial.office, fret es tre lc flo ' ', et stunts of the West India Islands and Canada. Dispatches were sent from the Colonisl.aMee to the Cover nee of British Columbia, and to the Lord High Commis sioner of the losiae bleeds. (nom LAN? NIGHT% GAzerm) 70111110N-OIFIC; Fn. 26.—The Queen has been pleased $o approve of Yr. Samuel Lilly as ConsuLoeneral M Oaleutta for the United States of America. — DowninW-Nrneer, Fn. 27.:Lffie Queen has been =to appoint William Walter Raleigh Kerr, Eaq., to aerial 7ywsurer ; and Edward Leered Ruahworth, Req., to be Auditor Gamma for the Island of Mauritius ; Gamma Oodkerk, Fag., to be Boa-keeper, in the office of the Auditor-General f ar the colony of British Guiana; Richard Rowell, to be Auditor General for the Island of Trinidad ; J Eaq., ohn Hill Beresford, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of Tobago ; and Anthony Pemberton Hobson, Esq., to be laspector•General al Police for the Wand St. Vincent. — LORD ClikiiDE/iIAINN-OFFICE, Pas. 28.—Notice banby gi wee, that the state apartment. of Windex Meth will be open to the public, under the usual regula tions, cm Monday next, the 4th of March. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge entertained the Earl of St. Germans, the Earl sad Coma teas of Shelburne, Viscount and Viscounts,. Sydney, Lord and Lady Rokeby, Mr. Henry Greville, Dr. Quinn, and a select party at dinner last evening, at St. James's Palace. Her royal highness received his Excellency the Austrian Minister and Countess Apponyi, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the Netherlands Minister, the Duke ad Daphnis of Wellington, the Marchioness (Maria) et iihebary, the Earl and Countess et Derby, the Fart and Cleantees d Weetesorelead, Viscountess Stratford de Red. mid dm Ran. Miss Cansing, Count Kalnoky, Lord and Indy likiao, Lord Wismar, Sir Hamilton Seymour and Kiss Bey aour, the Hun. F. Byag, Colonel the Hon. Dudley and Lady Elizabeth de Roe, Captain the Hon. C. Edg cumin, Hoe. William Bathurst, Captain Falbe, and a small party after dinner. Tb. Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh° and Lady araiotte lanes Ker left town yeeterdny fur Floon Castle, agar Kelso, N.B. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have left the St. Genes Hotel. The Count and Countess St. Clair and Mdlle. Beegiere hive left the Brunswick Hotel, Jere:we-street, for Parks Lord and Lady Iluntinqfield and the Hon. Mina Value& have arrived at St. George's Hotel. Sir William and Lady Gomm arc about to pur dam a rills in the neintiboneibood of Cumin. The late Duke of Sutherland, who has left several children, is succeeded by his eldest son, George Onaville William, now Duke of Sutherland, who woe boa In 1828, and married in 1849 the only daughter of Mr. John Hay Mackenzie, of Cromertie, by whom he has a son and heir, and other children. He is Lord Lieutenant of the county of Cromarty, Vice• Lieutenant of Sutherland shire, sad became member for the latter county in 1862. His grace, it will be remembered, took a very special interest in the progress of the Great Eastern steamship, and was a frequent visitor during the protracted launch of that marine curiosity. He has on ether occasions evinced much Mete for scientific and mechanical subjects ; but, save se maintaining his hereditary pinkies as a member of the great whig party, has taken as very active part io polities. Yr. and 31rs. Charles Koan started for Edin burgh yesterday. They perform twelve sights in the Scottish capital, and then in Glasgow. They thee return to the metropolis, and open oo Easter Monday at the Standard Theatre, where they are engaged for seven weeks. We regret to learn that Mr. John Cross, whose peters et " Richard the Pint pinioning the Archer" occu pies so worthily a place in the Holum of Parliament and pitied a prize at Westminster Hell, died on Tuesday night last. The exhibition cu Mr. Holman Ehnen picture of "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple," will be re opened on Monday. We (A theranton) bare beard that M. Schirs will conduct the Itches operas during the coming mama at Her Majesty's Theatre. It is announced that during the remainder of Lest that theatre is to be elated on Wednes days and Fridays. The English Opera season at Coyest Garden will come to an end this day week-so that Rey Bias will not, we ecoceive, he given till after the masa The Italian programmes of the rival houses should be forthteming aborily. Sir Richard MAyi.e, Chief Metropolitan Police, accompanied by his brother, Colonel Mayo*, and Mr. Mid!alien, visited Woolwich yesterday, and entered into arrangements for the assumption of the dockyard station duties by the police force. The whole of the guard and sentry posts in the dockyard, hitherto held by the military, will henceforth be supplied by the police, m during the Crimean war. of the We have to &notion°e the death of Sir George Couper, Hart., Comptroller of the Household of the Duchess of Kent, who expired au Thursday evening at Irrogrnore, after a short Woes.. The diplomas, patents, and statutes intended to yeasistitute the coustitutiocuil laws of Austria are exceed 's/Ay vo!uminous, occupying nearly 150 columns of the Official Jaime!. There was a marked increase of pauperism in teemed and Wales during the mouth of January last, as eisespared with the oorreepooding month in 1860. In the In* week the increase in the number of paupers relieved wee 34,373 ; in the second week, 77, 5 66 ; in the third week, 118,383 ; in the fourth week, 115,376 ; in the fifth week, 67,637. • . It i s said that the skilful and jovial part-singers of Cologne are intending to pay as soother visit at oo dis tant period. • RUSSIA. FIUDAT. . _ It/ refutation of current reports, the Governor- General of St. Petersburg announces that no go vernmeut measure concerning the peasants will be published on the 2nd March. THE UNITED STATES. INAUGURATION OF THE SOUTHERN PRESIDENT. QUEENSTOWN, Sartmosr. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Captain Anderson, from Boston on the 20th, and Halifax on the 22nd ult., arrived here at 4 a.m., landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 4.30 a.m., all well. She brings 62 paasenpra. Mr. Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confederacy, was inaugurated at Alabama on the 18th ult. The spectacle is described as the grandest ever witnessed in the South. - The inaugural address of President Davis says : —" The judgment and the will of the people are that union with the Northern Staten is neither practicable nor desirable. If neerssary we must maintain by final arbitrament of the sword the position we have assumed." - President Lincoln left Buffalo and Albany on the 18th ult. Be was greeted en route with the usual ovations. The Missouri election would probably result in favour of the union candidates by a majority of b,OOO votes. In the House of Representatives a bill had been reported making an appropriation for a survey of the Northern Pacific regions, with the view of establishing a telegraph to Asia. Advices from Monterey, Mexico, announce that Mejia had entered the town of Riverde with 2,000 men, butchered 900 men, and burnt the town. NEW YORK. Fn. 19. Exchange on London :—Bank bills, 106, 1061 ; commercial bills, 104 k, 1041. (LATENT PT TO MALIFAX.) Arkansas has voted against the holding of a con vention. The Tariff Bill has been passed in the Senate. The duty on coffee has been agreed to. The steam-ships Jura and Saxon* and the Fulton, Kangaroo, and Nova Scotian have arrived out. iitocks dull. Erie, 311 ;New York Central, 76i ; nlinois Central, 79. Cotton firm. Sales in two d a y s , 8,800 bales. The crop is estimated to be d ec li n i ng . Breadstuffs and provisions unchanged. COLLIERY ACCIDENT.-LOSS OP EIGHT LIVES. An explosion of fire-damp occurred in a coalpit on Wediseeday afternoon, at Worsley, near Manchester, which occasioesd the death of eight miners, and injuries of a dangerous nature to a ninth. The pit in which the acci. dent pened is one of the nest of collieries, worked by the trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater. It is called the Berry Field Pit, after the name of a farmer in ens re whose fields it is situated. There are two shafts, about 30 yards apart, by which the workings are entered. The one is called the downcast shaft, the other the tipcast shaft. The downcast shaft leads to the deeper working, and it was is the " runs" from this shaft that the explosion took piece. Both shafts we sunk to the same depth, but the workings in the upset shaft are 40 yards above the level of the workings in the downcast shaft. The runs were connected by two air tunnels, which pierced through from shaft to shaft at the level of each working. The explosion occurred at half-peat one, and at that time there were 14 men in the lower and about 20 in the higher work ing. The existence of fire-damp had been discovered soon after the pit was opened, which is only two years ago, and the greatest caution !sad been observed. An inspector and nnderlooker resided in the immediate vicinity of the pit, and firemen were specially appointed whose sole duty consisted in attending to the sr-ways sod searching foe fire-damp. The first intimation of the accident was by • succession of heavy booms, and at the same time • column of smoke rose from the mouth of each shaft. The smoke was succeeded by blasts of sulphur, which rendered impossible for • time a near approach to the mouth of the pit. The people in the neighbourhood speedily became aware of the fact that an accident had happened, and the relatives of the miners flocked to the spot. Attempts were made to wind up the cage, which happened to be at the time of the explosion at the bottom of the shaft, but the ropes were blown out of gearing, and considerable delay was expo risme& When the tackle was arranged, the cage wart found to be immovable. The signalling wire was also broken. Fears were entertained that all the miners were lost, and women and children began to cry aloud. Pre sently the sound of knocking was distinctly 'card, the cage was found to have become free, sod was drawn up. There were five miners in it, all of them suffering from the effects of the sulphurous atmosphere they had been breathing. None of them could speak, and as each one was taken out his features were eagerleagerly scanned by the men and women who stood around. The poor men soon revived in the fresh air, and the fears of those whose rela tives had not bees brought up were confirmed by the miniver, asserting that they alone had escaped alive. The miners in the higher working, which had been affected slightly by the explosion, alarmed at the rush of air, bad eignalledto the top Fifths ap-east shaft, and were all brought np alive, but suffering, like the other., from the effects of the 001i0111 atmosphere. The cage in the down-oast shaft had meanwhile been got ready for lowering ; and two mein only were found courageous enough to volunteer to go is search of the missing men. These were John Jones and William Armstrong, two of the inspectors. The nooks lad sulphur were still coming up the shaft in one deems cloud, and the risk was one of no ordinary Dates, After they had descended they signalled for the cage to he drawn up, and they were left to grope in the dark amid the &brio of coal waggons, air doom, iron rails, and heaps of coal and rock, for the dying or the de d. The example set by the inspectors induced others to follow I them, to the number of half &down. First a body, fright fully mutilated , was found. Then soother poor fellow, and on being carried to the opening he showed some signs ed life, and was immediately placed in the cage and hoisted to the surface. This man's name is William Knight He le i badly buret as well as bruised. An boar or two and first Richard Evans (one of those who were e e i n a in searching for the bodies), thee Armstrong, and, fi y, Jones (the two inspectors) fell senseless on the ground, and in turn had to be carried by their companions to the shaft and sent up in the cage. Al each hour elapsed, the danger to be apprehended from the foul atmosphere was lessened, but midnight came before the last body was found. One who escaped stated that as he ran along the working with his coat tail placed against his mouth, to enable him to breathe the more easily, he found • man named James Lyon lying on his face. He stopped and asked Lyon why be My there, and he replied that he had been blown there. Lyon then got up to follow the other to the pit shaft, but, overcome by the sulphur, he fell down and was weathered. Lyon had only been working in the pit a month, and has left • wife perfectly destitute. Two of the dammed an brothers, named Cooke. They lived with their swat and ands. The uncle was • miner, and worked in the Berry Field Pit, but at the time of the ex plosion he was following his father's body to the grave, and so escaped the death his nephews met. BOARD OF TRADI, WHITEHALL, MARCH I.—The Right Honourable Hie Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm, reporting that • new Swedish customs law will come into force on the lit April next, by which the differences at present existing between bonding and warehousing in Swedish ports will he abolished, and the warehousing duty of one quarter per cent. ad valorem, now in force, raised to I per cent. co the tariff rate, payable both on landing and reshipment. Vessels of above 24 tons will not be required to produce a consular manifest, in lieu of which a master's manifest must be delivered.— Gazette. Balloarasr.—The Royal Military College is ordered to be enlarged, for the purpose of accoratios 590 cadets, and a new riding house is to be built. The letting and mi del room, and minium, will be finished in the course of the year.—United Serriee Gazette. Tar Exitinrriox or 1862.—We are glad to bear that the deed constituting the Guarantee Fund for the In• ternational Exhibition of 1862 is being very rapidly signed. Considerably more than one hundred and fifty thousand pounds have been signed for in about ten days ; several new names, it is pleasant to add, being among the signatures. It is understood that the commissioners have made_ =gement., with WWI. Kelk and Means. Lucas Brothers of • very satisfactory kind. So soon as the deed of guarantee is signed for an amount sufficient to allow of the Bank of England advancing the sum already named—a quarter of a million—the commissioners will sign • contract, and place the execution of the works in the hands of the two firms who have jointly undertaken them. Letters have been issued by the commissioners, inviting * certain number of noblemen and gentlemen acquainted, either through statesmanship or practice, with the require manta of trade, to advise them on the means of securing best representation of each branch of industry. letters are addressed, among other', to the President and Vice-President of the Hoard of Trade, the Lord Mayor elf Loadoe, and to the presidents of all the chambers el commerce. Lord Stanley of Alderley and Lord Stanley, M.P., have readily accepted this invitation.-4tArateusi. SAYINGS BANKS IN THE RAILWAY BERVICE.—• Yesterday, the first annual meeting was held, at Manchester, of the depositors in a provident savings bank in connexion with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company. The system adopted has the advantage of bring ing the bank home, as it were, to each depositor, the Mile being that any servant of the company may direct such amount as be thinks proper to be regularly deducted from his salary or wages as entered on the fortnightly pay bills, and placed in the bank. The report of the secretary, Mr. J. Rewlinsun, states t h at the position of the bank is highly satisfactory. There have Leen, during the year, 375 accounts opened, eight closed and renewed, and 84 closed. The amount of deposits have Wen 2,0600. in 5,139 sums; the repayments have amounted to 4001., and the sum due to depositors on the 20th January, including interest, was 1,689/. Mr. Chapman, the chairman of the railway coin. piny, presided at the meeting, and in moving the adoption of the report expressed his pleasure at the circumstance that the largest number of depositors were those who had not sums exceeding ss. invested, these being 3,483 out of the 5,139 deposits. It showed that those who had very little to spare were t ry ing to save it, and entering on the path of frugality. Mr. C. H. Smith, the goods manager of the compaty, seconded the motion, which was adopted. Mr. J. G. Child, public accountant, was re-elected auditor ; and the thanks of the meeting were voted by acclamation to Mr. Rawlinson and the chairman. _ SHIPWRECK AND LORD OF EIGHT LP/M-1U Rev. Richard Tyacke, vicar of Padstow, and hon. were. tary of that branch of the National Lifeboat lusutu tion, thus reports a distremiog shipwreck, with loss of eight lives, off that port on Wednesday night list. " Pad. stow, Thursday.—Yesterday, the 27th inst., about half-past iu the evening, a large Greek brig from Cardiff, laden with coals, anchored off Pentire-head. A bust with a branch pilot immediately boarded her, and pointing out to the car tato the very dangerous position lie had selected, begged of him to get under weigh, and have his vessel placed in • safe anchorage. The Greek captain, however, was deaf to all advice, and almost rudely drove the pilot from the ship. A very heavy gale soon sprung up, and the crew of the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution inime diately assembled and remained by the boat the greater part of the night. They could not, however, render any assistance to the vessel, the gale having become no furious, and during the night both the ehaiu cables of the ship and within ten minutes afterwards she was literally Mel into fragments, and eight out of eleven of the CNN were drowned." The Padstow lifeboat has often been in• strumental in saving life from wrecks during the past two years. Their coxswain, Daniel Shea, chief boatman of the coast guard, who has been off iu her on every such occasion, is one of the most daring and active coxswains in the run ice of the National Lifeboat Institution. If thervfore it hail in any way been possible to contend with the terrific gala that blew during Wednesday night, he would have launched his lifeboat. ----- EXTENSIVE FIRE. Yesterday morning a tiro broke out on the premises of Mr. Y. Foster,beerahop keeper. Chios-place, Hack Chiwch.road, St. George's.in-the•East. A policeman discovered the fire, and aroused the inmate, but so fiercely was it progremiug that they were unable to escape by the stairauie. Fortunately they effected a mio retreat from the top windows, over the roof of the honor. The Royal fire escape and nevem' engines arrived in rapid succession, when the firemen, with a good supply of water, succeeded in conquering the Mimes, not, however, until the house was destroyed and those adpinicg winch damaged. The cause is unknown. The loss will full on the State sad other °Mom. --- AMIDENT TO A FRENCH GENERAL. —A sad oxi dant has befallen General Borelly. 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