The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-06 00:00:00

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Mara Toddr, kph?, liar Mearrra. eri Mrs; ilswiril= Mir Ha *IT, 10 owe. TOO LAW F.7111L417111.1. 71• sos. 11..haolno. Mks .Tefry —A WRAF OF tAlarlsen g .T. INwar. itlie Herbert awl Mrs. A. 17160 L—And 71111 BE SO AL TIORIL —Onummetot Yawl 7. BISTAUTIA. TWII 'mom. ZINOITMIZJA7 Til TOITTNY..TELLIM or m4orob Mrs. 1 Unmet —lr MYMILLTMZ Mho K Java, rad es Mau Mamsirr.—An4 MOLLY MLYLLI VAN arr. Porrrty ..I Apisoloar. Mrs. M. Law. •lON_WATI& AT LONDON BIUDOL Tr Ak. Um.— Mormon. Oh. 44m. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY G. Tire change which has come over the money market during the last fortnight, and the effect of which is a rise in the rate of discount for the best bills film 41 to nearly 5 per cent. in the open market, whilst the Bank rate remains unal tered, is occasioned by influences of an exceptional kind and well dreurving of study. The change re furred to is another consequeuce of the great defi ciency in the last harvest, yet the point to which we wish to call attention is that, at the moment, it is net so much a luestion of the effect of this deficiency upon the foreign exchanges, or upon the specie current, for not much specie is leaving us just now, but that the failure of the harvest is telling upon the money market in the sense of causing an internal, as distin guished from an efferrint pressure. We have al ready men how great a degree of financial disturb ance may be caused when the foreigner demands go ld f ur th e imeens,..inantitiss of food which we are obliged to take from him. But this has been to a considerable extent rectified, and the Cl changes an once more at a tolerably satisfactory level. It is chiefly the depremed and straitened condition of our home agricultural interest that is just now stimulating a rise in the rate of money. Iltis works round in a way which deserves atten nun, from its deep importance in a social point of view. When the agm-ultund claims are prosper ous. and money is abundant amongst them, very large balances are lodged with the private and joint-stock banks throughout the country. The country bankers, in their turn, send the surplus for employment in London, the great financial em.tre, unless they have the opportunity of lending it in the busy manufacturing towns or shipping ports of the North. If their money be lout in the latter channels, the effect upon the general market is much the same, for fewer bills come from the country to be discounted in London, and the re serves of the metropolitan bankers are left idle. But the usual practice is for a large portion of the country bankers' surplus haleness to come to. the metropolis through the medium either of their London agents or of the great discount establish ments. Now it is a remarkable fact that the enuatry bankers' balances are lower than they have been fur some years. There are scores of these bankers who habitually in good times have large sums on loan in the metropolis, yet who are now themselves borrowers here. Ask them how this happens, and they will reply that the sole reason is the pressure put upon them by the agricultural classes, and the necessity id helping their customers amongst the farmers. Keeh of them can tell of dozens of cases wherein substantial farmers who usually leave large balances in their hands, are applying for accommodation this year. It would scarcely be possible to find a more striking illustration of the damage which has been sustained by the greatest interest in the country through the extraordinary phenomena of recent seasons. One of the immediate effects ir the complaint on the part of London bankers that money, somehow, is unusually scarce and difficult to procure. It is hardly a month since the great quarterly disbursements were made urn Government and dividend account, yet the market is already becoming pretty well cleared of money. It makes an im portant ditlerence to the London banking interest when those country banker" who usually supply money turn absorbers of it. Now that what is termed the dividend money has been absorbed, the private deposits in the Bank of England are being drawn upon more heavily than for some time past. The last return shows a decrease of no loss than 1,423,211;4!. ender this hoed, and it is chiefly to this draught that the reduction of 546,6211. in the reserve is owing. ft is the more easy to trace these changes to their real source—the straits of the agricultural portion of the community—because for some weeks past, as already remarked, the foreign bullion nmveinent has not been of a chit- radar to produce much effect. The inference which wo draw is that the banking interest gene rally will find that they have not muck money to spare for acme time to come, and that the eon mercial demand will be flung upon the Bank of England to a greater extent. We all know that the efluct of this is to make the Bank propor tionately stringent in their terms, particularly during the latter half of each financial quarter, when, as bankers to Government, they have con stantly in motion a gigantic rake, scraping in the revenue from every part of the kingdom. Of course, as they get this money in, it is their bvsi• nem to let it out again from week to week, if it be neediel, but for this they require a proportionate 'making consideration. As at the present time there is also the prospect of ma extinction of currency to the extent of upwards of intu,oool., being the amount of silver which ►he Indian Government has agreed to perches from the Bank, and which is now in course of ibmpatch to the East, it seems reasonable to elm tide that we hare seen the best of the money ei..rket for the present. It is one favourable point that, during the last few weeks of compara tive ease, when the rate, of discount in the apes market have been much below the Bank of Keg land minimum, the amount of "other" or private securities held by that establishment has rundown considerably. On the 3rd of April the total was 20,218,0631. ; the return just published states it at 17,886,11 V., showing a decrease of 2,331,946/. As the Bank will have the revenue flowing in largely to their aid, they can afford to take in a considerable amount of commercial securities be fore the question of raising their charge need come under discussion. We have alluded above to one of the domestic effects of the failure of our home supplies of food. It may be useful to keep attention fixed upon its foreign aspect also, even though the money market is not et this moment disturbed by a drain of gold. The Board of Trade returns last issued do not in dicate any radical improvement in the general cha racter of the foreign trade of the kingdom. The Irdance appears to be still on the wrong side. It is surprising that the American exchange keeps up so well, considering the large quantities of bread stuffs which we have continued to import from that quarter. Unfortunately, the official figures relating to the "real value " of the imports do not come down later than to the end of February. In that month we took from the United States in wheat and flour the following value : February, IMO £1,71;4 14.4 90 09 1861 And in the two months we took from America of the same articles : Two mouths of IMO 1:16,141 19 1160 19 0 ,475 9, $P 1861 2,171006 It stands to common sense that as long an the imports from America continue upon this greatly increesed scale, and whilst our exports to that country are checked, there must be an unfavour abk exchange. It may, however, be pointed out that the enlarged movement in American bread stuffs partially compensated by the diminished movement in American cotton. Of the latter article wo took in February, 1859 0,184,255 „ I MI) 3,791,887 1881 3,179,555 The decrease in February, 1881, compared with February, 1860, is 813,3321. In the two months there was imported of American cotton : Two months of 1830 £3J64,265 DM 11 99 1861 The decrease this year, as compared with last, is 1,038,9691., which may fairly be deducted from the 1,968,5311. of increase in the imports of American wheat and flour. If we examine the statistics of the imports of all kinds of grain and flour from all quarters, we shall find vlditional reason to infer that the value of money cannot fall to any low point. The figures stand as follows for the month of Feb mary lobrusrf, 1450 ............_..»...._ C 86.1.010 „ 1100 „ 1861 The increase is 2,872,7451. compared with laat year, and 2,516,8531. compared with 1859. For the two months the following is the statement : Two mouths of IM9 " " 1810 1,709,471 lest The incresee is 4,467,1 8 11. compared with bell year, and 4,234,7721. compared with 1859. We must again observe, however, that there is a compensating action going on, which forms a psreial set-off against these enlarged importations of food. We have imported this year less cotton, coffee, flax, hemp, hides, metals, oils, provisions, saltpetre, oil seeds, silk, and wool, than in the corresponding two months of 1860. Thus it happens that whilst the imports of grain and leer, u above shown, were 4,467,1811. more in SO two months of 1881 than in 1860, the im pats of all the articles (including grain and flour) mentioned in the official tables show an increase of only 2,373,0681., the aggregates being 18,246,5371. in 1881 spinet 15,871,4691. in 1860. It would thus appear that, whilst we have spent in breadatuffs 4,467,1811. more than in the corresponding two months of last year, we have spent 2,092,1131. less in other articles. This is at least some evidence that we do not neglect that economy which becomes a duty at a time of national trial like the present. ffeonomy is, indeed, forced upon us. There will he a smaller consumption of every article of luxury this year, simply because we cannot afford to spend as much as usual. Insensate strikes in BIM trades, and " short-time" and diminished employment in others, will operate in the same way. We can only hope that the CRANCILLOS of the Exciteurrit's estimates of revenue from Customs, Excise, Income-tax, and other imports, will not be prejudiced. Trade in most departments is dull, but there has been no increase of gloom during the peat week. One of the principal features is the absence of de mand for commodities for America. The Ame rican trade is indeed paralysed by the events now in progress, the upshot of which no one can pre tend to foretell. There is a general feeling of apprehension that, although the commercial effects of the American convulsion are slow to make themselves felt, they will yet tell upon very im portant interests here, in the event of some ar rangement not being effected. This apprehension furnishes a fresh incentive to caution. lELNIBB or THI Aloe BMW or CANTERBURY. —We me may to leans that during the last week his Grace the Amhbishop of Canterbury has loon suffering from in dispositiou at Lambeth Palace. On Saturday the venerable primate was coosiderol much better, and yesterday there was continued amendment in his health. TAR &nem. of RotED4TER.-011 Saturday worn- Wtdßishop of Rochester preached the f our th annua l ermou, on the Jewish subject, in the church of Bt. Clement aims. The preacher is appointed each year by the Bishop of Loadou ; the prey otling preacher, being the Rev. Dr. M'Caul, Rev. Dr. M'Neile, and Rev. Thomas Fremantle. The bishop, in tun course of a very eloquent and forcible discourse, enlarged upon the past nifferinp sad future prospects of the do wiah people, and alluded in a very reviling and affectiosate way to the week commenced at Jermalem by Bishop Alexander. It was the subject of formirk, that hi s lordship only spoke of past years, and studiously avoided all allusion to Bishop Gobat, it being well known that many of the prelates of our church look with wash regret epos the Into wagering of that eccentric bishop. The b=ves attended by his chaplain, the Rev. Joseph B. II e sad sanosest the tire we noticed the Kiva J. C. Bekbezdt, Knight, Oeaheri , Killick, Good -1 &ACLU SUNDAY STRAIN() SERVICE& —Yes- Isnlay the 11th of the sew series of special Suerlay evening aseniess tea pies in the nave of Westminster Abbey, which was as crowded as ever, the evening services at St. Paul's and Ezeter.tiall baying been suepeadad. Prayers Were sang by the Rev. J. C. Haden, M.A., the sad the lemma read by the Very Am the Data, ter which ea able ellllloll was preached by the Hue. aad Right Raw. Dr. J. T. Pelham, Bishop of Norwich. The nght rev. prelate was for • cousidersble penal rector of the large metropolitan parish of Kt rylehone, anti last ni g ht man y of his femme pariehit mere flocked to the Abbey to hear him. The masa sem Sunday evening will be preached by the tee. Jonathan Henry Lovett Cameron, M.A., of Trinity Calm theibridge, who hae remedy been appointed by the Dina and Canons of Westrehmter to the vicarage of Shereham, .ear Sevetetaks, in the room of the Rev. Canon Reptem, deceased. The dissenter, are still continuing their special wireises at St. James's Hall. Yesterday the spacious hall was twice Ailed—first at three o'clock, when • sermon ear pisaeb-d by the Rev. Newman MAU. LLB., minister d .Amoy Chapel., itlackframroad, and again at .oven (Meek viva the service was conducted by the lb,. Thanes Blaney, minister of the Weigh Home Chapel, Fish atrest-liill. Vat Coun. MI LAYS EARL or ABIRDWrf.—The annual seestlag of the Commingles's.% of Supply. &e., of the county Ale doss, woe held lest week is the Record hall, and aroonpt other business the following revolutioo was pro posed sad adopted :—" Resolved, that there ought to be a permanent memorial of the late Earl of Abe Ween is this eoenty. and that the following committee be name, to take such steps as may seem most expedient to promote this objert." The whnlo of the gentlemen present were eoesti toted the committee—Mr. Thomson of &Debar', oeurseer. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1861. The Prince Consort held a Levee on the part of the Queen, at Mt. Jame►'. Palace, oe Saturday afternoon. Hie Royal Highness arrived about two o'clock from Buck ingham Palace, and was received by the great officers of elate of her Majesty. household. The Dyke of Cambridge attended the levee. The Prince Cou.ort wu attended in the Throne•room by the F.Arl of St. “ernmeg, Lord Steward, and the other officers of the queen's household. Mr. E. It. Boyle was the Page of Hooour in Waiting. The following presentations to his Royal High:ices took place in the diplomatic circle : By the Greek Minister—Lieut. Spyridion Makes, Royal Greek Nary. By the United States Minister—Mr. Paul B. Du Chaßlul a gentleman of New York city. The diplomatic ratio was attended by the Turkish Am baleador : French, Austrian, Russian, and Persian Amine 'adore ; the Belgian, Bavarian, Hanoverian, Greek,Nether. Linda, Portuguese, Prussian, Brazilian, United States, Swedish and orwegiss,Spanish, Lanish,and Honduras and Salvador Ministers • Count Curti, Italian Chargé d'Affaires, and Count Maffei, gecretary of the Legation ' • Lord John Rummell, the tlueeti's principal Secretary of State for Fo• reign Affairs ; and Colonel Begot, her kajosty's Assistant. Master of the Ceremonies. The general circle was well attended, and comprised most of her Majesty's ministers. One huodred and twenty noblemen and gentlemen bad the honour of being presented to his Royal High:less. ...tmoog them were the following Mr. Thomas Barnes. M.P., by the stars of Caithness Mr. Mint:shy Bethel], by the Lonlelmacellor. Mr. Thos. Chambers. on being appointed one of her Majesty's comae!, by the Lord Chancellor. The Venerahlr Chu. Carr t:terke, D.D., b 7 the Very ker. the Dean of Christ Church Lord Delamere, on hie marriage, by Sir Hamilton Seymour. Hun. throrge Denman, M.P., on his appointment as uue of her Majesty's counsel. by the Lord Chancellor. Rev. 1/r. 11tH, Moderator of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church In Ireland, by the Bishop of Down. Lieutenants Cenral Sir Hope Grant, by the Duke of Cambridge. Maine General Bur Patrick Grant, on return from India. and being &molt/tad a G.C.8., by General Viscfmnt Gough. Mr. Graves, the Mayor of Liverpool. by Sir G. C. fowls. Mr. Samuel Gurney, M.P., High Sheriff for Surrey, by tito Bight Hon. P. W. Cowper, M.P. &sign Rowlrind Hill, on appointment 7th Fusiliers, by Major- General Sir R. alrey. Mr. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson. deputy.governor of the Bank of England, by the Chancellor of the &chequer. Rey. H. lit/lean, principal chaplain at Aldershott, on promo tion and appointment to that station, by the Adjutant-Gcneral. Mr. Alfred Intham. Governor of the 'tank of England, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Locke Q C., M.P., on appointment an recorder of Brighton, by Sir G. t'. Deputy Inspector-Ganoral W. C. Maclean, M.D. on his return from India and on appointment as Professor of Military Medicine in the Army Sled/eel School, Chatham, by Major-General J. Ca ."P b°ll * • Mr 7 .Nifm rinser IfeDonell, on having received the Victoria Cron, by Major-General RD E. Ltutard. The Bishop of Morey and Ross, by the Duke of Richmond. Colonel Freeman Murray, on return from the Government of Lermada, by the Duke of Newcastle. Dr. Muir, C.H., laspeckwCleneral of llcepltals, by the Duke of Cambridge. Mr Lawrence Palk, by Lord Raglan. Duke of Richmond, by Viscount Sydney. Lieutenant Lewis Softy, R.N., by his father. Mr. fielly. Mr. Henry Wyn.lhans West, on his appointment Attorney- General for the Duchy of Limiter, by Sir George Grey. Mr. narMant Wheeler, on taking the coil, by the Lord Chan cellor. _ _ of IIM. J. Stuart NorUey, on his return from China, by the Earl Men. WHITE LODGE, NAT 5. The Queen drove out vestenla7 townies with Princes Helena and PriOCENII LOll6O, &W athe afternoon, with the Prince Coneort. Priucces Alice, attended by Lady Oiroline Barrington, also took a carriage drive. The Prince west to Loodem to hold • levee, and returned between 4 and 5 o'clock, attended by Major Do Plat. This swain the Hoe. and Very item the Dean of Wind. set perfonned divine service at the White Ledge, in the =of bar Majesty, the Prince Consort, Princess Alice, Helena, Princess Louise. Primes Arthur, and Prisms Leopold, the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and the domestics household. A deputation from the Barmy Harbour Trust bad an interview with the Right Ho .'l. Milner Cason, ca Satur day, at the office of the Board of Trade. A depntaton from the Bohan Union had an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, co Saturday, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehell. Despatches were mod has the Colonial-office, on Satur day, to the Wetness se the North American provinces. The Right Hew. Lead May, the captain of the hoa. maps of UentlemesAMAnns, dined at the OHM of the corps at Si. Jessie Moos es Wards, evening. Tes Panics Of Wars—lt L understood that the Prinoe of Wales will employ the Midsummer vacation in the practical study of military duties and movements, and will for that purpose visit the camp at the Curragh of Kildare. His royal high ness will probably be attached to the lit Brl e, and do duty with the lit Battalion of the Grena dier Guards, in which corps be will go through a course of military instruction. It is undo:eta4 that her Majesty and the Prince Consort will remain at White Lodge, Richmond Park, for a fortnight ; returning to Buckingham Palace about the 15th instant. The Queen I. expected to stay in London two or three days, and then leave for Osborne. His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Haase is expected to arrive at the White Lodge, Richmond Park, on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort, in the MUM of the present week. The Earl and Countess of &afield, accompanied by Viscount Reidhavem, hare arrived at the Clarendon Hotel for the season. Lord Brougham left his chateau, at Cauues, on Wedsesday Let, for Paris, on hie way home. The noble and learned lord contemplated only a brief sojourn in Paris, and may be expected in the Howe of Lords by Thiusday next. Lord Foley, captain of the Hon. Corps of Gen tlemeii.at-Arms, dined at the in of the corps, at St. James's Palace, on Saturday evening. Viscountess Palmerston bad an assemb4 on Saturday evening at Cambridge House, The marriage of the Hon. John Cranch Walker Vivian, brother to Lord Vivian, with ]Gas Rowley. niece of the Countess of Rimmed, ia fixed to take place early in the eawtmg summer. Tea SLABOX.—FuntioNABLa Asaikaorareve.— The period of the court mourning for her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent having terminated, there is now an indication of activity in the fashionable world. The fol. lowing are among the arrangements already notified :—To- MOROI", Lady Stanky's (of Alderley) first dance. Wednee day, the Counter of Derby's ssoced smetinbly. Friday, Lady Osll's ant dance. Saturday, the Counter Apponyre sasembly, Cluustlue Home. May 13, Lady Rolle's firer: ball. May 14, Hon. Richard Cavoridish's ball, Cheshiun-place. May 15, the Prince Consort's second levee ; the Countess of Derby's third assembly ; Lady Emily Hesketh's May 16, Almack's Bret ball. May 17, Lady Rolle 's coined (postponed from the 10th bat.); Mrs. William Hibbert's " Ant dance." day 20, Lady Maria Saundenou's dance. May 27, Mrs. Wuhingtoa Ribbon's woad ball. June 19, Her Majsty'• fret dewing-room. Jur 27, her Majesty's @mooed drawing-room. July 10, coloration of the Queen's birthday. We (Observer) understand that the Queen has sneered her gracious intention to cadet the Compun:os skip of the Beth (civil side) upon Mr. Hooey Loch, pnvate secretary of Lord Elgin in his late mission to China, and Mr. Thomas Wade, Chinese secretary to the mission at Shanghai, who acted as chief interpreter during the late ex pedition. Mr. Wade is now at Pekin, whither he has pro. seeded by order of the Envoy Extraordinary, Mr. Bruce, to prepare for his reception at the capita The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Francis Ellis, of the Home Circuit, to be judge of the county court* comprised in circuit No. 34, upon the resignation of Mr. Cooke. Mr. Hubbard, M.P., writes to the Times:—" I observe that my name appears in the list of the minority who voted on Mr. Horsfall's motion for a reduction of the duty on tea. It would have been very inconsistent in me to vote for the remission of any portion of the tea duty when I bad only a few hours previously objected to the practice of making large prospective remissions of taxation upon distant and doubtful expectations of an inane., is the revenue from other sources ; and I will thank you, therefore, to allow me to state through your columns that I did not vote fora revolution of the duty on tat." This cor rection gives the government a majority of Is. Several notices Lave already been given of plas ticise le be asked in parliament open • subject which must soon swam gigantic proportions in the eyes of this coon. try. Mr. Gregory prowess to-night to ask Lard John Russell whether say attempt on the part of the govern ment of the Veiled States to levy federal duties es fareiga vemele outside tie porta of the southern confederacy before such vassals break bulk would not be en infringement of international law ; and Mr. !lordell has a notice for to morrow upon the whole bearing of international law on the rights of belligerents and nestrai. 0 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. (BY secrma's Eirarss.) NEW YORK, Aria, 24. (Per Persia.) . _ The following is a list of the vessels destroyed at the Norfolk Navy Yard:—The Pennsylvania, 120 guns; Columbus, 80 guns ; Delaware, SO guns ; New York, 84 guns; United States, 54) guns; Columbia, 50 guns ; Raritan, 50 guns ; Merrimac, 40 guns ; Plymouth, 22 guns ; Germantown, 22 guns ; and Dolphin, 4 guns. Large bodies of troops are daily leaving New York for Philadelphia, en route for Washington.' Advioes from Montgomery state that Jefferson Davis will himself shortly take the field. The mass meeting of citizens held on Saturday last in Union-square was one of the largest demonstrations that have ever taken place in this city ; it is esti mated that a quarter of a million of people were present. Patriotic speeches were made by the Mayor, Daniel S. Dickenson, Richard O'Gorman, and many other prominent citizens. All the railway bridges between Philadelphia and Baltimore have been burned by the people of Maryland. Three men of the Federal troops who were in charge of Harper's Ferry, and who did not leave at the time of the evacuation of the arsenal, were taken prisoners by the Virginians ; they, however, have made their escape to Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania, and report that the destruction of buildings and arms was complete, that six or seven thousand Virginians were at Harper's Ferry, and that they design invading Maryland, and making Mason and Dixon's line the line of warfare. The chartered United States steamship Star of the West was boarded and captured without resistance off Indianola by the Galveston volunteers, and has been taken to New Orleans with a prize crew on board. She bad 800 or 900 barrels of provisions on board. The Washington correspondent of the New York herald writes that Maryland and Virginia have been committed to secession from the beginning, their apparent limitation being only a mask to throw the North off their guard. At a large public meeting held at Louisville, Kentucky, it was unanimously resolved that the state of Kentucky would remain neutral in the present crisis, neither aiding North or South, but would arm herself to resist any attack made upon her from either side. A patriotic fund, on the plan of the Crimean Fund, has been formed in New York, for the support of the families of any of the volunteers who may fall in the war. 13y order of the collector of New York, no vessel is at present allowed to leave the port between sun set and sunrise. The municipality of New York have resolved to appropriate one million dollars for the equipment of the volunteers, the amount to be raised on stock to be called the Union Defence Bonds. They have also resolved to present Major Anderson, of Fort Sumter, with a gold snuff-box and the freedom of the city. An English volunteer corps has been formed in New York, who will offer their services to President Lincoln. The Mayor of Baltimore states that President Lincoln has informed him that no more troops shall bo sent through that city. This statement is, how ever, doubted. POLAND. THORN, MAT 6. Increased precautionary measures of a military character have been taken at Warsaw on account of the Russian Easter holidays. Cannon have been planted in front of the cathodral. Arrests and judicial inquiries by the civil authorities continue to be made. BKEtLLU, MAT ♦. Communication with Warsaw is difficult, as the government is said to intercept letters. Count Zamoisky was at Warsaw on the Ist of May, and, notwithstanding reports to the contrary, was not to leave that city. The rewards accorded to the generals, and the thanks which the Emperor has addressed to General Chruleff, have spread indignation among the people. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 5. The sitting of the Cortes will soon be closed. The government have not yet taken any definitive resolution respecting the proposed annexation of San Domingo to Spain, but it is believed that their reply will be in the affirmative. AUSTRIA. AGRAX, MAT 5. Tha Ban of Croatia has left fur Vienna, accom panied by a numerous deputation, in order to make representations to the Emperor respecting the re prusentation of the military frostier in the Croatian Diet, and the administrative incorporation of Dalmatia with Croatia. HUNGARY. VIENNA, NAY 5. In consequence of tho promise of the Minister of State to reply to the question of a member of the Council of the Empire concerning Hungary, Baron Vey), Hungarian Chancellor, has tendered his tion, which, however, has not been aocepted. PLITLI, Mar 5. Large bodies of troops b►vo been despatched to several places in various comitats, to enforce pay ment of the taxes. The congregations of the comitate have remon strated against these proceedings. FRANCE. PARIS, MAT 5. The Moniker of to-day announnos thiit tho in terest on Treasury Bills has been reduced } per cent. The rates are fixed at 3}, 4, and 4} per cent., according to the length of time the bills have to run. The collection of the Ciunpana Museum at Rome has been purchased for the Emperor of the French by H. Ranier, of the Institute, and N. Como, the historical painter, who have been in Rome for the last six weeks cos ducting the negotiation of the purchase. A subscription has been set on foot by the studenta of Paris for the purpose of giving • banquet at the Hotel du Louvre, to M. Juice Fevre, Picard, and the other mem bers of the democratic opposition. The authorisation of the government has been obtained, and 600 subscribers hays given in their names. Agents. have arrived from America by the Persia to purchase rifled cannon of the Armstrong, Clay, and Blakely patterns, also nearly 200,000 rifles and revolvers for immediate shipment. . . Mr. Seward, the American minister, in reported to bays addressed a note to Seiler Tows, the Spanish Waster, protesting against the Spanish expedition to Si. Domino, and reminding him of the good faith of that government in all its transactions with Spain. Copies of tire protest had been forwarded to the British and French kiptioss. The Custom-house officers of Besangon have just made an important seizure, having laid their bands as • waggon laden with blocks of wood which had been hol lowed oat and fined with India shawls. They found, tans concealed, 180 shawls, estimated in value at upwards of 100,000 f., and the duty would hare hews about 20,000 f. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Sinn) AT. The Royal Mail steamship Perala, Captain Jnd kin., from New York on the 25th ult., has arrived here. A telegraphic summary of her news has already boen publisned. The Nett York Herold of the 25th says : We have important newt from Washington. Our own 1 gallant Seventh Regiment and the Massachusetts Eighth Regiment are at last safely arrived in the national capital. Despatches to that effect were received in the city last night. Government has sent special messengers on here, urging the forwarding of troops is fast as possible, and as many field pieces as can be sent. It will be necessary to have the national capital reinforced as rapidly as may be, it being believed that the secessionists have a strong force in the neighbourhood, and that they are preparing for an early attack. It is supposed that General Beauregard and President Davis are Loth in Virginia ready to lead the as sault. There is great scarcity of food it Washington. Further accounts continued to be received of the terrorism reigning in Baltimore and its vicinity. No steamers were allowed to leave the city, and railroad travel being cut off, passengers for the North could only proceed by private conveyance. The greatest excitement is said to prevail in the city, and all northerners are closely watched. Immense rejoicing took place at Montgomery, Alabama on the news being received of th e seces sion of Virginia. Great anxiety existed to bear from the North, the people being still unaware of the overwhelming and unanimous Union feeling which has rendered the North as one man since the attack of the secessionists on Fort Sumter. Business in Montgomery was almost entirely sus pended. It was believed that President Davis had left for Richmond, Virginia ; there, in concert with General Beauregard, to concentrate a strong force to attack Washington. The war feeling iu the city of New York con tinued unabated. The rolls were rapidly tilling up, and preparations were making by the various re giments for an early departure for the seat of war. Colonel Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves were to leave for Washington on the 27th ult., and three more regiments—the 79th, 56th, and sth—would pro bably go on the same day. In the United States Circuit Court on the 24th, Judge Betts delivered an important charge to the special grand jury empanelled to take cogni saw* of cases of treason and misprision of treason in New York. A gun manufacturer in New York was arrested on the 24th on a charge of treason, and Dr. Sabot was arrested for misprision of treason. They were committed for triaL The following is a brief account of the destruc tion of the Norfolk navy yard : It wu set fire to on the morning of the 21st by the government forces stationed there, to prevent it falling into the bands of the secessionists. All the most valuable pro perty there was destroyed, including the line(-battle ship Pennsylvania, the screw frigate Merrimac, sloop of war Germantown, brigs Plymouth and Dolphin, frigates Colombia, Potomac, and Delaware, the line-of-bade ship New York, on the stocks, and other vessels of lees value, together with the arms, munitions and stone, sttiphouses and storehouses. On a preroncertedeigesl be/mg gives the whole was eat fi re to simultaneously, bud so rapid was the destruction that Commander Rogers o the Navy, and Captain Wright of the Engineers, were un ebbs to reach the point of rendezvous for embarkation, and were necessarily left behind. The Union men of Norfolk, It is add, at-operated with the government troops. It was reported that a Secession army of 6,000 men were in the neighbourhood of Washington on the 22nd ult. Great excitement prevailed. The government had been strengthening and throwing up defences around the capital and all the public buildings, and every precautionary measure possible was being taken. Nothing positive was known as to the Secession forces supposed to be in the neighbourhood, but an early attack on the capital was apprehended. The latest advice. from Baltimore report that martial law had been proclaimed in that city. All the places of amusement, the saloons, &c., were closed. Scouts hadbeen sent out in every direction toguard the approaches to the city, and to give warning in case of the advance of the Northern troops. The Governor of Maryland had issued a proclama tion, convoking the legislature of that state on the 2Uth inst. The Pennsylvanian troops recently encamped at Cockeysville, a few miles north of Baltimore, had broken up their encampment. They had been or dered to return to York, Pa., to be despatched thence to Washington, ei4 Philadelphia. The Thirteenth Regiment, under the command of Colonel Abel Smith, left Brooklyn on the 23rd for the seat of war. The men were most enthusiasti cally greeted during their march through Brook lyn. The 28th, another Brooklyn regiment, would leave as soon as the men were properly armed and equipped. The Bth and 69th Regiments started for the South on the 23rd. There was an inimense turn out to witness their departure. An inimer.lo Union mass meeting was held on the same afternoon in Brooklyn. The number present was estimated at 25,000. The Mayor presided. The common council of Brooklyn have raised their appropriation for the war from 75,000 dole. to 100,000 dole. The board of councilmen of New York bad una nimously ado: ited au ordinance providing for raising a million of dollars to amid in equipping volun teers for the war. There was no direct communication between New York and Washington and Baltimore. The com munication was understood to be suspended by desire of the government, in order to prevent its plans of war from falling into the hands of its opponents. . . A groat mass meeting in support of the govern ment in tile present crisis of the nation was held in New York on the 20th ult. Such a demonstration has never before been witnessed in the United States. A series of resolutions were propoeed and unanimously adopted pledging the meeting to use every moans to preserve the Union intact and in violate, and agreeing to the appointment of a committee of 25 to represent the city in the collec tion of funds and the transactions of such other bsuiluess in aid of the government as the public interests may require. Great unanimity prevailed throughout the whole proceedings, party politics were ignored, and the entire meeting, speakers and listeners, were a unit in maintaining the national honour unsullied. The New York Herald says that the burning of the bridges and the cutting of the telegraph wires were done by order of Governor Hicks, and under the protection of a strong military force. SUPPOSED LOSS OF A LITIMPOOL AND NILW YORK Tussah. —A communication wee posted at Lloyd's on Saturday, stating that the Spanish brig &infanta, which had put into Queenstown, bad paused on the Idth of April, in lat. 45 N. long. 3.i W., _a large full-rigged bl a ck-painted ship, waterlogged and abandoned. Thabade were all gone. The bowsprit was carried away. Some letters were seen on her stern, and it is thought that she la the Columbia, a large American ship, smiling from Now York and trading to Spain. 811 VEMELS WILICAED ON TUE DANISH COAST.— A telegram was received at Lloyd's on Saturday forenoon, intimating that a heavy gale bad visited the Dluiah coast in the vicinity of Thisted, reaching up to the Skaw, and that six vessels—two or three from London—had been stranded and wrecked in the vicinity of the above port.. The names of the unfortunate shitag oa reported to be the Harmonic, Lever, master, from for Dantric, with cement ; Neeltjee, from Loudon f u Norway, in ballast; Reform, Nielsen. from Port Talbot fur Gothenburg, with railway iron ; Thomas. from Calmer for Christania, in ballast ; the Val,* Lehrman, from Dieppe for Soderhara, in ballast; the Choke and Johan, from Newcastle fir Riga. The menage adds that the whole of the crews were provi dentially saved. Tax ILnsaros MORDEI.—The inquest on the body of Joseph Smith, aged 40, who was shot by his son at Ilkeston, at an early hour on Thursday het, was resumed on Saturday last before Mr. Coroner Whiston. A number of witnesses were examined, and, after a prolonged inquiry, the coroner adjourned the inquest until this day, when it is expected to ekes. 81./PINAILD MCRDiH IN NORPOLL--SOlne sixteen years mince a woman, named Ann , dis appeared from her residence and friend. at rent filling. ham, Norfolk, ia a very mysterious and inexplicable manner. Nothing could ever be amet tarried with respect to her fate, which remaioed an impenetrable mystery till within the last few days, when some workmen who were engaged in throwing down a bank in the park h toned a human akeletoo. The skull was fractured, and it is now supposed the unfortunate woman was murdered and buried in the spot from which the remains have now been diaintened. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the arrival of the overland mail we have advicee and papers from Bombay to April 12, and from Calcutta to April 3. We extract the following summary of news from the Bombay Gazette : India is quiet ; and the best interests of the empire are in a state of ptugror. The great evil, with which the material welfare of a large portion of the people of the land has co long been premed remains unabated. The famine still pre vails and extends.' The distress has not yet come to the worst. The European resources have been nearly exhausted, while the wealthy natives, as a class, have as yet lamentably failed in their natural duty towards their famishing fellow. countrymen. There has been a pretty general fall of rain in the North West. The Indian penal code which was to h►ve come into operation next mouth has been postponed until next January. Everything is settled in Sikkim, and the troops were ex pected back by the end of last month. The country is still kept in ignorance of the details of the amalgamation scheme, except as these are revealed in the radical changes which are very gradually and cautiously being made in the military service. The com mittee's report went home by the last Calcutta mail. The branch of the public service which is tremblin_g most in view of its apprehended fate ie the India navy. The service is considered doomed : and as suspicions are like bats which fly in the dark, all aorta of rumours are afloat as to its pro. bible fate. One of the /Own family of state prisoners, Prince Boo toobudeen, was most barbarously and brutally murdered on Sunday evening. the 31st ult., at hi house, in Gartien.reach, Calcutta. The Englishman states that the murdered man was in the habit of sleeping on a charpoy in the north-east comer of his verandah, whichts on the north side of the home. Two bearers slept a short distance in the nine verandah, and the moonshee in the room immediately below. At about eleven o'clock, Inspector Wanton was informed by one of these bearers that the Prince bad bad a fit of apoplexy, and was bleeding profusely from the nom. He accompanied tho bearer to the house, and the moment he amended the steps to the verandah, was met by the moon 'bee, who told him it was no case of sickness, but one of murder. The unfortunate ma n w as lyi ng Maul on his hack on the floor, and his mangled remains preeented an appalling sight. He seems to have been sleeping on his face and to have had several severe blows dealt him on the back of his neck first, with a kitchen chopper. He would then appear to have turned round and to have received 'limner blows on his face. His upper and lower jaw, his teeth, his lips, his tongue, his DC4I3, were all brutally and mercilessly backed with a blunt and heavy butcher's chopper. The instrument was found under his body, which was stretched at frill length, with a small dessert knife by its side. Two of the windows of the house were foundopen to encourage the idea that the deed wee that of outsiders. Very fortunately, however, the inspector had come at once to the spot, and did not hesitate to secure the two bearers and the moonshee. The durzee and the melee have since been arrested, and from the confessions of some of these men, there remains no doubt that the moonshee and donee were the principals, and all the others more or lees concerned in the atrocious murder. The emitlim motive wee plunder. ITALY. The King of Sweden hat declared his intention of recogniaing the kingdom of Italy as soon as a minister plenipotentiary shall be sent from the Court of Turin to Stockholm. A letter from Turin of the Ist Mat. says : Garibaldi back in his iliLtdf se:while I write to-morrow he will be Capron. His general.and other friends have gone to may good bye to him at Genoa, where he arrived at noon yesterday from Parma, after having spent a day at the house of the Ns:chime= Araldi Treccht. His son, his daughter, Colonel Deideri and his wife G usmavob, Pantalco, and Basso, accompany Garibaldi ; these aro the ordinary inhabitanta of Capron. Now that the condition of the officers of the Southern army ie improved and settled, Garibaldi returns to his estate. No doubt advantage will be taken of the obscurity in which be means to remain, to sand hint to every point of the Adriatic. I have moon to know, however, that he has renounced, for this year at all idea of Inking a lead in any direction whatever, and that this is the chief result of kis interview with Count Career. Tranquillity is re-satablished all over Italy, end that, for the most part, without any other intervention than that of the National Guard. AUSTRIA. The Vienna Gaulle publishes the text of the Emperor's speech at thu opening of the Council of the Empire. The substance has been given in a telegram. The following passage is remarkable, as coming from such a quarter A state whose government coo.iders it • duty to protect each nationality, and to enforce in the rights and the re lation, of the different peoples of the empire the principle of toleration, not only offers space sufficieet foram prosperous development of thu national life, but also the surest guaran teed independence. of • position able to inspire respect, and of a power which, while satisfied at home, because it rests on liberty, will not be able to excite alarm abroad, because, according to its nature, it seeks to avoid the peasionate excitement,' which cell eerily aomropeny aggressive wars. In my manifesto Of Oct. 20, 1860, I have declared that I should in all security confide to the ripened wisdom and patriotic zeal of my peoples the prosperous development and the consoli• dation of the institution, which I have given or renewed. Yon will, then, I am convinced, give an example of energetic activity combined with self-control, in accordance with the spirit of toleration, and thus you will not fail, at the end of the session, of being strengthened in your position on the one hand, and on the other of feeling youmelves honoured by the gratitude of your eovereirm and the country ; and you will also acquire the sympathies of all those who see in the foundation of constitutional government • fresh gut rantoe of the prosperity and strength of the country INDIAN FAMINE RZLIZT Fortp. —Tho total amount of subscriptions received by the Lon' Mayor in aid of the Indian Famine Fund up to Saturday is upwards of 80,000/., of which nearly 1,:,00/. was received during the day, amongst which were :-461/. from the diocese of Doom, Ireland, by the Lord Bishop ; a further aum of 3.5 M. from Brighton ;1421, ba. 4d. from Shrewsbury ; and 123/. from Penrith. - -- Lone 07 LIVE IN Tine THAMES. —On Saturday, Kr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, held an inquest at Bt. George's Workhouse, on Jacob Detrick Coils, aged 44. and Glenna Guile, 36, brother and sister. On 'I undo) afternoon the male deceased, who, with his wife, child, and sister were out for a holiday, was induced to accept an offer of two young men, who rowed into the stairs opposite the William IV., at Thames Bank, to go for a ride es far as Westminster and back. The ,females with the child and the two young men bad got into the boat, and the mole de• ceased, who was a heavy man, followed, and on stepping in stepped on to the gunwale, causing the host to capsize just as it was being pushed off, and precipitating Marl( and all the other persons into the water. The two young men saved themselves, and the woman and child were saved by a watermau ' • but the deemed and his sister both sunk and were drowne d,d, A verdict of " Accidental death" was nr turned. ATTACK ON • WARDAN BY CONVICTS, AT PARS' HOIST.—On Friday afternoon, about half-pest four o'clock, while a party of oonvicta wore employed in a field Door the of the Parkhurst Prison, one of the number Bud• rn t l m approached the officer in charge, and felled him to the ground with a bludgeon. Others of the gang then corn , meseed a furious attack upon him with atones and other weapons, while lying in a state of insensibility. The alarm having been given, some of the gang decamped across the country ; and others, who had taken no part in the mur derous assault, went back to the prison. The convicts—fire in number—who endeavoured to escape have, we learn, since been captured and brought back ti prison. The unfortunate man the subject of this ferocious attack is lying in a very precarious state from the injuries be received. FIRE AND lAMB OF Lira.—Yesterday morning a serious fire happened in the premises belonging to Miss L Davies, No. IS , Harper-street, Rid Liar-immure, Holborn. It appears that loud screams were heard to proceel from the first Boor, which attracted the attention of the other inmates, who upon nishing up the stairs discovered the unfortunate lady lying ou the landing, completely emir:ea by fire. A good supply of water having been procured the firemen succeeded in extiuguishing the fire. Meiliial roes were obtained, but they were nimble to render any mast suet, and death terminated her sufferings in less than four hours. The origin of the catastrophe is unknown. On Saturday morning an accident terminated fatally to Miss Caroline :lenders, 10 years of age. who resided in Regent'ssenare, Kennington. She was sitting alone by the fire, when the inmates were alarmed be scream@ ; on rushing upstairs they discovered &wawa wrapped in flames; they were extinguished, aud the poor girl was removed to St. Thomas'. Hospital, where slie died. THE CO-OPERATIVE PRINCIPLE: AT OLDH Saturday i afternoon, the coreer-stone of th. tow co. operative mill which is in coune of erection iu reel-street" Middleton-road, Oldham, was laid io the tiresome id a large concourse of spectators. The mill is beisg erected by the Oldham Building and Manufacturing Corafol!Y (Limited), and will be one of the lirgerit. if not the lar.;est rn Oldham. It will be 100 ft. by 2 80 ft., inside measurement. five storeys high, and nimble of holding 60.000 spindles. The weather was very auspicious for the interesting event A large number of the directors and friends of the melee• taking sammbled at half-past 3 o'clock, at the Co. operative Hall (a large building erected in King-street by the seine society), and marched thence, headed by the °Mani Mass band, to the site of the new mill. Mr. Hewkin, one of the directors, having presented a silver trowel to Dr. John Watts, of Manchester, the latter gentleman laid the Mom FALSE WEIGHT`.—It has been ascertained that in the quarter ending last Midsummer upwanls of LUIO persons were couvieted in Great Britain of the offence of using false or unjust weights, Neaten, or measures- Vet/ often the same tradesman has been found to have a num ber of short weights in his posseesion. tlei e ;; Ja — ,: , .o Mary erea ch ar ftt a i ur Police &tank, Charles. / hanat to for thee% bleedi ng And pri., the 't oms threw thl strbek the g m , 1. ti lied The slid it era much. 81 "lone r h id il l,'" nlOll he hUgh, The prix IhNtozeot Ir. Hoc . Prison er reel me:, , thinp / s heering a Dever Itr. Hen IN, h cr ood. in David L Jamas ear Eburr n vh,, a ( trio - own, h i rable "hoed bete, and I h Orr hi. UPOU th i rwed e,. bet h him gild o *44 r b iereC _pctandkoi 44 ‘ aftd d. 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