The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-11 00:00:00

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Ailaraors. >t ISMIL LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 11. ,111/ DIRET was quite warranted in describing as urgent and important the question which he put to the Government last night respecting the extent to which British seamen would imperil their right to the protection of their country if they permitted themselves to be allured, by prospects of mingled profit and adventure, to take part in that extensive privateering expedi tion by which Mr. .1 arreinion Davis proposes to supply the want of a regular navy. In more than one or two of our ports of commerce the for tunes made in former wars by daring men outside the regular service are talked over, and the chances of booty to be had in the American contest now raging are eagerly discussed. It is very important that the dames of citizens most concerned should well understand in tune the na ture of the risks they would run by engaging in privateering, and of the state of public opinion with regard to enterprise of such a cha racter. Lord DEBBY very well described this sort of adventure as a kind of sea-poaching. Per sons who tit out private ships to use against the enemy acquire the property of whatever cap tures they make as a compensation for their disbursements and the risks they run. An adventurous American of a southern port may be supposed to say, " I am no poll " titian, but I know that a new Government is " formed, and because it is formed it is my Go " vernment ;" and thereupon may resolve to serve it under letters of marque, leaving the justice of the war to Presidents, Governors, and Admirals. But foreigners meddling in these matters would stand in a very different position. They have no excuse for embarking in a pbadical mode of warfare with persons who have never in jured them. They would do so not with the laudable object of aiding the weak and succouring the oppressed, but would delibe rately propose to themselves plunder and bloodshed from mere lust of gold. Lord DEBBY states, as his view of the matter, that a British seaman by entering this privateering service would wholly forfeit the protection of his country ; and that if, when so engaged, his life should be in danger under a judicial sentence, he must not expect the slightest interference on the part of his Government, but that his blood would be upon his own head. Lord Bacivonax went further. After observing that say British subject taking part in the proposed privateering would be guilty of piracy according to the law of nations, lie added that " it was mod expedient that these " parties who chose to commit the offence in this " case should be left to suffer the penalty they " incurred." And although the Earl of Haze wren; with a warm professional feeling which we appreciate in a British Admiral, put in • word for the poor captured corsair, and adventurously imagined " a well-conducted privateer," Earl GRANVILLE stated that her MAJIIITY'II proclama tion would make it known that in the event of a privateer being taken with British seamen on board and treated as a pirate, the seamen sub jecting themselves to capital punishment would have no claim upon the protection and interfer ence of the Government. After these various and emphatic warnings it will not be the fault of the Government if say of our fellow-countrymen are led astray. " Tits Hones of Commons is the place where " the =timid expenditure should be brought for " ward by the Government, criticised by the re " presentative. of the people, and adjusted " according to the balances of opinion." Thus Mr. Dimaszu delivered himself on Thursday night, a few minutes after an attempt to count out the House in Committee on the Army Esti mates. Mr. DIMILAILLI is satisfied that the efforts of independent members of the Hone* will effect no real economy against the will of the Government ; hence the complexion of his advice. Colonel SYKES who is not turned aside from his course by slight disconragernenta, has come to the conclusion that nothing is really gained by attempts to reduce particular votes, as the Government always keeps a majority in hand to defeat them ; and Mr. Mai -1.011 speaks of time spent in discussing the Eat.- matesaa being wasted. The honourable gentleman referred to the document which he signed before the meeting of Parliament in company with about 1;0 members, urging the Government to prepare the Estimates with a view to economy, and appeared to consider that he bedtime discharged himself from the duty * of attending the discussions upon expen diture. This is the hrst time we have heard that that movement was intended to supersede the ordinary duties at Parliament. We had understood, in common, we believe, with the public, that the memorial to Lord PALM 'ASTON was signed in order that the Government might be made snare of the opinions which a large num ber of its supporters would bring to the con sideration of any expenditure which might be proposed. We beli eve still that such was the intention of tho majority of those who signed that docnnatint. It was never meant that by attaching his name to a sheet of paper a member was to be absolved from one of the most important parts of his duty to his constituents. A few, however, of the remon strant. appear to form a most extraordinary estimate of their position, and to think that having once for all made a general and indefinite demonstration in favour of economy, they may vote against it in all its details. There are three or four members who have particularly distinguished themselves in this way throughout the Session, and to whose doings we must shortly devote some space with the aid of the division lista. Time spent in sifting the public expenditure is not thrown away. Such &discussion as that of Thurs• day does not take place in vain, even though the proposed estimates were carried in their full extent. Public opinion is enlightened, and extravagance, if not prevented altogether, is held in some check ; it would therefore be greatly to be regretted if financial reformers should surrender themselves to discouraging suggestions even when they come from their own ranks. The following statement is published by the Reo.rd : We understand that on a recent division in the Home of Commons on the Budget, a member who was in a private asylum under a certificate of lunacy was brought up on the occasion to vote against the Budget, and afterwards returned to his asylum. This is exciting a good deal of interest, and one of the Commissioners in Lunacy we, sent down on Monday iu order to inquire into the circumstances of this extraordinary proceeding. And w h o .;0 proper as a lunatic to vote against the Budget ? Mr. Gladstone has been opposed iu lunatic speeches, why not in lunatic votes If, however, lunacy is to be regarded as disqualifying for legislation, the authorities of the House ought to be enabled to take note of the fact, and suspend a member from his function. We infer from the notice of the Record that the inquiry is set on foot not on behalf of the House, but only be taus° the lunacy laws have been broken. Never theless, it might not be amiss if the grounds on which the certificate of lunacy was granted were in quired into. It would then be known whether the country has been needlessly deprived of the ser vices of its representative. If it should appear that the honourable (or noble) member, without being more outrageous than some who are allowed and encouraged to make themselves conspicuous in debate, is held in loose custody for reasons of private and temporary convenience, it may become a question whether the public ought not to enjoy the advantages of the novel arrangement on a larger scale, and submitting to irrational votes be spared irrational orations. (nor LAST NIGHT'S Gomm) LORD CMAMIZILLAIN'S OPTIC; MAY 7.—Notice ie hereby giveo, that her Majoity's Birthday will be kept oo Wednesday, the 10th of July neat. LORD CHAMBIRLAIN'S OPPICK, APRIL 18.—Notice is hereby given, that his Royal Highs's the Prince Consort will, by the desire of the 9seen, hold a Levee at at. James's Palace, ea behalf of her Majesty, on Wednesday, the Dtb of May seat, at two o'elork. It is the Queen's pleasure, that presestatioes to his Royal Highness at the Levee shall be coosidered as equivalent to presentations to her Majesty. BUCKINGHAM PALACK, May B.—Hia Royal High ow the Prince Cowart has been pleased to appoint the Bev. J. B. Lightfoot, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to be Chaplain in Ordinm to has Royal Highness, in the room of the Rev. Dr. Pbilpott, promoted to the Bishopric of Worcester. Major-General C. A. Wyndham, C. 8., has ar rived in London on six months' leave of shams from his ecenrsand in India. The Inns of Court Rifle Corps propose to visit Outthridge on Betnrilay next, the 18th instant. The coma, to the number of 450, will leave the Shoreditch 14411:111 of the &eta% Counties Railway, by special train, at hall-pant 9 (having paraded in Gray's Inn at 8.30), and will arrive at Cambridge ab.int half-past 11. They will then be brigaded with the University Corps on Midsummer-common, under the command of Colonel M`Murdo, C. 8., as brigadier the " Devil's Owe" being commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Brewster, and the University by Lieuteuant.Colonel Baker. The two battalions will march past his Royal Highness the Primo of Wales ((who is honorary colonel of the Croivenity Corps), and will then go through the brigade and skirmish. Sig movements of a field day. The learned and gallant visitors will be afterwards entertained at dinner by the different colleges, many of which (Trinity, Magdalene, St. John's, &c,) have already invited the distinguished party to meet them. The special train leaves Cambridge at 8.45, on its return to London. The Cambridge Town Corps and • mounted corps in the neighbourhood have kindly offered to keep the ground. Lieut. -Colonel Lindsay, writing in defence of government aid to the volunteers, adds :—" I trust that, in whatever shape government ski ba naked, some aasistance will be given, in order that there may be no falling off in the master-roll of the present volunteer force, a result which would, I fear, be very probable in the event of a reined, sad which those who have been and still are so deeply engaged in the service for the defeats° of the country would be powerless to prevent. I cannot agree that the independence and free spumy of a volunteer can ever be damaged, as lows as he doss not mein pay or clothing, and at long as he one enrol when he likes and /men when he thinks tit. The War. odic.", I conceive, Is the only government department with which the volunteer service has to do in time of peace, and in whatever manner it may be co-operating from time to thus with the army, which is the Horse Guards, in time of peace. it would, I apprehend, do so by mutual arrangement, which could he eerily attained without any fear of control or sacrifice of independence." This morning 70 paves of oorrespondenco re spect* British claims on Mexico, were issued from the parliamentary printing•offee. Aooounta from Chalons state that the camp is eieumiag every day • mori animated appearance. The regiments which are to form it ars arriving every day, and are initialing themselves in their tents. The first occupa tion of the soldiers after they pitch their tents is to orna ment them by planting gardens in front. They form streets through the camp which craw at right angles. There are squares formed wherever the position is favourable. la fact, the Freneh soldier endeavours to make himself at home in whatever situation he is placed. The Sentinella Bresciana of the 7th dencribea the strictness of the passport system along the frontier of the Minch/ as extremely isoonvenient. The .kustrian authorities persist in nut recognising the passports delivered in the same of the Kis; of Italy. Travellers who are provided with thee, are subjected to the minutest scrutiny, and treated with cadence' by the diked'. The Press, of Vienna, states in a letter from Venice, dated the 3rd, that an emissary from "as English revolutionary dub" has just been arrested at Venice. The account says that earreepondence and in. structioo■ from Mazsini w. re found apron him. - - TNN NATIONAL GALLIST.—(TuIs DAY.)—Thu National fisellery, _after us interval of eight mouths, was opened to the public tidy. The changes it has under. gore are peat be* ea regards the building and the arrange. meat of the pictures. Hit Charles &Wake baa added three new purchases to the oullection. They are in tempero—riz., a Predelle, in five compartment., by Fee Angelico. which was formerly in the church el Ilan Domenico at Viesole ;au Entombmeitt," by Meier Vander Weyden the elder ; and the " Baptism of Christ," by Pietro dell. Franomea, recently purchased at the sale. The five beautiful and perfectly preserved Angeheoe bought at Rome, and for which the Papal gewernment exacted an exportation ene of 700 f.. being 30 par rent. on the purchase money, are among the most valuable acquisitions made during Sir Charles Fastlake's imininistratiuli. The subject appears to be" Christ Astern bilurPhis Blessed, after the last Judgmard." Mr. Peon. , themes alterations of the building are very generally approved el. -. 13431 b • M ggruens Fos THE EXIT MO WEEK. Monday —Orographical. N " From Jealdo to Nipon," Mr. Aka*. Tuealay —Syro-Euptian, 71, "Chaldean Ruins," Mr. Ainsworth. Royal lestitution ' 3, "Modern Musk," Mr. Mullah. Engineers, 8, "National Defined." Zuolo , gical, 9, " Birds, Guatemala," Mr. Salvia. Ethnological, Aesiversary ; " Rama Mau in Africa," M. lhr Chaillu. Wednesday - &misty of Arta, K "lastriletioll is Ride Shoot. lag, Hy the School. Mr. Macgregor. Thursday—Chsenical, colouring Matters,* Mr. Perkin. Royal. 84, The Croneian Lecture, "Relatioes between Muscular Irri tability, Cadaveric Rigidity, and Putrefaction," Dr. Brown BequaaL Antiquaries, 14j. Royal institution, :t, "De. vosion Age," Mr. Penally. Friday—Royal Institution, N. "Theory of Three Printery Colours," Prof. Clerk Maswsill. Saturday, Royal hatitution, 3," Language," Prof. Max EXPRESS, SATURDAY !Mt Court. wßra LODGE, RICHMOND-PARK, MAT 10. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prillol,ll7l Helena and Princes Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon. Lady Caroline Barrington and Lieut.-General the Hoe. C. Grey were in attendance. The Prince Consort and Princes. Alice rode an honeteck, attended by Major Du Plat. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold, attended by Major Elphinstooe, visited her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis count Pahnerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Conic wall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. The Duke of Newcastle, arrived in London on Thursday evening from his seat, Chumherpark, Notts. A deputation had an interview with Fart:Granville yester. day at the Privy Council-office respecting the opening of Glasneven-gardens on Sunday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governor of Canada, and the Lord High Connuiwooner of the lonian Islands. IN.:vetches were seat to the Governors of the Bahamas, Hong Kong, Ceylon, and Malta. Tux COMM.—Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort will go to Windsor Castle this morning. Her Majesty and his royal highness will return to the White Lodge after luncheon. Tho Duke de Richelieu has left the St. Georges Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Haddington and the Ladies Georgina and Frances Bernie Hamilton have arrived at Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Tynioghame House, N.B. Lord and Lady Churchill have arrived at the St. Cieerge's Hotel Lord and Lady Petre, accompanied by the Hon. His Bleat, have arrived at Maurice, Hotel, from Thorn des Hall, war Brentwood. Lord and Lady A. St. Maur have arrived at the ft George's Hotel Lady Emily Hesketh's ball, announced for the 15th, is noavoitisbly postponed. The Bishop of Bt. David's bas arrived at Mau de. Hotel, from Abergirlly Palace, near Carmarthen. The Baron and Baroness Landeberg lure left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris, on their way to Germany. Sir Willoughby Jones has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, from enamor Hall, Norfolk. Sir Charles Tempest has left the St. George's Hotel. Sir A. Buchanan has left Fenton's Hotel for Paris. Mr. Charles L. Wilson, the newly-appointed United Stake Secretary of Legation in London, arrived in the steamer Fulton, at Southampton, on Thursday, and le sow staying at Morley's Hotel. Mr. Wilson his been for some years the editor of • leading political journal in Illinois, and is an intimate personal aa wall ass political friend of President Lincoln. We (Yorkshire Gazette) understand his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Viscount Royston, sad others of the nobility, are this week the gnats of Sir G. 0. Wombwell, Bart. (the worthy high sheriff of the county), enjoying the sport of rook shooting with the rifle, he. The Army and Nary Gazette states that Major the Hon. W. C. Yelverton, of the Royal Artillery, is placed on half-pay, and his name has been removed from the effective list of the regiment. The 33rd Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy was inaugurated at Dublin on Thursday by the Lord-Lieutenant, in presence of a numerous and distin guished assemblage, including the heads of public meets and the representatives of various institutions. His excellency was sooompanied by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Justice of Appeal, Lord Clancarty, Judge Berwick, the Dean of the Chapel Royal, the Dean of Derry, Captain Williams, Sir Thomas Deane, Mr. Catterson Smith, Presi dent of the Academy, and the members of the Council. His excellency made a careful inspection of the paintings, and expressed much gratification at the progress evinced in every department of the institution, proving the interest be took in it b► makings number of purchases. The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain bee issued cards for an evening reception, in Bloomsbury-square, on Tuesday, May 14. The Duke of Marlborough will exhibit, at the June meeting of the Archasological Institute, the Arundel and Beaborough collections of gems and intaglios, from Blenheim Palace. Numerous other choice examples of that class of art will also be displayed, and the exhibition will remain npeu to members of the institute 111311 their friends, from June 5 to June 12. An interesting exhibition will be opened, on the Ist of June, in the room of the Society of Arts. It is to be an exhibition of water-colour paintings obtained from private collections, illustrative of the history of art ; and of works by students of the Female School of Art, show ing the course of instruction in that society. The opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's New Garden at South Kensingtoo, on the sth of next month, with a fruit and flower show, will be followed by • grand rose show, on July 10, another of dahlias, on September 11, and of fruits and chrysanthemums on November 6 and 7 next. It is announced that the summer course of lec tures on botany, by Professor Oliver, to the foremen and pedals/a engaged in the royal gardens at Kew, will oonimespos on Tuesday next, May 14, and will bo con tinued on two evenings weekly (at 7 o'clock, on Tuesdays and Fridays), until Friday, July 12. Examinations on the subjects lectured upon will be held from time to time ; also at the close of the course. The course is open to ell em played in the royal gardens. The annual general meeting of the Ethnological Society 'rill be held on Wednesday next, Nay 15. _ . The Era says :—" We have authority- to contra. diet the rumour that Mr. Feebler is about to become lenge of a London theatre. He is engaged by Mr. Augustan Burls for Ha. and next year, and will represent many Shaksperian charanan before sad during the Exhibition of 1862." "Our readers will regret to learn," says the Sunday Tines, "that Yr. F. Robson has been suffering since the early part of the week from • very sever and alarming attack of congestion of the brain, is oonsequence of which he bra been compelled to abstain for • time from his too ard•ous duties at the Olympic Theatre. We are very happy in being able to announce that the first and newest symptoms have been subdued. and that the danger which at one moment was apprehended has now passed away. Oa as king inquiries last evening we were glad to learn that Mr. Robson is better, and that • rapid recovery may be an ticipated." Advertisements state that the St. James's Theatre will close for the season this day week ; so that the production of lady Dufferin's comedy is deferred. The amateurs of the Civil Service Rifle Volun teers will by especial desire repeat their performance of 014144A1S Tan Taylor's new and original play, A Leas.. for Life, at the Lyceum, on the 22nd instant. The other pieces will be Meseta Yates end Harrington's coniedietta, If the Cap Pita, sad Private Samuel Lover's farce of The Happy Man. A Munich paper states that Richard Waver has been engaged to prepare his opera, The A - 14efriogra. for performance in Prague at the taut of the crowning of hiaMsj. sty the King of Bohemia. Cheee amateurs will be glad to learn (Nip; the Athen(runt) that the Prince de Palignac, brother of the celebrated mathematician, has discovered a new solution of Euler's famous problem of making the knight cover every square on the cher-board, returning to that from which it started. The prioce's solution will be found in detail in the Comptu-Rervira of the Parr Academy of Sciences of the 29th of April. The M.C.C. and Ground v. Quidnunca is put down for Monday at Lord's, and Reyes Meyers of Surrey v. Fourteen Gentlemen of the Surrey Chats "to try the coke of the county," for the Oval, as the lame day. On Thursday the M.C.C. asd Groaad v. Univertaity comes off at Cambridge, and the All-Yeesad Eaves play twenty-two officers at Dublin. EVENING, MAY 11, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE DEATH OF COUNT TELEKL Opinions are still divided in Hungary as to the cause of Count Teleki's recent death. Many think that the unfortunate nobleman had recourse to suicide that he might not be placed in the alterna tive of being faithless either to his principles and country or to the promise which he made to the Emperor Francis Joseph, at the time of his libera tion. Some colour is given to this view by a letter which he addressed very recently to the Comitat of Zala. In this letter he declared himself freed from his promise to the Emperor. "The field of politics," he said, "is open to me, and nothing can force me to renounce it. As to my principles, no one can suppose that I shall not be faithful to them to my last breath. The whole tenon of my life, all my struggles, material well being, /offerings, grief, my dearest hopes, my harrowing losses, all attach me to these principles. Can there be a more indissoluble tie t Death even would not break it ; for the ashes of a dead man have their mission--they continue the mission of the living." PRUSSIA. The strict investigations of the municipal autho rities of Berlin into the intrigues of the chief of the police have resulted in the opening of a judicial prosecution, in which the chief person inculpated is at present the ex-colonel of police, M. Falb:lce. This functionary, who, with his accomplices, has been protected too long by powerful influences, has taken flight. The indictment against him involves no less than a charge of forgery in public docu ments, the punishment for which is the galleys. The Indipenciance states that M. Paltzke has been arrested at Ypstadt in Sweden, and that he will be transferred to Berlin. (aztrzia's Tzzaaamits.) ITALY. AN EARTHQUAKE IN PERUGIA. TURIN, SATURDAY, MAT IL The majority of the select committees in the Chamber of Deputies aro favourable to the pro jectod loan. Ad vices from Perugia state that a violent shock of earthquake was felt in that territory on Wednes day last. Several persons were killed. TURIN, MAT 10. The (?pinion of to-day contains an article ex plaining that the moral adhesion of France to the kingdom of Italy is not sufficient. The article con tinues thus : " The time has arrived in which France should explicitly and officially recognise the new state of things. Such a course would deprive the enemies of the kingdom of Italy of any pretext. The enemies of France would then no longer be able to say that her policy is equivocal." ROME. MAY 7 (via Marseilles). It is asserted that Mgr. Chigi is about to go to Paris as Papal Nuncio, and that his nomination has already been accep ted by the French govern ment. VENETLL VIENNA, NAT 10. The Oesterreichisehe Zeitung of to-day says : "All the gentlemen whose election in Venetia has been announced have declined to take their seats in the Council of the Empire, on the ground that they cannot consider that a few communes represent the will of the country. Even Count Alvise Mooenigo has withdrawn his consent to be nominated as a member of the Reicharath." GLARUS, SATURDAY, MAT 11. Since 10 o'clock last night this town has been in flames. More than 150 houses have already been destroyed, including public buildings, and even several fire-engines. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the April account : INCHEABE. Cash io hand l5 millions. Billadiaoounted, not yetdue 44 2-5 „ Advances Bank notes l4 3-5 ~ Treasury bonds 4 Ol pp Accounts current The increase of 800,0001 in the coin and bullion forms a favourable feature. The increase in the discounts is as much as 4780,0001. POLAND. THORN, MAY 10. The sittings of the Council of State, in reference to the projected elections to the Municipal Council of Warsaw, have commenced, under the presidency of Prince Gortchakoff, the governor. MM. Le winski, Toman, Polocki, Ostrowski, Rosen, and Kronenberg have been called upon as confidential persons to be present at the sittings of the council. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAT 10. Both houses of the Council of the Empire, in their addresses to the Emperor, express a wish for the maintenance of the constitution, and that Hun gary may be induced to send representatives to the Reicharath. They further hope that peace may be maintained, and declare themselves ready to make eacritices if required. They conclude by expressing their wish for the maintenance of the indivisibility of the empire. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, MAT 10. An insurrection of s religious character has broken out in the government of Kamm Seventy peasant; have been shot. General 13ibikoff has been despatched to Kasan. Disturbances have also taken place in the govern ment of Peusa. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Armenian, with the mails from the West Coast of Africa, arrived here this morning. She brings 1,300 ounces of gold, and a full cargo. Her dates are: Benin, March 24 ; Old Calabar, April 1 ; Camereons, 3rd ; Fernando Po, 3rd ; Bunny, 6th ; Brass, 6th ; Nun, 6th ; Lava, 10th ; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast, 14th ; Cape Palmas. 16th ; Sierra Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th ; Teneriffe, May 1 ; and Madeira, 3rd. Trade was generally steady at most of the trading ports on the coast. Her Majesty's ships Electo and Ranger were at Lagos, and the Arrogant at Accra. Her Majesty's ship Torch was at Sierra Leone. Affairs are in an unsatisfactory state at the Bight of Benin, and trade was dull. Consul Foote was at Abbeokntah. The King of Anamhoe had been fined in the sum of 601. for refractory conduct towards Major Cochrane, commanding her Majesty's forces on the Gold Coast Thu ljaye and Madan war continued. The United States mall brought by the !Fulton wee the largest ever lrsows. It consisted of 43 'ache of newspapers, and sine Lege of letters. 1861. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MOM OUR OWN PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. I have reason to think there is some truth in the report (already noticed from the Independence Beige) that larger liberties are about to be conceded to the press. MM. de Persigny and de la Guerron there ale said to have had many meetings on the subject, and some people go so far as to predict that the result of their labours will be announced by the Moniteur in a day or two. The canard, which I denounced on its first flight, of Lord Dufferin'a resignation, is now admitted to be one in the " Latest News" of all the evening papers. A telegram says that this false news was invented by the Journal de Constantinople. But the Petrie, which pretended that he had thrown up his com ' mission in Syria because he was " disgusted with the conduct of the English government," sticks to its text so far as to assert now that his lordship "did manifest a wish to retire, but took no action on his resolution, which he subsequently altogether abandoned." Fudge ! Koesuth, whose arrival in Paris was prematurely announced some days since, is said to be here at the present moment, but only sines yesterday, and it is added that he is going off to Turin imme diately. Some say that he is already gone. At Turin he will certainly have a conference with some leaders of the Hungarian emigration. The Bourse was dull at the opening, and quota tions were lower. Afterwards there was a conside rable improvement. The impression that the Syrian question may be considered as good as settled gains ground. The legitimists and ultra montanista in the Senate, with Larochejaquelin at their head, will probably accuse the French govern ment, on Monday, of truckling to England on this question, but there is no doubt that they will be defeated by a large majority. The cold water thrown upon the Syrian petitions by K de Royer is remarked as a good omen. After all, this pe titioning movement, which was to have been a grand demonstration, is a wretched failure. Only 10,000 signatures have been collected in all France, and even these were got by means of a centralised organisation in Paris, which K de Royer de nounced as an abuse of the right of petition. The Route, after fluctuating between 69fr. 40c. and 69fr. 10c., closed at 69fr. 35c. both for cash and account, with a rise of 10c. and be. Mobilier rose 7fr. 50c. Railways were all better. Orleans rose lfr. 25c. ; Northern, sfr. ; Eastern, lfr. 25c. Lyons, 2fr. 50c. ; Southern, lfr. 25c. ; and Western, sfr. The Petrie notices with blame and regret that the funeral sermon preached at St. Roch for the Poles who fell at Warsaw on April 8, was made the occasion, by the Dominican monk who filled the pulpit, of an ultramontane demonstration. The cause of Poland, it says, is too popular in France to be injured by manifestations "the object of which was much leas to lament for the dead than to enrol them after their death under a flag to which they did not belong. Poland is catholic just like France and Italy, but she is no more ultramontane than her two sisters." Garibaldi has addressed the following letter to K Mare Meunier, the author of a pamphlet en titled " History of the Conquest of the Two Sicilies :" Will you allow me to make a slight objection? Yon should change the title of your book. I did not conquer the Two Sicilia; ; I only seconded the impetus given by the civic virtues of this generous nation, which have ever guided it in the ways of liberty. In the month of May the Siam patriots helped me to put down the Bourbon gensawle, and on September 7 the descendants of Yessaniello prepared my entry into Naples. FINLAND. (1 0 1011 A 001 HELSINCIFORS, NAT 3. In the columns of your journal you have lately enlightened the British public on the late tragical events which have taken place in the capital of Po land, and the gracious concessions which the Rus sian administration have conferred on the Poles, which no doubt has fully convinced the most sceptical of the fatherly protection the Czar has been graciously pleased to bestow on that portion of his empire ; but you are ignorant of what passed almost at the same period in another portion of the empire—l mean the Grand Duchy of Finland— of an almost similar nature. It will be remembered that when Finland was ceded to Russia in 1809 the Emperor Alexander I. confirmed and guaranteed to the Fins their funda mental law, which is that of Sweden, and according to which the administration could not effect any changes in the civil law, &c., without the approba tion of the Diet, consisting f the members elected of the four orders of the nobility, clergy, citizens, and peasantry. The Diet, however, has not been convoked since 1809, consequently a number of laws are inapplicable to the present times, and re quire modernising, as does also the present mode of taxation, tkc. Hopes had been held out some time ago that a Diet was likely soon to be convoked, and such subjects as required a speedy settlement would be laid before the assembly. In staid of this, however, the Emperor was induced to issue a manifest, a copy of which I send you herewith, in which he convokes twelve members of each of the four orders to form a committee to de liberate on such subjects as the government will lay before them, and any suggestions or proposals this committee may make, if approved by the Em peror, were to be in force, or in fact become law, until it should please his gracious Majesty to call • general assembly of the Diet. In this way, of course, it was thought gaverument might dispense with the disagreeable consequences of calling a Diet, and by that mewls render the fundamental laws void ; but the Fins did not appreciate the gracious favour bestowed on them on this occasion, but expressed loudly their indignation and dissatis faction at being treated as children, and showed more than usual energy and spirit in sending delegates into the provinces calling together the most influential members of the nobility and landed proprietors, who assembled at Helsingfors and drew up a petition to the Emperor showing that the appointment of a committee was no concession at all, but that, on the contrary, it was a step which might deprive them of their fundamental rights, and soliciting his Majesty to effect a change in the wording of this manifest, The Governor-General, as in duty bound, attempted to get the members of the Senate to address a vote of thanks to his Majesty for the favour shown this portion of his empire, but five of the more independent members of the Senate refused to comply with this order, and their con duct thoroughly coincided with that of the public at large, who gave vent to their feelings by visiting the houses of these members in a body of 500 or 600 persons, who expressed their approba tion of the senators' protest by loud cheering, na tional sough, and cries of "Long live the funda mental laws of Fiuland." Theses demonstrations had the effect of pro ducing a second manifest in the shape of instruc tions to the senator who had been appointed chair man in the proposed committee, and in which the Emperor explains his intentions respecting the committee, which are the very opposite to what was ordered in the first manifest, and now no change can be effected by this committee before confirmed by the Diet, which was all that the public required. These events have given some life to the other wise monotonous existence we lead in the north ; and it was surprising to see the otherwise sedate and phlegmatic Fin show so much animation and excitement as during the last few days, when his rights and privileges were in question. The navigation for this season has just opened, and steamers have left this port for Lubeck Stockholm. The exchange is very low, 340. per silver rouble, and business rather dull. [Translation.] GRACIOUS RAXIFENT. We, Alexander U., by the grace of God Emperor of all the Russian, Czar of .Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, Ize. Maketh known. During the six years which have elapsed since Providence placed the fortunes of the Finnish people in our hands we have on different occasions convinced ourselves of the necessity of several changes in the civil law, which not only in a spiritual but in a mate. rial point of view a ff ect the development of the country but which changes according to the fundamental law of the Grand Duchy cannot take place without the co-operation of the diet, for which reason severalsubjects have remained questionable since the union of Finland with the empire. Guided by this conviction, we have graciously ordered the senate of Finland, in conjunction with the governor. general of the country, to furnish ua with particulars of the subjects which are of such importance as to entitle them to an early examination. It would certainly be more consonant with our constant warm interest in the welfare of our Ifaithful Finnish subjects, to call together an assembly of the diet at once as soon as the subjects for deliberation are prepared ; but more important interests of the state, the guarding of which Providence has entrusted to us as an holy duty, do not admit at this period of our availing our selves of the right according to the fundamental law of Finland of calling the diet. But in the meantime, in order that what may be for the benefit of the country be no further postponed, we have permitted the calling together of 36 committee or assembly of men of the four orders, possessing the confidence of their fellow-citizens, and chosen by their free votes, and we leave it for them to examine the proposed changes in the laws, which, by our command, will be laid before them, and they are gracious) allowed to express how these changes could best be effected to the advantage of the country, until such period as we might deem suitable for the calling together of the diet, when these matters would be definitely settled and receive their ultimate confirmation. (Here follows the manner in which the election of mem. ben for the committee is to take place, kc.) When we subsequently have received the opinion of the administration on such proposals or suggestions as the COM. mittee may make, we confirm the same until the calling of a general diet, if auch,according to our conviction, will secure any benefits to the country. The members of the committee are to meet at Raking. fore on the 20th January. 1862. The manifest is signed in St. Petersburg the 29th March (10th of April), 1861. AL GUIZOT AND THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS. The following letter from the protestant minis ters of Mulhausen and the neighbourhood is published in some of the Paris journals : " Mulhausen, April 24. " Sir—Permit ns to have recourse to your journal foe publicity for theme lines. N. Guizot, speaking as president of the Society for the Eoconng emeet of Primary kaftan.. tion among the Protestants of Ihaooe in the Church of the Oratoire at Paris, on the 20th of this month, said, ' A deplorable perturbation has attained and silica • considerable portion of the great and general Chris tian church. All Christendom suffers when any of the great Christian churches are in distress ; all the Christian edifice is shaken by the blows which in these days may be inflicted on such or such portion of it.' In speaking thus the illustrious orator has not only confounded the temporal power of the Pope with the cause of Christianity, but ham taken advantage of a religious meeting to express political opinions. Such a confusion is essentially coo' trary to the spirit of protestantism. The undersigned, cler lames of the reformed church of Mulhausen, believe it a duty to their consciences, to the government of the country, and to public opinion, to declare that they decline any shire in the sentiment, of M. Guinot on this point, and that they are profoundly afflicted at his language.— Receive, he. " AD. Sionaca, H. EZHICAIID, Cu. WE:IMAGED, Cu. Bum, Ptmul, Protestant Clergymen at Mullauseu ; J. Oars, at Risheim ; Ca. forest, at Mach ; L. E. BIDICIDARDT, at Onebwiller ; Koss, at Caney ; & Nam. at Timm ; ED. SAM MY, at Wesaerling.'` WALKER Canna—The intended Bale of the furniture and effects at Widmer Castle, which has been advertised for the 13th inst.., will not, we understand, take place, in consequence of the purchase by Lord Palmerston of the entire property from the executers of the late Mar. quis of Dalhousie. INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FOND. —A meeting of the sub-committee was held yesterday at the Manion. house. The members present included the Right Hon. Lord Mayor, Sir C. Trevelyan, Sir E. Ryan, Major Macgregor, Mr. Alderman Salomon, Deputy Obbard, Mr. Casenove, Mr. Dent, Mr. Parker, and Mr. S. P. Low. The total sum neeived was reported to exceed 87,0001., and it was resolved to remit 10,00IM. by the outgoing mail to Calcutta, making a total of 85,000 f. forwarded to India since the public meeting at the Mansion-house on the Mk of March, and leaving a balance in hand after paying ex. pounce of about 40W. NEEDLEWOM EN'S INEITITIITION. —Last evening a ronrersazione was held at the resklews of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Alen Harkey, in Harleyetreet, in aid of the hon. tution for the Employment of Needlewomen which was set on foot about a year ago in premises in amb's Conduit street, and has now its head-quarters in a more commodious building in Hiede-street, Manchester-square. The rota. pony, principally ladies, numbering between 200 and Of, secluded several members of the nobility and many person of station and iuflucnce who take an interest in the unfortunate class for whose benefit the society bas bees established, and whose unhappy lot in the metropolis hie for years been the subject of public commiseration. The Earl of Shaftesbury, the Bishops of London and Oxford, Miss Burdett Coutta, Lady Londonderry, Lady Minor, Lily Dude, the Hon. If. Byng, Colonel Daubeny, several members of parlimseut, and many of the metro. politan clergy were present. A FABRICATED PARLIAMENTARY RETCRN. —At the last meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Mr. Thwaites, the chairman, having had his attention called to a parliamentary paper purporting to be a return from the Metropolitan Board of Works for the year leer, as to the officers' salaries, fie., said it was very incorrect, and bad never been made by that board, and after the fullest inquiry he fraud that the officers of the board had taken no part in making the alleged return, nor knew of it until it was published, and the signatures stated to be Rifted to the return were never attached by the officers. Mr. Phillipe said some part of the information contained in the return was false, and proposed that they should bring the subject under the notice of the House of Commons, by . a commu n. cation through the Speaker, and calling for an mom as to how the false return originated. Mr. Roche prpcned that they should first bring the subject under the notice of the Home-office, and after some diaussiou this cows. of pro. net ling was adopted by . the board.—City Prat METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WOEKB.—The usual meeting of the Board was held yesterday, Mr. J. Thralls in the chair. The financial statement was presented, which gave the following cash balances in the hands of the Tree' surer —Current accounts, 34,1111. 2a. rid. ' • deposit sc. counts, 60,743/. 10s. Pd. • total, 94,84',&. 2s. 2d. GOVT 9• meat securities, New Three per Cent. Annuities, :ff, 9o ; Ga. 41 Cheques ordered but not presented, issued, 3 . 7706 10a. Pd. ' • not retied, 19,0821. 11.. Gd. ; total, 22,8.131.70.8. Mr. Pollard, the clerk, read a letter which be had written by order of the Board to the Home-office, in coasequence of certain false returns having been made to the Homo of Commons in reference to the accounts of the Bunt and the reply winch hod been received, and which hitter ass ordered to he inserted on the minutes, with a view to the subject being brought forward on sonic future occasion, i , order to ascertain if possible, how such false rettirse bad been obtained. The other business was not of a adore to call fur mention. 11OR8RAN AND GUILDFORD RAILWAY COMPAST. —A special general meeting of the shareholders was trW Yestnula_y at the offices of the company, 41, Parliament' street, Mr. Cary in the chair, for the purpose of eomaleng and approving of a bill now before parliament entitl..l bill to outdo the Horsham soil Guildford Direet it,ihr3F Company to work over and use the Godalming Guildford Station of the London and South Western Ka.. „I' way Company." The solicitor of the company Win Ism the bill on the table, the chairman said he bad much phs• sure in informing the shareholders that au amicable e nlace mutt had been come to between this comiskire a nd the I.e. don and South Western, which would render 'it nonece o4 l to proceed further with the bill. It would, therefore. withdrawn. Several shareholders haring expresod th 4 satidaction at this arrangement, a resolution to this etfet was agreed to. RSRPONRIBILFIT OF RAILWAY DIRFAIORS 15 FRANCR.—Accounts have been given of the prosecution ci M. Millaud (formerly • partner of M. Mires) awl Mr. Stokes before the tribunal of correctional police, for alleged Trial in connezioe with the Nassau ratlwaye (a prosecution chit ended in the acquittal of the former end the condemual ,4 of the latter, by default, to five years' imprisonment) ; . 1 " of actions brought against Millard before the civil mut , by shareholders in those railways to get bock suil which they had paid. Two days back four Otter perms brought • new action before the col tribunal slinkiest Millard, and also against Goon Menus de Saint ,Yon, M. Lfvy, and who bad been, with him, directors'of the Nassau raileA!, to obtain meditation of the sums they had paid for shoo , on the ground that they subscribed on an assurance tlo i the conipany had obtained front the Nassau government the guarantee of • minimum revenue of 7 per cent., sod_„t w r such statement wu altogether (else. The tribunal , '", hearing pleadinge, condemn e d a ll th e defendants to roo horse the sums in question, and to pay interest at .5 il r , cent. on the amount. With regard to Millaud. who the originator o f th e affair , the court ordered that if ew . restitution were not mad e without delay, he might b e nr rested and lodged in the debtors' prison. th, rpm 2101 den w4s acup of I ',Het (The]