The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

Ehe oj:ore:Ss. 100owasi p Mrliwinw Lamas Ivoaboy pow, 100 4111 9 1 r =loo, 10, losolo. by Two *Walk fia taw hq of HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEAS DAT •-IisSESEL 311. 14a ... AtWINE. S. 21*. I.4asasow—Maists& n 44e......A1t5rau1p Ik. MIL LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 2. LATEST FROM ABROAD. (PT itacnucs TissoaLrm.) ST. PITZIONJUO, Samvanam. General Ostia-Seek= writes from the Grimm that in the eight of the 23rd. and early morning of the 24th, the penises of Sebastopol made a powsrftl sortie far the purpose of ratings stop to the works of approach made by the Allies near the Xamsokatka This operation, adds General Osten-Seam, remelted to oar advantage. Oar men esomeded in deaMoyirig the works executed by the French daring the bedew days. The loss on both sides was con siderable. Two French akin, one a colonel and the other a captain, fell into our hands, together with an English captain.—Daily NM* (IT 111171NANUID AND BRITISZ PADIB, SUNDAY. The Rani= have established two fortified camps, l each of 30,000 men—the one between Midas and Riga, and the other between Ravel and Narva, to defend the Baltic provinces.—Daily News. We have received the Mosher► of yesterday. It contains nothing of interest—Doily News. THE ADVANCED SQUADRON AT ELSINORE. Orr IXIMATIONLL TILZ4IIIAPI.) ELSINORK, BoirnAT. The flit fear ships of the British Baltic diet arrived here this afternoon. MEL HARBOUR, SoiDAT. Nothing but ice is in sight —Doily News. THE STATE OF OUR FINANCES. THE end of the first year of war and the end of the financial year have souse together, and the reve nue returns for the first quarter of 1856 and for the financial year, now published, supply as with infor mation of our financial condition. Hitherto it has beat usual to make up all the financial accounts to the sth- of the month following the close of the quarter and the year; now, in conformity to the calendar and the usages of civil life, they are own plead to the lut day of the quarter—another evi dence of a willingness in the finance department to throw aside antiquated customs and introduce simplicity and wholesome reforms. One consequence, however, of the alteration is to shorten the past year cts♦sventy-third, and the quarter one-eighteenth part, and as the total revenue for the 360 days is 59,496,1541., and for the 85 days 15,021,2761., to get at the whole revenue for the 365 days, we ought to add 810,00 W. to the 69,498,1541.; and to get at the revenue for the 90 days, 830,0001. to the 16,021,2781. Honorer, we are inclined to think a very short time, as the property tax is now in program of collation, will add a large sum to the Government resoaress. The revenue for the short year as contained in the accounts shows the following increase and decrease: Inerease. Denson Castoma iiiii,lii Pastes Stamps Taxes 0 Pr:a:as P 230,156 CrowleLamis iliscalleaeosa 123,316 376,426 £604,300 £6,916,924 Totals Not Immo@ £6,312,624 The toial revemes for the year is 69,406,1641. against 63,1114111108. Let year; but to form a correct opinion of he emcee and value of this increase, we mast readiest the financial history of the year. In 1864 there were two budgets; the first, introduced on the 6th of March, extended over the whole financial year; the second, brought forward on the Bth of May, affected the revenue only through three quarters of the year. By the first budget the revenue to be raised was calculated at 66,600,0001. ; the addition made by the second budget was estimated at 6,860,0001.; a of revenue by taxes far the year of total provision 83,460,0001. But the CHANCELLOR of the Benisons Miss Elam Pumas CiORDON, dein.* el a calculated that of this last increase he should receive Scotch baronet, has • pony which is, naffielemeAlly. only 2,840,0001. before the 6th of April, making the a ddi c ted t o 1 , jibbing." Most p eo pl e w adi ep me m % total expected revenue to that date 69,400,0001. Now, if they knew nothing else about the matte, be song as it has actually reached on the 31st of March for the daughter of a Scotch baronet in such ama 59,496,0004, we may assort that it is, including the It is scarcely possible, however, to suppose that addition of 810,0001., or one seventy-third part, for the much sympathy would be excited on behalf of the five days short of the CHANCELLOR'S estimated year, lady, for the simple reason that "jibbing," so far from much better than was expected. So many alterations, b e ing u ncommon amongst ponies, a v a wa y th e y however, were made in 1864 by the two budgets, by have." They have " jibbed• from the days of the the addition of taxes at two periods, and by some remotest antiquity to the present time, and they will reductions, that it is difficult to institute a correct "jib" till the race is extinct. Bucephalus was a comparison. The total revenue is 6,312,1841. more ilibber." There were " jibbers "in the heroic times, them last year; but, according to the figures in the or why should old Howie make such a fats about statistical abstract, a sum of taxes amounting to Hem* the " horse-timer" P Macron, Al=- 8,870,5384 was imposed in 1854 mare than was re- awn, and Miss Gomm ' the daughter of a pealed ; and, if the whole of these additional taxes s c otch baronet, have all had the game task should now have been levied. the TOTIMOSIN even after to perform. They performed it dificrenily, making an allowance for the five days, would have h owev er. Memos acquired undying fame by his declined. We state, however, on the authority of method of treatment Atzttegge, by his admirable Mr. OLADSTOireII speech of May 8, that this is not cer e of the esekoess or mieltednam of Bees. the one, though the statement in the of paper, phase, occupies a page or two more of history thee and the fact as he stated it, must both be noticed to would have otherwise fallen to his share. Miss keep clear of errors. • GORDON, sad to say, gets nothing by her first essay The revenue for the quarter, the total of which is in horse-doctoring but a prosecution on an part of 15,021,278 1 . against 10,838,9884 in the corresponding the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to quarter lest year, shows an increase in mg item Animals, the result of which is, that she walks out except Misoldlansous, in which there is a decrease of of the court, where her ease is heard, with very little 44,1094; bat this item is so unimportant, and subject change out of a ten-pound note in her pocket :so to so many contingencies, that it is not worth mud- arbitrarily does fate deal with different individuals. d el etion. Deducting it, the net looses for the Perhaps, however, if we examine the ease nar quarter is 4,428,4171., and as in the quarter all the rawly, we shall find that for of ALEL the diffe r ANDlM and ent results i nc reased taxation has come into operation, though of the horse-taming efforts the property tax is not all collected, while the effects Miss GORDON fate or fortune is not so much of war ca oar trade and general prosperity may be answerable as the individuals themselves. We dto be more felt than in any previous quer- do not hear that when Amen= undertook ter, we shall refer to the several items , except the the one of Becephalus he " beat the animal about 1,0004 pat down under the head of Crown Lands, the head and neck with a thick stick," or that which looks much more like a gates than a correct "he forced the end of the stick up its nostrils statement and into its mouth with gnat violins." The TIN Cement revenue for the quarter is 4,424,1611. Macedonian did not tie Bucephalus up by the read s:ad MAWR more than in the eceresponding period aide, and. returning to him after an intend st at 1864. Bat in 1864 the amount of Customs duties two hours, belabour him with some implemeat repealed was calculated at 643,4841. sore than was unknown, go as to sae him " plunge violintly• le Imposed- A large part of the sum repelled, how- The sod of Ps= did not ask a stable-boy to ever, lewd ia the ant quarter and tends to make hold Buesphalue's head while he "served him out." the first two quarters loot year an year " d this eel No Macedonian groom gave evidence that hie master w asd ilile m o m em ,.._ w d ths additie l einua eliti l t Peeed—thoseonsegar took out a clasp-knife and " jobbed" it into his future im am , was to yield is iaJaly. The elomger's " nostrils and about his . mouth." All these expected the year 700,0001. ander modes of persuasion, which Atszarane did eei Ma° WM. fa the Costa= in Ike mho; tttß empley. Tin aderte 4— K the THE EXPRESS. MONDAY 'SUM% APRIL 2, I Kim 001D021. The lady pays,.that t migrated; and the L n$ tee le to ea oillicient fir us that e fdle pleaded said tbet she weis peeper to pay a might tie imposed ppm h 46 Wm can warmly 1101 W ISiefore, that elm will ba Isaidid down to posterity along with Hacroz,the horse-tailar, and Alava DUI the conqueror of India. In fact, her own confemim was rather a damaging one. She admitted that/ aefleg under advice, She tried a little violent vetiri nary surgery. She had been told of two cures. for a confirmed "jib :" one was to apply a hot iro n to the animal's hocks; the other, to out the pony slightly near the tank, and apply a little turpentine to his wounds. The tender-hearted young lady, after some consideration, let us hope, chose the knife instead of the red-hot iron. She out, or, in the coarse language of the witness, "jobbed" the pony, and " it was her in tention to have applied some turpentine next day." " she was wrong (!) she was sorry, and would undertake not to do so again." She concluded by remarking that she was prepared to pay any floe that might be inflicted upon her. In other words, she asked "What was the damage ?"—not to the pony, but to herself. The bench—who, to do them justice, acted with a, laudable conscionsnees that they were dealing, not with a rough-and-ready ocetermonger, but with a "lady of ample means, elegantly attired, and the daughter of a Scotch baronet "--seem to have thought that the plebeian evidence which had been brought forward could not be held as sufficient he each a ease. The young lady, " Alga* attired," was not to be sacrificed blau, vulgar men swore she was guilty. One don meths effort must be made for hir. The whole of the iamb tastes waddled out of court to have wake ems. aeration of the state of the pony, and found, alas l that the ease was hopeless. All that remained was to spare the feelings of the unitive young lady as math as possible. They "regretted exceedingly , that a person in her position should have been guilty of cruelty to a brute animal." "They were willing to believe to moans extent the story she had told." "It was probable she had acted upon bad advice given her by improper parties." Of mune ; it was not likely that a lady of condition could do wrong with out being shown the way to do 4by "improper parties "—low people. After all this rigmarole, how ever, they were obliged to come to the soul* Rion that " the defendant had been guilty of great cruelty." " They should not be justified in pawing over the affair lightly; the sentence was that she pay a fine of 61., or in default be com mitted for one month." They at first refused to allow the costs, but ultimately ordered the lady to pay 11.95. in addition to the penalty. "The deku dent," says the report, " threw down a 101. note, awl s reosiving the change, walked out of court in the meet unconcerned manner." Why should she not P If she had any qualms be fore u to the nature of the offence she had committed, they must have been pretty nearly removed by the tender care of the magistrates. When she came into court, it appears by her own words that she had ar rived at the conclusion, that sticking a knife into a peey could scarcely be mgarded in the light of a harm lees amusement. She was not quite sure, indeed; bat " if she had done wrong, she was nrry, and would undertake not to do so again." The magistrates who meted in this instance as confessors, seemed Musk with the ingenuousness of her confession, and gave her absolution at the price of a nominal penance. They comforted her with the assurance that she was net so much to blame as the " improper parties " under whose &dries she acted. And they ooneladed by fining her five pounds; something km than the prim of a silk dram. It may be said that the magistrates inflicted the MOW penalty in this case, and that they could do se suers, unless they went to the extreme length of a ammaittal to prison. Thin is tree; but then the question remains to be considered what is the mean ing of a pecuniary penalty, the payment of which senstitutes no hardship to the person mulcted? Is • pecuniary penalty to be considered in the light of a pigment to be made in purchase of a license to commit sin, or of impunity after the commission of it ? If so, the poor have nothing to complain of in the present administration of justice. If the permission to cut and maim animals is fixed at • certain price, Bill Sykes, who longs to " out the heart out of that cantankerous donkey of his," has no more right to munplain that the law stands in his way, than that he cannot keep a coach and four, or dress his wife in silks and satins. He knows that luxuries are for the del, and that there is no good in lamenting the non enjoyment of luxuries which he has no means of buy lag. But we are not aware that ;any such emplane ties of pecuniary penalties has ever been given. They are inflicted solely as punishments. The law, it is reiterated nape ad isaiseam, makes no difference between poor and rich in the matter of punishment. Bill Sykes has had this precious maxim instilled into him by his betters ever since be was a boy. Now, in the cue of Miss Clowns, he knows that the payment of Ike pounds is no punishment at all. She has given him tyke five pounds for a King Charles's spaniel, and flu pounds again for the trouble he took in !adios it for her after he stole it. Bill knows very me that, bad he treated him donkey after the fashion abgtod by Mimi GOZDON in the matter of her pony, the amikkates would have been very willing to WA to the evidence of the witnesses, and would wee have thought of taking the trouble to examine the animal for themselves. They would have called Ida a hardened ruffian, lamented that they had no pow to give him an adequate punishment, and have Mir him experience the whole weight of the indignation of the law. And it is not only the Bill Sykesse who reason after this manner. Large numbers of the industrious poor are led by the occurrence of incidents like that which we have described to the belief that there is one kw for them awl another for the rich, and that one tee of riches is to swum impunity for offences. It may be said that, in the ow of Miss Ooanom, the disgrace of being brought before a beach of magistrates is an element in the punishment of the mime which is far larger than the pecuniary pushy ; just as in the case of Mrs. RANSBOTUAX it is urged that the mere publicity given to the scounttiom spinet that lady is es grievous an affliction to her as any punishment that can be inflicted, supposing she should be found guilty. Bat if these considera tions are taken into the account, what be comes of our pet maxim of "ea* law for the rich and the poor." If the respectability of the criminal is to be pleaded is extenuation rather than aggravation of Famishment, on account of the damage done to their sensibilities—say so at once. Let the preambles to penal laws proclaim the prple. Until this is done, peewee people will be found who will say that a rieh and wen-educated person who commits a crime is in reality more culpa ble than a poor and ignorant person. The former has been better instructed in the Ware of his duties than the latter, and commits the mime generally without l ike temptations that beast the poor MIL Finally, if we are to have a system of pecuniary snide fix mimes, let; us copy our Saxon ancestors and beam the penalty in properties to the rank of the disk& .-Des7y SWIG quarter is 441,060 L, we arViair that 4/6i Castrato revenue, trade, and tit* maaAore of artiphi iag Customs dad" am all tlasiviag. The guise is sot so faa'itail. All ;o tiv ir aj le imposed under this i bid home. into in in this quarter. They wate missal .by OWNS to yield 4,460,000 k is the year the actual in ____ .nee &WU in. creme us imam - - mom on the quarter only 211,2811. To answer his expectations the lithe 0544.1 a. ;113M l"` aSrJ7 500,0001. Wes the Exams mains ile consnaiption of malt fall off in lid's', faded Jan. 5, 1565, to 36,812,727 bushels, from 4153,178 bushels in the presiding year. If the whole et the decline took play after the duty was raked to 45., it would make a sum of 1,054,0001., which would explain the non productiveness of the new Excise dative. There was in the year, too, a slight falling off in the weight of the piper paying duty. The Massed rats of the duty, thersixe, has not answered as a financial ope ration. It has probably even soon:aged smuggling loom than it has lessened consumption. _ _ The Property Tax has Melded in the quarter 6,740,7081.; but a glance at the tables informs u that this tax is levied chiefly in the quarters ending **Weber and March, and we cannot infer the wand yield from the yield is the present quarter. la Mamb o 1864, Mr. itharoirrorx, including the miditiosel half year he then proposed to levy, asli■atsd the 'produce of the tax is the year at 8,582,0004.; but as he afterwards, in May, added the other half, calculated at 3,307,0001., the tax ought in the year to have yielded 12,889,0001. Its actual produce, however, is 10,515,3691. If we were not aware, therefore, that, large as the sum collected nada this head in the last quarter was, much more is yet to be collected, and that terminating the quarter live days earlier than usual has been sensibly felt in this tax, we should infer that it had disap pointed expectations. We believe, however, that this is not the case, and the large increase in the quarter, 3,798,8121., as compared to the corresponding quarter last year, is a warrant that the tax will be u productive as was anticipated. It is pleasant to find the Post-once showing a con tinual increase, notwithstanding the increasing ser vice it readers to the public. At the same time, it most be noticed that this department, like other revenue departments, is becoming more expensive, and will cost this year 113,5281. more than last. In like manner, the Inland Revenue department, which includes the Rules, will oat 221,3071. more than last year, and a part of this is caused by an increase in the ant of the revenue polio* of Ireland, though the larger part is the result of the increased poundage received by the tax collectors-116,0004, on the increased amount of taxation. But the Cuban' department will oat a trifle Lass-I,7oo4—then last year. The whole increased eat of the revenue departments in 1866, above 1854, will be 338,7611. ; and it is worth con sideration, when war is waggery, whether the expense of these several departments could not be curtailed. The stamps, in which there was a reduc tion in 1864, show an increase in the year already asissi, aid an increase in the quarter of 64,9444 This bespeaks an activity in trade, if not an improve ment in the mode of levying the duty. The eseermed lesee, too, suffered a reduction in 1864—the effect of Ma law passed in the previous year—and the slight =Wain they show on the year, while there is an imeresse Is the quarter of 95,6951., has in it nothing extraordinary. These two items, however, are the bast important, as they underwent the least change, sad show the least alteration of all the great sources of revenue. It remains to remark that, including in the ways and means of the quarter, 1,000,0001. Exchequer Bills issued in the last quarter, and the sum raised by Exchequer Bonds, the expenditure has exceeded the revenue by 5,495,6151.; bat the late CRARCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mica Wed that at this period he would be in smear a little more than 4,000,0001. In this moles, thaw kie.there is nothing which has not been in a great swore foreseen, and for which the morning revenue will not to a great degree provide. To provide for the whole of the expenditure of the finan cial year now beginning, Sir GEORGE LEWIS will, immediately after Easter, bring forward his budget. Let him remember that the people will pay the taxes with more cheerfalneu and more punctuality if the Executive will apply the wag carefully to the honour of the coantry, not eqvanier it away, purchasing only contumely and disgMem. The industry of the people and their resources am isettanally increasing : they are ready, and willing, and able to provide an ample revenue for all purposes ; bat they require the Government energetically to fulfil its duty, and give them back in reputation and metal service the worth of the many millions it an madly expends.—Daily News. "ELEGANT" CRUELTY •ME REVENUE. NO.*Aff - ABEiTRACT OF THE NET PHO DUDE OH THE REVENUE OF THE WITHI) I, KINGDOM, in the indermentiosed pedo egad Mar* 31,1866, =awed with the correagending periods of the preceding year• ' •••• 1 1 — l — , '' V ' • : .7- i , : 1 1 • . t • 1 i 1 1i I i . 1 P 0 0 t..' .0- F.: 1 ily § I 512:-.2 - ;41 J. 4.- P 04 2 ; 1 - • .;PPl. o `l 0. f Eta 1 I I 1 I a t P 1 •i 1 g A g g i i i 5. Itr 2221 .2212 •,p. • sad ' that 4..: s s P a 5 - No. U. INCREASE; and DECREASE in the Quarts: sad Year ended Starch 31. 1356 ; 5 a compared with the correspondieg periods of the preceding year. 11 1 P c I WI) 1 1 1 1 „.1 r. -so Ili 4 g f ,t.• a Fit 111;.E. No. lII.—AN ACCOUNT SHOWING REVSNUS AND OTHER DECSIP Quarter loaded Merelt 31, 1866; the A therms, sad the Charge of the CoasolidatA the wild Quarter, together with the Surplus spas neh Charge. =Dam Imped tbe Jerzy tbe ComoMated fatisareler mas le 11136, Meet bilis Irani of the Fned for Deficiency 2411.911 .13,.....1 ~... Balers of leisestreshed he inabageor 80. appro. Orr by Milerle le leg* brier remaining ie thalami's's., es Rama L lUS ltetlieemeretekellta dreamier ceded Marsh 31, 1633, r revs Is seem L . . . 13 011,176 Ammer trained le lha tbreii;;;;liiii haririTC . Tili, . Om 18 819 4 ere Peek riot 407,902 Aneeetelbeejc:lllle (War and hare) bond in tremor" Kerr 111,1363 Amour melleel le Quarter mg* Mar 81, HA is tegeproest Abuser fee Table wart, 3a 189,644 -..--. ir_4l E@ .2 ) . .v., ,A i 5 A. lit- E V t r, i E i E 5 I IPs P i . e ..r .r. .1 0 .• S. ... c r : P . P . 1 ! E § § 6 § I P. '' r NE § e 1 4- I g I A X 1 I g = A re E X Jh g • : 4 1 P - :- 0 e. ‘4 l B 8 A A a A A A. ■le I .1111E15E3 .." 1 gi g 4' r A : 6 - 4 j ) 1 A .; - i A. lt § § i 16EiP. Pe P c = C .: e. f. 18 - 11 t4 N P A A J -4 e- - x P k ® PiPl 6?-116-6E:4.6 fla*Pl Bel== do Edam, spa the amp a( the Gnat Britain, and ior which Ex- Tomlin G claim Ms (Diadem) will te kneed MUMS .7.339,261 Amount mind oat al the Not Lease tar the Quarter ended Bideh al. MS. reisonnan of Ezdaetad Bate (Dialdansy ma in vi rr Clesetwomirl hoary S. do Nat Yawn* as Sent/ Serried in the Quarter sad 4 lasi: aver the Ocendhilintrund Odd liadregwr Meent. MANI One at Essbageor NW (Ways and Mu* - 11.1“.1t17 Charge el the Otarildsted non Far the Cleertar ending Mardi SI, 16111. des liMerest alibi Parlaallett Debt 5k 1 1 4431 es Dad Wired on Dellaissay lht Ltat Other adman Consondated Find ilk tell Adams ke Podia Works, 6m - 1,1177,1103 Surdas Nahum beyond the Charge at the Otmealidated Fund, Oar the Gander ended Much Si, MS, dn. : Great Britain I Lll.llll reland ?MS THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICE FOR TOWNS. The following circular has been received from the Somalian by the slayers of the principal north country Awns . „ Whitehall, March 28, 1855. " Sir,—l as directed by Secretary Sir George Grey, to idiom you that his attention has been sailed to the inade quate of the polies forces is many of the large and populoop towns in the kingdom. "The masequenee of this is, that while inefficient previ. ells is undo to cheek the itommission of ordinary aims, the dell buss is nearly powerless in the event of t :Z=omb. anee of the publie pease. It is of great im ham *add be seamiest police force in all 1111110. set only for the ~.L. lea et life a nd property nodose& may eirewmatasess, has lase with the assistance of spiel taiseighoshe the Topeoldea of may sudden dieturbanse of Ike pima wlthoat receiving, as has been too often the ass, Illmirgegsatilitary feces, to which recourse should be bed velem when the civil power aloes, duly organised hr the/mene t enable to maintain the public peace. A sailitesy - Isine amines& be relied on as a substitute for the pollee s Mt ?Ma ailed he by the magistrates in eases of ontomememseame, tt should act: only in support of the civil peseta. Nos Melesty's government feel it necessary to diem dune es far as possible, the practice of posting small de. Mahn:eats of troops in various parts of the country, and their withdrawal tendon it the more important that as Masai polies fens should be maintained. " Sir Gems Grey eallisg Irate . that you y: f u will take an early " het yea will u rg e " upon the th at e th " e " necs 4 nece tM ssity of pomp mossures to plass the police-form of the up awn ostidootory footing. Sir George Grey i eat dot the esancil will be folly alive to the im peetenes of the Nair" sad that it will receive their early and easehikatlsalies. I mo o sir, your obedient humble servant, " W. Cowlitz." IMMINA HOII2ITAL.—By lettere from Smyrna of the 17th of Maroh, we learn that the greater part of the civil sasdial staff bad Mired, aid that the military medical offkar bad gives up Marge to them the day before, although Dr. ][em the wee not expected for some days. Thmeasil 11111111 W. sad ilog duty, were Die. Barsky owl Learark phydeimis t Mr. Solace Coots, Mr. WAWA Mr. Seenese - Wells. end Mr. Wordsworth, surgeons; Des. - Medi% 11411marm, Willdamm, aai Wood, eat )Menem. Oemplin, Her ald" Nellie, Oa IlissedisillowiteMaisurgeone. A low foam of waYagiewe typhee wee may premien and fatal, between OS sat 100 of the 800 }mimes leaded • swath Osten Melee died. Several of the Meats M at wadenee ea the ilk bad been awaked, mg mom had died. The lady-mines were jest *best to mamemee their duties. Everything teats to oceans the inspremiew that Bayne Ma very ails toe ea lwegitaL—Medion4 noes mid Offiritie. , 1 Irk Qum N IlatrLd M.isii Doke a.; It COW* 1 —... Privy Council at three o'clock at Bak eems Pawn. It was at rt, Earl ()martlli, Lord Preatdeat; the -a, Lied Privy Seal; the Marquis of Lans downe ; Vieeoaat Pahainetea, Pint Lord of the Treasury ; Sir Georg! Grey, Suntory of State for the Homa Deport . meat; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs; Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Ad-' &Inky ; the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, President of the Board of Casual; Earl Speiser, Lord Steward ; the Marquise( Broadtail., Lord Chaiaberlebs; aid the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Hone. The Right Hon. Dudley Earl of Hanowby and Hon. Ed. ward Pleydell Boatels were by oftersaad of the Queen sworn of her Majesty Most Hon. Privy Council, and took their places at the Board accordingly. Her Majesty is Council was pleased to appoint the Right Has. E. P. Boone* Vial-President of the Committee of Cesare for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade gad Foreign Plantations. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Bari Granville had an audience of the Queen, and re signed his seals of office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Earl of Harrowby had an audience of the Queen, and was sworn in Chancellor of the Derby and County Palatine of Lancaster. •Her Majesiy delivered to the noble Earl the seals of the Duchy and County Palatine. Mr. Frederick Dawes Danvers, Clerk of the Council to the Duchy, assisted at the ceremony. The Earl of Mutation, Viscount Palmerton, Sir George Grey, and Sir Charles Wood had audiences of the Queen. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Ernest Bruce, Vioe- Chamberlain ; Viscount Drutulanrig, Comptroller of the Household; Earl Somers, Lord-in-Waiting; and the Hon. Mortimer &cheats West, Groom-in-Waiting. Her lisjeaty and Prince Albert went to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham en Saturday morning, accompanied by the I Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Leiningen, and at traded by the Dachas of Atholl, the Hon. Flora Mac donald, Major-General Barnette, and Captain Da Plat. The Duchess of Lent visited the Queen at Buckingham Fakes. Her Mejeety had a dinner party in the evening at Buck ingham Palace. The company included the Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Leiningen, the Maharajah Durkee Sing, the Earl of Harrowby, Lady Fanny Howard, Madame Triooupi, the Earl and Countess St. Genoese, Earl and Lady Constance Orcavenor, the Right Hon. Sidney end Mn. Herbert, Sir John Login , Col. hidley (Soots Fusilier Guards), Major Oliphant (Chairman of the East India Company), and the Gentleman in Waiting da the Duke of Cambridge. The bead of the 2nd Life Guards was in attendance in the Palace, and performed during dinner. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince et Wales, the Prime's Royal, Prince Alfred. the Princess I Alice, and the Prince of Leiningen, attended Divine service in the private chapel in Buthrogum Palace. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The Duchess of Kent visited the Dneheas of Gloucester as Saturday, at Gloucester House. Prince Ernest of Leiningen arrived at Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday, from Portsmouth, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood., the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, and Viscount Canning. The Council sat two hours. A deputation from the Burial Boards of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, and Islington. had an interview with Flu Geo. Grey on Saturday, at the Home-officio. The deputation consisted of Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P. (Marylebone), Mr. Alderman Challis, M.P. (Finsbury), the Bev. Thos. Dale of St. Pancras (vicar), Messrs. John Flatter and Henry Farrar (churchwardens of St. Pancras), Messrs. Robert Farness and William Durant Cooper (St. Pancras Burial Board), Mr. William Anderson (Islington Burial Board), Mr. John Layton (clerk to the Burial Board, Islington), Dr. Sayer, Messrs. J. H. Harlowe, and F. H. Bridgman and Mr. W. E. Greenwell, clerk to the Burial Board (deputa tion from St. Marylebone). A deputation, consisting Mr. Ponta?, Mr. Swansy, Mr. Sewall, and Mr. Bliusksom, bad an interview with Sir Geo. Grey on Saturday. I Despatches were sent from the Colonial-oflice, on Satur day, to the Governors of the West India Islands. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had a assembly on Saturday night at the noble viscount's mansion ea the Terrace, Piccadilly. Previously to the reception, rthe noble Vimpount end Viscountess entertained at dinner the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, his Emellency the Bari of Carlisle, the Berl and countess of Shaftesbury, the Countess of Flahault and Wile. Elphinstone De Nihau% Viesoutess Rbrington, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir Charles Wood, Ron. F. Slog, Mr. Orsville, and Mr. Augustus Paget The Earl and Counters of Clarendon had a dinner party on Saturday at their mansion in Grosvenor-crescent. There were present hie Excellency the Turkish Minister and Madame Muslim, his Excellency the Portuguese Minister, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sir William liolesworth, M.P., and Lady Molesworth, Sir Cornwall Lewis and Lady Lewis and Miss Lister, the Right lion. R. Vinton Smith, M.P., and Mrs. Smith, Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., M. Jules de Saar, and Mr. Paritnie. Lord and Lady Overstone entertained at dinner, on Saturday, in Cariton.gardens, Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Mr. Hoare and Mrs. Roan, Mr. Grote and Mrs. Grote, Mr. Booth and Mrs. Booth, Mr. Ford and Mrs. Ford, Mr. Stratt and Mrs. Strati, and Mr. niggles. The Sheffield Cricket Club intend to put forth a silver cup, of the value of 601., to be called the Cricketer' County Champion Challenge Cep, for competition between four of the recognised crioketiog counties ; the three ems- 1 , .tests to take place at Sheffield, in the months of June, July, August, or September. The Paris correspondent of the Indipendancs Bap, whose letters under the signature of " 'Y " are supposed to Mw a semi-official character, urges the appointment of isms one general to the command-in-chief of all the military operations of the Allies in the Crimea. He questions whe *sr history presents such a spectacle as is now seen there, els., three armies and three chiefs (General Cansobert, Lord Ea*" and Omer Paths), and shortly, with the Piedmon- Isis esatingent, four armies and four chiefs, each lade rodent of the other. Several of the English missionaries lately expelled frees Poland for the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, have arrived at Hamburg on their way home. General Degenfeld, who is about to have the entire control of military affairs in Austria, is ezpected to arrive previously in London in the quality of military commissioner, his mission being analogous to that of General Crenneville at Paris. Some Continental journals, however, connect the General's visit with the rumour of another Austrian loan. It is generally believed at Paris that General Wedell hem taken with him to Berlin an autograph letter from the Emperor of the French to King Frederick William. M. treed= is mid to feel his position in London to be very disagreeable, and to insist upon being allowed to return. Letters from St. Petersburg state that the Grand Duke Constantine, whose energy in military affairs is pre , verbial, has left for Croastadt, in order te assure himself of the exact means of defence possessed by that fortress. He Meads to eontinue his inspection at all pieces situated apes the coasts of the Gulf of Finland. The Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael are about te mars to the Crimea. Letters from Russia speak of the impression pro duced upon the publie mind by the late fanatical madras' of the " Holy Synod." One of the results has bees le add—the government giving its full emisent—eleven priests to each cohort of militia (1,080 men.) These priests will carry at the bead of every company, and by way of a standard, the double cross of the Eastern church. The bulk of the Baltic Fleet will sail from Spithead to-morrow at two o'clock. Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry to her Majesty, has , been selected by the Queen to be Lord in Waiting to the Emperor of the French during his visit to England. The Marchioness of Ely has been selected by the Queen to be Lady in Welting to the Empress. The late Right Hon. James Grattan bequeathed the nun of 8,8001. to be divided mew some of the most deserving medical charities in Ireland. The following entry appeared in one of the recent returns made by the Visas* polies spats to their esperien • "Lord John Russell has walked arra-in-arm at the sleek with Prime Gortchakeff." The Archduchess Mary Dorothy, widow of the Prism Palatine Joseph, and mother of the Dalian et !latest, died lust week at Buda, is Surgery, egad 61. .;, - .. THE PARIS 01 TEM DAILY mrws.) PARIS, 1/LAsca 30. GENERAL PROGRESS. I went over the Paleis de l'lndastrie and the building on the Copra la Reim; yesterday, t o note the progress made during the last ten days. la th e Palais de rlndustrie, the stalls on the ground•llom are nearly completed ; and the wood-work for th e prominent objects of the great hall is in a fixing state. The great western painted window is alit-. most unfortunately—approaching completion. Th e imposition is identical with that of the great satin window: the subject it is meant to illustrate is h. yard me. The artist has left so much to the lone. nation, that he will find few people, I fear, rare% of appreciating him. The central figure is th e France of the eastern window—nearly washed oat. But the figure to which I gave my hearty attention is the tortuous bearer of the cornucopia, from which the articles of Paris are abundantly fallin g . I am informed that there has been a N . done idea of taking these two painted windows away and replacing them with ground glass. C o , tainly a crowd of Parisian gamins armed with stout, would be able to make the most acceptable cox. UNIVERSAL EIRIBITION. (71 , 0 X SZE mentary on these works. The visitor, turning briskly from the window', is now able to conjure up a hi l t idea of the effect obtainable in the Peale de Pk. dustrie. Nearly alt the stalls are built; the outline of the principal objects of the central hall are pertl y defined; and it may now bejairly declared that from the five•galleries the general effect will be magical, It will not be so perplexing, so bewildering u that which confused the visitor when he first stepped i e t c , the nave of the Great Exhibition of 1861 ; but it le be more harmonious, more pleasing, more imp* sive. It will not as tonish so much by the extent of space over which the eye will range, as by the fair proportions, the happy tints, and the flowing ka le that will combine to realise a single but most imp,* sive picture. It will be fiydenham Palace reduced, rearranged, concentrated, and having gained by each process. As regards exhibitors' progress, I may remark that there are now enormous piles of packing cues is every part of the building—save in the galleries, whisk remain still unoccupied, but marked out with broad ochre lines. On the ground floor the French space . is everywhere encumbered with bales of goods, especially near whereElbceuf and other manufactunag towns are marked upon the counters. The Tristan end of the building is open for the reception of goods ;and here is the busiest scene of the Exhibition. The student curious to be informed on the processes of packing adopted by various nations might hem in. dulge his taste. Long cases packed is straw, that look like contributions of mummies ; infinitesimal packages, recommended to the particular cars of particularly careless people, as a rule, viz., exhibi. tion porters; soft bales of textile fabrics; ixesign. meats of brittle manufactures, with the side you are requested to keep uppermost most obligingly turned undermost ; five or six cannon of heavy calibre; all grouped in the most picturesque confusion, and enlivened by groups of ineffectually active porters, in very new glazed caps, made up a scene which reminded me of the preparatory days of our Great Exhibition. All this confusion is, I suppose, inseparable from an exhibition. Exhibitors break through rnles—direct their goods improperly— arrive too late at night, or too early in the morn. ing—want special exceptions made to general regale tinee—find fault with the position of their space— bosoms unnecessarily excited when their contribu tions approach the building—and send commissioners eying about in despair at their exacting demand' and their petty jealousies. It is highly satisfactory, seder these apparently inevitable circumstances, to know that England is the most forward of all foreign contributors. The English space is crammed with bales and cases of goods, and directly French work. men have completed their orders for stall work, &e., these bales and cases will be emptied. I remarked also that from Tuscany, Florence, &v., the contrite. tions have arrived in considerable quantities. Bsi• gium too has already sent many packages. The American space is quite unoccupied at present, cad informed will be but indifferently occupied in the end. In the long machinery gallery on the Cour is Rein., the western end is still without flooring, sad crowds of masons, engineers, and carpenters am busily at work erecting the heavy machinery. At the eastern end, where the machinery not in moths and the agricultural implements are to be placed, two galleries are being constructed, lightly, upon an iron framework, to afford additional space. This work proceeds slowly, however. Where there is one work man there should be ten. At the central entrance, where the authorities are receiving contributions, the Invalids, who appear to be on duty, confidently ex pros a belief that the machinery will not be ready or the lit of May ; policemen wander calmly about watching the heavy packages as they are rolled wow the gallery, or fiercely asking some intruder what he wants. In the midst of all this, the plasterers are hard at work under the gateway, forming earthen designs for decoration—protruding their white has heen the scaffolding to watch the entry of visitors cc SeteThis gallery will be the moat remarkable part Exhibition. In the Champs Elysees workmen are very hay. Where fountains are to play and flowers scent the air is still a most uninviting wilderness. Men axe sifting earth destined to receive the flowers of all nations; masons are building the rough outline of fountain basins; Parisian specimens of the Kleiner, cutting roads in all directions; and crowds are col lected about the doorways of the Exhibition buildings to catch glimees of the interior as the busy officials hasten in or out. On all sides rises the cry, "It cannot be ready on the Ist of May "—a cry wh i ch pursued the Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851 as they went to their daily work. My be lief, after a careful examination of late progress, Is, that the Parisian Universal Exhibition will be is advanced on the let of May as the Great Exhibition was advanced on the Ist of May,lBsl. Many stalls, on the opening day, will be unoccupied ; much will have to be hidden by happily disposed drapery, ke the opening ceremony—still, a fine effect will he ready, to enchant the visitors of all nations. I have just been informed that one of the promi nent objects in the grand hall of the Palais de LlD dustrie will be a Pharr or lighthouse. The basement of this building is to be deoorated with pier figures, representing various seaports, upon which the indefatigable Gerdme is now engaged, and which he has promised to complete within a few days. Beek figure bears an oar, upon which the arms of a sec port are emblazoned. These allegories, like those of the provincial towns upon the Place de la Concorde, are unsatisfactory ornaments. An allegory that cur not be understood without a catalogue is as poor 11 thing as a joke that requires explanation. Reports already fly about Paris that the Fine Art Anise have been very severe, and that the French motion of the Fine Art galleries will exhibit, not the rising talent of France, but the genius that has soared its highest, and is even on its decline. Mean while, Ingres is said by some to have space almost limitless, and to be determined to fill it. Even deco rative paintings are said to have been cut from the walls of public buildings to swell this artist's glop'. I join heartily my sympathy to the general feeling which condemns this assumption of pre-eminence -- not only for its excessive vanity, but also for the wrong it inflicts upon younger, and, perhaps, betted men. Among the artists whose contrib ut i o ns are sal to be rejected, I may mention Dubrioe, the painter of the Seven Cardinal Sine. His sine shall rat in his own hands! Tax PA= ExIIIBMON.—CONTRIBOTIONS noN WIIMIIIIIIIII Heim.—Daring the last few days works.* ham bees engaged in removing the stained glue from of the lower eespartmetta of the large window st tat bedew of Westminster Hall, for the pupas of beitltru i a . WIWI to Pula as simian of Birmisgbas manufacture of stained glass, at the forthcoming Isidtton of the Works of 'Autry of ail Nations. The " I r. I spoon in Me window ham bees filled up with W l = which, hem the body of the hell, bays a mast llnorn 4 ansesisob