The Express. — London, England, 1861-04-01 00:00:00

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TO4llloMOR—Manka OIL 41......ADmana. TA. lea LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 1. A *reaor contraction of mercantile engagements appears to be going on in most parts of the country. Both the home and the foreign trade are becoming slacker. The effect is seen in the diminished demand for discount accommodation which has been experienced during the last two months. When bill-brokers complain that there is little doing, it is not a good sign. Firms that used to mak; apreetice of coming to them with large batches of paper now bring only a few bills; whilst others find their engagements diminishing so rapidly that in a little while they will have scarcely any acceptances out. The alteration in volves relief in one sense—that is to say, relief to the money market, for, as borrowers become fewer, lenders must of course abate their term' ; but this relief is only purchased at the cost of stagnation of business. We do not MOM that there is, as • rule, absolute depression or distress, but there is a general slackening of enterprise, and the change is keenly felt in many departments. One of the moat prominent indications is the occurrence of disputes between the employer and the employed. As long as trade was active and increasing, all went smoothly. Large profits were realized by manufacturers, and, every now and then, when the workpeople put in their claim to participate in them, in the shape of an increase of wages, the demand was quietly acceded to. This is, in truth, often the only legitimate way in which the classes which live by hand-labour can enforce their right to a proportionate share in its produce. But, unfortunately, the operative classes are toooftendeficient both in information andsagacity. Now that the check to trade in the manufacturing dis trictshasbeenconfirmed beyond dispute, theimmters have advanced upon the operatives with a demand for the yielding back of a portion of tho conces sions in point of pay lately made to them. The workpeople, on their part, will not admit the force of the circumstances, or the reasonableness of the attitude which is taken up by their employers. They have always cherished the error of regarding every advance in wages as permanent, whereas it is an elementary principle of economical science that the price of labour must fluctuate from time to time, just as the prices of nearly all other com modities do. Accordingly, every working man, in him hail-enlightened state, can see nothing but his individual grievance, and with characteristic insular independence, thinks it incumbent SECOND-HAND PIANOFORTE& CRAWLS, SW.I soll M h••• • Wee somorigmagt of Sesistimil nissoham the 1 . 104 014801 . 04 "len 04 - priess.-481. 1011014.41.04. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRASS SAL MAAQUIt TteNIUST. ',ItIIaO rw.. m e t peerweerel web Sweetbrier. =rant of SINNEre rAnver TWIN VAPOIIIOOI. rave wee aniverasi rettelletiee i IS in SAL upon him to resent what ha considers the oppression of his employers, even if he is conscious that resistance will came him much suffering, and that he will probably have to give way in the long run. A " strike" is the form of protest by which he relieves his mind. With fluctuations in trade he thinks he has nothing to do. Although they are, in reality, almost as important to him as to the man who employs him and a thousand of his fellows, he never dreams of watching their approach, or elucidating their causes. All he knows is that for so many months he has received so much per week, and now that his employer offers him a certain number of shillings lees, he refuses it, and " strikes." A strike is now, apparently, an established English institution. It would seem that no descent from a higher to a lower scale of wages All henceforward be accomplished without an interval of disturbance, without a labour inter regnum. This is very lamentable. Increased uneasiness is indicated by the accounts from the cotton manufacturing districts. Business at Manchester has become more restricted in all departments. The recent rise in the price of cotton, resulting from the disposition of specula tore to take advantage of the confusion in America, has introduced a fresh element of d'fficulty, sines it ►as obliged the producers of the manufactured commodity to advance their prices to an extent proportionate to the advance in the raw material; and the immediate effect of this has been to check the languid demand previously experienced. It is significant of the less prosperous condition of this important interest that the " turn-out" of weavers, and thepreepect of its extension, are believed to be rather welcomed than otherwise by many manufao to:erase a means of relief and of curtailing the pro- duction at &time when sales are effected with increas ing difficulty. It is computed that the turn-out at weavers in the neighbourhood of Ashton and Glowep alone hes caused the stoppage of no less than 50,000 looms. In the woollen, hosiery, sad lace districts, business is quiet; a good deal of machinery is idle, and mum= workpeople are out of employment. The iron, metal, and hard ware trades are depressed, and the accounts from some quarters go so far as to designate them " unprecealentedly The causes of the increasing dulness of trade have been too frequently dwelt upon to need re capitulation here. It is satisfactory to observe that, as regards one of the principal—namely, the hi4h value of money—indications of improve ment are arising. The rate of discount has fallen from 8 to 7 per cent. ; an early re duction to 6 is generally looked for ; and, if regard be had to the steady diminution in the demand, G per cent. will soon be considered quite high enough. As regards the disturbance in America, which in another of the discouraging features operating here, there is, unhappily, little sign of hope, now that the United States have passed a law practically excluding many kinds of British woods. But nothing contributes more powerfully to the feeling of discouragement oh. servable in commercial circles throughout the i kingdom than the anxious character of our home agricultural reports. There is no doubt that the breadth of wheat sown is unusually small. Last autumn was a very unfavourable season, and the tune for wheat-sowing is now nearly at an end. Mr. CAIRO stated it as his opinion some weeks ago in the House of Commons, that under the most favourable circumstances the next harvest will not yield more than an average, and that it is exceedingly likely to sink below it. This is not a pleasant prospect, for it has often been said that it takes two bad harvests in suc cession to produce a telling effect upon English trade. The upward tendency of the corn markets proves which way agricultural opinion inclines, as well as the opinion of that most useful clans of traders who do the next best thing to growing corn—that is, import it for us. The appearance of the growing grain crops is not well spoken of, and a largo extent of land remains yet unsown. Of course it will not be suffered to lie fallow. If we do not grow wheat we shall grow something else ; so that it may hereafter become necessary to import less than the usual quantity of other kinds of food. This would bo a partial, but only a partial, compensation for the necessity of large imports of wheat. But there is unquestionably every likelihood of our having to pay away a very large sum of money for wheat in the present year, our fastidious population insist ing upon having the best wheaten bread ; and we know well what the effect of this is both upon the money market and upon commercial enterprise. Although it is, happily, as yet early for unfavour able predictions respecting the next harvest, there is no doubt that! , agricultural considerations have an intimate connexion with the present dulness of trade, for they not only occasion caution in the great monied centres, but check consumption in every village and hamlet, in fluence the reports of factors' agents and collectors, and so react upon the great seats of industry. The condition of business in the little country linendrapers' or ironmongers' shops forms a not unsafe criterion of the condition of business generally, although many persons would probably disdain to value testimony gathered from sources so humble. At a time when the public are looking rather anxiously for relief in the money market, and to the Bank of England for the signal, it has excited note little remark that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is once more competing with traders for accommodation at that establishment, and giving the directors a motive for keeping the rate of discount at a point which is not warranted by the position of their bullion reserve. It would seem that the Bank have now habitually to consider the wants not only of their commercial customers, but of their largest customer—the State. The Bank have, as we well know, liabilities, in the shape of deposits, and ease* in the shape of securities and of " reserve." It is the province of the Directors, as of all bank managers, to know how to fix the proportion of their deposits and reserve that may be safely invested in securities, whether those securities consist of mercantile bills, Government stock, " deficiency bills," dock bonds, or anything else. Each of these kinds of investments, toge ther with many others, go to make up the total of securities now held by the Bank of Eng land. If more securities of a safe and re munerative class are offered to the Bank than they can afford to absorb, they probably raise their terms. This is the case, for example, when the commercial public press heavily for ac commodation at the discount office. If, on the other hand, the tendency of the value of money is downwards, through a slackening of the commer cial demand, the natural fall in the Bank rate may be postponed if Government step forward as large borrowers at the Bank. This is just the case now. The last Bank return but one showed an increase of 1,119,3431. in the Government securities in the banking department, and, at the same time, an increase of 1,585,2101. in the Treasury balance. It is evident that Government have been borrow ing largely of the Bank. It is equally clear that as long as the Bank are enabled to employ their resources in any kind of paying securities, they will be proportionately slow to lower their rate of discount, although the course of the general market is strongly in that direction. The commercial classes, whose interests are prejudiced when the Minister of Finance enters their own channels as a borrower, naturally oom• plain of this unlocked for competition. MLSESTIIT.—Lord Palmerton arrived on Saturday evening at his mat, Droadkoda, Hants, from Tiverton. Lord Herbert is staying at hi seat Wiltou-lionee, Wilts. Lord Granville is staying at his resideoos, Nose Park. /Staffordshire. Mr. Hiles: Gibson is staying at his neat in Suffolk. The Duke of Newcastle is at Clumberpark, NAM. Lord J. Reseell, the Duke of Argyll, and Sir Geo. Grey have left London. Hr. Gladstone is staying spat a visit to Lord Herbert. The Home Secretary. Goarge Ceru lean Lewis, remiss is tows. The ministate will mimeo- We la London on Tiseaday, the Nth of April, at which period the ethicist councils will recommence. HeuiTiarru The Rev. Edward Cheese, the new rector of Houghton " rend himself in " no Sunday, is presence of • 44 2 4 ZZ =Prtine. He took the e ntire duty, both morning iming the ordinary service being varied by the wan of " the Thirty.sine Articles," end a electorate:a os the part et the new rector of his unfeigned "sassed and ermemet" thereto. nod to " the Book of Common Prayer." la the morning service the reading of the articles, followed by • short address, tonic the place of a sermon. He Om spoke to his hearers .—" The formal act of what ie Balled in' is now concluded. I cannot, however, let you leave this place without saying a few words to you upon the relation which is henceforth to exist between us. It is a solemn work which I have undertaken this day. • • • • I wast, theta, brethren, each one of you to look upon him who has this day become God's minister in this as the friend who le willing at all times to be spent Cr r rott. I met yew to rsgmed nil as one who hoe deter. raise IIH by Goes grace, to devo'oe the bed years 4C se • salaister of the Gospel in this place. I waist mat to leek upon me as desirous to give my time, say sireasth. sad ell that I have, entirely to minimise Is this parish. I west you to reprd . r.e se the friend who prepared whether you are to Nekoosa or is health, is poverty or is wealth, to bring to yen the awakening sad esaeoling isdheencise of the Gospel. He then proceeded to dwell upon the responsibility of his inimion, and besought his pareshoinese, on this account, to pray daily for their nifty. TiM CHAP= ROYAL IN TEN SAVOT.—Yestar &by the swami Ofispel Royal is the Savoy, whisk is in on maim with the Duchy of Lasseter, was opened by two servieas, at the Ant el which the Archbishop of Canierhery promeed. The maturation of the church is in every way ecimplete. The beautiful heraldic devices co the veins( have been brought out with great Week and are the inset apachnes of each works of art in the For a loos series of man they were hidden under repeated coats of whitewash, but in 1643 Mr. John Osekrase, a beok esliss the Strand, having been appointed chapel= beenstit his antiquarian knowledge to bear es the selliag. His inertias were rewarded by the discovery ot them exquisite devices which, from the month to the essitra anthem of the houses of York and lancesher, while these from the centre to the north represent various insidents connected with the cress and passion of the Saviour. Two sew panels and several pipes have been added to the One or two modern monuments at the south awl, vrhkh were injured by the fire, have been restored. AU the as cient monuments at the north end were uninjured. The statement in the newspapers of an intention to raise the British Ministry at the court of Victor Bire ussauel to the rank of an embassy is hays the Observer) incorrect. The Kingdom of Italy is undoubtedly of great importance, nod it ie much to be wished that it may bemuse meth more so in the European system. But it was osly lest year— wine Titscany was ed to Piedmont—that the minion at Turin was raised to a ant-clean mission, sod that Sir James Hudson was placed in the rank to which he is so eminently entitled, and which, after all, is oaly es a level with the British Minister at the Hague. The Marquis d'Aseglio will no doubt receive every due mark of mold denstion from the silvisers uf his sovereign, but they will probable not consider it memory to alter his personal statue at the Court of St. James. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EP TING, APRIL 1, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. . Cbe Court. WINDSOR OARTLE, MARCH 30. The Prince Consort, attended by Colonel the Hoe. A. Harding., went to London this morning and pre sided at a meeting of the Committee of the Horticultural nodal at South Kensington. The Prussian Minister and Countess Bernstorff came down to Windsor and paid their respects to the Crown Prin. au of humid' (Princess Royal). ITALY. TURIN, MAK% 31. The Opinion of today says : " It has been notified to the Marquis d'Azeglio, on the part of the Queen of England, that her Ma jesty would receive him in the quality of Minister of the King of Italy. " The Federal Council has made a similar declaration to our minister at Berne." EASTER SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, Princeas Louise, and Prince Leopold, the ladies aid Gentlemen of the Court, and the Domestic Household, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Wiodeor performed the service and administered the holy sacrament. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Crown Princess of Prussia (Primes Royal) yesterday. Mr. Crosthwaite, Consul at Cologne, transacted bandages at the Foreign-office on Saturday. Despatches were received ow Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St Helena, Gibraltar, Malta, and from the Lord High Com miasioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches were sent on Saturday to the Governor of Canada. THE LATE DUCHESS OP RENT. It is understood that the late esteemed Duchess of Kent has, by her will, appointed his Royal Highness the Prince Consort the sole executor, and that the bulk of the property is placed at her Majesty's dis posal. On the day of the funeral, after the members of the establishment at Promote had dined, a paper (as we are informed) in her Majesty's own handwriting was read, in which was communicated the gratifying information that all the servants attached to the household would be liberally provided for, her Royal Highness having by her will left three thousand pounds, to which her Majesty bas gra ciously added an additional sum of two thousand pounds, to be divided in proportions regulated according to time of servitude and position in the household, io addition to which the servants will be pensioned on • scale similar to that by which her Majesty's servants are provided for. The public meeting of the inhabitants of Bid mouth and its neighbourhood, convened by order of the magistrates to adopt an address of condo lence to the Queen, was largely attended, and most unanimous. Letters of apology for unavoidable ab ysms were reed by the chairman, the Very Rev. Dr. New man, from the Earl of Buckinghamshire and Mr. Lone&le, J.P. Amongst those present were Mews. Smith, Cornish, Bayley, and Woolcott, county magistrates ; Captain Brine, R.E. ; Messrs. North, Till, Ede, and VMS ; Rev. Masers. Crocker, Loess, and Mardou ; Messrs. Doughty, Radford, Hutchinson. and Mortimer ; Captain Lake, &c. The fol lowing address was unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be signed by the chairman on the part of the meeting. and forwarded to the Home Secretary :—" To the Queen's most excellent Majesty, &a., ire.. —Ws, the inhabitants of Sid mouth and its neighbourhood, in public meeting assembled, beg leave respectfully to approach your Majesty, with our most sincere sympathy and condolence, in consequence of the lamented decease of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Ever mindful that under her maternal care your Majesty resided for a time in this parish, we feel particularly called upon to assure your Majesty of our pro found regret at the heavy bereavement your Majesty basso reeently sustained in the loss of a parent whose first desire wee the welfare of her illustrious child, and the consequent prosperity of our beloved country. That your Majesty may continue for many, many years a source of happiness to your august family and a blessing to your people is our moat earnest wish, as it is our unceasing prayer." Early to-morrow morning the Princess Royal (Crown Princess of Prussia), after taking leave of her Ma jesty. the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, and other members of the royal family, will take her departure from Windsor Castle on her return to Berlin. On the following day (Wednesday) the Queen, the Prince Consort, with the junior members of the royal family and suit.,will leave Windsor Castle, for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchies of Argyll, the Earl and Lady Constance Gros venor, and Lady Blantyre, are staying Mith the Duchess (Dow.) of Sutherland, at Cliefden, Bucks. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and the Indies Scott h►ve left Bowhill, Selkirkshire, for Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh. The duke and duchess will come to town for the season the week after next. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, will hold levees on the Mb, 18th, •od 25th lost., at the Admirsity. The Marchioness of Ely has left town for the Laird Warden Hotel, Dower, for the Easter holidays. - - - , - Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left town ea a visit to the Earl and Count Spencer, Mthorp Park, Northamptonshire. The Ear 1 of Carnarvon has arrived at Highclere Coati' from the Fiat, where he has paned the winter smooths. The Dean of Worcester has arrived at Farranoe's Hotel from Worcester. Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont have left town for their mat, Britton Park, Yorkshire, for the Easter holidays. Sir Henry and Lady Hoare and Miss Hoare have Lit Thomas's Hotel, Berkelepoquare, for Stouthead House, as Bath. The marriage of Mies Victoria Runell, elded daughter of Lord John Russell, and Mr. Villiers, son of the Bishop of Durham, is appointed to be solemnised on the lath inst. Don Juan de Osma, the Peruvian Minister, has arrived at Finance's Hotel from Brighton. An exchange of notei has taken place between the Marquis d'Azeglio and Lord John Russell, from which it appears that King Victor Emmanuel will hereafter be recognised as King of Italy at the British court. The Bishop of London will not hold his weekly levee to-morrow. His Excellency the Earl of Elgin and Kim-Ar dis*, H.T., was to reach Vienna on Saturday, and to pro ceed this day (Monday) to Paris. His excellency's return to England will not take place till next week. The Queen bag appointed the Earl of Cawdor Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Carmarthen. Mr. C. A. Winchester, now Vice-Consul at Quito., is appointed her Majesty's Consul at Hob:dada, in Japan. Mr. Joy, Q.C., the leading counsel for the do lmas in the cue of Samuel Tait, found guilty of man. slaughter at the Armagh Anises, and liberated by the Lord-Lntenant, has eulecribed 201. to a fund for compen sating the loss nuithined by him daring his imprisonment. Yr. Joy trusts that " this case will be a lemon to jurors to found their verdict not upon the number of the witnesses, bat on the consisteney and moral weight of the evidence brought forward upon the part of the crown." Mr. Joy is I understood to aspireto the repiosientatMo of Belfast. The Royal Dublin Society's spring cattle show is to commence to-morrow. It is likely to be am of the beet for its extent ever held in the United Kingdom. In the motion for short-horned balls not less than 200 will compete. The show of sheep will also be unusually large. Wool, bossy, butter, frieze, sal cereal crops will require a larger amount of space in the exhibition. The recently-erected gaUerise will be used m a promenade and for the show of poultry. Among the competitors in green mops are growers who have won the greatest prior in England sad France. We regret to learn that Colonel S R. Dawson, C.R, of Use Royal Engineers, died ou Thursday morning, at his villa at Blackhesth. Colonel Dawson was originally employed on the Ordnance Survey, and on the establish ment of the Tithe Commission became connected with that cornrnienon. He had been assistant-commissioner and bead of the Raney Department of the Commons Inclosure and Copybohl Commission, which office becomes vacant by his decease. Colossi Dawson was made a Companion of the Order of t►e Bath for his civil services. The late cokes!, who was much respected is the service, wee in his 63rd year. The Leeds Town Council, at a special meeting held on Saturday, determined, by a large majority, to peti tion in favour of Mr. Edward Baines' bill for the extension of the borough franchise. The motion was met by a con servative opposition, but only four members voted ag►inst sad 2V ia favour of the resolution. ITALY AND SWITZERLAND. BERNE, SUNDAY MORNING. The Federal Council has, at the instance of Sardinia, appointed federal commissioners for ad justing the affair of the Ticino bishopric. The conferences will be held at Turin. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MONDAY 11101111110. The widely circulated reports of the resignation of the whole ministry and the formation of a new cabinet have not yet been confirmed. POLAND. WARSAW. Y•aoe 31. Count Zamoyski, on the occasion of his being re ceived in audience by Prince Gortchakoff, ad dressed him in a speech, of which the following is a summary :—" The country," said Zamoyski, will accept the reforms with gratitude • but at the pre sent moment these are but nomin al The country now depends upon the same being carried into execution." Prince Gortchakoff replied :—" It was not in cumbent upon the Emperor to concede anything ; but in granting reforms his Majesty does so freely and loyally." M. Wielopolski, in a speech delivered by him at the Medical Academy, said that the academy might consider itself as one of the faculties of the future University of Warsaw. . WARSAW, SMIDAT, lases 31. An Imperial rescript has been published which explains the nature of the concessions recently granted. Prince Gortchakoff, the governor, has been ap pointed President of the Council of State. A proclamation of the Governor impresses upon the inhabitants the necessity for peace and order. M. Karnicki has arrived here. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY. The ship Monarch, 1,282 tone register, Captain J. W. Gill, belonging to Mr. Richard Green, of London, was off this port yesterday, 96 days from Melbourne, having sailed therefrom December 25, 1860. She has 22,000 ounces of gold, valuedat 80,000/., 20 cabin and 86 steerage passengers, and a cargo of wool, copper ore, and black sand. The Monarch has experienced generally unfavour able winds; much ice was met to the westward of Cape Horn, which was rounded January 29. On the 13th of February, in lat. 29.32 S., long. 28.30 W., she spoke her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam sloop Gorgon, 6, Commander Bedford C. T. Pim, with the Swift in company, seven days out from Rio Janeiro, for the Cape of Good Hope. The Monarch crossed the line on the 2nd March. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPrON, Ann 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, Captain Evans, has arrived here with the heavy portion of the Calcutta and China mails. The Ceylon left Alexandria on the 19th, Malta on the 22nd, and Gibraltar on the 26th March. She brings 126 passengers ; her cargo includes 2,009 bales of silk, value 200,000/ sterling, jewellery to the value of 301., and 284 packa4es of sundries. At Alexandria were her Majesty's ship Terrible, and the French transperta Eldorado and Mayonne. At Malta were her Majesty's ships Neptune, Hannibal, Cressy, James Watt, Liffey, Medina, and Foxhound. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Nav4ation Company's steamer Valetta left Malta for Alexandria on the 22nd of March. On the 19th ult. the Ceylon observed the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Euxine, steering for Alexandria, and on the 30th ult., the Tagus, steering &W. At Gibraltar were her Majesty's ships Ariadne, Immo. tality, and Argus. The Kamilla reached Gibraltar on the 25th, and sailed for the east on the 26th ult. The schooner Excel, 26 day, from Liverpool, had arrived at Gibraltar. On 26th ult., Gibraltar exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted 501 ;on Paris, 51r. 30c. Mar seilles and Genoa, Mr. 31c. ; on Madrid, 8 days' sight, par ; Cadiz, par to 1 dia. ; Malaga, Seville, and Valencia, par ; Alicante, i discount ; Barce lona, i premium. Freights to London and ont porta in the United Kingdom, 23a to 30s. per steamer, and 10 per cont. Brazil and River Plate, 12 dole. per ton, and 10 per cent. Gulf of Mexico and Havana, 12 dots. per ton, and 10 per oent. Spanish pillared dole., Ferdinand, 3 per cent. premium, no demand. Ditto, Carolus, 22 per cent., in demand. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN. fiIINDAT Eviwnia. The Royal Mail steam ship Persia arrived here at 10 a.m., embarked mails, passengers, and tele grams, and proceeded at 4 p.m. for New York. All well. POLAND. A despatch from Warsaw of the 27th furnishes the following : For some days past • grand manifestation had been talked of for Holy Thursday. sad as • means of guarding against the consequences of such an evemt, and of any other demon. stations which might afterwards take place, General Gort- abakoff sent for the colonels of all the regiments of the garrison, and interrogated them on their dispositions. These officers are said to Lave replied, that if the Poles took up arms u in mio, they would do their duty and repel force by force, but that if only a pacific manifesto ion was made, inch as • procession in commemoration of some event in their national history, they would not fire on them, not wishing to iujure unarmed men, however significant the manifestation might be. Among those officers was a Frenchman who biui been in the Russian service since 11410, and who was the first to speak in that liberal sense. General Gortehakoff replied, that the Em peror, whose character for humanity was well known, took a similar view of the matter. Information bad jest reached Warsaw, which had caused a very deep impression in that city—the performance of • solemn service at St. Peters burg, for the repose of the souls of the Poles who fell in the affair of the 27th February. That ceremony was attended by a large number of persons, among whom were not only Poles and French, hut Russians belonging to the most dis tinguished society of the capital. The solemnity bad been authorised by the Emperor. ITALY. The inhabitants of Mantua have sent to the Bing the following addrese : To Victor Emmanuel, Him of Italy. Sire,—Oppressed but not subdued by the foreigeer, who from the heights of his ramparts laughs at the unhappy land which he has deluged with the blood of so massy martyrs whose only crime was the thought of a free country, the citizens of Mantua salute you, sirs, as their legitimate king, exclaiming with joy, "May the first King of Italy he blessed !" Depending on your judgment, and the valour of the sword that glesrued terrible and glorious on the fields of Palmitin and See Martino, they confidently wait until the dawn of their redemption shall show itself smilingly to their eyes. May the God of armies protect the holy enterprise ! Dare, she, and victory is with you. Such is the ardent wish of a people, and such is its daily prayer; accept it, sire, and may it resound in your heart like the hymn of hope that ought always to prelude the hymns of your last triumph. A letter from Calais, dated Saturday, states that among the passengers who had landed there from England were Prince Frederick de SchleswirHolstearAugustenburg, and Prince Victor de Hohoolobe. They both left in the course of the day for Paris. Couut do Stackelberg, formerly Russian minister at Turin, has just lamed through Paris on his way to Madrid, to which city he was appointed minister some time i Ma EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ova owx PAWS, SUNDAY Evawnwi. This being Easter Sunday, there are no evening papers, and all the world is making holiday. The Dards, in an article upon the death of the Duchess of Kent, makes the following speculative observations, which, notwithstanding their wild character, will probably, considering the quarter in which they are offered, be much remarked : It is said that the house of Saxe-Cobourg may possibly be reserved for still higher destinies, that there exists in Spain a party alike hostile to the house of Bourbon and to France, which is strenuously encbmvouring to bring the entire peninsula under the sceptre of one of the Saxe- Cobourg and Lisbon princes. This party is supposed to have contributed materially to the events which imperilled the throne of Isabella in July, 1854, and it is positively stated that written proofs of the plot are to be found in certain archives. If this be so, and if the party in ques tion shall one day become dominant across the water, it is not impossible that the house of Saxe-Cobotug, which fifty years ago was so humble and occupied such a small place in Germany, may unite the crown of Spain to those of England, Belgium, and Portugal, which it already holds, or at least is certain to have. The house of Saxe- Cobourg owes its great fortunes to the Duchess of Kent. whose influence was most ably seconded by King Leopold of Belgium. It is a 'fact most worthy of remark tkatlthe house of Saxe-G3bourg has made ite way noiselessly, with out extraneous aid, and without the corroboration of any startling events. It owes its acquisitions to the talents of two of its members, to their personal action, their indefati gable perseverance, their untiring foresight, their great pro ficiency in the art of pleasing, and their scrupulous care never to offend, never to grasp hastily at their object. It is moreover a remarkable circumstance that, in the whole history of the house of Saxe-Cobourg, there is not a single brilliant page. This house has produced no statesman or warrior who ever held a great place in Europe. The above article is not signed by any of the eminent writers in the DEbate, but by the secretary of redaction, who it has often been noticed of late years is made to father manifestoes in that journal of more than usual importance. ►, The Dibats alludes to the attendance of the Orleans princes at the Duchess of Kent's funeral, but it has too much good sense to echo the com plaints of the Paine and Con.stitutionnel on the subject. It alludes to their near connexion with the English royal family as a sufficient explana tion. In the Stick M. Havin takes up the cudgels on behalf of his brother journalists who, according to • telegram, have been " invited " to take them selves away from Venioe at their very earliest con venience, with a zealous esprit de corps which I venture to think passes the bounds of discretion. He invokes the "faith of treaties," the "dignity of French citizens," and the " law of nations," as arguments for diplomatic remonstrances with a government which presumes to objecao the sojourn in its territories of Frenchmen who " paid the usual fees" for passports supplied to them by the Austrian ambassador in Paris. Now, I apprehend that M. Thouvenel will let this matter alone. It would be very difficult for the French government, which claims the right of turning any foreigner out at a moment's notice, and lately acted upon the right in the case of M. Ganesoo, to make it a grievance against Austria that she objects to enter tain in Venice a bevy of democratic French jour nalista, reeking hot from the inauguration of Manin's statue at Turin. Nothing can be worse, no doubt, than the Austrian government of Venice, but "he that is down can fall no lower," and it is childish, as long as that go vernment is recognised, to complain of a mere trivial incident of the system upon which it is car ried on. The French tourists who now complain that their stay in Veuiee is abridged are declared and conspicuous enemies of the Austrian rule in that city, and I must say, considering all things, that the Austrian government was rather magna nimous than otherwise in allowing them to go there at all. Vilbort, oflthe Opinion7Nutiowak, hasipub lished, in the/form ofial pamphlet,Aletter to the Emperor of Russia, in which—afterivery clearly stating the grievances of the Poles—he makes out • strong case to show that it is the interest of the Czar to redress them : Give back, sire, their country to the Poles—give it them back entirely, and not only the little kingdom of 1815. Austria and Prussi► will then loose their prey, and you will End in Poland a sure and faithful ally, for Poland will rely upon you and never upon Germany. Poland once enfran chised, sire, It will be easy for you to make Russia free. The indipendance says that M. }fires lately wrote from his prison to the Emperor, hut that the letter having been opened, in accordance with the rules applicable to prisoners of the category in which M. Mires is classed, was found to be so vio lent as to be unfit for presentation to his Majesty. and it was therefore returned to the writer. The same journal mentions a rumour that Na poleon 111. has told Victor Emmanuel that he must be patient as regards Rome, it being impos sible fur the French army to come away earlier than six months' hence at the nearest. The triumph of Madame Riatori in her French performance at the Odeon is oomplete. M. Jules Janie, the famous critic of the Dibata, declares in a special article that be cannot wait for the day of his usual fettilleloa to express Lis admiration. He considers the slight Italian accent scarcely a draw back to the great genius of the actress, and pro claims the "great, the happy, the unexpected news, that a tragic actress has appeared iu Paris capable of sustaining the highest parts." Another critic says : I feared for Madame Ristori'■ pronunciation, but I am delighted to say that her slight Italian intonation is altogether forgotten, and the simplicity and grandeur al her genius reigns supreme. Madame Ristori may be an Italian still, but we claim her as a French actress, and as ate who, with a commanding talent altogether unsuspected, will revive those chefs If trurre which we bad thought were for ever buried in the tomb of Rachel. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. A dissolution, which has long been upon the cards, is now considered extremely probable. M. de Persigny lately sent a circular to the prefects desiring them to furnish him with very full reports of the impression produced in the departments by the late debates. Most of the answers are now in, and they are understood to be highly favourable to the government. Functionaries, it is true, seldom fail to interpret public opinion in the sense desired, and they very often mislead the power which really wishes to be enlightened by them. There is, how ever, little doubt at the present moment that the Emperor might confidently appeal to the consti tuencies against the Plichons and Keller& I am nut so certain that the small band of five, which constitutes the democratic opposition, would all be re-elected. They occupy a most important position, and have a difficult part to act. Very many of their friends think that the terms in which they have expressed their rulmiration of the Emperor's foreign policy, and some of his recent acts at home, were too enthusiastic, and implied a sacrifice of principle for particular objects. Nobody, however, doubts for a moment the spotless honesty and utter disinterestedness of Jules Fevre and Emile 011ivier. Au error of judgment in a most delicate matter is the utmost with which they are charged. It will be difficult, indeed, to find any more liberal men than they are who will take the oath, without which no Frenchman can now serve his country, unless he thinks to serve it by conspi racy against the government. That oath is a great stumbling-block, and keeps scores of men away from the poll who would have a great chance of being elected. The Emperor, who more than most men knows the value of a political oath, was wise in his generation when he revived a formality which the republic of 1848 had abolished (except only for the head of the state), as a needless clog upon men's consciences. _ The Bourse opened with a little animation, but soon relapsed into its chronic state of dulness. The Rente closed at yesterday's prices, 67.75 and 67.80, which are nearly the lowest o f the week. Mobilise., railways and the Caissu Mires remain with scarcely any change. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, IifARCII 30. ArrorirTmzent. Assistant Paymasters E. C. Knevitt, to the Cyclops ; J. H. Mooney, to the Victory, u supernumerary ; and C. si. Card, to the Marlborough. Naval Cadets Lord C. W. De la Poer Bamford and A. B. Sheridan, to the Marlborough; L F. WOlll, to the Mersey ; W. C. N. Gould and J. T. Wallace, to th e D one . pl ; E. A. Holbech, to the Agamemnon ; G. S. X Thom., and B. W. Vernon, to the Neptune ; C. P. Stewart, to the Exmouth ; W. B. Forbes, S. A. R. %mil. ton, and A. M. Williams, to the Princess Royal ; H. D. Daubeny, to the Immortalite ; F. A. Hendon and J. G, W. Harrison, to the London ; A. Savage and A. Shore• bag M to the Aboukir; A. P. Williams, to the Ori o n ; W. H. Iloeckton and R. A. Brock, to the Doris ; C. C. Drury, to the Jason ; E. A. Oldham and G. S. M'llw a i es , to the Melpomeoe L Napier and G. S. DOSOOD, to the Coeur ; H. A . Baring and IL A. P. Probyn, to the Eau. raid ; G. S. Parker and R. F. Orton, to the Cremy ; A. Kinpoott, J. H. Lee, G. C. Huggins, E. C. L Start, sad J. 0. Caswell, to the Hero. CHATHAM, MARCH 31. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FPON INDlA.—Yesterday afternoon a party of nearly 200 sick and disabled troops, belonging to various regiments, arrived at this wris t ., from India, having disembarked at Gravesend haul* East lodia transport Warrior Queen, 988 tons, Captain Henry. The troops belong to the Royal Artillery, sth Fusiliers, fish, 7th Fusiliers, 19th, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 34th, 37th; 48th, 70th, 73rd, 75th, and 77th Regiments, with 11 worm and children, the whole under the command of Captain I. Green, 70th Regiment, and Lieutenant W. A. Kay, 68th Light Infantry; and in medical charge of Assist an t-S nrgeon R.W. Saunders, ILD., 23rd Fusiliers. PLYMOUTH, 'Ulan 31. A court-martial was held on board the Im pregnable, _guertbahip, at Davenport, on Saturday, to try Thomas Alfred Newman, • private In the Royal Mariner, belonging to the Donegal, for stealing on the 22nd of March between 601. and 701., in notes and gold, the pro. per.y of Captain H. Broadhead, of the same ship. The court was presided over by Admiral Robert Smart. The prisoner, at the time of the robbery, was stationed se sentry at the captain's door, and availing himself of that opportunity entered the cabin and stole the money. The following morning he went on shore on leave, and at a beer. shop in Stonehouse exchanged several of the notes, and purchased a suit of clothes to desert in. The landlords suspicions being aroused he gave information on board the Donegal, and the prisoner was captured by a gaud from the ship, about 401. of the money being recovered. He now pleaded guilty, and declined offering anything in his de. fence. The court sentenced him to receive forty-eight lashes, to be mulcted of all pay due (about U.), to be impri• sound for two months with bud labour, and at the expire. tion of that period to be dismissed from the service with disgrace. LIFE-BOAT SERVICES. BOVIMER, NORTHIIMBRRLAND, MARCH 28. —Last night the Hanoverian schooner Hortensia struck on Bouliner, North Steel, during stormy weather. accompinied by • heavy sea sad thick with rain. The lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at this place, was launched se soon as practicable, the tide being 4 the time very low. After the vessel had been bearded the master refused to leave her, or to allow his crew to do so. When the tide made again, the ship drove further on the rocks. The sea being very heavy and signals of distreu made for assistance, the lifeboat was again launched after much di ffi culty, be ing three times tilled with heavy seas, which, however, she rapidly self-ejected. After reaching the wreck the captain again obstinately refused to leave his vessel, being drunk at the time. He was soon afterwards washed overboard in the roundhouse and drowoed. The lifeboat's crew throughout the stormy night behaved most gallantly, and twice used their utmost endeavours to save the =main, who perished solely through his own perverse. crewof four men having been brought safely ashore, in the lifeboat. _ _ - - A Ali LOW, MAUCH 28.—A vessel WAX observed in A rklow Bay on the afternoon of the 2rith inst. proceeding to the northward with a flag of distress Hying. The life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution was on her way to her in lieu than twenty minutes afterivarda. She followed to Wicklow, where the vessel wu run ashore on the bar. She was found to be waterlomed, the water being up to the decks. The lifeboat's crew boarded the ship, but the masks declined their assistance, u he believed his vessel to be then in comparative safety. She proved to be the schooner Tele graph, of Whitehaven, from St. John's, New Brunswick, to Brighton ferry. It is reported that the new School of Musketry at Fleetwood, some time since projected, will be formed an early date, as a branch of the headquarter school e,ta blished at Hythe. We hear it is likely to be placed under the immediate command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bewee, the 73rd Regiment, an officer of greet experience in tte musketry department. Another addition to our "infant " iron navy sill be made on the 13th ; the Defence will on that day be launched from the building.yard of Messrs. Palmer. ca the Tyne. The Defence is • ship of the same character as the Resistance. The Council of Military Education will examine candidates at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, for direct cora niisaious in the army, between the let and 6th April, sal between the 20th and tith May inclusive. The Council et Military Education will examine candidates at the Rind Hospital, Chelsea, between the let and 6th April, for 4p pointment to the commissariat department of the army. — United service Gazette. COAST GUARD SHIPS.—The Admiralty hare lately issued a most important order, which we trust sit not for the sake of the well-being of the service, herr I contrary effect to that which its framers origin 1!! intended. It has been decided that the crews d the Coast guard ships are not to be paid of periodically: but on balancing the accounts in thee vessels at the end of each year (financial), all the men a board are to be dealt with in the following manner, viz.:- Continuous service men are to be discharged to the booked the flagships at Sheerness, Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c.. a they may themselves decide upon. They are to be graoM 30 days' leave of absence, on the expiration of which thl are to join the particular flagship on board of which the names are borne for general service. Non• continuous se vice men are to be discharged to the shore ; but ouches h !! the ratings of petty officers, leading, able seamen, and le class ordinary seamen and stokers, may be allowed to reeote the guardships, with the privilege of also taking 30 yd leave of absence. Marines and seamen gunners are to I relieved at the expiration of three years service. Men are to serve for the latter-named term, but will receive timely notice of the intention of the authorities to sore. wide them. _ _ --- ----- WRECK OF THE MILER BARTON.—LIVERPOOL• SATURDAT.—By the arrival of the mails from the Cape if Hood Hope intelligence has been received of the loud the British ship Miles Barton, chartered for the conve%stis of troops to &iglu& which struck on a sunken rock cot• ward of Cape L Agalhas on the Bth of Fehruary, in a beo! sea, driving before a south-east gale. She bad on bowl nearly 400 men of the 3d Buffs. under the commaol ed Major King. All on board were saved with the except of a private soldier, named M'Namara, who was also mod but afterwards went to look at the, wreck nod was drowned The survivors were all taken round to Table Bay by be Majesty's steamer Cyclops. The Miles Barton was the Tve• perty of Mr. J. Holiday, of Redeross•street. in that to and wu under the command of Captain Shelford. was 1,1134 tons register, sod was built at St. John, NO , Brunswick, in 1853, and classed A 1 for seven yam. THE STREET RAILWAY AT BATHWATER.- 114 new can upon the street railway still continue to eon considerable interest, and the whole distance from IN Marble Arch to Notting-bill presents an excited spree* since, from the large Lumbers of spectators who line tie footpaths. A formidable opposition has already Iso started by Mr. Curtis, who runs a car ri age of Ins OWV ID" . tion, constructed to carry forty-four persons, upon theism line of rails. Sir Richard Mayne has not yet granted a lie es for the running of these carriages as the conditions of aij act with respect to the table of fares inside and the claims OD the roof had not been complied with. Aprlicatim la been made to the Stamp-office to stop Mr. Train's curie cause they are not licensed to ply for hire, and the dire' and conductors wear no badge. In answer to this. ns alleged that these cars run under the Railway Act. and rat under that of the Metropolitan Hackney Carriages- . it is thought, is likely to present all important polar .! litigation, one serious obstruction having taken place consequence of the driver of a furniture van refining le drive off the tramway to allow one of the tram cars to l`ss' on the ground that be was on hie own side, an d hot Is much right to the trans as the car . I n spect.; flreklat Thursday obtained a summons rimiest the proKieu* the furniture van for wilful obstruction of the Ingn under the Police Act, which is to conic on for beano; the Marykhone police -court next Wednesday. Mr. (held Hathaway has accepted a contract from Mr. Tres to 51 down a single line of street railway from Wests° m r, bridge to Kenningtompark, and expecte to ground in the course of next week, when the public 4 south side of the Th ames w ill h ave an eerier oPPortss'T inspecting this ROW mode of transit.—Obserrer. Tb He 4tl 391 Me an( the 111 k by and