The Press. — London, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

APRIL 19, 1856. honour and success. It has been permitted to me to do 80. I have played out mypart ; and, while I feel that in An y case the principa l act in the drams of my life is ended, I shall be content if the curtain should drop now upon my public course. Nearly thirteen years have passed away since I first entered the service of the Crown. Through all these yearn, with but one short interval, public employ. ment of the heaviest responsibility and labour has been imposed upon me. Tam wearied and worn, and have no other thought or wish than to seek the retirement of which I stand in need, and which is all I am now fit for. The ex Governor-General arrived at Suez on the 2nd inst., embarked for Alexander on the Bth, and reached Malta on the 11th. The Santhal insure ection was apparently at an end. a large number of the Santhals having accepted employment on tha railways. Tranquillity reigned for the present throughout India. The settlement of Oude proceeded rapidly and without disturbance; the troops of the King had taken service under the new Government. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. The Atrato, with dates from Mexico to the 18th March, Panama 25th and Jamaica 27th, arrived on Sunday with a ireight of 045,088 dollars. The American steamer Osprey had been burnt off Kingstown, Jamaica. From Mexico we learn that the Government wa: still unsettled. The attempt at counter revoltuion was not yet put down. Tamariz had shut himself up in Puebla. Comonfort had arrived before the city with a strong force, and conducted the assault on the 13th with great bravery. He had got posses sion of one-half of the town. In a few days it was anticipated that the struggle would be at an end, a s the rebels were short of ammunition. NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. By the arrival of the Persia on Monday, making the quickest passage ever known, of nine days twelve hors, we have dates from New York to the 2nd inst Mr. Fillmore's chance of election as President ap• paired very faint. The Kansas Democrats and the $ townotbings repudiated him altogether. The latter w)uld, it was generally believed, put forward Colonel wont of California. From Nicaragua we learn that Costa Rica had de clared war against General Walker, and had issued an address calling on the people of Central America to destroy the North American invaders. The Knownothings' Massachusetts House of Re presentatives, by a constitutional vote, had refused to adopt a resolution to amend the Constitution, so as to pioliihit other than native-born citizens from It 'Wing °thee in the State. The Maine Liquor Law hid been declared unconstitutional, and taken off fie statute-book, by the highest court of appeal in Nev York. Elle United States district attorney, in New York, ba I entered a nol. pros. as against certain parties su 'posed to be interested in the Crimean enlist me .tS. the steamer Arctic had returned to New York, af,er a cruise of forty nine days in search of the Pacific. No news or traces of her. THE KING OF PRUSSIA, at a recent family dinner Charlotienburgh, gave the health of "Ices Nu v...aux Fiancées," adding that he would not mention names, as every one could easily guess. It is be lieved at Berlin that the official announcement of the engagement of Prince Frederick William to the Princes , Royal of England will not be long delayed. THE CEREMONY OF THE BAPTISM OF THE IMPERIAL PRINCE in Paris, is reported a , fixed for the 9th June. In this solemnity the same forms will be observed as r. re adopted in the baptism of the King of Rome. The religious ceremony will talc,- place at Notre Dame, at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the young prince will be afterwards taken to St. Cloud. The Emperor and Empress, on their part, will attend a grand ban. gnet at the Hotel de Ville, to be followed by a splendid fe! , e. Other fetes will be given in succession at Ver sailles, St. Cloud, and in other imperial residences. IRE VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN Hato, one of the Sandwich Wands, threatens complete destruction to the town. An i mmense g i rt am o f l a va is slowly coming down from the crater : The stream ( writes a correspondent of a Californian paper on In, c. ) comes in great force, some two miles a week. Three or four miles will bring it through the woods. It follows water channels, dries up aqueous matter, and firms tiery cascades of terrible sublimity. It heads straight down upon us, anti nothing but the hand of Omnipotence cal l save our town and bay. Our expulsion seems every day more and mole a solemn reality Molten fires are gleaming, trees are falling, the jungle is consuming, rivers ar e boiling and ascending in steam clouds. Onward, one 1%1 rtili the burning deluge—slowly, sullenly, relent• lea-ly, ant %%itli resistless force. I hope to be able to give 7 , 'n a full a!eoutit in time. I'S. A man died this morning fr at falba; into the boiling water near the fused lava stream. IltastA, it is believed, is about to conclude a Con e) at v..to Rome. it is not at all anticipated that the eror Alexander will accept the Austrian Con csdat fora model. M. de Kisseleff will negotiate the new Concordat at Home. THE PRESS. gout Anb lasilion. Her Majesty held a levee on Tuesday, at which Sefer Paella (General Roscielsk), Baron Cotta, and Baron Bose, were presented in the diplomatic circle. In the evening the Queen visited the Italian Opera. Her Majesty on Wednesday inspected the invalids in the military hospital at Chatham, visited the Adelphi Theatre on Thursday evening, and left town for Aldershott camp on Friday. Her Majesty slept at the camp last night, and returns to town this afternoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with Prince Etiw•ard of Saxe Weimar, attended the levee on Tuesday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Haymarket Theatre on Tuesday, and the Italian Opera on Thuzsday evening. Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, the Commander-in- Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, has been invited by the Queen to be her guest on board the royal yacht at the review. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett have arrived in St. James's-square, from Rahy Castle, Durham. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and War rington arrived in Hill-street on Monday evening, from Enville-hall, Staffordshire. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family will not arrive at Montague lou,e, Whitehall, until the middle of next month. Count Cavour was hourly expected to arrived at at the Coburg hotel, Charles-street, Groivenor•square, trom Paris. Ccunt Eynard de Cavour, nephew of his Excellency, accompanies the Count as private secretary. Volittral. SIR GEORGE GREYS CORPORATION REFORM BILL was the subject of an animated debate in a Court of Common Hall, held on Tuesday, under the presi dency of the L'rd Mayer. Mr. J. Laurence charac• terised the bill as only another measure of that great system of centralisation which threatened to de stroy the liberties of the people, to deprive them of the power and the right of managing their own affairs, and to absorb in the central power that which had hitherto remained in the local institutions of the country. Mr. Laurence concluded by proposing the following resolution : That the bill lately introduced into the House of Commons purporting to be for the better regulation of the corporation of the city of London, although professing to abolish such customs and privileges as injuriously affect trade, ignores the wnole body of the livery, 4 destructive of its priv.leges, extinguishes its municipal 'listener, and is otherwise subversive of the ancient rights, properties, and liberties of the corporation, and that this common hall determines to give the moat earnest opposition to the passing of such bill. Mr. Finden seconded the resolution. Mr. F. Ihn noch proposed, as an amendment : That the bill lately introduced into the House of Com mons for the better regulation of the corporation of the city of London is wise and moderate, and this common hall determines to give its most earnest support to secure the passing of such bill. Mr. BaPeman ,seconded the amendment. Amidst much noise and confusion Mr. Bennoch denied that the bill destroyed any single privilege of the livery. It might destroy the corporation, but it was salvation to the livery. The way in which the corporation managed the revenue of the City was unseemly, in decent, and extravagant : The city of London had a population of 129,000. How much money did they suppose was expended in the admi nistration of the affairs of the corporation itself? It cost the taxpayers, through the corporation, 114.030/. in the mere administration. The revenue of London was rather under 400,0101., and it cost those who lived in London, and paid taxes, 114,0001. to administer that sum of money. In Liverpool, with a population of 37 1,000, a fund was annually administered of close upon 600,0001., the cost of the administration being under 30,0001. In Manchester, which had a population of 320,000,a revenue was expended of 485,00111., the cost of the administration being 8,7501. He wanted to know whether some portion of the 114,000/. expended by the corporation might not as well be saved, and asked whether it was their desire to get rid of so large a sum as that for doing what could be better done for 20,0001. Mr. Alderman Sydney said the bill abroga•ed the rights of the livery, and he should most fervently support the original motion. The amendment was then put anti lost, and the original motion carried almost unanimously. Other resolutions against Sir George Grey's bill were pr and passed, and a petition t • Parliament in ac. ordance with the resolu tions agreed upon and drawn up for presentation by Mr. M 113 Lerman. gittropolitan. 369 THE AMERICAN MINISTER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. HIS EXCELLENCY MR. DALLAS, the new American Minister, was entertained by the Lord Mayor, at a, grand banquet, at the Mansion-house, on Thursday evening. The Lord Mayor in a complimentary speech proposed the health of the guest of the eve ning, Mr. Dallas, who, on rising, was received with such enthusiastic cheers that, in his acknowledgment of so warm a reception, he expressed himself as " almost bankrupt in the language of thanks." With reference to the result of the questions now pending between this country and the United States, Mr. Dallas observed : There are some objects on which it would be ill-timed, and more enterprising than wise, for me to touch on this occasion and in this presence. Indeed, my arrival is so recent that I scarcely can pretend to know the subjects which would be most acceptable to you. 1 dare say, how ever, I should incur but little hazard if I venture, accord ing to a provincialism natural to a Western tongue, to " guess " that the spirit and purpose of a new corner may have excited at least some little curiosity. Well, my lord, let me say that I am not authorised to feel, and do not feel, any desire other than that of giving my exertions and energies unreservedly to the restoration of the moat har monious sentiments and friendly relations. Animated by this spirit, and aiming at such a purpose, if I fail—and may fail—it will be because of some inexorable, overruling State policy, or some foregone conclusion not to he undone by uniform, steady, persevering, frank, and honourable con ciliat ion. Lord Stanley, M.P., in acknowledging the toast of the " House of Lo. ds," said : I rise with great pleasure to return thanks for one branch of the Legislature, though not that branch with hich lam actually and at present connected. My Lord Mayor has spoken in terms of courtesy of the House of Lords. On behalf of that body I would say that institn tions do not form the national character, but follow it ; that the training of au English gentleman is the same, whether he happens to be a member of the peerage or no ; and that thus, among those who set as legislators by prescrip tive hereditary right, there are not a few who are in feeling, and in fact, though not in law, representatives of the people. My lord, it is a bold thing to act as spokesman for the Legislature ; but there is one ides which at this moment predominates in all our minds, and on that sub jectl believe I may speak the sense, the unanimous sense, not only of those who make the law, but of those for whom laws are made. I thank you, my Lord Mayor, for having given us an opportunity of expressing here the deep, the earnest, the almost passionate desire which prevails among intelligent Englishmen that, be the changes and chances of political events, what they may, England may reta ' n inviolate that alliance and that friendship of which we have present amongst as the living representative—an alliance formed, not by men, but by nature—an alliance whose duration rests, not on the precarious life of any single ruler, but on the im perishable existence of two mighty nations—analliance which depends, not on fluctuating considerations of political expediency, but on common blood, common language, common laws, common energies, common aspire. tions—even, if we must confess it, on that remarkable family likeness which may be traced between the two na tions in regard of their faults and failings. England separately, America separately, are great powers ; united, they constitute the hope of mankind and the future of the world. It is mere matter of computation—supposing each people to advance at its present ate—that, within a cew ttiry from this date, the earth will be inhabited by 300 millions of the Anglo-salon race—a race the most ener- getic that ever tilled its soil. I say, then, that on the cor dial union of that vast multitude of our descendants the human family must rely for the advent of that future to which far-sighted men look forward—which rood and earnest men would even give their lives to hasten—which bad and dishonest men, we may be sure, will do their ut most to retard : a future of weliordered freedom and tem perate progress : a future in which the knowledge of men shall be widened, their power over nature augmented, sod their material sufferings lessened by an increased com mand of the appliances of civilisation. It .s in the bands of England and America to accomplish that result ; it is in - _ . _ •- here—sod, if Parliament— the - in ' to of their hands alone ; and feeling that, I say need were, I would repeat it in my place in . whoever utters one word, does one act, hostile to terests of America. proves himself by that word or act be the enemy of England. My lord, I have said Hide those whom I rose to represent. This excuse, at hut, I have—that the words which I have uttered woi Id, I believe, be echoed by every member of the HoLoe of Lords. POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. AN important public meeting was held on MI miser at the London Tavern, for the purpose of detrimint in.; on the best steps to be adopted to insure the immediate re establishment of our postal atean re lations with Australia. The Lord Mayor etc% ied the chair. There were also present the Earl al'