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President JOHNSON received Baron BEAULIEU, the special Envoy from the King of the BELGIANS, who came to announce officially the death (of King LEOPOLD, and the accession of his successor. After the Baron had delivered letters from, his Sovereign, Mr. JOHNSON replied in a speech of great decision, which displayed some of those dis tinguishing traits of character that have made the PRESIDENT so justly admired. lle said. that Bel gium was known in history as a country that had suffered by being chosen as a battle-ground for foreign states. For that reason, continued the PRESIDENT, "I never meet a representative of Bel gium without feeling a desire to congratulate him upon the repose, the tranquillity, the prosperity, and the dignity which his country at last attained under the sway of her Sovereign, LEOPOLD ; and I trust that the times in which we are now living will show that the Government and people of the United States duly appreciated the friendship with which we were favoured during that reign." Certainly the late KING deserves all praise for his great skill and moderation, and he achieved as great a success in maintaining peace as other monarchs have done in making war. The prosperity which his little kingdom enjoyed was the best testimony to the worth of his services, and for wisdom he certainly bore the palm among the Kings of his time. The PRESIDENT very truly declared that while the United States could do little in a direct manner to reciprocate benefits with the States of Europe, in an indirect form all those States might derive advantages from the practice of a " wise, just, and liberal policy on that side of the Atlantic." It is because the new PRESI DENT gives such sure proof of his desire to further this policy that we may entertain a just hope that a better and brighter future is dawning for America, and that a peace, in some degree worthy of the name, may supplant the strife and discord that have raged in her distracted councils, and conflicted against all vital interests and marred all welfare. The outline given by the PRESIDENT of the object of American policy is a bold one, and well deserving a recogni tion by an independent race. "We seek to illus trate," he says, " how our people can be true, and yet, by their own strength, maintain their indepen dence. How they can extend their commerce, and yet abstain from aggression. How, without en tangling alliances, a free people can co-operate with other nations in advancing the great interests of civilisation; and how nations may, from time to time, become persuaded to bring within reach of appeal, to just and peaceful arbitration, controversies that otherwise must necessarily be referred to the trial of force." It is the spirit in which an undertaking is carried out that gives it significance and imparts to it value, and thus we may recognise the similarity, in some respects, of two different men in different circumstances. The late King LEOPOLD moulded the people he was elected to rule over, to appreciate his benignant influence, and follow the distates of his superior intelligence. President JOHNSON'S task is a stupendous one, but the ruling spirit of his course is moderation, and we are not surprised that in casting his glance to the nation across the Atlantic he should regard with particular approval the little country of Belgium, which has combined in so remarkable a manner freedom with moderation ; and while it has kept aloof from the revolutions that have distracted neighbouring king doms, it has at the same time contrived to preserve its liberties intact and inviolate—a consummation seldom attained by more noisy, but less steadfast, adherents to the cause of freedom. . 7-1 Dx, ciN - .01 tai 01 , LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1866. It would seem as if we were never to hear of the Abyssinian captives, and if one day the intelligence concerning them seems to be of a hopeful kind, on the next it is certain to be contradicted, or at any rate modified in its nature. Thus we learn from a telegram received by the Foreign-office from her MAJESTY'S agent and Consul-General in Egypt that Dr. BEKE, on the 12th of February, writing from Massowah, states that Mr. ItAssAm had joined the EMPEROR, and had been well received by him. In replying to his demand, the EMPEROR had said that Captain CAMERON should be released, and that he might have gone long ago, only he would not leave without the others. It was intended to .dis cuss the matter at Debra Tabor. So far this seems satisfactory, but we learn that this good news is not correct, as a communication from Mr. REUTER states that the telegram just referred to bears a date antecedent to that of the letter published last Monday, which was Written by the same gentleman, one being February 12th, and the other the 17th. In the course of the second letter just received Dr. BEKE had referred to a previous communication, which, however, had not then been received, but in which we now find that Dr. BEKE had stated that Mr. RASSAM met the Emperor, and had been very well received. This statement Dr. BEKE here declares to be untrue, because, he says, he was deceived by Mr. RASSAM'S messenger. He writes as follows:—" I have been grossly deceived by Mr. RASSAM'S messenger, whose report of that gen tleman, having met the Emperor THEODORE, and been well received by him, is as untrue as the tele gram announcing Consul CAMERON'S return sent by Mr. RASSAM from Suez in September last. Accord ing to the last news, then, we learn that Mr. RAS SAM was to await in Debra Tabor or Xorata the EMPEROR'S return from his campaign in Gadjar. As for the missionary's letter, Mr. REUTER supposes it to have come into the hands of the English Con sul in Egypt, who accordingly furnished its con tents by telegram in ignorance of the later letter. Till, Very disappointing, for we are very much in the sa ta , position that we were before, and must h a ve recoirti,,, to hope, after all, instead of resting upon informatio n of a satisfactory kind. The more we consider the ati* the grtw ba more must we arrive at t h e co nclusion that ismanagement has cha racterised the matter frora outset, the and that our Governmen t has been greatly blue for their supineness and inaction. It is all very fine for the Ministers to persist in stating to both Houses of Parliament that nothi n g can be done, and that it is quite idle for any one to talk of going to toto war about the affair, because it would be quite • tion carry on hostilities in that direc • The real p o i nt at issue is how far we are justified in sending out Consuls at all to places where it seems the power of England cannot protect th e m, and insult and • s they must run the chance of in, imprisonment. It is evident that this very unfortunate Consul CAMERON has to put up with the dangers of his official position, but reaps no advantages from it. Thus the EMPEROR wreaks his vengeance on him, because he represents a Government which slighted him, and did not reply to his letter in due form and with becoming de while, on the other hand, nothing can induce Earl RiagELL to think it an insult to the It is certainly quite time that the question of street accidents received very serious attention. Year by year the traffic through the principal thoroughfares of this mighty metropolis is on the increase, notwithstanding all the anticipations of relief to be given by new streets and additional railway lines. A slight rise in the number of catas trophes during the last few years might therefore have been reasonably looked for, but the regular list of deaths from what must certainly be ranked as a preventible cause amounts in the course of the year to an aggregate which is really frightful. A good deal of attention was excited some time since by the statement of one of our magistrates that the number cf persons annually killed in the streets of London exceeded the victims of all the railway accidents in the kingdom. The dangers of the railroad are certainly not under rated, but few persons seriously set themselves to consider the amount of suffering and mourning occasioned by the accidents in the streets. It must be remembered that we hear of only a part, seeing that a great number of disasters occur which are not absolutely or immediately fatal, but which entail a great deal of pain, loss, and inconvenience on the victims. If we restrict ourselves, however, to the facts which are brought directly before us, and examine the Registrar-General's returns for any one week, we shall find quite enough to startle the most indifferent. Taking last week's return as a sample, we find that eight deaths from carriage accidents were registered in the week. They oc curred in all parts of London—Whitechapel, Ken nington, the City. They befel persons of all ages, from a child of nine, thrown under the wheel of a waggon, to a pensioner of eighty, run over by an omnibus. Sometimes they were the fault of the drivers, as in an instance where the driver of a van was convicted of manslaughter. Some times they were probably the result of the carelessness or rashness of the sufferers themselves, as would probably be the case with children. Omnibuses, carts, vans, waggons, all alike figure in the deadly list, and members of all ranks and professions show the risk and the danger. The other day a well-known country gentleman, highly respectable, came to London on business to meet his death from a street vehicle. Still more recently an old college servant at Westminster was hurried to his grave in the same fashion. Only the day before yesterday an inquest was held by Dr. LANKESTER on a clergyman killed in the Pentonville road, by the furious driving of a cart. The House of Commons has not been spared the reminder by SYDNEY SMITH, for one of its own members encoun tered a serious accident on its very threshold. Surely, then, it is time that we should bestir our selves, and see if some remedy cannot be found for so great Spanish hidalgo, and general an evil. In spite of the the earth canoccasionally, and a u n d o t u h e e r o e f f o u r s e N e_ l e p a :T e a l a k l n l a g l o k n e liable to the possibility of disaster. The con struction of subways, a n d the erection of li g ht bridges at certain busy corner s an d crossings, wo uld afford a manifest relief, and considerably lessen the risk to foot passengers. As for the accidents occasioned by the rashness or reckloss - passengers themselves, th ose, however l cannot be reached by legislati on, b ut i na h em e ss v en e ta r f hlybtfreequent catastrophes resulting from furl -01.13 OX reCklef34 driving might be C hmi lli 4 W) no _ toubt, by increased stringency in dealing with the dender s. In the new bill for regulating the City t raffio several clauses are introduced, prohibiting the , employment of any one under a certain age as drip ier, and stipulating that the driver's seat should bo so placed in the van or waggon that he should bi able to see on both sides, as well as directly in :front of him. Before the session of 1860 is brought to a close, we should like to see the whole question I receive the attentive consideration of the Houses of Parliament, for when three or four hundred of the population of London alone meet with a violent and frightful death in the course of the year, it is surely only right that the Legislature should take the trouble to inquire whether it does not lay in its power to lessen the suffering by diminishing the risk. A very interesting branch of our railway intelli gence is that which concerns the construction of lines in those countries where the deficiency of the means of communication has hitherto proved a for midable obstacle to national progress and commer cial enterprise. In no part of our extensive terri tories has this been more strongly marked than in our Indian Empire, and it is, in fact, only marvellous that so necessary and profitable a work should have been left so long in abeyance. The natives, what ever their prejudicesin other respects, havebeen eager to avail themselves of the facilities offered by the railway. Now that at last we have a change at the India-office, we must hope that the old obstructive policy will be laid aside, and that a harmonious understanding between the Home Government and the Indian Administration will encourage the pro gress of public works and the capacities of the country. The half-yearly general meeting of the Scinde Railway Company, which was held on Wednesday at the London Tavern, was on the whole encouraging. The opening of the Punjab line, 253 miles in length, in April last year, has produced a favourable effect upon the receipts. Previous to that time only 45 miles were open for traffic, during which time the expenses of the line were 72 per cent., but in the six months ending the 31st of December the working expenses were re duced to 58 per cent. of the receipts—a satisfactory change. The conveyance of cotton has already become an important item in the traffic, GO or 70 trucks being carried over the line daily. The next great point to be attained is the continuation of the Punjab line from Mooltan to the Scinde Railway, along the Indus Valley. The object of this exten sion is the formation of a continuous line from the port of Kurrachee to Umritsui. This would be a very important achievement, as Kurrachee is the nearest port to Europe, and when direct com munication is established between it and the Punjab and Delhi, the route to Calcutta by means of the East India Railway will be direct. The construction of the Indus Valley line will shorten the time and distance between Scinde and the Punjab, thus giving rise to a vast increase of traffic; and the importance of the scheme commer cially has been strongly expressed at a large meeting of merchants at Umritsur, and the merchants of Kurrachee have presented a memorial to Govern ment expressing their anxiety for the construction of the line. Kurrachee has risen in importance as a harbour owing to the success of the improvements carried out there, and the navigation of the Indus is likely to be also much improved by the new steamers constructed by Messrs. LAIRD, SAJIUDA, andNAPIER. The shareholders present at the meeting were so fully impressed with the importance of completing the communication between Scinde and the Pun jab that they requested the directors to memorialise the Secretary of State on the subject. We hope that the matter will be taken up in earnest, and that no official delay and negligent indifference will be allowed to interfere with so seasonable a scheme. The vast extent of our Indian possessions renders a complete and rapid system of communication indis pensable to the welfare and development of the country, and, the valuable time which has been suffered to elapse without attempting these improve ments is no excuse for further unnecessary delay. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. The Paris papers are more occupied - with the Reform Bill, and other English affairs, than with their own. The Constitutionnel analyses Mr. Bright's speech at Birmingham, but none of the papers seem capable of appreciating the vagaries of the hon. Quaker member. They do not think his phraseology elegant. There is nothing of interest about Germany to day. The papers published in the Rhenish Pro vinces say that a -war with Austria would not be popular there, because if attended with success it would only consolidate the anti-constitutional re gime of which they complain. The Gazette de Cologne says that Prussia has no idea of abandon ing her projects of annexation, and if the dis pute should terminate peaceably that result would be the consequence of concessions made by Austria, and not result from any other cause. Literature is a good profession at Paris. At all events some authors are well paid. Victor Hugo received 200,000 fr. (say £8,000) for his three works, 4 ‘ Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois," the " Tra vailleurs de la filler" (just published), and the drama of " Torquemada." The copyright of "Les Tra vailleurs" has been purchased by Messrs. Millaud, the proprietors of Le Soleil (the Paris Sun), who in tend to publish a portion of the work daily in that paper. It is said they gave £2,000 for the privilege. A Mon. Jean Dumerst has just died in Paris at the house of his daughter, Route d'ltalie. He was born at Moulins in 1760, and was consequently 106 years old. He was in full possession of all his facul ties. The Paris pickpockets are still going ahead. A gentleman who had received 10,000 fr. in notes from the Bank was proceeding home along the Rue Vivienne, when a man spat upon his paletot, as if by accident. The gentleman turned round very angrily and told the person to be more careful. The latter appeared to be extremely sorry, made many apologies, and, taking out his handkerchief, wiped the paletot carefully and elaborately. During the operation he contrived to pick the pocket of the gentleman of his pocket-book containing the notes. The robbery was instantaneous, and the loser did not feel the slightest touch. The pick-pocket bowed very gracefully after wiping the coat. The distribution of prizes to the competitors who breed cattle took place yesterday at the great cattle market at Poissy. M. Behir, the Minister of Agri culture, presided, and made an elaborate and in teresting speech relative to the state of agriculture, the cattle trade, and other matters con nected with those subjects. M. Bchir, on the part of the Government, admitted that the agricultural body were suffering under great depression, and said that every facility would be afforded to the Commission of Inquiry about to commence an investigation into the causes of the depression, and the best mode to remedy it. " The ieality of the sufferings of the agriculturists was proved, and the gravity of the position might be calculated from the fact that the average produce of corn having fallen in 1865 to about 13 hectolitres per hectare, each hectare had only produced 221 f. 71c., a sum nearly a third less than the average produce of preceding years, which was in most cases insufficient to remunerate the growers for their expenses." M. Behir denied that free trade was the cause of the lowness of the price of wheat, and proceeded to refer to the cattle disease. in England he said it had naade 150,000 victims. In France, however, he thought all danger was over, and as far as his department was cougerned be should persevere in THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1866. rigorous measures of precautidn. The attention of scientific men had also been directed to trichinose. " No danger exists that it will reach France, if we use the elements to which we are generally accus tomed, and do not eat pork badly cooked or too strongly impregnated with salt." In conclusion, M. Behir expressed his confidence that " agriculture in France would folio v de path of progress. Like all other branches of industry, and like everything else in this world, it might meet with accidental reverses and unforeseen hindrances, but it would emerge prosperously from the struggle if it applied all its energy and industry to the task." This speech was received with unanimous marks of applause and assent. It appears that the number of oxen sent to the market was rather less than on preceding years, but the number of pigs and sheep was about the same. The taste for enormously fat cattle is on the wane. The prize of honour (3,000 f.) was awarded to M. Tiersennier for a pure Durham ox. Its candidate competitor was on arrival 36 months old, weighing about 1,800 lbs. English ; the Durham weighs about 50 lbs. more. The cows were very fine. The sheep, however, are stated to be of inferior quality to those of last year. The pig show was good. The prize of honour was awarded to a pig of a cross Anglo-Norman breed. It appears from the report of Messrs. Verneuil and Fouque, the two scientific men sent by the Institute to report upon the phenomena of the volcanic island near Santorin, that the island in creases, and that there are dangerous explosions, accompanied by the projection of stones. The island was in great alarm. The sisters of charity and the Roman Catholic fathers had been most zealous, kind, and charitable. The following are the prizes to be contended for on Sunday in the Bois de BSulogne, under the aus pices of the Society for improving the Breed of Horses in France :—La Bourse, 2,000 f. ; Prix du la Grotte, 2,000 f. ; Prix de Guishe, 3,000 f. ; Prix de Lutece 10,000 f. ; Prix de Cadvan, 10,000 f. The Late Queen of the French. All the arrangements connected with the Funeral of the late Queen are being pushed forward with the utmost activity by Messrs. Banting and Sons, to whom the details have been intrusted. There is to be no lying in state or public ceremony of any kind ; everything has been ordered to be conducted with the most rigid privacy, and none but those actually invited as mourners will be allowed to enter the little private chapel at Weybridge, where the re mains of the late King Louis Philippe are already laid. Still, the funeral procession will be of unusual length. At first it was intended to limit it to 20 mourning coaches, but it appears that so many of the French nobility and others are anxious to pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of the late Queen that at least 30 carriages will be required. These mourning coaches are of course exclusive of the very long train of private carriages which will follow in the procession from Claremont to Wey bridge. Not until Monday will the remains be deposited by her late Majesty's own attendants in the first of the coffins destined to enclose them. This, as usual, will be only a stout leaden shell lined with white linen ; outside this come two plain coffins of polished mahogany, and over a large outer case also of mahoganys covered with black velvet and ornaments of massive silver. On this last is the following simple inscription on a silver plate _ . _ MARIE AMELIE, Reine des Francais, Nde h Caserta (Deux Siciles), Lo 26 Avril, 1782; Morte it Claremont (Comtd de Surrey), Angleterre, Le 24 Mars, 1866. On Monday morning the body will be removed to a chapelle ardente, which is to be fitted up in one of the large rooms at Claremont by Messrs. Banting, This will be a temporary chapel draped with black, and only ornamented with the monogram of the late Queen in white. Here the coffin will remain till Tuesday, but to this mourn ful chamber none but members of the ex-Royal family will be admitted. It is intended that the funeral shall leave the mansion at 11 a.m. on Tues day. The body will be placed in a hearse drawn by eight horses, but all the mourners will follow on foot through the winding road which leads beneath the trees to the great gates of the park. The hearse will be decorated with heraldic escutcheons and feathers, and four mounted mutes, bearing black staves, will precede it. In accordance, however, with the French custom, no feathers will be placed upon the horses or any of ,the mourning coaches, neither will the mourners invited wear the cloaks which add an almost grotesque aspect to mournful ness in English funerals. As the distance between Claremont and Weybridge Chapel is considerable, those invited to attend the ceremony will, at the park gates, enter mourning coaches, which will pro ceed at a more rapid pace to the place of interment. Among those who it is expected will attend are M. Guizot, M. Thiers, the Due de la Rochefoucauld, and other French statesmen. The building in which the body will be laid is the small church just out side Weybridge, belonging to Miss Taylor. In a large vault beneath this rest the remains of King Louis Philippe, and aide by side with these will the body of Queen Marie AmClie be laid. As, how ever, the church is exceedingly small, and cannot accommodaate even those who are invited to attend the funeral, it is not intended to take the coffin into the church, but, as in the recent inter ment of the King of the Belgians at Lacken, to take it at once round, outside the building, and place it in the vault while the solemn religious ceremonies connected with the burial of Roman Catholics arc proceeding within the chapel. Dr. Grant, as Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocess, not yet two years ago celebrated the marriage be tween the Comte de Paris and his cousin, and it is believed that the funeral service will be solemnized by him. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will meet the procession at the chapel, and be pre sent at the burial ceremony, as representing her Majesty. Most of our readers will recollect that at the death of the King of the Belgians the domain of Claremont reverted to the Crown, and it is only a few days since that Parliament acceded formally to the wish of her Majesty to continue the use of it to the late Queen Marie Amelie. On this nominal change of tenure some legal formalities had neces sarily to be gone through, and Sir Edward Cust, as one of the trustees for King Leopold, went down to Claremont to surrender the estate to the surveyor for the Crown, who was in turn to give it up in trust to the widow of King Louis Philippe. 'When they arrived at the gates of the park they were in formed that this most dearly revered relict of the late Royal family of France had just expired, and they returned to London with their mission not only unfulfilled, but, uuhapppily, needless. We learn from Norwich that Chief Justice Cock burn is still unable to sit at the assizes there. The arrange ment as to the conduct of the business remains the same as before. REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS.—It is stated that the clerks in the Government offices are busily at work pre paring a new volume of statistics for the Redistribution Bill. We aro to have, it is said, three schedules—one con taining the boroughs from which one seat is to be taken ; the second, the counties and towns to which an additional seat is to be given ; and the third, mapping out new politi cal groups of boroughs, as in Scotland, each of which will comprehend ono at least of our present dwarf constituen cies. TIIE ALLEGED FORGERY OF THE COUNTESS BELLEW'S WILL—The charge against Mrs. Anne Cease, the old lady 80 years of age, of Wintorton House, St. John's wood, of forging signatures to the will or deed of gift of the late Caroline Countess Bellew, and also with uttering the same with intent to defraud, was yesterday resumed for the eighth time at the Westminster Police court. Mr. Piffard, barrister, instructed by Mr. W. W. Pain, solicitor, prosecuted ; Mr. James Lewis, of Ely-place, defended. Mrs. Eliza Payne, who had been summoned, was called, but did not answer, and a warrant was granted to compel her attendance, as Mr. William Murphy, engaged at the Admiralty, Somerset- house, and of Sidney-street, Brompton, proved that he heard her examined in the Pro bate Court. She said the signature to the will was not the countess's handwriting ; that she had known her for years, and could make as good an imitation of her signature her self. After some further evidence and a discussion, in which Mr. Lewis stated his case to be closed, the inquiry was ad journed till Wednesday next for conclusion, Mrs. Casse entering into £l,OOO bail to appear. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE INDIAN BUDGET. BOMBAY, MARCH 26. (By direct Overland Telegram). The Finance Minister for India has presented his Budget for the current financial year. It shows an estimated deficit of £72,000. The duty upon saltpetre is reduced to 3 per cent. ad valorem; and Madras salt is raised to 27 annas per maund. No new taxes are imposed. The Minister states the public revenue to be in a prosperous condi tion. The cash balance amounts to twelve millions. All over ten millions is to be appropriated to pub lic works. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 29, Three o'clock.—The market closed at the following quotations :- 4i. per Cents 97 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 6B Do. end month 67 92} Credit Mobilier 653 75 Do. end month 652 50 Bank Shares 3593 Credit Foncier — Italian Loan 59 50 Do. end month 59 40 RAIL Roman — Ottoman Fives — Mexican Loan 4G 75 Do. Bonds 298 75 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes 40 50 Home Debt — Deferred PAYS. Cash. Amt. ... 865 ... 1117 50 875 ... 552 50 562 50 ... 537 50 ... 105 - - 387 50 296 25 162 55 200 Orleans Northern Lyons and liediterranea,n Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman .-- -... ••• 87 50 AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, March 25. The present critical state of the ;eltitions of the empire to Prussia still form the topic of general discourse. The newspapers discuss probabilities with an eagerness that shows they understand the real gravity of the crisis. Great indignation is dis played at the attempts of the Prussion semi-official press to cast the blame of the difference upon the shoulders of Austria, and journalists vigorously re pel the accusation of the empire being desirous of provoking hostilities. Thus the semi-official Con stitutionelle Oesterreichische Zeitung says:— " It is evident to the most limited intellect that Austria can cherish no more ardent wish than to find in the deepest peace leisure to solve the pro blems crowding upon her at home. It is notably by the preservation of peace that she may hope to heal the deep wounds inflicted on the realm by a gloomy past, and is it conceivable that at the very moment when new institutions are beginning to take firm root, and to put forth buds of hopeful promise, she should urge onward a conflict that would ruthless'.y trample down the young shoots beneath the hoof of the unchained demon of war? Peace is the hope and the prayer of Austria ; she is prepared to pay any price for it save the sacrifice of her dignity and honour." The Nene Freie Presse regards the war question from a commercial point of view. Without inquir ing whether the German war has already become an inevitable necessity for Austria, it believes that in the long run even the trading interest must prefer war to a far-reaching prolongation of the prevalent state of insecurity. The mere threat of hostilities produces all those devastations in the domain of trade which war brings in its train, and is in so far more ruinous, because it offers no prospect of coming to an end. Were war to occur peace must follow; but the menace of war produces a convulsion whose limit it is impossible to foresee, and both trade and manu factures would consider a brisk and active war as a gain in preference to the paralysing influence of an impending contest. The Presse observes:— " We are not in the least surprised that war against Prussia should be more popular in Hungary than elsewhere, nay, as we are informed, should even be positively wished for. The modern Liberals, under Deak and Eotvos, as well as the Left, under Ghyezy and Tisza, hope for the recurrence of such times as under the Empress Maria Theresa, and to obtain large concessions in return for their ready support. This idea is more warmly advocated by the lion (the organ of the former resolution party), than by the generally reasonable Naplo, which, by the way, is possibly afraid of being outdone by war like storms in its efforts to promote reconciliation. Hon maintains that a serious conflict with Prussia would bring into the Austrian ranks 150,000 volun teers, in token of the loyalty of the Hungarian people, but it seems to overlook the fact that when the great Empress was really hard pressed by Prussia, Hungary immediately, spontaneously, and without any demand for recompense, offered and gave her assistance. But the favour with which the idea of war with Prussia is regarded in Hungary has a special side which merits consideration. The Magyars think that such a war would lead to the solution of the German question, and could not fail to place Austria at the head of Germany. The realm would then be not simply able to grant Hun gary as autonomous a position as possible, but would be compelled to adopt that course in order to be perfectly free to devote itself to entirely German objects. Even Baron Schmerling was of opinion that if the defunct Frankfort reform project had been carried out very extensive concessions would have had to be granted to Hungary." The following is the full text of the letter recently addressed by Councillor von Hell, the director of the Austrian Press, to the Viennese journals :- 6 , The Austrian and Prussian newspapers have been for some time past full of intelligence as to the movements of troops, the arming of fortresses, and other preparations for war, which have been connected with the difficulties experienced in the definitive solution of the Elbe Duchies question. I am not called upon to decide whether, and in how far, the state of the negotiations upon this subject in progress between the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin may afford cause for the apprehension that the place so long existing between the two great Powers might be disturbed. But I cannot re frain from pointing out that several organs of the Prussian press are endeavouring to represent Austria as the provocative Power, and that the great majo rity of the Vienna journals have patriotically de clared that everything must be avoided upon the part of Austria to give even the appearance of justi fication to these Prussian insinuations. What, how ever, could be more calculated to support these statements than the constantly repeated news of the military measures of Austria? The reinforce ment of the garrisons in Bohemia, rendered neces sary by recent regretable events, has already caused various movements of troops to that quarter, and the replacements thereby entailed cannot imme diately cease. But although the troops sent to Bo hemia belong almost entirely to regiments originally garrisoning that province, and only dispersed in other quarters on account of the reduction of the army to to its lowest possible pitch, yet the constant an nouncements of the movements of troops in Austria awake in the mind of the reader not exactly ac quainted with the facts an impression very similar to the formation of a military camp. Referring to the above-stated details, I therefore beg the editor of your journal, in publishing military news relating to Austria, patriotically to bear in mind the reserve imposed by the position of affairs and the deductions that may possibly be drawn from that intelligence. —I am, &c., (Signed) "F. R. VON HELL, Director of the Press." VIENNA, March 29. The morning papers publish disquieting telegrams from Berlin, and regard the state of things as still extremely critical, although they • contend that Austria will not take the aggressive. Frequent negotiations are taking place between Austria and the middle States. The .Debattq of to-day says that Count Mens- dorff has made a positive statement to Baren Wer ther, the Prussian Ambassador at Vienna, respect ing the movements of the Austrian troops, not con cealing that Austria must be prepared for any ex treme resolutions that might eventually be taken by Prussia. The Commissioners appointed in accordance with Art. 4 of the Anglo-Austrian Commercial Treaty, to settle the ad valorem duties, met yesterday at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Count Mensdorff, Baron Willersdorff, and Councillor Gagern were present on the part of Austria, England being re presented by Lord Bloomfield and Mr. Morier. THE AUSTRIAN ARMAMENTS. BERLIN, March 28. The semi-official Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung publishes the following item of intelligence in proof of its statement that Austria is extensively concen trating troops in Bohemia and upon the Silesian frontier. " The Saxon and Bohemian Frontier, March 26. —Many horses have been purchased, arid high prices paid for those required for artillery and transport. " Guns, ammunition, and timber have been re cently sent to Josephstadt and Stomggratz by way of Pardulitz. Trains filled with troops from the south arrive in Pardulitz daily ; one came last Satur day from Olmutz, and another from Trubau. Num bers of troops are,passing through Prague, especially reserve men and Jagers. An Italian regiment is quartered in Josephstadt, as well as the Grand Duke Constantine regiment, a battalion of which occupies the adjacent villages with half a regiment of artil lery. Koniggratz and the neighbourhood are occu pied by two infantry regiments, a battalion of Jagers, and half an artillery regiment. The soldiers wear grey overcoats. Hungarian Hussars are quar tered in and around Pardulitz. A regiment of light horse is echeloned fom Stollin to Podiebrad. Two more regiments and a battalion of infantry will be posted in Theresienstadt and the villages as far as Bodenbach. " Upper Silesia, March 2 6.—Between the 20th and the 24th inst. the following troops have passed the Oderberg station :—On the 20th, a battalion of Jagers for Teschen, to be posted there ; the 21st, a battalion of Jagers from Cracow to Olmutz ; the 23d, three battalions of the Hanover Regiment, from Cracow to Josephstadt ; the 24th, four battalions of the King of Wurtemberg Infantry Regiment. Fur ther, heavy siege guns passed in the direction of Cracow at two distinct periods. " Upper Silesia, March 27.—Some 50 guns lie at the Cracow railway station to be sent on to Bohemia. In Hungary seven, and in Italy eight, cavalry regi ments have received orders to prepare for the march to Bohemia. A large number of Austrian officers were present at the Tarnow-market to buy horses. A division will be posted at Trappan and in the neighbourhood, and a brigade each at Teschen and Oderberg. " Cavalry regiments are on the march along the high road from Cracow to Ohnutz. " On the 24th two Italian regiments passed the Preran station, on their way to Bohemia. A depot force has been stationed at Preran, and on the 23d some 200 railway carriages were collected there for the transport of troops. Popular feeling against Prussia around Cracow, and in Austrian Silesia, has been greatly stimulated by the newspapers, and is very warlike. The fortifications of Cracow are being hurried on. " Beuthen, March 25.---The troops hitherto sta tioned here have all gone to Bohemia, mostly to the neighbourhood of Theresienstadt. During the last ten days, twenty railway trains have passed through Cracow, each carrying a battalion of infantry and a battalion of Jagers, the latter certainly intended for Theresienstadt. A full park of artillery for three batteries,, and a train laden with powder, have been sent from Cracow. The guns were partially taken from the walls of the fortress, which is weakly armed. The arrival of two battalions of the Prince William of Prussia Regiment is announced. In addition fresh troops are being pushed forward to Galicia from Hun gary by way of Lemberg, to see the railway from that place. Contracts for supplies upon a large scale have been made in Hungary and Eastern Galicia. A cavalry camp is formed at Chrzanow, and quarters for two regiments of Uhlans have been engaged in Chrzanow, Szozakowa, and Bobrek." Great Fire at Rotherhithe ' (This Day.) This morning, shortly before three o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Smith, Brothers, and Sanderson, wool and flock merchants, Church-passage, Itotherhithe. The conflagration raged with such intensity that in a very short time property to the value of several thousand pounds was destroyed. The inflammable nature of the material stored in the warehouse ren dered the fire one of great intensity, and when tho flames broke through the roof they ascended to an extraordinary height. The powerful engines of the Fire Brigade, both steam and manual, were soon on the spot, but the narrow approach to the premises was a matter of the greatest inconvenience, and it was only after much difficulty that they could be got into proper positions. The conflagration was extinguished after great labour. The Good Friday Wrestling Sports. (THIS DAY.) Good Friday, although it was observed with much solemnity in many quarters, was in others devoted to cer tain sports which have, for as many years as ono can well remember, been associated in the public mind with the great fast day of the Church. In former times the men of Cumberland and Westmoreland were accustomed to try their skill and strength by wrestling in Lords' Cricket Ground on Good Friday ; and very cruel sport it not un commonly was, as many could testify who received severe throws or hard knocks in their struggle for victory. Thou sands of persons were in the habit of witnessing these periodical conflicts, and the two counties chiefly con cerned took a deep interest in the successes of their representatives. During the last few years these an nual treats have taken place, not at Lord's, but at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, and to-day there was a Large assemblage there, composed not only of Cum berland and Westmoreland men, but of adopts in pole leaping, hurdle-racing, and similar sports, together with the patrons of each branch 'of diversion. Amongst the contenders for the honours of the day were the celebrated polo-leaper and champion wrestler, Jameson, of Penrith, and his renowned rival, Richard Wright, of Longtown, Cumberland, the winner, during the last ten years, of 300 prizes in the different wrestling rings of the north of Eng land and south of Scotland. The number of prizes to be awarded amount in money value to £l2O, and it was an nounced that they will be presented to the successful competitors at a public meeting, to be called by the Cum berland and Westmoreland Wrestling Society, next Wed nesday Evening. AMATEUR SCULLING MATCII for £so.—Yesterday a sculler's race took place between Mr. Osborn and Mr. Chapman, the distance being from Putney to Mortlake for a wager of £25 a side. Osborn came in a winner by about 25 yards. THE LORD WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS.- Earl Granville has this week entered upon his duties as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and is now with the countess spending the Easter recess at Weimer Castle, whore the noble earl is entertaining a select circle of visi tors. No ceremony was gone through on his lordship's entering upon his office. DEAT:I or Mn. GORDON CUMMING.—Mr. Gor don Cumming, whose marvellous hunting adventures in South Africa some 20 years since gave him a world-wide reputation, expired at his residence at Fort Augustus on Saturday morning last. For the last eight years the " mighty hunter" had located himself at Fort Augustus, where his museum of curiosities formed a source of attrac tion to passengers by the route of the Caledonian Canal. In person the deceased was remarkable forhis great height and massive symmetry of build ; with handsome Highland features and the eye of the eagle, he was physically a king of mon. Some ten days ago, it is said, he ordered his coffin; and previous to his death he made his will, leaving all of which ho died possessed to his daughter, a girl in her twelfth year. Deceased was about 49 years of age.— Post. The marriage of the Earl of Dunmore with the Lady Gertrude Coke, second daughter of the Earl and Countess of Leicester, will take place on Thursday next at Holkham Hall. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt, and a large family party will assemble on the occasion. We have reason to believe that the Prince and Princess of Wales will likewise be present. Yesterday morning the funeral of the Hon. Richard Edwardes, her Majesty's Minister to the Argen tine Republic, and brother of Lord Kensington, took place at Kensal-green. The ceremony was private, only the family and a few personal friends being present. c on . I ' 4 'I. • r „ . Ire • /it HER MAJESTY• WINDSOR CASTLE, Thursday. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Her Royal highness Princess Helena and her Grand Ducal Highness of Hohenlohe Langenbourg also went out driving. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Koppel, arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon, and her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, also arrived, attended by the Hon. Mrs. F. Stonor and Lieut.-General Knollys. Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, went out in the grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess llelena, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, attended by the Hon. Mary Lascelles, rode on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses . . Prince Albert Victor and Prince George took an airing in the Home park. The Prince and Princess of Wales. SAND R ING II AM, Thurs.day. . _ Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the infant princes will, according to present arrangements, arrive at Sandringham House from London on Tuesday next, and on the following day it is expected their royal highnesses will pro ceed to Holkham, in order to be preesent at the marriage of the Earl of Dunmore and Lady Ger trude Coke. The stay of their royal highnesses in Norfolk will necessarily be limited, their royal high nesses returning thence to town. The improve ments on the royal estate are still in progress, and it is fully expected that ere long the new mansion will be commenced. During the past winter a fine piece of road has been made from Wolferton Railway Station to the house, nearly three miles long, the carriage way be ing of the uniform width of about 24 feet. The great advantage of this will be apparent when it is known that the whole of this piece of road is public highway, and as much for the convenience of the public as for the Prince of Wales. This road, with others constructed through the most picturesque part of the estate, affords some charming drives. The woods have been thinned, new shrubberies and coverts planted, and beauty and order is fast suc ceeding the wild luxuriance which formerly existed. Some old cottages, and a barn, which were a great eyesore from the west part of the house, have dis peared, and their site is being planted with shrubs• Additional sleeping accommodation is being pro vided in connection with the lodges; the new phew' santries are increased to 'double their extent, and on the table land immediately opposite these are the royal kennels. Prince Gluka, accompanied by Mr. Symonds, has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Paris. The Princess Czernecheff and their Highnesses the Princess Leon and Princess Mary Czernecheff hate loft Claridgo's Hotel for Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, in consequence of the slight indisposition of his lord ship, have deferred their departure to Paris on a visit to the Count and Countess de Flahault till the early part of next week. The Earl of Korry and the junior members of the family left town in the early part of the week fo r Paris. The Marchioness of Huntly and Lady Mary Gordon have left Farrance's Hotel for Orton Longueville , near Peterborough. The Earl of Malmesbury, who has heel). confined to his residence by an attack of gout, is considerably better. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yes terday for Brighton. Lady Julia Langston has left Fariance's Hotel. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the night Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., will entertain s select party at Strawberry-hill during the recess. Charles Henry Cooper, of Cambridge. The following earnest and affectionate tribute to the memory of Mr. Cooper is from the hand of John E. B. Mayor, of St. John's College, who writes thus of the departed scholar : Charles Henry Cooper, F.S.A., was born at Great Mar low, Bucks, 20th March, 1808, and died at Cambridge, 2 1 st March, 1866. When our fellow-townsmen, of all parties, are lamenting the death of our town's chief ornament, you will perhap s allow me, who for 13 years maintained an unbroken lite rary intercourse with him, to say 6 word respecting the greatness of our loss. All who had the privilege of knowing Mr. Cooper mus t have admired his intelligence, his ready memory, his rar e familiarity with English history, topography, and biogra phy, his wide range of reading, his large and statesman - l i° view of persons and events. No one could see that clear eye and open brow without feeling that he was in the pre sence of no common man. But his intellectual endowments were Mr. Cooper's least merit. I have never known a man of letters more single-minded, modest, and unselfish ; self scrupulous even to excess in confessing the smallest obligation, always ready to communicAte to others, he wa ° indifferent whether his services were acknowledged or merely used ; the best years of his life were devoted to ill" vestigating our academic history, though few of those for whom he toiled appreciated his work, and many ignoraulli regarded him as an enemy ; they might have learned that he loved to identify himself with the university, rejoicing when he could add a new name to our list of worthies ; was because he clung with fond reverence to our "Sparta' whose every stone spoke to him of struggles and sacrifices and noble memories, that ho adorned it as no gowns man has done. The man who dwelt so continually amidst the wine and good of all ages could not fail to catch somewhat of their spirit ; those who knew him best, knew that reverence for holy things was natural to him ; cheerful and frank as 1114 conversation was, and without taint of cant, it never bo r. : dared on licentiousness or profanity. The clergy testify t hat his blameless life, not less than his direct support, uPh sl A d the national church in the town. O ne o f them reraarice', but a few days before his death, " it was strange to see ho w attentive he was in church ;" for i n d ee d, whatever he did ' he did with all his heart. The patience which carried him through his snlit 3 l l 7,, studies guarded him f rom th e wors t i nc idents of Pnb'i strife. Far too busy to nurse malice, he would, on quitting the courts or hustings, quietly resume his researches, a s 011 . 0 6 whose home lay above the atmosphere of faction• habitual temper was singularly even and serene, under whatever provocation or suffering ; nor should it be f or :: gotten that his great knowledge was acquired in defiallu: of bodily infirmities, which made visits to his chose haunts, the university registry and library, a daily s et o' penance. 00 0 He might have taken for his motto Chaucer's des cri p of the scholar:— " And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach ;" for he was far too genuine a student to fret under ert'd cism, as I, to him in antiquarian studies but a tiro, Pr°V:i.. day by day through long years. His judgments w ere formly gentle ; patient and thorough in collecting and ,0, s ing evidence, he was judicial in the candour of his 511 ming up. Compare his account of Cranmer with tllOO ~ given by writers far less conversant with the facts, fl3".tb and Macaulay ; I well remember his saying h e began tilte d a strong prejudice against the archbishop, whic h In away under the light of testimony. t The void which Mr. Cooper has left behind himcam—„a ° be filled. Cambridge never had, nor will have,do clerk so entirely master of its archives, or more d evote t° ' its interests; no town in England has three such r ecto& boast as the " Memorials of Cambridge,,, ,c A n nals of Cara bridge," and " Athena° Cantabrigienses." Th e last ti°2 are unfinished, and who shall bend the bow of 111y5.5e3ta A prentice hand may bring more minute seholarshiP the task; but the terseness, the fairness, the legal slant the steady industry, the quickness, the sure memory', t'" commanding survey and firm grasp, of the master, svm ° rival ? Compared with Wood, Baker, and Co le, he c°r° 60 nearest to Baker. The prejudices so winning in WOO tl, childish in Colo, warped Mr. Cooper's judgment as lit e a ine as that of the nonjuring " Collegii Divi Joh aunis ejectus :" most works of research published during tbe r' 9 15 years have. been largely indebted to Mr. Cooper, °leir Kennet, Strype, Hearne, and their compeers , ewe half o / reputation to Baker. The Gentleman's Magazine, IV°tesc! Soeie tie !: Queries, the London and Cambridge Antiquarian and other serials and institutions, have lost their most al_ duous and valued contributor. Alma Mater has for o who did her 'tN ork, under great discouragement, better tba__, any of her sons could have done it. The university' librs", has lost its most constant student, to whom it owes m its gifts, and countless suggestions for the improvem ent l o s t catalogues and the supply of its wants. We have al l perhaps the most p erfect exam p le of unflagging ne e d w hich Cambridge has seen during this century. thae not be a prophet to foretell that 200 years henca• oth r Cooper's works will be more often cited than any Cambridge booke of our time. ina] bul of ' is] Ba Ya: Lac Chi the acl of Cl Sa