The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10.

WE have lately heard a good deal of the
awakening of society to a perception of the advan-
tages of pugilism. The current of opinion, it is
said, has been setting for some time in favour of
the'prize-fighter. The ring is again extolled as a
great school, where men quick to apprehend moral
lessons, may profitably go to learn how to bear
themselves in the battle of life. Civilization and
humanity require that men should be taught how
to use their fists, and experience shows that the
prize-ring is the best means of sustaining the art
at its highest point of excellence. Such ware the
reflexions in which some of our ablest contempora-
ries indulged after the recent fight between Macs
and KING, and if they are wise and just we can-
not dispute the inference drawn from them, that
the professors and amateurs of this humanizing
art, instead of having to start out in the dawn to
some unfrequented spot, should be permitted to
exercise itmostpublicly under the protectionof the
law and for the advantage of mankind. And as
another great fight is impending—Hzursir, the
American boxer, having engaged to meet the
triumphant Buro--it does not seem unreasonable
to expect that the new and influential friends of
the P. IL will exert themselves on the occasion to
procure justice for its champions, and take some
steps towards opening their school for the greatest
possible instruction of the greatest possible number.
It is not, however, to high ideal theories of the
prize-ring that we wish to invite public attention
to-day. Considered in themselves, the paradoxes
with which minds weary of the monotony of old
immutable truths beguile the tedium of life are of
little consequence. The morbid reactions of the

fastidious are of no importance, except as they
transfer the sanction of the educated to pursuits
which degrade and ruin those who look up to the
opinions of their better instructed fellow-creatures
for guidance. A paragraph which we published
on Tuesday shows that the leavening influences of
the prise-ring are at work wing us. At ten
o'clock last Monday morning a fine looking
young man wss carried into the London
Hospital, with marks of violence on his head,
face, and body, and evidently in a dying state.
The men who took him to the hospital did not
know his name or address. All they knew was.
that he had been fighting that morning with
another man in • field near Bow ; that he fought
until be became insensible, when he was left on the
ground abandoned to the care of strangers. The
next day his antagonist was discovered, and taken
into custody. It then appeared that the two men
had been contending in • pitched battle, with
seconds, for 201. a side. The prisoner's face wee
one mails of bruises and discoloration% his right
arm and chest were injured, and he was suffering
great psis. The battle is described as having lasted
nearly an hour and • half, and the effects confirm
the report that it was of • fearful character.
What ought we to think of such an occurrence
as this t What do the great admirers of the "noble
" art" my to it? The contests of champions is not,
as foreigners and Englishmen who do not know
their country suppose, encounters of poor brave
men for the mere amusement of luxurious lookers-
on. A fight for the championship, we are told, is to
English boxing what the Derby is to Baer& horse.
breeding, an exhibition of excellence, designed and
fitted to incite togeneral imitation. Wlismthseefors,
two men contend together, as these two young car-
penters did at Bow, it is a sign that the institution
is bearing the desired fruit. And if, instead of one
poor solitary combat on Easter Monday, every
piece of waste ground near a town or villager had
had its local battle, our new prophets might sing
their Nam diinittis, mewed that the day of their
country's salvation was come. No more cant about
the "marchof intellect," or "schoolmaster abroad,"
but unbounded admiration for muscly bottom,
clever hitting, and neat stopping.
Still, a result like that of Monday last is calcu-
lated to awaken some misgivings. Although so-
ciety may be humanized and elevated by setting
two men to belabour one another until their faces
look like mamas of raw beef, fatal injury must be
considered a misfortune, apart from the annoyance
given to the survivor in the name of the law.
Here is a difficulty—What ought to be done in
such • case as this at Bow? These men fought
like lions. The deceased man was not beaten be-
fore he had inflicted terrible punishment on his
antagonist. Hi body was conquered, not his
soul. Nature, not the indomitable spirit, gave
way. But if it was well that the men abseil
fight, and not well that either of them should die, '
where is the fault Are we to regret that one
of these men did not show the white feather?
But the ring exists in order to develop and reward
courage and fortitude. It cannot be said that a
case like this should be regarded as a lamentable
accident ; for, so far as appears, the beaten
man was killed according to the rules of the art.
The case of the unfortunate man now in custody
presents another difficulty. If it be true that the
law forbidding prize fights is one condemned by
the superior intelligence of the age, and that it is a
manly, noble thing to contend with fists for
mastery in a ring, the prisoner is a pet,
secuted man, deserving our sympathy.
These are practical points for consideration. There

Se Court.

is no reason to suppose that Howixrr was lb the
least excited by animosity in this encounter.
Ile is probably an average working mum, ',hose
ambition has taken a pugilistic turn. If the pro-
fession which he is seeking to enter is a creditable
one, as the world has often been told lately, and
if society is resolved to retrace its steps and do
honour to the boxer, it would be very wrong to
harems HowLsrr by prosecution. For our part,
we utterly reject the theory on which the price-
ring is defended, believing it to be false and arti-
ficial. It would be as true to say that our national
character is capable of being raised or strength-
ened by the revival of bull and bear-baiting as
it is to allege that pugilistic exhibitions are calcu-
lated to produce that effect ; and we hope that
the unhappy termination of this fight may lead
some of our contemporaries to reconsider the
theories they have incautiously put forth. But
we should see with regret a poor misled artisan
punished severely for the natural consequences of
an act to which he has been stimulated by the
writings of accomplished men assuming to repre-
sent the opinions and wishes of society.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Anal. 9.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princes Helena,
surd attended by Lady Augusta Bross, drove out this mere-
*in a carriage sad four. Colonel the Hon. A. Harding,
&Marled on horseback. _ -

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Prince Arthur, atteoded by Major lephiostona, left the
Oestle this morning for Greenwich Park.
Earl Granville arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had
an audience of the Queen.

A deputation on the milesis duties, introduced by J.
Brimlerlionre, Eq.. M.P., had an into/view with the
Chancelire of the Embodier yesterday, at his akin' Nei.
dame to Downing•dnd. The deputation coneisted of Mr.
E. Falwell, from Bristol ; Mr. W. Brows, from Preece ;
Mr. J. L. Thornton, from Linooht ; Mr. R. Eyrie, from
Blandford ; Mr. J. Oodsiow, from Richmond ; Mr. R. R.
Hughes, from Bayswater; Mr. Maim from Sew;
Maseru Law, Church, Animal, Inver, Martini, and Crew,
from Landau ; and Mr. J. R. Bradliski, parliamentary agent
far the panties.

Derretches were eget yesterday from the OolookLake
to the Gnomes o Owed&

THE Paurce or WaLea.—A deputation of the
county of Norfolk militia wieetieg, beaded by the lordrilise-
lomat and the high sheriff, beve had the bosom of pees
worm as tidier to his Ito* Ingham the Priem of
Wales and Mr Royal Highness the Prisms el Wel.. their
royal higberemee reeeiviag the address el megreteliMion is
perem. His Royal HON= pacisedy eceepted the mi-
ll drew, and the Prince read the Mewing reply :—" deaths
men, —I most sincerely thank you for year compstelstione
to myself and the Princes oe the mesikeef ear searriage.
The hearty welcome I here resolved from all Ames et the
minty has been very gratifying to me, sad year earned
prayer in behalf of the Primes and myself, will, I trust,
seer be vete( ully remembered by en both.° The deputes
tics bad the hewer of lasohiag at the Hall, after the above
proceedings bad termieeted.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland leave
Alawick Gatle as Tuesday next for Harthtuabarlicail
Home, far chic aassaa.

The Duke of Somerset and Captain the Hon. J.
R Drummond, C. 8., returned to the Admiralty les►
events', frost Yankshire. _ _

The- Duke of Beaufort, accompanied by QM
Marquis et Worcester, Kr. Reginald Graham, and a imp
party GI Fres& modems, wen to commence hunting the
wolves is the seighbeurhoed d Poicticse as Tuesday Let.
The weather was very bat, hat it was hoped that the meat
would lay, sad that a good 'amass would Do given of the
farmers• enemies.

The Marquis and Marchioness Cholenondeky
saliva W lowa reassity from Cholimoodeley OUUS,
alblelat

Tho Earl and grantees Spencer have been among
the visitors to the Doke aad Dachau of MamboWe at
Kim boltou Otatle deride tie pruned Welk _ _ _

The Countess (Fiances) Wald/grave and Mr.
Chichester Forteseoe, ILP, lets town petards/ for Ireland.
Lord and Lady Clarence Paget 'aired yesterday
as the noble lord's idol madame at the /Arnim* from
the family neat la Wales. . .

Lady Loma Agnew gave birth to s daughter
yesterday at the house of her father, the Earl of Goias-
beroust, is Portman-square..

T h• Right Hon. Beniamin Disraeli, M.P., and
Wt. Diosolli ratans to tows Go Ilatolar from their lost la

Sir Tatton Sykea has reached Jerusalem after his
to in Egypt.

The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., left Devon-
shire House on Wednesday, for Cbstawortb, Derbyshire.
The Earl and Countess of Effingham and the
Ladies Rewind have arrived at their residence is Fetes-
Awn for the seance.
The Countess of Ellesmere and family have
arrived at Bridewska Howe from Harwood for a •hart
period•

The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart.,
ILP, and lady Pokiness, return to town on Moods,
next, from their soot in Worcestershire.

The death is announced, in the 93rd year of his
age, of the Rev. Itiehszd Random Bothwell, M.A., patron
of the ebureb, and ler 69 years motor at the parish of
&floe, Lancashire, and domestic chaplet' to Viscount Pal-
, surdas.

It was mentioned yesterday that, owing to the
expiry of the iooome•tex. no deductions eta be made from
dividends cow in course of meant, and that the revive,,
wUI eoneaqusatiy be antoyed by a demand at a sninsement
date. To prevent eilasoneeptions it Amnia have been me.
sided that the dividends is Tendon an She.. falling
doe shoe the 6th instant, es in the are of the ladle lour
per Olen Debentures and the Turkish Banda, reepernvely
Jonah' is the Bth and 10th instant. The tax Wend ap
to the Mk, tad. therefore, the eteok dividend, whisk fell
inn that day have bee subjected to deductive be the usual
It would appear as tbough public morality in
arms ware defer up against the ispedent effeontery of
the Mtn of the deni-monde, who invade all the pod&
therematfares with a display of luxury equal to that of the
neerteeene of &iniquity. Lan year on several OWNWWII,
I ..P.W.My at the rams, which are the tannin reedeenwe
if those ladies, they were booted is tisk splentld
equipages. Thie year the lame thing occurred, but le um
awned to each a length that the police wore obliged to
interfere.

Tax FRENCH ACADIMY AND THZ Kl/PllO/L.
K. °dent Featllet, the DOW French saidemilia. wee In-
troduced to the Emperor en &today but, secomptated by
IL Vital, the dinette for the month, and Y. Vlnirmaile,
. .

the " perpetual imeretsry." The Emperor observed that
these reeeptiens Wife becoming more solemn sad more im-
portant, "sad," he added, " I have boss for some time
put trying to make myself worthy ci yen MOO day'
Vital observed that he, like everyone else, had heard et tbe
historical cocipositios on which his Majesty had bees for
mese time employed—the "Life of Julia. Chsear." H.
tarts it was sear its completion ; mad he had so doubt it
would Mill the expectations raised of it. Tbe &arm
seethed, bowed, sad admitted that. • good deal of the work
had bees gone through, bat that $ good deal remained to
ha dime. Hs gathased himself that le bad esseseded Is
etheidating some impeenutt pads eenseeled with Onnses
military career, sad particularly his ounthiess is Gash
The,, were, however' some Farts whisk required •
good deal of study sad research ; some time would, pro-
bably. Wages before be eseasedod to his satheaction. He
had to nessek old lostithlslds, the lissom of Oneer's
vie-
to<fea, sod It required math Meer ad *lnes to do so.
His Majesty chased to look at M. PWemaia st the
stomest, se if he directed this part of his observatles to
ltho. " Very Sr.., sire," rid the witty sod owe* more-
key, "it is no doubt • laborious tuadmisking ; but, are,
it is • more phlegm/ task to search out old lestithiteldi
than to open sew thee.' The Emperor sewed M. Ville •
ssais thee he fell, agreed with him; he felt the forte of
kis observations &Meg his eampaigs la Hely, which mods
as impetetion on him which he sever meld forget.

POLAND.

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THE EXPRESS, RRIDAY EVENIN

LALTICST R IMICLLIGEDIOR.
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PRUSSIA.
REGULATIONS AS TO THE POIISH
REFUGEES.

The Prussian Minister of War has addressed to
the general-in-chief of the four corps d'arm4e,
General de Warder, the following decree respect-
ing the Polish refugees :
. .

The Minister of the Interior and the Minister of War
have concerted the following measures concerning Russian
subjecte who pan from Russian-Poland en to the
Prussian territory, and who do not belong to
the imperial army. 1. In general these individuals
will be treated according to the conditions of the con.
motion concluded betimes Prussia and Russia on the Bth of
August, 1857. 2. If it be not possible to send back ammo-
diately the individuthi who pass the frontier, they ought
to be regarded is in a state of arrest, and conducted to the
menet Prussian fortress. 3. There shall be placed in the
first rack Nelms, whirls will contain 700 prisoners ;
Posen, 500; Coal, 350; ()nucleus, 180. If these
fortreemeare not milkiest there remain Cutrin, eontaining
600 primers ; Mau, 350 ; Weichselmuade, 350 ; Schmid-
Mts. 200; and Dania% 150; in ell, 2,680 prisoners.
4. After the anset there shall immediately be an interns.
(Mien in order to establish the identity of the prisoners
and the circumstances of their arrival. For the purpose of
this interrogation they will be divided into dew on
which will depend the manner of their extradition and
the reimbursement el their expenses. 5. These clams

will he the fonowieg :—A. Insurgents to be treated sexed-
ing toartielse 15 to 17 of the convention, become they have
_ .

committed in Ramis a crime or offence. B. Nou-incur
gents, but individasls of an age which renders them liable
to military 1111r4014 to which articles 4 to 9 of the convention
are applicable. 0. Individuals Dot belonging to the military
service and unsuspected, to be dealt with according to art. itt.
6. Individuals imprisoned in the fortremes will be subjectedto
military surveillance up to the time of their extradition,
and to the treatment applied to the sections relating to work-
men. 7. The refugees belonging to the better clamed Ire
all to be sent to the fortress of Posen, and to be detained
fursished rooms, the authorities of Palen being alone in
peassmion of 'efficient mesas for a proper examination.
The French journals protest against these Mea-
sures as hateful, and urge the Prussian Chamber
of Deputies to take some steps to prevent them
front being carried out.
The Northern Gazette of Berlin says :

The government will find itself compellUd Boomer or Liar
to leave it. pules attitude towards the progreesiet party.
The beet course to take would be to present a law by which
the right to vote new taxes and the annual extraordinary
credits will be expressly reserved to the Chamber of De-
puties, while the goveramest will be formally authorised to
continue, in default of a budget, the collection of tame
scoordieg to the tense of the liar legal budget.

A letter from Warsaw, of the 6th, says :

Aimegut the collections ordinarily mad; in the churches
M the Nester Mel, the most fruitful this year is that
which has been made for the insurrection. More than
100,000 roubles, We mkt, have bees stied in this way. A
particular mark ID distinguished the box destined for this
collection, and the poems who come to the church recog-
nise it at mos. In the common feasts which take place at
this tines of the year the wall.todo (smiles have all invited
the workmen, and the citizens have renewed their oaths of
fraternity. Those who have eaten together will, perhaps,
die together to-morrow.
A letter from Cracow, of the 4tb, says :

The Sserstery of the British Embassy at Vienna arrived
here a few days ago to inquire into the eireurnstenoss at-
tending the !adopted murder of Mr. ridded's, who,
drugs to say, is recovering and is sow able to walk. The
description of Mr. Fiakendehes passport, as entered is
the book' of the frontier radian at Barna, has been examined,
and his amend of the ocalmight made upon him by the
Rudd soldiers taken down, read over to him, sad duly

" We have received," says the Meuse of Liege,
" • letter from Warsaw which contains some
melancholy details relative to the young Poles who
left the university of this place to proceed to the
aid of their country and fight for its independence.
At the battle of Kizywosiads fourteen of those
heroic students fell wounded during the combat
and were massacred by the Russians."
The Unite Italian of Milan publishes a letter
from Martini, and another from General Garibaldi,
both calling upon the Italians to subscribe a franc
per head for Poland.
The Timu has received the following telegram :

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Nara
Abram till: 4
U nit
Ardramess.„l4.74:4o
Patna' ;20.77:43 1
Galway l9.eoµB. 1
Valerstla p.67147 1
air= 19.7151 1
.' 1 122.9:44 2
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Am moss
Btraat
lawn
St! 1
L'Orient 122.76 0
Rochefort 19.64'54
Plymouth —1117749 1
Weymouth llO.7lCm 1
Portsmouth peo.ou.so 1
Kew. 20.8252 0
Ueda° 11.84'54 1
Dover. —16063
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saistioniasklassio 1
Okla .. 6
Bellmo3ad 20.6646 0

"Orasov, APil 9.

" M. Bentkowski, a member of the Prussian par-
liament, late chiof of Langiewicz's staff, was ar-
rested here this afternoon."

APRIL 10, 186;

(71031 0011 OW!

11!1 PARIS.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVIOIIIO..

The coming elections now occupy a considerable
space in the French journals. The France an-
nounces that it will publish the electoral address,
styled here the " profession of faith," of every
serious" candidate. I rather suspect that the i
word serious conceals a snake in the grass, and
that it will be apt to eliminate from publicity all
who are not favourable to the temporal power. I
shall be glad to find occasion to contradict by fact
that which I now only show forth in likelihood.
But at present the only address published by the
France is that of the Count Flavigny, who, like
M. Kolb Bernard, M. Plichon, and some few others,
who made prominent speeches in favour of Rome,
are tabooed by K de Persigny, and denuded of the
government support to which they owed their el action
sir years ago. Count Flavigny now says, very
truly, that his only crime is having supported, a
year before, the very doctrines which the Emperor
came round to last autumn. That plaintive re-
monstrance is illustrative of the curious anomaly
that K de Persigny is permitted for the moment
to set the prefects against the clerical candidates
who, like Count de Flavigny, had every reason to
hope that M. Thouvenel's dismissal was the signal
for their triumph.
In the Senate yesterday, K Fould begged.
although late, to object to the Monifnsr's report of
a sentence attributed to him on March 18. Kde
Laroohejaquelin having asserted that the French
force in Mexico amounted to 50,000 men, M.
Fould corrected him by saying that the number
was only 34,000; and he was made to aid
"that is too many." The latter words, which
K Fould desires to disclaim, were in reality used
by M. de Larochejaquelin. The rectification de-
sired by the minister was made.
The Bourse was very animated. Rente roes 26c.
and 15c., closing at 701 r. and 'Mr. 10c. The latest
prices were not, however, the highest of the day,
for the Rente was at one moment quoted at 701 r.
25c. The last official quotation of Mobilier was
the same as yesterday, but after office hours there
was a fall. No report of the general meeting to-
day is yet made public.
Marschener, a musical composer of eminence
in Hanover, and chapel master to the king, lately
brought an action against M. Aulagnier, a Paris
publisher, for having pirated an opera called the
Vampire, which is one of K Marschener'a best
compositions. The alleged piracy dates so far
back as the year 1843 ; but M. Marachener having
recently visited Paris, took especial umbrage at an
interpolated recitative which be says disfigures his
work. The Court of the First Instance gave a ver-
dict for the plaintiff with 500 fr. damages, and de-
creed the delivery up of all the existing copies of
the Paris edition. The Court of Appeal, however, has
reversed this decision, founding its judgment upon
the consideration that previous to the decree of
1852 there was no copyright in Franoe in foreign
works, and that that decree has no retroactive
effect.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

FRIDAY, Ann 10. 8 WI.

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moderate, showery. moderate, showery.

Owing to the railways and public works in India
wood is getting dear there, and some interest is come-
queenly taken in the government woods and forests. The
forest, of Pegu cootain a million aid • half of full grown
teak trees. The Moulmein forests export yearly 9,000 loge.
In the Tennaiserim and Manakin provinces there are teak
knee to the extent of IC,OOO square miles.
A letter from Rome says that in spite of the
reports of his failing health, the Pope went through
his own laborious part of the ceremonies of Holy
Week without any great apparent fatigue. "It is
true that on Thursday he only washed one of the
figneitive apostles' feet, and left the other twelve
to be handled by the attendant °wank and prelates. At
the subsequent repast, or area, hu holineen mutinied hint-
ed, also with handing the apostles their soup, without
salting up their boiled fish or earring out their beocali, as cm
other occasions ; bit the Pops looked well, and metre-
dieted by his appearance the many sinister reports curtest
with respect to his health."
A letter from Naples, of the sth, says :—" The
port is so full that several stamen could not eater this
week, sod in the Custom-house the bales of goods lie is
larger maws than was ever koows. Gas is being laid
doers in every part of the city, and while the Grotto of
Pesilippo is already lighted, in • week we shall have •
brilliant display all round the Pekoe-yard. Be far Easter
week has gooe off most orderly. • Kisereres ' have been
sung daily and nightly, and the people have been enjoying
themselves exubenustly. Titiam left us on Wednesday full
of honours, thane+, Heaven be praised, not of years. On
Tuesday she sang in a &abet Mater' composed by Mr.
George Douglee, • British subject, and the chancellor of
our oonnikte. The Duchess of Geooa, who was present,
was patroness, and Mercadante and all the other great
musical authorities who were there stamped the beautiful
production of the new maestro with their high approbation.
I never admired Thiene more than in the sweet solo
' Zia, Mater.'"
An excursion train left Vienna for Constanti-
nople last week with 200 paseengers, who embarked at
Trieste on the 4th, on board two steamers.
. .

Several of the French journals state that M.
Foobi, goo of the Milliliter of Fiume, is 'boot to poblidt
a novel under the title of "L'Enfer des Femmes."
It is stated in the catholic journal Le Monde,
that the Pope hu forbidden the name of the King of Italy
to be mentioned is any public prayer offend up is the
Neapolitan provinces.
A new illustrated weekly paper, Le Monifettr
Plustre, is about to be started, it is said, in Pula MM.
Leon Goalan and Edmond About are among the costri-
bitters. _ _

PRINCII NAPOLZOICIS ROMAN VILLA. —The °moo-
Roman villa built by Prince Napoleon in the Arenas
Montaigne, Paris, is advertised for sole la the Muniieur.
The pries massed is 900,000(r. (36,000 C)
" • '

Mr. A. Black borne, of 95, South Andley-street,
has bees scpointed Leeman to her Royal Highness the
Pruners of Wiles