The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, 'TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1882

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(awria's maaaaws.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, no. 24.
In the Senate this evening the discussion on the
address was continued.

M. Troploug exhorted the senators to preserve a I
conciliatory and moderate toue in the debates.
M. de Boissy regretted that France had assisted
England in revenging herself upon the Chinese.
He was of opinion that the money expended in the
Crimea and in Italy would have been better applied
towards a descent upon England.
M. Milanit regretted the remarks of M. de
Boissy. Language of this description between two
' great nations equally proud, equally sensitive upon
the point of honour, was a misfortune. He thought
it useless to revive French animosity towards
England, when the policy of the Emperor tended
ou the contrary to appease such feelings.
M.M. Thayer and Charles Dupin spoke in favour
of the society of St. Vineent de Paul.
The continuation of the debate was adjourned
I until to-morrow.

THE REBELLION IN GREECE.
PARIS, PL. Si.

The Paris papers of this evening publish a,
telegram from the Piraeus, stating that the insur-
gents who occupy the citadel of Nauplia had de-
manded to be allowed to capitulate, and that the
insurrection would be thus subdued. It is believed
that the King will change the ministry and then
dissolve the chamber.

Orleans. The great and underlying fear of the
f riends of freedom in A merles DOW is that England and
France may step in, and, by recognising the Southern
Confederacy or breaking the blockade, give strength
and persistency to the slave power. The great
European nations are on their trial. Are they
ready to be held up to the gaze of future genera-
tions as the efficient instruments of fastening on a
half a continent the curse of slavery t Religion, the
interests of civilisation, and the noblest hopes of
progressiveminds, now appeal to every European to
carefully see to it, that the governments of the
old world shall not be guilty of the crime of com-
plicity with the slave power of the United States.

The Royal Mail steamer Africa, which sailed
from New York on the 12th inat., and touched at
Queenstown on Sunday, arrived yesterday morning
at Liverpool.
The steamship Jura arrived at Portland Feb. 10;
the steamship America arrived at Boston Feb. 11.
The following official telegrams concerning the
victory at Fort Henry have been received at St.

Louis :
Waahingtoo, Feb. 5.
Major-General Haack, Bt. Louie,—Your energy and
ability receives the etrougrat commeedatimi of this depart.
went. Yon have my perfect confidenoe, and you may rely
upon my utmost support in your undertakings. The pres-
sere of my engagements has prevented me from writing to
yba,,l4.dweiil do so fully in a day or two.
) EDWIN iL Burros, liscrOary of Win
The following has also been rewired :
lfajor-General lialbeck,—Thank General Grant, Flag.
akar Fools, and their commands, for me.
(542t41) Orme B. M`Ctrtd.alt,
Commander-In Chid.
The Secretary of War of the Southern Confede-
racy has instructed all military commanders to im-
press all saltpetre to be found now or hereafter in
their commands, and to pay 40 cents for it, and no
more.
Dr. Iv., • Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, has been arrested and taken to
Part Wifsary, Baltimore, by order of the Secre-
tary of War. Dr. Ives is charged with having in-
troduced himself into the War Department during
a private consultation, and having demanded news
for publication in the New York Herald.
The Nese York Tribune still continues to affirm
that President Lincoln has, with the assistance of
the Secretary of War, taken the actual command
of the army and navy, and that General M'Clellan
commands the army of the Potomac. This state-
ment, however, some of the New York journals
still continue to deny.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tines writes as follows : .

The Senatiinsoes committee reported back the Tonality
Note Bill at the house today with two amendment* ; first,
making inning ea the government bonds payable in coin,
and setting aside duties ea imports and other revenue for
that purpose; sexed, allow's( filtered at the rate d S per
cent. on deposits of Tremor" Dotes for 30 days or over to
the amount al 25,000,000 dela The legal to dams will
pass the Senate by a large maority.
The Navy department has received a ocanannication from
Captain Duped inclosing the report of Commander
Parrott on the disposition of the second stone fleet. Om-
mender Parrott steno that the remainder of the stone fleet
were got into position and sunk on the 26th ultimo, the date
of his report. Commander Parrott thinks the stone vessels
are exceedingly well pieced, se they effectually block a
deep and eisellent passive to the north of Rattlesnake
shod.
Captain Dupont states:—" The department is mine.
formed, I idea from a letter received but night, as to the
Isabel getting kite Charleston by the main channel. where
the previous fleet were sunk. The obstruction there is com-
plete, and has sot been removed by the late plea, the water
honking clear serves. The Isabel got in by hiaffitt's
Channel, and as that portion of it included between Rattle-
make Shoal and the shore has been blocked up by the
snood stone fleet, the prsibility of getting into
Charleston is still more circumscribed, the only channels re-
I minim being the Swish and Baffin* and I have never
less than three tends covering them, and which DOW ride
out the gales at 'setae.
The following se the substance */ the shirrs eider whiok
Brigadier-lisorrel Clarke P. Stool wee arrested yesterday
morning, by Fu guard under the immediate command of
Bngadier-General Sykes, of the Provost 3farsbal force, and
mot to Fort Lafayette by the afternoon train. First, for
misbehaviour at the battle of Ball's Bluff ; second, for
holding correspoudence with the enemy before and since the
battled Ball's Bluff, and receiving visite from rebel
alms in his camp ; third, for treacherously suffering the
enemy to builds tort or strosswork, since the battle of Ball's
Bluff, under his guns, without molestation; fourth, for a
treacherous design to expose his force to capture and de•
struction by the enemy, older protean of orders for a move-
ment from the commanding Oeserel, which lied not ham
given. A court-martial will be speedily ordered.
The news from the west indicates that the preparations
for a decided blow against the enemy are nary completed.
The forces for this movement are nearly all concentrated
at the point whence it is inteaded to move against the ad-
versary, and in a few days the whole onamand will probably
be on the march westward.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that General
Thomas's division is said to have made a forward
movement, and will invade Kest Tennessee at three
different point. simultaneously. General Carter
goes through Cumberland Gap, General Suhoepf
by the central route, and General Thomas with
Manson and Mat:cook's brigades will cross at Mill
Smug. They will advance immediately on Knox-
ville where they will take possession of the railroad,
cutting off supplies and communication with the
rebel government.
A correspondence between the American minister
at Paris and the government at Washington, on the
subject of the presentation of Americans at the
court of the Tuileries, is published. The New
York Herald calls it " Jenks-ism out of season ;"
justifies M. Thouvenel in his demand to know the
quality " of the Americans who sought an agar
to the French court ; complains that Mr. Dayton
did not take a more common-sense view of the
matter, and says :—" It would be far wiser for the
persons in whose behalf these reclamatious are
inadea to return and fight the battles of their coun-
try at home, than to bring it into contempt abroad
by their misconduct and misplaced vanity."
SAN FRANCISCO, FM. 6.

The barque Ada D. Rogers, with Japril dates

the 19th December, has waived here. -
Three-quarters of Kanagawa had been destroyed
by fire. The loss was about 200,000 dols.
Japanese ambassadors to England and Franoe
were expected to start from Jeddo on the 2nd Jan.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 11th the chairman of the
finance committee announced that he should call
up the Treasury-note Bill on the following day
and proes it to a speedy passage. A resolution of
the New York Chamber of Commerce, in favour of
the immediate passage of the bill, and pledging
the support of the merchants of New York to the
government, was presented. A joint resolution
was adopted that the two houses of Congress as-
semble in the House of Representatives on Wash-
ington's birthday, the 22nd of February, and that
the President, the members of the Cabinet, the
foreign representatives, the officers of the army
and navy, and others, be invited to attend, and
that Washington's farewell address be read. A
bill authorising the banks of the district of Colum-
bia to issue notes of less than five dollars was re-
ferred.
Mr. Sumner offered a series of resolutions de-1
daring that the revolted States! have committed
fel° de se, and that their relations as members of the
United States uo longer exist ; that their allegiance
has been severed, and the Federal Government owes
no obligation to any
.pretended State government
usurping certain territory ; that individuals occu-
pying such territory owe allegiance to the general
government only, and the general government to
the individuals; therefore persons heratofore held
as slaves may look henceforth to the general govern-
ment for protection as individuals. A motion to
lay them on the table was carried by a vote of 21
to 15.
The bill =kin appropriations for completing
seacoast and lake fortifications was then taken up
and discussed till, upon coming to a vote upon •
motion, it was discovered that there was no quorum
present, whereupon the Senate adjourned.
In the House of Representatives the Senate's
amendments to the bill appropriating ten millions

of dollars for the eonstruction of twenty uvu-clad
steam gunboats were concurred iu ; so the bill
only requires the President's sanction to become
a law.
Mr. Conkling offered a preamble and resolution,
setting forth that the army countersign was known i
to the rebels on the Potomac on the day the
steamer Pensacolo passed down the river, before it
was communicated to the Union forces, that infer- 1
motion of Union naval and military movements is
frequently communicated iu advance to the enemy I
under circumstances justifying a suspicion of
treachery on the pert of persons in the service I
of the government, and that the joint committee
on the conduct of the war investigate these charges
and report thereon.
The resolution was adopted. The house by a
vote of 85 to 40 adopted the report of the com-
mittee on elections declaring Mr. Seger not entitled
to a seat as representative front the first district of
Virginia.

MIL DIGBY SEYMOUR, N.P. AND TES MIDDLE
vimPti.

Mr. Digby Seymour, on receiving the judgment
at the Been at the Middle Temple, addressed to them
a loon protest, which is printed in the Times of to-day.
Without the evidence, however, the chief part of this
is unintelligible. The remark does not apply to the
extract :
"Yaa have held 15 meetings, and in no sink Mauves
has yore parliament been composed a wood time of the
name members as any previous parliament. In point of
inektherefore, I have been tried before 15 different tribal-
gas. Your numbers have been
.equally irregular, varying
from • maximum of 18 to a minimum of 7. One of your
number first attended at the fifth meeting, one first at the
sixth, two at the ninth, two at the 10th,aod ens at the 13th.
The following is an analysis of the attendance of all the
beech : —Two attended 15 meetingatwo attended 14, one at-
tended 12, two attended 11, one attended 10, two attended
9, two attended 8, two attended 7, three attended
6, two atteuded 5, one attended 4, two attended
3, two attended 2. and two attended 1. Ben is
certainly • remarkable disregard both of the spirit and
letter of the wise rule of the society which requires the
atteodance of the same members on every adjourned
bearing of an inquiry into au accusation enemas a barrister.
I lave so right to penetrate the secrete of year chamber,
but I confess I should like to know bow many of them
who heard the evidence of Mr. Parker and his witnesses
took part, and if so, what part, in framing or sup-
porting the observations made with reference to that case.
I appeal to those members of the bench who were
present at the third meeting whether the mode in which
the evidence of Mr. Parker especially was given did not
strongly Impress their minds with the impossibility of vari-
ously regarding it. The perusal, more or leas careful, of
printed evidence (even were it of the most accurate charac-
ter), one never supply the place of opinions derived from
the bearing of the witnesses themselves ; and I cannot help
feeling that I have been hardly dealt with if members of the
bench who have only formed their omelusion upon the
printed reports, intermixed and confused as the various
cases are, have joined in redectioes which I firmly believe
would not have been made, or would have been greatly mo-
dified, had therettonded the inquiry with greater regularity.
It may of course be said that my attention was called
to this vile, and that I ought an subsequent occasions to
have nude objections on the ground of its non-observance ;
but my attention was not called so this rule till so late as
the ninth meeting, though it ought to have been mentioned
on the secoud, and it is obvious that it would, at that time,
have placed me to a most invidious attitude to have ap-
this rule with reference to soy beocher 1 might
Civi:dto
objected to. 1 could not, moreover, for a moment
have anticipated that members of the beech who had not
heard the anklets as to any particular case would have
observations, or even joined in • judgment, with
:Iferriesoleced to that case, of the fairness of which they were
not, from this very circumstance, in a proper position to
decide. Oe this trotted, as well as them I have before spe-
cified, I beg to enter my solemn protest against that part of
your judgment which contains the observations of which I
complain, and which, I rejoice to know, have not received
the unanimous approval of the bench; andlrequesttbattthe
, letter may be recorded along with the judgment..—l have
the honour to be gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" WY. DIOBY SETYOUIL

"P.S. The foregoing letter was written before I went
down to addrees my constituents at Scentbampton on Tom-
day evening last. The meeting was Axed for 8 o'clock. I
arrived at the terminus at 20 minutes to 8. I was then, for
the beat time, iefurmed that the wells of the town were
ted, and the people, as they went to the meeting, were
Cog liberally supplied, with a handbill of which I beg to
inches a copy. 1 ask the bench whether the peculiar
wording of these four questions, and that so as to convey
the most unfavourable oonstructioe, does not evidence the
baud of some one who has been acting on information
derived not very far from their parliament chamber.
This, however, is not all. A prominent member of the
tory party in Southampton bas b :en going from place to
place exhibiting a written document, giving io minute de-
tail the result of the voting in your chamber on the earl-
-00•1 charges, the numbers fora verdict of Not guilty,' or
of 'Not proved,' Sco. Whence has this person been fur-
, Dished with this information ? By what right, and by whom,
are facts made known to him which have not been coin-
municeted to me?
"This answer is one I respectfully leave the bench to
We. Dio
suppy4;6.
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" Treasury.office, Middle Temple, Feb. 15, 1862.
"Sir,—l am desired to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of Feb. 3, 1862, addressed to the Treasurer and Mas-
ters of the Bench of the Middle Temple, and to say that
it km been laid before the bench.—l am, sir, your obedient
servant, "J. H. DIMON Under-Treasurer.
" W. Digby Seymour, lig., Q.C., Sic."
In a letter to the Times, Mr. Seymour says :—"There
are other grave matters between myself and the beech, not
deta"ed io this protest, which the publication of the whole
proceedings will reveal to the eyes of the profession and
the public. I say of 'the whole proceedings,' because the
printed report furnished to me is not complete. It does
' not contain all the' evidence* and' proceedings of the tenth
meeting. It does out contain the whole of the documentary
evidence put in by myself or my counsel, Mr. Lush, Q.C.
It does not contain the names of the benohers who voted
for or against the various portions of this judgment.' This
is no longer a case for any half-publicity. I am now, by
the very act of the beechen themselves, entitled to have
what I demand —the whole truth made known, uogarbled
and unabridged."
The Times observes :—" Let the evidence be published
by all means, fur Mr. Seymour requires it, and has a right
to have it ; but, fortunately, Mr. Seymour has a still better
means of relieving himself from this damnatory sentence.
The judges have a noncurrent jurisdiction with the bench
in such matters. Mr. Seymour may take the whole ques-
tion up to them and have it reheard."

JURIDICAL SOCIETY.-14114 night the annual
general meeting of the members this society was
held at their rooms, St. Martles.plaos, Trafishar.
square, Mr. Daniel, Q.C., in the their. Several gentlemen
having been elected members of the society Messrs. Sweet,
Marshall, V. Lushington, Whetsley, sod Joshua Williams
were appointed members of the council, in the room of
Messrs. Dixon, Hopwood. rhino, Sumas, and Vt'estlake,
retiring by rotation; and Mr. Everett was elected one of the
boo. secretaries, in saccesiiion to Mr. Lindley. The Chair-
man congratulated the meeting upon the continuous and
ire prosperity of the society. The number of mem.
Lr°regritrsals equal to that of any former year. The society was
not in debt, but, on the contrary, had a considerable sum in
Issod, independently of the subsoriptioos now due, and the
arrears, which were be no means desperate- The thanks of
the society were voted to the retiring members of the
maned, and to Mr. Lindley, the sm hon. secretary.
WAKEFIELD ELECTION. MEETING OF NON.
ILECTOII.4.-0e Saturday evening a meeting of non-electors
was held in the Music Saloon, which was crowded. Mr.
B. Preston occupied the chair. The meeting throughout
was of a unanimous and enthusiastic character. Sir J.
Hay has hitherto declined to meet the non-electors, and the
seekers very freely declared that his disinclination to
meet them arose from his knowledge that they would
reject him. Two resolutions were ;passed. One expressed
I satisfaction at the restoration a political privileges to
Wakefield, and declaring Mr. ficnethlust to be • St and
I proper person to represent the borough ; the other pledged
! those present to use all legitimate means in their power to
secure that entleman's triumphant retort. The numbs.
room of ondtdrtss will take place to-morrow (Wednesday),
and the poll on Thursday.
Ciwessy ELECTION.—This borough, which has
obtained an unenviable notoriety by the barbarous deeds
perpetrated on the day of the recent election, is likely to be
rendered more notations. The property destroyed by the
mob bee been valued, and is said to have been worth 750 f.
The work of restoration is now going on in the
, hotel. There is much dimension as from what
source the expenses are to come—the county, or the hun-
dred of Bradley-Havenstoe—roost probably the latter.
The PISS/ 01 many of the.ringleaders in the riot are known
to the authorities, who are busy collecting evidence to brio"
them to justice. 8011111 of titans are said to move in high
life. Dories the early pare of the week rumours were afloat
that Mr. liareage and his friends were taking the pollard.
gory daps to sweat Mr. Chapman, on the ground of bribery
and intbskiatioe. These amours are now proved to be
feets. Alee=re Wien have been hurriedly sus-
maned to to be examined aa to their having been
bribed.