The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1863._

" have been reduced to the sad neesseitiof causing
" the Empire of England to recede." Farther on he
designates the lonian Islands as " poem:salons at
" the English Crown." We venture, however, to
say that such nonsense as this will not be
talked in either House next month, except in the
dinner hour. It is true that we shall save directly
some 300,000/. a year by the proposed change,
but it is simply absurd to suppose that we are
going to part with a piece of the empire on that
account. The Quarterly Review knows very well
that these Islands are not a part of the British
Empire, but form a State under the protection of
the Imperi•Al Crown. We have no title to speak
on behalf of the Government on this subject, but
we have some title to speak for those who from an
indepeadent position have laboured to bring about
the union of the lonian Islands with Greece,
and we affirm, without fear of contradic-
tion, that the saving which would result
from the change has never been made prominent
in the arguments by which it was advocated.
When financial calculations have been brought
forward it has been simply in reply to the asser-
tion that this and that possession was a source of
wealth. The grounds on which we, and those
who think with us, have urged the abandon-
ment of the protectorate of the lonian Islands, and
the settlement of their political relations in a
manner conformable to the wishes of their people,
are those which the Edinburgh Review thus sets
forth :—" There is a far nobler, and, we think,l
" strongerargument inbehalf of it. We mean the sig-
" nal example to be given by one of the greatest em-
pires of the world, of respect for the national
" will of a small but free people, and the proof
" that when England thinks it wise and generous
" to surrender any portion of her rights, she rises
"superior to that vulgar greed of territory which
"is unworthy of her greatness. The protectorate
" of tho lonian Isles, supported by military force,
" is an anomaly and a blot in our politica system ;
" and, by restoring those islands to the nation to
"which they belon&we have it in our power to oonfer
"a lasting benefit on them and to do credit to our
selves." This, we doubt not, is the account which
the Government will give of the matter in
Parliament, and nothing can be more honourable
to them.

We have now glanced at all the topics in which
the advocate of the Tory Opposition attempts to find
grounds of hope, and while we freely acknowledge
th►t he has done his best with the material at
command, we cannot congr►tulate his clients. The
great fault and the great weakness of Lord
Pumsuros's Government is, not that his policy
has differed so much from that which the Opposi-
tion would have followed, but that it has been so
much like it. But this is at the Name time the
weaknewi of the Opposition.

Correa Yawn; AND Pecs Goons.—The exports
of oottcn yarns were 91,500,000 lbs. in 1862,
against 178,000,000 lbs. in 1861, and 197,000,0001b5.
in 1860. The declared value will be about
6,000,000/. in 1862, against 9,300,0001. in 1861,
and 10,000,0001. in 1860. These figures show, as,
regards quantities, a per centage decrease of 49
per cent. on 1861, and of 54 per cent. upon 1860 ;
and, as regards value, a per centage decrease
of 35 per cent. upon 1861, and of 40 per
cent. upon 1880. The quantities of cotton piece
goods exported in 1862 will amount to about
1,666 million yards, against 2,560 million yards in
1861, and 2,776 million yards in 1860. 'Tbe de-
clared value will be about 28,100,0001. in 1862,
against 36,090,0001. in 1861, and 40,346,0001. in
1860. These figures will show, as regards quan-
tities, a per centage decrease of 35 per cent. upon
1861, and of 40 per cent. upon 1860 ; and, as
regards value, of 23 per cent. upon 1861, and of
30 per cent. upon 1860.

LA.TISST t NTELLIUENUIs,.
PRANCE AND AMERICA.
The Nord of to-day gives a rumour that an
official despatch has been sent within the last few
days from the French Minister of Foreign Affairs
to the government at Washington, containing a
proposition of an American congress which may be
to the United States what the congress of West-
phalia was to Germany during the 30 years war.
The idea of this new congress is said to have origin-
ated with IL Drouyn de Lhuys.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

• pion OWL OWN

PARIS, THOREIDAT EVIMINO.

The long telegraphic) report of the speech of the
new Viceroy of Egypt to the foreign consuls has
produced • considerable sensation. It is the pro-
gramme of a radical reformer. The Temps thinks,
as you probably will too, that the French consul,
M. de Beauval, would have been wiser to have held
his tongue than to have replied to the Viceroy
by a protestation that France never encouraged the
aystem of forced labour which he intends to abolish.
The French proverb qui s'excuse s'accuse certainly
suggests itself in this instance.
There is scarcely any variation at the Bourse.
The close was somewhat weaker than the opening.
Letters from Naples and Rome, both dated Jan.
17, speak of the sensation made in Italy by the
arrest of the Princess Barberini. The Naples letter
says that when General de Lamarmora received
the telegram from General de Montebello, praying
for her release, he replied that she should be
treated with every due regard to her rank and sex,
but that all subjects ;of the new kingdom of Italy
were equally amenable to the law, and that he
could not protect her from a judicial inquiry. The
noble delinquent is not in prison. She is lodged in
a suite of apartments in the Questars of the Gia-
como palace. Her own lady's maids have been
separated from her, and she is furnished with two
others by the procureur-general. She is very taci-
turn, and refuses to give any explanation whatever
touching the two long letters in cipher which were
found upon her. These letters are alleged to have
been given her for transmission to Francis
IL by the King's old tutor, K Roberti. The
princess has made an ineffectual attempt to bribe
the officers in charge of her to let her escape. All
applications from friends to pay her a visit have
been refused. Aooording to the letter from Rome,
it was not of his own mere motion, but at the in-
stigation of Mr. Odo Russell, that General de
Montebello took up the cause of the princess. Mr.
Russell, it is raid, first applied to the French am-
bassador, the Prince de is Tour d'Auvergne, and
begged him to intercede with General de Lama-
mora. The prince excused himself on the ground
that he had no official relations or private acquain-
tance with the Italian commandant at Naples, and
did not feel justified in writing to him. Thereupon
Mr. Odo Russell, with better sucoesa, canvassed
General de Montebello. These are curious details,
which, if untrue, should be contr►dicted, and if
true, explained. The letter last referred to says
that the Princess Barberini at the time of her arrest
was accompanied by a young Swiss whc escaped,
and now boasts in Rome that he brought away
with him some papers which would have been
highly compromising.
The Afoniteur, meaning probably to reply to the
France of last night, attributes the non-arrival of
the Italian journals to the snow. But now the
France (mirabik dictu) insinuates that the official
journal is guilty of a fib. It is a most
extraordinary thing indeed, says the France,
that the snow in Italy is only an obstacle
to the conveyance of newspapers, for our Italian
letters arrive with perfect regularity. It goes on
to express a hope that the roads, the railways, and
the waves will shortly be complaisant enough to
forward to France those Italian journals which,
" no doubt, are full of grateful eulogies of French
policy." This sarcasm on the part of • journal
" more imperialist than the Emperor," and directed
by AL de la Gueronnibre, whose business it was for
years to seize foreign newspapers and draw up warn-
, ings to native ones, is one of the most remarkable
things that I have ever come across in my expe-
rience as a correspondent here. M. de la One-
ronnihre clearly means his readers to un-
derstand that the Italian journals for the
last three days contain things so strong that
the French government is afraid to let the public
see any one of them and is reduced to tell lies to
account for their being kept hack. This is no
' strained inference of mine. It is the undoubted
construction of reiterated articles in M. de la Gue-
ronnihre's paper. What rational object, then, can the
' French officials have in view when they seize, as
they will do, the paper containing this letter,
written in the English language I Their doings are
shown up in the French language by • senator,
and • man who has occupied one of the highest
places in the police aniline.
The Daily News is seized.

Earl de Grey and Ripon, Under Secretary of
State for War, who with Colonel F. D. Jerre* Royal
Engineers, arrived at Plymouth on Wedoesday, cow-
mooed yesterday, in company with the resident engineers,
an inspection of the fortifications in that neighbourhood.
It is understood that they have already condemned what is
Galled the "Keep," near Stonehousehill, Devonport. They
will recommend its removal and the appropriation of the
site for the erection of an hospital for the wives of soldiers
in garrison there, for whom there is at present no such

Sir Henry Barkly, the Governor of Victoria, at
• reea•t meeting of the Acclimatiestion Society in that
colony, stated that the llama, saves goat, end camel had
been successfully introduced into Victoria, and that sees,
sures were in progress for the speedy introduction end
soclimatiestion of roedeer, partridges, rooks, hares, spar.
rows, sad song birds from England ; deer, Cashmere goats,
sod black partridges from India ; sad ostriches, elements,
partridges, and antelopes from the Cape of Good Hope.
The Rev. Archer Gurney, the " protestant" chap-
lain at Paris, writing to • coterrporery in defence of lighted
candles on the altar, wide :—" You must allow me to say
that England is the oily spunky in the world in which
man of Ur. Westerton's stamp would be allowed to disturb
the peace of the church for years without the summary
legal punishment which his offences should have long ago
drawn down on him."

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The arrival of ambassadors at Berlin, to replace
the previous envoys extraordinary of the Western powers,
seems to have caused a pleasureable excitement among the
connoisseurs in etiquette. Various points had to be
weighed and discussed for which the semis of the Prusnan
court afforded no exact precedent, and it is said to bare
been not without heartburninp that certain of the first
members of the said court became finally convinced that
they must cede the pas to the immediate representatives
of foreign sovereigns.
"The cure of Mexico," says a letter from Paris
in the Prance Centrals, "is at present in the French capi-
tal, having been expelled from his poet by the government
of Suarez. He is a Frenchman by birth, and was for up-
wards of twenty years in Mexico. He is ►bout to reside in
the south of Frump, his health being delicate."

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The death of Said Pacha has occasioned a great
fall at Paris in the securities of the Suez Canal Company,
in cossequence of the belief generally entertained that Isis
successor is less inclined to favour French than English
interests.

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The quantity of gold-duet imported into the
Sydney branch of the Royal Mint, from the lst of January
to the 14th of November last. was 655,560 ounces ; and
coin was issued to the value of 2,302,50 W. Darin the OM
ten mouths of last year the customs' revenue at Sydney
amounted to 519,4011.—New Soma Wake Paper.
A 800T1111111 " LADY" AT FDIDIKICIABLEG.—
Many of the inhabitants clung to the town, aol sheltered
themselves dunog the shelling in cellars and basements.
Amongothers, it is stated that Mrs. Slaughter, the wife of
the mayor, returned two or three days after the bombard.
meet to her house, which she found ransacked and gutted.
A Federal officer offered a few word, of explanation or
apology, when she replied, pointing to half a dem dead
Federal. lying within sight of her knee. " I WM repaid
for aU 1 have suffered by the sight of t►w.'—Special
Correepoediet of the Timer with the Confederate Army.

LAW .111IIILLIGENCE
(THIS DAY.)