The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY WEND., JANUARY 30, 1864.

in case of alarm, would prove no better than traps.
This is a subject which has been often premed on
the attention of those responsible for the danger,
but hitherto in vain ; and although it is true that
the 100 of two thousand lives in Chili is calculated
to impress us lees vividly than the loin of half♦-
dozen would do in England, let us hope that they
may be inclined this time to accept an oft-repeated
lesson.

be erourt.

OSBORNE. JAIL 29.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold,
embarked in the Royal Yacht Fairy, Commander Simpson,
R.N., yesterday morning, and visited the Royal Victoria
Hospital at Netley, attended by the manakins. of Ely, the
Honourable Yrs. Bruce, Colonel the Honourable Slr 0. B.
Phipps, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulph,
and Mr. Buff. . .

—.—
Countess Blueher had the honour of accompanying her
Majesty.
Her Majesty, with Prince Leopold and the snits, landed
at /idly at a quarter before 12 o'clock, and was received
by Colonel Wand:ism, C. 8., commandant, and the officers
of the establishment, who conducted her Warty to the
hospital.
The Queen went over the various parts of the establish-
ment to inspect the arrangements, visited the kitchen and
entered the wards where the sick are treated, and made
ing&ries of several of the patients as to their condition.
Dr. Anderson, inspectoneneral, attended her Majesty
with the medical staff of the hospital.
Mrs. Shaw Stewart, the superintendest-general of female
nurses, and Dr. Minter, of the Royal Yacht, were also in
attendance.
At a little before one o'clock the (Nees re-embarked and
returned to Osborne. _ _ _ .

The Fan sad Countess el Derby arrived at Dubose,
yesterday.

A Cabinet Council wee held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
is Downing-street. The ministers present were
Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke o.
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the
Right Mon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

A deputation, consisting ci the Mayer of Wolverhamp-
ton, Mr. Alderman Banks, and Mr. E. J. Hays, the town
clerk, had an interview with the Right Hog. C. P. Pillion
yesterday, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-aka,
from the Governor of Canada. Despatches wen sent to the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wands.

CABINZT COM( CIL. —('r IS DAY. )—Af ter the
cabinet council yesterday afternoon Lord Palmer-
ston had summonses issued to the several members
of the cabinet for a meeting at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street to-day at 3 o'clock.
Preparations have been made at the mess-room
of the Cavalry Barracks, Spital, for a banquet this even-
ing, to which his Royal Highness the Prises of Wales has
been invited by Lieutenant-Colonel Hash Smith Bailie and
the oilloars of the Royal Horse Guards, now quartered at
Windom His royal highness has accepted the invitation.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, and her Royal Highness the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, intend to return
to St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the 3rd proximo,
from Kew. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg Strelitz is expected at St. James's Palace in
about a fortnight, from Germany.
The Earl and Countess Russell entertained his
Excellency the Danish Minister, his Excellency the Swedish
Minister cud the Counter Wachtmeister, Prince Gorda-
koff, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and Mrs. and Miss Gladstone and the Hon.
Lucy Lyttelton, Hon. George Elliot, Sir Edwin Landseer.
Mr. William Harcourt, Mr. C. Dickens, be., at dinner, last
evening at their residence in Chesham-place. After dinner
a select party assembled, the company including his Excel-
lency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi,
his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess
Bernstortf, Madame Musurus and Madlle. Murtha, his
Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the Belgian
Minister, Count Paumgarten, Baron Beck Friis, Viscount
Sudeley, Lady Coamo Russell, Hon. W. and Mrs. Vernon,
his Excellency the United States Minister and Mrs. and
Miss Adams, the Earl of Albemarle, Mr. and Lady
Georgina Homily, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Hominy. the
Countess Dowager of Westmoreland and Lady Rose Fre,
Mr. Van de Weyer, Ice.
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The Earl and Counteas of Derby will return to
town to-clay from visiting her Majesty at Osborne, Isle of
Wight.

Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. W. Coke, 3LP.
has arrived in England from Canada.

Lest night the first annual meeting of the Me-
tropolitan Association foe Promoting the Education of
Adults was help in the rooms of the Society of Arta ; Sir
W. P. Wood in the chair.

Great preparations are making at Drury-lane for
the revival of Shakespeare's first part of Henry the fourth,
which is intended to succeed the holiday entartaininent.
Mr. Phelps will sustain the part of Falstaff ; and Mr.
Walter Montgomery bag, we hear, been engaged to play the
part of Hotspur. The scenery, costumes, and stage scone-
Dories are to be on a grand scale.

The drama of Leah at the Adelphi, and Mr.
3ornand's burlesque of Leion, have both turned their bun-
dredth night of representation ; and the Tteket-of-Lease
Mae is not yet to be withdrawn from the Olympic play-
bills, in consequence, as the advertisement says, of " con-
stant applications for places."
The ceremony of investing a Knight of the
Order of St. Patrick, in the place of the late Viscount
Ms...armee, was performed on Thursday in the Throes-
room, Dublin Castle, b► his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,
Greed Master of the Order. His 'Linea the Archbishop of
Dublin was installed in the office of chancellor, and Lord
Dutferia and Claneboye was invested with the ribbon and
badge of a knight. Surgeo 3 Wilde then received the order
o: knighthor I, as a token of his excellency's appreciation
of li;s services to staastical science, especially in connexion
with the Irish census.

Proieeeor Huxley will commence a course ot.
twenty-four !whim on the "Structure and Classification
of the Mammal*" at the College of Surgeons, on T.arday
next, at 4 p.m. They will be continued
Thursday, and Saturday till completed. We am the more
glad to be enabled 13 make this announcement, as the lec-
tures are of cowl.e free, and the desire of the college
authorities to make them extensively useful is well known.
—Reader.

FOREION-OFFICE, JAN. 29. The Queeu has beet
pleased to approve of Mr. Charles Arleta Creighton as
count at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for his Majesty the King
of Prussia. The Queen bu also been pleased to approve of
Mr. Rudolph Ablers as consul at Bomber. and of Mr.
Theodore Armandus Rosenbush RS oonsul at Sierra Leone,
:or his Majesty the King of the Netherlands.—Gozete.

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FOREIGN-OFFICE, J•N. 25.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Walter Henry Medhurst,
Esq., now her Majesty's consul at Tangehow, to be her
Majesty's consul at Hankow. The Queen has also been
graciously pleased to appoint Martin Crofton Morrison,
Es.q., now her Majesty's consul at Foo-chow-too, to be her
Majesty's consul at Tangchow. The Queen has also been
graciously pleased to appoint Francis Gerhard Myburgh,
Eq., to be her Majesty's consul at Nagasaki.—Gazette.
MR. SEELY, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—
Mr. Seely, M.P. for Linooln, addressed his constituents
in the Theatre Royal, Lincoln, on Thursday night. After
• review of the state of foreign affairs, be commented on
the Irish church, military and naval expenditure, the
I condition of agricultural labourers, social reform, sod
the extension of the franchise. Respecting the American
question, he approved of the conduct of the government,
but confessed that on his own part he had no greet sym-
pathy for the cane of either belligerent Ile was emphatic
in his condemnation of the recent British proceediugs
in Japan ; and he hoped parliament would insist upon
• &earthing ioveetiption into the whole business. As
to the conduct of the government in regard to China
it was equally objectionable and discreditable to the
country . • and he was glad to learn that the Anglo-Chinese
naval expedition, under Captain Osborn, bad been brought
to a termination. It was to be hoped that the government
would not allow itself to be dragged into a European war
on the Sleewig-Holstein question. On the subject of naval
expenditure, he showed by the citation of figures that in
the matter of iron-forging alone the government paid twice
as much money as the work could be done for by private
firms. Briefly summing up his views on domestic questions
of the day, he said he was hostile to the position of the
Irish church, rejoiced at the elevation of Serjeant Shee to
the bench, desired to see an extension of the franchise to
10/. in counties and 61. in boroughs, and would support vote
by ballot.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

HOSPITAL PREPARATIONS.
(Isom OWL OWN 001128PONDNIFT.)

RENDOBURG, JAir. 27.

Some idea may be formed of the expectations
entertained by the Prussians of the immediate
chances of a hostile conflict with the Danes, by the
fact that a telegram was received to-day by the mu-
nicipal authorities of this town from the "Ducal
government" at Kiel, giving notice of a re-
quisition from the Meld-Marshal Commander-
in-Chief of the Prussian army of occupa-
tion now on its march to Sleswig, to fit up
immediately a military hospital for a thousand men
in this town. The order is given for the munici-
pality to furnish the buildings suitable for the pur-
pose, and fit them up with a thousand bedsteads
and the needful furniture, but that the mattresses
and bedding will be provided by the Prussian
authorities.

Hitherto neither Austrians nor Prussians have
made their appearance here, and the garrison still
consists of two battalions of Saxon infantry, a
oouple of batteries of Saxon field-artillery, and a
complete pontoon train belonging to the Hanove-
rian corps of Royal Engineers.

THE DEFENCES OF THE DANNEWERKE.
The Paris Presse of to-day says :—" According to
a letter from Berlin, a military commission declares
that it will be ueosasary to sacrifice 20,000 men in
order to force the Danish position of the Dana's-
werke."

AMERICA.

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(Pee the MA* rid Roehe's Point.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 19, Bram.
Southern journals announce that the Federals
are landing at Morehead City, North Carolina.
General Grant reports from Tennessee that the
Confederate General Vance bad made a raid towards
Ternville, capturing twenty-three waggons. Vance
was, however, pursued, the waggons recaptured,
and himself taken prisoner. The reported raid by
Stuart on Leesburg was unfounded.
Advise from Charleston to the 15th inst. state
that the shelling of the city had been continued,
causing some damage, but no casualties.
The Federal fleet were preparing to resist the.
anticipated attack by the Confederate rams.
The Confederates had erected defences inside
Fort Sumter. General Gilmore had temporarily
suspended siege operations and removed his head-
quarters to Hilton Head, where an extensive expe-
dition, including several negro regiments, was fit-
ting out for embarkation for some point not made
public. Various rumours attributed the destina-
tion of the expedition to be the Savannah River,
or to attack the railroad between Charleston and
Savannah with the view of afterwards operating
in the rear of Charleston. The Confederates an-
ticipated an attack upon Wilmington.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times asserts that a campaign against Richmond
will be opened in the spring by two large armies,
each equal to cope with Lee's army. One of these
armies will advance by the Rappahannock, and the
other by way of the Peninsula.
A large body of Confederates are reported to have
concentrated at Point Pelee, Canada, to attack
J ohu stone's Island, Lake Erie, where the Confederate
prisouers are confined. General Grant baa arrived at
Louisville from Knoxville, having made the jour.
ney by way of Cumberland Gap and Lexington, for
the purpose of judging of the capabilities of this
route for supplying Knoxville. He was enthu-
siastically received in Lexington, but refused to
make a speech.
Numerous regiments of the Federal army con-
tinue to re-enlist.

General Butler's rule in Norfolk is represented
to be extremely stringent. The city is guarded
by negro troops.
The Richmond Enquirer urges negotiations with
General Butler for an exchange of pri.oners, as
this would not relieve General Butler from the
decree of outlawry, and he would still, if captured,
be hung.
A system of retaliation has commenced along
the North Carolina frontier. Several soldiers
have been hung in retaliation by the commanders
of the opposing forces.
The Richmond Enquirer complains of the action
of the Confederate Congress, and says there is
danger that Congress, in its desire to restore the
currency and fill up the army, will bankrupt the
country and overthrow the framework of society
and production.
A resolution has been offered in the House of
Representatives that whenever any insurrectionary
State shall submit to the Federal authority hosti-

lities against such State shall cease, and the people
be guaranteed conventionally. The resolution was
defeated by a vote of 79 to 56.
A proposition to raise 100,000 men for 100 days
to drive the Confederates out of Virginia and
rescue the Federal prisoners at Richmond was also
defeated.

A resolution has been introduced to reduce the
duty on paper.
The Confederate Congress have resolved that
persons who furnished substitutes will not be
exempt from military service.
It also passed a resolution pledging the Confede-
rates to perpetual resistance.
The Raleigh (North Carolina) journals continue
to urge a peaceful settlement with the North. The
Richmond Sentinel remarks that too much import
ance has been given to this fact, as the whole North
Carolina press, excepting the Raleigh journals, are
patriotic and loyal
It is generally conceded that Mr. Lincoln will be
the regular republican nominee for the presidency.
The Nen. Yorl. /feraid asserts that there is a move-
ment among the republicans to secure Secretary
Stanton's removal from Cabinet.

The Nev. Yak Tribtute asserts that Mr. Adams'

diplomatic correspondence sent to Congress will
furnish abundant proof of the responsibility of the
British government in the matter of the Confederate
privateers.
The Secretary of the Navy has sent orders to the
Provost Marshal of New York that the British
blockade violators will, when captured, not be
released, but detained.
A military commission has been appointed to
try all persons confined in Forta Lafayette and
Warren. _

The British ship Sylvanus has been captured off
Doboy Sound, Georgia. The Columbia has arrived
at St. John's.

(By telegraph to Halifax.)

NEW YORK. Jwx. 21, lloplaso.
The Federate have occupied BLulisonville, on
Lake Pontchartrain.

General Banks has ordered a State election in
Louisiana.. He is confident that more than a tenth
of the population desire restoration to the Union.
He declares void the State laws regarding slavery,
and appoints a convention for the revision of the
constitution. Arrangements are being made to
elect members to Congress.

Two companies of Canadian Rifles have been
sent to Windsor, Canada, it is said, in consequence
of the Confederate movements against Johnstone's
Island.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM OM OM

PARIS, FRIDAY &sumo.

On the opening of the adjourned debate on
Poland in the Corps Legislatif to-day, M. Havin
desired to make a personal explanation. He had I
been called a partisan of war, and that was true, ;
but he wished to explain the reason. He saw
Venice eager for action, Hungary agitated, Ger-
many
in flames, Prussia on the eve of an abdica-
tion, a revolution, or a coup d'itat, England making
ready her fleet, and being about (it was said) to
send 20,000 or 30,000 men to the assistance of
Denmark ; and in this state of things, he said,
when the public was giving the government mil-
liards instead of millions, France—with her 600,000
soldiers--could, even without • war, make her
powerful voice heard, and save Poland. He thought
the address ought to go further than the Emperor's,
and he was ready for his part to go to the extremity
of war on behalf of Poland, because he thought •
French interest was involved in the question.
M. Jules Fevre said the Polish question was
painful and obscure. It cut the heart, and it em-
barrassed the intellect. After paying a double com-
pliment to the Duke de Morny as au orator and as
• president, and saying that he hoped to see him
leave the chair again, but only now and then,
because he was always glad to see him back in it,
M. J. Fevre said he had all his life been a great
partisan of the Russian alliance, because he thought
it the most conducive to the balance of power in
favour of France. But unfortunately in the pre-
sent state of the world, that alliance was not now
possible, and Poland was the obstacle. He thought
it necessary that the Polish question should be
settled, and developed his reasons at considerable
length.
M. Rouber replied, and the amendment was
negatived without a division.
The last amendment, that relating to Romeoras
then hurriedly slurred over after a speech from
M. Guizot, only 12 votes being polled in favour
of the evacuation. The address was voted by
234 to 12. _