The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

TII! EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6,

viaduct only half the brealth el the street, llsvint
the other half open for 'traffic ad isirrion, and
using the time in negotiating the Archese of the
Property on the undisturbed side. It is not ex-
pected that there will be much difficulty or delay in
carrying out this portion of the business, as the
occupants of the houses required are nearly all
, temente of the City of London, and as the corpora-
tion is an indulgent landlord, and as any terms of
compensation will include a remission of all past
liabilities, there will most probably be every dispo-
sition on the part of the tenants to come to terms.
Whenever an exorbitant demand is made, the claim
will be submitted to arbitration or a jury, and in
this way justice will be done to both aides.
Such are the main features of Mr. Marrable's
amended plan, which will have the advantage over
its predecessor of spanning the entire street, and
will include a second channel of communication as
between eastern and western London. There is,
however, also • prospective advantage depending
on its adoption, which is of too great importance to
be lost sight of, namely, that by leaving Farringdon-
street intact at its present dead level, it will afford
the best facilities for completely carrying out the
grand desideratum of a central terminus for all the
railways running into London. With a view to a
future of this kind, the Fleet Prison has already
been purchased by the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company for the purposes of a hotel, a
fact at which every one will, we are sure, rejoice, as
ensuring the early removal of one of the greatest
nuisances in east central London. It only remains
now for us to say a few words as to the time the exe-
cution of Mr. Marrable's design, should it be adopted
by the City Improvements Committee, will require,
and the money it will cost. It is expected that all
the viaduct works will be completed within three
years from the commencement, and a clear, un-
broken level main roadway established from east
to west. The completion of the houses on each side
will be another matter, and will be one with which
pie architect will have nothing to do, as it must
depend upon the rapidity with which the ground-
rents are disposed of, and the operations of private
building contractors. The estimate of expenditure
is as follows :—Purchase of property and compen-
sation for good-will to tenants, 553,6701 ; cost of
works, 31,3451. ; total cost, 585,0151. Returns :
Sale of ground-rents, 288,1481.; net cost, 298,8671.,
or, in round numbers, somewhere about 300,0001.
sterling.

LAT 3T IiNTILLIGERCE.

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SOUTHERN 6071(FIDENCE.
The following is from thl kichniu,ki EiwittipT of
Oct. 18 :

Save on our own terms we gm accept no peace what.
ever, and most fight till doomsday rather than yield an
iota of them, and our terms are : _ .

Recognition by the enemy of the independence of the
Confederate States.

Withdrawal of the Yankee force from every foot of Con-
federate ground, including Kentucky and Missouri.
Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that
state shall decide, by &free vote, whether mho shall remain
in the old Union or ask admission into the Confederacy.

Consent., OD the part of the Federal government, to give
up to the Confederacy its proportion of the navy, as it
stood at the time of seoesaion, or to pay for the same.

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•Yielding up of all pretemions on the part of the Federal
government to that portion of the old territories which lies
west of the Confederate States.

An equitable settlement, on the basis of our absolute
indepeodenee, and equal rights of all accounts of the public
debt and public lands, and the advantages accruing from
foreign treaties.
These provisions, we apprehend, comprise that minimum
of what we mud require before we lay down our arms—that
is to lay, the North must yield all—we nothing ; and as
they have waged a wicked and causeless war upon us, they
ought in strict justice to be required, according to usage
In such mesa, to reimburse to us the whole of our expenses
and losses in the course of that war. As surely as we
completely ruin their armies, so surely will we make them
pay our war debt, though we wring it out of their hearts.
And they know it well ; therefore they cannot make peace
except through their utter inability to strike another blow.
The stake they have to forfeit if they lose tke game is as
vital u ours. So Is the stake to be woe. It is no lees than
the entire possession of our whole country, with us in it,
and all we own, to have and to hold to them and their heirs
for ever.

Once more we say it is all or nothing. The Confederacy
or the Yankee nation—one or the other must go down, forfeit
its national existence, and lie at the feet of its mortal
enemy.

Idesde's army and Rosecrans's are scattered. Lincoln can
get no more armies. The draft turns out manifestly fruit-
less. Both the German and the Irish element are for pesos.
The Yankees have to bear the bract of the war themselves ;
but in the meantime their inevitable bankruptcy is ad-
vancing like an armed man. " Hungry ruin has them in
the wind," and it cannot be long before the cabinet of
Washington will have to consider seriously terms of pesos,
under auspices end circumstances very different from the
present. For the present let the war roll and thunder on,
and God defend the right.

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EMPRESS FROM • PARIS.

•
THE EMPEROR'S PESCH:
(FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDINT.i:
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

In commenting upon the Emperor's speech I.
must follow the public, which reads first the last
part—that relating to Poland, and takes scant
notice of the other paragraphs. The first obser-
vation that occurs to me is that the speech, how-
ever widely interpretations of it may differ, is less
pale and more important and suggestive than it
was generally expected to be. At all events the
anticipations of the Pays, two days ago, that the
contents of the speech were so clearly indicated by
the known conduct of the Emperor hitherto that
everybody could guess at them, are signally contra-
dicted. Whatever else may be doubtful, it is clear
that the Emperor breaks fresh ground. Nobody just
now was thinking of a congress, and a congress is
the one great solution which he proposes—a
congress not for the exclusive benefit of Poland
(which in truth seems to occupy only a small place
in his council), but a congress to remodel Europe
and to settle once for all the burning but most
ambiguous question of " nationalities" ! This omi-
nous word cannot fail to awaken in all the chan-
ceries the recollection of certain mysterious new
maps of Europe which have been from time to time
published in Paris without any avowed or apparent
motive. To guard myself against the supposition
of having misquoted, I cite textually the paragraph
which gives rise to the above observation :—" Let
us no longer attach a factitious importance to the
subversive spirit of extreme pastiest by opposing on
narrow grounds the legitimate aspirations of peoples."
This sentence, unless I am much mistaken, will be
found a hard nut to crack. It smells strong of revo-
lutionary Napoleonism. The "factitious subver-
sive spirit" clearly means that liberty which the
Napoleon dynasty cannot endure, and the "aspi-
rations of peoples" (or " nationalities") can scarcely
refer to anything but "war for an idea." How-
ever this may be, the one important phrase in the
speech which shows it to be the point de dipart of
a new phase of policy—and is a fresh instance of
the love of Napoleon lIL for those surprises and
sudden divergencies which the Pays so carefully,
but so unfortunately, said the other day were in
no way to be apprehended—is that in the last six
lines, which tells the Chambers that they " now know
the language which he proposes to use to Europe."
The language which he "proposes" to hold—some•
thing therefore new, not contained in any existing
despatchee, and therefore not within the purview
of the Pays, when it thought the imperial speech
so legible by anticipation that "he who ran
might read." What the semi-official journals have
been lately saying is that the imperial speech
would throw the blame of inaction on England and
Austria, take credit to France for higher and more
chivalrous feelings, and conclude, nevertheless,
that nothing was to be done. The speech is far
from bearing out these prophecies. It must be
admitted that it says not a word disobliging to
Austria or England as to their past conduct ;
although there are passages which seem to
me to bear the construction that one or both
of those powers may not be so docile as
they are admonished to be for the future. At
present the diplomatic check is admitted to touch
equally England, Austria, and France. No dis-
tinction is drawn as to their remonstrances with
Russia, and it is lamented, indistinctly, that
Russia saw in all of them an attempt at " intimi-
dation."

The speech will probably have the effect, which
I think is intended, of exciting the Poles to con-
tinue their desperate struggle throughout the winter
and to sacrifice many more lives in the hope of
European interference. And yet there is very little
in it to satisfy the Polish National Government.
No stress is laid upon the daily atrocities of
Mouravieff, which are the staple of public
indignation against Russia. Excesses on "both
sides," the lamentable results of civil war, are con-
demned and lamented with strict impartiality.
Moreover, great tenderness is used in speaking of
Russia, and a special compliment is paid to her for
having been prompt to recognise the annexation of
Savoy and Nice to France. Although Russia is
not in terms congratulated for having "trodden
under foot at Warsaw" the treaties of 1815, the
gist of the speech is that her example is to be foi-
-1 lowed, and that the great thing to be done is to
tread the treaties under foot everywhere else. Here
we come to a very ominous issue with England.
The Emperor declares that "the treaties of 1815
have ceased to exist." He well knows that
this is not the meaning of Lord Russell's
speech at Blairgowrie, for he only said
that Russia had, by her breach of contract
as regards Poland, forfeited her right to the benefit
of them. Still, it suits the Emperor's design to
proclaim the broad proposition roundly, and he
knows that this proposition will be repeated in
France singly and alone, although he in the next
sentence contradicts himself by saying, with more
regard for truth, that " the force of things has either
overthrown, or tends to overthrow, those treaties
almost everywhere." That is a very different pro-
position from the treaties having " ceased to ex-
ist." It will, however, probably be thought an
immense fact that the French Emperor, in • speech
from the throne, declares these treaties non-ex-
istent, and convokes • European congress to
register what he says There is something sin-
gularly insolent in the terms iu which this
congress is spoken of. Any power which does
not at once agree to it is stigmatised as cherishing
"secret schemes" which dread the "light of day."
And yet this congress now assumed to be so much
a matter of course that it is criminal to dissent
from it is nothing more than an old red herring
drag proposed by Russia last spring and then re-
jected with contumely. Russia, while repudiating
the pretensions of the Western Powers to inter-
fere in her internal affairs, i.e., her oppression of
Poland, expressed herself willing to join in a con-
ference to reconsider the treaties of 1815 generally,
and not in regard to Poland in particular. That
proposal made ironically and with a certainty that
it would not be entertained is the very one now
taken up seriously in the Emperor Napoleon's speech,
and solemnly, not to say menacingly, recommended
for adoption. When I say "seriously." I speak of
the form of the language used and the nature of
the document in which that language finds a place.
But I do not for a moment think it serious in this
sense—that the proposal is made bona Me, or even
with the slightest expectation that it will be ac-
cepted. On the contrary, the Emperor must know
that there are no elements for such a congress in
Europe, and that even if there were, the last way
to bring them into harmonious action would be to
makes theatrical appeal to principles of universal
philanthropy in a speech from the throne by way of
a salve for a diplomatic defeat.
If what the Emperor now says "in the name
of France" is to be taken as an index
to future action, I must say it looks very like
the prologue to • general war. But there
is one consolatory consideration, which, •no doubt,

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prevented the fall at the Bourse from being greater
than it was--4. e., that the imperial speech is
made to soothe and mislead French vanity, and n 4
at all to threaten foreign powers. It has been
very generally felt that the Emperor was in a
position of more than ordinary difficulty when he
eat down to compose his speech on this occasion.
His cherished reputation for infallibility, and the
unfortunately emphatic promises of M. Billanit
that the imperial intervention on behalf of Poland
should be more efficacious than that of Louis
Philippe, made it impossible for him to make the
frank confession which an English statesman can
make, though painful, that he had ten-
dered advice which had been rejected. There-
fore the hopeful people at the Bourse say
that his bark is worse than his bite.
He has, with considerable ability and ingenuity,
tided over the great difficulty of the moment. He
has made a speech which does upon the face of it
represent that Finis Polonioe is not yet. He does
hold out a prospect that something is to be done—
and even so great a something that poor Poland is
altogether merged in the great scheme of which she
is the occasion. He has achieved the object which,
according to M. d'Aroonit, was so dear to the ad-
venturers in Nadar's balloon : " Paris will not
laugh at him." But then the optimists say The
whole thing will blow over, and, the immediate
purposes of the speech being served, it will
soon appear that the congress is a joke. At any
rate, nobody seriously believes in a congress.
What may, perhaps, be thought more serious is the
prospect of an alliance with Russia against the
rest of Europe. As I read the speech there is
nothing in it inconsistent with that supposition.
Tenderness for Russia is indeed one of the leading
features in the composition. Timely help for
Poland there is no chance of.

There is but a short paragraph about Mexico
calling for unbounded confidence in ultramarine
wars, virtuously professing that the Emperor
never originally contemplated the benefits which
France will eventually reap from the expedition,
and expressing confidence in the destinies of the
country under Archduke Maximilian.
An expression relating to Cochin China bears
the impression that France expects from her con-
quests in that quarter to derive all the advan-
tages which England enjoys from her Indian
empire, without being at the charge of governing
the country. " Glory at both ends of the world,
from Pekin and Mexico," makes an appeal to the
weakest point of Frenchmen.
The opposition deputies, said rather con-
temptuously to be the offspring of some " local
dissidence," are twice reminded of their oath, and
with .this admonition and reserve the Emperor
expresses himself "contented with the elections."

Some administrative reforms of a laudable
character are set forth. The great drawback to the
' affairs of the interior is that financial affairs have
not "quite realised our hopes," and that M.
Fould's report is postponed for the poor reason
that parliament meets earlier than usual, whereas
last year, and the year before, his report was pre•
rented at about this time of the year.

THE ALLEGED ROBBERY AND MURDER IN
THE OLD-STRZET.ROAD.

INQURSIT.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex
coroner, resumed, at the Princess Royal Tavern, Paul.
street, Shoreditch, the adjourned inquest on the body of
Edward Nial, aged 39 years, who was alleged to have last
his life from brutal violence.
The circumstances of the nee have been already fully
published. The dexemed, who was a pork butcher, was
alleged to have been felled to the ground at the corner of
Pump.row, Old-street-road, about six weeks ago, at mid-
night, and while senseless was robbed of about 9e. in
silver. He died of his injuries a few days afterwards.
Upon the lad meeting of the court the proceedings were
adjourned until this morning, at the request of the police,
who stated that they believed they had obtained a clue to
the elucidation of the mystery as to who the perpetrators
of the outrage were.
When the inquiry was resumed to-day,
Inspector Breckoffil said, io answer to the Coroner, that
the polio. had made several efforts to ascertain how the de-
ceased had come by his death. He (the inspector) was afraid
that there was not the slighted use in adjourning the in-
quest again, se, from what had come to his knowledge,
there was but little chance that the police would be
able to produce further evidence.
The Coroner then summed up, and said that since the open-
ing of the inquest he (the Coroner) had been informed by Dr.
Callee that it was his opinion that the blow inflicted on the
temple of the deceased had not been caused by a hard
substance • if a hard substance, such as a life preserver, had
been used the skin would bare been lacerated, which was
not the case in the present instance. He was of opinion
that no advantage to the public good could arise by adjourn-
ing the inquiry. With regard to the circumstances of the
deceased's death, it might be said that the sum
of nine shillings, which it was stated that the deceased had
been robbed of, was a very small one indeed to commit a
brutal murder for, but then the jury must consider that
the ruffians who wen gene ally engaged in these dreadful
outrages were no strangers to violence. The place in which
the murder was alleged to have been committed was a very
dark, secluded spot, and it was just the locality where one
would expect such a crime to be perpetrated. The manner
in which the deceased was stated to have acted on his
return home tended to show that he was labouring under the
effects of extreme fright consequent upon a brutal attack.
It was a dreadful fact to contemplate that a man could not
walk through the streets of this densely populated city
without being set upon by ruffians and robbed.
The jury after a long deliberation returned a verdict of
Wilful Murder against some person or memos unknown.
The Coroner mid that u end the circumstances the jury
could return no other verdict.

A splendid reception awaits the Bing of Italy at
Naples. The largest Italian fleet ever got together in mo-
dern times is mnstesiog in the bay.

----
The Be:giait Mortiteur announces that the legis-
lative session will be opened an the 10th by the King in
pence.
The chronicler of the Paris Nation states that
at one of the late races at Vincennes, a workman of the
Faubourg St. Antoine, on seeing some ladies of the demi-
monde approaching in splendid equipages, exclaimed. " Make
room there for the rag-gatherers of the future !" His words
were caught up by the bystanders, who seemed to think
'them quite appropriate.
The Weser Gazette, in relating the incidents
attending the termination of the legislative session at
Camel, states that, after the Elector's Message had been
had, the president raw end said :—" Let us give one cheer
foe what we have defended ever since we met—' God save
our oouutry and the conatitutioa !' " and the cry was re-
pealed with enthusiasm by the assembly and the public.
MAILS FOR THE lONIAN ISLANDS (VIA ITALY).
Information has been received from the Italian Poet-o Mos
of an alteration which has been made in thehour for despatch-
' hag the Italian mail packets from Ancona for Corfu, in con-
.
segues.e of an acceleration of the railway service between
Turin and Ancona. The following will be the arrange-
, meets for despatching mails for the lonian Islands, via Ask-
' cons, in future:—Letters. he., must be prated in or reach
London not later than Saturday morning, in time for
the day mail to France, to go by the packet leaving
Ancona every Monday oight. Letters. he., must be
posted is or reach London not later than the mornings
of the 10th and 26th of each month, in time for the
day mail to France, to go by the packets 'Gavin
Ancona on the nights of the 12th and 28th of each month.
When the 10th or 26th of the month fall on a Sunday, the
mails for the lonian Weeds will be despatched from Lou.
don on the previous evening.—Sy command of the Poet-
master-Generals ROWLAND HILL, Smetary.
The following notice was issued from the General
Poet-cake yesterday. vv.:—" Extra mails for Madeira and
St. Thomas (West Indies) will be made up in London on
the evening of the 9th last. for coaveyance by the Royal
Mail Steanipsoket Company's dee: er Solent. Any letters
intended to be forwarded by this opportunity must be ad-
dressed 'Per Solent, from Southampton.' They will be
liable to the usual packet rate of postage."
THE SOUTH WALES ISONWORKS.—Thin week
' there has been a general advanes in wages at the South
' Wales Ironworks to the balers, lied other skilled
workmen. The rise at e majority of the works is 10 par
cent. on the whole wale, while at some two or three of the
works the advance has only been 5 and 71 per mut. The
labourers and others employed at the works are Rho to re.
mice a rise, but the exact amount has not yet been decided
on by all the modes.

LAW INTELLIGENCE
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S FRENCH.

Sittings in Banco.-(Before Lord Chill Justice C0r.104,t
and Juntiom Wightnian, Blackburn, and 14110{.) .
QUIN V.
Mr. Justice Blackburn delivered jodgment in this a,,e.
This wee an appeal from the derision of %elastic.* ti
to the non-rating of Colson's School-house, ke., at but,'
Their lordehipe quashed the order of surelons.
MALI V. WILHELMIL
This was en action for kooks supplied, tried before lit
Baron Bramwell at Croydon, when the jury rerg,*
verdict for the plaintiff. The plaintiffs • reannfactur r 4
Leeds, and Sc. defendant is a clothier, kr., earry,:••
business in London, and be had been rued for good, „I,
plied to Ellis and Co. ou the presumption that be wan
milliner.. M. Chambers. Q.C., moved for a role for • new qy
on the pound that the verdict was against evidence, and
surprise, and he reed affidavits to show that • +Sane w
was called on the trial was a man unworthy of „mu
having been engaged in swindling tranaactions wah
person who had been eon-rioted.
Rule granted.
PI:1W V. THE 01121 T tn9:l.
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;;;;;a TT: calling upon theash
tiff to show cause why the judgment and execution it ch.
arse boned by him should out be sat aside. The rue
been referred to the court by Mr. Justice Bylet, woe
whom the application was made in vacation. Ac tAit.
waa brought by the plaintiff against the cothai
for the recovery of the valne of certain jui
stores which he had supplied, upon which al urine
moot wsa come to whereby the plaintiff consented to sti
all further proceedings, and that he would sign no jtaim
on a mortgage being given for 5,3501., on the woe term* .
to interest, &c., as the debentures, within a week, the me
paid on titration, and so long r the amount above lee
tinned was insured. The question turned upon the 144,
words of the agreement. A policy was accordingly mere
into on the 28th July, lon, which expired ot tb
23rd September, 1863, when the ship arrived at Livertoo.
On the 29nd September, Mr. Yates, the secretary, td.
graphed from Liverpool to the London brokers, to maw
the plaintiff's interest, and on the some day the Amu
wrote to the secretaryexpremang a hope that the next day
post would bring him • policy on the Great Easier
spirt fire whilst she was in harbour. The broke
in London acoordingly insuredtbe vessel 3501. at Lloyds,
5,0001. at the Oriental ; the plaintiff was informed of th
fact and also that a delay must take place before the Rabat
could be delivered because they required conntersignag t
the secretary, and the brokers endorsed on or of the lette
received by the plaintiff in the matter that they would ha&
the policies over to no one else but himself, and they was
accordingly delivered to the plaintiff on the 30th. Is to
meantime the plaintiff seized the ship and put her up
sole.

Mr. Justice Blackburn said it probably wu dose by U
plaintiff under the impreauon that if a fire bad taken in
between the expiration of the old policy and the aigowg
the new ones, he could not legally hare enforced the mr.
ranee.

Mr. Lush said probably that was so. But the policies Li
been effected, and when suede out covered the back time.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said that respectable underwriter,
having accepted the insurance would have paid it, alttov
the policies were not signed, though not enforceable is las.
Mr. Lush said that in all mementilei language and pm.
tioe, the insurance was effected se soon as the "slips " se.
obtained. The insurance had been bout Me effected situ
the time, and it was monstrous to sell the ship for s,orxc.
Rule granted.