The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-08 00:00:00

THE EXPREqS, FRIDAY 4VENWO, MAY 8, 1863.

The difficulties in the inky of wearier
were at the same time represented as alb** *-
superable. The pariah authorities had made Various
efforts to obtain some building as a temporary
hospital, but the attempts had all failed, and they
were now in communication withother parishes as to
the expedienoy of their uniting in the erection of •
temporary building for their smallpox patients.
This is the Overseer's account of the means taken
by the pariah authorities to meet an emergency, the
' pressure and magnitude of which he had himself
just indicated in the terrible statement that "ten
" persons were suffering from the disease in the
"same room." Now we do not wish at all to under-
rate the difficulties in the way of securing a tem-
porary hospital. They are no doubt very real
and very serious. But the surprising thing
is that at this time of day, after the disease
has been raging for several weeks, the parochial
authorities should only be discussing this primary
sad most essential condition of its effectual relief.
It was known from the very first that temporary
hospitals must be provided. The Privy Council
circular directed special attention to this fact a
fortnight ago. The Guardians are expressly told
" that at the present moment, when cases of
" smallpox among the poorer classes of society
" are arising in London at the rate of many
" hundreds per week, the Smallpox Hospital,
" even with the assistance of other hospitals, can-
" not give more than a tenth part of the accom-
" modation required for the sick." They were at
the same time urged to provide without delay
temporary hospitals for the exclusive reception of
smalpox patients. Yet up to this week
nothing had really been done, and now
a united hospital is only talked of. This neglect
involves not only a serious reproach, but a great
public danger. What is wanted is immediate ac-
commodation for patients, and this may be pro-
vided in any pariah without serious outlay or
many hours delay. Wooden huts have been re-
peatedly used for such a purpose, and they would,
as has been suggested, meet to a great extent the
existing need. It may be added that at such a
crisis it would be peculiarly fitting and desirable
for the Smallpox Hospital to take special means
for enlarging its accommodation. It possesses all
the machinery for the effectual treatment of the dis-
ease ; and if by a little extra help its temporary
accommodation could be largely increased, the
public would willingly help in promoting so useful
and necessary a work.

LATEST IBETELLIGNEOZ.

MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN RUSSIA.
Letters from St. Petersburg are almost entirely
taken up with accounts of the military prepara-
tions which are being actively carried on in Russia.
One correspondent gives the following details :
The day before yesterday I was at Cronetedt, and wee war-
prised at the activity and bustle which I saw in the port.
the arsenals, and barracks. Ships traverse the sea from all
quarters. It would seem as if the navy department was
actively engsgsd en the armament and fortification of the
maritime ports, and the formation of • fleet to
cruise in the Baltic. The Ronwek, the Chabry, and the
transport Artotechtschek have already left the roadstead.
The transport Krannaya-Gorka, the screw schooner K Grupo?,
and the steam-ship Ychora, have got their machinery and
equipment as board. The corvette Doyen, the ships of
the line Minuend and Emperor Nicholas, the deem
frigates Olaf, Senelys, Kamtchatha, and Wladimir, as well
an the three frigates Oley, Penwell, and Alexander-Newski,
will soon be completely equipped. It is positively stated
that the Emperor, accompanied by the Grand Admiral, the
Grand Duke Constantine, will come to inspect the fleet as
soon as it is ready to weigh anchor. All the sailors
on leave along the coasts of the Baltic and White
Sea have been called in. The activity of the
government is not altogether confined to the navy, great
attention being also devoted to the army. By • decree
dated the 18th April the three battalions of the regiments
of grenadiers, who are not ordinarily organised on • wet
footing, are to be so immediately. The four battalions of
the lat, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th divisions of reserve are about to
be °mailed as regiments of reserve, each of them to be
composed of two battalions of war and a complete battalion
of reserve. The regiments of grenadiers, which form part
of the mane, are to be completed sad put co a war foot-
ing. By • recent order of the Emperor, ell the men on
indefinite leave from the Ist, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sett,' corps
dormer, which have been placed on • war footing, have
been rolled in. .

It is stated from St. Petersburg that within
the last few days the first number of a new clan-
destine paper has been issued there and distributed
amongst a great many persons. The title of this
paper is Wolnose (Liberty), and it proceeds from
the same revolutionary committee which pabliabed
the proclamation with the motto Zenda, webs (Land
and freedom). The committee state that they have
succeeded in uniting all shades of opposition in one
society, the object of which will be to resist the
autocracy of the Czar, and to establish a constitu-
tion. This paper is drawn up with much more tact
and prudence than has hitherto been usual in pro-
clamations of this kind. Two members of the revo-
lutionary committee of Pskow, a student and a re-
tired captain named Lakin, were arrested a few
days ago at the railway station.

(ours'!

THE "CONSTITIITIONNEL " ON THE
POLISH QUESTION.
PAM% MAT 8.
The Oosseitstiosnef of to-day publishes an article

signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, stating that a perfect
accord prevails among the three powers on the
Polish question. The article maintains that the
reply of Russia is by no means a refusal, as she
acknowledges that the Polish question is a Euro-
pean one, and agrees to enter into negotiations.
"The agreement of Europe in this request," con-
tinues M. Limayrac, " is, therefore, henceforth an
established fact, and everything permits the hope
that in some diplomatic form not yet agreed upon,
it will, perhaps, be possible to protect the legiti-
mate interests of Poland, which are bound up with
the interests of civilisation and peace."

AND POLAND.
BERNE, KAT 8.

The Federal Council, in reply to the English
note, inviting it to support the steps of England at
St. Petersburg in favour of Poland, has stated that
it is impossible for it to take this invitation in con-
sideration.

RUSSIA.
BT. PETEMBURG, MAT 3.

The effect which the Polish insurrection has
produced here stands in wonderful contrast with
the sympathy it has met with abroad.
The outbreak in Poland has excited the spirit
of patriotism to a state of enthusiasm. Young
and old, great and small, are prepared to shoulder
the musket and meet the enemy whoever be may
be. This feeling has extended itself to all chines.
The nobility of 240613011, in a recent address to the
Emperor, begged to be permitted to be the first
to take the field should it be necessary to uphold
the integrity of the empire. The merchants have
placed their property at the disposal of the govern-
ment. The orthodox party, who were said
to be ill disposed towards the administration, have
also offered 40,000,000 of roubles. The Cossacks
of the Don propose to raise 100,000 men, and even
the nobility of the three eastern provinces have
just presented an address expressing their loyalty.
In St. Petersburg, demonstrations, manifestoes, de-
putations, and addressee are the order of the day.

This extraordinary display of enthusiasm is
caused by the Russian government, which
avails itself of every opportunity to excite
public opinion against the Polish insurrection
and against those parties at home who
may favour the grant of a constitution. Thus
deputations and addresses urging the Emperor to
maks any sacrifioe rather than that the Polish
provinces should be separated from the empire are
favourably received and the promoters rewarded,
while the promoters of those addresses having in
view the grant of a oonstitution, meet with a very
indifferent reception, and are in some instances
prosecuted.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
• (now otni oww eicanereirnmrr.)
PARIS. TRIIIISDAY Emma.
The Prance, in an article announcing that the
Moniteur will probably contain a decree to-morrow

fixing the elections for the 31st May and the let
June, proclaims itself a partisan of freedom of
election, and says that " the elections will hence-
forth be the leading topic in the French press."
It promises the fullest publicity to any documents
calculated to enlighten public opinion, and will
give the electoral addresses of opposition candidates
as well as those of its own friends. As it has already

published the addresses of M. de Moutolembert
and M. Jouvenel, so it is ready to do equal justice

to M. Keller and M. Jules Fevre. It reproduces

in large type the expression (possibly repented of)
which dropped from M. Baroche in the heat of i
argument : " The freer the elections are the more
they will strengthen the government " Those words
are adopted by the France as its electoral motto. This
declaration on the part of M. de la Gueronnibre's
journal baa a certain importance. The old direc-
tor of the press, the author of the pamphlet which
foreshadowed the Italian war, the man who knew
that the Emperor did not mean to evacuate Rome,
although his minister, M. Thouvenel, fancied he
did, now places himself, to a certain extent, in op-
position to the acts, if not the professions, of M.
de Pereigny, the Minister of the Interior. Ido
not think there will in reality be much liberty at
the elections, and have no doubt that the Emperor
is well pleased to see M. de Persigny play the part
of the disagreeable partner in the firm. But K
de la Gueronnibre's liberalism shows that it is felt
desirable to save appearances wherever it can be
conveniently done, and I dare say that in those
districts where the authorities are quite sure that
independent candidates have no chance, they will
Ibe allowed a certain amount of liberty, which M.
de la Gueronnihre will be forward to chronicle and
make the most of.

M. Jouvenel, the ex-government candidate
alluded to in the above article, goes to the country
upon the Palikao dotation. He tells the electors
of the circumscription of the Corrke, for which
he is now the sitting member, that he has repre-
sented them for 17 years ; that in 1852 and 1867
he was elected by enormous majorities, under the
patronage of the government ; that the government
has now withdrawn its countenance from him,
because he, as the reporter representing a com-
mittee, protested against a job which, in conse-
quence of his report, was frustrated. He calls
upon the electors not to stultify themselves, and
to return their tried representative rather than a
man who will blindly do as he is told.
M. Eugene Pelletan accepts a candidature for
the Soeaux and Bercy circumscription of Paris,
notwithstanding, as he says, " the inconveniences
of an isolated candidature without a committee and
without publicity."
I hear that M. Mocquard is on the list of a new
batch of senators which will appear immediately,
and that his resignation of the post of private secre-
tary to the Emperor, some time since talked of,
will now be accepted.
The Duke of Beaufort's hounds only stayed two
days at the dog show, and have now gone back to
England. It appears that they did at last hunt
the wolf in Poitou, but they did not succeed in
killing an old one, and the unusually hot and dry
spring destroying the scent was against them. The
Poitou sportsmen hope that his grace will try again
next year. A French sporting writer expresses his
admiration of the quiet and businesslike way in which
the English hounds and their huntsmen go to work.
French hunting is all noise, scrambling, hallooing,
and horn-blowing. The English system of riding
after the hounds instead of over them, and trust-
ling to the scent rather than to view-halloos, pro-
duced profound astonishment in the multitude, and
envy among the discerning.
The Emperor went to see the dog show yesterday.
It is a most interesting exhibition, although little
noticed as yet by the French press. The classifica-
tion, the want of which I noticed at my first visit,
is now reasonably good. There are several packs
of French staghounds and harriers, which bear a
stronger resemblance to the best English kennels than
people would be apt to imagine, considering how
little hunting now goes on in France. There is an ex-
tensive collection of pointers, both French and Eng-
lish. Of setters I did not see one, and I think I have
now examined every shed. When I said on Mon-
day last that there were no greyhounds I had
missed a portion of the show placed in a part of the
garden separated from the main exhibition. There
are, however, but few greyhounds, such as are used
for English coursing, but several interesting varie-
ties of the Circassian, Persian, Russian, and Spa-
nish breeds. Of the rough Scotch greyhounds or
"long dogs" there are also some fine specimens.
The dogs I now speak of were either not in the
gardens at my first visit or I did not see them. I
do not now repeat the enumeration of the species
which I saw before. Au English photographer is
in the grounds and does a good business in making
portraits of the dogs ; several a them belonging to
London fanciers are taken with the prize cups
which they have won. A great many ladies,
owners of pets, pass the whole day in the gardens,
tending their favourites and taking care that the
public do not give them improper food. I saw
Marshal align= this morning speaking to the
lady owner of the most beautiful canicke in the ex-
hibition—a creature with hair kke floss silk, his
feet shaved, and his nails carefully pared, who re-
poses on a velvet cushion, and is surrounded by a
crowd of admirers. The bulk of the visitors seemed
to me foreigners and provincials. The Parisians,
pur sang, are not easily put out of their usual
habits, and, as was the case with the cattle show,
will neglect the dog show till it becomes fashion-
able.

The Rev. W. Cureton, D.D., canon of West-
minster, las tea sleeted a corresponding member of the
Imperial Academy of Science' at St. Petersburg (section of
Oriental languages).
Le 3fonde Judiciaire, a monthly law magazine
in France, gives a very unfair picture of English justice as
administered by a Laudon magistrate, when in its last
number it describes one of that worthy body, in an agony
of impatience to leave the ofEce in time to catch the 5
o'clock train, which is to take him home to entertain a large
dinner party, refusing to hear a case at a quarter before 5,
and giving sentence in the unheard cause in the following
summary terms :—"No plaintiffs—no witnesses—no time.
There are five plaintiffs; will they be content if the
defeodsot gives them sea► two guineas!' Chorus of
plaintiffs, " Oh, yes, certainly," and exit magistrate to save
the traits. -

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The importance of the trade in petroleum, or
American oil, continues to increase at an unprecedented
rate. The importations into Liverpool this year are stated
in a circular of Mr. Macrae to have been more than 70,000
casks, spinet 8,000 casks in the corresponding period of
1862, yielding in dock and town dues alone nearly 2,0001.
for the four mouths.

Tax 000LCRATZRIL—The Union Bretonne has the
foUswitg " The umaisipal council of Coulson (Seethe)
lately voted the enm of Mfr. for the encouragement of the
destruction of cookohafors. The amount to be paid is five
centimes the pound, sod aa the cockchafers weigh on an
average about 600 to the pound, the 6001 r. voted will serve
for the destruotion of 6,000,000 of the.. lessen Within •
few days from the voting of the meseure 1,8661b5. weight
of cockchafers were brought in."