The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-10 00:00:00

:E EPEE, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1863.

and laurels and evergreens are befog brought
into the town by wholesale. The Hartley In-
stitute, Barest. Audit-home, Pcat•ollie, Custom-
house, Map-office, Admire,ltroffice, railway-station,
and Peninsular and Oriental and Royal Nail Company's
offices will be gorgeously illuminated. Owing to the death
of his brother, the Mayor has transferred the arrangements
for the magnificent illumination of his private residence to
a triumphal arch at the entrance to the town. Excursion
steamers will run tomorrow, and crowds of strangers are I
expected in the town. t", Not a cab, fly, or carriage can now
be hired for tomorrow, as all have been engaged. The
monster bonfire is to be on the sane course, and it will be
visible in the Isle of Wight. Thousands of commemorative
medals have been purchased, to be given away to servants
and children in the town. The Custom•bouse apartments
in the dock, have been gives up to the Dock Company, in
order that the latter may accommodate as many persona as
possible to withers the embarkation of the royal couple.
The High•street is now (3 o'clock) crowded with people
examining the arrangements for illumination. Hundreds of
workmen are busy oompleting the arrangements. Crowns,
stars, Prince of Wales' plumes, the initial letters of the Prince
and Princess, formed of popipee or coloured lamps, to.
gather with garlands, mottoes and transparencies, cover the
home fronts. The process of roasting the ox, which is to
take place in Porter's Used at twelve tonight, will extend
over twelve hours. The carcase has just been prepared for
placing before the fire, in a large brick stove, and has been
trussed and spitted with great culinary art The cooks are
busy with their work, and the turner:eta will make the huge
carcase revolve by means of machinery ; crowds of persons
are watching the operation,. Men, women, and children
are all looking eagerly forward to the enjoyment of the
great celebration tomorrow. A bonfire, the large* ever
made there, is to be lighted tomorrow night, at Bolton's
Bench, the highest part of the New Forest. It will
be visible from the whole of the western portion of the
Isle of Wight.

HAMNTEAD AND HIOIWATIL—The inhabitants of
these suburbs are determined not to be behindhand in their
demonstrations of loyalty. To-day is to be kept as a
holiday, and treeta will be given to the poor and the school
children. In the evening a royal salute will be fired from
Parliament-hill, Hampstead-heath, as the signal for the
lighting of a tremendous bonfire on the heath. Up to
yesterday there were from 40 to 50 barrels of tar and pitch,
about 6 tons of coal, and a large mass of fallen timber on
the spot. Independent of this, there is to be a gland and
extensive display of fireworks by the resident gentry, and
the illuminations will be very extensive. Colonel Aleock,
of the Royal Fast Middlesex Militia, has ordered the band
to be in attendance at the bonfire.

Woot.wicw.—At Woolwich to-day there will
be a general holiday. The whole of the public establish-
ments and most of the shops will be closed. A grand
military display will take place on the Common ; and at
eight, is addition to the illuminations, which will be on an
extensive scale, an immense number of fireworks will be
discharged from the grounds of the Royal Military Reposi-
tory, near the garrison. In accordance with orders issued
by Ms or-General Sir R. J. Dames, H.C.13., commandant,
the whole of the troops in garrison will assemble on the
Common in review order at half•past eleven o'clock this
morning, and arrangements have been made tocarry out the
most complete field day evolutions. The proceedings will
commence at twelve o'clock, when a feu de joie will be fired
by a battery of artillery ; and not the lout interesting fea-
ture of the review will be the appearance of each soldier in
the ranks wearing a white rosette. The pyrotechnic dis-
play will take place at eight o'clock.

Lyrwaroot.—Though Liverpool will undoubtedly
be behind many smaller toms In the variety and apposite-
ness of the marriage festivities, still the display will be
much better than was originally anticipated. The illumi-
nations promise to be, in every seam the finest ever sem
in the town, and the majority of both the mercantile cam.
Inanity and the tradesmen will keep the day in came
holiday, though there will be bat little for the public to see
till the afternoon and evening. Mr. Beaky, of the Adelphi
Hotel, has given 100 guineas to the Blind Asylum instead
of illuminating his establishment. Yesterday morning the
weather was very wet and dull in Liverpool, but it cleared
tip in the afternoon, so that • fine day is confidently and
hopefully anticipated.

Tug MALVZRN Nucor; Far.—The interest
which has been excited far amid wide in the .saner of the
beacon fire which is to be lighted tip on the topmost peak of
the Malvern Hills to-night will render the following parti-
culars acceptable, especially to those who may be on the
look-oat on other high grounds in different pert, of the
country :—We should state that the lighting up of the
bonfire will be preceded by a torchlight procession, which
will start from near Malvern Abbey Church, at the foot of
the haueg6.3o or 7 p.m., and will eousistlof some hundreds
of torchbearers. The procession will wind its way up the
bill by the devious pathways, and pawing St. Ann's Well,
will proceed up the Worcesterehire Bosom, the summit
of which will be reached in about three-quar-
ters of an hour. Here, on the topmost point of
the Malvern ridge, the materials for the fire have
been built up to-day. The materials with which it is OM-
posed are 500 hop poles, 300 faggots of wood, 100 ter
bane/a, 150 flour barrels, sad some is or dozen waggon
leads of timber, shavings, old boxes, he. Coal was found
at the attempt in 1856, to burn too slowly and with too
flame, therefore more inflammable materials will now
be used. It is calculated that the flames will rise to a greet
bright, and be visible in many surrounding counties. It
will be lighted at eight o'clock, and the fact will be aa•
Pounced by a salvo of artillery and a flight of rockets. The
weather last night would bate Des very suitable for the
lighting.

A WKLCOMK.

(By the Poet Looresie.)
Bea-kluge' daughter from over the sea,

Alexandra !
Saxon and Norman and Dane are we,
But all of us Danes in our weloome of thee,

Alexandra I
Welcome her, thunders of fort and of Beet !
Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street !
Welcome her, all things youthful and sweet,
Scatter the blossom under her feet !
Break, happy land, into earlier flowers !
Make music, 0 bird, in the new-budded bowers !
Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours !
Warble, 0 bugle, and trumpet, blare !
Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers !
Flames, on the windy headland flue !
Utter your jubilee, steeple and spire !
Clash, ye bells, in the merry March air !
Flash, ye cities, in rivers of fire !
Welcome her, welcome the land's desire,
Alexandra!

Bea-kings' daughter as happy as fair,
Blissful bride of a blissful heir,
Bride of the heir of the kings of the sea,
0 joy to the people and joy to the throne,
Come to us, love us and make us your own :
For Saxon or Dane or Norman we,
Teuton or Celt, or whatever we be,
We are each all Dane in our welcome of thee,
Alexandra!

Hamm! or H.R.H. Paittcs ALFRID. —A tele-
gnm yesterday says :—" His Royal
Prince Alfred is now quite convalescent.
He is permitted to take free outdoor exercise and
his usual meals. The disease has entirely disap-
peared."
Sir Andrew Buchanan, the Rugblab Ambassador
at the Prussian Court, will, we learn by telegraph,
give a grand dinner to-day in Berlin, at which the
King and Queen of Prussia will be present, in
honour of the marriage of the Prince of Wales.

The Prince of Wares jewellery is now beaming
the " rage." Huedreds of thommeds of medals have been
aback of to commemorate the royal marriage.
TVS PRINCIPE ALZIANDILL AND TEN IIAIOATI
LIEIBOAR—TM Margate lifeboat, beloeging to the Royal
Retinal Lifeboat lestitutiou, put off early on Friday man-
lag
ztomtr Victoria end Albert yacht, is order to afford the
Alexandra au opportunity of examining the
liar liar °Destruction of a 13ntieh lifeboat. Her royal
med to be much pleased with the complimeat the paid

Despatches were wet to the Governors of Malta,
Haylos, Hoag Snag, Irsbgroa, and to the Lord High O.
sistiosar al the loaina Wan&

TEI lurningarzoss.

The gates at Constitution-hill and Horse Guards,
and all the gates of St. James's and Hyde Parka,
will be kept open all to-night for carriages and
cab(
Sr. PAUL'S additfo to the arrange-
manta which have been going forward visibly for moms day.
for illuminating St. Pours Cathedral with the electric light,
the Hon of the Admiralty has been obtained in the
design of exhibiting by other means the proportions of this
noble edifice. A number of powerful lanterns of modern
design, such as are used in vessels of the first clam in the
royal navy, baa been forwarded, at the instance of the
department, from the factory of Mesas. Miller and Sons,
Piccadilly, lampmaken to the Admiralty. 24 bow lanterns
(red) and 24 mast lanterns (white) will bang round the base
of the dome like a variegated zone ; at a greater elevation
16 others, similarly varied in the distribution of colour-
ing, will be suspended like a onetime ; while from under-
neath the ball and cross, like a jewel in the forehead of
the great cathedral, the electric light will dart its rays on
all sides. A party of bluejacket& have been told off to
assist in carrying out the requisite details of arraegement.
Tug Mmentriarr.—To-night Mr. Ladd has undertaken to
illuminate the Monument by the electric light for the City
Reception Committee. He intends to place the principal
light about three feet above the flaming ball or urn. It will
be the largest and most brilliant that can be obtained. The
lamp will be the one used by Professor Holmes at the late
International Exhibition, and .imilar to those now in use at
the Dungeness lighthouse. There will also be four other
electric lights in the gallery, which are to be reflected upon
the urn. By this means a very beautiful and brilliant light
will be produced, enabling it to be seen for abut thirty
miles around London (provided the night be clear). There
will be 420 nitric acid batteries employed.
THE Doan or Yolues Commit.—The Fitamaurice life•
light, as need for lightiog the royal deaf at Cherbourg on
the oxsaion of her Majesty's visit to the Emperor of the
Preach, will be exhibited from the top of the Duke of
York's Column this evening, at 8 o'clock, by order of her
Majesty's Board of Works.

Tex Poucs IN HMI-PAIL —The arrangement
by which the spectators in Hyde•park on Saturday
were kept at an unneceseary distance from the line
of the royal procession caused some well founded
complaint on the part of the public. We under-
stand that the regulation enforced formed no part
of the original instructions given by the police au-
thorities, and was contrary to the express orders of
Sir R. Mayne.—Times.
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last even-
ing his Excellency the Saxon Minister, the Marquis end
Marchioness de Cadres, the Earl Granville, Maria Mar-
chioness of Autebary, the Earl and Countess of Cork,
Colonel Carlton and the His. Mrs. Dudley Carlton, Lord
Henry Gondola Lennox, M.P., Mr. Delano, Mr. Alfred
Montgomery, Dr. Quin, ton
Miss Burdett Coutts and Mrs. Brown left Strat-
ton-street for Torquay yesterday.

The bonfire Upon the Cliffe Hill, Lewes, will be
lighted precisely at 8 o'clock to-night. It appears that ar-
rangements are now made for seven fine to be lighted about
this hour on the bills within a range of eight miles of
Lewes—viz., at Firle, Mount Caburn, Cliffs, Rottingdem,
Piddinghoe, Ditchling, and Black Cap.
A correspondent of the/Times says :—"Our Queen's
equipages have not, of late years, bees remarkable either
for their beauty or for the taste and finish with which they
are turned out, and, certainly, the servants, carriages, and
cattle selected on Saturday last to convey the Danish
Princess through joyful Loudon' attired in its holiday cloth-
ing, meet have been the very dregs of that singularly ill-
appointed establishment known as the Royal Mews, Pim-
lico. Neither the liveries nor the harness were new, or any-
thing like new, nor were the horses matched either in colour
or in figure; indeed, they might reasonably have been
objected to by any moderately fastidious woman of the
hedchenber going out a shopping ; and yet they were
deemed by the Master of the Hone—and by nobody else—
good enough to drag to ber home, in public procession,
in the face of assembled England, Alexandra, our future
Qum?

Tas RECISITT Lever..—A morning contemporary
says :—" Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen presented
at the recent levee, report speaks of one—introduced by a
certain noble duke—who, in July. 1853, was tried for per-
jury at Chelmsford, convicted, and sentenced to seven
years' transportation, and subsequently permitted to go at
large on a 'ticket of leave.' No more striking instants
could be afforded of the amenity for greater caution being
exercised in the selection of gentlemen eligible for presen-
tation at the *Dort of St. lamee'a."
THIS WIDOW OF SIDNEY EMMERT. —A corre-
spondent of the Conk Examiner states that lady Herbert
of Les, who is now in Home with her children, bar em-
braced the Roman catholic faith.

METROPOLITAN POLICZ AT WARRAW.—On Thurs-
day Mr. Hammy inteeds to ask the Secretary of State for
the Home Department, " whether he will lay upon the table
of the house the note of the Russian ambassador communi-
cating the desire of the Grand Duke Constantine, lieute-
nant-governor of Poland, that some of the metropolitan
police force should be sent to Poland; whether, at the
date of that application by the Russian ambassador, her
Majesty's government were aware that a state of siege was
in force in Poland; whether her Majesty's government had
reodved any information (prior to the date of the Russian
application) that political disturbances and amide of poli-
tired prisoners bad taken place in Warsaw ; whether the
metropolitan police officers despatched by the government
to Poland received any instructions or made any reports,
and whether such instructions and reports will be laid upon
the table of the home'

On Thursday Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald will ask
the Ceder-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether
the French ambamador has communicated to her Majesty's
government the project of a collective note to be addressed
to the government of Russia by Fr race and England with
reference to Poland ; whether her Majesty's government
have declined Wake that course in concord with the go-
vernmeat of France; and whether the Austrian govern-
ment hal declined also to adopt the same muse on the
ground of this ref noel ?
The criticisms upon Macbeth in the French
journals are most &manias. Somebody has told Jules Janis
that the expramioo, " She should have died hereafter,"
mesas that she is dead both body and sold ; whilst Edouard
Fornier congratulates the French people that M. Jules
Lacroix has omitted the scene in which Lady Macbeth
murders her owe Wind ; for that it never would have been
sanctioned. Ignorant was he of the fact that this thonaht
never entered the head of f3hakapere, but that it was a wild
invention of Desk, sad that it was received with tre-
mendous applause in Paris when the play called Macbeth
was first brought out, but which bears but alight ream -
blame to the grand conception of the immortal dramatist.
Since the loss of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Columbia two of their steamers have
bees ashore, oce at Singapore zed another at Sue; and one
has been on fire at Song Kong.

The railway to Bishop's Waltham, in Hants, will
be °pea for goods traffic at the sod of the pretest ',youth.

At prceen t 110 mails pass through the pneumatic
despstch tube from the station to the district post•o®os
during the day, and not only letters, but trucks of iron of
the weight of five tons have passed, and adventurous
visitors now and then perform the journey, to thaw great
delight.

- -
The Paris correspondent of the Spectator relates,
" It. Emile Angier, whom the success of Le lila de Gitoper
has made the lion of the day, found himself a few
eveninp ago, at a dinner party given in hie
honour, near one of the suspicious heroines of
the quart de wade, who is to be met with every-
where, and bas grown rich enough in her vocation to
build a magnificent hone% with a grand staircase of marble
el Carrara. The whole city has rung with the praises of
that marvellous stairmae, which immediately become the
topic of conversation. The lady bad a desire to have some
' aphorism' engraved in golden letters on the first step,
and bluntly asked the unsuspectiog dramatist to compose a
verse or two on her behalf. To the utter astonishment of
all pumas present, the poet declared his readiness to comply
at cam with her wish, took oink of her cards. and wrote me
the spot the following Alexandria :
Ainsi qua la vertu, le vice a sea &pis

(as wall as virtue, vice hoe its steps)"
Dl°cash os CIIIIITZS.-01.DINATION.—The Lord
Bishop of Chador Woods to hold an ordinetims at Meter
se weal cm Trinity Sunday (May 31). Ousdidates for sr&
rhea as that day are required to forward all their requisite
papers esimplete, es or Wore the 14 of Way, to the bishop's
secretary (Chas. T. W. Parry, Faq., Cheater). from wheal
all nesemary hdormasien sad inferentiaa may beebtaismd.
ROYAL ThADmistam—The following appoint- I
limits hare bees made :-11imirs. Goode, of South Audley-
streak have received the diatinguisbed appointment of
supplyimr swam% mannfactone ; Rewire F. Deet, 61,
aissed, to be wake sad clock makers ; Mr. J. Hogerth,
Haymarket to he printeeller and piotomframe maker ;
Marra Swaim wed Adestey, 1815. PSmiAtlly, to be whip-
-hem to hie Royal Highe' the Prime of Walls.

EXPRESS FROM PARTS.

(non ova owl

PAM, MONDAT EVIIINCL

A cabinet courier has arrived from St. Peters-
burg with despatches from M. de Montebello to M.
Drouyn de Lhuys, and iu consequence of the im-
portance of these despatches he performed the
journey in the unusually short space of four days.
An extraordinary ministerial council was held
to-day, the Emperor presiding. It is already
rumoured that the answer of Russia to
the Emperor Napoleon's proposals is as unsatisfac-
tory as could well be. The cabinet of St. Peters-
burg, it is said, does full justice to the good inten-
tions of the French government, and makes abun-
dant protestations of sympathy for Poland. The
Czar admits to the fullest, extent that Poland
has as great a right to enjoy his bene-
volence and protection as any other part
of his empire. But inasmuch as the
present insurrection is attributed to the re-
volutionary party, and the Russian government
cannot possibly show itself timid and apprehensive
in the face of the revolution, it refuses to make
any concession whatever until the rebellion shall
be entirely put down. I have little doubt that the
above is the substance of the despatch just
received ; and I attribute to the knowledge that
some such answer was on its way, the postpone-
ment of the debate in the Senate on the Polish
petition, and the doubtful paragraphs which were
launched last week in some of the government
organs. Prince Dolgoroukoff (or Dolgorouki) is
to have a private audience of the Emperor.
He is one of the most considerable personages
in the Russian empire ; he is a general of cavalry,
aide-de-camp to the Emperor Alexander, chief of
the 3rd section (high police) of the private chan-
cery of the Emperor, and a member of a section of
the plenum in the imperial council. That a person
with all these titles should have come poet baste
from St. Petersburg to see the Emperor, under
present circumstances, without a " mission," is
what I don't believe, although the PaMe is pleased
to say so. In all probability he comes to explain
to the Emperor confidentially the reasons which
weighed with the Czar when he sanctioned the
official despatch.
The Bourse continues firm, with very little
change. The Italian Loan rose 26c.
A petition presented to the Senate against the
law of 1852, which enabled the Emperor to dismiss
s judge at the age of 70 upon the presumption that
his faculties must then be decayed, was lately re-
ferred to the Minister of Jortioe for consideration.
It is now rumoured that M. Delangle intends to
recommend that the ake for retirement shall be ex-
tended to 75. I have not the least doubt that this
change will be made, because the reasons which led
to the law of 1852 no longer exist. All the argu-
ments officially put forth at that time about the
injury done to suitors by senile imbecility were
but hypocrisy and nonsense. The real object was
to weed the bench of Orleaniat members
who could not be depended on in political cases.
That object having been now attained, old age will
be spoken of in quite another tone, and we shall
shall hear of the austere graces of grey hairs, and
the additional authority which the decrees of jus-
tice will derive from the sanction of venerable men
*rho are the living traditions of law.
The republican party of 1848 has just lost one of
its most eminent members, K Liaipokl Duras,
who was a colleague of Armand Merriest in the
National, and became principal editor of that jour-
nal after the revolution of February. Driven from
the field of politics by the course of eveuta, K
Duras became a merchant, and of late years only
used his journalistic pen in writing prices current
and trade reports. He died at Bordeaux.

POLAND.

A Lemberg letter contains the following :

.
The Romans are now operating against Langiewicz on
four sides. Mcnizaoff commands the corps coming from
Czeostoehowa, Dobrowaki that proceeding from Staszow,
Czengery that which has left Kielce, and &potion the
troops from Miechow. The insurrection is increasing
is the neighbourhood of Plonk and Kalish. In
Podlachia the Russians have again experienced a check
at Biala. At Oksza, and then at ' Bolin, in
the government of Lublin, the Poke have obtained
several successes. The Poles, profiting by experience, are
decided on confining themselves to a war of partinans, which
will force the Russians to employ all their forces. Regi-
ments of the Guard are consequently being day sent from
Bt. Petersburg to Poland. A cars of the first reinforce.
sesta occupy Lithuania. A battalion of the Emperor's
Charenn has been sent to Warsaw. Ten divisions
now occupy the kingdom of Poland, with its an-
cient province, making 150,000 men. Reinforcements to
the number of 10,000 are expected. In that part of
Poland called the Kingdom 80,000 soldiers are encamped.
Warsaw is occupied by 30,000, and the five fortresses by
25,000; the active army is consequently only 25,000 men.
In Lithuania are 60,000 troops, which is insufficient to hold
that country, it being an large as Hungary. The towns of
W dos, Groduo, Bialystok, Kowno, Thiriabourg, Poloak,
Vitebsk, Mohilew, Bolaniah, Miok, Pinsk, Riga, and Mitten,
alone absorb all these forest. In Podolia. Volhynia, and
the Ukraine, are only 20,000 men, who are absolutely no.
canary for holding the towns.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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'Dewy. SO • gale.
LN.L to 8.9.1., strong lantairo. B.Z. to N. 8., strong,
to a pie. some rain or snow.
N. to IL and dB, w.czerri.m. NIL to SILL, a
strong, with snow or pie to fresh
rats.
As nut above. N. W.FaAsca.
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As next above. LL RIBOLAID.
N. N.B. to R, tune,
with snow. - - -
North Owls an Monday mad this Tuesday.
B1?LANA110/1.
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N.Y. to AS, strong to
fresh.
' As wit above.
N.N.I. to S&L.
straw to fresh.

D.—Barometer ooneeted sad redamd to IX deg. at mean sea
level ; each 10 feet, of vertical Kee causing about oao-hundreith
al an inch diminution ; and each 10 deg., above $3 dog., causing
mewl, thew-hundredths Increase. 1.-11zposed thermometer
in shade. D.—Difference of moistened bulb (for evaporation
and dew point). W.—Wind, Direction of (true—tiro points left
of List —Form a to 1!—estimated). X. • Extreme
force Q.—Quarter when extreme force,
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AMERICA.

pion ows erscur.

NEW YORK, V. 21.

As to the general feeling of the people of the
West, about which I said • good deal in my last
letter, there is, I again repeat, no sign that they are
disposed to oppose the administration in an anti-
war sense. The World, discussing the point this
morning, confesses this to be the case, and quotes
the St. Louis Republican, which it styles "the most
important newspaper in that region, and the one
best entitled by its position to speak for the intel-
ligent and thinking opposition," m follows :
We shall not inquire into the claim of Mr. Ilahony to
represent the political sentiments of the North-West. We
cannot see where he obtained the knowledge of the popular
tendencies of that section which enables him to speak with
such positiveness ; and, in truth, do not believe the alleged
facts on which his amnions are based to exist at all. Why
is the West opposed to the further prosecution of the war
and in favour of disunion ! foe the two,' sa the came stands,
are ideotical. Mr. idshony says it Is because of the
abolition policy of the Washiogtou administration. Now
we agree—it would be useless to deny—that the Wert
is thoroughly opposed to many of the pet measures put
foah at the national capital- But two wrongs do not
make one right. Yr. Lincoln and the whole tepublicsa
and abolition party have it not in their power, by any ex-
travagance or nonsense, to palliate the gigantic " mistake"
of the South, or to render union a particle less desirable.
On the other hand, there is no evidence that were the pre-
sent administration democratic or even pro-slavery, the
leaders of the rebellion would feel a desire to return to their
allegiance. They say that were a white sheet of Taper pre-
anted them whereon to write their own terms of fellowship
with the people of the North, they would take nothing but
the unconditional recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
They, the leaders, who, otter all, control the people by
means of their military despotism, were practically in
the earns boatility to the government before the
emancipation proclamation was =sued, before the confis-
cation bill was passed, before the fugitive slave
law was in effect oullified, as now ' • and they demand no
more now than then. It is true the ultra tuessuree of
republican partisans have solidified public sentiment at the
South to a great extent against the administration, and,
perhaps, rendered reunion more difficult ; but with thesis with
whom our armies have to deal chiefly, the origival Seces-
sionist% there is no proof that the case would have been
I very far Mine bad the war continued under the comer-
vative natioeal policy adopted at the beginning. It is no
argument against the war that come persons support it
I because they believe it will result in the abolition of
slavery. Whatever side imam there may be in the minds
of different persons, the contest is still one for union, and
pre-emi neatly so. We can only have union now by
vigorously prosecuting the war, for to cease hostilities in
the fame of the uncompromising demands of the rebels, is
simply to content to the disintegration of the country.
The LouisoilieJourna/, another opposition paper,
published in Kentucky, makes remarks on Val-
landigham's preaching', of the same tenor :
We desire peace as ardently as the most orthodox fol-
lower of the humans Penn, but the country can accept no
offer of peace from the rebels until it is able to dictate and
enforce the terms, and we can listen to no propositions for
truce unless mewled with a promise of reconstruction.
Until then our armies must be maintained in the field, and
all the resources of the nation must be put forward to'
wash out the rebellion. The adoption of the policy of Yr.
Yallandigham at the outset of the struggle would have been
fatal to our national honour—a confesoon that the theory
of our government had been • lamentable failure, and an ad-
mission that the people were unable or unfit to govern them-
selves under republican institutions. How much more de-
grading and subversive of the great principles which under-
lie oar constitution would a. craven peace be now, when
we have so lavishly expended blood and treasure to main-
tain the integrity of the Union, and to show to the
world that our popular institutions are self-sustaining, and
that the great problem of our government has not reduced
its demonstration to an absurdity. We do not believe that
the member of Congress from Ohio will be enabled to millet
even a handful of his party on his side of this question • on
the contrary, the authoritative exponents of the democrats,
ash as governew Seymour, of New York, have never been
more earnest is their wishes for • vigorous prosecution of
the war by every agency which the constitution affords, the
patriotism of the country offers, and the imminent don-
pr of the country demands. The rebels are not yet humi-
liated ; they have not yet been punished for their parricidal
crime of striking at the heart of our nationality ; and, until
some evidences of repentance are afforded and some desire
evinced to offer reparation for the past, we must deal sturdy
blows, and invoke the blessing of Hawse on our efforts.

I have ventured to occupy so much of your
space with the discussion of this topic, because I
believe there is nothing of greater importance just
now than that the English public should have
accurate notions of the actual temper of the
Northern people, and thus be able to form
some notion of their own of the probability
'or improbability of an early peace. It must
not be forgotten, though I am afraid it often
is, that lengthy diatribes against Mr. Lin-
coln and his cabinet, and Congress, showing
their folly and their weakness, written by English-
men, and published in London newspapers, do not
produce a particle of effect iu America except to in-
crease the irritation against England. It is difficult,
doubtless, for a great many good people to
believe that Lincoln and Seward and " the mob"
do not wince and grow sick of the war under the
leaders and correspondenee of the Times,
and under the strong disapprobation of the
best English society. But the fact is that they do
not, nor is there the least probability of their ever
doing so. In fact, as far as one can judge, they are
now a great deal more hardened against these in-
fineness than they were two years ago ; and how-
ever much we may deplore this insensibility, there
can be no use in ignoring it. It exists and is in-
creasing. The disposition to allow foreign influence—
even that of governments, much less that of news-
papers—to have any share in bringing the conflict
to a close, so far from spreading, grows less every
day. You have received by this time Seward's
peremptory, and certainly ably written, refusal to
adopt the French Emperor's second" suggestion"
fora peaceful settlement of the quarrel. So far
from damaging him, it has been, as far as its effect
in this country is concerned, a signal triumph for
him personally, and has done much to relieve him
from the imputations thrown on him during the past
year by the radicals. His position sinceits appearance
is better with the public than it has been at any
time since the Trent affair ; for both the tone of

hie despatch, and the ground he takes up in his
arguments, will be dear to the American heart as
long as the nation has not suffered far more loss
and humiliation than have as yet overtaken it. I
think there can be no question that any attempt on

the part of France to interfere by fort* of
arms on any pretext would result in an
instant decimation of war, and it would be a
war which would unite all parties and
classes at the North in a desperate struggle, from
which all three belligerents would suffer horribly,
and the French operatives would gain nothing.
The Conscription Bill, placing all able-bodied
men between 20 and 45 at the disposal of the
government, has passed the Senate. It will be
violently opposed in the House, on constitutional
grounds, as it takes the militia out of the bands of
the State governors. It will, if carried out, furnish
a levy of nearly 2,000,000 of men. But the Bank-
ing Bill has passed, and is a great triumph for the
government.

The Royal Mail steamer Asia, from New York
on the 25th ult., arrived at Liverpool shortly after
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A summary of her
news has already appeared in our columns.

MANCNINTZR, SHIFTIELD, AND LINCOLNAHIRI
RAILWAY.—This total expenses of ibis company's railways,
'Deluding rear, tolls, duty, ka, from January 1 to
Mitch 1, 1863, amounted to 52,5751., as against 529804
for the comeponding period of 1862. The proportion of
the Bmatli Junction reripte aoeruing to this company from
Jetsam,. 1 to March 1 amounted to 4,7091., r against
4,5374 for tho oorrespoodion period of 1862• and the ex-
prom to 2,1(131., ragainst 2,12'P. The total receipts, in-
cluding rents, km, of this oornpany's canals, from January 1
to February 28, amounted to 9,7784, aa spirt 10,28111. for
the Gomorrah'' period of 1862: sad the expenses to
7.9791.. as against 8,0481., lemur a balance of set profit
of 1.7991., as spinet 2,2401. for the eorrespoaditig period of
1862