The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1863.-

eerie% " Society " and the money markets, Prince
GOETCHAILOFF'S masterly 0108111 of frankness ap-
pears as sagacious as it is certainly effective. The
Russian Government is doubtless well aware that
the agreement of the three remonstrant Powers is
in reality nothing more than a concordance in
phrases—an agreement to differ when the time
for action comes. The three Powers are agreed
in desiring to preserve the peace of Europe ; but
even on this primary question the motives of the
three Powers are widely different. Let us look for
• moment through Russian spectacles, and what
do we see? Austria desires peace, because war
with Russia would be the opportunity of Hungary;
because a war for Poland would be a war in which
Austrian Poland must take a part ; because a
Polish war must become a revolutionary war, and
a revolutionary war would be the opportunity of
Italy. And what would become of the political,
or, above all, the financial regeneration of the
Austrian Empire in the event of a revolutionary
war, and a war with the victor of Solferino for
ally
Prince GORTCHAKOFF is perfectly justified in
concluding that Austria and England desire peace;
but that Austria desires peace because the possi-
bility of going to war for Poland with France
for an ally is a chimers ; and England, because sbe
honestly loves peace for its own sake, because war
is abhorrent to her feelings and her interests ;
because war is a dance in which it is easier to
: decide upon your first partner than your last, and
one Crimean experience is enough ; because, of
all wars, • sentimental war is only profitable
; in the end to the most selfish combatants ; be-
! cause • war for Poland would shake the European
(system to its base, certainly not to the advantage
of England ; because Poland can only be reached
across a continent; and because no English Govern-
ment believes in the restoration of Poland or de-
sires it. France—that is, the present French Go-
vernmeut—desires peace, because it has at heart no
care for the Polish cause, and hankers after a
Russian alliance ; because the Mexican adventure
is not yet disposed of ; because it is afraid of
allying itself with the Revolution, has no stomach
for a conflict with all Germany, and prefers a quiet
and luxurious life in Paris, and is content with
just as much " glory" as will supply the Hippo-
drome once a year with a "Triumph of the Imperial
" Eagles. "
These may very well be the calculations of
the Russian Government ; and they would be
tolerably correct, as far as they go. But here is an
instance of the imperfect grasp and vision of diplo-
macy, even of the comparatively farsighted and
far-reaching diplomacy of Russia. A despotism
itself, it sees nothing in France but the
Second Empire; and even in the Second
Empire it sees only the Administration and
the Bourse. It fails to perceive that the Second
Empire is • NAPOLEON and a French army ;
that Imperialism is a crowned democracy swayed
by the instincts and the passions which it per-
sonates; that the dynasty of the NaroxEows owes
a debt of blood to Poland ; that the Second
Empire, like the First, is condemned to live by
war and to perish by peace, because in war the
laws are silent, and in peace liberty revives ; and
that a Polish war, in which all the regrets, and
enmities, and hopes of the old dynastic and liberal
parties would be lost in the passionate enthusiasm
of the nation and the army, would perhaps conso-
lidate the dynasty, certainly immortalise it, and
at all events cover a judicious abandonment of
that impossible enterprise in the New World which
every instinct, and tradition, and taste of Flume
repudiates as an inglorious folly or a ruinous job.

Ebe Coun.

BALMORAL, Sirr. 17.

The Priooe and Princess Louis of Reese, and
the Princes, Victoria, attended by Baroness von Schenck,
Captain von Westerweller, and Dr. Becker, arrived at the
Castle at half-past 4 p.m. yesterday, and were remind by
the Queen, the Princes. of Wake, and the remainder et the
royal family.

Bm. 18.

The Prince and Princess Leeds of Hesse drove to Aber-
'sidle to visit the Prisms of Wiles. The Paine and
Princess of Wale@ dined at the Castle, attended by Lieut.'.
sast-Oolasel Koppel sod Hos. Mrs. Brute.

TIM Ptntci AND PRINCESS or WALL.-.-13AND.
BINGHAM, SEPT. I9.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Prioress of Wales are expected to arrive bore for the
shooting SMOG ia &boat a week or ten dam Active prepa-
rations are being made for their reception. It is expected
that their royal highnesses si7l travel hither vie Peter-
borough, but it is not kitow a whether they will proceed to
Loudon before coming to Sandringham. Since the Prince
and Prisms left here in April lest) the ball has been eon.
awned with the metropolis by telegraphic communicatice,
a ver► commodious house has been erected for the equerkke-
in-waiting, and soother commend for the comptroller;
be videos bare been re-arranged, and the park prepared
for 'tackle( with dear. The game is reported to be very
abundant, &ad a good season's wort awaits his royal Wi-
ser. It is to be hoped that overweening curiosity will not
canes his royal highness's retirement to be intruded tepee.
As it is understood that his royal highs.= will join the
West Norfolk Hunt again this areas, some brilliant "meets"
are entkipated. His royal highness, it is expected, will
take into his own hands the Hall Farm this If ichaebnea,
and oommence his career as a practical spieulturiet.
The Duchess of Hamilton (tide Princess Marie of
Baden) and Lady Mazy Hamilton are =peeled to terse
Bsdeo In the course of the rotting month, to make a short
skit to Hamilton Palace, N.B.
_

The Earl Grosvenor, M.P., has arrived in town
from Homburg. His lordship hes improved is health by
his abort Mgt to the Continent.

The Earl of Warwick has arrived in town from
Wan&lt Oldie. The otatateei and family remain at the
male. On *Bair Journey swath the earl sod emote= visited
Lord and Lody W illoughby de Eresby at Drummond Qutle.
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan arrived in
been so Friday from I tom e/ the Own= spas, and will
prowl today to Deese Part, to moire a select 'Bele id
friends for the shoot* esases.
The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Cockburn, the
Lord Chief Justice of England. arrived in town on Saturday
Ban a tour in Germany. The learned tamest has bees
detained oil his way borne by illness.
His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the
Baroness Brun °ow will return to Chadian% Home in a few
days from Brighton, where they have bees Maytag eons
weeks.

Hilt MAJnirea Bran rit ma Noxra.—When her
gaisity left Wmdear Castle far Stetked it was with the
intim*. if ia a swath. It it mow Dodersioad
that the mai vial wi l Weed Wive waits, aad that the
retard of the Court to Windsor will be as Seteitlay, the
17th of October.—Court Joints&

Too Now A DM [YAM BYDloo2arligli--Captain
George Hoary ittchards was cm &Soda, bat led by
the Board et Admiralty to be the sow bydreoe rel the
Admiralty, vim Bear•Admitel Jetta Weblike... 426. bis
11.10Mards entered the sew, is November, 18.12 • puma ba
ausetlitehes Mazob.lBM • mak atter sends; ea mete ot
the Caledeaim 120, Segsthit:, at Plymouth, was prompted
le lleatessat July 12,1842. As lieutesaat he served from
MN date his promotioe oath the close et 1848 le the
Philahrl 4, Commander B. J. Salina, employed is war-
tight( mmlot is the Brasile. Ile wan promoted to sem.
made, November 18, 1846, and was employed en snood
captain of the Oshawa steam money* vassal. Captain
J. j. &ohm, is the fleet lodise awl New &Weed, hem
October. 1847, wail the donut 186 L He was
seemed /spank of the easioendo diseovery ship, ,
at
ktizsg.B•11:::::, BlagFebrit= 10,16'5.ti sodth :as
Be obadaed post teak 41oletter 21, 168°641, mad bream.
mended the Plumper, 12, and lima* 6, employed is sur-
vey* envies io lb. Pastille. amos December, 1658. The
Rom* orbiab was masa moths thin admit' home, wind
at Ifrilery two the Pa June 28, sad remised is Pert
Jaelsoo July 17. dhe oar to leave at the and el the moth
for Batavia.

General de Montebello has caused the station
of Ceprano to be oecnpied by the French, in order
to prevent fresh collisions between the Italian
troops and the pontifical gendarmes.

INTERNATIONAL 130d1AL SCIENCE
CONGRESS.

At the sitting of the first section of the associa-
tion on Saturday, a discussion took place on the
important subject of the form which international
bills of exchange should assume. Mr. Colfavru
said that the bill of exchange had been misap-
plied, and ought to be restored to its legitimate use.
The bill of exchange was nothing but the result of
a sale, and set forth but one obligation, that of the
first subscriber. The endorsers .only substitute
themselves for the acceptor, and take upon them-
selves his responsibility. With regard to the
international bill of exchange, the prin-
ciple of arrest should be upheld. M. Dognee
thought that the bill of exchange should not be per-
verted from its true object, and made a mask for
usury, for it was perfectly correct to say that it
should never be other than the exact representation
of a commercial operation. But this principle
should first be established, that the bill of
exchange was not to be used except by the trader.
M. Caumont said that the bill of exchange should
never be fictitious, and the only thing to be done
was to see that the value supplied was real. This
valpe might consist of goods, specie, or current
account. The nature of the goods should be always
clearly stated. This was of importance to third par-
ties, and a uniform mode of indicating this could be
easily 'adopted in all countries. The form of en-
dorsement should be uniform, in order that the
obligation of the endorsers should be identical. M
Demeur expressed the opinion that uniformity of
legislation was not necessary so much as regarded
the ability of the persons as the form and
effects of the bill of exchange. It was impossible
to establish an international legislation in the face
of the national laws on the subject. K Amer
rejoiced that all the speakers were in favour of uni-
formity of legislation, and hoped that the different
governments would act upon the views which bad
been expressed in this sense.
The other subjects discussed were the "Treat-
ment of prisoners before trial," "Liberty of
education," " The proper mode of proving death
and the disposal of the dead," and "Co-operative
associations."

In the evening there was a concert in honour of
the members of the association, at the theatre, at
which the " Alleluia" of Handel, and a chorus of
the "Creation," were executed.

EXPREt3B FROM PARIS.

(fox 001 OWN 0011ZOPONDENT.)
PARIS, NONDAT EVINING.

The publication of the Russian answer to the
French despatch is almost a surprise, for although
the negative tenor of it was well known before-
hand, the dry, impertinent, sarcastic, patronising
style of Prince (iortchakoff transcends all antici-
pation, and so irritates French vanity that the
government must find it extremely difficult to act
with severity towards those who but faintly and
fearfully venture to give expression to the public
feeling.
The Opinion Nationale says that in the answer
to France there is an " insult" not to be found in
the other two despatches, because M. Dronyn
de Lhuys is told that the Czar will " per-
emptorily reject even an exchange of friendly
ideas" as to those parts of his empiee to
which no treaty obligation applies. What is meant
is that Russia admits the right of even dry remon-
strance as applicable only to that section of parti-
tioned Poland which is mentioned in the treaties of
1815, and will not allow a word to be said about
Lithuania and the old parts of Poland. The dis-
tinction between the two is, it must be confessed,
manifest. Nevertheless, the Opinion Nationale
says :—" One fancies one must be dreaming when
such a defiance is hurled against the power which
waged the war in the Crimea and the war in Italy."
The Temps says :

We reciomininsinur readers not to be deterred by the ex-
treme length of the memorandum annexed to the concise
Ruesian declaration from reading it all through. It proves
that the three powers very heedlessly entered upon this sad
affair, and prepared for themselves an inevitable check.
The memorandum, which is most ably drawn in a Hasten
point of view, gives the three powers a boson in haughty
sad bitter terms. Prince Gortchakoff glorifies the Holy
Alliance, and that with the easy assurance of a Hussite
grandee, the pedantry of • professor of history, and the
cool impertinent irony which is the especial characteristic
of his talent.

The " Factage Parisien," a new company in
which there is a large element of English capital
and English direction, gave an inaugural banquet
last night at its central office in the Rue Culture
St. Catherine. The large mansion which the com-
pany has seemed is an historical hotel which once
belonged to Marion de Lorme, and there is good
evidence that the Cinq Mars conspiracy was hatched
in a little room where coffee and liqueurs were yes-
terday served after dinner. As the guests to the
number of about fifty mounted the handsome stair-
case of the hotel they found it lined by soldier-like
men standing at attention, who might have been
mistaken for members of a crack rifle corps, but
were in fact porters of the company dressed up in
• bran-new green uniform with gold lacing. K
Jerry, a French banker, who presided at the
dinner, explained the object of the company, which
as I collected it from a rather inaudible speech,
to institute in Paris a combination of Pickford car-
rying and parcels delivery ou a large scale. There
are to be no lees than eighty stations in Paris, from
any one of which, from and after next Wednesday,
parcels may be sent to any part of the city at a
small charge. K Jerry explained that the official
permission, without which, unfortunately, scarcely
any public enterprise is possible in France, had
been fully obtained, and he complimented the
authorities upon the hearty way in which they had
entered into the scheme. Sir James Carmichael,
who is the chairman of the company, and K hor-
nier, the secretary, made speeches. The success of
this innovation on the habits of Parisians is much
to be wished, and from the spirited way in which
the affair is taken up seems highly probable.
There was a crowd round the hotel during the
dinner,and I was told that some ticket porters, who
fear that their business will be interfered with, were
inclined to make hostile demonstrations.

The Duke of Cambridge has arrived in Paris,
and is staying at the Hotel du Rhin.
Another son of Queen Christine, the Count de
Gracia, hu just died in Paris.
The Daily News and the Indipendaiwe Beige are
seised.

The late Mr. Ellice (says the Times) inherited
from hie father a large landed property in the State
of New York and in Canada, and was employed in
earlier life in the practical work of oolonisatioo,
superintending the surveys and managing the sales
Mama. He was on board Fulton 's steam-boat at its
first trial. He was well scquinted with the American
statesmen of the golden age of the republic. He car-
tied on for some yearn in London the business of a mar
chant. Rd was ors of the committee who, with Lord
Byron, undertook the management of Drury-lane
Theatre. He was the originator and conductor of a cons.
party which competed not unsuccessfully with the Hudson's
Roy Company for the fur trade of the norther a part of the
American continent. He negotiated the union between those
two companies, and cocducted their combined operations
foe the last forty years with a skill and sagacity which have
been crowned with the most complete success. This enter.
Mee be !Medi° complete, for in the present year the stock
of the company has been purchased for three times its
original amount by a new company, whose future proceed-
ings may possibly afford the best comment on the manage-
ment of their predecessors. With the same prescience Mr.
Ellice foresaw the impending rise M the value of H land
property, and became the rim:etre of one of the
and most beautiful estates in the Highlands, on which he
has atomised for many years an almost boundless hospi-
tality.
THE METROPOLITAN ROWING CLUB3.—No less
than four of the amateur metropolitan rowing clubs dis-
ported themselves on Saturday on the broad bosom of their
wkre river at Putney, viz., the West London, North Lee-
dom, Thames, and the Corsair Clubs. The first of these
flushed • race oornmenced on Friday among junior
eaullers, these gentlemen contending for the second prise,
which was wen rather easily by Mr. C. A. Harter. 'Three
fours of the North London Rowing Club ocetended. sod
Messes. Powell, Goodwin, Stiuton, soil Woodrow, Taylor
(cousein), won • well contested race by two lengths.
Five crews of the Thames Club contended I. • parr-oared
gig race is three bests, and the final was woe by *errs. S.
L. Cowart and J. Catty, P. Applegarth (commie). after
• desperate race with Messrs. P. Stemmas and J. Medina ;
W. J. Wilk. (cotswitio). The Corsair race was also is
pair-oared gigs, four crews competing. and it was won by
blurs. W. Kearns, J. Rearms, and W. Smith (coxswain),
by a length, after • spirited nee with Messrs. J. Reese and
H. Carsten, with T. Smith Monwaio).
RACING IN SCOTLAND.—Fur the next few weeks
it would appear that the thrums of Scotland, aad all who
enjoy the •• national spurt," will have ample oppugns/ties
: for gratifying their penchant without crossing the harder.
Oa Wednesday sad Thursday next Lanark opens the bell
with ton room for the two days. On the following week the
j Edinburgh marks takes plue at Museelburgh Oa Sept. 30
sod Or. 1. and, from the numerous entries already secured for '
several of the principal events, there can be so doubt
of its proving • great success; sit races far the Met day
sad seven for the seeped are advertised. Next week there-
attar-7th, iltb, sod 9th Octoher—the "Royal Caledonian
Hunt and Perth" hold their jubilee on 'The Inch" at
Perth. A lull Programme of this meeting has not yet been
published, but the entries for the three ham:limps have
closed with eight, demo, and ten subscribers respectively.
The Kelso festiritith are fixed for the 21st sod 22nd October,
and from the halioine value of the stakes, aided by the
liberality of his Grace the Duke of Roxburgh' and other i
noblemen, a satisfactory wind-up of the racing season in
Scotland may be sathipated.—Ediateryk Courant
A Baci Btrax.—The moat remarkable blast in the
history of iron easing took place at the lake Superior
mine a shoot amp Braes. In ordinary ease bat sou and •
half inch bale is dimeter is drilled, but in this owe the of
four inches and eighteen feet deep was made, driest from
the edge of the cliff about ten feet, into which one keg of
powder wan pat and exploded as a preliminary, and which
had the awe to open a beam to the depth of fifty feet.
Sixteen Mee of powder were than put in ea • final thugs,
which threw dews ever three thousand tons of ore so sea-
Direly broken op that the larger patios was small enough
to load on the cars fur shipemet. without further reds..
lion. This ie eartuely the last big thing.—Lire ssperiar

Deepateine were received oe Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Giwersor of Malta. Despatches were sent
to the Governors of the North American Provisoes, Gibral•
tar, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Bong Koag, Labuan, sad the
Australian (*lonia*.