The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-16 00:00:00

THE ALBERT MEMORIAL.

The works in connexion with this national memo-
rial were last week commenced by Mr. Belk. to whom the
execution of the entire contract hex been Intrusted. The
site chosen for it is in Hyde-park, almost facing the entrance
to the Horticultural• gardens, and on this spot the Irian.
dons for the foundation are beiog made. From the great
height (160 ft.) and the immense solidity and 1211/6•0110611 of
the memorial, the foundations have to be taken unusually
deep, considering the exceUest nature of the sell, which is
all graveL Under the centre part they are to be formed of
16 feet of concrete, and nowhere are they tote lr-s than 10
feet. The hue of the memorial is to consist of broad
sad lofty Bights of stops that give awns to the work
on four sides, sad the work itself is to be no ler than 130
feet square. The steps of gray granite are to be laid in a
double flight, with a broad landmlietween the lower and
upper tier. From this upper i the memorial proper
will ries, the besement being form of a noble frieze in
marble, the figure on which will be in high relief and of
life size. The columns which rapport the spire-like super•
structure of the memorial are to consist of groups of oar
red granite pillars, each 2ft. in diameter. Their =pints
are exceediegly rich, sad will be surmounted with statues
el heroic size. The spire, if we may so oall it, which
clues is the arch, is Gee of the richest and moat
elaborate of all Mr. Soott's designs. It will be built
of red and gray granite, and the rich white done
known as Harley Dale. The terminal and surmounting
arms will be of wrought copper gilt, and this por•
tiors of the work le to be executed by the Skidmore Art
Company, whose rood screen in the transept of the last
Exhibition excited such admiration for its exquisite Baia.
Beneath the grossed arch will be placed the statue of the
late Prises Conon. His royal bighorn is represented in
robes of state, seated on a chair of sten. The proportions
of the figure are on a meals which, if the statue was repre-
sented standing, would give it • height of 30ft. The details
of this figure and of the other groups of Annan which will
dunned the memorial are, however, still undecided. The
whole work is expected to take four yeas. in completion,
arid by the terms of his coat/act Mr. Balk has bound him-
self to complete it for the sum in head-120,0CW. The
laying of the foundation dose will he marked by a public
cereadmial, at which the member of the royal family will
be pro:west. No date is fixed for this neat, which, indeed,
is not likely to take place till lateia satama.—Tigere.

LATZST IMTELLIGKNI

MOWS TISAGRAMIL)
ARRIVAL 07 THE DANISH SQUADION AT

COPENHAGEN.
COPENHAGEN, Kir 15, an r.m.

The North Sea squadron arrived here to-day at
noon in an undamaged state, and was greatly
cheered by the assembled spectators. The King
went on board the ships.

HOLSTEIN.

ALTONA, Mir Li.
The Prince of Augustenburg entered Altona this
evening and met with a most enthusiastic recep-
tion.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
BUCHAREST, Mar 15.

The electoral law and an additional article to the
constitution have been proclaimed by Prince Couza.
The nation has been invited to vote a simple
affirmative or negative on these questions.
Tranquillity prevails and public opinion is favour-
able to the Prince.

ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS
OF KONTPENSIER.
SOUTHAMPTON. MAT lit.
The Spanish war steamer Isabella Seconds, from
Cadiz, having on board their Royal Highnesses the
' Infautee Duke and Duchess Moutpenaier, family,
and suite, arrived here this morning.
Their royal highnesses will land and leave for
Claremont by the 3 o'clock train this afternoon.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
BUENOS AYRES, Aram 14.
(By telegraph tram Lisboa)

Exchange, 501 f. Ounces, 2,910. Wet salted ox
hides, 40. Dry American, 40 to 42. Wool firm.
Tallow, 141. Limber, 35, firmer. Flour, 7* to 8,
in demand. Refined sugar, 181. Freight dull and
unchanged.

MAY 15.

The Menageries Imperials, steamer Said, from
Alexandria, with 201 passengers, ex imperatrioe,
arrived here at 11 p.m. yesterday.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

SCENES IN THE LEGISLATIVE CORPS.
(nom owe ow' anzairommarr.)

PARIS, SUNDAY EVININO.

In the Corps LEgislatif yesterday, M. fitievenart
Bethune (a new opposition member, who was
elected for a northern department against K
Boitelle, brother of the Prefect of Police) moved to
suppress the funds applicable to the pay of the
rural police, on the ground that that institution
was worse than useless. He desired to do cheerful
homage to the utility of the police in Paris and
other large cities, but he had the best reasons for
knowing that the rural police, a very modern crea-
tion, and one which happily did not exist in all the
departments, served no good purpose, and was
I mainly nothing else than a scandalous instrument of
electoral tyranny. The members of this body were
illiterate, ill-mannered, and having no legitimate
employment naturally sought occasions to meddle
with citizens, and curry favour with power. This
was their normal condition in what he would call
times of peace. But in time of war, that was to
say, during elections, these men transgressed all
bounds of decency. Then the rural commissary
of police became an undisguised electioneering
agent, he spoke everywhere in the voice of
authority, and treated his district like a conquered
country. His mouth continually vomited threats,
and no idle threats either, for they were constantly
followed by the penal visitations of the local
magistrates.

M. Pelletan followed with a demand for the
repeal of the law of public safety, and he based hie
arguments mainly upon this consideration, that the
present government had, in its own point of view
at least, less need than any other of laws of public
safety, because it kept liberty in a state of sus-
pense. Liberty of the press, liberty of association,
liberty of public meeting, commercial liberty,
parliamentary initiative, ministerial responsibility,
all the institutions, all the guarantees of 'B9 were
promised only in perspective, but immolated for
the present by reason of the necessities of public
order. Well, it was not unreasonable to argue
that all that the government had deducted from
liberty it must be taken to have gained in
security. Whenoe, therefore, the necessity for
exceptional laws of public safety. (Applause on
several benches.) M. Pelletan then went through
the list of various repressive laws passed by the
government in the course of the last twelve years,
and showed that in practice they had all been found
unnecessary. The government every now and then
got frightened, and asked for harsh laws, which
after all it did not want. The law against keeping
up "intelligence abroad," which had been called
for on the pretext that it was a necessary protection
against the scum of society, had been put in opera-
tion against just three persons, viz., a judge,
the Marquis de Flees, M. Sheurer, and K
Taule, • medical student. M. &hearer,
a most respectable inhabitant of Alsace, had been
pulled out of his bed, and taken to a cell in Masai.
He was prosecuted, and sentenced to three months'
imprisonment. He had paid the penalty which the
law awarded, but he was liable to-morrow, upon,
perhaps, an angry man's denunciation, to be trans-
ported. When be thought of such things, he
could scarcely believe that the statue of Mirabeau
was yet standing in the building within which he
spoke.
Here a long altercation ensued between the
Duke de Morny and M. Pelletan, the president
laying down that a deputy bad no right to dis-
pute the law, and M. Pelletan replying
with unanswerable force that it was the
especial province of the Legislative Body to criti-
cise bad laws. After this a battle royal ensued
between the Duke de Morny and K Picard. They
wrangled in almost Billingsgate style. The Duke
de Morny told M. Picard that the government
was not afraid of him or of anybody else. Picard
inquired "Is that a threat 1" to which de Moray
rejoined "It is no threat to say that the govern-
ment is not afraid of you. If the government was
inclined to threaten, perhaps the language we hear
would not be addressed to it" (Tumultuous
applause on the benches of the majority.)
Picard attempted to explain, but could not
get a hearing, and K Jules Fevre ex-
claimed, " This is violence." At this juncture
IL Thiers said—" When the interests of the
country are in question nobody will frighten us,
not even the government." K Rouher said that
K Thiers had only just come into the house, and
did not know what had passed, but the latter said
he had heard it all, and persisted in his observa-
tion. M. Gamier Pages brought forward the sub-
ject of the violation of his domicile, and the in-
terference with his electoral meetings. MM.
Ronland and Rouher replied on behalf of the
government that the law justified what
had been done—or, at any rate, they thought
so—end it was for • court of law to
pronounce. The government had tolerated else-

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tonal meetings, but they had reason to think that
IL Gander Pages was at the head of an unlawful
'society, which sought to carry the elections

throughout Franco.
This being Whit Sunday, few of the evening
papas appear. There is no news. All the fashion-
able world is gone to the Chantilly noes. The
weather is beautiful, and very hot.

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Faust is announced for Thursday at Covent
Oarden, with Mademoiselle Luna as Margaret, and Signor
Mario as the hen The neat novelty is to be Flotow's
Strodella, a substitute for the promised open of Nioolai,
the ides of Kaduna( which has been abandoned.

Faust is to be repeated at Her Majesty's Theatre
Co Wednesday. To-morrow La Traria' is ensmumed—
foe the first appearance of Signor Ciudad (who, it may be
remembered, made his dibut at Her Majesty's Theatre ia
1847) —sod a new Viola* in Mademoiselle Sink°, who is
not named in Mr. Mapleeon'a prospectus. There is a ten,
of reviving Signor Schires Niccold dl Lap:, which, owing
to the unexampled moose' of rallie, had not its fair chance
lest mason ; and last, mot lesst, Beethoven's immortal
/Nato— with Mademoiselle Tllleas ea Fidelio, and Signor
Giughiti se Flosistan—ia by this time nearly reedy.
All the large hotels in Paris are crowded with
strangers.

THE Daum r or Lrttcotw.—lt is this morning
rumoured that the Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth,
Cason of Wad sinter, will be the Dean of Limon, in the
morn of the Rev. Dr. J who has be nominated to
the Bishopric of Psterbotseoa . The deanery is worth abode
2,0001. per maim.
Loan CHAMBERLAIN% 011ie; MAT 14.—Notice
is hereby given, that the state apartments of Winker Castle
will be opened as and after Monday, the 16th Menet.
THE MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW —The details
of the Fort Pillow manicre are won* ens than we sup-
posed. Not only were wounded men shot where they lay
while holding the Mental flag and bite at white handker-
chief over than in token of sureeder, not cooly wen the
fugitives from this measure bunted with bloodhoands, but
the hospital itself in Fort Pillow, containing thin) sick and
convalescents, was set on Ire, and burnt with in inmates.
One wounded white soldier called to a mounted Confederate
for a lade water as he lay on the grimed ; the reply was
three Mote from a revolver. Not fifty of the whole
gamine survived. Had a tenth pert of these horrors been
indicted by Northern soldiers, the Times and all the English
peen would be ringing with horror. It is committed by
the kentalised misnomers, under • regular and famous
Confederate officer, and no one seems to have heard of it,
while Mr. Lenny seizes the suitable amnion to give notice
of a motion for the reecimition of the South. —Spedator.
OFFICIAL Arrournszirra.—Mr. Zohrab, Vice-
Omni at Mostar, has bees appointed her Majesty's Consul
at Bsrdianak. The VicreConsubee of Mostar will be abn-
fished. Mr. Dunlap, Consul at Cairo, has been appointed
Mesa at Cadiz. Mr. T. F. Reads, Consul at Tangier, has
bees appointed Coast& at Cairo. Mr. Whits, trice-Couval in
in Cyprus, has been appointed Omni at 'Bulgier. Mr.
Colnagbi, Consul in Conics. has base appointed Consul in
Cyprus. Mr. Smallwood, Keeper of the Archives at H.M.
Mission at Turin, has been appointed Omen in Corsica.
The appointment held by Mr. Smallwood in the mission at
Turin will not be filled ap.—Olerreer.
Tug CHAPTER IN DA:JOEL—The courts of law
ban narrowly drooped a trial in which thn doctrines of the
church of Ragland as secrarneetal efficiency would have
undergoee a senate( *mutiny. The Venerable Charles
Doclpon, Archdeacon of Richmond, has been preaching, in
his tarn, io Ripe* diehard, and in dealing with his sub-
jeet—the efficacy of the sacrarasets—mads remarks which
the Very Rev. Dr. Goode, the Dean of Ripon, construed
into a personal affront. The dean precastedthe arch-
deacon to the Bishop of Ripon for teaching unsound don-
trine, bat the bishop having before his eyes recent nasals-
factory and very unprofitable theological lawsuits, declined
to interfere, sad informed the deal that if ha desired to
proceed be most dose through the Eoclesintion Comte, by
setting the Church Diecipline Ate is motion. This mune
the dean declined to adopt, sad the church has been spared
the wan& of a oriallin betimes two high dignitaries of the
same cethadnd.=-Tissa.

DRATII OF EDWAYD ARCHDA.Lit Eva—Oar obit-
eery to-day amootmems the death, at the mature rizf.
steely ears, of Mr. Araidal, itiveredae sad
the tabor of the hos. and ;What member
for Fermanagh. Kr. Arida wee, we believe, the oldest
member of the Orange inaitutiem is Inked, and daring
hie beg and honourable We he rstalasd the coofideme,
again, sad respect of people of every deemeinetkis
within his circle, by • mealy sod enskilest mean
name of principles which he henently regarded as the
oely real manna of civil and religious liberty. Yr.
Areadall was so man magistrate of his county for 'mead
of sixty nate, with the mossaion of a abort intern/ daring
the schninestruties of Bic Robert Peal, whom he was raper-
mad aloes with the ate Colonel Blacker_ , to be reinstated
by the succeeding government. He breathed his last at his
seat of Coale Arehdall es Monday night, warrounded by
his family, without pain sr 'efforts& aid enjoying to the
last the three greet bkidap of baninity—heath, comp-
Mace sod respect of met. Mr. Arcata was the last of a
very lon-lived genratica. His brother, Gement Arcata,
died is hi 78th yes: Cokinel William Arelidall, is his
90th year ; Onsain Hoary Amhdall, is his 78th par ; and
three of his sisters respectively in their 78th, Nth, and
89th years. He is succeeded in the Castle Archdall estates
by his eldest so.. Captain Mervyn Arehdal, Y.P. ; and in
the Riverdale property by his second sou, Mr. William
Arcadia of Droinard.—Doblin Ermine Neil.
Cuturmy-Sweareas--Tbe Bari of fibaftesbur/s
bill before the Home of Lords proposes further memorestor
the protectioe of children. It is ;imposed to meet, under •
penalty not exceeding IW., that no obimeeyeweeper shall
employ a child wader ten to do say work in the trade ex-
cept within his place of besieges ; tad that so chimney-
sweeper @ball knowingly allow • person in his employ under
16 to enter or be in • house or building when he goes there
for the purpose of sweeping • chimney or extinguishing •
firs therein. A amiable is to be authorisal Marred, with-
out warrant, a chircney-sweeper whom he believes to be as
offender herein, and to detain the child or yang perm:
The proof of age, if in question, is to lie on the employer.
A chimney-sweeper comicted of compelling, or knowingly
allowing, • person under 21 to ascend • chimney or altar •
fine for sweeping it or extinguiabing fire may be slat to
prison for • term not exceeding six mouths, with or with-
out hard labour. When • chimney a built or rebuilt notice
is to be given to the Board of Health on other local autho-
rity, sod clauses are Inserted is this bill for securing that
the authority shell ascertain that the rules laid down in the
set of 1840 are observed. The builder or owner is to pay
to the surveyor, or other proper officer of the local autho-
rity, a fee not exceeding ss. for inspection of the chimney
or chimneys. An offender may be summoned before •
magistrate, who will order the inanition of the act to be
complied with under • penalty sot mooed* 201. • day.
A New Maraorourau TEL MA On Satur-
day, at • meeting of Kest musty segistratea, held at
Greenwich, Mr. T. Lowing. chairman, appanage" was made
cm behalf of Hr. Sefton Parry, of the Royal Prieesse's
Theatre, foe a ikon*, foe • newly-stead theatre in the
tows of Greenwich, antigens to the railway station. Is
WWr to questions pot by the magistrates, Mr. Parry
noted that all modern improvements had bees observed in
the essetroetioe of the building, sod that ample meson of
"gram existed in the event of fire ; the whole at the doors
a the interior of the building opted outwards. The pre-
mations suggested by the Lord Chamberlain for the pro-
teaks of lights, both for the safety of the actors and the !
public, bed been adopted. The magistrates, after • short
eoesultation, agreed to past the Beene, and the theatre,
which v capable of seeing 1.000 persons, le anweanced for
: es the 23rd inst. Greenwich has mot pained •
for about thirty years, at which period • former
theatre was destroyed by fire.
The reducing system of Mr. Butting is now very
generally • tooted by riorpuleat pram is all parts at the
cannery. Some of our very stout merebiate and broken
who practise the system show the beadicial results of it by
their gradual, but healthy, decrease in girth. In fourteen
days one gentleman decreased levee pousds.—Liverpool
/aim

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
After Term sittings at Nisi Prime at Oadliall.—(Befog
Mr. Justice Crompton sod s Special Jary.)
IMMO= V. nvo, CART., AND OTHERS.
This was an action to recover oomminention in damps
for in arise received owing to the alleged negligees. el the
dds.dante servants. The do.fandasita pleaded not guilty.
Mr. fierjeant Atkinson end Mr. Gibbose were counsel
for the plaintiff • Mr. Bevil], Q.C., and Mr. Watkins Wil.
Mama ware Insp for the defendants.

qha plaintiff is • ;flirty corn meter and the defendants
are theism's of the Victoria Docks. On the 24th KOMl-
bar, 1862, the plaintiff was engaged in the discharge of a
Proinian corn laden ship the Sperm" lying in the Victoria
Dficks. Ose of the sacks, ',sighing shout 2501 t.., woe
being lifted on deck when it caught in the combing of the
hatchway (there being no man on deck to ease it, and the noose
improperly fastened as alleged by the plaintiff) and fell um
his Icing as he was filling the measure. He was carried on
shore, and Dr. rioaffe was mat for, and so serious were the
injuries be received that be was under his WI for four
maths. Plaintiff kept • smell public-house, sod he
earned about 21. per week as • deputy meter. He bad not
been able to work wee the accident, aid he estimated his
lon at about 123/. out of pocket. Nearly 500
sacks bad been lifted before this one fell.
Timothy Leary, one of the men in the hold, sad
he was employed by William Ryder, the man who hung the
sacks on. He mentioned that the sack was not safe, but he
did sot attempt to miter it because it was Ryder's duty to
have °Ailed it. None of the ipso moved out of the way. A.
be was picking up an empty sack he glanced upwards, saw the
seek strike the combing, and before he oould say " look out,"
it fell upon the plaintiff 's back. It was also alleged that
there were only six men instead of the proper number seven
employed to unload the ship. Scams', the wharfinger of
this dock, in the defendants' employ, said they did not
discharge the vessel on their own account, but
contracted with others to do so. There was a
contract for es& vessel, and in this case
William Brown was the contractor. He was paid
by the defendants five farthings per quarter and 3d. par 100
quarters additional if the grain was measured, and :N. 6d,
per 100 quartets it the grain was weighed. This CAW wall
weighed. Brewn was the only man they contracted with for
discharging of pain mei& The defendants had no COQ.
trot over him or kb men how the work was done. The
oontractor, however, used the defendants' gear.
The plaintiff was ultimately nonsuited.