The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

TRE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1863.

" aggression." No doubt in this the noble lord
evinced the kind of tact for which he is celebrated.
He has studied the weaknesses of certain classes
of his countrymen to good purpose. There are
multitudes of harmless, peace-loving people who
intensely relish and always loudly applaud this kind
of inflated, defiant talk. They enjoy belligerent
language, and don't care how fierce and boastful it I
is so long as it is language only. But as traders
and merchants they have a thoroughly well-founded
aversion to a turbulent and belligerent policy.
When they are certain that it means nothing, and
can thus gratify their favourite taste at a
cheap rate, they cheer to the echo any public
man who condescends to indulge in the " Noli me
" tangere," " Nemo me impute lescessit" style of
declamation. It is a weakness altogether unworthy
of 'a great, self-reliant, and powerful nation, but,
unfortunately, it is a weakness which Lord PAL-
untsTozr loves to gratify. That sentence about the
British nation not brooking insults, and being ever
ready to repel aggression, has beenrepeated, if were-
member aright, six times within twice as many
months. Of course the British nation is ever ready
to maintain its dignity, as it is to pay its debts
and keep its engagements. But it does not add
much to our dignity or strength for our leading
public men to go about the country asserting this
as though it were a thing that needed to be in-
sisted on. Lord' Psurasarow condescends to do
this, but it in none the less a national humiliation
which instinctively recalls the conduct of other
Premiers in similar circumstances. Mr.
CANNING or Sir RUHKET PEEL would as soon
have thought of delivering the national flag
into the hands of an enemy, as of going about
the country to declare that the English nation
would defend it. This undignified and unworthy
proceeding is, we may hope, only a fashion of the
hour, like the sensation novel and the sensation
drama. But all who care for the higher cha-
racter and reputation of the English name will
wish that it may speedily go out, and that English
Statesmen may return to the simple, dignified,
and manly tone for which they have in times past
been so justly celebrated.

THE Revenue Returns for the quarter which closed
yesterday differ in some notable points from those
published three months ago. On the quarter end-
ing the 31st December last there was a net increase
of revenue to the amount of 1,310,0001. as com-
pared with the corresponding period of the previous
year, every item except Assessed Taxes having con-
' tributed to the improvement. In this quarter a
similar comparison shows a net decrease of 392,000/.
Last quarter there was an increase of 572,0001.
under the head of Property Tax ; this quarter the
same tax shows a decrease of 537,0001. The
Excise, too, instead of an increase like that of
104,0001. received last quarter, shows • decrease
of 379,000/. The Customs also show a decrease.
Thus all the great sources of revenue are suffering
together. The result is, that the net increase on
the financial year just ended, and of which previous
returns had encouraged high expectations, is re-
duced to 929,082!.

So court.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Yaws 31.1

The Queen and Princess Louise, attended by
lady Augusta Bruce and the Hon. Horatia Stopford,
walked in the ground' yesterday afternoon.
The Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice took a carriage
drive.

--Tae Fill and Countess tot Derby arrived at the Castle
yesterday.
Earl Rummell arrived at the Castle thin afternoon, and bad
an audience of the Queen.

The Senator Antonio Gonzalez, Spanish Minister; Count
Wachtmeister, Minister Plenipotentiary from Sweden and
Norway ; Mahmoud-Khan-Nasserolmolk ( Conseiller Prieto),
Persian Minister; M. J. Saw, Peruvian Minister; and
Mr. F. E. Dubois, Minister Raident &Haiti, was
severally presented to her Majesty, at audiences, by Farl
Bona

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED.

DOVER, TUIBDAT.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived at
Dover this afternoon at three o'clock by the Royal Mail
Packet Prime Frederick William, Captain Wertar Clark,
specially retained for this service • his royal highnessbeing
warmly welcomed on landing by a large concourse of citizens,
who had assembled on the pier. Prince Alfred was sees
standing near the commander of the ship, ou the
bridge between the paddle•bores, as the Prince Fre-
derick William deemed round the angle of the pier,
his bronzed oowitensioce sad free careless bearing betoken-
* a fair restoration to health. Perhaps the most flattering
compliment that could have been paid his royal highness
waa ereveyed in the remark of a rough old salt, wedged
into the crowd immediately in front of the landing pier,
who remarked to a brother tar, " He don't look much like
a invalid, do he, 'Arry l'' To the hearty cheers of the
crowd Prises Alfred rained his bat, which be kept off till
he had mewed the colours of the 59th Regiment, unfurled in
the centre of the guard of honour furnished by that regiment,
which lined the pier. Captain Sir Luke Sarathett was in
attendance on his royal highness from Caleb, and on the
steamer reaching her moorings, Colonel Coppags, R.A.
Captain Triscett, R.N., and other officers, proceeded on
board. After lar.oing his royal bighorn partook of liaa.
cheat at the Lord Wardell Hotel, end proceeded for Wind-
sor by the 3.45 p.m. train of the South Eastern Railway.
Royal salutes were fired from the Drop battery, both ma
the arrival and departure of the Priem.
WINDSOR, TOCSIDAT.

At ten minutes peat seven o'clock this evening the
Prince with his suite arrived by special train under the
charge of Mr. Godson, traffic =sager, and were received
by W. Hanson, Esq. (mayor). Mr. C. Phillips (alderman),
and Mr. Mandy, and as his royal highness stepped from the
carriage. her Majesty, who had emus to the station, accom-
panied by the Prince of Hew, the Princess Helena, and
other members of the royal family, came on to the platform
to remiss likn. A number of the most respectable tuba-
hitanta were kindly admitted to the station by the South
Western authorities, to welcome the Prince's arrival. The
Prince, although he appears thin, was in excellent spirits.
and is much better health than could have been expected
after his recent Ulnas; sad he appears to have grown nearly
as tall as the Prince of Wales.

Hia Royal Higbee= the Duke of Cambridge had
a large circle to dinner as Monday evening at Gloucester
House, Ark-lane.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge aad Prisons May left their residence at St. Jaime's
Palace yesterday for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, to pass the
Wein!. . _

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The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses
Langley have left Lambeth Pales. for Addington Pork, Dear
Croydon, for the E.etar rem%

The Marquis of Lan&lowue, although still coo-
Goad to his residleaes M Berkeley-Num, is much better.

The Marquis of Salisbury has gone to visit his
estates in Lancashire. The marchioness and daughters left
yesterday for Buckhuret Park, Sussex, so a visit to the
Furl as•l Counts"; Delawarr.

The Marquis of Bristol and Ladies Hervey in-
tend to proloog their miles°. at Brighton until the 14th
instant.

The Berl of Ellanborough has left town for
Soothers Bowie, Cheltenham.
The Earl and Countess of Leicester have taken
a maosion is Upper Gromesor-etreet for a term.
The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliani and Ladies
Fitzwillime come to town on the 14th inst., from Watt.
worth Rowe, Yorkshire.

Field Manhal Lord Clyde has taken the late
Mr. dt. Leger's residence in Berkeley-squaw* for a term of
years.

The Right floe. Sir George Coroewall Lewis,
ILP., and Lady Theresa Lewis, left %eat noose yeeteeday
oo a visit to the Earl sod C 04114111111 of Clarsodoo, at The
Grove, mar Watford, for the meas.

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QIIKENEITOWN, Arm 1.
The Inman steamer City of Baltimore, which
arrived here this morning from New York on the
21st ult., brings 466,000 dollars in specie, 37 cabin
and 87 steerage passengers.

NEW YORK, Mawr 20, Moarmro.
(Per City of Bahumors.)

The Southern journals report that St. Helena,
25 miles in the rear of Port Hudson, was attacked
on the 9th, by the Federate, and that heavy firing
was heard on the 13th inst. This attack in the
rear of Port Hudson is supposed to have been
simultaneous with an attack in front from the
Mississippi.
The Confederates have erected formidable bat-
teries at Galveston, mounted with guns captured
from the Federal steamers Harriet Lane and West-
field. Three batteries are erected on the island
where the City is located, and Pelican Island is
fortified with equal strength.
The Federal fleet off Galveston, consists of the
steam frigate Brooklyn and four gun-boats. The
fleet approaches to within a mile and a-half of the
town, where the vessels anchor, and occasionally
throw shells into the town and forts ; but they can-
not bring their broadsides to bear, and have to
operate exclusively with their rifled pivot guns.
The Brooklyn sent a few shells into the town, set-
ting it on fire in three different places, but the fire
was soon extirguished. The Brooklyn was com-
pelled to withdraw, as the forts began to send shot
from their 15-inch rifled guns, one of which cut the
rigging. The Harriet Lane is up the river some
70 miles, where she is being iron clad.
The Confederates are said to be constructing five
gunboats at Selma, on the Alabama river. Two of
them are on their way to Mobile to receive their
guns, and all are to be ready by the Ist April. Two
are built for rams, and three for sea steamers.
Deserters from Savannah report that the Con-
federates have three iron-clad floating batteries at
Savannah, two of which are completed, and the
third is nearly ready.
Large numbers of troops have left Savannah for
Charleston, and large camps are organised at
Grahamville? Hardenville, Coosawitchie, and Poca-
taligo, to resist any advance in those directions, and
to have the troops so that they can easily be thrown
towards Savannah or Charleston, as one or other of
these cities is attacked. -

The peace resolutions passed by the New Jersey
Legislature protest against war waged for uncon-
stitutional or partisan purposes, or for the subjuga-
tion of States with a view to their reduction to a
territorial condition ; against military law and the
domination of military over civil law in States not
in insurrection • against arbitrary arrests and the
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act; against the
admission of new States into the Union by the
division of existing ones ; against the emancipation
proclamation and the expenditure of public money.
The New Jersey legislature believes that the
appointment of Federal Commissioners to meet
Commissioners from the insurgent States to con-
sider if any plan may be adopted, consistent with
the honour and dignity of the national govern-
ment, by which the present civil war may be
brought to a close, is not inconsistent with the
integrity, honour, and dignity of the Federal go-
vernment ; but as an indication of the spirit which
' animates the adhering states, which would iu any
event tend to strengthen America in the opinion of
other nations.

Hoping that the Southern States would recipro-
cate the peaceful indications thus evinced, and
believing that great benefits would arise from such
conference, the New Jersey legislature recommends 1
the subject to the Federal government, and requests 1
its co-operation thereon.
The resolutions will be forwarded to the Federal
government, and to the governors and legislatures
of other States, requesting them to give the subject
immediate attention.
A steamer arrived at Port Royal from Fer-
naudiva, Florida, reports that the force of 1,000
negroes which amended St. Mary's River on March
9, has met with a moat severe reverse, and probably
been captured. This negro foroe carried with it
several thousand muskets to supply all slaves who
could be incited to insurrection. If the report of
their capture proves true it is supposed that Colonel
Higginson and all the white officers who camraanded
them have been shot in accordance with Jefferson
Davis's proclamation.
The New York World says it is understood that
the New York shipbuilders decline taking contracts
to build eight thousand ton iron-clad vessels wanted
by government for fear of loss from the depreciation
of the currency. The contractors require thegovern-
meet to build by day-work, to which the Navy
Department will not consent. The vessels required
are designed to surpass the largest class of English
and French iron-clads.
Mr. Seward has given a state dinner to the Hay-
ti= Minister at Washington, at which the British,
Russian, French, and Prussian Ministers were
present.
The New York Tribune learns from Havana that
private advice" were received there that arrange-
ments had been made for the steamers Harriet
Lane, Alabama, and Florida meeting at a desig-
nated point, with a view to an attack upon the
California steamer from Aspinwall.
General Burnside has received his final instruc-
tions, and will leave for his new department imme-
diately. It is not publicly announced where he
will proceed to.
The appointment of Colonel Fry as provost-
marshal is said to be the prelude to the appoint-
ment of various provost-marshals throughout the
country, preparatory to enrolment under the Con-
scription Act, which it is supposed will commence
April 1. Colonel Fry is understood to be a man of
I character and discretion.
It is stated that government will sustain Federal
justice in Utah. The arrest of Brigham Young by
Judge Kinney is said to have been an arrangement
agreed upon between the two to test the constitu-
tionality of the antipolygarey law, and to create
the impression that there is no resistance to judicial
process in Utah.
In South Carolina, General Hunter, nine days
after his proclamation announcing the commence-
ment of the advance, had made no movement. On
the contrary, one of his positions has been threat-
ened by a dash from the Confederate lines.
It is stated that the Confederates have cut the
levees, and compelled one considerable corps of
General Grant's army before Vicksburg to re-
embark and retreat up the river, and a report is
also current that the whole expedition is on the
point of abandoning Vicksburg. This, if confirmed,
would point directly to a serious movement of
General Johnston's whole Confederate force against
General Roeencranz in Middle Tennessee, and lend
some colour to the fears of a Confederate invaaiou
in Keutncky.
Mr. Chane's financial trip to New York has not
yet borne visible fruits. His confidential adviser,
Mr. Walker, returned to Washington yesterday,
confident that the policy of a domestic or foreign
loan would very soon be publicly adopted.
Mr. Cyrus Field has addressed a large meeting
at the New York Produce and Stook Exchange,
upon the subject of the Atlantic cable. Resolu-
tions, declaring confidence in the success of the
undertaking, and appointing committees' to raise
the remaining capital necessary, were unanimously
pane.
Thed news which arrived this morning by way of
Fort Monroe, from the South, of the entry of the
French into Mexico, is not considered improbable
by those best informed of the previous progress of
affairs. The Mexican forces at Puebla were the
only real defence of the capital. The dissensions
known to exist between Generals Comonfort and
Ortega may well have resulted in breaking up the
Mexican army at that point.
Late previous intelligence from Vera Cruz had
indicated General Forey's intention of turning
Puebla and pushing directly for the capital.

Zither of these contingencies may have deter-
mined the fall of the city.
The afoot of the French successes upon the
Emperor Napoleon's American policy, it is here
supposed, will be to strengthen the Emperor in his
intention of amicable interference. The reserve of
the French press, in regard to Mr. Seward's reply to
IL Drouyn de Lhuys, is unfavourably interpreted.

- NEW YORK, )Mason 20, Arrimwoon.
The Federal army still ()maples its old quarters
at Murfreesboro. Several Federal waggons have
been captured within six miles of Nashville, and a
railroad train which left Louisville bad been cap- I
turgid at Woodburn.
All was quiet at Charleston on the 16th March.
Another iron-clad Monitor arrived there on the 14th.
The Confederates have made a raid upon Draines-
villa, Virginia, and captured 25 cavalry.
A Union democratic convention of all parties
has been held at Louisville, Kentucky. Reso-
lutions were adopted to devote all the State re-
sources to crush the rebellion, and requesting the
government and State authorities to take steps to
defend Kentucky against invasion.
It is reported that the rumour of a foreign loan
of 100,000,000 having been offered to the Secretary
of the Treasury was not true.
The Richmond papers of the 18th assert that a
despatch from Port Hudson was read in the Con-
federate Senate, which caused a livtly sensation ;
and the iiichmond Whig, of the same date, mourns
over reverses in the South-west. The New York
press consider these circumstances indicative of the
Confederates having received news unfavourable to
their cause.

NEW YORK, Maaca 20, EVICNING.
Rumours are circulating that the bombardment
of Charleston commenced on Tuesday last. These
rumours are,. however, perfectly unreliable.
Southern journals state that the Federal expedi-
tion on the Yazoo River consist,' of two formidable
gunboate, two rams with cotton defences, three
small gunboats, three batteries, 300 cavalry, and
10,000 men.
Snow has fallen on the Rappahannock, and the
weather is very cold.
The Richmond journals speculate upon an
immediate advance by General Hooker and say
that a decisive battle or retreat by General Lee
must be the consequence. If Lee's force is not
sufficient to check Hooker, Lee will fall back to a
point nearer Riohniond, and give battle to the
enemy further from his base.
Later advice. from Hilton Head assert that the
Negro Brigade, which was marching into Florida,
had captured several important points, and large
quantities of supplies. Another army corps, sup-
posed to be General Burnside's, was expected at
Hilton Head.

A Federal expedition with gunboats has pene-
trated into North Alabama as far as Tuscumbier,
which place they occupied. The Federal' after-
wards penetrated into the interior, capturing some
supplies.
A large Confederate force is concentrated at
Knoxville, Tenneesee and a number of the Confe-
derates have crossed. the Cumberland river at
Rowena, Kentucky, supposed to be an advance
force for the invasion of K.entucky.
Skirmishing continues in the neighbourhood of
Murfreesboro.
Van Dorn is said to be reinforced, and a portion
of his cavalry to have crossed the Duck river and
advanced towards Franklin, but were driven back.
The Mobile papers describe the Charleston de-
fences as impregnable, and say that no floating
thing can pass the batteries unharmed. The attack
will conclusively test tho power of iron-clads against
batteries.

Gold at Richmond is said to be at 400 per cent.
premium.
Another largo meeting has been held at New
York to ratify the Union league.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE
NEW YORK, MARCH 20, Eveznro.
Money easy, gold 54i ; Exchange on London,
Bankers' Bills, 171. Stocks inactive. New York
Central, 118 i • Illinois, 92 ; Erie, 79i. Cotton
inactive ; Mland Upland, 78. Flour and Wheat
dulL Corn and Provisions steady. Coffee, good
inquiry. Sugar and Molasses quiet. Crude Petro-1
lawn Market quiet, and prices unchanged.
NEW YORK, NAecn 21, Moaarteo.
It has been found necessary to send a military
expedition into one of the counties of Ohio to arrest
deserters. It was supposed that there would. be
organised resistance on the part of the inhabitants,
and that bloodshed would ensue.
• Refugees from Richmond report that theContede-
rate authorities recognise the possibility of a transfer
of the seat of war below Virginia.

..(TillEl DAY.)

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