The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Isom ous owx oosauseossirr.)

PARIS, THURSDAY DISHING.

It cannot, I think, be reasonably doubted that
the publication by the Moniteur of M. Dronyn de
Lhuys' despatch to London and St. Petersburg is a
confirmation of the news that the English govern-
ment refuses to be dragged into an intervention
between the Northern and Southern provinces of the
tinted States. The Emperor's object probably is
to shake off the dust from his feet as a testimony
against England, to got credit for a monopoly of
humane and chivalrous feeling, while he throws
upon the British cabinet the odium of indifference
to bloodshed, or, worse still, of a fiendish delight
in a civil war which tends to weaken maritime and
commercial rivals. The France and other govern-
ment prints abound in assertions or insinuations
that the conduct of England can only be
accounted for by some such motives as
the above. Butiler's Correspondence, evidently
outrunning the constable, proposes that France and
Russia should go on with the proposed mediation
by themselves. There is no chance of that. The
combination, as conceived in Paris, depended en-
tirely upon the co-operation of England, which, it
was calculated, would be obtained by the help of
Russia. Now, as to Russia herself—although it
continues to be hardily asserted that she has ac-
cepted the proposal which England has rejected—l
greatly doubt the fact. The recent article in tl.e
St. Petersburg Journal, which is a purely official
publication, said that no intervention in America
could be useful beyond the friendly counsels which
Russia had repeatedly tendered already. That
article was dated Nov. 11, and was plainly intended
to shadow forth the answer of the government to
M. Drouyn de Lhuys' despatch, which bears date
Oct. 30. No doubt the diplomatic communica-
tions between St. Petersburg and Paris are
at this moment particularly oivil, and it
is unlikely that the Emperor's overtures
should have met with a flat refusal. But
although Russia, for the sake of humouring a whim
of the Tuileries, might not object once more to
tender, in company, advice which she has hitherto
offered in vain by herself, the inference from the
manifesto of the Journal de St. Petersburg is that
she is not disposed to join in such a demonstra-
tion as that proposed by M. Drouyn de Lliuys,
which, if not very serious, would be very ridicu-
lous. Russia is certainly far too lukewarm a con-
vert to the vague and perilous intermeddling which
Napoleon HI. desires to initiate, to go on with
lit unless England can be got to share the responsi-
bility. I therefore consider the scheme as abor-
ttive. I attach no importance to the statement of
' the Patric that no decision was come to at
the cabinet council of Tuesday, that Lord
Russell opposed Lord Palmerston, and in-
sisted on a week's adjournment in order
to wait for despatches from Lord Lyons and
the result of the New York elections. That is
word for word the same story that is told (as the
telegraph informs us) by a secession organ in Lon-
don this morning. The news in each case may be
, traced to Jefferson Davis's active agents, Messrs.
Slidell and Mason.

The Prance, no doubt better informed than the
Patric, asaumes that the refusal of England is defi-
nitive, and thereupon spits a great deal of venom.
It dwells with much eloquence upon the hardened
wickedness of England in turning a deaf ear to the
"moderation, justice, and good sense" of the
Emperor's " conciliatory " proposals. It asks a
great many charitable questions as to what can
possibly be the motives for English delight in
seeing fellow-creatures cutting each other's throats.
Does England wish to see the combatants
exterminate each other, and so remove from ber
sight a rival of whom she has always been jealous ?
Does she fear to offend Mr. Lincoln, and so provoke

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MR. COBDEN, M.P., IN BLACKBURN.

Mr. Cobden visited Blackburn on Wednesday
last, to carry out the proposition which he has made to the
Manchester Central Executive Committee. The hon. gen-
tleman arrived here by the 10.15 train from Manchester,
and wee cordially received at the railway station by the
ex-mayor and several other active members of the local
relief committee. The chief object of hie visit was to ascer-
tain for himself the measures which are adopted here
to relieve the needy, and to see the effects of their opera-
tion, especially such es had for their especial object the
employment of the young of both sexes. Immediately on
his al rival he was conducted to the Soup Kitchen Indus-
trial School, and the several sewing and educational classes
connected with the various religious bodies. He also
visited the Town Hell, and examined the store-room of the
committee, from which they are about to begin the
free distribution of a large collection of wooed-hand and
new dothing which has been purchased and contributed.
It was also explained to the member for Rochdale that
the large assembly room of the hall was kindly lent by the
authorities for the purposes of sewing classes connected
with the perish and four other churches, but as the females
do not generally occupy the hall on Wednesdays, it being
somewhat inconvenient, he did not witness the interesting
sight of 550 young women engaged in sewing, knitting,
darning of straw, plaiting, &c., there carried on by the
factory girl Mr. Cobden next accompanied the ex-Mayor
to his cotton manufactory, &c., and proceeded by the 12.20
p.m. train to Livesey, an adjoining township, in which
there are many unemployed, and made all necessary inqui-
ries there respecting the relief of the destitute. With all
these visits he °spewed himself much pleased with the
efforts made by the army of voluntariats having the
cause of humanity at heart. The hoc. gentleman was
made acquainted with the determination of the relief
committee to that week allow one shilling per head
to every young man over fourteen years for
attending any of the LUISIOTOUS school now opened
to them free of cost ; also of their resolution to
assist any denomination in procuring suitable tutors for the
unemployed. Just as the member for Rochdale was pre-
paring to leave for the railway station, the Ewood Bridge
fife and drum band came up, followed by a troop of unem-
ployed young men attending the various educational claws
opened for their benefit, and accompanied him to the
station, loudly cheering.

The Leeds Church Institute and Sunday School
Association last night held • soli* in the Town-hall,
at which Dr. Longley, the first bishop of the diocese,
but now Archbishop of Canterbury, presided, his grace
being also supported by the Bishop of Ripon and
other clerical dignitaries. The archbishop availed him-
, self of the opportunity which this, probably his last
public appearance in the north of England, afforded, of
saying • few parting words to those amongst whom for
more than 20 years he had laboured with so much pleasure
and profit. He assured his hearers that to the last day of
his life he should cherish the recollection of the uninter-
rupted happiness which during that time fell to his lot, and
in warm and sympathetic terms bade them farewell, express-
ing his earnest hope for their spiritual and temporal welfare.
The One-hundred-and-Niuth Session of the
Society of Arta will commence on the 10th, when Sir
Thomas Phillips, F.G.S., chairman of the council, will
deliver the opening address.
Lady Frero is making efforts in Bombay to in-
duce the wives of the native gentry to meet her in public.
Bombay is a better place for such an experiment than
Calcutta or Madras, the native oommunity being much more
public-spirited and enlightened. The Indu Prakasle
translated in a Bombay paper, remarks on the plan—" the
great drawback is that Hindoo ladies are not educated,
They do not know how to sit or behave in • durtar.
Native ladies will only stare at each other and sit silent.
The case is different with European ladies They are clever
sod intelligent, skilled in dancing, music, and the fine ruts.
When such opposite natures are mixed together, it is not
possible that mutual sympathy should awaken in each
other." The tensile system, according to which in Calcutta
Eegliah ladies visit Hiodoo families and teach them, suc-
meth in Calcutta, but it requires on the part of such ladies
a knowledgewiththe
ofth e
married vernacular,
which few (says the Friend
of India)
life can afford to acquire.
The Chamber of Commerce of Antwerp, at its
last sitting, inscribed in the procts ocrbagof its proceedings,
" that it unanimously participsted in the painful impression
produced in Antwerp by the reception given by the King to
the communal council."
A letter from Suez, in the Movimento of Genoa
of the 10th, announces that M. do Lamps, on his return,
found the works of the canal far advanced. The bottom
of the usual has now been sunk to the level of the sea,
and now only requires being rendered uniform to let the
waters of the Mediterranean into lake Timsah.