The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 18612:'

IN T tits NATI 0 N • L ZXHI B I TI ON. he hint at some shadowy and portentous treaty
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sunssee& The letter eatities the owner hs an Wwwilite
to use Gomm er ia• Rawl nerneelearal Soddy, ' sort of common action in Italy between the Cabi-
lailadleg the newer slows POW on rweimealm nets of London and Vienna. The object of these
Cease for Ala[ the Versa Takata oral be obtained at
La la. 01.001$11. va smelt ridiculous rumours has obviously been to weaken
B..Sialre• =thatstat.b."ltr.lttitiomdZlNdt"litwa:, English " influence " in Italy, as if England
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M.. sane caseif* crass Cheques or Cavalry
all bs reseleaL sale than that of disinterested counsels and un-
arms lishets may mho be obtained at
TM lead Berlieettarel Swirly, Swat [eminent. W. selfish sympathies. Were •a Tory government in
Swill Levingess Mamma, W. power at the present moment it is beyond a doubt
The lbsciety ad Arta, John strra Adripht W C.
errant Palace Ticket Office, 2. Lilacs" sin. Strand, W.C. that Lord MaLattalltiaY would already have Matt-
awan's Ticket ore,-, St. Jon.'''. ha, AA Plecadilly, W.
lillsitiTs LISTat7,ES. Chapel wino.. Brierare-squata. ~w. aged to persuade all the Cabinets in Europe that
14osodo Library. I, At. Jamm's dent, S.W. he should regard the downfall of the Temporal
Watertee's Laney, [nightaleidge. S.W.
LW" Pon awl Co . a iteyal Exchange, LC. Power as a " revolutionary" proceeding which
Lath. Protege, and to., SE, Chesyside, E.C. could not expect the concurrence of England.
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IL W. Meier, 19, Old Bond stn.-et, W. After the words that fell from Mr. GLADSTONE
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Crust bode, and Wood, eel, Regent-street, W.
W. sad Lord PALMERSTON in the House of Commons
Chappell and Co.. t 9. New coed-'treat, W. it will hardly be in the power of the Pays or the
She. and Co., T. 7, Southampton-row, Rusaellequare, W.C.
J. Roberts. 2, AnOwlia-row, Pimlico. S.W. Pat rte to pretend that the continued violation of
smith and Son, news agent& ISt Strand, W.C., and the Boob
Mails at Illas principal Railway Stations, the principle of non-intervention at Rome is even
tacitly acquiesced in by the Liberal Ministers of
England. We trust that the outspoken voice of
the British Parliament will lend no ineffectual aid
to the great national party in Italy, who claim for
their country the simple right to possess itself in

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Despatches were received yaulawity at the Colonisl-odiee
from the governors of the Narth MaarWs provinces mad
Bermuda. Deepatches Inn soot to the Lord High Com-
missioner of the looks bleak mad to the governors of
the West India lamas and Midi Columbia.

the bishops. The only rational way of interfering
with them in France is to hold them strictly and
equitably to obedience to the law. At'Rome, if
the Emperor were to abandon his noxious protec-
tion of the temporal power, they could do no harm
to France.
I have seen a private letter from Naples, which
speaks of an extraordinary movement among the
Muratists there. Placards are stuck up at night
bearing the inscription, " Viva Joachim Murat,"
"Napoli et Murat," "I battagli di Murat."
IThe Murat party, as you well know, is perfectly
insignificant in Naples, but these placards emanate
from paid agents, and show that the pretender is
still on the watch to take advantage of and pro-
mote a catastrophe.
The Bourse has about lost the ground it gained
yesterday. The Rents fell 20c. both for cash and
I account, closing in each caws at 70fr. 40c.
Mobilier fell fife. The Italian Loan was without
change. The Orleans and Western railways rose
2fr. 50c. each ; and Eastern, lfr. 25c. ; the other
lines were from lir. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. lower.

LL BT INTELLIGENCE
MO MEXICAN EXPEDITION.
The Paris papers of to-day publish % despatch,
dated the 3rd ult., from Mr. Seward, Foreign
Minister of the United States, addressed to the re-
presentatives of the Union abroad, making known
the opinions of the Federal government relative to ,
the affairs of Mexico. While sooepting the deals- I
ration of the expeditionary powers, that they in-
tend
to reserve the absolute independence of
the Mexicans, the American government be-
lieve it their duty to disabuse the minds
of those who are disposed to counsel the,
establishment of a constitutional monarchy in
Mexico. The American Secretary endeavours to
prove that a monarch, especially one of foreign,
origin, could not count upon a solid throne in
Merle. He shows that the European powers
would have not only to found this monarchy, bat
constantly to maintain it. Such an intervention,
he argues, would be a permanent menace alike
for the Mexicans and for all the inhabitants of the
American continent who live iu a republic. Mr.
Seward observes that, in the opinion of the
president of the government which ho represents,
the emancipation of the American oontinent from
European control has been the principal feature
of the last half century, and that a revolution
in a contrary sense has no chance of success. 11

M. de Lesseps has arrived in Paris from Suez,
and of course brings flourishing news of the pro-
gress of the canal.
Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M. P. , arrived this morn-
ing from London, and alighted at the Hotel
Mirabeau, Rue de la Pau-
Giraud de Gatebourse was convicted yesterday
gf the forgeries of Bank of France notes, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life.

WIKATRZR ItSPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

THURSDAY, APUL 1; II a.r.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

As the day approaches for opening the Exhibition,
and the arrangements for the ceremonial, after
many changes, seem to be at last finally settled, the
question of whether Thursday, the Ist of May, is
to be a metropolitan holiday naturally presents
itself. The appointment of the extra royal com-
mission for the opening appeared in yesterday's
Gazette, and the Corporation of London, with many
distinguished individuals and bodies, are daily
signifying their determination to be present at the
ceremonial by purchasing season tickets. The pub-
lic interest in the undertaking hourly increases as
the work of preparation draws near a conclusion,
and the paragraphs and articles which have been
appearing for several months past in the foreign
papers have already bad the effect of seuding a vast
number of foreigners to London. The seventeen or
eighteeu thousand foreign exhibitors have a great
attractive power over their friends and countrymen—
and even the two thousand distant colonial exhi-
bitors are not without a following. The select bend
of English exhibitors (with a few exceptions) are
doing their best to represent their country worthily
at the industrial congress of nations, and if reason-
ably liberal railway prices are put forward during
the summer, our provincial visitors will be as
numerous as the increase of population, railroads,
and exhibition attractions warrants us in expecting.
In 1851, the let of May was kept as a gestial
holiday, and it was estimated that at least a million
persons collected outside the Crystal Palace. The
industrial gathering then was so far a novelty, that
many worthy persons regarded it with dread ; and
the police and army were concentrated in
and about London as if in expectation of
a civil war. No one—not even the few
obstructive(' amongst the commissioners of 1851—
is bold enough to declare that the first
exhibition was final, and not to be surpassed, or
that arts, manufactures, and commerce have stood
still for the last eleven years. Without begrudging
Captain Fowke one penny of the money he has
fairly earned, we are all pretty well agreed that
the building is not as happy in conception as it
might have been ; but, setting the cage on one side,
there can be little doubt that the bird will be rare,
valuable, and interesting. The invitations that
have gone out to all the world in the name of her
Majesty's commissioners have been promptly and
heartily responded to, and the twenty thousand
foreign and colonial exhibitors who have sent their
goods from every corner of the globe are certainly
entitled to that English mark of respect which is
conveyed through the medium of a public holiday.
England is undoubtedly the hardest worked nation
in the world, and London is most probably
the hardest-worked city in England, and as
international exhibitions only come once in
ten or eleven years, there is no good economical
reason why theyshould not be welcomed cheerfully.
Year after year passes by, and nothing breaks fuel
round of ceaseless labour but Good Friday and
Christmas Day ; and without advocating that
happy state of idleness which exists in cities where
daily newspapers come out calmly in the afternoon
after being quietly edited in the morning, we think
that the toiling, perspiring, Anglo-Saxon, would
be none the worse for a few more holidays. In this
country we are governed by precedents in almost
every action of life, and the treatment of interna-
tional exhibitions should form no exception. What
was done in 1851 should be repeated to the letter
in 1882—improved upon if possible—in which case
there will be no business transacted on the Ist of
May which is not absolutely necessary and unavoid-
able.
The Commissioners have been joked about their
latest official publication, in which they state
in substance that the quality of the dress which
each visitor wears will regulate the quality of the seat
which he will receive on the day of opening.
This new order of merit which they seem bent
upon founding must be very pleasing to tailors,
and it will certainly add to the effect of the
picture on the Ist of May. The ladies will, of
course, belput in the front ; and let us hope that the
day will be fine and that their costume will be as
gay as a flower-show in the Horticultural-gardens.
Crinoline is a new invention since 1851 ; it will
cause a loss of many hundreds of pounds sterling
to the commissioners in the space which it will rob
them of during the exhibition, and it ought, there-
fore, to lend a grace to the approaching ceremony.
There is no authority in the report that any ladies
will be required to appear in mourning. They may
appear in ordinary morning dress with bonnets.
The refreshment rooms are now nearly finished
—thanks to the energy and remonatrances of both
English and foreign contractors—and in a few days
the two great rival schools of cooking will be open
in the building. Messieurs Veillard and Co. have
for some weeks been supplying their hungry
customers with diners d la caste on the French
side ; and Messrs. Morrish and Co. have been
anxiously waiting to do tho same ou the English
side. The refreshment arrangements seem to be
very liberally planned, and the contractors promise
to carry them out with spirit, although they have
had endless difficulties thrown in their way by
architects and builders.
The hanging in the English picture gallery is now
nearly completed, and the work inthe foreign gallery
is getting well forward. The sculpture seems to be
either very backward in coming in, or in being
placed, and this part of the show will certainly not
be fully ready by the day of opening. Many of
the works, being heavy and valuable, have to be
moved with great care, and we do not envy Mr.
Oldfield, his task or his responsibility.
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