The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-12 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

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PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Nov. IL
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has arrived
here on board the St. George.
The Cortes has been prorogued until the 2nd of
January, and will probably be afterwards dissolved.

GREECE.

IMSSINA, Nov. 11.

Greek journals received here contains, decree of
the provisional government convoking the Greek
Chambers for the 22nd December.

A despatch has been received announcing the
death of General Grivas.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
0011FU, Nov. 8.
Demonstrations have taken place here and at
Zante in favour of the English protectorate.
Several lonian municipalities have sent addresses
sympathising with the provisional government in
Greece.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. IL

The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes the
following statement :—" We believe that the foreign
powers have no right whatever to interfere in
America. We also believe that no other interven-
tion would be possible than one similar to the ad-
vice which Russia has constantly tendered in a
friendly spirit since the commencement of the
struggle."

SWITZERLAND.

13F.RNE, Nov. 1 .

In the elections yesterday for the grand council
of the canton of Geneva, the party of M. Fazy was
defeated.

The council now consists of 66 independent and
39 radical members.

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS. Nov. H.
The Chambers were opened to-day without any
State ceremony.
There was no speech from the throne.

A short sitting only was 'held, in the course of
which the elections of three new representatives
were confirmed.

The friends of Garibaldi will learn with satisfac-
tion that the situation of the ball is no longer doubt-
ful. It has been touched by • probe " armed '
in a manner suggested by Mr. Partridge. It is in
a position which will render extraction not difficult,
whenever a favourable moment admits of the
operation.

DEATH OF Mx. JONAS Wtßß.—We have to record
the death of the renowned breeder of sheep, Mr. Jonas
Webb, late of Rabraham, Cambridgeshire, which took place
on the evening of Monday. at the house of his brotherin-
law, Mr. H. Marshall, of Cambridge. About three weeks
ego, Mrs. Webb, being an invalid, was ordered a change of
scene by her medical attendants, and expressed a desire to
visit her brother, Mr. Marshall, and went to Cambridge
accordingly. Mr. Webb, visiting her, was induced to re-
main, he then being in hie usual, but not robust health. Mrs.
Webb got worse, and died on the sth instant, the &naive?...
nr7 of the birthday of her nom, who was to have been mar- REPEESENTATION OF SOUTHAMPTON. —Mr. George
ried on that same morning, but whose marriage was of Thompson addressed a public meeting at the Carlton
Conran ed. When Mr. Webb realised the idea that Rooms lest evening, over which Dr. Hearne, one of
all hopper Or le survival of his wife were over be fell into a the leaders of the advanced liberal party, presided.
nervous fever, never rallied, and died between 7 and 8 Pam The meeting was a very large and tumultuous one.
on Monday. on the 66th anniversary of his own birth, and Mr. Thompson spoke of the American rebellion, and
the day on which the remains of his wife were interred, denounced the Confederate States and slavery most empha.
Mr. Webb's physicians stated that they could have success- ticsllv. Mr. Alderman Rose, the new Lord Mayor of Los.
fully oombated the dhow, but were powerless in regard to doe, made his &Wit as a csodidate. Ha comes out as •
the mental shock. liberal conservative. lie arrived here this afternoon. There
ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIBUBAIICAL SOCIETY.— are now four candidates in the field, viz., Mr. Creasy,
The fellows of this learned society re-amembled in unusually Captain Mangles, Mr. George Thompson. and Aldermen
numben last evening, to hear a paper read by Dr. Rose.
Wiblin, F.R.C.S., her Majceity's quarantine officer at ROYAL Hoirrlcutzuwar. Socrrry.—The following
Soithampton, on Elephantiasis, a disease happily of rare is a list of the principal prises awarded at the chrysaathei.
occurrence in this country. The discussion was opened by mum show of this society yesterday :—Class 1. Six
Professor Ferguson, of King's College, who paid a well- large flowered, distinct varieties (open), Mr. C. ta:16,14d,
deserved compliment to the provincial surgeon . for the skill gardener to W. Fowler, Req., Tottenham-green, 3i. ; Mr.
evinced by him in performing the operation. Meters. J. Glover, gardener to R. C. Lepage, Esq., Brixton, 31.
Walton and Spencer Wells also spoke in high terms of the Clam 2. Three plants,=rowered, distinct varieties (arno-
paper, which received the thanks of the society. The pre• tours), Mr. C. ward, to W. Fowler, Fag., Totten-
paraticos and wax models illustrating the same were after- ham-gram, 11. ; Mr. . Glover, gardener to B. C. Lepage,
wards presented to the Hunterian Museum. Anotherler Req., Brixton, IL Class S. Six plants, Pompons, distiset
paper was read by Dr. Lee, of SL George's Hospital, which varieties (open), Mr. D. Hutt, Halfway-boos., Hackney-
prowls to a very animated discussion, the further con- I road, M. Mae 4. Three *lota, Pompons, distinct varieties
aideration of which was postponed until the next meeting. (amateurs), Mr. C. Ward, gardener to W. Fowler,
LAMBETH 8i1D06.--ID our account of the open- Tottenhamimen, ; Mr. I). Hutt, Halfway-home, Hack
ing of Immbeth Bridge, it war stated that the carriage nay-road, 11. Clue 5. Twelve cat blooms, distinct varieties
way is intended for light traffic only. But we are now in- (open), Mr. T. B. Robinson, 5, Chunk-rand, Islington, 11.
fmmeslibly go
that it
epos it .accommodate the kiwis,* trade that Clan 5. Miscellaneous collection of cat blooms (open),cui
' J. Cattail, narserymati, Weetertam, 11. 10e.

PRINCESS'S.

The little comic drama in two acts produced at
this house on Monday night, under the title of One Good
Turn Deserves ArtotAer, has all the merita and all the
faults of modern French pieces. It shows us nothing new
either in plot or people, but is sparkling, well-balanced, sad
not too long. The characters are quite as conven-
tional as chess-men, anti move on appointed sod
familiar squares, but they are effectively contrasted, and are
never tiresome, which is more than we can always say of
native productions.
The acting throughout the piece is extremely good,
having • hearty strength which breaks through all obstacles
to success. Mies Amy Sedgwick, as the blarJuniith's wife,
has a part which requires bright looks, a little sentiment, •
dash of humour, and a cheerful voice. Such • part could
not well be in better hands. Mr. George Vining maker the
village blacksmith • very effective, muscular, and noisy
character. His dialect is hazy, belonging to no particular
county or country, though intended to be rural, but criti-
cism is disarmed by the determined vigour of the impersona-
tion. All the points and eccentricities of the character
are delivered to the audience, like the blows of • sledge.
hammer on an anvil.

Mr. Stephens performed old Sir Timothy Alleorts in the
best style of comedy, and Mrs. Henry Manton, in the part
of a kin‘bembed, vulgar old lady, the mister et Sir Timothy,
was delightfully natural and humorous. The other cha-
racters were fairly sustained ; Mien Marian Jones almost
succeeding in the difficult task of making Lady Alberta in-
teresting, and the piece ought to be attractive to audiences
in search of amusement. The company at this house is
large and wall selected, and it may do much to render legi-
timate and illegitimate comedy popular.
The piece is honestly stated in the life to be taken from
the French, the adapter being Mr. Maddison Morton.

THE CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER ON
VOLUNTEERS.

The ceremony of presenting the prizes to the
successful competitors of the 13th and 14th companies of
the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Volunteers (St. Martin's
division) took place last night at the Freemason.' Taverns
by the Rev. W. G. /JUMPER; the vicar of the pariah.
Subsequently a supper took place in the large ball, at
which the Right Hon. W. E. GLADSIONZ, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, presided.
" The Health of her Majesty" having been drunk with
great enthusiasm,
The Clumsiest maid—Gentlemen, I shall ask you to drink

" The Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and
the rest of the Royal Family." At all times when this toast
is given in these particular terms, i.e., when the nation is
blessed with an heir apparent to the throne, the Prince of
Wales forms the chief interest in the tout; but at this
period peculiar circumstances combine greatly to heighten
this interest. In the Ent place, hers about to contract an
alliance which, for us all, forms the most critical, the meet
decisive circumstance of our lives, as regards their happi-
nem or unhappiness, their useful or their detrimental
and useless character. And, gentlemen, we have the
satisfaction of believing that that alliance which the
prince is about to form does not resemble marriage.'
which have frequently been arranged for and contracted on
the part of persons occupying his illustrious station, where
motives of policy and public considerations have, if I
may say so, crushed out and trampled down the affections
and the hum►n heart. We believe that the marriage
which the Prince of Wales is about to contract is a mar.
rage which, while on every publio and national ground
it may be thoroughly satisfactory to us all, is likewise a
marriage in which his choice has bees se freely made and his
affection have been as ardently, truly, and eating; given
as if he bad moved in the humblest walks of life. (Mean.)
And, gentlemen, we have seen by happy experience, in the
ease of his parents, how fortunate, how blessed a comlAna-
tiop it is when, with the elevated station of those who are
called to sit on the throne, is combined that perfection of
domestic attachment which makes the same household,
that is the most eminent and most splendid in the
realm, likewise tho roc st remark►ble example and the most
perfect model of domestic virtues. (Cheers.) That which
we have seen in the last generation we are permitted to
hope for in the next, and the circumstances of this marriage
contract give us reason to hope without presumption, yet
with the utmost confidence, that this happy prospect may
be realised.
The toast was responded to with all the honours.

The CHAIRMAN again rose, and proposed "The
Navy, Army, and Volunteers." Two of these ser-
vices, he said, are very ancient, the other is a ser-
vice not so ancient, and yet, though not so ancient
under the name it bears, in reality, perhaps, it is as
old as either of them, because, after all, in periods of real
crisis and danger, the main reliance of Old England has not
been merely ou professional services, however distinguished,
but on the patriotism, spirit, courage, and self-devotion of
its people. (Cheers.) If we go beck as far, at any rate, as the
time of Queen Elizabeth, it was not then in regular and
well organised services that that extraordinary sovereign,
whose name, I hope, will always retain • high place in the
estimation and gratitude of Engliehmen—(elmers)—it was
not in particular and highly organised services, how-
ever meritorious, that the rump reliance of this country,
under Providence, was placed. It we.in the deep attach-
ment of every Englishman—an attachment founded and
rooted alike in his heart and understanding to the laws
sod institutions of his country. It was in that lay the
greatest of all our resources, and our surest hope, that what-
ever amount of trial might be put on the country, yet the
demands made on the people of that country would be
fairly and fully met. (Cheers.) Since that time, gentle-
men, we have seen both the navy and the army of this
country sesame a permanent form, and in compliance with
the requisitions end exigencies of modern society become
portions of our fixed institutions. As portions of the fixed
institutions of the country they have at all times held
• high place in our esteem, regard, and admiration.
We have always found them thoroughly efficient for the
purpose for which they are appointed, namely, the purpose
of maintaining the honour, the security and the safety of
our country. We have never found them, OD the other
hand, exposing as to dangers which sometimes are amo-
ciated with those institutions—l mean the dangers to those
liberties which we prize more dearly than even our own
lives. (Cheers.) Unhappily, gentlemen, there are in
Europe armies who have never seen and never faced any
adversary in the field except their fellow-subjects and fel-
low.citizens. (Rear, hear.) Such is not the case in the
army of England, and whenever an Englishman becomes •
soldier from having been a citizen he becomes something
eke he was not before • but he does not Deese to be what he
was before. He has: the same attachment as if he
still remained a civilian to the laws and institutions of the
country, and he pays the same respect to its magistrates
and its constituted authorities as if he had never put a
red coat oo his back. (Cheers.) He knows gentlemen—
a soldier knows and • sailor knows—that he is not the
hired instrument of despotism for the purpose of support-
ing laws and governments that are odious to the people
amongst whom he exists; but that he is bond jrde
appointed for • purpose to which his attention
ought to be devoted, namely, that of defending against
foreign foes the shores, the hearths, the altars, and the
homes of England. (Loud cheers.) I am afraid, gentle-
men, there are countries—aye, that at this day there are
portions of Europe—where, if they could gather together
such an assembly of their citizens as I now see before
me, the toast of the navy, or at any rate the toast
of the army, of those countries would not meet with
a very enthusiastic reception. (Chasm.) But such is not
the case withio these walla, and such is not the case in any
assemblage of Englishmen that may perchance on whatever
occasion be gathered together from one end of the country
to the other. Under whatever circumstances it may occur,
never can the toast of "The Army and Navy of England"
be proposed without a perfect certainty on the part of him
who proposes it that it will meet with • reception not merely
formal and decorous, but as hearty and as enthusiastic
as even that given to the name of the Sovereign her-
self. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, such being the
case with thaw distinguished services so well tried in
other times and in our own, and never found wanting
on trial, we have now to direct our attention for one
moment to that special occasion which brings us here to •
night. We meet to celebrate—in some sense to enjoy, but
we meet to celebrate—the institution of that volunteer force
which is not less characteristic, I will venture to say, of
this country, and perhaps pot Ism condwiivetoits permanent
security than even the more regular, or at any rats more
maturely or more liberally organised services of the army
and navy. I won't pretend to say that I mu able to form an
opinion that a reason for the existence of the volunteer force
is to be found in the special dangers besetting the country.
I may, perhaps, be too sanguine. I am certainly not one of
those who believe that the curse of war has diseppsared from
the face of the earth. If there be Amon us any who have
sherielsed sack food delusions, unhappily we have but to
look to tie land inherited by our kitk sad kin is teat to moo

that the horrors of war, unmitigated in their character, and
almost unexampled in their extent, still affect branches of
the human family with which in blood and feeling we are
most nearly Imo mooted ; bat yet I do venture to believe that
some progress is being made by the mutual intercourse, by
the kindly offices which commerce begets, by the facili-
ties' of communication, by the ioCTOGNI of rational
education, and by the free circulation of the
knowledge of public affairs which has become to
us almost a portion of the atmosphere which we
breathe. Without indulging in any over-sanguine dreams,
I cannot but hope that at any rate on this side of the
her—and God grant that it may also prove so on the
other—there is gradually spreading through the minds of
men some dearer coevietion, or, at ell events, some fuller
pieces like the wild beasts of the forest. (Cheers.)
unglimseionpatidthe oorord,"""and "sot tali: intearit.resogtmonce maneadhareer to
But still we mast not preemie to anticipate the time
—God knows whether it is to arrive at all, and we
cannot hope that it will arrive very soon—when
men will lay aside their arms and convert the spear
into the pninimphook and the sword into the plough.
share. I think it is the universal osevistion in this
country to which I give uteenace when I say that the
manner in which the call Ma bees met durieg the last few
years for an effort on the part of English citizens, by their
own personal exertions, and also some amount of personal
sacrifice, to supply the country with a new arm of defence,
of all others the moat constitutional, d all others the
least likely to create alarm abroad, because of the most
essentially defensive character—the manner in which the call
has been met has given us • new aseurmios, if say assur-
esea were wanted, that whatever may be the effects
sod the fruits of pesos among oureilves, the sealant spine
of Englishmen still continues to animate the breast of every
man, in whatever class of English society, aid will in the
hour of need be found
.equal to whatever emergency may
arise. Gentlemen, it Is not for me to speak to you in
detail on the prospects of the volunteer force. There is no
doubt that it Is no easy matter to maintain a permanent
force of this description. This is not a case where we can
Iproceed as in the regular service& lem not about to enter,
and you will not expect or desire me to enter on the -
ticular measures which have meetly been reeommseded
All I venture to say on the part of her Majesty's govern-
ment is this, and I believe they value the volunteer force
as highly as it is valued by the country at large—(cheers)
—and every prop:eel relating to its welfare is certain to
reoeive from them the moat eareld and most sazioas con-
sideration. (Renewed cheers.) It is not easy to say to
what point you may securely go in aiding the volunteer
force with public serialises. It is quite evident that if
it is to retain its character of a volunteer force,
that is, if it is to retain the character which im-
it its principal value, it must in the main
Lazet to
self-reliant and self-supporting. (Loud cheers.) It will
be a matter of some difficulty to determine the point to
which that principle—that emential principle—of indepen-
dence must be carried, and the point at which public aid
may be given. But the wisdom of parliament and the
best efforts of the government will be given to the consi-
deration of that question from time to time,sod whatever
may be the issue of that consideration in uard to this re
that particular, I fervently hope, as you hope, that this
force may be maintained in a state of efficiency—in that
degree of efficiency which has already made it the hollow of
the country, and • new guarantee of its security. (Cheers.)
It is impossible not to see that in many ways the
institution of the volunteer force has worked well on
British society. I must say that if I felt that in other
placesl never felt it, more than he the room or place in which
I now address you. This apartment in which we sit is an
apartment which has been commonly used for the purpose
reoeiving gatherings of people who represented, for
whatever purpose may be immediately in question, the en-
tire metropolis, and I have the satisfaction of seeing it
crowded from end to sod with the volunteer force, and with
thosewho immediately take an interest in the volunteer force,
not of the entire metropolis, but of one only amidst its
almost countless parishes. (Cheery) Well, it is honour.
able to the parish of Bt. Martin that such a meeting
should be gathered together on such an occasion. It is
not only honourable to that parish, bat I think it must
suggest to the mind of all of us the important truth, that
the constitution of the volunteer foroe has tended to sup-
ply us with a new tie of social order—a new bond between the
different classes of the community. If there has been
up to this moment a defect in the military institutions of
this country—l won't call it a fault, because a fault it is
not—but if there has been a blank which has been required
to be supplied, it is this, that while the officers of the
army have been recruited from the clue of the gentry,
and while the rank and file of the army have been created
from the men of the population, them was a void between
those deem which remeined to be filled. (Uniers.b=le
the pea sad istellimmt middle class of
12.-Iniclass which I perhaps more than any other, cer-
tainly not leis than any other, (characteristic of the country,
and that class which appears to acquire under our laws
and institutions progressively from year to year an
increase of influence and power, se well as extension
in numbers—there seemed to be, until the insti-
tution of the volunteer force, comparatively speaking, I
may almost venture to say, no place for the members of
that der in the military service of the country.
Now, I think it is a great pity that the members of that
class who are certainly not deficient in the spirit that RlD-
mate. the rest of the country, should have no vent for that
spirit—that no scope. should be afforded to the feelings of •
body of persons so important. At any rate it was the
great hammer and the peculiar felicity of the volunteer
fetes, aurally in the cities and large towns of the country,
to afford an opening to all men without distinction of clue
to give what time and energy they could to contribute toward.
the security of their country, and to give them likewise an
opportunity, while they contributed to that security, of
finding themselves brought into closer and more kindly
union one with another. I think it may be fairly said, so
far as I have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted
with the volunteer force in various parts of the country,
that it has in a very eminent degree answered that
purpose of uniting the members of the different
classes of the country in a relation which is at
once warm, kindly, and free, as among themselves, and
likewise, by the nobleness of its object, of giving a new
guarantee of the safety of the nation at large without
the possibility of offence. (Cheers.) I trust that you will 111
believe that those with whom I am immediately associated
in the councils of the wows are deeply impressed with
those feelings which I have expensed, and are sincerely
desirous in their sphere end on their part to cherish and
mature that institution, in the cherishing and maturing
of which you have borne a part much more essential. I
rejoice to hear of the flourishing condition of the volunteer
force of this particular parish, and I trust that the
feeling of Englishmen, without distinction of class
or party, is that the prospects of maintaining this
farce as a permanent portion at the institutions of the
country are prospects on which we may cheerfully and
safely rely. At any rate, lam convinced that so long as
the volunteer force may exist we may feel immured of this,
that in the event, which tied forbid, of the day of danger
arriving—a day when we may be called upon not merely
to undergo personal exertiqas red eacrifices, which would
be cheerfully borne, but to thud side by side and shoulder
to shoulder with the regular army is the defence of the
country—on that day I feel perfectly convinced, whatever
may be the pressure, whatever may be the trial, you would
not be found wanting ; but you would, on the contrary, be
found worthy of a glorious brotherhood in arms with those
who have established for themselves a name and a fame
second to now throughout the length and breadth of the
world. (Loud cheers.)
The feast having been drunk,
COlOOOl WOOD returned thanks for the army, and Lll d
RAND:LAGS for t.h• volunteer:a. - -
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