The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

THE WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1864.

ebt COWL

LATEST INTELLIUENCE.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Maus 22.

(agorm'a Tzr.aanits.)
AMERICA.

Yesterday afternoon the Queen drove out in a
carriage arid four. To atteadanee were the Counter of
ezledoo and the How. Mrs. Brace. Lord Charles Fitzroy
Weeded on horseback.

The Bremen passed Queenstown at 3.30 a.m.
She brings 9 passengers for Southampton, 13 for
Havre, and 85 for Bremen, and 1,760 &As. in
specie for Bremen.
(Per the Bremen via Reche's Point.)
NEW YORK, MARCH 11, EVIIIING.
General Sherman's return to Vicksburg is con-
firmed. He penetrated thirty-five miles beyond
Meridian, destroying all railroads. He lost 500
men.

Her Majesty visited the Windsor Union Poor Hoax, and
inspected the establishment.
The Hon. and Vary Rev, the Dean of Windsor and Mrs.
Wellesley, and the Rev. J. Mum, Vicar of Old Windsor,
met the Queen, and conducted her Majesty over the buildL•g.
The Orand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strati, atiendod
by Lady Caroline Coat and Lient..Colonel Clifton, arrived
at the Lkietle yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty,
and returned to London to-day.
Viscount Sydney also arrived, and had the honour of
dining with the Queen, the King of the Belgians, and the
Royal Family.

No important military movements have taken
place.
An amendment to the gold bill has been passed
is the Senate, authorising Secretary Chase to sell
the surplus gold in the treasury. The amendment
will have to pass the }louse of Representatives
before becoming law.

The Prince of Wiles rode on horseback yesterday morn-
ing, attended by Lieut.. Colonel KeppeL
The Prioress of Wake, attended by Count/me de Grey,
took a carriage drive in the afternoon.
Prince John of Glocksburg, attended by Baron Gulden.
crone, took leave of the Prince and Princess of Wales
yesterday evening, and left Marlborough-house for the
continent by the South Eastern Ramey.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Keppel, accompanied Prince John to the railway station.
Mr. Henry Weigel] has been honoured with sittings for
his portrait of the Princess of Wales.

Despatches were received yesterday at the ColimialOfflos,
from the Governors of British Colombia and Malta, and
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF
WALES TO THE QUZEN.-(THIS DAY.)

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor, left Marl-
borough House this morning on • visit to the Queen
►t Windsor Castle. On this 0001116011 their royal highnesses,
who will remain at Windsor for about a week, will
reside in a splendid suite of apartments on the south side of
the Coale, situated between the Edward 111. and Lan-
caster Towers, and near the apartments occupied by the
King of the Belgians, who is at present residing in the York
Tower.

The Earl and Comatose of Wilton will entertain
a large circled victors during the Crortoth Park race
meeting.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will return
to-day from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and
will thee go to Broadlanda, Haat., for the parliamentary
ream

Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Granville Vernon re-
ceived at dinner, Let eveping, at their residence in Bel-
grave-inure, hi Excellency the Minister for the Nether-
lands, Viscount and Viscountess Neville, Lady Price, Sir
Roderick Murchison, Hoe. Mr.. Towline, Mr. and Mrs.
Whitbread, Mr. and Mrs. Roberta, Mr. Martinau.

SIR ROWLAND MILL AND THE TREASURY.

THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE.
The following telegram from Vienna appears in
the second edition of the Tunes: The following is the copy of a letter and memo-
" Vienna, March V, 10.50 a.m. random from Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.8., to the Commis•
.
sinners of the Treasury, with reference to their lordships'
" The conference proposed by England, without minute granting him a special superannuation allowance:
detailed basin or armistice, has been accepted by "Hampstead, March 17.
Austria and Prussia. "My Lords,—The Postmaster-General, as requested by

" The territorial integrity of the Danish
monarchy under the present dynasty will be
maintained.
" The conference is to meet at once."

your lordships, has dote me the favour to furnish me with
a copy of your minute of 11th instant, granting me a special
raperantraation allowance oo retiring from my office as seas-
tory to th e Post-office, and conveying to me this very favour-
able opinion, which your lordships are pleased to express,
of the mower in which I have discharged my duties.
"It cannot be nomessary to assure your lordships of the
deep gratificaiion with which I have received so handsome
and elaborate a recognition of my merle's. I have only to
beg that you wil; be pleased to accept my mast respectful
thanks.
"In a document so highly complimentary, I hesitate to
cones what would appear to be an admission, inadvertently
made, to the effect ant the adoption of the uniform peony
postage was urged by , Alters before the development of my
plans. This, I assure :raur lordships, is an error ; and, as
uniformity of ode oonsti totes the main feature of my plan,
I am naturally anxious to place before you the real fade of
the case. I trust, therefore, you will pardon me if I
request attention to the e nclosed memorandum on the
subject.
" I need scarcely add that , should the expectations of
my medical friends, of imihroved health from rest, be
realised, and any occasion arias in which it may appear to
your lordships that my asaistanc it or advice in further postal
improvements may be of advent& re. I shall feel bosomed
by being permitted to place them at your disposal.—
I have, ks., (Signed) " ROWLAND HILL.
"The Right Hon. the Lords Com misnames
of her Majesty's Treasury, .tc."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE ELECTIONS.

(mom OUR OWN coamarconmorr.)
PARIS, TONBDAT EVE,ILVC.

It is impossible not to admire the intelligence
and steadiness with which the electors of the Ist
and sth circumscriptions of Paris have kept in view
the main chance in the elections just terminated.
The grand thing was to confirm the triumph of
May last, and not only to return, but to return by
an overwhelming majority, and on the first ballot,
men whose names represent " Liberty." This
object has been gloriously achieved. And it has
been achieved in the face of a variety of circum-
stances calculated to breed disunion among the
electors. In the first place the democratic com-
mittee, whose list was carried last year, quarrelled
among themselves and dissolved some weeks ago.
Then, instead of the three journals, the Neck,
Prtsse, and ()pinion Nationals, being agreed
to recommend MM. Carnot and Gamier
Pages, the Presse opposed both of them,
and the Opinion Nationale started M. Th. Bac
against Gamier Pages. The Temps exhibited a
neutrality with a decidedly hostile leaning, and
the Debats and Courrier du Dimanche sup-
ported MM. Laboulaye and F. Morin. The
government, while professing not to have any '1
candidates of its own, worked might and main to
foment divisions among the liberal party, and in
an underhand way cureassed for MM. Levy and
Pinard. Half a hundred friends who met at M.
Gamier Pages' rooms to concert measures for his
election were turned out by the police as constitut-
ing an illegal public meeting ; notice was given
that no electoral meetings whatever would be per-
mitted ; and to strike terror a ferocious paragraph
in the Moniteur announced that "prosecutions"
were ordered against those who had broken the
" law "by holding meetings. And now we see the
result. In the Ist circumscription the figures
stand :

"Bizmouirocr.

" A low and uniform rate of postage .forms tho most essen-
tial feature of my plan of postal reform, and I have no
hesitation in stating that its conoeptioe originated wholly
with myself. To guard against future er 'or, I ask permis-
sion to place on record a brief statement o facts.
"The principle of uniformity of rate, now that it has
been in successful operation for nearly • quarter of a
century, appears, perhaps, simple and o;rrious ; but so
far from its having been, as it is sometimes sup-
posed, the happy thought of a mon lent, it was
the result of most laborious inveatigati to on my

part. Indeed, a slight consideration will show that
its conception necessarily involved a previous discovery,
that the odd per letter of mere transit within the limits of
the United Kingdom was practically ioappreciable, or, at
least, that it was not dependent mainly on dietetics, being
in fact quite as much dependent on the number of letters
contained in the particular mail, as on the diskmce that
mail was carried. Indeed, it was shown from careful
investigation, that the cost of mere conveyance, even for
so great a distance am from London to Edinburgh, was only
the 3Gth part of • penny per letter. From this and
other facts it followed that a uniform rate was more just
than one varying according to distance. The convenience
of uniformity was obvious.
" I may add that when I first entered on the investiga-
tions preparatory to the construction of my plan, I myself
had no conception of the practicability of a uniform rate ;
and that the discovery referred to above was as startling
to myself, as it proved when announced to the public at
large.

Carnot .
Pinarti
In the sth :
Gamier Pagi.a
Levy 6,191

....... 13,554
4,979

The government is beaten by nearly three to one,
and aU the other candidates are nowhere. M.
Laboulaye, a most estimable luau, and a liberal
whose election at some future time is much to be
desired, obtained only 913 votes, because the con-
stituency felt that his name was not sufficiently
known, and that votes fur him would be thrown
away.

" In reference to my original pamphlet, a copy of which
is, i presume, still in your lordships' possession, or to my
evidence before the select committee of 18.38, appointed to
inquire into the practicability of my plans, will show the
various steps by which 1 arrived at the conclusion that a
uniform penny rate was at once just and practicable.
" There is but one other person, so far as I am aware, to
whom the suggestion of a uniform peony rate has, with even
the slightest planability, even been assigned-1 refer to the
late Mr. Wallace, formerly member for Greenock, and chair-
man of the select committee on postage in 1838 ; but though
Mr. Wallace frequently urged, among other useful reforms,
a great reduction in the postal charges, I can say from
personal knowledge that he had no idea whatever of a uni-
form rate until after the publication of my pamphlet. In-
• deed, this sufllaiently appears from his speech in parliament
in July 1836, the last 000111111011 on which, before the publi-
' cation of my pamphlet, he referred to the rates of postage.
The following is an extract from Hansard (vol. 3.5, 3rd
swim, p. 42r) :
" ' At the same time the rates of postage ought to be re.
duced. It would be proper not to charge more than 3d. for
any letter sent a distance of 50 miles ; for 100 miles, Id. ;
200 miles, 6d. ; and the highest rate of postage ought not
to be more than 84. or 9d. at most.'"

M. Tolain, the mirricr about whom so many
leading articles have been written, but who I told
you from the first bad not the ghost of a chance,
polled only 424—scarcely the number of his diffe-
rent committees. I warn you against accepting
the theory of the Su;ck that the vote means war.
That is the opinion of M. Haviu, who has all
along been for war on behalf of Poland. I am
persuaded that the question of peace or war was
quite absent from the minds of the majority of the
electors on this occasion : the one thing they
thought of was more liberty.
M. Emile 011ivier has been elected reporter on
the bill on coalitions ; this in the first time that the
Corps Legislatif has allowed a member of the
minority to occupy such a position. The fact is an
indication of the irresistible progress of liberal
opinion.

" Further evidence upon this point is also in my posses.
lion, which cnn be submitted should it be deemed necessary.
(Signed) " ROWLAND HILL.
" Hampstead, }larch 17, 1864."

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WLDNIEDAY, MAhCH U, 8 1-7/1.

THE ALLEGED RECRUITING IR IRELAND FOR
THE UNITED STATES.

B. S. D. M. Y. Q. 11. 8.
—I--I-
..... 03 33 2 B.W. 2 1 4,ch , 0.10 , 1
Aberdeen '2.144 3; 3 S.W. 3 4I is oh 0.11 3
Leith •30.0041 3L. 0• 3 10 • o 1
Ardroisan 11.03 40 2 8.8. W. 3 4 32 me
Oreeossatle 30.05 it 2 N.N 1 4 4 i c;0.0 • 1
Galway 13r.0843 2 N.N.E. 3 4 I I ' cl 1 2
Valenti' '30.0344 3 N.N.K. 3 4. 4 0
Cape Clear 170.01 45 1 N.E. 4 4 8 j c,—
2
Queetudown 8.44 1 YE. 3 1 4. c 1— 2
Llrerpool • -'30•03 37 3 N. ' 32 oh I 1
' Holyhead ,2'5.3943 O I N.Y.. 40, 4 c—l 2
Pembroke 41 3 , 1 3 I b I 1
Penzance . tki it 3 , E.N.E. 61 0 1 4 1 oj— 4
and ,29.7445 4 I N.E. 4 5, 4 0 4
COsitint .129.65 T.l 3 , N. 3 4 • 2 cb —1 2
gochefort 23.57 LO N.N.E 54 24 to j 2
Plymouth 43 2 N.N E. 4 2' 14 co —1 3
Weymouth 67 40' 2 N.E. 4' 4 4 co 4
Portsmouth 12.0.04 40 2 , E.N.E. 4 4 8 o 3
London ,29 90 27 ..451Y.C. 6 • eo I
Dover °3.5441;' 1 N.E 4I 4 1 4 m —I 3
Yarmouth 114.08 33 2 E. Y. E. 4.51 6 I 0 S
rizarborough 30.0040' 4 E.N.E. 11 3 8 0—
Shields - 4
Heligoland 43.5734 1, N. 3 4 I 4 cb 2

PROBABLE.
ON SORTERS/

ratiltSnAT. Tams
S.W. to SE. moderate COASTS. h. b. to S.W.,
to fresh, some rain in moderate, al
places. era.
N. N.E. to E.S. E., fresh, WTSTiltes. E.N.E to S.S.E., fresh,
generally tine. generally line.
N. to E., moderate to SoIMISIti. N.E. to ILK, fresh,
strong, fine. line.
As nest above. EA•TERS. As next above.

fresh to
few show.

Northeru=Seotland. Westarn=lreland, Wales. and ad-
jacencies. Southern=English Channel and Biscay By. Eastern
=Eastward England and Heligoland.

The Lord Chancellor has declined to put on the
commission of the peace for Bradford • gentleman who
carried on • brewery. ills occupation disqualified him,
though it is asserted that brewers "nerve the pease" in
other districts.

The precedency contest has cost the Dublin cor-
poration 5711., including 2411. for fees to counsel, 911. for
law costs to its solicitor, and 141. for telegams ; about
which some 'malcontent members of the council expressed
their dissatisfaction.

A letter from Tarbes (Nantes-Pyren6es) men-
tions the arrival in that town of the eldest son of Queen
accompanied by a number of ecclesiastic, of the
diocese of Aucb, to whom his education has been confided.
The young Prince visited the Museum and other public
establishments, hut what most attracted his attention was
the long chain of the PyrOli'es covered with snow. The
prince, whale age is' 0, is said to be of a kindly disposition,
and to poems great intelligence.
A Berlin letter states that the erection of a na-
tional gallery in that city has been decided on. This reso-
lution has been taken in consequence of the late M. Wagner,
the principal of the large banking firm of Anhalt and
Wagner, of Berlin, having bequeathed his valuable collec•
Mon of paintings to the King of Prussia. The paintings
are for the present depoeited in the rooms of the Academy
of Arta. The site selected for the projected gallery is in
the neighbourhood of the new museum, and the plans have
already received the King's approbation.
THE BARNSTAPLE ELECTION PETITION.—The fol-
i lowing is an extract from a letter from Mr. T. Lloyd, M.P.,
to a friend :—" I shall defend myself against every allege-
Hon contained in the petition. I shall compel the pai-
-1 tiouers to prove every allegation, or to acknowledge them
frivolous and vexatious. I shall allow none of my friends in
Barnstaple to suffer, and I shall defend my seat as far as
; 20.000/. will go."— Western Illorniny News.
THE BEPRFAENTATION OF LANCASTER.—There
are two candidates already in the field for the vacancy in
i the representation of this town, which will be caused by
the retirement of Mr. Garnett, M. P., at the next general
election, and rumour speaks of a third. The two gentler
men who have already come forward are Mr. W. A. 9.
Saunders. of Virennington Hall, in the conservative interest,
and Mr. E. M. Fenwick, of Barrow Hall, who advocates
liberal principles. The third name mentioned is that of Mr.
Schneider, of Ulverston, who was once member for Noe-
wick.

This morning the official correspondence respect-
ing the enlistment of British seamen at Queenstown on
board the United States ship of war Kenner was issued.
The captain of the latter vessel states that the men in
question concealed themselves on board the ship prior to
her departure from Queenstown, in expectation of being
enlisted after the vessel had ptoceeded to sea,
but found their mistake." Various discrepan-
cies between statements on the subject made by
the captain and by the United States consul at Queenstown
are referred to by Earl Russell in • despatch to Mr. Adams.
These discrepancies, his lordship says, " will not fail to
attract your attention, and will doubtless suggest to you
the propriety of making still further inquiry from your own
consul as to the part taken by him in the enlistment
of these men." Mr. Adams says that whatever may
have been done in the way of enlisting the men " seems to
have been carried on without his [the commander's] know-
ledge, and when he discovered it he took prompt measures
to rectify the error by returning to port and landingthe men."
Another return, which was issued this morning moped-
ing recruitment in Ireland, shoes that the Irish govern.
meat, the Home Secretary, and the Foreign Minister have
been in communication on the subject of an alleged breach
of the Foreign Enlistment Act by a Mr. Patrick
Finney, who arrived in Ireland at the close of
last year with the professed object of procuring
able-bodied men as railway labourers in America. The
papers in this case wars laid before the law office!' of the
crown in Ireland, who decided that the evidence would not
be sufficient to sustain a prosecution. The return also in-
cludes a letter from the Colonial Land and Emigration Com-
missioners respecting the amount of emigration last year,
It seems that the emigration to the United States of shies
men was about 10,000 more than the experience of the
three years preceding 1862 would have led us to
expect. "This," ways Sir F. Rogers, writing on
behalf of the Duke of Newcastle, "furnishes a
faint ground for conjecturing that recruitment may
have gone on to about that extent." Mr. Murdoch,
writing on behalf of the Emigration Board, says that the
increase is " not to such an extent as to justify the as-
sumption that any great effect is attributable to the temp-
ratio's' offered to recruits. It is more probable that the
high wages now prevailing in the United States, as con-
treated with the distress existing in Ireland, is the induce-
ment which has led so many emigrants from that country
to America. The number of Irish who have gone to other
countries is 21,914, but the largeness of the number to the
United States, as compared with the number to all other
countries, is to be accounted for by the large remittances
sent home by Irish emigrants already settled in the States
to assist their friends at home, and the consequent facility
in reaching that country as compared with other countries."

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON ♦ND THE LATE
DEBATES LN TEE Horse or COMMONS.—I have reason to
know that the Emperor has been greatly touched by the
manifestati•ro of public feeling in England, both in the
press Rod the parliament, on the Martini affair. He has
read with much interest the whole of the debates, as well
as the articles in the leading journals, on the painful
question lately before the house, and feels gratified
that his sentiments and his conduct towards Eng-
land have been so cordially acknowledged. I am
sum he disbelieves quite as much as any sane
prison here or elsewhere, any complicity on the part
of the member for Halifax in the Greco plot ; and perhape
be does not, after all, regret that the Procureut-Giniral
alluded to him, as it has been themes= of eliciting feelings
so friendly towards himself and to this country. Indeed,
it bas all but healed in hie mind whatever soreness the re.
jeetioe of his propnaition about the congress may have left
behind. He would willingly see revived the cordial nyder-
standing between the governments which misted some
time ago, for the maintenance of the alliance with Eng-
land is for him, as for us, a matter of the very lest
im-
portance.—Paris eorteepoodest of the Times.