The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

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Her Majesty walked yeefirday morning, and
drove out in the afternoon with Princess Helena, attended
by Lady Anglia& Etas

MAY 10.
The Queen walked yesterday morning, and drove in the
afternoon, attended by the Dasher of Athole.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Traisury
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, Sir George
Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, S►r
G. C. Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P.
Villiers.

Despatches were meat on Eletarday from the Crdoeisl-
ease to the mimes of Malta, the Cape of Good Hope,
Hoeg-Kong, Laboaa, Gibraltar, Canada, the Bahama", and
to the Lord High Commissioasr al the 'mien Wands.

VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIOIIIIIOIB PRINCE ARTHUR
TO DsvonalaL The Vivid, 2, paddle-wheel visual,
Master H. W. Allen, tender to the Fiaprd, arrived at
Devoaport on Saturday with his Royal Highness Prince
Arthur on board, attended by Major Elphinstone and the
Rev. W. R. Jolley. The Vivid embarked his Royal High-
ness and suite at Osborne es Monday for a anise to the
westward. At Exmouth the Prince landed and visited
Waiter. His Royal Highness afterwards visited Torquay,
Totems, and Dartmouth, proeseding hoar Dartmouth to
Dimmed. At Devouport on Saturday he inqmoied the
Royal Dockyard and Keyham Steam-yard, and her Ha-
jesty's steamer Warrior, and dined with the Port Admiral
in the evening. He I expected to remain at that port until

to-morrow.
The Aberdeen Herald of Saturday sari :—" Her
Majesty has lived in quiet retirement lace her arrival at
BalmoraL Every thing and place in and around the palace
are full of associations of the late lamented Prince, and
no doubt, as each sight is brought freshly to her view, an
additional pang is added to her sorrowing heart. The
palace moms duller than it was before she cams. There
is not a servant within the policies but is clothed in deep
mourning. The Queen remains in the strictest privacy.
At times she takes a short drive in her carriage to a die•

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twice of five or six miles from the male. She has, an is
mend with her at Balmoral, called on a number of thuds.

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Ong cottage's on the royal estates—kindly inquiring into
their circumatances, and relieving their wants when news-

eery. The Duke of Argyll ii -;till in stteodatiee it Bel.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland had a din-
ner party on Saturday, at Stafford Hones, St. James's.
There were present the Duke and Duchess of Manchester,
the Marquis of Harlington, the Earl and Countess of Tat-
kerville, Count Ssecheoyi, Count risky, Count o.Seechenyi,
Lord and Lady Begot, Captain Bateson, Mr. and Mr..
Caulfield, Mr. end Mrs. Bateson, Mr. Deism, fon.
The Archbishop of Canterbury continues to im-
prove in health, and, although slowly, is untistactorily pro-
graming towards recovery from his recent illness.
The Karl Granville entertained at dinner on
Saturday evening at his residence in Benton-street his
Excellency the Turkish Ambeamdor, his Excellency the
Belgian Minkter, his Excellency the Bradlian Minister,
Count Brandenburg, the MarqMs of Clanrioarde, the Earl
Stenhope, VISOOOIi Sydney, Lord Stanley of Aklerley,
Viscount de Villa Maier, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, the

Marquis Omar, Mr. H. Monektou Mina, M.P., Mr.
Henry Roan, Mr. Hoary Doyle, M•. Gram, Mr. Hoene,
Dr. Quin, Dr. Bananalt, Mr. Thou= Basing. ILP., Mr.
Woods, Mr. Pennon, Mr. lidemande, Mr. C. F. Warns,
Mr. Weisner, Mr. Hollins, Dr. Fink, Mr. Vogt, Mr.
Altgrat, Mr. Diets, Mr. Ardt, kn.
The Earl and Countess of Derby left town on
Saturday for Tuobridge-wellA to pass a tow days.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and family

have left Loodon for Shagborough.
The Ladies Cornwallis have issued cards for a
ball, to take place on Tuesday, Jane 3, at Lady Mary
ROWS residence, in Portland•place.
Lady Emily Peel is detained in Paris by indis-
position.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston enter-
tained the Russian Ambassador and Busman Brannon, the
Hanoverian Minister, the Fart and Countess of Shaftesbury

end Lady Victoria Ashley, Earl Cowper, the Berl of
Annisley, Lard Bulletin, Lady Harriet Ashley, Lady
Dufferin, Hon. Charles Murray, Hoe. Gilbert Heath-
note, Sir John and Lady Milbanke and Mies Mil-
bank*, Mr. Vine:, Sze., at dinner on Saturday evening,
at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. Later in the evening
Lady Palmerston had a " reception," at which a very nu-
morons and distinguished civele eencogatel. The Japanese
envoy and two plenipotentiaries, together with the prin.
cipel secretary of the missioe snivel at ha"-past 10
o'clock, and did not leave till ;ready midnight. The die-
languished strangers appeared to thoroughly enjoy ell that
passed around them, and seemed gratified at the curiosity
evinced by many of Lady Primerrion's fair visitors.
Madame Thiebanit has left Ireland with her
oblides..
The 300-pounder Armstrong gnu has been offi-
cially reported, after proof, as fit for service. The flaw in
the bore to which some allusion has been made is repro-
seated as unimportant. The experiment against Captain
Colee's cupola will take place as soon as the naval prepara-
tions are completed.
instructions were on Saturday issued, notifying
that henceforth, until further orders, visitors who are
British subjects will be allowed to go through the entire
establishment of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich on Tues-
days and Thursdays without tickets, on presenting them-
selves for that purpose to the police officers at the entrance
gates. Competent persons from each department will be
is attendance there to escort them, in pieties of 20 each.
I The visiting hours will be from 2to half-pest 4. The regula-
tions relating to foreign visitor—namely, by tickets
obtained from the War Department through the medium
of their respective ambassadors and consuls—will remain
as heretofore.
A " Lancashire Lad " writes to the Times:—
"The distress is still increasing, and will shortly be so
I gnat that local means will be utterly inadequate to cope
with it. An increased pwirrate will not do, for that would
only extend the distress to a class a little above the opera-
tives, while the better part of the operatives would shun
such a plan of relict 'nevi must be a general fund ; and
I em emboldened thus to plead for it by seeing how, with
all that has been done to cool the warmth of the benevo-
lent, there has even now been a large sum collected.
A committee formed, fluids would flow in feat.
Meanwhile, we down here are continually enlarging
our experience of the destitution and misery aris-
ing from this cotton dearth. I see that some
complain that the pictures of distress are overdrawn. Such
is not the ease. The statistics which have been given of the
extent of the &trees must go far to show that the indivi-
dual case., bad as they seem to be, must be literally true.
Those thousands of operatives cannot go and lie dormant for
a twelvemonth. They must have bread each day ; and to
get that bread they most part with what will give the means
to purchase bread. Hence the empty houses and the pecu-
liar cues which have been described. But Ido not think
the worst is known. In our Sunday wheals, and among
our pious poor, we are beginnin; to see a kind of distress
which has been very deep, but which has sofas been hidden,
and is only coming to light by degrees. I trust that my plea
will be heard, and that there are gentleman in London who
will take up the matter as 1 work sealready for the Lan-
undtire operatives."
The returns of the savings' banks in the state of
New York show that the aggregate deposits on the Ist of
Jaacery, 1862, were 64,083,150 dollars, or lees than on the
be of January, 1861, by 3,367,247 dollars.
DaringlB6l 4,759 life policies, representing nearly
si millions et nitlng, bake' ng to the chief life insurance
companies in the Federal States, lapsed, in consequence of
Vie rebellion. Nearly all the policies of those insurance
lieu held in the Confederate States have fallen through.
11 Among the persona appointed to give an amount
et the Great Rxhibitioa in the Parisian peen is IL Alfred
Medan, who ads ea this ireceinioa as spinal sesreepoodeat
is the Connie du Dissertate. K. Mogan hos NOR but
one fins thing in London, and that is the peeks. " The
Luxembourg and the Tamils do net appmeelt them. They
are vest prairies, where you sea Iseloi d amp hrowebei
*WWI ameedg women and Mabee, who are lyies dews
GM the gawk Of playing on it. In this amide the nth
superiority of London, and I must admit that Paris has
aothing line it."

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VISIT OF KING VICTOR

SICILY.

BELGIUM.
THE HEALTH OF THE KING.

THE EXPRESS,, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1862.

Hotel, will put in force whatever other measures are neves.
sary fir the securine of public order.
The seizure of We, the greatest city of the Tedenoa
Davis Cmaederaiiy, will be a terrible disheartenment for
the rebels, and is in Reel( almost equivalent to a defeat of
Beaureprd's army at Corinth, if that army has not yet been
destroyed by the tortes of General Halleck. At ell events,
it will compel the rebels of the south-west to fight their Urn
battle on their presentline of operation. Besuregardis premed,
if not already assailed, by Halleck in front ; General Mitchel
will prevent his retreat toward Mobile ; Butler forbids his
approach to New Orleans ; and our gunboats Can par up
the Mississippi and attack Memphis in front—acting in con-
junction with Commodore Foote above. The way is also
opened for the gunboats to gam up the Red River and
ma'am the entire State of Louisiana to Shreveport ; to peas
tip the Arkansas River and through the entire State of
Adams. to Fort Smith ; and to par up the Yazoo River
and through a great pert of the State of Mississippi. In
fads it opens up a passage through more than a half of the
remnant of a Confederacy still nominally held by the
rebel rulers. Thus, by this splendid stroke of our river
navy, we see not only the fall of the Southern Metropolis,
hat also a moral and territorial gain for the national cause,
which far overshadows in importance even this. If the
mews be allowed to reach the rebel army at Corinth—and It
metainly cannot be kept from it for more than a day or
two, it must complete its demoralisation ; for it will demon.
skate beyond a peradventure that the cause in which it 1
lights is hopeless. There can be no prospect to the rebels '
et re-capturing the city : for the railroad leading to it will
be destroyed, and a descent by the river is Impossible. The
whole of Southern Louisiana is a vast plain, and in
me event can the rebels make a stand anywhere near
the city.
New Orleans is the great commercial and financial em-
porium of the South. It is to the Gulf tout what New York
Is to the Atlantic coast. Its fall will be to the South
a worse blow even than the capture of New York by an
leeway would be to the North. Through it more than half
of the cotton crop of the entire South passes to the world,
while its exports of sugar, molasses, tobacco, and corn ex-
ceed those of any other southern city. There is, probably,
not much cotton there now, but the fact that we elm vir
tnally parses a great part of the cotton-growing territory,
will secure its speedy export with or without the will of the
planters.

The Confederates are supposed to have carried
away from New Orleans 18,000,000 dollars in specie.
The effect of the news on cotton was not material,
but Federal government securities rose 3 per cent.,
and Treasury notes advanced to 14 prem.
The Swedish and Norwegian ministers have re-
turned to Washington. They did not proceed to
Richmond. _ . .

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The Secretary of the Spaniah Legation has left
Fortress Monroe under a flag of truce for the South.
President Lincoln has visited the French frigate

Bassenda at Washington navy-yard. The French
minister received Mr. Lincoln on board. The yards
of the vessels were manned and a national salute
was fired at the President's arrival and departure.
General HaHeck officially reports that General
Beauregard has been strongly reinforced since the
last battle at Corinth. _ .

General Banks's advance has been checked by the
destruction of the bridges across the Shenandoah.
The Confederate General Jackson is said to have
been reinforced, and to be sixteen miles from Har-
risonburg.
The New York Herald thinks that the new slave
trade suppression treaty with England, which grants
mutual right of search, will be sure to lead to col-
lision with that country, and rejoices at the prospect.
The North American was intercepted at Cape
Race on the 27th. The Bremen has arrived out.
The Confederates still occupied Forts Phillips
and Jackson, and have evacuated and destroyed the

forte on Lake Pontchartrain.
General Butler's forces would approach New
Orleans by way of the lake% and land at the rear of
the city. News had not yet been received of his
movements, but it was supposed that he has arrived
at New Orleans.
It is supposed that the Confederate General
Lovill may take his forces to reinforce General
Beauregard at Corinth.
A portion of the Confederate fleet from New Or-
leans is reported to have arrived at Fort Wright on
the Mississippi, and to have attacked the Federal
gunboats which were bombarding that fort.
A battle was expected to take place north of
Richmond between the divisions of Generals Banks
and M'Dowell and the Confederates under Generals
Jackson and Gustavus Smith. Both belligerents
in this section bad been largely reinforced.
A great rise of the Mississippi river has occurred,
and New Madrid and Columbus are under water.
The freshet is reported to be disastrous in that part
of the country.
A Congressional Committee has issued a report
that the Confederates committed inhuman atroci-
ties upon the Federal dead and wounded after the
battle of Bull's Run.

Affairs at Yorktown unchanged.
The cotton planters in Alabama have restricted
the cultivation of cotton to 6001 be. for each hand
employed, and recommend the cultivation of bread-
stuff' instead.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAT 1, Enaturo.
Money abundant. Gold 2} prem. Exchange
steady, at 112 g. Stocks large, speculative sales.
United States Registered Sixes, 97 ; ditto Coupon
Sixes, 98. Treasury notes, 2 per cent. premium.
Cotton inactive. Breodstuffs firm.
QUEENSTOWN, MAY 11.
The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Boston
on the 90th tilt and Halifax on the 2nd instant,
arrived here at 11.10 a.m. She brings 108 pas-
sengers and 50,000 dollars in specie. The Canada
landed 83 sacks of mails and 13 passengers, and
proceeded at 11.20 a. m. for Liverpool; all well.

(1,3011 OUR owl

MESSINA, May 11, Evzinse.
The King arrived here to-day, and was received
with the greatest enthusiasm.
ATe Deem was sung in the Cathedral, which
his Majesty attended.
The King will visit the theatre this evening.
The city is illuminated.

BRUSSEL% NAY 12.

According to the Moniteur Beige of this morning,
and more recent information derived from other
sources, the state of the King is satisfactory.
His Majesty's health continues to improve, and
promises to be soon re-established.

It is stated that a distinguished French admiral
holding an important command has petitioned the Emperor
to be permitted to resign, in order to devote himself to the
completion of • fulminating ram which he has invented.
He expects with this instrument not only to defend the ship
under his command, but to blow up that of his assailant.
The Bombay Saturday Review believes that the
Persian route of the overland telegraph to ladle has been
definitively *beamed on account of the exorbitant terms
which the Shah of Persia has demanded for allowing the
telegraph to um through his dominions, and for persarter
ing its moiety. It has been proposed in order to avail
Persia to lay down • submarine cable across the mouth of
the Panama Gulf, from Clamber to Muscat. Another pima
is to carry the wire up the gulf to Kinshia island, sad
then cross over to the Arabian oast by means of short
cables, to the idea& of Sudsy, Baum, sad Sher* then
for the wire to proceed down the Arabian oust from Bas el
Kbymab, through the town, of Dibba, Saar, and
Sumba to Museat, sod from thence direct on to Bagdad.

EXPRESS BROM PARIS.

SUIEDAY Bream
The /ifortiteur publishes a full translation of the
Daily News' report of Lord Palmerston's speech,
and notices in its bulletin that "Lord Palmerston
rendered a loyal homage to the French alliance,
which so powerfully contributed to prevent a con-
flict between England and the United States." The
official journal also observes that the English
Minister, "being provoked by Mr. Disraeli, ad-
mitted much more distinctly than in his 'porch be-
fore Easter that the catholic government of France
might well—on the Roman question, for example
—not have the same views u the protestant govern-
ment of England."
The Constiturionnel says :
This time the noble lord showed himself altogether
just towards France and her sovereign, without aoy of those
queer restrictions of which he lately gays us an example.
Prince Napoleon did positively leave Paris bat
evening, and he is expected in Naples on Wednes-
day. The note in the Moniteur, affirming that he
has no political mission from the Emperor, will
hardly be thought to diminish the importance of
his visit to his father-in-law, the King of Italy, at
this particular moment.
The Debate has received a comneuniqud, on ac-
count of an article of IL Paradol'a, relative to M.
de Chergd'a petition to the Senate. The Minister
of the Interior resents the imputation, which he
collects from the article, that the necessary fate of
petitions is to be "stifled either by the Senate or
by the government." He gives explanations of the
two instances adduced by M. Paradol, to
show the practical difficulty of getting redress
from the Senate. The petition of M. Montfleury,
against certain unconstitutional decrees touching
the administration of the city of Paris, stands over

only bemuse in a conference with the committee on
petitions "the government led them to hope that a
satisfactory solution would be found, and that, in
point of fact, a bill on the subject is now before the
Council of State." In regard to the mutilation of
the Luxembourg gardens, the minister says that,
although on account of the expense which mould
have been entailed by an alteration of the plans
of the city of Paris to the extent called for by
the petition of the inhabitants of the quarter, the
recommendation of the Senate has not been alto-
gether followed ; yet that, in deference to it, the
Prefect of the Seine has made some changes. Under
these circumstances, the Debater is to be congratulated
for having escaped with a communique instead of a
warning. Since the minister is anxious to proclaim
the efficacy of the intervention of the Senate, peti-
tions may be expected to increase and multiply; and
perhaps, at no distant time, we may have to record
some more tangible results of them than any that have
hitherto come to light. Perhaps, also, if any con-
siderable redress of grievances should be achieved
by petitions to the Senate, it may be found out
hereafter that, instead of imposing upon that august
body the duty of examining and solemnly reporting
upon a mass of undigested petitions, the majority
of which must necessarily be frivolous and vexa-
tious, the more simple and direct way of giving
effect to the public voice will be to restore the
initiative of the representatives of the people in
their own house.
A man named Klein, who was convicted last
week of robbing the poor-box in the church of
Viroflay, was the author of a pamphlet in favour of
the Pope's temporal power. The following flattering
letter, addressed to him by the Bishop of Versailles,
was read at the trial : _

Bishopric of Families, Families, Feb. 10, 1862.
ifonsteur,-1 have read your work, and 1 have taken it
to the Pope's nuncio. We admire your sentiments and
your courage. Yon are right. Your reasons are just. You
defend the cause of the Holy Father admirably wall. lan
glad to tell you this, and to render homage to your good
intentions. I bless and salute you.
+ P. Manor or Vsassmiza.
The Correctional Court of Paris did not think
this testimonial a sufficient excuse for M. Klein's
practical notions of temporalities, and the bishop's
oorreepondent was sentenced to 13 mouths'
imprisonment.