The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-05 00:00:00

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\.mcM have been &IS of two distinct mo-
tions on the subject of likockade, which are to be
brought under the consideration of the House of
Commons within the next few days. Their aim

and purport are very different Mr. Ganooar
proporee to call attention on Friday nest to the
actual condition of things on the coast ol the
l'ontederate States, with reference to the

'anemia abuse of Federalism and widely extended
franchise. Ministers have taken tied* lime of non-
intervention, and will not shrink fella maintain*
it ; and the leaders of oppordien, Adam their
real feelings may be, are too anxious to keep their
hands clean just now to take up such a cause as
that of a pro-slavery crusade.
Mr. Hozsrau.'s intended motion is of a widely
different and far higher character. It proposes a
declaration in the most general terms, that the
present state of international law is unsatisfactory
as regards both neutrals and belligerents, and com-
mends the same to the early attention of the Go-
vernment. It is understood that Mr. Conlin( was
about to have submitted a resolution of this kind
had he not been anticipated in giving notice of his
intention by the Member for Liverpool. It may
be confidently anticipated, howevea, that the peat
advocate of the extended immunity of neutrals will
develop more fully than it has yet done the policy
of which the foundation was laid in the Protocols of
Paris six years ago, and upon which nothing pre:-
Badge has since been built. Every well-digested
plan that emanates from Mr. C;AIDZA, is certain
to receive attentive consideration. What the m-
elee limita are within which he would circumscribe
in future the right of blockade we do not under-
take to say. But it cannot be concealed that as a
question of national policy the subject is one
involving the gravest interests, and in the present
transition state of naval warfare it is not easy to
calculate precisely what the effect would be of a
renunciation on our part of a power which has
long been regarded as one of our moat efficient
means of maritime hostilities. We all desire,
however, to lessen the horrors of war ; and if the
future limitation can do so, we should rejoice to
see it does.

efficiency of the embargo laid o© their trade
by the Federal republic, and the intneeptien
of neutral ships seeking to eater Unit
harboun. The leanings of the Member for Gal-
way as between the belligerents have never been
disguised. Before tune or opportunity had been
given for the reduction of the great Southern revolt
be would have had us recognise the independence
of the Secessionists. The general sense of inter-

national propriety stifled his premature proposals ;
and during the interval that has since elapsed,
though not much has been done by the North to
crush rebellion, few public men of any character or
weight have ventured to recommend openly the
violation of friendly ties with the United States
fur the sake of encouraging and fostering the
creation of a great slave-holding commonwealth.
But now that victory seems to have decisively set in
in favour of the Federalists, and that the spirit of
rebellion evidently droops, Mr. GICOUZY once

rbe Court.

OSBORNE. KAICH 4.

Her Majesty drove out yesterday morning, ac-
opapaaied by Pnece Mice. Colonel the Hoe. A. Hood
silsadsd as boesebtok.
Hit Royal Mattoon the Duke of Braliaat embarked floe
looming for Gilicaltsz.

Townley Parker, Esq., Mayor d Prestos, arA Mr. AWN-
man Spenser, asonespenied by the Marquis of Meningitis,
LP., and Camel Wilson Patten, LP., lad ea interview
with the Right Hoe. Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home.
Mice.
The Committee cm Education of her Majesty's most How
marskia Privy Council held a meeting yesterday at the
Closecil-odien Present Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll,
Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Eight Hoe. C. P. Villiers, and the Viee-President.
l)espetebes were rent yesterday from the Colosiel-alles
to the Lord High Commissioner of the losise Wanda.

LAT

The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies
Craven come to town at the latter sad of the week, from
Ashdowee Park.
The Earl of Vernlam has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkelay-square, from Bournemouth.
The Earl of Wilton is entertaining a select party
at iwirtes Lodge, Melton Mowbray. Viscount and Via.
sesonas Grey de Wilton have arrived at Egerton Lodge,
from visiting,he Earl and Countess of Craven at Ashdown,
Park, Berks.
The Earl of Sefton comes to town to-day. His
lordship and the Countess of Sefton sod Lady Caulk Moly-
sous leave town in a few days for Crostatli Park, whims
they intend to receive company.
Frances Countess Waldegrave left town yesterday
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more comes tors ird to question the right sad

power of the American Government to vindicate
the integnty of that constitution which has sub-
sisted for eighty years, and under which •
greater number of the human race have
enjoyed the blessings of civil and re-
ligious liberty than under any save our
own. A twelvemonth has not elapsed since the
first shot was tired in anger, yet a British Perlin.
rent will no doubt be told, if not in so many
words, by plain implication, that foreign Powers
have a right to interfere in what is strictly •
domestic quarrel, the excuse being, that the
measures taken to repress sedition have shortened
the supply of one particular article of trade, and
curtailed the means of profitable manufacture.
If tho proposition had any semblance of
emanating from a genuine sympathy with the
'Lackner of employment in Lancashire, wo should
feel very differently towards it, although our con-

on a viait to the Duke and Dulcet d'Auxuale, at their seat
in Weroesterakre. _ _

Lord and Lady William Powlett leave town to-
day for their residence at Beth.
Lord Hatherton has left Thomas's Hotel, Bey
kslepsquars, for Tidiesley Hall.
A marriage is arranged to take place shortly
between Majoe•Generat G. free. Meson sad lady /maces
Legge, daughter of the late rid at Duftessh.
Mr. Monckton Milner, M.P., mom to town to-
day from visiting Baron and BUXOM do Rothschild, at
Mentmore.

viction of its impolicy and impropriety would be
the same. But it would be an affecta-
tion to pretend a belief that the Mem-
ber for Galway is inspired by any solicitude
about the price at which " shirting' " can be sup-
plied at present rates of raw material, or that his
patriotic soul is stirred within him by the unpin-
fltablenses of spinning more "round yarns," or of
weaving " domestics." The Member for Galway
has a soul above such vulgar considerations. Be-
fore cotton had risen in price or mills had begun
to work short time, he was eager that England
should salute the new flag of slavery ; and the
political resctionista, who were ready then as they
are now to abet his anti-popular purpose, were
moved, not by care for the diminished profits of
espital or the diminished wages of labour, but
by the fanatical hatred they cherish towards a
government hailed on popular institutions.
But whatever his inspiring motive, Mr.
G awoke must not be permitted to plead
double. If he impugns the continuance of
the blockade on the alleged ground of inefficiency,
he must rely upon high political reasons, such as
those which may be supposed to have swayed the
Conference of Paris iu 1856 ; but then he cannot
be entitled to pray in aid of the privations said to
be attributable to the efficiency of the blockade in
inning the price of cotton. la a deltic chows run ;
either cotton would come to us as usual if it was
allowed by the Federalist', but ships will not let
it ; and then the blockade is effective ; or cotton
does nut come though it might, owing to the in-'
efficieucy of the blockade ; and then it is harm-
less. But Mr. Gainoay cannot hold with
both at one and the same time. The majority
of the donee of Commons will be little
inclined to commit themselves hastily to any
declaration on the subject. By the papers
recently placed in their hands they have learnt
that thirty-four ships, carrying 726 guns and
10,000 men, were employed during the whole of
the autumn and winter in the blockade of the
Southern coast, and probably are aware that since
Christmas several large ships fully manned have
been placed on the station. Considering the
minim of the service and the cost of it, they
eanuot be made to believe that the American
Government is not in earnest in its efforts to sus-
pend the commerce of the Southern ports until
they shall he reduced to submission ; and the pal-
pability of this earnestness, as it has bon
well put by Loid RUMILLL in his last de-
spatch on the subject, is one great
test of the genuineness of a blockade.
Then as to its results. The correspondence of
British consuls and others with the Admiralty,
while it shows that a number of small vessels, and
so:ne few large ones, have from time to time
ei•-ded the vigilance of the cruisers, explains that
the former were generally coasters of light draught,
which by hugging the shore, and dodging through
the lagunes, kept out of the reach of the blockad-
ing squadron, while the latter for the most part
availed themselves of the darkness of the winter
nights, facilities which henceforth will not avail
them. A thirst for knowledge compels Mr.
1.,.E001tY to ask for more recent correspondence.
V.e suspect that if he bad it he would not be
much the wiser on the subject of successful eve-
cons of the blockade. Had many ewes
of the kind lately occurred we should
have been pretty sure to lave heard of them.
". he Member for Galway will perhaps achieve all
he expects by having ona evening fall of miscel-

The marriage was celebrated yesterday at St.
George's, Hanover-square, of the Ent! Jermys, eldest eon
of the Marquis of Bristol, le Geraldine, yenned daughter
of the We General the Hon. Gimp Ammon.
_ _

We regret to learn that Mr. George Clive, M.P.
far Hereford, and Under esesstary for the Hasse Department,
wars seised on Monday afternoon with as attack of paralysis
of a very serious character. Mr. Clive was at the Home-
office between 3 and 4 o'clock when the attack took place.
He had complained of some indisposition during the day,
mid bad been apprehensive that some seizure was impend-
ing. Daring yesterday Mr. Clive's condition was critical,
but a late account last evening was more favourable.
The Times obwirves that the late Mr. George
Rankine Luke, student and tutor of Christchurch, whale
death, from the upsetting of 'Aoki cm the leis, was recorded
in yesterday's Express, was am of the most remarkable
students who ever came up to Oxford. "He won all the
principal University distinctions, but his extreme modesty
and retiring disposition might have prevented a casual ob-
server from seeing that there was far more in him than is
necessarily implied in any number of academical decorations.
A scholar is the beet seam of the word, he united with
scholarship great intellectual force, which could not have
failed to raise him to eminence. During the last two years
he had been quietly growing io reputatisi, and was exer-
cising a great and beneficent influent» in the University by
devoted and unremitting attention to his mil'
The statement in the Morning Herald that Mr.
Smith O'Brien has challenged War Hobert keel to meet him
in hostile combat in France or Belgium, far his reflec-
tions on the cabbage-garden rebellion, is ridiculed in the
Dublin Express. It alleges that somebody has been at-
tempting to " disturb the proverbial gravity of its oostem-
pormy, sad practising a joke upon it."
On Tuesday, the 25th, Mr. Walpole will move
that this louse will immediately resolve itself into a com-
mittee to insider the best mode of distributing the parlia-
meet.'" mate for education now administered by the
Privy Oostusil ; sad, in committee, to move certain remin-
ds's' with referrer° to parts of the revised code.
Mr. Leslie intends on Friday to ask the Lord
advocate whether, in the event of an Educations Bill for
Illentland being in contemplation, government would emosent
be the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into
avid report upon the subject of and circumstances dhotis'
mberation generally, prior to the introduction of any new
measure or any change in the system at present in question
Icatbad.
Mr. Slidell, the authorised agent of the South
Amass Oaks, has had interviews with the French Minis-
ter of Amiga Affairs, but not in any official character.
Mdlle. Titiens has accepted an engagement at
Barcelona, sad has left Paris far that city.

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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1862.

iirrmAAL IE.
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ITALY. '•
Tire raw, mmultir
A Turin letter in the Constitution'sif' gives the
following at a summary of King Vidor Em-
manuel's letter to Baron Ricasoli :
His Majesty commenoes by storm* his regret at seeing
that hie ministers consider the situation sufficiently grave
net be hesitate throwing the ootintry into the unceetaiety
of a ends. As for himself, he cannot decide either to
me* m be mien the resignation of a cabinet without
ledereheei more fixed in the opinion of the
"Whom! The Isst political vote of the Cham-
ber el Dspetire ems* be interpreted by him as a vote of
enelidesee obtained by the msistanoe of that majority of
"Web, in oonstitedieel states, every minister should be the
pereonification. The Weber, obtained that vote principally
by making • large ~mien to the extreme lett, whisk
reentered the signification of the vote rather rquivoial.
Consequently the King, witile reserving to himself • fun
liberty of deciding on the emigration of hie ministers, en-
gages them to inform the parliament of it at its first
meeting, which will tube pin°, our the 6th of the moetb.
The Ring then replies ia 1s te boa Bisisoll's letter,
aid regrets that ea mend essedges the Waldo of Baron
Ricaadi should have apensi them the policy followed
previously by Count Omar end Mesa and by means of
which Italy had been constituted. To the reproach which
Baron Airmail respectfully made to him of often consult-
ing other counsellors, the King replies that such • course
is not forbidden by his duties aa • constitutional prinee' and
that if the minister wished to make a grievance of it, them
would at least be much to lay no both ads.
A Turin letter in the Temps narratee the fol-
lowing :
After every council of the ministers the numbers
of the cabinet are accustomed to proceed in • body
to the King, to make what is celled a report.
Five or six days ago, after this report, the King
relied M. Maw& into the recess of • window, and,
is a convsnations aside, but not so secret but that
woe persona present could catch fragments of it, the
King expressed to the minister the uneaminme which bad
been excited in him by the variations so distressing and
se prolonged of the " situstion," and the little sympathy
which an important portion of the political world of Turin
manifested for the cabinet. After some minutes' conference
the King took leave of M. Ricasoli, who separated from his
Majesty with this phrase, which I cite dot because of any
political importance it has in itself, but because it has an
impress of that haughty precision and that confidence in him-
self which are the distinctive features of the character of
Y. Iticaaoli, " Let your Majesty continue to amuse
yourself and leave your ministers alone." M. Ricasoli
added :—" It is fine weather, there is no longer any eliding,
and I wish to take advantage of it by a ride no
horseback." That the words which I have median's&
had in the mind of Ricasoli • double sense—as I am assured
was the case—is not very material ; bet it is certain that
that is not the language of a minister who feels himself to
be falling.

and Justice, are now definitively filled up as
fellows :—Minister for Foreign Affairs and ad
interns Minister of the Interior, Signor Ratazzi ;
Minister of War, Signor Pelitti ; Minister of
Justice, Signor Cordova.
In a meeting of the members of the opposition
it was decided that it would be dangerous to the
casmtry to call Signor Cordova to the peat of
Minister of the Interior.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE
PALIK.A.O PENSION.
The Dfbabs of to-day ventures to treat at some
length the question of the pension to General
Montauban, which comes on for discussion to-1
morrow.
" If," says the Debate, " the exceptional reward
which has been voted to Marshal Pelisaier, and
which ought to be considered an exception,
is conferred to-day upon the Commander-in-
Chief of the Chinese expedition, it will be
given to-morrow to some one else. As
high feats of arms are not rare in France, we
can already see, without overtaxing our imagi-
nation, constituted ender the empire of the prin-
ciples of 1789 a military nobility, and by the side
of the only hereditary right which the constitu-
tion recognises, another one which it does not
recognise. Is it pretended that out of respect for
fhe crown the Legislative Corps ought to pre-
clude itself from examining under what cir-
cumstances it votes on the bill which is
brought before it ; the character and na-
ture of the propuwill reward what the
public interest requires, the needs of the
Treasury, the preservation of its own dignity ;
and, all this well examined, from acting
accordingly ? Those who sustain such a thesis,
are they not rather maladroit friends of the con-
stitution of 1852 ?"
The Debate proceeds to expose, in a vein of
cautious satire, the weakness of the arguments of those
who would hush up this dispute by a servile sur-
render on the part of the legislature, and to contend
that the government would have nothing to com-
plain of in the rejection of the pension—an act
which would show the free play of the imperial in-
stitutions and the independence of the great powers
of the State. "To tell the truth, however," says
the Debate, in conclusion, "we are only now reason-
ling hypothetically. A compromise may take place
between the crown and the assembly ; the bill
may be modified by common agreement ;
and as the unforeseen, under the regime
of the constitution of 1852, plays a part in affairs
which we have before had occasion to point out,
some incident may arise which will satisfy the
dignity of the Legislative Corps, and permit it to
accede in a certain degree to the wish of the crown,
without involving another departure from the prin-
ciples of the common law. We need not say that
if this compromise does take place we shall be far
from feeling aggrieved. We do not like conflicts
for the mere sake of conflicts."

the baron should not accompany his Majesty to

The Bourse—it being Mardi Gras--was very
thinly attended, and little business was done. The
Sante fell 45c. for cash and 16c. for account, clos-
ing at 69fr. 65c. and 70fr. The Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. wefe without change, and remain 800.
below par, at 99fr. 70c. The Crifdit Mobilier fell
sfr., and the Italian Loan 16e. The Orleans Rail-
way rose 7fr. 50e.; Southern, 10fr.; and the other
lines from 2fr. 50c. to 51r.

AMERICA.