The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDA Y, MARCH 20.

PERFECT innocence is apt to say and to do very
~uestionable and imprudent things. There is an
audacity of guilelessness which in an evil-thinking 1
and evil-speaking world provokes scandal,
and is sometimes mistaken for guilt. It is not
enough to be pure without the discretion which is
the decorous substitute for purity in a society com-
posed of rakes and prudes. No one supposes the
present HONE Sscarrativ capable of lending a
couple of English detectives to a foreign
Power for the purposes of espionage. Yet Sir
GEORGE GRIT, from an excessive amiability
and facility of disposition, has allowed him-
self to be betrayed into • transaction which to
those who know Sir Grottos will appear as harm.
less as it looks on the face of the letters which he
has published, but to those who are less inclined
to think no evil, and to put a fair and honourable
construction upon plain words, will suggest an un-
known quantity of latent mischief. It is precisely
one of those unfortunate indiscretions which, in the
hands of a malicious artist, can be painted to any
degree of blackness without doing absolute violence
to the facts. It is an incident of all others from
which an English Minister of whatever party should
shrink as from the plague. It is one of those cases
in which even a triumphant acquittal leaves • stain.
..4,najwc hceret. And yet how simple and in-
genuous is the story as it appears in the papers
which have been laid before Parliament. At the
end of last July Baron Baowtrow, the Russian
Ambassador, wrote • private letter applying'
to Sir GEORGE " aonstant kindness under
" a circumstance of peculiar importance." The
circumstance was, that the Grand Duke COMFTAN-
TINS, Governor-General of Poland, had been
struck during his occasional visits to England with
the good working of the English police regulations,
and was "desirous of establishing a similar inati-
" tution in the kingdom of Poland," in order to
put an end as soon as possible to the then existing
martial law, and to replace the country under the
rule of a regular civil administration. For this
purpose the GRAND DUKE thought it highly im-
portant to secure the services of a couple of intel-
ligent and active English police-officers, who
might communicate directly with the authorities
at Warsaw. Accordingly, Baron Barrxwow
suggested that Sir Gsoaoz GUY should allow
Sir Ric:Haan MARNE to put himself into comma-
nicstion with " • gentleman to whose care the
" GRIND Dims had directly and privatelyentrusted
" this object" Sir Gaoaos GEIT complied unhesi-
tatingly with the Russian Ambassador's extraordi-
nary request ; Sir RICHARD MAINE was put into
communication with the GLAND DUEL'S gentleman
ad hoc, and twoof the most able and active of the ma
tropolitan police-officers were despatched to Warsaw,
with verbal instructions to take with them " all the
" printed forms and reports showing the organise-
" tion of the metropolitan police and the mode
" of carrying on their duties," and to " give all
" the information in their knowledge on these sub-
" jects to the persons with whom they should be
" put into communication." In September we
find the two police-officers reporting from their
hotel at Warsaw to Sir R. MATES in London that
they were still in communication with the Rua.
elan authorities, " who appear to be well pleased
" with the information we convey to them," but
that there was still no change in the existing
police system at Warsaw ; that everything seemed
very quiet in that city, but that the Government
appeared to be "in constant apprehension;" and that
their own " mission " was kept " entirely secret
" except to the three gentlemen " with whom they
had been in communication, as their "personal
" safety might be endangered by • wrong con-
" struction being placed on the object of their
" visit." Writing on the 7th of September, •
month after their arrival in Warsaw, they ex-
pected to return to England at the end of the en-
suing week ; but it appears from Sir Gsoaos
iiey's statement in the House that they were
detained a week or Iwo longer by the illness of
one of them.

So much for this incident, as it appears
in the papers presented to Parliament, and
Sir GEORGE GREY has assured the House
that they tell the whole story. No doubt, it
is one of those transactions which are only alarm-
ing in the dark. In the light of day they are ugly,
but innocent enough. Sir Gauen' GREY did well
to strip the matter of all pretence of mystery, by
obtaining from Baron Bac SNOW permission to print
the Ambassador's private letter which put Sir GEORGE
GREY into communication with Sir RICHARD
MAYNE, and Sir RICHARD M•YNE in communica-
tion with the GRAND DCIK ea confidential agent. Yet
cannot be said that Mr. RILNKffisY has disco.
vered a mare's nest. From the moment when the
"mission" of Messrs. WALKER and WHICHER to
Warsaw got whispered abroad, it was sure to grow
into • rumour of monstrous and malignant shape,
and thus' • careless act of courtesy on the part of
the Hose SECRETARY was sufficient to throw •
cloud of suspicion on the honour of England. How
suspicion, once excited, would deal with such an
incident as this may be easily imagined. Even
the " constant kindness" on the part of Sir Gomm,:

GREY, to which Baron Banwirow rsis eihand-
somely, would be interpreted as *sigh it re..i
fervid to political and official servisiel ; !Ned the
Ambassador's peculiar application would oome to
be considered as neither the first nor the last
of the kind. ' The Russian Ambassador, it
seems. is in the habit of applying to the lions
SECRETARY for the services of the detective
police,' would be the popular way of putting
the case to a public meeting. Sir GEORGE GREY
has stated that the police officers sent to Warsaw
were not detectives, and he might have added,
that if the Russian Ambassador was in want of
detectives, he had his choice of " Private Inquiry"
offices, without compromising the Home SscalrlAßY.
On the whole, divested of all mystery and
suspicion, this is an unpleasant and unfortunate
affair. At the date of Baron Brinxivow's letter,
Warsaw was in a state of siege. It is difficult to
give the GRAND DOLE credit for any serious in-
tention of substituting English police regulations
for martial law in • city where the Government
was living "in constant apprehension ;" and Baron
BRUNNOST'A application to the HOME SECRETARY
for such an anodyne as the regulations of Scot-
land-yard, can only be compared to the King of the
Cannibal Islands requesting from Lord Rusersc
the loan of a French cook. A moment's reflection
might have convinced Sir GEORGE Gear of the
I futility of a project which, had it been less
inconsistent and incompatible with the conditions
of the Russian Government at Warsaw, would not
have required secresy, but deserved the fullest pub-
licity. Surely, without any derogation from his
"constant kindness,"it would have been as easy for
Sir Grottos GREY to give Baron Barrintow the most
satisfactory confidential reasons for declining to
comply with so unusual a request, as it was to
engage his official responsibility in placing a couple
of English police-officers at the disposal of the
Russian Government at Warsaw. Sir GEORGE
GREY, however, had not the firmness or the
forethought to say no, when by saying yes he was
compromising, not hie own good name, but the
good name of his country. No minister has a right
to render these private and personal civilities to
foreign governments at such a cost ; and a sterner
House of Commons would have been justified in
marking its sense of an indiscretion—an imper-
tinence—which, Sir Geoaos GREY may rest
assured, will not be remembered to his advantage.

PAILLIAMENTANY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—ILasca 19.
TOBACCO DUTIES BILL _

A M.

THIL.EUREI3I3, FRIDAY EVENING:: MARCH 20, lB6il

Order for committee reed. Motion made and questioo pro-
posed, " That Mr. Speaker do now lave the chair.
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word
" That" to the end of the question, in order to add the
words " the bill be committed to a select committee"
(Mr. Ayrton), instead thereof. Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stood pert of the guano')."
The home divided : Ayes 170, DON 87.

Adam, W. P.
Ewing, H. E. Montgomery, Ur 0.
Agnew, Sir A. Yellowes, E. Morris, ...
An nesley . Cot Finley. A. S. Murray, W.
Atherton, Sir W. Forester, Oen. North, P.
Aytoun, 8.. & Forster, W. K. Packet. Col.
Reines, K leorkeette, F. D. Padatore, R.
Barbour, J. D. Gallwey, Mr W. P. Paget. C.
Bering, H. B. Gavin, Maps, Paget, Lard A.
Baring. Mr F. T. Gibson, T. M. Paget. Lord C.
Barttelot, Col. Glipiu, C. Palmer, Sir B.
Baxter, W. K. Gladstone, W. Palmerston, triad.
Baxley. T. Glyn, G. G. Patten, CoL
Beale, S. Goldsmid, 81, F. H. Peecocke, 0. M.
Bellew, R. M. Gordon, C. W. Peel. Blr 1,
Bernard, T. T. Gower, F. I. Peel, F.
Blackburn, P. flower, G. W. PUltington, J.
Bonham-Carter, J. Graham, Lord W. Portman, W. M.
Eattield, B. Greened G. Potter, K
Bouverie.K P. Greenwood, J. Powell, J. J.
&merle, P. P. Gregory, W. IL Puller, C. W.
BovilL W. Orerpon, S. . T.
Brady, Dr. Gordon. B. =IL A. R.
Bromley-Moore, J. Hadfield, 0. Russell, H.
Branamon, T. W. Hankey, T. Scott, Sir W.
Bromse, Lord J. T. Hamar& M. Ilcourileld, J. H.
Bruce, H. A. Herter, 81, W. 0. Seymour. A.
Buchanan, W. Headless, T. Z. Shelley, air J. V.
Buckley, Gen. Henley, J. W. Smith, J. B.
Butt, 1. Reeky, Lord Smith, Mr F.
Cardwell, L Hodgkinson, G. Smollett, P. B.
Castierosse, Vied. Borstal, T. B. Stang:lel& J.
Cave, 8. Howard, C. W. SteeL .1.
Childers, H. C. Howes, K. Stuart, Cot
Cholmeley, Sir M. Hutt, W. Stuart,Lieut..CoL
Clay. J. Ingham, It. Talbot, C. B.
Clifford, C. C. Jackson, W. Thompson, H. &
Chlfard, CaL Johnstone, 81, 3. Tile, W.
Coke, Col. Kesdall, N. Toilemacbe, J.
Colebrooke, Sir T. P canard, R. W. Trelawny, 81, J. 8.
Crawford. R. W. Ler, D. 8. Vernon, 11. F.
Cnbitt, W. King, P. J. Villiers, C. P.
Deigns& R. King, J. K. Walpole,B. H.
Davey, H. Klagecote, CoL Walter. J.
Denman, 0. KnatchbuUlloges- Watlington. 3. W.
Dent, J. D. sea, IL WegticiLn, T. M.
Dering, Sir E. C. Layard, A. H. Wemyss, J. H.
ISlivlll, L. L. Larson, W. Westbead, .1. P.
Dodson, J. G. Lefroy, A. Whalley, 0. H.
Douglas, Mr C. Lennox. Lord H. G. White, J
Dolton, 1, Leiria, Sir G. C. White, L
Duß. M. R. Lewta, H. Wickham, H. W.
Duff, B. W. Liddell, H. G. Wilmington, SirT.E.
Dundee, Mr D. I.yaley, W. J. Woods, H.
Egerton, A. F. Mackie, J. Wynn, C. W.
Igerton, E. C. Mackinnon, W. A. Wyrill, M.
Enfield, Visct. Marioribanks, D. C. TELLZII3.
Ewart, W. Mani, M. H. Brand, H. B.
Ewert, J. C. Martin, .1. Dunbar. Sir W.

NOEB.
Adderley, C. R. OAREh, C. D. Palk Sir L
Addingtoo, W. W. Grogan, Sir E. Paull. H.
Bagwell, J. Eismilton, Lord C. Pease, H.
Beecroft, G. S. Hay, Sir J. C. Powys, P. L
Lothar'', O. C. Henniker, Lord Ridley, Cl, M. W.
Bowyer, 81, 0. Hubbard, J. 0. Roll, J.
Bridges, Sir B. W. Jerrie, Caps. Sciater•Bootb, G.
Bruce. Sir H. H. Jotliffe, H. H. Scott, Lord H.
Burrell. Sir P. Lekewlch, S. T. Selwyn. C. J.
Cartwright, Col. Kelly, Sir P. Sidney, T.
Cochrane, A. D. Knatchbull, W. P. Smith, S. 0.
&oll:Iton, Mr W. Knot, Col. Spooner. R.
Lacou. Sir E. Staniland. H.
Collins. T. Stirling, W.
Cot. W. =rr4,l N. P. /Burt. Lt.-Col.
Cubitt, 0. Latham, Z. A. Sullivan, IL
Dickson. Col. Lennon, Lord 0. O. Sykes. CoL
buncombe. A. Icalle, W. Tempest. Lewd A. V.
Dunne, Col. Long, R. P. Thycne, Lord H
Elphlustone, Mr J. Lomilleld, R. Thynne, Lord H.
Ferguson, Sir J. Lyali, G. Tomas, R.
',errand, 11. Macdonough, P. Trevor, Lord A.
Fitzgerald. W. R. Alaimo, B. Voodeleur, Cul.
French, Col. Manners, Lord J. Whiteside. J.
Gard, R. 3. Montagu, Lord R. Whitmort_ii.
Garnett, W. J. Newdegate. C. N. William.. W.
George, J. Northcote, Sir S. Wood, W.
Gore, W. R.. O'Hara, C. W. TZIJARS.
Greene. J. Parke, C. W. Ayrton, A. 8.
Gray, Capt. Paklagton, Mr J. itennesey, J. P.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.

The annual meeting of this institution was held
on Tuesday, at the London Tavern ; Lord LOVALYZ, M.P.,
in the chair. His lordship having opened the proceed.
Inge. Lod the election of officers having taken place,
the secretary, Mr. Lewis reed the report, of which
the following is an abstract :—" During the past year
the institution had placed fourteen new lifeboats on
the coast, viz. : at Ellakeney, Kirkcudbright, Kingstown,
Poona's Howth, Withers's', Thorpe, New Brighton, Ap-
pledore, Guernsey, Portbleven, Tynemonth, Fleetwood, and
Newhaven • six of this number occupying new stations, and
the remainder replacing worn out or inferior boats. Other
lifeboats were is arum of construction for Budehaves,
Swansea, and other places. Transporting carriages nod sub-
stantial boat houses had been provided for all the
lifeboats Six lifeboats had also been built for the
Portuguese government by the Mesas. Forre.tt, on
the institution's plan, and one for the colonial government
of New Zealand. The institution had now 124 lifeboate en
the coasts of the United Kingdom. The lifeboats of the
institution, during the year 1862, had saved 358 Reiman
from wrecked ships, nearly the whole of them under circum-
stances of imminent peril, when no other description of boat
could have performed the service. For these services the
institution had granted rewards amounting to 915/. 18s. Id,
On these and quarterly exercise, the lifeboats had been
manned by upwards of 6,000 persons, and, happily,
with one single exception, without loss of life. The
gales of last year were unusually heavy, and the remit was
that the number of shipwrecks was 1,490, accompanied by •
Ices of 644 lives. During the past year, 4,0131 lives had been
saved from shipwrecks on our comet. The total number of
persons saved Iron shipwreck, from the establishment of
the institution in 1824 to the end of the year 1862, either by
its lifeboats, or by epeeist exertions for which it ham granted
rewards, is 12,854. During the year 13 silver medal a, 14
votes of thanks inscribed on vellum, and 1,125/. 8.. Id. had
been granted by the institution for saving the lives of 547
persons by lifeboat, shore-boats, and other mesa% on the
coasts and outlying tanks of the United Kingdom. Since
the formation of the institution it had expended on lifeboat
establishmeots 67,780 i., and had voted 82 gold and 718 sil-
ver medals for saving life, besides pecuniary awards
amounting together to 16,478/. The committee expressed
their deep acknowledgments to the Board of Trade, the
coast-guard, the local committees, the railway and "team
packet companion for their cautioned valuable and zealous
co-operation. The total receipts of the institution during
the year 1862 amounted to 14,825/. ss. Id. ; of that sum no
lees than 2,715/. was given by benevolent individual' to
defray the oasts of ten lifeboats. The committee gratefully'
acknowledge the receipt of many special contributions from
foreign countries, particularly 1001. from the President of
the United States of America, "in testimony of his sense of
the important labours of the hal:Unties to American ship-
wrecked *rumen." The expenditure of the institution
during the same period was 12,1771. 175., of which sum
5,2694 ns. were expended on additional lifeboats, trans.
porting.earriages, tost-housee, and nay gear ;
arid 3,9771. Os. 61. on the necomary expenses of
repair., painting, refitting, and inspection ; 1,0941. 6s. Id.
in rewards for services to shipwrecked crews ; and 2,242/.
9s. 101 for coxswains' salaries and the quarterly practice of
the boats' crews. The committee had incurred further lia-
bilities amounting to 3.1001. 6e. for various lifeboat esta-
blishments, As No lam than 62 lives were thus rescued
during the fearful gales of January last." Mr. Stephen
Cave, M.P., moved, and the Rev. Geo. Ainslie
the adoption of the report, which was unanimously
to; and various other resolutions having been mov sod
carried, the prosodiess elided with the usual vote of
thanks to the chairman.

Tag LATE J. T. TREOELLAS. —We regret to
announce the decease of Mr. J. T. Tagsilea, formerly of
Truro, the celebrated Cornish humourist. He has
died at the good old age of seventy-one. As •
commiesiou agent for many years throughout the
West of &cloud and South Wales, he was well known
for hU genial humour and admirable powers of mimicry.
He told excellent dories in every Weet of England
dialect, and imitated the sounds of the Welsh language so
well that, though be spoke not one word of Welsh, Welsh-
men thought he spoke a dialect of their own tongue. He
has left some well-known Cornish tales and dialogues
behind him, which are much relished and enjoyed by all
who can appreciate the heartiness of the fan, or compre-
hend their somewhat uncouth dialects. In private life we
have • hearty word forJohnTabois, whom,' few years since,
we knew well. He was given to generous hospitality
much beloved by those who lived withiu his domestic Ma ;k
;
in public life he war universally courted for his humour, ss
such men are always sure to be. About fifteen or twenty
years since Mr. Tregellsa freqently delighted Cornish
audiences, at the literary institutions, by giving, gra-
tuitously, enterMiuments an those subjecte which were so
entirely his own.— Wester* Daily News
CRIMINAL INTOIJEATION AOAINNT • TOWN COUN-
CIL. —The whole of the aldermen and town councillors of
Belfast have to appear at the Court-house, Howard-street,
to-morrow, agreeably to the following summons —" James
Gillespie, complainant ; the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur-
gesses of the borough of Belfast, defendant Wharves
• complaint has been made to me that • public nuisance
is crested in Berestord-street, Belfast, within the muni-
cipal borough of Belfast, by reason of you, the said
defendants, wantonly and negligently, or otherwise, failing
. to provide a proper main sewer on the Shankill-road from
Agnes-street, along said fihankillmed to &redder'. street,
so that said public nuisance shall be abated ; you are hereby
required to show cause why informations shall not be
taken against you, individually and collectively, the said
musidpel corporation of Belfast, for refusing or declining
to abate said palace*, by not making, or causing to be
made, mid sewer. This I. to command you severally to
appear as defendants on the bearing of said complaint, at
the Court-house, Howard-street, Belfast, oar Friday next,
the 20th day of March, 1863, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon,
before such jadees as shall be there.—(Signiril, W. T. B.
LTONR, pada of the said county, this 18th de, of March,
1863. JOST COAT, attorney.—To the said defeodants,
the Mart, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough al
&lbws. —Northern WAip.

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AMERICA.
QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 20.

The Inman 'teenier Oity of GL;agow, which
arrived here this morning, brings 20 cabin and 81
stesragepassengers, and 529,120 dollars in specie.

NEW YORK, Mims 7, MOSS! PO.
(Pfir °Lwow.)

The New York Times approves the action of the
Chamber of Commerce concerning the Alabama,
and says :—" It is certain war will come sooner or
later unless these wrongs are stopped by England."
The New York rinses thinks that before many
years some bold party leader will utter the watch-
word of " indemnity from England or war."
The New York press consider that the Polish
insurrection will tend to draw the attention of
the European powers from intervention in Ameri-
can affairs.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 20.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Borussia has arrived off Cowes, with 81 passengers
for this port and Hamburg, 58,000 dollars in specie
fur England, and T 3,100 dollars for France.

THE ALABAMA.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAUCH 20.

The captains and crews of three American ships
destroyed by the Confederate steamer Alabama
have just been lauded here. They report
the capture and destruction, on the 3rd of
February, of the American schooner Palmetto,
and on the 21st of February the barques
Golden Eagle and Olive Jane. The officers and
crews were plundered. They also report that on the
27th of February the Alabama captured the Ame-
rican ship Washington, bound to Antwerp,
detained her eight hour?, and released her upon the
captain giving a ransom bond for 50,000 dole. and
taking the crews of the other vessels on board. The
captains and men were taken from the Washington
by a pilot boat in the Channel.