The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1863.

anchorite or • fanatic. It has never
meant mere isolation, or statement, or sullen
prudery, or a passion for the visionary and the
impracticable. It is no demagogue's trade in
agitation ; it is not • manoeuvre of faction ; it is
the necessary condition and conduct of a party
that have a faith to stand by and a future to hope
for. In some quarters there is a disposition to
talk of an Independent Liberal taking office, as •
sort of Buddhist annihilation of the individual soul
and its absorption in PLLMLIIB7.OIf. There is some
exaggeration in this. Au Independent Liberal,
in accepting office, is not required to take the
oath of allegiance to the person of a Prime
Minister. Just now we have the happiness to live
not only under a mixed form of government, but
• mixi.d form of administration, in which there is
room even for a man of principle. Politics for
home consumption ars out of fashion, except as
" open questions. " Under these circumstances
acceptance of office implies a mutual obligation
no doubt ; on the one side, to be loyal to one's
chief and colleagues ; and on the other, to march
in a certain direction and under a certain flag.
Lord Patitsairrox has not inaugurated a Radical
millennium in securing the services of a gentleman
who was not born to office " as the sparks fly
" upwards," but who has ability, sad an honour-
able ambition of public usefulness. The stream
of inevitable young Whig noblemen is not inex-
haustible. Nor is it a correct interpretation of our
history to pretend that independent Liberalism has
purposely stood aloof from public work and duty
hitherto, content to criticise and rail at the un-
happy slaves of rank and station.
A Lordship of the Admiralty is precisely
I the post which an Administrative Reformer,
an advocate of sound and vigorous economy,
such as Mr. STANaraLD, would desire to fill.
As • member of the Committee of Inquiry, he
has learnt the operation of the system he will
have to administer ; and if as • subordinate
officer he cannot initiate or alter much, he
will at least have the opportunity of ascertaining
exactly the causes of mismanagement and extra-
vagance in departments. To our naval admini-
stration he will bring all that ungrudging sympa-
thy with which Independent Liberals have always
regarded the favourite arm of the national
service. The object to be achieved in our naval
administration is economy with efficiency ; and
the difficulty of its attainment has perhaps
been aggravated by the excessive indul-
gence of Independent Liberals, who have been
ready to vote without a murmur vest sums
of money to be wasted on dockyards. The
Navy is • noble " weakness " with Independent
Liberals, and a weakness which has been terribly
abused by governments. Bat to pretend that
naval wastefulness is more difficult to check than
military jobbery, or that the Admiralty, whatever
its faults, deserves more " suspicion" than the
Horse Guards, is the very opposite of the fact.
Independent Liberals, in all that relates to naval
expenditure, need to be protected against their
own " weekliess " by one of themselves.

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WINDSOR OASTLR, Amu, 23.
TheQucen, accompanied by the Princess of Wales,
walked and drove in the grounds this monies.
Kul Hassell, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, and Rent- Admiral
Seymour arriv. d at the Coatis yestenlay.
Earl Russell had an audience of the Queen.

A deputation from the Court of Amistaota of the Bakers
Company upon the B.kehouses Regulation Bill, consisting
of Mr. Morison, Mr. Webster, Mr. Wightman, Mr. Henley
Smith, Mr. Webber, and Mr. Henley Glove Smith, clerk,
tmessisted business yesterday at the Home-office.
A Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Commit held a meeting yesterday in the council chamber,
and concluded the hearing of petitions in the matter of the
Durham University Act, 1661, and of the ordinances made
or proposed by the commissioners thereby appointed.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of Canada and of the settlements on the
West Coast of Africa.

The special object which her Majesty had in
visiting the Windsor Infirmary the other day was to attend
the deathbed of a very old and valued servant, who bad
been for some time an inmate of the establishment. This
act of gracious kindness brought with it great consolation to
the aged sufferer.
The Countess of Jersey and family have arrived
at their residence in Wilton.place, from the Continent, for
the season.

Lady Hamilton Seymour gave her second dancing
party last evening, at the family residence in Gramm-
crescent.

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Lady Chelmsford gave her first assembly this
moon last evening, at the family residence in Eaton-

Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last even-
ing, at her residence, Eston-plaoe, their Royal Highnesses
the Comte de Paris and the Due de Chartres. the Duke of
St. Alban's, his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Earl
and Countess of Fife, the Marquis of Bristol, the Countess
of Minimall, the Earl of St. Germane, the Earl of Break-
nook, Lord and Lady Aveland, Lord and Lady Egerton of
Tattoo, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Admiral Sir Thomas
end Lady Cochrane, Mn. Ford, and Mrs. Washington
Hibbert.
A marriage is arranged to take place between
Miss Lowther, daughter of Colonel the Hoc. Hoary
Lowther, 11. P, and the Ron. Gerard Noel, M.P., son of the
Bad of Gainsborough.
The marriage of Major the Hon. Charles Wemyss
Meager, second son of Lord and lady Chelmsford, with
Miss Charlotte, daughter of the Hon. George Hudcock.
and niece to Lord Castlernaine, was solemnised yesterday,
at St. George's, Hanover-square. in the presence of a
tumorous circle of the relations and friends of the two
Abeam
The funeral of Field-Marshal Lord Seaton will
take place at Newton Ferrer., near Yeelizamptoa. Devon-
shire, this day, and though the ceremony will be private,
tinny hien Is and companions-ice-arms of the late geld-mar-
shal have left London to pay the last tribute of affection.
His lordship's eldest moo, the Hon. Lienten•ut Colonel
James Colborne, and two others of his sons, have arrived
in England. Many other branches of the family will be
present at the funeral.
The annual festival of the St. George's Rifles
was ealsbrated by a dinner last night in St. James's Hall,
Limiter:it-Colossi Lindsay presiding.
A meeting is to be held to-night at St. James's
Hall to inaugurate • society with the excellent object of
assisting the negroes emancipated under President Lincoln's
proclamation. The chair will be taken by Sir T. Powell
Buxton, Bart.
Yesterday afternoon Professor Austad delivered
the second lecture of his ootarse—" On the Relations of
Geology with Allied Sciences "—at the Royal Institution.
The pigeon-shooting matches at Hornsey-wood,
for members of parliament, °Moen of the army and navy
on full pay, and members of White's, Brooks', Boodle's,
Arthur's, Guards', Carlton, Travellers', Arlington, St.
James% Pratt's, and Eserton's Clubs, will commence to-
morrow, and will be continued every Saturday, and proba-
bly Thursday, until the cline of the season.
The Meriting Post states that upon "Argos"
appearing this week at the First Spring Meeting at New-
market Heath, he was served with notion of ae action for
truism. That notice it is the intention of the Post to
accept and meet in • court of law.
The committee appointed to manage the financial
part of the late reception of the Prises sad Prisons of
Wales by the City, and of the Kassel of jewels to her
royal Winer, met yesterday to make up their accounts,
when they found that the entire sum expended by the oar-
poration in connexion with the royal marriage will be clam
on 30,0001. This is inclusive of the 10,0004 war* of jewels
presented to the Princess of Wales.
The Times observes of the Prince Consort Memo-
rial :—" The expenditure of 110,0001. on an edifice 150 feet
high, which is at the rate of 7501. for each foot of elevation,
implies much costly detail, in statues, reliefs, and other
decorations in one material or another. We will own to
some little misgiving as to our own prospect of ever seeing
the monument complete. English art is very slow. When
will thou lions make their appearance at the foot of the
Nelson Column? Where are they? Do they exist at all
I, otherwise than in the mind of the artist? Has the Wel-
-1 liagton manumeut in St. Paul's been even begun ! The
Minn at Westminster have been a quarter of a century in
hand, and ere only just finished. The inspirations of high
art are infrequent and precarious, and even our great men
have to sit for rears expecting au idea. So let nothing be
put off to the morrow. Let the memorial be set about
at moo, that it may be finished in reasonable time."
On going into committee on Borough Residence
Elaiform Measurement Bill, Mr. Edward Pleydell Bouveris
will move "That this house will, upon this day six moaths,
imam itself into the said committee."
Colonel Dunne intends to call attention to the
state of the landing piers at Holyhead, and the danger to
the Irish packets and passengers landing there during cer-
tain winds, as well as to the engagements given by the
Admiralty to erect proper works for this purpose ; also to
the ioeflciency of the piles lately driven for strengthening
the piers.

Arrangements are being made at Manchester to
select a further number of emigrants for Canterbury, New
Zealand, in 000sequenos of a second 5,00 W. having been re-
ceived for that purpose.
In Victoria, Australia, last year, duty was paid
on 4,406,58.3 lbs. of tea, being 84 lbs. per head; on
1,72:5,236 Ihe. of coffee, or 34 lbs. per head; on 1,265,329 lbs.
of tobacco, or 24 lbs. per head ; and on 462,008 cwt. of
sugar and m' lasses, or 95 lbs. per bead.
Count Sigismond Wielopoleki has just passed
through Dresden, ois his way to Switzerland. Some of
the French journals affirms that the object is view is •
hostile meeting with Count Braniki.
A letter from Jerusalem says :—" The solemni-
ties°, the Holy Week have terminated in the greatest
order, owing to the prudent measures taken by the autho-
rities. A great number of the pilgrims were French, one
caravan being under the direction of Count de Bohan-
Chabot, end another under that of the Abbi Batortir. The
young Prince Giovanni Doria accompanied an Italian
°anima."

The celebrated portrait painter Winterhalter has
been at Brussels during the last few days, having received
orders to paint the Duchess de Brabant in the dress which
she wore at the Prinoe of Wales's marriage.
The French Imperial Academy of Medicine, at
its last sitting, elected Professor Faraday foreign associate
of that learned body, by a majority of 52 votes to 1.
TAR REPRIMITATION 01 HALIFAX.—On Wed-
medal, afternoon a telegram was received in Halifax from
• Statisfeld confirming the rumour that the hon. gentle•
man had accepted offioo under the crown as minor lord of
the Admiralty. Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, Mr.
&satiable address to the elector, of Halifax appeared on
the walls of the town. In it the hoc. gentleman says :
" 1 have accepted office under the crown, and my seat, as
your representative, has thus become vacant, and Is again at
your disposals I hasten, therefore, to solicit at your halide
a mesa. of the trust which you first confided to me at the
late general election. I venture, with cooMance, to ask
you to maim and approve, by my riselectioe, the step
which 1 have felt it right to take. I purpose to be in
Halifax toward, the end of this week, and hope to have
ample opportunity before the day of nomination of waiting
awe any friends who may desire to see me, or to receive
explanations with reference to my public conduct on this or
on any other occasion.
Bismuth has been found in South Australia.

saTtranta Sownif.
N.W. to N.E., mode• 10011.A111. N. to K., moderate
rate, line. line.
N. to L, moderate. Imams. N.L to EL, moderate
fine. to light. fine.
N.W. to N.E. and W.CfistiaL N.N.L to 8.E., mode-
FM, hash to mode- rate. line.
rate. firma
W.N.W. to N.N.L, A.h►toL
fresh to moderate.
W. to N. and E., fresh LWAreurm.
to light. fine.
A. next shove. LL Itamtaih.
N.N.A. b L N.L, mo- L (Malt
aerate to fresh.

N. to 6. and to 6E.,
muderate to light.
N. to L and AIL, mo.
deride to light, Ana.
As next above.

troth
to light, fine.

Quioine, opium, morphine and other drugs, are
400 per eent. dearer is the United Beates than they were a
twelvemonth sea,

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(non OM 01/11 OONZWONDinre.)
PARIS. THOWSDAT EVININGI.

Puerility, not always, but now and then, is sal.
especial characteristic of M. de Persigny's adminis-
tration
of the Ministry of the Interior. It would,
I take it, be difficult to cite an instance of the I
minister of a great country falling to so great a I
depth below the level of the situation as he does
to-day, when in the Monsieur he threatens the •
French press with tbe "utmost severity of the admi-
nistration" if they ever again presume to speak of '
an aspirant for legislative functions not patronised
by the government as an "independent candi-
date." The Moniteur denounces that designation '
as "an electoral intrigue," and "an insult to the
honourable men who peewees the confidence
of the government." The phrase thus of-
ficially objected to is so manifestly per-
tinent and justifiable that it is difficult
to replace it by any other. The man who goes
about in the prefect's carriage to be shown to the
mayors and countless subordinate functionaries as
the candidate whom they are expected to get re-
turned—the man who "depends" upon the go-
vernment for his election—is evidently a " depen-
dent " candidate ; and the one who without any
government support appeals to the electors on his
own merits is, by clear contradistinction, an " inde-
pendent " one. The only effect of the Moniker's
childish reproof will be that the French press will I
be forced to invent another word, which French
quickness will readily understand. I shall continue
to use the obnoxious word " independent," following
it, perhaps, in a parenthesis with the new epithet
which is sure to become familiar in France
within a few days. What can the go-
vernment gain by such wretched tactics 1
Does M. de Persigny rate the intelligence of the
French nation so low as to suppose that all the offi-
cial paragraphs, warnings, and communiques in the
world can ever make them believe that the prefects'
nominees at the last general elections were " inde-
pendent 1" The Temps to•night very pleasantly
shows up the absurdity of the ministerial fulmi-
nation. "To hear is to obey," says the Temps.
Henceforth the word " independent " is banished
from its columns ; but for the present it is puzzled
to know what word can be substituted. " Oppo-
sition candidate" may be thought a seditious term,
and, moreover, it would not be always correct, for
there are many departments id which citizens who
seek to be elected without government patronage do
not profess themselves "in opposition." "Liberal
candidate" would be no safer designation, for the Mi-
nister of the Interior would be quite as much justified
in claiming a monopoly of liberalism, as a monopoly
of independence. A like objection might be raised
to the designation " progressist candidate." The
expression " disagreeable candidate " would be
frank, but might not perhaps be found agreeable to
power. In fact, the Temps cannot to-day think of
any term more thoroughly inoffensive and apposite
than the very word " independent," which M. de
Persigny is determined to persecute with all the
severity of arbitrary power. M. de Morny tole-
rated the use of this word in 1852 ; so did M.
Billault in 1857. Kde Persigny, the Napoleoniat
minister par excellence, the man who at various
epochs has outbid all others in liberal professions,
thinks it wise now, when the " crowning of the
edifice" is on the tapis, and after the liberal decrees
of Nov., 1860, and Nov., 1861, to run amuck
' against a word in which his predecessors saw no
' harm.

MM. Dufaure and de Carni were elected mem-
bers of the French Academy to-day by narrow
majorities against M. Jules Janin and M. Littr4.
Public opinion would say that the defeated candi-
dates are the best men. K Dufaure is perhaps
the most accomplished advocate now living in the
world, and be is a most respectable man, but his
literary pretensions are a blank, and there can be
no doubt that he is chosen because his politics are
in opposition to the present dynasty. K Littri is
thrown out because the Bishop of Orleans initiated
a crusade against hiai as being an infidel of the
school of Table, Renan, ttc., and, as we should
say in England, of Dr. Coleus° and the authors
of "Essays and Reviews." The Temps has had
some very strong articles complaining of a bishop
first currying favour with philosophers to get him-
self elected a member of a purely literary body,
and then taking upon himself in his episcopal cha-
racter to denounce as ineligible all unorthodox
persons.
Several provincial journals say that a deputation
of English artisans is about to make a tour in
France to study French manufactures. They will
no doubt meet with a hearty welcome wherever

they are introduced, although there are certain
protectionist warehouses which would be jealous of
their presence—but of these the managers of the
expedition will have the tact to steer clear. Such
of the deputation as may be able to read French
will find a valuable guide in a work now coming
out periodically, called the " Grand Gaines of
France," in which M. Turgan, the manager of the
Moniteur, describes the principal French manufac-
tures, with all the advantages of official informa-
tion.

A duel has been fought between M. Scholl, of
the Figaro, and M. Sarcey, of the Opinion
Nationale. The parties first met in Belgium, but
being interrupted, after a sword combat, which
lasted seventeen minutes, by the gendarmes of
Mons, they went into the territory of the Grand
Duke of Baden to finish the fight. It is said that
IL Barmy is slightly wounded. This affair is an
offshoot of the one lately mentioned between M.
Villemessant and M. Sarcey.
The Bourse continues dull Rentes closed at
69.40, or 100. lower than yesterday.

THE FRENCH OCCUPATION or ROHR. The
Italia of Turin SpooROOE• that Viterbo has jest been
evacuated by the French troops. They are to be replaced
by a garrison exclusively composed of Papal moldier.
Viterbo is a town of 15,000 inhabitants, situated to the
north of Moat Sariano, and 77 kilometres south of Rome.
This evacuation would appear to have & political siva.
canoe. It seems that the French occupation is 11111/0312V1,
in its sphere of action to the line from Civita Vecchia to
Rome. By successive movements these two points will
eventually be the only ones held.
ARREST OF THE AUTHOR OP " GUY LIVING.
STONR."—A Washington telegram of the 9th mays :
" George B. Lawrence, author of the well known romance
Our Liringslone, was arrested a mile sod • half beyond our
picket lines last night, while making his way to Richmond.
Lawrence arrived in this country two or three weeks mime
from England, and has occupied his time since with pro-
mioent secessionists in this city and in Baltimore. He was
taken before Judge Advocate Turner to-day, and by him
committed to close confinement in the Old CapitoL Law-
rence dined with Lord Lyons when in Washington, and
seemed to enjoy friendly relations with all the British
legation."
ADILIRALTY, APRIL 23.—APPOLNTEIIIITS. —Lieu-
taws& A. T. Fowled sod H. R. Stephens, to the Orestes ;
H. B. Bast, to the Cumbeeland ; 0. R. Forted, to the
Yemen.
Sewed Hasten F. W. Raikes, to the ()rookie ; B. P.
Dickenson, to the Cameos. Midshipman B. P. Statham, to
the Warrior. Naval Odd E. R. F. de Vert, te the Warrior.
Odd Baisiagmor R. J. Wimps ; Assistant Fordessre
J. Rice, sad J. BMW ; Awed( Second Clear Ass teat
Basfiseer J. Merest, to the Omar.

LAW INTELLIGENOE
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Sittings in Basco.-Before Luid Chief Justice Erie, &pa
Justices Willem sad Katttug.)

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