The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-26 00:00:00

B.&L
9.3.7.

BALL AT ORLEANS ROUSE.

Yesterday evening the Duke and Duchess
d'Aussals were honoured by the premiere of the Prises sod
Princess of Wales at a dinner party at Orleans House.
Twickeuham. The party invited to meet the Prince end
hisses consisted of the Priors and Priories Edward of
Bye-Weimar, the Priam of Condi, the Duke aid Duchess
of Sutherlmed, Earl Graaville, the End sod Countess of
Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers, the Earl of Sefton,
Viseount and Visountese Depots; Lord Frederick Paulet,
Lord ►od Lady Foley, the Marquis of Bonnie, Hon. F.
Byes/. Sir Robert sod Lady Emily Peel, the Countess of
Coiffier, sod M. Langel. A small select party were after
wards invited to meat their royal highnesses. The Ducthes
of Cambriase and the Prisons Mary arrived about half-
past 10. The Duke of Brassie arrived shortly afterwards.
The Owlet sad Countess de Paris and the Duke and Duchess
de Chartres were also present.

NEW TORE, Mar 17, lloairnia.
Wilson's cavalry surprised and captured Jefferson
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam- Davis, his wife, sister, and brother, and Postmaster
bridge and the Prima. Mary have left their residenos in Regan, at Trameville, Georgia, 75 miles south-
the Ambansadore Court, St. James's, for Cambridge-cottage, east of Mason, on the 10th inst. The Federal& also
Kew. This easing the duchess end princess dine with captured Colonels Harrison, Johnson, Morris, and
the Duchess of Inverness at Kensington Palace, and a
Lybbuck, and Lieutenant Halkenay, forming the
numerous and distingniabed party will meet tbs Ms/ staff of Mr. Davis.
gotta The cavalry, pursuing Davis from opposite direc-
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will An en-
h r the Earl and Countess of Wilton with his company tions, mistook each other for the enemy.
at dinner on the 9th of Vane. A distinguished circle is In- gagement ensued, and two men were killed and five
iraTo mat his royal Wilma'. wounded before the mistake was discovered.
His Royal Highness the Duke de Brabant Wilson's despatch says that his men assert that
visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday afternoon at Cam- Davis, when surprised, put on one of his wife's
bridge House, tad had • long interview with the *QM* dresses and fled to the woods, where he was pur-
viscount. sued and captured. He threatened his captors
The Connteas of Derby will give her third
with the bowie knife, but surrendered on the pre-
assembly to-night at the family mansion is St. James's-
sentation of a revolver. All the persons captured
square. ard.
Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly have been seut North under a strong gu
Wilson has made dispositions for capturing
to-rnorrow,eight at Ounbridge Home, Piocedilly.
The Count and Countess d'Aquila and suite have the other Confederate leaders, none of whom have
left the Clarendon Rats' for Paris. yet got through. Breckeuridge'a son Las been
Sir Edward ,Grogan inteude on Monday to ask captured.
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if any, and what The Nets York Times states that Davis will be
steps have been taken by the government, aim* the report
of the select committee was pretested to this hoses, for conflued iu Fort Lafayette, and says his deliverance
to the gallows will only help to consign the rebel-
'of up the Red River districts and the valley of the lion to . ........
Sukatohaan to settlement under the crows, and mating `‘' In"`"u•
aa end to the exclusive privileges heretofore claimed by the The Deraid regards Lim as an accessory to Mr.
Hudson's Bay Company in these districts. And, if the Lincoln's murder, and says there is no human posta-
l' claim of ownership, put forward by the Hudson's Bay bility that he can escape the full penalty of the law.
Company is the territory lying between Canada and The Tribune trusts that Davis will Le treated as
British America, being about two-thirds of our poesentioss a prisoner under the protection of the dignity and
on that cantiaent, be admitted by the government as well
honour of a self-respecting people.
founded ; and if an, oe what grenade.
Press
On Monday Mr. William Ewell will ask the reporters are admitted to the conspiracy
tri
usdersleoretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the al , and since Saturday the p rooeedings of the
acconots of the Foreignoedoe are audited every year.; when court have been published daily. The evidence
they were last audited ; and who is remossible, in the Milos given on Friday—the opening day of the trial—
' sad out of the cmos, for such audit. previously suppressed, has new been published.
The next examination for direct commissions will Witnesses testified to having seen Booth in Canada
take place on the 31st of July, and the camber of ma- conversing with George Saunders. Booth was also
didatee limited to 100. present at secret conferences of the rebel officers at
On Wednesday last the Rev. John &mites Mules, Stanton,y,.....„...,
clerk, was instituted to the rectory of Great Moulton, in ' s'a'-'-'
Norfolk, on the rovosetatien of William Lytle Wigged All the prisoners present in court were heavily
Chute, Fag.. at the Type, in the pariah of Sharborne St. ironed. The specification charges them with con-
John. in the county of Southampton. spiriug with John Surratt, Wilkes Booth, Jefferson
The annual meeting of the Aborigines Protection Davis, George Saunders, Beverly Tucker, Jacob
Society was held at Exeter Hall last night. Lord Alfred Thompson, Win. Cleary, C. C. Clay, Geo. Young,
Churchill, IL P., presided. He devoted the major portion and others unknown, to murder President Lincoln,
of his speech to an exposition of the New Zealand question, Johnson, Seward,
and Grant, in aid of the rebel-
and after reprobating the war be sketched aa outline of
policy which he thought might be successfully adopted. lion.
Harrold is charged with aiding Booth to commit
Other speakers touched upon the condition of the Indians of
the British province' of North America, and a resolution murder, and assisting his escape ; Payne with
was passed authorising the committee to present • memorial attempting the assassination of Mr. Seward, and
e° the Quests requesting her Majesty tw "Pitch • 'Ms' Alzerot with lying in wait to murder President
sloe of inquiry to New Zealand. Johnson and General Grant
The Roman Catholic Archbishop Elect of
Mudd, Arnold, and Mrs. Surratt are charged
Westminster, Dr. Manning, presided yesterday at a large the crime.
meeting of his eo-religionate at the Hanover-square Rooms• as accessory to crime.
The object of the meeting was to determine en some form Mr. Reverdy Johnson has been admitted as
a memorial of the late Cardinal Wiseman. Several re- counsel for Mrs. Surratt.
solutions were unanimously pasted, to the effect that the The evidence produced since Friday implicates
memorial should consist of a post cathedral church ;that
all over the Roman m
appeals should be ade to catholic!' all the prisoners. One witness testified that Sur.
'
raft visited Richmond last March, accompanied by
world to enbecribs, and that a committee should take the
work in hand st once. Subscriptions to the extent of over a lady, and on his return to Washington had about
15,0001. were announced in the room. 200 dole. in gold. He stated that he had seen Jeffer-
The report of the Irish Commissioners of Na- son Davie and Benjamin, and that Richmond would
timid Education for 1864, which has just appeared not be evacuated. On his return from Richmond
amens the parliamentary papers, states that the Surratt left for Montreal, and returned to Washing-
average number of chi dreg in daily attendance at
all the National schools was 315,108, and their education ton the day before Lincoln's assassination.
A special despatch to the Express asserts that
sot 11. 2s. 6d. each, of which the patrons of tchools
paid only 2s. 6d. About 57,000 of the pupils belong to the Johnson was misled by the Judge-Advocate
stablished March, of which more than half are in the pro. regarding the evidence upon which he issued the
rime of Ulster. In Leinster the number is 4,462, and in proclamation attributing complicity in Lincoln's
Umtata 2,943. During the year 1864 the sum of 284,467/. assassination to Mr. Davis and others.
was paid to teachers, and 18,8751. to monitors. The in-
'Patios cost more than 23,2:01.; the cost of the official Johnson, it is said, now finds that the Judged
Advocate has no foundation for the evidence he
establishment at Tyrone-bona was 15,2281. in salaries, or
exist.
about 21. 10s. for each school, there being some 6,200 in
operation. The model and school farms cost 8,7931., and The determination of Kirby Smith to continue
alleged to
the receipts from them were 5,4491., so that ibis portion the contest is confirmed.
of the system is maintained at • loos of about 3,4001. a year. War meeting* have been held at Shrieveport,
In
the
ass of
the filseeeeht ferns the asst was 3'1096. sod Louisiana, and Marshall, Texas.
the
receipts
for produce
1,8761" the loss being esssegstatlY An expedition for Texas is being organised at
about 1,2001. New Orleans.
We ( Reader) learn with deep regret that melan-
choly tidings ham just seethed this omstry from the cep- It ts* said that the misunderstanding between'
Oyes in Alimanis They are sinking fast, sad it is probable Sherman and Stanton may prevent the contem-
that we shall soon bear of their deaths. plated review at Washington.
The National Gazette of Berlin, 22nd, says : A sharp correspondence has passed between
"The Emperor and Empress of Russia arrived hare this Halieck and Sherman concerning Halleck's order
morning at half-peat 10, from Darmstadt, mid shortly otter. in reference to Sherman.
wards sot out again for St Peanburg. The King and the Governors Brown of Georgia and Vance of North
Prints Royal, who had been in wads( to pay their respects Carolina have been arrested.
1 to the Emperor and Empties at Potsdam, sooompaaccompanied
1 thew to Berlin, and coy left thew at the &leek, railwaylt is reported that President Johnson will shortly
station. The Prisms and Primula Charles, Count de Bis- issue a new amnesty proclamation.
march, and the Staff of the Russian Embassy west to the M. de Montholon, on his reception by President
Potsdam railway ration to solute their Rossiya Majesties. Johnson on Saturday, was introduced by Acting-
lse King and the Prime Royal wore the Russia" uniform?,
The Governor-General of Netherland India re- Secretary Hunter. On presenting his credentials,
M. de Montholon expressed the wishes of the
solved last year that • telegraphic oommnoiestion should
, Emperor Napoleon for the complete restoration of
be tablished between A jar (west of Jaya), and Jelong i •
Betoes n (Sumatra). The a
.1.,„;,, .0" „tu be eeeelepea ; peace on the American continent " France," he
with threads of itootootty (Indian Gag). It is rumoured i said, "will always view with satisfaction the con-
that it is the intention of the Netherlands government to solidation of the prosperity and greatness of the
extend this lies lain to Palembang. with a view to rata I United States. Animated by sentiments of deep
Mnatok or itteht and to en°e In nearer rektioa to BM' I sympathy for the American Union, their Majesties
Mom I and France share with other nations the grief into
EARL RUM= —Fad Russell WU present last • . •
night is the Peers' of the House of Commons, when which a most atrocious crime has plunged the
• smatter a his oldirliert% soccemirely convened with him, I government and people of the United States."
seam waist were air Dads Le Marcbast (who occupies a
the table), and Mr.
seat at the Crawford, his etsßeagne Is re- ' President Johnson replied :—" Your intimacy
*Rh the head of your own government cannot
presentaties of the city of Loaders.
ROYAL HORTICITLTrRAL 8001117.—There is an fail to impart perhaps universal confidence
imemdisely bemtiful exhibition of rbododrndroos b• representations his
Maws. Waterer and Godfrey now rag co at the societirs to your
gasket, South Kensiegtoe. A mast test 300 feet keg sad posed policy iu reference to the United
ems Hass of odour ls a sight that the meet vivid ITeilhte- States. The people of the United States
Sisw ow hardly realise. It will probably lave reached its
pests* beauty about Salerday aszt, the rel leek have a traditional regard for Franca, universally