The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

By an official oversight in the programme sent to
us on Saturday, the part of Hamlet was left out of
the play—the ceremonial was put forth without the
master of the ceremoniee—the Lord Chamberlain
was omitted from the bill. His plain in the New
Royal Commission lies between the Earl of Derby
and Viscount Palmerston, and while he will add the
histre of his presence to the state procession, he will
sot as a kind of safety buffer between the two great
rival chiefs of party.
Monday, the thirty-first day of March, was the
last day tired fur the reception of goods, and the
rush to get the deliveries made in compliance
with the official order produced a scene in
Brampton such as is seldom witnessed out of
Wood-street or Lower Thames-street. Diving-

bells, crank,,, cases, pianos, earthenware structural,
clocks, models, pictures, agricultural machines—
everything, from a patent mangle to a pre-Itaffaelite
work of art, seemed lying in the Cromwell-road
waiting for owners. Ou Saturday night nearly a
hundred loaded waggons were left standing outside
the long brick frontage, and on Monday morning,
at six o'clock, the block was increased by fresh
arrivals. Mr. Thompson and his assistants kept at
their posts until twelve o'clock last night, and suc-
ceeded in unloading at least five hundred eases.
Their task would have been got through quicker if
cranes had been provided on this side capable of
lifting more than from one to two tons; but this
very necessary machinery will not be ready until
Tuesday or Wednesday. The foreign mutts
are now absolutely blocked up with goods
waiting to be opened ; and the English,
although last in the field, promise to outstrip their
rivals in the race. In the matter of catalogues the
foreigners want a little spurring on, and we are
sassy to say that both France and Austria—two of
the largest occupiers of space—have not yet sent in
any description of their goods in the Industrial
section.

The reception of goods will continue all through
this week, and we hope that the exertions of all
exhibitors will not be relaxed when they find that
the commissioners have not Mood upon their
original decision.

ComeauNH:A.ll43N WITH INDIA. —The select com-
mittee Appointed to inquire into and report upon the
practicability of shortening the Tome to bee Maiseay's pow
seasons be Nedra', He gal, Ac., hy facilitatittlt lb* Pedalo
threuxh the obstruction known se Adam's Bridge, and
thereby avoiding the dretnanavigation of Ceylon, met yes-
terday. The inembens of the committee are Sir J. I.3phin-
SiODIN Lard,. Bruce, Sr F. Smith, Sir H. Leaks, Sir John
Hay, Mr. T. Hartsg, Mr. Grego" Yr. J. B. Smith, Mr.
Sim Heat, sad Yr. liemuish. The assurdthee having ap-
pointed Sir J. MOWMae chairman. adjoined.
UNITID OW= IMPORTS AND r SPORTS. —The
Misch, Vetted Olathe for the Mr eating June 30;
1188, were ea halms :—Datithle pose of the of
al I
Ads. ; tree goods, exclusive of spa*
G4Oll 8 dole. ; specie and bullion 46,339,611 doh.—
total, M 4,350,483 doh. Exports : Lk:medic produce other
than specie of the value of 204,168,299 doh. ; fi, pro.
duce sad merehesdies, 14.548,075 dote : dome* rid
Iforkorcie and bei11ie;65,2495i9d4Z10 do/s. ; edam%
1401.1• T NOWTHERN 38A08FITAL, KING'S-CHOOH.—
Mamba of patients for the week ending Muth a, NI. of
whicl43T/ were Dew came.

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NEW YORK, NA= SD.
Advices from Port Royal to the 16th inst. report
that preparations for the reduction of Savannah
are steadily progressing.
General Bureaule, in hie official report of the
capture of Newburn, says :
By this victory we have captured eight batteries. con-
taining 46 heavy guns, three batteries of light artillery.
making, in all, 64 gum, two steamboats, a large meantity of
ammunition, rein, torpentise, and cotton. sad war (OG
primers. The Federal loss will amount to IL blisi
end 466 wounded, many of them mortally. The nisi lies
was levers, but not so great as the Federal loss, they bobs
effectually covered by their weeks.
The report ooncludes as follows :
I beg toes, to the general ooremanding, Nrlellen, Ileat
I have endeavoured te tarry oat the very Went' imbue.
thee gives nee by lam before leaving Annapolis, sad Yew
far smuts have bees elegularly coincident with his ateliei-
patione. I only bops that we may in future be alb to
carry out in detail the remaining plans of the ampoiss.
The only thing I have to regret is the delay ommod • by tbe
eiseasate. :

The Confederates are reported to have evacuated
the last of the batteries they held on the Lower
Potomac—namely, those at Acquia Creek.
Reconnaissances have been made from General
Sickle's brigade to Fredericksburg.
The Confederates were discovered in considerable:
numbers in that vicinity.
Strasburg, lately occupied by the Confederates,
is now occupied by the advance of General Bulks'
corps d'armee.
It has been discovered that the telegraph cable
between Washington and Fort Monroe was cut.
The supposed culprit has been arrested.
It is reported from Philadelphia, and also from
Fort Monroe, that Yancey, the late Confederate
Commissioner to England, bad been captured in a
schooner running the blockade.
The New York Tribune says that the Federal go-
vernment has information that the four steam rams
now building by the Confederates, two at Mobile
and two at New Orleans, are not so formidable as
the Merrimac.
There is a formidable gathering of Federal gun-
boats at Savannah. . .

The Confederates are concentrating in force at
Corinth and Decatur, in Alabama, to the number,
it is supposed, of 40,000.
The Washington oorrespondent of the New York
Herald say. that information received in Wash-
ington leads to the belief that the Confederates are
forming a line of defence from Fredericksburg to
Gordonsville.
The Assistant Secretary of the Federal Navy is
now in New York, it is stated, for the purpose of
providing for flee immediate construction of four
steamers exactly similar to the Monitor.
The New York Tribune states that the committee
of the Senate had under consideration a proposition
to transfer the appropriation, made in the present
session, amounting to 7,000,000 dollars, for forti-
fications, to iron-clad steamships.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune says it is authoritatively stated that the
daily outgoings of the Federal treasury amount to
4,000,000 dole., and the accounting liabilities of the
several departments to 1,000,000 dole. more.
An Associated Press Washington despatch says that
diplomatic circles are sensibly disturbed by authentic
news received in Washington from Cuba, indicating
a serious misundestanding between the allied
powers in Mexico. A rupture is supposed to have
occurred between the Spanish and French Lega-
tions.
Commodore Foote has eight gunboats and ten
mortar boats at Island No. 10. His latest official
despatch says :
Wand No. 10 is harder to opaques than Columbust as the
island shores are lined with forts, each foot aaaaoeWieg the
one above it. I am gtsdnally approaching the bland, but
still do not hope for much until the occurrence of certain
events which promise mores& We are tiring day and
night on the robs* and we gain on them.
The Nasheilk Banner, discussing President Lin-
coln's emancipation message, says that while it pro-
fesses no unconstitutional action on the part of the
government with reference to the institution, it
cannot but be regarded as an ill-timed and unneces-
sary, not Lamy impracticable, suggestion, even if any
slave state should accept it, which is itself out of
the question. The New York Journal of Commerce

'aye :
It is natant to expect immediate regalia from the rapid
progress of our arms in the last few weeks lint it is well
not to be too sanguine. While we nifty sometimes feel
inclined to believe that overtures for peace are not far
distant, it b the dictate of prudence to anticipate very bard
fighting, perhaps surpassing anything yet experiment.
The leaden of the rebellion have reason to suppose that if
defeated their lives must pay the forfeit of their crimes.
With all such, failure involvesdeetruction. They have, there•
fore, every incentive to persist in their course, and besides
these not a few amunalterably committed to the ethane
of a Southern Coefederacv. So long as there is a say of
hope they will panne this phantom with the Mum of
into
and as their case becomes man dement* we may
expect te meet with a more determined resietesoe. Men-
tor% wide the rebellion may at say tints collapse, it is
welt to remember that the death atm& is eresetiseen the
met violist.
'nos sane journal, in another article, says
It as so looser be doubted that America has KIM
streets triode is the aid country. The onnonirdty of birth,
lerlaseass .untie, sea love of liberty are oat totgetiali

Link ear they be hwe. The •treth tails& be
that ming Ammieses look dal te the pamiiYl
Wl;7lll7=lllsSitilaid.4. aersZinsualevie
*dr of peace sad o.viebtatilia:ia...tetteml4.ll7lll4l:ll.lthe.u=
AmidillassetusewM dirfrar, kat win al*
to boil pima fa
Hinny to tke woad. mere
The comments of the English press on the Fort
p victory were favourably resolved. The
lfceiseitk Herald thinks that when theo news of
the edotinued Federal suoceeess reaches Et., the
revolution in public opinion as to the posdbl
a rem:instruction of the Union will be comp/etc
A bill has been introduced into Congress issltho•
rising the Secretary of the Treasury to accept leans
from the States for public defences. If the Prost.
dent is authorised to accept a loan from the Stab
of Maine, the Speretary of War wall take immediate
measures to fortify the harbour and city of Pork.
land, and some point in the north-east section of
Maine, and suck cubic places on the coed and
frontier of Maine as may be necessary to provide'
for 'unitary connexion between the said points, and

The Bloats Committee on Foreign Affairs has
reported in favour of appropriating 2,500 dollars
Sahen to the Spanish barque Provideooe,
seared on her voyage to New York by the
blockading steamer Alabama.
During the discussion on the bill for the aboli-
tion of slavery in the district of Columbia, Senator
Doolittle (a leading Republican) declared he would
favour uo emancißation scheme which did not pro-
vide for the colonization of the nerves. He argued
that in the temperate zone the Cauceesian race
would always dominate. "In the tropics," said
Mr. Doolittle, "the coloured race is dominant.
This is nature's law. The repugnance in America
t 6 living side by side with negroes is not, a• el•imed
by some, mere prejudice, but a true instinct of
nature." He contended that every pledge of the
Republican party in 1860 waa against interfering
with slavery in the States, and that they could not
emancipate slaves. It was their duty to encourage
emigration to Hayti and Liberia, and they should
look at a map of the American continent, and direct
legislation for the good of all races and all
mankind.

The House of Representatives has rejected the
amendment to Tax Bill exempting slaves from
taxation.
The Senate has rejected the nomination of James
Leslie, juu., as Consul to Nice, and of William
Moran, Consul to Bayonne.
The New York Evening Poa, in its first edition,
says :
The stook market is weak and lower, owing to the doubt
banging over the oonfliot at Island No. 10. The_dej2in
capturing-Ai, stronghold has awakened some ap
and prime probabl not recover much nntirtre •Fedis-
ral success is a The weakness did not extend to
the government list, which is even firmer than yesterday,
especially the Slues of 1881, these touching 94i, being the
highest price yet obtained. The Fives of 1874 are lees
active—selling at 87g—tut the iIINIO of 1871 sold at 88, a
further advance.
WASHINGTON, Hates 18.
The Naval Committee this morning formally
voted in favour of au appropriation sufficient to
complete the Stevens battery, and 16,000,000 dolt.
in addition for the construction of iron-clad war
steamers; the specifications to be left to the decision
of the Navy Department.
Lorenzo Sabine has been appointed commissioner
to England and France in reference to the fishery
question.

NOVA SCOTIA.
HALIFAX, Kum O.
OW Muds, Quismiewa.)
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The bill to enable the imperial government to
build a military telegraph from Halifax to Quebec
passed the first reading in the Legislative Council,
and bu been referred to a select committee, which
reported favourably. Some opposition was, how-
ever, made to the bill ; it is supposed by parties
interested in the present lease of the hoes to an
American company. The financial statement Is
being discussed in the house. The estimates for
1862 amount to 957,000 dole. It is proposed to
increase the present 10 per cent. ad valorem duties
to 12}, also to add 10c. per gallon to the duties on
brandy and Geneva, bo. on rum, and la per lb.
on coffee, tea, tobacco, and leather.
The Gold Miners Bill has passed the house, and
gone to the council.
Her Majesty's ship Greyhound, from Bermuda,
arrived at Halifax on the 19th inst. The Hydra
will leave for Bermuda on the 22nd with a mail.
BERMUDA, Mason 11.
The tornado on the 6th inst. did considerable
damage throughout the Bermudas.

MEXICO.

NEW YOBS. Nam 1&

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The steamer Roanoke, from Havannak on the
12th inat., has arrived at New York. fibs brings
dated from Vera Cruz to the 4th inst._
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The Spanish troops were returning from the inte-
rior. A portion of the Spaniards are retuning

to Cuba, and the rest have gone to Orizaba,. Ge-
neral Prim *remands the allied forces. The
English forces were to leave the country. The
French reinforcement& had not arrived. The
Freer& forma were en route for Tehuscan. The
started on the let instant for Orizaba.
at ti with 5,000 troops, holds the roads from
Vera Cruz to Mesita. An American citizen, be-
longing to Lowell, Massachusetts, bearer of des-
patches from the Washington government
to Minister Corwin, was murdered on the
94th ult., while going from Vera Cruz to
the city of Mexico. His name was Addison
T. Arlen. Negotiations between the Mexicans
and allies were to commence at Orizaba let April.
Headurea dates are to the 27th February. A for-
midable rotation had occurred, and order was being
restored. Medina had been chosen president pro
tam. From Havannah it is stated that the Spanish
Teresits had been captured by one of the
Stabs 0-- and declared an illegal
stipulations made at
els Prim and Gobbed°
Id he lauded. Under
returned to Cuba, and
torcementa, under General
without landing. The
the Errands to Ent-
to ree* mail thfr
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publishes the folio**'
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their
by the
trilled nyentio•
agreed v._ -- ___ ______. Mugu Oandlejos
and litr,.,tlade ; the troops had their march
to Cord Tobiason, sad Ortolan, and evorytilini as=
soured t the pending dimpeeisents would have a
peals solution, and that ample guarantees would be ob.
mithationa
Wald for the future.
The following • the text of the convention of
Soledad, ratified President Juarez :
eol.4ts perersat that lea
eerie linsisseasZthis idermed the
el the allied rms II thezortadard the
saileteass they have • In the
Kerbs -people, because thatierrehaeseirdre he Mel
erousts of ta preseree Aral
hem s trarreal revolt, will rased to treaties to
preseals hem all the reabsorbs* rat they me siege/
tie Oahe is dee raise ai timid isupselive asthma.
I. To lids and, sad peettes*Las the repremetattve of the
maires do protest,- thalt*sy have so intent to injure
ty or Weir* el the
to
als,
bs epere~ubehey
te whisk ee»pty l wthescamer-
el the allied powers mid tie irderters of the republic
mak, salmi try oceirea reesat dsleptes shell be
ariled Try bellemtrilme,
& Ruing dee seweestiers the hem al the allied powers
diell 'may the dans el Ceedees, Olin* era Tasman.
,;Va cram Rat there rag sot to VW Wildest steppe-
that the alike baser died Itheseptelissieerhs la
le peer, eglesimies to the brined reettletm sow
se by the Madam army, it is std disci Mint is gm
k. evert el the rapture of aseedithre the elhid
mitre tram the eforesaid Tissatri eimil
tale see per ties.ie • lire heave mid ea tie
?Ate Tin Chas, the extreme poiats the Pam
411 die Ortdeva read, wed the Peso de Owe* es the
:1 n NAL
entaiser
alteanhare= tat e lib%
hanstille cal ease dead Semis sm=lisr m dieprid el
the Ideziere artiste.
6. Lira the day that the allies commence their
marsh to easapi Uri Oats mastered is Art. 3 the Merl.
car lag roll he kiiiMl laths Wry el Vera Gras sad OM
Castle of St. Jena de Ms. 1
L Waded, Feb. 19, 1862.
Ms Made de Rims,
Maim Doman%
Ow. LIMO' WTM
Hoar DMIROP,
A. Dil SUM"
B. Jowls.
I approve these prefirsisariss is exercise of the tell
powers With which I am vested.
Beam Josses, President of the Republic.
Jaws Tray. Secretary.
The Allied Plenipotentiaries fixed their residenoe
in Orizaba, where the conferences were to begin on
the Ist of April.