The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Maace 31.
The Epoca states that the governor of the Bank
of Spain has tendered his resignation.
To-day, after a long conference, the Ministers
proceeded to the Palace, and had an interview with
the Queen. It is stated that the resignation of
Senor Rios Roam, as President of the Chamber of
Deputies, will be accepted, and that the Marquis
of Valde-Terrazo will replace him in that post.

THE SPANISH PASSIVE DEBT.
MADRID, DlAsca 31.
The usual monthly auction for the sinking fund I
of the Passive Debt took place to-day. The prices
fixed by the government were 33 for the first class
and 20 for the second clam interior, 30.70 for the
exterior, and-20.50 for the Personal Debt. Private
tenders were made at from 32.74 to 33.70 for the
first clams interior, and at 19.60 to 21.24 for the
second class. No offers were made for the exterior
or personal.

THE BRUM&
(By Tolegraph from Lisbon.)
BUENOS AMES, Mo. 27.
Exchange on London, 54.1 Dollars, 215.86. Wet
'sited hides, 32 for 601 b. Tallow, 15. Lumber,
flopr, 21.

This noble iron-dad, christened by the Countess,
of Percy, at the imposing ceremony a fortnight ,
sines, was again attempted to be launched from the
▪ Company's docks on Saturday afternoon.
Unfortunately it was another failure, and if during
the present high tides the launch cannot be accom-
plished, the second failure will be greater than the
first, because during the interval all that could be,
suggested by science and experience has been adopted ,
to make the trial successfuL The Millwall Company,
who have built the ship, and the Admiralty, min
whose care she will be delivered when launched,
have been quite conscious of the large pecuniary
consideration involved, and the public may rest
assured that in whatever quarter the present dila- ,
culty is to be sought, it will not be found to pro-
coed from a want of energy or desire on the part of
Sir John Hay, the chairman of the company, or
Mr. Lungley, the practical manager of the yard.
There are two difficulties which have so far mas-
tered them, and which, while not by any means the
only obstacles, are sufficiently serious to warrant
the remark that they swallow up the rest. In the
first place, it must now be accepted that the incline
of the ways, made as alight as possible to prevent
the vessel rushing at dangerous speed into the
water, is not sufficient for so dead a weight. In
the next place, the enormous mass of nearly 9,000
tons haa been for 14 days settling down into a poeition
where it was not intended to remain, and whence it
may be found more difficult to dislodge her than
from the original starting-point. The wonder is,
not so much that the vessel was not launched, as
that,stopping half did receive
way, she not irre-
trievable damage. The Northumberland will ever
be quoted as a triumph of private enterprise and
British skill • but to our minds, the talent dis-
played in the construction of the launching appa-
ratus is no less a testimony to the resources of the
Stillwell Company's yard. The cradles, both aft
and forward, although both probably have been'sub-
jaded to irregular strain, remain as sound as before.
As we ventured to remark at the time, the conjec-
tures made a fortnight ago as to the cause of the
stoppage were worth little. Added together they
inform us, even with the light of subsequent exa-
mination, that the Northumberland stuck, but that
the primary reason is not apparent. The most
gratifying assurance derived from the official in-
spection is, that the ways and the ground upon
which they rested are clear and unmoved. Neither
are there any signs that the ship has strained; and
this perhaps is the best indication of all that every-
thing beneath and above is square and tight. It
only remained for the authorities to wait until they
could direct the tide to do the work which the
most potent engine made by man could not accom-
plish. The vessel was to be brought as near float-
ing as possible, and then pushed or coaxed to com-
plete the journey she spoiled on Saturday fortnight.
The first work, of course, was to secure the vessel
in her newly-found position ; to put a shore here,
and a wedge there, until the total weight rested
even everywhere. That done, preparations for
floating were commenced. A score of lighters,
brought from the government dockyards,
were arranged under each quarter, to rise
with the tide, and carry the fortunes of the
great iron-clad with them ; and hundreds of casks
were lashed together to assist in the same direction.
The whole of the floating agencies were roughly
estimated to represent • lifting power of 1,000
tons, and it may be assumed that the preparations
for floating were as nearly perfect as they could
be. Believing, however, that one of the chief, if
not the chief, question was as to the power,
hydraulic or otherwise, to be employed in forcing the
vessel off, we must be permitted to doubt whether
those arrangements were es entire as those made for
floating. There were three hydraulic rams applied
at the bows ; various minor propelling pressures
were employed by the workmen along the sides ;
and in the centre of the river a huge dredging
machine was moored, ready to strain upon numer-
ous hawsers when the proper time arrived.
The scene at the yard on Saturday, if not so
fashionable and brilliant in colour, was none the
less animated and earnest than on the previous
occasion. There were fewer spectators, but those
who were present were equally anxious to see the
ship's birth-troubles at an end. Several specially
chartered steamers came down the Thames with
crowds of excursionists to see the sight, and the
I yards and adjoining roofs were, as before, occupied
with adventurous workmen. Just before 2 o'clock
(high water) the Duke of Sutherland and party
pulled up in front of the entranoe-gates, and the ad-
mirationol the throng through which these andother
I distinguished visitors passed appeared to be divided
between the interest the visitors took in shipbuild-
ing matters and the smartness of the horses and
carriage which brought them. Inside the yard Mr.
Langley and Sir John Hay were here, there, and
everywhere, superintending personally each prepa-
ration, however minute. Troops of fine horses
were drawn up on either side of the ship to pull
away the larger props ; the men on board the
lighters were "standing by" to cut themselves adrift
from the monster who would destroy them if
they could not get free before she moved ; and
the directors of the operations on deck continually
shouted to those below the minutes that would
elapse before the signal would be given. With a
full and favourable tide it was given shortly after
two ; the bugle sounded ; each workman at his poet
played promptly the part he had been rehearsing ;
ropes bounded off, and chains fell with a rattle ;
and there being still no movement, all attention
was centered on the working of the hydrau-
lic rams. Occasionally a portion of • balk
would unexpectedly leap, like a porpoise,
out of the water far beyond the bows,
indicating that some invisible agency had released
it from a long confinement ; but beyond that, and
of course the usual imaginative announcements,
" There she goes," " She moves," lc., no further
result was achieved. There was a half disposition
on the part of the stern to be buoyant, but the good
intention was unfortunately frustrated. After a
short and sharp trial, the roll of the drum was
beard, calling off the men to secure the ship as the
tide fell, and telling the spectators that the attempt
was a failure.
The Monkey and Bustler steam vessels have been
ordered to leave Woolwich harbour this Minim
with all the available shipwrights from the dock-
yard, to assist in another attempt to Leach the
camel to-day.

(nom OUR °wit Irareirma.)
SUNDAY, APRIL 1.
Although this is " All fools-day "it seems quite
clear that there are to be no poisons d'Aeril in
Brighton this year. The review bids fair to be a
grand success, and the world is pouring in from all
quarters to witness it. Those who *made their
meteorological observations and prophecies on
London-bridge platform yesterday evening cast
dismal horoscopes, and felt despondency and um-
brellas entering their very marrow; but a blessed
change came o er the spirit of their dream as the
famous briny odour of the coast reminded them
that they were approaching " London on the Sea."
, And a young London Brighton may truly be called,
• child that grows more like its gigantic parent
every day. Even since autumn last additions
are perceptible ; amongst others ano hotel on
the Marine Parade, which, although not so large
or so pretentious looking as " The Grand,"
is a wonder as compared with the cara-
vansaries of the olden time. The population
seems also wonderfully to increase • also the lodg-
ing-houses, and doubly also the expectations why
the prepezikes et lks • Wier eriamilninc. Df tha.
squeezable capabilities of the stranger. They are
bad traders are these individuals., and they let
every great influx of visitors slip through their
handstlueughtheir narrow greed. The vanoushotela
were all engaged from top to bottom fora week
before the review, simply because the world lies
own, to know that the managers do not raise their
ordinary tariffs;but the Jodging-houses even on this
the eve of the great day, are one-half of them
empty, and the obdurate Londoners who were de-
termined not to be done, are stowed away in
bathing machines, or botanising on the downs, ,or
dispersed heaven knows where, whilst their would-
be extortioners wring their hands, and pronounce
that the review is certain to be a failure and a hum-
bug. Their conduct can only be excused on one
ground, and that is the extraordinary delusion wider
which they labour—namely, that whatever may .he
the actual period of the year, that particular date
is, par =Mena, " the height of the season" at
Brighton. Whether you come maid the frosts et
Christmas, or, being economically bent, you steal
a march in spring, or boldly invade at midsummer,
when all Jewry has migrated to the coast, it is all
the same—" the height of the season" stares you
in the face, and answers all your complaints as to
the treatmenti you receive. The Beightonian
native, in fact, looks upon himself and his gay city 1,
as two things which have been almost forgotten by
Providence. Pitiably he tells you " that Brighton
leads nowhere and produces nothing ; we neither
make nor grow, and so most depend entirely on
what is brought to us." And vigorously and con-
scientiously does everyone act up to that convic-
tion. The owners of flies insist that their coach-
men shall each bring home from the review two
guineas and a half for a journey of two miles each
way, and if a cheaper mode of transit were pro-
posed, it would be rejected by an unanimous
vote of the great fly interest, and any at-
tempt to carry it out would be the signal
for a desperate pienuneinfniente. This is hardly fair,
when we consider the wiles which that worthy
syren in pantaloons, the worshipful Mayor,
annually puts into requisition to bring all the world
to Brighton. He first makes himself sure of the
volunteers, who now look upon Brighton as their
annual headquarters, and then he gains over
royalty to increase the attractions ; but having
thus by a double system of " starring" brought
down all the world, he leaves them to Providence
sad that own resouress from Saturday until
Tuesday morning. It is, in fact, a grand annual
lesson in campaigning, is this Easter visit to
Brighton ; it may be exceedingly good for the
volunteers as part of their military education, but
in the name of the general public I invite future
mayors to improve a little on Mrs. Glass's first prin-
ciple of cookery, and having first caught their hares,
to make some arrangements for their comforts
during their short detention.
There is no disguising the fact that the great—
unusually great—interest which this year's volun-
teer review excites is mainly caused by the expected
visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales, especially
the latter, about whom the people here are posi-
tively frantic. A rumour that in consequence of
the threatening aspect of the weather her Royal
Highness might possibly stay away, sent down all
local stocks five per cent. yesterday. I do not
mean to say that, amongst the ladies especially,
the Prince will not also be a great draw,
but the Princess is above everything and be-
fore everything " the favourite," and it is
about her Royal Highness that every one is
talking, and hoping, and expecting. The royal
visit has not been managed and finally arranged
without considerable weighty negotiation. Subse-
quent to the original arrangement, a doubt came
over the experienced mind of Lieut.-General
Knollys as to the exact time at which the royal
luncheon should be taken, and the luncheon at
once became the pivot round which an entirely new
programme was to turn. First, the royal couple
were, on arrival in Brighton, to start at once for
the Pavilion, and then, having been the guests
of the Mayor and corporation, were to ad-
journ to the Race-hill. But it struck General
Knollys that the luncheon would come better
and be enjoyed more at leisure after the review—
an idea which has my full concurrence and so
everything had to be changed, and the mayor,
accompanied by his trusty town clerk and the
traffic manager of the Brighton Railway, had to
proceed to town on Wednesday afternoon to receive
their final instructions. As it now stands the Pro-
gramme will be as follows :
The Prince and Princess of Walt, who will be sworn-
panied by the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
of Cambridge, the Priam Flohenlohe, the Prince of Teek,
the Duke of Sutherland, and the Duke of St. Alban's,
with their suites, will leave the Victoria Station of' the
London and Brighton Railway shortly before ten oclock
and will arrive at the Brighton
1 station about a.m. The state carnage which will
be ivied on this occasion will be lent by theme th
refused
Western
Company, the South Eastern Company ng
theirs ; and the engine will be under the personal
charge of Mr. Craven, the company's locomotive super-
intendent. The royal psrty will alight at the centre
platform—that hem which the Loudon expre! trains take
their departure—and here they will be received by the
Mayor and Mayoress of Brighton, the Lord Lieutenant of
the county and the countess of Chichester, the Vicar of
NiOton (the Rev. H. M. Wagner), e aldermen
for of
e
this borough. Ca:Tin-and-four beanindwaiting
ore's will
rertalihane co4negcca;ethe Preitecees of the
Wales es and tle Princess
Mary of Cambridge will follow in the next, and then others
of the party i the aldermanic body (Ilia number) following
in three carriages. The Prince and the Duke of Cambridge,
however, with the gentlemen generally of the royal party,
will take hone immediately and escort the royal Wise
through the town to the Race-hill, all other escort, whether
of the regular er volunteer cavalry, having been dispensed

With. -
Having changed the luncheon arrangements to
please the royal visitors, the mayor next proceeded
to change the route to the race course to please
himself and his fellow citizens. The royal cortege
will now peas through all the principal parts of the
town, so as that they may pee everything and be
seen by everybody. They are to see the east and
west cliffs and the open sea from the Old Bteyne ;
they will encounter the whole volunteer army in
full march on the Marine-parade, and then follow
it in procession to the Race-bill. By this arrange-
ment the mayor promises his fellow-citizens that
everyone shall have a peep. at royalty, provided
nobody stirs from the place in which he originally
took his stand, and that no attempt be made at
mobbing or closing in on the royal party. This
thou,cauti which I sincerely trust may be attended to,
is eMOTO nes:emery as the Prince of Wales dis-
penses with all military smut, and trusts the Prin-
cess and himself wholly to the loyalty end courtesy
at the people. The mothers wing of the Gland

GOVERNMENT INSURANCE AND AN
The following additional post-offices will be open on and
after the 2nd of April for the receipt of proposals for the
insurance of lives or the purchase of government
annuities, under the act 27 and 28 Viet., esp. 43 ;
and for the receipt of the premiums becoming due
to the Postmaster-General, from time to time, under
contracts for the insurance of lives or the purchase
of government annuities, and for the payment of say sums
which shall become payable by the Ponmsster-General
under the said contracts : Astley Bridge (Bolton), Banwell
(Weston-super-Msre), Boimoor (Hemel Hempstead),
Benson (Walliagforil), Hanle (Hull), Harrold (Bedford).
Harewood (Leeds), Hambledon (Horndean), Huithlield
(Hurst Green), Lindfield (Cuckfield), Luttorwortb, New-
chunk (Manchester), New Romney (Folkston.), Bt. Dog-
nags (Cornea), Sidney (Chester), Taibar-h, Tsl• -Wars
(Pontypool), Vi`alker (Newcastle-on-Tyne), Walton-le-Dale
(Preston), Wolverley (Kidderminster). These offices will
be open for nob purposes during the hours appointed for
the transaction of money order business. -At hand-bill
containing the principal rules of the Government Insurance
and Annuity-office and of the Pon-office Savings Banks
has been printed for gratuitous distribution, and copies
may be obtained at the ebovenamed offices. A translation
into Welsh of the hand-bill has also been printed for dis-
tribution in Wales, and copies may be obtained at any
I post-office in Wales which has been opened for the trans-
action of Government Insurance and Annuity business.
The measure will, from time to time, be extended to other
, post-offices than those named above, and due notice will
be given of such extensions. lf application be made to
any ponnuister for the extension of the measure to his
offin- , be will at once report the circumstance to the

secretary.
BREACH OF Pttomin Or MARRIAGE.—A sitting
me held at the Liverpool arm courts on Saturday, by
Mr. Aston, the wiesseor for the Duchy of Lancaster, to
assess damages ins ease of breach of promise of marriage.
The plaintiff, Miss Eleanor Green, an attractive young
lady between 25 and 30 years of age, was in court, attended
by some members of her family. She is the daughter of
the late manager of the Bolton Gas Company, and the
defendant, Mr. W. Barnwell, is a solicitor and partner in
the firm of Glover and Barnwell, of Bolton. The damages
claimed were 2,0001. Mr. Temple, Q.C., with Mr. Bolker
appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Attorney-General James,
Q.C., M.P., and Mr. Serjeent Simon for the defendant. The
plaintiff remind introduced to the defendant at the house of
a Mr. Foster, In Bolton, about 1$ months since ; but the
actual courtship did not commence until September.
Letters from the defendant to the plaintiff (who resided at
Southport after her father's death), written in November,
with
which by the learned counsel, to show the ardour
with which Mr. Barnwell pursued his attachment, the
marriage of the plaintiff and defendant being a thing per-
fectly understood, until the 9th December, when defen-
dant wrote a letter commencing " My dear Eleanor," in
which he stated that his mother was much opposed to the
union, that she felt so strongly upon the subject
that if
to " become deranged " the estgagement was continued she was
likely and that duty
and respect to him mother would compel him to discontinue
his vivits to the plaintiff, at least for a time. Be expeessed
himself deeply grieved at this necessity, not merely on his
own account, but on Miss Green's, " for he could well
rearme the agoey which this decision would cause her ; but
unless kis mother's blessing and good wishes went with
him he could never marry." On the very evening of the
day that this letter was written, the plaintiff and defen-
dant had an interview, during which the latter com-
pletely recanted, and became as affectionate and
devoted as ever, and during the remainder of the
month the letters which pa were in the old strain of
ardour. But on the 10th al February the plaintiff was
astonished by the visit at Southport of a friend of the
defendant's, who had been comminoned by the latter to
state to Miss Oren that the defendant could not perform
his nanffsenen. For the plaintiff it was urged that enb-
etential damages should be awarded, as the family was
highly respectable. The Attorney-General addressed the
went in intigethos el damson, and after a heist delibera-
tion they awarded 5001.
Nornionam ELEcnow Cowurrras.—After the
dose of oar summary of Saturday's proc;e=everal
other names@ wen ermined, and the were
then adjourned until this day.
Lrvaarcica., 'Gam 31. —The screw steamer
Clan, one of the West India and Peelle fitearnship
Conspaseesteansers, ambled here this ev ' TherOnliem
Yinipten„ Jamaica, on the 2nd of , but her
deices have been anticipated by the Tasmanian at
Sonthasanon.
BOW. BB= HospiTAL, GMAY'II-IMII-10AD.
The number al patients relieved at this hospital during
the meek ending Marsh 31 was 3,390, of which 1,135 were
sine ems.