The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1860.

caused a commotion amongst obstructive gentle-
men wedded to old ways. Mr. FRANKLIN obsti-
nately refuses to follow the example of his
fellow-auditor in endorsing upon the Company's
accounts the usual phrase "examined and ap-
" proved," but insists that in his certificate he
shall be allowed to state to the shareholders what
amount of work he has really done. He has ac-
cordingly appended to the accounts the following
special note bearing his signature :
The receipt. are for the first time arranged b the sc.
countaat on the credit side of his account. The
brought down from the preceding half.y..ir differ there=
by 1,0801., on account of 11 per cent debentures paid off,
and duly cancelled The receipts shown on this amount for
the haff-year bare been peal over to the Secretary of State
for ladle is Coated, and duly acknowledged. The formal
sanction at the Name department has been produced for the
diebensmesta made by the directors of the companyie
the half-year, as est forth above and classified in
saes the loam The sash balances are f7werollf;.."ll
tested by the Louden sad County Bank ; they include a
sum of 130,1100‘. then in band for paying off 4i per cent.
debentures. The balance "in account "of 30W. 17s. 2d.
is the proportion of Geodes ertabbehment charges assessed
to the revenue-earning maims of the railway. Stores
balance includes 1,212,760 i. lls. Bd. vouched for by °Seers
of the cassiony in Bombay : the remainder is represented
by stares in rewire.

From this explanation it appears that Mr.
Ptolemaic has satisfied himself, by personal in-
vestigation, that the company hold vouchers from
the India-office for the whole of the large sum
paid to that department during the last six months;
that the whole of the disbursements set down
have been formally sanctioned by the Indian Go-
vernment ; and that the cash balance said to be
lying in the London and County Bank is really
there. Had a similar precaution been adopted
by the Directors of the Union Bank of London
(that establishment employing no auditors at all)
with regard to their presumed balance at the Bank
of England, Pt upeose's career would have
been brought to an instant close. Mr.
FRANKLIN also simply places on record
the circumstance that in respect of a sum of
11,212,7601., included in the "stores be-
" lance," he has merely checked certain vouchers
furnished by the company's officers in Bombay.
In another special note attached to the London
" interest account" he states that the amount
corresponds "with a special return made by the
" London and County Bank, adding thereto the
" income tax," and that "the invested balance is
" represented by 4 per cent. debentures produced
" and lekutified." Finally, Mr. FRANKLIN con-
cludes his task with the following general certifi-
cate ; " Audited the foregoing accounts to the
" extent signified by my notes A and B. The
" Bombay accounts are attested by the local
" officers, and countersigned by the chairman of
" the company."
We have here all the elements of an honest
and efficient audit. Supposing that such an audit
were carried on continuously from week to week,
or from month to month, as it ought to be, it
would check financial irregularities, effectually
protect the shareholders, and inspire a legitimate
i confidence. It is manifest that Mr. Fmacturc's
labour in this instance has been quite out of pro-
portion to the pecuniary recompense. Yet, such
is the blindness of shareholders, that at the meet-
ing on Friday last the explanations specially prof-
fered by him in the notes above quoted were actually
made a ground of attack. He was re-elected auditor
in due course, but not without a strong recom-
mendation that he should henceforward desist
from what is stigmatised as an exceptional course,
and content himself with subscribing to the mere
formal declaration usually made by auditors. If
shareholders will not support the excellent prin-
ciple which is involved in the stand made by Mr.
FRANKLIN upon this occasion, they do not deserve
to obtain the security which they affect to desire.

Or Court.

Her Majeety held a Drawing-room, the second
this Reason, on Saturday afternoon, in St. James's Palace.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princess Altos, arrived from Buckingham Palace about two
o'clock, eseceted by &detachment of Life Guards.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, and the Maharajah Duleep Singh were present at
the Drawing-room.
Her Majesty's royal body guard of the Hon. Corps of
filenames at Arms was oa duty in the state saloons, under
the command of the lieutenant.

The Queen and the Prince Consort were attended by the
Duchess of Atholl, officiating for the Mistress of the Robes,
and the officers of the Royal Household.
Messrs. E R. Boyle and H. J. Loftus were the Pages of
Honour in Waiting.
The Queen wore a train of black 'corded silk trimmed with
niche sod rosettes of crape. The petticoat of black corded
silk trimmed with three deep tucks of crape. Her Majesty's
head dress was composed of a jet circlet, black feathers, and
crape lappets, ornamented with jet.
The Princess Alice wore a train of rich white silk,
trimmed with ruches of crape and white room The petti-
, coat, white crape, over white silk, trimmed with bugles
and whits roes. Her Royal Hi 's headdress wee
formed of white feather+, and aepeLppeb, with bugles;
ornaments, diamonds.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore • train of black
ghici trimmed with tulle, large bows of ribbon, and jet.
The Petticoat, black tulle, the upper skirt festooned with
large bows of ribbon, trimmed with jet. The corsage to
correspond. A stomacher of turquoise and diamonds.
Diamond necklace and earrinvi. Her Royal Highness's
headdress was composed of • diadem of diamonds, white
feathers and black tulle veil, ornamented with jet.
The foreign ministers were introduced, when the follow-
lag presentations to her Majesty took place in the diplo-
matic circle :

By Mra. Dallas—Mrs. Washington Jackson, Miss Jack-
son, and Mime Ellen Jackson, all of Philadelphia.
By Indy John Russell -Madame de la Rico, wife of the
Swim minister at this court ; Mdlle. de la Rive, daughter
of the Swiss minister.

By Madame de la Rive—Madame Neville, wife of the
Secretary of the Swim Legation ; Mdlle.
By Lade John Russell- Madame la Marquise de Chateau-
tenenl, wife of the Chargf d'Affaires de France; Countess
Henrietta Diumeskcold, • Danish lady.
By the Minister from the United States—Mr. William
Everett, of Boston, Mass. ; Mr. William C. Rives, jun., of
Beaton, Mass.
By the Austrian Minister—Mr. Samuel Barker Bennett,
lieutenant in the Austrian service.

The diplomatic circle was attended by the Turkish Am-
bassador, the Belgian. Bavarian, Hanoverian Sardinian,
Greek, Portuguese, Prussian, United States, Austrian,
Salon, Russian, Spanish, and Danish Ministers ; the
Envoyd Extraordinaire de la Confederation Suisse ; the
Hansa Towns and Peruvian Ministers ; M uis de Chateau.
reused, Charge d'Affaires de France ; the Brazilan Chargé
d'Affaires; the Cita% d'Affaires of the Republic of
Salvador, the Sicilian d'Affaires, the Secretary of
the Legation of Sweden • Norway, Lord John Rummell,
the Queen's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
Lady John Russell, and Lieuteciant.General the Hon. Sir
Edward Cuat, K.C.H., her Majeety'a Master of the
Ceremouies.

The general circle was attended by Prince Oholam Mahn-
med, son of lippoo Sultan ; Prince Peruse Shah,
grandson of Tippoollultan ; Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy
Seal • Viscount Palmerston, Find Lord of the Treasury ;
and the officers of state.

One hundred and seventy ladies bad the honour of
being presented to the Queen.
The Queen took a carriage drive on Saturday morning.
Her Majesty again took a drive in the afternoon in a ear-
rime sod four. Her Majesty was &communed by Prince
Arthur and Princess Alice, and was attended by the Hon.
Beatrice Byng. The equerries in waiting were in attend-
ance au horseback.

The Prince Consort rode on horseback, attended; by his
eiltt.f,erry in waiting.
Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Helena, took ii carriage drive.
Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included the
Duchess of Kent, the Princess Alice and Prince Alfred, the
Prussian Minister and Countess Bernstortf, the Earl of St.
Germans, Earl Spencer, Lady Susan L Melville, Viscount
awl Viscountess Palmerston, Lonl and Lady Claud Hamil-
ton, Captain the Hon. F. Egerton (Royal Navy), the Right
Him. Sir Edward B. Lytton, and Sir Benjamin Hawes.
Yestenlay the Queen and Prince Consort, the Princess
Alice, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Helena
and Louise, the ladies and gentlemen of the court and the
domestic household, attended divine service in the private
chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Rev. W. H. Brookfield
preached the sermon.

A deputation from the Society of Arta had an interview
with N iscount Palmerston upon the subject of the amend-
ment of the law of artistic copyright on Saturday.
A deputation ivspecting the case of the convict left for
execution at Dundee had an interview with Sir G. Come-
well Lewis on Saturday, at the Home-offiee.
A deputation on the subject of trade marks had an
interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson and the
Right lion. W. Hutt, on Saturday at the othee of the
Beard of Trade.

A deputation to obtain the removal of the county court
from Oldbury to Westhromwich had an interview with Sir
O. Cornwall Lewis, on daturday, at the Home•oftice.
A deputation from the Barking -road and Victoria Dock
district of the Vest Ham Union had an interview with the
Right Hon. C. P. Villiers' at the office of the Poor-law
Board, Whitehall, on Saturday.
A deputation from the Ballast-office of Dublin had an
interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, on Satur-
day, at the office of the Board of Trade.
.

A meeting of the Cambridge Uuiver.ity Commissimiers
was held at 6, Adelphi-terraoe, on Friday, the 27th of April.
The commissioners present were—The Right Hon. Lord
Stanley, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, and Horatio Wad.
aitertaw, Ewl•
Despatches were received at the Coloni►I•o6oe on &Aar.
day from the Governors of the Cape, St. Helena, Natal,
the West Indies, and from the Lord High Conumasioner
of the lonian Islands.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to give
2501. u a prize to be competed for by volunteers at the
July meeting of the National Rifle Association, to be held
on Wimbledon Common ; and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort has also been pleased to give 100 f. as a
prize to be competed for by all comers of all nations.

His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the
Countess Apponyi entertained at dinner on Saturday even.
ing, at Claude.' House, his Excellency the Isurkish Amlas-
asdor and Madame Musurus, his Excellency the Danish
Minister, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis and
Marchioness de Chateaurenard, the Earl and Countess of
Airiie, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Cop.
ley, the Right Hos. Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, the
Right Hoa. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, Prince
Radriwitt, Count Pableu, General Baron Jochmus, Mr.
Merry del Val, Count Wimpffen, Count Ka!nay, Re.
Later in the evening the Countess Appeayi had an as-
sembly.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa
Cavendish sad Lord Froderick Cavendish arrived at Devon-
shire House, on Saturday, front Limon, Camila, Ireland.

The Marquis of Dalhousie and Lady Sunni',
Ramsay and Colonel Ramsay have arrived at the Burling-
ton Hotel, Irma Scotland, for the IES•011.

The Countess of Derby bas issued cards for an
sammhly on Wednesday next at the family mansion in St.
Jamee's•equare.

The Earl of Gainsborough has taken the Mar-
armee. of Ely's residency at Prosces-gate for the liaison.
The Earl and Countess of Wrnehilses hare re-
turned to town. His lontship halt taken a resideice—No.
4, Grosvenor-crescent—for the season.

Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel entertained Lis
Excellency the Swim Minister and Madame de la Hive and
Nadine. de la Rive, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lon-
donderry, the Earl of Malmeshury, the Countess of Chester-
Sold and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Count Strielecki, Lord
and Lady Arthur Hay, Hon. Mr. Villiers, Mr. L. and Lady
Jane Peel, Mr. Kumla', P., he., at dinner, on Satur-
day, at their mansion in Whitehall•mrdens.

Lady Moleeworth entertained at dinner, on
Saturday everting, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister,
the Dube. of St. Albans and Viscount Falkland, the Earl
of Strathmore, the Countess of Fife, the Earl and Countess
Ds Grey and Ripon, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lord and
Lady Creators% the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, M.P.,
ad Lady Mary Wood, Lord Skelniersdale, Lord and Lady
Egerton of Mitten, Lord Vivian, Colonel the Hon. Sir
Charles Phipps, Miss Ricardo, Mr. and Mr,. Hemel Osborne,
and Colossi Airey.
Mr. Hughan entertainer! at dinner, at hie resi-
dence in Lowndesutreet, on Friday last, the Duchess of St.
Albans and Lady Diana Benuelaic and Viscount Falkland,
the Earl and Counters of Eglinton, the Earl and Countess
of Hopetoun, Lady Louisa Boyle, the Earl of Erse:, Lord
George Besuclerk, and Sir Bridges Henniker.

We regret to annonnce the death on the 2oth, at
Hastings, of Mrs Whatcly, the wife of his Grace the
Archbishop of Dublin. The deceased lady was a zealous
patron of education, and contributed in no small degree to
the diffusion of knowledge amongst the poorer classes.

The Lord Chancellor luta appointed Alfred Hud-
son Sisadwoll, Esq., to be Taxing Master of the Court of
Chancery, in the room of Mr. Martineau, deeeaael.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.
A telegram from the Paris correspondent of the
Morning Post says :

" I learn this moment that General Garibaldi
and his staff have set out for Sicily."
The Gazette de Milan, of Thursday last, publishes
the following :—" Volunteers wishing to leave for
Sicily can apply to the bureau of this journal for
instructions."

NAPLES (Tit 04Dak), Aram 24.

The royal troops attacked the insurgents en-
trenched in the town of Carini on the 18th inst.
The fighting was most desperate, and continued
during the 19th, 20th, and 21st. Reinforcements
having then reached the royal troops, they com-
pelled the insurgents to retire to Parrenico, leaving
250 killed behind them. The royal troops had 300
killed. The number of wounded on both sides was
considerable.

The town of Carini, after having been pillaged,
was set on fire.

Several other persons have been shot at Palermo.
PALERMO (via Naples), Aram 21.

. „
Great misery prevails in Palermo. Since the
mecution of the 13 insurgents, 26 Neapolitan
soldiers have been surprised and hanged by a band
of insurgents at Carini, which town, it is said, has
been taken and destroyed.

Letters assert that within the last twelve months
successive levies have raised the Neapolitan army
to 160,000 men.

ODOR OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NAPLES, APRIL 24.

I have just seen letters from Palermo, which
speak of the hatred of the people for the govern-
ment as implacable. The Sicilians will risk every-
thing, even life itself, to upset it ; and, even if de-
feated now, will never cease to rise. " Will no
government step in as mediator," says the writer
of one letter, "to put a stop to this state of
things,?' The spectacles which are being exhibited
now must be highly gratifying to the British go-
vernment, which was in such a hurry to renew
relations with Francis IL The position was good
before, we might have almost exacted conditions.
We are now humbled in the dust by being com-
pelled to witness an obstinate perseverance in a
policy which has been condemned over and over
again, and which has now produced such dire fruits
in Sicily.

NAPLES, Ann 25.

The steamer did not leave yesterday, so that I
have another opportunity to-day of recording the
deeds of blood which have been done in Sicily. I
do not speak without authority, though of course
I cannot give it, but the following facts may be de-
pended on :—A regimental surgeon, seeing a soldier
following a woman and endeavouring to kill her,
made an effort to save her, when the ferocious
beast turned upon the officer and cut his uniform
and shirt, and grazed his breast with his bayonet.
He then returned to the woman, who was in the
sixth or seventh month of her pregnancy, ran her
through, and then robbed her. On another occasion
some staff officers saw soldiers running away
with articles of plunder which they endeavoured to
take. "It is not ours," was the defence of the
soldiers, "it belongs to Captain —." I
invent nothing—l report the statements of
credible witnesses, and they are such as
to make one's hair stand on au end with horror.
The soldiers, I am informed, got hold
of wine in Carini, and then, under the influence
of drunkennese,the work of massacre waxed warmer.
When the troops left Naples, they were addressed
by his Majesty, and encouraged to do their duty ;1
and on their return there can be no doubt but that
they will be rewarded for their fidelity and prowess.
I will make the widest possible allowance for sol-
diers irritated by opposition, maddened by wine,
and encouraged almost by their officers ; yet the
reflection forces itself upon us that these fermi-
ties are the consequences of a system of
government adopted in this country, and are re-
newed at frequent intervals. In 1848, worse things
were done ; since then we have had several melan-
choly and horrible episodes. Things have been
done and are doing again, in 1860, which I shall
yet have to record ; and these outbreaks aud assas-
sinations will continue year after year, as surely as
that the Bourbons now occupy the throne of the
Two Sicilies. It would be a crime to speak deli-
cately and mincingly when the happiness and lives
of many millions of human beings are con-
cerned, and I will not have it upon my
conscience, that out of a respect for con-
ventionalities I have disguised or only half
told the truth. There was yesterday another
family party of the King and the troops on the
" campo ;" and according to the policy of the go-
vernment it was a wise step, for the army and the
police are now the sole engines of the government.
The last despatch from Sicily says that 300 of
the troops and 250 of the insurgents were killed
at Carini. Until we receive farther intelligence, let
us put them down as hors cis combat. I make the
suggestion simply from a scrupulous desire to be
correct ; for so was the despatch worded as I re-
ported it.

SWITZERLAND.
BERNE, Aram 28.

The Reed contains • statement, to the effect that
• proposal had been made by France to Switzerland
for the latter power to relinquish her rights in re-
ference to the neutralised districts of Savoy, in con-
sideration of an indemnity of 50,000,000 of francs.
The same journal also states that the Federal
Council has received no official notification of the
assembling of a conference at Paris after the rati-
fication of the treaty of Turin by the Sardinian
parliament.

THE PAPAL STATES.
MARSEII.f.r•_4, Aran. 29.
Letters from Rome to the 24th state the bishops
tot the Romagna have received a prohibition against
taking any part in the reception of King Victor
Emmanuel.

The correspondent of the Journal des Dibats,
whose expulsion from Rome had been commanded
by his Holiness, has obtained • delay of twenty
days.
It is asserted that the French minister has pro-
nounced sentence of disci 1. punishment against
two officers who were in private clothes
during the popular movement of the 18th of March.

AUSTRIA.
VUDINA, Amu!, 29
The official Wiener Zeitettig of to-day publishes
an imperial decree annulling paragraph 29 of the
civil code, according to which it was necessary for
foreigners who were the proprietors of any business
requiring a regular domicile in the country to
become Austrian subjects.

The Wiener Zeitutig also publishes an autograph
letter of the Emperor, dated the 22nd instant, de-
creeing the dissolution of the provincial govern-
ments of Cracow and Czernowitz. The same jour-
nal slew contain* the following rectification :
In No. 102 of the Witmer leafing, en article was pub-
lished on the death of Baron von Bruck, in which, by the
moult of the compositor, • mistake uocurrad. The sentence
should have road thus :

" The hearing of Baron von Brack as a whims COM.
nienctd on Friday, the 20th in►t. His examination gave

rise to farther inquiries, which probably would have led to
this confrontation of the witness, Baron von Bruck, with
siker witnesses, and with the accused parties (Bearliuldig-
tear —instead of " his confrontation with other witnesses
and other accused parties (Mitbtarhaddigten)."

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship Niagara,
Captain Leitch, arrived here at 7.35 a.m. She left Boston
on the 18th and Halifax on the 19th inst., and brings 70
but no specie.
passengers but
landed all mails, and proceeded for Liver-
pool at 8.10 a.m. all well. She was detained eight hours off
this
Overland advice@ from San Francisco are to the 3rd inst.
The Japanese ambassador had arrived there, on the 28th
tilt., in the United States steamer Powhattan (1, and would
shortly leave in the Roanoke fur Washington, whore the
Congress bad voted 50,000 dole. for the reception of the
embassy. Mining news is favourable.
On the night of the 17th inst. 100 houses were destroyed
by Bre at Woodstock. The loss is estimated at 300,000 dole.
News from Mexico is to the 28th ult.

The British minister had proposed a truce of six months,
and the election of a congress by the different states, to be
held at Jalapa, which is neutral ground, under the protec-
tion of the British government ' • the congress to frame a
new constitution, which should then be enforced. The
dery oppose this proposition. If his proposal is not ac-
ceded to, the British minister will demand his passports to
Vera Cruz, and will recognise the government of Juarez.
NEW YORK, APRIL 17, EADTING.— Money dull ; stocks
active. New York Central, 79t Illinois Central
Scrip, 60g. Exchange on London, 108 j. Cotton market
quiet. Sales to-day, 2,000 bales ; middling upland, lle.
Flour dull. Wheat quiet. Corn firm. Rice and sugar
dull. Iron dull. Tallow dull. Pork steady ; beef dull.
Itoainrrteady.

Freight. for cotton, 3-16 d. to 7.32 d. Flour, 2s.
Nuts ORLEANR, APIUL Mon steady. Sales to-
day
3-3, 8,000 bales. Middling upland, 1O jto lle. Freights
12d.

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH viL HALIFAX.

7,;;;;The;-
day. Stocks active and better. Cotton market.
Sales in three days, 4,000 bales. Breadstuff. quiet, but
Ann. Provisions firm. lard steady.
Nrw 0111.F.A.Nri, Aram 18.—Cotton active and pnces
higher. Sales to-day, 15,000 ; in two days, 21, ;in
three days, 29,000 bales - receipt in three days, 14,000; in-
crewed receipts at all port., 767,000ba1e5. Freight., 74W.
Sterling exchange, 7f to 81premium.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, APRIL 30.
The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, which
touched at
.Queenstown yesterday morning, has arrived here.
The specie in the New York banks had increased over
1 000,000 dole. during the week. Loans had diminished
Ti t,OOO doh.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL W.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Bavaria,
Captain Henaen, has arrived off Cowes. the brings 178
passengers, and in specie 13,000 dole. for England and
90,000 dole. for France.. .

On the 17th instant she spoke the steamer North Ame-
rican, bound for Portland; on the 19th, the hark Ward
Chapman, bound west ; on the 21st, the bark Lee, standing
west, and the bark Kuttnion, bound from London to Mon-
treal ; and on the 22nd, the ship Isabella, from Liverpool,
standing west.
The Bavaria left New York on the 14th inst., and her
news is anticipated by the Adriatic.

AUSTRALIA.
LIVERPOOL, SAITIWAT.

The clipper ship Ocean Chief, Captain Brown, which
sailed from Melbourne the 24th January, has arrived at
Queenstown, and brings 32,000 ounces of gold.
The clipper ship Lightning, Captain Clarke, which sailed
from Melbourne on the Bth February, has passed Wren
Head, and brings 13 l ,000 ounces of gold. Both wease. are
hound for this port, and belong to the Black Ball line of
packets. News anticipated.

THE BRAZILS.
LISBON, APRIL 30.
The Royal Mail Steam-packet. Company's ship
Nag&lens has arrived here with the Brazil and River Plata
mails. She will leave thin evening for tiouthampton, with
154 passengers and 27,1001. in specie.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mom ova owns comutaromurr.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

M. Grandguillot, adverting to the docile una-
nimity with which the clergy in Savor took part in
the vote of annexation, improves the occasion to
administer a crushing reproof to those members of
the priesthood in France who, carried away by
party passions, lately expressed those doubts and
fears about the safety of the church which excited
the just astonishment of the Emperor at the open-
ing of the legislative session. These men may now
learn from their "venerable, pious, and simple-
minded" brethren in Savoy and Nice that catholi-
cism, restored by Napoleon I. and protected by his
nephew, was never at any time, or in any place,
more flourishing than in France at the present day.
This argument will do well enough for a French
government paper, but there is evidently nothing
in it. That the Savoy clergy, with the Archbishop
of Chambery at their head, openly voted for the
annexation is no proof that they would not have
followed the banner of Bishop Dupanloup had
they been in Franoe. The catholic church
always accommodates itself to circumstances. Iu
France it was thought that the time had come for
making an ultramontane demonstration, and in
spite of many rebuffs it is even yet by no means
certain that the effort has been altogether unaucces-
ful, witness the permission given to General
Lamoriciere to take service with the Pope. In
Savoy and Nioe, the clergy knowing that the
annexation to France was a settled thing, were not
so foolish as to kick against the pricks. It was
not their game to oppose the principle of a
government under which they are hereafter
destined to live and to exercise their influence.
Moreover, the thing was pleasing to Rome rather
than otherwise, because it was a puniahmeut to the
King of Sardinia, who, as a loss pliant and more
hopeless schismatic than the Emperor of the
French, is in proportionably greater disgrace.
There can be no doubt that the Savoyard clergy
had orders from the Vatican to support the
annexation to a man, and therefore, in spite of M.
Grandguillot's reasoning, their brethren in France
have nothing to learn from their example.
The French government has actually thought it
worth while to send two choice spies to Switzerland
to inquire whether the resistance of the federal
government to the pure and simple annexation of
Chablais and Faucigny is not fomented by English
intrigues. Of course, with such leading instruc-
tions, there can be no doubt as to the nature of the
report which these worthies will send in to their
employers.

The Constitution/lel contradicts a rumour that a
new military command is about to be created with
Marseilles for the head quarters ; but this contra-
diction only applies to one version of a story which
has been told in several ways. The substantial
question is what military arrangements are
to be made in consequence of the annexation
of the " French slopes of the Alps" 1 It
was said some time ago that Marshal Itaudon
would leave the Ministry at War and assume the
chief command at Nice, and to this report the
denial of the Cutuditutionnel does not extend.

The Duke de la Rochefoumult, the young fanatic
who, after having, as the story goes, asked the
Pope to be allowed to serve in his army as a private
soldier—an offer which the Pope ►eusel, on the
ground that he meditated no aggressive war—in-
sisted upon giving his Holiness twelve rifled cannons
—lately applied to the War-office for permission to
purchase them from time government arsenals. Mar-
shal Bandon refused to accede to this request, tell-
ing him that the French government neither gave
nor sold artillery.
I have heard that a son-in-law of the late M. de
Bruck has been arrested at Vienna.

The members of the newly-formed Commercial
Society have addressed the following important
letter to the Chamber of Commerce and the Con-
sultative Chambers of Arts and Manufactures :
Paris, April 16, 1860.
M. le President,—The Commercial Reform Society,

athough only founded within the last few days, has
already received many adlie.i.ois. From conununite-
tions received from all aides, it feels confident that
it will be able, with the co-operation of its members,
to do good service to the various interests of the
trader, the manufacturer, and the consumer. In com-
mencing our labours, we cannot do better than tall the
attention of the Chambers of Commerce and the Consulta-
tive Chambers of Arts and Manufactures to the cone.
quencee of the delay stipulated for in the commercial treaty
with England. Contrary to the benevolent intentions of
the government, this suspension of the operation
of the treaty, which was devised in a spirit
of paternal protection with the view of serving all
interests, and rendering the transition more easy, is found
universally in practice to have the effect of checking
business, and consequently paralysing manufactures and
consumption. We have cogent reasons fur believing that
the periods fixed, December 31, lit6o, for manufactured
metals ; June 1, 1861, for linen and hempen threads and
tissues ; and October 1, 1861, for many other articles, will
have the effect of preventing deaden from laying in stocks
until after those respective periods. The consequential
slackness and diminution of transactions involves
a notable prejudice to shipping. It appears to Ins
that all interests must desire that the new tariff
should come into operation within the shortest time pos-
sible. If the inconveniences which we point out should oc.
elision any distress to the branches of industry which you
represent, you will doubtless think fit to join your efforts
to ours to call upon the government to shorten the period
of suspense in the double interest of production and con.
gumption.
The members of the Bureau of the Commercial Reform
Society.
JSAa Dou.rue, president; ARLES Deroca, Count
HIRVEDEKEROOLAY, LOPES, DUBDC,J. B. PASTS;
ALES. ADAK, vice-presidents ; J. PAGEZT, NA.
TALES RONDO; secretaries ; H. Smug, treasurer.
PARIS. SATURDAY EVE-VIVO.
It is confirmed that the Emperor and Empress
will not take up their residence at St. Cloud till
after their trip to Savoy and Nice. The Emperor
is impatient to gratify his ears by the acclamations
of his new subjects, and, according to present
arrangements, will set out for Savoy very early in
May. The Empress Dowager of Russia has post-
poned her departure for St. Petersburg, in order to
be at Nice when their Majesties arrive. There can
be no doubt of a triumphant reception. "God
bless all those of aught to give," is a line
peculiarly KT • ble to the ease of a powerful
sovereign going to take possession of a new and
poor country, in which every place is at this mo-
ment vacant. Under such circumstances Senator
Pietri's practised skill in organising popular enthu-
siasm cannot fail of success.

Two medals to commemorate the annexation of
Savoy and Nice to France are to be struck at the
Mint in Paris. Each will have on one side the
Emperor's likeness, and on the other the number
of votes obtained and the date of voting.
The tidal service between London and Paris rid
Boulogne will re-commence ou May Ist ; it is pro-
mised that the journey will now regularly be per-
formed in 10} hours. On the same day, as you
are aware, the new arrangement comes into opera..
tion for running an early morning as well as an
evening mail from Paris to London, and rite nava.
It has long been announced in the London journals
that Paris letters and newspapers posted in the
morning will be delivered in London early in the
evening of the same day. I am afraid that the
peculiar institutions of the empire will prevent the
Parisian public from enjoying o orresponding advan-
tages. The Cotistitutvninel and Dibats will be
delivered in London the 1111 l molt the mail train
arrives, but I very much d t whether the Impe-
rial government will think it safe to let the London
papers circulate in Paris without sleeping upon the
question. The Post-office has as yet made no
intimation as to the time at which letters
arriving by the new mail will be delivered.
The Indepeaulance Beige which, on account of the
statement, was detained at the Post-office till a
very late hour to-day, says that a party in the
French cabinet has proposed to prohibit its circu-
lation in France, as was done byGen. Espinasse, and
that it owes a respite to the good offices of M. Bil-
lault. The Isadepeudititet, while hoping that France
will not think it necessary to revert to the system
of repression, of which .hat most unpopular minis-
ter, appointed at a moment of extraordinary excite-
ment, was made the instrument, expresses its de-
termination to maintain an independent course at
any sacrifice.
The Bourse has been very firm. The Bente rose
25 for tub, and 20 fur account, closing at the
highest prices of the day, 70.05 and 70.55. Mobi-
her rose 8.75 ; the Orleans railway rose 2.50 ,-
Northern, 6 ; Lyons, 3.75 ; Southern, 2.50; and
Western, 1.25 ; Eastern fell 1.25.