The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOT. 16.

le was with sincere satisfaction we were enabled I
yesterday to report in our later impression the
safe return of tho Royal Squadron from the
United Mates. An hour after daylight the Hero
was in sight from the tops of the Royal George,
and at nine, in company with her consort, the
Ariadne, her Mamorree ship with the Patties
on board was securely moored in Plymouth Sound.
The Hero was no laggard when a fair wind over-
took her after a long spell of contrary weather,
and to all appearance she was as taunt and
smart when she anchored as an outward bound.
The Pauser., accompanied by the Duke of Nsw-
cern', was ashore soon after eleven, and at twelve
was on his way by special train to Windsor, where
we may be permitted to imagine tho welcome that
awaited him after so long a separation.
Now that the Hero is safe in the Sound, and
the PRINCE of WALC4 once more on English land,
we need no longer hesitate to confess that the long
absence of the Royal squadron was beginning to
excite considerable anxiety far and wide. For
several days past the first question at the break-
fast tabl.!, when the morning's paper came in, was,
Is the P fiNCC come ? In thousands of quiet homes
from Portland to the Land's-end, and not only
in towns and villages along our ironbound coasts,
within earshot of the breakers, and familiar with
the echoes of the moaning surf, but in snug mid-
land halls and cottages sheltered from the sea-winds
by many wooded hills, good people have been
asking night and morning, Has the Hero arrived?
Along the granite cliffs from Maker Heights.
to Cape Cornwall, full in the front of lice broad
Atlas*, eyes skilled to pierce the gloom of
cloud and wave C" den the night's as "dark as a
" pocket," have strained from noon to mid-
night to the offing beyond which the low
scattered ledge of the Scillies breaks the rolling
distance with a thin faint line. In Plymouth Sound,
the St. George has kept • bright look-out towards
the Eddystone, and at Spithead • signal from
the South-eastern headlands of the Isle of Wight
has been eagerly looked for. When the Hero had
been out ten days from Portland, U.S., that is on
the last day of October, she was held to be "due."
Good people even in these enlightened days, are
like the courtiers of King CANors They fancy
that a Prince of NVALISS is bound to be accommo-
dated by the authorities of the meteorological
department up aloft with fine weather, smooth
water and fair winds across the Atlantic in the
stormiest months of the year. This fond per-
suasion is at any rate very loyal if not quite
resamable. A ten days' run from Portland,
U.S., to Plymouth would not be an indifferent
performance for • Cmeaao steamer, and for a
screw line-of-battle ship, with auxiliary steam
power only, it would have been • feat almost as
miraculous as the most loyal subjects could
&airs. Nothing but an iceberg stops a packet-
steamer—neither fogs, nor gales, nor calms.
To a screw line-of-battle ship, when her stock of
coal is out, and a gale dead on end with a heavy
head sea sets in for • fortnight or three weeks,
steam power is so much dead weight, and she
is no better off than many • stout old Indianian
in the good old Limos beating up Channel for six
weeks at a stretch, and sighting the Start or St.
Alban's Head every other tack. A five-and-twenty
days' passage from land to land, for a screw line-
of-battle ship under canvas only, against easterly
gales, is rather favourable than otherwise. Still
it was natural enough that, after the earliest day
on whit h the Hero could ho considered due, ex-
pectation should grow day by day into anxiety,
and that an the dangers of the Atlantic passage
should be magnifiNl a hundredfold, albeit a Bri-
tish line-of-battio ship carrying • Royal Prince
was not very likely- to disappear like the Presi-
dent, or to go down in flames like the Connaught.
Easterly gales, however, have, like other ill-
winds, blown good. The public anxiety which
has flashed the tidings of the return of the
Hero along thousands of electric wires from
end to end of these happy realms has proved
once mom to the Sovereign Lady, if proof were
needed, tho profound and even personal attach-
ment of her people, and the almost intimate
and even family affection which is felt in every
English home for the sons and daughters of the
Royal House. Without extravagance, it may ho
simply and truly said, that this great, warm-hearted
English people cherishes its Prince of WALES as
any English family cherishes its eldest born. What
would net monarchs who reign by right divine, or
by the popular will guaranteed by bayonets, give
for one throb of this deep and homely national
affection, which makes Queen VIVTOZIA'S every
joy and grief the joy and grief of all her people. If
anything could add to the public joy at the re-
turn of the Prince of WALGI it would be the pub-
lic admiration of his conduct and bearing during
los sojourn among our Canadian fellow-subjects,
and our kinsmen of the great Republic beyond
the Atlantic. We knew that a royal presence, so
roomful, ingenuous, and gentle, must win republi-
can hearts, but rthaps we were hardly prepared
for the hearty sympathy with which our American
cousins acknowledged the unaffected dignity, the
manly simplicity, and the generous frankness of
demeanour which distinguish the heir of the British
Crewe. We believe that this auspicious inter-
course w di bear the kindliest and happiest fruits for
the old country and the new. At no time could
we desire inure earuestly than we do now the close
alliance of the creat Angle-Sason family. The
Prime of WALIC4 brings home, we are persuaded,
a heart thrilling with affection for the mighty

offspring of England, girl ♦ deep rasped for that
energetic freedom ad expanding power. He
brings home, too, an intellect sharpened and
strengthened by contact with the vitality of a new
civilization. He has tasted the life and destiny
of the New World, in the prairie, in the forest
clearing, in populous cities, where but yesterday the
pioneer plied his axe. He has seen • nation of
soldiers without an army, civil order without a
police—wealth, luxury and culture without •
Court or an aristocracy. He has learned to mingle
with the busy crowd of men without the interven-
tion of chamberlains and courtiers ; he has found
respect without ceremony, and honour without
adulation. He has dwelt, too, in England at sea ;
and nowhere can he have better learned the secret
of England's greatness than in his experiences on
board the Hero in the Atlantic. It is only due
to the Duke of ICZWCABTLE to say that the Proses
has been singularly fortunate in the selection of
• Secretary of State to attend him on his travels.
It seems a happy coincidence that at the hour
when the royal squadron was making the English
land on Wednesday night the Prunz Ml:um&
was eloquently acknowledging the hospitalities
which the Prince of Wai.ss had enjoyed in the
United States.

Tat under-tone of complacency and confidence
which pervaded the speeches of her MAJESTY'S
Ministers at Salters'-hall will perhaps be as highly
appreciated by a sensitive public as any direel
statements which they could have made on national
affairs. The last traces of that over-excited sus-
ceptibility, which became • chronic symptom
under the administration of Lord Datum, and
was left as an inheritance to Lord PALMERSTON,
have disappeared, and the language of the Patina
is that of the leader of a nation proudly conscious
not only of its security but of its strength. Nothing
has more contributed to bring about this improved
state of public feeling than the great fact
which Colonel M`Mraeo mentioned on Wed-
nesday evening with all the authority of
his official position. The gallant officer,
whose professional duty it is to inspect and take
note of the efficiency of the Volunteer army,
stated that we have at this moment 78 solid
battalions, comprising about 42,000 men, who
will shortly be able to take their place with the
line ; and, besides them, 36,000 other Volun-
teers, organised in 68 administrative battalions,
who can move almost as well as the former, ready
to take the field at once, if need be, and raising
the number of the Volunteer army equal to the
conditions of the line of battle to between 70,000
and 80,000 men. As a vigorous manifestation
of Old England's capacity of self-help, this spon-
taneous and rapid development of military force
has profoundly impressed the world, and it has also
re-acted most healthfully upon the national spirit.
But, with such a work going on in the nation, it
was impossible that the feeble administration of
Lord Deasy should be tolerated. Lord PAUSES-
irrox at the head of the Government unquesticm-
ably represents the watchful and resolute but
thoroughly self-possessed spirit of the country.
The PRIMER never spoke with more dignity
and generosity than in his speech on Wednesday
evening. His references to the United States of
America, and his acknowledgment of the splendid
reception given by their people to the Prince of
Watrs, were most cordial, and going out as it does
together with a notification of the safe return of his
Royal Highness to his native land—an announce•
meat which will be looked for as eagerly in New York
and Boston as it has been in London or Liverpool
—is most timely, and calculated to produce the
best effect on the other side of the Atlantic. " Our
" cousins in the United States," said the noble
lord, " have shown themselves indeed to be •
" noble and generous people ; they have shown
64 that they have not forgotten the common stock
" from which they and we have sprung ; and, in
" spite of events which, if not buried in oblivion,
" might have produced some alight alienation be-
" tween us, they received the eldest son of our
" gracious Soveamoe, not as if he wore a
" stranger belonging to another land, but as if he
" had been born in their own country, and had
" been a citizen of their own republic. I trust,
" gentlemen, that the remembrance of the gene-
" roue kindness thus exhibited by the people of the
" United States will ever be cherished by the
" people of theme kingdoms. I believe the me-
" mory of the PiuKces visit will long sur-
" vive in the breasts of the American nation,
" and that these mutual recollections will
" tend more closely than ever to knit together
" those two great branches of the same noble, and
" I will say illustrious, stock." We are not
anxious to inquire the precise figure at which these
expressions could be immediately discounted. We
are content to know that words of genuine esteem
and kindness do not fall to the ground ; and were
it not so, they have a worth of their own that is
placed above the accidents of time and chance.
Lord PALIHERSTON'S language respecting the
foreign, and especially the Italian, policy of his
noble colleague, was what might have been ex-
pected of a Minister whose high and honourable
feeling is equal to his strong common sense. The
PIEMIXII did not forget to mark his opinion of re-
cent attempts to pervert the aspects of Lord Jetta
Busse:tea attitude towards the Italian cause, as
represented in his two celebrated despatches.
After bearing witness to the consistency with
which that noble lord had all through life been
the friend and champion of the principles of free-
dom, ho said, " My noble friend has lately had to
" perform duties connected with the development
"of freedom in one of the most interesting
" countries of Europe. You have seen him watch-
" ing the progress of events in Italy, at one time
" endeavouring to check those rash impulses which
" threatened to renew wars which, if renewed,
" might have blighted all the best hopes of Italian
" freedom, and at another using the great power
" and Intl tienoe of England to exhort other coun-
" tries to follow her example by abstaining from
" all interference with the events passing in the
" Peninsula, and by leaving the Italians to settle
" their own affairs according to their own views of
" their own interests. I trust, gentlemen, that
" before long my noble friend will see the ac-
" complishment of his earnest wishes, and will
" be able to witness the triumphant success of the
" principles of which he has been so steady, so
" persevering, and so consistent an advocate."
Lord Patatasros, who has himself a high repu-
tation as a Foreign Minister, thus identifies him-
self with the policy of his noble colleague, adding
the sanction of his experience and authority to
that which the public voice had loudly applauded.
The general remarks which the SICIETAEY for
FOREIWN AFFAIRS offered on the character which
best becomes English diplomacy might, a week or
two ago, have seemed uncalled for and irrelevant.
LonIJOHN professes his opinion that "the statesman
" who is charged with the foreign department of
" a groat country like this need not have recourse
" to those wiles, those intrigues, and theee subter-
" fuges which are supposed to form the proper
" trade and the proper weapons of a diplomatist.
" My conviction is that in speaking the language
" of truth and justice—speaking it calmly and

'Ube COWL

vNie,
THE RKPRESS. FIIIVAt--. EVE- NING,
" with moderatiga, but` let
sirlth firmness, noir -
" disguising.theirnth—hhinftethe of thilconntry
" is to be sustained and angesetted, without any
" of those intrigues to which those who think
" themselves clever diplomatists are apt to resort."
There is 'nothing here which has not been me often
said and so commonly accepted that, but forrecent
experience, we should have passed these sentences
over as the baldestof platitudes. It appears, however,
that the truth has been allowed to pass unchallenged
early because there was no immediate cause to
has that it would be applied. The resolute
attempt to realise it has called forth the most
strenuous protest. This "disguising of the truth,"
which Lord JOHN Rosazu renounces, is recom-
mended as "a wise reticence," the last accomplish-
ment of statesmanship. The wretched fictions
put forward on behalf of the Sardinian occu-
pation of the Roman and Neapolitan States,
the pretences with which Lord JOHN RUSSELL
peremptorily declared he would have nothing to
do, are pointed to as specimens of diplomatic skill,
while the honest enunciation of intelligible and
liberal principles is deplored as rash and danger-
ous. Of course it is not from the "country party "
that objections to a quality so English as straight-
forwardness are entertained on principle. We must
look for the objectors among " aionomists, s ophisters,
" and calculators." The public, which so long
had asked in vain to be made a party to the foreign
pol'cy of the country, is able to safe-guard the
principle that has now triumphed ; but it is as
well to know that there are those who do not hesi-
tate, under professions of liberalism, to assert the
maxims of Marrsaition. Against such we oppose
the language of Lord Joaw RUSSELL at Salters'-
hall :—" We occupy a position on which depends,
" in a great measure, the future welfare of other
" countriea. It is our business, it is our duty, to
" act with moderation, but at the same time never
" to forget, never to conceal, never to blush for
" those great principles which have made us what
" we are, and which, I hope, will long maintain
" us in the same proud position."

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 15.

The royal dinner party yesterday included the
Primer Alice, Prince Alfred, Imdy Emily and Miss Sey-
mour, Major Cowell, ELS., and Earl Granville, who arrived
on a vial& in the afternoon.

The band of the Hoots Fuailier ()wads played dining
dinner.

Her Majesty's private band afterwuds performed in the
drawing-room.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, drove and
walked in the Home Part this morning and visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore.
The Prince Consort went out shooting, attended by Lard
Harris and Colonel the Hon. A. Hartlinge. Earl Granville
bad the honour of accompanying his Royal Highness.
The Prince of Wales arrived by 'petal train at Windsor
at 20 minutes before 7 this evening.
The Prince Consort, attended by the Hon. Col. Hartlinge,
met the Prince of Wales at the milwayutation, and accom-
panied his Royal Highness to the Castle.

_
The Prince of Wales's suite consieted of the Duke of
Bemis:tie, the Earl of St. Commas, Major-General the
Hon. IL Bruce, Major Teesdale, and Captain Grey, Equerries
in Waiting; Viscount Hin,hibbrook, Dr. Arland, and Mr.
Enplheert, Private Secretary to the Disks of Newcastle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lad of the Tees/wry,
P.,-,37.111g-gtr‘c.t. The Ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor Karl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis,
Lord John Russell, the Right Hon. Sidney Her-
bert, Sir Chards Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the ,Right Hon.
T. Mirner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hou. C. P. Villiers, Sir George Grey, and
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

Earl Granville arrived in town yesterday afternoon from
Windsor Castle, and was present at the Cabinet ConneiL

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Leiningen arrived at Burghley House, near Stamford, the
seat of the Marquis of Exeter, on the Bth inst., acoompanied
by Mr.. and Commander Tryon, whose guests they bad
been a few days previously at Badwick Halt After inspect-
ing the numerous treasures at Burghley, and partaking of
luncheon, their royal highnesses were conveyed to the
Water•street station, and there took train ea route for
Windsor Patio, where they arrived the same afternoon on
• visit to the Queen. Whilst at Bulwick Mrs. Tryon drove
1 the prince's and the Hon. Elisabeth and Clementine
Hathcote (daughters of Lord Aveland) to Doane Rectory,
to inspect the very interesting minature museum formed
11 there by the Rev, Holdich._

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton (ttle Princesa
Maria el Baden), accompanied by the Marquis of Douglas,
arrived at Hamilton Palace, Lanark, at the close of the
Put week, from Brodriek Castle, Isle of Arran, preparatory
to the reception of the Empress Eugenie. The duke and
duchess intend to give a grand ball et Hamilton Palace on
Taealay night, the 'JIM inst., in honour of their illustrious
visitor.

The Duke anti Duchess of Sutherland left Staf-
ford Howe, St. James's, yeaterday,lor Trentham, Stafford•

The Duke sad Duchess of Marlborough have
left Blenheim Pekes, war Woodstock, for Durham, ma •
visit to the Marchioness Frances Anne of Londonderry.

Hie Grace the Duke of Bedford, it is said, will
spend the winter at Torquay. An agent is at present in the
neighbourhood to select a suitable residence for the duke
and duchess.

The Earl of Hardwioke left London yesterday to
join hie family at Wimple Hall.

The Countess Dowager of Westmoreland has
tikes a house in Portman-square, late the residence of the
Earl of Nippon'. The Counties of Kinuoul has token
• house at Rutland-gate.
The Earl and Countess of Durham have arrived
la town from Lembtoa Castle, Durham.
The Earl and Countess Fitswilliam and family
have removed from Wectworth House to the noble eurre
hunting seat in Northamptonshire, where Viscount Milton

,r4r,
1869.

NOV.

'OSB.
LATEST INTELINCIE.
GAETA.
TURIN, THI7IBDAT Evzicina
The official Piedmonte,e Gazette contains the
iolloWing :
General Salzano proposed to General Fanti the
surrender of the body of Neapolitan troops who re-
mained outside Gaeta, consisting of ten battalions
of chasseurs and a regiment of cavalry. Obneral
Fanti rejected this proposition.
After the engagement of the 12th inst. the
I Bourbon troops re-entered Gaeta
Our troops have taken up fresh positions round
the town.
The garrison of Gaeta consisted of 18 battalions,
but a despatch announces that two merchant
steamers sailing under French colours had left
Gaeta with troops. Their destination is supposed to
be Civita Vecchia

BONE (riit Marseilles), Nov. 13.

A Neapolitan general has arrived here. It is
asserted that Francis 11. requests the Pope to re-
ceive an additional 7,000 soldiers.

TURIN, THURSDAY.

The Opinions publishes a despatch from Naples
announcing that General Goyon and Admiral
Barbier de Tinan had been decorated by King
Francis 11. with the Grand Cross of the Order of
St. Jannarius.

The Piedmontese will occupy the town of Ponta
Corvo.

GARIBALDI AND THE VENETIANS.

The following is an extract from a Turin letter,
of the 12th :

The Venetian emigrants, whose numbers increase daily,
have organised committees in every large town. The prin-
cipal one is at Turin, and last evening it held a meeting
attended by all its members. After some discussion on
administrative matters, of no interest to any but the per-
sons concerned, one of the members proposed Garibaldi as
honorary president of the committee. The motion was
received with unbounded applause, and adopted
unanimously. It was also decided to transmit
the minutes of the sitting to all the local com-
mittees, with the request that they also would
appoint the ex-Dictator of the Two filedlea their
honorary president. The propagation will be received else-
where as it has been here, and in legs than a week Gari-
baldi will be the honorary president of all the Venetian
rei.ugeee residing in the stales of Bing Victor Emmanuel.
A deputation has been named to wry to Capron the an.
nouncement of this vote, and an address. The officers who
were taken prisoners at Capna have been asked if they were
disposed to take service immediately in the national army.
Nod of them have declined doing so, and their refusal has
raised them in general estimation. Yesterday, the National
Guard of Turin gave a grand dinner to the mobilised Tuscan
battalion. The fete concluded with an ovation for Count
Cavour, who received a deputation from the battalion, to
whom he expressed Lis gratitude.

SAXONY.

DREMEN, THURSDAY.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
M. Viodel proposed the re-establishment of the
German Central Power (Centralgewalt), with the
addition of the necessary popular representation.

AUSTRALIA.
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY Moarrma.

The Sussex, Captain Fothergill, belonging to
Messrs. Money Wigram and Co., of London, 78
days from Melbourne, has landed about 20 pas-
sengers heze.
She has over 00,000 ounces of gold, valued at
240,0001., for which she obtained 2d. per ounce
freight, another ship taking it at 144. per ounce.
The Sussex has a full cargo, and in all 130 pas-
sengers.

Thu Sussex left Plymouth outwards on the 3rd
of April ; she sailed from Melbourne August 28,
rounded Cape Horn September 20, and crossed
the the October 21.

In the South Pacific, large quantities of ice were
encountered, no less than 21 bergs having been seen
in one day. She spoke, Sept. 24 and 25, off
Cape Horn, French ship Siam, with T. 8., foretop
sail, and an iron clipper ship with bowsprit gone ;
Oct. 20, lat. 4 8., long. 28 W., a Liverpool
barque, showing third pendant 5,731 ; Oct. 22,
Lt 2 N., long. 28 W., French brig Caesar ; and
Nov. 15, lat. 49, long. 13 W., the barque Belvue.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 15.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship I Plata,
Captain Weller, with the above mails, arrived this after-
noon. She brinp 94 passengers ; specie, 465,866 dole., of
which 303,970 dole. is gold bullion, 92,257 dole. ever
bullion, 66,829 dola silver coin, 2,810 doll. platina. Her
cargo comprises 20 serous of ouchiaeal, 15 casks of coffee,
36 packaged of coma, 19 live tarries, 40 cases of auccadees,
338 bap of silver ore, mid 83 packages of sundries.
The La Plata dates are Honduras, Oct. 17 ; Gee ow
19 ; Colon 23 • 23 ; Demerara, Trial
Grenada, 24 ; Jamaica, 246; St. Vincent, 25 ; 17;
Barbuloca, 26; Porto Rico, 28 ; St. Lucia, Martinique,
Guadeloupe, Dominic+, Montserrat, and Nevis, 27 ; Antigua,
28 • St. Kier. and Tortola, 28 ; and St. Thomas, 29.
. .

The celebration of the--indePendence of Chili passed off
with great enthusiasm throughout the country.
The government, it is edd, intends sending is strong
force south the middle of the present month, to carry on s
oempairo spinet the Indians.
In Bolivia the revolution is suppressed again; several
guilty °Moen were shot. Belau himself had never crossed
the frontier.
_ _

---Itteriibieaccident bad occurred in the dry dock at San
Lorenzo, Callao, involving the entire loss of the Peruvian
frigate Callao, and almost the entire destruction of the dock.
The Callao capsized while in the dock, end sunk in 40 feet
of water. It is supposed that 150 of the Mew were drowned.
President Castilla was on board, and narrowly escaped with
his life.

H.M. ship Clio was expected to mall from Panama for
Mexico on the 24th. Later intelligence from Central
America says Costa Rica is reported trenquiL
The following are the Valparaiwo quotations of produce,
freight, and exchange : Tie in Anew, qql., 30 dole. ; Salt-
petre. in Iquique, do., 1 dol. 92 c. ; copper, in bars, do.,
19 dole. 500. ; one, 25 per cent., do.' 5 dole. 370.. ; hides,
ursiried, 16 dole. to 17 dole. • Guano, Chili, per ton, 12 dole. ;
gold bare, 249 per cent., 3 'dole. 15c. ; silver, pure mare,
10 dole. 574 e. ; silver coin, 2 per mut. . ; doubloons,
foreign, 17 dole. 75c. each. Exchange on Leaden, 60 days,
434 per dollar; Pans, 60 to 00 days, 4.60; United States,
90 dam, 16 per cent. pm. Freight* fur England, per
21. 16s. ; Hamburg, Bf. ; Femme, 100 to 120 fr. ; United
States, 13 dole, to 14 dole. . .

Ve;sfrom the West islands is unimportant.
De Cardoev's Mercaretile9enter says:—" We
have been visited with heavy showers of rain since our last
inane ; and in consequence tie activity in inseam noticed
in our Met has not been continued. Country buyen have
been kept from the market, and the transactions of the
past fortnight must be reported as having been very limited.
The produce market has been also somewhat affected Ly
the heavy mins. The coffee crop has been retarded, and the
arrivals of sugar sraaU- Prices have not materially changed.
Exchange on Loudon :—.lsmalea Rank, 90 days, 1 per cent.
prem.; 60 days, 1. per cent. prem.; 90 days, 2 per cent,
prem.; Colonial lens, same quotations."

THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH,
---e-

The Nationalifis of Turin states that General
Garibaldi has arrived at his island of Capron in company
with his son Menotti, °tumoral", Basso, and two or three
other persons, and has reasoned his country life with mush
enjoyment.

The Brussels journals mention • melancholy
instance of the capriciousness of fortune. The daughter of
the late General Moreau, so well known under Napoleon 1.,
and • Baron of the Empire, died in the hospital of Rt.
Jean, at Brussels, the day before yesterday ; she bad for
massy years lived at Brawl, in • state of extreme poverty.
Tni QUEIN AIM THE NEW ZEALANDEIta.—At
the close of the native conference, Mr. M'Lean called upon
Hon Hine (a Wanganui chief) to step forward, and his
Excellency presented him, in the mune of her Majarty, with
four Ter; handsome and valuable staffs, with silver mount-
ings and bearing the royal arms, for himself and three other
chief, who were not present at the conference. His ex-
cellency observed that her Majesty desired in this Toy to
acknowledge the services rendered to her Majesty% govern.
meet in New Zealand by these chiefs and the appreciation
of the very beautiful nicer possess:el presented to her Ma-
jesty lest year 17 the Rev. R. Taylor, on their behalf. Hail
Kingi acknowledged the honour io a very appropriate
manner, and the conference testiii,xl their gratiliatwo by
loud applause.—Nero Zealand Clazette.

WORM FROM PARIS.
(noM OUR OWII CORIIIIIPONDINT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY EVLNDIO.

I have heard no avowable reason for the extra-
ordinary mystery which surrounds the departure
of the Empress for Scotland. In all probability, I
am the only correspondent who mentioned the fact
of her having left St. Cloud at six o'clock yester-
day morning ; and all the French journals to-day
are silent with regard to the fact, which is the
leading topic' of private conversation in political
circles. People are not agreed as to the borrowed
name under which her Majesty travels. Some say
she calls herself the Countess de la Motte Ben vron,
others the Countess de Pierrefonds—a title bor-
rowed from the ruined castle near Compiegne. Of
course the Moniteur must soon mention the fact of
her having left Paris, but it will be impossible for
the most imperial of imperialist journals to give
any rational reason for attempting to keep the
matter a secret.

The Bourse has again experienced a fall in con-
sequence of the augmentation of the Bank of
England's discount to six per cent., and the fear
that the council of the Bank of France, which is
sitting late to-day, will raise theirs to five per cent.
The Rente fell 20c. for cash, and 25c. for account,
closing at 691 r. 60c. and 69fr. 65c. Mobilier fell
12fr. 50c. The Orleans and Northern railways fell
7fr. 50c. each ; Lyons and Southern, 6fr. each ;
Western, 2fr. 500. ; and Eastern, lfr. 25c.
M. Alphonse Rothschild has purchased Madame
de Montijo's mansion in the Champs Elystkot, and
also the ground adjoining, on which stood the
house of M. Emile de Girardin, lately pulled
down.

M. Dnfaure's railway accident unfortunately
turns out to be more serious than was at first
expected, and it is feared that some time must
elapse before he will be able to resume his place at
the bar.

A Paris letter, in the Salut Public of Lyons, has
the following passage :

A general subject of conversation in the diplomatic
circles of Paris is an autograph letter which the Emperor is
said to have lately addressed to Victor Emmanuel ma the
subject of the favourable and rapid results obtained by
Piedmont in the South of Italy. The Emperor has, it is
said, recommended him to redouble his prudence and mo•

deration, and to have consideration for the feelings of the
people ; assuring him that Europe must judge Italy by her
works, and that it is for the Italians to merit by their con-
duct the recognition by Europe of the new order of things
in the Italian Peninsula.

I have not heard anything of this letter, but if it
exists I presume that there must be something more
in it than the jejune and utterly insignificant ex-
tract above given.
I dare say you know in a general way that state-
ments which appear every season in the European
press of some individual having gained an enor-
mous fortune at the gambling tables of Baden-
Baden or Homburg are always advertisements in-
tended to draw pigeons to the net. This year there
has been more talk than usual about an individual
named Garcia, who broke the bank over and over
again at Homburg, and it was repeatedly said to be
doubtful whether the bank would be able to go on
after the many breakages caused by the invincible
Garcia. The lovers of the " board of green cloth"
will, however, be happy to learn from the following
paragraph which I find in the Semaphore of Mar-
seilles, that the " ball still rolls" at Homburg ;--
"M. Garcia, whose successful play has reoently
caused so much excitement at Homburg, has ar-
rived here. The Parisian newsmongers have repre-
sented this Brazilian as having won a sum of two
millions. The fact is that M. Garcia has merely
retrieved his losses, which amounted to the enor-
mous sum just stated."

Her Imperial Majesty, travelling in the strictest
incognito as part of the family of the Marquis La Grange,
crossed the Channel on Wednesday in the ordinary packet-
boat Alliance, and proceeded to London the mine evening.
From the London-bridge station she and her suite went,
in oornmon street mho, to Claridge's Hotel, in Brook-street,
and it was not until they hail been for some time in the
hotel that her Majesty's rank was known.
The Empress went out on foot early yesterday morning,
and made several purchases in the neighbourhood of the
hotel. In the afternoon she and her suite engaged some
carriages from a neighbouring livery stable and visited the
Crystal Palace.
It is understood that her Imperial Majesty visits Scot-
land in the hope of restoring her impaired health, and that
it was originally her intention to proceed directly by sea to
Leith. The rick of bad weather at this advanced period of
the sown decided her Majesty's advisers to select the
shortest sea route, and she will probably set out to-morrow
by railway for Hamilton Palace.