The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECE

pitted boundary line provision was specially
made for a settlement by the following terms :
" Whereas neither part of the high lands lying due
" north from the river St. Croix designated in the
" former treaty of peace between the two Powers
" ell the north-west angle of Nova Scotia nor the
" north-westmost head of the Connecticut river
" have yet been ascertained, and whereas part of
" the boundary lines between the two Powers
" has not yet been surveyed ; it is agreed that for
" these several purposes two commissioners shall
" be appointed, sworn, and authorised to examine
" and decide upon the said claims, according to
" such evidence as shall be laid before them by his
"Britannic Ms., V.,TY and the United States re-
" spectivoly ; and in the event of their differing,
" both parties agree to abide by the decision of
" such friendly Sovereign or State as shall be
" mutually chosen."
Here, then, we have the wise and wholesome
stipulation which in private life is found so often
effectual to avert quarrels imported into the
public obligations of the two countries nearly half
a century ago. It would be a sad and sorry com-
mentary upon our boasted progress in civilization
if a disposition were shown on either side to neg-
lect a precedent so applicable under almost any
circumstances, but which is peculiarly in point
when the question at issue is one of public and
national law. If Lord CAMTLZRZAOH in 1814 was
wise and just enough to frame such a clause as
that we have quoted, are we less likely in 1861 to
take a course of moderation, dignity, and justice,
' under the advice of Lord Itusszi.i. ; or shall we
do our American kinsmen the wrong of supposing
that they, who were willing to abide by the award
of a friendly Power when their population and
wealth wore not a fifth of what they are now, will
refuse to have recourse to a like expedient for the
settlement of a contested claim of maritime right?
Even before the Conference of 1856 it would have
been calumnious to impute such folly to either
Government ; but since the development of the
arbitration principle at the Congress of Paris, it is
impossible for either to reject the specific applica-
tion of the rule in the pending controversy, and
we should almost say it is incredible that the con-
troversy should be suffered to proceed further
without its adoption.

fbe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Doc. 9.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice, drove
oat this mornieg in a carriage•and-loer, attended by the
Lady•ie.Waiting and Lord Alfred Paget.

Princess Helena and Prinuus Louise rode out on
horseback.
Princess Beatrice took a carriage drive.
The Prince of Leiningen went out shooting.
Moe Right Hoa. T. E. Headlarn,Judge-Advocate-Gensra/,
bed an audience of her Majesty in the afternoon.

The Wert Committee had a meeting yeeterder, at the
Aloe of the Secretary of age fee Wei, in l'all-melL
Present :—Seeretery Sir George C. Lewis, the Duke of
Cambridge, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke of Newcastle,
the Duke of Somerset, Earl Omnville, Sir Charles Wood,
Earl de Grey, the ttisesn's Advocate, the Solicitor•Geoenl,
the Right Hon. Sir Themes Fremantle, and the Clerk of
the Priry Connell.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council tat yeeter
day. An appeal from the Admiralty Court- the George
Arid.—was heard. Lord Kingadowngati judgment, &firm-
ing the decree of the court below. Appeals from the Ad-
miralty Court—the Eclipse and the Smoak—were °m-
iaowed. The Lords present were Lord Kiniadown, the
Master of the Rolla, 81r J. Coloridp, and Sir E. Ryan.

It wa.r originally intended that her Majesty and
his Roy►l Riahniwa the Prince Consort, and members
of Use Court, were to leave Windsor Castle on Friday neat
for Osborne, but in oamequence of the indisposition of the
Prism Calmat the removal of the Court is deferred for the

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Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Primes. Mary will leave Cambridge Cottage,
Kew, iii a few days, for Ashridge Park, Herta, oa a visit to
Ledy Marisa Alford.

The Countess Flahault and Mina Elphinatone
Mahanlt left Coventry Howe yestenlay, for Torquay, on a
visit to Lord and Ludy Willoughby de Eresby.
The Duke and Duchene of Manchester arrived in
town last evening from Hinehingbrook, the Earl of Sand.
wich's 'eat in Huntingdonshire.

The Earl of Ha;dwicke left town yesterday for
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire.

The Earl and County.. of Chesterfield have been
esterteiniag s disisegaished circle at Bretby Park, Derby-
shire, during the post week.

Lord Dufforin has gone on a visit to the Duke of
Sutherland, to join a .hooting petty al Trsatbars, after
which his lordship goes to Mahon.

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The lion. A. anti Mrs. Egerton have left their
reeldeece is Hertionlotreet for Bournemouth.

Lord Macdonald is lying dangerously ill at &A-
irington Hall, near Halton, his lordship's occasional mi-
asmas. O Friday morning his lordship was seised with •
Et. and had • monad on Saturday. No improvement was
•plsummt on Sunday.

A monument is about to be erected to the memory
of Sr Hustphssy Davy at Peassaaa. It will ooesiat of a
puns miens mad brae. sarsseasted with a stets.) of the
great obeafiet,boldisig a safety lamp is his band.

Mr. Cobbett addressed Lis ametituenta, at
Oldham, last night. The honowalge gentleman re.
trained from express* a desided opinion upon the
gesstioes of ieternatieuel law relied by the Sangre
el Mews. Slidell and Mason co board the Treat;
but, supposing it was eiserly established by our lop! au
'amities that we had gamed an outing*, he should sup-
port the Ministry is auradieg reparation, and decline to
Pita the satmained " Illanehester School " in mewling ea
American view of the IN&

The Warrior, 40, Iron frigate, Captain the Hon.
A. A. Cadmus* C.R., at Peetessoetk, is ordered to be sup-
plied with eight el the Azendresi Kftisetioders, whisk are
le be sistetikiled far sight cd her 44-pessilera that are
Aosta forward sod eft, out al bar Hine of arneour-platiag.
It is also 'eroded to substinato the sew naval pattern
Thmounder Atinstroag as soon se possible far the ship's
present complement of 40-pounder Armstrong& The
70-poesden are ,oid to be a very superior weapon, even to
the Armstrongs at praiser in ens few naval warfare. The
Warriors maindeck port lids have bees taken off the ship's
side, and are being fitted with vulcanised india-rubber
linings on their inner edges to fit in to the back stops of the
pone aed render them watertight. The alterations and
additior to her fitment, are being completed as rapidly as
parable. The vessel is complete is her engine department,
and requires only her propeller to bs shipped to render bey,
so far aa her machinery gra, fit to proceed cm a this
mom' cruise to-morrow.

The Botanic Gardens, which government pres-
ume caused the Royal Dahlia Society to throw open to the
public on Sundays, are appreciated by the public. They
have now been available to all cheese on that day since the
18th ef August, ands return hosed on Friday shows that an
than 78.1:r2 persons have visited them. The only damage
done by this vast number of people, notwithstanding the
evil things prnoooeticeted by those who op fused the opening
of the gardens. was the knocking down and breaking of a
number of valuable plants; but the visitors are not, it
should be stAted, fairly chargeable with this mischief, as
the passages in the hot-houses are too narrow. They were,
in fact, constructed to accommodate only a limited number,
and hence the ?Mischief dune. The curator acknowledges
that " the people themselves behaved in the most orderly
and decorous m►nner."

Connt Walewaki, the Minister of State, has ad-
deal a circular to the directors of the theatres of Paris,
datias that frerpiently after the first representations of
new pieces performers take en themselves to introdasu
pampa which had been suppressed by the consols/lip, or'
add oases which woukl not have been approved of by it
and wlikk offend the public. He calls on managers to take
mewing to prevent such abuses, which be is determined
not to permit.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

POLAND.

" We have received news from Warsaw," says
the Dibate of to-day, " of a most painful event.
The administrator of the diocese of the city, M.
Bialobreski, has been aenteucel to ten years' trans-
portation to Siberia. It will be remembered that
his offence is the order to close the churches after
the deplorable events of the 18th ult. The private
accounts which we have received from Warsaw
only add to the odiousness of this act. The prelate
who has been thus sentenced is an old man seventy-
eight years of age, sick and infirm. He has already
been treated with such rigour that a bed has been
refused to him in prison, where he has been in
every particular treated according to the strictest
iiyirne of the prison. We need not say that, in
his present state of suffering, ten years' transporta-
tion to Siberia is to the venerable bishop equivalent
to a sentence of death."

The Official Journal of Warsaw contains the con-
demnation of 19 young men to service in the army
of Siberia, and in the terrible disciplinarycompanies,
for the merest trifles. One of them " tore
down from a street corner the notice forbidding
the public to assemble before the churches ;"
another "echoed a placard on the wall of the
cemetery announcing the state of siege ;" a third is
thus sentenced because, "in reading the official
placards, he spat on the ground and made a gee.
ture of contempt." The disciplinary companies,
or military bagnies, form the most terrible
punishment which is known in Russia ; " Kam-
schatka, the mines," says the Dibati, " are
nothing in comparison."

Muniteur's bulletin repeats it without comment.
These feeble inferences in favour of Frank con-
currence in the unity of Italy, are, however, in my
mind rendered infinitely more feeble still by the last
item in the Constitationnets column of figures,
whioh shows that the present army of occupation
in Rome consists of 19,000 men, precisely the
same force (in round numbers) which took Rome
by siege against Garibaldi and Maszini in 1849.
At no intervening period since that year has the
army of invasion (for that is a more correct desig-
nation of it than occupation) been in anything like
such force. f.O 1858,1857, and 1858, the strength
was only about 5,000, and last year it was but
7,500. The oast of the occupation of 1861 is
stated in official figures at 9,500,000 fr., against
only two or three millions a year for several years
past. It cannot be said that this enormous addi-
tion to the French invading army was necessary
to preserve order in Rome,because there was much
greater risk of an entente there in 1859 and 1880,
when the surrounding states were throwing
off the yoke of their local tyrants, than there
has ever been in 1861. As to any fear of
lAustrian or Spanish intervention, or an attack
upon Rome by the King of Italy's troops, the
French flag and a corporal's guard would have
been as adequate a protection as 19,000 men. It
is therefore most difficult not to suppose—however
much we may hope that even within the last few
days better thoughts may be uppermost in the
councils of Frasee—that the vast and sudden aug-
mentation of the French army in Rome this year
had its origin in motives quite foreign to Italian
interests. The Patric to-night cavils at the Condi-
tutioniters figures, not denying those to which I
have above referred, but arguing questions of com-
pound interest, and assuming that all the men in
garrison at Rome would have been in active service
in France, bad they not been wanted there. To-
morrow M. de la Guerronniere's journal promises
to show the Constifutionnel " what it would coat
France to abandon Rome." This calculation, in
such a quarter, may perhaps be interesting.
The rise in Consols produced a considerable effect
on the Bourse, which now closely sympathises with
London. Route rose 10c. for cash and 20c. for ac-
count, closing at 67fr. 50e. and 67fr. 70c. Mobilier
rose 6fr. 25c., and the Italian Loan 10c. The Or-
leans Railway fell 6fr. 25c.; and Lyons, 3fr. 7k. ;
but the other lines were higher ; Northern rose
2fr. 50c. ; Eastern, Gfr. 25c. ; and Western,
Bfr. 7k.