The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

TRH EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26; 1861.

would think of dictating to a tradesman or a pro-
fessional man the precise number of hours within
which alone he should be allowed to devote himself
to the business of his trade or profession 1 Any
such attack on their freedom would be indignantly
resented by men in every rank and occupation of
life, no m atter under what authority it might be made.
Yet this is precisely the kind of dictation which
the leaders of the nine hours movement attempt
towards their fellow-workmen. They try to im-
pose upon them an arbitrary rule with regard to
the use of their natural and acquired powers, to
bind them rigidly down t. work only so many
hours a day and no more. This is most tyranni-
cal and unjust. It is indeed • far more serious
infringement of the rights of labour than any of
the existing grievances against which Mr. Purr=
and his friends so loudly protest.
The new proposal of the masters thus respects
the right of the workmen to decide with regard to
their own hours of labour, and on this ground no
objection can, we imagine, be justly made to
the proposal. Whether the offered increase
of pay is sufficient is another question,
which the men must consider for them-
selves, and they owe it to themselves to do so freely,
and without regard to the dictation of the
leaders of the late movement, who, having
committed themselves to extreme positions,
refuse to retrace a single step. These men
repeatedly staked their whole credit and influence
as leaders on the success of the original move-
ment, and their obstinate determination not to yield
even the smallest point is embittered by the painful
consciousness of humiliation and defeat. They
have long since lost sight of the real merits of the
case, and tight no longer for the rights and interests
of the workmen, bid simply for victory, if not for
revenge. They, of course, will not listen to any
proposal for an amicable settlement of the dispute,
but we do earnestly hope that the men may not be
a second tune led astray by such unwise and in-
temperate counsellors. Why should the interests
of the whole body be sacrificed to the pride and
obstinacy of a few disappointed leaders ? If the
dispute is to be settled at all, some form of com-
promise must be adopted, each yielding something
to the other. The extreme party amongst the mas-
ters who protested against any proposals being
made to the men have not carried their point.
And the advocates of conciliation having prevailed
amongst the masters, we hope they will at length
be listened to by the men. Each party has fought
long enough and bravely enough to be respected
by the other, and it is quite time to shake hands
and seriously discuss some reasonable terms of
peace. The new proposals offer • favourable op-
portunity for doing this, and we shall regard it as
a calamity if they are rejected. Meanwhile we
earnestly counsel the working men to beware of
those who advise them to adopt an obstructive
course. It is in their power, no doubt, to cause
much local inconvenience by striking here and
there, where they know the time for the comple-
tion
of undertakings is short. But let them not
suppose that they will be permitted to arrest the
work which the public requires. Classes of
labourers we must have, but in England no indi-
viduals are indispensable. Firms may be embar-
rassed, families of workmen may be beggared by
strikes, and under the violence of their pressure
the processes of industry may be changed, to the
irretrievable loss of the workman ; but amidst it
all the public will find a way of being served, and
the business of the country will be carried on.

Their Serene Highnesses Prince Frederic of
ticlilirmig•Holatein•Auguetenbstrg and Prince Victor of
Huherilohe Lengenburg errired ai Windex Castle on Smi-
ley
The Countess ApponyPs dinner and assembly,
aanoesood fur this evening, are postpossed.

Tho Archbishop of York his left Claridge's Hotel,
ter the Archiepiscopal Palace, York.
Thu Duchoss of Leafs and Miss Lome Fox are
pawing • few weeks at St. Leasard'oros-fiee.

The Marquis of Exeter has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel, from Burghley Homes, Stamford.
The Marquis and Mezehioness of Chatesurepard
have left Wilteo-erement, sad taken up their reeidenoe at
Albert-gata Hones.

The Earl Brownlow has left towu to join Lady
Marisa Alford. at Rome.

The Counteai of Antrim was safely delivered of
• us es the 22nd inst., at Glenaree Coatis, Ireland.

Via:mutest Palmetston will have an assembly
es &Imlay, the 13th et April, at Cambridge House.

Lord aiid Lady flerbort,iiiro left Beigrare-square,
foe Wdtoo H was, Deer Salisbury, for three weeks.

Lord and Lady Rokeby leave town on Thum:lay
far Hardwood Room, Herta, for the Faster holidays.
Lord and Lady Woilehotielo will leave town in a
few days, oo a visit to Mr. sod the Hon. Mrs. Rakes
Corr* at Mirley Warren, Notts.

Lord and Lady Foley have left Grosvenor-square
for Worksop Mawr, Hasse.

Lord Courtenay has arrived at the Hotel Bristol,
Park, from a tour io Algeria.

Lord Malmesbaryli at present at Paris.

An exhibition of hyacinths, tulip*, and narcimus
eemateiseed yesterday, and will continue during the week,
at Yews. Henderson end Co.'s specious grounds, Pineapple-
pleas, Edgware-road. The hyacinths comprise many new
sad beautiful varieties.

The 3 p.m. express train from the Waterloo
stetson, yesterday, was stopped at Wimbledon specially to
coevey Mr. Turner, one of the gentlemen who was seriously
Injured at the late frightful aocidcnt on the South-Western
line, to his home at Portsmouth. The unfortunate gentle-
man has been confined at the Wimbledon hotel ever sines
the accident, and where his family have been staying with
him. He was obliged to be carried from the station to the
carriage.

In the last sitting of the Germanic Dist, a note
from the English Legation, announcing that a Universal
Exhibition is to take place at London on the Ist May, 1862,
vie presented.

The Secretary to the Committee ou Decay of the
Hems of the Palace at Westminster is Mr. Alfred Bonham
Carter, et the Moo of Works, 12, Whitehall-plaee, and
se% as the public ►en been informed, Mr. Hochman Carter,
M. P.

Koren re Derrera FUND.—A mum in new pend-
ing in the Court of (*tummy in which the Emperor of
Austria has obtained an injunction restraining Louis
Kossuth from printing certain notes. which he has bese
advised, on high legal authority, that be can print without
the slightest infraction of British law. Several rrotlemen,
feeling that the resources of the whin exile. who has sari-
Geed his all in support of constitutional liberty, must be
.equal to rope with those of Imperial Austria, and desirous
of seeurieg a full awl fair hearing of the arse, ham resolved
(without prejudging the question between the parties) to
endeavour to provide a fund for the purples of bowleg the
Woe ranted fairly tried out. They are prepared Mari as •
provirunal committee, to receive subscriptions, and see to
their due appropriatico. Treasurer—W. Scholegeld, Esq.,
M.P. Provisional Committee—Willison Austin, Fag.,
Thomas Barnes. Esq., M.P., Bolton ; Thomas Bezlen EN. •
SLIP, Manchester ; A. R. Bristow, Eq., M.P., Kidder.
eriseter ; Walter Buchanan, Fag, Map., tha•rw
Oeshigharn, Eaq., Heighten ; Robert Dal ish, Earl_
Glar,row ; L. L. Mrs% M.P., Swansea; Sir
Charier Douglas. ALP., Brabiery-; J. A. Hardcastle, Esq.,
M.P., Bury St. Edmunds ; W. O. /Anton. Esq.. )1.15.,
Bristol ; Wilfred IAWIOII, Fag., M.P., Lturliale ; illiam
Lee, Eel.. M.P., Shirley'; Jobe Locke, Eq.,
Southwark Matthew Marsh, Esq., M.P., Salisbury ; James
KKershaw,;M.P., Iltnekport t L A. Leathern, Faq
M.P.. Hoditereeld ; Professor P. W. Newman ; Sir ~
Paztoe, M.P., Covestry; Charles Reed, Liq., F.S.A. W.
Respell, Eel.. M. ; W. Ilebolelleld, Fag,.
M.P., Ilinsingbasi ; N. B. Sheridan, Esq., M.P., ;
James Stardeld.'. Esq., M.P., Halifax ; J. P. Weather',
Esq., M.P., York ; G. R. Whalley, Paq., M.P., Priories
Tomah ; luso White, Esq., M.P. hton. fleeciney
fleendery J. F. Bootems, Faq. 14, Moorgate-street, Leedom
Soliseripelons may be remitted to the treasurer. at Mears.
Haulsory and banker% Leaden, or to the hooorary
secretary.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

Although it is reported from Rome that the
Pope's allocution in the Consistory of March 18,
was (with unprecedented despatch) printed and
distributed to the cardinals on the same evening,
the text is not yet known in Paris. The following
is, however, a full analysis :
His Holiness begins by declaring that a conflict is going on
between error and truth--between light and dirkness—
between vice and virtue. He places in juxta-position those
who extol and defend the principles of modern civilisation
and those who hold fast to the principles of the catholic
religion. The first would make the papacy bend to what is
called modern progress and liberalism, while the others, on
the contrary, desire to see it remain firm, preserving
intact the principles of eternal justice and religion as
the only remedy for the many evils which now afflict
society—its only salvation. His Holiness would have
confidence in the partisans of modern civilisa-
tion if their acts were hand upon justice ►nd the
true principles of right and morality. But as these apostles
of modern civilisation pretend to love and respect the ca-
tholic religion the Pope, to prove their insincerity, refers
to the many opinions and principles hostile to the church
which they maintain ; to the concordats which they have
abolished, as, for instance, at Naples ; to the protection
granted in Italy, a country eminently catholic, to all sorts
of religions; to the employment of infidels in high offices;
to the persecution and abolition of religious orders ; to the
suppression of catholic schools, the confiscation of church
property, and the banishment of cardinals, bishops, and
priests. He reproaches the apostles of this pretended civi-
lisation with granting large subsidies to anti-catholic institu-
tions, and with persecuting the catholic press while theyleave
all enemies of the church absolutely free to write whatever
they please. They encourage libertinism, and wink at
violence, but are severe towards the newspapers that defend
religion and justice. His Holiness proceeds to affirm that
the Holy Bee has ever defended true civilisation, as history
will testify, bat that the Pope cannot associate himself
with those who fight against the church and destroy the
faith. He declares that the revolution prepared by those
who vaunt themselves as thedisciples of civilisation tends to
destroy thatgreet institution, which for eighteen centuries has
been the glory of Italy, and that not because it was incom-
patible with reforms, but with the sole intent of making
war upon the church. The Pope affirms that when the
legitimate princes of Italy granted free institutions, he made
such concessions ea be judged useful, and for the happiness
of his people ; but these cones ions served onlyato give
additional strength to the enemies of the papacy, who went
so far as to murder his minister on the steps of [the
parlia-
meat house. He adds that be bad lately promised to grant
reforms justly recommended by the catholic powers, but
that he had repudiated the demands and insinuations
that he should renounce a part of the province the domin-
ion of which had been usurped from him. The authors
of this usurpation called not for reforms, but for an absolute
session of the temporal sovereignty. They were not content
with destroying the civil principality of the Popes in Italy,
they wasted to destroy the church. How could it
be expected that the Pope could be reconciled with
them ? It was impossible for him to renounce the prin-
ciples of eternal justice and the protection of the church.
He could not (non posesonus)consent to *usurpation of the
states of the Holy See. The Pope declares, however, that
he is always ready to forgive his enemies, and to pray God
to enlighten therm He cowhides by exhorting the cardi-
nals to prepare to suffer all the calamities which it may
please God to allow them to be afflicted with, and reminds
them that the entire episcopacy of the catholic world rallies
round the Holy Bee.

This allocution is far less conciliatory than the
telegraph represented• It is doubtful whether the
government will permit it to circulate in France.

01110TEll I ratans AMS.
THE ITALIAN CHAMBER.
TURIN, Yawn 25, E176/17NG.
In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,
M. A udinot made an iuterpellation (of which he had
previously given notice) in reference to the affairs
of Rome. He etpressed his belief that the
government of the Pope was incompatible with
the liberty and independenoe of the country,
and the civil rights of any civilised nation.
He asked the ministry whether any negotiations
were being carried on for the purpose of terminat-
ing the foreign intervention at Rome, or what other
measures the government had in view for the solu-
tion of the question.

Count Cavour replied—We have a right to have
Rome se the capital of Italy. The city of Turin
is ready to sacrifice her position ; but we must go
to Rome with the consent of Prance, when all
sincere catholic"( will be convinced that the church
—far from suffering—will gain by it. The
union of the temporal and spiritual power
has always and everywhere been a source
of evil. When we enter Rome we shall proclaim
ample liberty to the church, and this liberty
shall be guaranteed by a special statute. If the
court of Rome persists in the union of the two
powers of the papacy, its policy will be responsible
fur the schism which might result therefrom.
This speech was much applauded.
HUNGARY.
PEEfrli, TOMIDAT.
The oongregation of the Comitat of Posega has
adopted a resolution declaring the council of the
empire to be an institution incompatible with the
constitution of the kingdom.

The congregation has also protested against
the moiling of representatives to the council of the
empire.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUZIIDAT.
The Minateur of to-day announces that the in-
terest on Treasury Bills has been raised to 4, 41,
and 5 per cent. respectively.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MN OUR OWN

PARIS, Mom:wt. EVENING.
The Bourse was stagnant, without any change in
the Bente and scarcely any in other securities.

. •
The Menitenr (la Pny de Dome gives an account
of a new miracle of which, it says, everybody is
talking. A sportsman shot his dog by accident,
and while he was cursing his own awkwardness a
priest appeared in the distance, whereupon he ex-
claimed, " I would rather have killed ten priests
than that dog." The " blasphemous " words were
no sooner out of his mouth than the earth opened
under his feet, and ho sank up to his shoulders.
The peasants in the neighbourhood came in great
numbers with spades and pickaxes to dig him out,
but the earth closed in as fast as the labourers
shelled it out, and the wretch remained three
parts buried, his head and shoulders alone sticking
out from the ground. The wondering swains,who
were impotent to extricate him, bring food to his
mouth, and at the date of the last advice; his posi-
tion remained unchanged. Although reports differ
about the exact locality of this miracle, some as-
signing it to the village of Ceyrat, and others to
Rochefort and Herment, it stands a great chance
of being recognised as authentic by the church,
which will not now permit the Palette imposture to
be called in question.
The Eastern Railway Company has issued two
hundred invitations for the inauguration of the
railway bridge across the Rhino at Kehl, which is
to connect the Strasbourg railway with the German
lines. The ministers of Baden, Bavaria, Wnrtem-
berg, and Hesse, will be present at the ceremony.
There is to be a grand dinner at the Hotel de la
Vile de Paris, at Strasburg, followed by • special
performance at the theatre.
I hear that in consequence of the unanimous
verdict of the public against it, the opera of
Tanahattner, which cost at least 10,000/. sterling
to put upon the stage, is to be withdrawn. It has
only been performed three times.

also numerous excellent transparencies and por-
traits of the Pacha. Altogether, the scene was
enchanting ; something that one might imagine to
exist in fairyland, but which did not at all
seem to be the work of rough, money-
seeking mortals in a commercial town. We
have no gas here, but, for illumination,
oil in different coloured glasses, and lamps, when
tastefully arranged, has a much prettier appear-
ance than the pale uniform light produced by gas.
Some streets were entirely covered overhead, and
had immense hanging chandeliers, whilst the shops
on each side were gaily decorated and lighted up.
For some days previous to the Pacha's arrival the
wits of Alexandria had been exercising their inge-
nuity in finding explanations for the initial mottoes
which were put up in various places, particularly
the French consulate, which was out of taste ; but
so like La Grande Nation, they must give to every-
thing a French character. At first, what there was
with reference to Said Pacha was very insignifi-
cant ; but afterwards his highness was given a
more important place in the illuminations ;
but the numerous initials the people attri-
buted to many sentences, which were any-
thing but complimentary. There was a trans-
parency in the window of a Britisher, with the
motto " Veni, vidi, vici ;" and people stared and
wondered in what way the laconic despatch of the
world-conquering old Rowan could apply to such
an unwarlike looking gentleman as the Viceroy.
All the consulates were resplendent, with one
notable exception ; the representative of surly
John Bull in this part of the world was in almost
total darkness. The palace of the Princess, No. 3,
on the canal was moat tastefully and extensively
illuminated. The firing of cannon, a grand dis-
play of rockets, Bengal lights, and other fireworks,
announced the arrival of his Highness in the
square on Friday evening at about 9 o'clock. The
place was crammed with a motley multitude, and
the variety of dresses, together with • large sprink-
ling of gaily-attired ladies, added not a little to the
picturesqueness of the scene. His highness was
dressed, as usual, in a simple white jacket, white
bag trowsers, and • red fez, exactly the summer
uniform of his soldiers. He remained about twenty
minutes in the kiosk, and smoked a chibook ; he
sent away his guard, and walked amongst the
crowd, expressed himself highly delighted, and
then departed. He repeated his visit on Saturday
evening, and on Sunday morning he received a
large number of the Eurcpeans at his palace of
Rassettin. Count Zizinia was selected by the mer-
cantile community to read the address, which was
in French, and to which his highness replied in the
same language, which he speaks with fluency. The
fete lasted three days, and the cost, with that of
Cairo, has been estimated at about 200,000
dollars (40,0001.). Fortunately the weather,
so unusual at this time of the year, was splendid
until the last night, when it began to blow
hard, and many of the lights were extinguished or
carried away by the wind. It was lucky for the
fetes that the bad weather did not come on until
all was nearly over. Some ill-natured people have
gone so far as to say that the thing was a sham, and
merely got up for a particular purpose by the
Pacha'a French buffoon (whoever he may be), and
a few other interested parties ; but, on the whole,
these fetes have far surpassed what were given in
honour of Said Pacha on his accession to power,
and both Europeans and natives seem to have
entered into the affair with • good will.
P.S.—March 14.—As a reason for this trip of
Said Pacha, it is reported that he had an order
from the Sultan to try and send up to Constanti-
nople the sheriff of Mecca, who is supposed to be
implicated in the Syrian affair ; but to attempt to
capture him amongst his own people would have
been dangerous. His highness, it is said, politely
invited him on board to dinner, and then showed
him his papers. The poor sheriff begged first to be
allowed to go on shore and make preparations for
his journey, but by that time he was well out to
sea. The sheriff is no where, and will, of course,
have no choice but to proceed to Constantinople.