The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 11.

,111/ DIRET was quite warranted in describing
as urgent and important the question which
he put to the Government last night respecting
the extent to which British seamen would imperil
their right to the protection of their country if
they permitted themselves to be allured, by
prospects of mingled profit and adventure, to
take part in that extensive privateering expedi-
tion by which Mr. .1 arreinion Davis proposes to
supply the want of a regular navy. In more than
one or two of our ports of commerce the for-
tunes made in former wars by daring men
outside the regular service are talked over, and
the chances of booty to be had in the American
contest now raging are eagerly discussed. It is
very important that the dames of citizens most
concerned should well understand in tune the na-
ture of the risks they would run by engaging
in privateering, and of the state of public
opinion with regard to enterprise of such a cha-
racter. Lord DEBBY very well described this
sort of adventure as a kind of sea-poaching. Per-
sons who tit out private ships to use against the
enemy acquire the property of whatever cap-
tures they make as a compensation for
their disbursements and the risks they run.
An adventurous American of a southern
port may be supposed to say, " I am no poll-
" titian, but I know that a new Government is
" formed, and because it is formed it is my Go-
" vernment ;" and thereupon may resolve to
serve it under letters of marque, leaving the
justice of the war to Presidents, Governors, and
Admirals. But foreigners meddling in these
matters would stand in a very different position.
They have no excuse for embarking in a pbadical
mode of warfare with persons who have never in-
jured them. They would do so not with the
laudable object of aiding the weak and
succouring the oppressed, but would delibe-
rately propose to themselves plunder and
bloodshed from mere lust of gold. Lord DEBBY
states, as his view of the matter, that a British
seaman by entering this privateering service
would wholly forfeit the protection of his
country ; and that if, when so engaged, his life
should be in danger under a judicial sentence, he
must not expect the slightest interference on the
part of his Government, but that his blood would
be upon his own head. Lord Bacivonax went
further. After observing that say British subject
taking part in the proposed privateering would be
guilty of piracy according to the law of nations,
lie added that " it was mod expedient that these
" parties who chose to commit the offence in this
" case should be left to suffer the penalty they
" incurred." And although the Earl of Haze-
wren; with a warm professional feeling which we
appreciate in a British Admiral, put in • word for
the poor captured corsair, and adventurously
imagined " a well-conducted privateer," Earl
GRANVILLE stated that her MAJIIITY'II proclama-
tion would make it known that in the event of a
privateer being taken with British seamen on
board and treated as a pirate, the seamen sub-
jecting themselves to capital punishment would
have no claim upon the protection and interfer-
ence of the Government. After these various
and emphatic warnings it will not be the fault of
the Government if say of our fellow-countrymen
are led astray.

" Tits Hones of Commons is the place where
" the =timid expenditure should be brought for-
" ward by the Government, criticised by the re-
" presentative. of the people, and adjusted
" according to the balances of opinion." Thus
Mr. Dimaszu delivered himself on Thursday
night, a few minutes after an attempt to count
out the House in Committee on the Army Esti-
mates. Mr. DIMILAILLI is satisfied that the efforts
of independent members of the Hone* will effect no
real economy against the will of the Government ;
hence the complexion of his advice. Colonel SYKES
who is not turned aside from his course by slight
disconragernenta, has come to the conclusion that
nothing is really gained by attempts to reduce
particular votes, as the Government always keeps
a majority in hand to defeat them ; and Mr. Mai-
-1.011 speaks of time spent in discussing the Eat.-
matesaa being wasted. The honourable gentleman
referred to the document which he signed before the
meeting of Parliament in company with about 1;0
members, urging the Government to prepare the
Estimates with a view to economy, and appeared
to consider that he bedtime discharged himself from
the duty *of attending the discussions upon expen-
diture. This is the hrst time we have heard that that
movement was intended to supersede the ordinary
duties at Parliament. We had understood, in
common, we believe, with the public, that the
memorial to Lord PALM 'ASTON was signed in
order that the Government might be made
snare of the opinions which a large num-
ber of its supporters would bring to the con-
sideration of any expenditure which might
be proposed. We believe still that such was the
intention of tho majority of those who signed
that docnnatint. It was never meant that
by attaching his name to a sheet of paper
a member was to be absolved from one of
the most important parts of his duty to his
constituents. A few, however, of the remon-
strant. appear to form a most extraordinary estimate

of their position, and to think that having once for
all made a general and indefinite demonstration in
favour of economy, they may vote against it in all
its details. There are three or four members who
have particularly distinguished themselves in this
way throughout the Session, and to whose doings
we must shortly devote some space with the aid
of the division lista.

Time spent in sifting the public expenditure is
not thrown away. Such &discussion as that of Thurs•
day does not take place in vain, even though the
proposed estimates were carried in their full extent.
Public opinion is enlightened, and extravagance,
if not prevented altogether, is held in some check ;
it would therefore be greatly to be regretted if
financial reformers should surrender themselves to
discouraging suggestions even when they come
from their own ranks.

The following statement is published by the
Reo.rd :
We understand that on a recent division in the Home of
Commons on the Budget, a member who was in a private
asylum under a certificate of lunacy was brought up on the
occasion to vote against the Budget, and afterwards returned
to his asylum. This is exciting a good deal of interest, and
one of the Commissioners in Lunacy we, sent down on
Monday iu order to inquire into the circumstances of this
extraordinary proceeding.

And who .;0 proper as a lunatic to vote against
the Budget ? Mr. Gladstone has been opposed iu
lunatic speeches, why not in lunatic votes If,
however, lunacy is to be regarded as disqualifying
for legislation, the authorities of the House ought
to be enabled to take note of the fact, and suspend a
member from his function. We infer from the
notice of the Record that the inquiry is set on
foot not on behalf of the House, but only be-
taus° the lunacy laws have been broken. Never-
theless, it might not be amiss if the grounds on
which the certificate of lunacy was granted were in-
quired into. It would then be known whether the
country has been needlessly deprived of the ser-
vices of its representative. If it should appear
that the honourable (or noble) member, without
being more outrageous than some who are allowed
and encouraged to make themselves conspicuous in
debate, is held in loose custody for reasons of
private and temporary convenience, it may become
a question whether the public ought not to enjoy
the advantages of the novel arrangement on a larger
scale, and submitting to irrational votes be spared
irrational orations.

(nor LAST NIGHT'S Gomm)
LORD CMAMIZILLAIN'S OPTIC; MAY 7.—Notice
ie hereby giveo, that her Majoity's Birthday will be kept oo
Wednesday, the 10th of July neat.
LORD CHAMBIRLAIN'S OPPICK, APRIL 18.—Notice
is hereby given, that his Royal Highs's the Prince Consort
will, by the desire of the 9seen, hold a Levee at at. James's
Palace, ea behalf of her Majesty, on Wednesday, the Dtb of
May seat, at two o'elork. It is the Queen's pleasure, that
presestatioes to his Royal Highness at the Levee shall be
coosidered as equivalent to presentations to her Majesty.
BUCKINGHAM PALACK, May B.—Hia Royal High-
ow the Prince Cowart has been pleased to appoint the
Bev. J. B. Lightfoot, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
to be Chaplain in Ordinm to has Royal Highness, in the
room of the Rev. Dr. Pbilpott, promoted to the Bishopric
of Worcester.

Major-General C. A. Wyndham, C. 8., has ar-
rived in London on six months' leave of shams from his
ecenrsand in India.

The Inns of Court Rifle Corps propose to visit
Outthridge on Betnrilay next, the 18th instant. The coma,
to the number of 450, will leave the Shoreditch 14411:111 of
the &eta% Counties Railway, by special train, at hall-pant
9 (having paraded in Gray's Inn at 8.30), and will arrive at
Cambridge ab.int half-past 11. They will then be brigaded
with the University Corps on Midsummer-common, under
the command of Colonel M`Murdo, C. 8., as brigadier the
" Devil's Owe" being commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
Brewster, and the University by Lieuteuant.Colonel Baker.
The two battalions will march past his Royal Highness the
Primo of Wales ((who is honorary colonel of the Croivenity
Corps), and will then go through the brigade and skirmish.
Sig movements of a field day. The learned and gallant
visitors will be afterwards entertained at dinner by the
different colleges, many of which (Trinity, Magdalene, St.
John's, &c,) have already invited the distinguished party to
meet them. The special train leaves Cambridge at 8.45, on
its return to London. The Cambridge Town Corps and •
mounted corps in the neighbourhood have kindly offered to
keep the ground.

Lieut. -Colonel Lindsay, writing in defence of
government aid to the volunteers, adds :—" I trust that,
in whatever shape government ski ba naked, some aasistance
will be given, in order that there may be no falling off in
the master-roll of the present volunteer force, a result which
would, I fear, be very probable in the event of a reined,
sad which those who have been and still are
so deeply engaged in the service for the defeats°
of the country would be powerless to prevent.
I cannot agree that the independence and free
spumy of a volunteer can ever be damaged, as lows as he
doss not mein pay or clothing, and at long as he one enrol
when he likes and /men when he thinks tit. The War.
odic.", I conceive, Is the only government department with
which the volunteer service has to do in time of peace, and
in whatever manner it may be co-operating from time to
thus with the army, which is the Horse Guards, in time of
peace. it would, I apprehend, do so by mutual arrangement,
which could he eerily attained without any fear of control
or sacrifice of independence."

This morning 70 paves of oorrespondenco re-
spect* British claims on Mexico, were issued from the
parliamentary printing•offee.

Aooounta from Chalons state that the camp is
eieumiag every day • mori animated appearance. The
regiments which are to form it ars arriving every day, and
are initialing themselves in their tents. The first occupa-
tion of the soldiers after they pitch their tents is to orna-
ment them by planting gardens in front. They form streets
through the camp which craw at right angles. There are
squares formed wherever the position is favourable. la
fact, the Freneh soldier endeavours to make himself at
home in whatever situation he is placed.
The Sentinella Bresciana of the 7th dencribea the
strictness of the passport system along the frontier of the
Minch/ as extremely isoonvenient. The .kustrian authorities
persist in nut recognising the passports delivered in the
same of the Kis; of Italy. Travellers who are provided
with thee, are subjected to the minutest scrutiny, and
treated with cadence' by the diked'.

The Press, of Vienna, states in a letter from
Venice, dated the 3rd, that an emissary from "as
English revolutionary dub" has just been arrested at
Venice. The account says that earreepondence and in.
structioo■ from Mazsini w. re found apron him.

- -
TNN NATIONAL GALLIST.—(TuIs DAY.)—Thu
National fisellery,
_after us interval of eight mouths, was
opened to the public tidy. The changes it has under.
gore are peat be* ea regards the building and the arrange.
meat of the pictures. Hit Charles &Wake baa added
three new purchases to the oullection. They are in
tempero—riz., a Predelle, in five compartment., by
Fee Angelico. which was formerly in the church
el Ilan Domenico at Viesole ;au Entombmeitt," by
Meier Vander Weyden the elder ; and the " Baptism of
Christ," by Pietro dell. Franomea, recently purchased at
the sale. The five beautiful and perfectly preserved
Angeheoe bought at Rome, and for which the Papal
gewernment exacted an exportation ene of 700 f.. being 30
par rent. on the purchase money, are among the most
valuable acquisitions made during Sir Charles Fastlake's
imininistratiuli. The subject appears to be" Christ Astern-
bilurPhis Blessed, after the last Judgmard." Mr. Peon.,
themes alterations of the building are very generally
approved el.

-.13431 b • M ggruens Fos THE EXIT MO WEEK.
Monday —Orographical. N " From Jealdo to Nipon," Mr.
Aka*. Tuealay —Syro-Euptian, 71, "Chaldean Ruins,"
Mr. Ainsworth. Royal lestitution' 3, "Modern Musk,"
Mr. Mullah. Engineers, 8, "National Defined." Zuolo-
, gical, 9, " Birds, Guatemala," Mr. Salvia. Ethnological,
Aesiversary ; " Rama Mau in Africa," M. lhr Chaillu.
Wednesday - &misty of Arta, K "lastriletioll is Ride Shoot.
lag, Hy the School. Mr. Macgregor. Thursday—Chsenical,
colouring Matters,* Mr. Perkin. Royal. 84,
The Croneian Lecture, "Relatioes between Muscular Irri-
tability, Cadaveric Rigidity, and Putrefaction," Dr. Brown
BequaaL Antiquaries, 14j. Royal institution, :t, "De.
vosion Age," Mr. Penally. Friday—Royal Institution, N.
"Theory of Three Printery Colours," Prof. Clerk Maswsill.
Saturday, Royal hatitution, 3," Language," Prof. Max

EXPRESS,

SATURDAY

!Mt Court.

wßra LODGE, RICHMOND-PARK, MAT 10.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Prillol,ll7l Helena
and Princes Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon. Lady
Caroline Barrington and Lieut.-General the Hoe. C. Grey
were in attendance.

The Prince Consort and Princes. Alice rode an honeteck,
attended by Major Du Plat.
Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold, attended by Major
Elphinstooe, visited her Majesty.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis-
count Pahnerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Conic-
wall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of
Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir
George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

The Duke of Newcastle, arrived in London on Thursday
evening from his seat, Chumherpark, Notts.
A deputation had an interview with Fart:Granville yester.
day at the Privy Council-office respecting the opening of
Glasneven-gardens on Sunday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governor of Canada, and the Lord High
Connuiwooner of the lonian Islands.
IN.:vetches were seat to the Governors of the Bahamas,
Hong Kong, Ceylon, and Malta.

Tux COMM.—Her Majesty the Queen and his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort will go to Windsor
Castle this morning. Her Majesty and his royal highness
will return to the White Lodge after luncheon.

Tho Duke de Richelieu has left the St. Georges
Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Haddington and the
Ladies Georgina and Frances Bernie Hamilton have arrived
at Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Tynioghame
House, N.B.

Lord and Lady Churchill have arrived at the St.
Cieerge's Hotel

Lord and Lady Petre, accompanied by the Hon.
His Bleat, have arrived at Maurice, Hotel, from Thorn-
des Hall, war Brentwood.

Lord and Lady A. St. Maur have arrived at the
ft George's Hotel

Lady Emily Hesketh's ball, announced for the
15th, is noavoitisbly postponed.

The Bishop of Bt. David's bas arrived at Mau-
de. Hotel, from Abergirlly Palace, near Carmarthen.

The Baron and Baroness Landeberg lure left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris, on their way to
Germany.

Sir Willoughby Jones has arrived at Fenton's
Hotel, from enamor Hall, Norfolk.

Sir Charles Tempest has left the St. George's
Hotel.

Sir A. Buchanan has left Fenton's Hotel for
Paris.

Mr. Charles L. Wilson, the newly-appointed
United Stake Secretary of Legation in London, arrived in
the steamer Fulton, at Southampton, on Thursday, and le
sow staying at Morley's Hotel. Mr. Wilson his been for
some years the editor of • leading political journal in
Illinois, and is an intimate personal aa wall ass political
friend of President Lincoln.

We (Yorkshire Gazette) understand his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Viscount Royston,
sad others of the nobility, are this week the gnats of Sir
G. 0. Wombwell, Bart. (the worthy high sheriff of the
county), enjoying the sport of rook shooting with the
rifle, he.

The Army and Nary Gazette states that Major
the Hon. W. C. Yelverton, of the Royal Artillery, is placed
on half-pay, and his name has been removed from the
effective list of the regiment.

The 33rd Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian
Academy was inaugurated at Dublin on Thursday by the
Lord-Lieutenant, in presence of a numerous and distin-
guished assemblage, including the heads of public
meets and the representatives of various institutions. His
excellency was sooompanied by the Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Justice of Appeal, Lord Clancarty, Judge Berwick,
the Dean of the Chapel Royal, the Dean of Derry, Captain
Williams, Sir Thomas Deane, Mr. Catterson Smith, Presi-
dent of the Academy, and the members of the Council.
His excellency made a careful inspection of the paintings,
and expressed much gratification at the progress evinced in
every department of the institution, proving the interest
be took in it b► makings number of purchases.

The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain bee issued cards for an evening reception, in
Bloomsbury-square, on Tuesday, May 14.

The Duke of Marlborough will exhibit, at the
June meeting of the Archasological Institute, the Arundel
and Beaborough collections of gems and intaglios, from
Blenheim Palace. Numerous other choice examples of that
class of art will also be displayed, and the exhibition will
remain npeu to members of the institute 111311 their friends,
from June 5 to June 12.

An interesting exhibition will be opened, on the
Ist of June, in the room of the Society of Arts. It is to
be an exhibition of water-colour paintings obtained from
private collections, illustrative of the history of art ; and
of works by students of the Female School of Art, show-
ing the course of instruction in that society.

The opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's
New Garden at South Kensingtoo, on the sth of next
month, with a fruit and flower show, will be followed by •
grand rose show, on July 10, another of dahlias, on
September 11, and of fruits and chrysanthemums on
November 6 and 7 next.

It is announced that the summer course of lec-
tures on botany, by Professor Oliver, to the foremen and
pedals/a engaged in the royal gardens at Kew, will
oonimespos on Tuesday next, May 14, and will bo con-
tinued on two evenings weekly (at 7 o'clock, on Tuesdays
and Fridays), until Friday, July 12. Examinations on the
subjects lectured upon will be held from time to time ; also
at the close of the course. The course is open to ell em-
played in the royal gardens.

The annual general meeting of the Ethnological
Society 'rill be held on Wednesday next, Nay 15.

_ .
The Era says :—" We have authority- to contra.
diet the rumour that Mr. Feebler is about to become lenge
of a London theatre. He is engaged by Mr. Augustan
Burls for Ha. and next year, and will represent many
Shaksperian charanan before sad during the Exhibition
of 1862."

"Our readers will regret to learn," says the
Sunday Tines, "that Yr. F. Robson has been suffering
since the early part of the week from • very sever and
alarming attack of congestion of the brain, is oonsequence
of which he bra been compelled to abstain for • time from
his too ard•ous duties at the Olympic Theatre. We are
very happy in being able to announce that the first and
newest symptoms have been subdued. and that the danger
which at one moment was apprehended has now passed away.
Oa as king inquiries last evening we were glad to learn that
Mr. Robson is better, and that • rapid recovery may be an-
ticipated."

Advertisements state that the St. James's
Theatre will close for the season this day week ; so that the
production of lady Dufferin's comedy is deferred.
The amateurs of the Civil Service Rifle Volun-
teers will by especial desire repeat their performance of
014144A1S Tan Taylor's new and original play, A Leas.. for
Life, at the Lyceum, on the 22nd instant. The other pieces
will be Meseta Yates end Harrington's coniedietta, If the
Cap Pita, sad Private Samuel Lover's farce of The
Happy Man.

A Munich paper states that Richard Waver
has been engaged to prepare his opera, The A-14efriogra.
for performance in Prague at the taut of the crowning of
hiaMsj. sty the King of Bohemia.

Cheee amateurs will be glad to learn (Nip; the
Athen(runt) that the Prince de Palignac, brother of the
celebrated mathematician, has discovered a new solution of
Euler's famous problem of making the knight cover every
square on the cher-board, returning to that from which it
started. The prioce's solution will be found in detail in the
Comptu-Rervira of the Parr Academy of Sciences of the
29th of April.

The M.C.C. and Ground v. Quidnunca is put
down for Monday at Lord's, and Reyes Meyers of Surrey
v. Fourteen Gentlemen of the Surrey Chats "to try the
coke of the county," for the Oval, as the lame day. On
Thursday the M.C.C. asd Groaad v. Univertaity comes off
at Cambridge, and the All-Yeesad Eaves play twenty-two
officers at Dublin.

EVENING, MAY 11,