The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-18 00:00:00

TER FORTHCOMING INTERNATIOHAL

EXHIBITIO.Y.

The following regulations for the guidance of the
officer, of her Majesty's Customs in London and at the out-
porta, and for the information of unporters and their agents,
upon the importation of goods intended for the International
Exhibition of Works of Industry and Art, to be held in
Loudon in 1a62, have been issued :
1. All packages containing goods intended for the Inter.
national Exhibition of 1862 shall be specially reported as
such, and shall be addressed to the Commissioners of the
International Exhibition, or to one of their officers, and be
consigned to a duly accredited agent, and shall be meow-
pale( with a specification of their contents sad value.
They shall be aeperately entered as intended for the Inter-
national Exhibition, and the agents in passing their entries
shall specify the full contents of the packages together with
the value.
2. Such packages as may lie landed in London shall be
forwarded unopened to the Exhibition in charge of an ap-
p eeved licensed carman, sooompanied by a cart note from
the larding officer, giving • description of the packages and
the meths and numbers thereon ; and in came where there
may be remain to suppose they mutant other goods than
those for the Exhibition they shall also be accompanied by
•rinenue officer. _

l Packages landed at the out.porte shall be forwarded
with • siintbr note by rail way or other public conveyance,
under seals ..f Aloe, direct to the Exhihitioo, the officers
at the respective ports taking care that the packages bear no
private whims, and that the documents relating thereto be
immediately forwarded to the proper °Scene' her Mrjesty's
Customs stationed at the Exhibition.
4. On the arrival of the goods at the Exhibition no pack.
age shall be opened without the knowledge and consent of
the officer of Customs, and if the goods be found to agree
with the entry or specification, they will, if free, be at once
considered as out of charge of the Customs, the entry
or declaration being deemed sufficient for all statistical
purposes.. . .

5: In the case of all dutiable goods, an account will he
taken by the officers of the crown at the time o: the Grit
opening of the packages, but such deficiencies as may occur
withi's the building from any legitimate or unavoidable
cause, the officers being fully satisfied thereof, shall not be
charged with dut7.
6. That the building he considered for all practical par-
s " hooded warehouse," and that in all caecawhere
dutiabe goods shall not be exported but retained for use io
this country, the duty shall be assessed by the officer in
charge at the building (and received in the Exhibition by •
clerk duly appointed for the purpose), in accordance with
the practice now existing in regard .to articles found is
" kassengere baggage."
. In the case of dutiable goods for exportation, an entry
shall be passel in the long room and bond given for their
due exportation, and on the receipt of this entry by the
officer in charge of the building, the goods shall be pecked
in hie presence, and if for shipment at an out-ports placed
unties seal, sod forwarded in charge to a railway or other
public company ; but if for shipment ,at this port, they
shall then be sent in charge of Customs officers at the ex-
pense of the exporter, to be delivered into the charge of the
searcher of the station from which they are to be shipped,
without further examination, under the regulations applies.
ble to goods shipped direct from the warehouse.

AMIDENTAL POISONING OF THB WIFE or THIS
DIAS or WORCVITISR. —The Venerable the Demi of
Worcester has ktely been residing at the Star and Garter
Hotel, Richmond, fur the benefit of the health of hie lady,
who has been autforing from diecase of the heart for mono
time past. On Sunday morning, between nine and ten
o'clock, during (as one corrempoodent was informed) the
temporary absence of the waiting maid from the chamber of
the invalid, the la.ter took a copious dose of laudanum,
miataking it for her usual medicine. Medical sasistauce
was promptly sent for, but we understand that the unfortu-
nate lady hes remained in a state of syncope, with merely
a few partially rallying moments, up to the time of our in-
torment leaving, at a late hour lam evening._
_ _ _ _

TAB BU TES 'l4 DEM DKRATI7M. The buyer's
desideratum h to find an establishment where will be rated
to him am do choice of artistic designs, without having forced
upon his atfxnt lon a hod of Wee ingenious ones. and estitut•
of any other merit, with a tariff of prices adapted to the means
of the economic or those to whom price is no object Poch an
establishment Is that of Mr. I. W. Benson, situate at 33 and 34,
Ludgate-hill, and 4tiand 41 Cottihill, whose recent enlargementof
his premises has made his show-moms more conspicuous than any
other in the neighbourhood of Bt. Paul's. Yls four windows con-
tain such a variety of gold and silver watches as to leave
neighing to be desired but the money t.. buy them with. The
high standing of Mr. Benson as • London manufacturer must
secure him • lasts amount of public patronage."—"Standard.'
Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, post freo for two stamps, Is de-
scriptive of every coustruction of watch now made. Wetchea
sate by poet to all parts of the globe.--ietilvertlaelitellt-

, .
The intelligence of the spontaneous uprising of
the people of the free states, and the preparations
on a large scale for the impending coudiet, has
already become familiar to the English public. But
doubtlesa come arc ready to ask, is not this a tran-
sient outbtirst of popular enthusiasm tot followed,
as somas the flood tide of patriotic fervour subsides,.
by a reaction ? Is not this one of those spasms or
excitement to which the Americans are subject? On
this point the English public may rest assured. This
magnificent spectacle of twenty millions of pcople,
glowing with intense patriotism and offering their
breasts as a bulwark for their country's defence, is no
fitful emotion. The first flush of feeling has given
place to fixed convictions. The whole North is
i united in the determination to sustain the govern-
ment and the Uuion inviolate, at whatevercost and
sacrifice. A cation in the early period of its his-
tory, with varied and powerful resources, contain-
ing a population of twenty millions, remarkable fur
their energy, fertility of resource, nd intellectual
vigour, will not passively permit itself to be
forcibly broken up. Those who know the real
stamper of the North can speak of this with confi-
dence. Underlying all our political parties, two
sentiments have always existed which oonstitute, so
to speak, our national life—those are, the
love of free institutions and the union
of the States. The idea of being a great
and powerful nation is with theAmericau a national
passion, and he aaeouiates with the flag of his
country the sacred historical memories of the past
and the dreams of future glory and greatness. He
never would willingly consent to be a member of a
feeble and petty kingdom. The stars and the
stripes, the symbol of all the nation has already
achieved or yet hopes to accompliali, must waive
from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico,
and from the Atlantic to the l'acific shores.
Before, thee, a disunion of these States will
be permitted, all the power of the North
must be exhausted, and if Great Britain'
forgetting her own traditional love of liberty,
should, from dictates of interest, in any way reeog-
bite the Southern Confederacy she must do it at the
coat of a war with the United Stake. lam very
confident that the present English premier her
already, ire very emphatic terms, had intimations of
this all-pervading feeling from the new minister,
late from Washington. The time for half-measures
his passed, and the blood and treasure of the
North are pledged fur the maintenance of the
government and the preservation of the Uuion.
The statement which the special correspondent of the
London Times is reported to bare made, that intelli-
gent people to a great degree had lost faith in
republican institutions, is not true, and if Mr.
Russel 's language means anything like this be
made an egregious mistake, and was deceived by a
superficial glance at society. What he represents
as a permanent convictiou of the people was only
the transient mood of disappointment of a class of
men who saw in official imbecility and corruption
the permanent failure of republican institutions,
and lamented over the defeat of a party
as evidence of the ruiu of a nation.
The great mass of the people—the men who
elect presidents, fight our battles, control opinion,
and mould American institutions mid legis-
lation—are this day as confident as ever of
the permanence and mimesis of republican
institutions. The peril of the United States
comes from slavery and not from freedom.
Nor is there any foundation fur the prediction that
the North would be broken into fragments, as Mr.
Russell is also reported as declaring. Mr. Seward,
who has studied American affairs with the profound
insight of a philosopher, as well as with the com-
prehensive sagacity of a statesman, predicted that
when the people really 8101 the Uniou ire peril they
would rise in their majesty and sweep away all
party platforms and old political organisation's.
The first cannon which blazed from Fort Moultrie
as it sent its ball towards the stars and strips*
fused the breasts of the North into one ecommontpur-
pose and conviction. The two men who represent the
opposite poles of opinion in the free states are Caleb
Cushing, the Northern pro-slavery politician, and
Wendel Phillips, the brine and faithful orator of
the abolitionists. The first has given money and
the offer of his services to sustain the government
at Washington, while the second, at Music Hall,
thunders in eloquent tones his soul-stirring appeals
for the maintenance of the Union.
While this is the temper of the North, what shall
we say of the attitude of theSenth ? The object of
secession is to maintain and perpetuate slavery.
The nature and history of this movement make this
so clear that the statement of it is enough. it is
more important and far more difficult to speak with
positive accuracy of the real strength of secession in
the minds of the people, because free speech is not
allowed, and the movement is in the hands
of leading men. In one very important
point their plan has failed. They designed to
destroy the present government and organize a
Southern Confederacy. In doing this they sup-
posed the North would break up into fragments
an opinion which Mr. Russell, of the Times, also
expressed), and gradually that must of three frag-
ments would be joined to their government, and
thus ou this continent we should have a great na-
tion on the basis of slavery. New England and a
few of the Nurth.Weetern states " were to be left
out in the cold," a weak and small remnant of the
old United States. There is no doubt but that this
plan was seriously entertained. The speech of the
Hon. A. H. bteveus, the vice-president of the 80-
called Southern Confederacy, iu which lie clearly,
frankly, and honestly sketches their aims and
hopes, unfolds this policy, said their leafing men
have cherished this scheme up to the time of
the uprising of the North, and GovernorPickene of
South Carolina still hopes something from the
secoud sober thought of the free states. Now in
this they have certainly been mistaken. The North
is a unit, while as yet only eleven out of the fifteen
slave states have joined iu eeceesion, and in two of
these there is a very formidable minority which will
eustaiu the United States with their lives and
treasure. Western Virginia and Eastern Tennessee,
situated on the slope of the Allegheny range of
mountains, have fewer slaves and an industry more
akin to the free states. In this isecOon the Union
sentiment prevails, and the people will sustain the
government of the United States at all hazards ;
so Miami of a united Southend fragmentary North,
the division is on the other side of Mason's and
Dixon's line. _ 1

' Again, the South have relied on the support o:
Great Britain. The leaders have such an estinia;s
of the importance and value of the's cotton crop
as to think that the British manufacturers will
force Lord Palmerston to recognise the new con-
ftsleracy, and that the lure of free trade and the
prospect of the entire supply of the South at the
exclusion of the North, will override any scruples
which may arise in respect to complicity with
slavery. How far the South can rely upon this,
you can judge more correctly than your American
correspondent. He can only repeat, with emphasis,
what he has before said—such a course will surely
involve England in a war with the United States,
and he will never believe it until it takes place.

Another fact in this connexion should be men-
tioned, and that is the opinion which generally
prevails at the South, that it is the bilention of the
North to oppress them. Hem* the mass of the se-
cessionists thi,k they are fighting for their firesides
and altars. But this is a mistake. The North to-
day would meet the South on constitutional grounds.
It is the idea of the right of secession—the
right to break up the government, that the
North denies. Its leaders declare such a doctrine
is suicidal, and its application would be dodruc-
tive of all government. The doctrine of State rights

Of the actual force in the Southern army the
people of the North have now no reliable informa-
tion. From present indications Virginia will be
the battle ground. Troops are moving from earl.-
outs points, north, west, and east, and in consider-
able numbers. The policy of General Scott is to
bring such an overhearing force into the field,
that when any important work is undertaken there
will be no doubt about the result. This he can
readily do in time. His arrangements are made
with great care, and from his conversation with
visitors it is doubtful whether anything very im-
portant will be undertaken at present. The go-
vernment is preparing for a very efficieut blockade
and cutting off all communication with the South
by the Mississippi River. By autumn the United
States, including the reserved troops in the several
states, will have an available and efficient forte of
not less than 500,000 men, well armed and disci-
plined, with an efficient commissai iat and abun-
dant ammunition. It is the universal feelingamong
all parties and all classes that preparations of such
magnitude shall be made as to put the United States
in a position to triumphantly sustain its govern-
ment, and to preserve the Union. Thu wealth of the
North is pledged, and the men are eager and ready.
Should a great exigency require it, in six months
an army of a million could be put into service. In
this I think I have underrated rather than over-
stated the resources of the United States. The
people have the thing in their hands, and the reign
of an imbecile government is at an end. And
such is the pressure of public sentiment in the
administration, that it could nut, even if it were
disposed, relax from the most vigorous measures
and preparations of vast magnitude. There is one
all-pervading sentiment, and that is—We will show
the world that the United States and its glorious
institutions must and will be preserved.

&MOOS ACCIDENT AT TEE CRYSTAL PALACE.—
Last evening an accident, likely to terminate fatally, no-
caned to one of the workmen employed in fixing the rope
across the lake, over which M. Illondin is to take his
perilous walk today. The task of fixing the rope having
been completed, one of the men ventured some distance along •
the rope to reach a piece of wood used in the operation that
bad bee, left suspeuded, which having obtained possession
of he eadeavoured to retrace his steps. To do this it be-
came necessary to tura himself round, and either from
giddiness or some other cause in doing the he slipped off
the rope, which in falling he taught with his hands, and
hung for some time suspended in the air at an altitude of
nearly 100 feet, crying loudly for help. The rope being
about seven irebes in circumfeimice, it became evident to the
horrified spectators that being unable to grasp it be must
ultimately fall. The cries of the assembled crowd were
terrific, Al there were no possible means by which the man
could be relayed from his dreadful position. After being
suspended in this way for some minutes be was compelled •
to relax his hold, and fell oa to the gavel walk below.
Montanoe was immediately rendered, when it was found be
was insensible, having sustained a severe facture of the
spine and other injuries, the nature of which, in the coa-
fusion that prevailed, it was impossible to ascertain. Re
was bled on the spot by a surgeon who happened to be pre-
sent, after which be was easvrebid with all possible /peaks
St. Thomas HospitaL At a HMIs
hour last eight but
hope was entertained of his es 7.
Ifina IN THE ClTY.—lent night, between tho
bows of ten and eleven o'clock, great confusion was
created in the immediate neighbourhood of the Middle-
sex side of London-bridge owing to the outbreak of a
very extensive ecediapation in one of the lofty piles of pre-
mises in the occupation of Messrs. Tucker and Sons, lamp
manufacturers and oil merchants, and Mr. Tollervey, hosier
sod glower, numbered 30, in Xing Withametreet. The fire
comiuenced, from sonic unexplained cause, in tho basement
of the last-named portion of the premises, and before dis-
covered had obtained a strong bold of the basement and
ground floor of the property. Sergeant Marshall kept the
door closed, and thereby prevented the flames from extend-
ing to the ailjoining houses, but they extended* quickly
into the late offices of the French embassy. The Royal
Society's escapes were quickly in attendance, as well as
nearly • dozen land engines of the brigade, under the
personal superintendence of Mr. Braidwood and Acting
Foreman Swanton. The powerful steam floating engine,
built by Shand and Masao, of the Blackfriars-road, wee also
moored to the waterside, and set to work under the direc-
tion of Mr. Gerrard, the engineer, and immense torrents of
water were thrown upon and into the burning premises,
in spite of which the work of destruction continued, and
six of the floors soon presented a regular blaze, and as the
fire shot through the various windows it illuminated the
whole of the East-end of London, bringing out in bold relief
the Royal Exchange and other public buildings. By half-
past twelve o'clock the firemen sec.-roiled in extinguishing
the fire, but not until the flames had gone through every
peat of Mr. Tullervey's premises, destroying in their progress
the whole of the stock-in-trade, furniture, Az. It is oa-
k now n whether the sufferer was matured or not.

RAILWAY COMMlTTED4.—Yestertlaytho bill of
the Somerset Central Railway was thrown nut in Mr. Cob.
bett's committee. The bill of the Chard and Tanoton Rail-
way for • line between thole places, at an estimated cog of
1:10,000f., to be coatrilmted by the Brigid and Exeter,
Chard, cud London and South Western Railway Com-
panies, being unopposed, was paged, and the bill of the
North Somerset Railway for a line beginning at Wells to
the Midland Railway at Bristol, with branches, at an esti-
mated cost of 280,0100 f., and power to moths Great Western
end Midland Linea, was opened by Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C. The
bill of the Wet Hartlepool Harbour and Railway for power
to raise an additional sum of 950,00(V. and fur other pur-
poses was taken in Mr. Haesard's committee. The eases of
the North Eastern Railway, Swansea and Vale of Neath
Railway, and Llanelly Railways are likely to be derided to.
day. In the other committees the following bills were
passed :—NOrth British and Peebles Railway, for the lease
of the Peebles Railway by the North British ; the Edin-
burgh and Gleszow, for a line from }Litho to Delmeny and
from Port Edgar to Queensferry Harbour ; WaveneyValley,
for powers to burrow ; Serenest Vale Railway, Alva Rail-
way, and Wivenhoe and Brightliegsee Railway. In the
oommittee of the Lords, of which the Duke of Marlene!' is
chairman, the Penarth Harbour cud Railway Bill was
taken ; and in Earl St. Germans' committee dm WI for the
Liverpool lines of the London and North Western. A corn.
mittee of the Commons also enmities:iced its sittings no the
bill to enable the Admiralty to acquire property for the
enlargement of Chatham Dockyard, for emtemking part of
the nver Medwa,, and for other purposes.
COTTON GROWING IN QUEEN/ALAND. -- Mr.
M'Millsn, having completed his purchase of a cotton farm
on the Calliope River, had departed to take possension and
commence active operations. He has taken with him •
number cocoanut., to plant on the shores of Port Curtis.
Mr. arrived from Victoria to commence cotton
growing in this colony. He intends to begin operations at
once, employing, if possible. native aboriginal labour. In
this kind of labour, however, be says he has not much
confidence, and Lope. MOOD to have • draught of coolies on
hie land. He is to direct his attention chiefly to Sea Inland
cotton, and " trusts before twelve months are past to
become a public creditor to the amount of several sums of
10!. each, for bales of good marketable cotton fit for the
English manufacturers." Mr. M'Mffian has evidently the
most abundant oonlideoce in them, and with good re son
no doubt. He rates the population of Brisbune soundly for
their sloth and apathy, but for which lie my they might
have developed • largo cotton-growing interest years ago.
Mr. M`Millau goes in strongly for coolie immigration, with-
out which be seems to think there will be little cotton or
any other cultivation in Queensland.— Aure ,e.'ian and New
Zealand Gazette.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 18.

Tue House of Commons did not shine last
night in its treatment of the Appropriation of
Scats Bill. All parties, the Government, the
Opposition, and the advocates of constituencies
hoping for the disposable seats, were en-
gaged in the dignified attempt to dodge
one another. Mr. DISRAILI, who has not
been cured by recent experience of his eagerness
for aimless (lift-unions, in the hope that some-
thing may turn up, entreated the Government to
submit some "weighty and well-matured proposi-
" Lion." Ministers, however, were not disposed,
after the rejection of the third clause of the Bill,
to substitute another proposition for it in the pre-
sent capricious mood of the House. No sooner,
however, had they allowed ft to be understood that
they would vote forgiving an additional seat to
Middlesex, than a proposition to that effect was
considerately moved by Mr. KSIGHTLZY. Mr.
Distant opposed the amendment, and Ministers
supporting it were beaten just as much as if they
bad taken the proposal into their own hands. The
House resumed without allotting the seat denied
to Chelsea and Kensington, which remains still to
be scrambled for. It will be observed that before
the commencement of this debate the AT-
TORNIT•GIVIKKAL began an explanation of
the position in which be stands to the Bank-
ruptcy Bill now in the House of Lords. The
learned member was interrupted in his rernarbs,
but the words which fell from him lend a strong
confirmation to • report which has been current
for some days unfavourable to the settlement
this important question in the moot session.

Ow the 23rd of April, 1860, Mr. PTV, a gen-
tleman of landed estate valued at 4,0001. a year,
was proceeding by the Great Northern Railway to
his magisterial duties, when he lost his life by an
accident. The carriage in which be was travel-
ling was upset, and he was killed on the spot.
An action was brought by the widow on behalf of
herself and her children, of whom there are nine.
The awe has just been tried. The jury came to
the conclusion that the accident had been canned
by the negligence of the railway company, and
have awarded 1,0001. to the widow and 1,5001. to
each of the eight children. The eldest son was
otherwise provided fur. It is c'il&cult to say that
there has been any miscarriage of justice
either by the judge or by the jury
in the conclusion at which they have arrived.
It is certainly true that if Mr. Prx, instead of
leaving his widow a jointure of 1,0001., and each
of his children 1001., had made a more equal dis-
tribution of his property, the claim against the
railway company would have been reduced cow

siderabiy below 13,0001., the sum now awarded.
If such a distribution had been made both the i
widow and the eight children might have I
been able to continue to occupy the same
position which they occupied during Mr. Purr's
life without making any demand on the
company. Bat se the accident deprived the
mother and children of the advantages which they
would have enjoyed if Mr. Nu had lived longer,
the railway company has been required to make
good the lose thus sustained by the victims of the
neglect. It is a serious question how fez the prin-
ciple of such a law can be sustained, but it is tole-
rably clear that the application of the law is not
to bo gainsaid.
The law, under which such an action se that
has just been brought by Mrs. is of very
modern date. Years ago, indeed, the meant
Loan CHLNCELWR suggested the propriety of
making such a law, but it was not until 1846
that the Act for compensating the families of
persons killed by accidents was passed. The old
rule was that a personal action died with the
person ; but according to the new rule an action
may be maintained by the representative of the
deceased against the person who has committed the
wrongful act which has caused the death. At
first sight it appears to be consistent with commas
sense, that if a m►n is entitled to damages by
reason of the neglect of another, he should not be
deprived of such right merely because he happens
to have antrered death—the extreme consequence
of neglect. To the general principle there is pro-
bably no objection ; but in foUowing it out it cer-
tainly does appear to lead to some inconvenient if
not unjust results. It must be observed that
a railway company are not entitled to
select their passengers. They are bound to take
everyone who presents himself, just as at common
law common carriers are bound to carry any parcel
that may be handed to them for conveyance.
Like those who undertake a public duty, railway
companies are clearly responsible for neglect, and
the person who suffers by such neglect ought to be
entitled to damages. All this is clear enough. But
tho real question is, by what test are these damages
to be measured t In the case of the loss of a
parcel, the old system used to be for the carrier to
1 't lie liability by re .ll iring the sender to de-
clare the value of the article sent. And now by
various Acts of Parliament the liability of com-
mon rarriers is limited, and by an Act pained in 1854
the liability of Railway and Canal Companies is
limited to the payment of certain specified sums
for the Inas of certain specified things, such as
horses and rattle. Milli it is cleat that if the winner
of the Derby, or of the Cop at Ascot, were to meet
with an accident whilst 013 the railway, the sum
to he recovered would not exceed bUt., unless at