The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
modore's toe, and keep his stupid clerk at the
ledgers ; submission to this edict against efficient,
being at the same time enforced by a most unworthy
threat of removal from his appointment.
This is a fair specimen of official notions of
responsibility and efficiency in departments. The
most able and invaluable public servants—the real
beads that do the work and the shoulders that have
to bear the burden—these men are sacrificed ; while
upon the nominees of favouritism and interest,
and upon their jobs and blunders, millions are
squandered. It would be no wonder, therefore,
if the responsible men, having once been
made to eat their own words in mock obedience to
this revolting official tyranny, should swear
eternal indifference to those national interests
which they see disregarded and trampled on in the
highest quarters of the service--no wonder that they
should smothertheir zeal and steel their consciences
like all the rest of the Quzzir's very hard bargains.
Have we not a right to say that efficiency is not
the first requisite in the public service 1 And are
we not a great way from the state of things desi-
derata by Mr. Manua and his fellow-commis-
boners, when the Dockyards shall be regarded as
manufacturing establishments t We commend this
Waterier, at Woolwich to the notice of the Parlia-
mentary Committee.

Irk Court.

WEOBO9. CANTLE, SlAltca 2G.

The Prince of Leiningen, Prince Freierick of
Schleavrig.Holetein Augeetenbourg, and Prince Victor of
Iluheolohe, have left the Coati'.

Mr. Henry Tupper, magistrate and member of the States
of Guernsey, had yesterday an interview with Sir G. Corns-
wall Lewis, at the Home-office.

The Commimioners for the Exhibition of 1862 held a
meeting at their office, in the Strand, on Monday.

The Commiasioners for the International Exhibition of
1462 have, with the sanction of her Majesty's government,
►ppointed as their secretary F. It. :landlord, Esq., amistant
secretary to the Committee of Council on Education.

Viscount sad Visoountess Palmerston left town yesterday
for Torquay.
The Duke of Newcastle left town for Clumber, Notts,
yesterday.
Deepatehee were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lecke Islands, sod
to the goveroors of Australia, New Zeeland, Hong Kong,
Ceylon, Lima, Malts. Mauritius, sod Gibraltar.

COURT MOURNING.

(From kat idild's Ckszeite.)
Lard Clumberlidtes-ollies, March 26.

Orders for the court's change of mourning on
Thursday, the 18th of April next, for her late Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, mother of her Majesty the
Queen, viz. : The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or
plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, and raring', black cr
white shoes, fans, and tippets. The gentlemen to wear
black full-trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords
and buckles.

The court to change the mourning further on Tburs-
day, the 25th of April next, viz. : The ladies to wear black
silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, tans and tippets, or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with
black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black costa, and
black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and
silver stuff waistcoats, fall-trimmed, coloured swords and
buckles. And on Thursday the 2nd of May next, the court
to go oat of mourning.

Collage of Arms, Much 26.

In reference to the order fora general mourning
for her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Heat, which
wee announced in the Gomalf the 18th instant, those are
to give notice that it is asaespected that the public should
appear in mourning Misr Ifbersday, the 11th of April next.
R O.F. HOWARD, D.E.M.

VOLUNTEER IIELD-DAY ON EASTER MONDAY.

Arrangements have been made for a march out
sad field-day ►t Wimlilades oo Easter Monday. The fol-
lowing corps an expected to be present :—viz., Cavalry—
Ms Surrey Mounted Rasa, the Ist Middlesex Light
Hone, and the Metropolitan Light Horse ; Infantry—The
Victoria Rides, 4th Middlesex, Civil Service Regiment,
Queen's (Westminster), 39th and 38th Middlesex, Lt, 7th,
and 12th Surrey, god City d London, 3rd Westminster,
kc. The various corps will proceed from their respective
parades to assemble in (root of the barracks at Knights-
bridge in time to march off thence at 11.30. and proceed by
Pullman-road and over Putney-bridge to Witribledon-common.

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On arriving at Wimbledon they will bivouac, each corps
providing its own commimari►t. After reining a short
time they will be put into position in two brigades, and per.
101111 a Min of brigade movements.

The Duke and Duchene of Argyll have left town
M joie the family circle staying with the Durhees (Dowager)
of eatherlead at Cliefilea, Bucks.

The Duchess of Montrose, accompanied by Lady
VioLsl Graham and Colonel sad Lady Avis Mum, ar-
rived is 13elirrave”squars on Monday maim from Paris and

The Marquie of Bath left Berkeley-square on
Monday to visit the Marchioness sad lady Louisa Throne,
at her ladyship's seat in Hampshire.

The Martinis and Marchioness of Aides, with the
Fort of CasailliNhave left the Burlingtoo Hotel, Cork-street,
for Celina Castle, Ambito, M.&

The Karl and ConMem de Grey and Ripon have
left Carltoeierclaaa, to pus the none at atudeley Park,
Yorkshire.

The Earl ►nd Countess Stanhope will leave town
so flaiarday for their Beat, Chemins Park, Kant. for •
few days.

Viscount Mahon left town yesterday to join his
regiment is Irebud.

Loral and Lady Wensleydale, accompanied by
Mrs. G. Milldnaey, left town yeatenlay for Ampthill Park,
Bedfordshire.

Sir George Cornewall and Lady Theresa Lewis
will have tow', on Sattutlay, on • 'tail to the Esti avid
Cousion Cloroodoo, at Ms Grove, near Watford
.

The Right Hon. the Speaker anal Lady Charlotte
Denim bit Qs right les. lestisatao's official mamma is
Ur Neer Palo" Wirfabslir. ea Mooday, far Oudigtos
Park Notts.

The Right Hos. B. Disraeli aad Mrs. Dinrseli
ban left Gramisousate if South Wale.

Mr. John R. Vard,Amorican Mmiger to China,
accompanied by Kr. Beery P. Blanchard and Colonel
Ripley, hare arrived at Teuton Hotel.

LCentenant-Geueral Baron Hammerstein and
Capishe vas Disk!ache wm have the Hanoverian Leption
as Tuesday neat for Hanover.

• large number of parsons vinited the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich, yesterday. The main object of those
who were We to obtain tickets of admission was to gratify
Mao cariosity by s sight of the Armoire's( gun factories.
This being the termiaatioci of the financial year, the room
wewleilig the whole of the Armstrong guns to be delivered
over this swain to the charge of the princiral military
storekeeper for issue to the army and navy, consisting of
apwaiiis of WO in number, GO of which were the 100-
peeadire for the navy, was thrown open. The perfect
Ilia et the gam. their bright brass fittings and adjuncts,
sad die high polish of the materials, gave the room the
appointee et a private museum.

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DILL= or Ma THOMAS LrrrtroALL—Yesterday
moniker mite► regret was felt in Liverpool on the announce-
meet that Mr. Thomas LittWale, the principal or the well-
known fined T. end H. Littledido sod Co.. bad died rod.
deoly in Leedom on the rereviona evening by the Ininedng
of a Vocal vemeL Mr. Littledale was only about 43 years
old at the time of his death, and was much esteemed in
Liverpool on account of hie universal urbanity and social
qualities. Mr. Littledale some years ago occupied the civic
chair of Liverpool, and was one of the youngest mayors
which has been selected for that borough. lo politics be
was a conservative; he was likewise commodore of the
Koval Mersey Yacht Club, captain in the Lanc►hire
Militia, and • member of the Liverpool Town CounciL
31r. Littledale niardrsl at HiFlineld, near Liverpeol, and has
left • wife and several children, whose untimely loss is
much participated in by the general public of Liverpool.

POLAND.

The Lkllpendatice Beige of yesterday publishes
the following in a postscript
" When on the point of going to press, we re-
ceived • despatch direct from Warsaw, stating
that disturbances' had taken place at that city on
the evening of Monday. The people are reported
to have smashed the windows of General Abramo-
witch, director of the Imperial theatres of Warsaw,
and one of the officials who shared the unpopularity
of M. Mukhanoff, the minister recently dismissed."
The despatch adds that the military did not in-
terfere.

BREBLAU,_ !Luca 26.

According to a telegram received here from
Warsaw, Major-General Geccwicz, who is per-
sonally much liked in Poland, has been appointed
to replace M. Mukhanoff.

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MARCH

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, TVICeDAT Emma.

It was only late this afternoon that the journals
received permission to publish the Pope's allocu-
tion, and the removal of the prohibition came too
late for the majority of the evening papers to take
advantage of it. The text as given by the Gazette
de Prance is even more violent and more incom-
patible with any possible compromise than the
analysis which I sent yesterday would have led you
to suppose. The only concession which the Pope
will vouchsafe to make is his "abundant pardon"
to those who may repent of their temerity in re-
monstrating with him. The allocution throws •
flood of light upon the motives of the French
government in making a stand last week upon
those four words in the address, "resistance
to wise advice," which the Pope's band of 91 voted
for striking out. Their leaders knew that the
Pope meant not only to continue to reject
" wise advice," but to stigmatise the author
of it as an impertinent hypocrite. The
government, without perhaps knowing the exact
measure of the insult which the Pope meant
to fling in the teeth of the Emperor, was quite
aware of the spirit which prevailed at the Vatican,
and therefore made a point of committing the
Corps Legialatif to an approbation of the "advice"
which his Majesty had given to the Holy See, in
order that the deputies might share with him the
obloquy which, while finally rejecting it, the Pope
would seek to throw upon the giver of that advice.
In the following passage of the new manifesto from
Rome, notwithstanding the affected' useTi—iTe
plural number, the Emperor is personally referred
to by the Head of the Church as plainly as be was
in that of the Pope's subordinate who called him
Pontius Pilate :
Apostates, who speak not in the name of God, but in the
name of Satan ! Their doctrines are shameful. They hesi-
tate not, with their usual hypocrisy, to exhort the Holy
See to become reconciled with Italy. . . . Before God
and man we declare distinctly and positively that there
exists no reason why we should consent to such a recon-
ciliation.

The Frew observes upon the latter expressions
that coming events will be the best answer to them,
and goes on to say :
What particularly strikes ns in the allocution is that the
Holy Father 'mews to think of nothing but hie property
and temporal patrimony ; of the conquests of the spiritual
kingdom not a word is said. He is silent about Europe,
which has protected the Marmites; about France, who
planted the cross on the walls of Pekin, and thereby opened
the doors of redemption to ninety millions of GentileT;
not a word in favour of the Christians of the East, who
rise against their Mahometan oppressors-Wis y
God alone to fight for us," says the Holy Father in conclu-
sion. We respectfully beg leave to remark that iffOod
does protect the temporal power, he is not doing it alone.
General Ooyon and his soldiers have a hand in the matter,
although the Pope does not seem to be aware of it.

Count Cavour's important speech marks the be-
ginning of a new phase of the Roman question. He
resolutely proclaims the pretensions of the King of
Italy to have Rome for his capital, and throws
upon the court of Rome the responsibility for the
schism in the church which is likely to ensue if the
Pope obstinately persists in holding temporal and
spiritual powers united. This news is the more
important, because there is much I evidence
that the modification of the Sardinian min-
istry was a device resorted to by Count
Cavonr, on the receipt of a despatch from Paris,
announcing that at a ministerial council held at the
Tuileries the papal party had obtained an advan-
tage. The Emperor, it is said, was persuaded to
defer to the strongly expressed opinions of the
Senate and Corps Legislatif, and to modify resolu-
tions which had been taken relative to the with-
drawal of the troops from Rome, and Count
Cavour was so taken aback by the news, that he
felt it necessary, calk-qui-coite, to postponed the
interpellations on the Roman question. It is,
therefore, after the circulation of such rumours,
very cheering to find the prime minister of Italy
able to speak out, as he does now. The Pope's
insolent allocution comes in well to help the Em-
peror to make head against the ultramontane party.
The Bishop of Orleans preached yesterday, at St.
Roch, the famous sermon about Ireland which one
of your contemporaries prematurely—and it must
be added inaccurately—reported as having been
delivered on St. Patrick's Day. I was not able to
get into the church, the doors of which were shut
to prevent accidents from overcrowding long before
the sermon commenced. I hear from a friend who
was there that Mgr. Dupanloup did not say a word
about Lord Plunket, or his tenants; but :le preached
a violent sermon against England, the moral of
which was that English ideas of what was good
for Italy must be bad, because England was the
oppressor of Ireland. He read long extracts
from O'Connell's speeches and parliamentary
blue books, from which he drew the con-
clusions that seven-tenths of the great men
of England were Irishmen, that the popula-
tion of Ireland had been reduced from eight
millions to five millions, entirely by English
oppression, and that Ireland was the most ill-used
country on the face of the earth. In the course of
the compliments, many of them most deserved,
which he paid to the Irish character, he said that
the emigrants rent home one million sterling a
year to their poor relations in the mother country.
He did not appear sensible of the fact that such a
brilliant result of the recent Irish emigration was a
proof that the government under whose auspices it
was effected could not have been very oppressive.
I never heatiftf any money being sent to France
by labourers, from Algeria or any other French
colony. The sermon is to be sent to the news-
PlLlvrc.

M. Jules Fevre dined the other day with Prince
Napoleon.
The Bourse remains in the same dull state. The
Route closed at yesterday's price, 681 r. 20c., for
account, and fell bc. for money. Mobilier rose
lfr. 2bc. Railways were scarcely quoted. The
adage Mires fell 4fr., closing at 92fr. 95c.
I hear that Mdme. Ristori was most successful
at the Odeon last night, although the piece in which
she appeared is not considered yory good. Galiy-
mai says :
Great excitement prevailed at this theatre last night in
coasequence of the appearance of the great Italia* trage-
dienne, Udine. Ristori, in a new drama by X. Legouve. Ili
title is Beatriz ; Os Lrt .Vadnete de CA re, Milne. Histori
playing the character in French. Want of space, and the 1at.,.•
nem of the hourat which the piece concluded, oblige us to limit
our notice this morning to record the fact that the perform-
ance was moat successful, and that this first of Italian
artistes went triumphantly through the trying ordeal of
speaking in a foreign language before the meet critical audi-
tory is Paris, perhaps is Europe.

THE Nrw HONDUZAR MINISTER PLENIPOTEN-
TIARY AT TEL BRITISH COURT.—Dor Carter Gutierrez,
who has been recently appointed representative of Hoodures
at her Britannic Majesty s Court, has for many peat
been actively engaged in effecting important uK and oom-
merrial improvements in the Qintral American Stake, and
since his arriv►l in England he has negotiated a treaty of
frieudebip, commerce, and navigation with Great Britain,
thereby placing the relations between this kingdom and the
Centnil American Republics upon ►solid and durable basis.
CRYSTAL PALACZ. —ONZ SHILLING DAY.
TrRaDAT, MARCH 26.—Arbrdirione cm payment, 1,254 ;
ditto by swan tickets, 1,053. Total vialton, 2,309.