The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1861.

" Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with
" all thy might."
One thing is quite certain—the utmost efforts of
benevolence, both in India and in this country,
will barely meet the terrible crisis. The latest
accounts tend to show that the extent of the
calamity has been understated rather than in any
way exaggerated. Indeed, the famine area is
gradually extending ; and there is too much rea-
son to fear it may soon include large districts in the
south of India as well as in the north. At Tra-
vancore, for example, the dearth of food is as
great, and the sufferings of the people as terrible
u at Meerut. The accounts from this southernmost
province are indeed perfectly appalling. Not
only have the crops and esculent roots
failed, but the trees and shrubs are withering
away. A black caterpillar, hitherto unknown, has
destroyed the standing crops, and the people in
the extremity of their distress are selling their
children to the Mahommedans. The calamity is

indeed of such unexampled severity that the Moat
strenuous efforts will barely suffice to afford tem-
porary relief, and thus prevent the serious depopu-
lation of our Indian empire. These efforts, we
feel confident, will not be wanting. Large as the
contributions have hitherto been, those yet to
come will be larger and more liberal still.

Eft Court.

OSBOR.NE, AriuL 4.

The Queen, Prince Consort, and royal family,
salved at Osborne yesterday evening, at 6 o'clock, front
Windsor Castle.

Diet of Itzehoe, ordering him to explain clearly to
the Estates the bearing of Article 13 on the ques-
tion of the budget.
"On the 24th March, the government gave in-
structions to the commissioner to declare to the
Estates that Article 13 of the provisional consti-
tution gives to the Estates the opportunity of voting
on, accepting, rejecting, or amending the budget,
even if they should reject all the other articles of
the provisorium.
"On March 25 the government forwarded fresh
instructions to the commission, to declare to the
Estates that, by Article 13 of the provisorium' the
Diet was rendered quite as competent on that
question as if the budget itself were submitted to it
" Notvrithstanding these instructions, however,the
royal commissioner declared his inability to give
a distinct reply to the interpellation on that ques-
tion. On the 27th March, Lord Wodehouse de-
clared to the Danish ambassador at London, that
he understood and approved the views of the
Danish government, according to which Article 13
of the provisorium sufficiently provided for the com-
munication of the budget to the Estates.
"Lord Wodehouse also declared that his reply
to the interpellation of Lord Elleuborough was to
the same effect."

ITZFJIIOE, THURSDAY.

In to-day's sitting of the Estates, the government
commissioner declared that documents relating to
the state of the finances would be submitted to the
Estates by government. He said the Estates
never had the right of giving a definitive vote on
the budget, either of Holstein or the whole
monarchy.
The committee will make a report on this com-
munication to-morrow.

SWITZERLAND.
BEENE, THUUDAT.

The majority of the Piedmontese commission
charged to examine the project of a railway
through the Alps which separate Italy from Elvrit-
zerland have voted in favour of cutting a tunnel
through tho Luckmanier. The minority were for
cutting it through the Splugen. In consequence of
this decision, the Bundner-Oberland has voted
1,000,000 francs towards the construction of a line
of railway through the Luckmanier.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
PARDE4, THURSDAY.
The Path/ of this evening says :
" The English naval division stationed at Malta
has been despatched to the lonian Islands, where
the agitation is increasing."

AMERICA.
LONDONDERRY, TacreaDAY.
The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Pales-
tine, from Portland (Maine) on the 23rd ult., has
arrived, and landed all mails, except those for
LiverpooL She brings 13 cabin and 10 steerage
passengers.
The Europa had arrived out. The political
intelligence by the Palestine has been anticipated.
TUT COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE
NEW YORK, Mks= 23.
Stocks active. Erie, 32 ; New York Central,
; Illinois, 84
Cotton buoyant. Middling Upland, 120.
Wheat higher. Provisions dWL

NEW ORLEANS. MA2ca 23.
Cotton sales of the week, 59,000 bales. Receipts
of the week, 27,000 bales. Middling, 12c. to 121 c.

DENMARK.

A letter of March 28, from Holstein, to the
Prussian Gazette says :

The military preparations in central and southern
Schleswig increase: The rural proprietors of the Sundewits
and of Almon are invited to make tendon for the transports
and other military works for the fortifications of Duppel,
sear Sonderburg. The engineer troops have already corn-
mimed tracing out the line for the defective works. A
detachment of pioneers his arrived at Friderikatadt, which
gives rise to the belief that they are thinking of testifying
this point, that protects the countries of illdentedt and
Stapelhohn. They are 111J0 going to begin the fortification
of the important passages of the Schlei, at Miesund, of the
Treen, and at HoUengstedt. The result will be, that the
Danish lines will occupy nearly the same vast extent indi-
cated by the nature of the ground as in 1850.
The number of the infantry battalions (one battalion of
the guard and 23 of the line) haa been doubled, so that the
effective strength of each doubled battalion has been brought
Xist4 200
amounutirt (50 per
Danish infantry to.s measure oily ranee
10,000 mss ; the
cadres, however, are ready for 40,000 or 50,000 men WO to
1,000 men per battalion). The strength of a Danish bat-
talion on a peace footing is not greater than 140 soldiers.
With the ordinary mode of recruitment, it would take two
years to complete the cadres. The mobilisation of the army
se anticipated ; as for the cavalry and artillery, there is no
hurry so that only a few fresh recruits and horses have
beau hum,
and not even them for all the regiment..
The artillery has not been increased yet. The Danish
neenpapere announce the organisation of their first field
battery of rifled cannon, made upon the French system ;
three more batteries will be shortly ready,
A tolerably lzrip flotilla, consisting of four war steamers,
two stases gunboats, four row gunboat., eight yoles, and
one transport, Las left for the port of Kiel ; the small ves-
eels will probably go down the channel of Schleewig•Holstein
and enter the north sea to establish as eventual blockade of
the German porta.

The New Gazette of Munich has the following
curious announcement :—" Count Grifeo' hitherto Neapo-
litan Chargé d'Affaires at oar court, has been appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his
Majesty the King of the Two Sicilia' at the Royal Court at
Munich."

The Journal de St. Petersburg lays great stress
upon the fact that on the day of the publication of the
abolition of serfdom, less brandy was drunk by the people
than on any previous day in carnival time. The people
docked to the churches instead.

The editor of the German Gazette of Berlin has
received the following letter from Garibaldi :—"Sir,-1 was
deeply moved by your letter. Your language is as just u
it is humane. Yes! we are brothers! The Germans and
Italians, divided for so many centuries by the egotism of
the powers, ought to unite to give each other mutual
aid ; let them now have one heart, one will,
since they have to engage in the same struggle
in order to render themselves independent of foreign in-
ffueuces. Unify—that is the great want of Germany as
well as of Italy. William—that is your rallying cry ; ours
remains, Victor Emmanuel. Write to me often, I will do
the same to you. We wish to labour together for the
fraternisation of two nations, who ought henceforth to be
bound together by indissoluble ties in the great human
family. With esteem and affection, yours, G. GARIBALDI."
On St. Joeeph'a Day an amusing incident oc-
curred in St. Peter's, Rome. A chibl was brought to be
christened, and the name given wits Vittorio Emanuele
Geffseppe. The officiating priest, horrified, refused to give
it three such revolutionary names. Then the crowd of re-
lations, friends, and lookers-on murmured, andgroaned, and
hissed, and evinced their sentiments in so remarkable a
manner that the priest bad to give in, and bestow the ob-
noxious names upon the child. No sooner was the cere-
mony completed than a cheer arose from the triumphant
crowd to show their satisfaction.

"Yesterday morning," says a letter from Rome,
" in the Sistine Chapel, after the service for Good Friday
and the Latin discourse of the Franciscan-General on the
passion of our Lord, his Holiness proceeded to the adora-
tion of the Cross, in which act he was followed by Car-
nival Barnet*, who had celebrated the service, and then by
the first of the remaining cardinals, after which King
Francis ungirthed his sword and performed the name ado-
ration ; then came all the other cardinals ; then the rural
prmoes of Naples; and, finally, each in his turn, all the
other dignitaries. This order of precedence, the official
Journal informs us, was regulated by' especial disposition of
hie Holiness.' " _ - _

The city of Paris is now preparing, south of the
capital, about a kilometer beyond the fortifications, another
large cemetery, being the first made beyond the present
boundaries, as the law requires. This new burial-ground
lige between the road to Choisy-le-Roy and that to Foe-
taloebleau by Villejuif, on the hid opposite Biottre. Fifty
acres of land have been purchased, a part of which has been
enclosed with paling, and nearly 300 interments have taken
place in it within the last two months. This cemetery is
especially intended for the interment of persons dying in
the sth, 13th, awl 14th srondissemente (Pathaoa, Oubolios,
and Observatory).