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Ix looking back upon the year which expires to-night, the first peculiarity which will strike Englishmen will probably be that the excite-1 ments of one of the most agitated years of the present reign have lain abroad, while all has been quiet at home. The foreign interests began with the new year, for it was on its first day that Presi dent Lntoomes Proclamation of Emancipation was promulgated. The day had passed without any menace to any Power from the Emperor of the Fasscia ; but the month did not end without anxiety for the peace of Europe. On the 14th of January the Prussian Chambers met, and renewed their demand for a constitutional procedure Which )h9 Roo and !Ile inflater' had not the slightest intention of agreeing to ; and on the 22nd took place that rising in Poland which still continues as a civil war of Eurapean importance. It was on a January night that the Russian authorities brought this rebellion on themselves by the intolerable con scription in Warsaw, which stands as one of the disgraces of the year. The King of Denmark, not destined to see another year, began the present by announcing his intention of im proving the constitutional relations between the provinces of his kingdom by the act now so well known as the patent of the 30th of March, which his successor withdrew, as one of the first acts of his reign. The King of ITALY had his new year's hopes, and he expressed them publicly and with great earnestness—that there would be no more ill-considered agitations and risings, and that the southern provinces would be delivered from brigands and put in the way of order and security. Our session of Parliament opened on the sth of February, and we were reminded of the passage of time by the share which the Royal Family had in the Qrrze's speech and in the earliest pro ceedings. The speech, delivered by commission, announced the approaching marriage of the Prince of Warms, and the election of Prince ALPUD to the throne of Greece ; and, before the address was moved, the Prince of Wsure took the oaths and his seat among the hereditary legislators. He appeared in the House on more than one occasion afterwards, and thus encouraged the hope—which may be called national—that he will use the precious years of his early manhood in practically studying the great political interests among which the chief duties of his life must lie. His demean our on these occasions was all that could be desired in its modesty and sincerity ; and his first en trance on political life will be remembered by others than himself as one of the interesting events of the year. In five weeks more he was a bride- groom, the Princess ALEXANDILA of Denmark, sc. oompanied by her family, having arrived at the Nore on the sth of March, landed at Gravesend and been carried through London on the 7th, and married in St. George's Chapel at Windsor on the 10th. This reception and marriage were the great national holiday of the year. Parliament endowed the Parsee and his bride handsomely, assented fully to the reasons assigned for declining the throne of Greece for Prince ALTRZD, and was willing to yield up the lonian Islands to Greece, if the other ' Powers concerned should *auction the cession. The way seemed clear when Prince Gaon°, of Denmark was invited to fill the throne of Greece, and his father had, after deep consideration and some reluctance, accepted the crown for him. Everybody outside of Bavaria seemed pleased ; and England was ready to grace his union with (hewn by the rich portion of the Seven Islands : but the islanders themselves, who had so long clamoured for this very annexation, declined the conditions on which it was offered. Difficulty being once introduced in such cases it is pretty sure to be followed by complications, and we have accordingly seen Austria imposing a condi tion to which the Greeks as well as the lonians object—the destruction of the citadel of Corfu. As the year closes the affair is still unsettled ; and the question is asked by one citizen of his neigh bour, whether it is not as difficult to give away territory u to acquire it. Some mistakes of a former time, and some, we fear, for which this year is answerable, harm:soiled us our worst troubles this autumn. Nothing that we have suffered from the gales and tempests of the last three months, or from the spread of ■mall•pox and typhus in the summer, or from the dread of financi►l pressure in November, has caused us so much pain as the sews from Japan, China, and New Zealand. We must wait for authorised explanations of the burning of Kagoeima, and for a clear exposition of our policy in China, before we pass s final judgment ; but the general im- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1863. preaaion in the country certainly is that the most lamentable events of the year are those which have occurred in our far•eastern field of action. The New Zealand war is an ominous bequest from the old year to the new, and so, we fear, is the war on our north-west Indian frontier. We have had good and bad tidings from India—the best we could hope for in the rapid development of the country, which means much more than increase of money on any hand. It means moral and intel lectual progress to the inhabitants, as well as mate rial comfort and enjoyment. The Sanitary Report which has at last been made public has startled us all by its disclosures of what life in India has hitherto been ; but the exposure is itself a guarantee of future security. The reform must have taken place in any came ; but the appointment of Sir JOHN LAWRENCE to the seat of government, as the man beat acquainted with India, is a security against mistakes or de lays. It is the amplest consolation for the loss of so experienced an administrator as Lord ELGIN that there is such another to take his place. We have had an earthquake this year. We have had a splendid royal wedding at Windsor, and a magnificent entertainment of the PRINCE and PRINCESS Si Guildhall. We have seen an under ground railway opened in London, and more great iron ships launched. Unhappily, the year has been marked by serious ecclesiastical and theolo- gical quarrels, which we here advert to only in the slightest way, because the proceedings against Professor Jowirrr and the Bishop of NATAL are too significant to be passed over in any review of the year. There will be more to be said about them hereafter. Our losses by death have been many and mournful. The two Sovereigns who have been succeeded by ISMAIL Paca♦ in Egypt and by CHRISTIAN IX. in Denmark have not left us un affected in our interests and our sympathies by their deaths. At home we have lost capable sol diers in Lord CLYDE and Sir Jae. OUTRAM, and statesmen in Lord ELour and Sir G. C. LEWIS Lord SEATON and Lord BATHERTON also have not passed away without the regret of the elder generation which knew them. What judges have WO lost in Lord LYNDHURST, and Sir CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, and Sir W. WiGHTicara ! The deaths in the House of Peers have been numerous, espe cially among the aged, and among them has been that of the father of the House of Peers, Lord Smarm, who was 95. The venerable Marquis of LANSDOWNE is gone, and the once liberal Mar quis of NORMANBY, besides many of less oonse quence or activity in their House, whose de cease has called up their heirs from the Commons, and caused an unusual change of members there. Some conspicuous men in the Commons' House have disappeared—the an cient Whig, EDWARD Ewes, and Mr. Wssnias Woo; and Sir WILLIAM CUBIT*, and, we may add, the much-respected Chaplain of the House, Archdeacon Daray. Other public men, whose names were familiar to us all, have disappeared from the business of life—Sir G. BONHAM, so active in the public service in the East ; and Sir Josnua Jim, the warder of our criminals, and Sir CULLING E. EARDLEY, the friend of the per secuted. From the Church, Archbishop WHATELY ii ob., and Dr. ltf TIM: v 4 frau the Romioh Church, Father Fasts ; and from the highest seat among the Dissenters, Dr. Ramis. From the Admiralty, where he worthily filled the place of his friend BaAurosr, Admiral WASHINGTON is gone, years before we thought to lose him. We need but to point to his Wreck Charts to show what we have owed to him and what we have lost. In painting, MHAREADY, in a good old age, and AuGurrus Zoo, in middle life, are gone; and HARDING and BRIDELL and DUFFIELD. Mr. SHEtrsziasma, the friend of artiste and benefactor of the public in art, has made his gallery a real bequest, by having himself departed. GATTLT, the sculptor ; Professor COCILERELL, the architect ; Wu-lamas, the engraver; and Professor EDWARD TAYLOR, the Gresham lecturer, have left us. In literature, one of the most courageous and venerable labourers, Mrs. TROLLOPE, is gone ; and Mr. TURNBULL, of whose services in archaeology we were deprived by the cruel bigotry which broke his heart. Last and gre►test, THACLERAY is sud denly carried away, leaving the year with a dark ened close to us all. It has been a lea clouded year than most of us expected, and as it may be the last before a great outbreak of European war, we must not be unmind ful of its blessings. There has been lees suffering from commercial adversity, and far more prosperity Orin we looked forward to ; and if the year has seemed to bring a state of Continental turmoil very near, it has cleared and strengthened our own desires and purposes of pesos. May we be enabled to preserve that blessing, and to deserve all others in the year to come ! Wz have reason to believe the statement, which has gone the round of the daily press, that Count Srowszcz had retired from the affairs of Greece, and was on his return to Copenhagen, is entirely unfounded. There has never, we understand, been any doubt of his continuing to be the confi dential adviser of the King of GREECE, until the affairs of that country shall have been placed upon a satisfactory footing. The delay that baa taken place in the settlement of the lonian question, unfortunates. it has no doubt been, has neverthe less not been of a nature to retard the progress of such interacts as are purely Greek. We believe also that the reports which have been spread, on second-hand authority, of the disorganisation of the country, are quite as much exaggerated as similar reports proved to be during the trying pe riod of the*Provisional:Government. Unless we are very inaccurately informed, the questions of finance, taxation, civil administration, • reduction of the army, and an improvement of the police, are ad vancing as fast as the unfavourable conditions under which those questions were originally taken up could readily admit of. THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE Hour= eorromeadeot writes, ander date Dee. 28 :—•• On his way here the Crowe Prince had an interview with Om Priam of Angustenborg, an old friend of his, who rods with him in the same carnage from Gantershaimen to Gotha. His royal highosin has boss very 'olive in the intereet of the popular came ever since. With what result, the next few days will probably show." It is announced by the Guardian that the Arch bishop of York has offered the valuable living of Bolton Percy to the Bishop of Tasmania. At a quarterly court of governors of the Found ling Hospital, hold yesterday, Mr. W. Foster Whits was unanimously sleeted owe of the vicwpreedouta, in the races of Mr. William Tooke, F . ELS., doomed. Nearly 2,000 tons of silver and 50 tons of gold have bees exported to the East this year by the Prima and Paglith Oriental mail steam's. Thu Peninsular sad °fiesta! Company must have netted nearly 400,0001. thin per se their share for the coaveyanee of gold and silver to the East. That nompassy have just paid a dividend at the rate et 14yor cent. per annum. • Wooleott, the look-out man on board the Isle of Wight Meemer, irLich mu dove the boat and drowned a sae, ham boas fully oommitted for trial for manslaughter, but hashes. liberated on bail until the next March satins. gig court. OSBORNE.. Duo. 30. The Queen drove out yesterday with the Prin cess at Wales. lieutenant•Colooel the Hoc. D. de Ros attended au horseback. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office ram the Governor of Newfoundland. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Necalecthergatzehts is expected to anive oo a visit to her Royal Higbaess the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, about the sth proximo, from Germany, and will be most likely accompanied by the Hereditary Prince Adolphus. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and **Countess Berastorff entertained his Excellency Berea de Oetto and a select party at dinner on Tuesday evening, at the Prunian Enabalay. on Carlton House-terrace. The Earl Russell left his residence, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond-park, yesterday afternoon, for Osborne, late of Wight, on a visit to her Majesty. The Sari and Countess of Cardigan have arrived at Thomas Hotel. Berkoloy-square, from Nano Park. - - The Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, 0.C.8., the British Ambassador at Coestantinople, left Hairs Private Hotel, St. James's-place, on Tuesday, for Paris, in which capital his excellency purposes to pass a few days on his way beck to the Turkish capital to resume his diplomatic duties. The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M. P., bee left Hardwick Hates, Suffolk, sod goes on s visit to the Queen, at Osborne, Isle of Wight. HEALTH OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLE.—Although but faint hopes are entertained of the ultimate recovery of the Duke of Atbole, it is understood that his giros is sot in so prostrate a condition as in the middle of last week, but has rallied a good deal. The Marquis of Tullibardine Lord James Murray, sad other family relations, Sr. at pre sent residing at Blair Castle, and in close attendance upon the noble duke.—Scot was. FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (Prom Le Folk.) The favour with which plaid has been received ,is decidedly diminishing. Still the collets of plaid velvet, with fringe to match, me wore, although now rather an exceptional then a reigning faebion as formerly. They are more generally made of cloth or milled flannel, in patterns of wide black checks upon a violet or green ground, with chenille fringe of the two ooloun. Small *dots are also made of the same materials, and trimmed with fringe. Velvet rotoodes in black, violet, or blue, as also in striped plush, are equally fashionable. Besides those of cloth or velvet, mantles of silk, lined sod wadded, trimmed with wide guipure or possementerie mixed with bads, are weirs ; but, although very pretty, they are scarcely so Bailable to the weather as materials of warmer appearance. A half-fitting masque of Lyons cloth with a male= of fur has s very stylish effect. Fur is admissible as • trimming, even for full dress, though, of mune, then only worn by ladies who do not dance. Satin or velvet dream of light colours are being made with trimmings of ermine. swan's down, or grebe round the bottom of the skirt, and sometimes also on the body. They bars as exosediegly rich and elegant appearance. Satin Woodall. or veloatine is occasionally made with quite plain skirts. When trimmed it must be either with far, feathers, or hoe. Upon a dress of Mexico blue or &uprose mauve satin two or three bands of feathers pro duce a splendid effect. Laos also is very much used with satin, and there are some exquisite lace tunics made for this purpose. Guipure is sot so effective as Chantilly. Filches &man with Baryon gage triunity, bu tterfly bow, nadallnl4, loaves of lace, and sarriniaLY FnineM 6 a' terse, 11,4 worn as trimmisge this winter. Pamementerie is in greet favour for remise, which are trimmed with bands of it, forming brews. Upon Figaro Testes, the chief ele gance is in the epaulettes with jet beads ended with hanging ornaments. These are now made long and narrow, very much ornamented with embroidery of pumernenterie, ter minating with a cut jet ornament. For visiting dress in nob materials some persoes have adopted the fashion of hiving the skirt made perfectly plain. Moires of a very large water are very much in vogue, es pecially the abort moires. Those with a black ground and wide plaid satin stripes are also ver3 handsome. A similar patters is made in taffetas. The flowing style of dress, called Louis XV., is that usually adapted for robe de chambre or morning dress. It Is made with large plaits in the back. The form montane— which in also used for morniog-dresses—is without large Plaits, and has less Meese For this reason, however, it is not so graceful. This garment, being especially reserved for morning wear, is usually made simply of achemire, flannel, or alpaca. When plain, the colours preferred are iron grey or deep blue. Others are made in black and white check, or nisi& Wide bands suiting the dress are used as trimmiep. A plaid band on the iron grey ; upon the bite or plaid, a bend of taffetas or black velvet. For these simple robes de chambre can be substituted others of a richer dincriptioo, as ponceau cashmere covered with rich black braiding and pamementerie, or plaid poplin with velvet bands ; or still more elegant, plush with velvet, or quilted satin bends—this can only be in the Louie XV. %third formerly was considered • summer material ; now it is worn so generally at all times of the year, that we meet not pees it by without notice. When of a dark shade it is especially useful for dull or wet weather, as it loops up so amity over the pettiooat, and does not crumple. Violet and dark grey are the colours most preferred for walking dress. Those is cashmere patterns of palms, or srebeeques upon stripes, are reserved for morning -at-home rhea. Foulards with white graced and coloured bouquets, or miens, are charming for evening dram. The bassets of the present season ought to please, we thick, thorned fastidious ladies, as they are so exceedingly becoming; being just large enough to form a framework round the face, and trimmed both inside and out without any exaggeration ; so that we are almost tempted to wish they would remain as they area Italy, which bu led me to take this resolution. There is, however, nothing in Wm which will prevent me from finding smell with the people in arms on the road to aorta and Venice. Adieu. Yours, G. GARIBALDI. (110111 e. DUKE FREDERICK PROCLAIMED AT KIEL. HAMBURG, Dec. 31. On Wednesday night the Duke of Augustetiburg travelled by way of Harburg by steamer to Gluck etadt, and thenoe by special train to Kiel, where he arrived at 3 o'clock. He entered the town in an open carriage, and was received with great en thusiasm. The prince was proclaimed Duke of Schleswig- Holstein, and showed himself to the people. By request of the inhabitants, the duke will remain three days at Kiel in a private capacity. In order not to aggravate the difficulties of the Federal Commissioners, the duke intends subse quently to return to Altona. The Federal Commissioners have applied to Frankfort for fresh instructions. ALTONA, Die. 31. In consequence of the resolution passed yester day by the municipality, a deputation from the municipal authorities will proceed to Kiel to pay homage to the Duke of Augustenburg in the name of the city of Altona. DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. HAMBURG, Dw. 31. The Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark will shortly proceed to the army. His royal highness is now residing in Schleswig. The King will visit the army at the beginning of January. The royal effects have already arrived at Qottorf. The Danes distrust the Schleswig regiments, and occupy them in the construction of earthworks. MR. THACKERA rs LAST ILLNESS. As there are many stories in circulation respect ing the circumstances which immediately preceded Mr. Thackeray's death, the following facts, which were obligingly given us by one of his most intimate personal friends, may not prove uninteresting. It appears that although generally enjoying good health, he was at intervals subject to severe spasms of the stomach, which caused violent retching and nausea, and left him in a state of utter prostration often for hours after the first violence of the attack had passed away. On the night of his death, his mother, who slept overhead, heard him get up and walk about his room, but was not alarmed, as this was a habit with her son when he felt any symptoms of an attack coming on. In the morning his valet came into Mr. Thackeray's bedroom as usual, and saw him lying on his back quite still, with his arms spread over the coverlet, but he took no notice, as ho alio was accustomed to see his master thus after one of his stomach attacks. He brought some coffee and set it down beside the bed, and it was only when he returned after an interval and found that the cup had not been tasted, that a sudden alarm seized him, and he discovered that his master was dead. Dir. Thackeray had in fact been seized when his mother heard him get up in the night and walk about the room, and the violence of the attack, it is supposed, brought on the effusion on the brain, which, as the poet-mortem examination showed, was the immediate cause of death. Mr. Joseph Durham, the eminent sculptor, has undertaken to preserve the likeness of his de ceased friend in a marble bust, which he means to present to the Garrick Club. THE NHW STRUT IN SOUTHWARK. —To-morrow Londoners will receive a boon by the opening of the new thoroughfare which is to unite the borough of Southwark with the Bleckfriers.read, thus leading, by the continua tion of Btandoedetreet, in an almost direct line to the Waterloo patine. The first day of the new year has been well chosen for the ceremony of inaugurating so important • metropolitan iroprovemen. The street is at present • here roadway, with broken land, rough timber (anon and mounds of earth end bricks on either side. For some time the new street hes been open as far as the narrow tunings little psetSou th was k-bridge. Bare barricades of paving -Moon and scaffold poles bring the traveller to a halt, and compel him to diverge northward. All them obstacles are to be removed to-morrow, when the eseeermay of proclaiming the street open is to be performed by Mr. Thwaites, chairmen of the Metropolitan Board. The gentlemen composing that body will assemble at their Odom in Spring-gardeos, and, with a select, party el Aprons whom they have invitd, will proceed to inspect the works connected with the sew thoroughfare. Then Include provision against future re. graven:eon of gm sad water supply. There is Ninny eitendiog the whole length of the street, sod enabling workmen to get at all the pipes, drains, and sewers without disturbing the road. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY AND DENMARK. It was from to-morrow, the lit of January, 1864, that the constitution of the 18th of November was to be put into execution in Schleswig ; and if Denmark concedes nothing, it is clear that to morrow must mark a new step in advance on the part of the German powers. In Germany there seem to be none out of government circles who are favourable to a recognition of the treaty of London. The sovereigns of the small states who fancy themselves threatened by a treaty in which five European powers decided the fate of one small state, without waiting either for their consent or that of the Federal Diet which represents the corps of German prinoes, pronounced from the very first for Frederick of Augustenburg. According to the Debate, the Prince of Prussia has warmly espoused the pretender's cause, and put himself in open oppo sition to Count Bismark. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE DUKE OF AUGUSTENBURG AND THE EM PEROR NAPOLEON. The Cologne Gazette of yesterday publishes a oor rospondence between the Pretender of Holstein and the Emperor Napoleon. In a letter of consi derable length the duke announces to his Imperial Majesty that he has assumed the government of the Duchies. He expounds his views of their rights and of his own, and claims, in the name of equity and of the principle of the nationalities, the support of the French sovereign. The letter con cludes with an allusion to the similarity of their past destinies, and to the kindly reception the duke has met with at the imperial court. The Emperor's reply is as follows : My Gonebt—l have read with great interest the letter which you have not to me, and I buten to reply to it. I know nothing more honourable than to be the representa tive of a cause which supports itself on the independence and the nationality of a people ; and on this account you may rely on my sympathy, for I shall be always consistent in my conduct. If I have fought for Italian independence, if I have raised my voice for Polish nationality, I cannot have other sentiments in Germany, nor obey other prim ciplea. But the great powers are united by the Convention of London, and their assembling can alone resolve without difficulties the question which interests you. I regret, then, very sincerely on this account, as on so many others, that England has refused to assist at the congress which I proposed. It is unfortunate that the Diet was not consulted on the rights of a duchy forming pert of the German Confdera• tion ; also Denmark may be in the wrong as regards Ger many; but on one side I deplore that the Confederation believed itself obliged to intervene in Holstein before the question of succession was decided, for intervention, which can bring on very grave complications, does not decide this question, and if Denmark were oppressed by powerful neighbours, public opinion in France would incline towards her. I therefore sincerely wish that your rights may be ex amined by the Germanic Diet, that their decision may be submitted to the signataries of the convention of London, sod that thus she national sentiment which is manifested so energetically in Germany may receive by a common ac. cord a legitimate satisfaction. I embrace with pleasure this occorion to offer you the lIMIOIIIIIIOII of my esteem and constant favour. On this, my amain, I pray God that He may have you in Hie sacred keeping. Nnrocion. Compiegne, Dec. 10, 1863. RUSSIA. SPEECHES OF PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF AND COUNT ORLOFF. We have received to-day St. Petersburg journals containing very long reports of the speeches at the banquets which we stated yesterday had been given to Prince Gortchakoff at the rooms of the English Club in the Russian capitaL Prince Gortchakoff spoke amid the greatest en thusiasm. The following is a passage from his address : All Russia, enraptured, raised its voice in support of our replies, of which the object was to confound and repel pre- Mations attempts on the dignity of our country. It has lavished encouragements so flattering to the writer of those replies, that we could not help saying to ourselves :—" If this feeble manifestation of the will of the Czar has pro duced such an impression, what will Russia Dot do if God sends her new trials, and the Emperor makes a solemn appeal to the nation?' (Great applause.) Among the other speeches was one by Count Orloff, who said : After the comclusion of the treaty of Paris, which pat an end to • war not leas glorious than unfortunate for us, Europe generally was penetrated with the idea that Russia would become powerless ; that she had loot for long years her influence ; and that her only resource was to re main a wounded spectator, powerless in the political slain of Europe. Arid here we must recall the signifi cant words of the prince whom we have the honour to en tertain here to-day, "Russia does not sulk—she collect. her strength." Without losing time in useless complaints. we occupied ourselves ardently with our internal affairs. Examine all that has been done in this time—all the use ful materials which have been prepared for the future. • • • I was abroad when the late despatches of Prince Gurtcbskoff were expected with feverish impatience. The prince did not lose for an instant his rem and coolness at the time when he wrote those despatches, the holy sager of which, excited by foreign intermeddling, led the Them to say that no minister in Europe cut his pea so finely as Prince Gortchakoff. At this part of the count': speech Prince God; chakoff appears to have suddenly risen. He said : Prince orloff has made it a peat merit in me to have kept the smile upon my lips and remained calm and gay in • difficult moment. But, gentlemen, my calm is easily ex plained. I had before me Russia, such as she really is, calm, majestic, and powerful, and not es bar enemies would ha►e her to be, feeble, divided, un dermined by revolution, and powerless. Europe sees as through • deceptive cloud, and does not perceive what we really are. We breathed upon this cloud which obscured our greatness, and it vanished, and Europe has suddenly seen us in the true light of the day ; she is convinced of the holy and indissoluble union which exists between the sovereign and the nation, she has recognised that our power has not diminished. May this union, which constitutes our strength, remain for ever! ITALY. GARIBALDI'S RESIGNATION. We fiud in the Italia of Turin of Tuesday last the following letter from Garibaldi to the Presi dent of the Chamber of Deputies : Capreas, Dee. 21, 1863. Mona and Very Honourable President of the Chamber Deputiee,Titrin,—For reasons which you will learn by the %mimed letter addressed to my constitueuts at Naples, I hate believed it right to resign my post of deputy is this parliament. In the couviction that the Mambas will accept my resignation without delay, I have the honour to de fare myself, with respect, Nona. and Very Honourable Presi dent, yours, G. 0•11BALDI .. _ • The letter addresced to the electors of Naples, referred to &bore, is as follows : Capron, Doc. 21. To my Constituent., at Naples,—When I saw 229 deputies of the Italian parliament confirm by their vote the ells of Italian soil, I had the presentiment that I should not long remain in the assembly of those men who blindly tors sounder the limbs of the country which they were called to reconstitute. However, the counsels of friends, the hope of reparatory events, and an unshaken sentiment of devotion towards my constituents kept me It the post. But now, when I see succeeding to the eels of Nice the shame of Sicily, which I should be proud to call my seeped country by adoption, I feel myself, electors, ea:spelled to restore to you • oommissian which enchains my meatiest* and makes me indirectly the accom plice of the (suite of others. It is not only the affection which 1 owe to Sicily, the oourageoca initiator of so many revolutions, but the thought that they have wounded is her the right sad the honour in compromising the safety of all MEXICO. PARIS, Dec. 31. News from Vers Cruz to the 2nd ult. has been received here. The report of General Mimmon's death is con firmed. General Swaim is on his march towards the Pacific. Another corps is marching upon San Luiz. Bolas and Ormachez have resigned their posts as members of the regency. General Negre commands at the city of Mexico. The French troops will shortly evacuate Vera Cruz, and the Mexican forces will occupy all the districts of the Terra Caliente actually conquered. M. De Saligny is about to return to France. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ANTI-ENGLISH TONE OF THE FRENCH PRESS. (!scat OWL OWN coaararomarra PARIS, WanNiiiDAT EVENING. I hope we may not be on the eve of some alarming New Year's speech from the Tuileries. But I cannot help remarking that abuse of Eng land is on the order of the day. The three evening journals which, with different shades of devoted ness, support the government, have each their ill natured paragraph on England to-day. First of all the Pays, the moat thoroughly official print of the three, opens ita leading column as follows : English policy in Europe, by its indecision, its fans, and its demi abstentions, cannot fail in a given time to produce a void around England. It is easy to see, by its conduct, that there is a double inspiration and a divided authority in the English cabinet. There is no settled plan, to un equivocally avowed sympathy, no clearly-traced line of action ; it is a policy of duplicity, continually contradicting itself. As we set out by saying—the result must be iso- lation. It then proceeds to show to its own satisfaction that England has unpardonably offended North and South America, Greece, Denmark, and Germany, and can no longer hope to exercise influence in any or either of those countries. After these prefatory remarks, the Pays assures its readers that Lord Palmerston has been all along favourable to the Emperor's idea of the congress, but has been paralysed by Lord Russell, who is at daggers drawn with him. Now, however, according to the Pays' very private correspondence from London, the Palmerston influence is beginning to prevail. It interprets the news (which, however, it gives with all reserve) that the British cabinet desires a conference to settle the special affair of Schleswig- Holstein, as evidence that the Emperor is "right again." and that since England admits the necessity of a conference on one pressing European question, it follows of necessity that the only thing to be done is to consider and solve all possible difficulties at once. The Pays is just like the Constitutionnei, which for some time past has written two or three articles a day upon the most divers subjects, and all concluded with "moral "—a congress. The France also thinks it has England on the hip because she is now reduced by the pressure of facts to propose, with regard to Denmark, that course which she declared inopportune and inefficacious when it was an act of " high foresight," destined to anticipate what has now occurred. It is of opinion that if England will not come into the large and general plan for Fettling everything, France should fold her arms and have nothing to do with so miserable a thing as a " local " diffi culty. The Petrie hears from London that English diplomacy is "greatly irritated" at the adhesion of the King of Portugal to the congress. This organ accuses England of endeavouring to " de b►uch " all the powers of the earth, but happily with uniform ill success. It is good enough to warn the "Palmerston cabinet" (for it does not seem to know, like its confrere the Pays, that Lord Palmerston is a friend of France and Lord Russell her enemy) that it must prepare for a great many other bitter deceptions ; in point of fact, it says, British statesmen in general will find out that their system is used up. The Temps, noticing the sulkiness of the French government with regard to the Schleswig-Holstein question, says : The last chance of peace seems to be the oocference pro posed by England between the powers that signed the treaty of Loodoo. But this project of a conference clashes with the limited magnet patronised by France, sod for that meson rues a great risk of coming to nothing. If the doc tors were to think a little more of the diseeee and a little leas of their own rivalry, we think it would be better for the patient. The France says that the address in the Corps Legialatif is being drawn up by the Duke de Morny. This really seems to be a monstrous confusion of the functions of judge and party. How can he, a president appointed by the Emperor, preside im partially on the discussion of amendments to an address written by himself ? The Bourse is still very heavy. Fears of a bad settlement prevail. Rents fell 10c. and fic. The Osaervatore Romano of the 24th announces the arrival at Rome of the Grand Duchess Nana of Russia, Princess of Lenchtenberg, and her mite.. The convention in virtue of which an amalgama tion has been formed between the Roman and Leghorn, Maremmes and Central Italian railways has just been signed at Turin by the representatives of the different companies, in presence of the Minister of Firance. THE AMERICAN "MONITORS." The official reports of the commanders of the Monitors made to Admiral Dupont immediately after the failure of the attack epos Fort Sumter, in April last, were submitted to Cowles by Secretary Wells@ with Ins an. sexed report, and show that these vessel' were incapable of rodstieg the oormentroted fire of heavy rifled ordnance. Captain Drayton, of the Passive, say. : " I was struck in quick succession in the lower part of the turret by two heavy shots, which bulged in its plates and beanie and forting together the rails on which the ear. rine of the 11-inch gun worked, rendered it wholly melees for the remainder of the action ; a little after a very heavy rite-shot struck the upper edge of the turret, broke all of its eleven plates, sod then glnneiog upwards struck the pilot-house with such force as to send it over, open the plates. and squeeze out the top, exposing the inside of the pilot-house. wed rendering it extremely likely that the next shot would take off the top entirely." Captain Rogers, of the Weishawkeo, reports : " Two or three heavy shots struck the side armour near the seise place. They so broke the iron that it only re. ! m oo d i n s pli n t ere d fragments, much of which could be picked off by hand, and the wood was exposed. The deck was pierced so as to make a hole, through which water ran into the vessel; 36 bolts were broken in the turret, and a greet many in the pilot-house. To the Patapsco no damage was dorm which disabled her, although injuries which she re ceived, if multiplied, would do so. Forty bolts in the f meal were broken. After the third shot from the 15-inch gun of the Nantuck • port stopper became jammed, several shots striking very mar the port and driving in the plating, It was not used again. A number of the same plates were started so much that another shot in their vicinity would have knocked them off. The deck plates were cut is 12 plains ; one shot cut through the iron, and about two inches into the beam, starting the plates, several bolts, sad the planking, for some feet below. The plates on the aide armour of the Reheat were badly broken is several places, and one, where 'truck by two shots in close proximity, grstripped from the wood, sod the wood king broken in, with edging of back plates started up aod rolled back in place& The desk was struck twice damagingly, one shot near the propeller wheel quite shattering and tearing the plate is its passage, la g starting up 2.1 bolts, another starting plates and 2) bolts in the turret. There were marks of nine shots ; 56 of the bolts were brakes perceptibly, the heads flying off inside the turret, and the bolts starting almost their leactn outside, some of them flying out completely, and hug found at a considerable distance from the turret, on the deck. One shot struck the upper part of the turret, breaking through every plate. The pilot house was much d azd wrecked, end four more such shots as it re. ceiv woold have demolished it. One shot et the base broke every plate through, and evidently seedy pesstrsted it." WRATH.= RIPORT.-(THIS DAY.) Tllllltillit Docion U. S L. ILL IL D. W. iI.X. Q. L.L , L —.........--- - --.. 1 --- ........ Nair. 730.0231 - 11.8.1. N b —l I 1 ILbordo;W 80.0741 ILL 89 01 8 Leah 29.93 8.8. E. 86 m 1 Ardroosan Ureasomils 29.71142 188.1 E I IS • 3 Ila'way Valenti& 291&47 SAW. 14 • 1987 8 - - iparanietows Liverpool Holyhead .. Pembroke PISMO, . Brest I:Chios% 28.99461 8. tz r 1915 kocholort Plymouth Weymouth $4 o , o Porlassouth Loudon Dover 19.046 8.8. W. Yarmouth 30.021 LILL U o 5 Scarborough 29.9 &L 114 1 Shields . 9 9&sB 9 sie 2. u : t 1 2 Hellgolaisd mama FRIDAY. au KOMI 8.8. to N.E. and N. W.. Pans. strong to agsle, some lIATCRDAT. N. W. to 8. W. and again to N., strong to fresh. sta;;;O; fora &X to 8. W. sad N. w. Worms. s. W. to N., strong, straw to a gale, with squall, to moderate: faro -- • • MIDDLX. next above. B A .6. Dext to B,W )" . " aed N.W., forrzmiuta. 8. W. to N.W. and fresh to a gale, Wu N.N strong to at times. moderate. L W S. and W., fresh L 612111. As neat above. to a gale, some rain or snow. Cautionary Dram on all coasts this Thursday. Worthern=Seotland. Western= Ireland. lilddie=Wales oppoaite and adjacent nenthern=Engilsh Channel and lay Bay. Eastern= Eastward England and Heligoland. . . . . B.—lktrometer corrected and reduced to 32° at halt tide level. Each ten feet, of vertical elevation. causinz eboatone hundredth of an inch Dninwriom ; and each ten degrees, above S', mus ing nearly three hundredths /NCRLILSE K.—Exposed themto meter In died*. D.—Difference of wet bulb (for evaporation and dew point). W.—Wind, (Erection of 311 CL—two points l.kri of magnetic). F.—Force (I to 12—estimated). X.—Extreme force dote lasi report. Q.—Quarter whence TIMMS force NNE=9, to 32=19). b.—blue sty; c.—cionds detached( ; f.—fog; : L —lightning ( m.—misty (hazy• ; o.—overcast (dull). r.—rain: s.—snow; t.—thunder. snow se hall (melted), dace last report. B.—Sea disturbance J to 9'. The period of the carnival being unusually short this year, ealy three greed balls will be given at the Tuileries during that season. The first will take place on the Gth January. the mooed on the 20th, and the third on the .lrd February. There will be a reception every Monday in the private apartments of the Empress. _ _ • A letter from Liege states that there has not been for • long time put so great a demand for fire-arms in that town. Agents from several foreign governments, parti cularly the Italian, are at pet-sent at LKp, pressing the manufacturers to complete their contracts. Accounts have been receiveil at Marseilles of numerous shipwrecks in the Black Sea. On the night of the 20th inst. the Italian ship Cocchino was wrecked at Bajuklirnae, on the coast of Asia. The crew were saved, but the ship, cargo, and even the ship's papers were all lost. Thirteen other ships are said to have bees wrecked in the earn* quarter. The Paris papers mention that a huge balloon is being constructed in Paris, to be called the Eagle, in honour of the Emperor, with whose arms it is to be deco rated. Four gigantic eagles are to extend their wings over itt vast circumference. The wings of each eagle measure :a ft. in extent. The circular wicker car is 12 ft. io diameter. A stove 6 ft. in diameter is placed in the mitre, which is to heat the as by which the balloon is to be raised. Twenty people may sit at ease in the car, which is to be attached to the balloon by chains ad not by ropes. The seams of the balloon are not less than 17 miles long, and 100 women have been employed in stitching them for two months. The balloon is to be exhibited at the Falai, de Flodustris, but it cannot be fully inflated, as it would be twice as high as the building. THE ELECTOR OF HF-sSE AND HIS SON.—The Elector of Hesse, the German journals state, lately Pro- passed to place his son, Prince Frederick of Hamm, nods' the control of a judicial council. The prince has addressed • protest agßiost that measure to M. AbOe, Minister of the Electoral House. In that document he declares that the faults of which he is accusal must be attributed to his bad education. He also menaces him father with certain dis. closures of a grave character if the latter does not abandon his project. The Elector seems to have osded to the lan. guile of his son.—Galiyaani. VICTOR EMMANUEL AND M. RENAN.—The Rev. F. Munch writes to the Guardiats:—" Very great attention has been attracted to the report that King Victor Enunauuel had decorated Iti , nan for having written the V., .1 , ; very little attention has been paid to the denial of the report. As the calumny has don* great mischief to the cause of the Italian church in its present crisis, I shall be obliged to Ton if you will insert the following extract from • letter written to me from Florence. Dec. 16. 1563 —' The can.tryl about the King decorating'ltenan is • pure fiction, r1:13 afraid& wiUtil calumny. It has been formally denied in the official journal here. This l have on the authority of Came Hi unooni Bisorhi. himself also a mmateadatrre of the order alleged to be given to Iti , nan. He chanced to come in jut as your letter came. I'm admanoara:it:ertl"iatautdputhln.etalmy:relifwbtradmAoni'inttteletkilwik:aiti:aencalluberilniey:ieict"f : a y to: pare small and great) Coloniho and Garibaldi's* Catechism was another specimen of this.' The allusion in this list sentence is to a calumny spread by an unscrupulous English periodical, with • view of blackening the character of the patriotic and reforming party in the Italian church. It was asserted that • bookseller, supposed to be the agent of this party at Milan, andemployed also by the Anglo Continental Society to dispose of their publicatioes, sold &blasphemous and offensive catechism in which Garibaldi was likened to the Divine Being. Oo inquiry it turned out that the book seller in question neither published nor was aware that be had ever sold • copy of the catechism." Qu MINIMS:VD EMIoRATION.—The ship Wiwi) Consort, 2,m00 tons harden. belonging to Messrs. T. M. Mackay awl Co.. sailed on the 2. - ith isetant front Plymouth for Queeeslaod, t'aptain Aiteheson commander. The Prince Consort is the 10th vessel that has sailed on the land order system of emigration, under the immediate direction of the Queensland government. She coutains 373 Imola divided into paving. ioisisted, and free passengers, and onno;eties of 151 members of families, 178 single men, and 41 stogie females. VINE- , TREET RAGGED SCHOOL.—OR Dixiugslav 260 children attending the above school, which is situatid our Leatberlane, were provided with their usual Chriit. mss ditioer of hot rout beef, potatoes, aed plum pudding. After dinner several pieces which they bad learnt for the occasion were sung. The decided improvement in their behaviour and clean appearance was • subject of remark by the visitors present, showing that the instruction of a nother twelve mouths bad not been without its results. A s kpoiog ‘•••••• and a low-lookii were brooght nri the man with loch Folios-constable J 2 this morning road, Paddingt ol r ojeg to ti weed wan oman, be d i Ot dP " rib: dngWd e enc. si b : sli n t.dPenh t e r e e h ei S h s )a lOwn thrku....eteb f e male r wouldit4H de e dnA b as i n , ee v u of wet glary efPi ;intuit; illness. sawing from rbei terday morning, w hill, where she he Bell•street, where she had some more was all she cock r man coming up, an anythiog improper log from their tree Prisoner said tl shop and asked him took him up a yard him es the top of I The prisoner wa Douglas, the took the poor crest Outside of the rough fellows, fries to interfere as the knee to her. • stifetlm-looki; ll?rt,tiefd, and slat before Mi. Burcbst bed. in this Queen's Mrs. Sarah Wilts said that f some of the bedrooms hal hods need, and tow, prisoner had bee. a away. 0o Monday No. 15 bedroom. w bolds. She looked the bed was tumble farad the door ope beep slept 00. and ( the prisocer coarse& Mr. Burnham ask bedroom was 'Unit Mrs. Wiltelaire hotel. The bedrooi in the gallery at tl on the outside. Sh bed mode about thre Mr. Burnham ask Witness replied t bad oo thought of a the home. The prisoner hers in great distress. I wee no thief. Polies-000stable be timid • roll of ot tied off. Mrs. Wiltshire s loose is the more* Mr. Barefoot rim offloar to make some He was swordtail LOSS OF HER i The Dutch ms brought intelligeoce with hollsad snow a whole extent of tb of coast, ocausiossio The weather had be so, but on Thant] gradually incremed force of a hurricane. the reported loss Lieutenant Welch, of the mining trawl stated that the Liv and that Mr. Hera, of the crew being ma Lords of the Admit Medusa, lying at She the mouth of the gunboat off. No as the seven or eight r the sterns of the am the vessels, Richard hall, have been ws the worst fears as to i to have been blown I se gm :tterdauLemat th a e tesmsh is u Cd; Li.e A Tkwe' l l Captain Brandin. w Gothenburg, was lot of two or three, the Margrieta, bound to then sank of Harlin pilot and a boy are st vessels wrecked has the crews are re' Guardian. FEARFUL CAIRO Thin morniog a yours! in the family of Mr. Rarnabourrwark. 1 kettle oa the fire whe meats she was envelc Purges to the dr maid was enraged in on firs, her dress bein close contiguity wits given, the poor girl • but the fire was not clothing was burnt. L but gives no hops of 1 her situation at Mr trained for • serve Camberwell. Txz ST. HELE! Clitbser rill survive of his recovery. On meat, to the effect Mary Wood, twice pn commit suicide. He drawer in the decease! rased, who cut her his own. He alleges I her throat was cut. uotrae, aa he had beet to ry that he should rldatiation. The inq Hotel, before Mr. E trY. After a peer order" was returns made oat a warrant fo AGRARIAN OrTI TEIIFLIGIORIR TrFADA murderous outrage. near Malarial, in the la this Meters was bar prosecuting sem of the borne from w CaPria Byrne had for of HourgalL Leiter, • gentleman es little boy, his son, tbr sod discharged a piste but harked the ow onposite side of the Byrne himself beteg nutaativ pursued the turned beck, and pre that if he did not retir The the pistol was subee se men are sot ko 62 f ea . 1 7 otherTrePBll77ll.l7:lll reside. dilM h Yo i C-6 7 k o e : I m ibi: 24 vat c ch t l e. t h " L i"'; i 1:4 1 iBa k An . : :ed . g:r. iy . f:11 use end pheasants 1 Ailts • boneheads aer cts Nter, 1 ,010 • Lose. . 66 ; barrels Of out " t ts of abrade, 30 tacked is hampers :t • tor ; fish, 441 toe \ r