The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

IPHI DAILY NEWS t LOICDON ammo ellsong Mama ta drama mai NW *V rMY.WYdr milli esmisil Is Or W. 1•11. gssesiwa a llrfollitON OM r lIILLUILI 13111P9= am Aa awry rigeis imam Sue "l I P UTTNINIAMI _ IMMO WOW t rib irt,igat=onr misva ADvornsmorea fibula.* a .4 u m ass gap IZNalea= ll are ia Now. qt w samallle !MOW at al by amiss E a l • 10 11 0 1 4 411 nt=taroial Lb* of awn ounisre. le I Ma par swim pa a PaMillo ads. 'be expreoo. TO 00WIPOODZIIITIL iimmiperie woad Or "Ibe Isseise Iris Waft per. MI be at Go Ofte. 19. Ilievi by Twiterie es die lip elpallidler LT1711711. L lT A gallnebo Mae Mimeos sol porlmink istitled HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TI- Da • -Monism, Th. la Araitsess. 7h. Etia T.Nesao• -Moies. /IL •• • • • • • 406"..84 LONDON, THURSDAY, MICZMIIMI M. Lrcisiow is relieved, the prrieon is rescued, the' women and children are safe. " Thank Goo for " that," is the word that will ring from end to end of England, as the joyful intelligence that frees tie frees the tartar of that wearing acuity is flashed to the remotest corners of the land. The cloud that darkened oar festal sawn is dispersed, the shadow of &terrible foreboding has paler away (coin ne—the spectre is chased from our Christmas revelries. For in truth the heart of England was with those heroic men and women, those pined and 'offering children. There weld have been no merry Christmas with r hare while there was a possibility of saraere thin. All who felt at all, felt that while that great driver are was enetvompliehed, merriment ram ineebry, and feasting an impertinence. Now they an safe we may be glad—glad and reverently thankful to the All-Giver. Ova last intelligence, it may be MAlM bered, communicated the fact that Sit COLIN Caurseu., with his reinforoements, had crossed the Ganges on his march from Cawnpore to Luck now, on the 9th of November. Two days from that date, the communicatiou being epee, brought him to Alumbagh, which be reached, se our Telegram shows, c• the 11th at November. Two days after, on the 13th (net cm the 23rd), active operations commenced. Then followed six days of severe and confiners fighting. This brings as to the 19th of November. The 19th, therefore, as given by our Telegram, and not the 21st, se stated in the Government eneener, wee the day oa whirl " the principal strongholds of the " enemy having been captured, the beleaguered " garrison was relieved." On the 20th the "sick and " wounded, ladies and children, were sent under "an escort to Casenpore." The paragraph that im mediately followed, announcing that the " army " under the Commander-in-Chief now amounts to " 22,000 men," would naturally lead to the infer ence that Sir Cous Cutesau had that amount of force actually trembled under his orders in Oude at the date of the Despatch. This can hardly have been the are, and the correct version probably is that when the reinforcements then an their way from Calcutta had arrived at the central seat of war6re, Sir Come would be a the head of an army of 22,000 men, available for the immediate prosecution of the campaign of Olds. Our own Telegram, it will be seen, gives the embers under the actual command of the Commander-in- Chief at 12,000. The rest of the intelligence is not less re assuring. In Central India, on the west of the great scene of operations in Oude, the column ander Brigadier Sruear was rapidly clearing Malwa of the ;vergers. 0n the north the columns under Brigadier Snows= were scouring Itohilcund. On the south, great masses of troop. were rapidly being moved up from Calcutta. On the east, the Ghoorkse of J 040 BAHADOOR were pressing forward to oomplete the deadly and ever-narrowing circle. The result of these combined movements will be to drive in upon Oude, as a common centre, all those scattered bodies of the insurgent foree which still maintain a show of military organisation. The entire subjugation of the force thus concentrated, the com plete conquest and pacification of the territory within whose borders this still formidable mass of armed ineurrectioo is driven to bay, may undoubtedly be • work of some difficulty and considerable time. But it is impossible not to see that the h iumphant re-assertion of British supremacy has now been decisively accomplished, that our prestige is re-establ'shed, end our empire reared. All honour to the great and gallant men by whom, with means most inadequate, this magnificent result has been 'thieved. Honour to the iron hardihood and statesmanlike sagacity of Lewarece, who with the one hand ruled • province and creaked &mutiny, while with the other he created an army and saved an empire. Honour to the calm intrepidity of , Wu-sox—the resistless, heroism of HAYLLOCK— the chivalrous gallantry of Oura&e. Honour Nicwoure and to Netrt.--to the brave who have fallen as to the brave who lire. Harr to the illustrious veteran who, when the time came to strike, but not • moment before, struck decisively and hems—whose vigorous promptitude kW accent 'limbed the relief of Lackuow, and whose sagacious generalship has planned the campaign of Oude. Lord PALIMISTON is entitles, to the t►anks of the entry for haring entreated the chief command in the East to 81r Cutts CAMPIELL—EngIand gladly resegnier la the relief of Lecknow an earnest sad ea dustsheet of the speedy suppression of tits Katry sad the complete re-conquest of India. Sows documents, which a cotemporary has jut published by request, let in the world's light apes the modern Spanish system of manners mei monk. Senor OCILL Y RENTIL is • Spar Liberal, a Deputy, the husband of a cousin of the Qvass and of a Meter of the Prince whom Loots PHILIrtr, to hie eternal disgrace and in mockery of merriege, united to the lit Ica. After the fret eleweitall of NAIIVAY7, Senor GUEtt had attacked that realms" ea-Pazaiita in the Chambas—u• verely and harahly, no doubt—not unjustly we may be sore—with vary small foresight, u it tuned out, of the rapidly shifting phantasmagoria of Spanish politics. After the first sea* had aired of that plot which has reduced itpain to the sweat Ministry, and by which O'Dolftwo..prepaseittlas way for further descents in infamy—Maven, it will be recollected, returned in the autumn of 183 , 6 to Madrid from Paris, where he bad so long fretted and chafed. The rules of ceremonial politeness re quired Nifty in to pay a round of visits, and hie reception accorded with his coming greatness. Amongst others he paid one to the Counter DILA PENA DEL Mono, the wife, u Senor Cunt, with Spanish minuteness, states, of Lieutenant-General Don ANAS TASIO ALESON, Count DE LA PENA DEL ROW; and there he met their niece, MCIIIO. RAMONA DE BONILLA, the honourable chaplain Don GASPAR BONA SEELANO, Don Mextrxt. Gott= DE BONILLA, and Senor GUELL himself. What occurred can only be adequately told by the lut-named gentle man, and we extract his account of it from a letter he addressed, on the 6th of November lest, to Gan. NAIVAZZ : Whet your visit wee assawaced, I roes to receive you like a iirell-nerad mum, with all requisite politeness. You twice stared at me, them s third time, but, with an imperious gesture, to whkh I replied with the greatest courtesy " y Rank, my gemmed." I am not your gmearal," yea any to sus,. bemuse you me a clodhopper, ° Mow whams Wood I would drink and tier his heart oat." iiipasking thim, yea threstesed me with a 'tout cans, with which yen Mad erd my cost. I instantly replied, " That I " required a iidielactims as greet as the insult dose to my imesev." at riiasd, " That rat lilt hest* to give it "ma, and dist rat ehsdd Us le Mar so at my beer< the ° wards Iha uldwrad ti dm Mambo, of Dipatlia." I no , rhea, " That your wih shoal he nee gratified." This scene gives "the maid" that Senor 01.111.1 appeals to a very lively idea of the modern Great Captains, the modern Generals, the modern Political Leaders, the modern Prime Ministers—above all, because more important than all, the modern gentle men of Spain. I should like to drink your blood, and to tear your heart ont,"was the exclamation al Don }WWI( NARVAEZ, Duke of VALVITIA, in the presence of Madame Donna DOLORF9 BONILLA DE ALISON, COEBURN DI LA PIMA DEL MORO, and her aims, whose name we really cannot repeat, to say nothing of " the honourable Chaplain." This, and ikomishing a cane in the face of ladies, are the mob= manners of Madrid, famed in old time as the head-quarters of stately courtesy. Of course a dud was, to all appearance, inevitable ; bet the modern Spaniards seem no longer distinguished by that alacrity in quarrel which distinguished their ancestors. First of all, these impatient combatants appointed each a braes of seconds ; all Madrid knew what wan going on ; the military authorities inhibited General NAZTAIM from risking his precious. life, and the police took care of the person of his antagonist. Be fore the seconds could prepare an account of this position of things for the press, Niaviu became Primo Minister, and se Prime Ministers in Spain, nnlate Premiers in England seven and twenty years ago, anal fight duels, the affair was adjourned until NARTAIS quitted ofil , :e. How this President of the Spanish Council, who wished to drink Senor Guxu:s blood and tsar hie heart out, has since, despiteallhla violence endears,- nese, had his own heels tripped by Queen BABEL when he attempted to re-exercise that authority which he wielded during his former ministry, we all recollect. In less than twelve months NAZTAU was again in a private position. Thereupon Senor " like a well-bred man, and with all requisite " politeness," again addressed him, after this irre sistible fashion, prolosmdly serious as Don QUIXOTE himself : To-day, witiwas walk ay mimosa or wroth, banns II am a roars devoted le Andy sad eathlog else. I writs you this Later in the way that, without uttering a °na phtha, without replyles is year Weft by aimilar tanks, I brow devoured my doped, In shames, bat not my dishonour, beams as ands broils dere& a mut Ilke me. I lire by my amailatiaa, wad so ale tie tanish my reputation. la the amid, Mari vs Ins Mars is a law, a 131401111, • Asamalfy that is mend I. me. Tan rind me • man lank Wee • Wily, yew had boils( • women : come now with • rend, as is the daty of awry men presemiag • male M ehmes—ens and tsar out my bsart, se you promised. . , Yes- 0 Gene and tear out my heart, as you pro " wised." Senor Gent., whom reputation is beyond all terrestrial soil, opened his immaculate bosom to the brutal NARTAZZ ; on one condition, however, and there lies the point of the second trim.- action. Senor Gummi., in the very intensity of pinion, which " devoured his despair," in the wildness of his desire to tight, had, we must say, something of Portia's spirit about him: like the young Doctor of Padua, he was precise. lie required his heart to be cut out—not with a knife or a sabre, but with the small-sword; above all, he would not have it blown out with a pistol. And NARYSIZ was equally punctilious and particular. Though in Octo ber, 1836, he felt such " haste " to perform the sanguinary operation that his seconds accepted rapiers as the weapon, in November, 1837, they would only allow " a man of his age" to fight with pistols. Like Bob Acres, NAKTAE2 was ambitious of the honour of bringing down his antagonist by a long shot, and his seconds were of opinion that so reasonable an aspiration ought to be gratified. Senor GI:rI.C . I friends then insisted on swords. NAIVETE'S seconds required pistols ; and a " great • principle" was at stake. In Spain, the challenger bee, it impesee, the choice of weapons, and Senor Octal mild not surrender that right without en• dangering the right of challengers in perpetuity. So Senor GUELL became the victim of precedent; he keeps his heart in his breast ; General NERVEEE does not drink Senor Guru's blood ; no duel is fought, no apology is tendered to Donna DoLoRES, &e. ; and Senor Gt ELL asks " the world" for its judgment on the affair in which he played so promi nent a part. We don't profess to be " the world." We are merely an expression of English humanity, and England is but a speck on the great terrestrial tribunal to which the magnificent Span is rd, whose heart is safe, has appealed. Bat the conclusion we in our small sphere arrive at in, that Madrid society is abandoned, corrupt, hollow, false, and rotten to an extent that defies all recovery, and that for Spain and its capital there is but one road to regeneration ; and that is, we speak the word advisedly, through the terrible ordeal of a Tea °lotion, which shall purge away the moral pollution and the social degeneracy that is aow teetering in the mart-cue of the nation. L the =deep& the shops give abundant ri gor tee eprearedis et the (err rem by their Mr They et prialer et di rib, hen Norio& tither dews le dreenia Me theragereee d leadenhaireer, ire. an aired barbel up by dr meriene el Alien ant try aIIITILDAT NEXT.—ABtoapt the City and Welt. witkr.• win has Omar asildel irk ignites to sham dba Ihlt WWI as a ha/May dr lkilawim kern Imo my% mod:—Xera J. sad R. Roth', Wopi.einet; Seat sal Ca, 011Chastee : Cook, dos, sad C 0... Gawp Maim& sad Ca. awl Allan and Co et. Paarraliamkaal; Wale sad Mambos. Cheapidda ; Barmy wad Ca., bedwie•hil; Oohs Making sad Cs. sad Hamill sad Ca, Aim; Rama rd Edpr, Hoes , &Cy ; Kam& !'away am Om% Cadravr-oreet; and Oa Oa, Readidesst ; Lai sad Aliesby, Clads* m g co., Md. mai Lowanis, lay aad Ca., Paak and Co. , Rig aid Co, Rameandame; Illonhall Co.idgmaa Ilaawatoest ; Pds Ratiara, Soarrav sod o , and Oraat awl Ca, Oadankiaost ; disolteed of Co., Maya sod sad Darraaa, Riad ard Ca, Ocearima wad Co.. y..s .4 Seam an% N* mg Ow, Tatlealoarcoart-rort. Etc Court. • WINDSOR, Dm, 13. Thd Paean Royal and Uncap Alice to* -a narrow' drip, 7eetards7eurasca. 4 In thwiellideg, the Daiwa cl kw* Wended by lady Anna Marla Dserwan lad Lady Augusta Dees, dined with her Majesty. The Earl of Clarendon, Lady Caroline Bar rington, and laratenent-Colead the lion. J. Strange Jocelyn,' Scots leather Guards, had the honour of beuTg tneluAod in the royal dinner party. The tend of the Royal Horse Guards preformed during dinner Orertura, "Yon" Reimiger. Pa Pirarri. "Toll asnw" ales, " Drum of the Osenn" Gunge. deleetas Roosinl. °slop Ilar Majesty's privies tend afterwards performed in the drawfarroara : Overture, Heimkeir ana der Precede" Mendeleaolus. Aria, "Merle" Herold. Mew, "Nicht/err" Selection, "Heyde, The ChbiKS, with the Pekoe Segal. one est this morn ing. The Prince Comet eneuragneiel bar Mee* cm horse back. ltnor-tlessaal the Han Charles Grey and Captain du Plat *ere in attendant*. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, ~1857. INDIAN MUTINIES. RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. The following despatch from our own correspon dent at Malta, corrects the telegram received yester day at the Foreign-ogee in some important particulars, and supplies additional detail. (sr scamaints ♦ND PRITDIR TIMM/LATH) ALEXANDRIA, Die. 19. The Pekin arrived this morning at Sues. Her dates are Bombay 4th and Aden 12th inst. Sir Colin Campbell, having reached Cawspore on the 9th of November, joined the forces at Alum bagh on the 11th. On the 13th active operations commenced, and for the next six days there was a constant series of severe and bloody struggles with the enemy. On the 19th, their principal strongholds having been captured, the besieged garrison was relieved. On the 20th the sick and wounded, ladies and children, were sent back under an escort to Cawn- Pore. The army under the Commander-in-Chief now amounts to about 12,000 men, amply sufficient to reduce Oude to entire subjection—a task which will occupy them some months to come. The Malwa field force, under Brigadier Stuart, lam relieved Nfesserabad, diapered the Tihibpore and hfundesore rebels, and is now clearing Malwa of the insurgenta. The Hying columns under Brigadier Showers, Colonel Cotton, and Colonel Riddel, are scouring Rohl'mind, complete success attending their opera tions evetywhere. Large masses of European troops are reaching India weekly, and we are relieved from all alarm for our garrisons and outposts, lately in much immi nent peril. Our for was trifling—only four officers killed and forty wounded. Business transacted in the import markets has been to a moderate extent. Money market has become extremely tight. Rates of freight. have again declined. Exchange, 2s. 2,/,d. to 2a. 2!d. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1101 OUR OWN PARIS, WIDWPADAT XVZIIIKO. The Emperor to-day presided at a sitting of the Council of State, held at the Tuileries, and I em informed that he approved of the provisions of atoll which has been for some time in preparation, and is intended to be passed through the Corps Legis latif early in the session, for restraining gambling at the Bourse. It is said that severe penalties will be enacted against all parties, principals as well as agents, concerned in any speculative operation either in stocks or shares not based upon money or @Kuri -1 ties. Until the exact provisions of the bill are before the public it would be idle to speculate upon the question whether or not they are likely to be effies dons in practice. It is not the first time that efforts have been made to stay the plague of gambling, and hitherto they have all been signally unsuccessful. I cursorily sanded, the other day, to the exercise of the imperial prerogative of mercy in favour of the Memorial de Lille, a government journal, which had been entangled in the meshes of the harsh, biting laws" invented to keep the press in order, and for the essentially excusable offence of libelling en opposition candidate had been sentenced to suppres sion by a court of justice. I now quote, as an instructive testimony concerning the real natnin of the existing law—which people in England,' who derive their notions of it from MM. Treplong and De Morny's holiday speeches, may possibly conceive to be so mildly repressive that all reasonable people moat rejoice in suffering their light easy yoke—a description of their mode of working written by a friendly hand. The Courrier du Kurd, another government journal, congratulates its fellow labourer, the Memorial de Lille, upon its relief from its sentence, by an act of imperial clemency, in these terms : The severity of /he laws relating to the press sometimes mach even those jollities whose prudence and spirit of order lead them to Mks lba moat comicientioue pine to avoid offence. The slightest forgetfulness, the most trivlsl India cretion, may sometimes, even before indulgent judges, put the ez;stence of the most honoorable journal in peril. Such hes been the case with regard to the Memorial do Late. Although alike &shed by the talent and character of its writer., sod the moderation of its penciples, it has twioe within a short time been convicted by the corrections'. poleax, and although merely sentenced to Ines, the law is that it rout be sup. pressed on • second conviction. The high and generous clemency of the Emperor has happily oome to the aid of our honourable eotempeeary and it will continue to appear ea heretofore. It will, I think, no longer be disputed that it is entirely upon the "high and generous clemency" above alluded to, and not upon any legal guarantees, that the existence of every newspaper in France depends. The Bourse wu languid during the greater part of the day without any great change in quotations, but within a few minutes of the close of business there was a smart upward movement, owing to a re port from London that the Bank of England would certainly reduce its discount to 8 per cent. to-mor row, and that the Bank of France would very pro bably lower its discount to 5 per cent. The Rente closed with a rise of 20e. fur account, at 671 r. 93c., and at yesterday's price, 67fr. 60e., for cash. Mo biller rose 12fr. 500. The railway market was neg lected, and there was very little change in prices. M. de Bourqueney is expected to leave Paris for Vienna to-morrow. M. Lachaud was this morning elected a member of the council of discipline of the order of advocates, in the room of M. ChM: d'Eat Ange, whose seat in the council became vacant by his appointment to the post of Procureur Imperial. The Globe was seizes to-day. DENMARK. The Earl of Clasesdan LE the Castle in the forenoon. On Friday and Saturday In the peat, and on Monday and Tuesday in the currant week, her Majesty's royal bounty and gate alma wars chstributed to the customary number of aged and meritorions poor who bad been prerioualy recom mended by the clergymen of the verions parishes and die t:lets in London and its vicinity. The distributions were made under the direction of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner , the Rev. Dr.Jelf, Elub-Almonst ; by Joseph Hanby, Beg., Beaetary and Yeoman of the Royal Aleroary in reentry. WINDSOR, Dec. 23.—The royal baron of beef will tbie year be eat hem a Sae Scat, kd by Me Royal Highness the Pilots Commack at Norfolk farm, sad slaughteecd by Mr. While. It weighs about 300Ibe. His Highnesa the Maharajah Dhaleep Singh, Re epospeatee by Sir John Login, left Claridge's Betel, yester day &Ramos, for Castle Measles, N.B. Hie Excellency Ferukh Khan, Persian Envoy Extraordinary, per farewell rate yesterday to their Royal Minotaur the Duchess of Cambrids• and the PIiSPIIIB Mary, the French Amber* dor, end the Turret Ambas sador. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have ye t:need to Apaley House from fitrathAeldseye, when they have been entertaining company for some time pod. They will peas the Christmas holidays et The Duchess Dowager of Norfolk came to town to-day home tom of visits. The Earl and Countess of Mu!grave leave town to-day kr Newton Hama, Beds* Yorkshire, en a Melt to the Dockets Dowager of Cleveland. The noble earl will have England on the 29th of next month foe the mat of hla new goventimmt. Tie Bart of Clifford and Lord John Hay have left Straddkideeye, and us now staying on a visit with Lady Deihrhs at Danis Lodge, Highgate. TA. Earl Beauchamp ani Lord and Lady Raglan are prolog daa Noma at Yuba&ld Coot, Warman&in. Lord and Lady Harry Vitae have left town oa a vioit to the KM awl Coulees Staphope, at Chemise Pek, Ls& Lord sad Lady Arthur Hay hare returned to Min from visiting the Doke and Duchess of IValntakes at &talk&Wage. LYMAN NV TINT ISMS! POND. The following letter from her lifsjesty's Minister at Vienna bee bola rewind by the preddent of this fund: "Timmy Deoember 11, 1837. " Sir,—l hoes heel frequent opportstaitiee of oberningthe alacrity shown by easeabete of • religious, which bus met with but smut justice at our beads, M main forward for the 'ado! diagram whenever mad hi whatever quarter It occurs. Let Use tweetite be &stifled that his il - low-ereastre has v.:leaded la a ditch, sad he I. Ia the Isejority of rats, eager to help also out sad set him on his way without tasking in quiries se to the creed 'odd& the eufferermay profess. " Having indulged in • rtflection which There been re peatedly called upon to mean I by to inform you that Baran Antrim Rotbachild, of this pace, baring learned that • enbecription bad been set on foot by the contemn] men of Vienna for the relief of the Indiums rafters, be has beat kind enough to and ms 1601. in furtherance of We charitable object. "I have directed my bankers, Mews Drummond', to pay the above amount into your hands, and will refloat that it may be applied in conformity with the wishes of my chart• table Mend, Baron Ausahn de Rothachild.—l hare the honour to be, Be., (81iraid) " O. H. 8171101:K, "T. Q. Dan* Esq." "H. H, Mbeistar, tunas, M. Inns, the French painter, hu presented to the Theatre Francais, sa an admowledgroent of the free admission to the theatre, which he has enjoyed for many years, a picture repremating Louis XIV. asking Muhire .o sit down to dinner with him. A deputation from the company of the Francais with M. Emilia, the manager, at their heed, lately waited upon If. Ingres, to thank him for b's cisaluable and appropriate present, which will ornament the oaken of the theatre. The Count and Countess de Chambord left Frohs dorf cm the 17th, for Bromette, on their way to Venice to pas the . inter, The cold is severe at present in Switzerland. At the Brawl., neer Neufchatel, the Dottie' is from to a thick ness of about Ave inches. A letter from Rome, in the Conaitutionnel,says: Madame Campine, the daughter of Madame Flowslb, whose interference eldcd in the liberation of the pt isomer of Ilmt, is to leave for l'atis iminedi itely, to request the inter ference of the Mower in favor- of her husband, the Mar quis de Campsite. Doctor Prime% the ph)stcian of the family, during one of his visits to the marquis, took Marge of • letter from bite to his wife Motive to thie intended Jemmy. lrofortanately the &ear was er imbed and the letter found, end he wee put tinder onset for conveying It." - . . . Ws read in a letter from Stockholm :—" The number of failures which have taken place np to We time amount, to twenty-two. Among them the most to be de plored are some large gasman, establishmenta founded by shares, and haring a eery urge capital. Timber was ex ported by them to England in mamma quantities, sad the bills drawn for these supplies having been returned napsid,ths directors toned It ne,creary to declare themselves insolvent, sod constituently Co di. barge more than 2,000 men, who se. sow out of croploymt nt." _ Our obituary of this day (Thursday) announces the death of tb. lb-r. Dr. Totty, of Barb, at ths 'deemed ass of 101. Ile had . rc,tor of Etchiegham, Sussex, for misty-en yoss.—Bosa (Aroma,. BURNS'S BIATTID IN IN New• YORK.—This inni. vassaty was eelobrairil by the New York 81. Andrew's So dory as lbs MoropolPso as tonal. The chief teases of the ferervities wee Use reading of the following poem by Charles Mackay : TIFF. RFT OF THE NORTH. Fierce es Its sunlight, the Cam may be proud Of its py gaudy brae, mad its Airs without cloud; Idlld m Its hems., the besuliful West Nay suds lam the valleys that dimple Its bread ; The South nag rejuke lo the Vine end the Palm, le its groove where the midnight to sleepy with balm. Fsir though they be, Thi rag en hle in the mo— lls hone of the Ins,: sal the bast of the free Mar It! ye kale! h t our shout who forth I The hods of the world ore the men of the North. Cold though oar memo and dull though our Mies, Tlesmes amight to our elms and a ere to our eyes ; Deandhee sad patient—to dare and to do— watrawerif la " Duty," our mos m to "Through." Wilder sad Mem only terve u. the more, Lad chill ad the Mart if they creep through the door; Iftreag shall wo be. Is oar We of the sea The hems of tha brave and the boast of the five— Finn ea the rock, shin the storm flashes forth, We stand to oar courage, the men of the North. &Abeam& that ripen the olive and a;no, In Om Moe of the slave and the coward may shins; Rases may blossom where Freed.. decays, And Wine be • growth of the soy's brightest rays. Beset though the harvest we rasp from the soil, Yet Virtue end Heath are the children of Toil. Proud lot as he Of our tale of the sea, The home of the hem sad the boast of the free. Men with true Marta let oar fame echo forth : Oh, time ere the /rafts that we grew la the North. HAMBURG, Dye. U. The Danish Chambers closed yesterday. The Supreme Council of the monarchy is to meet on the 10th January. Several resignations have taken place. Many failures continue to occur in Den mark, Sweden, and Norway. PEIFINSVLAR MAIL: The Peninsular and Oriental Canmany's steam packet Alhambra, Captain J._Jery Admi ralty mint, Lieut. Bgdgee, R.N., arrived at NowtMantas yeetteday vith the Fesincruhr Malik Her dates mere._ Gibraltar, Dec. 15; Cadiz, Dec It; Lisbon, Dee. 19; Ogarto, so communication; Vigo, Dee. 20. THE INDIAN NEWA L —RELIEF OF LOCKNOW.— LTVIIIPOOL, WZDNUDAT.—TtIe intelligeom by telegram from Malta, of the relief of the beleagoered gentian at Loamy and the lately the women and children. by Sir Cain CaMpbetl, wan reeshred this afternoon with the moat lively andinsimen by all damn. It Le needlees to ea that farther detail' an looked forward to with ao eardsty. THE EARTHQUAKE IN NAPLES. The Official Journal of the Two Sidlift gives the following details of the earthquake in the king dom of Naples: "NAPLES, Du. 17. " Two violent undulatory shocks of an earthquake were felt in this capital on the night of the 16th and 17th, the first at ten minutes past ten, which lasted four or five seconds, and the next two minutes later, and this second shock lasted twenty-five seconds. The last was so severe that it stopped the two clocks of the royal observatory. There were two other shocks between three and five in the morning but they were slight. Despatches from Caserta, Nola, Averts, Pozzuoli, Salerno, and Avellina, speak of shocks in thou localities. In the province of the Citerior Principality, at Eboli and Cam pagna, the two first shocks were more severely felt, but there was no fatal accident. A telegraphic despatch from Salerno sap that no news has been received from Sala, de Eagonero, or Calabria, although very many despatches have been sent, asking for intelligence. At Padula the earthquake was felt. At Caatellmare two men wereinjured.".. "NAPLES, DEC. 18, " We have received worse news from the Citerior Principality. Telegraphic communication is inter rupted between Eboli and Sala. In the last of those two towns three men were killed; the prison, the barracks, and other edifices, were damaged; at Atena half the houses were destroyed; at Padnla a hundred houses fell, and the number of the killed is not known ; at Poll the disaster is immense, and the victims numerous; the brigade of gendarmerie has greatly suffered ; at Auletta, Petrosa, and Caggi ano, many houses are in ruins, and there arc a great many victims. At Salerno several buildings were injured, more especially the two churches, the hotel de vine, and the barracks ; a steeple fell in a fanbourg of this town, arid killed two women ; at Campagna a great many houses are damaged." UNITED STATES. RESUMPTION OP SPECIE PAYMENTS. SOUTHAMPTON, WiDWIRDAT Nunn. The steamship Fulton has just arrived here with the American mails, and advices from New York to the 12th inst. Amongst her ccrgo is specie to the value of 427,000 dole. for England, and 124,000 doll. for France. Amongst the passengers is Lola Months, on her way to Paris. The news from Mexico states that the position of the government had improved. The reactionary force had been defeated by the government troops. Comonfort and the Supreme Court were formally installed. The port of Navidad had been declared open to commerce. The tendency of prices in the New York stock market was downward. A number of bank officers at New York had met, and resolved to resume specie payments in full on all their liabilities. This resolution was prompted that the Bank of America, the Bank of Commerce, the Manhattan and National Banks had resolved to resume payment on the 13th instant. by the The total specie reserve amounts to 28,000 dole. The deposits have not increased much during the last two or three weeks. The suspension of specie payments is now rather nominal than actuaL "The banks pay specie ever their own muter for bills and small cheques, and the community gets along very well with that. When business revives, it will be a more difficult matter to carry on the operations of trade without a general resumption." The Secretary for the Treasury has proposed to supply an issue of treasury notes not to exceed 20,000,000 dollars. He also proposes the passage of a ooaspulsory Bankrupt Act, by which insolvent banks and rwlway companies may be wound up, whether they like it or not. There his been a skirmish between Colonel Alexander's forces and the Mormons. A large force is sent against the latter, and a protracted war is considered inevitable. The amount in the Treasury is 8,000,000 dollars. The receipts for the week ending the 7th imt. were about half a million of dollars. Fitzpatrick had been elected President of the Senate. All the democratic candidates for officers of the house were elected with great unanimity. James L. Orr, of South Carolina, wu elected Speaker. The President has dismissed Stanton from the secretaryship of Kansas, for calling together a special session of the Lecompton Legislation. General Gender has been appointed in the room of Stanton. The Senate has confirmed the appointment. The debate was looked upon as a trial of the strength of parties with reference to the Kansas-Lecompton constitution, and the position of the President thereupon. Walker, it is fully expected, will be dismissed. Owing to the mild weather the canals were not to be domed before the 15th in-t. The amount and value of American produce re tained in the interior at the close of this year will be the largest ever known in the history of the country. , In the New York markets, cotton sales were limited; the dealers were waiting the arrival of oreign news. In freights, rates were firmer for grain to Liver pool. In the New Orleans cotton market the sales were 3,000 bales, at slightly lower prices. Sugar was firm and corn active. Freights were drooping. Exchange on London, 103 to 106. PORTUGAL (rams 001 OWN 001011SPOND110.) LISBON, Dec. 19. The fever still oontinaes to abate; and the 'weather is now much cooler, so that there exists a probability that the disease mac gradually subside before the next spring. The 'last bulletin published by the Board of Health shows 17 new cases of fever, and 14 deaths. Besides this, the cases are Paid to assume a milder aspect and yield more readily to treatment. The sewers, allowed on every side to be the chie: cause of the spread and continuance of the disease, are said to be in a most lamentable condition. No map of them is in existence. Some of them have bulged and broken into others ; all are made without cement, and the ground around them is thoroughly saturated with the liquid impurities constantly pass ing through them. Several medical men of high standing are of opinion that the disease will lie almost dormant during the winter, but that it will o -ask out withrenewed violence in thecomingepring, and commit greater ravages than it has done this year. The government, as yet, does not appear to take any steps for cleansing the old sewers, and if time is allowed to pass, and the warm weather to come on, the consequences cannot be foretold. Of course, if the government determine to make a new system of sewerage, money will have to be raised; and I feel little doubt that for such a cause the inha bitants of Lisbon would freely pay a tax. The consequences of the epidemic are evident everywhere. Most of the mouied people continue to made out of town ; commerce is almost pars lysed ; shopkeepers sell little or nothing, and trades men are short of work. Subscriptions are being got np to uaist the poor, and a large amount of money has been raised. Several British subjects, however, who have suffered by these calamitous circumstances, are not within the reach of the Portuguese charities; and I regret that the funds, if they merit the nam e , placed by the British government in the hands of the consul, are wholly Inadequate to meet present exigencies, and ought to be increased beyond th e beßaly pittance at present doled out. e r Chamber of Deputies continue to meet, that is to say, nominally, for sufficient members cannot be got together to constitute a house. The Chamber of Peers have met, about 28 members having been present. The Viscount Laborim officiated as Presi. dent. The proceedings of the chamber were limited to the election of the secretaries, who are the Counts de Mello and Lonsan ; and the vice -secretaries, who are the Viscount de Balsemao and Dom Pedro de Rio. The business transacted hitherto has been merely nominal, and limited to appointing a dept. tation to communicate to the King the constitution of the chambers and the election of committees. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Radiant!, Shillingford, and Co. was held at the Guildhall Coffeehouse yesterday,when a statement of theiraffairs was submitted by Mr. C. F. Kemp, the accountant. A composition of 18e. in the pound was offered by the firm in three instalments, at three, six, and nine months from Jan. 20, viz., in two pacments of 6s, each, and the last 4s. to be secured to the satisfaction of three of the principal creditors. After much air, cation a resolution was passed by the creditors pre. sent accepting this offer. The house has been established since 1831, and has occupied a respecta ble position. Subjoined is the balance-sheet: Te creditor* es lT To ditto wan ::::::::::: ::: " C I . J. 19.148 T To HAWN on USltoodrolio. Tint d. ot • It 16 ollarbof, coon salmi ON 01010 . 1,2 11 loon Worm MI .. 13 10 6 6 Surplos ........ .................. 1.9 6: 10 94 4:31.841 11 1 By &Mom tad . AVM 4 1 B 7 ditto doubtfrt ait4 bed ...... ......• .• .... 14 1 U 14/ ash ma band .. .......... ............ 1.111 1 Beltutat4d man ........ 15 17 Rock on band, neat .................. 111,144 11 : 1 Lir militia. Ism. Ind mat, to be oldish& ..... • AL U 41/ 411,44311 .701110100 aOOl Yr. Itadlood'o printo errata WA 011 A meeting was alio held yesterday of the crediters el Mears. Lichtenstein and Co., who stopped on the 7th inst. Mr. Coleman (of the firm of J. E. Cole man and Co.) stated that the direct liabilities of the firm amounted to only 10,4231. 3s. ld., whereas the assets showed a sum of 11,0251. Bs. ; but in come inence of the failure of other parties a further liability of 15,0781. Bs. 9d. was thrown upon the estate, making the total liabilities 25,6011. oa. 10d. Of the liabilities so ranking it was estimated that reclamation would be made to the extent of 1,5001, at least, which would increase the assets to 12,8281. Bs., and thus show a dividend of nearly 10s. in the pound. Of the assets it was considered that about one half, or sufficient to yield a dividend of 51. in the pound, would be available within two months. In respect to the bills ranking on the estate, they were remittances for goods delivered by Messrs. Lichtenstein and Co. The capital at the be ginning of the year fully justified their trading liability. After other explanations satisfactory to the creditors had been made, it was resolved to wind ap the estate under inspection. The balance-sheet is annexed: To creditors oe *pm amounts . E 4.017 1310 To enklitm aon WY pueblo . . flUpj 10 • debit Wins awl for of aeoestala tam legs wen ao. rooted AM 11 2,520 0 10 1.919 To creditor. tufty eomod— }pro 19 4 1;.; ; ; i; Zig ........... ...... ...... .... Sae II 4 ---.. Dlrcai Ilaatlitia . : LW II 1 To NabMM.§ an 0t11t .. 11, Naps. . Maud. ta. .. CAW 4 • ot weich it i; ex tie:rialiiii . ii ii mg at =Well Ale IT II To IlanDines on non contracts .......... lke rl 6 It LGIO I II L 15.601 s 11, By soh balsam .... WIT 14 T Hy Mer 1.4141 0 liethro4ed i t: mdleeo ig 4; iiii • iiiid. 11 0 11 I 1 1CB A' retist.'.! la limpl • ~. 4M 1 By wr:Ats, se ,illills A 1111011011 pee emirs ~._ . 10 by amount. doe from media Mktg title( op BleMoils for their mount 163 9 0 cuss is All. stomata le be paid In foe.. . ..... U la motet of V.:o azooorane to MOIR. PJ. , obi& lett at pnoeut root oo ILO melte. It I. et posted tboS rcelatnottoo. • be ms4e from the scoeptors to son» ratcol, to obi& eels nob recirotottoes WU be imitable for adtionatooopi tbo geoseal creators. ,Zll OtS I • PQM!, for 2.e00L me the life d P 1 Licetenotrim,erieted km Difil is the SeetAkeb Weicere' road Amur... It appears that at the meeting of the creditors c/ Mews. Hirsch, Strother, and Co., held on Tuesday, the creditors present agreed to accept the composi tion of 3a. 6d. in the pound offered, and to give the firm a release. One creditor, however, diesentad, being desirous of communicating with his corn spondent abroad. It was explained that there is an advantage in leaving the winding up in the hands of the firm, u if they were not placed in a position to enforce fulfilment of the open contracts, there is s prospect of one-half of the assets being lost. Some of the principal as ditors appear disposed to view the position of the firm with commiseration rather than with any sterner sentiment. In all cases of mercantile laxity, however, it is essential that the facts should be tea before the public eye, whenever such a course is practicable. THE INDIA MAILS VIA MARSEILLES.—It it not expected that the mails, with the details of the intelligence re specting the six days' hard fighting for the noel capture of Lucknow, will reach London before Truuday or Wednesday next. The Pekin, with the Bombay mail, arrived at fitter an the 19th inst., and H.M.'s fast despatch boat Coquille brought from Alexandria to Malta the telegram ally which appeared in our later edition of yesterday. The Bombay mail may therefore await at Alexandria the arrival of the Calcutta and China mails, and will then, with them, be con veyed to Marseilles per Pentnaular and Oriental steam-ship Vectle. IRREGULARITY or AUSTRALIAN MAIL/S.—The European, Australian end Royal West Indian Mail compeny offered their new stria ship Australasia for the cowmen of troops to India, and the offer was accepted; but whetter the yowl has been chartered by the Admiralty or the East India Company does not appear. The mail service between Australia and Sues is interrupted through the want *Jeanne steamers, yet the Admiralty allow the Australasia to be tam up for troop service to India, which will prevent her ben Teething Sydney before April next, and, es the Simla to with drawn from the line, and the other three compels, ram, European, and Columbian, are in a very defective state, the public may expect for the next six months a continuance d the irregularities attending the arrivals of Australian cola. Thu necessity of having a fortnightly mail to our gold eclair is daily becoming more ►pparent, and fur that object we en tertain no doubt that the government will adopt the Panama route, which hes undisputed advantages over the Ceyla route. For the large stun of money granted for the moot contract the resulta obtained are extremely uthatiefectory, and an inquiry ought to be instituted by the Howe of Com mons into the entire mall packet nervier, with a stew to economy and improvement. Tan LATE. MAJOR BORTON.—Mr. Vernon Sada. the Pre/Meat of the India Board, has just thorn his sym pathy with the family of the late Major Baton by the Mkt of a cadetship to one of his sons. ROYAL COULEUR Or PRTSICIANS.—At the mil quarterly meeting of the Comilla Majors, held on Tagelayr the !Med inst., the following gentlemen, having underiloss the nereseary exaninatiocis for diploma, were admitted sew be. of the college :—Dr. Wall►ce, 5, Green-terms, Clotho well; Dr. Gahm, Radio!' House, Droltwich ; Dr. Rol (extra licentiate), 46, Hertford-street, May-fair ; Dr. Cho' man, 62, George-strest, Portaran-squar• ; also, Dr. Moore late 24a, Abbey-road, St. John's-wood, wee admitted anus licentiate. _ _ _ Chrism PALACE. ONI SHILLING DST. WIDNZIMAT. Dito423.—Adaguiecs cm saymeat. 446; 413 .• by aria Wolk $O4; kwail visibars, 760. Thi Linda In Oci which the n Hub TL 470 W aryl° mean vend ream off the the of work , value Adds Dr. AN Al Thii issued tetchy attorn. 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