The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

MAPPIN BROTHERS * ' WEST-END HOUSE in soh and VMS ttt, 11.30/ST Ice 50 yam BZOTHIMIS Ilanaiactsum have been gaining odebrity and • good name : but it la Tate • initial's to suppose that thel it aatt d in Oxford-street at all. In Ethelneld A.D. 1810. CITY liOni7-47 and M. mita wumeidgisisr, 11A11117A0101Y—Q17111DI !salsa DUMMY WOW, anniMILD. §ZOOND-HAND PIANOFORTE 4. CIAMIL DIAL; aad WOOD boo • taw awartmat slooad-hotet Itukaartalt by the moat aptamai wake" at ova* !edam& prima—Wl. Itaitsalaliesi. 11401E-HIS-KARS.—PIESSE and LUBIN'S DOW mrtrits foe the festivities, the sequel to Stolen Muses, else eir Roger cis °overlay bys Swrour, three bottles, In pretty caw, battle, 2L ed. None genuine without our nerve be writing—Men sad LUBIN, Boudoluest, eIHAKPAGNE, DRY sad DILIOATIC. quwile 635 . Per drIENIS !Owl/ Orilla C o.. ltecomeaded with conidsood—WlßY 321..7 and Co.. Idiportem Old Fundvais Minim& Wax's. Lc. aed Regentdirset. Walarloo-pliod, B.W. gh, enwefiO• Advertimmsats tutZoo7ltms ge11;;;;;" Iced= ifeelag Paper, must be a& the ceer, 10, BOGY.140411•14 by Two o dock on the day of pabikatioa. 00VIENT GARDEN. THIS Evian', THE PIIALTAN'e DAUGHTILL MAIM. P►repa and Mr. W. Harrtoon.—And Os comic Christmas Pantomime, canard HAILBQUIE BLOW AND THE Busr.—Coo dactor, Mr. A. Yalln. Oonetenes at ten nalasits to 7. MAYMAJtirt THIS Imo, OUR AMIZLCAN COUSIN. Mown Sothern sad Blackstone: Km 1 Intzwiltlam.—B.AßßlLAß PRINCI Or ABYSSINIA. Mr. Onintan and lams L Keeley. —And Mit& WHIT& Mn. Campion and Mlle Mariner. PILINCESIES. TRU EVENING, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Elm Cesetesee Aylmer. - And tM Peatoestmr, BIQUET WITH THE 1117 T : Or, Harlequin and Mother ShlSaa. Awe. Elleao, I. Power, and Raiford M 1 A. Oothenow. — BEITANWIA. Tine EVIIIINO, the Pantomime, AHOY HASSAN. Wm. Lane. Mama grans, Lou* Newhall. and Wile. Celeste Stephan ; To Were and his two performing Mulee.—And SOH' HELLS THAT LANG. —Oonumenee at hall-peat 6. HIGH WAS= AT LONDON DAIDO/A Ton DAY Nana& 30. tiaa.....Aßassa. ili. 425. Zo-Dosiow—Nondag. SA. less.....MiriEsims. 4 160. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7. Twosa who have not reflected hitherto must now see what sympathy with the slaveowners in their rebellion leads to, and what it requires. Before it can prevail in England, English opinion must be resolved into its elements, and formed anew. The moat certain and most sacred beliefs are found to _ _ _ -- stand in its way, and must, if possible, be got rid of. Those who are attempting this work have not estimated the greatness of their task. What might happen if we listened to the apostles of the " higher culture," and gave up our Bible to the learned as a book too difficult for the common people to under- atand,we cannot tell. But the Bible uin the hands of the people, and the miserable endeavour to make it appear that the " last revealed phase " and development of the Gospel" rivets the fetters of the bondman by recognising the right of one man to hold another in chattel-slavery, will . . only cover its authors with shame. This is not the first attempt by ten thousand to represent as inimical to human society a book which has done more for human freedom than all other books put together. Just as Sr. PAUL'S CODOOTII that °animus should do nothing to bring an ill name on his religion, but rather forego hie rights, if needful, for the sake of the Gospel, is repre sented as a tacit sanction of slavery, so the same Apostle's exhortation to civil obedience while NKR() was on the throne has been perverted into an exhortation to suffer all manner of tyranny. But the common sense of a Bible-read- ing people has never been misled by this sophistry. On the contrary, it has seen in Sr. PAUL a man whose noble life was a manly resist- ante of tyrants and a brave obedience to Goi, and it Lae not misunderstood the vital and essential spirit and the glorious precepts of our religion on account of a few exhortations designed for temporary and local use. If the Bible contain s not one text that can be " perverted" to prove slavery unlawful, let us then see what it is that the Holy Scriptures are assumed to sanction. If the Times rightly interprets the Bible, then the holding of white men in slavery is not unlawful. The slaves which ST. PAUL saw around him were not all drawn from barbarous races and countries. To- gather with the menial drudges brought from Thrace and Cappadocia were the trained and edu cated slaves from Greece and Syria. They exer cised the skilled trades and learned professions, were builders, engineers, silversmiths, architects, surgeons, physicians, antiquaries, painters, and grammarians, and were bought and sold in the market at prices corresponding to their acquire ment'. If slavery is sanctioned by Sr. Petri, the enslavement of men of your own race—the edu• cated, virtuous, and refined—is sanctioned by him. To this desperate strait the defenders of the SlAVO owners' rebellion in this country are brought. We commend their argument to the attention of the Lancashire operatives who met on New Year's Eve to condemn American slavery. There is not a child in our Sunday-schools but can remember precepts of Holy Scripture which are utterly and eternally opposed to slavery. But the Loan did more to destroy that and every other form of social evil than could be done by issuing any number of precepts by proclaiming Divine truths about humanity which placed the enor mous wickedness of slavery in a flood of light. Christianity has taught us to look on man as an immortal being, and his moral and spiritual nature as of incalculable dignity and worth. Such a being cannot become the " property" of another. Slavery says that this nature goes for nothing if the man can be seized and made useful on a sugar planta tion. " A slave," says the Louisiana Code, "is " in the power of the master to whom he belongs. " The master may sell him, dispose of his person, " his industry, his labour ; he can do nothing, " possess nothing, nor acquire anything but " which must belong to his master." Natural justice teaches that the pretensions thus set forth are a monstrous usurpation : nobody in the world ever believed that any slave owed it as a duty to his master not to gain his free dom, by any means in his power, even to the em ployment of force against his detsinor. But our religion, by what it teaches of the nature of man, makes slavery nothing less than impiety. It de clares that man, created in the image of GOD, is in the highest sense His child, created to unfold godlike faculties, and govern himself by a divine law written on his heart, and republished in GOD'S Word. To seize a creature with such a nature and such capabilities is to insult the Cee.rroz OA well as to inflict social wrong. He may be ignorant and depraved, but the capacity of improvement allies him to the instructed and refined. His mind can entertain the great ideas of GOD, Law, Duty, Truth. Such a being was made to be an end in him self, made for his own happiness and virtue. He cannot rightfully be a thing, • mere instrument, a chatteL No human laws can repeal or override this first ordinance, which comes direct from the Divine Throne. The rights of every individual man are laid deep in the foundations of his nature. It is because he.is such a creature, and not • lower THE sxm a ty ,WEpNESDAY one that he has a right to exercise and= his intellect by acquiring knowledge 3 -to for bettering his condition ; to be protected biim partial laws ' • to be exempt from punishment while he respects the rights of others ; to have au aqui. Talent for his labour ' • to sustain domestic rela tions, and enjoy the happiness which flows from them. The duty of society to the individual is to protect these right', and develop them by repres sing all wrong. But, where slavery is upheld by law, Government, instead of protecting these rights, makes them its prey. Slavery violates them all ; not incidentally, or now and then, but ne cessarily, systematically, and from its very nature. It denies to its victim the right of developing his best faculties ; and, what is worse, takes means, generally too effectually, while he is young, to pre vent his ever desiring to cultivate his intellectual powers. He cannot form plans for his own good, for his time and strength belong to another. The right to acquire position by honest industry is denied him. He has no right to wife and children of which he may not be stripped at any moment at his master's pleasure. And this, we are told, is a state of things against which the Bible has not a single text. Have those who affirm this ever asked themselves what would be gained for the cause of order, religion, and morality if their amer tion were generally believed It may be hoped that this last manifesto of the pro-slavery party among us has not been made in vain. Them must be many Christian men who, although unwilling to involve themselves without need in a judgment upon all the complicated issues of the American strife, must feel that they owe duties to their religion when its character is audaciously attacked. Especially, the Christian Churches of this country must now either speak out in plain language, or be held to acquiesce in a representation which will be loudly echoed from the platforms of unbelief. We have a right to expect of them that they will not see the morality of the Holy Scriptures publicly impugned with less concern than they have shown for the spread of speculative error. • 7 ' ret eroun. • 4 • OSBORNE, Jut. Q. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Howe, drove out yesterday morning. Primers Louis al Hem has suffered no injury or incon venience tolls her late accident, and her Royal Highneer is able to take her walks and drives as metal. The Primer d Wales, attended by Lieutenant-General Knollys and Certain Grey, left Buckingham Palace at ten dela* yesterday morning for Sandringham Hall, Lynn, Nor/folk, Viseesaa Pal ombe arrived in tows molarday morale. liis kedship reformat in tiae afternoon to hie mat, Broad- Leda, Hants. Despatches were received yesterday at the Chisoid-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wanda Despatches were sent to the Lord High Corosaisioner of the Louisa Wands. We are authorised to state that, upon the occa sion of the arrival in this country of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, previous to her marriage, early in March, with the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness will land from her Majesty's yacht Via toria and Albert, at Gravesend, where her Royal Highness will be received by the Prince of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses will then proceed to London, and will be conveyed in her Ma jesty's carriages, with military escort, through the metropolis to Windsor Castle. We have also authority to state that it is the Queen's intention that, in the course of the year, Levees shall be held, on the part of her Majesty, by the Prince of Wales, and that Drawing Rooms shall also be held, on her Majesty's behalf, by one of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses, her Ma jesty's daughters, or after her marriage, by the Princess of Wales. It is also the Queen's inten tion that, shortly after their marriage, the Prince and Princess of Wales shall hold, in her Majesty's name, an evening reception at St. James's Palace, at which the ladies and gentlemen invited by the Lord Chamberlain, by the Queen's command, shall have an opportunity of offering their congratula tions to their Royal Highnesses. TIM PRINCI or Were—WooLrzaror, Tura- DAY ATTIRNOON.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Weiss arrived here this afternoon by 3.30 special train, aocompsnied by Lieutenant-General Booilys end Captain Grey and suite, ea route for Sandringham-hall, &tun% about a mils from this station. Th e mated excitement" prevailed at Lynn and neighbourhood, but his Royal Highness did not stop at Lynn at all, and the crowds were disap pointed. A considerable portion of the household arrived on Saturday. It is confidently asserted that his Royal I Maims joins the West Norfolk hounds tomorrow in the hunting fie* the meet being at Honstanton, within five or six miles of Sandringham We understand that the muter of the hounds (H. Villebois, Fag.) has been honoured with the gracious oommands of his Royal Highness to mount him when he hunts during his visit. _ _ . Frances Anne Marchioness of Londonderry is suffering from indisposition, at Wynyard Park, Stockton on-Tee.. _ _ _ The Earl and Countess of Portarlington have left the Duke of Marlborough's seat, Blenheim Palace, for Wyayard Park, Stockton-on-Teen. Lord and Lady Arthur Hay are staying at Mr. sad Lady Charlotte Start's seat, Critehill House, Wim bourn, Bonet. . The Hon. George Barrington comes to town to day from visiting the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, at holds:nye. Mr. Disraeli arrived in Plymouth on Monday from Torquay, and is now a guest of the Marquis of Nor manby, at the Winter-villa. Sir Stafford Northcote has been distributing prizes at Exeter in connexion with the School of Art. The hon. baronet made a suitable and interesting speech. Lord Airlie, son-in-law of Lord Stanley of Alder lay, with other distinguished Imelda of Kr. John Laird, M.P., on Moseley visited the docks at Birkenhead, and yes terday emend the river to Liverpool, where they were en tartans& by Mr. B. O. Gardner, the mayor. The party visited the Fres Public Library, St. George's-hall, &c., whilst in LiverpooL_ Mr. and Mm. Chas. Kean appear to be as popu lar es ever in Dublin. On Monday night there was a crowded attendance in the Round•room of the Rotunda, which is estimated to contain about 3,000 persona, to wit sees their lag performance in Ireland for two years. The entertainment& consisted of the reading of Shakspesre's King John end some detached pieces by libosolay sad other poets. The death took place at Lowestoft on Monday of Mr. Charles Dance, sueoeasively registrar, taxing °Meer, and chief desk of the late Court for the Relief of Issedvest Debtors. THE CESSION OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS• (FBOll LAST WIGHT% GAZIIITIL) FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 5. Her Majesty's Government have received from the Hon. Henry Elliot, a copy of the following memorandum, which he had delivered to the Presi dent of the Provisional Government of Greece : It is her Majesty's earnest desire to contribute to the welfare and prosperity of Greece. The treaties of 1827 and 1832 bear evidence of this desire on the part of the British crown. The provisional government of Greece declared, upon the withdrawal of Bing Otho from Greece, that their mission is to maintain for Greece consti tutional monarchy and the relations of peace with all other states. If the new Assembly of the representatives of the Greek nation should prove faithful to this declare tion, should maintain oonstitutional monarchy, and should refrain from all aggression against neigh bouring States, and if they should choose a sove- reign against whom no well founded objection could be raised, her Majesty would see in this course of conduct a promise of future freedom and happiness for Greece. In such a case, her Majesty, with a view to strengthen the Greek monarchy, would be ready to announce to the Senate and re presentatives of the lonian islands, her Majesty's wish to seethem united to the monarchy of Greece, and to form with Greece one united State ; and if this wish should be expressed also by the lonian legislature, her Majesty would then take steps for obtaining the concurrence of the powers who were parties to the treaty by which the seven lonian Islands and their dependencies were placed u a separate state ender the protectorate of the British crown. I are to take care, in my communications upon this subject, to make it understood, that the elec tion of a prince who should be the symbol and precursor of revolutionary disturbance, or of the adoption of an aggressive policy towards Turkey, would prevent any relinquishment of her Ma jesty's protectorate of the lonian Islands. Her Majesty's Government trust that, in the selection of a sovereign to rule over Greece, the Greek Assembly will choose for their king a prince from whom they can expect a regard for religious liberty, a respect for constitutional freedom, and a turners love of peace. A prince possessing these qualities will be fitted to promote the happiness of G r eece, and will be honoured with the friendship and confidence of her Majesty the Queen. Mr. Bright has accepted an invitation to the annual dinner of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce on Thareday, t h e 15th inst. Mr. John Pender the representative of Totnes, has placed at the dis posal of • committee the sum of one thousand pounds, to be applied as they may see fit for the general welfare of the inhabitants of that borough. The Recorders of Exeter and Penzance on Mon day referred at some length to the present system of punish. meet. The learned gentlemen concurred in reoommesding • return to transportatioa.. . . . The Moniteur publishes a long and detailed so want of criminal jurisdiction in England, especially so far as it bears on preventive imprisonment. A Paris correspon dent says :—" It is vary carefully done, not containing above a dozen very glaring mistakes, the principal being that a prisoner monot be assisted by counsel before a police magistrate, and that the magistrate takes a decision without asking the prisoner if he has anything to my." The Journal du Havre announces that the tele graphic methorologiail information organised in England by Admiral Fithßoy will, for the future, be regularly trans mitted to France. On Monday the Uri despatch was posted up in that port, coritainieg the weeds. " A gale may be expected from the north-west." The system of the adrenal is based upon the fact that the telegraph is more rapid than the most violent storm. Mamma terrible hurricane does not travel more than 2,700 metres a minute ; so that on warning by telegraph seamen at, a distance of 1,000 kilo metres (lithe of a mile each) ie the direction which the , storm is taking, they would WV seven hours to prepare for I the tempest. A POLITICAL Don JIYAN.—The Nord of yester day says, In an article beaded " Don Joan Diplomatist," that the regent positioo of the British Cabinet, between its old flame Turkey and its fresh conquest Greece, is calcu lated to recall that charming scene from MoliZre, in which the seducer persuades each of his victims that she alone has woe his heart. It adds, that until it has fuller information respecting the intentions of " Don Juan Palmenton," it must perforce describe his recent conduct u " political bigamy." Tas FRENCH HI Maxwo.—The Moniteur of yesterday metal= a very long article upon the priest eat* of Mexico, which it be translated from a Vera Crag paper, and which fills no fewer thee five columns of its space. The article is highly favourable to the Preach ex pedition, and declares that the country is favourable to it also. " Public opinion," it says, "salutes with an eethu- Mum bordering upon madness the generous projects of Preece in behalf of our unhappy cosetry." According to ties writer et the article it is rely the donagereas in Mexico who an opposed to the hese& hennaed's. LOAN roe. THI 003riDliltATI Govzsinsiarr.— It is understood that a member of the Confederate gems mast has arrived in Liverpool, having the neosemny racial dcountenta and full power to negotiate a loan in this OMB tay. It is proposed to rake the loan upon the security of oaten stored in the Southern States. MR GLADSTONE AT HAWAIDEN On Monday evening the Chancellor of the Ee cheque lectured to • large audience in the Boys' National Schoolroom, Hawarden, near Chester, in aid of the funds of the Literary sad Scientific Institution of the vil lage. The subject chosen by the right honourable gen tleman was a tour which he made in Sicily in 1838. Speak ing of the cholera which had ravaged the country shortly be fore his visit, Mr. Gladstone maid the people were paneled with the feeling that the cholera had been intro duced by government. He made this note on the sub ject at the time :—" The people are persuaded that the nig procured the cholera to come among them, and that it was not seat by God." They began to murder of the upper classes. The cholera ceased ; they be =the King did this to check the revolutionary spirit and to thin the people. They also believed that the Car dioal Archbishop received the cholera in • pinch of muff ' from one of the King'. generals, and that the reason why the disease was given to him was that be had refused to have anything to do with the introduction of cholera into the island. That was a very ludicrous but at the same time a very melancholy fact, for it was impossible to conceive any thing more illustrative of the unhappy and radically bad system under which the people of Sicily lived at that period, than that such a belief should exist among the people of the island. Sicily was a country of very great interest, sod he had had the more pleasure in taking it for the subject of his narrative bemuse it wee a country that he hoped was about to see brighter destinies open upon it. (Applause.) He had mentioned what the people thought of their government at the period of his visit. The feeling which he had described and endeavoured to illus trate received • very strong political illustration about three or four years ago. When General Garibaldi lauded with a handful of men in Sicily, the population joined him, and he was ably aided b that population and the few men whom he brought with him to make head against and overcome from 20,000 to 30,000 regular troops. A constitutional go- veroment was established ; Garibaldi Irani 012 to the midi metal part of the kingdom, and became master of Naples. Lest year General Garibaldi, borne along by the impales of a generous but not sufficiently r efl ective enthusiasm, landed in Sicily again. It wee the same man, with the same pus wishing to raise the island for the purpose of accomplishing Italian freedom. But mark the difference. The people had coufidence is the govern ment. They would not join him. He was obliged to get into • ship to go over to Italy without an army ; and very shortly afterwards he was made captive, and, unhappily, wounded. He is now, as we hops, recovering, and not likely again to tempt the people of Sicily who bays, howev e r, Mown how esceedirgly benefice* they bare been acted upon by the substitution of • good system of government for • had one. (Applause.) A vote of thanks to the right hon. gentleman, and to Sir Stephen Glynn e for prodding, concluded the pro ceedings, DovrNING-errear, JAN. s.—The Queen has been plowed to appoint Robert Temple, Esq. to be Master of the Supreme Court of the Island of Maur itius.—Garotte. FORZION-OFFICI, JAN. s.—The Queen has been pissed to approve of Mr. Joseph Magill as Consul at Bel fast, and of Mr. P. S. Minich, as Vice-Consul at Queens town, for the Republic of Haill.—Gasette. VOLUNTIIII? SALum.—Tbe following War-office Circular has been addrssmd to commanding officers of Artillery Valuation:—"Sir,—Complaints having been ! made of the danger arisiag from firing salutes from heavy guns in small batimite belonging to Artillery Volunteers, I am directed by fleerelery Sir George Lewis to inform you that is all emss Is which blank ammunition is bed from prriaoe batteries is use by Volunteers, which moat of less than four gums, the intervals between the Snag should under no circumstances be leas Mimi 15 simmads, and that especial care should be taken in seals cam in sponging out the guns sad Nerving the veal, with the view of ob i viatiag, as far as possible, any thanes of scoldset.—l bays the bower to ins, air, your obschant atevaat, Qut thl(D &roc" 6 JAliitT, LATEST IN' HANOI. ileglies ?mann.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, D. 27, Nomura. Mar Edinburgh.) It has been discovered that immense frauds have been committed on the government by the persons raising regiments, furnishing army sup plies, maintaining troops, or engaged in other government contracts. The evidence given in the court of inquiry on General McDowell continues to show that all the insinuations against his loyalty and military capacity were without any foundation. A decision of the Attorney-General, Mr. Bates, fully establishes that colour is no bar to citizen ship under the United States constitution. Orders for supplies for the French army in Mexico continue to be received here. QUIFY:NfffOWN, Jv. 7. The Inman steamer Edinburgh, from New York on the 27th ult., has arrived here. She brings 62 passengers, and 346,006' dole, in specie on freight. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ous owl PARDI, TUESDAY EVINING. The France, on the faith of a Vienna core spondent in whom it has "absolute confidence," gives a version of the animated Christmas conver sation between M.. de Bismark and Count Karolyi, the Austrian ambassador at Berlin, which is in every material respect conformable to that which was telegraphed to you from the Pays of Sunday evening. It, however adds a phrase as having been pronounced by M. de Biamark, which would go far to justify the heading " A cams befli," used by the Europe of Frankfort. His Prussian Majesty, we are told, declared by the mouth of his minister that he would be deterred by no impediment from attaining his ends (viz., "the historic mission of his dynasty, and, more especially since 1848, the influence of Prussia in the Fe deral Diet"), even if, in "defence of his good right, he should be compelled to draw the sword." But the France agrees with all the recent state- meats that this affair, however menacing in ita first aspect, will come to nothing. It would seem that the good sense of diplomatists had, by a kind of tacit convention, put an extinguisher upon the braggadocio of the not over-wise Bing. The France, continuing its narrative, says : Omit de Bamark immediately informed Boron de Wer- that, the Pruasian minister in Vienne, of this conversation, directing him to repeat it, word for word, to Count de Rechberg. But—and this is the material fact revealed by our Vienna letter—Baron de Werther neither read nor in any . . way oommunicated to Ocrunt de Rechberg any Premien note or despatch whatsoever; and the existent's of any such on this subject is officially denied. Nothing pulsed but confi dential oonversation. Therefore it is that in diplomatic circles, so far from there being any apprehension of a rup ture, sad still lees of a war, between the two great German powers, it in expected that their differences will be speedily nettled by a oompromiae, thanks to the efforts of the minor data which ammo the part of medi►tors. The Patric explains, and I believe correctly, that the calling out of the reserves of Prussian regi ments in federal garrisons, about which a great fuss has been made, is a totally inoffensive measure. The War Minister, from motives of economy, and on account of the delay in voting the budget, has postponed for four months the usual levy of recruits. In consequence, several purely Prussian military stations have been reduced ; but, as Prussia is obliged to furnish her full quota to federal fortresses, it has been found necessary to call out the reserves to supply vacancies. This measure, thus accounted for, has evidently no bearing on' the bickerings between Prussia and Austria. The France formally contradicts the news, which I think baa been sufficiently contradicted before, that Victor Emmanuel was coming to Paris for the christening of his grandson. The day for that ceremony is not yet fixed, but whenever it does take place the King will be " represented in due legal form." The France also learns (and this is no news either) that the King's New Year's speech made a " great sensation." But the France studiously leaves uncertain the reason why the King's speech was particularly remarked. We know from other sources that although he avoided any mention of the word Rome, he spoke confidently of the destinies of Italy, and was un derstood by his hearers as identifying himself and his dynasty with the completion of her unity, which he did not believe could be long deferred. The France, however, pretends that "all political men" are now fully aware that Italy will never have a capital at the expense of the independence of the Papacy, and that Italy has been for the last three years "cherishing vain delusions." M. de la Gueronnihre's journal wishes "that those who now govern Italy" (this is the exact expression of the France) "would have the courage to tell her the truth." M. de Golf", the diplomatist appointed to represent Prussia at the court of France in the place of M. de Bismark, has arrived in Paris, and, like M. de Talleyrand at Berlin, will be received with the rank of ambassador, instead of (as formerly) that of a mere minister plenipotentiary. The Bourse has not maintained the rise of yes terday. The Rents fell Ltie for cash and 20c. for account, closing at 70fr. 55c. and 70fr. 60c. Mobilier fell 28fr. 75c., and the Italian Loan, 25c. Railway shares were very much lower. Bullier's Correspondence suggests the Gibraltar question as accounting for the fall. Not, as you might at first suppose, that there is any wish to force England to give it up ; but, on the con trary, that France views with jealousy the advances of England to Spain, after her having made of Portugal an English province. MM. F. Morin, Laurent, Pichat, and two or three other liberal writers who lately separated them selves from the Courrier du Dimanche, have joined the Semaine Universe/Le, published at Brussels. This week's number of that journal is seized, on account, as it is supposed, of some articles of the new rcdacteurs. It is very difficult for independent Frenchmen to write as they think without being thought dangerous by the authorities. The following matter-of-course paragraph in the papers of the day shows how simple is the mode of dealing with the "dangerous classes" in a country not plagued with any habeas corpus, or hampered by scruples about the liberty of the subject : M. Illanchet, commiasary of police at the Saint ?demi district, followed by a strong body of police and some gend armes, the night before lest entered a low lodging-house in the Rue Matilicife, and arrested forty-five men, who had no papers of any kind, and were without apparent means of pining a livelihood. The Belgian booksellers are again profiting by I their free coestitutioa to the great detriment of the book sellers of Paris. The censor has just given a anal decision on the " florciere." The second edition of that work will neither be printed nor sold in the Freda& capital, although the first was &Unwed to come out in it. No sooner was it heard that the government had derided upon refusing the author the asomeary permimion than the demand for the •• Sorei4e" became so great that in the course of a few hours the first edition vas entirely bought up. WIG RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT KNOTTINGMT. --e-- THIRTEEN !MONS INJURED. fliat half-peat eight o'clock yesterday morning, as maid of an alarming and somewhat destructive ebarsater occurred near the railway station at &tottingley. Af • dishiness of about 200 yards from the Knottingley station there is a junction of two lines ci tails, one of them be from York and the other from Leeds. Parliamentary train leave York sad Leeds, for London, every morning, arriving at the Knotting* station, where they form one train, at half-past eight o'clock. Up te shoat ten minutes past eight o'clock yesterday morning the weather was fine and clear, but at that time it became suddenly foggy, and at half-pastB o'clock, the time at which the trains were doe, the fog was so dense that it was impossible to seamore the; a few yards. It was at that time that the accident whirl' we are about to describe happened. At about 130 or 140 yards from the station there is a bridge spanning the railhead imme diately beyond this thorns apointsman'eandignalman's box. The junction of the lass referred to is some 30 or 40 rude beyond, and at some distance down the lime there are signs& ,by which the driven of the trains are informed whether they can with safety approach the station. Whether the slieele were wrong. or whether the drivers of one or both the Imam wars matigent in their duties in not properly ob. seawing them, or whether in consequence of the dense fog which prevailed the signals were misunderstood, we are en at meant able to my, but at all events the trains met with an accident which is of serious onsequenes to the complain and to several of the passengers. The two lines of mils are joined into one at • distaste* GI • few yards from the pcintsman's box, and it was just at the I when the accident marred. As was perfectlyregnlr,the Leeds train proceeded towards the station first, and in the usual course the York train world have bees signalled to approach when the line was clear, bat nnfortuntely it ran forward before its time, became Mangled with the Leeds bob, and caused serious mischief. Neither of the trains was moving nay rapidly at the time, or the ssonsisqnseess would have been most disastrous. As it was when the oar. degas cam into collision two or three of the m were thrown elf the lies, and two althea were turned over arid smashed. One of these carriages was empty, bat several of the occu pants of the other were very seriously injured. The screams of the injured and frightened were of the most alarming character. One person, Mr. Lanham, of Bighorn Fern, attempted to escape from the canine, but in doing so his leg was jammed between it and • stout signal post. Just at the point where the leg was caught there was an iron lever and other arrangements for the working el the signals above, and • small projecting iron 1 on which the lever meted was craned into the leg in • f tful manner. A woman named Mrs. Robinson, of II was also caught between the compressed timbers, and was rather severely injured. The driver of the Leeds trail, whose name is Manton, attempted to ens himself from injury by jumping off the engine, but he unfortunately broke his leg. The stoker, who remained on the engine, escaped without injury. in addition to the smashing of the arriages, the line was injured to • slight degree and the levers of the scud and tket connected with the points were broken. The brickwork of the signal station was also much damaged, but the accident did not, fortunately, interfere with the traffic on the line. As soon as the accident happened, Mr. Abbott, the station-muter, sent for all the medical men in Knottingley, and for as many as could be had from Ponte fract, and then proceeded to see to the comfort and con venience of the injured pimentos. The persons injured wave : Mn. Brooke, Doncaster, fractured jaw, and otherwise seriously injured. Mr. Lanham, Higher° Ferrer., right leg crushed, and since amputated. J. Myers, docithamptou, slight eoneassion brain. Alfred Malkin, Milford, small bone of right leg splintered. Raison Allen, &fleshy, contusion of body. Thos. Knapton, driver of the Lamb train, right leg broken below the knee. Walter Robinson, ship steward, Hull, alight bruises. Mrs. Robinson (wife of the above), much bruised about the body, and seriously injured intereally. Jacob Freedman, Temphir.lane, Lents, braised and shaken. Robert Davies, Hampton-place, Norwich, slight bruises. Maria Woodforth, aged 13, lirattleby, Lincolnshire, alight braless. Mrs. Boulby, Barnby Moor, near Retford, slight bruises. Wm. Munby, Brattleby, alight bruises. Other per were s ha ken but as far as we could learn none seriously. As the injured persom were extricated from the &von they were removed by Mr. Abbott's orders to the neighbouring hotels, where every Westin was paid to them, and everything wee 4006 which could contribute to their comfort. They were told that everything which the hotels could provide was at their service, and for those who wished it telegrams of the ocean's°s were forwarded to their relatives and frionsb. The medical men were mire. midair; in their attention to the requirements of the wounded. In the afternoon Mr. Beckett Denison, the chairman of the company, went to the scene of the accident and ordered that the sufferers should have everything they required, and that no expense should be spared to make them comfortable. So serious were the injuries of Mx. Lanham that it was found necessary to amputate the limb. Amoon k t .i lh: medical men in attendance upon the wounded were Bywater, Simpson, Atkinson, Bouddon, Oxley, he. The injured persons sent home were Mrs. Brooks (who was accompanied b 7 • medical man), Friedman, Davies, Wood, Boulby, and Munby, and it is expected that some of the remaining persons will be able to return home to day. Mr. Smeathen, of &Hord, and Mr. Symonds, of Leeds, district superintendents, and Mr. Troward. engi neer ions, were sent for, and rendered valuable as sista:me. Steps were taken for the speedy removal of all danger, and in • comparatively abort space of time all was Blear. An investigation into the cause of the accident is being made by the company, and if it b found that any ci the servants have been guilty of negligence, they will be punithed. A Pontefract correspondent, referring to the C 6106 of the accident, says :—" There being • great fog the distance sig nals were put on, and it appears that the distance signal on the Leeds line was thrown off—that is, for the train to pus on. It consequently did so, and the driver of It did not observe the York train approaching until it was too late to avoid a collision. Before the York train could get clear of the points, the Leeds train ran through it, smashing two of the carriages to atoms." At the lev6e of the French Minister of the Inte rior, on New Year's-day, the Prefect of the Seine alluded to the decree inserted in the Monitair of January 1, rela tive to the publicity to be given to the discussions of the protectoral councils, as well as to the enlarging tbe func tions of the administrative bodies. "Your excellency," playfully added the prefect, growing bolder as he went on, " your excellency bas given a very flue New Year's gift to the councillors." The minister looked slightly puzzled, as if he doubted whether his prefect was in earnest. " What New Year's gift do you man'" " Why, your excellency's report and the decree accompanying it, which appeared in this morning's Afonikur." The minister looked as puzzled as ever. He, however, replied, " Oh, yes—yes ; very well." Some superficial persons present fancied for • moment that the minister had not read or even seen the decree countersigned by him ; and they began to repeat the mot, rightly or wrongly attributed to the Emperor—viz., that M. Billault saw all and signed nothing ; whereas M. Persigny saw nothing and signed everything. M. E. Legouvii has just remonstrated in the ghee against the exclusion to which comedians are subject in the nominations to the Legion of Honour. The remarks of M. Legouvi are made in favour of M. &MOON the actor and professor. Of all the characters in which Mdlle. Patti has yet rung in Paris, that of Lucia Is (says Go/it/wan° ac counted by many the finest. Skills. Trebeilli, fresh from her triumphs in London and Vienna, made her debut in Lucretia, at the Italian Opera, on Saturday, for the first time this memo. The rehearsals of La Muette de Partici, at the Grand Opera, Paris, interrupted by the sad accident to Mdlle. Lirry, have been resumed, the part of the Mamas being transferred to Mdlle. Vernon. It is expected to be brought forward before the close of January. Auber's Haydee, and a new operetta, La Devise rile Beeper, are in SCUT, preparation at the Opera Crimique, Paris. M. E. Angier's new comedy, Le Psle de Gibuytr, continues to be the vogue at the Francais, Paris. On the first of the month no places were to be procured to see it before the beginning of February. "In the meantime," says Geionmei, "critical opinion, with all fair allowances for the merits of the piece, is really at a lons to discover the cause of its extraordinary ancetas. The charge of its being • libel on the clerical party has been of vast service to its popularity, and the author ought to be immensely obliged to those who brought it spiast him." Mme. Pleyel is expected to play at a few con certs during the present month in Pairs. Mdlle. Titiens has passed through Paris on her way to Naples, when she is engaged at the San Carlo. Mr. Wallace, the English composer, is at present in Paris terminating an opera intended for the ensuing ewes at Oovent-garden. A report (according to a musical journal) is abroad of the approaching marriage of Mdlle. Patti. Mr. Paul Morphy, the celebrated American chess player, hes bees far some days in Paris. He has not, how ever, called at the Café de Is Eugene., and gives no intima tion of any design to play. As Bolick is also in Paris, some plum between them would excite much interest. s. V. 1863. _ 7 IATAL ACCIDENT PIEB. A? rat -( THIS DA ALLHALLOWS STEAMBOAT T.) The bv , about 10 o'clock, a sad and fatal socideet at the Allhallows steamboat pier, seer Leedom- to a gentlemanly - dreessd young man, whose name is at wt unknown. The deceased wee a psalms, by board she Los (penny) steamboat, frow bridge, sad, as weal at that period of the co=kette vowel was crowded with cleats and Whew engaged in the City, who often follow the reprehensible practice of jamolVde.frons the steamer before the vend is estely of al Th e Lotus had got withis two or Wee feet of the si of the bugs, sad the headeoye ems being made fest preparatory to throwing out the per, when dill unfortunate man attempted to jump the hew sponson. In doing so, his foot Wreck against the edge of the barge, and be fell back, his head coolies ter tact with the paddlewheel, and immediately disappeared in the water. He was not again won ; and it is supposed that he mast have been stunned by his head striking against the paddles. The Thames Conservancy piennee lost no time in dragging the bed of the river, but up to the time of this belog written the body bad not been recovered. His hat was picked up, and is now is the preemies of the merman. It apparently of foreign make, and t h e lining has the words, " Victor Company." At the same moment the deceased lost his life, another passenger jumped from the aft spooson, sod he Dearly shared a simi ar fate. He succeeded in grasping the guard Chain, and so saved him self. The deceased appeared to be about :0 years of ago, and of middle statue. THE BURNING 07 THE PLYMOUTH . THEATRE AND ROYAL HOTEL AT We gather the toiletries partied's' from the Wafers Morning News : When the fire had been subdued we could look over the building, and we were glad to find that there are not many of the rooms deatroyed. The whole of two of the been of the corridors are left unhurt, and may be put into im mediate service for Indium. But the whole of the western parts of the building are in an entire inn of ruin. The card and billiard rooms, sad the sect of the ball room, are destroyed, as is also the grand entrance wad • portion of the tea room. What the flee did sot destroy we fear the water and the means taken to put out the fire have made • wreck. We could not ascertain with any certaicty the amount for which the corporate property is insured, but we wire tdd it wee about 19,0001. - Mr. NOM is insured for 3,0001. The lewd and midges, Mr. Newcombe, his son, Mr. Albert Newcombe, the secretary and treasures of the establishment, Mr. Terrell, the principal machined, end others familiar with all comma of the bmang, led the way to rooms where valuable articles bad been deposited, gave directions for their removal, end sainted without flagging in clearing the enema portions of the building of all that the hem and affright of the moment allowed them to remove. Very gnat credit is due to those neighbours and friends whoped their houses to receive these articles of salvage and every available inch of apace at the disposal of Iles,ewcombe. The conduct of Mrs. ROW, of George street, in this respect claims a word at our hands. That lady's premises were open throughout the whole night for the reception of any of the books, pap ers, trinkets, properties, &a., that were removed from the room. Mr. W. F. Moore, president of the Plymouth In. Nineties, who was near the building early in the night, or rather in the morning, used his refined@ at • most fortu nate moment to provide a place for the temporary reception of the articles of clothing which were brought from the wardrobe of the theatre. The sheltered portico of the Abbe =um, and afterwards the interior of the adjoining house, were the depositories of • large collection of miscellaneous ap parel, grotesque and of doubtful appearance to those who are not familiar with life behind the scenes, but of great value to the theatrical muster. When the fire had bafiled the efforts of the West of England men in the gallery had broken through the partitions into the g , and was rapidly pining ground in the interior of the theatre proper—in modern critical parlance, the " auditorium Newcombe and • ands band of assistauts were esr &avowing to char a set of apartments above the stage, and had seconded in striping all the rooms excepting those of the highest story. The increasing fi re filled the upper parte of the building with thick, stifling smoke, and ren dered any attempt to penetrate to the higher rooms an act of oo common bravery. At that moment Mr. Newcombe determined to reach the wardrobe, and to make a2= effort to emery. its contests. lie amended the s ' end Man to others to follow him. All who meld made the Maws*, bat now of them could sedum the suffocating power el the smoke. One by one they fell back, only to erne a new trial and to fall beck again. Several times it zris it zgesed that Mr. Newcombe bad suffered for his ty, for those below were unable to hear either his voice or his footstep. After a considerable time emit much suspense the manager made his escape, acid math his adventure successful at the same time, by Maga el a breach in the farther wall of the wardrobe. By knocking • score or so of bricks out of that wall he opened • way to the gallery stiarel•O (spoken of several times already), and thus enabled his assistants, by ant of meat energy and psninernoe, to remove the whole store of clothing, which was large. The heartiness with which everybody joined in the work of saving what was to be saved was remarkable. Even where little judgment was exhibited, there was no lack of sincerity of purpose aod earnestness s in putting • good pur pose into execution. There were scores of period yielding the most efficient and important services, without the prospect of any reward beyond that of rendering them ; and were it not that they were so many, we should take the opportunity domiciling these columns with their names. Their heroism and nobility of 000 duct, however, must be content to blush unseen, en far as newspaper publicity is contented ; but these qualities will not be the lees useful ea that account, because they are of that kind of charity whit is twice blest—" it blesseth him that gives and him that takes." The able servicesof the Royal Marines, who manned the Millbay Barrack engine, when brought into co-operation with those of the West of England Fire-office Brigade. effected a most gratifying change in the interior upset al the theatre. The fire was by degrees subdued in the gal key. and driven, inch by inch, to the corridors, sod there badly extinguished. Consequently, the apprehended total animetioa of the interior of the building was not realised.. Thelswer circle of boxes, the upper circle of stadia, the psi snit boxes generally, the stage, the machinery above and be. kw the stage, were not touched by the fire. Nevertheless, the aspect of things in the Thespian Temple this morning is most dejected and wretched. The fire has done its work with no sparing hand. The box entrance and box lobby, a ponies of the corridors sad the staircase leading from the lower to the upper tier, the whole of the refreshment department—which con. Mined furniture and finials of considerable value, the pro perty of Mr. Holmes, of George-street—the whole of the rear of the gallery corridor, and • considerable portion of the gallery itself, are completely destroyed. The corridors and lobbies through which, at eleven o'clock last night, • py and laughing crowd poured towards the streets, are ' now a men of charred and blackened ruins. Nor does the mischief stop here. The action of fire or water, or the combined action of both, has either utterly demolished or thoroughly spoiled the whole of the decorations and the more delicate fittings of the theatre. These must be re. placed, and a considerable portion of the building renewed, before it will be possible to bring it into use again ; sod, in the meantime, the loss must be immense to ell con cerned. The handsome lonic pillars facing George place, which fronted the three entranms to the Assembly•rooms sad the theatre are left standing, but the roof that attached them to the building fell in early. It was here and in the rear that the full play of the fire continued for nearly six hours. In the interior the whole of the grand entrance to the boxes and the upper boxes. as well as the vestibule of the theatre, have been destroyed ; also the grand lobby an. trance and the staircase leading to the beautiful Assembly room. On the right hand, as you enter the vestibule, was the billiard-room, now • heap of ruins ; on the left, on the ground floor, was the tea-room, also in • great degree de stroyed. The staircase is gone ; and upstairs the retiring. room, usually called the card-room—a capacious a penman-- is destroyed, as are also the ladies' dreeducrooms and the end of the ball-room. This is a large portion of the bp* pile of buildings. Besides these, there are the rooms in the Royal that are partially and wholly consumed, and the &middies in the theatre itself. ACCIDENT AT THE PENDLETON COLLIEN.Y.—On Sunday afternoon, as some men were employed is wedging the tubing in the shaft of one of the coal pita belonging to Merin. Andrew Knowles and Sons, Pendleton, a small portion of the wedging was blown out, and water began to run into the pit. information wee at once sent to the manager, Mr. S. Horrocks, and Mr. J. Knowles, who came to the pit iaimediately. The water was running into the pit in a stream, and measures were taken to stop it by getting long wedges of wood and iron, but it was Dot until one o'clock on Monde) , that the water wu stopped. The furnaces and engine fires were put out as moon as the accident happened ; and during the night sixteen ponies were brought out as • matter of precaution, though they were Dot in any immediate danger. The ventilatioe was reversed,, but care was taken that the works were kept properly ventilated, only hi the reveres course. The cause of the accident wee the contraction of the tubing in the upcsst abaft, which bad been cooled for the purpose of repairing. There is nut much water in the pit, sod the men and boys, of whom there are about 300 employed, will be at wort again in a few days. Great pride* is due to the mem who were employed in repairing the damage, as they had to work while water was pouring down upon them, and were wet through in a very short space of time. The pit in yanls deep, end the accident occurred about 100 yards from the top. PIRACY IN THE SHANNON.—The Limerick cot , ei re rtone d 3i t i t rult., whil j e 'i s tit ladet Y l . ri : t — h turf f rog Sfirwih was lying at ember at Coosegh Point, in the river flhanson, two el her crew who were to the hatchway thought they heard • noise as if turf was falling. Oee of them, rimmed Flabert , looked up and sew • man armed with • gun, which he if at him and wounded him with i some shot in his head. Flaherty immediately drew beat, when the top of the hatchway was futened down, during which time about eight loads of turf were taken away is I hosts by some persons unknown. Flaherty's wounds are ; not dangerous, but he had a most providential escape. Through the aid of a comrade he forced up the hatches, and I discovered the turf to be stolen." 1