The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-14 00:00:00

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THIS EVININO, the Pantomime, MOON HASSAN. Um lane ; Me Evans, Lon* Newham, and Mille. Celeste Stephan ; Tom Sayers and his two performing Males.—And SOME BELLE THAT BANG. —Commons ei hall-pact S. HIGH WATIR AT WIDOW =IDOL TN Da us. 96. Miaow" 98. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14.. Win= the last six days the movement for the relief of the distress in the Department of the Lower Seine has advanced rapidly and steadily, and the subscriptions begin to flow in to the Central Committee at Rouen from all parte of France. Earnest appeals addressed to the public by a few high-minded and independent journalists have been echoed throughout the country, and the well-to-do classes in France are at length awaken ing to their responsibilities, and to the danger and disgrace of leaving them unfulfilled. Our neigh bours are a people of warm and generous instincts, but their sympathies are perhaps more readily touched by dramatic and imaginary sorrows than by the vulgar sores of the real LAziarre at their door. There are many persons in all countries of the liveliest sensibility and the keenest sym pathy, who are easily affected to tears at a play, though tolerably callous to the workaday troubles of their fellow-creatures. The sensibilities of Frenchmen have been largely drawn upon by suf fering nationalities abroad and by paroxysms of fra ternity at home, and it may be that the stock is somewhat exhausted. In no country in the world have the cruel anomalies and inequalities of an imperfect social state, the wrongs of poverty, and the rights of labour, been more fervently and fiercely proclaimed. Not once or twice only the foundations of French society have been shaken by revolutions which were destined to make the whole human race a loving brotherhood. The result of these excesses of brotherly love has been not the reconciliation but the separation of that society into hostile classes, mutually bent upon . . . . . each other's extermination whenever a favourable opportunity should occur ; and meanwhile, divided by barriers of bate, envy, and fear. It was such • society as this, a frivolous remnant of aristocracy, a panic-struck and selfish bourgeoisie, an ignorant, close-fisted, and superstitious peasantry, and a working class sick of visionary politics, exhausted by agitation—that Loris NAPOLEON BONAPARTE saw and conquered ; and upon this foundation the Second Empire was established. As a literary socialist, be was to be the champion of "the masses ;" as a man of order, he was to preserve the propertied classes from socialism. In some respects he has judiciously disappointed those who for opposite reasons concurred in placing him in power. He has carried Free Trade in the teeth of his protectionist supporters; he has encouraged the association of capital, and he has neither organ ized labour, nor declared St. Simonianism the reli gion of the State. One thing he has not done, and it would be madness in him to do it. He has not healed the animosities of classes, for it is by their animosities that his government subsists. What the Second Empire has done is precisely what all military despotisms that have ever existed have always done. It has encouraged luxury, gambling, and prodigal living ; it has syste matically debauched the public taste and morals ; it has crushed the public mind, sup pressed public spirit, made itself the one law and gospel, and providence, and dispense- tion, and destiny to France. By an arbi trary organization of a so-called universal suf frage it has buried under an immense imposture the independence and intelligence of honest men, while by an enormous system of legerdemain it has contrived to make the national vote a national ostracism. Let us see, then, how this vaunted system, I which sycophants and knaves all over the world are for ever extolling, operates in the presence of some great domestic calamity, such as this cotton famine in the Department of the Lower Seine. How must it work, according to the inexorable logic of cause and effect f One hundred thousand families are starving through the sudden and unavoidable cessation of the industry by which they lived. Here is a real national calamity which the whole nation should unite in relieving. But before relief can come the suffering must be known. " The King can "do no wrong " is • very sound and salutary maxim in constitutional monarchies, where it acts as a flywheel to the machinery of the State. But In States where one man's will is supreme, it is a maxim capable of the most curious perversions, and of the most pernicious developments. It means, for instance, that as the Imperial Govern. ment is alone responsible to the people, and affects the power and the wisdom of • Second Providence, that responsibility must be always covered, and always exempt from criticism. Personal Government is naturally jealous of any other initiative than its own, necessarily suspi cious of any manifestation of public spirit or public concert for • national purpose. Under personal Government all calamity has the look of a failure of power or forethought in the ruler, and to publish it is to excite to the hatred or con tempt of the Government. The press, therefore, must abstain from making it a pretext for agita tion ; the nation must leave it to be dealt with by the Sovereign. The official and semi-official journals of the French Empire remained abso lutely silent upon the increasing distress in the iUllnimm. TVE AVRESS, WEDNESDAY BYENING, JANUARY, „14, 1863. Department of the Lower Seselele they holt their readers carefully info rmd of the distrait in Lancashire. But for the cessasseus initaatite, of the Revue des Deux Monde., std the Temps; the sufferings of these poor workmen at Rouen might have remained unknown to the French public until now, when an extraordinary credit is proposed to the Legislative Corps for their relief. When the Empress CATHERINE made the tour of her dominions, her Minister and favourite, PornmiN, contrived to gladden her eyes at every halt in the progress with the most glowing picture of popular contentment and national prosperity. Model villages and model peasants rose before her as if by enchantment ; the villages, it is true, were of pasteboard, and the peasants were tamed and fattened for the occasion. The Emperor NICHOLAS, on a visit to the late lamented FERDI NAND 11. of Naples, was never saddened by the sight of begging or destitution during his stay in that lovely city. King FERDLNAND had taken the precaution to wall up the quarter of the city in which the paupers and beggars dwelt, and from that extemporised Ghetto there was no escape so long as the Russian Monarch was admir ing a well-fed and prosperous population. This is how despotic Government deceives itself and imposes on the world. It is served by creatures who cannot bear the light, and in silence and secretly is its strength. The Emperor NAPOLEON, it is true, is no vulgar despot of the old type ; he knows his epoch, and has meditated in the loneliness of exile on the great problems of government and society. It is not the man, but the system he personifies, that loves the darkness better than light ; but how in such a government are we to separate the system from the man f Nor is it in any Phariaaic spirit that we would point the moral of the contrast between a people accustomed to self-government, and to that self-reliance which the Emperor of the FRENCH is anxious to promote in France, and a people denied all active and spontaneous participation in their own affairs, in the presence of distress which all the united energies and associated efforts of private and public charity are barely sufficient to relieve. How repeatedly during the last ten years have not writers and speakers professedly liberal, even in our own country, compared the tardiness and inefficiency of free institu tions with the administrative vigour . of a military despotism f During the Russian war it was the fashion in good society to im pute the deficiencies of our military departments to the free press and the public meetings which exposed them. Nothing was known to the world of the state of the French army, because nothing was published ; but when the second winter of the war had come, the com parative condition of the two armies was certainly no discredit to that enduring self-reliance which only freedom can create. How often have we been taunted with the great public works of despotism ; yet if there be one great public work more than any other worthy of imitation, surely it is the work of self-help in distress ; the work in which France and England are now engaged. From so sad and stern an example steadfast be lievers in liberty may take courage, and flatterers of personal government accept a warning. Should the noble agitation which a few of the bravest and most independent of our liberal contemporaries over the water have undertaken, reanimate public spirit in France, disseminate, as the EICPIII.Oa desires, true ideas, and accustom the country to self reliance, the poor workmen at Rouen will not have suffered in vain. LATEST INTELYAGicION. (arms% riasamas.) AMERICA. r down among your twins, among your tombs, said in the ' midst of your dead you will find it. Touch the dust st Spa-tacos, of Brides, and a hundred others who hare Il lustrated the pages of your history. Interrogate the put; two epochs of civilisation will answer you. Trost to the present ; twenty-nine millions of brothers are bound to help you ; and they will help you. I shall be with yon as in the glorious days of '49. Yee, glorious days I We were all Italians, who were defending our hearths, our land and laws from foreign invasion ; and I say it with pride, with the consciousness of truth, that the honour of Italy came forth unstained from the trial.—Yours, °Amami. ITALY. PSOlt a= owl TURIN. JAL 10. ' Signor Peruzzi, the Minister of the Interior, has returned from Florence. Immediately after his ar rival a very long Cabinet Council was held, at which there-opening of parliament and the King's speech formed the principal subjects of dilatation. No do-, termination, however, was come to upon either subject, the majority being in favour of waiting until the Emperor Napoleon has made his speech on the 12th. Some decisions were arrived at respect ing the surveillance of the foreign agents who are exciting political agitation in Italy. The subscription in favour of the victims of brigandage succeeds in Northern Italy much better than was expected ; especially as it seems that those Neapolitan provinces, which have been almost entirely free from this annoyance, look with much indifference upon neighbouring provinces not simi larly fortunate. It seems that the celebrated leader of the liberal clergy, Father Pamela, is likely to be elected a member of the Italian parliament. If he is re turned the annoyance at the Vatican will doubtless know no bounds. The third and last volume of the "Letters of Vincenzo Gioberti" has just been published. It is full of important information respecting those events in which Gioberti himself played so important a part. Many despatches relating to the affairs of Italy in 1848-9 are now for the first time published in this volume, which will be read with much interest. The municipality of Turin has at last published the conditions respecting the Cavonr memorial. Genoa, Milan, and many other cities have already erected statues to the great Italian statesman ; but Turin, his birthplace, and the provisional capital of Italy, owes him of course a more imposing monu ment than any of these places. The proposed memorial is, in fact, to coat 500,000 francs. It may be architectural in its character, or other wise, according to the taste of those who com pete, but its principal feature is to be a colossal statue of Cavour. Designs and drawings must be sent to the municipality of Turin by the 30th of June, 1863. If the height of the proposed monument is less than thirty metres, the designs must be on the scale of one-tenth ; if more than thirty metres, the proportion is reduced to one twentieth. A sum of I,ooof. will be awarded for the ten designs which are moat approved, with an additional 4,000 f. for that which is finally selected. .-(THIS DAY.) IT 14, 8 A.& gbt Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 13. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena, walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Count and Countem Bernstorif arrived from London. Despatcher were received yesterday at the Colonial-office frost the Governors of the Sett!moots ow the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Com minims of the lonian Wanda The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and the youthful Margrds of Stafford have left Naples in the duke's steam•yacht for Naha, sad will afterwards proceed to Alexandria. During their sojourn in Egypt the noble duke and dueler will pay a visit to his Highness the Viceroy. j, The Marquie and Marchioness of Kildare Lave arrived at Cliefden on a visit to the Duchies (Dowager) of Sutherland, from their seat in Ireland. The Earl and Countess Russell and family will return to their reaidenee in Cheehnni-place on the 27th inst., from Riebmond-perk. The Counter of Jersey and Lady Caroline Villiers baye Lin town an a tons at visit: The Countess of Kinnoul left town yesterday on a visit to Lord and Lady Henniker, at Thank= Hall, Suffolk. His lordship is passing the season at Hastings. _ . . _ Lady ConstanoeGrosvenor has joined the family circle visiting the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, at Cliedden. The Earl Grosvenor is at his seat in Cheshire. Lord and Lady Clarence Paget have arrived at their residence at the Admiralty from their seat in Wales Lord and Lady Proby have left Elton Hall on a visit to the Duke and Durham of Beaufort, at Badminton. The Earl de Grey, Under Secretary of State for War, made an aerial visit of inspection of the new bar. nicks at Chatham on Monday. The noble earl afterwards west over the Royal Army Clothing Factory at Pimlico. A captain's good service pension is placed at the disposal of the First Laid of the Admiralty by Oaptain W. 0. Aklham, 0.8., accepting the vacancy at Greenwich Hcepital. Mr. Arthur Lee Guinness, brotber to Mr. Ben jamin Lee Guinnew, the brewer, and munificent restorer of Bt. Patrick's Cathedral, died suddenly on Monday of his residence, neer Rouudwood, in the county of Wicklow. Mr. Guinness had been much of • celebrity in Dublin for various barmier eccentricities, among which was an ardent desire to accumulate all kinds of curiosities—a par lion which often exposed him to the designs of wily vendors of such trifles. At Dublin, on Monday, the benchera elected to fill vacancies in that body were, Mr. Edward Pennefather, Q.C., Dr. Ball, Q.C., and Mr. Charles R. Barry, Q.C. ; in the room of the Hon. John Richards, late one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, Mr. Joseph Radcliffe, Q.C., LL.D., late Vlmr•Geneml and Judge of the Con siMorial Court, and Mr. Acheson Lyle, Master in Chancery. Dr. Rudolph Thomas Siegfried, Professor of Eisnscrit in Trinity Collage, Dublin, died on Saturday last, slier having suffered a abort but severe attack of brain fever. The loss of Professor Siegfried to the University of Dublin is felt to be a modeerious matter, unless that will not be cagily supplied, more especially to the students who in tended to compete for Indian civil service appointment.. He was a German, having been born in Dessau, and was about 35 years of age when he died. THE MEETING OF PARLILMENT. Yeaterday morning the ceremony of proroguing the Imperial Perlis_ meat was performed by the Lord Chancellor, the chief of the commission appointed by her Majesty for that purpose. The Lord Chancellor having taken his net on the wool sack, with the customary formalities, by virtue of the com mission, declared it to be her Malady's royal will and pleasure that the parliament should be again prorogued until the day therein named, and it would therefore st►nd adjourned accordingly until Thursday, the sth of February next, upon which day it would assemble for the despatch of "divers urgent and important affairs." The oeremony, which was simply ate of form, did not occupy many minutea, and beyond those who were immediately engaged in it, there were but few persons present. The usual proclama tion by her Majesty, convening parliament for the day men tioned above, appears in last night's gazette. EXASPERATION OF THE SOUTH AGAINST ENGLAND. , NEW YORK, JAN. S, AlllllOO%. ma(Per Bohemian.) It is reported that fighting has been resumed at Murfreesboro'. Both belligerents have been heavily reinforced. The Richmond Whig contains a violent article upon England for refusing to 00-operate with France for mediation in America, and says :—" England could have made fast friends with the South ; but that time has now gone by for ever." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money abundant. Gold, 331 premium. Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 147*, 148. Stocks flat. New York Centrals, 1071 ; Illinois shares, 83 ; Erie, 66*. LONDONDERRY, JAN. 14. The Canadian steamer Bohemian, from Port land on the 3rd inst., has arrived here. She brings 18,000 dola. in specie. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 13, Emilia. In to-day's sitting of the congress Senor Rios Roeaa, in speaking upon the Mexican question, maintained that the Spanish government should have put forward a Spanish prince for the throne of Mexico. He considered that intervention in Mexico was legitimate and justifiable. He censured the government for not hay ing given any reply to the despatch from Paris announcing the candidature of the Archduke Maximilian. But, as the government had not pro tested against the project, General Prim should have followed its example. None of the plenipo- tentiaries had done his duty at the first conference. The treaty of Soledad recognising Juarez was an absurdity, as a monarchical party does exist in Mexico. General Prim, in opposing General Almonte, and France in supporting him, were both oblivious of the promised neutrality in Mexico. It is asserted upon reliable information that Senor Calderon Collantes, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has resolved upon tendering his resignation. TURKEY. OONSTAIaLNTOPLE, J.tx. 13. Sir Henry Bulwer has returned to Constantinople. He has induced Fuad Pacha to accept the presi dency of the Grand Council. An imperial hatt has been published, announcing financial and other reforms. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, .lAx. 14. The Royal Mail Steam-ship Seine has arrived here with the above mails, 153 passengers, 217,8931. sterling in specie, and 2,858 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 30th ult., and experienced light winds and fine weather throughout the passage. She pissed the Tasmanian with the outward mails on the 31st, sixty miles from St. Thomas. On the 12th the Seine spoke the British barque Lady Raglan. The news from Chili is satisfactory. The go- vernment was doing all in its power to facilitate program' throughout the country and fostering rail ways and other public works. The silver mines were turning out productive, and the late rise in copper bad given a great impulse to that branch of trade. There had been a great influx of gold bars at the mintof Santiago. The President of Chili had ►ccepted the resigna tion of Senhor Lastarria, secretary of the Treasury. The British residents in Valparaiso had appointed a committee for raising subscriptions on behalf of the Lancashire ope ratives. In Peru ranch difficulty was experienced by the Congress and Senate on the subject of the current oath causing con siderable embarnannent. The Minister of Finance had offered drafts on London at 410., but no response wee made. The rate of exchange was quoted at 43d. per dollar. The survey of the Guano Islands had been concluded. The stock remaining was 7,000,000 tons, which at the present rate of exportation of 43,000 tons per mouth, gives 14 years for clearing the islands. 'Wight' were unaltered :At Valparaiso. Exchange on London. 60 day's sight, 43d. The West India [lslands were: healthy. The weather at IZTiaties was favourable for the crops. Fever had abated. At Demerara the weather wee favourable for the planters. Manufacturing operations were proceeding briskly. The young canes were thriving. Produce was abundant and tonnage wanted. Freights were advancing. The last charter was effected at 3s. per cwt. for sugar. The Confederate steamer Alabama had captured, off Mona Puree, the American barque Parker Cooke, bound to Port au Prime with provisions. After taking the crew and 300 barrels no board she burnt the Parker Cooke. The Alabama had also captured the American schooner Union, bound to Port Maria with a cargo belonging to British subjects. She was allowed to proceed on her voyage upon signing a bond. There is no news of importance from Jamaica. The House of Assembly adjourned on the 19th. Large quantities of coffee were appearing in the market. The weather was improving. Business remained unaltered. POLAND. POLITICAL ASSASSINATION. A letter from Warsaw of the 10th says : Warsaw, ea the 9th, was the scene of a fresh political neassinatioa, committed in open day with extraordinary audacity. It appears that in the course of the past month three emissaries of the National Committee were arrested at a little village in the neighbourhood of Warsaw. Their own imprudence betrayed them. They very foolishly sent the waiter of the inn at which they stopped to look into the bag in their carriage for some fodder far their horses. In doing this the waiter, who was a Jew, discovered some arms which were concealed there. This he told to his master, and the authorities were at once acquainted with the cir rnrostanoss, the three emissaries being taken off to prison. On the 7th the Jew, who was the cause of this arrest, went to Warsaw to the Commissioner of Finances to receive the reward for the betrayaL The revolutionary committee had become aware of his intention, and at 11 o'clock in the morning the Jew was stabbed in the back with a poigrard in the very antechamber of the commission. Pressing his band to his wound be bad strength enough to pursue the nemesia with cries of " Murder." He soon fell from loss of blood, but the pursuit was kept up by one of his co-religion ists, who followed the fugitive into a house. A crowd soon gathered, and the man was arrested. The wounded waiter is in a very dangerous state. ROME. The following is the text of the reply of General Garibaldi to the letter from the Roman Garibaldi committee, requesting him to accept the presidency of that committee : Pisa, Dec. 22. Dear Friends—l accept with gratitude and confi dence the presideotahip of your political committee. Where the sun of liberty doss sot shine—where the priest maintains the darkness of iv/onuses and super stition—where the power of the stranger keeps alive a doomed idol, by lending it a sword, already stained with the blood of one nation, to strike to death another— there. it is necessary that a great organised force should work in unity for its liberty, its independence, and its civilisation. The fears and bue counsels of corrupt men reader the intellect weak, the heart weaker, and base and despicable the labour of life. Listen to theca no longer. It concerns your honour, and the existence of the whole nation. So long a. you are not able to make yourselves respected, diplomacy will despise you. You despise it lint, and its charm is gone. Diplomatists, depend on this, are the offsprings of lies and the nurselings of treachery. Romans, demand your liberty of yourselves alone, and you will obtain it. Dan; do; and h►ve faith. Let us work together as the miners in the bowels of the earth. To- day we shall have stones and rocks ; to-morrow, metal. Today the work of preparation ; to•morrow the ones struggle and victory. If you are wanting in wane, go EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ous OWN PARA TuasnAy linarnia. At the opening of the Corps Legielatif this afternoon the Duke do Monty, as president, deli vered the following speech : fifeesieum—The Emperor's speech leaves me very little to say to you, and I should even hilt to weaken the effect of his noble words if I were to make any comment upon them. You were all, lam sure, profoundly touched and grateful when you heard the sentiments expressed by the Sovereign to the Corps Legialatif. The Emperor's trust in you will not be misplaced. You will not forget during this esesioe that your attitude and your language will have a coosiderable influence upon the mind and tendeecies of the electors. During the last five years you have supported the government in the way that a sensible political body ought to do ; you have given it a devoted but not subservient aid. Every impartial person who compares your right" and pee• rogatives as they existed when the present chamber was first Bled together with what they're at this day ; everybody who adds up the number of laws which have been either altered or withdrawn by your loyal influence, and that without any crisis or shock, must admit that the part you have played has been all the more efficacious and useful because it was conciliatory and moderate—(Several voices : " Bravo, bravo !")—and that this mutual confidence, these mutual concessions between you and the Sovereign, conduce to the honour and glory of both powers, and are beneficial to all the great intonate of the country. Let us, more over, hope that the country in (its prudence will continue this situation which makes the constitution an impregnable work, because it is susceptible of improvement, and because by encouraging the gradual establishment of liberty it places the imperial dynasty upon imperishable foundations. . . . This speech, as it seems to me, exposes but small surface for censure. Like the Emperor, M. de Morny abstains from saying a word to fulfil the confident predictions of La France that the Pope's "reforms" would be prominently acknowledged at the opening of the session. It is satisfactory to find the Duke de Morny echoing the Emperor's declara tion that the constitution requires improvement. His exhortations to "prudence," and his anxious injunctions to the deputies to use all their influence with the electors to get as loyal a Chamber as the present one returned, are nothing more than might be fairly expected from a man so closely connected with the dynasty. It is a pity, however, that the fair promises held out from the throne and the chair of the (amber should be stained by such paltry but too eignificant acts as the recent warning to the Courtier du Dinanche, and more seri ously still, discredited by the glaring un fairness exhibited in the recent apportionment of the electoral districts, which has manifestly been so made as to aid the many other devices to render the elections a mockery. There is in the French army of Africa a "Foreign Legion" numbering about 5,000 men, and composed of a great variety of individuals of different nationalities who have nothing better to do than to go soldiering. It was lately contem plated to send the greater part of this legion to Mexico, but it having been ascertained that this service was most unpopular in the force, and that most of the men, if told off for it, would lake the earliest opportunity of deserting, the ultimate reso lution is to send only two battalions of picked men, and even these are to be mixed with Chas seurs d'Afrique. You may read in the Paris go vernment journals that the enthusiasm of the Fo reign Legion for Mexican service is very great, and that the men not accepted express bitter disap pointment. The statement may be true so far as regards those who hoped to get a chance to desert, but it is not so farther or otherwise. A very important judgment in one of the many actions pending against Mires has been pronounced to-day by the Court of First Instance. Mires has been decreed to pay to Colonel Danner, one of the numerous depositors of the shares which formed the subject of the famous "executions," the difference between the fictitious sale in voiced to him in 1859 and the real proceeds of his shares, which had in point of fact been sold long before. The damages are calculated at 40,745 fr., and Mires is further ordered to restore within a fortnight 100 shares, the numbers of which cannot be found. This judgment is in direct con flict with that of the Court of Douai, which, in acquitting Mires of the criminal charge, adopted the theory in which he has always persisted— namely, that his clients well knew that shame depo sited with him were not nantissements (i.e., that he did not undertake to hold the identical numbers deposited in trust), but were of the nature of bank notes on a current account, and that be was only liable to find shares of the like denomination ►t call. The tribunal, however, is of opinion that the judgment of the Court of Douai being delivered is a criminal and not a civil matter, and moreover, not having been rendered in a suit between the same parties, does not conclude the present action ; and it takes a different view of the law from that upheld by the above court. Should this decision (which it is to be observed is in har mony with the expressed opinion of the Court of Caseation) be upheld on appeal a great many claimants for large amounts may be expected to come forward against Mires. General Bedeau 13 dangerously ill. His malady is said to be a decomposition of the blood, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery. At the Bourse the Rente remains nearly as yes terday, but Mobilier and railway shares have improved. M. Horace Vernet, we are sorry to say, has had a relapse. Inflainmation has made fresh progress, and his medical attendants appear to despair of his recovery. A Paris letter in the Indepcndance says : The Marquise de Clermont.Tonnerre, the lady of honour to the Princess Clothilde, has resigned her post. The sepa ration of the marquise from the princess has taken place by common accord, and has been caused by the delicate situation in which the marquise found herself placed in consequence of the opinions expressed by her husband being no decidedly opposed to the ideas entertained by Prince Napoleon. But the marquise and the princess remain on terms of the highest esteem. THE Vacarr Taaons or Gasses.—We read in the Mottiteur of yesterday :—" The news is con firmed, that H. Devaur., the private secretary of King Leopold, has been to Lisbon with • letter from his sovereign, urging King Ferdinand to with draw his refusal and to become a candidate for the throne of Greece. This step has met with no better success than those previously taken. King Perth nand has determined not to accept the crown offered to him." . _ . Tea FRENCH Eicruson's SPEECH.—The Monikur of yesterday says in its bulletin :—" His Majesty's speech is destined to meet throughout the country with the approbation and unanimous sympathy it received not only from the great Bodies of the State, but froth the numerous audience present at the ceremony." THURSDAY. FRIDAY. D.W. to N., fresh to SCOTLAND. N.E to N.W. and to strong, some rain or 8. W., strong, un snow. settled. N.N.W. to W.S.W., IRQ.AID. N.W. to S. W., fresh to strong, unsettled. strong, with rain. N.N.S. to W. N. W., W. ennui. As neat above. fresh to strong. N.E. to N. W. and to N.W.Fautcr. N.N.W., to W.R.W WEATHER REPORT. WIDNICIDAT. JAJVA L 11. u. W. & x- — a & xl & a --- -- Nairn l6 W.&W. c 8 0.10 1 Aberdeer - 3 Inith. ..... 30.28 • W. M - 1 Arthurian - 2 Portrush - 3 Galway - 1 Valentia Queenstown 43 N.W. c 4 0.46 2 Holyhead 30.28 N.N.Z. c 4 0.10 2 Liverpool 30.50 • N.N.W. 0 6 0.06 2 Pembroke 30.3161 N.N.L b 4 0.28 2 Penzance 30.30 14.14.1 b 2 0.20, 6 Jersey 130.07 44 N.N.L o It .36 ' 6 Brest 430.19 N.N.L 0 4 32 6 Lorient 30.00 N. W. 0 1 .04 2 Rochefort - .32 4 Plymouth Weymouth .21 i Ni.. • 2 12 3 Portsmouth .17 41 N.& 6 2 14 S Kew. London - Yarmouth l6 W.N.W. EL - I ...SS 2 Scarborough 20.18 IA N.W. 1 b - 2 Ithivlds .. -ISO 37 ST N.W. 5 a - 4 Heligoland 22.09 4 A.N.W. 6 012 30 1 Helder — - - --- 1 - Liabou — - - - - - - S.W., moderate to strong. As nest above, with B.W.ENGLAND. Ai nest above. stroDg. Qnsett%.4. N.V.. to W., fresh to B.K. ENOLUID. N.W.fto S.W., fresh or strong. strong. W. to N., fresh or IL roue. N.N.W. to W.8.W., strong. fresh. At the opening of the French Chambers, on Monday, the Empresa wore a mantle of light Drown silk, which was covered with gold flowers, • white lace bonnet, sad violet drew. The Empress and Princesses took their places on a platform placed at right angles with the one on which were the sesta of the male members of the imperial family. The Prince Imperial, however, oat between his mother and the Princess Mathade, behind whom stood the ladies in attendance. It is generally believed that the Emperor will visit the distressed manufacturing districts of France. His Majesty has ordered full reports to be sent to him at the Tuileries, in order that he may personally study the clues. Lion. A Vienna letter says :—" Austria numbers another victim to etiquette. Prince Alexander, of Hesse, one of the most t►lented generals of the imperial army, has quitted the service, on amount of the inferior position his wife enjoyed at Court. The prince is the brother of the Empress of Russia, but, a few years ago, so far forgot himself as to marry a girl no better than the daughter of a want. The lady was certainly made a princess instanter by the Dsrmatadt sovereign, but it is obvious is barely fit company for women wham ancestors contrived to raise themselves a peg in the world. Accordingly the prince, who had to leave the Russian service on his sse'saffiance, has now been forted into another resignation in the second army he selected for his military career." A Vienna letter says :—" The proposal to create new copper money has produced such an unfavourable im pression among the public, and especially in the commercial world, that the government has decided on not presenting the bill which it bad drawn up on that subject. An ar rangement is about to be made with the Notional Bank to withdraw from circulation the small Dotes which the govern ment issued some ye..re back to obviate the want of copper coin, of which there is no longer any deficiency." The Madrid Givette of the 10th states that, at the request of the Minister of Public Works, the Spanish Academy is at present engaged in fixing on certain words in the Spanish language, which can be used in railway and other branches' of business, in the room of foreign expressions which have been introduced, such as docks, coke, express train, he. American silver to the amount of 2,908,306 dole. was conveyed from the United States to Montreal by the National Express Company, between January and Norm bar, 1862. --. ----- THE SLAVE TRADE. —Private letters received in Liverpool by the mail steamer Ethiope, from the West Coast of Africa, state that the slave trade was very brisk at Whydah, and that several sailing vessels and two large mew steamer. had taken in cargoes of unreel at that place, and got clear away to sea, notwithstanding the presence in the vicinity of one or two British cruisers. It is said that there is a regular system of telegraphy practised between the slave dealers all along the coast, and that the cruisers are well w►tched, so that slave vessels are constantly apprised of their movements, and take measures accordingly. This, doubtless, accounts for the escape of the slaves. From 1820 to 1860, 5,062,414 immigrants entered the United States. From 1831 to 1860 the number wee 2,5914,214, viz 1,338,013 from the United Kiftdom 907,780 from Gilman,. 76,358 from Frame, 59,M9 Iron; British America, 43,887 from Prussia. 25,011 from Swifts' , land, 20,W31 from Nw and Sweden, 10,789 from Hol land, 9,298 from Spa in , 10 ,660 from the Weft Indies, 7,012 from Italy, 41,397 from China, 4,738 from Belgium, 3,749 from Denmark, and 4 from New Zealand. Of these 527,639 were lahourera, 404,712 were farmers. 179,726 were mocha mica, 124,149 were merchants, 37,523 were miners, 10.087 were mariners, and 2.2'29 wen physicians. In the Peseta states there are 50.000 Chinese. Nearly 100,000 foreigners hers entered the Federal army. THE ALLEGED ANNOYANCE TO THE PRINCE OF WALES. 10 111 EDITOR Of TIII 13:1114111111. iiiir,—Having been represented in some of the daily papers recently as having caused annoyance to the Prises of Wales whilst shooting on the Sandringham wits* I beg you will lend me your assistance in endeavouring to avoid such unenviable notoriety by inserting in your valuable journal the communication received by me from General Knollys upon the subject, • copy of which I herewith enclose.—l am, &c., . . E. T. 1311ERINGILAIL Weal Newton, Kiag'i Lynn, Jam. I. Suadriagham, King's Lyna. Lieutenant-Genersl K nollya authorises Mr. Sherniembra, with reference to a paragraph in some of the newsman' relating to the Prince of Wales having been annoyed by some moo netting rabbits whit his royal higher was shooting ors Mr. Sheringham's farm, to date that there as several particulars there given which are ineorrect. It is not correct that his royal highness left off shooting in censsqueoce of t►e cause therein assigned, hat bwanse the day was beginning to close and the shooting dnishecL It is also untrue that Mr. Sheringham was himself present on the occasion, or that Mr. Jarvis, the Mayor of Lynn, came over to Sandringham on any haziness connected with rabbits. He came on levitation, and simply to pay his respects to hie royal highness. UNION BANK OP LONDON.-(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at Boos, at the beak, Primes-et/yet, Mr. P. NORTHAM LAMM in the chair. The following reiort and balance-sheet were read b 7 the flenterrais (Kr. Henry Newmarch) : "The directors have the pleasure to report that the net profits for the six months ending the 31st December but. after payment of all charges Uncle*, the sum of 49,0911. 14.. sd. for interest paid and des to customers on their arrest and deposit accounts), and making ample provision for all bad and doubtful debts, amount to 67,2391. 3a. Id., which, with she sum of 2,9821. 117 e. 9d. brought forward from 30th June last, make together 70,222/. Os. 10d. The directors now declare a dividend of 16. per share, clear of income tax, for the six months ending 31st December last. After payment as above, amountiag to 45,0001., there will remain a balance of 25,2221. lb. 10d., for appropriation at the end of the financial year in July next. General Balance—Liabilities—Dr. : Paid-up capital of the bank, 720,0001 ,• dm by the beak on current accounts, deposit receipts (including interest seemed), and other obli gations, 12,878,355/. sa. 10d. ; reserved fund, invested in Consols, se per contra, 50,0001. ; rebate on bills not dm, 14,705/. 19a. Bd. ; balance at credit of mofit and lose, 70,2221. Oe. 10d. ; total, 13,731, 183 /. 6s. 4d. Aosta—Cr. : Cash in the bank, 521,3701. & . 11d. ; cash in Bank of England, 514,7131. 5a.; cash lent at all, 1,065,000/.; together, 2,101,0631. lls. 11d. Investments in goverment stock, Exchequer Bills, Debeoturea, /cc., 896,9321. 5. 7d. 53,7271. 6s. Bd. Consols (taken at 93) renewed fund, 50,0001. ; look premises, consisting of freehold buildings in Prince-street, Kansion-homeetreet, Aran-Awe, and Fleet-street; and lease and fixtures of No. 4, Pall-mall East, 108,7751.4 a sd. ; loses, bills discounted, he, 10;574,4921. 4e 53. ; total, 13,731,2831.65. 4d. " Profit and Lose Aooount.—Dr. : Amount of dividend at 15e. per share 45,0001. • balance, being undivided profit carried forward to next h alf-year, 25,222/. Os. 10d. ; total, 70,2221. Os. 10d. Cr.: Profit unappropriated on 30th June, 1862, 2,982/. 17s. 9d. ; amount of net profit of the half-year ending 31st December, 1862, after deducting all expenses, and interest paid . and due (49,0911. 14s . 5d.), snowed to customers on then current and deposit account, 67,2391. 31. ld. ; total, 70,2221. Os. 10d." The CHLIRMAN having declared a dividend of 15e. per share clear of income tax, payable on the 20th inst., observed that the pad half-year waa the first half of the financial year • and he was glad to find from the manner in which the report bad been received that it was as satisfactory to the proprietors as it waa to the board. The assets were 1,000,0001. in moms of those of this time last year. and 1,500,0001. in exams of those of six months ago. the high egrerimstion wa in n hich the bi t utk conti u n n u t ia to held by the public. In m coO r sideciog the profit' they must not forret the low rate of intend which had recently ruled. The bank rate of interest in the second half of 1861 averaged 41. Ia percent., while in the corresponding period of 1862 the average was only 21. 9e. The losses bad all been written off, so that the etatement of account was a clean sheet. (Chem.) Adverting to the grant of 1,0001. from the bank for the relief of the distress in Lan cashire, he remarked that the board considered it due to those who had borne their sufferings with so much fortitude. He believed that in the dark cloud in the North of England there was now a silver lining. He must say that he thought great credit was due to the prom for the frequent warnings which they had given with regard to new undertakings. (Hear.) As respected the new schema for establishing joint dock banks, he hoped that those who lent their names to those schemes would feel that there was something beyond moms to be looked to—that a great moral responsibility rested on bank directors. (Hear, bear.) The failure of one badly-managed bank would do more harm than the success of two welloanaged banks. (Hear.) The extensioa of the business there had rendered it necessary to extend their pro misee ; and for that purpose the board had secured a renewed lease of the adjacent premises of Sir John Lubbock's beak. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report and amounts. _ . Fmnicilsik depaty.ch►irman, seconded the motion, which without any previous discussion, was put and carried unanimously. Mr. Mawr expreseed his extreme satisfaction at the ♦ prosperous position of the bank, and moved a vote of thanks to the board of directors. Mr. ANDIRTON seconded the motion. A Suanitiomorn observed that some of the directors were concerned in some of the new joint stock banks and asked whether that was not contrary to the regulations of the ' establishment. They ought to oppose, not support, the new banks. The Mamma.' thought the hon. proprietor did not draw the distinction between new banks in the metropolis and new banks for the purpose of carrying on bankinf business in the colonies. With some of the latter certain of the directors were connected, and the accounts which came to them through those banks were amongst the most valuable they bad. (Hear, hear.) The motion was carried by acclamation. Mr. ANDCRTON moved a vote of thanks to the manager, Mr. Scrimgeour, the other managers, and the secretary, which having been carried, Mr. SCHIMGEOCII returned th.nks, and expressed the hops that the July report would be even more favourable than the present one. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro modings 31 ILITLEY EXAMINATIONS.It has been decided for the future strictly to confine the half-yearly competitive examinations for admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to the object for which they are intended, and henceforth none of the competitors will be regarded as qualified for commissions in the line on account of the examina tion they may have undergone in endeavouring to obtain admission to the Royal Military Academy. The same rule will also apply to the competitive ex aminations for admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Foar.unt-omcs, Jaw. 13.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the following gentlemen, sow attschr , s at the places undermentioned, to be Third Secre taries in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service; Christian William Lawrence, Esq., Madrid ; James George Ferguson Russell, Erg., l2.—The Berlin ; Frederick Antrobalsq. Paris. --G azette. WHITEHALL, JAN. queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Peter Neil Macirichan to the church at Lochgdphead, in the parish of Gleamy, in the presbytery of lnverary, sad shire of Argyll, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. John Stewart to the charge and *Sloe of Third Minister of the united pariah of Inverness and Boas. —Garrett. oROWN-OTFICE, JAN. 12. —MEMBIR RETURNED TO SERVI IN THI PRINZ= PAILIANINT.-Sir alward Chaim'ley Dein& Bert., for the Eastern Division of the county of Kent. in the room of William Deedea req., deoneed.—CM:rfre. _ _ _ SrAmin! CUSTOMS Dtrries.—Board of Trade, Whitehall. Jan. 13.—The Rt How. the Lords of the Com mittee of Privy Council for nude have received from the Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs • translation, forwarded by her Majesty's minister at Madrid, of • Spanish Royal order, postponing until the Ist March, 1861, the operation of the Spanish customs' tariff law of the 27th November last (a notice of which was inserted in the London Gozett of the 23rd ult.), no far as reprde certain articles, which. unless otherwise provided by the Cortes, will pay until that date the duties specified in last night's Gazitte. Mg. KINOLALI AND HIS CONNTIITENTK.—Mr. Kinglake, one of the members for Bridgewater, addressed his constituents on Monday night in the town-ball of that borough. The hon. member's speech embraced • wide range of topics —a review of the poet session, which he cha racterised as not • **showy" an, although • greet number of useful measures bad been pared; the distrees in the north, eulogising the wonderful energy, skill. and trainees with which the country had looked the calamity in the face ; the public expenditure, arguing that. at all events far naval purposes, there had been a considerable misdirec tion of the public money ; the war in America, coutendiog that the moment bad not yet arrived for a recognition of the Southern States by this country ; the proposed cession of the lonian blood', a course which he considered impolitic; and other matters ; concluding a long speech by thanking the meeting for the favour sod kindness with which they had heard his observations. A vote of confidence was passed to Mr. Kinglike. CRYerAL PAi&cra.—Oys SHrumeo DAT. JAL 13.—Admisioes on payment, 73j ditto by earn tisketv. 68; total. 1,422. I