The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-06 00:00:00

1 HATYARIBT t PRINCIOrt BRITANNIA., rEAMPAGNE, DRY and DKLICATZ. NJ Plods Sea., Quirbs MIL par doom Illanteirriage Pa& kaoceuriaded wkh coallissos.—HlNZY 11.5. T mad co., traporten. Old lumhurs DldWer7. Holborn. LC.. mad 10. Rigenialiest, Waterisoilsos. 8. W. HARMONIUMS. — NEW MODEL maim. BULL sod WOOD. fin. pagesiammt. puus FIRST CLASS sad LONDON PRIZE MEDAL& WATWINSTON sat_ issoonwr ounagrnis sad aa .WNANNI. liaaabalory, 6. Uccoollastroot, Oovoakiiordta. N.C., La d en, oa N.B. Tbla ostabildwcoat la closed al la No evoNag, dad dadaraya al I o'clock. STOLEN KISSES.—PIESSE and LUBIN'S NEW PIEVUMES for the festlrltlea--Btolen Blues end their Sequel, Bo: hiultare, also Sir Roger de Coverty, bys Savour. Um agar, la a mu/ oaae. 7E-2, New Sondetreet. Vie •xpregio. Ldvernsementa Intio;tl;7lfor " TMThiorwas" London rvechw Paper, mast b. at the Whoa te, Itonverio-street, by Two cloc k tits day of pahhoatioa coma GARDA:N. TEI ItPganta, LOVE'S SPIUMPit. Mr. G. Perren and Ilith Loutit t — lo And the grand cootie Chrhantas Pantomime, entitled MCo N BBAUTY AND TRH BLAST.—u. ductor, Mr. A. u. • Commence at ten minutes to T. Tine XVII/UNG. OUR iLIUaIC.AN COUSIN. Mama &them and Buckstour L -RASSELAB PRINCI OY ABYSSINIA. Yr. Campion and Miss I Healey. —And MEL WHITL Mr. Campion and Was Harfieur. THIS EVRNING. THE 1111Pii INCH Miss Constance A7lmer. - And the Pantomime, awn WITH THE TIM or. Harlequin and Mother Wilpton. Mews. Mann. IL twee, and Hellord. MIAs A. Collinson. THIS Lwmaure. the PaaloTniesa,AllON HASSAN. Yrs. Law Aissms. Itrans, Loafs, Newham, wad Wile. Celesta Stephan : Tom Sayers and his two partonidai !inlet.—And SOME 1181..L6 THAT BANG.—Commute at Imit-past 6. HIGH WAS . = AT LONDOF 1,11.1D0L 87r;00Z111. ges. Toatosiow—Mandag, Mt. thae.....Ationsw" 3b eas. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6. A souses of revenue which shall produce an nually half the amount raised by every species of existing taxation is a dream of delight too blissful ever to visit the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER'S pillow. Yet such a promise, resting on data which, even if they should fail to be realised to the full extent, at least make certain a return no leas than the total product of our pre sent Income Tax, was gravely submitted to public consideration by a Committee of the House of Commons, in a Report issued last week. Nor, to make the marvel more astonishing, were the pecu niary results the whole of the advantage held out in the scheme. Its adoption would relieve us of a great prospective social difficulty, and would contribute incalculably to the health and plea sure of the community. It would restore some of the fairest scenes to the beauty which the growth of population and manufactur ing energy has so sadly marred, it would turn barren heaths into smiling harvest fields, it would give to the nation that independence of foreign countries in the great staples of food which we vainly sought to accomplish by corn-law legisla tion. In a word, the proposition laid before us, supported with a mass of practical evidence, and endorsed with the acceptance of a Parliamentary Committee, is that we should utilise the sewage of our towns as manure for our fields. There is, in deed, nothing new in the idea. It has in hundreds of places been ere now put in opera- tion ; its value has everywhere been known to men of science ; and we ourselves, in common with many other journals, have not failed in urging it from time to time on public attention. But we may, nevertheless, fairly con gratulate ourselves on its having now paned beyond the preliminary stage of discussion into the secondary stage, when the means for carrying it out are all that are sought; and as two proposals to this effect were laid before Parliament last year, and were delayed in order to allow the facts to be fully ascertained by the Committee which has just made its report, we may reasonably hope that this enormous fiscal and sanitary measure will this year receive its legislative commencement. There will not, however, be much matter for boasting even when we shall fully have completed our work. We are in this matter centuries behind other parts of the world. China supporta her teeming population solely by careful regard to the principles which we till now have recklessly disregarded. All over Europe the materials which we have left to breed pestilence in our dwellings, or taken credit for sending into the an, have been long considered as among the . . . . . chief sources of national wealth. Bat at least this fact, though somewhat to our shame, givp us now the better assurance of the soundness of the step which Parliament invites us to take. Our thrifty neighbours in Holland have, after long con sideration, come to the conviction that the waste matters which we style sewage are agricultu rally worth 11. per head of the population per annum. Singularly enough, one of the most carefully conducted experiments in this country, stated in evidence before the Committee, gives exactly this sum as the nett value of the increased produce resulting from the applica tion of sewage. Other considerations, founded on the analytical contents of the water, and on the market value of the several constituents, would reduce this amount to 7or 8 shillings per head. Perhaps the difference may be found to lie in the circumstance that manure applied in the state of sewage is confessedly more beneficial than if the dry contents were sown over the fields, and thus it may be that in this form there is really an increase of crop obtained fairly represented by the larger snm, although chemically the applica tion is only worth the smaller. Such questions we may, however, very safely leave to be decided by a larger experience. It is sufficient to induce us to go on, that we know we may not improbably reap an annual income of thirty millions of pounds from the due utilisation of sewage, and that at the very lowest computation we shall not fail to nett some twelve or fourteen millions. The metropolis alone will in this way find itself pawned of a revenue of certainly not less than half a million a year, and of probably four times that amount. These prodigious sums are indeed staggering, but they rest upon actual experience ; they are only the multiplied expression of a rental of 201., 301., and 401. per acre, which has in many parte of the country been actually drawn for a long series of years from the due application of town sewage. Nor does it appear that the cost to be incurred in first providing the necessary arrangements for the distribution of this precious material is such se will form any considerable deduction from its proceeds. Competent authorities set the outlay necessary for fixed machinery, of pipes, and steam engines, at from 31. to 51. per acre. When these are laid down the labour of distribution is very slight, and, with interest on the capital, may be probably covered by 1/. per acre per annum. The difference between this sum and such rentals as we have referred to of course represents the profit out of which the farmer can afford to pay for the sewage, and the margin is obviously large enough to give very handsome returns to all parties. Thus it is computed that the town TILE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1863. of Brighton, which is even now consider ing the question of turning its sewage to the supply of the crops on shore instead of pouring it into the sea to pollute the water in which it invites its visitors to bathe, will, by an outlay of 20,0001. for plant, obtain an annual return of 20,0001. for rent. Nor is there to be apprehended any danger from effluvia. The bounteous earth is the most efficient of all deodorisers. It is of course possible to task it beyond its powers. But this stage is reached only long after the limit of profitable application is passed. It is ascer tained that tho only cases in which there is • perceptible nuisance occur where the mass of sewage is 'far out of proportion to the amount required for the growth of crops of the heaviest description, and the obvious remedy is to extend it over • larger surface, and thus ob• tain increased returns from • wider area. On the other hand, it is ascertained that though, after an ' application to • moderate amount, the drains will flow somewhat fuller than before, the water which passes from them is absolutely pure. Thus, by turning sewage to its natural use, we not only pre serve it from polluting our streams, but we add to their volume an amount of transparent filtered water such as must be most serviceable to the population on their banks. It is impossible to contemplate these various re sults without profound reverence for the wise con catenation of law by which all Nature is bound together, and equal amazement at the ingenuity with which man has so often hurt himself by dis regarding her ordinances. Drawing our food, clothing, supplies of every sort from all quarters of the globe, we have been content to render Eng land the cloaca maxima of the world. We have thrown into the air with our breath, into the waters with our drains , the elements of all this mass of materials ; nay, we have even thus so far diaaipated the products of our own fields that we have been compelled to send for supplies of manure to the antipodes to keep them in culti vation. In thus doing we have converted our cities intoseats of pestilence, our streams into noisome sewers, the surrounding sea itself into one vast sink. But all this, which is poison to us, is nourishment to plants. Every green leaf helps to restore the vivifying parity of the air, every inch of soil is a perfect filter for foul liquids, every tender rootlet turns corruption into wholesome food. These are humble truths long known to all among us, but together they build up a stupendous scheme of natural government, against which we have vainly struggled with incalculable loss. Be it ours in this generation to cease from the bootless rebellion, and, by condescending LI learn of Nature, convert her from a vengeful Fate into a ready and smiling handmaid. Ebt Court. -4 , - OSBORNE, JAN. 5. The Queen drove out to-day. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lientenant•General Bonny. and Captain Grey, left Osborne this morning for Buckingham Palms. Prins Arthur, attended by Major Elpilinstone, accom panied the Prince of Wolin to London, and proceeds from thanes to Greenwich Park. A deputation from the Faversham Unice, consisting of Kr. A. Cobb (chairman), and Mr. W. Mails (clerk), bad an interview with the Right Hoe. C. P. Villiers, LP., yesterday, at the office of the Poce•law Board, Whitehall. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the North Ameriesn Provinces. Despatches were sect to the Governors of the Ceps of Good Hope, Natal, and lit Helena. Timms ROYAL, HATAlucir.—The Primal of Wake hemmed this theatre with a visit last night. His Royal Highneme wee ableeded by Cornet Gleichen. Gewerel Knoll" sad Cartels Grey. The perfonneaces were : Lord Dwitirstry ; Iteatles, Prince of Abyssinia: and Mrs White. The Queer has aooepted a copy of " Poems : an Offering to Immnehire," end melody =preened to Mies Faithfull it. satisfaction with the same. The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven have left Gorhansbury, when they have been on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam, for The Grove, near Watford, on a visit to the Bari and Countess of Clarendon. The Berl and Countess of Verulam have been receiving a suocessiois of visitors at Gorhambnry dazing the Past week. - Lady &MA Vane Tempest was safely delivered of a eon on Sunday, at her residence in Chester-square. Lady Harriet Vernon was safely delivered of a daughter as &May bat. Sir John and lady Thorold and family have arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckinghare-gate, from Elysian Park, Grantham, on their way to their residence in the Champs Elyse's', at Paris. Belfast is determined to erect a cathedral for the diocese of Oosnor. An energetic movement is being made, with the bishop of the diocese at the head ; sad the sub scription list is in a flourishing state. Hewes. Laynon, Lyn', and Lanyori, of Belfast and Dublin, have received instructions to prepare plans. The Mowarchia Nationale of Turin announces the preemies of Mr. Bari* Oliviers in that city, and Mate at his intention to deliver a " Lecture en America" there. This lecture was read originally to a number of mechanics in Dublin, and took the Federal and North side. Mr. O'Brien is also to go to GlOlOll4 for what purpose Is not known. A Dublin journal jocularly asks—ls he about to offer himself for the gilded chair of Otho! On the let of January, Cornelius Hackett, aged 108 years, died in the city of Armagh, passaged of all his faculties. He was born on the property of Lord Cherie. moot, in the county of Trope, and when the French landed at Oarrickfargus, in 1760, he aooompanied his father (being this sin years dap) to the some of action. This proves his birth to be in 1754, and hie age 108 years. Deceased mesa inner by hada, and, even up to a few mouths of his death, be was able to move about the street and nee the spade or rake. A oorrespondent of the Times asks :—" Is it not practicable to add dignity to an ungracious surname? 'Ths Pitts, Bacons, and Shelley' did so. No one would now be ashamed of Boyle, Finch, Fans, Bye& Pratt, or SempilL There is nothing lettering about Pauly, though spelt with an e and ac. Pepri does not appear taking in Punch; Dowglas and Keith divested of association are anything but musical ; and as to all the numerous Yam and Os of which the Highlander, and Irish are so proud, what could be more inharmoeious ? Let people, thee, sot be ashamed of their names, let them reflect that worthy deeds ennobled a 'Peel' in the eyes of the world, that private virtues have made illustrious • Kyrle and a Peabody, not alone meow their seigisboon and contemporaries." A correspondent at Preston writes :—" The most striking sign of the reverse" of the people here is the asked anemones of their bowie. You can scarcely enter • single cottage from which some superfluous articles of flusher, have not disappeared ; and many are destitute of everything but the indispensable chain and tables. Pawn. tag has been carried on to an estoot which surprised even I those who were mast coomemat with the distress from the beginning. When drat the work of clothing was corn. mewed, the committee had an idea that the quickest and the cheapest plan would be to clear the pawnbrokers' 'helms, bat when the list hint was given of this Mteetieri they were so onrwlsehned with tickets that it would have I taken half a year to examine and verify them. A visitor who had some experienoe in the matter might collect a W ild in any dreg in the tome. Of mune it was only pro- posed to release useful articles of clothing, but the habit of the pearls to pawn Wag" is a bundle, so that to gist out • shawl, or • blear*, or • coat, it wee seeemary to take out, perhaps, • sot of china ornaments, s tat iron, a silver watch, or some similar article de teas. So the com mittee very quickly gave up the mace, ausepi as reputed imealel eases, ►nd, though they have virtually spent nearly 9,0001. in clothing, not above 1201. has gone for pawls , tickets.* L LID. W. P. Z. C. LH. 11. & Cot 1 W. 4 =sea Leith .06 97 2 W. 1 Ardrosean Yortrmli Galway. Valentia 9674 1 Z. 0 e 040 olyhr ee tr : 42 41 1 If e.i. Z. I r 0.61 o 0.36 Liverpool O6 1 &Z. 1 la 0.01 Pembroke Pemba Jersey HMS L'Orleat Itedvetort - 0.901 O V" ti; - .: 44 1 8. 97 . i 1 4OM e 14 0.69 " Yortrinon " th 99.09 43 1 LW. t rlO LM Ks.. 12917 41 1 Z. 0 London . 29.12 4$ 1 8. 11 7 at 10 0.80 - Yarmouth . 99.16 43 1 8. 4 0 0 16' Oil 4 Ver ugh 291: ; 6 9 1 W.Y.W. 1 . 1 19 4 4 121 3 Heligoland . 29.:6 41 0 ILL& 7 e at 4 Lisbon WIDNI:ISDAY. THIIIISDAT. N.W. to N.K, and to SCOTLAND. N.J. to N.W., strong, 8.E., sale, snowy. mitt snow. As above. IRMA=D. As above. W. to N. and Z., a gale. W. Carnal. N.N.N. to W.N.W., snowy. strong, some snow. As nest above. N.W.NNANCS. As nest above. As above. S.W.llramasa. At above. &E. to N.B. and to LL SOMAS& N.W. to N.L, strong, N.W., a gale, rata or spoally. snow. N.N.W. to LICE., a I. COW. E. to N. and N.W., gale, with snow. strong, some snow. THE Bins END thareev.—The Times this morn ing puts into the bands of atheists, deists, and all enemies of the Holy Scriptures, the following weapon :—" In that book (the Bible) there is not one single text that can be perverted to prove slavery unlawful, though there ie much which naturally tends to its mitigation, its elevation, sod its final extinction. In the New Testament we have an epistle written by the man who represents the last revealed phew and development of the Gospel, sent by the hand of • runaway slave, who had sought • refuge with the writer, to his lawful master, to the purport that the master and his slave were to get on better, and do their duty to one another more thoroughly for the future. The seine writer tells his recent eon. verts that if they are slaves they moat make the bait of that condition, and not try to escape it, at least by any means contrary to the laws of the country. The only pos sible doubt about the exact meaning of his advice is, whs. titer slaves are to refuse their liberty, even if it be of. fared ; or whether they are merely to remain true to their master, even if chance prawns the opportunity of 'move. The context which says that • faithful and dutiful Christian slave becomes the freedman of his Heavenly Master, clearly proves that a slave who refuses the offer of freedom has • high scriptural argument for his choioe. If it be said that slavery is at miaow with the spirit of the Gospel, so also are a good many things which are not yet laid under the ban of alcli- Hee, or threetened with the ' war power.' Sumptuous fare, purple and floe linen, wealth, ecclesiastical titles , un married clergy, good clerical incomes, and many other things are contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, or, at leash can be proved so as easily as slavery. But the Roman catholic* have just as much to say for any one of their , peculiar doctrines as the abolitionists have for their one article of • standing or falling community." We need ' scemely say that the foregoing Locutions of the Times, which have been over and over 'gain disposed of, will be vidienately denied by every careful student of Holy Writ. LLTEBT INTELLIGENOK AMERICA. NEW YORK, Die. W.. The President has not signed the bill for the admission of Western Virginia as a separate State. The conservative party is using all its pressure to induce him to veto it. The republicans insist that the President must and will adhere to his emancipation policy, and that he will issue a new proclamation in that sense on the Ist of January. The democratic party asserts, on the contrary, that he will take further time to consider. The position of the Federal armies in the South- West is exciting apprehension. The Confederates have recaptured the town of Holly Spring, and destroyed 200 waggons, cotton, commissary stores, ammunition, &c., valued at 500,000 do's., and burned Union City. The 7ederals state their lose at Holly Spring at 200 killed and wounded, and 150 taken prisoners. In a raid upon Memphis the Confederates car ried off 100 cattle and 180 mules. A force of 7,000 Confederates is reported to be advancing upon Columbus, their original strong hold on the Mississippi It is supposed that the Confederates will make an effort to crush the army of General Rosencranz at Nashville, Tennessee, and recover that place, and defeat General Grant's campaign against Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi. General Grant is already so situated that he cannot send an order twenty miles in any direction from his own camp. No change has occurred in the position of affairs on the Rappahannock. General Foster's army has returned to Newborn. The result of its four victories, in which it sus tained heavy losses, has been the destruction of a portion of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and telegraph, and of a large amount of private property. Intelligence from Key West states that more than fifty large vessels of the Banks' expedition had been seen passing into the Gulf. A large steamer, with a full freight of supplies' for the Confederate government, is reported by the Richmond papers to have entered Charleston, South Carolina. Thirty-nine out of the 300 Sioux Indians im prisoned at Dakoa, Minnesota, are to be hung to day, and fears are entertained that the whites who will witness the execution may break open the prison, and lynch the remainder. The colonel commanding the post has invoked the aid of the citizens to maintain the law.—Third edition of the Times. ITALY. The first number of a new daily paper, edited by Father Passaglia, has appeared at Turin ; it is called the Pace, and will continue the work begun with such astonishing success by the erudite theolo gian in his weekly organ the Mediatore. (asuTn's TURIN, JAILIS, Evaguro. A circular of the Minister of the Interior pub lished to-day directa the prefects to push forward the formation of 220 battalions of the mobilised National Guard, and mit to defer it later than the 20th inst., at which date all the operations neces sary for carrying out this measure will have been completed. NAPLES, JAsr. 5. Yesterday evening some individuals belonging to the lower class of the population endeavoured to get up a demonstration, and raised cries hostile to the government. About fifteen of them were arrested, among whom were two curates, some priests, and • colonel formerly in the Bourbon servioe. Documents were found upon the latter, relating to a revolutionary conspiracy. A petard was thrown down and exploded near the house of the general of the National Guard, but without doing any damage. The population remained perfectly quiet. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 5, EVINING. In to-day's sitting of the Congress a bill was introduced by the government for modifying the Customs tariff on iron, cotton, and other articles. The news that some high functionaries intend tendering their resignation is confirmed. It is asserted that Senor Coello, of Queaada, Spanish Minister at Brussels, h as sent in his resignation. Marshal O'Donnell bas received fresh proofs of the confidence placed in him by the Queen. The Bing of Prussia has been suffering for some days from a slight indisposition arising from a cold, and in consequence was not able to receive personally the coops. tulations of the authorities, as is customary on New Year's. day, nor to attend the service in the chapel at Charlottan. burg. The Grand Duke Michael has left St. Peters burgh for Wiles to visit Marshal Bariatissky, and confer with him on the condition of the Oancasaa, where great commotion prevail. The general dulness of the Palertnitan theatres has been broken by the appearance among the au dience at the Garibaldi of Fre Pantsleo, just re turned from Aspromonte, exile, and prison. Of course there was a democatration in hie favour. He asked foe " cheers " for Garibaldi: and the house echoed With " Vim' 1" for the wounded of Asprocoonte. The fighting friar has bees requested sot to meat at any more per formances, as his presence in too exciting, and he haa ap pealed against the order. There were also die - turbines at the Teatro Rossini, and the nasal cries for the hymn. - . Lirry, who so narrowly escaped being burnt to death at the Paris Oper► In November last, has, in gratitude to the fireman Muller, whose prompt inter. femme saved her Me, just presented to him a handsome gold watch and chain, with the date of the accident-16th November—engraved on the case. The Chariea ri gives a woodcut representing the year 1863 (under the guise of a young woman) looking round in great alarm at a some of the utmost oonfusino, in which the Northern States of America, the Southern States, Greece, Turkey, the Roman question, the new Boulevards of Paris, the New Opera House, are all flung tegethei at her feet. She exclaims, as 1862 is seen stealing away I. the distance :--" What a mess my prede cessor ban left me ! And Jost to think that I have the task of setting ell than confusion In order !" On Saturday week, being St. Jobn's-day, and therefore the Pop's nanseday, his Habana received from the directors of the Turin journal ♦nsonia' a contribution of Peter's pesos, sent to thorn from various parts of Italy. The money amounts to 20,000 reudi, besides which there is • tarp chest full of precious objects of all sorts, especially pld sad silver medals, interesting as wall en account of their hietorical soweistioas se their intrinsic value. _ . We read in the Melbourne Argue of Oct. 25 etcher of swamp magpies, rails, quails, Wive water• her" braised winged pigeons, and native wild ducks, 23 head in all, might in the Botanirierdens, and intended for the Zoologicalgardens, London, will leave by the Yorkshire on Monday. Some of these birds have not yet been teen in Ragland." The Melbourne Argun states that the Peninsular sad Oriental Company hare proposed to the imperial go versasset to establiah a fortnightly mail communication be tween England and Australia for an additional 60,000 i. a year. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MY OM OWZ PARIS, MONDAT EVINING. The Emperor took advantage of the very fine mild weather to go to St. Germain this morning on a shooting excursion. He was seen rattling along the Rue Rivoli at 9 o'clock in a sporting char a haw, accompanied by five marshals of Franoe—the Duke of Magenta, Marshal Magnan, Marshal Niel, Marshal Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, and Mar shal Randon, Minister at War. M. Rouland, the Minister of Public Instruction and Worship, was invited to join this warlike party. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde (who inherits the sporting taste of her father) bad a hunt of their own to-day in the forest of Meudon. The Patric has reason to know that the Sublime Porte, relying on the protocol of April 13, 1859, intends to send a commissary into the Principali ties on the occasion of the seizure of arms in Berrie. England and Austria are said to approve of the project, but serious objections to it are raised at St. Petersburg, and the Patrie seems to think that France leans to Russia in the matter. It raises • point of construction on the wording of the pro tocol, which says that the infraction justifying such an interference by the Porte " must be first ascer tained " (prealoblentent constant) by the represen tatives of the powers, and this has not been done. A great deal has lately been said of reported differences, of almost a threatening character, be tween Prussia and Austria. But the news from Germany on the subject is obscure and contra dictory, and little reliance can be placed upon the versions given by Paris journals pretending to be well informed. The Temps says on the subject : We agree on this «median with the German corre spondent of the Moniteur, and think that nothing mono= will oome of the conflict. It suits IL de Bismark at the present moment to make as much noise as poseible apropos of the unity of Italy, in order to weigh upon the chambers, and keep down the internal crisis. The Cologne Gazette thinks this, and can find no rational explanation for M. de Bismaries military demonstrations. It defies him to find money for going on with a warlike policy, unless he makes his peace with the chambers. A clerical organ in the south of France, L'Opinion du Midi, strongly urges the catholic& of Nimes to petition the mayor and municipal council to refuse the usual subvention to the theatre, unless the manager will undertake not to play the most suc cessful piece of the day. Le Fib de Uibuyer. In the neighbouring town of Beaucaire the clergy have just made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to prevent a protestant from having decent burial. It had been usual in Beaucaire, as is still the prac tice in but too many other parts of France, to bury protestants ignominiously in the ground reserved for criminals and suicides. Lately, however, and in pursuance of the law, • portion of the cemetery was marked off for protestant graves, and was sepa rated from the remaining part by • ditch ; but on the occasion of the first interment of a pro testant proposed to be made there, the Beaucaire priests protested with so much ado, that the mayor suspended the funeral, and telegraphed to the prefect for instructions. The priests said that the ground marked off for pro testanta was consecrated, and that the inhumation in it of a single heretic would " pollute" the whole cemetery. The prefect replied that the mayor was responsible for the police of the cemetery, and that his duty was to see the interment effected in spite of every resistance. Moreover, he sent him a central commissary of police to support his authority. The funeral procession set out for the cemetery, but on arriving there it was found that the grave was not ready, the gravedigger having left off his work in obedience to an order from the curb. The pro testant corpse was therefore obliged to be deposited in a provisional sepulchre, and it was not for two days afterwards that the gravedigger was forced by the gendarmes, under threat of imprisonment, to do his duty. The civil authority ultimately pre vailed, and it remains to be seen what steps the clergy will or can take to cure the pollution. The Bourse has been quite brilliant, and the Rente has risen half a franc. WEATHER REPORT. .-(THD3 DAY.) r I. 8 &X TAY, JASVAIII AMIMICA AND THE LANOAUWIIII DMUS% The following letter has been received at Man chester : _ _ "New York, Deo. IL "To Messrs. Thomas Fieldan, Wm. S. Stoll, Manchester; Frank Crossley, Eaq., Halifax; England. "Gentlerneo,—At a meeting of the citizen; of New York, held in this month, a committee was appointed, and deno minated the `lnternational Relief Committee,' for the perms of collecting 'applies of food, and forwarding them to Liverpool, to be used for the relief of the suffering ope ratives of Lancashire, and other parts of Great Britain. Copies of the appeal of that committee to the American people are herewith submitted for your permed. In it you will find pointed out with sufficient clause= the objects of the movement, and the spirit in which they are sought to be socomplished. Both, we trust, will receive your ready approval " The oontributions thus to be obtained are to be shipped freight free to the consignment of Messrs. Daniel James, of the firm of Phelps, James, and Co. ; Stephen B. Onion, of the firm of Guion and Co. ; Benjamin F. Babcock, of the Aim of Benjamin F. Babcock and Co., LiverpooL These gentlemen are constituted a committee to receive the ship ments ; to procure, if possible, exemption from all the ex penses of importation, and to deliver them to a committee of distribution well acquainted with the districts where the food is to be consumed, sod with the wants of the poor operatives, and be able to direct the supplies to those 0001113- Bible points where they will accomplish the most good. "We are advised by some of your numerous personal friends here that you not only pore's those qualifications, but also that we shall find in you earnest advocates of the cause in which we are engaged and willing co-operators therein. We therefore have chosen you as a committee of distribution, and solicit your acceptance of the office and sasomption of its dation. You also have authority in your discretion to add to your number. " In the famine which desolated Ireland during the year 1847 the people of the United States contributed largely to the relief of the sufferers. On that occasion, the British government bore all the expense of introducing the contri butions into the country, and the food was given to the consumers without pecuniary cost or diminution. "The vessels also which were laden with these supplies and carried them freight free, were exempted from port charges and expenses of every kind. We are informed that the total amount time added to that relief fund exceeded 40,0001. This precedent it is to huped her Majesty's minis ters will now deem it expedient and just to follow. "We solicit the exertion of your influence in aid of the committee in Liverpool, in their efforts to secure exemption from import duties, dock and town dues, railway freight, and all other charges on vowels and cargo. We have taken the liberty to more them that you would render them all the service in your power with the government, local autho rities, railway companies, and any other body or individual having the control of inland transportation. "The ship George Greswold is receiving cargo here's fast as circumstances will permit, and will sail as soon as she can be filled with contributions to the relief fund. The ship Hope, partly freighted with contributions by the committee of the 'Produce Exchange' of this city, is about sailing for LiverpooL This oommittee acts in harmony and concert with the International Relief Committee. The objects of the two an identical, end the wish is that the shipments of both should flow in the same channel, and accomplish the same benevolent cud--We are, gentlemen, very respect fully, your most obedient earrante, (Signed) "Joan C. Gans, Chairman. " JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON, Secretary." CHRISTMAS TIME AT ROME. A letter from Rome says :—" It is customary to erect in a large number of churches at Rome cradles in ho nour of the Infant Jesus; but the church which is distin guished among all others by the magnificence of its deems tion is that of Bt. Mary. The Franciman monks who pea -1 form the service in this church possess a treasure greatly venerated by the Roman people : this treasure is the Santo Bambino, as an Infant Jerre, rudely sculptured in wood, airs fully wrapped up and enriched by the piety of the [alibi ul with • quantity of jewels and precious stones, is called. The tradi tics states that when this piece of carving, which/was executed with • knife by • Sicilian shepherd, was terminated, its author wished to paint it, and went to • neighbouring town to fetch the necessary articles, bat was surprised to dis cover on his return that angels had accomplished the work in his absence. The monks of St. Mary's have invented several means of profiting by this miraculous treasure ; it is carried to the bedside of women in labour to facilitate their deliverance, and it is also presented to sick persona. In the latter case, if the cheeks of the Bambino are tinted with • pale red colour, the sufferer is saved; on the contrary, if they grow pale, all hopes ere abandoned. The Santo Bambino figures with state in the exhibition got up on Christmas day in a chapel converted into a theatre. Among the per sonages who appear in the display are always seen Augustus and the Sybil, as it is said that the revelation of the birth of the Saviour was made to that emperor, on that very spot, while one day consulting the Sybillioe book. Those two personages—Augustus and the Sybil—occupy the front of the stage, one on each side ; then is seen the Santo Bambino in his sacred cradle having the Madonna and Saint Joseph beside him, and receiving the adoration of the shepherds. Behind that is seen • verdant country, studded with animals, in the midst of which may be distinguished some men wearing costumes somewhat ' resembling those of the Pontifical 7.oa•ves. At the back is the humble village of Bethlehem, represented as a magoifi sent city filled with cupolas and minarets ; above all th►t is an immense Glory splendidly painted, with the Eternal Father surrounded by a multitude of angels, cherubim seraphims, hr. This superb exhibition would be sufficient to excite the admiration of a devout and enthusiastic people, but, in addition, • platform is erected in the central nave, on which children of from six to twelve years of age snows sively appear and recite pieces of poetry and prom on the subject of the birth of the Santo Bambino." THE LATE Rzv. A. num—Thera has been a singular fatality attached to the family of the lamented Chaplain Fuller, of the 16th Massachusetts Regiment, who fall at the battle of Fredericksburg. Three of the family have relished by untimely deaths. Eugene Fuller, one of the sons, was drowned on the voyage from New York to New Orleans in 18.59, the 'wiper that the mother died. Margaret Fuller, Countess of Oesoli, perished by shipwreck, an Fyn Island, near New York, in 1800. She was returning from Italy to her native land, from which she had long been absent. Her husband and child were lost with her. And now Arthur B. Fuller has been killed in battle. In every instance the surviving members of the family received the sad tidings by telegraph. Gov. Andrew, in 'a letter to the brother of the deemed. writes :—" My long intimate ac quaintance with him and all your family render this instance of bravery and of affliction' ooe of animal interest, u it really is of unusual pathos. His conduct was worthy of his state and his blood. It will be for ever remembered. Nor was it too soon for a good man to die, falling, as he did, in splendid devotion to a sublime idea of duty, adventuring his life beyond the necessities of his position or the coca. siun of his office, but not beyond the dictates of an ardent nature, nor, in my judgment, beyond the highest and best idea of the example and decorum of the occasion." PRESENTATION BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT TO • BRITISH CAPTAIN AND HIM Orncres. —At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Captain Brown, of the British ship Treholgen, was presented with a gold medal for himself, sod three silver medals for the officers of his ship, the medals having been forwarded for presentation by the Queen of Spain. Mr. Chilton, president of the chamber, io making the premier tattoo, stated that Captain Brown rescued 35 men—officers and crew- ef the Spanish ship Reyna del 00011160, when that vessel was on fire, keeping them on beard his ship for four weeks, treating them with the greatest kindness, and ultimately landing them at St. Helena. The men were rescued from certain death, for at the time Captain Brown came up there wee a very heavy sea running, and the Reyna del Oceano had no boats which would have enabled her crew to reach land or to float about until some ship came in sight. Captain Brown incurred considerable nak in launching his own boat. to the rescue. DISTURBANCEB ON BOARD HER MAJINTIeB SHIP CORNWALLIB, AT SM.—Dining the put few d e. the the sailors of her Majery's ship Crowell* lying at Hu have coeducted themselves in • very riotous manner. It a the practice for the Hull police to apprehend those tailors who are on shore beyond their leave. These meta are called stragglers, and the police take them ou board to he dealt with by the commander of the vessel. A few days ago, therefore, when several policemen took on board the vessel numerous stragglers whom they bad apprehended, they were received with groans from the crew, and r two polio .. men were passing along the deck. a sailor, who lad • small hose with which be was washing the vessel, suddenly turned it on the officers of the law, and gave them a sound drenching. The officer on duty ordered the sailor in cus tody for this freak, but the constables were again assailed with a shower of missiles from the port bolas as they were leaving the vessel. One of the officers was struck in the back by a large piece of stone. This condor was im mediately brought under the notice of Otptain Grentell, and he has taken the necessary steps to punish the cdeadan. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT PLYMOUTH. A terrible fire commenced at Plymouth sho t * after midnight in the property-room of the theatre, i f * the Christmas inuttonsime was closed. The interior of t h building is almost entirely consumed ; the llamas cone skated by the roof with the card and club rooms of th Royal Hotel, both of which are gutted. The ballroom ste, cue is burnt ; the handsome arembly•room, and the ta, nem below it, are also partially destroyed. The eastern sod of the quadrangle is uninjured by th ere, and Mr. Paine, the lessee of the hotel, in reph 4 i it his furniture. The thick wall between the theatre sod the hotel d o , not rise higher than the exterior walls, so that the 1 . ,, soon communicated from the roof of oae building to of of the other. That portion of the hotel next the theatre consists of th e eard-room, connected with the hall-room. The cardlo ci , eoetained the samples of Maus. Blumberg cod Co., R.. (Ignore-street West, rained at 1,000 1 , which are sob* lost. From the card-room the fire went across the inug slain:ass to the splendid ball-room. The entire property, which belongs to the corporation d Plymouth, forms the noblest specimen of architecture" the Wert of England. The military, marines, and seamen of the royal awy wino in full attendance, aiding the civil authorities. The Royal Hotel and Theatre were finished in Idl3, et s oat of 60,0001. The north front is 270 feet long. The roof of the splendid lonic portico is consumed. The buildings are insured by the corporation with rte Atfsaofice. Mr. Parsee is insured in the General. th. Newcombe, the manager of the theatre, is uninsured. g e recently expended3,o3ol. on the fittings and scenery. See s valuable dresses were saved. A fire occurred in the property-room on the 26th d December lest, which wee promptly extinguished. A CLERGYMAN CHARGED WITH FORGERY, At the Blackburn Town Hall, yesterday, the Rer. Joseph Wood, incumbent of Clayton-le-Moon, four mile from Blackburn, wee charged, before Masan. Boole eat Barnes, with having forged and uttered • mend fie 4016/. upon the centenarians!, for the »donna d the national debt. The prisoner was two years ic e the object of au ecclesiastical inquiry for drnk. minces, brought by some of the parishioners in relate* to his marriage with • young woman out of Sunday school. Be is respectably connected in the mnes, and in his office as incumbent of Clayton-le-Moon was Ai president of the Clayton-le-Moors Friendly Society, mob , Wished in connexion with his church in 1840, sad ink the management of • committee, whose rights are verb& is trustees, of whom he is one. The members are trans) junior and senior, and ere entitled by their wthecripoww from id. to 2d. per week, to from 3. to 4s. per week in tau of sickness. and au &Howson, at death. A few months rat the committee agreed that 4004 of their surplus fele should be invested with the oomminiooers for the ream tion of the national debt, and the treasurer was instructed to invest the money. instead of di isg so himself, ha speed with the primmer to do it in behalf of the society, and p laced the money in his hands. Some days after. the prisoner laid before the committee a receipt purporting to be from the commissioners of the ea tional debt for the sum of 4001., and it was accepted as bona fide. On the 26th December last, he sett for Thomas Stuart, one of the trustees, told him that Is bad only sent 2001. of the MO/. to the commissioners, sad that he had kept 2001. for his own use. The matter vie made known to the committee. and be last Monday ad them, telling them the same tale, and assuring them that the receipt for the 4001. which he had given them was a fictitious one. They communicated with the authorities es the subject. and found that his statement was true, sad as Saturday last be was arrested. On the application of Superintendent M'Nab he yr remanded for a week, to give time to comp/eta the care against him. Tai LAIN FATAL EXPLOSION AT • FINNWOIX MmweAcrom—An inquest was held yesterday maim by Mr. H. B. Walthsw, deputy.corooer, on Mee Helm Clitheroe, aged 23, and Samuel Pelham. aged 24, whe lost their lives through an explosion of fireworks at the manufactory,Weaver-street, Bethtud.areen. The particulars of the explosion, which took place on Tuesday week, have already appeared in our columns. A witness named Willett stated that when be rushed into the hems after the explosion he saw Mime Clitheros standing in the centre of the room in a soma of dames ; fire was bantirg forth from underneath a bench where the gas-meter was kept. Mr. Clitheroe was also in the room, but was unable to aged his daughter, being partially disabled by an accident which os curred previously. Witness therefore took her is hie erne and carried her out; when he reached the street be put her down, and tore her clothes off, but her flesh peeled off with them in strips ; blankets were wrapped round her, and she was removed to the hospital. Pelham, who was a workman, rushed out of the house dreadfully burnt. Mrs. Clitheroe, who wee an invalid, was rescued by two men, who stood on witoeses shoulders. Mr. Powell confirmed the preceding statement ; and, in reply to a question from the coroner, stated hie belief that IL,. Clitheros had a license which enabled him to have • large quantity of fireworks ca his premises. Mr. Clitheroe was sot expected to survive. The account be gave of the occurrence was, that when the gas was turned off in the streets, the iecremed pressure ca the gas in the factory caused sparks to fly about, which ex. ploded the fireworks. The coroner having summed up the evidence, the jury returned a verdict, " That the domed lost their lives by misfortune through the explosion of as Cain fireworks." FATAL FALL PROM THZ MAROATE CLIFF.-011 Saturday last, about noon, the body of Robert Pridham, ay -driver, was found under the cliff near the Fort steps. ne deceased was observed about the town during the morning, bat nothing strange was noticed in his man. oars. He went into the Crown public-house about 12 o'clock, and there had a pint of beer and • peony. worth of bread and cheese, and afterwards up on the Fort, at the Britannia Inn, be was treated with • pint of beer by Mr. John Sony, and shortly after partaking of which he proceeded along the cliff, and, on arriving et a spot between the Sebastopol Goo and the Fort steps to the Sands, he fell over—the fence and • portion of the cliff st the spot having been carried away during the late ple. lle• ceased's father and brother committed suicide, the latter about fifteen years ego. An inquest was held at the town• ball. yesterday (Monday), before W. H. Payn, Req., 0:0 roper, and, the above facts having been dep osed to , the jury re turned the following verdict :—" That creased came by his death by a fall from the cliff but then is no evidence to show how he came there ; and the authorities are cen. surable for not taking steps to defend or protect anyone from falling over the cliff."—Kentish Gazette. DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY Nail NOTTINGHAM". A daring highway robbery, accompanied with violence, took piece at the village of Buford, three miles from Notting ham, on Saturday right last. Mr. Charles Brown, of Bar ford, left ao Odd Fellows' lodge in the village about half. past 9, and when within 150 yards of bin owu Imam three men soddenly rushed upon him. The foremost of the met knocked him down with a bludgeon, std the others fell upon him, seized him by the throat, and strangled him. They then dragged him from the highway into a narrow lane, and riled his pocket. of nearly 41. Before leaving him the robbers kicked him violently io the aide and other parts of his body, rendering him insensible. A person named Pendleton passing by soon after the robbery heard gnaw, and soon discovered Mr. Brown. Assistance was imme diately procured, and the unfortunate man conveyed home. No clue has yet been obtained as to the perpetrators of the outrage. A bag which contained the money was found a neighbouring field on Sunday morning. THE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT CLIFTON, NOTTS.— At the quarter sessions held yesterday, at the Shire hall, Nottingham, before Lord Belper. Jumes Flood, aged 63, eerier, wee charged with violently assaulting and rob' bine Joseph Tortola, gamewatcher to Sir R ob ert I too, on Barton-moor. Mr. Mellor prosecuted ; the pri souer was undefended. The prosecutor said that on the morning of the robbery he called at a public-house Gotham, when the prisoner came in beggiug. He gave him some tobacco and beer, and they left together oa the road to Nottingham. On their way the prosecutor became I alarmed, and requested the prisoner to leave him, but he refused to go. They then walked op to Barton-moor, when prisoner said, " You have got a watch." Prosecutor replied that be had, and he meant to keep it. Prisoner then knocked bim down, beat bim on the head, and tem doted him insensible for a short time. Upon recoverinz himself he found the prisoner upon him rifling hie pocket& A violent struggle took a q when a man named Price came up, and succeeded, with the prosecutor , in rep' turing the prisoner. whomthey took into custody. The jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy. His lordship, however, refused to nosh.* the recommets l + - tion, as the prisoner had been previously convicted eleven times, and sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude. SALMON IN IRELAND. —A fish-walk has been made for two miles over the rocky ground between Lou;b emeriti and Lough Mask, in the county Galway, at a onto( 1 6501. By this means salmon are now enabled to pan up and down freely. The Galway Express *aye :—.• Within the put four weeks Mr. Miller has collected and deposited so leas than 770,000 salmon ova in the streams of Lough Mask, in addition to those of last year. making a total of 1.429,0t0 ova. But in addition to this large supply, Mr. Miller hat conveyed forty adult salmon alive a distance of twenty• three miles in a large tub of water, aid, by frequently re nosing the water on the way, they arrived as lively at the end of their journey as they were at the beginoing. Thor were the grit salmon that had ever been known to inhabit the river Robs, a tributary of Lough Mask, which covers • area of ground thirty miles by ten." Boom Kmaturiorox Mussuu.—During the week ending Jea. 3, the visitors have been as follows :-- 1 % Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Monday,' and Saturd. , tree days,opso teas 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 12.571; on Ili day,q students' day (admission to the public &O, olr from It, a.m. till 4 p.m, 298 ; total, 12,80. From the °ponies of the museum, 3,661,185. "is • bat sow • s Mel