The Express. — London, England, 1857-01-30 00:00:00

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Om- Afiumr, M. Wm torsimoir—Natralea Atireass. S. Ms. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30. So far u they have gone, the operations of the expedition to the Persian Gulf appear to have bass crowned with success. The island of Karrak has been occupied without resistance; Buahire has been taken after some sharp fighting of only a few hours' continuance ; a small Persian camp on the main-land, opposite to the island of Kishm, has been dispersed. The Persian soldiers appear to have displayed more seal and eagerness to prolong the contest than their leaders showed either inclination or ability to turn to account. The Arabs appear tobedivided. One party of Arabs fought bravely and obstinately; but ams tithe tribes made overtures to the English. It weal seem, however, that hostilities in this quarter are not likely to be protracted ; at least, if we may be lieve the confident statements which reach us frees various quarters of the desire of the Government at Tehran to resume negotiations. The aspect of affairs in China is more equivosal. YEN gives no signs of yielding, and he appears to be supported by the gentry of Canton and its Mim► diate vicinity. and by the mercantile eammaity. Admiral firruora does not seem to ban mil much progress. Another fort has, Mama s boa taken by the English; but in return the Mime ban met fire to the Factories, which wpm to have Isla all but entirely destroyed. The rasidants hat Es:stood that the Admiral asketook to meld the Factories ; but on the teth of November an ominous manifesto was Weed by Mr. Com illa PARKLS, to the Abet that the naval Coramander-in-Ciet would "do 11l in his power for the /.wet palmitin of the Factories," but that at the ammo time it was advieside Ire indi vidual' to look Air their own goal. wig that they "Lure at their summand ibilliths hugely availed et by other semilien et the annumnity, ter neessing their progeny, it they think it exposed to risk, r ginss of indoelind security." Whatever wee Ammo la this frith led light thrown upon it teen the %big bedlam on the 14th and 13th of Daman The fees maw Admiral BLYMOVII has pond iliderate to the plandoe of his country men hew the nee with which hie attacks upon the limb MI 01161111 had Wpm& the citizens. The de stemeden of the Iraitudes wee as child's play; teethe hone' (the Engliansterles at but) are constridel "treader, in sewn* blocks, es* set easy to be de stroyed by mere skulking inesmilerin Nor is this ill. The Hoeg Kong jean& imamate that the ricer swarms with " phutue wind when the Ad. "lira will have to opine& Aa Iltgleh Misr ea anneals have ben ant Why the Mahn& of . . village, and the village dmiejed. And at this pre- Mee mimed diesnient e nmeiheting itself in overt este. has been excited mans the Chinese residents its Beni Bong by the mere Met enforcement of a sanitary act. Sir Amor Bowsaw, it b stated in As Indian pawn bee applied to the Government at Caimans he a reinkeesesest of hoops. In short, the attack upon Canton is rapidly expanding into a general war with China—a war which threatens to be complicated by the increased activity of the " rebels " in the two Kwangs. The withdrawal of the Chinese troops ordinarily distri buted through the country, with a view to lICSINMIM trate them in Canton, has been followed by bearsisms of the " Hak-ka men," and it is alarmed that fifty towns and villages have been desbeyal, and 50,000 people deprived of their homes in the coarse of three weeks. A " rebel " squadron is also said to be emeleored in Whampos Reach. There is one consideration which these events free upon the mind with paramount claims to attention. It is the inexpediency, the danger of tolerating the assumption of the pone to declare war, or to undertake spematiere tantamount to a declaration of war, by say authority inferior to the Crown itself. We are it this moment actually at war both with Perris and China, and yet there haa not appeared up to thetims at which we write any pablio declaration of war against either in the name of the Crown. In the ems of Persia this irregularity, it is tree, is compa ratively venial. No one can doubt for a moment that Lard CANNING has been authorieed—ln etraeted—by the Home Government to act as he has dome. The Ikea of the Crown in this era is only to be regretted as impart ing as equivocal appearance to out hostile operations, which may produce an unpkanant effect on the minds of foreign govenumnts. In this cam THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1857. Ministers may plead in palliation that the Governor- General of India being twooseerily invested with the power of coercing protested States in India when necessary, hie authority bad in this instance been unwittingly extended to interference with a view to defend a protected State out of India. But in the case of China it is dif haat. The quarrel with the Chinese originated in a claim on the part of the English which most people believe to be utterly untenable, and which all admit to be trifling. There was no danger of aggres sion from the Chinese. The English authorities in the Chinese waters might with perfect safety have written for instructions from home, and waited foe the answer before they acted. Instead of doing this, however, the English Admiral and the Governor of Hong Kong have of their own authority com menced hoed ities with China. They have precipi tated the country into a war without being autho rised by the Crown, without condescending to give the Crown timely warning of what they intended to do. There is but too much reason to fear that the English Government, out of tenderness to its repre sentatives in China, will sanction their conduct, and prosecute the hostilities commenced by them. If this is done, the power of declaring war in the maw of Great Britain will have been delegated to inkdat functionaries of the Crown. Waiving for the gent all consideration of the " untoward " results to width a war with China may give rise, let us weigh sew fully the pernicious consequences of establish/tag a precedent which may confer upon Govern= of Colonies and Admirals on Foreign Stations the power at any time to involve the country in We have reason to believe that this view of the Chinese difficulties has already suggested itself to e than one Liberal of mark and influence. We are most anxious, whenever it is possible, to abstain from miming questions that may divide the Liberal party. We haven desire to press hard upon Minis ters at the commencement of a session, when they are threatened with urgent and delicate questions of finance, and with the assaults of an Opposition whose unscrupulous leader has just returned from a neighbouring capital, crammed by one high in office there with captious objections to the foreign policy of the English Cabinet. But the exclusive authority of the English Crown to declare war in the name of the English nation is a cardinal article of our constitution, which we are anxious to see affirmed by the Legislature, at least u a safeguard for the future, if not as a remedy for the past. And we are not without hope that memo Liberal, of approved judgment and moderation, may be found to move a resolution in the House of Commons, affirm ing the principle that no war shall be declared against any state out of India by any other authority than the Crown; and th►t whenever war is declared Parlia ment, if not sitting at the time, shall be immediately summoned. We (Plymouth Awed) hest that Sir Massey lapis is gain le try far Westbury. Ile bee bees making lime( se pe es be is. them awl my robs* be se emed. Ha maid Dave so dense of ebeiteug a east for Ikea Dena, ekes he le better beOW. •• a Lesdlesd than be wadi be busied es • politicks. _ _ The Plystaseth lieu;Nal says " The reformers of Dooggort len idmissi to LW forward as a candidate Ise the suessmslodog of int borough in parliament Jame 11111., Nog, ths puma mombor ix Weetbary t sad the peordstor and sabre of dr Bestressier, to supersede that do adhlog Derhyits Gam! &r George Besteekry. Mr. Wilms am to have sitlealei a maim at the libehauiee' Institate hotereek, bat vas promisi by a fell *s hi. hone." Till *NT ideld adcortox.—A meeting of the BOW Mai ad seipeuteee et air Walter Riddell, the emenative enable Or Ile wt divides et Yea, was boil yeeterdey wriedis Ili es Seen MAN libilands, Dr. Kiag la the alit. WWI* alma bee a keg *pod tine athtepellthel elm* lathe sem at lie tetee h• rid :-- o, llllit I el& brag ell hem* le my itei I lente di do bed Wads d axing o Woos to So goistosooL I on • 1 glides 110.14=ei la awl peesallv at Me aesleatt le WO Irepria * Ireillsemet damp at ettley. mid - taw le eel ea Omaha elle ma wesiy le amp the swarlitiresi ewes Sr b et Se eswear. I eta Ilet bat I bee, ea lhe ablie. ironed ea et hi onsity. r i llk O a = OMB br ie i tTe s tr he rli w ur i b i g 1 1 1 Lm `feed ape he vii leles lid meal le As Ise Lai 3te Ihreell ....iii 1 Vi lidli eeemeold. I ham as all Lad !liir otootasktg En *Wye= anis Illt. mil= din eerenedie peng i t MI le MN a veil re eeireseellee gill, ent el ea beery be ee~ SI Mb dr ea viol MI , " b• elieell by help et Os I *ilk I I wig Mar Set oat keep bit ban* ad ppm* the maga* et my ex tremely veiled nereeh ladeotemedtmommideded. =to ad dada emenellee pie* let I bee se leiewer et ith Uri l'eUeielat IMI beim I " c=lllllll e 2 Chddrn.—The festivities d I* Awl wet el Mahe. misialeat te be le ememseales el the s=p= eed d Ihe De* et Ilswerie Is es Imo = 0 i fift e ftelle-lbe lbehrimil elbe se d ids hei• MI =P igi lhd l l a = l a ir mumeelt i teeloy. id ad rel ied la da d eeW ila reela. ii =ell= add hi pose a Ihe agar ad paey of Go am astallm d bawd des eel dm Wil l a maddeetzT Ihe had ad of 3, e20 „,-.. se" mi. ye mei M ai l* i ti. hi • ileiley Ilte Mr ht we el* r wag leoll se ITh et i=s eel alter =lords d de Samedese ea to *dr wee* W ir d** aped dm* le add the brininess= allsta Idled animeed la reerl lasi eel limed a peo thei le the seem fills oesolop ffeumorbed IMOD ad=d eme=laia Z e r. di V ie rro lid tt the lheleolesee theelemiom a weed of dr aim a r il s =de eddied admit FAt Soda Ara mew w eer eo n: sum . o: .. t diet the aid idhoild arm ad dm= lee Mled .... s di amiLleflmeed lode hew =lllrWameneeme ill Meompile eat, Oa adamol ad do duet air ad raddla-datda id enemeeddlem Sr ill• Moe Mr ism Ism p lifseild Ihe amble ilite's whet rel memo Wei te elms way hoar . toped the pallag" and me le "te=as Ileemles gee& idialed die lab, we ad oetVerrt Ille dialled jig the bil e Weber are of dome ea eon Wm wee% MI le Wee Use by him mete Om do dim Gas deemed a towel filled all opted ad id dame, mild • Ilda male of the red dead gib avail Olteteliti to Oa Yr v a l=malrretr mildew !dyad the trey r die tho dare raw of do eefe et S" IMO ded• fel if Mien Ida bet pm*, head le eatimil lilt sae dame dada Ode Gm. Go Nod damned It woo tar Sal Lai a• klui ea **Wei aw dead oto tat aolome, O. uTilitheanly ire bow beard of. A arum ee& lbws* modeomeo. shoed Wm proper torio, soon air bodes the 1141.10 No poly, ewe op WI Immo/ olont dee smilloolloo of the adeosivo pork for ono dore as lour liamrltwr ride& The party, bow over, ologeelobeol elmooshoo Ore Soy limd set km drives larerikag bee tho opoollose Talmud, ~m en kis gam mitylolool his lemelisy sod trelemers, owl iloe pro proodess Iwo owl" adsokoivo with than yid* were =is la the haft proseellop of Talodop.-2rotelophoos holm TiDai or PliedrPT DOWWL—We Twit to blase te amo. the death of lard Dowse, tahhi took = . l l l:=,.ea the Mk hat., la lie 416 hpair. Dammey, tree the estemiThearst Dm^ et lie emir is erne pewee et Ws* le vialtbe areitied wee simile& Is AIDA_ ISA M Noy had, hoe tewoldwa ditties. Lleak Miler et Pi ea Milkmaid hes WI weed &Sim, allalrea Mud. do Ira. LIOL Itatimil, Ira la bk. LK methe w re Ilse ash eider The Lie Ateemes mem Ile web ibeglier fels lbettaate, Net of Ord= Crib, Herr, pier Ohs fa& lost), zerrisi. Y 1764 Leah web Ambler emil balm et Wm. Beale% Itaq., Leltaelwa i ItoesaL la 11141 &- tem& dms dr H od. W. W. Dawisay, cealudeil the meaty • Itelteamt, ord isimatell Ithewasit C twelve voile, the rrember taista—thr Iltr. G. J. Moaned, Cur Lai Aria), 707; Da ... L. ,a ddl ; lard Om an. MIL ids. the hail& mow d sir IL red, ee p pll7l etertileinte et thet he Ye art k UM. Illi e g= at P Twirls& irldprld Os trbe Court. 11113113501 t, JAZ. 111. The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds adjoining the Culls this monism The Thoth Ambassador (Coast Pososi), the Anodes XlSdater Sig Counter Chreptowitek end the But and 1 Countess of Clarendon have Oft the Cu l l. The Hon. Caroline Cavendish sad the Hon. Plots Macdo nald have escasedsd the Hon Lucy Herr end the Hon. Miry Basel es Maids of Honour En Welting. The War Committee met at two o'clock yesterday 'Ser mon, et the dice of the Secretary of Stas for War, In Pell- Oa. Present The Doke of Csmbridge, Viarotmt Palmer ston, Lad Namur, Sir Clone Orey, and Sir Charles Wood' _ Despatches trots the Gannon at Hose Honer, Cayks, and the Mauritius wen neened yesterday at the Colosiel-edlce. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland base arrived at Stafford Hoar, from Trentham. The Duke of Wellington has left town for Strath l i - Beldwayn The dachas is slant to resume her duties e• lady in waiting en her Mujeny. The Marquis of Salisbury has left Hatfield, on a ♦:sit to the Marquis sad Marchioness (Alliance, at Burleigb. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland and Lady Rees Fans have returned to town, horn visiting the Marquis of Exeter, at Burleigh. The Earl of Strathmore has left town for Mantis Beetle, Forfarshire. The Dowager Lady Cowley has returned to llert foed-►treet, Lem visiting the Marquis end Marchioness of fleliabory, at ltatfield. The Earl and Counter of Errol have arrived at Blair Carle, where they intend to remain fore few month,. The youthful Gorily had rerevaly been in the northt The Earl and Counter of Wilton have during the pest few days bees entisiguing st Egerton Lodge, gelton liembrey, the foilowiug distinguished visitors :—Hr Royal Highness the Duchess at Cambridge and the Prisons Mary, the Hari of Westmoreland, Lord sad Ludy Grammer, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Hon. R. Grosvenor, Count Jaoourt, Major Puri* Count Chotck, he. A grand ball wee con , templated, but the decease of the Dyke of Rutland vet it aside. The Earl of &afield, the lion. George Grant, the Hon. A. Feuer, Henry Gordon. Cutoro;ng, Esq., end Wil kens Brown, Esq., Linkwoud, have during the pest week en joyed, so tar alibi weather permitted, excellent sport in the covers around Callen House. THE EARL OF EAREWOOD.—The following IDCdi_ . eel bulletin was issued yesterday morning Thegorl of Ilarewood has passed another good night, and his lordship is going on satiatisctorily.—liarewood llore,.Thursday morn ing, January 29." FAINENAL OF TIM LATE Delis os RUTLAND, K.G. —The metal remains of the decreed duke were interred in the mausoleum of Belvoir Carle, at half-past 10 on Thurs day morning. The funeral we etrktly private (in accordance with the rah of the deceased nobleman), and remarkably plain mud unostentatious. The procession was headed by the present duke r chief mourner, followed by Lout John Manama, Lord Omer Manners, Bad Jermyn, and Lord Forester. A large number of the tenantry were present. The funeral of the late Rev. A. Thacker, tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, took place yesterday morning. The body was carried in procession round the Oreat Court, the college choir chanting the service. It was deposited under the pavement of the ante-chapel. The Bank of England have ordered a bonus of ten per cent. on the sabres of the clerks in that establish ment for the past year. A memorial, very numerously signed by the lead ing bounce in the wino trade, was presented to the Tres arry yesterday, requesting that the privilege may be granted of bottling foreign vines in bon/. The Royal Commissioners for determining the site tithe National Gallery met yesterday in Downing street, at the bean of the Find Lord of the Treasury. The rnmmis stoners present were Lord Broughton, the Dean of St. Pours, Protestor Faraday, Mr. Cockerell, R.A., and Mr. Richmond. The Queen's commission was read, Lord Broughton placed in the chair, and Mr. Montague Butler chosen secretary to the commireioncre. Mr. John Edward Walshe and Mr. A. Lawson was to be called to the Innur bar, at Dublin, yesteethy. Ethiserbes ever takes pat to say raided movement, bat it M believed that both bases to the " moderate emasereative." elms of paticiona. The Neterestform#l mays :—" Mr. Spurgeon, on Sunday last, look a collection at the Muslc-hall fora ftmil, which it seems eight of the London Baptist Churches unite in raising fir the benefit of their needy evangelists in the worry. His Mat was the lam clause of Luke vii. 22, and ter yocumiary enrol was founded on Wiclitra translation of the words, Poor we have taken to the preaching of the Gespet.' Addressing, in the ovum of his remarks, any kinds of tke Palma Aid Society who might be promoted to be proms amengpit kis 6,000 bearers he told them he knew it ea isdailible seethed for multiplying curates in the dwelt. a Split a Irishop left Ifty said be—a Rally which faith Serlia the imerest approach to a clap that has, perhaps, ever bow board is a modern wershiypieg amembly. Mr. Spurgeon's mod realimi, we believe, eons M." The Emperor Napoleon is said to have sent to tho rang Counties de Monty a magolikeat diamond necklace sad aces es • wedding potent. The Grand Council of Lucerne in its last sitting rejected by 63 votes to 23, as it had dons before, a proposi tka for an amnesty to M. Nygren Muller, formerly chief of the Sonikrbund. Nice was illuminated for the second time on the UM with as much splendour as on the preceding night. The Xing of Sardinia, in plain clothe, went along the principal streets in • carriage, in company with Count Carew end M. Itatemi, sad wits loudly cheered. A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brawls sap.—" I hath vemind a letter from Lyons, which wen . Sams that a simpthr meow M eorent is that cbg—eamek, ' Ore M. &math sayeadaat el the Maher et Depths. Emig the reign of Leath Mgr, is ea des the et twig mob. Sim lath M. themptine entheigesl these Maim i theme matioahrly s a keg day wadi be made et Reim The meat Me ct WVA is meg le bas WOW him with the idea depalbeg the ressektim elide Ibis • mmestery." . . . Mgr. Morlot, the new Archbishop of Pavia, pro vosts to spew' a few days at Team beton he hakes poopeseion et his new .es. All the pried* notetelities of Pude have leg ate erode at the midenary onsbiletonent where he bee NOM ism Ms mien hem Lam Two days ago, delegetes Nee emend aspetulism et workmen had me Inter view with his. to odic their esnandulatims. His excellence said that the worideg dimes of Paris night always rely on lie devetelhasse to their inter/Ma as he would "on their -h wrote" sad fibb." A Paris asereapaadaat of the Brussels Ask paikwir, eassarallsg via the dead at the Feltner de Linea, deems :—*. Pereigame et didactics et Perim made it a paid it Imam to he peeentei to do Yee pork ceme, eat they were orris f assomistkallieurgenteest men 'Elbe day to her miffs. It woo the horlyeartas of Mplomils am, cash dace every day belsgbg We costin g's". It Is sid. that as Dedham pep= to *abet la bwr mhos the esdekr sow co 11.• eve of emseding ; het I diode 'hear she will waseeeL Her sew einy width Is dewily laildmist, A !lOW the dlgismehis who boa at de in.. de Idereste, he pudica as tondos; • neutral ground Irma which they was not emegimmithig them edema. It is knows that the pitmen bpi up an SWAIM dal conemorinee with the imagnsirDowsgar el Damia. Ib hovel Y moneho, be a bed it notes and mind& dominonte. did was adder le mode public." A wrier to the Ard rye ma the ease hod that the de ceased Owen had Gobbed her assassin, wed ad they am committed to the MO Or if. Guist. The weber lo the New/ thinks it Is a awerehal het that " there is Mb hope d mating as was, elde. Ned widest& a Ira to deli the aim empire ;we her we shall wow led ladf etsolloisat test, bialgesee, sad wollewity—lnes to mime Krim de Lew" list ewes to wand her." The Mei Asir that has oiled son, Prime Pad de Liens, was with her inlet Mat neemente. " I was made witissas to-day," writes a Paris oor respondsat s Brussels paper, "'E a curious apertsele. It memo that they have saga end a met of Ammo telegraph road the Barr. Certain signs auneunce the riot ter tall at tie finds. Titus en Individual leading oder the peri style raised he UM, end We sign was Inuadiately repeated apes the /Yes, and communicated to • romp ire adhyr Kee Ma& This emoted the the Credit Heigh wore ender particular Ogins. I speak of what I maw." return for good and available bills of exchange at two or three months' date, at farthest ; the bank should always retain in its portfolio an amount, in such bills of exchange, equal at lesat to the amount of its notes in circulation, so as to be in a condition to withdraw all its note* from circulation, within a period of three months, merely by the produce of the bills falling due, and without infringing upon any part of its capital. Thus, the capi tal of the bank need not be touched, in the' liquidation of its notes, if its notes have been issued only in return for true bond-fide neces sary bills, representing real commodities. A bank which should have attained the reputation of infalli bility would, therefore, have no need to use its ca pital at all ; and so it was that the Bank of England was enabled to lend its whole capital to King Wil liam 111. The operation of discounting is one so important and so delicate, that those who direct it should have no other occupation ; being, as it were, the judges of trade, they should not themselves be traders; they should abstain from taking any active part even in the administration of the capital of the Bank, or in making a profit of temporary invest ments. Great care should be taken, however, to in vest this capital so securely that the holders of notes of the Bank, who are to regard it as a supplementary guarantee, in addition to the bills and other securities in the Bank port folio, may never feel their confidence shaken. The capital ought to be placed where it is, in a certain degree, immovable, but where it may always be available to cover any losses which the Bank shall sustain. Part of the capital should form a reserve of bullion, and will yield no interest. The best appli cation that can be made of the remainder seems to be its conversion into stock of the national debt, negotiable on the spot. The Bank must always keep itself in a condition to liquidate, at any moment, first, the claims of the holders of its notes, by real ising its securities; and secondly, the claims of its own shareholders, by dividing the capital between them, in the portions contributed by each. A bank should always be ready to come to an end, in order that it never may. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The Teheran Gazette publishes the following let,. ten. The first is to the charge d'Affaires of France : Teheran, Dee. 17. Mcnteiour—fieving teemed that you have handed in to the Persian government the names of the English subjects residing in Pere* and that I em Included amongst them, I have to declare to yon that I do not need the protection of any government. lam the subject of his Majesty New Eddie Shah, end I have to request you, should you not ob ject, to write to Mr. Money to the effect that I protest spina my name bring set down on the mid UM. FERTILD Mesa. The following was the reply of M. do Gobineau: Prince—You inform me that it wee by mistake you have been inscribed on the list banded to me by Mr. Stemma ; you declare that you admit no other protection than that of your government, and you request mo to make your declara tion known to Mr. Murry. I will willingly do so, and I efface your name from the list.—Accept, De Gosmuv. This lut letter was immediately handed by Prince Ferhad Mina to tho Persian Minister of Foreign Affair. THE TWO SICILIES. Authentic accounts from the Two Sicilies, re ceived by telegraph to-day, state that the condition of that kingdom is truly alarming. The prisons in Naples arc so full, that no more people can be crammed into them. The news from Sicily is most distressing. At Ca tania all the shops are shut, and only the military and the police are to be seen in the streets. At Mes sina, on the 21st and 22nd, several prisoners were embarked in chains, to be taken for safe custody to a rocky island in the neighbourhood. A general insurrection was apprehended. PIEDMONT. THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION. The sitting of the 26th of the Chamber of Depu ties of Turin was, like several preceding ones, en tirely taken up by the discussion on the articles of the Public Instruction Bill, of which nine only, out of the eighty-four of which it consists, have as yet been voted, in consequence of the activity of the op position in constantly moving amendments and ad journments. On Art. 9 being read, which provides that there is to be ao change as regards ecclesiastical education in the episcopal seminaries, and that episcopal schools in which secondary instruction is imparted shall continue to be govenied according to the exiting laws, until the promulgation of the new ones now in contemplation, M. rescatore moved an amendment extending the article to ecclesiastical schools not episcopal. This amendment was carried after a warm discussion. On Art. 10 being moved, which provides that children not belonging to the Boman catholic faith shall receive religious instrue dna from their nearest relations or persons ap pointed by them, id. Bora* moved that the Roman catholic religionists* longer taught in the government schools. Ito centsmiel that the Ronan catholic religion was incompatible with political liberty, and argued that the oath taken by socia -1 Malice was in direct opposition to the constitution, which proclaimed toleration. The hon. deputy read a decree of inosonit IV., pronouncing an anathema against heretics, with Ike coeducation of thcir property, end ► decision of tram 111., to the effect that killing a heretic was not awirder. He reminded the house that Gregory XVI. ward Lamannais to be admonished for his doctrine of free worship, as being damnable and contrary to the church. When the Piedniontese government, he said, allowed the Waldenses to build their church, the priests and bishops protested, and the Pope wrote encyclical later. Why should the Slate teach the Boman catholic religion, when there were 22,000 priests to do so, or one for every 125 inhabitants, while in France, Belgium, and Austria there was only one for every 600 f In short, let the Church manage its own liminess, and let the State do the same. Count Revel, a member of the eatremo right, vehe mently protested against such doctrines, in whirls, he said, the religion of the majority was held up to scorn. M. Bo mile replied that he had not uttered a single word of acorn, and the discussion might have grown warmer, had not the usual hour of adjournment arrived. A letter from Berne, in the Nuremburg Corre spondent, says :—" A telegraphic despatch has been received by the Federal Council from our ambas sador extraordinary in Paris, which announces that the Conference relative to the Neufchatel question will be held in Paris. At first a German town had been proposed, but was opposed by Switzerland, who asked that, if possible, Paris should be selected, and after it London. It thus is evident that the wishes of Switzerland on the point have been realised." SWEDEN AND NORWAY. A letter from Stockholm of the 19th, in the Cow stilutionnel, says All the accounts which reach us from the small ports at the bottom of tho Gulf of Finland and the northern frontiers, draw a sad picture of the misery which prevails among the unfortunate inhabitants of Lapland and Finmark, bordering the North Cape of Norway. Their crops of rye and barley completely failed, in consequence of the continuance of wet weather. All their hay rotted in the fields from the same cause, and almost all their cattle were slaughtered, from the inhabitants not having forage to support them. Hundreds of persons are dying daily of starvation, and those whose physical strength enables them to contend egoism their privations are compelled to live on the bark et trees ground and cooked with oats. In order to alleviate these sufferings, charitable committees have bees organised on the opposite coasts of the Gulf of Bothnia, to collect contributions in kind, such ss corn, flour, vegetables, and spirits, which will be conveyed to them across the ice in sledges. As an addition to the suffering of these poor crea tures, the cold is of a severity rarely experienced even in these ice-bound countries." THE BANK OF FRANCE. The Moniteur of yesterday, remarking that it may not be uninteresting, when a discussion is going on about the expediency of augmenting the capital of the Bank of France, to refer to the opinion which Napoleon I. expressed upon that matter in 1810, publishes a note which, on the 29th of May in that year, was addressed to the Bank of France, by order of the Emperor, from Havre, through Count Mollie'', then Finance Minister. This note states that the capital of the bank had been fixed by the latest law, that of 1808, at 90 millions of francs. It was not designed that this capital should be em ployed in discounting operations, the bank having the privilege of creating a special money for that me, by issuing its notes. The formation of the capital is a preliminary act, distinct from and independent of the discounting operations of the bank, just as the deposit of a certain caution money, in the case of an agent from whom security is required, is distinct from the discharge of his allotted functions. The founders of the Bank are subjected to the con dition of supplying a certain capital, only as a pledge and a guano tee to secure the holders of its bank-notes against a loss which they might other wise weer through any imprudent management of the bank. A bank ought only to issue its notes in EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE APPEAL OF VERGER TO THE COURT OF CASSATION. OWN OVA OWN COILAZIPONDENTI PARIS, Tursan►[ Evannto. An unusual crowd was collected at the doors of the Court of Quotation at an early hour this morn ing, to hear the arguments in the appeal of Verger against the legality of his sentence. The public is admitted to the Court of Cassation without tickets, and as the arguments used there arc generally of a dry, technical nature, it is seldom that this court is greatly thronged. On this occasion, however, it was filled iu every part at the first rush, and the Salle des Pas Perdue wore an animated appearance all day, owing to the numbers of people who, unable to obtain admission to the judgment-hall, walked up and down discussing the case. M. Laplagno Barth was the presiding judge. The proceedings commenced by M. Councillor Leyagncur reading his judicial report of the state of the question which the court had to decide. The following are the three grounds (moyens de eassotion), as set forth in the report, on which the prisoner's counsel relics : First ground.--Tho illegality of the constitution of the Court of .ksaizes—in that the first president of the Imperial Court presided in person, having the president designated for the session by the Minister of Justice for his first assessor, without any public authorisation for such displacement of the regular presiding judge. . . . . Second ground.—The violation of the rights of the defence, especially in regard to the time allowed to the prisoner—in that the prisoner basing appealed against his committal for trial (mite en accusation), and basing a right to five days, to be reckoned from the day of the rejection of that appeal, for the preparation of his defence, he was forcibly tried three days after his appeal, and only thirty-six hours after its rejection was notified to him, whereby be was, as he alleges, prevented from issuing sum monses in proper time to those witnesses whom the public prosecutor refused to call by his own authority. His protest against the refusal of these witnesses occasioned his expulsion from court. Third ground.—Violation of Art. 307, 368, and Arabs 8,9, and 10 of the law of the 9th Septem ber, 1835, in this—That after the expulsion of the prisoner from court for disturbing the proceedings, there was a speech from the Public Prosecutor against him, a reading of the verdict, and a de livery of a capital sentence, without the prisoner having received due notifications or summonses to return to court, and without his having received anything else than an incomplete and in- I Sternal notice that he had been sentenced le death. M. Achille Morin, the counsel shown by the prisoner himself (and who, it will be recollected, superseded ipso facto by his nomination the counsel appointed ex officio by the crown), ar gued the case very warmly. He began by protest ing his horror at the crime, and then alluded to the state of mind of the prisoner. Ile was precluded by the rules of law from alluding to the state of hie mind at the time of the commission of the act. That was already decided by the verdict of the jury. But it was open to him to argue that the man was at all events mad now, and that his execution should be respited on that ground. Ile insisted on the conduct of the prisoner at the trial, as appearing on the record, as • strong ground for believing that he was not in his right mind. But, however insufficient his evidence eight be thought upon this point, he did most strongly urge upon the court, on the ground of prin. eiples deeply important to the due administration of justice, that the sentence should be quashed, on the heal grounds above-mentioned. The Procureur 13eneral Royer supported the sentence. The court was sitting up to a eery late hour. It is reported that, should the judgment be ad verse to the prisoner, ho will be executed to-morrow morning. A very strong opinion, however, prevails among members of the bar that the sentence ought to be quashed. At the Bourse, the reproduction in the Monitetw l of the views of the Emperor Napoleon I. concerning the Bank of France was very much discussed, and opinions were by no means agreed as to the inference to be drawn from the publication of this document at the present moment. The pre valent opinion, however, seemed to be that the capital of the Bank of France would be augmented, but on the condition of investing the money in Three per Cents., to be lent to the Treasury, thereby superseding the immediate necesaity for a further loan. The effect upon the market was favourable, the fall of yesterday having been nearly effaced in every description of securities. The Rente row 40c. foe cash, and 25c. for account, closing at 67fr. 00e. sad 137 fr. 50e. Mobilier rose 30fr. Railways were from 2fr. 50e. to sfr. higher. The general meeting of the proprietors of the Bemis of France took place to-day. M. d'Argont, la bas no. port on the operations of 1858, made no affairs dal the projects of increasing the capital of the brat s sad he answered to the interpellatioas of a, emir holder (M. Mires) that he knew nothing of ouch projects except by the articles in the journals. Up to twenty minutes to seven the judgment iII Verger's cause was not given. PARIS, FAID/T, 9 A.M. After three hours' deliberation, the Court of Causation has rejected Verger's appeal. AUSTRALIA. The financial position of the colony (on Oct. 31) was never in a more healthy state. The nks were doing a large and steady business. Shares generally were at a premium. The land in cultivation was equal to 143,000 acres, and a bounteous harvest was expected, The yield of wheat was 27 bushels per acre, of pots.- toes 6 tons. The imports of goods were large, but a brisk demand was looked for. A correct census was to be taken in December. On 29th October, 27,543 ounces of gold were entered at the customs for the Heather Bell to London. Sugar was scarce, and in demand. The prices of gold ranged from 733. 3d, to 775. 6d., according to its origin, Balaarat taking the lead. Nuggets arc reported of 7 lbs. weight; 134 ounces, &c. In Tasmania the Fingal gold fields continued to engage attention, and the quartz was believed to be very rich. Respecting the yield of gold, the Melbourne Herald says, in its summary, that the receipts by escort had manifested a falling off in quantity on the third quarter of the year, as compared with the re turns for the corresponding three months of 1855, amounting to 3,561 ounces. This decrease, however, is accounted for by the long continuance of wet weather and the unsettled condition of the mining population, caused by the "rushes," as they are called, to new auriferous districts. Although the quarter thus manifested a balance against the colony, as compared with the third quarter of 1855, there was an increase on the year amounting to 421,824 ounces. The export of gold for the first threw quarters of the current year has also an advantage over the corresponding portion of 1833 to the extent of 361,309 ounces. Prior to the sailing of the Red Jacket, the quantity of gold exported during the cur rent year was 2,151,251 ounces. Since that return was compiled the following shipments have been made: Per Red Jacket, to Liverpool, 136,000 ors. ; per Triton, to Batavia, 1,013 ozs. ; per steamer, to Sydney, 26 ozs. ; per Montmorency, to Liverpool, 85,723 oao.; per John Temperley, to Calcutta, 6,410 ors. ; per Inter. colonial, 45 ozs.; per Argo, to Batavia, 1,228 ors.; per steamers, to Sydney, 3,500 ore. Shipped during the preceding nine months, as already calculated, 2,151,251 ors. Total quantity of gold exported during 1856, 2,485,197 ozs. The quantity of gold brought into Melbourne by the various escorts between September 26 and October '25 amounted to 188,882 ozs., which, at 80s. per oz., would make the value of its gold receipts for the last month amount to 755,5281. If, notwithstanding rains and " rushes," the yield had continued so large, there seems little reason to doubt that by the 31st De cember the outturn would fully make up the average for the twelve months of one million per month. In a Victoria gold circular we read: From all accounts wo expect to find n considerable in. cream in the yield of the Ovens field thin seemon, RR gnat preparations are being made to take advantage of the interval between the periods of the !hada ; the tin ore, or the black sand of the diggers, has now risen in value to 45/. per ton on that field, and largo quantities are obtainal by touring; this branch of industry will soon become of importance. While the yield of gold thus keeps up, the wool trade is declining. The following extract is from the summary of the Herald From en official return recently published it appears that the number of sheep in the colony on the 30th March, 1856, wee 4,677,072 as compared with 0,718,100 in 1812, showing a falling off of 739,692 sheep in three years. Our export of wool has also diminished 3,437,4211 b. This is attributable to two causes—first, a large amount of the wool which need formerly to be shipped at Melbourne it now forwarded dotes the Murray into South Australia; end Guithen Bay, a pod recently opened in the South Australis territory to the west. ward of Portland, is beginning to have an Ofect on the goon.tity of wool exported at the latter place. Probably 1,500,0001 th. are thus loot to the lint of exports of this colony annually. lathe second place, the prevalence of scab has nu only destroyed a largo number of sheep, but, combined will the comparatively high prices of meat, hoe inclined may stockholders to give more of their attention to cattle, and in accordingly find the number of the latter has increased floe, 320 e t ,410 in 1812, to 634,114 in 1856. The present year's is likely to be larger than that of last, and now that IN scab is beginning to subside, our export of wool will soon rid that of 1822. ,„ lIONG KONG. The riotous disposition displayed by the Chinese mob in Kong Kong had cause . d serious disquiet. Several heavy fines had been imposed under a local nuisance ordinance; and this, in conjunction with a general fcyling of discontent against the police, pro. duced an excitement, which vented itself by the %co. luntary closing of all the shops. The excitement, however, would have speedily sub,ided of itself, bat for an endeavour on the part of the idle vagabonds, with whom the colony teems, to turn the state of affairs to account; but their schemes were frus trated as much by the moderation of the better classes as by the appearance of the military patrol ling the streets, and beyond the throwing . of a few stones nothing has occurred, while the issue of a proclamation by the Lieutenant-Governor had the effect of calming the minds of the shopkeepers, so that, after a meeting of the principal men, held at the joss -house, the shops were opened and business resumed. - - - . Lieutenant-Colonel Caine, the lieutenant-governor of Hong Kong, had issued a proclamation, in which it is notified to the residents of this colony, that her Majesty's government having reason to believe that the large influx of auspicious characters from the Chinese main which had taken place during the last few weeks, and the seditious and treasonable demon stration of this date in the streeti of this city, had been occasioned by the direct agency of secret emir win from the persons (Commissioner Ych and the aintonese) carrying on a lawless war against her Majesty's forces in the neighbouring province of Iwang-tong,—it was the determination of het Majesty's government within the colony of Hong Kong to take instant measures for putting in fore the provisions of the Registration Ordinance No. 7 of 1846 ; and that so soon as the said ordinance should be brought into full operation, all unregistered Chi nese would be required to depart from the colony. The China Mail complains that the piracies in and around, and especially in the moons or entrances to the harbour, had latterly become more numerous and daring than had ever before been experienced. The "rebels" were running riot, perfictly uninterfered with and uncontrolled b' our government; and Hong Kong was literally in a state of blockade as far as the native traffic was concerned. lnnwner• able instances of seizures of trading and market junks were known—many more than were reported to the police; and even the stone-junks, with building materials for the colony, were only al lowed to pass into the harbour on payment of " black mail" to these pirate patriots. fwo our laden junks were taken by them on the MOTIMBII of Nov. 26 ; and, besides them, on the 17th instant a cargo boat was taken as she was leaving the her hour (the boat has since been recovered), a trade was seized off Sa-chow ; and two fishing boats cif Chek-chu. On the 19th a cargo boat, while at anchor off the village of Chim-sa-chuy, on the or site side of the harbour. On the 21st, a trading junk in the Capsuy-moon ; three of the pirates have sine been apprehended. On the 22nd, a passage boat at Chun-ehuy. On the 24th, a large Chinchcw trader, off Tae-p'ung. Her Majesty's brig Acorn, Captain Hood, which left Singapore on the Ist November fur llong Kieft was looked for here hourly. On the morning of the 26th November, the Rao. sian frigate Aurora saluted the British flag, and the salute was returned by the Murray Battery. On the 27th a salute was fired by the frigate in consequence of a visit from his Excellency the Governor. SHIPWRECK AND Loos Or ONE HUNDRED LITE& —We deeply regret to announce the lore of the Dutch bards' Mercurous, Captain Smith, of 439 tons, bound from MWS to Sings Fore, which melancholy disabter took place as ld north tout of Bintang, and 100 Chine.. passenger* POO" as also the third mate. Then ptain, in letter deed BMW the 16th instant, notices that tie weather WWI very *id. the vessel was driven on shore, Wing parted from to anchors. There were in alt about 250 Chinese ptomain. board.--Siegegeore Straits news, Dec. 23. (6ittinp 9 RENDERS In this el tho Royal I present ten named God issue again/ the court re my Witold that wou that were given to tb brought ag and the pat other part might bo e 4 but it im a cnwerned. and he !tete name likow continue. trregularit) that the out of that tr a peep,' eima face g the irr Rule ab This era deecribod garde,. of our rear the ellkal Moore. II of the cire Thew ----- Hie H granted ft Cole, on tt obeisance iLriles i n l IN RE W. 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