The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-08 00:00:00

I ! TVpIT gARDIaI. PNINCISS& BRITANNIA.. ratIOPAGINIS, and DELICATE. Thsts SOL, Quo% a s p s doses, rsawsr carriage Pad. 2002 m00d 04 cosildsoss.—HANßY 81K.7 sod Co.. Importers Old lorshsrs DWAllery. Holborn. KC.. sod 30. lissaSslavol, WaSsetooploos B.W. HHARMONIUMS.-NEW MODEL CIAMIR, mum sad WOOD, 9n, nt9e9t-streot. SITLEN IC.II3B.IOI—PIESSE and LUBIN'S tsw 1.112111111111 her the festivities—Stolen Ilse. and their 61141001, Boi-hielars. also 8/r Roger de Covertl. N. thvonr, three bolus., in a pretty one, ra.-2. Bood•girmi. Eke erprtos. TO Ocouusspommins. Advertisements Intended for "The Inytwes" /endow Evening Paper, must be at the olam 10,, Bowyeeleatreet,, by Two oo oWt on the day of Pebncelice• T am mama. lAWEIriIIaITMITC . Mr. 0. Perron and Mina Louisa ryne.—Andtbe Pantomime, HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE LEAST.—Conductor, Mr. A. Melloo.—Commerce at ten minutes to 7. HAYMARKET. Tim ninon. OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Meson. Sothern and Buck/tone; lira. E Fttswilllam. -RAMELAS PRINCit OF ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton and Him L Keeley. —And MRS. WHITE Mr. Compton and Wm Mansur. TICS EVlallea THZ ALEIANCE. Hies Constance Aylmer.-And the Pantomime, RIQUET WITH THE TUFT or, Hartamin and /Loam eltigiton. Mama Milano, E. Power, and /Milord. Miss A. Collimon. TH/O Evaaurs, the PanTrmrtne7 rEli/N HASSaN. Mrs. lane. Mears. thank Loeb, Newham, and 3fdlle. Celeste Stephan Mrs Stayers and Ida two performing Malee.—hod 80MS BU LS THAT BANG.—Commenoe at hall•pase O. HIGH WArziAT LONDON _ BEIDGIL Two DAT Morals% IX les.....Aftnnes. k Wisb. Toatoasow—llarolag, Was......instans. 411. 4111. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY & Tas Q cxxx's Government has courageously com mitted itself to a wise and magnanimous policy to wards the people of the lonian Islands. The Me morandum which Mr. ELLIOT has delivered to the Provisional Government of Greece announces that upon certain conditions, which it depends on the Greeks to satisfy, and which their Government has professed ita desire to fulfil, the Quer.3l's Govern ment will announce to the Senate and Represen tatives of the lonian Islands her Macaw's wish to see them united to the monarchy of Greece, to form with them one united State. If this wish shall also be expressed by the lonian Legislature, her MAJIITY will then take steps for obtaining the concurrence of the Powers who signed the treaty under which our protectorate has been exercised. The public mind has been gradually prepared by events to anticipate this measure as the necessary development of a liberal Policy- The resolution of the QUEIN'II Government is one on which we can sincerely congratulate the country. It is one the very announcement of which strengthen' us both at home and abroad. It puts an end to an unpleasant discordance between our principles and practices, and restores unity and consistency to our policy. It withdraws us from a position which we have long felt was false and untenable, and enables us to assert our political convictions with out embarrassment and without liability to retort. It is the recognition by one of the first Powers of the world of ends and means of government which we all believe to be necessary to the peaos and happiness of Europe. Our voluntary offer to place the future lot of the lonians in their own hands is such a homage to popular principles as no monarchy has ever made before. The only kind of influence we care to exercise in Europe, the in fluence of opinion and sentiment, will be, and already is, immensely increased by this act. Ounivals are astonished at it, and say that if it is not one of pure generosity, it is at least a transcendent political manoeuvre. Most Englishmen will judge of it leas enthusiastically, and be satisfied with it because it is dictated by wise and right policy. The time has not yet come for formally con sulting the lonian Legislature on the union of their State with Greece, a measure which they have so often and so recently declared to be essen tial to their welfare ; at present, therefore, comma nications have only been made with Greece. But it is well understood on all sides that the wishes of the lonians are the moving canoe in this matter. The union, if it takes place, will be a practiosl application of the principles we are in the habit of affirming when we discuss the French occupation of Rome or the presence of the Austrians in Venetia. And we shall have satisfaction in remembering that we have not adopted this course under the pressure of some external necessity, or hastily taken up a maxim or idea for temporary or political convenience, but have done a just and honourable act from conviction and choice. The British Government, in taking this magnanimous course, has done more to strengthen itself in Europe than if it had annexed unwilling or indif ferent provinces of five times the extent of the lonian Islands. And we doubt whether any Ministry that could be formed, other than that which is now in office, would have devised or could carry out the proposed arrangement. Something has been said about an objection which Austria is expected to make against the addition which the union of the lonian Islands will bring to the strength of the kingdom of Greece. But we confidently expect that as the examination of the cane proceeds these objections will vanish. The arrangement which is now proposed is in con formity with the tendencies of the two populations most concerned in its realization, and especially satisfies a legitimate want of the Greek State. It is, therefore, one which tends to ensure tranquillity. Austrian statesmen must desire this result, which by contenting an important population will re move one more point d'appui of revolutionary en terprise, too near the frontiers of the empire to be regarded with indifference at Vienna. The Austrian Monarchy, notwithstanding its recent trials, is too great to stoop to the policy of seeking its safety and convenience in the weakness of its neighbours. We all hope that its Government has entered on a course of liberal policy at home, with the sincere determination of persevering in that course. Let it do so, and carry its reforms into every depart ment of administration, and the consequent deve lopment of its material and moral resources will raise it to a position high above the apprehensions which are just now attributed to it. The Morning A &Miser eve :—" We learn that the Rev. Dr. Campbell, the weß•kaoaro author sad jouroalid, hes catatoutetel protaidlase against the Solar. day Revias for alibeL The eau% 'Campbell v. Spettie woode,' le lea down for the mittbapi of ski prim is Mazy TIM ia Loodoa.• Axisica Asa TEI LANCAOMILI thgram—The following letter has been addressed to Mr. Frank Crowley, In reply to one menet* that the duties on bread stuffs sent from America es donations to the distressed in the manufacturing districts should be remitted :—"Treasary, 6th January, 1893.—My dear Mr. Croesley,—An authority will go to the conamienociers of eastome before sight empowering the collector of customs at Liver pool to remit dotty on all breadstuff" sent from America as doestioes for the relief of distress in the cotton manu facturing districts, with the condition that We bills of lading shall be presented by the relief committee now sit ting he Liverpool to reoeive those donation; with a certifi cate that the provisions have been admitted free of port dam, &c., sad are toed fide intended for the relief of the distress—Wises use, lily clear Mr. Crossley, very truly yours, (Planed) Clio. A. HAMMON. Bearetary. —F. ()minim ' Zs+. ILP." THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1863. bt Court. CODORKE. Jai. 7. The 'Queen and Royal family bays walked and dziven in the gram& at Osborne. Viscount Palmerston left his seal, Broadlands, Hants, yesterday, for Osborne. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey returned to town on Tuesday evening from Bandon-hall, Staffordshire, and left London yesterday for Osborne. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. TER PRINCE OF Waiss.—Hier Royal Highness, yesterday, in company with Liestenant-General Yno Uys, Captain Grey, and Mr. Beek, the steward, made an inspec tion of his estate at Sandringham. The preserves are well filled, and some excellent sport will no doubt be afforded to his Royal Highness. In addition to the ordinary pans there is a plentiful supply of wild fowl, woodcocks being very plentiful. It is said that hi Royal Highness intends entering the hunting field next week; arrangements are being made with Mr. IL Vill.boig, the popular muter of the West Norfolk bounds, for a special day, the meet to be at Sandringham. The day is not yet fixed. With the enthu siasm with which the Prince is regarded by the yeomanry of Norfolk there is no doubt this will be the largest field that has ever been seen in Norfolk. His Royal Highness com mences shooting to-morrow, isemeding to present arrange ments. It is stated that Lady kagusta Brace has ad drained, at her Majesty's desire, a touching letter to the Bishop of Orford, expressing her sympathy with the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands at the loos they ens taMed in the sadden death of their youthful prince, who was just about to be baptised by the newly-eppointed Bishop of Honolulu, and for whom her Majesty had gra ciously announced her intention of standing se sponsor. Earl Cowper has arrived in town from visiting Viscount and Patooantess Palmerstaa at Broadlands. The Count and Countese de Flahault and Mini Elphiaetone &Mahanit left Bowood on Tuesday oa a visit to Lord sad Lady Willoughby de Erseby at Torquay. The Countess Cowper and the Ladies Cowper bays arrived at St. Giles, Dcosetshire, ea a omit to the Earl sad Counts= of Shaftesbory, from Bradidlands. Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn have left Broadlands on s visit to the Karl and Countess of Verulam, at Clorhanibm7, St. Albans Lady Theresa Lewis and Miss Lister left rent House yesterday, to join the company staying on a visit to the ]tart and Counter of Clarendon, at the Grove, near Watford. The Right Hon. William Cowper has left town to join the Girds aalanbled at St. Gila's, Donotahire. Mm. Cowper remains in town. Sir Henry and Lady Hoare and Mies Hoare have arrived at Thotau's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Stour heed Howe, Bath. Among the English visitors at Naples, on the 3rd, were :—The Duke and Duchene of Sutherland and the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Howard, the Ladies Hairline:ft, Hon. Mrs. Rowley and Mies Rowley, Hon. Colonel Rowley, Hon. K Butler-Johnstone, Hon. Mr. Charter's, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. De Grey, Hon. Edward O'Brien, Sir W. Macarthar, Sir James Lomita, Colonels Fulton, Barry, and Posed and testily, Lieutenent-Colosel Brisoo, Lientenant-Colonel Whitelock, Major sod Mrs. Levitt, Captains Moore, R.N., and Cass, Dr. Kingsley, Rev. Mews. Parley, Thomas Ash*, Murray, Aynaley, and How Messrs. Paaissi, Egertoe, and Erie, besides many others whom names are difficult to seeertein, as, Mace the modification of the passport system, no arrivals are pub lished. Prince Alfred was in good health, and was kept very close on board—the more so, according to Km. Grundy, for having given his boat's crew have for an bane wires ashore, which hear Jack made rather a hag one. It is stated that at the January meeting of the Society for the Propagation el the Oedipal in Foreign P►rk, to-morrow, a notice at modes will be given for the removal of Bishop Colenso% maw from the lid of vioe•preeidenta of the moiety. It is rumoured that an important reform is to take place in France immediately after the general elec tions. Them is no doubt it will be bailed with pleasure by the parties whom it chiefly concerns. It contra of a new uniform for the members of the Legislative Corp. Hitherto the mate of the deputies have beat decorated with Ober embroidery. The coming parliameet will display them in gold, " which:* r the Cortitetiowl gravely and 4 approv ingly remarks, " will make them look equally rich and de pot.' The importear of this innovation—for the Senate oaly wee entitled to the more precious metal—will doubt kr be duly appreciated by the constituency. It is said that the five marshals of France who recovered the Emperor Napoleon to St. Germain on Honday„distinguished themselves by being particularly bad shot.. Several of the Italian journals speak of a pio tare by Leonanio da Vinci having ham dinnovared in the Dominican convent at Lodi. A Trieste letter says :—" The first merchant steam•rassal built here has just been completed. It measures 1,000 toss, and has been constructed by IL Tonello, who ilea the intention of building fire others still larger, sad reams** with the English line of steamers between Liverpool and Trieste. M. Tonsil° affirms that there ars few 'maritime places is Swope where the con struction of verde can ha carried sa at less expense than at Trieste." The New York Herald of the 26th ult. states that the captured steamer Stettin, which has been takes into the Federal service as a cruiser, had succeeded in capturing a large paddle-wheel steamer while attempting to run the blockade off the Charleston meet The cap tured vessel is supposed I. be one el the new blockade runners meetly sent from England. The Moniieur of yesterday introduces • new feature into its columns, is the shape of • map of the battle field of Fredericksburg. The map appears to have been copied from so American paper, all the principal indications being in English. The various positions are, however, veil clearly defined. ANOTHRR BARONETCY StrOGERTID.—The Dundee Advertiser, in a short leader on the new teroneteies, says : " Among the names of the new berooetcice we should have wished to see that of one who has, perhaps, done wire than any man living to disseminate a taste for reading among the working classes of this country. We refer, of course, to Mr. William Chambers, of Glenormieton, the eminent publisher and founder of Clambere' Journal, author of many works having for their object the eleTatiou of the masses, and the donor of a magnificent ethestine and educational institution to the town of Peebles. Her Ma jesty. in doing honour to David Baxter, William Brown, and Prank Creaky, hem dose honour to commerce ' • let her be advised to go • step farther, and confer • baronetcyaetcy on William Obszabon, the people's publisher. By meeting him Bir William Chambers, Bart.. of Gleoormision, she would pay • most (repaint compliment to literature, and gratify fho Po* ai Scotland. who have benefited en by him mime publications.* Aanictrurunat BALL, lILTNOTON.—The enter tainments here far Christmas an drawing large audiences. A bead of eighty, with Mr. Levy as soloist, form the instru mental haters. As ' , crenate Mr. and Mrs. Henri Draytoo are effective, and the new tenor, Mr. David Miranda, has become • favourite. Possessed of a nee chest voice of good complies, and • natural power that fills even this vast build ing without apparent effort, hen governs it with • delicate' . taste and bold dramatic axpresucio that prove him to be • master of his art; his delivery of "The Miserere," "The Bay of Biscay," and "The Death of Nelson," is greatly applanded. M. Bloodin goes through his high and low rope performances nightly. DRATE or THE Rzy. Bassi PHIPPS.—We have this week to record the decease of tits most aged member of the Chichester Cathedral chapter, the Ray. Barre Phipps, who for some years hem retired from active duty in the cathedral, his duties haring during thia time beets per formed by the Bee. Stair Douglas, prebendary of Paten, He ham resided at &hey, of which parish he has been rector since 1817, we believe. Ha has held the canons residentiary stall since 1848. = West Snare! Gazette, 107 Y =ass Otto.—A lady residing at Cheltenham has received a *mond doeathm of U. from her Majesty the QUM, for an old man of 107 yam of age named William Yorser, a Dative of Red bat now li ving Is ChoHoc' ham = Worreateraiiire Ch A Sow or Foucits—" A name," says the Prase, "well known during the Cooventioo, the Empire, the Hundred Due and the first days of the Restoradoo, has Jost died cot in Parts. It is that of Fouebi, Duke &Otranto, son of the Ponelif who wu suocenively Minister of Police end Presidest of the Provisional Government after Water. leo, sod who died in exile at Triode, leaviog a fortune of fearless milliosa , and the ougoincent seat of Ferrii'res, DOW ibs property of Baron de Rothschild. M. Ponclif, the sewed duke, filled, o sier the goveromest al July, a i lt ie t . pealtion on the 'MR of the Natiosal • Geoid of the He had attained the age of 70, sad of We ire lip dla ernsplet• retirement. By his demise the title has bec anthaat." LATEST INTRLLIGENOIL WIZ lONIAN ISLANDS. A letter from Corfu of the 30th nit., in the Scharf Correspondence of Vienna, has the following : The inhabitants of the lonian Islands, end especially of Corfu, do not feel se much inclined to be linked to the kingdom of Greece as you may be induced by the news papers to believe. It would be rather an unwise thing to change • strong, rich, sad liberal government like the English one for a poor and fickle power like Greece, tossed about upon the wane of European politica At any rate the lonians would be the losers by the trans formation. Yesterday " the liberal party " distributed a pamphlet, stating that the English cabinet, in an official communication to the Greek provisional government, bad declared itself ready to cede the lonian Islands to Greece. That intelligence produced great enthusiasm among the ' opposition party at Corfu, while the rest of the popula tion seemed thunderstruck. The English fleet and gar rison leaving, the proprietors of houses, all officials, many merchants and retailers, and a grist part of the lower clams, would sustain a heavy Ices. The garrison speeds here 80,0001. a year. Every line-of-battle ship has 800 or 900 sakes on board, who go ashore twice a mouth; each sailor or marine leaves the ship with 11., and returns without one single penny. According to the blue-book the garrison of the lonian Islands costa 12,000/. monthly, that is, 144,0001. annually. About 40,0001. are paid to half-pay civil offices, and 60,0004 for the fortifications of Corfu annually. Add to this the income of the Lord Chief Commissioner and of the English officials as well as the maintenance of the fleet's crew, and the annual expenses made for the islands amount to more than half a million of pounds. The islands are not paying to the English in • financial point of view. After all, this proposed cession is but a move of the diplomatic chess player, Lord Palmerston, to bring the lonian opposition to moderation, and, on the other hand, to check the anarchical movements in Greece by promises of annexation. The annexation, however, will be hard work, as the Greeks rather aim at some parts of European Turkey than the lonian Islands. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MK 0011 OWE PLRII3, WZDNZBDAT &sum M. Paul Merman, the secretary-general of the Suez Canal Company, publishes a long letter in the Constitutionnet, giving an account of an excursion to inspect the works of the canal, in which he accompanied M. de Lumps and Sir Henry Bulwer, the English ambassador at Constantinople. The letter contains some picturesque sketches of scenery on the banks of the Nile, which may be consulted with advantage by compilers of guide books. It also describes certain stupendous dig gings in a manner to show strikingly that the fel labs in Kde Leseeps' pay have not been idle. But there is not a line in the letter to add to the evidence already before the public as to the prac ticability or non-practicability of the proposed maritime junction of the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. At the conclusion of his letter he sud denly betrays a consciousness that the main thing which the public would look for is not in it. " You will ask me," he says, " what was Sir Henry Bul wer's opinion at the end of his journey r K P. Merman, it appears, knows what this opinion is, but requires time before he can repeat it in a satisfactory shape. "The answer" (to the question which he anticipates) "requires some explanations which I will send you in a separate correspondence, the accuracy of which I warrant beforehand." I should hope that Sir Henry Bulwer will find means to make his opinion known without the encum brance of these "explanations," which so suspi ciously bang fire. All the French cardinals, with the exception of the Cardinal Archbishop of Chambery, have arrived in Paris, to be present at the funeral of the Arch bishop of Paris to-morrow. Several bishops are also here for the same purpose. The funeral service will be performed by Cardinal Mathieu, Archbishop of Besancon. All the ministers and depu tations from the Senate, Corps Legialatif, and Council of State, besides a great host of civil and military functionaries, will crowd Notre Dame to-morrow. The cathedral is already hung with black, and has been visited by vast numbers of people desirous to see the preparations. Cardinal Morlot made Mgr. Darboy,Bishop of Nancy,his executor and residuary legatee, but it is said there is no property to administer, the late archbishop having spent all his surplus income in works of charity. The Nation announces with much fracas that M. de Persigny, by a stroke of his pen, has conferred an immense boon upon authors. He has "de cided," we are told, that for the future publishers ahall not be allowed to strike off as many copies of a work as they like by means of the stereotype, but that every fresh impression shall be counted as a new edition. Being much surprised to find it stated that a minister had power, even for the most praiseworthy purposes, to alter the law regulating contracts between authors and pub- I Mame, I have read through a circular of M. de Persigny, to which the Nation alludes, and I find that so far from having I I "decided" anything about the law of stereotyped editions, he merely " reminds " the prefects of the decisions of courts of justice, and recommends them in regard to this and various other cases, to keep a strict watch upon printers, in order that they may be fined or otherwise punished for any I breach of the numerous regulations to which they are subjected, not for the benefit of the public, but out of the jealousy of the government of all printed matter. AL Lambert, the adventurous Frenchman, whose name has been now and then before the public as the diplomatic representative, not of France in Madagascar, but of Madagascar in France, has just turned up in Paris with the title of Duke D'Emyrne, which, it seems, has been conferred upon him by King Radama IL At Mulhouse a regularly qualified medical prac titioner has been fined 500 fr. for supplying the drugs which he prescribed to a patient. His de fence was that in the village in which he lived the only chemist and druggist habitually neglected his shop to attend to his farm, and that he (the phy sician) had reasonable ground to doubt whether his prescriptions would be properly made up. The court, however, held that the laws of France give a positive monopoly for the sale of drugs to chemists and druggists (pharmaciens). This is a very irra tional state of the law, and a great perversion of any sound doctrine of the division of labour. It is most right that the public should be protected from being poisoned or injured by ignorant vendors of medi cines, but nothing can be more absurd than a law which prevents the learned and responsible physician from administering to a sick man with his own hand the remedies which he thinks best adapted to cure him " Omne quad majus in se continet minus" is a maxim contradicted by this example of French jurisprudence. If in England a " physician " does not make up his own prescriptions, it is for his• own convenience, because he bas not time, or from professional etiquette thinks himself above such work. But "general practitioners," as apothecaries are now called, do, or at all events may, supply the medicines which they order, and that in many cases to the great advantage of the public. In France there is no such person as an apothecary. Every man entitled to prescribe fur the sick is a physician (medicin), and it is now ruled that a phy sician is bound to leave his patient, so far as con cerns the due supply and admixture of drugs, in the hands of any country druggist, however igno rant or negligent. The Bourse, after a period of weakness, caused by the rumour of a considerable diminution in the bullion of the Bank—which rumour seems to be true—recovered, and left off with scarcely any vari ation from yesterday's prices. SERIOUS ACCIDWIT AT MARGATR.—Yesterday, about noon, an accident of a serious natant hap on the Rancegate Extension of the Kent Coast way. It that several workmen were engaged in building nrge at the four-cross-road, near Drapers, when a slip of earth of several tone took place, carrying away the scaffolding and burying the whole of the men, smashing the leg of a man named Bristow both above and below the knee ; a man named Christian sustained a frac tured skull, and another man a fracture of the ribs. The earth was speedily removed, mod Bristow taken to the in firmary, when it was found necessary to amputate the limb ; the other two were attended to by Mr. Will i = sur geon, and afterwards conveyed to their homes at gate. The three injured men are all single , and under th e age of twenty yews. Bristow still lemma, in a very pre carious state. DARING OUTRAGE IN MEATR.—A blunderbuss, loaded with twelve slugs, was discharged through the win dow of the dieing parlour of Mr. Tottenham Alley, who wee ' supposed to be then at dinner, some evenings since. The tabk lamp was broken to mean, and a valuable oil painting was perforated with several bolls. Mr. Alls 7 and hie family had left the room but a moment prep- mull. The cause of the outrage ia, as usual, land. It appears that the Earl of Darnley, who is the owner of • large tract in this county, was this year to raise his mute. His tenantry are for the most part inde pendent gentlemen and protestante. One of the tenants, Mr. Hopkins, held a large grazing farm, upon which his family have beers located for generatioge—stns the for feiture of the Pionkette, of Rathmore, the former owners. Mr. Hopkins, having declined to pay the advanced rent, received a notion to quit, and gave up the land. Mr. Alley, also • protestant gentleman, took it, and it is repotted that the landlord insisted upon his putting ont three oottier lemons. After getting possession Mr. Alley received • threatenieg notice, which he sent to the next police-station, and the police were ordered to patrol about his hones from 8 o'clock card evening. The parties probably had notice • of this, for the outrage was committed about 7 o'clock p.m. ITALY. --ip-- (PION 0112 OM COW TURIN, JAN. 4. Rome, you will remember, sent to Victor Emma nuel, by way of congratulating him upon the mar riage of the Princess Piawith the King of Portugal, a very handsome data nuptiarum, according to the custom of the ancient Romans. Venice has now followed in the name path, her tardiness being excused by the fact that all her preparations had to be made by stealth. She has sent an exceedingly beautiful album, full of excellent sketches in illus tration of Venice and its customs, interspersed with some very graceful verses. Almost every of this album was sent separately page Venice, in order to baffle the scrutiny of the Austrian police ; so that bad one been seized, the others might not have shared the same fate. Even the binding came to Turin apart from the rest of the work, and it was not until all these detached portions arrived here that form and vitality, so to speak, were given to the whole. In ' England, where liberty is not exactly the growth of yesterday, you will have some difficulty in under standing a state of things which rendered it ne cessary to prepare in secret a work so thoroughly deserving of the utmost publicity. But thus it is in that part of Italy which is still enslaved, and several persons were arrested in Venice merely because they were suspected of having had something to do with this present. It was all to no purpose. The entire work has arrived here, and this morning it was presented to the King by the Marquis Giustiniani, a Venetian nobleman belonging to one of the oldest families, and Count Alleardo Alleardi, of Verona, one of the most popular of Italian poets, who has several times risked his life for his country on the battle field and elsewhere. He was, indeed, imprisoned for a long time at Joeephstadt. These two gentle men, and anotder, whom I will not name, for he may perhaps return to the enslaved provinces, pre sented the album in the name of their fellow citizens. Alleardi spoke a few feeling words, which deeply affected the King, who accepted the present with much emotion. He thanked them in his own name and in that of his august daughter, and begged them to convey the expression of his sentiments to their fellow-citizens, and to cheer them at the same time with patient hopes of the final triumph of the just cause. La France of yesterday says, in reply to If. de Caasaguac, who dote not seem to be sufficiently . re actionary to suit its tastes, "We are %puns! unity, which is simply a handle for revolution. These French politicians cannot see that it is, on the contrary, the absence of unity which is a perma nent cause of revolution. Whether Italy is likely to recede from its present position, and sacrifice its conquests, and its aspirations, to please Id. de La Gueronuibre, you may judge from among other things by an article in the Persereranza, suggested by the insolent pretensions of France. You know that the Perse reran= is the most important of the Lombardy journals, and that it is continually taken to task by the radicals for its moderation. Well, only yes terday, this paper concluded an article with un usual vigour, by saying : "We were revolutionists : we belong now to the moderate party, because we want to see the kingdom consolidated by order, and because we do not wish to molest our neigh bours ; but if foreign influence endeavours to undo our work, and to dispute our right to manage our own affairs in our own manner, we shall become revolutionists again, and violent revolutionists too. We shall no longer have any reserve or scruple, but will disturb the peace of Europe, and have recourse to even the most extreme measures." Quitting politics, let me now allude to a curious book which has just been published at Milan. It is very unpretending in appearance, but it deserves to be generally known. This is its title: " The Scala Theatre—a chronology of all the pieces repre sented at this theatre, from the grand opening night to the present time." The volume contains 186 Orlt gives at starting the programme of ciay, the 3rd of August, 1778, the grand open ing night, including the names of the composers, singers, and ballet dancers, and continues in this manner to the autumn of 1882, furnishing an account of all the performances, and the favourable or not avourablereception they met with. Among the many celebrities present at the opening of the house only two are now remembered—the composer &- hen, and the tenor Pacchiarotti. But theatrical fame is not the only kind of fame which perishes. In many respects this is a curious book, and it can scarcely fall to command the attention of times who wish to study the history of the musical art, or even of dramatic taste, in connexion with the subjects selected for the libretti and the ballets. Even the prices of admission for the opening perform woe are given among the many other curious bits of information in the volume. WEATHER REPORT. .-(THIS DAY.) 72101111a1. JIIT/4 IT 4 8 A.Z. I P. I. C. L L. L 11. ,-- 1 IL M.N.M. T WI W • b 11°1Lei4. 41 i 5 31 : : Me ! 0.70 Ardroessa W. I IL 7 • •to Patriots 19.46 0 N. 9 Galway 0.66 - N. 2 Valencia . . WA 91 I N. I 0 I 0.16 Queenatimia ;26.91 2 N.M. 7 Holyhead 49.34 41 1 ZW.I. 2 o 6 LOO Liverpool _419.46 1 LILL 6 a - Pembroke —gam 45 3 M. 3 0 I 0.12 Paummee —l9lB 44 1 N.W. 7 • s •ss i leery'26.67 44 3 N.M. 4 • e 0.40 Brest L'Orleat Rochefort - IL* Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth .60 1 LW. I WI 6 6.36 Keg. London - Yarmouth Bcarboraugh 19.65 40 1 IL • b 2 as ablekla 67 3 3.8. z.. 1 1 Hellgolehi . F —1- -- - - - FRIDAY. SATURDAY. Northerty, strong, SCOTLAND. to LW., strong sdowy. to moderate, some - N. to N., strong, some laitAWD. As above. or =lnf. WOW. As above. W. Clore t. N.W. to NAL, strong N.W.Paasett Similar to above. to fresh, rainy, or some snow. N.W.ENGLAND. N. N. W. to E. N. E., fresh, some snow. E. to F.. and 5.F.., fresh ILK ENGLAND. As next above. to strong, some rain or snow. N.N.W. to ILN.E., L Mar. E. to L. and LE, strong, to s pin, with strong to fresh. some snow. M uezt above. A GANG or BI7RGIAIIB Brogue Ur.—The past week has witnessed the committal of two notorious depre dators, who have for some time been the supposed leaders of a party of thieves, burglars, and poachers, with which the neighbourhood of Scarborough has long been infested. A few weeks ago, an attempt was made to enter, in a felonious manner, a warehouse belonging to Mr. Thos. Pickering, a farmer at Newby. The warehouse had in it a borrowed light, which communicated with Mr. Picker iog's bedroom. At about 1 o'clock in the morning of the 25th November last, he was aroused by his wife saying that thieves were breaking into the house. On looking through the window into the warehouse, he saw a man's hand through a hole in the roof. He called out and the band was withdrawn. He then loaded his gun with powder and shot, and awaited the renewal of the attempt, which was shortly made. This time the hole in th e roof was en• larged, and a man bad landed himself through it, upon the niters that ran across the building internally. It was very dark at the time; but while in this position, the man struck a light, whereby Mr. Pickering distinctly maw his face. Mr. Pickering @rialto would fire, ant the thief, slip pin through the bole again, told him to " Fire away." lir. P. fired at the robber as he was retreating, and hearing the cry of " Oh, dear!" he felt sure be had wounded the man. The sequel proves this to have been the fact. The robbers escaped ; but a description of the man seen by Mr. Pickering has, at length, *ambled the police to appro. heed him. When takes, the cosetabk mandoed his thigh, and found it was marked with about twenty newly made shot-marks. His name is Janice Hall. About the thus of Hall's apprehension, another man was taken on suspicion as an accomplice of Hall's. This has ales proved a correct sonnies, as Hall has become an approver against him. His name is Quilkio, and he is known as a tioket-of have. He appeared before the authorities of the city of York nearly thirty times, prior to sod during the year 1856, and he was sentenced to six years' penal servitude.— Eastern Counties Herald. PRUSSIA. The struggle which has arisen in Prussia between the government and the Chamber of Deputies in creases in intensity. The questions of the budget and military organisation are in the background ; it is the constitution which alone appears for the moment in the dispute. The Deputy de Sybell, Professor of History at the university of Bonn, and a member of the moderate party, has just addressed to the elec tors an animated letter. " The existence of our constitution is menaced," says M. de Sybell ; "let us close our ranks—let us be united !" At Cologne a popular assem bly has met at the call of the reform committee, and voted unanimously an address to the Chamber of Deputies. This address terminates thus :—" We feel constrained to declare that in its resolutions the Chamber has acted completely in harmony with the population of Cologne and for the true welfare of the country, and that our dearest hope is that the Chamber will persist in this path of law and of fidelity to the sworn constitution." The government is attacking now even the party upon which it has rested hitherto with remarkable partiality, the party of German unity. A propo sition has been made in the Prussian ministry, by Count Eulenburg, which would have the effect of forbidding any Prussian functionary to belong to the Nationaltereis. ROME. The Roman Observer of the sth publishes the speech addressed by the Pope on New Year's-day to the officers of the French army. We already know the substance of this speech. The following is the most salient passage :—" If the French army is glorious by its valour in combats and by its discipline in the time of peace, it is yet more so by the mission which it fills here, for it is the noble instrument which God employs to sustain the legi timate rights of the chief of the catholic religion." POLAND. A Warsaw letter of the 3rd saps: The examination of the 66 political prisoners is nearly at an end. The defence of the sixth and last division will probably take place on Monday. There will then remain only nine persona to be heard. Then commences the task of the judge who will have to pronounce the sentence. This work will be the more difficult that be will have to decide aa to the real responsibility of each one of them, in the midst of the reticence of some, and the complete denial. of others. The individuals moat compromised by the reve lation' during the inquiry have taken to flight, one of them being the instigator of the attack on the Grand Duke. (armies nuicisma.) SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 7. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Senor Mon spoke in support of the amendment, referring to the entry of the Spanish troops into Vera Cruz, which he said bad been the first cause of the dissatisfaction of France. He asserted that the Spanish ministry was aware of the intention of France to overthrow the govern ment of Juarez, and to establish a monarchy in its stead- Senor Mon continued thus—" The French go vernment had communicated to Senor Calderon Col antes its scheme of putting forward the candidature of the Archduke Maximilian for the throne of Mexico. It was not for General Prim to constitute himself a judge of the intentions of Prance. The claims of the allied powers were settled by the convention of Soledad. The conduct of General Almonte ought not to have occasioned any apprehension in General Prim." Senor Mon will continue his speech to-morrow. MADRID, JAN. 7, EVENING. The Madrid journals of to-day announce that all the resignations recently teudered have been ac cepted by the government. These resignations agitate both the conservative and liberal parties. The Madrid papers also state that the news that Don Juan de Bourbon is about to return to Spain is entirely unfounded. SUSPENSION OF • BANE AT LYONS. —The bank of MM. Guyon and Co., of Lyons, ham been fawned to sae. peed its payments. This disaster has indirectly MUM from the cotton crisis, the teak having bad heavy business bana lactions with a manufactory at Terme (Rhine). The "Sta tion is now said to be not so bad as was at first supposed, and the bank has been formed into • 'obit-stock company, the creditors being the shareholders. The suspeasioe has . been followed by several distressing circumstance: a met. chant of Lyons, who had 300,000 fr. deposited in the bank, has idea committed aikido, not being able to support the idea of hie money being loot. The manufactory above re• toned to has since been closed, throwing from 1,000 to 1,200 workmen out of empl . oyment. THE NEGROES IN V IROINIA. —A letter from Southern Virginia says that the pogrom in that metiers are now free to all Wiest' and purpose. Farms are cultivated, and other brioches of industry go on as before, by the aid of coloured hands, bat their labour is paid for, and paid for well, too, for the average wages received by the esehires is 12 dole. per month. One man who did own one year ago 250 heed of " nigger'," DOW confesses that he likes the erraocipatMn proclamation because it makes the " niggers" work better. Those who Lave remained with him are paid liberally, And he is satisfied. That sufficiently accounts for the increased amount of work performed—(N. Y.) /wi lt/aver, Standard. ST7IPATHT WITH PASSIM= LINCOLN AND THE IrmuniAL CAUSE. - -00 Monday morning a number of gentle men sympathising with the cause of the Federal; and the endeavour, of President Lincoln to maintain the Gala; held a meeting to consider the beet means of giving • public expression to this feeling. A committee was formed, Mr. James Taylor being requested to act as chairman and Mr. J. A. Lanford as secretary. It was arranged that an ad. dress, exprearier of sympathy with the Northern cause, and abhorrence of the attempt of the South to form a coated*. racy based upon slavery, should be drawn up, and the =rasps taken to obtain the elitists'''. of the balm it.—B'nniagenat Dail, Pod. EAST KEY? ELECTION. YOLLING.—(7BIB DAY.) (IT =craw TTIZAILLPIL) CANTERBURY, TEDIADAY. TRIM IiCLOCE. Comereative return,— Lab:lbnll Deep Liberal retarno— Dewing Rs reclabial No retains from Sandwich sad Now Romney. rem O'CLOCK. Deriog Koatchbull No return frees New Bowaey. The ouneervatives hare not lowa say further return. MURDER IN EDINBURGH. The Caledonian Mercury of yesterday has the following :—" We have just learned, from information Whored on the spot, that in consequence of a Marasco between the well-knows artistic hair jeweller, Mr. A. Mlles, 31, South Frederick-eireet, who, it may be remembered, lately figured in the Beekisptcy Coast, and • marimba his employment Darned PS4OIIOII, reeding, were= in St. James's-street, a very Grebes assault was upon the latter by Milne, which, we deeply regret to learn, has ended is Paterece's death. The pounds of quarrel are not known ; sad the polkas, either from inerafil tient informatics themselves, or from • feeling et delicacy about the propriety of communicating anything of which they are not positively certain, have declined I hitherto to say anything about it. So far as the facts have transpired it would mein that Paterson bad been suddenly rushed upon by Milne, and stabbed in the left breast with • knife. Either from alarm or from • feeling of the impossibility of his either being able to defend him. self from • fresh attack, or allay the (sweaty of hie master, be rushed out of the shop, and took refuge with Mr. Forrester, baker, next door. By this time the blood was rimming profusely from the wound, sad so excessive indeed had been the that in the course of a few minutes thew hapff imal mae mb r, w o bad just lain down on Mr. Forester's sofa, llmathed his last. Islonnsties was promptly counted to the police. office. Dr. Littlejohn at coos procured a cab, and was non. mad with all rapidity to the spot. Professional skill was, however, by that timetotally usavalliog. The unhappy per petratorof this fearful act la said to be addicted tons:asked fits of intoxication. For some tans part, it appears be bee been in an excited Mate from drink. We may, indeed , mention that be his been in the hands of the pease before. Be was of amuse inumdletely apprehended, sad mar eyed to the head °Moe, whither shard afterwsrds the body of Paterson was removed oa ." FIRM AND NANNOW EMAIL—About half-past 2 o'clock this rooming, adm broke oat in the lowears the premises of Mr. .1 . Weipuit, tailor, No. 18. street, Liverpool-road. Islington. In a very brief period two of the society's escapes and the parish tepees attended. The whole of the inmates, who were with difficulty ar oused, haying escaped, the SAMS were not extinguished the lower part of the minims wee burned out. and the upper part greatly dammed. The are was caused by a spark flying out of the grate. Mr. Weipat was insured in the Caledonia Pirs-office. AAn also happened in the =occupied conjointly by Mr. E. Udell, a cabinet and maker, and Mr. K. Brahma, also in the same line of business, situate in Brewer yard, kikinnersitreet, Bishops. gate. Considerable damp wee done. Neither seem was insured. A 114;ic IN CZ IN THZ COUNTY COMM'. k Mae involving partimdars of &singular and somewhat m= nature was tried ia the Brighton County Court on e The plaintiff was William Noscrieff, • cabinet maker the service of Messrs. Hall sad Harding, Nortit•street, and was represented by Mr. Penfold. The defendant was Dr. Alfred Hall, for whom Mr. Lamb appeared. It seems that about Soo years ago Dr. Hall called upon the • tiff re 41em sporting the ears al • child whose parents tiff knew nothing about. Two some of 301. and 251. under an agreement, been paid for the maintenance of and We child becoming attached to plaintiff, defendant speed to g ive him 701. to entirely ad op t the child, and memislag that, if all went on well, he would is the mums of 12 er 18 mouths give an additional 101. This 101. was the point in dispute. Evidence was given by the tiff and his wife as to the terms agreed upon by &Z. fondant. In defeats, Dr. Hall deposed that by the inatree- Boos of other porta", be introduced the child in question to plaintiff sad his wife, and it was registered as their child, and from time to time be paid the money to them which be had received from the principal* for its support. The duty being somewhat disagreeable, and fearieg that he might be mixed up with it, and beanie liable for the poyments, he asked plaintiff's wits whither, if he ovoid get • sum down, she would adopt the child, at the same time telling her that the mother of the child was a young lady, dependent upon • grandmother, who was • widow of limited and that the father was • married man, dependent upon his wife's income. The sum of 501. was men ic sad she consulted with her husband. It was and he (Dr. Hall) then obtained 70/., which they to accept, and gave en acknowledgment far it, at the MIMI time offing er him 101. for professional semis Width bed I been rendered to himself and wife, but which ha (Dr. Hall) I refused to take, and said, as they had been so kind la the child, he would if he could at some future time get sae titer 101., but he was sure the grandmother bad had 'rash 1 difficulty in scraping that 701. together. Ifs (defendant heard nothing of plaintiff for three years after the 701. was paid. In answer to Yr. Penfold, Dr. Hall said be did not wish to give the genies of the parents of the child as ebe mother was still living but the father was now dead. sun he would do so rather than have the paternity fixed upon himself, sod would only do so then for the site of his pro. Nacional reputation. Xt. Penfold said wider those einem. stances he would not press for au answer. The Judge was of opinion that the plaintiff accepted the 701. in full of aft demands. and gave • verdict for the defendant.— West Busses Gnostic. _ _ - DOGFIGHTING fir IZZLILND. —A mat dog 4311113 come ✓ before the magistrates at Use Loose y Simms as Tuesday. On Sunday, Dec. 22., about 500 persons, on SO or 70 can, drove out from Goletlane and other dirty par. liens in Dublin to a plea celled Milltown. near Lucius, in order to wastes a dog fight, which excited immense interest. Thirty-eight summonses had been issued on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the partite appeared accompanied by great numbers of the dog. fighting fraternity and their sympathisers, who employed waned for the defence. Sub.luspector Gunn deposed that he eaw the dogs fighting ; that the crowd, many of them half drunk, were very violent in preventing his interfering that they forced him rat of the field, shouting and brandish. ; tog their sticks. Head-constable Nolan deposed that the dogs were kept fighting, round after round, till they were I dreadfully cut and injured and their heads oovered with blood. There were regular "handlers," who examined the dogs' mouths, and a timekeeper held a watch in his mind. At length one of the dogs, utterly beaten and exhausted, re. f used to fight aoy more. The offence charged in thesummonses was cruelty to animals, under the second section of the eat. The third section related to parties keeping • pplace where suimale wars made to tight. There was CO 10 dis cussion between the counsel, Mr. Curran sad Mr. Purcell. as to the jurisdiction of the court. The magistrate., Mr. Very and Mr. Clarke, decided that they had jariadiction, and the court ordered two of the ringleaders, Coggin and Bath, to be imprisoned for three months without the alter native of a BD*. Mr. Curran gave notice of an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas, and pending the appeal the prisoners may go out on bail. A number of meow melt. mg were Seed half-mown, with costs. A Max CUTTING ate Wires EAR Ors.—At the Doncaster Borough Polies-court, yesterday, Peter Tracy, an Irish shoemaker, from Belfast, was brought up in the custody of Sergeant Hanson, charged with cutting off his wife's ear on Tusday night last. It appeared that the men, who is a shoemaker by trade, was dnuking, and, annoyed at the importunity of his wife, who was anxious that he should go home with her, he took • knife out of his pocket and cut off ber ear. He then attacked her in the hones where they lodged, and, but for the interference of the police, the consequences might have been more serious. The pour wife tried to screen her husband, and suggested that she had fallen against the sharp edge of • spout, and that it had been taken off in that way. Mr. White, the house surge= to the dispensary, however. stated that the ear bad been taken off by • sharp instrument ; and to Sergeant Hanson the woman stated, in the presence of the prisoner, that he had cut it off. Sentenced to six months' imprison ment at Wsketiail—Leads Mercury. Tag CAMP or CHALONS. —A letter from the camp of Chalon says :—"lnstead of the complete inaction which usually prevails in a camp at this period of the year, the present mild weather has permitted the troops to the. tinue their various labours, and principally that of keeping up the roads. The swamps in the neighbourhood have been almost entirely Wed up, as a smeltery measure. When the whole of the constructions and embellishments shall have been completed. the general aspect of the camp will be entirely changed. Independently of those daily labours executed by the infantry. the considerable quantities of vegetables left in the 'kitchen gardens at the departure of the troops base formed the pnecipal food of the cattle Cu 061 imperial farms. Trees are shout to be planted around the military hospital, and for that purpose hiro holes are being dug and filled with rich earth brought to the spot in the waggons of the military train. In addition to the buildings properly belonging to the camp, a number of new houses are being erected in the village of Grand. Mourmelon, which promisee soon to become a place of some importance. The whiten of the 12th Regiment have fitted up a theatre, where they play short pieces twice a week with considerable semen. This serves greatly to relieve the monotony of the troops in bad weather, when they see unable to carry os their outdoor works. The ales me comfortably lodged in their winter huts, which are as healthy RS the barracks in a garrison town." The Birmingham Gazette anys the family of the venerable Dr. Marsh, rector of Beddiogtoo, and formerly of tit. Thomas in that tows, have informed his friends here of his serious illness.