The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

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Pun lse•opinion has bees a good deal weakened of late by -the unsertainty and confusion which attend American affairs, but we are glad to per t hat it is still strong enough to exact a cer tain amount of deference oven from Infallibility itself. That extraordinary defence of slavery from the .Bible ativentured last week has not turned owt.well. It was a recoanaissance, and it revealed an antagonistic force of unsuspected strength. It is found that although English men may sot be inclined to distress themselves about the existence in a distant country of an institation for which they are not an swerable, *hey wil not have their morals aad religioa tampered with. ,Heace the palinode of ;yesterday in the Tears :—" To "slavery we have ewer entertained the most " rooted aversion. Not all the valour, not all " the success of the Swath, has ever blinded us " to die black spot on their fair escocheon." We take these words as they are meant, ri some satisfaction to outraged public opinion. But it is significant that even in this act of homage the institution of slavery--characterised by Viao-Presideat Srareinis nearly two years ago as the cornerstone of the Confederacy, and by the Bishops of the Confederate Church in their recent pastoral as " the system upon which we " are about to plead our national life"—should be spoken of as a mere black spot on an escutcheon otherwise fair. Unless Mr. firsraswe and the Bishops of Missiaaippi,Alabama, Georgia, the Caro- limas, and Virginia do not know what they are talking &boat, it is nonsense to speak of the slavery of the South as • spot. " Our new govern " ment," said Mr. Stara Errs, in his speech at Savannah, " has its foundations laid upon the " great truth that slavery is the negro's natural " and normal condition ;" and again in the same speech, " African alavely as it exists among us " is the proper station of the negro in our form of " civilization." That is the only relat , on of slavery to the South which the world has to do with. If we wish the South to establish its government, we wish for the confirmation of the first Government which since the coming of CHRIST has dared to proclaim that sla very is its corner-stone. We cannot alter the elements of the choice. We may reject or embrace that which the North holds out foradmiration, but we shell not diminish it by calling it a spot. We are glad to record the rooted aversion of the Times to slavery. This profession, however, loses much of its value when we are told that these have always been the sentiments of the Times, because they have not hitherto withheld it from publishing with the weight of its full authority opinions on slavery which have been eagerly welcomed in Mis sissippi and Alabama. It is time this hidden root began to throw up a stem, and put forth leaves, and flowers, and fruit. Ir is pleasing to note from day to day the tokens of sympathy and goodwill which our colonies, emancipated and unemancipated, send to the unem ployed working population of our cotton districts. The Americans have again shown us, embarrassed and perplexed as they are, that with them blood is stronger than water, by sending freights of food. But the liberality of our gold colonise, rich and easy in their circumstances, surpasses all expe rience. We find by the Sydney Empire that New South Wales alone has contributed 21,5791. for the relief of the distress in England. The following are the remittances by the Sydney Committee, nearly through which the whore of the money has been sent : By the July mail £5,000 By the August mail 8,500 By the September mail 3, 760 By the October mail 2,500 By the November mail 6OO Total £20,360 In the Supreme Court, at New York, Mrs. James has succeeded in getting • decree el divers front Edwin James, the lawyer. filos can many again, bat he cannot, "although," says • New York correspondent, "most husbands under similar circumstances do get married and the law doss not touch them. Mr. James to-day is sot the hatband of the late Mn. James. If she is single, be Is too, in a comma-sere point of view, although the law says be is not." THD RDPRDSZNTATION OF WHIT 1301IERNET. —Mr. Moody has just issued hie address to the electors of Wert Somerset announcing his resignation of hiss seat in the House of Commons. Mr. W. H. P. G. Langton. of Hatch Perk, who formerly represented the division, bee ansolpord hie intention of offering himself in the ce oserv ative i n. West ; god Mr. Ralph Neville Grenville, the present high sheriff of the county, is spoken of by the liberals as likely to be his opponent. COLONIAL AID FOR LANCANNIIti.—The Provin cial Government of Onatiwbury, New Zeeland, have appro. petaled a sum of 10,000/. for granting free pansies to that province to female domestic servants of good character, and single men sod married couple, having a knowledge of farm and labouring work, to be selected from the cotton districts. The amusements for oarrying out the object, it is noderstond, are to be married to her Majesty's Emigre. tioo Commissioners. SORGH um.—A state sorghum convention is to be held in Columbus, Ohio. co t►e 6th of Janaary next It le estimated then 12 000,000 gallons of syrup ham bees made daring the pot year. The Toledo Commercial say. —" We see it stated that in the astral pert or the Mate parties are deal t to buy up all the syrup that ie armed to simply the Ciesineatt market. The retail pries generally seam hem 50e. to 60e. par gallon. la all parts of the shato the sorghum crop hes beam remarkably good this year. There ham beau 5,000 mills sold la the slate durum the past summer, which. added to these sold is farmer years, maks as aggregate of sheet 11,000."—Aitimouri paper. j --4-- OSBORNE, JAE. A The Queen drove out yesterday. Countess Blott cher had the honour of accompanying her Majesty. lady Churchill has succeeded the Countess of Gains borough as lady in Waiting. Earl Rumen arrived yesterday and had an audience of her _ Majesty. Farl Russell lettito-day. Prince Lon 4 of Hare visited Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge yarterday, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Harding. and Captain WesterweUer. The Prince returned to .borne at half-past fire o'clock. A deputation from Ashton-node - 4mm, consisting of Mr. W. Pennington, Mr. JUDOS Schofield, Mr. W. Gill, and Mr. John Clough, had an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., yesterday, at the office of the Poor. law Bond, and laid before him a testimonial, signed by 1,14) penes, the workpeople of Mr. J. Whittaker, cotton manufacturer, of Anton-ander-Lyme, mod preened by them to that gentleman in acknowledgment of his liberality and kindoem towards them daring the present chimera& Despatches were received yedeeday at the Colossi'lottles trees the Goveroors of the Welt India Islands, New Zealand, Labuan, and Canada. Despatches wen sent to the Governor of Canada. TRH PHINCH or WALES AND THE HIGH SCHOOL or EDIFINHIGH.—Dr. Schisita, the rector of the High School, has received the following communication " Osborne, December 24th, lS62.—Sir,—l MK directed by his Royal Highness the Prism of Wales to acknowledge the receipt of your letter embalm( a leper% of the proceed ings at the inauguration of the bust of the Prince. His Royal Highness desires sea convey to you bin thanks for your letter, and to lay bow gratified be is by the feelings escrowed in the report. The Prince will always take great interest in the High School, and looks back with pleasure to those days in which he was more intimately cionnected with Edinburgh during We own education.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, G. H. GAM —To Protege.) , Schwas" His Royal Highness Prince Frederic William Louts of Hesse sad suite arrived at the Salisbury station of the Loudon and South Western Railway by the train due at 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and pro- ceeded to Stonehenge. After viewing the stones his royal highness returned end visited S►lisbury Cathe dral, with its beautiful cbapter-house, which be in spected apparently with much interest, and then pro ceeded direct to the railway station, sad left by the 2.15 p.m. train to return to Osborn. . _ _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton ale panda. the season at Madeira. Lord and Lady Overstone are expected at their residence in Carlton Gardens on Monday from a tour of visits. Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, who have been slaying at the Grove, Watford, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon for some days peat, wOl return to town on Monday next. Lord and Lady Taunton have arrived at Stoke Park, Enough, front a tour of visits. Sir Stafford Northoote, M.P. (says the Stamford Mercury), has intimated to Dr. Pratt, the president of the Stamford Institution, his willieguess to deliver a lecture at the Institution on the 17th of February. The hon. barceet proposes to adopt u his subject the "Treatment el Crinzinids," the question being one which the recent prrAte robberies by ticket-of-leave men have rendered interesting to all claims. The Bishop of Peterborough has presented the Bev. William Landon Scott, M.A., to the ♦:ouaee of Great Daamow, EMIL Mr. Scott wee formerly curate of St. Gika, Northampton. The Morning Herald continues to attack the ministry in • most violent manner, for not forming an offensive and defensive alliance with the South. "No one in his sensce," it says, " imagines that the remnant of the United States could cope at once with the South and with England, or France and Engluid combined. War with the North would be far better than peace on present terms." And it does sot even scruple to aid :—" We repeat what we have mid before—that for the continuance of slaughter la America and elarvation in Lancashire Lord P►lmerston's cabinet an solely responsible." In Portsmouth dockyard the main force of the shipwright department continues to be employed upon the Oaraces and Rik, wooded frigate and corvette. The iron. owed frigate Royal Alfred and turretwhip Royal Sovereign are comparatively abandoned. The money allowed for the geed by the led voted estimator having been already ex ploded, sad ships of war being required to proceed at once te forage stations to relieve others whose term of service has expired, and no small iron-eased ships being yet avail able, the Caracas an I Rik have to be at once prepared, while the experimental ships Royal Sovereign and Royal Alfredare seamanly delayed in their completion. At the dinner lately given to him by the English residents at Alexandria Sir Henry Bulwer said DO doubt the Viceroy of Egypt powers faults ; the chief among them, and that from which almost every evil has been derived, is one that has moats in it that is amiable—namely, extensive good-nature. But there is • Spanish proverb that if a man is ell hooey the flies will eat him up. And, remarked Sir Henry, "I never knew such a country as this for flies." There is the mercantile fly, who certainly canna ao small trouble ; but there is elan the great blue-bottle Ocinaular fly, and, finally, the persevering mosquito fly." His Excellency proceeded to remark upon the urgent necemity that Englishmen, whether officials or merchants should, for the sake of the true interests of their country sod of themselves, no less than for the credit of their good muse, observe that strict reprd for integrity and justice in their dealings with the government and people of this country which they themselves have also a right to exact. _- Mr. R. H. Horne, the author of "Orion," leo tared in Sydney on the 13th of November, hilt subject being "The Canna of Saorms in Lae" GnMot, who has been residing for the last six months at his country seat of Val Richer, is about to return to Paris. It is said that he will bring with him the fifth volume of his Memoirs ready for the press. " The publication of the Memoirs of Marshal Bonn," says the Boni, "is announced. M. Xavier Raymond, of the Dlbats, baa been entrusted with the arrangement of the papers confided to his care by the Mammy family." A Melbourne letter says :—" Despite the hot weather—ter = ere sow is the fall wing of our semi tropical rummer—the theatres have been well attended, the Opera House during the but fortnight being crowded to wham the representation of The Huguenots, which was produced ea a scale of unusual completeness and magnifi cence. At the Haymarket, Mr. Charles Dillon has been performing Belphegor, and, on the whole, has favourably inspremal his audiences. He has been engaged for a time at this theatre, and will, so doubt, appear in a variety of other characters." The new great opera Margaret, by Gounod, is the principal event of the day at Berlin for those who are not implicated in political affairs. Its libretto, by Barbieri and Carte, is described se a feeble paraphrase of Goethe. Feast, bat the music contains many fine and melodtoon parte, and the decorations are splendid. . - The candidates who presented themselves at the lake nadergddniste sad " little-go" examinations of the ca. cure Ijoiversity were r many as 1,334, of ages varying from 18 to 20. Of these only n Christians sad 48 Mahoskedans. The Hindow shows third for English, with • view to service under government or io English offices, which is time may be felt for knowledge far its own make. Nearly half of the candidates are from schools sot wish 'Shed by goverment. The candidates are spread over an area erksoding from Lahore and °chatty in the north ers and meth-emit, to Colombo in the far south. All must per is &gilds, and it is curious to observe the sewed language which each profeeses at his option. One solitary maa goes up in Arabic, three in Hinds., nix in Persian, 11 is Oorya (the lemma of Orissa), °sly 30 in Sanserit, 51 is Latin, sot cos in Greek, 99 is Hisdasesai, sod all the rest o Bengali. At Melbourne, Medan. 013banassy and Duffy are messed of using their position as members of the go vernment to advance in His most wholesale manner the intonate et their fellow religiooista, the Roman catholic*. The effects are said to be apparent through the w►ole of the aanl servios of the colony. "Coder Mr. ONhansosy's ►fyiwe ►o be Irish and Roman catholic is all that is weir cry to aware appointmeot sod advaaannest. The cow• orgasm) is that our public offers, our railways, and war police force, swarm with the Celtic and the nations elsasaat." THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1863. LATEST INTIMLIGENOS. I ROME AND ENGLAND. EARL RUSSELL'S PROPOSAL TO THE POPE. IMPORTANT DIPLOMATIC CORUE SPONDENCE. The following diplomatic correspondence has just been laid before the French cheinbers. It will be seen that the first two despatches confirm the truth of Mr. Odo Russell's offer of Malta to the Pope. They show, however, that the Pope himself, during the time of K Thouvenel's administration of the French Foreign-office, was the first to sug gest that he might require the hospitality of England : "Tfl MINISTER OF PORRION ArrAras TO TEI AM BASSADOR OF FRANCE AT ROME. " Peril, Dec. 20. "I have heard in an indirect manner that Mr. Odo Russell, on being received by the Pope, gave to his Holiness, in the name of Earl Russell, the advice to quit Italy, adding that, in such a case her Britannic Majesty's government would wil lingly offer to him the island of Malta as a place of residence ; that English vessels would be at his disposal ; and that the Pope might rely upon the eagerness of England to give him in the asylum that he might accept all the conditions of an establishment worthy of him. These propositions were made in an official form, adopted for the first time in the intercourse which Mr. Odo Russell has held with the Holy See. Mgr. Chigi having come to see me, I told him, in alluding to the above, that I bad learnt that we had new auxiliaries and competitors in the protection which we give to the Holy See. The nuncio having confirmed the information which had been given me, I added, while avoiding to take the matter more seriously than was necessary, that we hoped very much that if the Pope, which God forbid, were compelled to quit Italy he would grant us the preference over England, and that we should ask it of him. (Signed) " DROUTN DE LHUTS." " THE AIIEABEADOR OF FRANCE AT ROME TO THE %motion—that they would find us ready to believe in the friendly dispositions of the new cabinet, I awaiting ita acts. _ (Signed) "Sermons." "min OMNI= Or TRANCE AT TURIIf TO TITO by Flllllos to the temporal power. It is not only at Naples that proteetantism is making head. At Florence the Vaudois have set up a theological school, and the number of their students has doubled within the last sir months. The expenses of this school are paidby English subscriptions. The elite of the radical writers now support protestantism, at least indirectly, by attacking the papacy. The Chevalier Bianchi, the deputy de Boni, M. de Campanella, Guerazzi, and other eminent authors, have works in the press against the Court of Rome. The rising generation must necessarily, under these circumstances, be inoculated with sentiments hos tile to Roman catholicism. The present Italian government is sorry to see the protestant propa gandism which is going on. But it dares not act against it. The government thinks it advantageous for Italy that the head of the catholic church should continue to reside in Rome, and fears that reli gious discussions may lead to revolution ; but it also sees th►t the temporal power is the great • stumbling-block in the way of Italian unity, and therefore it cannot put any obstacle in the way of the reformist movement. MENLITEIL OF FOREIGN ♦FFAIE9. " Rome, Dec. 27. "M. Minister,—l hasten to send you the infor mation which I have received, and whioh I have reason to believe is correct, concerning the propo ration recently made to the Holy See by Lord Russell to put the island of Malta at the disposal of the Pope, in the case of his consenting, as Eng land advised him to do, to give up Rome to Italy. " In the course of the summer Mr. Odo Russell, who was about to take leave, solicited an audience of the Pope. Admitted to the audience, Mr. Rus sell pleaded as usual, but ie decorous terms, the cause of Italian unity, for the success of which, be said, his government entertained the most ardent desire. At the moment of his taking leave of his Holiness, when he was already upon the threshold of the cabinet, the Holy Father addressed to him, it seems, without attaching to them the least importance, these words, Adieu, dear Mr. Russell ; who knows if one day I shall not be forced to go to you to ask for hospitality 1' At these words, Mr. Russell immediately returned into the cabinet of the Holy Father, to ask him if he indeed feared that he should be compelled to quit Rome ; and if, in that case, he would really be disposed to go to England. The Pope very quickly reassured Mr. Russell by adding that be was ignorant of the trials which Providence reserved for him ; but that for the moment he had no apprehension, and did not at all dream of removing from Rome. Mr. Odo Russell, who doubtless reported this conversation to his government, giving it, perhaps, more import ant* than it really possessed, was immediately, we are assured, summoned to London by telegraph. On his return to Rome, in the month of November last, Mr. Odo Russell went to Cardinal Antonelli, and gave him a note in which Lord Russell, after having supported the cause of Italian unity and the right of Italy to possess Rome, advised the Pope to quit the Eternal City, and announced that in case the Holy Father were disposed to follow this advice, the English Mediter ranean fleet would be placed at his see- ROO to convey him either to Francs or to Spain, or to Malta, where a palace would be put at his disposal, and where he could wait freely till Italy bad pronounced in relation to his sove reignty. Mr. Odo Russell, in presenting the note of his government to his Holiness's Secretary of State, authorised him to make confidentially such nee of it as he might think fit. The cardinal has tened to reply that he bad no use to make of it, seeing that the Pope did not dream the least in the world of quitting Rome. The intention of his eminence was even, we are assured, to maintain complete silence in this matter, so as not to give to the proceeding of Mr. Odo Russell an importance which it did not possess. But it soon became known at the Vatican, as Mr. Odo Russell himself spoke of it to One of the diplomatic employes accredited to the Holy See. Matters remained there, however, and Cardinal Antonelli regarded the incident as termi nated, when, according to what has been told to me, Mr. Odo Russell again presented himself to his eminence on the occasion of the Christmas fêtes, and informed him that he had received a private letter from Lord Russell, in which that minister expressed his lively regret at seeing that the Pope was not disposed for the moment to air. cept his propositions, adding that he had reasons to believe that his Holiness would in a very short time find himself under the necessity of profiting by them. Cardinal Antonelli abstained from mak ing any reply to this new communication. (Signed) "Panics DE Ls Toua D'Arve.aoss." The following despatches throw light upon the relations between the new Italian ministry and the French government : "THE MINISTER or TRANCE AT TURIN TO. THE MINISTER 01 FOREIGN APPAIRM. " Turin, Dee.lo. "M. Minister,—l do not think, despite the colour which is attributed to the influential members of the new cabinet, the relations of the Italian govern ment with the government of the Emperor can be, iu any respect whatever, modified. K iticasoli, from the first day, was very desirous to tell me so, and his language was identical with that of M. Ratazzi. The friends of Baron Ricasoli remain, like him, . . grateful to France for the sacrifices which she has made for Italy. They feel that they cannot march forward without her ; much less in spite of her ; that without a solution honourable for all par ties, the Emperor cannot withdraw his troops from Rome. For my part I limit myself for the moment to repeating what your excellency has written in all letters in your reply to General Durand°, that you would receive with eagerness any proposition which allowed of arriving at an honourable and equitable solution of the Roman MINISTER or FORLION AFFAIRS. "Tarr, Deo. 29. "K Minister,—Assailed by the extreme party for having adopted an expectant policy on the Roman question, the new ministers have left to be explained, through some journals, the attitude which they rely upon maintaining, and which is summed up in these words by the Opinions of the 21st Between France, which denies Rome to the Italians, and Italy, which it irrevocably desires, there is no understanding possible.' Although this declaration, in supposing that it was on behalf of the ministry, did not in any way pledge it towards the government of the Em- parer, as up to a certain point it pledged it towards the country, I believed it my duty incidentally to I consult M. Paaolini upon the sense which might be attributed to it. The Minister of Foreign Affairs began by declaring that there was no jour nal in the country which had the light to speak in the name of the government, or to say that it was inspired by the government. He made no difficulty in recognising that, after the declaration which had been made, that the Roman question must be for the hour put on one side,—it was infinitely too much spoken of in the chamber and in the press ; but, at the same time he admitted that his colleagues and he himself shared the opinion of the country that Rome was the natural capital of Italy. He added that it was an inheritance from M. de Cavour which every Italian ministry must accept ; that General Durando had reaffirmed it ; that when be proposed to the government of the Emperor to negotiate, it was on the basis of Rome for the Italians ; and that the only difference between the programme of the present cabinet and that of the former one was the abstention from new overtures to the government of the Emperor, the latter believing that it could not accept a negotiation upon that basis. But' I said to M. Paaolini, ' it is a veritable non possums that you pronounce, while we invite yon to consult with the Court of Rome upon the ground of conciliation. Do you not think it impolitic to tie your hands beforehand without knowing whether events will not give rise to combinations by which it would be useful to profit for opening new negotiations ?' M. Pasolini exclaimed against the interpretation, much too absolute, according to him, which I gave to his language, and he ex plained to me that the present ministers would continue to follow the march of events with the liveliest interest, and that when they believed it possible to resume this negotiation with the government of the Emperor, they would hasten to do so. K Pasolini reproduced to me various considerations ; amongst others, that which would consist in leaving the Romans, by the withdrawal of our troops, liberty to vote for the sovereign that pleased them, as had been done in France, Greece, dm I heard M. Pasolini without interrupting him much. I could not, however, refrain from observing, with regard to this last argument, that if the new code of the rights of peoples allowed the filling, by their voice, of a throne which had become vacant, it did not, nevertheless, admit the possibility of voting with respect to a throne legally occupied, and that Europe would have reason to be asto nished if a monarchial country like Italy should calmly propose the dispossession of a sovereign for the sake of public utility. "The Minister of Foreign Affairs listened with attention to the remarks which, in a friendly spirit, I was led to make to him upon the dangers to the Italian government of a policy which, by declarations too absolute, would embarrass its future action to wards the government of the Emperor. K Pasolini opposed himself to the supposition that the present cabinet could ever show itself ungrateful to France ; and he insisted, in his own name and in that of his colleagues, upon their perfect determination to proceed in harmony with the government of the Emperor, and to rely upon him. The language of M. Farini, who came to see me after this interview, was of a nature rather to confirm the friendly assurances of M. Pasolini. One fact remains gained—it is the pause which is officially pro duced in the Roman question by the accession of the new cabinet. (Signed) " BARTioss." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. Among the documents in the "yellow book " just communicated to the French Chamber is s letter from the Emperor Napoleon to General Forey, commander of the French troops in Mexico, in which we read : " There will not be wanting people who will ask you why we go to lavish men and money for the establishment of a regular go vernment in Mexico. In the present state of the civilisation of the world, the pros perity of America is not a matter of indifference to Europe, for it is she who feeds our manufactories and gives life to our commerce. We have an interest in this—that the republic of the United States be powerful and prosperous ; but we have none in this—that she should seize possession of all the Mexican Gulf, dominate from thence the Antilles, as well as South America, and be the sole dispenser of the products of the New World. We see now by sad experience how preca rious is the fate of an industry which is reduced to seeking its chief raw material in one market alone, to all the vicissitudes of which it has to submit. If, on the other band, Mexico preserves its independence and maintains the integrity of its territory, if a stable government is con stituted with the assistance of France, we shall have restored to the Latin race on the other side of the ocean its strength and prestige ; we shall have established our beneficent influence in the centre of Aderica, and this influence, by presenting immense openings for our commerce, will procure us the materials indispensable to our industry. Mexico, thus regenerated, will always be favourable to us, not only from gratitude, but also because her interests will be in harmony with ours, and she will find a powerful support in her good relations with the European Powers. To-day, then, our pledged military honour, the exigency of our policy, the interest of our industry and of our commerce, all make it a duty to march upon Mexico, and boldly plant there our flag ;to establish either a monarchy, if it is not incompatible with the national sentiment of the country, or, at all events, a government which pro mises some stability." PROTESTANTISM IN ITALY. TURIN, Jar. 12. Since the return to power of M. Drouyn de Lhuys the number of Anglican churches iu Italy has greatly increased. But a little while since there were only two protestant clergymen in Naples —now there are six, and they are too few to minister to the constantly increasing number of neophytes. An Anglican church is about to be erected in the Marches, i. e. at the very gates of Rome. Such are the fruits of the support given NAPLES. NAPLES, JAx. 10. Several influential personages have interceded for the priests arrested on the occasion of the little pronunciamerito of St. Lucia. The authorities did not at first appear to lend a willing ear to these pleadings ; but they were probably not without in fluence. At all events, a great many of the pri soners have been tenderly dealt with. Father Must*, who preached against the present order of things, has been released on his promise that he will not preach any more. Father Borghi prayed to be allowed to go to Rome, and he has been furnished with a passport. Mgr. Acciardi and Mgr. Toms are allowed to choose a residence in the country, where they will live under surveillance. Four ecclesiastics still remain in prison ; these are—the curd of St. Joseph ; Mgr. Mancinelli, the curd of St. Lucia ; M. de Angelis, of the same church ; and the Bishop of Carreto, Mgr. Sola. Very seri ous charges, supported by written proofs, are made against these four and they will probably be brought to trial. The police were lately told that a plot existed to blow up the church of Jesu Nuovo, The story is probably untrue ; nevertheless, the church was closed on Sunday last. (azonoes nuoLuts.) FRANCE. PARIS. Tse.l6. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the Revue Nationale has received a first warning. ITALY. TIIBIN, JAN. 15. An official decree waa published to-day appoint ing the 20th instant for the termination of the ex traordinary powers conferred upon the prefects of Naples and Palermo. The municipality of Genoa has voted 50,000 fr. for the subscription in favour of the victims of brigandage. The Duchess of Genoa will shortly visit Naples, where she will reside for a considerable time. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 15. All the ministers have resigned. Her Majesty has commissioned Marshal O'Don nell to form a new cabinet. It is asserted that Senor Posada will replace Senor Collantes as Mi nister for Foreign Affairs. Several other changes are expected. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 15. The 'Tivoli& Ruaae of to-day contains a decree of the Emperor appointing Privy Councillor Tata richow Secretary of State and Provisional General Controller, in place of M. AnnenkolE THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, Die. 15. (Per Ertremadura.). Exchange, 66. Ounces, 394. Contracts have been made for wet salted ox hides at 43. Dry American, 35 to 36. Wool slightly lower. Tallow 16 to 16}. Lumber, 40 to 42. Flour unchanged. Refined sugar, 19 to 19i. The import market is quiet. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nON OUR OWN CONSZSPONDZNT.) PARIS, THUNMAN EVENING. The Bank of France has raised its discount from 4to 5 per cent. Although this measure was ex pected, and was a main cause of the weakness of the Bourse for the last few days, the final deter mination of the directors at their meeting to-day was awaited with great anxiety. When the result became known it produced little effect upon the market. The Rente, which had fallen from 70fr. to 69fr. 85c., did not, however, recover, but left off at that quotation, with a fall of 15c. The Presse stated erroneously on Tuesday that the bullion in the Bank had increased since the last returns. The fact is, there has been a further diminution of 12 millions, and the falling off would have been 16 but for the purchase of 4 millions of gold. At present there is supposed to be but 256 millions of bullion against a circulation of 800. I hear that Mgr. Darboy, the new Archbishop or Paris, is to be immediately created a senator. Some Brittany peasants lately laid some heavy stone across a line of the Western Railway, near Rennes, with the intention of upsetting a train. Fortunately the engine swept away the obstacles with some damage to itself, but without any injury to the passengers. The Courrier de Bretagne attributes this crime to the effect produced on the minds of ignorant rustics by a recent sermon of the Archbishop of Rennes, who described railways as lan invention of Satan, and lamented their intro duction into Brittany. This journal says particu larly that the number and weight of the stones prove that several persons must have concurred in the fanatical work, and it distinctly charges that a whole village has been stimulated to commit murder by the misdirected piety of the archbishop. I In consequence of typhus fever having broken out in the military school of St. Cyr, the Minister of War decided on sending the pupils home for a certain time. Accordingly the young men left im mediately. Some cases are still treated in the in firmary of the establishment. There have been, we regret to say, several deaths to deplore. ! The mildness of the weather continues to be ex traordinary for the season of the year. The ther mometer yesterday, at three in the afternoon, marked 6; above zero Centigrade (44 Fahr.). The Minister of Public Works has opened credits for repairing the damage done by the late heavy gales in the ports of Calais and Boulogne. Serious injury was done at the former place along the whole length of the jetty, whilst at Boulogne all the borders of the jetty, composed of stonework, were washed away, so that in case of non•repairs the whole construction would be exposed to serious damage in future heavy gales. The Daily News is seized. SATURDAY. PUS N.L to N.W., fresh to SCOTLAND. Northerly. tight. moderat Northerly, variable, lIIILARD.. N. to W. to mullt.. As next above. N. to K. moderato. wane snow. W. OINTILAS. Aa next above. N.Vi.PaA3N% N.K. t S.W.. !mod& rate. some snow. As nest shove. Kw.Vaeudiro. As neat ahore. N.K tam K. t., fresh &X Easmasis. N. to K, tight, perhaps to light. N.N.K to E..C., mo. X. COUPE dente. N.lt to N.W., mode. rue, some MOW. SECOND FRENCH DESPATCH ON THE APFAIRES OF OB.SECE. The following is the meoond of two despatches by M. Drouyn de Lhuye upon the affairs of Greece, the first of which was published in our columns some weeks since : THE 311311F1T6 OF /01/120111 AFFAIRS TO THI DinowAnci Aorsre OF THE =MOIL Part, Dee. 21, 1862. Sir,—The deepatch I addressed to you on the 4th of this mouth upon the affairs of Greece made you acquainted with the incidents which were followed by the three Powers agreeing to maintain the stipulations of the protocol signed by them in 1830, and which excluded the members ad their reigning famNes from the throne of Greece. In consequence of this understanding, the envoy. at Athens of Franco, England, and Russia, informed the Penalised Government of Greene that neither Prince Alfred of England nor the Duke de Leuchtenberg could accept the crown of Greece if offered to them by the Hellenic nation. The only really serious cause of complication being thus removed, the Powers naturally had to occupy themselves in designating a Prince, not belonging to the reigning families, who could be recommended to the suffrages of Greece. AS far as we are concerned we enter into the investigation intent only upon the interests of Greece henelf, and we are ready to welcome the candidature of any prince affording the necessary guarantees by his age and his personal eagecity. . . . In my interview with the English Ambassador and the Russian Charge d'Affaires, I have examined from this point of view various proposals which, after leading to overtures without result, have been successively abandoned. The last suggestion of the British government was King Ferdinand of Portugal, father of the reigning sovereign. That Prince is in the prime of life, and he has had experience of government ; he combined thus all the qualities essential for occupying the throne of Greece, and we bedewed to make known in London and 84. Petersburg that this selec tion met with our approbation. Nevertheless, the repre sent tions made to King Ferdidand dad not have the effect of deciding him to give his consent to the offers addressed to him, and our latest news from Lisbon is of a kind to make us consider his refusal definitive. lam oot yet abbe to let you know the result of the fresh negotiations this occur rence has led to. As you will have already learnt from general report (le bruit public), her Britannic Majesty bee resolved to re. flounce her protectorate of the lonian Isles in favour of Greece. Two conditions will be attached to this cession by England ; first, the consent of the Powers concerned in the diplomatic arrangements which regulated the affairs of the Islands in 1815 ; secondly, the preservation io Greece of monarchical institutions, sad the respect of territorial boun daries in conformity with the assurances voluntarily given by the Provisional Government. We do not hesitate, as far as we are concerned, to rapport • resolution which, what ever may be the cousideratimis that dictated it, hes the ineontesieble advantage of satisfyiog the interests of Greece and of responding to the wishes so frequently expressed by the 100i111:1 people. TWO MURDERS AND A SUICIDE PREVENTED. MELANCHOLY CASE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) Ann Hutchinson, a married woman, 36 years of ap, raiding at 70, Warren•street, Fituoyequare, sad who appeared to be in a state of great distress, was charged u follows : Mr. Oarforth, inspector of the E divielon, appeared to watch the cafe. Alice Atchisoe, a young woman, servant to a person in the house, said—l sleep in the house. At • quarter to 12 last night I was in my own room, when the prieoner's little girl came down to me, crying, and said her mother was going to destroy her and her little brother. I went upstairs immediately, and did my best to reconcile the prisoner. On the table there were two knives. The prisoner said she would destroy the children, as she was tired of her life, and that then she would cat her own throat. I then lilt the room cod went downstairs, telling the little girl that if her mother attempted anything of the sort again, to come down and tell me. I heard a noise, and the little girl came down and said that bee mother was going to destroy her ; that she had caught hold of her, and was just going to cut her throat, but she managed to escape. She also said that her mother was about to cut her little brother's throat once on the bed. I then went upstairs and told the prisoner that if she was going to do that, she bad better have some one to stay with her. The prisoner said she would not have anyone with her. The prisoner then sent the little girl for • quartern of gin, end drank it; and after she bad done so she seemed to be out of her mind. The prisooer then took up the two knives from the table, and sharpened one of them on the poker. I then sent the little girl for a constable, and went down stairs. On my return to the room with the constable, I found the prisoner bad cut her throat slightly with one cd the knives, there being a mark on her throat and blood on the small knife. Mr. Knox—Small knife—why, it is a table-knife. Witness—The prisoner then, in the presence of the Doer stable, jumped out of bed and attempted to cut the girl's throat. She caught hold of the child and said she would cut her throat, having a knife in her hand. but the child wrested herself from her grasp and got away. The constable then left the room that the prisoner miert put on her clothes, and she then said that if the policeman did not take her away that night but let her stop till the neat day that she would send the little girl for some laudanum, give it to the children, that they would then go to sleep and never wake again. She then dressed herself sad we taws away by the constable. Mr. Knox—How long has she lived in the house! Witness—Three months, sir. Mr. Knox—Do you know how she gets her living? Witness—l believe by walking the streets. Mr. Knox—Have you ever seen her drunk! Witness—Only once or twice. Police.cosetsble Howe, 46 E. produced a table.knife with blood on it, end said-1 wee called to the house, 70, Warren. street, by a little girl. I saw the prisoner there. She said that she was in great distress, and that she had attempted to cut her throat with one of the knives on the table. She said, "If you leave me here to-night, I shall cut my dear children's throats." I told her that I should take her to the station-house. I then left the roan while she dressed herself. I afterwards went in and found her dressed, and took her into custody. On the way to the station she said that her landlady had called upon her that day, and told her that she would tura her out of the bowie the following morning. I received the following ow. titillate from the surgeon : "I certify that I attended Ann Hutchinson, who has • alight incision, only skin deep, and about one inch in length across her throat, caused by • sharp instrument.—G. Jes uits, for J. Weeks., surgeon, 4, High-street, Bloornabury.! Knox—Prisoner, do you wish to ask any questions ! Prisoner—No, str. Yr. Koox then remanded the prisoner for a week, and ordered the children to be given up to a person in the home who has promised to take care of them. One of the children, the girl, is eight years of ago, the other, a boy, six years of age. WEATHER REPORT. .-(THIS DAY.) 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