The Express. — London, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 6. kr this season of the year, sad in throe days of • tutees-penny Immo Tax, many a sneggling peter finaiss is sullckntly perplexed by the anneal neurreuce of his ordinary tradesmen's talk Bet has be ewe had to undergo, in addition, the visita tion el a kwyor's bill P If not, lot bin devoutly think Ids Urs far past favours and need that in tide 'upset his ht may know so Mange. We don't ran moth deli d meountering the dispkasitre at that very paint body of gentlemen, who make oar wilt, money our mates, and 'image our mortgages and elseeime, by denouncing the mode is which our lawyers' bells are at present made out, as a nuisance that ought forthwith to be abated. Oa this point it h gratifying to And that a very Masada majority d the keepers are with en We wish to make no invidious comperkom We simply remark, es a matter of binary, that as the ay of " Regina your bikes' bale took is origin with the brethren at the needle, so the more recent, but we trust not ism efketml, cry of '• Reform your lawyers' bells* has gone forth iron the very pesetrelio at Baked row and Chancery-lane. We talk of the cry as more recent than that of Moera and Son i it would be more correct perhaps to' describe it so kes obtrusive. Ice mist of fact it made itself audlkL long ago to the initiated, but, se is the wont with law sad all con meted with it, it has taken a bog time in gaining any Mention bon the public. Now this apathy of the public in scab matters is a great mistake. There is no considerable clue in this amestry—oo class whom dealings are at all on an eateesslveseale—whohave notavory real iatersetin the right settlement of this meanies at lawyers' sharies. Of all deem thin Is nom more eancerned in it than the Meet powerhl of all, the lamlowaing and tw inkle; elem. Most country gentlemen know some thing at the met now attending investigations o[ title --mortgagee end marriage eettlemente--and have vainly punka themselves over the mysterious items et whisk the shaming total is @composed. The thirteen.and.harpenose and the elz.end.eightpeneee charged in interminable scieceeeko fee doing things which to all useful purposes might just as wall hare been left undone, are no less mystifying to the *domain mind then the solemn gam levesnese et the parchments, and the appalling verbosity of their contents. All proceed from the game cease, the absurd principle of reseimerstien which has for ages been adopted in this department of human industry. The Solicitor in this country is paid, not with any reference to the degree of skill end labour required of him, act by any percentage on the value of the property which panes through his hands, but simply in arithmetical proportion to the nealtiplieity of heel steps (whether bsekwarde or forwards) which he can eantrive to Aerie kr, and to the length of the legal demments which he is called en to prepare. This being the piaci* of the thing, the only weeder is, not that knelt bills are no costly, and legal documents so verbose as they are, but that the one are not for more onerous, and the other twice es voluminous. It is gratifying to Mad that this matter has been sealowely taken up by that very mefal body, The Metropolitan and Provincial Law Institeitiom" In a paper recently read before that society by Mr. Eton' Ftzw—who haa for years been active in promoting a change in this respect, and lost no op pa-enmity of bringing the question before the atten tion of one Parliamentary Committee after the other —we find the following just and striking picture of the absurdity of the existing method of remunera tion : Tier mum . . . act u ally paean more pay for Ifeti work this for mod, he .ft work them kyr fuck wok. A. be •• regahtioss cs• do Boob • ddig, It moot:raga the townie sad stupid. It me as foe rowtheree isd Asa oiler bow* It Is easy to deur wt • sewn dedsmst-- dilhatit to make It amine. Take • dry ia drewhir mt, my • st•tereest of Mesa Jab, sad It areism ycei 61. wires Mond • mood dm is rechectag Ike Moira to:balf he book, sod k pemossomyst dead of bathe h.' Its sad mks. you Imo the woad dm eir 7••• lin blades. If a eobritoe laveslime• Ms law sod doe..h• • P• 1 •4 to.. stl4 it emidis Wee Mot ask* ; but if he with ••• he girdles mid wads to commd, metes Maar& Omit , meek homekt, sod it imposidille—m. thresh • 1 ••••• digmeef skin sod Itestehdre Is commelsot to that wart. k aseirm es ea mew remeMise like tso timmthe wises The oily noes of p•finisual mood at all sp: preaching this in absurdity was that ander which most middle-aged people in this country must have =Erred who bad the misfortune to enjoy a feeble state of health "in their earlier years. What recol lection that can go back thirty or forty years bat re tains a lively horror of the time when the medical practitioner used to make no charge except for drags, and paid himself for his time and attendance by drenching us with a diurnal deluge of doctor's stuff. It is a strong testimony to the stoutness of English constitutions that they have been enabled so stiecees fully to weather the dangers of that nanecons time. Nature indeed found a safety-valve in ailed, and the perpetuation of the species was secured by the revolt of the human pylons against the mercenary orults of the en doctors. _ Umbrella/toly tine is no similar escape from the lawyer. The enneeseserf draught or the supereroga tory pill, though paid for, need not be taken. But the verbosity of the lawyer,who is remunerated by length, has corrupted thewbede structure of the English law It has had a fatal inthenee on the seines not only of legal but kridaters exgremion. It has infected our acts of parliament with the same yerbeity as oar conveyances. The Lee/bitten makes oar laws, but our lawyers write them. The lawyer who was paid for making a deed long, was not likely to draw an act of parliament sheet. Hence the endless " ahreaaids" and " hereinbehree"—hence the tauto logy, the involution, and the perplexity that make the reproach of our Statutes. Hence, too, the anollem multiplication of steps and preemies in every coarse of litigation (more especially in Chancery), a result inevitably following from the fet that every step and every preens mast be paid for, whether it be a blander or a success, a retrogression or an advance. Well might Lord Hammen declare, as he did five year ago, " that whatever other changes me effected to improve our system, whether al Equity or Common Law, a large proportion of the evil will remain online this difficulty (of professional remuneration) shall be grappled with and overcome." - - - - - It is easier, no doubt, to point out the evil than the remedy, but our own view coincides with that indi cated in the following realm by Mr. FIELD:— " Other agents an paid, in degree, by a commiesion, and in some proportion to the value of the property en which the wcamanship and labour is to be ex pended. This is the method Nature takes for idea. tifying the interests of employer and employed. The merchant, the broker, the agent, the auctioneer, and in Scotland an on the Continent, the lawyer too, has for his principal fee a per cent age. The broker his as much trouble in buying or selling 1,0001. stock sa 10,0004 But his pay is according to the value of the thing his employer has committed to his agency." This is the sound prin ciple, nor need there be any great difficulty in its practical application—at all events es far u transactions in real property are concerned. In addition to the instances cited by Mr. FIELD, the principle obtains in the United States, and, unless we are Minimised, is mow laded upon by the local prac titioners of a eamlierable district in the west of Eng land. Should Government snoceed—as we trust they may—in introdueing amoral Registry of Titles,ani thus adding SO per cent. to the value of the land in this country, by dispensing with the necessity of • fresh investigation of title on each ocean of its bras h', a percentage system of legal remuneration must shout of nessmity be adopted. The eolleiter who mamma for his employer • transfer or other trammetion in land most be rencterated en the sem primal* as the broker who Whets a sizable traumatism in sleek or shares. Re mast be paid by • pereentsgs on the 11111100 alt T u immeased multiplicity of land traassetions, aridly hem the improved facilities of treader, will mime RCM stake up to the legal agent far the hem ef the eases pci viler be now enjoys of =Hog weintetheide charges for annecessary work, and regukting his lb munmation, not by any scale of resposibility or skill, bat by the number of words spun oat by the lagers of his copying clerk. The pubis bee a groat interest in the general adoption by the legal profes sion of the views so ably advocated by Mr. FIELD. The change requires so legislative suction, bat may be introduced, and we trust ere long will be intro aced, by the good souse of the lawyers themselves. nit Court. WINDSOR, Luc & Major-Graerid sad Mrs. Cranford and Lieut.- Wood c. (ossimarliagollear 2E4 Battalion Colllo7amt Guards) hid ashram at &dog witik her lisjosty pater- da7. TY teal et the Ceidetreos Owed* played dieber &Weer. The Ques's primers tall et lerwatde stieried, sad played the Sawa* Weeds& : 0•••• n% L. ANIor. asked" " • iftior•slhl • Boom Omar Prineord 'souk ours 110.40. The Qum weaned fa the petiads - rdjoiateg the Cuth tide mamba. Mew last Veda out Moiety. The Pritteem Royeleamt Priam; Alio rode is the riding loam The Holt Lacy Kerr awl the Hos. limy Basel have seccesdei the Ham Beatrice Bye( and the Hee. Eiatiy Gamine, ea Maids et Her oer-ha-Waittag._ The Right Bea. H sad Lady /Lary Labewbare, tb. Provost of Los, the How mad Very Rev. tb. Dem or Wilber, tail Woad Parker .(oolemeedLei allow let Lib Grab) lag the homy of Mahar with her Measly. The bead el the lat Lilb Orr& pleyal baba baser. Hrr lisjerty's privets bead attewlei to dr Castle la the intabit, aad pea:mei the blirrerisi creapositioae : - - owparrs- - - Woks. (Op He} Tifs-111= od. lad beildsui. OMNI. tee *ln. , ma sir Wen. Maim N. imm M o abi. Disg. Te.} ll ". l * Ilikreit avanAT JAR 4 . The Chen sad Prism, the Priam at Weiss, tie Painters Royal, Pittner Ms, art Palmist lielsos, the Mite sad gentian= et the wart, sa4 the dassestie licatesbeid attended thins wake sacwelog is las *hate &spat el the Cando The Heft owl Very Rev. the Dem of Winkles elliaisted. Tar Doane at Kant and Prisons Maras et Ileinalelartleitillintaret a/so wan at the wilco. Tax Csantre.—No instructions have yet been Ward for the at the umbers of AO Wiest 4 Li. r.. Lord Paharntas cestiasse at Brorlisailt. Lord Peens sad the DOW of Aran are 4 Soothed ; bat the 1444 is everted to ram to tows is the omen ate wog. Lard Orsarilk arrived Is Leaks ea flattanky emir The Bart of Harrowby is atepatted to reaste co thessalissat acme teas kagsr. Sr George C. Low* M. Vilna istith, Load 'tat Allstity, sad the odor seillase absest from reekepolis Lad Melville, the I raters for Seethed, sad Markel aseadise et preent re *hag with Lord Psaanure at Ilsedit Chide al the Tie Earl al Chu laced, the late =War of St. Cron, lot wet the ma of IW. o • at:Yam proem to the loan& Yesterday eves*, at areal George4treet Cbapel, Livened, tie in. Dr. Rao priecied Ids krty-ifth Ewa muse& The last mail from India brings accounts of the body of the Hoag siker, Abrader Jame Trotter, of the Dew! Hone Artaiwy, woad re et the he. Archbold Trotter, Pau d Drighere, who hod attempled to 'Mr rem the Rine Therm, I. Criumrs, bowleg toes bed tad buried with airy bosom et Revel Phobia Yr. Thar woe a yaw are at poet promise, td woe math nowise by Ida roar elbow* Dr. Alders." Physicist: to St. Mary's Hospital, d Maher of Dena Mamma, a lb* to be elated Prod der et the College of Physical.* to zoos M the Lk Dr. Ps*. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1857.' LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS. (Rom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY 1101NINO. The Archbishop of Paris was assassinated at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the Church of Bt. Etienne du Mont, by a priest who had been inter dicted from officiating, named Verges. The Archbishop died immediately. The assassin was arrested. The Ilowitetw narrates this shocking event u follows: "A dreadful crime has been committed in the Church of St. Etienne de Mont. After the proces sion had peened, and at the moment when it was returning into the Sacristy, Monseigneur the Arch bishop of Paris was stabbed with a dagger by a priest named Vents, who was recently interdicted from officiating. " The Archbishop was carried to the presbytery of St. Etienne do Mont, where, almost instantly afterwards, be breathed his last. The assassin was immediately arrested. " We cannot describe the deep emotion which was felt by the numbers of the faithful who were as em bled in the church, or the mournful impression which was ceased throughout Paris last evening, when the news spread of the death of this virtuous prelate." PARIS, Soma Riming°. The bestand mosteannected account of therm' htfel murder of the Archbishop of Paris is the following frees the Droit : llaamigaseer Sficer, the Archbishop at Perla was mur dered to-degie the Church of et. Etiewas-de-West. The arelsbalsop mat to the chards to thaugerste the religious coreaceles which ere colebsetsd there deriag the Newsier al et. Hserrisva At ball-pest by les ledt the choir mod was proceidlag towards the moiety, whet • mth reeled Sowards bias, sad paths& ride with tee heed the erchbielsop's age, old with the ether phased • huge Cetelsa bath into his brese, crying out, st the seems Cu, '4 Ms is di/vises (Deere with goddesses). The peat, staggen ; hie atemdeat prksis eurrowed has sad hold him up; his face is deadly pole, rase deep groans et.mps him, he is takes into the secristy, medical sesistasco is st awe pro cured, but di lid is to ads, the erebbisbop is *died. The murderer was a priest who stood moved, his Moody kWh is head, by the side d his eictls , wham be gamed upon se be escosmbed, with an menden of thedish joy. This priest was formerly attached to • pariah to Paris, warn, to cosmo gonies of his conduct, be led been. several time hstedietsd. In the month af November last be wee at Nelms. The Ada Court of that tows having to try • lemma charged with leaving primped her husband, this priest method the ear with the utmost tuto red. The Tema was famed godly, sad matemed to bard Idiom for Ns. (See Drat af Nov. xi, 1666.) This meat did sot abets the seal al bar protector. Hs timely decand that she w learoseet, sad to el,. greater publicity to his protest spalast the verdict, be printed • pamphlet on the subject, which be woe on the poiat of publideag, whoa the perreet (paw promestaes ethos) thissired, sad ordered the pamphlet to be Wald. The numere was celled for by the protest itself,* aad by the terms as which ft we worded, Sr it castehosd most serious accemtkes agaisstthe boacerabiojudgeseholeceoubood the sealleses. Than Nal and oases - ea; dm to *kW pre ambles; is the course ot which the past fa quake mai , Sad • total want at self-coutral. The church thought fit to Warms its authority, and to latimdlot the priori who lad so imisaarketei llama This isterdietios rosily ene mata the Mamba at the party ageism' whoa it was prosooted. No set, heaver, as his pat lad to the supporta' that he weld have bees arable it the crime ark he sow stalesd with blood Ms ohm* rameasead to tha patroa era of Pais. The lea dieted prat mallawl, peread, aid ensestal his aims ellb a sell.lbelsamo vile Is heal* le Ilia a He wail lima ail a Oaks kalleaed a het kreg,with •Meet as lama cl ems Ibis lb lam that an lbe ban dimmer the .anteing was to akimbo id the *tea it sL Namme-d•-hoot, he ma tialtsr .at the salmi raelMat to kill la; and he did kill Wan la dr alma, and la his pa and seas. Oa brag said arra he had Sahel the sediklap awe than owe, he anstresel "Ns nab use; Sr I struck at the hart, eud I haw that des Wow was meta" "Why did you ay when you sirs* •as he deism 1" "Be ars I do rot balm to the Insane., Catwalks. I Ira staid any opinion as that &arise tram the pulpit, rad I wish to potent owe mars egoist that impious war alp." Oa bales asked why be hal eased ad this peat eras, ha said, "lama I was Istadiated, and told that this time as haredictics woad mat be revoked." The im pstarbstaty dew ma after Irvine amanittod mak a erhoe, aad the eirenustanas thommtere law whkh the mime was comeated, star iworieleat with a sound sad it must be braved kw the harm at harmaity: that the man who was Mara with mardatal taw tar was a madman and mot a mamas. The mama was talus to the mayasky at the twat& arresdisareent. H. Xipton, the Witatit;de ad the Proseireer W , aid K. Triaged, judp d livereetics, west there at calee to ezagehte L. N. Cardin* the Prigtritte . . . _ _ Iseyertal, sad M. Prete., the Preleet d Peace, tatierepted tits primer afterwards. The body at the erehlaitop wee tekesto the peebytesy of the Cart ot at. Ettime-da-ltoat, sad ahead on a coach In the drawing-nom The welt'rade' ladvaeo were not the he theme& One tithe was ignorant at whet had pared emit saver have stppesed, en looking et It* last dr* bed for ever from Net pane heart. His badly sad Ids roomy hinds Baled to the death &mbar. We Rut 11•011•011 the irk at domain the hart-tendlag mew that tea plat*. In the 00111111 ol the evening the ead sews ekvabded In Pm* fad all Marta ware 'booked et ItanUg the *WU Gabe. taithe. In MK an eithlthhop of Pule hi • vletha and sooty,. In 1537, hie moaner Silb in a aura seder ea 'read''' kWh. Both wean ankh addle la the mambo at their &vise tandimas, of Med la their seemlota robes. Nay Oat post tart onoloty my bin, ad,: ialty to as sad seta alms to mite! Tbs amatawr it al yam atop. Tba climb at OR ariasztanatcat it dont, lad will aa be opined tin dla Ms pagandom amaaslimad by the alma Oat bee bon esimittod in it. The other legal journal, the Gaza& dee ffkillosenz, gives an account newly identical with the above. It states, in addition, that' the usemin allowed himself to be mated without resistance, sad mama tarily gave up his bloody knife. That he bad once been interdicted tar preaching a memon wriest the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, sad that the archbishop had confirmed the interdietica. The Gamete des Telles...air Glee mays that towards the end of his examinatim, when the enormity of his mime was dwelt upon, he mid, " Tea, it is frightful and shed tears ; he afterwards asked for a New Testament, saying that he should have need of it daring the night. Blight vs , elation' from both the above acco un t s are I given. It is asserted confidently that the aseamin stabbed the archbishop twice, and even that a sister of charity, who attempted to ward off the second blow, wee struck and had three fingers at off. It is also denied that that the prelate was in his sacer dotal robes—he had on, it is said, only the rottlei, the simplest nudger possible. M. Beret, the Vicar- General, gave the archbishop absolution immediately. The church of St. Etienne-du-Mont was hung with black to day, and is shut up M be purified from blood —not in a material sense by the mobbing-bre& of • It to usersary to orphan, that according too French legal pnitice et more then questkeslale policy, en judges sappreed to be Infantbie, io to the ern of the Court el Appeal, sod the:pabge are not allowed So my that any omit has come to a men diction. t The erimand Wag • pried, the church oral of entree make Immure earls to prom that he was not a remonaible being, butt there Is nothing In the nemstive to burr oat this wake. He appears to ton Wm warted by a tattled feel ing of mews. j the priudiimmL a cleanser, but in a moral rites of the Catholic church. to the ..- Monesigseur Biboor was born at Bt. Paul-Trois- Chateaux, in the diocese of Valence, on April 4, 1792, he was eonoxpiently in his 85th year. He was consecrated Bishop of Digne, on February 26,1840, and was appointed Archbishop of Paris by General Cavaignac, on August 10, 1848, in the place of Mon seigneur Mike, who was killed on one of the barri cade, of the Faubourg St. Antoine in June, 1848. Vergis (whose name is spelt in some jaornals, Verger, but I believe incorrectly) was born at Neuilly, near Paris. The body of the deceased archbishop has been removed to the Archiepiscopal Palace, in the Rue Grenelle St. Germain. The autopsy took place to day. After embalmment the body will lie in state, and the public will be admitted to see it. The weapon which the murderer used wa' so long that it would have been difficult to carry it in a pocket. It is asserted that he concealed it in a large loupe!, which he held in his hand as he approached his vic tim. Vets& iain Maras prison. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (From OmliyrlPs Mestelifer.) Paris was plunged into profound consternation on Saturday evening by the report that the Arch bishop of Paris, whilst officiating in the church of St. Etienne-du-Mont, had been murdered by a priest. At first no one oould believe in tho reality of NO awful a crime, committed in such a place and by such a band ; but it was soon ascertained, lamentable to relate, that the sad intelligence was only too true. The following is a detailed account of this dreadful crime : &trod= was:the Ate of Ste. Genevieve, and the arch- Whop want to the church, weeding to announcement, to preside over the opening at the =awl *mei= to honour of the saint, who is pstremeas of the city of Pert.. AP= wi pers, and after a serum preached by Mgr. leeanike, bishop of La Blase-Terre, a procemion waa formed and paraded round the church in the enittemary way, the mckbishop in his robes walking at the lead of the lady patronamos of Ste. Generlive. Just as the archtdshop arrived opposite the outer door and was about to turn up the nave, • ova advanced towards him from the crowd of spectators, end removing the prelates cope with blojeft hand, plunged with gnat force with his right hand • large Catalan knife into the prelate's breast, near the heart, exclaiming as he did so, " Down with the goddess 1" (A 6•r f!/lass.) The arch bishop fall back two steps, cried out " 4h, la inalheerms f" staggered, end fell into the of the priests who surrounded him. The wounded prelate mooned two or three times, sa If in great =Siring, and was the moment after bathed in the blood which flowed from the wound. He was immediately conveyed into the Toby and medical ambience sent for ; but all human aid was found to be useless, as be expired almost immediately. The fatal blow was snack with each extrionihmary rapidity that it was impossible to prevent it. The seramin, • young roan of about thirty years of age, dressed fa dark coloured clothes, made no attempt to escape, and was imaneediately seized _; he had it the moment the knife, home which blood was dropping, still In his hind. Just before the immemble prelate breathed him bat, the Abbe Surat, vicar-general, who was close to him, gave him absolution. The seessein — wes conveyed to the =Ws of the 12th arron dimmest, and M. Holgroa, substitute of the Freemen, Imperial, and X. Tigard, =whim magistrate, was immediately ennead, sad commenced an intemegatory. Y. Cordon* Procuregr Imperial, sad 11. Beni, Prefect of Polka subespeatly intenmated him also. From what he mid it appears that be lea print of the &we of Xmas, named Verges. He bad hem Aar or live times interdicted he adsooniect, and some menthe back was spin egareadal for having prmehed aphid the dogma of the Inecalate Coneoptioa. la. Namable het be dis played pest seel in deheding • gramma who we tried at Heim for poleming her Maimed, sad though she fres convicted of the aims, sad ocedessimed to herd faker Re ith, be printed a pamphlet declaring that she wee Wow; and meting the grommet kapatatioas ea the Judges imd the pal& promestor. The poughlet was Weed by the Wharfage before it amid be distributed, sad it weed a new comphint aping him to be made to his bishop. A little later, be uttered Imam against a re 'meted clergyow of the Moore of Peris, who bad done I him many kindnesses; sad the olergyama dewed it mom my to make teregmatietka to the police. Oa the 24th of December, the am ewe to Peel., and took up his madam at m hotel, N. 2, Re Racine. He was auegetonald to pm days to the public libraries ; sad eves 1 oa Saturday ha •elet to or as meal. He en dammed to abide en appohitmeat is the diner of Paris, bat it me waled to him that the archbishop weakd not peat hies one. On ?swim that, be smug to have pro jected the death of the prelate, sad he purchased far the pur pose a knife at the atop of a cutler In the Rae Deaphim After be had stated the ravines facts, be wee asked if he had stabbed the archbishop more then ow, sad he immured "No; I any pee him one stab, for I Mack in the heart, and knew the blow we mortaL" " Why," be we asked, "did yea cry Down with the gcddees F whoa yea Week the fear Wow P" " Became I do not believe ta the dentine of the Immaculate Coaceptiem, spinet which I have preached bres the pulpit sad I wished to pietist gees mare spinet the impious doe- Was." " Why did you commit so grave a crime P" " Brews I we interdicted, and beams the archbishop had declared that the ialardietion weld not be re removal." He then added, after • panes, " A priest can ted be allowed to die of boager." He admitted that he bad pee to the church with the premeditated Intro tics of Mbar the archblahop ; and he the several times cried, with ewe Viallool4 "No, goddess I no, goddess:" On. of the Fathom who interrogated him, remarked that the crime which be had ocaugitted woe one of frightful mormity. "Yes," he eaclanacd, "It is MOAN :" end this time fell from hie eyes. He begged for a New Teets- Wiest, sad said , " I shall have peat need of It daring the WSW The aswein rephed to thegneetionspat tohbn with celmnees, said oily displayed agitatka; when lat; referred to the declaim; of the Ilmeesdate COMMON". Ins ketares we tail at =- puska I the owes of the embed he wee ocavord to tho otaetergeets, sad • turnkey tem pieced with his to his cell. Om ezuelalag hi. dross, Kim printed ps pin troto found folioed in his toot! The body et the archbishop, after remaining a sheet time in the wary of et. Etieres-thr.Yet, was wanoved to the bore of the ewe, mad plead on n manse in the drawing room. The honoree of the wearable palate bad medergone er slieselon—they ware or oda sad area a. If he WWI in a aßd 'famine. The Dalai of this asy glees the details as follows: I 11. de Balm, eme of et. Etienne-do-Moot, preceded the palate, mad Invited the aseletaata to kneel; he remarked a eon en hie right who remained standing, but who wpm a alp ham the emrs, hash with the others. The archbishop, having retuned on the left side of the church to blue the childra, this man suddenly roes, sailed W. Moor ineibly with the right hand, made him tarn round, sad thus planed a dagger into his heart. The prelate staggered some steps backwards, at chiming, "Li Mdiaerross see tee' and this sank to the ground. An extraordinary Penult arose and miss of indignation wee raised by the usistaate, most at whom were WOOL The mare, thishing that the Archbishop bad been seised with sudden iadispo aides, exerted Weed to calm the mishinte and abased toenuds the prelate, who he span the ✓g -dose uttering not mother word. The crowd sur rounded the mein, eke was seised sad bees/ by the rayons do m7k, and Ulm to the swanky of the arron dissement. Today the church is hung in Week. ♦ =doe sand to the dean mesetnces that the Archbishop of Parts laving been frially wounded by the head of • criminal, the .nisei will imolai dead until the ceremeny at expiation has been celebrated. The amok hos deolend that he had hen watching his opportunity mince the manioc mad he lad been seen waling maid the church, dourly for the purpose of selecting the bent piece 6r cannitting • There paws wee writings whet the leauscalate Conception, and against the archbishop in ceesesian with ft. At the comateseesent of the sewn the theatre IA Atelm, et Mr= ismeally swabs= u may as 1,200 =b ombers. This year, Mei to the =pert= visit of the Simperer of Molds, eon Ns act 800. STATE OF SPAIN. A correspondent of the independence Bolge, writing from Madrid on tho lit instant, says :—" The situation of Catalonia becomes worse and worse, and the friends of the government do not conceal their fears of the gravest conflicts. The government shows itself very reserved, even with its confidante; it is stated on the very best authority, that the ministry has received to-day a despatch from General Zapatero, Captain-Gencval of Barce lona, stating that 30,000 workmen were per ambulating the streets demanding bread. An insurrection had not commenced, but there were all the symptoms of one. The General adds that he could not dream for an instant of suppressing it by force. Grave abuses are committed at different points of the Peninsula by the mayors. Several in habitants belonging to the liberal party have been arrested and kept in prison for several days, with out knowing the reasons of the detention. The priests still abound in Spain, and the government acted wisely in 1853 in prohibiting further ordi nations. In each of the miserable hamlets of Manche there are ten, fifteen, and sometimes twenty priests. I know one village, containing scarcely 1,800 inhabitants, in which there are not less than fifty-four priests—a most ignorant clans, who spend their days in smoking cigarettes. The press in Spain is now entirely handed over to the arbitrary power of the civil governor, and to the censors named by the Minister of the Interior.", PRUSSIAN CIRCULAR TO THE EUROPEAN The Inctependante Beige, of yesterday, publishes the following circular despatch, addressed by the cabinet of Berlin to its agents at the principal Euro pean courts ; bearing date of the 28th ultimo : - Monsieur Is Comte (Boon)—By a despatch of the Bth of this month (December), I had the honour to hakes your Excelkocy of the attitudkwhich the King our wad miter, has determined to take with respect to the Neufchatel affair. The military prepirationa of which I they made matton have been since ccetinmd, and It would have teen In perfect accordance with the amalgamate of the Pre mien army to proceed, severed day. ago, to the mobilisation of those por tions of the army intended for this purpose. Oar sonnet Sovereign, in pasting so calmly sod firmly the line he has traced out, withal. always in his high wisdom to avoid precipi tatiag mimes, the immediate come ueneee of which would be to change entirely the phase in which this affair is still, but which It will quit the moment the order to move shall be given. Up to this point the King contents himself with the preliminary and unocaditional liberation of the Neufchatel prisoners, malting from the abolition of all pomading. directed against them. Alter this liberation his Majesty is reedy to enter into negotiations la to the future of the State of Nenkhatel, nor will the unexampled moderatioe of which the King has given proof hitherto in the entire of this ques tion, be belled when the great Powers of Europe shall deem it their duty to make him propositions, worthy, at the same time, of those who of r and of him who moms them. On the other bend, the mobiliestion moo ordered, the situation can no bow he the some. Whoever is acquainted with our military smageneets knows that this order, called for by the most ardent with es of the army, most be followed by speedy action, and that neither the dignity nor Interest of the King would permit him then to pame half way. It is cher that in such cm the Aroma liberation of the pri einem would no longer bean object proportionate to the sa crifices imposed on the country, and that Soon that point the results attained by the Prussian arms might siker even the position of the Principality of NenkhateL The King does not at a cowed from himself the gravity of this man ✓acy. Bat If ft perent itself he will not recoil Wore it; sad area while pursuing his object with the energy and per of a good conscience, he will sorer himself always to ▪ be guided by the desire of seeing mewed to fiwitseriand, after the end of the mem ocailictorpleoe mom hoeourable end indepeadart omega the astm of Europe, which will lord the farther gwastees for eider and mom. The ocasidentione, Manama le Comte (Baron), joined to a desire of siceffing the great Powers of Europe that have solannly recognised the ratite of the King as Prince of Neakhatel, a now prod of his extreme moderation as well as the poribility of getting them to met their diplocoatio ingeence is • meaner Mager, more eonceatrated, and more efficacious, on Serftnerlaed, for the purpose of attaining the precept accomplithment of the only =edition on which the King arias previous to entering into negotiation., have de cided his Niamey, despite the limy inconveniences attend ant on delay, to defer the mobilisation of the army to the 15th of January, 1867. It follow., sea matter of come, that this term will be shortened if the Swim authorities, nadir the influence of that spirit of defiance which characterless several of their recast ineseures, should hand over the Neufchatel primers to the Federal salima. By order of the King, I invite you, Monsieur la Comte (Baron), to brim the aborementioned remolutica to the knowledge tithe cabinet of Paris (londanVinna, St. Pilaw burg). It will be appreciated, we cannot doubt, with the just and deer imputiality we have • right to expect on the part of • governmint redly friendly to Preadm, which, is this gotaion, pommel both right and modentioin and will have waited more than eight years doing the overthrow of its legitimate authority in Neufchatel—for more than Mir years arm the solemn re cognition at it rights by the protocol of London—and for more than lbw mouths Aloe the events of September tut— , before bavi•g recourse to proper enema to recover its rights, with respect to which his Majesty has declared himself reedy to negotiate whin a single pralleduary condition exacted by his dignity shell have been NOW. To wait longer would be incompatible with that dignity. The sovereigns of Europe moot but feel this. They will sot with, as his Msjesty has amid to his people, to woke of his lam Wining a tampon against hawed. Receive, Momleer le Comte (Bane), the renewed meareace of my high comitteretion. _ _ arernyrrni. To Count Hatekid, at Puts; Count Betradoirg ; et Lcadoa; Count Arnbn, at Vienna; Baron Weetber, at Bt. Petersburg. The Continental journals also publish notes ex changed between the Austrian and Prussian courts relative to the question of Neufchatel. In a note, dated Dec. 18, Count Buol writes: The Powers, ht their character of gasrantere of the nen taslity amazed to Switzerland in the general interest, and as oveignatarke of the protocol of London, desiring the maintenance of the European pesos, end it their duty to remind Switzerland of the modilicas of its inviolability, and to impose on her the flekillment of these, if nsceseary. The opportunity of deliberating in common en the means of &charging this mission not having been retired them since the deplorable event' of bat September, the Imperial Cabinet is anxious to easemble fur this object the Pkalpotentiarke of the Powers that aligned the protocol of London, and cherishes the hope that his Majesty the King of Prussia will sot regard Memel, as driven to the necessity of asserting hie incontestable right otherwise than by relying ca the authority of a declaim of the European Powers. In reply Baron Manteuffel, writing on the 28th ult., attributes the fable notions entertained by Switzerland, to the inactivity which the Powers that signed the protocol of London have maintained during more than four years. The Prussian Minis ter refers to the despatch printed above, as eentain ing the but decisions of the King, and adds: • The cabin of Vistas win thence derive the conviction that, not to acelmle the diplomat action more or lees united and collective at the cabinets at Europe, the King has put of, deepke the imemeismas inesparable from this dais', the day at the mobilisation of the army, sad, by le defog, the term she up to which, upon the Mention of the Noradchatslpistmes, his Megasty will be ready to take part in say negotiations that my be held with tie object at pacified'', and see traditions mutually putting a definite close to the difficulties in =ainitie present natation of Neukhatel. Ee as good as to bring the present despatch to the know bags Of M. le Count de Boot, and to ewer to his Excel limy our sincere conviction that a cabinet so friendly to Prussia ea is that of his Imperial ffitelesty Francis Joseph, will not occasion it new difficulties, nor even counsel new delays in the socomplishroent of a task, the prompt moms of which must be called for by all partisans of right and ceder. PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND. A despatch from Beme, dated yesterday, says: W e are expecting the ultimatum of France sad England. " The new levy amounts to 14,000 men. "A service of vigorous surveil:ante his befit organised on the frontier. " People arc looking for a proclamation by th e Federal Council. "(Denial Dufour has organised a numerous staff, On his application, the Federal Council has given orders to place on a war footing eighteen additional battalions of infantry, as well as nine companies a( carbineers, cavalry, and artillery. . The trial of the Neufchatel prisoners is fixed for the 19th inst." The correspondent of La Presse, at Berne, vriting on Dee. 31, speaking of the proceedings of the Fe deral Assembly on the previous day, says: I have to deerribe to yon the imposing spectacle which wee presented by the ceremony of administering dm oaths to General Dufour. It yea in the presence of the two Chambers sitting as a Federal Assembly, in the Hotel as Ville of Berne, at 61n the evening, that this solemn rite was performed. Having joined his colleagues in full uniform, on which shone the grand cross of the Legion of Honour, the gems} was invited by the president, H. Eicher, to rise, sad then the President addressed to him the following speech i s German : _ _ " General,—The Federal Assembly by a vote all but Oil& moss, has decreed you the command in chief doer bran army. OUT appeal to you is made under very Iledo9l eh. cumstances. We are all convinced of the greatness of lin trek that bee devolved upon you; but we have all of at the *meiotic& also Met should war break out you will perform *tante with a cautioningr of the good cause you era CON upon to defend, Switserisnd is at all times reedy to gimlet consenttowhatememaybring aboutataeoumble &lancer( tko present dispute witholl Wiry to that honour which eves people that does not wish to commit self-destrectka to boot to maintain intact ea its most precious pommies. Switzerland is bound to remain attached to the prim* which has for so long been acknowledged, that one of its members cannot et the inane time belong to a foreign ineenn You will perform your teak, General, encouraged end on. tamed by the sbength of the public opinion of Europe mi of the whole civilised world—that public opinion which is itself lea great power, and which in its incorruptible Mg. mint proclaims itself more and more, and everywhere, ie behalf of our country. You will perform your task, elliitabei by the glorious union that prevails amongst our people sad throughout our army. It is nine years ago that you wars placed at the bead of the Federal army. What a difference between that period end this to-day! An imperative duty then commanded you to draw the sword &plug our own confederate*. But now the flags of all the cantons of our country, united like federal brethren, and ready for all and any sacrifice are seen owe more ranged under the national flag, adorned with the white cross, that flag which the Federal Assembly confides at this solemn moment to your care. Lally, you will perform you leek under the powerful protection of the God of our fathers whose guardian gram hes protected our country for ogee, Addressing Him, who is elm the puissant protector of the weak, I invite you to take the oath of generel-in-chief, which the Chancellor al the Coehderation will now read to yaw. General Dukes then prosonsced, In. eker end - rah voice, the words which camper the orb of rend in chief. words that are at roe err* enwpdo and tonadin and it was rabbi a storm et 'proving shouts from a/1 parts of the meshy sad from the rakers, and whilst en we deeply wrowel—Gre then was not . dry eye amEmpt the audience, as they thought d the peat minks which WI been thus confided to always caw who has already glees se many proofs of hie dertedeses mad we. midst die litterbugs of priors vows, that the Problem& moored the prorogation af the Aamally ries sti r. In the rams of the mar evesing, the bend et the pm& son motioned in the city of Berne gsve a brilliant serenede the Commander-M-Chid, who ardroowledged the ovation he three terms : It is a noble teak which ham been confided to me, and I wMdo everythiag in nay power to show myself wrathy of the confidence which Switserland, our common country, lee placed In me. lam happy to be spin able, at the end rimy caner, to testify my devotednem to the common ems, by rendering an the service in my power to the edits. It le not alone the military straw* and riches of a country which make it respected, bet the enthusiasm and union of the people. I am proud, for my country's rice, of the masa& nifty of which it has given proof st the present conjunctere. I have confidence in the goodness of our muse, end I hays, above all, the firm conviction that the God of our Paths* will not abandon us. Kay God protect Switzerland I" At the close of the speech of the General, the bend played the "Ruin de mein Vineland," and the General and all the company amembledjoined in the national air. But I must now pass to the aewe of this day . . . . . . _ The Federal government baa addremcd Weenier* to the cantons, that they shall organise into companies, battalions. and brigades, all the men between twenty and forty yeses of age who do not belong to the first and second contingent of the Mending army and its reserve, and likewise enroll mime. tsars of every age, and especially each as belong to rile dabs, and to the superior schools or colleges. They we also to form companies of wortmeny and find them tools, Ike !elfin fortifications. _ _ _ _ _ The Tederel governannt hes sin ordered the strain with mason of the Menem plying at the Rhine and in the Inks of Carbons, end the putting of the harbours on the Swine elk of tint lake into a state of &ince. The Orend Duke d Deans is having the town of Con. stance fortified; but the Swiss are also going to throw up redoubts along the Ma belonging to Switzerland, facing that town, and within cannon-shot of it. Constance may perhaps pay dear for any injury inflicted on Basle at Schaffhausen. The offer. of money made to Switzerland from Frew% Germany, Hamad, England, and America already amount US several hundred milli®. of francs. The gifts are also very cemaiderable. A Swim living at Paris offers a hundred thousand trams to defray hi part the einem. of the war. It Jules Kathey, a merelent at Havre, formerly • member of the Swiss Nat West Council, has sent two thousand ham% and placed his own ninon beak* at the orders al thereafter/ authorities. The French residanta in Switzerland see opening subecrips dons t• behalf of the Sallies of those who are doing military duty in the field. Switzerland at this reossent presents a spectacle somewhat analogous to that which France presented in 1792, when this drat coalition, having Prussia at Its head, invaded Chaser mos, took Verdun, and bombarded Lille. The mbaltens calkers of the first foreign regiment, in gar• risen at Algiers, have addressed, in the name of all the Swim sadism, a petition to the French government for leave to return to their cennhy and join in the defame of Ito territory, P.B. M. Farrar, a member of the Federal government. ►eturned this rooming from °muany. On the other hand M. Barman will leave Berne this evening on hie return Paris. The Suisse of Berne states that the prisoners at Neufchatel have engaged as their counsel MM.Chaix d'Fat-An of Pans ; Lardy, Michaud, and Wavre. of Neufchat ge, el ; Kock, of Lausanne ; and Mikville. of Yverdon. M. Martin, of Vevey, will act as public prosecutor. The Minister of the Interior at Berlin has pub. lished a rescript, intimating to the correspondents of foreign journals that they are to refrain from giving any account of the strategical movements of the Prussian army. A letter from iltotgardt, dated the 2nd inst., 81 3 1 t The permanent committee of the two chambers of Wurtemberg, in supporting the petition of a certain number of the deputies against the passage of Prior elan troops through the country, has demanded ex planations from the ministry on the present state of the negotiations with Prussia on the subject." We read in a letter from Milan lady, whose name I abstain from mentioning, derided to appear at court, and commenced the necesaary preparations of toilet, kits Some young people having heard of this, called upon her, and with an air of deep regret said they had come to bid he farewell. The lady, very much astonished, said she had as intention of quitting Milan. The young people replied that they had heard that ' Madame proposed going to court, and as they regarded this sea long &trance, they felt compelled to take leave of her.• " A letter from Paris states positively that the French govt has decided to abandon Tahiti. The colony, it Is said, costs a great deal, sod produces nothing• T 1 Trio date 9 4 614 ion 1 Thiel whie who As $ .re Capin IMO I 421 It 1 at WI Goa On Court dr ii dildr, *kw vim wp into tir co of Jo dais sow mans ag o ,. band 6,000 list. point want to to coda War( Anne 'ols the 2' at Ni ia Hu 06th bon Avg Pal. Pa AI drat Thee "ma old co, tool an a