The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-25 00:00:00

ri DAILY NUM LONDON m itORNINO =eis .l " d r= ern ma WI allemn la Os mini ••• mem •••• op•Pls, arils dr maimiase la as A. ullama. W 7-- mel•ff " 4 1 4/011111N II WM al MI AMI aralaltrAbba /i• maulaity mew mt.!, ar• --wnrinati . hi• gagMaaagar a ZiMialt WIE . • art r t dm: • Or b lalislift76 ,821 •I • pin, L Arabi tr tin =ll7= apea l. a PE MEW pal grill* eXPrtOlO. iss .11miftweis; Liaise Swag pew. was be es *a Oft% 10.111weilmiork. be Igo Moil .•a. 42, al getimilie. HIOR NAT= AT LONDON =IDOL Iva 0.. -Waft, 1116 18/..........Aann0w lb. Um Te.morm-Niminba, 11111. in..— - Ma LONDON, PRIDAZ DICIERIB U. Wz hare seldom known so marked a Ciarrus DAT as this of 1857—50 marked, not la lessexiso with the private feelings of those who ores esiebrate leg it, hot with its own theory and peedlar sersio. dom. There hare beset many Clielsimis Days within oar experience on which we &odd sir ink from wishing a merry otmersanee of it to our neighbours generally. Some which we may re• member during the late wars of NAPOLEON, and sheer since which occurred in IPOSSOiII of distress, and more then one, perhaps, within the last seven years, were es little merry to the general public as the present, which overtakes us when many thousand, of families are in mourning, when a great mercantile convulsion has just pair over us, and when a very large proportion of the manufacturing elms are out of work, and in trouble accordingly. It is not the amount of per. oral and social suffering which distinguishes this Christmas Day from all others that we hare known, but the remarkable aspect of the fortunes of the Christian religion, as it is understood among us. No doubt Christendom thought the world was coming to an end at the time of the Reformation, ss it had thought more than once before, and may yet think again ; and when we now observe the strange for tunes of Protestant Christianity in all the quarters of the world, we must remember, not only that there have been previous alarms, but that such crises are always instructive in con vincing as of our prejudices, and in enlarging our views. When Protestantism was completely and steadily established in our ia'and, we 'opposed that ell was settled, and that our faith would treed till it comprehended the whole world. Untaught by our difficulties with the Catholic question, we were admired by the disclosures cuerioned by the ap pearance of VON RANEE'' " History of the Pope,' and especially by MACAULAT'9 well-sustained state ments, in his review of Rsnite's work, of the stationary or declining fortunes of Protestantism throughout the world. That was in IMO, and we hare since had repeated occasion to see and admit that the position and provers of Pritestantinn, is relation to other Christian faiths, and olChristianity itself in regard to the world at large, are by no means what we and our fathers supposed when home was or world, and we knew little of what was going on between our own shores and the ends of the earth. The war which eared upon the dispute about the Holy Places was a broad hint to us to endeavour to en things as they are ; and now there is no diree tir L. watch there is not abundant feed foe thought for those who keep Christmas Day r something more than a holiday. It moot be every Englishman's duty to attend to the hrs. All the leading religions of the world are so far Implicated with the polity in which each exists, that good citrons" most keep watch upon the reli gion and the polity together; es we Englishmen do in guarding our Protestant liberties of thought and speech. We need not add that every religious man mast feel the deepest interest in the condition end prospects of the faith he protegees. To every Christian citizen among us, therefore, the state of Mirrors most, from its singularity, make this day one of the most remarkable in the whole series from the Reformation till now. In Europe there is either a serious lapse into • condition of ecclesiastical despotism and sei vitalist or a draggle is impending which will be much ram the Reformation conflict over again. The Austrian Concordat is rendering life intolerable to the Pro trews who live within its limits. foundering the diffealties about baptism, marriage, burial, and verities acts of eitisenship, it may be safely said that the present state of Wisp cannot last. Some pennon emigrate, seam tarn Catholic, some turn Protestant; bet the eteditione imposed are imprac ticable, sad disruption of some kind meat ensue. Then there are the struggles for end against ealesiaa dad eameaehment Is Piedmont and in Belgium, and tyranny is Italy asdag against Christianity altar. thee ; and the "eldest am of the Church" is Francs, and the "dear daughter of the Church" in Spain, showing with all their might, that devotedness to the cause of Christman= tends neither to just, good and brave government, nor to personal recti tude and parity. Far away to the north, again, webers soma Protestant Sweden a total misunderstanding, so it mese to as, of Christian liberty,-, bigotry and clerical predominance which make us wonder how Sweden ever came by its reputation for Prates teatime, or how the people there an accept the glory of their Protestant sovereigns, amidst so pro head a dierelish of the religiose liberties for which their heroes contended. (hi the shores visible from oar own cliffs we sue the struggle going on for cede. skulk& domination. On the one hand there are the French schools, and on the other the Irish, where the Roguish influence is endeavouring to supplant every other; and incidents are for ever occurring in England which prove that the old tyranny still hopes to reinstate itself through the sensibility of women and the imagination of childhood, and the weakarawe of effeminate and unripened men, Truly, the Christian condition of Europe in 1847 Is very unlike what was expected by Christendom three centuries ego. On that Christmas Dsy Queen ELIZABETH'3 reign was five weeks old. Whet wield she and her Protestant subjects have said to truth a state of the churches, three hundred years after, as we see to-day ? Turning to Asia, whet do we see there? Was the condition of the Christians in the dominions of the forte ever practically worse than it is now? Thom who are surprised at the question had better make sure that they know the facts of the Musul mano temper and conduct in Asia Minor, and ell across from the Tigris to Jerusalem. The old Ca tholic missions have dissolved into nothing, from end to end of Asia, or have been transmuted in Pagan countries into 'some Warm quid, like the new re lieu of the Chinese rebels. We need only just refer to India, where tens of millions of our fellow-subjects regard us as lost idolators, and tens of thousands have this year shown us how they abhor the religion which has es, fated before their eyes for two centuriee. The year of the Indian Mutiny is one which tells too plain a tale of Christianity in Asia to itied esplana des or comment. In Africa we have seen cause of alefarnate hopes and than, since the abolition of the English slave trade; and we have made many attempts, more er less wise, and with varying success, to Christianise the negro. Thai's/ has added largely to our know ledge, and has shown ground for good hope, though . . peerrlag that an intolerant Mohammedanism prevails awe exteaeively, to the very heart of Africa, than we were aware of. 1)r. HARTY* cheered us some what ; and Dr. LIVINGSTONE elhilLTßOd as and we felt justified in anticipating alt man ner of good by means of commerce introducing civilisation, and civilisation Christianity. Bat • dreadful blow fell almost es soon as our hopes took form. The blow was dealt by the same " eldest sea of the Church " who extinguished the more elaborate liberties of France before he revived the slave trade in Africa. Under a transparent disguise, he has struck a bargain with slave traders to supply hie eoloaies with able-bodied negroes, under the wane of immigrants ; and, before the first care was oat of sight of land, the savage tribal wars run mensenced, which had been converted into indus trial intercourse by the long and anxious efforts of Christian agents. The fact that the African slave trade hos been re-opened by one of the leading Powers of Europe (under whatever pretence) is a sufficient reply to all inquiries as to the prospects of Christianity in Africa in 18.57. Nowhere is the spectacle stranger than in America. The old Spanish countries go on much as they did, we suppose, with their great cathedrals, and their swarming priests : bat in the great Protestant Re public there are stranger novelties. In one section of the Federation, the religion itself is cut up to match the polities and morals of its disciples, instead of those disciples professing, like their forefathers, to reform their morals and conduct by the Gospel. As we showed the other day, instead of following their LORD in affording deliverance to the captives, they blot out the negro from the company of cap tives to whom their LO•D promised deliverance. Further west, there is the monstrous spectacle of the Mormons--a community claiming to be Christian while overlaying Christianity with their gross and sordid superstition. Another oddity is in prepara tion ; an intended State where the population is almost entirely Indian, and a peculiarly wild class of Indians, who, if Christianised at all, will pew bably prefer the Mexican type of the religion. Looking at these things, and hearing something of the clamour of hostile churches in the older States, it is not a little perplexing to decide what are the prospects of Christianity in America. If this eummary stood without comment every reader could doubtless find the appropriate consola tion, and apply the fitting moral for himself. The church of CEERIST was never moredivided, it is true; and the prospect of its prevalence was never more uncertain : bat the more evident such facts are, the clearer became the ditty, and the fairer the promise of the awe. There is one universal language waft men which all understand, and which is everywhere welcome—that is what we are accustomed to call Christian goodness. This is a power in oar hands which ad never fail as, and of which neither Popes, nor false prophets, nor recreant " sou of the " Church" can deprive as. Let our tree of life be known by sound good fruits; and there is no fear but that all the world will be glad to gather them, and grow their own tree from ours. The experience of year after year, century after century, confirms this old lemon, so long ago taught on the Mount. Without it, this Christian anniversary of 18,57 wadi be full of sore amassment and perplexity. With it. there is nothing to fur—except, indeed, our own unworthiness of es groat a task and so bright a hops as we lay claim to in virtue of We day. fwo caws appeared in our columns yeeteedgy which ought not to be passed by without a word of comment. In both the conduct of the Pollee wag more or less seriously involved. The tint case was that of HUGH BEADY, a police constable, convicted this day week of a most atrocious assault on a re spectable German resident in the cut of London. named Digualcs RATIRIEN. The circumstances of this smealt were almost incredibly disgraceful in an officer entrusted with the responsible and difficult duty of keeping the peace. RATeovir had taken his wife and a young female friend of her's to Highbary Barn one day last summer. They did not return till a late hour. Just before they reached their own door RATRGEN left his wife and her companion for a short time, and during his absence BRADT, the constable of the beat, came up, abused both the women as common prostitutes, and threw Mrs. RATRGEN'I shawl over her bead. The wife made an outcry, the husband came up; the policeman treated him as though be were a mere brothel bully, and followed up the party to the door of their own house, which was does at hand. Arrived there, RATIMEN, justly indignant at the outrages and unprovoked ill treatment of which his wife and her companion had been the victims, declared he would take the police man's number. While he was standing in the passage of his own bowie for this purpose, BRADT rushed upon him, and with his truncheon committed on the man a most brutal, cowardly, and murderous assault. This was not all. He had the hardihood to take his victim into custody, and to prefer against him a false charge of usaalt. The police magistrate =fortu nately pee credence to BRADT. The ease was sent to the Besaions, where Bantu= was formally pro secuted for the assault. His cowardly and perjured assailant again appeared to support the false charge sgaiut him. Fortunately, however, the case was tried by an able judge and an impartial jury, and the result was the instant acquittal of ItAreueN and the substitution of the policeman BRADT as defendant in his place. The facts having been clearly brought home to him, BRADT was at once convicted, and on Wednesday last was most properly sentenced by Mr. CIIIMIT to two yearn of hard labour in the House of Correction. The other case was less atrocious, bat almost equally calculated to give rime to very serious mis givings. Police-constable MocK, at two o'clock last Wednesday morning, brought a couple of women to the station on the charge of having annoyed gentlemen in Piccadilly. A short time afterwards the police sergeant, on going his rounds, found the man drunk on his beat, and had him detained at the station. In the morning he was allowed to appear at the police court to support, if be could. kis charge against the two women. He did this by deliberate perjury. He swore to the truth of his former story, and was contradicted in every word of it. Another policeman, whom be called as a witness, declared that the women in guts_ tion, whom he had observed throughout, had annoyed no one, and spoken to no one. This man deposed that no complaint had been made, and in fact that no foot passenger had gone along that side of Piccadilly during the time spoken to by Mmes. Monk then gave the address of a gentleman who had,as be swore, complained to him. No such person was to be found at the place specified. In fact, it was clear that the scoundrel had, when drunk, got the women locked up on a chain charge, which, when sober, he did his utmost to support by perjury. For this offence, Mr. BLOOM inflicted the penalty of only one month's ha prissament. This was manifestly insufficient. How ever laniably melbas a police isigistrus may be in ifonstittting himself the moot scavenger of ota. streets, he must not forget that literfr are liberties to protect se well u proprieties to educe. Taken se a whole, we bear willing testimony to the generally excellent conduct of the Metropolitan Police force ; but such cases as those of BRADT and NIONK imperatively demand the most signal and exemplary punishment. If men armed with exceptional power for the preservation of the peace are to abuse that power for the wanton perpetra tion of outrage or petty tyranny, and to justify that abuse by perjury, there is an end at once both to security and personal freedom. A worse offence against Society can hardly be committed than that of the official guardian of the peace who, to screen his own violence against those whom he is bound to pro tect, falsely locums them on oath before the tribu nals of offences they have never committed. If police magistrates let these kind of offences go com paratively unpunished, because the victims are low people or social pariah., they are not only doing grave injustice but committing a great mistake. Brutality screened by perjury is a dangerous weapon to let loose in London streets. The street walker is the victim to-day ; it may be the matron to-morrow. It wee so in Mrs. RATIMEN . B case; it hu been pia many others. The wholesome severity of Mr. CREASY fa the true way to meet this abomi nation ; when Mr. BZADON next has to deal with a cue of this kind, let him profit by the example set at the Middlesex Sessions. LORD P, APPOINTMENTS. AMOtbir sad mar BM seeereda, Ma IMO "Oa must kb the rotten cheese. Mr. William Arta. Tollemache has been ap pointed by Lewd Palmerston, with whom the pa tronage lay, to the vacant Treasurership of the Kent County Courts. Mr. Tellemache is a cadet of the noble home of Dysart. At the rate at which the noble viscount now appropriates every vacancy at his disposal to the aristocracy, their families, re tainers, and servants;—at one time giving the Stamp Distributorship of Manchester, worth 1,0007. • year, to an Hon. Mr. Howard ; then the govern ment of Nova Scotia to Lord Mulgrave ; and now a County Court Treasurership (7001. a year) to Mr. Wm. Augusta. Tollemache, there will warmly be a post left for his humbler and more subsertient sad sore easily satisfied followers. The conventies of the member for Grantham to Pahnerstocifist at the general election may, perhaps, account in some mea sure for this last appointment, which is as discre ditable to Lord Palmerston personally as it is un satisfactory to the Liberal party. The late Mr. Coppock's funeral, we may add, does not take place until t3aterday ; so that Lord Palmerston bas lost no time, and shwa small delicacy in the affair ; but the late Mr. Coppock was not connected with any noble house, and the feelings of his family are not, therefore, of any concern to great people. bt Court. WINDSOR, Dsc.24. The Queen rode out on horseback this morning, stisaded by the Hoc Wary Ballast end the Equerries in Wang, The Prince Consort went oat shooting. Ooveraor Virodehoass had ea Interview with Mr. Beadier, Watchers yesterday, at the Colonial-oltre. looms sad Vl;oloateas Palmerston and Vieconateas Jocelyn left Lanka yesterday for Headlands, Hasa Despatches for the Hamm of Canada were seat yester day trots the Colanal-efles. Her Royal Highness the Dueller of Cambridge as terminal a Went 4.4. .i arm, se Me *Aug% m IL•v, LA maw. His iieelleney Fenn Khan visited several pheisgrapha ralletios yesterday =arsine, sad later in the lir bed la %tanker with the Heti of Claredoo at the Feettlep-e•es. The Itectillemeytetersed to Clerldge's Hotel te iiserte, rid remised kw the evening. The Marquis of Breadaftene has left town to join the Ilowidswas et Untie Zoom Hawicktibe. The Beal and Countess of Munster have left town for Ways Cagle, Scotland. Coal Germanston and the Hon. Mr. end Mts. Fronton sad family have Wt Claridgie Hotel for Dover, on tleelr way to the Contioest. Lord Onuatley met with a serious accident while shooting ta the weeds at essattley Hall last week. During the pessakars of atb Avg, cos of the patty, shooting bock at • rabbit, lodged ssvmsl shot in hie lordship's leg.. Mahal assishot• was kaassdiately procured, tad the nabi. lard Is gabg as is favourably as ma bs ripsaw. Lord sad Lady: Southampton have left the Clarends• far Whittistuary Lodge, Northamptooshira. The Count de Bonneval and Count de Prime have arrived at the Brattaerkk Hotel, St. Jamie, boat the Bir William JoURN will pan a portion of the bonds". at Atookartiotra Park, in Someroetahlro. The Right Hon. W. G. Ilayter hu left town on as intorosting via to bin ocatolitonto.—Post. Mn.s Deiglas Baird has left Claridge's Hotel fee Pala Lady Clarks Fitzroy died on Wedneoday night et Left Sires Bellode residence fat (haven-pain. Ear ledrhip wee confined the week before Ist, sad up to a few days balk appeared to be progressing favourably. Her ladyship was daughter of the late Mr. Jams Ballots, of Whittiagham Cud., N. 8., end the Lady Eleanor Bal four, and married, in 1847, Lord Augusts Charlie Lerma Fitzroy, second eon of the Duke of Grafton, by whom the Warta lady haves a youthful family. MCTINT ON BOARD A BUPA'! ISHlP.—Yegfrir day, the ship Atka Kerr, of Belfast, Captain Winter, bound from Ardroasan to Norfolk, Virgil* United &Mu, put tato thin port, the crew being in • state of mutiny. The ship left Amber= on the 27th ult., and had prooreded to sea a considerable distance, when the mew refried to proceed far ther on the voyage. We have learned from her owner, 111 r. ham Barnett, that the !seamen had been pall, se nesiii, in monthly advance notes. and that the vessel had not proosoded far to sea when sign of mutiny were evidenced among the crew--indeed, some of them, it appro. Wend her with the determination of not proceeding on the voyage ln We con verted with some of the seamen lest eight. the pol • and the mom intelligent among them AMA that the Allan Kerr le abut 23 yews old. All the moor on hoard believed her hull to be emend, but when elm wa• able dap at era they fu nd her rißgialt and pomp. got into each • state as rendered her completely unseaworthy. AU the " fuse matle hands, - in ibis mete of things, paned aft, and told Captain Winter that they wield not proceed on the voyage, but that they would 4 ' work" the skip into the assist British part. Captain Winter asked them if they worsened? to which they replied that they would not proceed farther on the voyage. The course of the camel was immodbeoly altered. and to arriving in Belfast, yesterday, the mama wore von Into custody. The cue will be Imulapaid tl the po to.day.—Yertbers WAig. TILE NORTH dIt!NTRY SHIPOWNERS AND SEAMEN. —Probably never aims the repeal of the corn and navigation laws Us the •Wndan of the north-east porta bus In such a depressed ea at the mount time. Shipping fie se verally slack at this time of the year, bat this season, on m ount of the law rate of feeights, as hassenne amount of tow- n /Ire le la up, and a 'number of sevenamas Mime ussmp=Mpl!tul also is at stud, and nuelers of Sap carpenters are out work. The docks and shipbuiklitur yards present • strum contrut to anything that km been whams-a to at least ten years, and R is *del to ese so many able-bodied and intellimut work able sausterisg about the quay sad squares of ilbx , pets ler fillassa. The men, as might be expected from their dm. motor. ccedoct themselves with exemplary patience, and se • slam they will niftier grievous want before they make their cenditkin known. But everyone is hopeful that with the tars of the year trade will end is way into its old dowels =ad that the shipping interest oil speedily revive.— Growdete. CONVICTION OF A?I INCENDIARY. —The men Pollak town of Solanowo yam some months linos doeiroyed by flre. An bbabitant of the place, a blac ks mith. nemed irgelt, bee jut beet tried and condemned to death no the author of that eateetrophs. tits house had bee' nisi for debt, and wee about to be *old, when, out of revenge, be met ere to it, sad the. mused the destrucrion of the whole town, and the Ices of a comber of TIM EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1857. 4 INDIA. FURTHER PARTICULARS OP THE FIGHTING. THE OFFICERS BILLED AND WOUNDED. The following despatch from the government of Bombay wu received yesterday at the India House : BOMBAY, Dec. 4. Lucknow was taken on 17th of November. Sir Colin Campbell reached Alumbsgh on the 12th of November, and began fighting the next day. On the 13th two guns were taken from the rebels, and the fort of Jellabad was destroyed. On the 16th, after two hours' hard fighting, Sir Colin Campbell occupied Delhosah and Martiniere. Five hours afterwards, the enemy made a desperate at tempt to recover these positions, but were beaten back with heavy loss, Sir Colin Campbell crossed the canal on the 16th, and after an obstinate struggle took Set-wider Bagh. A heavy artillery fire was opened on the &much , and kept up for three hours, at the end of which the place was carried. Early on the 17th, a communication was opened with the barracks. A long cannonade wee oom menced, and the place was carried by assault at 3 p.m. The troops pushed on, and occupied the Motes /dahlia before dark. Sir James Outram and Sir H. Havelock then met Sir Colin Campbell. The following officers were killed and wounded at the anal ; the lois of men during the last two days is not stated. KILLED. Midshipman Hamer, Naval Brigade. Captain Hardy, A.A. Captain Dahill, 93rd Highlanders. Captain Lunseden, 30th N.I. Lieutenant Franckland, 2nd Panjaub Infantry. WOUND/D. Sias• Colin Campbell, slightly ; but his wound does not interfere with doing his duty. Major Alison, military secretary. Captain Alison, A.D.C. Captain Anatten ( ? ), A.D.C. Lied. Senlod (P), Naval Brigade. Midshipman Clington ( ? ), Naval Brigade. Capt. Travers, R.A. Major Penviyetilek, Lieut. Ford, B.A. Lieut. Mihaan, R.A. Assistant Surgeon Veale, R.A. Capt. Hood, Bengal Artillery. Capt. Hammond, Bengal Artillery. Capt. Halton, H.M. 63rd. Lint. Munro, H.M. 63rd. Major Barnehana, H.M. 99th. Lieut. Widne ( ? ), H.M. 99th. Lieut. Rowell, H.M. 99th. Lieut.-Colonel Ewart, 93rd Highlanders. Capt. Burroughs, 93rd Highlanders.• Lieut. Cooper, 93rd Highlanders. Lieut. Werth, 93rd Highlanders. Lieut. Moltdd (? ), 93rd Highlanders. Lieut. Wood, 93rd Highlanders. Ensign Maenamara, 93rd Highlanders. Lieut. Dobbs, Ist Madras Familia*. Lieut. Babes, 2nd Bengal Infantry. Ensign Paul, 4th Bengal Infantry. Lieut. Manueen, 4th Bengal Infantry. Lieut. Oldfield, 4th Bengal Infantry. Lieut. Ilackee ( ? ), Hodson's Hone. CAWNPORE. The Owalior rebels advanced to within fifteen miles of Cawnpore, bat have again retired to Celpee. General Windham is stated to have marched to attack them. DELHI. Twenty-four inferior members of the royal family were execnted by sentence of a military 0011=6- 'ion on the 20th of November. Zookeen Abdoolah, an Minutia rebel chief, was executed on the next day. The force under Colonel Gerard proceeded to intercept the Joudpore Legion, which, with many other rebels, had appeared in Shikawattie. The force met the enemy, on the 25th of November, near Nernool, and defeated them with great slaughter, and the loss of all their guns. Oar lose was fifteen killed, and forty-five wounded ; but Colonel Gard was among the killed. AGRA. The detachments under Colonel Riddell and Major Old are employed in clearing the Ullgonr (Alighur) districts. Major Old, on the 19th of November, fell in with and dispersed a body of Robileund insurgents. All is quiet in the Punjaub ; the Gogaria rising has been entirely put down. Nonsuch has been besieged by the blandesore insurgents for nearly a fortnight. On Nov. 21st an attempt was made to take the fort by escalade, but the enemy were repulsed with great loss, and the siege was raised on the 22d. The Mhow column, under Brigadier Stewart, was attacked near Mundesore by the insurgents on the 21st of November. The insurgents were repulsed. On the 23rd the column advanced to the north of Mundesore, on the Neemuch road, and found the rebels in a strong position, with five Kane. The position was immediately attacked, and the rebels defeated, with the loss of all their guns. While this battle was in progress the Mundesore garrison came out and attacked our rear, but they got well beaten also. The rebels, in the fights of the 21st and 23rd, lost fifteen hundred men, while our loss wim incon siderable. Lieutenant Gedmayne, of her Majesty's 24th, was killed, and Major Robinson, 24th Native Infantry, wounded. The column afterwards entered Mundesore on the 25th, the rebels having evacuated it on the night of the 24th. The fort and town of Bangor remain untouched, but large parties of rebels are in the surrounding districts. A part of the Madras column defeated • body of he insurgents near Scarab, on the Jubbulpore on the 10th of Noy., and took two guns. Captain Fowerham (Tottenham °) of the 4th Madras Cavalry, was killed, and Lieutenant Clarke, the Deputy Commissioner of Jubbnlpore, severely wounded. The Bheel disturbances in Candeish continue, but the Bheela are confined to the hills, and will be at leaked in their strongholds when the jungle is dewed. The Minister of the Kolapore State wu stabbed In his office on the 29rd of November by an Arab soldier. The wounds are slight. The Arab wu ac tuated by private motives only. Prom the Southern Mahratta country intelligence has just been received of a rising near Moodhul. A force was advanced from Belgaum to restore order. The state of things in that part of the country is not satisfactory. The retaining part of the Bombay Presidency is quiet. Reinforoements have arrived in the Warrior Queen and the Italian, but more are urgently required. AU is quiet in Madras and the Minim's country. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raom ova owo PARIS, Tllv➢lDAT ETSXIIIO. The news that the Bank of England bad re duced its discount was not known in Paris, or at least not publicly known (for probably there were parties who made a good thing by the knowledge), during Bourse hours, and the absence of the tele graphic announcement, which was fully expected, and anxiously looked for all day, weighed heavily upon transactions. But little basins', was done, and the Rents fell 6e. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at 87fr. 66c. and 67fr. 76c. Mobilier fell 7fr. 60c. Railways were a little firmer than yes terday. Southern rose 10fr., and Northern and Lyons, 2fr. 60c. each. The other lines were about 2fr. 60c. lower. Although the Moniteus merely mentions the ques tion of agricultural assurances as the subject of the discussion at the grand sitting of the Council of State presided over by the Emperor yesterday, I am assured that the subject of gambling at the Bourse, which I mentioned yesterday, wu also brought on the topic. It is worthy of remark that the government journal, the Pays, says that the Agricultural Assurance Bill was the " principal" subject of discussion. The rumour that the government entertained the intention of making a lean to the maritime ports is contradicted. It appears that when the American crisis was at its height, a private inquiry was made with a view of ascertaining whether some assistance of the kind might do good • but the report made was rather satisfactory than otherwise. It was found that there will no great glut of merchandise at any of the ports, and in the result it was not thought necessary to follow out the idea. M:Pelisiier, cousin of the Duke of Malakoff, has arrived in Perim with the map of the Tnroo•Ruasian frontier in Asia, ea settled by the boundary commis- A letter from the banks of the Black Sea, of Dc camber 9, gives some details of the present situation of the mouths of the Danube. The three engineers sent by the Ottoman government have arrived at Salina, and are preparing plans for works to be ex ecuted immediately to improve the passage ; they are alsoabout to trace thebonndariesof thenew city which is to be built. This city is intended to be a restoration of Salina, such as it existed in 1778, in the reign of Salim 111., the period of its greatest splendour. The works will commence in the spring. The Porte has in the meanwhile reorganised the country in a military, administrative, and judicial point of view, and the system adopted, is in conformity with the wishes of th e populati on. The same letter states that there was some hope of gett , ng the Pharomond afloat. The crew and passengers were all saved. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has appointed a commission to revise the rules and regu lations of horse-racing in France. The committee, which sat for the first time on Tuesday last, consists of M. Fould, Minister of State (president), Count de Horny, Viscount Dare, Baron de la Rochette, Baron le Coulteux, General Fleury, Coant d'Hedou vile, the Duke of Albnfers, and others. It is in fact a State Jockey Club. The following despatches have been received : Itheeeillee, Dec. 23. The Carmel hes arrived with animate from Constanti nople to the 16th. She brings 2,600,000 fr. “t epode. Admiral Manned Paths has come as a passenger on board the packet. M. de Talleyrand lately gave a diplomatic bell at Bucharest, the honour* of which were done by Lady Bitterer. Y. de Leeseye had wit yet made say application to the Sultan relative to the Isthmus of Slam M. de Thou venal has not sent any note whatever oat tee subject. Rewind Paths is more than ever in favour, He offered a Turkish frigate to Lord Stratford de Itedeliffe for hie pump) to Trieste, but it wee declined. The English watidents et Constanti nople presented en eddrces to his hardily expressing their regret at Ma departure. The snivel of vowels le delayed by storms in the Enxise and the Archipelago. There have been further bloody engage events between the Enselene and Cir o:simians. The Hydaapee is expected at Manville' on Sunday. She • . 1 1 bring, 1,600,000 fr. front Egypt. ilanefiles, Dec. 24. It eras neatened at Constantinople that M. de Thouvestel sad Reschid Paths were reconciled. It was even added that they bad dined together at Amli Paella's. 11. Ontrey, the dragomen of the French embeasy, bad, by order of M. de Thouvenel, presented M. de Lampe to the =Waters. Trieete, Dec. 24. A packet has arrived with Constantinople news to the 171 h. A commission has been appointed for the oonsolidatioa of the internal debt end the examination of mounter of finance. Id. de Bouteneiff haa remitted a note to the Porte, in which it is declared that the occupation of Persia by the English is contrary to tho integrity of Turkey, ITALY. THE PAPAL STATES. 17101/ 001 OWN Imo.) ROMR, Dec. By a reseritto, or sovereign order of the Pope, forwarded from Bologna during his summer resi dence in that city, the Marquis Campine, director of the Monte di Pieta, was to be tried by the cri minal tribunal for " abase of power " and mal-ad rainistration of the funds of the establishment en trusted to his direction, so soon as the government should have sufficient money at its disposal to re place the sums so largely borrowed by the Marquis from the coffers of the Monte di Pieta. This oppor tunity being afforded by the conclusion of the Roths child loan, and any immediate chance of the Marquis being able to repay his liabilities by the sale of his invaluable Etruscan museumihaving been frustrated by the hesitation of purchasers able to invest the necessary sum to take the whole collection, the Marquis was, as is already well-known, arrested, the cashiers of the Monte dis missed, the strong coffers sealed up, and the whole establishment handed over to the Minister of Finance. For the continuation of business 260,000 scudi (53,2001.) were sent to the Monte di Pieta by the government, and everything is now going on upon a new footing, until the liabilities of the Mar quis (estimated at about 600,000 wadi) and the means of repayment afforded by his extensive pro perty, especially in antiquarian and artistical trea sures, can be thoroughly ascertained. Meanwhile the great question at issue has been whether the offence laid to the Marquis Campana's charge, that of having availed himself of the sums at his command as director of the Monte di Pieta, is really amenable to a criminal tribunal, otherwise than by the express order or rescritto of the Pope, sa r gp of the marquis's property wee actually to p . at the Monte, and he was regularly audio. by the Minio-r of Finance, Galli, to borrow of the usual interest. The Pope, unwilling to force the construction of the law, left it to the miming' tribunal itself to decide whether it is competent 01 not to give sentence in the cue, and this decisic e was to have taken place yesterday, but the marquis, by the advice of his advocate, has withdrawn his opposition to a criminal trial, and declares himself ready to submit to the sovereign rescriUo. It was feared that the deficiencies which the go. vernment lulls just had to supply at the Monte di Pieta, would have interfered with its intention of withdrawing the cop per coinage, but this will not be the case , as the Rothwhild loan comprised a sum fee the.especial purpose of setting matters right at the Monte. Another beneficial result of the government being in funds is observable from the official an. nouncement that the remaining certificates, origi, nally created for the extinction of the paper money which so troubled the Papal government at ths period of its restoration, will be received and paid for in cash to the amount of 172,430 wadi by th 31st March, 1858, thus anticipating the time fixed, at their creation, for their final extinction. Up to the present period Rome enjoys exemptim from the commercial crisis which troubles other pate of the continent. The Roman bank continuo its operation at the moderate discount of 6 per cent. Consols are at 894, minas the dividend; and bank and joint-stock company shares bear equally gut prices. Exchange on London, 469. On Sunday morning his Holiness ordained Monsignor Lucien Bonaparte, Monsignors Rohm. lohe and Marinelli assisting at the ceremony, se well as the young prelates nearest relations. On the following morning the Prince said hie first mum in the church of Santa Maria, in Viii Lata, to a con gregation consisting of cardinals, prelates, mambas of the corps dipiconalicsie, and of the Synaperts family, besides many Roman nobles and formes epectators. Those partially acquainted with the Prince waited upon him after mass, in the Go. brielli Palace, to offer him their congratulatioss upon his debut in holy orders. A younger member of the Bonaparte family, Prince Napoleon, was following the hounds on Mon day week, in the direction of the Via Appia, where he had a fall whilst leaping a stone wall, soon after Signor Bassi met with his fatal accident. The death of this latter gentleman has had the expected result of putting a stop to fox-hunting round Rome, the Pope having yielded to the pathetic remonstrances of each Roman matrons u have husbands or suss who take interest in so hazardous an amusement. Prince Odescalchi, master of the hounds, has been obliged by the authoritative voice. of his Holiness to send round cinders announcing the suspension of all hunting operations, much to the disappointment of Englishmen who have had horses brought out for the season, and to the great disgust of Roman sportsmen who have been got up in undeniable scarlet and buckskins. I mentioned to you, in some preceding communi cations, the wholesale system of assammation pre• valent in Ancona, and the terror which had coast. quently fallen upon the inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood, no one venturing to go about after dusk. The authorities have aroused themselves from their lethargy at last, and effected extensive arrested the most notorious malefactors,2oof whom were cap. lured by night on the 28th ult. On the night of the 13th inst. 23 more arrests took place, and three more on the 15th, including a priest. The prisoners were immediately escorted out of town to some us known place, to undergo judicial manipulates for their atrocious misdeeds, amounting to between 70 and 80 murders since the abolition of martial law in May last. As the ILIIMLI6IIII, as well u their via. time, appertain principally to the lower classes, the impression was at first that these deeds were acts of private vengeance, but now the murderers are gene rally considered to be sectarians, leagued together for some purpose which will probably come to light in the course of the prisoners ' examination. The official journal of the 17th inst. publishes a list of prohibited works, damned and proscribed by the Sacred Congregation of the Index amongst these is a doctrinal work, in which a Spanish thee logien is bold enough to call in question the ponti fical decree establishing as an article of faith the immaculate conception of the " Gran Madre de Dic, Maria Santissime THE UNITED STATES. (mow ova owx NBW YORK, Dec.l2. We are passing through a political revolution, and although no signs of violence may be visible now, or immediately at hand, yet the crow is apparent, and the consequences are of in fi nite moment. In my cast, I spoke of Senator Douglas's attack es Mr. Buchanan, as soon as the President's memsp had been read in the Senate. The senator spoke foe more than two hours. He condemned in tote the principles of the message, and denounced it as MO. lutionary, and hostile to all the doctrines and trade• tiona of the democratic party—as far as Kansas is concerned. In other respects he had only words of commendation to utter. Mr. Douglas's remarks had been expected; bat the Senate evidently was not prepared for so bold, fearless, and forcible an same* direct on the policy of the new President. It excited alarm in the democratic ranks; and for some home the President's friends were petrified. But they soon rallied, and decided that as the tile-leader of the democracy was hopelessly lost to the party, ha should be denounced as a traitor, by telegraph, throughout the Union. Consequently this pro eels began, and now death to Douglas is the new Shibboleth of the party. The news of this turn of affairs created the greatest excitement throughout the country ; but in Wash. ington the effect was electric. To see such a apostasy, as it was called on one side, from the democratic faith; and so noble and heroic a (indica tion of radical republicanism, as it was called on the other, was enough to disturb the political capital, and did it most effectually. "In a single word, then," said the President, I..bnglas has gone owe to the enemy." Of course the illustrious senator did not go alone. He carried a portion of his demo- crates friends with him at the start, and he will carry more. But this so-called defection only shows how serious a mistake Mr. Buchanan has made ix exposing at this late day the slavery propaganda fanaticism which has determined to force a slavery code on the people of Manses. Everybody now asks, " what is to be the effect it all this." There are but two alternatives in reply* this question—First, either Mr. Buchanan has anni hilated the democratic party in the north by head ing the pro-slavery forces and endorsing the border ruffian policy in Kansas; or he will be able, by the display of great firmness and sagacity, to crash even Douglas himself and paralyse all opposition. In any event it is clear to the commonest comprehenattet that this slavery question in the United States is te pidly coming to a crisis. If the democratic party con' flame to make slavery propagandism their great bad ness they will cease to be a national party, and loos every free state in the next Presidential election. Mr. Buchanan may take a bold course, and attempt to crush all opposition. But he will find it a vain attempt. His first resource was to dismiss Secretary Stanton, whom Governor Walker took out wick him, and left in charge of the government of Kama when he returned. And of course we expect * hear every hour that Governor Walker has bad removed himself—and in the most unceremonka manner. But this will by no means prove that Mt. Buchanan has not made a fatal mistake. Whit" may be the motives of Senator Douglas and Go►, Walker in the course they have taken in Mania af fairs, it is certain that they have, in the judgnest of every honest and intelligent mind, adhered iteiffill to the great principle of the Kansas and Mehra& Bill. That principle declared that the people Dead on American soil could and should decide what the institutions they were to live under should be. 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