The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-09 00:00:00

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Tin 'TIMING. 01711 AIIIICAN COUS. Mom &them and Bnakeiated ; Km K Z. Ilts.llllam. — IN ILASSSLAS PAINCII OF ABYSSINIA. Mr, Compton and Miss L. Keeley. —And MB& WHIZZ Mr. Compton sad Was Hartle= P Tate ErielNO, THE TRIPLE RINCIEr& ALLIANCE. Mlle Comet/me, Aylmer. -And the paattembae, HIQUET WITH THE TUFT • or. Harlow:do and leather Shiptoo. Mara. Milano, It. Power, and Hallett; Yin A. Collinson. Tzis Znanto, the Pantomime, AMP, HASBAIt. Yta Una. Ilegais. Ivan., Lot* Newbam, and Wats Stephan Tom Blinn aid lus two performing 110101.—And Win HEW TILT Z4l3o.—Commence as MU -NA G. HIGH WATIN AT LONDON NZIDGE. SO nai:U•aZ.Wis:=li.7l.«..la. 20110aa0V—Maea11g. 14. 4.......tha55aa. U. tam. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9. Berwsan fire and thieves • Londoner has at present, it must be confessed, but disturbed and uneasy slumbers. As he walks home of an evening he trembles at the shadow of the gas lamps, and as he faces round to meet the foe • lurid glare in the sky tells him that somewhere or other in the huge metropolis there are human beings struggling in the wild terror and agony of a sudden confla gration. Breakfast next morning brings him the daily papers, in which he reads of half-a-dozen garotte robberies overnight, and of • like number of fires in which homes and workshops have perished or been desolated. The former evil Par liament is called on to deal with, and after next month, therefore, the timid have the prospect of once more traversing the streets in safety. But what have we to expect from legislative wisdom for the repression of those powers of nature which assert their supremacy in flames and smouldering ruins 1 A Parliamentary Committee last year sat upon the question, and came to the conclusion that the fire-engines should be the property of the police rather than of the insurance companies. Is this all that we can do T Can our boasted science, our elaborate civilization, suggest nothing better for us than that when a fire breaks out we should send a mile off fora pump, and that the police should keep its valves well oiled f Nay, it would seem that even when we have done this our orga nization breaks down in the act of setting the pump at work. Oar water companies are estab lished for profit, not for philanthropy, and a mo rose turncock last week kept the pumps from work for half an hour while a family of little children were being suffocated, because he chose to sup• pose that the fire to which he was summoned was " not in hia district." A day or two after we had an illustration of what we are to expect when the reform has taken place, and the engines are worked by official authority. A fire broke out in the theatre at Plymouth, it extended to the rest of a magnificent pile of buildings, and the Government engines stood idle a few hundred yards off, because there had been some previous misunderstanding, and they waited this time for the order from the proper quarter ! Meantime, unhappily, neither the flames will wait, nor will those agencies wait which make their outbreak daily more frequent. Every minute led in extin guishing • fire adds to its &Keenan and extent, and every day adds to our liability to suffer. Old London decays, its timbers become drier and more inflammable, while, reckless as he who puts new wine into old bottles, we introduce in every quarter those applications of science which are especially dangerous. Gas, lucifers, new stoves and furnaces, new lamps, new oils, new trades, bring in an ever-increasing source of peril from which a few yeas balk we were exempt. No care or caution suffices for our safety, for these dangerous articles are in everybody's hands ; and our negligent neighbour, or an overworked maid of-all-work round the corner, or the children play ing in the attics of the street behind, may raise a conflagration which shall burn us in our beds as surely as if we had with our own reading lamp set our own curtains in • blaze. Yet, with all deference to the wisdom of a Par liamentary Committee, we must take leave to sug gest—not now for the first time—that thete are means by which our couches might be rendered a little more secure from such • horrible awakening. Our social science has really put in our power far more simple and far more effectual methods of dealing with fire than we have yet chosen to use. In raising and storing water to such elevations as are required for the supply of the highest houses in the City, we are furnished with a con stant force, by which we can apply it in stantaneously to the extinction of burning materials, and which far transcends the capacity of the most powerful fire-engines. These in fact only accomplish, in the feeble degree re presented by a dozen men at the handles, or at most by a steam-engine of a few horse power, what has been accomplished • million times more effectually by the accumulated exertion of the great pumping engines of the water companies. These last have already raised water from the Thames to the amount of a hundred millions of gallons a day, and to a height exceeding that to which any fire-engine can throw it, and they have stored up this enormous quantity in such a way that • child, by turning a tap, could apply the whole wherever it is wanted. There are two ways in which such an applicatioN might be arranged. The one is the system of " constant service," or the keeping the mains constantly charged with full pressure. This system the companies are bound by statute to adopt in any district in which it may be demanded by a certain majority of the inhabitants. But it involves the necessity of • pretty close and frequent inspection by the officers of the companies, in order to MO that the water is not allowed to run to waste, and for this and some other reasons it has not been generally adopted. But the result might as easily be attained by lees objectionable means. If every house were compelled by law to have a cistern of large capacity immediately under the roof, there would be a supply abundantly sufficient for any ordinary fire, and even in extraordinary cases enough to last till the mains could be turned on. An iron pipe led from this cistern down the inside wall of the house, fitted on each floor with a " union" by means of which • short indiarubber hose could be attached in a moment, would enable THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1863. a stream to be directed on the flames within a few minutes of their discovery. Every police man should be instructed in the manner of doing this ; and if it is thought too much to require each house to keep a hose, it might at least be a regulation that every licensed victualler's, or public•house, should keep one, which the policeman of the beat might without delay obtain and carry to the place where it is required. It is obvious that a very mode rate degree of regular inspection would preserve this simple apparatus in ready working order, and as it would furnish a copious and immediate supply of water available for every part of the house except the roof itself, where fires scarcely ever originate, it is quite certain that• it would succeed in rendering them a thousandfold less destructive, and would speedily repay its cost by the reduction which it would enable the insurance companies to make in their rates. That a system so easy has in very few instances been already voluntarily adopted is probably due in great measure to tho absurdity of the rules by which we have authorised the water companies to tax us. These bodies, not content with a rate according to the rental, are entitled to charge a further sum for every cistern which a house contains. So, though the fire cistern might stand for twenty years without a drop being drawn from it, there would still be an annual fine of 10s. charged for filling it This pernicious rule ia, however, the creature of law, and might by law be abolished or modified. There is no more dif ficulty in measuring water than in measuring gas, and there is no greater reason in the one case than in the other why we should pay for more than we consume. Nor can any sound objection be taken to a municipal regulation which should enforce the adoption of such means of security against fire as we have indicated. We already invade the Englishman's castle so far as is necessary to compel him to build it subject to certain rules, and to fit it up with suitable drains. To require him to keep a receptacle for water in a position where it will cause him no inconvenience, and to allow an occasional inspection to see that it has not leaked, and that the pipe and " unions" are in proper order, is a very trivial attack upon his liberties. If indeed he were to claim only the right to burn himself down, we might not think it worth while to interfere. But the privilege of being the incendiary also of his family and servants, his neighbours, and perhaps his whole street, is more than he can reasonably demand of the British constitution. We commend, therefore, to the public the consideration of the means of security we have suggested. The question resolves itself into the inquiry whether they will continue a system which at the best leaves a conflagration a full half hour before it can be grappled with, and then involves, even if the fire is checked, an im mense destruction of property by the volumes of water required for its extinction ; or whether they will enforce the adoption of precautions which would, while interfering with no other remedy, permit the first discoverer of a fire to direct upon it, without the loss of five minutes of time, a mo derate but probably sufficient stream to prevent its extension beyond the first apartment in which it had broken out. fibe Court. --•-- OSBORNE, iAlf. 8. _ The Queen walked and drove out yesterday morning, and dro►e nab in the afternoon, accompanied by Prfneees Louis of Mom Viscount Pannonian and Sir George Grey arrived at Osborne yesterday, and bad audiences of her Majesty. Lord Palmerston has returned to Broadlands. Sir George Grey remains at Osborne. The Queen will hold a Privy Conned this day (Friday) at Osborne. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-Ales from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches ware sent to the Go►ernors of Canada, the Falkland Islands, and to the Lord High Commiesioner of the lonian Islands. GIBRALTAR, JAN. 4.—Exchange on London, 90 days, 50 5-18 to ; Paris. 628 ; Genoa, 529 ; Madrid, 8 dap' Might, I prem. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, JAL 9. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the December return : • Cash in hand 5l millions. Treasury balance ilfeiZARB. Billsdiscounted, not yetdue 84 tp Bank notes 43 4-5 „ Current accounts Advances FATAL COLLISION IN THE SOLENT. (THIS DAY.) (BY 11..ECTIIII TILICILLPIL (nor ova OWI 009,1111POIDEIT.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Ceylon, with the India mail, pa;aed Hurst at half-past five this morning. Soon after six she was nearing Calshot Castle, when she met a brig laden with iron lashed to a steam-tug, and a collision took place. The Ceylon struck the brig first, and then the tug. The brig sunk, and the funnel of the tug felL Two pilots were on board the brig ; one of them, finding the brig sinking, jumped on board the tug, sad was killed by the falling funnel ; the other pilot had his legs broken. The captain of the brig was in jured. A fireman of the tug jumped overboard, and was drowned. The collision happened about break of day. The weather was hazy. MR. A. TROLLOPS ON AMERICA. Mr. A. Trollop°, the well-known novelist, whose react visit to the American States (observes the Leeds Mercury) invests his utterances on the subject with some I interest, has lectured at Waltham Abbey, Herta, on the American war. Mr. Trollope said there was no doubt that the interests of England were with the South. The arrogant tons of the North had offended us, and the South had displayed chivalry, but he would not take its chivalry as a oover for its tufts. His sympathies were with the North ; they were with a people who were great until fratricidal ambition marred their greatness ; they were with a people who were free until civil war marred that freedom ; they were with a people who elm hated slavery as we hated it ; they were with a people who had built ships and created harbours and wealth ; they were with a people with whom want was unknown and among who., with daily labour, each man could live as • man and not as a serf ; sod they were against the South because the South had fought its game of politics unfairly. The democrats were of the South ; the republicans of the North ; and for many year. the democrats had been in the ascendant, but, when that ascendancy was lost by the elec tion of Mr. Lincoln, they refused to continue with the North. It was as if Waltham and Enfield were playing a game of cricket, and when Waltham had bees fagging out Enfield, the latter refined to play any longer ; in that case he should like to see the Walthamites take their op ponents by the neck and kick them. We might not love the American gag ; the stars and stripes might have followed too closely upon our own banner, and the Americans might have been loud bullies, and might have shown • filibustering spirit in all waters, se other nations said of that dear flag which we all loved. Bat although as Englishmen we could not love the American gag, be implored the English people not to hate Americans. Had they not become a great people? Had not education and literature grown among them? It might suit us as English to see them divided ; but did it not show a mean spirit in the South to choose rather to be rulers in a small country than not in • large one ? The Southerners were not great in oommeioe, and in separating from the North be thought they had separated from their own greatness. They belonged to the tropics, and it seemed to him that the energy of the North was essential to the prosperity of the nation. Englishmen might admire Jefferson Davis, sad might listen with eager ears to the news of • Southern victory; but if it were made known that if the South succeeded, slavery would continue, would they still do so? If the theory of slavery were hateful to Englishmen, they must think much before they declared that all their sympathies were with the South. The slaveholders' ideas of government were utopian, but the republicans were in favour of an united and permanent commonwealth. The democrats drew their inspiration from France, the re publiciuis from England, and there was nothing in history so remarkable as the closeness with which they had copied our fortes of government. In England we had condemned the North for not allowing 8,000,000 persons to secedes, but should we allow Ireland with her 8,000,000 to separate from &glued ? The sumer of the North was problematical, but it was not open to the Washingtop government to permit the South to secede ; if they had allowed it we who had condemned them for not allowing it should have taunted them with doing so. The Abbe Henri Pezreyve, honorary canon of the cathedral of Orleans, and Professor of Eoclesiastical History at the Sorbonne, baa just published in a volume of nearly 400 pages a collection of letters by the late Father Lacordaire. These letters were addressed in the intimate intercourse of friendship chiefly to young friends or pupils of the college of Sorreze, asking for his advice or seeking his approval of their plats and conduct. _ _ ._ During the present year the Moravian intend to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of the introduction of Chrudiaaity into their country. Great preparations are to be made for the occasion, and visitors are expected to be present in large numbers from all the neighbouring countriee—Bohemia, Gallicis, Croatia, Hungary, Posen, and Russian Poland. While numerous and important improvementa are proceeding in Paris, the suburbs are not forgotten. A new porcelain manufactory is being constructed at SZvres by commend of the Emperor, of which the first building is nearly finished. The facade of the new building fronts the perk of St. Cloud, and in this part the museum is to be arranged. The museum comprises three distinct collec tions. The first is competed of every description of foreign china and of the materials of which it is composed. The emend contains specimens of every description of French earthenware; and the third comprises patterns of the produce of the Savree manufacture dice its foundation. A letter from New York says :—" Though the sub ject has not yet been publicly mentioned, a great naval expedition of iron-clods has been silently prepared to attack Charleston, in South Carolina. Some of the vessels have already started to rendezvous at Port Royal. The expedition is to be under the command of Commodore or I Admiral Dupont, and will in all probability be on a scale of magnitude sufficient to deride the great problem of the efficiency of iron-clad ships against iron-clad ships, as well as against stone walls. The defences of Charleston have not been neglected, and are known to be on a scale cora -1 =meet. with the importance of the position. It may be taken as certain that every resource of military and argi -1 mierieg science has been employed to defend the approaches and the harbour of that city. Forte, chains, sunken vas ' eels, and torpedos have all been brought into requisition, and two, if not three, iron-clad rams of the most powerful construction will dispute the passage with Commodore Dupont whenever he shall be ready to make the attempt." The Oat Deutsche Post mentions a strange custom which prevails in Northern Bohemia. Every betrothed bride, however rich she may be, is obliged to go and beg, in the neighbouring villages, for the feathers necessary to make her bed She goes on those peregrinations, which some times last several days, in full dress and acoompenied by a poor woman. Every one gives her a friendly reeeplion, and she always orris back an ample provision of feathers. The FRENCH CONVICTS WHO ESCAPED TO DRIEEARA.—SIIGCSING thronr.—The Phare de la Loire publishes a letter from Cayenne, of Dec. 1, which states that some days previously a boat manned by six convicts under the are of an inspector and a keeper left the Isle La Mho to any two days' rations to some workmen at the Isle Le Pies, about a league distant. When sonic d,staoce from land, the convicts fell upon the officers. The in spector, seeing resistance wales., jumped iota the sea and swam to land, but the unfortunate keeper, who could sot swim, was murdered and thrown overboard. Boats were soon sent in pursuit, but without success. It was sub. sequestly ascertained that the convicts landed at Merced, and after wandering about for three days in a starving state, murdered a negro, wham they found fi shing io a boat, sod ate his body raw. It was reported thst the murderers bad afterwards gone to Demean, where they were arrested. SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT CLAY CROSA.—On Mon day as accident, which resulted in the death of Mr. John Parker, under-viewer of the Clay Cross Collieries, occurred at one of the Clay Cross Company's pita Mr. Parker was coming up the pit in • cage about half-past 9 a.m., when the engine-driver omitted to stop the engine, and in cones name the cage went op and partly round the pulley. The dsossed saw his danger, and sprang out of the cage, fall. lag with great force upon the side of a truck, and soon afterwards expired. The engine -driver accounts for not stopping the tinglee by saying that just as be was about to do so his foot slipped, and he fell. He got up again and seised the wheel, but not catching it properly, he was again knocked down by its revolutions. The injuries the diseased received were of the most shocking nature, but principally intern•L HORRIBLE INHUMANITY.-011 Monday Robert Taylor, master of a ship called the Jane, was apprehended at Cardiff on the charge of cruelty and assaulting one of, his crew named Allen Litcben, while on the voyage from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Cardiff with timber. It ap pears that Litchea got frost-bitten while taking his turn at the wheel, and the captain actually ordered the carpeater to shop his finger, off. The carpenter obeyed the order, and atter having cut off the poor fellow's fingers, the amn esia directed him to make • second cut, as some of the fin gers were longer than the others. Not contest with this horrible inhumanity, the master ordered Litchen to take his turn at the pumps like the other men, and his arms were tied to the pump handles in order to compel hiss to keep oa. The case excites great interest, sod it is impeded QM the investigation before the magistrates will lead to some Menage disclosures as to the mode in which semen are treated on board many of the ships in the American trade. L &D. W. 11. N. C. L H. R. IL —..---- --- —.— Nairn N.Z. o 3 0.13 r 9 ' 0.116 Leith ...83 42 Z. r 3 &la Ardraesan - ••••• Portnuh N.Z. Valenti& . . .72 41 111.1 b - 0. Queenstown -. . - 71 &N.& 1 r 7 0. Holyhead .... 73• 131.1 e 4 0. Liverpool ,,_ . N. r 3 101 Pembroke • • 311 b I Penzanoe • It 1 1 Jersey •7l i RAW. 07 • 0.11 Brant • W LILL e 0 0.74 L'Orient - 01 RAZ. e 4 0.413 Rochefort ....- ..j ILL 111 - 0.111 O& •72 1 1 4 ILO nm ern:atii • 14 0.111 Portman 11. LL 3. 1 S 0.141 New. • ve" N.N.W. N.& Yarment ... • .70 • 1 W. 9 1 - 3 nearborougl 01 1 N.R. i 9 r - 4 Shields .. Hellgobidu • 74 • 11.1 W. 6 I 0 - -••• 4 Copenhagen. - - - - - - Helder — — _ -._ ::: :1 .... : Bayonne - Lisbon /11011•312. __ _ fAITIDAY. . lIVIDAT. /MONDAY. N.L to N.W , strong 110=1.MM. N. to W., modonsie, to moderate, some snow or rata rain or mow. .as above. Z. toN.and N.W., W. CIIIMIAL. N.W. to N.& sad 13.1 L, moderate, some rain. Northerly, moderate, some rats or Mew. As seat above. N.& to N.W., straw, unsettled. triak. rainy. As mist above. EL to N.Z., fresh to S.W.Esarasn, strong, some rats or aim As sett above. dE isILI3D. As nest above. ELIA° N.N.E.,strose Z. Mast. N.E to N.W., fresh, to a sale, rats or squally. Mr. Thomas Barnes, M.P., addressed his con. diluents at Bolton last night. The honourable gentleman sapreased an opinion during his speech, that the distress would not be at an end until there was an abundant Ripply of cotton, and it would be some time before that could be got. Be therefore warned the operatives to prepare them. selves like men for what was inevitable, rather than buoy themselves up with false calculations. Mr. Barnes said that his views on the American question bad undergone a modi fication. Now be sympathises with the North, in come quince of the stand it has taken against slavery. A hearty vote of thanks concluded the proceedings. REPRIENNTATION or LISBURN. —The Belfast Northern Whp of yesterday announces that /Lr. Richard son, M.P. for lasbaro, is about to resign bin seat io parlia ment in consequeme of ill-health, and says it is probable that his resignation will be announced on the Bad deLLft o liz seldom John Barbour, Req., of Bilden, Thomas Dm., din of Sir Robert Buono, of Belvoir ' and Captain Wand are named as the candidates likely to come forward. Mr. Barbour is understood to be a liberal, and Mr. Bats son and Captain Ward are both conservatives. On Wednesday night Mr. Card well was present by invitation at the annual dinner of the Vetoed Friendly Institution, the object of which u to pro il& by mesas of co-operation for the relief of its members in distress, and for the support of their widows and orphans. Presentations to the museum of the Southamp ton Hartley Institution are flowing in from all quartets. Some of the most repent are specimens of Ronan pottery dug up in the ew Forest, of the various kinds of raw too now now used In England of the marvellous iron anumfac. cu of the country, of Eg yptian silver coins of the Ptolemy period, of the monster toads of Guadeloupe, sad the fantastically carved smoking pipes of the Indians of British Columbia. These pipes are manufactured out of soft dark slate found in Queen Charlotte's Island. A beautiful gold coin of ancient Gaul has been presented to the ninseenn. Two thousand five hundred books have just been presented to the library of the institution. According to Hartley'. eccentric will, his trade books are to be preserved ; they am chiefly ledgers. It would appear from them that hie family were wine merchants of the town from the time of Charles the Second, and that the best port wine was at one time sold is Southampton for 13aa, per dozen. OPENING OF SCHOOLS BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON. —The new national schools in counenlon with St. James's, Notting-kill, were formally opened on Wed nesday evening by the Bishop of London. The schools were for a lengthened period carried on in Remington Potteries, but, to meet the growing requirements of the district, it was arranged that they should be removed to St. John's-place, Prince's-rod. The new building is neat and substantial, end capable of accommodating 450 chil dren. The cost, including the site, has been about 2,1004 Of this sum 1,4801. has been raised by voluntary contd. billions ; the government has given 2931. ; and the National Society has engaged . to give 601. The deficiency remaining to be yet made up is about 1201. or 1301. A good deal of interest was evinced by the ppaerresnets of the children and by the inhabitants of the !manhood in the opening of the schools. A Jazzier DIDDLES.-Stamford market wee on Friday last visited by one of those scheming individuals who obtain a living by then. own audacity and the stupidity of others. Persons are often duped and swindled in mock extraordinary ways, but never before has so barefaced • trick been heard of in Stamford as the one practised on the gobe-mordies on last market day. The fellow , who pm. sewed the "gift of the gab " to perfection, with the greenish sangfroid commenced his harangue by telling the by. st.mders he bad visited the town for the exprms purpose of deceiving whoever he could, and be wished to see whether the Stanifordians in 1863 were greater dolts than their incision in the 14th century. He Am proceeded to sell one or two sovereigos for 195., and a few @hillier' for 10d. each. He afterwards pulled a hair from his head, and asked if anyone would give him tid. for it. A person in the crowd ventured to buy it and the man presented the par. chimer with a shilling. Hairier by these means and the dis tribution of some pence, and a great deal of talk, raised the expectation' and good humour of the crowd, he thought it time to begin business on his own scoiunt. Ile pur chased about 23 matches for lid., and offered them for sale at U. each. The lookers-on, so doubt thinking he was about to perform the same liberal act as in the cam of the hair, eagerly clamoured for the matches, and in • very few minutes 20 were disposed of. The man then asked if they were all satisfied with their bargain. One individual said he was not, and the fellow answered, "Then you'll get nothing." Turning to the others he asked if they were satisfied " Yes, was the immediate reply. " Theo so am I," was the rejoinder, and throwing a few coppers amongst the crowd to clear the way, he walked to the railway statics@ • gainer of Ifis. or 16e. by hie " deception." He said at the station he sanely expected the people of Stamford would prove such fools.—Staraford Merrurp. MUSD= IN ANGLESICA.—At the secluded village of Pencarnbiog, nine miles from Holyhead, a frightful murder has bees perpetrated. It appears that a man named Howland Owen, a member of the Auglesea cninty militia. was seen by a polioe-conatable missing a field with Ann nadir his arm. His strange gait and suspicious appearance sayeedthie officer to walk up to him to make certain inquiries. Owen at once placed himself in a threatening attitude, and, pointing the bore of his gun at the officer, remarked, that if the latter approached him within tee yards he would shoot him. The officer withdrew, but still kept his eye as Owen. The risme evening (Saturday) at 10 o'clock, Owen went into a tailor's house, and, without any apology, walked uptake and crept through a small hole to • confined attic, where he remained until midnight. The family felt a little anxious about their unexpected and uninvited guest, and calling in • friend of theirs and of their lodger, nam ed Hugh Jones, desired him to assist them in getting Owen out of their home. He declined to move. Hugh Jones l wititrary to the wishes of the family, went up to Oyer., and directly the report of a gun wee beard. Jones came down and immediately fell dead on the floor, having been shot through his heart by Owen. At the lamest, held on How day, it was proved that Owen sod Hugh Jones were pr titular friends, and the prisoner stated that be had no ill. feeling towards the unfortunate deceased, and Oast the trigger was bat accidentally pulled by him. The jury re turned • verdict of " Wilful murder," and Owen was rir moved to Beaumaria gaol to await the spring assizes. THE PRINCE OF WALES. The magistrates sitting in quarter session at Norwich yesterday reeolved themselves into a public meet. ire, for the papas of adopting a resolution 'dooming the Prince d Wales to Norfolk. The Hunt Basun (Yr. 8.. J. H. Harvey), after some prefatory remark; moved that the following aeon be pnweated : " TO HES XOTAL HIGHITZES THE PRINCE OT WALES. " Sir, —We, the magistrates of the county of Norfolk, rambled in the Shire•ball at Norwich, on theca:anon of our quarter se•ios, this Bth day of January, 1863, venture to ap. preach your Royal Highness with the expression of the sincere and heartfelt gratificatios which we have experienced at your Royal Highness having come to reside in our county, sod cal our having the prospect of such visite on the part of your Royal Highness being frequently repeated. This feel ing we know to be shared by all chimes of the inhabitants of this meaty, sod we venture further to aware your Royal Highness that the county of Norfolk yields to none in devo- tion and lo►alty to her Majesty, and in affectimate respect to your Royal Highness and to all the members of liar Majesty's royal family." Lord SONDES seconded the reeolution, which was agreed to unanimously, and ordered, on being signed by the High Sheriff, to be forwarded to Goners! Koollys, for presenta tion to the Prince. SANDRINGHAM, THURSDAY Arrzutoom The Prhios yesterday afterecas fi.ed his first gun, Wag ing down a fine woodcock. He continued woodcock shoot. lug the rot of the afternoon in the park and was very sucoessfuL To-day hie royal highness and Captain Grey ere pheasant shooting at Babingley, that portion of the estate abutting on Castle Rising. Hie Royal Highness hat a:premed his entire matisfaction with the estate since his nspectioe of yesterday morning. It is understood that some extensive alterations are to be made in the manioc, but the details are not yet decided on. His Excellency Baron Gras and suite are ex posited at the 'widows of the French makesey, Albertinto House, on Howley next, from Parke. The Marquis de Cadore has taken a residence in doe-terrace. The starohiontee comet to town on Mon- day. from Paris. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the Roe. Peregrine Cast arrived in town ysterd►y, from Bates Rectory, Linos!Dairy. Lady Constance Grosvenor has left town for Garrey Park, Cheshire, to join his lordship and family. Yesterday afternoon Dr. E. Frankland concluded his short mum of Christmas lectern to a juvenile mull saws, at the Royal lostitatioe, is Albeasarlastreet. On Monday last the Rev. Frederick Evans, 8.A., wee licensed to the perpetual curacy of Lb:stead Parva, i• the °aunty of Suffolk, on the presentation of the Rev. Edmund Holland, of Bechall Lodge. On the same day, the Rev. Frederick Augustus Howe Fits-Gerald, M.A., was instituted to the vicarage of Weybreed, la the same county, on the presentation of the Rev. Edward Philip Cooper, of the manor of Fiochley, Middlesex. And ea the same day, the Rev. George Hemmiogtos Harris, LA., wee instituted to the rectory of Swanton Abbott', io Norfolk, on the pre. seatetim of William Lubbock Jim Jai Blake, of Swan ton Abbott, Req. Since the conversion of the officers' clubhouse at Aldershott into a theatre, amateur theatricals at the camp have become extremely popular. The performances given by the aeons of the staff and division have the eroded en east 00011600 in attraetieg a large audience. Os Wednesday evening the drama entitled Angel or Devil was presented, and Orr Wife, or the Rout of Asthma. The principal characters were unstained by Capt. Ross (staff); Mr. Jennings, 60th Ritlas ; Capt. O'Donoghue, 76th Regi ment; Mr. Hartley, Sth FesSime ; Mies Clifford (Theatre Royal Prison'.), and Mies lemma (Strand). Both Meese were highly applauded. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCS AND AMZRICIA. RECOMMENDATION OF AN ARMISTICE. The Hon. Mr. Dayton, the United States mi nister, the Bulletin de Paris states, had a private audience of the Emperor Napoleon on Wednesday. His Majesty is said to have recommended an armis tice between the opposing parties in America. On the previous day Mr. Dayton had a conference on the same subject with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. THE GREEK THRONE. The Nord of to-day says : The throes of Greece does not appear to tempt many prima. We believe we can state that no other candi dature baa yet fixed the attention of the cabinets, and that the English government has not renounoed its project in favour of King Ferdinand of Portugal. It has just made another attempt on behalf of this prince through the intervention of the King of the Belgians, the chief of whose cabinet has left for Lisbon with the mis sion of obtaining the acceptance of King Ferdinand. We are much deceived u to the testes and interests of that prince if he does not reply with a fresh retuned. - A Paris letter in the indipendance says that the French government has replied to an inquiry from Athens, that it will not oppose the candidateship of the Duke d'Aumale. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. A letter from Corfu of the 23rd ult. states that the archbishop and the members of the municipal council, with the members of a society called the Renaissance, have attended the cathedral in a body, and offered up prayers of thanksgiving for the con sent of England to the union of the islands with Greece. A procession of several thousands of per sons was formed, and promenaded the principal streets with the Greek flag, uttering the cry of " Long live Greece !" Proceeding to the house of the Lord High Commissioner, • deputation entered and left the following address : _ _ _ Exoellency,—Corfu is touched to the heart by learn. fug that the go►ernment of her Britannic Majesty has informed the other European powers who signed the Treaty of Paris of the sth November, 1815, of its intention to abandon the protectorate of the lonian islands given by that treaty to the sovereigns of Great Britain. The re-union of the seven island, to the kingdom of Greece—this fulfilment of the ardent and unanimous desire of the populations—is an act of divine Providence, and diplomacy cannot but bow to it. Bat if it is to the Supreme Being that the people of the heptarchy should first address their grateful thanksgiving, they cannot fabstein from expressing their gratitude to the English nation, who, from a love of liberty. have interested themselves in our holy cause and pleaded it before her Majesty's government. In these circum stances the people of Corfu feel the imperative need of manifesting the math:faction they feel at the triumph of right and the realiaation of their unanimous desire to be united to Greece. They equally feel the MOW sity of expressing their gratitude to the people of Great Britain, who, in defending our rights, have by implication defended those of Greeks in generaL In presenting to your excellency the expression of these sentiments of thankfulness oa the part of the people, we beg you, my lord, to be good enough to make them known to the British government and nation. To this prayer we add a hope—that of seeing magnanimous Albion, which formerly concurred in the creation of the kingdom of Greece, and which now, by the annexation of the lonian Islands, strengthens the central home of the liberty of the Hellenic race--a hope, we say, of seeing England also co-operate in the future contest which the Hellman will have to sustain in the Boat in the interest of Christian civilisation. ITALY. "All the difficulties which have hitherto stood in the way of the completion of the Franco-Italian treaty of commerce," says the Nord," have been now removed. The last obstacle was relative to the quo tation of the whole of the Italian funds at the Paris Bourse. The government of Turin wished to be placed on the same footing as Belgium, all the se curities of which are quoted. M. Fould was not favourable to such a concession, and, with regard to the Cavour Canal, even prohibited the prospectus from being published in the journal& The French minister is, however, now disposed to give way, and the treaty will in all probability be shortly signed." (911INIVII TZLIOILMIL) PRUSSIA. THE KING'S REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF THE MUNICIPALITY. RERUN, JAN. 9, Mortmo. _ _ The Bing, in his reply to the new year's address of the municipality and the municipal council, I said :—" The present position of affairs in Prussia, which has been styled a conflict, has arisen from the confusion prevailing in the public mind. I intend to maintain and protect the constitution. lam compelled to carry out by every means within the limits of the con stitution that which I consider essential to the welfare of the country, without regarding the fact of my being at present misunderstood. It is the duty of all loyal citizens and especially of municipal councils to propagate sound views amongst the people." RIISSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JAL 9. appointed by government to The COMMiI inquire into the reform of taxation has proposed that the duty on the importation of raw sugar should be reduced. It is intended that the reduc tion shall commence with 1864, and proceed gra dually by a fourth of a rouble annually upon each pood (a Russian weight of about 401b5.) until 1870, at which period the duty on sugar imported by land and sea shall be equalised to 1} roubles. SPAIN. MADRID, JAL 8. In to-day's sitting of the Congress Senor Mon continued his speech on Mexican affairs. He again maintained that Senor Calderon Colludes was aware of the candidature of the Archduke Maximi lian, and the despatch of French reinforcements to Mexico. He said also that General Prim ought to have respected the existing treaty, ano not have re-embarked his troops. Senor Mon accused England of making use of Spain to improve her relations with Mexico, and regretted that the Spanish troops had not gone to Mexico with the French, as Spain would then have gained in consideration. Senor Calderon CoSantee said, in reply to Senor Mon, that the general tenor of the instructions which he sent to General Prim was that ho should act in the manner that would best maintain Spanish interests. The amendment proposed by Senor Mon was then put to the vote, and rejected by a majority of 78—the numpre being 72 for, and 150 against the amendment. THE BOMBAY AND MAIIRMUS MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 9. . . . _ The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 43 passenger and 242 packages of cargo. Her Majesty's ship London arrived at Gibraltar on the morning of the 4th inst., homeward bound. The Ceylon experienced during the latter part of her voyage heavy plop from N.N.W. and high sea. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Orson[ oua own PARIS. rIII3IIIIDAT EVINING. The Patrie--which is slower than the Constitu tionnel to veer round to the new policy inaugurated by M. Drouyn de Uiuys, and has some recollec tion of the "soiled glory and the trailing wing"— ventures to resent that passage in the Pope's speech to the French army in which his Holiness talks of that Italy which France has recognised se "he knows not what kingdom." It qualifies the political allusions of the speech as at least ill advised, and thinks that the French soldiers who heard them must have been distressed at the want of respect shown to the imperial government. • The Opinion Nationale, in a bolder toue, says : _ _ The speech has the accent of conviction. Pius IX. thinks he is defending the truth. He sees the expression of the will of God in a regime of oppression which excludes all liberties. All the principles which constitute the founda tion of modern society, are to him "very pernicious prin cipled'," and " inventions of Satan." He is therefore right in repudiating them. He is logicaL—esn we say the same. He duly plays his part—are we playing ours The Tempe correspondent writes from Rome : The motion is rising in a most incredible manner. The Bishop of Orleans appears to be conadems that the "day of justice has arrived." Letters from him, said to be written to the Princess Borgheee, are handed about, which repro sent that perfect harmony now prevails between this turbo. lent prelate and French diplomacy. Pray send me a ray of light from Paris to enlighten this night of Rome. It seems to be an established fact that France, under existing institutions, is incapable of doing any great things by voluntary subscriptions. People who go regularly to church fritter away a great deal of money in the course of the year by giving a few pence to the priests whenever they ask for them, which is very often ; and, independently of the priests, many, very many persons are largely charitable to neighbours whose distress comes under their immediate cognisance. But when, as has frequently happened lately, some few indivi duals seek to imitate the English system of alle viating great public calamities by voluntary asso ciation on a large scale, the result of the utmost efforts is invariably ridiculous failure. At this moment the Temps and the Debate are writing most eloquent articles on behalf of the distressed cotton operatives of the Lower Seine. They use every rhetorical art to stimulate givers. One day they draw harrowing, but I fear not overcharged, pic tures of old men, women, and children starved out of house and home, and begging for bread from house to house. On other occasions they speak of the vast resources of France, repeat the statistics triumphantly put forward by official prints as evidence of public prosperity, and ask in events of wonder and despair, why France cannot do for her own people what England is doing for Lancashire. It is all in vain. The Debate calculates, this very day, that the total amount of subscriptions adver tised by the Paris journals during the many weeks that the public appeal has been made comes only to the miserable sum of 234,000 fr. This poor offering, this mere dust in the balance, is com posed in very great part of donations from go vernment functionaries, who are under a bort of obligation to follow the example set by their chiefs. Ten millions, at least, are wanted, but it is quite plain that not even a single million will be got. Many ingenious combinations are sug gested. One manufacturer proposes a voluntary income-tax of 24 per cent. throughout France. Another states that his workmen have of fered to work five minutes a day extra throughout the winter, and states, what is very true, that if all the workmen in France would do the same an ample fund might be collected. The author of every scheme backs his own opinion with an offering of 50fr. or 100 fr., but the suggestions fall dead upon the public mind. The people have got into the habit of looking to the "government" for everything ; and without government aid all that can be done to meet the present crisis will be but as a drop in the bucket. The Petrie hears from Rome that the Pope has finally settled the programme of his famous re forma, and that an official intimation of their pur port will be immediately made to the court of the Tuileries. News from Mexico has been received dated Vera Cruz, Dec. 8. It quite confirms what I have had occasion to assure you over and over again, when the fact was disputed, that the French army a hung up for want of sufficient provisions and means of transport. General Forey, the Francs now says, will not commence his march upou Mexico until he bas fully two months' provisions for the entire army. "It was thought that this object would be achieved to wards the end of January." This dubita tive phrase manifestly points to the possibility of a still further postponement. You will remem ber that till very lately the official statement was "that the army was to go forward at the beginning of December. The minor movements reported by this mail are that a cotes of French troops, which was encamped at Tecamalucan, near Ingenio, has proceeded to San Andrea a town fifty kilo metres distant from Orizaba, on the left of the Cumbres range of mountains ; and that General Berthier, on his march to Perote, bad reached Las Vigas. The Bourse continues inanimate. Relates closed at 70.65, or fe. higher than yesterday. A letter from Munich says :—" The Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany has arrived here from Linden, on a visit to the royal family of Bavaria. It is stated in diplo matic circles that as soon as Prime Luis 1., the eon of Prince Lnitpold of Bavaria, shall have tanned his majority, King Otho will abdicate the throne of Green in his favour, and retire into private life." The Paris Jockey Club had eleven members to shot at its last sitting, 240 voters being present. Among the candidates admitted was Prinos JOllOl2llll Murat. The Constitutionne/ contains a letter, dated Alex udcie, which gives an ICOOUIIi of the visit of his Excel lency Sir Henry Bulwer, accompanied by H. de Leese" to the Saes Canal. Sir Henry seems to have hem re ceived and conducted over the tracings of the maid with almost Eastern magnificence. They commenced their trip at Port Said, and reached Timaah, which, should the cutting s ucceed, will be one day one of the most busy ecaimercial cities of the world. The satires employed on the works pram to be in good condition and well cared for. H. de Lemma is evidently very popular amongst them. Hewes on occasions greeted with enthusiasm whenever the cortege of numb and cavaliers paned. BAST KENT ELECTION. The poll opened yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, and was continued with spirit during the whole of the day, resulting in the return of the liberal modi&te, Sir Edward Daring, by a majority of 88, according to the liberal return, and 74 by the conservative return. Ooloure were generally worn by both parties, and the bast possible burnout we nded. This is the first time a liberal has been elected for East Hoot since the passing of the Reform BilL It is somewhat curious that at the election immediately previous to the I= of that bill, the whole county (not then divided retun ed two liberal representatives, in the persons of fir. law Hodges and Yr. Rider, their conser vative oppooent, Sir Edward Knatchbull (father of the wenn defeated candidate) " bolting." The following are the hourly returns of the voting, according to the state ments put forth by the liberal ta i r e N . Hoatc liboll. Nine deka Ten o'clock Eleven ode*. 933 Twelve &aka 1,410 One o'de* Two o'eleek 2,035 1,732 Three o'clock Four o'clock 2,547 • 2,418 FIVZ dcwor..—csoca OP TO POLL. =bull .. - ;7-75 i - ee Majority for Derfwg Bs The conservative statement of Um final alma of the poll gives Sir Edward Dering 2,770, sad Sir N o rt on Kn a tchball 2,896. The declaratica TM lake plies ca Saban Downs to-morrow. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FUMY. JA1179.11Y 9. a A.Z. I