The Express. — London, England, 1857-01-16 00:00:00

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Wi observe with as much myna as regret the Wiry whisk the Protestantism of the country is receiving from the obvious want of mass and judg ment of mono of oar asoa earnest Protestants in treating the question of a revision of the Bible. We are not sow speaking, nor about to speak, as either sided the question of each a revision. It is a very serious smatter, on whisk it is quite natural, sad indmd inevitable, that good rem &odd have oppo site opinions, eon white maialy agreeing in their religious views and belie" This is hardly the pines in which to army and damn the ergemente lion ar %Mast a proposal whisk involves so meth theology, and so many easideratiews of scholarship, as well as social bearings. Our own opinion, in deed, is that with the wide dilheences of opinion ulnas exist in the religions world, our di alogs sad wham mama at pent be ironed to agree apes adopting me revised roam al the fleriptsme. Bat when we boar views pat In* in oppositien to the proposal of a revi sion which an wholly ineameilable with Pro testant principles, we hel that same remark on suck exhibition is not out if plain. The bet is, sock roods se am aligned by the Opponents of a revi sals of the Blble are a mama= to Romanis= an the me band, and to anbelief on the other, of whisk Catholics and unbelievers are already soaking tei aspWt and dilig' est use. The admiodeas whisk lave bens made by many who have publiely declared their views an the question are, in bet, fatal to Protsetaatima t and, whatever is done about the English BB* Other the arguments of a good Bony esmest Christians must be discredited, or the religion which they mesa to defend meet give way. Which is the moo likely, we need not point oat I but it any be well to remind people who spook and write as any have spoken and written lately, that they would net have been recognised as tree Prato toots at that tiers-400 yens age—to which they refer with se meek revenues and admiration. no red4el peetelake of Protestantism is that the Bible is the record sad espenent of the Christian re elation : hoes whin Mows the conelmion that, as the Christian revelation was eared to all man. kind, its nosed an exponent should be within roan ret ell. Under this view the Bills was gut spread se widely se paean& by the continental Protestants I and under the ens view it was soon beanie' late the leaguers of the various countries in width Protestations was received. Our own ver sion is wensiselWly beentifal, and--eansidering bow very runt may eslightensd hihllsi study was I. the timed /UM L—mere awn then mold at an have hese oxpostel. Bat sating amid have shocked the fathers of the Behneation awe, or have 'and mesa painful &nay to Ling JANIS'S tenon% than to have hempen that a thee would tome when their own translation of the Scriptures would be perverted Leto as object' of idolatry, mad whim slams Christine would astually stake the sinew et Christianity on the preservation of every part of it. Ken may dilbr as to whether ern or pd would peopeederate I. substituting altered phrases for • small proportion of these bailie: to the me. and Mu damaging • few smosiations ef use gametic he the maks of edentate to all posterity ; but no real Protestant should ter a so- mint let pass wash a don/sties es that the reli gins it the Protestant world hasp on its adhoreass to hen of words in • leaguer in whin the Bills nos not originally written. "If we Amid allow those holy words to be tamprod with," it In base "we should be in the greatest danger of slaking oar Protestant institutions to the heads tics." Lit peedble that a Prontaat en have laid the F—that he ma have akin such a triumph to the conies et Christianity oa either head, ma his avowal that the religion et the gentry is bend up with the Ms delay treadmills by any kind or any number of Hebrew sad Oreek schelars f The reply would perhaps be that his distend M not si the power of the renege to take sere of init. timoigh ell modes of record in all laageagas, but al the pinky mind, which he takes to be Is. *amen to Munn itself in the ideas and holing* of reli shes, and can only use its familiar hams it words as a sort it Marla or talisman. If this were tree, it would be wares than what the devout Conatna lamented when num* that idolatry had gime way ossly to be mccesdedby " bibliolatry.• THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY Religions ma might well stand aghast as the idea of the preearionnees of what they bed apposed to be net way es Inning so the henna seed, lint at tint wan d& ehareater *it every admire in Irarivr lea" every development of whin% won* eon sow light epee it, sad extend its Rya : bed tka antegeniste of the filth west she ink, whet is the ruse of a religion wild eon be Wend or lest demob a eerreetion et bean la one if the trona. tines of its mar* P amid anything more dins sing to Christinder be it by the grommet maw I , More BMW is their principles are the may smog the siomp(gense more, soon lees, learned) who believe that the non perfect the mediae through whisk the trade Is oneviryed, the better it will he,. Bach a view is the moot reverent in regard to religion, and incomparably the most just and genial in regard to the Bible rack?* of the nation. Its oppromesh would see the matter thee at coos, If they wool look away frees holm . _ and conceive the use at lay other ;stns. Take Protestant London. No desk the Swedish version of the Scriptures men have some NMI is it, as then never was a transktioa without. What would the speaker, whom we have quoted above, think of the Christian character of the Swedish people it he was told that the Protestaat ohmmeter of their national mind and institutions would be fatally shakes by such alterations In the Swedish version of the Bade as the improved seholarehip al the age showe to be asormery for the removal of errors I' Any one of us would say at ones that a religion so held is imply a supentition, and that therefore the Swedish people men either be wiser than they are reported, or their religion, se held, would be n• gnat for to them. One would indeed wonder how any maa can have read the New Testament at an who dose sot an what Mawr himself thought of bid in the letter rather than in the spirit of a raffia& These unihithfal Protestants are, however, equally at Ault in their fasts sad in their reasoning. Either the soneniess needed ere serious or they are trifling. The deepest and demand scholars insist most es/meetly on the serionness of the corrections required. It is alleged, es the other hand, that they are very few and vary trilling. If the ernes an serious, who will in to plead for their conti nuance? If few end telling, who is the danger of correcting them? The offset of any one text of doubtful authenticity being preserved is, that half-learned or unlearned persona, with the conceit and rashness al aballownem end ignorance, suppose whatever they do not It in the New Testament to be an interpolation. The clergy are little aware how many " interpolaticem " are suppond behind their backs; and the few divines who do obtain intercourse with the popular mind are anxious to do away with all such talk by removing the charge of interpolation altogether. They my the same about the arbitrary headings of the chapters. If the igno rant take them for scripture, that is dreadful i and if they know those headings not to be scripture, eon fusion and perplexity are introduced. The strongest opponents of a new version do not object to the cor rection of errors, end the explanation of additions ; but they recommend that the clergy should qualify themselves to set these things right from the pulpit, from Sunday to Sunday. Now this is a proceeding that we would not venture upon. It is com mitting the interpretation of the Scripting to thousends of different minds, varying through the entire scale of sagacity end leaning. It is inform ing the people that our menu is a faulty oar, without putting a more faithful one into their pos. series. It is tacking them in church that what they reed at home is not to be relied on without the help el the priest,- a somewhat popish preeseding fee a Protestant clergy. How an any man help ening that it would be the sesiffer, the shorter, the more reverent way to give the people a Bible to which they may commit themselves without mis giving, as the fathers of the Reformation intended when they gave the Wiens of Protestant Europe the Scriptures, each in their own tongue ? Those who would commit to every clergyman the bulk of making his own version, seem indeed never to have under stood that the thing asked lbr is a reviles of the Secipttuee by a body et seholen and divines, serape lonely sad solemnly selected and authorised for the pertarmanee cif a great national work. They mew that the old version is to be thrown aside, and every body who likes invited to make a new one. Their own propmal amounts to sessititling like this. The an they protest avian, if there were any chance el its being adopted, would he far mare entices, reverent, elaborate and compreheasive. Ir Mr. BiLLENDIN Xl.l cannot be got to do something towards consolidating the laws now co the statate-book some measures aught at keel to be taloa kr the purpose of preventing tardier cow fears. If all the statutes were cousolidated to-marrow, some dranite system most be adopted for the ?stare, far it would not do to allow soother thaw of legiekativ• enactments to areamiate during some Ally years, and then to undertake soother omealidation. Some general principles most be laid down by canpeteot authority, aosordiag to which Bill presented to Parakeet we Is be drawn. These principies most be rigidly adhered to, and for that purpose ai themes pyramid by any member et either Home pram be folly eon shamed, and, if nereesary, re-dawn by the Govern ment drafbanan. In short, to put the matt er shortly, a form or dewing Aces el Parliament most be settled, the winos of hgielativ• expression met be aoxiemly studied, sad a wilcol of legislative expressioo must be formed. For this purpose there ought to be ems Marius! responsible fir the mode in whisk Acts of Parliament are Loused, and he ought to be entitled to select such indium se he may judge most competent. If so& a plat as this were adopted, and commenced fortiogh, it is obvious that the arm of statutes now on the mutate-book might be vastly reduced in num ber, and, in bet: the work of consolidation might be gradually and almost imperceptibly accomplished. holdall of dealing with any sallied of legielatioa partially, the drafbessn might deal with the whole Naiad, and might called together in one Act all the Alta rehab% to the seine motto. Bat, for this purpson es we have shandy said, woes general prin ciple' met be laid down by competent authority, to which the anthem& should be required to adhere. - Governorate hays mad; soh magnifisest premises et Law Reform es the pessent. The videos at air Iticsratu Bryn= are worthy of Imo legal Paredies. Let his domed to seibbmary and prac tise' mitten. If the prisciplea Epos which the exist* statutes me to be sessolidded have been Nettled, let these be stabil, end let the ?stare Acts of the Legislature be bowed in aoserainee with sueh priseiplos. If this. principles have not been settled, then let some be now laid down at coos, so that we say be erred tram this chastie oft" of legislation, which is augmented every se don. Thank we are doomed All to mar ander the inertia of Yr. BELLENDIN Boa, we may perhaps hope to do ems. thing towards extricating m bus our present dill /whim, by at owe laying down some principles appli cable to future legislation. Unless anon's' art is Node to introduce nosesthing like principle hale the method of drawing Act. et Periimeent—nalso the science et legislative expreenon is carefully studied, it is ingemible to eastemplete without anxiety the hie el English kw. It is obvious that se time amens, and the ekes et estiety siting's, we inset depend more and mare upset written kw. Va lets that written kw le framed upon saes defi nite petucipk, the inteepastem met abandon mientlite knowheige et their rakish. for mere gummork. Jurisprudence nowt be standmied for the study of words, sad the fudges must be con tent to interpret the intentions of the Legislature, not by studying the fendsmental peintiples el juris prudence, but by obscure sive and marks, me you would interpret the daises end intentions of a dumb Peol,lo- LONDON, Bawarros, AND Boom Comm Itm was.—Tbe Heard of Directors al this railway having bed tbe setemate p the fee desi tbaset bbf-year submitted le ne early tbe persist of a dlobbai asit at the eemblisbil desk of the sinspasy, =Mai the telml dillimed der As year lON swab to pse amit. tbe court. WINDIIOII, Us. 16. The Dueller of Cambridge sal Priam§ Mary waived yesterday shiessea, rad Abed with his Mealy IR the maim. Essi sad Countess et eirshwhesy, Viseseat and Viecroweises lierriacks, also arrived at the Celtic The bead d Um able - sem Gum& played dialog Um dinar. Her IdaMet?a privsee tad adierwerd• peraingell tbe °mamma amelgealrelbarimaWiadeof OtieNletiat Chaos, " gem" • • aelecelaa, "A maws Taw' Ti. Qua, meompezded by His Pziamm Royal 4Pria mei Mary et Cambridge, milked la Ham mantling. PrhlC; Albert, with the Coast of Thai/Am welt eat shod*. The Aachen at Cambridge Thad the Arhus et Lot et hawse. Tito ant of a atria of emstle plenum:a at dr Coeds took plow tads ovaiab no pip salooloal gas die oats• mks was Shatialat's etaisity, "TM Saul he Ihmisl," awl Ito puts Inn Clod aototalog to tie thilloelap pea fit. Mr Taw Tab. ....... Mr. Beimla W.S.. llbellow Salim Mr. nark Maws. lb astmai s llaililis Mr. Derbitsaa. =eft &Who Mr. Aland Mr. Oessee. Crabtree Rowley Mona Contra Lleakr Many. RA' Ja y !meat Mr. laresel. lady daesswelre !!.reef Lady Tamale f Mrs..k. Pala 1 Wasiger. lady thestrwsll M r.. Mr.. Carlow Mn. =alp. Maria Lady Towles Maid KW Lassa Oakes. Disseica A. .at Director Mr. Gump Mara. The Chi nam ne.es arms* sad the seamy psesSed by Mr. Theses Saw OW eight o'clock the Qum am Prince Albert entered the theatre In St. Georp'e•hell, entoanunied by the Praeo of Wake, the Primers Royal, and the elder potion of tie we* children, the Duchene of Cambridge sad the Princess Mary, the Gent se Pugs,., Y. Van de Weyer, the Widen Yield, the Rawl end Cosiness of SUR/shun, Viewed end Vieteuetese &minks, end the Wise awl genders= to ettedrce. The perdirmanai oommawal. Tiot hitowlag bad the labour of nosivhig Iwltstions : Me Primers Amelia of Habash's' Sebillingemst, lady Foamy Hamad, Lady Wstinput sad the Hrs. Mho Cann dish, the Wits Mornay, tho Hem A. sad Lady Hamlet Vans., the Right Hon. H. and Lady May Labsielaw the Hight Hon. W. 0. Hilt., Miss Hayter, Sir Wiliam sad Lady bliddliton, Lient.-oeneral Sir W. mod Lady Colder tan, Miss Codriagtos, and Mir Maria Codringste, Majoe- Omani aad Ma. Cranfard, Um Provost of Etas Mr. Rksado, Mr. and Mr.. A. 0. Robans, Miss lobar* Mos. Mato two Mims Male, Colossi Farb., mu sandhi , Lient.-Colowl Hogg, and Mindenant Vlsanat Ihwaiscourt (Id Life Ovoids) ; Ids''.-Colosel Cotes, commanding ahem, Lieut.-Cohost lad Burghers'', ad Captain ad Adjutant Fremantle (hal Battalion Cold- AMMO Cade) ; Lady Carotin end Miss Barringtos, Lady Mary Had, Hos Mir Amlwast, lady Emily Sayssoar, the Hos. Mts. they, Mr. Edward Hamiltos, Colossi the Ho. C. B. mid Mn. and Mies Phipps ; Mr., Mn. sad Mim Same, Captain Hos D. aid Lady Elisabeth de Roe, the Dew of Window sad Hon. Mn. Wellesley, Mr. (Boyar, mid Mr. Gibbs It will be men front the Court Circular that the Ilan sad Comers al Iliottostoory went purer et the per ibreraos ri The &Asa for tiooodiol r Window Coals, het eviniag—this berg the eassierest which revered his lenhidp der tildes the chair at the merry held et the Tresseaseed Heil for the sepreselna et the silo aria His ewe the Duke of Rewards bee been erertelabs dais the h er e week, the Wrenn distr. grand WWII* et hie irk amis. Hai, as Work elpi-alatanea.Liell sod lallrlNkr, 0. &Mr Feljrabe, INN awl lady SKr Nana; hHe. sad Mrs. Bridges= Ogee, Vinous, awl Vigestaira Other, Mr. sad Kee. Illmetela, Sir Themes sod Lady Whir sod the Misss Whir, Kr. sad Mrs. diterbege, Mesa& Km Y. Bering, Mr. Erns Riddell, Kr. Breathy, Kr. at. Leger, Mr. Mas ons, lb. Dostow, Capt. Mere, red Mr. Rawer. The Lease Mara, Lead Rebset Chan" the Pad ot Limo* Lady is.. arra. Lard gdwerd Chairs, Lord Albert Chris, elapses& the homily dude by whieh the aebie dike we eerreadel. ihr• Archibald sad lady Alias have received .t Pail Neese &Hag the last for days the tollesdes dletlegsidiel visitors to wet Be Rdward Behar LyttonThe Laid PTIMON; the led et ilea, iael rad lady Warta Maw arm; is. tur b. l babas /hoods.,/hoods.,Mr Jobs sad Lady Matilde z lady Meoisseld lockhert sal Mite Lockhart, Calmat cad Moo. Campbell, of aldpers; Mks Lyon, Mr least' Casaphell, Colonel Pole, the Rev. Dr. JUL/of, Colossi Ran, Predroar Bleskiara, Mr. Cayley, M.P., Mr. Mee" M.P., Mr. Gleelsed Bell, MeJor Aldridge, Mr. 'lterhar- Wry. Kr. Many, Div Donald, MeJor Findlay, Mr. Tamer, Mr. Sam% to., to. Sir Edward ass fe Gbagew Widaadey, sad, ecemprdei by the Lard Proved, the Sena& tad Major Mina, wished the Merae. Idardeedll‘ J. and W. Campbell's, Wyb. sad L 4byd'a venhoulat,.l and ems caber of the hap retehlielimate to lowa. Her Excelketcy the Cowden Persigsr tree per* earned ot doettitrt 7obirda7 model ei Alban - Pio Hoer The ammtete .ad the I. went pepeetkeg wen*. Dr. !sere is is sieveireet yea tt, rewelets. Lord sad Lady Moome, with di* sway, s prig the Thew et Pee, la the imik et Amos, w is , meat et lie tredebys bra& The Marquis and lleseldessee et Exeter we tettrimbleg • whet ids at Ilesitaby News, ow etas , ked. The Manlike/ft Dowsgar Tawnirod ham re onand hen her ha seam Islinsellen. Lord Burghley los takes a brim in Chealerstreet, Gresamerihee, hr the antic NORM Mr. and Indy Charlotte Wabon Tsybe have taken the imam Oreevemer-attere, itrrearly the madame of the Ye Idaromi AlLehory. Ths phoniest wataring-plaoe, Boarnamantk. in fall et Adam nonsegenho minianto no the Threaten Cor ley ad hosay, Lodz A. Cud, lady C. Hassillia.nah. Dodoes, Ly Wilhone, Has. Wm MemOntolah, Hem. Wee. Hebhomse med hally, eta Fadostek mad lady Pala gar, Lady Hamm ma lamily, Hs haw Char., Mohr end lbs. Vary Odemel sad Ma.. bre*" Kr. eat Mas.Terlos, Osmond oat Ma. haes, Hem. H. Illsooy, he. Baran Alderson, 'Monk prevented from attend ing LaieiiY hike, wee yeelaky, gen hoary, Mae& to be pregradmer hivemahly. The Earl at EOM.= has present ad the Curios af Inas with • pair et ending Mm., With fives • Week et smile rate takes ban Sebastopol. Oa Tuesday, Geaseal Windless, the bens at the Itelea, entree et Wreasaree, ea • vilt w lie tretherder. by, the Itse. J. G. Dettefeed. EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1857. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. 1 PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIAN DISPATCH. The t7seette de Wear publishes the following isigalii. solikesedl an the 6th inst. by Count Buol to Oinnt Trantionmaart representative of Austria st Berlin: IX two tleyeldwe, ot which mks me mead, sad width have Wm alma to se by Cowl Anke, see is a mitts wet emweelellee et the Mk el Dr.p ihe ether o of wW -Awed we with the &dim et ide Meleety the Xbe to wijoure the emir et neblibstka tithe Perim 'my to the 16th lea amt. Moms, brief do 111401n met mg he, I es seveelheiew eareistei thee tee limeeer, ewe wash, will leers with greet wetireMa the .cult wl hale isiseelbsi hle illedriewe *le dap the eeeeslisa et the maim neeseise whit sedit, Y gift et the .hovel 'hie et the pregewillies lode kr ilie eidert. la 124eniwill me Is ft s sew proof al the ondesi their ambles et the Kb& mod will oppedne Ihe Male of Ibis sevegiss to give le Idiedly parse ego deingestitgisist gol asematinlisg tiegirdlphmelle sotto VW owl IS Ilwiteinfand. sd swifts. ler Inn war ma magi uiA Y lie hunt ef Tema The be porta Coot, lemollmen, lbw the tenpin et the gemte alcatica eflhe IllbDaarethge, sapagarl Ivan Paws glipileg the petted gf landet easelellis del It we awn le eaguide b aniggsge, fig Is am ape the tellpiese env betted by lie Teem w Ihe eel Me gad heeds at Or other, gad inhaled Is the pekoe* 1 awl 2, of the 24th Men 111411, has leg serge ask Wen When He Cablegt at Bela abrive• dist the hog lase dos et the Pewees he bad the abet of Oreseheeng the sr mom WWI at Ihrlbiebrad not it an persist with Wpm any k the gslib Aisle. of a token declaration of the Roman perms we did sot with to oisteet the dirce of Ibis rasa& Dot ve aro of opinion den the Iliegra cabbed on let geld vial equally apprealen Ode hopeeten fen, net Anis hes sever mihneed to the losers of the Louisa peened the hand levitation to give allatt to their dedentles, mot Get the twee at seek s step would, to our ophdes, bv. mien It vein heed= at seem la taw eirenseloans the eanannioniss of the royal cent, sarnading the hand= to mg/8y arum in • Wen so gam It had, les been kr se • sew sad powerful moan Er kaktlag spa. the sundaeof o Cenkranco—lbst, that the Posses may not he mond is the tyros& at onapber from ea obligati= nanissonsly taken by them; tad, ,the other hark that hula he lot exposed to that of having too hastily adopted that the moo at annthation on the part of Europe were etlissoltd. It Is our dung dash, that the pet condition opal which his Kuhn, the Xing and say partalpation of Perna la the negotiation inn the tains lets of Neufchatel depond, may be granted without delay, either by • step tthsa be common by the Powers neamulded la ronfcronoe, or yet meilsr, as • result of the passim interventioa of on or ether of those rowers. But we ountinno to hope that k the nest at the non-attainatost of this *era st the =pingo& of the term tied by Pronia—unkss every hope la • hatnaalo rush of the pectic dote of the Poway nun be standonsd—thst his Dl;iiesty will sot totem !rather to atom a remeleiim the inipsetaeom of which, In the minim cif the kiosk Powers has become the greeter slam Persia ha t.. tired to the that /smarmy ma to reotim wm Might bat for am object—via, that at the Mention of the primmer.. Be so good, M. le Comte, es to emessaimete this &mu mat to N. do mad noire, le., Dom. A private telegraphic despatch from Berne, dated 11.30 a.m. yesterday, announcee that the National Cowan has adopted the propositions of the Federal Government, with the consideratious of the can 11161‘0111, by 91 votes against 4. One member ab stained from voting. The Council of the States has not yet voted. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (noN OCR OWN PARIS, Tmvasokv Verger's trial will, after all, take place on Satur day, although the contrary is stated in the morning papers. The Court of Caseation, presided by M. Lassiagne Barris, this morning injected his dilatory appeal against the form of his committal. This afternoon, at about one o'clock, a rung man in a blouse threw himself off the column in the Phum Vendome, and wu killed on the spot. He fell on his head inside the railings, and almost close to the foot of the column on the north side facing the Roe de la Paix. His brains were scattered about the pavement. Water and mops were speedily procured to cleanse the place, and groups of people were standing about all the afternoon looking at the scene of the catastrophe, which was identified by the wet on the pavement. It is stated that two suicides • year on an average are committed at this column. Ali l'acha, the brother of the Viceroy of Egypt, who has been paring some time in France, left Mar seilles on Monday for Alexandria. The Bourse has been tolerably steady, but the opening quotations were not quite maintained, and no great amount of business was done. The Ernie elated at 67fr. 75e., yesterday's price for cult, and 67fr. 95c., with a rise of fr. for account. Mobilier rose sfr. fur account. Grand Central was very much offered, and fell 7fr. 50e. The other lines were tole rably firm, and most of them closed two or three francs higher. osfuoind elQlpt Ben, et the Bon Jacinto, Capt. Smith, her ova eummodar, b 'Mud ea duty in Caritas, guard ing the Pactreiss. The lermat untortunately grounded be tire she emld be got within nage ; but the Portsmouth was towed up to dot motion Lod upon, and es she approached in tow d the sneer, the date opened Ire upon both vende, tine agoritlas a smut melirmation that there wee no mio• take oa the part it the Chinese in their netwdey's attack upon the party et Antericum in the pinnence, . . - "At lengtlf, dist several shot had struck the Wdlunette, the sloop was teat 044 and Captain Foote, with great coalmen, dropped he mod up (elm ender are) till within 460 yaria of the fart, upon whirl* the Portsmouth poured her broadside). The angagemed with the two fork within range, Imaged as hour end three quits's, by which time the forts were silanced, but the 'loop continued her fire half an hour longer, until WO shot sad dell had been thrown into the aorta. The resistanee, it will thus be nee, was at the most deternaind kind, but their firing °mid not have been equal to that upue the Der toads the other day by Pevark Polly sad the twenty-ttrea tier junks, which wore domed in thirty-five minutes, yet not until the .tamer bad been struck by shot in fifty plates, one man killed and three wounded ; whereas, after needy two hours' engegment, the Patimouth had may • down shot. in her, and one men mortally wounded. The firing on the part of the Andean' lead mid de*, and it not being amend prudent to land • form la the night, the naming of the fats was delayed until morning, wan the Com modore, coesidering his Roo, Inadequate, determined to re call his an from Costae, sea wait their snivel. The ships lay quiet the whole day, the Chinese making as great a dis play as possible, both Wide and outside the forts, six FMB being actually placed in position under the wells, flags waving, fix. The Commodore left the ravels at noon, sad proceeded on board the Ilen Jacinto at Wbampos, where he met Dr. Parker, the United States Commissioner, after a eonsultatien wide whom he wrote • letter to the Imperial Came deicer, .demanding eaddsction within twenty four houre—• moat attenorainary procosdhig, it same to um, at suck • moment. The men from Canton had imeaddle attired, but onion had of dame be.. laded to suspend operatkaa, to the Wanes disap renamed and disgust of every mon on hosed the squadron, tram the commeadne downwards. The letter necked Canton an Tuesday morning, and had then to be nons kid, so that it would not reach it. destination till yes terday morning. Yob, will of course give explanation enough to sandy Dr. Pe:Mr—and there the matter will net. We have only to my that, in our opinion, the attack having be.. nos ornamented, the forts should have been taken, MO if they were not destroyed ; that thus the Chinese might not have had it in their power to boost, se they sic certain to do, that the chips did make the attempt, end failed. " The pluck displayed by the Chinese on this °mei= may l some swam, be &accented for, if the mummer mentioned in the accompanying letter from Whammies be true, of white men being engaged alosig with the Chinese .in the fort. The forte themselves are said to be maned by junk-m® under the eiersoond ithap-'nrtsaf a lieutieant, and • gunner, • deserter flew the B•Lmaods, is reported to be with him. That MUM= me being engaged for seaske by Chinese, le certeln ; and if for the rebels, wby not for the imporiallats? There are hundreds of idle scoundrels in Hong Hoag at present ripe for anything. Our correspondent speaks of the pirate. on the river sometizoss diegniaing them selves in Evropoan clothes. A closer emunination would perhaps sheer them to be Europeans in reolity, end not merely fn appearance " • Nothing has been beard bees to the present time, ( 18 th, 6 rat.) of the doings of the Levant end Portanionth, which went up on Sunday, to take the Barrier Forts. It is said the delay was ceased by one of them taking the pound on ilundey emning, and that hirthar delay tikes place as amount el the Chinese being better prepared to remise them then wee expected. It IN reported by Cldnsee, that the beta re.oompied are now 6r bitter maned and screed then ewer they were, and some airs there ire white men amongst them. When the Bar tier Forts were drat taken, I was told by en Miser then present that one white man was seen running away 'bag with Mame. " The river is liffich iniMed with pirates now, and about thirty boats as prowling between this and the Bogue, some lying • yellow flag with Chimes &wenn on it. They are email pilot boats, and boats similar to such as used to run m Munow's post-boatv, with whltc rails; and the mew some times disguise themselves by wearing European hats or other clothing. The Chinese inhabitants say (apparently with truth), that they are all fitted out from Hong Kong. ." The roaster of a British merchant ship, returning from Blenheim Rawl on timidity evening, at about 8 o'clock, wee attacked by • long piratical boat containing about twenty men. He attempted to Are on them, but his musket surd; and before he had time to re-cap be found Mundt with • rather uncomfortable-looking throe-pronged pike atlas freest and another at hie leak, silently intimming that be had better remain quiet end allow the thieves to strip Wm—which they very speedily did of his watch and chain sad Mbar articles. This occurred within pistol-shot of the SAUL.' "We must now proceed to gt►e a brief •eeoont of Admiral Seymour's proceedings, so fez as we bare gathered them " After the capture of the Bogus fete, the Calcutta and Nankin remained behind for the purpose of blowing them up —no easy job; sad the fort at Ty-cock-tow having fired epos the Honest, Captain Stewart took po•sesdsa of it on the 1811, after driving out the Chinese, sad epihsd its 65 fleas, On Satprday, early in the mooting, the arametra were annoyed by a number of long pull-away war-janlm, which same out of the narrow creeks, fired, and retired. The boats chased Urn, bet returnad unsnoteashl. The Ba-mecat fort also Arad upon this abloom and wend shot reached as far down as opposite the Factories, but without doing any damage. A body of Artillery was sent to destroy the fort, and the party having base molested by some [of the, aumay's sharpshooters, the Sampson sent • few shells among the hoax, which dislodged them. One shell went right through the roof of Dr. Hobson's Hospital, sad moat have done much damage, as the building is known to have been filled with " braves " at the time, and a hideous yell issued from it immediately after the explosion. The hulas. was completed in the evening, when the trains sere fired, and four mines which had been sunk, exploded. During the night,cesot the Nankin's boats astern of the Bar , racouta was towed gager water, and two poor hewn drowns!. "Captain Cowper, al the ROyal Engineers, liken busily engaged in arrangements for the deice at the Factorise. Chains, it is add, an to be seat up in the Berracita, in tended to be stretched amuse the river, in a deice against Ore-relte. The lisrmeasita mil also take up km Akers and one hundred it at the kkh Regis; to replan* the Americana withdraws, sad relieve the Wincherses row, who an to return to Hong Kong. Data Folly, in eddith a tit the eybille's (18-pouaders, is rid with the Ilarros'e N ewt. gen, sad priming by the Sybil's'. ma odor Lite its Di and Nose, Mr. Had (rate), and Jackson, Brice, and De Heigh (midshipmen). Fish Fear is still in the hands of the Chinese, strongly igned, and heavily erred. The Calcutta end Nankin an mimed la the detraction of the Bogs Fri, the lima and Corns are at the Bonier in the Mir ; the Caremark' of the lower flu-sows forts the Niger end leant Mir of the Factories, to two junks aimed ahead, • boos being riot trout the junks to the.ehses, having a very sinew pimp for the bostr. Ada tart her • pi Asa the Dia Camels* and lave the WWI 6g lying. The Harrami lies this to night, or ady Marrow, with 16111 end saneemitier Tee kin while • empriest wee loading with ramplpier, at the Oilmen IFlnir4 two tads strolled down wlth kete Ailed with Alpe el weed, with the frofordirs,roporatin M emptying than Ye the one, Mid el irk Ory ear daily set they a the, and threw than hi the hest: and the sentries ware se ermished Mat they allowed than both toespe e umernir tine, no amp was do ; but theTh g vety est bittitws than is tie big to Chinese then foreigners me le glee than ilk hr. " P.l.—We have kat herd that sepias Ilea INA were marred yesteday adman, to demenim tan its John Homing sad Dr. Parker, hi their s lad not tram. pired. A party at " brio^ Bah that apiannos yarler day at the banks& neer Aria IllrAd, tenting pimp, weir der, red skins ilea-. The gird woe turned si out, ght eldie aird--6.6ene4 rebably, at the THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received our despatches by the Overland Mail, via Marseilles, telegraphic summaries of which were published in our columns on Monday last. The advice. by this arrival aro to the follow ing dates :—Bosabay, Dee. 17 ; Calcutta, Deo. 8; Mans, Dec. 13 ; Ceylon, Dee. 17 ; Ilong Kong, Nov. TO. CHINA. THE COLLISION WITH THE The Chino Nail of Hong-Kong, of November 20, contains intelligence from Canton four days later' than that brought by the last mail. We read : The risoitol incident daring t 1 week has Mai the pro. Nolisg of the taitad States squadron, conansent spas es !mderilhable snack mote upon a ;arty of naval oMoire sod 'civilise by the "braves" occupying the Barrier Forts, sad which Is likely to Involve the Americans slim, much against tboir will, in a quarrel with We Chinese. The rorticakm en es Mews : On flaturdey, about half-past bur In the afteroos, the Portreeth's six-oared pinnace, in whkh were Com. merle Foote, hie drat liarseak Mr. erver, and the Rev. Mr. Macy, wee prim up that Whoopee to Canton, and whoa arra of the lower fart, • sr was diarlarged at them, which mord the be. a Iris read. Mr. Sturgis took the log be.. the stele of the boat, stood up, end waved k, to show the Chasse try went Ame ricans, and them told the men to "pall away—it must have Men • rear;" bast array were the wads uttered, when a moor ballet weed dose to, followed by • shower of siumpril, which arid up the water all mend the. The mon pulled reed, and es moon se they an teed the ream! bet, the party received from ft the like treelseent, the pre la the War arena burr, Vparbte, letter arm& es that it was mireadar how the party raped. They dal so, however, pet Mar, sad reared to Irilamme„ when they repatad the creme- Mane e to Canmoder Aretroog, and be promptly deter mined to rear the forts, not thee wale to the Govener- Genteel what be bed der, and by awes ter dreg It, sal hstbrue at the isms Wm Me ortenenseat talk the eerie. tics he had Orr In mention of this nathe, a beet ens deratabed en daisy monis( to sena& end eseerain whether the depth of water re ardour to pear of the Poramonat rd Lam at sierreing rain • elan entree el the airs; the boa, ie dare se, wee Med num sod one amt kMal, his Wed bad Iran et by • rend der. On Ba ley both yards got wader weigh, the Parterveth beiertaken M err by the Wiatemette. The Commodore was on bawd the LAW, bet wanly as • opidekr, tbs ,mast Min moiler INDIA. 611 swing is the general summary of the Bombay Vixen of the 17th Dec. :—" The intimation that the stroner Aasaye, with the trainport DOA of Cochin in tow, had pared Muscat on the 20th at November, is the only tidings that has mashed us from the Persian Gulf, sire the departure of the fleet. The force of Brigadier Chamber. layse, which was within fire marches of Cabul, is said to have proceeded against some recusant tribes. There is a talk of troops mustering at Peshawar with a view to an advance on Candahar. There have been some disturbances in the Madras Presi dency; but, on the whole, tranquillity pre n ii, throughout the British dominions in India. "Trade continues brisk, and the smoeuTt of our ex ports this season promises to surpass anything we ever before exPerieneeds M our importa =lanai nearly station**, Cre amount of specie — required to redress the balance is disturbing the circklation of Europe, an evil which, inefficiently intsdezablo as it stands, is being aggravated by our largo remittances to Pena and Affghanistan. Our import market continues steady as before, and a fair amount of buainem has been done. The money market has become, if anything, a little tighter, and the banks have raised their rates of interest 1 per cent. all round. Government securities are still languid. Freights have declined, and show s downward tendency.' AUSTRALIA. The present mail brings intelligence from Mel. bourne to the 20th of Octobcr. Continued wet weather bad interfered with business, but improved wages and lowered prices of such necessary articles of food as flour and potatoes, were leading to increased con.umption, sod the tendency was to higher rates than for the last two months. Ballarat gold is quoted 770. 3d. During the few days that Prince Fredlnidt William was in Berlin, at the commencement of this mink no clerk of the works was more assiduous early mil k k visiting the works going on at the palace of the We= which is being converted into a suitable neklenta be i end the Princess Victoria. Of mare, wins sr reapagga, lions may be admitted to influence the date of their suplithy there is none so imperative as the completion of their fames dwelling, if not in Ito every detail, at least in lee welikes toes and extent. The impatience of the yeeilkill would, it Y said, be content with a prepsredm ef •Mg moderate portion of the building, rather than oiler bil mien to be postponed for mere considerations of beldam" mortar ; but, unfortunately, the requirements that the Mr eatery pats forward with regard to princes and prinemen do not admit of any return to the pastoral simplicity Me which Corydon and Phyllis may have given theintelvee to seriatim and the joys of mutual affection. Prime Friedrich Wilhelm, who arrived at Balk the let day of the old year, with his parents, to he pm mat at the "jubilee" of his father, the Prince of Pima% has led again for Breslau, where he will probably math, far the mut nine mouths, and devote himself to 11l sale* duties, pas to male his to take general's sunk beim lb marriage tikes place. The Nem apartments ham bus cep for him in the Royal Schloss there se wen .s l 4 the late Ring and Queen ; that which the late Qom LIMN occupied has been converted into a study for the yams prince, and is already graced by a marble bust of her MI Majesty, and by • fell-length oil painting, that has jai ' within the last few days arrived there from Berlin. It is not &Walt to gems that this latter unnamed picture is the folly Ituitth patina of the Princess Royal, by Winterhalter s which was in the last exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. The bureau of the 11th regiment al Infentry, of which the young prince has received the can mend, hie been established on the gromd-door of the pekoe, and him various adjutants have also received quarters under the Mae roof. The presence at Berlin of thrte Roman catholic prelates, Cardinal Prince Schwartteuberg, the Archbishop of Olmutz, Count Fursteaberg, and the Prince Bishop d Breslau, Dr. Fonter—eacitos a great deal of attacks. Their visit le one of owemony to the King, u scmweign of. portion of their dioceses, which they are just now Molting. A malevolent report was circulated a few weeks back la s number of journals of the south of Europe, about sa English lady of title haying refused the Dowager Em press of Beads permission to walk over the pounds of tbs VW. Gmetand, which she °empire at Nice. fto for from having been refused edrairmion to the Villa Cheesed, the Empress remained for some thee in the garden, and then walked through the woods. The report was probably emir domed (aye a Berlin correspondent of the Tunes) by her ladyship, who wee not wall, having given directions thee some of the beck =risen, belonging to the suite dwell leave the courtyard in consequence of the noise made by the caveats. WRECK OF THE BRITON STEAMER.—Telegraphio intelligence, niceired from Southampton this morning, ••- •ounces the amiss! at that port, from Jersey, of the crew of the Briton steamer, belonging to the Union Steamship Corns patsy. They being intelligence of the foundering of the Briton, of Cape Usha•t, 60 tidies anuth-went of the Cape, on Sunday leek at 6 a.m. The steamer left London, with • cargo al wheat on the 6th of January, bound to Seville.. The new were picked up on Sunday night, at 11 p.m., by the Ocean Queen, from Lisbon for Hull, with • cargo of fruit, te., a•d she having deo, by stress of weather, sprung • leak, wee compelled to put into Jersey on Wednesday, and there landed the crew. THE OrAxo FLEET.—The following British seimeiti loaded at Chinch. 'Wends during the month a Nomnbcr. 1836:—Riense, 422 tons; Geom., 830 ; Highkeed Mern 602; Tartar, 673; Ilotagur, 1,6;1 ; Grand Bonni ld 7 4 :l4 k Perc, 393; Giant George, 339; Jane H ere , 427 ; 422; 0101., 922 • Libertan, 602; Conoul, 751; Earl of Hare wood,*alle 278; in 14 vessels and 9,184 tons. The ship Captain Killiek, with her reel enhal,4 cargo of y slid tea, lota arrived in the East Indic Doan, and commenced unloading. Although thin vessel has matte a somewhat herithaned paa.sge from Shanghai, she has neverthelem managed to hest asvn.l 4 her competitor, whirl maled soma two or three weeks Deka* her. I'HE WLATIIik IN THE BALTIC.—ST. PETE'S. urea, JAN. 12.—Revel roadstead Y now covered with lae ea far down as Haagen. RJsre, Jan. 7.—The harbour was completely Itasca over Yet eight, end the oell far to ria be seen from the watch tower, is coveted with a arm sheet of Sae. The nevigation may thetehre be cataloged es clam& Danzig, Jan. 12.—There is spent denl of drift ice in the roads. Neuetadt, Jen. 11.-11 m harbour, ea Sr as the rod stead, hes been covered with a fit coat of ioe since the 9th Jemmy, and the navintion Mopped MUTING OF MIDDLES= MaOISTRATES.—A merry of the nonthasiles et KMOrr was held y= et errawell. sired dthe csawsittee for mod gresral _peepers INN resecht up, sod an sniff MO spa Ur earn, Iverwirr fin. the payment of lie. =sal amedle, Is the mount of 13,813 L us. pm. thrift enpadltnre of the county for the per WO was MAK Mt M., which was Nu' errs! is AK 111 the pond yea the entire eresonent of the The $ esperlitsre showed a reduction, es with Ai et ISM, of 6,4671. de. Id. The Sell . 101 am*, Ihe which the rates were asortgaged, mum with %Mee awattitire ethroliwg to 2,415, - Q17 . 40 expected to MI in within shed thee, es Ow le ths =s 7 w Ith book am 11111. As adithey Nes* she el MO in the prod, mist ale et sr thribthreole s da Lomat, hole mere Seim& Veivice were up sea the at eat thinerhali vl lerrt aimed then to heiainted Th er e rhea readthestlem ca • true . amber ipatients Nenweil we and at Cethey-butch 1,291. The uthal eeperle then the aim irim• of the early was !rented. h Oaliel►ML House of Careden thaw was lAN prfor rs,a esssadro number readeeed he dr bird ethreekene shops to be wri we ti desMwlw et Wyk. It winmed bask to the etwenithee to the WS that le Is bireileccd into pediment by the , as it coward dime wilds the athetheet lisliva ltetrrield ?Woolly Isla whet wee dame la lOU to parse bthreste 4 the estanly with reaped Is the plea et thethrh-ilehis. The moth WWI the etleathos et do met to the sue it two Jolene= wire were sent them a pellserasted ihr elltheeth EL Xtheitheil worisheme, who ewe bet he a slots et malty, the rely adds el wmarber_they Ittektg • piece st norm ham es. la the them OI Otheelles et Westreisster ." %e P : r e VIM IN sal la the Howe of Detathies 206, striag ' a = t ABLE INSTITUTION. —L. wows. tho gems wend of this brawl= wee held et the thlorsassord Tavern. Frase r Beaky, who was in the their, ear led with sorb Wier, le the loss which the einethied eethissd by the death of flak Ye respected =CN,. Jena limp. The twittery reed the ' ait that azq there was fallen se essent 4 The committee led dee heat respilled ruse atheler of pensioners to be thief hem 12, es It the yrethilft par, to 8 ; the awieler ea the 111,180.=et Ode S pethefill sod 42 fenuile sit= irlith etheeelt le 166/. 2.. 31, re = l at hod 7,87 3 r. 7.. t" . 7 502... sal anthr edlllth the easual festival it Ms litho ~by Mr. Mohr at the WOthea fill lealliklor ••1201.111 le SW, a,. for the ee&W‘ ethellelth sal 10SL 13. it the Inlidiog fond. The mot heathy heatillegisdar e •. , Ferthde Healey was dish= olectoi Inth Mr. Ithhotal sivosiected to mourn, sad 00114 Tibias; sad Jobs 1111111111" IMOD ath 4f TS T "us' Wise the / Hi w good i Thi laaP • trill TM I Xr paire ♦rm Thl amok lb. p Dam campi follow Mr, Nord doper In [hi 11..11 OW teiemi refer, ject a Mr Marti clear' astral _ tot Wen called Oran ledge found lie. lent I He h Grew I hal portal lave signk writu ii;ic of tie d tie a eel The 1 cow : Cu: Cr; the 8 year. !Stack Pt tie late t onus - 11; in Ea rein, trues or Ti din Iligir it; Piro