The Express. — London, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

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DAT NEWS FORWARDED to the COON illoomatt tti os a. de 0 ai54.1.. ., or.a=zot i=ire M.o. oleic Tau Byway. INN JLOONITZ M. lloWlko pow THU IMMO IA TWO WOOD; w. god rud tristrUma lair. Ka. O M.. mad W. jo hi.: 01111.—Aad ILL/L2 TOUZ Mi./tei6Was. PIIIINOIIIIII. D m% 1,.1.11.-Ad j a z:2l=2=l . lt=cl l r llatra •G. Alma UNCIVIL TAN rvmse, WILLIAN a =agr DAD AND MIMOSA ; we. .1= ". .= Ai Ye Wens of *el., Nam Toile, AWL AM lint, Dims Woeiat, C. Nasgrardrall. WIIIZZT. Areitraiirmt . ,..m .= Os 11111111aalls; Ihnimis Marls rad Apia On era mai MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE. To DAT —Masi... Aflunsm, IL MIL Tawassow—liersima, Mara," 11. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9. Hrweterry will not kill him, false kindness will not cure him, and the world will not receive him ; and yet he is a man and meat De somewhere. It is bed legislation that has made criminals what they are. Under its influence they have graduated ham trifling amens to the greatest mimes, and sash will aver be the ease unless you provide industrial prisons in which they may be inured to labour, and never discharged till they have acquired Bud habits of in entry, paving that they can and will maintain themselves." Bach are the =premises repeated to have fallen the other day, at the Malaita-haws Polka wart, from Mr. Ca.szcze Plassos, the City Solicitor. •It would be difficult to eondense into fewer words a greater quantity of vabsable truth. These few sentences carry with them the complete condemna tion of that scandalous system of repeated short frapricaments for trifling offenders, and the pre mature discharge of those galley of graver aims, which now constitutes the intolerable reproach et oar penal administration. The public are already in pammeion of oar own views on this matter. The ;yobs we advocate is one of lengthened terms of imprisoment for definitely fixed periods, with gradu ated stages of penal treatment, and distinct clamed astioa of prisoners according to the nature of their satecedeets, the quality of their offences, and the degrees of their corrigibility. Far the proved in corrigible, we would award perpetual seclu sion, on the same principle which *tills me in shutting ap kw lib the hopeless lunatic. Per those who by a long continuance in hard idiom and good undue had shown that their rebnaation was not hopelem—we would, after a protracted minimum of pnishassitorkich should on no plea whatever be abridged, provide, out of the results of their own extra esredage, the sum of either emigrating to a distant had, or securing em ployment in this country. With a view to rendering this latter object possible, we would estahliek, as a pert of the puddle system of penal orinsisimatkes, them adadrable institution which, under the name of Fahmage r Prilloolll2l' Aid Societies, have been lamed on the Costinent to work so moose ally as an hitennedisto stage between the prima sad the eater world. After a strictly bleed and very hagthausd the of the seams* originally ponsuasel by the judge had bass passed in donna though in milder or erarrer moths of durum, word bag to the siesssts of the «evict himself—aim but amt till than, we would try the experiment of pro bative/try freedom confiding to the Elosative the must onmemoy power, of rimcsamittiag to bondage as satisfactory evidence that liberty was being aband. The labours on whisk we would employ this essayist population—whose, be it ressembmod, we should have to keep at the snot .f the State whoever they might be seat, and at a higher met abroad then here—would be of muck a kind as to be at owe advissable to the somenadty,and sot comps tithe with the honest labourer. There are many mob mobs of Them are amens to to she, bogs to be drained, marshes to be radoirsed, wastes to he endured produedra, harbours of redeye to be construoted on our taspeetmeept roasts. As hug es there are works of this kind to be cemented—works masesus, aremanerative, bat secemary or bessided—worin which it is for the interest of the eammanity to have tarried oat, which so private espitalist amid afford to under take, and which Govennosat could only be justified in undertaking by the het of having an army of penal orb to maintain at my rate, and by the expo sliemy of getting oat of then as math brad Lbw as possible in return for their breed napped —as long as them thinp are so, we mead fir the lives of m am any groat ter moan ant our esoviets to a penal settlement abroad, where It is pored that: they most cost ue mare than they do at hems, and when the taxpayers of this eouatry can get Si retail in the results of their Idiom her the cost of their keep. It is not indeed unreasonable that the miserable perigees we hare of late had al the laxity of the Home-odiee should create an appmhemien that the system we hare sketched eat would met be worked matistaetorily in this emustry. There are many Lamm to be given to We. In the that plan the Aot af 15.3 must be altered; and in the next minion of Parlisawat there is little deabt that, in accordance with the of the COM- moos Committee, it will be altered—by substituting very lengthened terms of fired imprisonment, for shorter terms subject to conditional discharge. LB the next place, it is quite clear that the present exo cit. of the prerogative of merey by the Honsocillee cannot be suffered to proceed uncontrolled. The respite of CLUILSTINA Maths mid the tam. of Geotioz Houses have settled that questiOn in the minds of all thinking men. If on no other mend than this, it is abundantly manifest that the appointment of a Department of Public Justice can no longer be delayed. 01100110114 it is quite a mistake to Nippon that the weaklier of hasty pardon and improvident discharge is confined to the authorities at home. Such pardon sad suit dis charge. were common enough in Australia. The transported convict, besides, leaves his friends behind him here, and the presente exerted to free a man ban a publiomorke prison at home might be exerted just as efficiently to procure his discharge from a public-werks prison abroad. We may be told that under the old system comparatively few con victs were returned on oar hands ; but the reason of that is as plain se the son at noonday. There was a market for their labour and a field for their enter prise where they were. But that would not be the ease in the purely penal establishments which it is now proposed to food beyond the sees. What discharged convict would remain in a strictly penal eettlement—eneh a settlement as our contemporary the 21ines now advocates—a settle ment kept entirely free ham all admixture of the colonial element—who would ►bide in such a place - . . . . u this a moment after ho had aeqsZed the possi bility of escaping from it? When we regard the great power of oar contem porary for good or fee evil, it is a matter of congratu lation to ns, who are really in earnest about this; mat ter, to perceive that the Times is gradually abating much of the intemperance of its first opposition to the views we regard as sound. The oscillations of the pendulum, indeed, have been, as usual, some what violent ; it has swung now on this side and now on that, with a vehemence scarcely surprising, when we consider the weight of the thunderbolts with which it is loaded. But it is now hovering towards the line of sound judgment. In its columns of Tuesday last the public were allowed to antemplate the alternative of substituting penal labour here for penal labour abroad. The sole ob jection urged against the proposition was one which, on consideration, could have bad no real weight with a clear judgment, or a masculine intellect. The objection to which we allude is the immorality alleged to be inseparable from the employment of convicts in labour gangs in the publio works. The answer to this is short and decisive. Whatever diMeulty of the kind may exist here, would exist to • tenfold extent in a penal settlement abroad. All the evidence on this point is ono way. We are hero no longer in the regions of speculation, but of fact- The human imagination, in the deepest hell of its miscreative ingenuity, hoe never found a parallel for the atrocious realities of the strictly penal settlement of Norfolk Island. We would not repro duce these horrors. We shrink, as Mr. ELLIOT!, an experienced witness, told the Commons Committee he shrank, from the thought of planting in Carpentaria, or anywhere else on the face of GOD'S earth, a penal settlement of some fifteen Glenwood males, with no other population than the ofileids who are to super intend and the soldiers who are to guard them— with no press, no public opinion, no watchful Government supervision. It is partly on this account, and partly also because wo desire some beneficial return in labour for their necessary east in keep, the. we infinitely prefer the cheaper, the more humane, and, under proper regulations, the equally safe alternative of keeping our convicts at home, to seeding them to a penal settlement abroad. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1857. Cbt Court. WINDSOR, 4311. The following had the honour of dining with her /Welty yeseentsy : —The Earl and Cotatnee Grenville, the Ham. Ciento Gore Colonel the Han. C. B. Phipps, Melor-Geanral Sir Henry Derseed, Sir Jame Clerk, end Hr. Gibtr. The band of the Caidettseee Chords pleyed daring dinner. Her Mainey's private bond Anwar& attended in the The Chem sad Prime walked Ea the Hans-pork this loam nig iHaoins Royal and Primus A li o. rads ia the Malay The PAIN of Wake wt to Landon on Tomlin end Marled Mt. Panday's lettere et the Royal balibetios, Albeeeert•etreet, and also to-day. The Rat seat Coentaie Grenville, the Ron. Charles Gore, and Ibiler-Oneetel Biz Hwy Borawd, WI the Cantle in the fames& Earl Groot& aided is Leedom yesterday from Windage Castle Dopoilio, tram tY Goworstos of the Coiar.rs a. do West COMA sf Mersa. sod she frees tie Lord WA Coss sdreisrar of the heir hinds, woo mend yubtrlay et The Dike sad Desired Oevekad have beam estailir l / 4 / ilia Os CUM= billkysol pod* realibeee, 1 Orb, tle liwii sweiv—lded Lay Man Ambit, Lord art lady Abluaby, LW, litae. We Moths mil Mks easeiel, Mari awl W 'IMMO& st Pilerreond the /nem Pagereew, Kr. amed Mrs. Tredwirk Mr. Homy Nam* LW.- Wiwi mad Mra. POW Thema Min, Rad. Kr. aid Ma. Man, larisk Peale*, Medewelleowel arabags, Mr ids leyyfilry, LieweAbieral U, Mena ail Lady Maxwell Walla* Mr. Piny M.P., add Odin& Gnat. vials bawl playwl fix Ilawrewe everyslybils Mawr ball, a sass& ant aparawmi, IM bee Sim Liam ROM by gm, SW He iodides were gmerally Lnrit to a elese by lbealehei parkairioda Gwen were lid dally at arm 1101161, WWII& - Coast Coradanieve has arrived at the Clarendon hem ?alio. The Hon. Mr. sad Mrs. P. 8. Pierrepont bays wive! at arlisifs Rotel, *cm Evenly Hail, ass/b7• Colonel and Lady Laura Meyriek and Mir Mey- Net hare wind at %sir hoses is Clusos-strest, rfass Ask lest Is Earsksilletrs. C. H. !Newels. Eaq., M.P., and Mn. Frew'', re. lewd to cal ()Takla a tow days sixes, trout their realism' to Sum:. Lord Queensberry's eldest son, John Moho Doug las, trill not amine tho title of Viscount at Dniothatrie, but that of Baron Douxlas et H..kb sad Tibbs's. . - - - - At St Istales's ROM= Cathais chapel, yesterday, W. ells, Bert, of Rhaetian Loioosessidre, ass =mild to the semi dsegkber of Cosasissory-Orassol Raaashph T. lautb, Z. 0.14 ita.,ibio sseassay lobe paimsal by Cardiel Whirs. _ - The bet et • caned leetexee by !be Arr. E. O. gonad, d Dagen, 17abril shim, co Ainerfas was deiteenell bet *he fa at. WAstia's Bet Tie webbee wee " Tbe Poeta art Polity et America?' , - Mr. Hugh Miller's last wart, " T'he Trethaony of the leeks," with& be belied on the day of hie death, mil pablebtd Wore the end el hairy. There was a maiden aveletee for the county of Rath= at Oakbara, yeetteley. The assibtretes fa ahead ewe way the How H. C. Lowther, hLP., Oet. Piarb, Esq., Capt. Doris, sad the Item 1. H. Medree an "Ohs West. The Bishop of Ripon delireted a lecture last mein at the Yoe= ihke. Christi= Ansocietias, Qum. eine= Illoceoebtay, on " Refigicsedscialca." • His laniiip wee ascoespesitd by the Hoc. Mr. Xlvaaltd,ll,.P. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. • lANI OF FRANCE. (sr ntrieraTe ids mrzaxamomm rasettsw.) Cram ova Owx comuseetrusorr.) • PARIS, Fns I[asanro. The Mossiterr of this day publishes the monthly returns of the Bank of Frame to Thursday, Jan. 8. We give the most important items, with the cor responding figures et lard month, as regard: Cain and Wham, Paris 72,001,820 .... 86,163,626 Ditto ditto branch backs Bab dlaconstod, Purls 280,621,826 .... 237,070,711 Ditto branch banks Notes in etretdation, Paris Ditto branch bank. Trossary disponits 74479,128 .... 92,753,313 Planta &pasha, Part 188,704,889 .... 116,903,416 Ditto branch banks Advanced on public asenriliss 24,423,236 26,600,436 Ditto by branch banks . . AdvoaiodooroDwaysoooritios 18,4.98,800.... 17,636,600 Ditto by bisach books 6,816,270 .... 7,922,800 The coin and bullion have declined by 274,0001. ; but this advert.° feature is readily explained by the payment of the dividend on the Three per Cent. Rentes, which has reduced the Treasury balance by 6.50,0001., and by the heavy addition of 2,180,0001. to the discounts. The circula tion has thus increased by 1,174,0001. The private deposits show an increase of 826,0001., and the ad vances on stocks and shares a further reduction of nearly 200,0001. PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND. - THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH PROPOSALS BEILIE, Tariaray. " The Federal Council of Switzerland, eonaider:ng the new propositions which have been submitted to it by the Emperor Napoleon, and supported by the good offices of England, to bo such u are acceptable to the Swim Confederation, has decided on con voking the Federal Assonibly of Switzerland for the 14th of January, to receive thus propositions. A letter from Berne of the 3rd, in the Issdipn dance of Brussels, says: The following is the most trustworthy version of the negotiations for the pacific solution of tho question. England, we are assured, completely approves of the last proposition made by the Emperor Napoleon, which is to this effect The Federal Council is requested to release the prisoners solely out of regard for the friendly sentiments of the Emperor. The Emperor, in re turn, engages to endeavour to obtain from the King of Ptomain the complete renunciation of Neufchatel. Should the King of Prussia refuse to negotiate on this hese the Emperor will oppose any aggression on the part of Prussia against Switzerland, and will defend the independence of Neufchatel.'" A number of manufacturers of Cannstadt, follow ing the example of the merchants of Stuttgard, have sent an address to the King of Wurtemberg against the passage of Pruman troops. The municipal councils of Ravensberg and Tuttlingen have acted in a sinular manner, and the feeling continues to spread rapidly. PROCLAMATION OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF SWITZERLAND TO THE SWISS PEOPLE. Dear and faithful Confedemtes,—On the morning of September 3, last year, 3witastiast wu sasprieed is the =AS of penes by the awn, spay strange mg oneapected, that a royalist comeedreay heel blokes oat is the castes d Neetahatei. However lassittie this sews sight eppear, It severtheirs ws only tee Sus A WA ci partisan; atthe old orate/ Wee, IBA, dm* the sled, tekea remain' of the city, sad !beelike fa width the govermeet of Neekletal holds It' milling,. The imektets of the Biste-Ceemell bet themehee hem seteetatt, end the epeetablishiest el the *ld aide at thiap, Net aside for the lag nine years, w snnooneed by a proel;reation. - As night bare her foroaron, this hisnrreetion, which had not the slightest thanes of nears, wee stilled in km birth. When the unlit 1111401ity c the lababitente of the canton et Neufchatel had recatend ham their surpriin the either of all porting In the castes colleohod under the republican brow ; end eta bare the Confoiretion could inter/we, the phantom of a rainolicui et the priaripolity of Neufchatel and Who& had dleppeired, and the ceactitntional state of Mop Iwo i•-•l4llaid. Tie Mod itambly at the Cesibderetioa, duly ewe dam the Wel alpilteoce ot this aleelielation, ewd waft OW the arm et prier 'violas, rewind, by an membeems vale, ea Or 111111) 4 Septessimr, that the reliab le= 4 Or inks d Saleistal bad domed well, sot 4•17 4 Oa ow maim. bog d ail fivitaerlariL The eller/ eluted in the 4th d Ileptember war the royeliele wee ehmeledeed ley clemency end asollosties. The prior polka 4 Se plenum owe set et liberty very eiirtbedtrr arimmoisset of the *dry. est the _ _ . leaden et de humedlw• who we sow he • etwle - rimedler are, we Yield Ilk maim bmstrAW. berwwww. sews •Ilmtbared, steed ie de mei% mei mos ter midi de Ala men Ira thee el taigitgag pima. . Torah met As • seempliew dee ItiosetPrearkee elipie wow tifield. vas imeaded the Imola . a memillemillbwelea stall O. primers. ItwesellepeiGehlewee oat et sew power teseesiellibis diassalsoillisaut Or ism ilnuaradig *lee et wwwridgety, orl of ismewsiai Os OW. that it le WM lee • party to *dub the rattle pros Wit. trayweity, awl* evetthrow is say use aura the tiew as ecarlerksal weir hies red ben the other MO tor, se well se by the Yard Clatter. Pia dr dna vorialinding dew poodle aid awipikalad whim in which the canna, i ihnhhang aided /min • wok" el 'la% it la sasowaly to she & sapid shoes at the 11101Ei Iskolory at dna washy. By the truly at May th 1115, tba canton at Ifindahntel earn, in the word* s wain, bwormand with andilazinhloanidatiw ware tote MOW ebb sistar. In swim wads rights over thatemay, lawald by other Rumania treat* r‘t• walsoitallb ra KW at Pnriy who bad bus, in MI, Ghoul Mira 41(mi:bead. Thuesselasel Mete of Wags rued by this doable posi tion el miss sad piaelpaity was urnifseted before kug to semi isitanoes ; sad ea more them see ocessioa attaeopie were math is beimg wader rehaleas to the Osallederatka mon retired, a arts, the develepieset of whirl yes ocusinaily impeded by the istosvatiemos atrosdiag thin doable Thew atasegets mot with the desired mob only s 1848. The peopie at that time know hew to melee ism et their right to eartitate thameehee freely, by adopting the Sena, sad giving themselves the republican comotitation, which eras tally gnanentred by all the states el the Caelhdrouiss. More Una owe Mass that pool the federal authority hes soleavessed to rams to au andamtruding through the modem of Madly anotietkew with him Ilskaty the King of Prude, bat all thews albite failed owing to the preemies erg up that the old cedar of Wisp should before emarythiag rwelabilmhei, a voquirtammat that WO cadd aot owner arcs is rory smut without regediedeg the centre of NeeMseel frame our onion, sad repsdieling ales the pia* vim oldie new Medd carlibetimem. Seek was tho Mode of Map alma a esiatila of the di. catty, Mldelk man het be ebteleal to a link mmair, was cm the led af flopeembat ilengiedley vicimea Lamm disraed cos mfold w lo NV* Ur fate of mss wt o by rash and mad climmied homm had mind them selves to be hd so to commit meal sa act sf viehmcs, tt am mot amulets toasters with the come of judicial proved_ toga, sad so it were to amebas lac a certain pity, by the mammilltiorl Omaha of the lasargenta a privileged right to imarrectica. Although the rights of wrareigsty yesseosed by the COIF Ottlaudou oaf the Castes of Neufchatel did not allow as to tub fate coseidaretioa the prolusions that bad bees Meld, anerthiw we assathistad ear =WY intention ei essaiag Ike primes at libesty, presided a aisle °taillike woe fal- Siedgenude Switzerland. We declared ourselves ready Fo . grant the liberty of the prisoners, in cue the liberation of the carton of Neufehatel Lem every foreign tie should be so koreledged, thus putting en end to a Mats of thihp which had every day showed itself to be more zed moreuntanable. We declared ourselves ready to mist half-way any negotia ties that should be calculated to bring about the %Aspen lace of Neekhatel. That we might not wound, men to the 'BOW degree, the arreceptibilitiee of the armee party, we declared, besides, our stadium to take into considastice the proposals of sordisties made by other powers. The course talon in thane long negetiationshas been correctly and Mr explained to tor imeage to d* Velma Amenably; and 'me Swim people :11, as "npartial lastory likeeias will do hereafter, give us their testimony that we have refused no MOMS is OUT erleavenre b *log the dispute Wan advanta geous and pacific meat. • All three efforts which Mace err good-will sad loyalty have hitherto failed, owing to the demand made kr the pre liminary and unconditional liberation of the priensere—a de mand to which we meld act submit wither* hotailiating Switzerland and bemiring her honour. When our situation beams more difikult, and our adver sary prepared to support his protemicese by faros of arms, it appeared to as that it we time to appeal to the representa tive' of the nation, sod leant from then whether the Federal Council bad or had not acted in sorordanoe with the magma opinion. On the 30th of Desimba the Federal Amenably unsal meanly paeaed the Ibuos 'leg resolutions " AK. 1. In order to @Sect a pail& solution of the Neuf chatel goestiou, the Federal Coed will continua to do its pert, ea it ham hitherto data for the adoption of all or say means compatible with the honour and dignity of Switaerbad, and such se may be fitting for procuring the neognition of the %dependence of Neufchatel from every foreign tie. _ _ "irt. Z. The relliteey lintel ordered by the Federal Council, and Mewls the tabor Leanne it ham Mks, ere approved. " The Federal Council Is empowered to provide for ell ulterimarrensements deemed necteaery for the adonis of the country to the but entrezatty, In cue an honourable and pacific solution cannot be obtained. " An unlimited credit is opened to defray the expenses "Art 3. The Federal Council is authorised to negotiate and conclude dedritively, on account of the Confederation, the necessary loons, . . " Art. 4. The Federal Council is commissioned to make these propositions known through the proper channels to the cantons and the Swim people." In order to be reedy far all conlisigencice, a eommander in-chief or all the toms has been appointed this very day, in the person of Oenend William Henry Dufour, and the duties of chief of the staff have been confided to Colonel Henry Freiberose, a member of the Federal Connell. It is thus that we find °unarm perhaps on the eve of most important events, on the threshold of most serious trials, which may betel oar country. All hope of a pacific solution, indeed, has not disappeared; we shall endeavour, even now, to do our part for the maintenance of pram, when ever there shall be found for the attainment of that object course not prejudicial to our honour. In this wham mo ment we give amoranco to the Swiss people, to the whole universe, to the Supreme Being, that wo are disposed, even now, in all loyalty, to concur in anything that can ensure pace; and that we shall not have recourse to extreme mea sures, unless the hand of conciliation that we offer should bo If, which God fo;bid, this aim should occur, we appeal to Too, faithful, dear, and generous Swiss people. We have re caked from our Lathes, who rest in God, as an inviolable in heritance, a free and happy fatherland. It is a sacred dory fur us to transmit to our domeadants this glorious inheritance intact, end in all its primitiro purity. It is in the days of trial that one learn moat intimately to know the vela* of these pamcsaions which they are trying to wrest from us. It has been given to ore deer country to Mijoy both peace and happiness fora long aeries of years without 'herniae. Nay God not permit this SOSSOII of trial to find us off our guard, but find us, on the contrary, watchful as a people meetly of thetegreat blessings And here it is with lively joy that we acknowledge that the: Swim people boa worthily endured this time of trial. Thom days appear to have corn back which form the moat brilliant part of our great history, when avey one can with his whole soul congratulate himself that he baking, to the Swim notice. It is with an unanimity never before, in such a degree, se pegiseced, that the governments sad the dtkens are deposit ing on the sacred sitar of their tottery the whole cf their property. No sacrifice appears too onerous now that the cams is to uphold the notional indepanderne and premswe from ruin the soil of our aativekad. No age, no else, no family wishes to kg behind. The youth desires to gee the dangers of the full grown man; the old men to serve as an ex ample to youth. All, all show their walleyes joy fully to make the arniflose which eireassenose ro ger*. All peeks vanish, all dimensions dimmest. The !cob of all are tend towards that made sad elevated object of which we have spoken. Well, lot ma hold be the belief that the days of or- worthy SCas Confedera tion are not yet numbered. Let us continua stanch in the belief that the God of our ferns, If we have =adorn in his, will not abandon ne. Let on be steadfast in the faith, that the Almighty, who ha placed oar country in the centre of Europe to be the fortress of . freedom, will know how to keep it inviolate. Let us keep fire in our belief that the Almighty will show himself strong in behalf of the week, and that he will bring us forth from the premed darkroom, and lead us Into light. May the rams] eatitesisen and devotedness, which are increasing and have elm held of the rates nation, prove to be of seed empty. May we sae therein a pledge that oar awe to save the comb, will bo crowned with • Messing from leaven. Federal Miles! We have already food oureelme under the mormity of rolling oM, underarms, a pert at the army, for the protection at our rommeed froatbre, sad the men whom we summoned ham haitmed with the grate* eager are to plea themselves at the dipole' at the csantry and its authorities. No mortal yet knows whether the decisive Misr hos strife, at the mead of which the country win have to collect all her eldldrea aroma the stain leas hanger, make the white arm or a red pound; bat what we know is, that the whole samy will sumer se me men the on st their country. Beaten, then, federal soldiers, with dam emblems ha Ood, and with glad protege. Basta hither! Nay God and his angels escort yea! Observe etrkt dir Mynas everywhere; theorkilly obey your chk6 ; never for put that *Mama is the guarantee of victory! Be humane, eves when you Bad yourselves confronting the enemy; *mem he all times sod plaoas that conduct which is beam keg la a km and Clarkeisa army. In Welting your dray, he met messy about the terms venue at yourselves or 6mi ; year pateibl country will take cote of that; she looks woe k se a debt ot homer, whkle, under any circometeares, she will be Bombs pay. _ _ _ Fedend Ilialdke;l 'Your aeaatry, the world, has Its era dud epos yea. Yea will take care to mho the hope that is pieced ha you; yea Ida show by your sots that you deserve well to be , called the Boas of your gnat ancestors; you opt strive to lerich our =dud Unruly Cali =other d Me most slalom papa. Blass the Federal away I Bless thee, also our beloved fatherlutd, wad =you thou still be, .m thou hut bas far ages, the aulaa et a the and happy people, awl. people, filth el mad dear, easy God be with you all. la the sues of the Swiss Federal Council, The Presided of the Culederation, Foutaxon. 7lae Claudio, of the Cuadandica, &mum. Buz , . J. 3, 1867. The Journal de St. Peteraboarg of the let says, Prime Gatitayne, Monier of the Ceremonies of the Impe rial Court, and attachi to the Ministry of Foreign Affair% is named Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of her llbjcsty the Queen of Spain." . . A letter tram Vienna - in the Atiisbwry Gazette, says: "Fiedd-lfambel Radetaky, en his retirement, will have a pasha of lio,ooofr The Emperor has urines him • very 'marine Moder en the meek., sad hes mated his the VW. Rads as • neidestre." Bintimah• Straretstp.—A gang of five burglars • reeehed to try their hand at the house alt. Übseti, an advocate et Platte (Piedmont), Me con °sited few the purpose; but one e t= g being sod denly abed, it would mem, with gashes et conacienee, went and Melba the whole plot to the advocate. The R. meth* upon the tutonastias, meat a tteNt earthseers Kassa themselves ia the and then quietly awaked hi. Ykiters. They mane emedy to their that); the old gentleman received them with due deference, and requested them to step into another room with him, vase he wo u ld giro them more than they expected. This being the co asted signal, signal, the whiners mods their appear ance ; but one et the *thieves with great of mind put out the light', and a =a c t: conflict eosin d in the dark, which ended in the capture of two of the thieve., the other two escaping, though severely wounded. Two of the carbineers were also wooded, and N. Überii received a seven coatasioa. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ors OLIN OORIMIYONDIII4T) PARIS, THORNDAY EVGYING. The Metropolitan Chapter of Paris decided yester day that the funeral of the Archbishop of Paris shall take place on the 10th (Saturday) instead of the 13th, which was the day at first proposed. A programme of the ceremony has been issued. The cort4s will leave the archiepiscopal palace (which is the last house at the end of the Rue do Orenello abutting upon the Place des Invalides), at half-past eight in the morning, and proceed along the Rue de Ore nelle, the Rue de Bourgoync, the Place du Palais Bourbon, the Quays, the Pont Neuf, and the Quai des Orfevrm, to the cathedral of Notre Dame. After a funeral mass and the five absolutions prescribed by the Pontificate, the canons, and prebends, titular and honorary, and the cures will leave the choir I (which is to be entirely reserved to the clergy) and range themselves about the body to throw holy water upon it. The body will remain lying in state till three o'clock. At that hour the vespers for the dead will be chanted, and the corpse will be lowered into the vault of the Archbishops of Paris. The great bell of Notre Dame and the bells of all the other churches of the parish will be tolled at seven o'clock in the evening before the funeral, at seven in the morning of the day of tho funeral, again at the moment of the body being placed in the coffin, and afterwards at the absolution, about noon, and at four at the mo ment of the burial. The entrance to the Ca thedral will be entirely free, it having been resolved to issue no tickets of admission, but places will be reserved for the family of the deceased, and for the constituted bodies. In all probability the murderer Verger will be tried at the maims of the Court of the Seine in the latter part of this month. The report of M. Salle (the Procureur-Oeneral substitute) will, it is thought, be presented to the chamber of accusation to-morrow, and it is not likely that any delay will take place in that branch of the court. The Bourse to-day opened without an;mstion, and bu , iness was duller than it has been for some days. Some anxietywas felt about the Bank returns, which arc not expected to be good. There was no tele graphic despatch with the price of Consols, in con sequence of the continued interruption of telegraphic communication with London. The Route fluctuated but little, owing to the small amount of business done. It closed at 67fr. 10c. (yesterday's price) for cash, and fell 15e. for account, closing at 67fr. 30c. Credit Mobilicr fluctuated a good deal, and ulti mately fell 17fr. 50c., after having been some 10fr. still lower. The railways were exceedingly heavy. Mediterranean fell 20fr. ; Orleans, 12fr. 60c.; Lyons, 10fr. ; Southern, 10fr. ; Orand Cen.rr I, 7fr. 60c.; and most of the other lines about sfr. News has arrived that the Roland, with the Per sian ambassador (Fcrukh Khan) on board, was in the Sicilian waters on Jan. 6. The Roland, after taking in coal at Messina, was to continue her mute to Marseilles, where she may bo expected on Satur day next, unless the heavy weather which has for some time prevailed in the Mediterranean should retard her passage. The Journal de Rennes says that a large cavalry lamp will be formed in the department of thellle-et . Nilaine next spring, and that a military commission Ii already making surveys to select the ground. I understand that the Count de Chambord has written to M. Pajot, a retired diplomatist, a let _ .Ser of condolence on the death of M. de Salvandy. The letter says that M. de Salvandy was one of the first to present his homage to the Count de Cham bord as the head of the two branches of the house of Bourbon, and bears witness that he had la boured assiduously to effect a reconciliation," so im portant for the future of France." This letter has made a considerable sensation among the fusionists. THE LATE IP OF PARIS. An immense crowd went yesterday—far greater than the day More—to the archbishop's pawn in the Base de ()melte St. Germain. It was found Deareary to open the doors leading into the Chapene Ardente et au earlier hour than had been at fet flied. Several low mammies were mid In the rending, after which the public were admitted, end continued to pass Omagh the rooms the whole day. Some thousands of pew= muet have been unable to obtain In MO, Verger, who was then sixteen years of ago, was placed in the ecclesiastical seminary of St. Nicholas, at Oen ; it was these that ho committed the robbery which has drawly been mentioned. This robbery, which wan of 601 r., ho now denies Inv 4 ig coveritted, and ho mya that he was expelled term the seirimay, not for the theft, but fur having i% his /ramie° the works of Racine and Molten, which he had precluded out of a sent of money (SW) given btru by the Marris do Rochefort to buy books for study and devo tion. He states also that at Oent"y he obtained the Stet prim for good conduct and religious knowledge. 4 4 1:'.ar Irving. the earinati, Verger succeeded iv re establid,rog his character etOiciently to obtain employment as secretary to a priest. This priest enabled him to take the minor °Weis, then to be ordained deacon, and afterwards priest. Shortly after, Verger was apppinted curd of the perish of Cluerchm (Seine-et-Maroe), but he had frequent altinceeiona with his parishioners about bill fees, sad used to say, " Those fellows, instead of paying Me in money, would prefer to pay me by • good beating!" At length the *rabbles between Wm end his flock 10/0 to NIA • height that he was summoned be fore the Procarenr Imperil at Fontaine4Aeau, end Irsa afterwards removed from the parish. He was then sent se fret curate to Joanne, but he soon got into quarrels with the cure, end the latter got rid of him. Verger was then appointed curd of Bailly Canon, but be mould not Hoe quietly there. He made repeated attempts to obtain an appointment in the diocese of Pails, but did not succeed. He, in conse quence, went to London, and was admitted by Cardinal Wiseman to the number of the Preach miens whom he employs. It was on him veto• lons London that be was appointed to St. Germain I' Auxemois, as already Mated. Tho Biehop of Orleans has addressed a pastoral letter to his tiny, eaPileing prayers kw the repose of the see' of the lets Archbishop of Paris. The follotring pump is found in the document " When such MONS are committed men ask themselves with Sear and trembling Karat chastisements will not fall on. the earth, should it not bedsit by penitence to emit the blow which impends from the terrible wrath of the Almighty ? Paris! Paris l Must it be then that in this interminable series of our calamities the ancient see of your pontiffs is con stantly to be inundated, not only by the moat of their brow, but by their blood ? Oh, Providence, whet then is thy secret P Is it: the glory of the confessors end mutyre that thou intended to again protest es a shining somple to thy church, or is it the elect of thy irritated justice who aro to fell before our eyes, the innocent victims of our iniquities ?" Thocurt", of St. Etienne-du-Mont, in the name et the duly of that port h, has allnuomt a Ittter to the Vicar-General of l'atia, requesting as a favour that as the melancholy death of the archbiehop took place In their church,they may be allowed to watch cosstantly over his remains. The used, in further Nippon of the request, states that in oomemience of the church of St. Etistne-do-Mont being for the pet cloned, the clergy of that parish have less duties to occupy their attention. The request has ban acceded to. ITALY. The Emperor and Empress of Austria left Venice for Padua on the 3rd. The Duke of Modena luis issued a decree, grant ing a full pardon to several political prisoners, and reducing the punishments of others. A letter from Parma, of the 31st ult., in the Cor riere Mercantile, says:—" Yoitcriay the Chamber of Accusations pronounced sentence in the case of the political prisoners. Eleven were acquitted and fourteen retained for trial, including three who have turned what is called Queen's evidence. Not withstanding the acquittal of the eleven, they ha ve all been retained in prison and turned over to the police department, to deal with them as it may think tit. It is positively stated that the Austrians are to quit in February, that most of the prisoners sent to Mantua are to be pardoned, and the remnincicr con veyed hither to undergo the rest of ter punishment." THE TWO SICILIES. (non ova. own CORRESPONDENT.) NAPLES, lox. I Recent accounts from Montesarchio represent Poerio as ill in bed from fistula, and th e other prisoners suffering more or less from the dampness of the place. You will remem ber the statements that were sent you in the begin., Ding of the last year, and which apply equally well to this. They have now entered upon another year of suffering, and are contented yet to suffer, rather than acknowledge themselves guilty, whilst they feel themselves persecuted and innocent. It has been the custom to speak of the Neapolitans as possessed of little firmness or courage, and it may be that their national character has suffered much from the effects of bad government ; but all must acknow ledge that when men suffer as these do, rather than dishonour themselves, there must exist something great in the minds at least of these individuals, and the firmness of such men is of unfavourable augury for the government which is bent on persecution. I am sorry to think that at the present moment everything seems to indicate such a :Er. Besides the measures of which I have already e rn, I understand that D . Achille Itoesica, Pres ident of the Grand Civil Court, has been sent, is commis. *lone d'intendente, to Basilicata; and B. Leonardo Morelli, formerly of the Grand Criminal Court, ander the same character, to Calabria lilteriore Seconds. The office is a perfectly new one, and its duties are to survey and report on the state of the province. Of course, all these measures prove what has long been stated and as often denied, that discontent and dio. organisation exist to a great extent, and that the government, enable to deny or conceal it, resorts to repression end severity; expels the provincials from the city, thus blighting the prospects of many a young man who has come up to study and take his degree ; sends cheular letters en. joining strict surveillance the army, and institutes a police commission to receive official reports and decide upon them. Ent has any one concession to public opinion been made ? Has any enlightened measure for the improvement of the public administration, or the development of the na netted resources, been propesed P Not one. Another year has pawed away, and the country is in a far worse state than it was at the commencement. BRIGANDS AT • RAILWAY STATION.—AS the omnibus which conveys pueengere to the Sensual. and Gavi Ralimy (Piedmont) was on the 28th ult. turning a mem One pig didance from the station, it wee suddenly 'MINI by gibbon, who forced the passengers to give um all aryl& lame lima, one parting with 600 f. in go ld. Hasler meile Ilk wpm, they proceeded to a nook at • sheatileme fries the raid, where they thought themodoll scary tor din& Ss body. Hue they were, however, di. coma by teneemblessm which threw them into such can. stenotkiathet. Mtn* the slightest attempt at resistance, though ley was well mod, they took to flight. The ears blame proof them, and overtook two, with whom. they comma alarm& of life and death. Ono of the rating le get out hi. stiletto, with which he dealt his an. a blow, which might have proved fatal had not the shack fintunately stuck to the weapon; neverthelem the carbimer wm staggered by the violence of the blow, and let go hi hold, so that his Opener escaped. The other thief was empowered and manacled ; in hie pocket they found • confeateet good conduct, signed by the Syndic of P for a passport to Prance. The others bad not been :al l = up to latest mount. EXPLOSION OF A PORTABLE OAS CARRIAGE,. The Parte papers describe a curious accident. One of the largo vehicles employed to convoy portable gee stopped at an early hour on Sunday morning at the Crifil do Pane, in ths Rue itarebution, and delivered a eupply. The man In charge of the vehicle ; in order to artoertnut the quantity given, imprudently placed a lighted candle ao neer to the vessel placed on the cart that the gm in the pipe which 0011!. =unionise with the menet caught be. Two snow de-SW, who happened to be near, with great pro. Renee of mind ,diately caused the vehicle to ls• removed to the open space at the entrance of the Rue Branbourg, so ato isolate it • and when thie was done the harass were &Maimed. A few seconds lotar s column of dame shot up to • prodniotui height, higher than the roofs of the houses ; then a trotneudous explosion took place; and, lastly, a mass of Cameo burst forth. The explosion was so violent that it caused the homes on both siM to reek as in an earthquake, and it broke nearly all the *Odom The houses to a considerable distance (about 30 yards) were also shaken, though of course in • leas degree. A portion of the vehicle was by the explosion thrown with great Mimes into • wine-Mop, and broke in great part of the Gant. The vehicle was entirely coneum .4 but fortn. notify no we was Wood. The amount of damage done to the homes Y ealmasted at not less than 20,000 f. The met. dent wasted as extraordinary eencation in the neighbour. hood, and mod sash loge crowds to collect that a detach ment of &Mary had to be employed to preserve order. CARDINAL WISEMAN IN NOTTINGHAM. —This Roman Catholic prelate and "prince of the church," paid, on Sunday last, • quiet visit to 7!,ottingbain, where he was for merly stationed, and to which, we understand, he is strongly attached, upholding it as one of the finest towns in Englaa He preached in the mooing in the cathedral of St. Barnabas, Derby-road. The intetior ma, of coo me, densely fined, stnngen being admitted by purchase tickets. High Mao was performed, and the yarrow altar amine conducted by the bishop (we Lelkve it is Siegal to my " flattop of Nottingham.") The cardinal, previous to the service of theme, moved on in proceasion to the pulpit , in the centre of the aisle, wearing his red cardinars,hat s and a sorplias over his scarlet garment. and teasele. Without adopting any text he centrum& his address at ones by a review of the 'theme of Christianity no communed with the philosophic oaken that had pre ceded it, showing that from the highest Platonism to the lowest Epkoreaniam (taking up the rehear, and now, we think, exploded notion that the doctrines of Epicurus ware essentially sensual and material), he endeavoured to show that they had not been able to draw any great dietinctien between what was good and what was the greatest good, or what was evil, and what was the greatest evil, or even to diverge greatly from each other. Pointing out the difference in this respect, as re garded Christianity, he devoted the roan drift of his able and . lengthened discourse of the inquiry. se a people and • p we benefited by is principles? The mind h:s ba :ldently a very bad opinion of our national doting the last throe hundred years ; and he dwelt rawlyon the crimes of Rcdpath, &c., as instances of the effects of secular without religious education, which last he demanded for the purpose of imparting honesty of p' and happiness of mind. The cardinal was not for any maid object, bat merely on occasion of a ...it; but • oollostion was made at the offertory. —Notting/ ism Review. DEATH OF SIR EDMUND FILNEIL BART., M.P.—. This gentlemen, one of the representatives of the weasels Division of the county of Kent, died at his rent, Eaat Sutton. pleas, mar Maidstone, yeeterday (Thurslay) morning, about 8 o'clock. For many months Nut he had turn in a declining state of health' and in the curly portion of hoot spring ans nom& his intention of retiring from public life at the close of the present parliament. Sir Edmund was the feyness*. ties of an ancient Kentish R.mily which has hold large pees sessions and mach& molder** influence in the comfy for the lad three hundred years. Ho was the ion of Cspta Filmer, and nephew and kfir-at-law of the Rev. Sir John Film, Bart., whose title end property ho inherited. His mother wee the widow of Sir W. Geary, Bait., and mother also of the present Sir W. Geary ; and two of her eons, eons eminently, inherited the highest rank of curamoners. The late Sir Edmund Flamer was been in 1800; and in 1831 mu. Tied Mho Helen Moms, daughter of D.ldunros, Esq., of Quo bec, Canada. Hs succeeded has uncle in the baronetcy in 1834, and in Merril, 1838, on the mignation in his *mar of has half-brother, Sir W. Geary, But.—who had been elected In emptied= with Mr. T. Law Hodge. at the ge noral election in 1837—be was returned M.P. for West Kent, which he continued to m till the time of his death. Sir Edmund is mmeed4 is th e baronetcy by his eldest gon e who attained his majority in 1845. In polities the lib biropet was a conservative. As Sir Edam] scene time sae announced his intention of retiring ken public life at the close of this present ponies:Dent, there ate already two eon dilates In the Geld for the reprementation of West Kant—. neimity, Mr. C. Wykshao Martin, of Leads Castle, over Maid tons, and Sir Walter B. RittlolL FUNERAL OF ME. JOHN IhtlTTOte.—The metal remain& of Mr. Britton were yesterday interred at Norwood Cemetery. Several literary gentlemen were present, in case to pay a last tribute of respect to an old end much-vehof friend. Tug Loss Of THE VIOLET.—An inquest was held at Ramsgate, on Wednesday, on the bodice of three man found at sea, lashed to a lifebuoy, near to the wreck of the Violet. The deceased were identified u Nathaniel Harmon and Simnel Sharp, and another, all three stokers on board the Violet. Jams Hogbrin, master of the Ramon° lifes boat which went to the wreck, prosiest the finding of the three bodies (lashed to the My. They were taken into the boat and broedhe to Baseagate. Captain Luke Smithett stated that he did not know bow many mongers wore on board, but he had heard that three out of four declined to come by her from Ostend in consequence of the hod weather. The Pry returned • verdict of "Found drowned." boo the eve' Sae whi ern new hod Bro The Jul: 22n, the any cart =di Tad wig WOO be d mil Owl Isel = of& tret so a sot In s oft] C km nut! the end at m and ct M *he ! i Ina foam beei no V 1 El