The Express. — London, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

that the force of England in Europe Is the force of her example, and that " influence " in Europe, in any other sense than that of example, is not understood in these islands. Our semi-offi cial friends in Paris do bat beat the air when they accuse us of being selfishly content to let other nations take care of themselves. It is part of this incurable selfishness of ours to insist that to propose a Congress of Sove reigns and diplomatists to meet in Paris—or London, or Brussels, it matters not where—to decide the destinies of millions of mankind, is to put back civilization, not to advance it. Such a Congress is, in its essence, the con tradiction of that new idea of the right of every nation to dispose of itself, to which its too zealous promoters enure us it was invited to give its solemn sanction. A Congress of Paris in 1864 is in principle no better than a Congress of Verona in 1822, ors Congress of Vienna in 1815. And it would be difficult to find any sovereign more • I philanthropically disposed than the First Amaarrose. of Russia, or any plenipotentiary more favourable to Poland than Lord Careir.szaon, or more opposed to violent restorations than the . Duke of WELLINGTON. A Congress may denounce and deny the principle of non-intervention ; it cannot carry that principle into opera tion t and yet non-intervention is all that the interests of weaker States demand. " Except in " Poland," we hear it whispered. Yet what has Poland, whose cries of agony are scarcely heard in Paris amidst the clamour of angry voices de manding a Russian allianoe against England— what has Poland to expect from an exchange of compliments between the Courts of the Tuileries and St. Petersburg, or from the conjunction of Envoys from Rome, Vienna, and Berlin I M. Di Graserinr, who, in his capacity of universal peacemaker, proposes to NazoLzoN 111. to join hands with ALISANDIR 11. and run a-muck at Europe, leaving England, as the Americans say, " out in the cold," is so good a friend to Poland that he desires to use Polish liberty merged in the liberty of All the Remiss ; that is, the liberty which All the Rosales are to enjoy when M. DE GISARDIN becomes Prime Minister of France. M. Di OLLAILDIN is better inspired when he tells us islanders to keep to our island. Yet it is because we desire to mind our own business that the organs of the French Foreign-office denounce our selfish ness and our perfidy, and send their own funds down for their pains. This is lamentable on all accounts ; bat, happily, hard words break no bones, and we are confident that the Emperor Naemou gives us credit for sincerity and good will, and is not entirely dissatisfied with the glory of having thrown a great idea away on a world as yet unpre pared for its reception. LATZEIT INTELLIGENCE. gfie erpreoo. TO O.Dpi!I_N)NDINTR. Mayhems& taiiidel" ter " — Lin; " random Bombs Paper, mat be at the Gem le. lkavetteotteet, by Two Walesa ea the day at peldkattas. cOVINNIARIAN. Tai! IMMO, BLA — Neli - ErriiiißS. Newt. W. IL We B. Core, A. Cook, A. Libya, and A . W. Benison Mimeos I. P7m . e, Mks. and lieprooLL-Ad the led Act of 111.1 DIMWIT FI,OWER -Conductor, Mr. A. Kim -Ocemoce at 7. HATWASIZT. True Drama. SILLE;a41 7 11111. Weems. Howe, Farms, and C. Mathews . Mr.. C. Mathews. GOLDILS ngscr. Mr. and Men C. Mathews.-COOL AS A CC - CUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews.—AM LITTLE DAISY. M Hanle. Llr=pl. TEM IMMO, UNCLE tuft. Mr. Wlddicomb and Miss C. Loden:a-1M DIVOIRO, a Lon Story. Marra. ladder. Brougham , Charles, sad Jordan ; Mhos Tarry, Lammas, and , mat lira Loa ~arr~xru: Teal ETaztad, THE DAYI Of LOWS XV. Maidsmes B. Lane and IL Yarned& —Mr. J. Taylor, Pant Dean. and Madams Plenn. THE JEWESS Or TIE Min S. Niles.... And THE GEZAT GHOST WWl.—Commence at di. Elea WEE AT LOUSE EMMA t DAT —lllmfta, A fla.....Affionols. A. 41A Tod Wow— lieffes& .Aannem 0. Ein. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1. Ws observe with equal surprise and regret that the prompt publication in the London Gazette of the correspondence between the French Govern ment and our own concerning the Congress has somewhat ruffled the temper and disturbed the digestion of some too impatient political idealists over the water. With surprise, because an invita tion is, after all, not a command, and may be de clined without a thought of offence, and no invita tion was ever received with more respect or declined with more reluctance than that to which the FOEVON SZCIETARY has just made known her Mansrr's constitutional reply. With regret, be cause we are well persuaded that nothingwasfarther from the mind of the English Government than to lend the slightest pretext to the most sensitive and exacting susceptibilities of our gallant neighbours in the strict and scrupulous fulfilment of a delicate but obvious duty. The English Government had a duty to perform towards France, Europe, and England—a duty that demanded above all things the courage and honesty of open speaking and plain dealing. Would it have been more courteous to have been less candid ' • more respectful and considerate to have dallied with the invitation, accepted it ostensibly "in principle," with the silent conviction of its impracticability, and with a de termination to reject it at the last moment, and procure its rejection, after a long winter's diplo matic strategy I It cannot fail to strike all reasonable minds on either side of the Channel that the irritation displayed in some semi-official quarters at the im mediate publicity given by the English Govern ment to its reasons for considering a Congress im practicable at present, is an argument the more on Lord Itinenz's side. For, if the mere public statement of these reasons was sufficient to set the pugnacious peacemaker of Paris in a blaze, how, it may be asked, would the interests of European peace be likely to fare on the first actual meeting at a table of Austria and Italy, of Italy and the Court of Rome, of the partitionere Ind the think' Piano of Poland, of the ficurair and the reveries= Sht Tanta empire I The Cabinet of London, * with the full consent of the English nation, de clares its unwilliUgeres to simist at a preliminary diplomatic conflagration of this sort ; and some too zealous semi-official organs of the French Govern ment resent this exercise of free will on the part of an ally as almost an insult, forgetting their own Sovereign's express declaration that the Con greet was not a question of personal vanity for him, but rather of pure, dispassionate, and disin terested goodwill to peoples in general and eon reigns in particular. The Emperor of the FRANCK had a great and generous idea—an idea be has had these twelve or twenty years—of bringing all the Sovereigns of Europe by the ears to Paris, to talk over each other's faults and failings, make restitution of each I other's outlying territories, and be solemnly virtuous at each other's expense. It is naturally believed that the heir of the author of the Treaty of Campo Formic), and of the destroyer of the temporal power of the Papacy,wonld rejoice in the poetical justioeof aCongresswhich should persuade Austria to restore Venice to Italy, and Italy to restore the Legations maths Romagnato the Pore. Bat it is apprehended that between the King of ITALY, who looks to a Congress for the completion of his kingdom, and the Pore, who is prepared to receive back from the Congress a portion of the King of ITALY'S do minions, there must be bitter disappointment in the end. Such a Congress would not, perhaps, terminate like • battle for want of combatants, but it would part at its first meeting for want of subjects open to discussion. Now, we have suffi cient faith in the good sense and good feeling of the great liberal public in France—the public to whom the future of France belongs—to feel admired that the loyal answer of the English Government to the Imperial invitation commends itself to their sense of what is just and tree. The great Liberal public in France are not concerned to divert attention from the pressing and vital interests of liberty at borne for the sake of entertaining a select party of Ministers and Plenipotentiaries at the national expense on the banks of the Seine, and contributing • chapter entitled " Congress of " Paris " to the annals of the Second Empire. The intelligent French public prefer peace and liberty without a Congress, to war without liberty before or after a Congress; they know that what Fame wants to consecrate and elevate her gran deur in Europe is not military glory, but those institutions which only peen can give, and all the barren conquests of the sword cannot atone for. Liberal France and free England, so long as they are true to their own interests, can never be false to each other, or unequal to their rank and duty in the world. No one in France knows better than the Ewrzsoa THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1863• EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 011.011 OUR ORS PARIS. Noteruy Emma. The Emperor, who came to Paris early this morning to preside at the ministerial council, re mained at the Tuileries till 4 o'clock. Besides the Pope's nuncio, he received other foreign ministers, who presented him with the answers of their sovereigns to the proposal for a congress. Nothing has transpired as to what passed at the ministerial council, but there is great bustle and excitement in official circles, and a very angry feeling towards England. M. E. de Girardin, who is a most dangerous friend, expresses himself (in the Please) disappointed that the Moniteur has not already published such of the replies of other governments as M. Drouyn de Lbuys has already received, in order that the contrast between them and that of Lord Russell's "rude" despatch might inflict a lesson upon the latter statesman. Girardin knows perfectly well that the text of these despatches would dispel the delusion which it is sought to keep up, that there will be a congress after all. The Opinion Nationale lays that " the refusal of England has put an end to "—what ? all hopes of the congress ? No—" all hopes of maintaining peace (a fait evanouir la esperanees pacific/ma). This alarming opinion ought to be a well-con• sidered one on the part of K Gueroult's journal, for it is repeated at the distance of two columns on the same page. The Pays has no instructions to ibe ferocious to night, and contents itself with applying the epithet " strange" to England's conduct. The France is still pacific, and reiterates its opinion that France, having eased her conscience and done her duty by pointing out to other powers the " sword of Damocles" which is hanging over all their heads, has "no mission to go further ;" and leaving England to the wretched reflection that she has paralysed the generous intentions of Napoleon 111., may now devote herself " entirely" to the amelioration of her internal institutions and the development of the prosperity of her contented people. K Louis Blanc writes to the Temps, from Lon don, a truly sensible letter, stating that although public opinion in England is unanimous against the congress, yet that there is not the slightest feeling of animosity or jealousy towards France. It is • curious fact, showing how strong the war feeling sets in here, that • man of cool judgment and a moderate man like M. Nefßzer should say, in commenting upon his eminent correspondent's letter, that the result which Lord Russell feared as • consequence of the congress—namely, war—may, as regards France and England, be brought nearer by the refusal of it. Who does not see that if —which God avert !—this should be so, the only reason is that there must have been a foregone conclusion in the mind of the Emperor of the French 1 The Bourse is very bad indeed. Rente fell 20c., Mobilier nearly 30fr., and railways from 12fr. to 15fr. D 0 NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT s ! we sep at lIVA.NIrB, Camels:dm, altar Jullten' Cowart. HOW COLD IT HAS BEEN.—NISORETTI aad mmsars macawniEß3lo3lersks will cor rectly Water the lowest tentperattue. Price, nn Hatton garden: en, Corn= 155, lleet.etreet and 122, Itesant4traet. Agents wanted. Pima PERS? CLASS and LONDON PRI= DAID. WATHEIST ICS ON and 11100 DEN, GOLDSMITHS and JIWILLYEL Maymbetoey, Id Ilennettnatmet, Govsergarden, Leaden. N.B. TIM establishment la closed at IS la Um evening, and on IMiardam at tectonic TROUSERS. —Special attention is called to the Dew WINTER STOCK.: and gentlemen who do not mind paying a fair price for a good pair of Trousers can depend on •naterlal and patterns that cannot he excelled, at HAMILTON and MOUTON 105, Strand, opposite Taster Hall. J ILLIRED WEBB MILES, Everybody 'mows Mr. MILVA, REMOVSD from Bond-street, to 73, BROOK STREET, Hanover square, in 1850. The lac reausEis (originated by him) in all the Now Patterns for Winter, " better than ever." SPECIAL NOTICE TO GENTLEMEN. A. W. MILES begs moot respectfully to announce that his stock to the various departments of Ids establishment is now replete for Overcoats, Vestiuga. Bedford Cords, and scarlet waterproof cloth for hunting. The wool-dyed Black and Rue Frock Coats, 60a. A choice of SO Pecos of indestructible wooded West of Ragland Cloths. ESTABLISHED 1841. Only address. THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND THE CONGRESS. The Journal de Gradoe professes to give a correct I account of certain negotiations which preceded the ! refusal of England to enter the congress. Accord- ; ing to this story, the Emperor Napoleon, seeing the "suspicions " of England, communicated secretly with the King of the Belgians, who, in accordance with the imperial wish, drew up a programme, and sent it to the cabinets of London and Vienna. The Austrian reply was all friend liness, but intimated that the feeling of England should be first ascertained. Simul taneously with his communication with Aus tria King Leopold addressed himself to the English premier, who, according to this Swiss chro nicler. entertained favourably his Majesty's propo sitions. But, on their being communicated to the cabinet, Earl Russell opposed them resolutely, and declared that, with or without a programme, such a congress was impracticable ; and, as the noble earl would not be a party to any such deception to Europe, he was prepared to offer his resignation to her Majests The Geneva journal proceeds to relate that this resignation was accepted, and that the premier addressed himself to Lord Clarendon. The latter did not &nasally reply in the negative, bat surrounded his acceptance with such reserves that Lord Palmerston felt that on the lint difficulty Lord Clarendoe would abandon him—that, like Lord Rummell, he bad so confidence in the congress, and that there was every risk of the position being unnecessarily &implicated. Cowman:illy. it is resolved to maintain the :Wu quo, and this is why Lord Palmerston returned to Lord Russell, whose retirement, moreover, would have brought about a very grave minis. aerial crisis, sham several of his oolleagues would have fol lowed him. It was in the cabinet council of Monday that Lord Palmerston declared himself to be of Lord Russell's apisios ; end therefore it was that the journals of Leedom were able to deny the fact announced by the spatator al the previous Ilatarday. As to the oourt of Vienna, the re edeti re England wee sent to it by telegraph ; and it has been since probable that Austria, before mitering the com pass—if she egress logo—would surround her adhesion with ✓eserves which would reader her presence useless. It is doubtless to these negotiations that the Belgian blondestr alluded when it said in a late number :—" The venerable King of the Belgium has played, aid continues to play, with wisdom end moderation, and with an object mod. neatly conciliatory, the role of inspirer and conciliator." The Memorial Diploniatique says :—" Out of the twenty sovereigns and Free Towns to which the ,letter of invitation to the congress was addressed, nine sovereigns —the Pope, the Queen of Spain, the King of the Belgians, and the Kings of Sweden, Portugal, Italy, and Denmark, the Sultan, and the King of the Chveke—have formally promised to appear in Paris in person." GERMANY AND DENMARK. Some of the beet informed continental journals are of opinion that the grave character of the act of the Germanic diet, in excluding Denmark, is ranch lightened by the renewed adhesion of Austria and Prussia to the Treaty of London, as neither the diet nor the smaller states of Germany can act without those two powers. The Prase of Vienna now treats the subject in an altered tone, insisting that strict non-intervention between the King of Denmark and the Duchies should be observed, alike by Germany and by other powers. That the Duchies can of themselves separate from the Danish crown no one seems to imagine ; for all the towns and villages are at this moment filled with Danish troops, and two iron-clad vessels are ready foe emergencies at Hid. The recent act of Austria and Prussia, however, does not exclude the possibility of their taking part in Federal execution, supposing certain conditions to be refused by King Christian, and this is where the danger for the moment appears to rest. A letter from Berlin, in the Vienna Presee, says :—" Yesterday (the 24th) M. de Bismarck declared to Count Reventlow that Prussia would recognise the King of Denmark as the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein—that Austria was tending in the same direction—that Prussia could not wait any longer, it being neoawary to act rapidly, and that she would, if necessary, take charge of the Duke of Augustenburg, and put it out of his power to do any mischief." The Baltic Gazette announces that the house of Meir and Co., of Bremen, have purchased for the Prussian government the two steam-rams which were built at Glasgow for the Confederates, and which had been stopped by the English govern ment. The price was a million thalers. " The news," says the Gazette, " has been received with much satisfaction, for, with these two steamers, there would be no moron to fear that the Danes could blockade the German coasts," AUSTRIAN RULE IN VENICE. The Slide publishes the following account of the termination of a political trial in Austria, which has lasted for nearly two years : At the begintilog of the year 1862 a number of the prin- cipal attires of Venice were muted end charged before • military tribunal with alik; is the 'maim of yam men from Venetia, to amid toilitoty Denim in the Austrian army. Mut trial laded throughout the year, and I. January, 1863, frisk arrests took deem, and other pri- Misers were imitated is tie Nam charge es those lint mentioned, which mused a further delay. At Meth Is Jam lest the tribunal condemned 17 of the sanded to tensed from ens to four years' imprisonment in a fort/rem; seven were acquitted for want of sufficient proof, sod two VIM maimed, although at the reekleuoe of one of throe lest- aimed, thepaponi ea Mike the whole prosecution wee bred heillseemifeand. /Wed thepriocipal accused were, however, detained without any aseinion being announced, their sea. tame having been forwarded to Vienna for approval The Sapiens@ Milikuy Court of Vienna has /13W, after eve meatbif redaction, returned the seate•ces to Yoder, ma imed, mad the primmer@ at led know their fate ; the ad vocate Clemente Fusimito is coodotomod to 16 years' im prismemect in • fortress ; Coast Mardis to 14 years', end 11IlL arida, dal 136, and &odd to 12 years' of the same pasishment. lisorea's Tzzawis.) FRANCS. PARIS, ftc. 1. The Moniker of this morning says :—" The go vernment is entirely unconnected with the publica tion of the pamphlet entitled ' Napoleon lIL et le Oongrea,' to which several papers have alluded." A decree has been published suspending the Provis, a Lyons paper, for two months, on account of the summary it has given of the proceedings in the Corps LegisAatiL THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. EFALIN, Die. 1. A despatch of Earl Russell on the Schleswig- Holstein question, dated November 23, to Sir Andrew Buchanan, English Ambassador at Berlin, has been published. This despatch perfectly coincides with Earl Rus sell's despatch to Sir Alexander Mallet. AUSTRIA AND CROATIA. VIENNA, Dsc. 1. The Oberdespans, chiefs of the public adminis tration of Croatia, who have met here, have resolved that Croatia shall send deputies to the Council of the Empire, provided that the February constitu tion be modified in a manner guaranteeing to the Croats the maintenance of their autonomy, the integrity of their territory, and the disposal of the I direct taxes and revenue of Croatia. L 111 D. W. 7.11. Q. 1I I. IL — Mars ...... LI n 1 2 LW. I I HI a- 1 1 1/114m1MW ..... 0411 2 Li 4 • it •1 3 I• 111 111.61141 5 LL 4 1 12 e a Okla l•.r 49. 4 L 4 2 34 se 5 ==:.: "Ii: S. a: 1: • Zio i t e =i• el 1 5.5. W. 411 111 e 41.11 7 •••• — - -- - - E wa Ull &W. 12 m— 6 ..: NU 1 ILL 10 o 1 ea' • Las IA e coo a 15040' 1 LLL 12 r 0.16 8 l'emme . 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B.—Barometer 'enacted and rednoed to fly at half tide level. loch ten feet, of vertical elevation, amain: about one hundredth of an inch DIOJIUTIOC . and each ten degrees, above tr, essea lag nearly three hundredths Mallen& IL—Mhposed Woes meter in dude. D.—Dtfferenoe of wet balls (tor evaporation sod dew point). W.—Wind, direction of (vaitil—twopolatelJ.Fr of owootte). jr.—posee (1 to 12—estleated). X.-10ctretse force owe tau report. Q.—Quarter whence tratiallt force r, to 99=N). I.—lnitials: I).—blue sky: c.--clonds (detached: I.—tot: h.—ball ; 1.-1111htldoir to- -- rdidr„Chailf z ei n. —rata ; a.—snow t—thundar. —11110 W lull smelted), door la t repeat B.—Sea diniarbanoe (1 to 9). The Progres de rOise states that the third im perial hunt took planes Friday, and we. favoured by bean- Wel weather. The meet took place at Carrolton, de lacrobc, St. Men, on the Paris road. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial, all in hunting uniform, arrived at the rendezvous at half-peat 1. and were received with loud cheers. Their Mairertios' carriages was followed by chiral banes, containing the Imperial guests. The hunt bogie almost immediately after the arrival of their 3faissties. The /north& Busse announces the foundation and definitive inauguration of a committee of Russian ladle. at Warsaw, under the presidency of the daughter of Osumi 3ionravieff. Its object is to support Russian nationality in the kingdom of Poland, sad in the western provisoes of the empire, " which may," says the /nodal; " preserve for the Mare the western provinces, that eeriest patrimony of Rusk, from the revolutionary attempts and tendencies of the Polish nobility and clergy." The Turin journals aste that Madame Ristoei, wit► the theakkal company to which she is attached, la shout to sive s series Cl pa/formats= at the Theatre Carloss. is t►at city. Among the sew plies asuouuosd as to be predated is one *stifled A Night at Florence, which the advertisement declares to be levities " by lifigeor Alessandro Derma, citizen of Naples, and foesudyCoconel of the Natioaml Guard of Saint-GersialaisAsys, in Fame." _ _ . A Tunis letter says :—" The Tnnielan govern ment has now eaemetni that foreigasse may blooms holders of property in Tunis on the ISM tines es natives. The British omen' signed the necestery papers on the sub ject on the 19th Nov., es far es Englial Ines are affected thereby." THE G0VM1,2701(-O==AL OF INDIA. We understand that in order to meet the require. mente occasioned by the very serious illness of the Karl of Elgin, and to provide against further contin gencies, the Goverment have resolved to send Sir John Lawrence to India. Sir John has accepted the duty, and leaves almost immediately. gilt €ourt. WINDSOR °AMR, Nov. SO. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena sad Prisms Louise, went to London Ude morning, and •iitd the Dowager Duchess oi Sutherland and Lady Annaba Braes, at their respective raidenees. Her Malady bosomed Mr. Foley and Mr. Thad with a viiit at their studios. At Mr. Foley's the Queen inspected the mammas* to the UM Gem& Braes, and at Mr. Thead's bar llejeoly impeded the datum et the Prime Oman and the Doeheen et Yost, which are i program la atteedanto were the Hen. Mrs. Brun, Major-General Hon. A. Hood, and Helena F. Poommby. The royal party mimed to Wladeor Onalle at 10 minute, part 2 p.m. The Cam Mums d Prunio, attended by the Counting Hohmthal and Major Yea Soh weinits, Aso west to Lesdoa. The Prince et Miler end the Crown Prince el Proses went out shestiice. The Judicial OrandUm of the Privy Osman aaryisier• day. On ea bow Naar, "Tatibarea Namable, v. Zardedar et " Lard Julie NEW gsve judg ment in taveurel end reiniland *sew le the !eider On& be egged dam lbeS" Hum Bersro ntip Itee re s v. Rajah andeanaberbr baud), wee assial Th e soared's smog were rd as as appeal hen " Mine Lea Soaked v. Gale& Chander Dolt end elbow" Their Lordships .elided tbal judgment wadi 164 gtwo ea al: :rpoil 64 day truaday). The Lode praeant wore Lord Cheindard, tlid Je• this Knight Bases sod Target, SFr J. °abridge, lb K. Ryas, Mr L. Peel, and Mr J. Ogrile. THE ARNIVERSARY OP THE BIRTHDAY OP HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OP WALE&-(THIS DAY.) This being the anniversary of the birth of her Royal Midmost the Prhaoses d Wales, the has of the various Mirth= rang a worry peal. The troops of the House. held Brigade paraded ia the court-home opposite Marlborough Howe with their state bands. The royal 'headman wars heisted ea the goverment °Mess, and the meals is the river presorted a py ani animated appear. noes. la the ems* boo royal blabstet's Inidionen will illmniesite Mir bows. VISIT or THE Caoww PRINCE AND PETECZES OF ROMA TO THE Burrow MOSZOY.—Yedssisy their Regal Highaeoes the Crowe Prime .ad Crews Primus of Pop* Recomputed by the Oonatess Hohesthel and Count Fuestenstsia, crewed at the British Museum ►t 11 o'clook. They ware received by Mr. Auto& Paaiasi, prbssipal librarian. and Mr. J. W. Jeep by whom they were oolducted to the mediae room which was by that time well filled with rondos. Thence they paned to the libraries, theantiquities, the Hine' Library, where they stayed some a.., sad the MSS. roam, where the royal visitors remained an beer. Their royal ingbeeesee spent upward' of two Oxus sad ten minutes in the building. The Duke and Doekees of Northumberland have bees eatertataisi a loge petty at Alawick Castle. includ ing the Bishop of Durham. Lady Alcialey. the Hen. and Rev. John and Lady Elisabeth Grey, the Rev. Coated sad Lady Charlotte Greaville, Colonel and Mrs. Healey, Mies Mork& together with army of the local clergy and resi dents is the neighboarbood, os the peeks of the mope !l. of St. Michael's Church, Ainwicic, after IL thorough rederatioa. The Countess of EgHilton and Winton gave birth to adsughtsr on SeteMsy hot, at Vinton Castle, Irvine. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have left Claridgefe Hemel for lawgiest, Wilts, where they will re ceive a party of visitor; this week. The geetlemen are likely to have some first-elm 'booting over the pneerme. The Earl of Malmesbury returned to town on Saturday front visit* the Earl sod Cousteau of Darby at Knowsley. The countess returned the wane day fries Blenheim, where her ladyship had been among the VIM/ of the Duke and Duchene of Marlborough. The Baroness Blome was safely delivered of a eon, at the residence of the Hanoverian Legation, is Oros veeer-place. A marriage will take place early in January be twesu Mr. Ala:ender Baring, K.P.. and the Het. Lessee Dishy, wood daughter of Lord sad Ledy DiSh3. The Earl of Dudley will give a grand ball to morrow night at Willey Hall, his oat in Worwriewhire, in ealabralles of the noptiab el Ida niece with Hajar the Boa. H. A. Amos, V.O. The annual match at football between six of Col lege and mix of Cownweere, at Windoseter, will be ebtred on panda,. the 3rd fast "The Duke de Brabant," says the bid/pend.asiee Beige, "is about to make s stunt visit to Eaghiad." Mr. Odo Rama has arrived at Milan. GREECE AND THE lONIAN MANDE. We regret to bear that the Greek government are still inexorable touching the cession of Corfu with its fortifications intact, and that bL Triooupi continues to decline to sign the treaty of annexation, except on conditions which the pledge we are understood to have given to the Austrian Govern ment for the demolition of the fortress renders it impossible for us to accede to. We know not what is the value of the declaration ascribed to IL Tricoupi, that Greece can dispense with the lonian Islands : while we should now find it very inconve nient to retain them ; but we trust that the good were of the Greek Government may prevent their representative from abandoning the negotiation which he came to this country to complete. MATH= RKPORT.-(THIS DAY.) T171311.1T, DIMES= 1. $ A./L N L, MUSIC. MONDAY POPULAR 00NOERT8. --- The fifth, this season, of these truly and de servedly popular concerts, took place but night. The pro. permse was as follows : PART 1 . Grand Septet, in E Ist, Op. 40, for violin, viola, clarinet, hors, benecen, violoncello, and double her—MM. Lotto. B. Webb. Lazarus. C. Harper, Winterbotiona C. Se vern, sad Pause Bong. "Names a ocoos--Mr. Renwick Song, "The Lart"—lllsa Badly Spitler Bonita, in for pianoforte alone— Madame ara. liesidard Mendelsoohn. PART 11. Sonata, in E Bat, Op. tit to; planOiorte sad clarinet—Madame Amballa Goddard sad Mr. Wants Song. "PhDe in sicknees"—Mr. isswick Second Marceau de Concert for Violin, with pianoforte accompaniment—lC Lotto Song, Let me het to the billows "—Miss Emily Spitler Quartet, B flat, No. 71, for two violins, viola, and violoncello—Y, Lotto, Herr L. Bice, Mr. H. Webb, and H. Condnotor—Mr. This programmeehowe that th Wleclion was a very ass one, and the performance was worthy of the moat.. Beethoven's Septet is a work of unrivalled beauty, which mites symmetry of form, cleanses of design, graceful and expreeeive melody, purity of style, and richness and variety of instrumental effects, in a manner unequalled ia say other oompositioo of it. class, even by Beethoven himself. It is one of those thinp which he produced at the best pato& of his life ; and that it was en especial favourite of his own is shown by the fact that he himself arranged it in various other forms -- as a quintet for stringed instrument., se a pianoforte trio, and as a pianoforte dust for four hands. And yet we are told that in his latter days be took a dislike to it, and became angry wh he heard it mentioned. So strange a air cnmetence is hard to believe ; but if true (as it is smarted to be) it is a farther rigo of the morbid elate into which his great mind fell at lest. From the name of the per formers our readers must perceive that ft was admirably executed ; and every movement was vehemently applauded. Notwithstanding, however, the incomparable beautylof this chef eteeurre, and the delight it gave the listmen, the most interesting OCCEMIIIOB of the evening was the appearance, after a long interval, of oar English pianist, par me/leper, Arabella Goddard. She had not been beard in LOD4OII, we believes since the Philharmonic Society's concert in May last ; when ohs charmed every ear by her exquisite performance of Sterodale Bennett's Comerto in F minor. Since then her absence has often been regretted ; and her re-appearance in the orchestra last night was healed with optimism. Mew delkohn's Sonata in Emajor,which she played, is &juvenile, almost a boyish work, and, viewed is that light, it le, per haps, as marvellous an effort of genius as the lamented composer ever made. Yet it has defect., from which had it been free, the young composer must have been more than mortal. He had not yet completely [canted his own style, and (as the able writer of the book of the concert justly remarks) was under the influence of the later works of Beethoven ; and, though this sonata is full of the most lovely and striking pas ages, yet as a whole it is prolix and capricious, bearing marks of an imperfectly re gulated imagination, and of deficiency in that sagesae (as the Elmer* express it) which is so conspicuous in his mom matured productions. Oar fair pianist, however, did right in playing it ; for it is a precious relict of a great mind, and it is only such a performer as she is that can interpret it. dodge, and develop its beauties. Weber's Sonata far the piano and clarinet is a well known and highly finished work, which could not possibly have been bettor executed. The vocal part el the mooed was agreeable, though not remarkable. Mr. Renwick has an uncommonly fine voioe, and is a young singer of merit; and another young singer, /din Emily Speller, made an impression decidedly favourable. THE 00IIRT-MARTIAL ON OOLONEL CP.AWLEY.-{THIS DAY.) (11011 OM OWN TWELFTH DAY. ALDERSHOT, Die. L Oaths re-amembling of the court this morning, Sir A. Hanford, the of prosecutor, suggested, for the nip eiderstiou of the prisoner, whether he could not, without ineonvenieuce, ;rowed to the CTOOI-OXIIDIDISt4OO of the sergeants and sentries at coos, as they were called by the prosecution with no other view than that they might be examined by the court and the prisoner. Colonel Crawley should be glad to comply with the sug gestion am far as possible, but hoped that as to the witnesses to be called be might, wbwensoessary, ask for the same is dalgence which bad hitherto been conceded to him of post poning the croarsuarainatioo until the day following the examination in chief. He had, in compliance with the sug gestion thrown out yesterday, applied to the Adjetaat• General's officio for a copy of the letter referred to in Colonel fihnte's evidence on erows-exammation, and his legal ad- visor was assured, in answer, that it would be forwarded to the eau& He wished to know whether it bad been read, and if so whether be might see it The Presecutor—l have the letter in my poseeelion. It was sent to me this moraiug, but I believe it is still under the oonsideration of the court whether it will be necassszy to produce it. Sergeant Jolla Adams, of the Gth Dragoons, deposed —I was ea duty owe while the late Bergeaet•Yajor Lilley was alder &Rai. I visited the sentry in the first bungalow. He was posted in the mitre of next the bedroom. The order I gay, the sentries wee teethe charge of the primmer and allow no communication with any nee but his native invent .and tae medial °Seer. The native sernuit Wu to be earthed both going in and coming out. It wu, I believe, on the 9th boy I wu on this duty. Serrault- Major Lilley bore a very good chenicter for sobriety and soldierliite conduct. _ Cross-examined by Colonel Crawley—lt was about half past 10 at night, en the 9th of Key, to the best of my recollection, that I visited the sentries. I could not me Mrs. Lilley in bee bedroom from the place whore the sentry was placed. II consider the proper past and walk of the *entry would be through the length of the office from the door of the servants' room to the door of the large or enter roam. While the serpant•major was is the outer room t►e sentry wee supposed to be in the centre of the office, from whose, he lireakt have command of the otter room. I never saw the sentry nearer to the bedroom than the centre of the o6e►room. During the time of the sergeant-major's arrest I once saw Mrs. Lilley walking out of doors. Sergeant-Major Wiry never made any com plaint to me. I visited the sentries oa the 10th of May. To the best of my retinneotioa I saw Sergeant-Major Lilley at the outer door at the bank, looking towards the barracks,with the sentry immediately behind him, in the WOO room. The office-room wan used by Sergeant-Major Lille) , before his arrest as his place of business, and orderly sergeants used to go there at all home, from 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning- That is the same room in which the sentries were posted. Sergeant E. Homan examined by the prossaatorLl was on duty while Sergeant-Major Lilley was under erred, I moulded guard as April 27, 1882, and on May 21,1882. The ceder I took over about the metrical were that they were to take charge of the prisoner, to allow no communication with say one mark* sad that the native servant was to be marched oo going is and coming out. Those were the cedars as the eves* of the 27th April. On the morning of the 28th, Sergiontalajor Cotton brought me fresh orders from the goard-room. The order was written. I cannot state the exact wards ; bat the effect Was, that the matey was to be placed inside the sert-major's bungalow, in his quarters. I accord placed the entry inside the bungalow myself. Be twees the 28th April aod 2lat May the sergesotAnsjor had been shifted to other quitters in the longgs na of building. The orders as te postbag the Beatrice were similar to thole cm the ppnviols occosioe, coly that the sergeant-major had pseaYdoo to sleep in the verandah and sit in the verandah. Colossi Crawley—l do mot wish to press any objection to the reception of this kind of evidence as to the coateete of the written doeunieuts. It is very irregular ; but of coarse it must be understood that the prosecution Moder it at their owe risk. The Proseautor—The prosecution are quite ;crewed to tender this evidence at their owe risk, being well swam that they run no risk is doing so, inasmuch as it is strictly legal and Make. ELI& sating.] Too Now Ciscrrro.—The new circuits, it is said, hays been formed, sod will shortly be officially an nounced. The new arrangements will Slake elm* la the next spring circuit.. By_ the vessat act aad 27th of Victoria, cap. 122) Mr Majesty ia Oeuisoil is empowered to alter the circuits of the judges is Ragland aad Walls by taking away from say cirosit any comity or ormaties, or any put, and asissaies the suss to any other circuit. It is understood that Leeds will heneeforth be ea sage tows, and, with York sod , Jnirbsas, will be added to the liiidlaad Circuit, while Warwick sod Northea's will be joined to the Norfolk Circuit. The new N st ortham Circuit will embrace the other places in the north. The alterations will for a time disturb the practice of some of the gentlemen of the bar. THE EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OP A CHILD IN ST. LUICNS. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) To-day, at 11 o'clock. Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, deputy coroner for Fast Mildlean, resumed at the Leap teg liar Tavern, Old-street, St. Luke's, the adjourned inquiry relative to the death of a child, for whose burial the late Mr. Charles Law had pvee a certificate. Mr. Hall, solicitor, appeared on behalf of HisaJaoe Heyling, the mother. Th e case excited extraordinary interest in court. At the close of the evidence the jury returned a verdict "That the de. ceased child wee found dead from the mortal efforts of rut , focatiou, but how the said suffocatiou was caused, whether wilfully or otherwise, there was no evidence to show." SMOCKING ATTEMPT TO MURDER. Yesterday, before the magistrates of Wordsley, small town seer Brierley.hill, in Worcestershire, three ili loobog re/4ns, named Benjamin &shammy., John Silas peare, and William Bennett, were charged with attempting to murders collier named Thomas Tomer. At Moor-lane, a straggling out-of.tbisway place near Wordaley, is the Nagar' s Field Oolbery. On the evening of Saturday week, the one honor of the colliery were fastened in the usual mapper, and the premise' were quitted. About eight o'clock, how. ever, Turner, one of the colliers of the pit, while pima ( near, saw • light in the engine-house. Peeping in at the open door, he saw two of the three men attempting to re. move the nets which secure the engine brasses. Be had watched bet a moment before he was perceived. One of the burglars rushed out and gave him a violent push, and the other, with • hammer, struck him a terrific blow is the front of the bead, and laid him senseless on the ground. On recovering coosciousoess he ° managed to crawl to the nearest public-house. Here it was toned that he must bare received • second blow from the hammer while senseless from the effects of the first. The bone just above the nose was fractured, and be had a wooed there two inches deep, exposing the brain ; his nose wee smashed, and his cheek lay open in a gash. It was thought that he would not recover. Now, however, it is hoped that he will be able to appear and give evidence easiest the three prieosen on Monday peat, thei dto which they have been remanded. They are sup posedto be the guilty our, both from the description of is assailants given by the wounded man himself, and from their whereabouts on the night of the affray. One of them is a notoriously bad character. Turner is stall unable to sea DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. LOSS OF SIXLIyES. A shocking accidenttook place early yester day owning in the Thrybergh-ball Colliery, at Kiln. Karst, about four miles beyond Meriberougb, on the Mid land line. The accident was muted by the overturning of the " chair" in which a number of the men were descent' to work. The day hands, numbering about 240, meembled at the pit's mouth at the usual hour, half-past 5, and the underground steward and his deputies made their usual examination of the mine. Everything appeared to be in proper order, mid the men commenced to descend I. parties of half-mclozen at a time. When about 1:93 of them had been seat down a party of six men and youths, named re spectively Joseph Cooper, Andrew Batty, Errs Maw, / sue Ashmae. James Bailey, and Reuben Cousins, got into the chair. It was suspended from the sides by no less thou tit chains, meeting upon a hook in the centre, which was attached to the strong winding rope. The steward, Hr. Bailey, ma superintending the deeoent of the men into the mine, and be maw that the men mentioned above were all properly placed before the chair was allowed to descend. 14e watched it dimmed, and while doing so he was startled be a loud sod horrid cry coming from out of the shaft. Instantly be gave • signal to the eugineman, who was at his post, and the engine was stopped. The persons on the pit book then listened, but there was no further noise, and they soon found by the state of the rope that the cage was " stark" in the shaft. The steward and others went immediately down the other shaft (the colliery has two), and on arr iving at the pit bottom they found the mat who had the unfortunate party standing round the mutilated corpses of the men. As far as could be gathered from the state of the shaft, the moo had proceeded about 140 yards ia safety, when the cage in which they were standing in fancied security suddenly tipped on one tied, and they win all precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, sot 101 than 150 yards below the spot from which they fell. One of the men (Cooper) tell across one of the timber "stays" that brace the sides of the shaft. His body was cut in two, One half remaining on the stay, and the other falling to the bot tom. His head was also severed. The others were ea mangled as to be almost unrecognisable, and it was found neeemary to provide boxes to carry away their remains. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT LEND& Yesterday morning, about half-past 11 o'clock, while the girls employed in attending to the sewing meshing; in the fourth storey of Mr. John Barrio's wholesele clothing establishment, in Alfred-street. Boar-lass, Leeds, were fully at work, the flooring above them gave way. and a large quantity of building materials end di-Grie fell upon six of the workwomen and buried them in the rains. Plenty of assistance was immediately -available, and the poor sufferers were soon extricated and conveyed to the Infirmary. Their names and addressee are as follow : Emma Walker, sped 17, living at Pear-street, Newtown ; Martha Balanoe, 16, living in A ppleatreet, York-toad Ellen Browskill, 16, of Regent-street. Leylands ; Barth dun Phillips, 19. of the Parrot-yard, Call-lane; Margaret Barry, 18, of 39, School-doss ; Emma Walker, who was in a dying state when oar parcel was despatched, wu suffering from a compound fracture of the spine, and had been insensible and convulsed since being received into the latitudes). Balance bad received a severe soap wound, and het left leg is slightly bruised. &Deakin chat is bruised, and the two middle Angers of the left hand us broken. Some heavy body oppears to have fallen on Phillips's face, for the upper jaw is completely severed from the rest of the bones of the face. This is a dan gerous can, but the infirmary authorities entertain hopes of her recovery. Barry is suffering from a slight scalp wound. but she is not in any danger. Mary Kelly. a woman of 24, and who had sustained bruises at the top of the bead and the back of the hand, is treated as an out door patient. The cause of the accident any be briefly stated. The attic lure hitherto had a slanting reed, and by way of obtaining more light and rocs, Mr. Baran resolved to racism it with a flat roof. The change was commenced about a week ago, and it app cars that a quantity of bricks and other building malarial uad been deposited on the attic floor, just over the heads of the sewing machine gifh ea the fourth storey. The pressure of the building materials upon this weak part of the structure brought it down bodily, with the result described. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo.. nisi-office from the Goveroon of the West India Wands. Canada, end British Cotumble. PROPZIITY DESTROYED BY CONFEDERATE Was Seaming —Captain Maftt, of the privateer Florida, boosts that he has destroyed no lees than 9,700,000 dols. worth of American property, and eluded thirteen Federal vessels of war specially sent to search for him. The end Nary Jostries/, United States, counts up some 2(al vessel that have fallen victims to the rebel pirates, the value of which is rustily estimated at 15,000,000 dole. A DEAF AND DUMB WOMAN COMMITTED FOR NUlDER.—Yetterdey, Mr. Raeford, the city coroner, held an inquest on the body of an infant, the daughter of Mary Wela, a single woman. lodging with Bridget Davies, in Arthur-street, Chester-road. The deceased's mother had bees living with Mrs. Davies about five mouths, and en !Saturday morning Mrs. Davis's son heard a child crying downstairs. He told his mother, who went into the scullery, and there found Welsh, who, being deaf and dumb, requested her by sign to go up attire again. Mn. I , avies, however, persisted in examining the kitchen, and Welsh at last informed her that her child was among the cold cinders under the boiler. Mrs. Davies got the child out, and found that it was alive. Whets the mother perceived it in Mrs. Davies's arms, eke tried to match it away from her. Welsh ultimately recovered her child, and Mrs. Davies ran to a neighbour. named Richards, for help. When she and Richards returned. they toned that Welsh had placed the child in a pee, and was causing cold water to Sow upon it from the tap. She did not appear to he washing the child, but was forcing it into the water. tLichrusla pushed the woman away, and took the child sod warmed and tinned but it died • few hours afterwards. Dr. Wilma expressed as opinion that death had resulted from the shock caused to the system by the turning on of the cold water. Rd the child had proper treatment he believed that it would lawe lived. The jury returned • verdict of " Wilful murder" against Mary Welsh, who was thereupon committed for trial at the amazes.—dfanrhester G,,ardinn. THE LUCKY SHOEMAKER. —A French journal gives the following particulars respecting the onion of the fortune of M. Brava', the deputy whose return in the department of the Gard 'has just bees annulled. M. Bravay was born at SaiutEmprit in the Gard, where his father was • tradesman in narrow ea cumstanosa. After serving his apprenticeship to ashen:Dater the son west abroad and returned lad year with a tortoni which the lead exaggerated reports estimate at often , millions of franca. It appears that, on leaving Freon. to went to Egypt, and attained occupation in • shoe-shop at Cairo. One day • stranger, evidently a person of root. who had torn kis embroidered ;dipper while salt• I by. muffed the *hop' sod wished to have while he waited. The master of the esta bllshmes t called leeway, who repaired the slipper wiry neatly to the great satddaction of its owner. Or grope away the drawer told Beauty that he would seed f.s• him neat day abort other repairs which he wished to boa executed. A nmesetager aseardingly carte and cot• ducted Bravely the palace, where he was ushered into the presence ef the Viceroy, is whom he recogaisel the stranger of the previous day. The Viceroy showed him the slippers which be wished to have repaired• entered into coavenstioa about his business, and at lid proposed that Bravay should supply shoes for • ;art . .' the army. From that time M. Brevity became anxteecn c ontractor for government supplies, and soon acquired 6' , "2 wealth and isiluesos. At the death of the packs, Bravay realised his feriae* and returned to France first action on Massing to his native place wu to indemodl all perusal who had suffered by hie father's failure Iraq years before. After ter Lord BYXM s. The La i.d rat: COII. Thossai 27, three i of Mod* Mrs d Baker, tails • to it lads a snd Bike :/oAm Y court is tl charged • Serf•ael with Mr. 4tfred Lt. arum Strand, in cinnundna Hai prisoner tc amount father bra money, be gave him The fat night in a He mid Me hie mister' the stoney Coventp: afraid togc he imam Body, wl Rana qtr Mos to ei Yr. Con Ilie tiff He nye hi °wag. asi Berphal ems due KL - 000 b Ilkild 10 fogad Mai tataisated this bey in Mr. Oen dinniss taw Ths peas hair to o _ Yr. Clna sty that if T s it, ye Tb Tbs hih tabs him ccesidsr I The prim CEI