The Express. — London, England, 1856-12-30 00:00:00

t EIA T M 222 T. LONDON, TUESDAY, T HR DAILY NEWS: LONFON MORNING A. PA PM tees astsaped ht...asipsdl4. Tee leseina Literal Joursa. the rhombi or tree isammee tad a sit .ostri reforms Is the alms ash value or IV reeenn ores-le the a/ la law worts, sad ts the reset messetile end astreerilet Passim I in ass seq. IstioNl. se I n 4 iptetery mucti•—qh mu Is mel ti. " i PORZION AIMS II RILIABLI AID IMPARTIAL. As meta , * OM repsrt of .blinAm to the ladles Pas V swilild is r .1 ovin uverleed sea, and It cossets. TUB OILY DAILY 41:IIII0 REPORT, RR !Lt of IT EX DIM ..LL orrrxrivs AD THITISNIIIINTIL It L. 'Slaty sal. those& yammer by n e on Mr .114 yr" Mae rap ...sdrst... u d . ... ii .... ra awl oft iskemes.whiptii ~ .r wilt • isiliabr asa wdtlee V ill ii. N ee/ Raiser. rsr ben= to the kla,Joni; at at ILL ts obetins ., == " 4 " a. f lie r .111„ se MIA 8 " . " are ts =win it at Ms ..1. vet etarter. Pad In rinse. es enter. 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Ws believe there is no logger any ream to doubt that the Powers who were parties to es POOR of Paris will forthwith mums their Ceahreness, bat he must be credulous who expects more from them than has resulted from the Conferences held in the beginning of the year. And what have they pro dated ? Ramis is still haggling and procrastinating. No fruits of the war we waged wine her have yet been reaped. The Danubian Principalities are still occupied by a foreign soldiery; the portion of Bes sarabia that was to have been sided by Rusk is still in her possession ; the new line of hostler is @GU unsurveyed; Ruda has been attempting to mosespy Serpents' Island, and is rebuilding Intros= os the Brash Sea. All this she bee bare enabled to sosomplish by affecting to misunderstand the terms of the Treaty of Paris. What seeeranes lave we that she will not be equally obtuse with regard to the meaning of any resolution that may be adopted by the new Conferences? or that France will be as whit more energetic in leading her aid to 'atone compliant* with t►ese roulades'? Eves as respects the Oriental Question, these Conferences have very much the appearance of a grave fares, Already a second Congress is summated to explain what the first intended to do; and by this time next year we may have a third to explain the latentions of the second. Conferences appear to be mere meetings for talk--substitutes foe se dan. As to the Italia* Question, about which there was some ccoversetioa in the first Con. ferenees, it has only been placed in a worse pod. tins by that unlucky nodes. Not one French or Austrisa soldier has yet bees withdraws from the Putouts. Misrule on the part of the deeps& Go vernments—plotting on the part of their sublimate, is still the order of the day. Lord NORMANDY reports to his own Government what be believes will pious the Austrians ; and Lord CLARK:MON, not knowing what he ma say to Count Cavoua, takes refuge is obstinate silence. Northern Italy now, as before the last Conferences, totters on the verge of a revolu- tion ; and Austria from her Italian fortresses, and from her naval stations on the other side of the Adriatic, watches for an opportunity to turn the coommoticas of Italy to her own advantsp. At Naples, indeed, France and England have interfered, but is such a way that they have made bad worse, Before they meddled it wu probable that there would not be an end put to oppression in the Two Sicilies, but through insurrections prompted by tyranny is is now certain. Earnestly is it to be wished, therefore, that in the Conforeneee—since they must be held again—the Oriental Question may alone be mooted ; that Italy may be spared the pain and peril of being again dimmed in thou coeclaves; and that Switzerland may escape being mentioned at all. There is no hope for Ramps In Con'erences where a majority of the members are thinking of nothing but establishing despotism and over-reaching each other. It is not to Paris, but to Switzerland, that the eyes of all true Liberals are now turned. If the Federal Government mimed in smarting its independent sovereignty, the despotis Powers are not yet absolute muter, of the Goad nest. If the Federal Government be cajoled or Wl midatit4 into yielding, then are the oonstitutional Governments of the Continent powerless, and the work of 1789 ham to be begun anew. THERE are no statistics, we am assured—no facts from which we are warranted is the conclusion that education does tend to diminish crime. One thing at all evests is clear, that every single human being who can afford it acts on the opposite 'homy and be would be a bold man who, having the awns , should act upon the notion that educatioa—jedi cions education—has no effect in preventing crime. There are no men who have a larger experience of the pauper ch•ldreo than the muter. of workhouses and the masters of the district schools. They have the same class of children under their superintendence. I The difference is thy the one ease I. educated, the other class is left unheeded in the midst of corruption. This second class consists of children who hire beta brorset up in woik• hones, exposed t) all the contsminatiog it fiutnets of the mo,t and Frog gate 'witty, Now, in e i gh . trn un - m• it will be found that coo of 5,348 who LAT.' 1.-t , there warkl:w.er, 1,414 (2t 1 er cent.) hare re•lin.d dada to thin, exclu sive of thou who have no doubt goes to Othiel ; whilst only 683 (less than orweightb) are known to have gone into independent employmewt; 122 only are returned as known to have relapsed into vice or idles's% but of the great bulk nothing ,a known. Thee, the larger proportion of these children tarn out simple vagabonds, and if the facts recorded by the mutere of workhouses are ()erratic there I. nothing very surprising in it. The society in which a man lives affects him as much Is anything. Caulker the chances of a child mixing in the society of the Pem broke Workhouse. Let Mr. Parr, the mu ter, speak. There is we woman in this house who has been a pauper for twenty-gem years. She has seven illegitimate children. Two of bet daughters were clothed and put to service by the guardians : one is now in the hones with an illegi timate child, and has been three times in gaol for refractory conduct; the other caw into the hones some soothe since, pregnant, and afflicted with all eats of maladies. The child was born dead, and she is now living in a state of degradation. Another woman from the eagle parish (a small country one), brought up in the house, hag had four illegitimate children, went to gaol about twelve months vine, leaving one infant in the house. She bas again re turned to the boom, and he. beam confined of mother illegitimate child. _ . . This is no linguist ease. It is to such society that the sceptics in eduatioa would condemn poor chil dren. As the workhosse masters say, thine children most imbibe the vices of their adult sasociates. The faultier of every child omit of necessity be developed—the only question i~ whether to good or evil. If removed from thee contamina tions—if asemisted with children of their own age under good teachers—if, in a word, judiciously edu cated, theme some children are is innocent as any of the better shams, and will Main co. Mr. CiAILAND, the surer al the Salop District School, gives a list of those persons who, having left the school before it become a district school, still keep tip an intimacy with their former muter. Theee are about eighty. " When I look," says Mr. GARLAND, " at this list of men and women who were cue children in this school, and who have kept up cousionel inter course by visit or letter—soniethess by a sadden and vigoro as seizure of the had in the streets, when, with hearts bunting with gratitude, they have made themselves blown to me, ud declared that their being mat to this school was the best thing that ever happened to then—l thick I am justified in the onelosion that a large pee engage of such children will tan oat well." Mr. GAILAND is right ; and the results of his exertions Mote the school in question bagasse a district wheel I. October, 1851, eosins his opinion. Indeed of dis owning the mysteries of the human will, let any man read the fads recorded by others concerning the streets of education, or collect them for himself, and be will ones to diens@ the idle problem whether education is a fit antidote to crime. RAGGED BL'HOOLB. TO IMO anus 01 111 17J'A1IA. 13ta,—Haviag been lanceted for • period of morel than tea years in the ragged whoa and refuge to ' which the poor boy alluded to by Lord Kinnaird in his speech at Dudes was sent, will you allow me to mention that this on is by no means an exceptional sae P The boy in question is only one of nearly 100 who have entered the royal Da and the merchant eervlot men than 100 have to Australia and Glade, and a coneldssabla number have found employment is this country ; sad, with very few ex ceptions, all have turned oat well, sad the committee have from time to time received the most encouraging accounts of their good conduct and consequent snow in We. lisiimely a month puma that I do not see some of oar SAW inmates, who call on me on their return frame sea, to tall me how happy they are, and how gralefal they feel toe having been placed is situations wham they can earn an bosom livelihood. Had I time, sod did not fear trespossing oa year space, I weld atentien mad ewe of a wet interesting nature that bate time seder my owe nodes ; and ▪ 118 M7. 81 / 141 9 8119999 , lad levies undertaken the astemament ei a selisseenvy mind at a time when the Mee et any geld iefelog hes sea a week was received with greet doubt tied amplelen. I Gen nearly my that my most mein, Wpm 61 the bee.- fit to be derived from ft have bees meg thee eselleed. —I am, &c.. Wld. JAMIE MAXWELL. 9, Wimpole4treet, Cavendish -Ream THACKIRAT'I LECTURES ON THE Foal Ozoiou. —The soussittee ef t►o Ksryleboae Literary sad fleleatifte Limitation, desirous of alkalis( sa talereetiag Christsee treat to the ambers so well as to the lahabiteats of die wool end a Lauda, dove, et eseeldexable expense, bees tlio fret is *be metropolis to apse Kr. neeketay to deliver a awes of tow leaves es H. Poor Georges is the that» of tbe icatitctioe. the Ent 01 wbia will be de livend this etude, at 8 o'clook. We believe the amber of tiskets loud is United, sad that they are greedy Drolly sal meted. A brief letter from the vetaraa reformer, flaatul Bamford, amen la the salaam of a monist retespe ran. It le sew seedy thkry-eight roan elms Bamford woe ispriessod ea wont of the part b. took Is the great meeting for parliamentary reform sad free trade whin emeabled oa fft. Petseedleid, at Masebeater, sad was forcibly disparsed with bloodebed sad lass of lila 01 218 LA2I DZ. HalllL—Yeetarday the netted teendes ef the late Rev. Jeba Rants, D.D , Pludileat ef New Wogs, It. lelta's weed, won Warred la : Mt °motley is a spot dose adjoiaise the grave of Dr. Pp lindtk. Ia Abney Chapel, elan adjoin• lag the , prise to the lateness% the body wee plated before tb pulpit, sad • MAIO held. Among those pewee wan the Rev. B. B. Bargee, the Rev. H Humble, the Bev. Dr. T. Aeolis,. M.A., the Be, 0. Within, the Bey. I. R. Osoder, M.A., the Rev. C. Dukes, the Bev. John Aday, sad Kr. R. P. Deafen. The faaeral preesselso conprieed upwards et Welty Wirt. duals, of when slaty were students of the Caney, or Wanton who had at toe time has. soder Dr. Hanls's tattles. Aiming the thief looseson were Dr. Z. Dania**, Dr. Valium Smith. mad Kr. Godwin, Prefeseen in the College, the Rev. Thomas Mosey, the Bev. J. Booreghtea, the Bev. J. Bill, the Rev. J. , the Ray. Bean Alloa, and Mr. Bean Ppleer. win reed as 'gravitate seleetlea et Mate, sad eased op_pteyer, sad the Rev. Georg* Bahl delivered en eildeom 'The presonloi, atter a short pre or, thee wale hemed.and eons harlot bee. law the the bensdillen wee yroaeuseed by Kr. Redid'. grave, BRIAR 0011:110N1CATION WITH CAWADA.—In the MONO Si • law to • coteemponn, Mega; of the lOW =of the Canadians against the mail entrust with the stamen, Mr. B. Canard observes The geed pm* of (hark sew ask the government to nteldhe • Mew mimathehip to pertn t ar!ceee • week to Quit*, sla nod le s. sod the Veiled Sumo, for the .list cis wirathe. le Gmbh to develops the trade if Camel& If anti sislumakto are wrist as to the in ning insent etyma dm le se bs ealleassli at (lambs' So le *pest Owes (sod I do en pass* le Agate be =et *sir slelmatts), Sony snassehlps me be weekly to Leigh% es Wel as will b• setaidked while will he likaashiled. If the (night is at Quietism, ships will had Nob nay there to earn it ; mad, as to the anatni sob* for • ship to Pertlead,l sea rely say that *s eesee may wenn ships sew rembis Ins Ofsayen awl Lineptil `B Is Now Ink sod Mdsoliftlia. We lege bed sward the trade far sine pan pot. and me hen no sell* kr then. W• are bundle, lewd maw elenoWys se yetent ; moon of than an likely Is MN tisk eel le Gushes, sad pansy ofPorlind, If *eta{ *odd oat. Uwe Me n. look dpo If Ulm &WI bo poi ati.Wnerl lin If the Canadians ask re windy be ieneend penal aceemnaleetin, I think I hen @bows ew e with the potent eemel-weekly mails. they have so geed yelled@ for each applicetien, and I think the government woald not he depted to pin • bounty is such form merely to promote • erunatereial eaterprier." THE ROYAL BRITISH BaN2.—Tbe list of share holders liable to coetriture to the hat/Wan Is divided late two cleeses—A and B. Clan A onaiste of 123 asses, those of persons holding 1,000 shim, sad who were holders of shirrs ender the original charter. Clan B consists of 224 memos for 2,000 shame, holding shins seder the supple• mental charter, asking 317 shareholders liable to contribute towards the debts and Abilities epos 3,000 shine. Ia A 101 mauve lion hen settled on thr list holding 812 chars., sal in oboe B 86 lagers bolding 672 shares. giving • total of 110 newt settled on for 1,481 sham. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 80, 1856; trot court. WIIIDOOS, Dm ne. Tie Claes walled in the groan& adjoining the suds Ode moraine. Prism Albert, ;deb the Prises of Weiss, the Prince of Lolalays. mad Prima Edward of LeWages, skated ow the kw la the Rinnwpark. Her Majesty held a Court and Privy Coined at 3 o'clock to day. The Privy Council was attended by Prim Albert, Berl °mottle, Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, Right Rom. H. Lobelias», Right Hoe. H. T. Belau, and Lord Kraut Brew, Vide-Chtwuberiala. Her MJ.sty basis. been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Charles Lord Vivian to be Lord Liesteaant of the County of Cornwall, blalordsblp took the usual oaths. . . . Mr. C. Greetlle was the Clerk to the Council in waiting. Her Majesty gawp audience at the Court to the Turkish Ambereader. Hie Brosllene, wee Istrodueed by the Berl of Claresdoa. Beraotery of State for Foreign Affairs. The Hosea gave midtown to the lad of Clarendon and Berl Granville. Lord Rivera sad Myor•Ueasral Berkeley Dtainuoad wore the lord sad the item ht welting. The Earl of Clartsios remota' off aviolt. ' H 4 Zeeslimey M. Mantras, Lord Viviss, Earl Gran. v 44, Sir George Grey, the Bight Hoe. N. T. Helms, Lard Ernest Braes, sad Mr. C. Grevills travelled from Loudon le stead the Cseen's Coen by a spesiel Wilda on t►e Groat Westin Railway, sad after the Privy Ceased (with the eseeptire of Lord Vivien) Maned from Windsor to town by a @pedal Vale. Ths Berl of Chesterfield has arrived at liretby Park, from Nowsarket. Lord sad Lady Kaaosster have arrirod at Thomas's Hotel, Berkoloreqsart, foss Byrum, Yorks tan. Major-Chraeral Lord West, C. 8., aeompanisd by hie eidode-eaap, Ltest. &ally, of the Ram has le ft Hatfield Howe, eta Ilia ratan to tite amp at 81tOrseliffe. A taatristoaial slimes is about to take plea be tines Lard Mind Churchill, yowler sou of the Doke of Merlbothesk, sad the Mos. Hotflot Caltboopo, dasghtos of LordColthorpo. Mr. Maskinticw, M.P., who is at present residing at Turin, has traassaisted to Mr. W. Hood, Mayor of Bs.,' , a draft for 601., with a request that he will distribute the ansosat swag tho basest poor of that borough. The boa. umbra bas alto east .drafta if a similar anomie for the pow if Wisetashea, Pesaessanh, Wiliam, Halide feud, sad Pinder' parishes. A babes front Nioe states that tits Baroness Vigier (Sophie Orsvellf) h at prams residiag is that tows for her health. ftbe is saes almost every day fa a posrearriage, whist ohs Mess herself. A Turin journal mention• the following im probable iacidant The King of Piedmont, while on spertlag excursion a few days ago, Davies become separated from hie suite, was stepped by a party of robbers who de manded his purse. . Bat las the kin,' wee the reply to whisk the robber, answered, We know that vary well, sad It is prsehely for you alone that we were waiting hem' The wood being solitary and the Xing 's salts at a distance, his Majesty wee obliged to yield complies's, and held out to the robbers a parse containing about tweet) , gold *era why► was reosived with marks of the gnaw :wpm." TER ARCTIC SHIP RESOLUTE. PORTSMOUTH, Dn. 29. At twelve o'clock to-marrow the American flag will be healed dews on board the Baselate, when It will be slated by the Victory with 21 gang. The Union Jack will Son be hoistod, sad the ship will be given up to the se thecities. There will be no other cereatoey on the caa siss the afternoon, the Sprightly stens Seder, Nuts Oceannadiag George Allen, will poesy the Akers sad I grew to Boatkusgtoe, to embark there ea heed the United States sail stesa•ship Weeklagtoc, whkh lease as Wed nesday for New York. The Washington reseed this after aeon *rough Bpitheed from Ramberg, to take the British i amb, pameagen, &a., as board from Southampton. ELECTION. TO TAI 3DITOI 01 THU ZIPIIIIII. 813,—Will post posit Os to inform the public, through your coitus", that the " Ballot Society " of Loa• den, whatever that say be, has bees guilty of the criminal folly of lesalag as eddies to the Women of Southampton l a favour of Kr. Wessels, slider the false protons that that goatlessa is t►e ealy audidate in tke field here in favour of floe sad Nest votlag. I melon yes the address of Mr. Aadresn, to which be lip:—" la order that the Onto: say has full power to senile hie right of voting sanding to tho boast diatoms of his own eassienos, I shall 1.11 it to be:nsy duty to support the ballot, whether brought forward by nsolatioa or bill la tho Rose of Conuarma" Hese we ►ave a chteldod sad mil, iinistation as the subjoin of the ballot, while the minor of the Beak of legend Mules sad hesitates about the gentles. and spoke to es sa the propriety of linens it optimal with coast: - needs, whether they will have epee voting ea not. Has Hr. Weguelis'e meat subscriptioa of tea poufs to the funds of the Ballot floolety lid the three or four genie nee who net at Mr. Whitshant's &ambers tato the atishinses sad stupid folly of blackleg Pthatretes's pet splint the keg-tried friend of the psople—Bithard Andrews ? I Wiese .y and, sad an, an, ♦ FRIEND 01 , THE BALLOI. Boutbaaptes, Doseabor 27. THE fieLlaroi-OENEEAL.—The reprenentation of Beteekire bae bus declared vessel by the elevation of Mr. Janes Stout Worley to the eine( Belieitor.Geauel,and a writ will be boned for the abodes fel a amber disieb , sa the as=ti Pediesest. Mr. Wertlry has la the eulatibusey, saltines a re sewal".l27er trust le width he has sow bau four :bus sad with which be has boss \assured for foefteen yeses bat. gestlantaa says : My political prlaelplu are well kaewa to you, sad their practical application will beet be Sued by referees, to my votes la the II ase .1 COMM& The step which I have sow takes isplirs so change of sentlaust or mike. Whoa Lord Palmer stow, la • sanest of Bailees' trial, lensed kis Boom neat on no seclusive basis of party, and neutered all the reaosnes of the coasts , ' Is support of the was by prompt mid papal mdse. I gave his sy ladepeadest tappet The pesos that followed met with ,l th ia =seal approval of parliament, and slam it. so gnat quake of asthma' polity has ulna es whisk I have differed from the preset prise W aists/. Mashed to the s..atial beatltetione of my °entry I Wm over hip weedy be redress abases by the application: of_peesilsel tiesilase esmeriliset, end It is by this rale that my eendect wU he he regeliated. Is plain Lord Palmerstos adminiesedge hype Ise eppartnalties of being serviceable tlizomeallap. I helps he ler isp share ia farther end ea. ingeemmenla Is the kw, is the gametes of libenl bet relfghtes edeendes, is the steselmeet pd ilk diatribe. toe ea will of the beans se ell the Wises steer great sad arwessi ulibiliimatß, end is the assertion of the mel Ger esentsy la the promos of all the natio= of the well. I adhere le all that I have said of ray &tenni seem to resist the eneemehmeets of the power of Rom*, whether open or allies, ae 14 anew to religion and imb ued's of the trues and meetprestoms beldam." ItiPansieTelloll OP Lieutenant. 0... rel 8&r W dlism Oarkinglim has sommenced his canvass et the reenstitseacy, aid waneaterday reseed at Wool. wish la • wan milk* moue well for his serum. Al =lb. Ballast geseral les a largo circle of unitary at Watlerleh, else me also Weston of the bironsh, miens of these was remeseed to site the requisition la. el le kin to buena a eandidate, sa it was deemed priciest thrill each lavitatios should sauce entirely from Unlink elseless—who alone signed the document. THILITILL—Mr. Backstons has an assessd the first moralist performance of his pantomime, "The Babes la the Wood ; or, Harkspaa sad the Cruel threka," to take place oa Thursday neat, January 1, aud Gamy eabsequast Thursday for the preseat, to commence at two sad toselade et four. LONDON MateNics' Irwin/Mr.—The MM• bong the Leedom Mechaake' Limitation intend to eel. Walla their thirty-third aanivereary by a &Arlie sad axhibi tin of drawings, &e., on Friday next. The exhibition will br Ins to the public on the 3rd, 61b, and 6th of Juntas, by Volleate, M IS obtained on applioatioa at the library, or by ogre talideemnd to the secretary, Mr. G. W. E at the inetflatlim TM exhibition will be entirely confined to the predestine of mann of the various drawing and model ling dome. Miss 70041 BT. GEORGE.—Lut week this young lady, so well knows to the audiences of the Lynam des aymapia Theatres, gave the ant performance at Liveried of a new eatertaismitst entitled "Hose and Pamir' Lyrics." The libretto is contracted epos the principle of those with which Mies P. Hato., Mies Emma Stanley, sad DON r lady artists tam made as familiar—s ernes of elm teeter sketahe% some of them serious sod some of thew CUllie, being linked together in a sarrstive form. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA AND The Debate of this day has the following :—" The amounts from Berlin to the 27th are favourable to the hopes of peace which have born generally entertained in Paris during the lest few lays. At Berlin, as at Paris, it is believed that the aff.cir of Neufchatel has entered upon a new phase. Upon the initiative of France, all the Powers who signed the protocol of Lon don, including England, have consulted together for the purpose of proposing a new plan of mediation to Prussia. This new plan (respecting which, however, the accounts are but incomplete) is based upon the release, without bail, of the Neufchatel prisoners as a condition precedent to all the concessions which the Powers engage to obtain from Prussia. The cabinet of Berlin has already assented to the scheme." This fact, if fact it be, was at all events, unknown at Berne on the 27th, as it is distinctly stated in the communication then made by the Federal Connell to the Diet, that no project of arrangement whatever had been proposed. According to the Independence Beige, the new pro position provides for the expulsion of the prisoners from the Swiss territory, on their release. Pursuant to a decision of the Swiss Federal As sembly, a committee of eleven members has been appointed to draw up a report on the situation. The Federal Council has demanded an authorisation to carry defensive preparations to the utmost possible limits if an honourable pekoe shall be found imps• Bible. It has further asked that a general-in-chief and a staff may be at ones chosen. The Federal Assembly has adjourned without dissolving itself definitively. The Federal Council ham given orders for the prompt organisation of the landwehr. M. Barman, Envoy of Switzerland at the oourt of the Tuileries, has arrived at Berne. A letter from Constance, in the Ssiabiais Mercury, Nye :—"The Prasso-Swiss difficulty ham platted es all at once in a very disagreeable position, far since yesterday measures ban been taken to fortify the town on the aide of Swit zerland, and to construct redoubts. The military authorities have borrowed from the municipal ad- ministration the necessary tools, whilst awaiting supplies from Carlaruhe. The military posts have been augmented and patrols are stationed along the frontiers. On the other hand, a Swim corps has arrived at Krenzlingen and Emisdocf, opposite the town of Constance." The Augsbwrg Gazette and other journals oonlirm the news that measures have been taken in Bavaria for the transport of Prussian troops by railway, and for supplyicg them with provisions. 1 The followirg is the speech delivered by M. Martin, President of the National Council, at the opening sitting on Saturday: " Three months have esexcely elapsed since you declared that the republicans of Neuf:Motel deserved well of their country for having triumphed singly over the royalist revolt of the 3rd of September. Since then new events have occurred ; the situation is aggravated, and now it is no longer Neufchatel which is concerned—it is the whole of Switzerland. " The Federal Council believed it necessary to call you together that such measures might be taken ea the circumstances require. Justice tranquilly per- said its course in discovering not only the authors but more especially the instigator. of the rebellion of September, and in applying the penalties decried by the law to the faction, who with arms in their hands and in the dead of night disturbed the public peace and attempted to overthrow the Constitution and the authorities of the country. "A foreign prince, the King of Prussia, demands of Switzerland the release of the prisoners, and con sequently the acknowledgement of his right to the principality of NeurchateL This demand cannot be admitted without abdicating our rights as a sovereign state--as a free and independent nation. That which the King of Prussia has hitherto failed to ob tain he now eseke to impose upon us by force of arms. Under this menace the choice of Switzerland cannot be doubtful. At the first news one cry escaped from the hearts of all the sone of Switzerland; a timid. moue burst of enthusiasm showed that the Swiss people had not degenerated ; that they are still worthy of their ancestors, and of their freedom. We may affirm with joy that everywhere the peoples and governments are animated by the moat ardent patriotism, and are ready for any sacrifice in the defence of our independence. What ever theeninorshades of political opinion,one thought— ths danger of the country—unites us all. This june... tare will form not the least glorious page of our history; for has there been seen a devotion so great, so spontaneous and universal. Happy the country which can thus rely upon its children I "The cause for which we are about to fight is noble acd holy; it is that of liberty, of national in dependence, of country; it is the principle of the sovereignty of the people upon which our constitution rests, fighting against the exploded principle of Divine right, propped up by the Treaties of 1818, constantly broken by our adversary, by whom they are now invoked. The circumstances we un doubtedly grave; but let us have confidence in our tights, in the justice of our cause, and in the God of our fathers who has so often protected Switzerland. In the presence of our country's danger let us forget oar divisions, our party quarrels, our conflicting interests; let us follow the example of our fellow citizens, let us range ourselves under the same banner ; let u be unanimous in the decisions which we shall have to make. Le' us be united and we shall be strong. Let us show the foreigner what a small nation, sus tained by the love of liberty and of country, and by the union of all its children, can do. Let our geliberations be governed by a calmness and dignity worthy an assembly of the representatives of a free people. Let us avoid everything that may appear to be boasting—every useless word. What the country requires is acts. Let us arrive at decisions full of republican energy, and shrink from no sacri fice. That is the sorest way to guarantee our liberty, maintain our independence, and save our country. W. know that the whole people are with as. We have arrived at one of those crises in which the question to Switzerland is that of its very national existence. May it be given to us by the God of our fathers to issue from it with honour! And if the danger dit appears, may this crisis have contributed to strengthen everywhere the boads of union and the patrictism of our citizens. God protect Switzerland! —God bless Switzerland !" 1 The Federal Cuuncil of Switzerland has addressed to the several cantons the following memorial:— "Lear and faithful Confederates,—ln the very serious position in which oar country is now placed, we think it is our duty to direct your attention es pecially to the police service, and beg you to take care to have it energetically employed in particular for the prevention of two greet evils. On the one hand, it is alleged that Switzerland is overrun with spies and agents, who're paid to ez• Icite the people; thit the :former study to make them selves acquai n ted with the defensive ramose of the country, aid endeavour, bi all sorts of fan rumours, to sow division amongst the people, and to en gender discouragement, whilst the latter ad dress themselves to foreign residents, and es pecially to political refugees in Switzerland, whom oey urge to undertake revolutionary enterprises in the:, own country, or at lent to commit themselves by revolutionary decimation. It will be for you to enjoin upon your police the most active vigilanoe and energetic interposition to check the practices a l each persons. "On the other hand, it appears to Its no lass ne cessary to prevent, so far as it depends upon os to prevent it, foreigners within our territory concert ing schemes which may be dangerous to other states. Let us, by the attitude we maintain, prove that oar cause is a national one, and that the defence of oar rights is tons a question of honour ; and let us repel by our conduct the accusation that we subserve the ends of foreign demagogues. You are invited, then, if need be, to resist the invasion of our country by any new political refugees, to look carefully after those whom you at present allow to find refuge here, to inti mate to them that they must abstain from all po litical manifestations, us well us from all secret conspiracies, and to inform them that, in cuss of ' any infraction of these orders, they will be liable, at least, to immediate expulsion from the Swim territory. " In conclusion, we have also to 'spree our desire that you should use all your influsnos with the Swim press, likewise, to induct it to discuss the situation of affairs with seriousness and dignity, and abstain from injurious language and rude provooation, which would be dangerous to our national cause. "We take this opportunity to commend you, our dear and faithful confederates, to the divine pro• tection. "ID the name of the Bwiss Federal Council, the President of the Confederation, " BTOEMPFLL" EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (11011 0171 owx PARIS, MONDAY I'IMMINO. The Assemble(' Nationale annouaoss in positive terms that the Conferences will meet at noon to morrow (the 30th), and that the first protocol will be signed on Wednesday. This swords with a rumour which I mentioned yesterday, but the evening papers do not contain a word to confirm the news, and the Moeiteur is still silent It is more than doubtful whether the meeting will take place to-morrow. Up to six o'clock this evening the despatch from Bt. Petersburg, which was alone waited for, had not arrived. It is still hoped that it may come in the course of the night, and then the plenipotentiaries will probably assemble to-morrow, but the delay cause some uneasiness in official quarters. Boeings at the Bourn has been excessively dull. I The Bente declined slowly all day, closing at 66fr. I 60e. for cub, and 661 r. 600. for anoint, with a fall of 20c. and 130. Mobilier fell 22fr. 600. Railways were quite neglected. The few transactions that were done were quoted at a fall of from 2fr. 600. to 6fr. The office at the Bourse for the inns of annual 1 entrance tickets opened on Friday foe the first time. Not above forty tickets were sold on that day, and it is believed that the majority of the frequenters of that establishment will prefer paying their daily en trance fee of ltr. to submitting to having their names inscribed in the book of annual subscribers, the mason being that many who gamble at the Bourse would not like to be set down officially as frequenters of that establishment. On Saturday the number of tickets taken out was somewhat greater. A telegraphic despatch from Mortau (Doak') dated this day, states that several more royalist refugees from Nenrchatel have arrived there, not only militia men, but whole families. A private letter from Constantinople of the 18th users, us that Ferukh Khan, the Persian ambits. sador extraordinary, will leave for France at the beginning of January, at which period the Medan.. rumen is totally tree from the influence of the equinox. He will embark with his suite on board the Roland, Commander Perigot. The same letter states that Ferukh-Khan, after having transmitted to, his sovereign the demands of Ragland, proposes to continue negotiations in Paris and London, and that be has asked far instructions from his court with that view. Thtre is much talk of a recent visit of M. Guizot to M. Thiers, to talk over the prospects of the forth coming general elections. M. Guizot, ever since be has been out of office, has been much more anxious to play a part in politica than M. Thien, who, im- 1 mersed in his historical pursuits, is well content to stand aloof from active partioipation in the events of the time. It I. rumoured accordingly that M. Guizot's suggestions for an understanding between the different fractions of the monarchical parties were very coldly received by DL Thies. The Preto* contains an article of some interest on the subject of the island of /Terra, which the English have taken u their base of operations in the Persian Gull. That island, the Prase declares, belongs to France, having been ceded by treaty in 1769 to M. Pyraalt, French consul at Basun, by Herim-Khan, vakil of Penis. The article of the ?SAS journal concludes as follows:—"In present political circumstances the rights of France on Ku rth might produce complications of an unexpected nature in the Anglo-Penian difficulty. We may mention one single instance which might arise were Persia, our ally, to express her discontent at seeing an English army transform the French island of karrak into its base of operations; this would suffix to oompel the French government to interfere in the question." In the Paris corn market during the past week, prices have been constantly declining, and the fall may be estimated at about 2fr. the sack of 157 kilo inseams& The four marks were offered at 78fr., and excellent samples could be obtained for 761 r. The reserve at the Halle is about 10,000 metrical quintals (the quintal is 221i1be.) Wheat has also fallen, the decline being to the extent of from lfr. to lfr. 500. the hectolitre and a half. Superior Besuce could be had for from 401 r. to 42fr. 500. the 128 kilogrammes . From all the departments prices come lower, even Marseilles, which so long resisted, having at last given way. The Moniteur publishes the official return of the average price of wheat in the different markets of Fraboe, by which the tariff of bread is regulated. The highest price is 30fr. 97c. per hectolitre in the markets of Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, and Marseilles ; and the lowest 24tr. 580. in those of St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, Henotbon, and Nantes. The average for the whole of France is 271 r. b2ie. per hectolitre, bring 88,10. lower than the last return. SPAIN. MADRID, MONDAY. Ths Vpretentativ(s of tie house of MM. Mith and Co. hate just paid into the treasury the tit) mil ot resii, the fiat instalment of the new loan, THE CHINESE QUESTION. Advice, from Alexandria beyond those published lin the Evros* of yesterday from Trieste reader it possible to obtain a tolerably complete and connected view of the recant occurrences at Canton. It has more than once been mentioned by oar cot. respondent at Hong Kong that the intercourse between the British authoritios and the Governor of Canton has for some time been embarrassed with growing difficulties, the result of the unredressed grievances of British merchants. On the tith of October the Chinese authorities consummated thei r career of arbitrary violence by seizing a lorcha under British colours, and making prisoners of the crew, It is stated on good authority that they cut off the heads of four of the crew. The Consul, Mr. Parkes, the British agent on the spot, prooeed e d fi rst on board the lorcha, and afterwards endeavoured to obtain an interview with the mandarins. o n board the lorcha he wee menaced, and the man. darins refused to give any kind of explanation of the proceeding. The Consul immediately despatched intelligence of these events! to Sir John Bowring, of Hong Kong, and also to Sir Michael Seymour, who wa s on t h e spot, and reprisals were commenced in a mild form by the seizure of a mandarin junk, which Commodor e the Hon. C. O. I. B. Elliot, of the Bybille, took and sent into Hong Kong. Meanwhile the Consul sent in a strong remonstrance to Teli, the governor of the city, to:which no answer was returned. Finding a:1 his efforts vain, Costal Parkes renounced further attempts at conciliation, and a naval force soon ap. puled on the scene. On the 18th of October Sir Michael Seymour despatched from Hong Hong the screw corvette Encounter, 14 guns, and the steam sloop Sampson, 8, for Whampoa in the first instance, with a large tome of marines and blue jacket.; and the steam sloop Barracouta followed with further detachments, Admiral Seymour himself then proceeded to Canton, and undertook the direction of the operations. The British and other traders were officially warned of the posture of affairs, and commercial transactions, which for a week before had been little more than nominal, were suspended. The river in front of Canton is rather broader than the Thames at London Bridge, but the depth of water does not exceed two fathoms, while the narrow passages by which amen is gained to it on the eastern side of the island of Whampos have a depth not exceeding a fathom and a half. The city is externally guarded by five forts, of which two are on the land side and two on Pearl river. These were attacked and taken by our countrymen on the 24th of October. An attempt was then made by Admiral Seymour to terminate the difficulty without further hostilities, but the Chinese Governor would neither give satisfaction nor grant an interview to the British Commander. Admiral Seymour then determined to attack the city itself. A well, composed partly of sandstone and partly of brick, surrounds Canton; it is about 30 feet high and 25 feet thick, and is mounted with cannon. Against this wall a fire was opened on the 27th of October, and by the 29th a practicable breach had been opened through which the troops entered. The Governor's palace, situate in the south-western part of the new city, was gained, but appears not to have proved a position worth holding, for the troops were withdrawn in the evening with a loos of only three killed and 12 wounded. A further attempt which wu now made to negotiate proved vain, and it was then resolved to attack the old, inner, or Mantchou portion of the city, divided from the southern by a high massive stone wall, and containing the garrison of Canton. This part of the city was bombarded on the 3rd and 4th of Nov., and on the 6th the Burnouts destroyed twenty three war junks. Another interval of reflection was then granted to the Chinese Governor, but at the date of the last accounts from Canton which had reached Hong Bong no signs of an accommodation were discernible. The Imperialist garrison of Canton was in a very weakened state. The governor bad raised the pay of common soldiers from six to eight dollars a month. Itaweilin-foo, the capital of the adjoining province of Kwangsi, wu closely invested by the insurgents, who, it was thought, would probably attack the Mantchou governor as soon as his new embarrass ments became known. Our fleet of war ships in the Chinese Sus is at this particular time large, u wall be seen by the fol- lowing list : AT GONG KONG. H.M.S. Calcutta .... 64 Captain Hall. Winchester.. 50 Captain Wilson. Coromandel... 3 Lieutenant Nares. Hercules . Hospital ships. Minden .... AT WHAMPOA. H.M.S. Sybille 40 Commodore Elliot. Encounter.. 14 Captain O'Callaghan. Bittern .... 12 Captain Bate. Sampson .. 6 Captain Hand. Comps .... 14 Captain Jenkins. AT CANTON. H.M.S. Barracouta.. 6 Captain Fortescue. AT WOOSUNO. H.M.S. Pique 36 Capt. Sir F. W. Nirolion Hornet _ _ The sloop Comas has lost eight of her linos, which her commander was compelled to throw overboard in a tempest in the Formosa Channel. Admiral Sey mour only arrived at Hang Kong from his northern cruaie ten days before the commission of the outrage which he is engaged in avenging. POSITION OF WALKER IN NICARAGUA. The New York papers received yesterday reduce to jolter proportions the triumpts of Walker, of Nicaregas, reported by the Arsgo. The New Fork Journal of COW nwres of thel6th instant rentarke of the current victoria' : " The accounts tell us that Walker had nand his own aapital of Granada to the ground, leaving not a vestige of Its existesee, and has removed the seat of his government to Rivas. This looks like retreating. Granaue lies bo tween limeys and Rises, but is much nearer to klassaya. Why did Walker burn the town of Granada 1 Was it to prevent its falling into the enemy's hands, as be continued his advance, which had already been accomplished from Leon to Massey*, and might be still milord on in the corns direction to Granada ? Bat we are told that the " fighting at Massey* had ended in the entire defeat of the enemy.' • Perhaps, there being no long( r any enemy to contend -, itli, General Walker thought be bad no further business in the North. So he went to the &math, where he could he at hand to confront any new invasion from Costa Rica, or wel 1-MIS the emigration from California, which, no doubt, his success would tend to invite; or whence, if occasion should require hint to revisit that State, he might easily repair to San Jur n del Sur to embark. But . the inhabitants of Gra. ned• had removed to Rivas with all their effects.' Pimibly, then, the conflagration of thetown was a per.tioiveelpedieet which the general adopted to induce a community to wb:clt be had become attached by long residence amore them to accompany him in his removal. Well, we shell know to time. Fur the present, we can only be certain, tLat tun allies must indeed be pretty well eatierniehed, SeelSß that they . have lost 3,400 men in the various battles since October.' " P.B.—Since the above was in type we have erceived advice. by the Tennessee. The intelligence they bring fully confirms the views above eioreued. intilkitullf oar , conviction that the victory claimed for the (Dined. re was in fact • defeat, terminating in the flight of Walker t i the vicinity Of the Transit route, where be mild be in read'. nese either to take advantage of any sancurs that webt etme from this country t i his relief, cr to aePil himself of Isuch refuge and mesas a -f safety as the atcameri of the Transit Company would afford." The Rte. Father Vtatura had a few days so ca utt att of apopi, ay, whici p:ayett his life is datiel • bat he is Now reeLveriuy.