The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

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It is almost equally impoolible, however, not to perceive that 'it is relatively diapropertioned to the penalties awarded by the law to adage of mercantile offence*, certainly more mischievous to the community, and quite em certainly not implying a greater moral turpitude in the offender. Compare the offence of BRIGHT, to the offence* of CAMERON, Or IIUIirtIREV BROWS, or &means+. la the mischief done to the individual owner of the forged stock to be compared in its extent to that done to the thousands and tens of thousands of duped shareholders and defrauded de positors? And yet, until the Fraudulent Trustees Aet of last motion was pealed, the wisdom of the English law left the more culpable, because more asischievoas, of the two claims of offences beyond the pale of criminal jurisprudence, and even now only awards a maximum of three years penal servitude , far ideates lem venial than that which, in BRIGIIVE ERN, it punishes with ten. NOWT. linos.. AUDITION. N Olowl* sod Pail.r. 111. 111. Slr a tr s tatiMint ISTII N IZ.T. ; WOE WATS& AT LONDON RAMO& ZONDOII4 FRIDAY, DECEIflia 18. busman jut sow an Alba ail lands or the s sn o d n a esed by th e seamed spirit of = is • —the enslaving puns >k biatiodai asibisely rich. It is cal, the new min= urn that prominently names public ablation, jut en in periods of epithetic isionene it is the deaths only that are recorded by tie Registrar-General. But short of absolute ruin mai positive transgression of law, than suite a out IN= 01 so fferi og, of tempta tion, and, it may be weed • of guilt, the knowledge of which will mini* mews extend beyond the homes it has doeolded mei the hearts it has seared. Throughout Ensiond. thmegboet the world, how many victims of the all but universal money worship are sow mein in secret bitterness the hose idolatry to w►ieh they have bowed down. This Juggernaut of oats maws oat wet lives than is at all creditable to oar Quietists ciedisatisto. In some it only kill. heart aad hope, in other, it produces flat despair, madness, and seltssorder, varying through all degrees of horror op to that frightful Sntrutu tragedy at Croydoo, which is aa yet ths as plus ultra of ruus-produced crime. These sudden parelyeals of guilt startle and appal ; but it is the life-ion wear sad tear of spirit, the stealthy sapping of principle, the gradual habituation to evil : this it is which saddens. Among the recent of this latter form of the speculation malady—the low faces stage of the disease•—we know of wee awe outlaw choly than the ease of It CYST SMITH 3120/1?, the late l'resident of the Hull Flax Mill Crispany, l who wee on Tuesday last convicted and sentenced to ten yews penal servitude for the crime of forgery. From all the internal evidence of the case, this seemed to have been originally a men of probity and waselence ; but he was led in 1845 into a vortex of railway speculations, the losses arising from which his whole after life was miserably spent, per Jul et esefile, in straggling to retrieve. In 1840 he was takes into partnership by his uncle, Mr. JOHN TATLOI, a large corn merchant, of Hall. Mr. TAYLOR went into railways, and induced the nephew to fellow his example. The result was that the latter realised alas of some 10,00 W. In order to make up this' low, BLIGHT embarked with carious Elect. -.. . . . in fresh schemes of speculation. He has told his own story, in a document which wee produced at the trial, with all the impressiveness of sincerity and suffering. In this angular paper, drawn up by him in 1831, under the impression that he should not outlive the year, he gives the following striking picture of • speculative career Circumstances " hare compelled me to do that which I would not "do again. Mr. iIrD3O:I, three or four years ago, 4 knowing our hews by rails, kindly offered hie • matietance to retrieve as somewhat. I went to London, and when there received Mr. T tYLOR'S sanction to follow the recommendations of Mr. a IiCDSON. I did so ; but I went beyond them, "so infatuated was I with his judgment and " SO desirous to retrieve Mr. TAYLOR'S position. *a dying man, I declare my own advantages I "never thought of; but when Mr. HODSON recom mended 100 shares, I took 200 through other " channels, and then • reverse setting in, I was worse "and worse. I then struggled on. One Midland "and some other shares I was obliged to pawn, and "then sell to meet engagements; and so I agonised " on—aye, agonised is Me word day arid night " has ken icy misery. Then the corn conjuncture came; I went into it, made money, and should have "kept it, but health felled me, and I took nerve to " may, ' Sell everything; as I had always aimed at "doing," Sic. " Agonised on," aye, that ie the word. How many are there in this rust City—bow many even of those who now read these linen—who will feel in their inmost hearts that no weaker words will ade• quately convey a true statement of their everyday emetaisen. It was in July, 1833, about a year before this memorandeun was drawn op, that BRIGHT _ . committed the forgery of which he has been just convicted. There were then 48 Newcastle and Ber wick Er tension sham' standing in the name of Ito BUT JOHN TA I LOIL (the eon of old TAT. t on% at that time a clerk in the House. These shares BatonT sold secretly, without Ids partner's authority, forging the name of ROBERT Joan T T ton to the transfer deed. Of the 1,0001. which wen the peon& of the sale, 6001. we applied to pay loans on a corn speeslation. and lb* same mount wan wink in a cotton speculation. Baton? made so annate of the sale in the partner ship books, and continued to pay the divideuda to young TAT Los in bank poet bills notead of warrant& Things west on thus till the death of the slew ?Acton in wben investigation took plan*, sad, of emu, discovery. Minors oaletisatiated against the prisoner wu un- THE HEAVY INDIA MAIL. (ow stsciatc riswowara.) (now ova OWN 0011.111TONDIIITI 80tiTliAMPTON, FSIDLT. THE WEST INDIA AND ' PACIFIC MAILS. (lIT ILICTIIC TEIMIZAPIL) (MOM OCR own COILIMPONDENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. 01•14ei1y 400 d largry. Far his own purposes and with • view to the 4001146 et Ids own speculations, be bad drralaisatly and anotirsr We same is order to sot Mid d ateary *bilk did sot belong to Ida. la dis pressat lam meted mercantile morality, it is impseibie isr the law to paw over wittiest sigma pwsiehasent sash an offence as this. The eleee to 0104411 HOIST SWIM BaIGRT belongs is precisely the dais spa which the deterrent efficacy of poi !debated is mut operative. A sentence of ten yews' penal serfdom ameamet the vilest refuse of society is to a sea la sash a position a terrible sentence. too desirable. however, is it to keep up at any price the strict integrity of neresntile deslinp, that it is impowible to say the swam, ro- THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1857. The Nemesia has arrived with the heavy portion of the India and China mails. Her dates are— Alexandria, December 3; Malta, 9; Gibraltar, 13. Amongst her cargo arc 1,280 bales of silk, and specie to the value of 11,3391. sterling. The Nemesis ham brought home fifty-six passengers, amongst them are Rajah Sir James Brooke, Colonel Hark Hely, and fourteen children. The Nemesis spoke the Australian steamer blot on the 15th inst. Tier Majesty's ships Royal Albert, Ilibemia, Con queror, Princess Royal, Centurion, Vulture, Despe rate, Vigilant, Coquette, Harpy, and Caradoe, were at Malta. The troop steamer Sultan was to leave Alexandria on the 6th instant. TUB ENGLISH PRISONERS AT SALERNO. The Parana has arrived with the West India and Pectin mails. Her dates are :—Jamaica, Nov. 27 ; Trinidad, 23; St. Thomas, Dee. I. She brings home fifty-three passengers. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 688,181 dole., of which 128,131 dole. are in silver, and the rest in gold. Her Majesty's ship Imaura was at Jamaica. The Leopold was to leave Jamaica for Colon. The Tartar was at St. Domingo. The Atalanta was at Demerara, and the Brunswick was at Colon. The Monarch Mr. Watt, of Namossea, the father of one of the British engineers confined in the dungeons of Naples, has received the following letter from the chaplain to the British embassy at that place: Naples, Dec. 9. flip —t received your letter on Monday, the 7th, and, bowing how nucleus your son wee to hear f all his dear miatives at home, I took the very first opportunity (i.e. yew teeday) of going down to Salerno to show it to him ; though It was •Jars, or holiday, and I was in danger of going for nothing, as all officials are generally absent from home on those days. I found that the Procurator-General was from how, but, after sending for him in various directions, I gains& admittance to the prison. The delay, however, was On cause of my being longer with the prieeners, as it made me too late for the afternoon train, and so I stayed for the intoing one, and spent considerable time in conversation with them. Your eon seemed better in health than he was bee:ire—though he Made no complaints to me then—but he sow looks stronger, with more colour, and more cheerful. This, I suppose, arises from their having been re mend Into a larger room, where they can take enr olee, sad have the company of all their fellow-prisoners. Indeed, they all seemed quite cheerful, and conversed freely with the °Soar who accompanied me as well as with myself. Your son and his companion Parks, assured me that they acted by my counsel, and oenatantly prayed to God to sup port and relieve them, and reed their Bible every day ; they deo returned fifteen religious tracts I had lent them, and desired to have some more. Be I really tenet that their deletion may, with Ged's pesos, be turned to good account, and that they will for the hews be more sincere and ear. nest died*, of Christ than they have hitherto been, and be able to my with the holy psalmist, Blamed is the man 0 Lord, whom thou chastened; before I was afflicted I wont wrong, but now I bare kept thy statuteiL" I paid them a second visit the week lifter I wrote last (Thursday, 26th ult.), and found they hod been moved two days to the larger apartment. You perhaps have seen In the news. ppm • report that one of the prisoner. had attempted diddle. I heard this after I returned from my first visit to them; and therefore, on my second visit, I thought it right to question them about it. Your son contened that he had done so, and, n fur as I could learn, ho was induced to make the attempt by a melancholy feding of darn dewy, which led to imagine that was against him. His companion told me it non from misunderstanding what wee maul about him by his compenioos through his not un derstanding the Italian hinging° thoroughly. On the 26th of November I talked very earnestly and serenely to him upon the subject, and he enured me he would never attempt any thing of the kind again, and I have good reason to hope he seta it In in true light, and will keep hie promise. I talked to him spin about it yesterday, and he said cheerfully that there was no danger of such a thing again. He is evidently of a silent and nervous disposition. I suppose they did not like to confess this sad thing, and so said nothing about It on my first visit. Being permitted by the King of Naples to visit them as a minister of religion, when nobody else was allowed to see them, I did not eroe.coquestion them about anything, as it would have been dishonourable to act In any way as • spy. I merely desired them to tell me scy thing they wished voluntarily ; and their statements I gave you the general summary of in my last letter. Berries, my object was chitty religious, to lead them to take their aflios tion patiently, and bear up courageously, ha dependence spin God's help and protection; whereas, it I bed spent my visits in questioning them about freemen, they would hese fancied theniaelvee perhaps, worse treated than they have been, sad been irritated and more net down in spirit, instead of being calmed or cheered. I therefore, I repeat, only beard and have written to you what they told me of their own accord. Yesterday your son laid he was very much comforted by your letter, and then of his friends, which I let him read for himself. He begged um earnestly is write Creed , and send von all his love, and tell you he wee well and . I . obtained leave fur him to writs and send a letter by me, and I promised to wait In the town boon for him to send UM me if he chopo to write. was at Valparaiso and was about to leave for Callao. The Nereus was at Valparaiso. The Alarm and Cockatrice were at Islay, watching a Peruvian [CVO latiomary frigate. The Retribution and the Naiad were at Callao. The Magician was at Penang, re pairing ; she had been ashore. The Royal Mail steamer Conway was disabled. From Jamaica we learn that Governor Darling was popular. Much sympathy wu felt there for the sufferers in India. The monetary distress in the United States has seriously affected Jamaica. The provision market was scantily supplied ■t Kingston. The banks had refused all discount transactions. The north side of the island was suffering from drought. At the Windward Islands the young crop is going on well. The money panic in New York has acted on the provision markets. At Santa Cruz the yellow fever is raging fear• fully. _ . . The cholera is raging at llonduras and the ad joining republic. did not get any letter from . him ? and indeed he gore me to understand that he could not write. Pother be did not like writing with so many in the room, as he is rather shy and nervous. As I haverm much to occupy my time and thoughts se a minister, and so cannot go thoroughl into the gelation, I hare made little inquiry about the leg al part of your son's ore, or about the justice of the wren, politically and taternationsily. It was not my business, and 1 should do no good by interfering in it ; but for your sake. I asked the Procurator-Crneral yesterday how their trial wee going oa, and he told me it was proceeding ea quickly r pop debts. The forms of justice are slow in this country, hat I think the utmost will be done for them, as the British government have exerted theorems very much on the subject, and her Mmery's acting-ward at Boyles went down to Salerno last week and the week before. I cannot think now of anything more to tell you, but I will always write when I have any particular inniation for you, end let your ar have your rases. I bar written In may great he ate, and bar not time to look over my kart, in i wish to save the post to-day, earldom I cannot send my letter before Saturday; but bops I have weir= in ea to he understood by you. To faithfully, O. PCOII, Chaplain. A large remittance has left Mexico for England, by way of Acapulco. Nicaragua is still in an unsettled state; war has bees declared by Nicaragua against Costa Rica. The Panama Railway Company have ordered all payments to be made to them in American currency, which has given much dissatisfaction. At Chili the project of a foreign loan of 7,000,000 dollars has been approved of. The money market is still unfavourable. At Islay the revolution wu still masuppressed. At Lima the National Convention has been dim paned at the point of the bayonet. At California the news of the loos of the Central America causal a total suspension of business for two days. THE UNITED STATES. ocsol NEW YORK, Dsc. 1. The Thirty-fifth Congress of the United States _wembles next Monday, in Washington. The Pre sident will have a nominal party majority of 23 in the House of Representatives, and 14 in the Senate. These majorities will enable him to carry through any measure which does not divide his party. Bat the probabilities of dissension and disagreement are growing stronger every day. There is not likely to be any unusual delay in the organisation of the house, as was witnessed two years ago. Then parties were so evenly balanced that the struggle for the speakership listed 66 days, and consequently the business of Congress was for the same period suspended. Now, however, the Democrats can elect their officers on the first ballot, and most likely the President's message will be sent to both houses before three o'clock on Monday. The character of the message is already well-known in certain quarters. To-day it is being read to the cabinet, to-morrow it is put into the hands of the printers, and the day after it will be despatched in sealed packages to all the chief cities of the Union, to be opened and delivered to the newspaper press as soon as the Washington telegraph announces that it is being read to Congress. All one late presidential merges are long and verbal* productions. This one will be prolix from neeeseity. The whole ques tion of finance will be thoroughly discussed, and doubtless with great clearness and ability. There are abundant materials for disquisition in currency, trade, tariffs, the wide-spread monetary revolution throughout the world—Utah and the rebellion of the Mormons—the admission of Minnesota as a new state into the union—the unsettled state of the ter ritory of Kansas, and the affairs of Central America —these are but a portion of the items which are touched upon in the President's menage. We shall not be surprised, therefore, if this should tarn out to be one of the longest messages we have ever had. Cram( oca OW GENERAL litiyEI 2 9CIES DESPATCH PROM LUCKNOW. int Court. OSBORNE, Die.l7. Prince Alfred visited the Queen yesterday, and reward to Alrarbask is ilaa shisuras. Mars e oo NNW= lo tha royal loam party. The Comtism of Gdoeboroalik Ma soacoadad tle Dubow of Athol so Lady to WW2. to dr Qua A Cabinet Connell tram iseterday at the official residenoe of the Pled Lard of the Treasury in Downing.street. The ministers present were : Viseount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of lanbdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labour-hers, Lord Panenure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right lion. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderl, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right lion. M. T. Baines. The War Committal of the Cabinet had a meeting rioter day ea the Alm in Pall-mall of the Secretary of Stine for Wet. Present Lood Paannus, the Dake of Cambridge, riennat Pabneretoe, Sir Charge Grey, Sir Charles Wood, and Sig Charles Tarim. . _ . Martlap of the Cambridge Mellenlty Contralodation were held .4 6, Adrlphi-terrors, es Mai, the Iltb, Tues day, the 15th, and Wcdneeday, the 1611 i belant. The Cone elleelasers resent wen the Bile, eiCheeler, Lord Stanley, the Hight Hon. Bir Lawman Peel, the Dun of Ely, and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan. 1001TMA1EPTON, Die. 17. Mr Priam at Wake, ateobpaitied by the Priam Cowl, sad .**urged by Capra Ds Platt, Eq04117 to the PAM Comer, smi by W. OW his royal highnemet tree, laid bun this stankl from the royal yacht Fairy, far the mom of Isagastag the Ordirmoe Map-offies in thia tows, shore tho treader he aosplating the Trireme trioal army of Os Vila Ripka am swirl as. A spisall N pee Saab. Ins jut ins meld at • scot of mil ant Ism an of as Clideams Kapolos Mis pits has lista weld ha the papaw of pressnisp ge ispwrod lb. mop, sad*, map _ruder ; lad ohs lir the wpm of pro,idli mildsml astommatialla fir dr 'Metals employed to the acv y. Dail wry ems* and, 100 pumas was imply** la the Sollompla ersitilbmsaA, utaitelsiag empress and caw plum of the dim tad areas al bisinghs. The cranial dsso Oft of dr meet *ems shannat,tbsir, accuracy brag pima by • misty of mat& Oat of ths official* is distimpiirmi fa remselable power of mental arithmetic, sad as Mel ameba arms at • glom The triangulation Y priterimi by the liappos tad Kimura, who travel all ore dr IMMiry. Lady the Acid Md at ilaithroptos bas bola issarrhat rd.sd, to surpass of • prliamestary drys msposlig the stab of rya of the Burry. PANS Abel *spiral the Ombance-ottos • few days dam. The mil Imp from whkh the Prime of , Weiss sad the IMMO CCONSit laded at the docks was steered by • Itterissitiag aim, aim la full uniform. Thu was liesbanal Howtd, who dlitimpithed blurt in the Crimea. Whim thsTatio, who wee sisitimed In an advanced mai ls, bluerld beige the awls cavalry at the battle of Dobkin% • 14-posmiro bola or bas Majesty's shim to Mares of lib. Haw.% OW • path, was la drier of Ming *thud. • malty ease won imitird by lila to spike the ipsa sod malts prod his robust Hs to ey the wise loomee ft was not mat by tie captain of ob ahip. latioad of "Wag the put he loaded it to the mutt* read M zosak sad led it at Ur Rassima amonpt whom lased hared bane. Allows! to mai, ha has the girds Cam NW sew kaasnry diellastions. The Prins eiretemmly adisiewhlssi the wisdom of 11.. Levy on the part of the dog mthoritios as his Royal Kieran left the dot* esammy whh to. Prism Carol, to paces! to Gehtuat His Excellency the Persian Ambaarador Extra ordiaary will arrive in Landon, from Paris, to-morrow eseelek, to take Imre of her Majesty as his deprive for Teheran. --- The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived at Lansdowne Hann menaday, from Bowan!, for the pupae, of attvelio, the Wart Council. The noble marquis hen entertained • mint drab during the week at his *pantry seat, Including Lard ad Lady Uwe, Mon. Edward add Mrs. Twisleton, Mr. R. M. When M.P., Mr. sad hire. C. &nay, Mr. and Mn. Holked, Mr. Ong, Mr. Weetmacott, &c. The Marquis and Marehionees Centurion have maimed at Cleridge's Hotel, from the Continent. The Earl of Aberdeen's health is improving. His lordship I. mach better since hie mini In London. The Earl and Countess of Derby, aecompanied by Lady Emma Stanley end Ham Frederick Stanley, have wind at Knowsley Perk, mar Pramual, from visiting the Earl and Countem el Jamey, NI Middleton Pork, Oxon. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have left town for The Oren, am Watford. _ . The Earl and Count. of Shafteebury leave town to-day for St. Oda's, Dorerteinre. The Countess of Durham and her youthful family left soya, yesterday, for Brighton. The noble earl has gone to bard. The Earl and Countess of Darnley have arrived at Cluidges Hotel, from Ireland. Viscountess l'altnerston returned to Cambridge Hoer, yesterday, from Ilnxket Hall, Herts. Viscoantees Stratford de Redeliffe and the Ilon. Him Canning arrived in town, on Wednesday evening, from • tour ot nett'. Vimountem Jocelyn and family mturn to town today from Whet Perk, whore tlery base been an e visit for •lbw days to the Elle de Ony. . . • Viscount Chelsea is staying on a visit with the Earl and Constar of Hardmicke, at Wiropola HO, Cam bridgmhim. Lord Ashburton left town a few days since for The thaw^ Hain Hie lordship baa quit* recovered from his Lord 'and Lady Harriet Ashley hare left Ham ada Hosea Uxbridge, for Doer. The noble lord end her ledyehip will leers Dorer le a few days es a tilt to the Merl led Coaster of Shaftesbury, at St. Otleie, Don't. Lord Retired*le and the lion. Mims Mitford hare etrieed at Baden! rash, Idareeta-te-the-Manh, horn villieg the Eert .ad Combos et Jowly at Ididitetou Neb. The Count and Caution d'Altone hare arrived et Ibe Itreasteick Hotel, et. Jewee's, from the Cosileast. Mr. and Lady Caroline Towneley have returned to Tawasloy Hall, Lascaaaise, from visiting the Constar of Oaflea, at Crcatath Hall, war Larorpool. Sir William and 'Lady Hartopp have arrived at lie Clonsks, from Emir Oaka Hall, TM: Bataan Coldiald, Warwick&We. At • neetieg of the Society of Antiquaries last alpha. Xt. Hawk's., vtoe-seerklent, to the dash, a Weer, aired by Si, Hear, Huh, director of the moiety, to the Zent INeshege, prelim; wee reed by the serretary. The 0111111111.1ilain 111.1 MID which took the fellows, seaway, gift by worries, Leh se It eaziouseed the orepatica of Ps Hon Ells be& of the dike of , direceer sad of hie idling et the emit Hot Mmurr's IThiaraz.—thoglini and Pieco hid Mora to thole bola minion th• week after Chrilmo Day. SU perlimmet saassioutt No the !meters, Os ink.% sad lei* EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rzow ors owx PARIS, TWCRIDLT EVINIVO. This afternoon a notice was posted at the Bourse, to the effect that the important measure which I announced yesterday as probable had been adopted by the council of the Bank of France in their sitting of this day. The official announcement is that the Bank reduces its discount on commercial bills to 8 per cent. uniformly from and after Friday, Dec. 18, inclusive. The word uniformly, which is underlined, bas, as you will collect from my lest letter, no reference to the time which bills may have to run. At' i the Bouree,:where the news was at the opening considered nest to certain, there was considerable animation. The belief that an important rime is at hand, has produced a great many orders to bay from the provinces within the last two or three days, and even some from English capitalists. It is a most remarkable circumstance that the Bann of France should venture to reduce its discount to 6 per cent. while the Bank of England continues to charge 10 pc r cent. It is, however, hoped and believed that the Bank of England will very shortly make a reduction. The Bente opened with much buoyancy at 67fr. 15c., and rose to 67fr. 30e. But se soon as the news of the day was officially known there were a great many sales to realise profits, and there was news of a failure in Paris which made things rather heavy at the close. The last price of the Bente was 66fr. 95c. for cash, and 67fr. Itio. for account, being a rise in each case of lbc. Mobilier closed without variation. Railways were firm at first, bat left off without much change. Telegraphic communication between France and Algeria has been interrupted fur the last three days, in consequence, as it is stated, of the wires which cross Sardinie being oat of order. A report circulated by several journals that the Cardinal Archbishop of Peris would officiate at the midnight mass at Notre Dame on Christmas Eve is officially contradicted. The mares in all the churches will be celebrated precisely according to the usages of former years, without any extraordi nary solemnity. The tower at Vincennes, in which the late me lancholy accident took place, is, the Gaulle de France states, about to be rued to the ground; and it adds that the donjon-keep will probably share the same fate. lam happy to data that the news, which, if true, would be a subject of re gre t to all lovers of the picturesque, is contradicted (though but in a quali fi ed manner) by the Petrie, which " believes" that no orders on the subject of the cud° of Vincennes have yet been given. Visitors to the environs of Paris moat remember what • beautiful object the csatle is when seen towering over the woods of Vincennes or St. Mande. BELGIUM. On Wednesday the following royal message was read to both the Senate and the Chamber of Repre sentatives, by M. Rogier, Minister of the Interior : Xerekeer•—The Lug has done ate the honour to satinet me with a nmeege to the Chamber, which cannot fall to be a esteeet of general ealiateation. The wishes entertained by the ecrantry at the time when the heir to the oven united hie Ms with that of a princes, a member of oats of the most illostrioaa sovereign honer of &trope, will, we may hops, be shortly realised. The day open which ale hops Is ful -1 tilled, Belgium will number se am of the happiest In bar annals, and elle will find in the third generation of her dynasty a new pledge for the future of her independence end of her Institutions. When the applause with which the above mes sage was received had subsided, the Senate and the Chamber proceeded respectively to appoint a com mittee to indite an game to hie Majesty in reply. TO TKO 3DITOIL OP TTll_lllll2lB. Eta,—With reference to the Despatch from General Havelock which appears in your paper of this morning, I observe the name of " Hargood" is erroneously 'pelt " Harhood." I have, therefore, to beg you w il l do me the favour to make known t his error in your next impression. My son, Lieutenant Wm. Hargood, of the Ist Madras Fusilier', has been in every action with General Havelock, and since the first battle at Buseerat Ounge has had the honour of being one of his aides-de-camp.—l g m , W. HAItGOOI), Rear-Admiral. • Worthies, Dec. 18, 1867. [This le • wry tickers, correction , se the Editor of the 6weretteb Is the Geetfte, mak to biddy himself with the erred ` Herboad." bed, te a fete, coejeolarally Febetiteted shopther dame mai.] Louis Napoleon bee recently bout of Mr. T. Percival, of Wansford, p brown gelding b 7 Theca. The price woe {ool. —Stem/all Mercury. SOLDIERING IN Inota.—A letter has just been received from Fred. Groom, sergeant is her 'Nagy's 04th Regiment. It is dated "Claineurah, Part Indies, 21st of October, 1857," and oddness& to his father. Mr. George Groom, &Miran, Stamford. The purport of the letter is to =- Donnie hie mare arrival in the Rost, es route to meet the rebels. He thus speaks of the country and of a soldier's life Cisme ' diately after landing like the country. It is a beau tiful pita«. I never thought anything could be like R. Talk 'bout soldiering It le more like a gen tleman s lift One honr's drill a day, at fire in the morning, and thee, ashen you are for duty, you hall dotss for the day. They are magnificent banseks, about the length of B . ..gate, end the field we drill in Is quite equal to Burghley Perk in the middle of summer ; indeed ER the country mime to be laid out in parka and gardens. I shall never forget our ride up the river from Calcutta to Chi/numb, about 100 miles; the buildings and VIM very enc. The rations are first-rote. beefateaki tae . feet, together with rice, °aphid bread and °offs. , at Moor, beef, potatoes, two digerati sorts of soup, puddteige, The men have nothing to do with cooking; the settees cook, wash-up, clean our barracks, in fact do everytidng. The lower clam of the adult natives are nearly naked, and their children quit es : the better sort wear a light mullet dress." They were daily expecting orders to proceed to the sac, at tbs =Way. THE JBUFOBBII TRIAL. The Court of Amiss, of the Ettre resumed the above trial on Wednesday. The Interest it ezdted wag pester, If possible, than en preceding days. Several wit- MON were examined, their evidence relating chiefly to the nature of the reports in circulation respecting 0 Allot and Mdlle. Blanche. A tradesman named Criquebreof deposed that he had been very intimate with (Willa, and thought him a frank, honest fellow; but he was of very light character, and talked in an extravagant way. Ouillot had told him that he was making love to Mdlle. Laurence, but that she repelled him, and threatened to tell about him. Ouillot had subsequently in teemed him that he was making love to Mdlle. Blanche, and he gave him an aocount ofhis relations with her. Ile wee scow tonted, he said, to go into the orangery and to stand on a chair to talk with Mdlle. Blanche, and he described the sig nals which he made to get her to come to the rendezvous. Mdlle. Laurence suspected something, and that circumstance rendered the meetings difficult. President, to the witness—You meet give us the details which you gave to the examining magistrate. Witness—Well, °ulna told me that things between him and Mdlle. Blanche commenced by a preemie of the hand, to which she responded, and that a rendezvous was then agreed on. To that rendezvous she came with a lighted candle. " You little fool " mid Onillot, " how can you think of coming with a light ?" and he blew out the candle. Ouillot said that he obtained a second rendezvous some days after ; they stood at the window • long time kissing each other. He corresponded with her. I told him that be was wrong in putting names to hie letters, and he said that be would not again do so. Ouillet asserted he once slipped • letter into a skein of green worsted and banded it to Blanche. In returning, he noticed that she wee cold towards him, and he said to witness, " I wager that little Blanche has been to confession, and that the priest has been lecturing her:" And ho afterwards said that be had asked Blanche If such had not been the case, and she had answered in the affirmative. Ouillot wee emus ' lowed to throw little pieces of wood at the windows of Blanche to let her know ,that he was outside. Once, in climbing upp to the window, he saw her scud Mdlle. Lau reate undraesing In presence of Mme. de Jeufome, and he =rat the window. Madame de Jeufuese heard the tap, uined round. After awhile he again tapped, and Mme. de Jeerers turned round sharply, but saw nothing. One night Goillet mane to me in a violent mission, and related that, Madame de Jenfothe being absent, be was that night to have been admitted to the chamber of Mdlle. Blanche, and that Blanche had taken the precaution of oiling the hinge* of llai door, but that, just as he wee about to enter, Madame de Inform had returned home. Witness added that he fully believed all that Ouillot had told him. Another witness, named Augnetin, deposed that ()millet had laid him of his relations with Mdlle. Blanche, that he was socuetomed to meet her in the grounds of the chateau, that one night in order net to be heard she had come out without her showy and that she had, after some hesitation, ccessesited to receive him in her chamber. Witness added that Gallia knew that be was In danger of being fired at In going into the grounds, and that be took his servant with him to convey him home in the event of his being wounded. Sergeant Recede of the 7th Hussars. deposed that he knew that °millet 'had c`andestine meetings at night with Mae. Blanche, and that more than once he had been in the grounds of the chateau when they were together ; one night he and Ouillot hd been chased by the domestics. She had continued her Wilgus even slier the rupture of the two families Several other eritnesees deposed to similar declarations having been made to them by Shallot. The court then adjourned. In the mane of the proceedings the following curious letters were read "From M. Ernest de 'enrolee (one of the prisoners), to M. E. °MUM (the deceased.) Parie, March, 1867. have only jest learned that them am ghosts of wolves at Infoese. As I hate these kind of lasea=e; dally because they am, in my opinion, cowards to lag themselves to women alone, I write to inform you that I have given orders to fire upon them, promieiog a handsome reward to anybody who may hit one. I meet add that when I have to do penionally with scoundrels such as you know of, I feel a particular pleasure in pulling their ears If they do not limp quiet. Please to profit by this warning. I will dimming with say written answer." This letter was opened by Madame Otaillot, who, fearing that If her husband saw It there would be a duel, sent it secretly to Me brother, M. Paul °office, who thereupon wrote as follows to M. Ernest de Jeufosee Pent, March 18, 1857. " Bir,—By szt accident, happy for all of us, my brother did not receive your letter, and it has fallen into my hands. It is difficult to believe that such a letter can have been written by a man of good birth, and, as one should have thought, of good breeding. What violent passion can have blinded you, and hurried you on to on act at which, on cool reflection, you must blush I However much in the wrong my brother may be—you see that I am generous—however In the wrong he may be, either as regards yourself or your family, you ma have ao right to send him such sn hope threat letter. I, sir, am not of noble birth, but I hope I possess noble sentiments, which are better than any other nobility, whatever its coat of arms, and although it may trace bark to the Crusades. If I thought my honour in sulted, and I am not aware that yours is, I should go openly, and in the face of day, to demand explanations from the person of whom I complained, and not have recourse to miserable subterfuges Your father, sir, whose courage sad gentlemanly character ware proverbial in all this country, would have acted ha the same way; it would never have occurred to him to talk about pulling sera to a person against whom he had cause of oompleint. Your letter, sir, contains threats which are to me proof of a des ign to lie in welt to commit a murder, for which yon would be liable to be tried at the seem court. I therefore warn you that if anything happens to my brother I shall hold you answerable, and I shall deposit your letter at the parquet of the Promote Imperial, who will seek out and punish this violemoe.—l have the honour, &c., " CILLOT." (BY PIACI= TBLIORATN.) EVREUX, THMSDAY. The court opened at half-past ten thin morning. The crowd le even greater than yesterday. Carriage' full of visitors are coming in from all part of the neighbourhood. The court Is too small to hold the applicants for tickets, and the approaches are blocked up. 111. Bertyer having stated that he does not mean to call a greet many of hie witnesses, the proceedings will be shorter than was at teat supposed. Nevertheless, six witnesses have been examined, who speak of the Jeufoese family in the highest terms. Three witnesses, celled at the request of Crepel, state that when he went out shooting his habit was to load one barrel with "mall shot and the other with 'lugs. In answer to a question from M. Cresson (Madame Galore counsel), Crepel and Madame de 'mikes' 'Omitted that on the 12th of June, about hell an hour before Ouillot was shot, Crepel brought to his mistress • letter which the letter had placed under the pine tree. X. Creston has begun his speech. It is thought that the verdict will be given to-morrow evening. DEATH OP HERR XCENIO.—We regret to bear of the death, at Paris, of this celebrated tonet-a-piton player. He has lately been one of the principal supporter. of Jullien's concerti. and was the composer of many favourite pieces of mimic, Mend* the famous "Post-horn Galop." Foe some year. he wee the senior partner in the firm of Komi; and Peak, the myriad inetrument menufacturere of the Strand; more recently he joined the house of Chappell end Co., of itegent-strest, end was connected with that firm at the time of his death. He attended the rehearsals of Jellifies orchestra at the beginning of the present season, but was overtaken by Mures, ani by the advice of his phy sicians be gave up his engagement, and repaired to Hello vine, the residence of his father-in-law, near Paris, for c h a n ge of air, and it was there that his de ath took place. a' Z ' understand that the man who underwent the operation of basing his tongue cut out by Professor Same, In the Royal Infirmary, last week, has s ince died.—Edm burgh Erprese. Tag GAS COMPANIES AND THE PDBLIC.—The adjourned °Difference of the convention of delegates from the metropolitan parishes and districts appointed to protect the public from the monopoly likely to arias from the allocation of the metropolis among themselves by the gee companies divided into separate districts, took place at the hiaryiebone Court-house on Wednesday, Dr. 13achhoffner in tho chair. After considerable dimension, emulations were pawed to the effect that it was desirable that the metropolitan parishes should concur In a united application to parliament for a committee to inquire Into the existing areengementa for the supply of gas to the metropolis ; and that a deputation ahould watt on the Secretary of State for the Home Department, repreeenting the probable evils which would result from the existing monopoly, and soliciting the aid of government for the protection of the ratepayers. The meeting then ad journed for a month. THE RUSSIAN MERCHANT SERVICE IN THE BLACK Temday tea a powerful iron 'crow stesmehip woe launched from the building yard of Messrs. Charles Mitchell , end Co., of Low Walker, on the Tyne, She is 1,100 tons builders' mesamement, Is named the Oadaloy, and is the property of the Russian Steam Navigation Company. She to built for the compass: , 'a traffic in the Black Sea and the , Sea of Axoff. In those localities the draught of water 1. limited, and the Oudaloy, when laden with a cargo of 1,100 toes deed weight, will only draw 13 feet of water. It is in ' tended to look to the sails as a motive power, and she is bark rigged, and fitted up with all the modem improvement,. Forty-ell vessels have been built, or are in gonna of build , tag, for this pa in England, and we believe Shia they , will trade with almost every port in the Black Sea and the Levant, A luge patent slip way end other machinery for repairiag made at Odors are also going out from England. MB LIM'S OP YHA IANTAIIII. Yesterday a very beautiful noel, called the Feu taide, and destined to become the pleasure yacht of his Impe rial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, was launched from the Thames Iron Works, Orchard-yard, Blackwell. A good many distinguished visitors were present, including the Austrian Ambarador, Count d'Apponyi, the Counter d'Apponyi, Count Carc:lly, Captain Masotti, of the Austrian navy ; Lady Bellingham Graham and Mile Graham, &c. The visitors were received by Mr. !Jolt, the chairman of the company, end were aocanaodated in a temporary gallery, ander the stern, where the naming ceremony was to be performed. There ware also present, Mr. Rennie, Captain Ford of the Ottawa navy, Mr. C Miramar', Cap tain fkaithett, and several others interested in the prosperity of the company or in the progreasof our marine architecture. Orchard-yard iron works were, aa the public are already aware, established by Mr. Mare, tho eminent shipbuilder, and on his temporary retirement from businem were pur chased by the preernt company, by whom the works are now prosecuted with the greatest vigour. The premises, which cover from twelve to fifteen acres of ground, _ . . include perhaps the finest "plant" for iron shipbuilding to be found anywhere in the kingdom. Pending the preparations for the launch yesterday, some of the com pany were obligingly taken over the whole of the works by tic. Wise, the intelligent manager, snit were perfectly astonished at the variety and completeness of the various appliances, end the immense mechanical power kept con stantly in operation. In one place huge mires of red-hot iron werepleeed between rollers and speedily transformed into long slender bare ; In another, the solid metal was being bored and "finished" by enormous machinery with all the nicety of watchmaker's work ; and in a third, the great " Nammyth•' and kindred hammers were Incessantly in motion—punching hole*, beating bars, and clenching rivets, with a force which baffles conception. The accident of locality gives, It appears, to this great eetab liehotemt peculiar advantages. All old sportsmen know that the best gunbarrels remade of "stubby," oldhoree-shoe nails packed in hoops and then heated and hammered out into the requisite dimension.. It is the repeated passing through the the and extra manipulation that heregives the deeiderated toughness of mature, and the same holds good in degree of all work manufactured from reap iron. Situated then, as the Thames works an, close to the mighty City, and having manySiorend marine-store dealers continually collecting for them, the managers have a constant and inexhaustible supply of army iron, end hence are enabled to fulfil their =tracts in a very superior material. Not the least intereeting portion of yesterday's tour of Inspection was the visit to the furnacee,where these apparently worthless-looking fragments are converted into " bloom " Iron, subsequently to become main shafts for mighty Mans engines, or ribs for such graceful vessels as " Fantaiste" of the day's launch. Although the company has been but a twelvemonth in existence, they have already achieved a high reputation, having built the Prince Fredrick William, one of the fasted steamers What; the Wolf, a large need for the Mediterra nean trade; and in the permit instance having bad the honour to be egeoted to build the fleet pla- sure yacht of the Kaiser. One portion of the yard la covered with a peeled flotilla of peenlisr-look- Mg boats, which the East India Company intend to employ in dredging the Godavery; end In soother may be seen two trim ferryboats, ordered by no lee a personage than his Holiness the Pope, end Intended to convey the population of the Eternal City backward' and forwards *crow the Tiber. His Holiness is, It appears, an excellent paymaster, having insisted on paying money down for everything. But one of the most remarkable of the large works now in progress at Orchard-yard is the Immense "Boom Derrick,•• the invention of American engi ne" end ordered by a company formed for the ex pram purpcee of introducing its use in the repairs of British ships. The details of this immense machine was of course quite a mystery to the uninitiated, but its design is te lift by sheer force sunken ships, for the purpose of re pairs, and It is expected to be equal to a resistance of 1,000 tons dead weight Some Idea of its rare may be formed from the fact that its interior is equal in capacity to 6,600 tow meesurement Ench a be ginning augurs well for the company, and when we dd that amongst Ito directors are Mr. ILaudaley, the eminent engi neer ; Mr. Kelk, the extensive builder.; Mr. Bolt, late M.P. foe Greenock, with other practical men of equal standing and experience, it is hardly being too sanguine to bespeak for it a long end prosperous canter. The Fantaisie, whose launch wee the immediate burin& of the day, la an exceedingly beautiful iron paddle stainers built from the designs of Mr. James Ash, the nephew and favourite pupil of Mr. Waterman. Her length is 180 feet between the perpendiculars, and on the keel 169 feet 2 inches, her breadth for tonnage 18 feet, depth in mid ships 11, and bwthen in tons 291, notwithstanding which her draught of water is expected to be under five feet. She is intended by her imperial proprietor for his rummer voyage, on the Adriatic, where her gmeefol lines and airy proportions will suggest a curious contrast to the Buoentaur, of which once tame= craft she may be said to be the legitimate ancosesor. Unlike similar experiments in the immediate neighbourhood, her launch wee a complete success, for on the signal being given the dormitory@ were knocked away, sad she slid slowly and majestically into the water without the slightest let or inter ruptiou. It may here be observed that the locality, Bow creek, appeared to be admirably adapted for ship Monaca, there being quite a sufficient depth of water, while there is none of that disturbance from up mad down traffic, which makes lauachhtg sometimes so bawds= on the main waters of the Themes. The Fantaleie looked a perfect model when in the water, and her appearance eliciled a loud and hearty j cheer from the opposite shore, where numbers of people had collected to witateelter tint immersion. THE WESTERN BAN% OP SCOTLAND. GLAsaow, Ter MOAT. At the adjourned meeting of the shareholders this afternoon the report of the committee of invedigation was given in. It stated that the liabilities of the bank went 8,911,9321.; the meets for payment of the liabilities were 8,607,2401., showing a deficiency of meets of 304,6821., and thus making, Mending the capital end rest, reported in last statement at 1,715,8921., an estimated loss on the whole transactions of the company of 2,020,6841. The heeds under which the deficiency arms were minutely stated. On bills held by the teak the loss was 437,0004 ; on advancer end balances on current accotmts, 88.5,0001. ;on securities held in New York, 60,0001. ; on debts in suspense acoonnt, 686,0001., and other items. The meets were valued as for winding-up, not as • solvent end going concern ; but, with pendent management and better times, there might yet be a great saving on the estimated loss. The bank's misfortunes ere attributed to gross negligence ou the pert of the directors, and wild recklessness in Taylor, the late manager. After a stormy discussion the committee was reappointed. The shareholders again meet on the 30th current to take steps for winding up. TILE MANCHESTER ExuintvloS.—The members of the executive committee of the late exhibition, consisting of Mr. Thomas Fairbairn (chairman), Sir James Watts, and Messrs. T. Ashton, J. Heron, E. Potter, and S. J. Stern, had the honour of en interview with his Royal Bigh eads the Prince Consort, at Osborne, on Wednesday, to or• vey the expression of their thank" for the munificent patronage which had been extended to the curlerteking by her Majesty the Queen and his royal highness. We be. helm it is the Intention of the committee to forward to the contributors to tho late exhibition s formal acknowledgment of their liberality which shall specify each work of an, and thus prove of greet vette, in future times, se en authentic• tion of their property having pared through the ordeal ci the criticism of the connoisseurs of Ear:To—Thom TREATMENT OF GOVERNESSES.—' , An English " Poblio Chaplain" write. to the Anne from Boulogne •-- attention having been called to the recent lamentable death of a young French lady in this town,_ I think it desirable be OW that a very similar °see occurred here about four months slacikbat In that owe the sufferer wee ayonng Englishwomen. aged twenty-two, who had been in the service of a French lady of rank, residing In the Faubourg St. Germain, at Paris. On the annual of the evening train from Patio, tbe was found in one of the carriages in a state of doling:t which, on beat being removed to an hotel end medical aid ogled In, warn found to stint from malignant typhus. It wee only by means of her passport and a few moo bnent words that her name end that of her native plate were elicited. I attended her until her death, but never could obtain from her a single intelligible reply. She proved to be of very respectable family, sad bad with !we a considerable aura of money for a person in her coedits* of life, for the security of which no precaution, had bees taken. Her brother, a respectable tradesman at H—, tat Suffolk, was able to arrive only in time to follow her to the rave. There can be no doubt whatever that she mart he , * ben in a terrible condition of fever when she was put late the railway carriage. I have communicated thee' facts Dr cause there seems, I think, to be a disposition in eons quarters to put an unjust construction on the late moat dr plorable °convene.. Inhumanity is, unhappily, pecan to no one Country or nation." Ta admit. The tat Was the ere 6,4681 bleat of Alharm rapt had deficiency, profits; U Mr. Lie the baakr ROHM .Nederi4 and along Berlin, en office of C aims a gol, severalelt n ,P 7 obtaiz Bell ate be receive rola, whi( fla waa so of beEn g staaliag a ••g •PPan =Wirer i m found ; talaing tile Tic • &again, Mien; a retvned the learn, 1001., wl decade& pro:watts Lord C 11.00DMIX10. 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