The Express. — London, England, 1863-12-03 00:00:00

Zhe erprefsfi. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Averthemote totQZ tat ..iltel4e;;" Leedom Treatai Taqr, must be et the calm 1A Botteerleotoest, to Two o'clock on the day of thilleatiew 00PlINTAAIDEv. TEM ET1211210. Ba. Ta - DE Nal& Mews. W. 11. Woks, H. Coal, L Cook, A. St Albyn, and W. Harris= , Moo L. Pine, Met, and Heywood.—And tho 2md Act of THE DWIERT FLOWER. —Conductor, )dr. A. Mellon.—Cosonenace at 7. HAYMARKET. Wm Hymn. AILEEN YITTRRS. gems Howe, Trues, ma C. Mathew ; lira C. Mathew..—THE GOLDRN TLRICE. Yr. and Km C. Mathews.—COOL AS ♦ CUCUMBER. AIL C. Mathew,—And LITTLE DAISY. Mime Harris. LYCEUM. Tao Erma% riftedßAßY. Mr. WI ddlooint. and Was C. Lecle .-31 L DI ONTO, a Lon Story. Mann Fochtet. Bro . Marlon. and Jordan ; AIWA Teeny, Invent's, and and Mn. Ls. Tarts Erivnos. THE DAYS OP LOUIS IV. Madames 8. Lane and X Yamld. -Mt. J. Taylor, Paal Dean. and Madams Plann. THE JEWESS OF TIM TEMPLE. Xing 8. Mlles. - And THE GLUT GHOST Elliet-Caws at S. MOB WATXR AT LONDON DRIDON. TVs DAT —Manila& 6h. 4748 Athasers. !LIP& TO4llo=oll Wanda% 7h. 30a... Afbinhass. Bh. ha. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3. Ws hope that the prompt disavowal of the pseudo-official pamphlet, "Napoleon 111. and the " Congress," and the absence of irritating articles against this country from the columns of the in spired pram, may be taken u evidence that a truer, judgment is beginning to prevail in France respect- ing the reasons which have determined England to have nothing to do with the EYPI.B.OR'S magnificent scheme for remodelling Europe. The thought that a disposition of hostility to France lurked beneath oar reply to the Emblems's invitation, is one which could not be entertained by anybody acquainted even superficially with the feelings of Englishmen. If there is one thing certain in contemporary politics it is, that the desire of our countrymen of all ranks, classes, and opinions is that not only the - peace but a good understanding may be preserved between the two countries. We believerthat the feeling was never more profound or unanimous than during the m cent period in which the public opinion of England was urging the Government to decline the RYPIRON'S proposal of • Congress. We are equally satisfied that the interests of the two countries require that the conditions on which their Government& can act together shall be tho roughly understood, and their limits frankly recognised. Mistakes and delusions on this subject can only lead to vain expectations and ultimate disappointment, and disgust. The objection to the proposal of • Congress which weighed most with Englishmen was the uncertainty which appeared in its every aspect. All great enterprises are attended with more or less risk of failure. But it was not merely that kind of uncer tainty which weighed with us. An eminent French man has expressed the opinion that the Faerzsoa's proposal did not succeed because his policy in this business was ideal while the English character is practical. But neither is this the whole truth. We trust we are not foe ever doomed to reject proposals originating in great ideas. The fact is that in this case we were never in a position to be sure what were the ideas which would govern the action of France. A fair and moderate guarantee would hays sufficed for us. There was • time when the policy of France was elucidated and publicly defended by the best intelligence of the nation. The press was free, and the Parliament was a power in the State. One had only to read the Paris journals to trace in the discussions of the Chambers and in the essays of accomplished poli ticians the growth of opinion and sentiment, and to perceive whither the policy of France was tending. Our neighbours, who improve everything, have got rid of that system, and now prefer to have their affairs managed by • knot of clever, versatile men, who work in secret, and ,from time to time electrify the world by the sudden 111110132100- meat of vast schemed of change. This system fumed' to admiration. It pleases the masses ;it has enriched, and indeed created, new classes of Parisian society ; it increases the power of France in the world. But one thing it fans to do ;it cannot inspire confidence in French policy abroad. The Emerson's proposal came upon us as • sur prise, and we promptly paid the appropriate tribute of astonishment. We should have been more likely to accept it if we had become gradually familiar with it as we booed its origin and growth in the mind of France. The French journals appear to take it very 11l that the action of Austria has been conformable I to that of England in reference to the Congress, and M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has spoken of "the " complicity and subordination of Austria " in ' the matter. A vivacious writer who has just proposed that France, finding it impossible to deliver the Poles, shall enter into a close and exclusive compact with their murderous oppressor, is not exactly the man to appre ciate alliances formed on similarity of prin ciples. If England finds herself on the side of Austria, or finds Austria on her aide in this matter, the fact would seem to be suf ficiently explained by the common interest which the two Powers have always avowed in the maintenance of the faith of treaties, and in their common &ace of an adventurous policy. There is, however, no reason to deny that the tendency of English foreign policy is to a closer approximation to Austria than the different cha racter of the two governments has hitherto permitted. We are a progressive and liberal as well se a conservative nation, and Austria is now, all things considered, one of the most progressive States in Europe. Since Piedmont, in the later years of CHARLES ALBERT'S reign, ex changed absolutism for parliamentary government, there has been no instancein Europeof a reform so deep and comprehensive in the whole system of the State as that which has been inaugurated and brought into operation in that empire during the last three years. Austria Nemeses not merely the shadow but the reality of parliamen tary government. The Reichsrath exercises an effective control over the policy of the Government. 110 W COW IT HAS BEEN.—NEGRETTI and ZAMBIA'S celebrated TIIIIIIOIIITFAS will cor rectly regi4 , the Towed temperature. Price, 3ttid.-1. Hatton garden so curnhill; ISI, Fleet street and 12!, &meat-street *seats waited. ALFRED WEBB MILE S, Everybody knows Mr. MILES. ISM V3D from Boodeinxt, to 73, BROOK STREET, Hanover. square, in IMO. The iss. TROUSERS tortionated by hisM in all the New Patterns for Winter, Setter than ever." SPEC/AL NoTICE TO GENTLEMEN. A. W. MILES begs moot respectfully to announce that his stock to the various depsrtasents of his establishment Is now replete for Overcoats, Vestings, Bedford Cords, and scarlet waterproof cloth for hunting. The wool-dyed Black sad Bine 'Frock SOL A choice of 50 pieces of indestructible "routed West of Cloths. ESTABLISHED It t. Only addreaa TROUSERS. —Special attention is called to the 1., WINTER STOCK ; ano gentlemen who do not mind paying a tor price for a good pair of Trousers can depend on .natertal and pattern. that CUIDO4 he excelled, at HAM! LTON and KIM ETON 8. 101, Strand, oppoidte Inter Hall. DO NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT ! We sup at EVANS'S, Covent-garden, slaw Concert. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, $63• The discussion of public reassures is not only tolerated but honestly aotopted by the Govern went as one of the conditions on which the benefits of constitutionalism are to be realized. We may remind M. EMILE DE GIBARDIN that there have been times lately when the liberty of the press at Vienna has been envied even at Paris. Not that Austria and her Government are all that English men wish. Far from it. Her false and unfortunate relation to Venetia must come to an end, with the harsh methods of rule which possession of a foreign territory involves, before she can have our full sym pathy. But her tendencies are in the right direction. And in comparing Constitutional Austria with Im perial France it is fair to rememberthat if the former 1 still holds Venice under arrangements sanctioned by Europe fifty years ago, she does not go about the world attacking one community after another to set upend maintain a hated rule as the French EMPEROR has done at Rome and in Mexico. There are two qualities in the Austrian Government which Englishmen are quick to appreciate, and which will weigh in their j udgment whenever they want an ally. These are frankness and good faith. The Emperor of Ausraia does not affect to be inscrutable. The policy of the earlier years of his reign isknown and judged. By assembling a free Parliament he has broken with that policy for ever. He could not return to it if be wished. But sofa from wishing to turn beck, he takes the greatest possible inte rest in the working of the new system. His Minis ters appear in the Reicharath to explain and re commend their measures in language deficient indeed in lofty generalities, but on the other hand always capable of being translated into English. Those measures, moreover, are liberal, and will become more so as the constitu ti onal system is developed and confirmed. Nothing but ignorance or stereotyped judgments, inherited from a state of things which has passed away, can hinder the growth in this country of a cordial sentiment towards Austria while its Government advances in its present course. But • friendship formed on such grounds cannot give umbrage to any enlight ened Frenchman. trig court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Die. 2. The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princes Helena, and Princess Louise, the Countess Hoban. that, the lady Caroline Barrington, Count Funitenstein, and Major Vail achweinitz dined at Frogmen with the Priem and Prisons of Wales yesterday. Prince Leopold went in the evening. The Ladies and Gentlemen of the Queen's Household bad the honour of being invited at the evening party. The Queen, scoonapeaied by Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Earl Roma had an audience d the Queen. The Prime 4 la Tour &Auvergne, AMbeseador of Prance, was presented to the Queen at an audience, by Earl Rural. Count Roepetorff, envoy ezteaordiaary from the Bing of Denmark, bad as audience of her Mii}esty, and was pre seated by FM Russell. IL de Bills, Danish minister in London, was presented by Earl Rummell to the Queen at an audience. Prime Leopold (attended by Mr. Buff) and Princess Bea trice (attended by Madame Needs) have taken their anal carrier airing. Earl Russell arrived at the Outtle. Deepatehee were received at the Colonial-office yeeteeday from the Governors of Coylow, Hoag Kong, Gibraltar, and Malta. The Duke of Brabant arrived in London last meshy& Hie royal Maims' leaded at Dover from the Belgium steemer la the eftamoos, sad, after perteking of buicheee at the Lard Weide& Hotel, continued hie journey by train. - Lord and Lady Ashburton have been residing at the Grange, Haste, AIM July, but have rationed to the Continent. Lord Ashburton's health had been media' sines his return home, but during the last few days he has not been so well. The Earl of Shrewsbury bas left Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire, for Blenheim Palace, Oxon, on a visit to the Duke and Dachau of Ifarlbotoesh. The Right Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., and Mn. Peel have left Cheshem-plese, far Avionics House, near Winebester, Hampshire, on • visit to Mr. John Shel by. We (Post) understand that telegraphic news is expected in London from India by the members of Iced /Ws family in the mine of to-marrow (Friday), whim the result of Um noble earl's •160011 MONS will be leaned. The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury was yesterday prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, by the Vicer•Omeral, Dr. Travels Twin, under • 401111•140111 bon his grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbuy, Pig Mill al All England and Metropolitan, pursuant to the royal writ, until Thurs. day, Januar, 14, 1864. The Iris?. Times says :—" We are authorised to state that the coolecratim of Dr. Tema, as Archbishop et Dublin, is fixed for the Ist of January. the Yeast of the Ciroaracisioa. The ceremony will take plass, as at present wronged, in Christ Church Cathedra The P(0(1111101 of Frieleciastical History in the University of Dublin, the Rev. Dr. Gibbing*, has been annotated one of the axa miabig chaplains to his grace. The admirable introductory hectare delivered by Dr. Gibbing. at the opening of the Divinity term is a guarantee that a sound knowledge of ecclesiastical history will be required from candidates for ordination." The Rev. Dr. Lee. F.T.C.D., Pretence of Divinity and author of a work on 'aspiration, is another ei tte irelibiehopie exantioiag ohapisioe. He will preach the consecration sermon. Mr. Peter Paul If'Swing, a Roman catholic, Ime bass uoanimoosly ideated Lord Mayor of Dublin for the year 1854. He is the heed of one of the large Web- Hamada in that city celled "monster bowman Mr. Johu Francis Maguire, M.P., bee been noaalateasly elected ow yor of Cork for the laming year, which will be his third year oeswasatioely is office. _ . A Carlsruhe letter says :—" By superior order negotiation, had been opened between the admiebtration of the court theatre and 3i. Wags.,, the musical composer, for his eagagement as coodueter. The condition. desnaded by the musician were 6,000 florins 115,000(r.) • year foe life, an apartment in the palace, and the used a carriage. The court would have perhaps acceded to these demands, but M. Wagner likewise required that his sew opera of Tristan should be brought out immediately. His protectors then saw that there was no limit to kis datheada sad the nsgotiatioes were blokes off." Mi. EDWARD FOETRIL TER CRETEWALLIARL— C b g e Derby Male u r p c i t aioit s ( ro M;•. T. ierencet2 Freereivoilailsokfolli:w4 Derby who has recently attained his 101 s t y ear ) : —" 10 , ' Downing-street, Nov. 25, 1863.—8ir. Is reply to your Letter to Lord Palmerston of yesterday's date, I have to lateens yyooau that a fortnight ago Lord Palmerston directed that a desntiss of 601. s h ould be presented to Mr. Edward Fester ant of the Royal Busty Fund.--I remits, your obsdiest savant, EVILS! assimr. Thomas Roe, Esq., Mayor, Darby." Tas LATE MR. SHEZPSHANES.—One day an snit friend, either Mulready or Leslie—the writer forgets width, though be was himself living at Blackheath at the and heard the name mentioned—opened the garden gets lesdisg to the house. sad easing some one hard a t work gessise gardener's habiliment.. inquired. "Do you know if year meetele at home, my man'" The " man " turned round to the speaker, who found him to be the muter histeett Oa smother music*, some other artist with whom he was on familiar terms called and met with him similarly occupied. After staying some time the visitor was shout to depart, but as the t wo bad got into a lengthened and interesting dj oemo s es, Mr . .fteepshaske said be would accompany him amen Mae heath to the railway station ; so they started = , the host not mein about puttin g hi mse lf i n t o cry attire, bat retaining his flannel jacket sod bread-brimmed t, the latter not so corernmely worn is these days as they are sow by gentlemen , eve. en their own donnas.. Os machine the station, the dimension wee not toresiaated, sad Mr. Sheeptheake ould have eetessd the carriage —s Inn clue—with his companion, to finish It as the way to London-bridge, but that the railway Wine& who probably did not know him, positively refused to allow Ishii to lake hie seat in such homely clothing. We ineutice these easedotee so, show the simple oiled and uneateatatious thesseter et the man who must be numbered moos' the sailea's greatest benefactors. —Art Journal for Deeernber. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE NEW LOLL (nom ma ows oosassrowDzirr.) • PARIS. WZDNIISDAY MIMIC I am informed that the loan will only be for 300,000,000, and not the larger figure which has been recently spoken of. Explanations of the rea sons for the loan will represent it to be a purely economical measure, and, without of course refer ring directly to the rumours of war, will by impli cation entirely dissever them from the loan. It appears that the deficit of the budget of 1862 is 32,000,000, and that of 1863 43,000,000. This makes • total deficit of 75,000,000 during M. Fould's administration. This deficit is attributed entirely to the wall in China and Mexico, which are calculated to have cost already 270,000,000, thereby absorbing all the sur plus revenue, and so neutralising the financial prosperity of the country, and leaving besides, as above stated, 75,000,000 unprovided for. The laggregate of the deficits of preceding budgets is now brought up to 971,000,000. EL Fonld thinks this Wcouvert (as it is called) too large an amount to leave outstanding. He mentions that the Mexican government (!) has admitted a debt to France to the extent of 210,000,000 ; but, (with amusing naiset4 in so grave a statesman, he avows his opinion that the recovery of that sum is too " contingent " to be prudently reckoned upon as • resource. Therefore he proposes a loan which will reduce the &concert to 671,000,000, which amount he shows at some length to be not too large. You will probably find that tho above resume, which reaches me from an extremely good source, will be borne out as far as it goes by the Moniteur. I think the news may fairly be considered as favourable to the peace of the world ; but of course it will not do to be too confident, because a war loan may very well come between this and the spring. There does, no doubt, remain the awkward fact that till very lately the loan was strenuously denied in official circles, and it was hardily asserted that all the expenses of the Mexican war were met without it. I do, however, fancy, and am glad to say so, that the war party seems to be discouraged within the last four-and-twenty hours ; the govern ment journals have lowered their tone and are less aggressive. You will see from the report from Galujnani which I enclose that the court-martial on Lieutenant Fleury, yielding neither to esprit de corps, the high official connexions of the prisoner, nor M. Lachaud's eloquence, has manfully done its duty. It has not, indeed, passed a capital sentence—and the admis sion of "extenuating circumstances "in even the worse cases is so common in France that I cannot blame the court-martial on that account, but it has passed upon the officer of the guards, for his tool and dastardly murder, the terrible sentence of 20 years' imprisonment with hard labour, and surveil lance by the high police during his whole life. There is little change at the Bourse. Rente fell 20c. for ash, but rose tic. for account. Mobilier fell 20fr. The Gazette du Midi has received a warning, and the Daily News is seized. HOMICIDE BY A PRINCH OFFICER.- ADUL. TERM AND JEALOUSY. On Tuesday the Military Tribunal of Paris tried lieutenant Fleury, of the 4th Regiment of Voltigeure of the Guard, aged 28, on • charge of having murdered, on the 18th August last, • married woman, named Petit, • clear searcher, who had • shop in the Passage de Cherbourg. The fade of the (am, as ascertained by the prisoner's con fession and the evidence of numerous witnesses, may be briefly stated as follows :—Ou the 10th of April the prisoner, when paring through the Passage de Cherbourg, saw the woman Petit for the first time, and once con ceived • stress minion for her. He returned in the evening with the intention of obtaining an interview. In this he succeeded. and was much chagrined to learn that she wee married, and bad • husband living, who was • painter by trade. This discovery, however, di d not deter him, for IMO saw her spin as the following day, and she thee consented to visit him at hie own lodgings. She kept her word, and remained with him alone for several boors. A day or two later the primmer west to the woman's shop, under the pretest of having linen to wash, and was introduced to her husband. From that time he spent all his leisure hours at the shop, often going in full uniform, and sometimes stayed all night, sleeping on • bed made up on purpose for him in the same room where the wife and her husband slept. This continued for two months, when the woman persuaded him to leave his lodging in the Rue de Vienne, and to partially furnish an apartment which th e had hired in the Rue f3t. Nicholas, and from which they afterwards removed to the Rue Laborde. Here they led a very gay life, frequently giving perttes,which were attended by the prisoner's friends, accompanied by their mistresses. Os some of these occasions the woman Petit excited the prisoner's jealousy by her conduct towards the male visitors. This was especially the cue on the 9th August, when a lieutenant named Giuganti and his mistress were present. The prisoner was so much offended on this occasion that be then threatened to elms all mosezion with her, and even wrote to his father for money to enable him to settle his accounts with her. Unfortunately the money was refused, and the prisoner's resolve to break with his mis t:am was not carried into execution. Oo the cootrary, his infatuation became greater than ever, and the woman Jeri. , toted him more and more by having rendezvous, the object of which she refused to explain. On the morning of the 18th she promised to be at Lome when he came, but was absent, and he then learned from one of her wmherwomen that she was out with a gentleman. A few minutes later he saw her alight from a hackney coach at the end of the passage, and he received her with reproaches, which she answe red in the most offensive manner. She even told her workwomen that if 13..1.6 (such was the nickname given to the prisoner at the shop) were ever troublesome, they must smack his face and turn him out. Peace, however, was restored by the arrival of a stranger, and the prisoner afterwards asked pardon for the language he had used, and aid that he would come and take her out for • walk in the evening. She replied that she would not go with him, umbel had an engagement which she intended to keep, but would sot say with whom. The prisoner then exclaimed, " I will take care to prevent your going." He soot' afterwards withdrew, returned but just before eight in the evening. After his arrival the four women who were hoeing in the shop fancied they smelt gun powder, and one of them went out to see if any boys were letting off crackers in the street. The prisoner appeared to take no notice of what bad hoes said. About 9 o'clock the woman Petit. wising Lieut. Giamatti passing before the shop, called him, and said. "How proud are you! won't you come in and kin mel' Giuganti did as she wished, and afterwards asked her to go with him and the prisoner to the latter'. lodgings which the refused, saying that she had an engagement elsewhere. About 10 the woman Petit sent one of her women after a man who had just passed the door. In a minute, the messenger returned and said , that the gentleman was waiting for her mistress in the Rue d'Aojou. The latter was going oat at the back door when the prisoner seized her by the hand to detain her. She re fused to atop, and he thee discharged a pistol at her head. The ball did not penetrate the skull but stunned her, and, leaning on a table, she exclaimed : " My sight is going! . .• She had seareely uttered these words when the prisoner stabbed her to the heart, and rushing into the street gave i himself into the custody of • sergent de villa. Giuganti, ' who was present when the pistol was fired, seemed to have ' loot his wits, for instead demisting the murderer, he ran ' away ea fast as he mold. All these facts were fully estati -1 lished by the evidence given in court, and the only doubtful I points were whether the murder was premeditated, and whether the prisoner was inane at the time. A great many witnesses deposed that his family, both on the father's and mother's aide, were subject to humility. Two of his grandmothers had died raving mad, and be has • sister at the present moment in • lunatic asylum, who : fancies that she is the spouse of Jeans Christ, and • has bees told so by an angel. The medial wittiness z gr hojave evidence respecting the prisoner's sanity all that, whatever he might have been at the moment of ' the crime he has not been mad since. The prisoner's counsel (11. lambu') endeavoured to show that the disease, here ditary io his client's family might reasonably be supposed to have been the cams of 'the aims. The tribunal, bow. ' ever, did not consider such to be the ease, for it declared I the prisoner guilty at wilful murder, hut with the benefit of • extenuating circumstances, and unanimously condemned him to twenty years' had labour, military degradation, and to be under the surveillance of the polies far life. A Californian paper eetimates that the gold yield of the Pacific minas for 1863 will be about 11 mallow sterling. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE DANISH DIFFICULTY. The Temps of to-day observes that the danger of a war with regard to the Duchies seems to be for the present averted. The declaration which has been made by the two principal German powers in the Diet must be considered an advance on their part, remembering the necessities imposed upon them by the state of the public mind in Germany. The communication of M. Bismarck to the Prussian parliament is to the same effect ; and Hanover ap pears to be the object of violent accusations from the suspicion that she recoils from the consequences of Federal execution. Even the allies of Den mark, such as Sweden, advise prudence, and, like Prussia and Austria, take for the basis of the negotiations the Treaty of London. "The pretensions of the two parties," says the Temps, " are not irreconcileable ; the Duchies do not ask, as is generally supposed, to be annexed to any German State whatever. They claim a separate administra tion, and no more. This is not a problem inca pable of solution, if each side will but show a little good wilL " The following circular despatch has been sent by the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents of Sweden abroad : Stockholm, Nov. 20. The telegraph informed us yesterday that the Prince of Antistenburg, whose father has renounced his pretended rights, has published a proclamation in which he declares himself to have taken in band the government of the Duchies of Schleswig sod Holstein. sforeover, we &retold that the princes of the ducal line of Sammy have re cognised this pretender in the said quality, and that the Grand Duke of Oldenburg has protested against the succes sion of the Duchies. All these manifestations constitute so many attacks upon 'the convention of London of May 8, 1852, which was concluded with the object of settling the I order of succession in the kingdom of Deemsrk, and of pre serving the indepecidenee and integrity of that kingdom, as necessary for the maintenance of the European equilibrium. The integrity of the kingdom of Denmark is seriously threa tened by the attempt to take from it the duchy of Holstein, one of the fittest jewels of the crown. The independence of that monarchy sustains an attack not less dangerous through I the pretension of the German princes to wish to decide the destiny of the duchy of Schleswig, which has never belonged to the Romeo Empire nor to the Germanic Confe deration. The question is no longer that of Federal execu tion in one of the provinces belonging * that Confedera- Moo, but relates to measures intended to separate the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the Danish crown, in order to give them to a German appanaged prince. We do not doubt that this question will be carried before the German Diet, which will be urged to assume the right of deciding by itself the fate of a country not German. Under these circum stances the government of the King, as a co-subscriber of the treaty of the convention of London, considers itself entitled *demand fromthe powers which signed that treaty explanations as to what they intend to do in this state of thinp. Not that it can suppose for an instant that one only of the powers can intend not to recognise obligations, so solemnly contracted, bat it believes that it will be by no means melees for the suteeribing powers to come to en un derstanding es to the path to be chosen, and the measures to be adopted in ceder to prevent the spoliation of a prime whose rights they have recogaised, and to ward off the dangers which threaten the equilibrium of the European *Mom. I request you, thee, to read this despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, leaving with him a copy of it, sad to say at the same time that the government of the King hopes to receive a reply on this important matter.— Reoeive, ho,, MANDiItBTROM DISTURBANCE AMONGST THE RUSSIAN PEASANTRY. The Iwolide Rune gives the following particulars respecting the disturbances which have occurred among the peasantry in the interior of the empire : Acc:Ordiag to deepatoire received in the month of October these disterbeeces took place is three governorate. Is the goverement of Pena, district of Kokszana, on the estates of the Count and Countess Zakrewsky. They were mooed by the refuel of the peasants to submit to the sta tute labour and royalties fixed by the imperial manifesto. In the government of Tonle, on the Clierodinoff estates, when the pageants refused to take possession of the land assigned them by a new territorial division. In the government of Elaratoff, district of Kamisina, on the estates of Prince BieloseJsky, where the peeionts refused to pay the taxes, mod accept the territorial allotments. As the civil autho rities were not able to put down the %%Woe at once, military detachments were sent to occupy the aborrisee tioned estate.. The leaders and instigators bevies been arrested, and the more guilty puoisbed, order was restored. The peasants acknowledged their error, returned to their wetly and paid the royalties imposed by the law. For the mere speedy re-establishmeot of order and tranquility, the governors of Nun and Seratoff went in person to the sows of revolt. K FOULD'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT. PARIS, Drc. 3. M. Fonld'a financial statement has been pub lished to-day. It states that the total amount of the deficits is 972,000,0001 r. It is necessary to consolidate part of the floating debt. The pro duo. of the loan will be employed to redeem the treasury bonds, and will put in circulation an amount corresponding to that which it will demand. K Fould proposes to she Emperor to fix the amount of the loan at 300,000,000 fr. The expenses on Mexico will amount to 210,000,0001 E at the end of 1863. K Fould says :—" It was hoped that a Mexican loan would lead to the repayment of our advances. But notwithstanding the confidence we have of seeing • regular government established in Mexico at no distant future, we must not allow the security of our finances to depend upon the liquidation of the debt of Mexico to France. We hope for a day when, by the reduction of the expenses and an improvement in the receipts, it will be possible to resume the operation of the oinking fund. If in the future the equilibrium of the budget be maintained, if the generous efforts of the Emperor assure peace, and the state prosper, our finances will permit us to reduce the taxes and realise the wishes of his Majesty." AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Dw. 3. The North German Lloyd's stea mer Hansa, from New York on the 21st nit., paned the Needles at 10.30 a.m. to-day. TNE FRENCH GOEXENYINT AND M. TRIERS.— AI the last sitting of the chamber, Y. Thnillier, the gowermest occamieriooer, made the following remark : "I per to the government of July, and, i• doing so, I salute an illustrious man of whom the country hi proud, whom lam happy to now see nested &mond ns, and for whom the government has bad every imaginable considera tion. (Interruption) Yes, every consideration—and it is bemuse I know that the fact is disputed that I now loudly premising it." _ _ The gold mining region is extending in every direction. New diggings, new districts, new territoral, with golds@ the basis of their existence, are springing up on every side. A new map before us suggests these thoughts. Upon it all the vast "middle region" is blocked out into territories. Colorado, New Arica', Nevada, Utah. and Idaho, are shows in aro= colours with Melte meta and bounds, where a few years ago was marked the "Great American Desiet," or " Un explored Region." The march of progress has fairly out stripped the wildest dreams of the "manifest destiny" enthusiast. Gold —gold, is the moving acme, the potent wand that bee folioed to the arid plains and icy mountains the tees of thernands who Sr. fast laying the foundation for (stun states. Rocky Mauxtai n (Colorado) Newt. Tits CAan or CArrAirt STONE. —A communication was realised in Liverpool yesterday from the Board of Trade, in answer to the memorial presented in favour of a withdrawal of the sentence which had been pronounced in the sass of Captain Stone. whose certificate was impended for six months in consequence of the accident to the Royal Mall steamer Africa. The Board refuses to withdraw the maternal, and give. reasons for doing so. THE 00IIRT-MARTIAL_ ON COLONEL CRAWLEY.-(THI8 DAY.) (sox otrz °wit urogra) FOURTEENTH DAY. ALDERSHOT, Din. 3. The court re-assembled at 10 o'clock, and deli berated in private for a quarter of an hour. Colonel Shute wee in attendance for cross-examination by the prisoner. The officiating Judge-Advocate referring to the proceed lop of the previous day relative to the production et the letter addressed by the Horse Gouda to Colonel Shute, so to the condition of the 6th Dragoons before Colonel Crawley took the command, requested the official prosecutor to place in the hands of the court the letter from the Adjutant- Genera directing him not to produce the letter in quashes, and which letter formed the grounds of the decision of the court yesterday. The Prosecutor stated that he had received a letter from the Adjutant-General desiring him not to produce the letter in question for the reasons stated yesterday. That letter from the Adjutant-General had nothing to do with the proceedings in the present ease, and, in answer to the request now made, he had no objection to lay it before the members of the court for their information, but not to be catered on the proceedings. . . Woad Crawley mid that slum the tieing of the court yenteedny he had had time to consider the comae he ought to take u to the craw-elimination of Colonel Shute• After recapitulating what had taken place on the pre vious days on the subject, and the promise of Sir A. Hanford to produce the letter, and re call Colonel Shute, so that he (Colonel Crawley) might bars the opportunity of moes-examining him upon it, and the subsequent refusal, in obedience to the direction of the Adjutant-General, to produce it, he observed, that in those circumstances of embarrassment it remained only for him to bow to the decision of the court, and to state that, in in the absence of the letter. it would be iropoe. sible for him to proceed with the cross-examine tics of Colonel Shute, whom he did not wish should be detained any longer. He should be sorry, situated as he was, to press unduly for a document, however seem thil it was for his defence, the production of which it was alleged would be prejudicial to the public service. He would, therefore, simply ask the prosecutor to place the letter in the ha nds of the court for their information, bet not for publication—in order that they might, in dealing with the cue before them, have a document which in some respects showed the difficulties of the position in which he (Colonel Crawley) was placed when be took command of the regiment, and in some degree found a justification of the course he had pursued. TM Prosecutor objected to the production of the original latter from the Commander-in-Chief to Colonel Shute, on the grouod already stated, that it was a confidential cow. munioatioe, and also on the ground of the orders he bad received from the Adjutant-General not to produce it. If it was produced it would necessarily become put of the proceedings. At the same time he had no objection to lay before the court for their information the letter ,of the Adjutant-General. which was an official communication to him (the prceecutor), directing him how to not in the matter. Oolong Crawley said the prosecution were now offering to do with the letter of the Adjutant-General what he had naked should be dons with the letter of the Hone Guards sad if the objection of the official prosecutor wu applicable to the one, it must be equally so to the other. The court thee retired to consult, and on their return, The officiating Judge-Advocate announced that the court was of opinion that the letter that had been handed in by the prosecutor should be read and attached to the pro reeding,. That the court farther had decided to decline receiving any communication which was not to be reed end entered on the praossdings. LI ititio&l RIIMARKABLI WILL CARE. A very remarkable will case has occupied the Court of Excheqner at Dublin for the last three days The most eminent counsel have been engaged in it on both sides. Nominally the plaintiff is a priest, and the de fendant a widowed mother, but in reality it is a contest between the two churches which Dave fought so many battles in this country. The priest is the Rev. Mr. Kum, who was called in to attend • man named Maguire. for the purpose of administeriog to him the last rites the church. Maguire was an iron-moulder, who was employed a good deal in England. Although a Roman catholic he was very inattentive to hie religious duties, and was seldom known to go to mess. About eleven years ago be married a protestant, the ceremony having been performed ti e protestant clergyman in • protestant church. r children were baptized into the Roman catholic church, the mother herself presenting them at the chapel for that pur pose. During the absence of the parents in England the eldest child was left in Dublin, in charge of Mn. Maguire's father and mother, who brought her up as a protestant. After their retara she sent them all to a protestant Sunday admol t with their father's full knowledge and consent. Early in April he was attacked with valvular disease of the heart, and his ease being hopeless, the Rev. Mr. Keon was sent for, at the defendant's =motion to give him the last rites of has church. He visited Mag uire on the 24th of April, and baring discovered in confession that has children were attending protestant schools he refused to give him absolution until he signed • will consigning them to his cus tody, to be educated as Roman catholic. A document of tha pupa= was drawn up by the plaintiff, and brought by him . the 27th of April to the dying man. who signed it in tl • presence of two witness= provided by the priest and strangers to him. His wife was absent at the time, and never heard of thin will until noon after her husband's death, and while she was still nursing the youngest child she received an attorney's letter requiring her to surrender the cbildree to the Rev. Mr. Keen and two others, who had beep pro Jarred joined with him in the trust With this demand she refused to comply, and entrusted the children to • charitable association. 'rho priest sought to E h. tpoesesarei of the three children by means of a writ of corpus, but the re , uro made to the writ by the mother was deemed satishotory, and the court refused to =for= his claim till the validity of the will should be esta blished. It was tried at the last assizes of the county of Kildare, but the jury could not agree to a verdict. It has been sow tried agatewith th e acme result. in Dublin. The jury consisted o f eight protestants and four Roman catholic& It is stated that ten were for fiodiog the will cull and void, and that the other two expressed their de termination to sit there till Christen= rather than ogres to • verdict against the print GEESE FINANCE. The following in the communication made by " a gentleman holding • high sod influential official position in Athens" to M. Stefano, Xenon, and by K. Stefan, Xesos to the Times, ou the prospector of the Greek bondholders o . 1824-26 : " Athens, Nov. 20 . "The question of the loans of 1824.25 is so unpopular and preterite so marry difficulties—ned the Greeks so little understand the arguments of the English—that no political man, no government, will dare to support a question whose tendency is to throw so heavy • burden on the public treasury. It is true that this bunters appeare to promise the development of large moral and material resources. Our people will oot believe in the realisation of these promises. and they are becoming more determined, as the late financial crisis is disappearing, and we believe now that oar affairs cee be arranged without asking for • new foreign loan. For these reasons I consider that the question of the loans of 1824-25 is entirely at an end, not only for the present, but for moray yens to COMO. The press is as unanimous sgaitet the question as the people." "WANDERING CHHINTIAIti."--Girle are your first trial after fixtures, and they try you men won. that what I all the WaMeriog Cbristiatis, though why they should roam the earth looking for bills and then coming in end viewing the apartments and stickling about terms and never at all wanting them or dreaming of taking them being already provided, is a mystery I should be thankful to have explained if by any miracle it oould be. It's wonderful they live so long and thrive aito on but I suppoee the exer cise makes it healthy, koocking it moth sad going from house to house and up and down stain all day, and then their pretending to be so particular and punctua l is a most astooishiog thing, looking at their watch.. and saying " Could you give me the refusal of the rooms till twenty minutes past eleven the day after to-morrow in the fore noon, sod supposing it to be considered amnia by my ' friend from the country could there be a small iron bedstead put in the little room upon the stain .^ Why when I was new to it my dear I used to consider before I promised and to make my mind anxious with oalculatious, and to get quite wearied oat with disappointments, but now I says •• Certainly by all MOM " well knowing it's a Wandering Christian and I shall hear no more about it, indeed by this time I know most of the Wandering Christians by sight as well as they know me, it being the haNt of each individual revolving round London in that capacity to come back about twice a year, and it's very remarkable that it runs in fami lies and the children grow up to It, but even were it otherwise I should no sootier bear of the Mead from the country which is a certain sign than I should nod and say to myself You're a Wandering Christian, though whether they are (as I tare heard) persons of small property with a taste for regular employment and frequent chasm of mane I cannot undertake to tell you.—Mrs. Limper's Lodgings. SOUTH KINSINOTON MinilltUat.—Duringthe week ending 28th Nov. the visitors have been as faows :—Ott Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, apse from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7,330; ea Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridsy, nucleate days (admission to the public 6d.), opera from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.. 1.161 ; total, 8,631 From the opening of the mossom, 4,332,320. LAW INTELLIGKNOL (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCL (Before the Judge Ordinary.) --- CORCORAN AND RAINS V. DR7K ENRON. --11PICIAL DAL Dr. Deane,Mr. Quaiu, and Mr. Leans MEC, tor the plainti ff s ; /dr. Serpent Parry, Dr. [kinks, am x i ,. Hastings for the respondent ; Mr. D. 1). Kean e f or legu me ander the will. The testatrix was originally Lydia Augusta Barkit, toil was stated to have been a deecoodaot from the family ,r Oliver Cromwell. She was born in comparatively tumble eirerunatumes, but she was married to a er e d t h. distiller and wine-merchant at Bedloed, hayed Rawlins. With biro she lived for several yea r, and at his death in 1852 he left her the whol e o f hie estate absolutely. It consisted of real, copyhold, and person a l fr_o_t_ i yrt , Weides half the business iu which he had b een The testatrix lived at Grove House, !homy, 7.2 7. but in the autumn of 1853 she went over t e Dahlia, when the exhibition was going on, and she troM the aoquairitance of Mr. James Corcoran, a furrier, that city. He proposed to her, and was accepted, sad marriege settlements were drawn up with the utmost for. mality. Amongst other things it was stipulated that Br. Corcoran should give up hie business and should come to re side at Grove House. Pending the negotiations Mrs. &whin executed • codicil, in which she left him, in the neat of ter death before the marriage, an annuity of 4001, The wedding took plane in January, 1854, at which time Mn. Coterie was about 52 oe 53 years of age, her husband being two w three yearn her junior. They lived very happily tateth, WI the 4th of last December, when she died. sh e bad bum a great will maker, but the paper g m =by the execrators bore date the 15th 81. She had, however, previously executed a will in November, 1858, the provisions of which were My miler. She left nearly the whole of her Property to M t husband (who had of late managed the distillery bunnies no' only on her behalf but on behalf of the owners of the oth er share of the business), but she gave four public-homes to the four children of her brother, Mr. Burka, of Australia. Probate was resisted, nominally by Mrs. Dickeosoe, sister of the deceased, but really on behalf of Mr. 13oriit, the pleas being that the paper propounded wee not the of the deceased, that it had not bees duly executed, that the deceased was not of testamentary capecity, tad th et the instrument had been procured by the tundra) Wont; importunity, and control of Mr. Corcoran, the plaintiff. Is support of the will evidence was given of the formal execution of it in the presence of two members of the firm of attorneys whom she employed to transact her Intel b e g. treas. It was mho sworn that they had not had the alight * oommunicatiou with the husband of the deceased, sad th a t she was of perfect capacity. At this stage of the proceedings a canpremies was effected, and A verdict entered for the plaintiffs. Sir James Wilde then decreed probate. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. CommiMiceer Gonlburn.) IN 111 J. SIMPSON. The bankrupt, formerly a fanner and lime.berner. of ,ford, and now out of busies.; of Cbarlottastriet, Whiteehapel, applied for his order of discharge. Debt', 8101. ; on accommodation bills, =9l. No assets; bad dente, .4681. " " • . Mr. Chidley appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Lumley fa creditors ; and Mr. E. Reed for the bankrupt. It • that us memorandum had been placed on de ings of what was done at the last sitting. Hie Honour complained of this M an irregularity on tle part of the solicitor to the assignees. Mr. Chidley said the order had been certainly dram up and handed either to the registrar or the messenger; but in the c infusion which prevailed in • very crosdel court, the order had probably been lost. Hi Honour directed that • fresh order should be dam uP• Mr. Lumley said hie client, Mr. Harvey, complained the the plaintiff had bought six Losses of bim at Chollock bus, giving • cheque for 160/., which, on presentation at La London and County Bank, turned out to be worthlem The Commissioner —That seems to be rather • case for fa police-court. How do you put it under our act of pule. ment ? Mr. Lumley said the court might order a prosecution under the =IA section ; but u the creditor had taleo col proceedings in the Court of Exchequer, and obtained ;nig. mein, it would probably be held that the criminal °Hetet was condoned. He would pier the cue spinet the Mub rapt under the set, as a ease of incur* • debt without probable means of payment. His Honour, after cooferring with the °facial mimes, and learning that the accounts were very detective, said he should direct an adjouramant sine die, with leave to bankrupt to have a day mauled, at his own expose, when prepared with bettor accounts. Protection for two mouths. The bankrupt was a pa birca;,lf the Whestsbeaf, Shad. well. He now C 42110 before the court, owing 8/. 8.. oily to unsecured creditors. and 30/ to creditors holding qty, the property held being of the value of 131. Mr. Aldridge said the bankrupt had been adjudicated by the registrar. He had been benlaupt ao recently u Yard Wt; he afterwards meet into Weiner at two places, war arrested, applied for his relater, and was sent back until Is had been in prison four months. The Oommimioner —Well, what are we to do with . . . Yr. Aldridge—l suppose you most discharge him. The Oommissioner—This is really taking out ► some ticket in bankruptcy. He comes here twice within ow per. However, he does not get his ticket without tour mowd imprisonment. Order granted. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before Baron Channa) drew Godlow, 30, ardor. WiUiam lteon,2o. sail?, and Marmara Buckley, 20. spinster, were charged eh feloniously wounding Mary Ann Butt, with intent to do Mr grievous bodily harm. Mr. Collies prosecuted, and Mr. Bibton and Mr. IMY were counsel for the prisoners. The prommutrix, it appeared, was of the clue called fortunate, and resided in one of the low localities is ms East end of the town, and the female prisoner was cis of the same class. On the night of the 6th of vember the pr isoners and the prceecutrix were mad at • "wake , ' sad while they were all more x lam in • state of intoxication • quarrel toi place between the female prisoner sod the ptomain. which ended in • struggle in which the prosecutrix excel several injuries, inflicted by some sharp instrument, axed which was very close to the jugular vein. The primer said that it was not a knife with which she inflicted as wounds, but • piece of glass. The male prisoners vev charged with aiding Buckley in the assault. It wcs el mitts& however, that the prommutrix commenced to queneL Some witnesses were called, but when the prosealn was called the did not mistier ; and by the direction of ta judge the jury returned • verdict of Not Guilty. sells recogebanoss of the proirecutrix were ordered to $ ortreated. (Before the Recorder ) George Priest, 20, was iodicted for felooiouslF ad fraudulently forging a false certificate of birth, with atei to obtain an appointment in the Customs. Mr. Kemble prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe defended. It appeared that the primmer had been employed is Customs for some mouths put. and he was only waiting tl be attained the age of 20 to be placed upon the rtylk staff. lie only wanted three months to the right age, bra becoming impatient he procured the certificate of his bin and altered the date of 1814 to that of 1843. The ewes of the figure 4, and the substitution of the 3, was ISM . clumsily performed and so the fraud was detected. The Jury found the prisoner Guifty, sod the leared Recorder aentesoed him to be imprisoned sod kept to ha labour for the space el two oalasdar months. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAT.) OLERKENWELL. .17TEVPTED SLICIDZ. Ellen Heath, aged of I, Rawstorne-place, Clerkesse: who said she had no occupation, was charged with Weer' Mg to commit suicide by taking a quantity of white precik tate powder, at Clerkenwell. PoHoeconstable Charles, 224 0, said that a day or ter sines he was called to the boom in which the defeatist resided, and saw her in a very exhausted state. He 01 told that she had taken poison. and he foiled Dear be:' paper labelled " white precipitate powder—poison." her lips he saw some white powder. As quickly ss poser , restoratives were applied, and the defendant was t a l , oP I the hospital, where it was found necessary to dew. t.'• When she recovered herself she stated diet she taken poison to destroy horsed, as she was very m o,b tressed in her mind, and was tired of her life. The defendant in answer to the charge, raid that she r • deeply regretted what had taken place, sal she would care that such an offence should not Lappets again ever her dculties or troubles might be. lOs The magistrate inquired what was the cause a defemlant's troubles. The husband of the defendant said he was sorry t° that his wife had lately taken to drink, and that sow : 111 sole cause of her troubrks, On the day in question .he lad been drinking deeply, and when she was recovering fro, e ffects of her debauchery she procured the pow , '- took it. The defendant said it was all true, and as this CO' first time she had ever been in trouble she did hope that Abe : 04 punishment she bad undergone would be deemed surt and that she might no be discharged. The magistrate remarked thee the &towboat had Ws guilty of a very wicked offence. He should r efusal h im to the House of Detention fora week, where she seen by the chaplain. John Al was chargq ;timely inj A osrtia quite neat James same bow I was teas served th Mary Ani and asks followed ; told him t 4 ensued, an her head o that she turned be wound at t quantity ol taken into Witoess by the prim ben. Prizomer WAS remaa Oo the S east district be seep etre whilst shell ground. About 8 various bye salesmen's the City wind rushed Jim, and at scattered in from their Admiral Fit directions several omo lowed. WI which led her Haien It was eons chimney bei to Mr. J. B Lower Than stack cams Several pen Thome Jon had to be ren nen was Upper Than Nearly facia streak whet an umbrella river; whet] k imposeible The engin, fin in roof of a hot =TOW MN) The lands London are 4 The seam of the damag Billingsgate- Bela being nn Nairn _ . rue • • • Shields Scar Galway Valenti* Bred I:Orient V s erirorti PertoroooDi Loofas Dover Irorsioath Ikeligolaad PIMA Nortberty,gale rein flsZk N.N W. to ILN.E., Mr at times, moderato. lia met above. N. to E. si stroog to n dear, bat mg Naritallast= wan. Routh= Xask=ffiralt el s—Boronset Faeb tae feet. It as loch Mr be warty tin.' aster la shad. Foiat). magnetic). F. *ace last re to 32=N). t ot ban malted' a Z. —Cabal. Loss or TIE Baurroc Wednesday, t tee, the other down ha the 1 they with thei bans. The nu told. The co tein Watts, th of the crew of minder reach down to sight Burnham. A coroner of the body of Sonthaniptoo slaughter" re' meadsr of the look.ont man dent. A wart Wooloott. UNP WEA!