The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

Burial Acta have been largely amended; Dulwich College has hemmed@ more useful, under the advice tithe Charity Commissioners; the womb of the most immoral portions of society hare been cared for (whether with any success time may show) by Lord Campbell's Act for suppressing the publication of licen tious books and pictures; and there is an end to tho controversy about the possession of the tide mud of the Thames, the conservancy of the river being better provided for. The petrification of its waters remains to be effected. The Divorce and Matrimonial Canoes Act is the great achievement of the legisla tive year; and this will be better understood here after than even now, earnestly as the boon is hailed by all who know and care most about the domestic morality of England. It leaves some things to be peremptorily desired; but it effects much, in reliev ing the innoreent end oppressed, in discouraging (or abstaining from encouraging) the prodigate, and in abolishing the scandal of snits in which conjugal dishonour is associated with pecuniary damages. As the Act comes into operation next month, we may congratulate the nation on having seen the last of those crier. ern, whops which bare long been the diagram of our country throughout the world. Besides what has been done by direct legislation, we have witnessed some progress is other social re forms. The cause of education is advancing in all ranks; and Oxford ham come forward nobly to assist the middle classes to improve the quality of their attainments and training. The break-up of the scheme by which the Society of Arts was working well towards a similar end is, we may hope, only a temporary, though a great, misfortune. Another year ought to repair it. The Educational Cooler ince in London and the Birmingham Session of the Friends of Social Science and Improvement are en cot:waging signs of the times, and mast have yielded knowledge which will bear fruit hereafter. The public hope of a real reform of the army is justified by recent declarations and acts of the Commander in-Chief ; and especially by his plan for the training and organising of •Staff worthy of the quality atone soldiers. In all directions we see a tendency th wards that justice to merit in the place of frees titian which the late war instructed us to Masai We shall obtain what we desire, as the year's expo rieuce shows, but only by unremitting vigilance and that patriotic pertinacity by which Englishmen hate acquired all that they value in the way of political justice and liberty. As for the rest, the Royal Family are growing up so as to move about the world end take their plate almost as =emend women. The young Princes bare left home, partly on their travels, and partly te i pursue their education in appropriate establishment& The marriage of the eldest Princess within the next month will dimly, the popular view of them el children ; and from being the pets they are rising he be the hope of the nation. The condition of Ireland has been a bright epee- Ode this year in comparison with old times; bet there is much perverse unhappiness still. Govern ment has interfered to protect the magistracy from the bias and the cannot Orangeism ; and the com motion is great about that. There has been more and worse turmoil in Belfast, where the old feud has broken out fiercely, on occasion of the headstrong folly of a protestant street preacher. Some agrarian murders have net a gloom over the latter part of the year. The Atlantic cable, laid down from Valenti*, amidst an enthusiasm of hope, stimulated by the eloquence of the Lard-Lieutenant, sops snapped, sad postponed for an indefinite time that speedy communication with America which would lave spared both countries some of the wont Inca dents of the commercial convulsion of the autumn. The ether peat mechanical project is in an uncer tain state—toe Gnat Eastern steam-ship, now christened the Leviathan, bat not yet anat. The great bell of the new Houses of Parliament, too, has cracked : and thus our monster productions are giving es a rebuke before fulfilling their promises. Our looses by death have been great. Time is sever a year when we my otherwise. Death, the leveller, has chosen from among the pest. es we have seen, the last of the children of George liL, in extreme age, and in the prime of life, a royal geed of ours, in whom we felt the interest that exile always inspires, the bathes de Nemoars. The twe liberal peen, Lords Ellesmere and Fitzwillim seemed, by their depertare, to hint how the times of early wbig struggles are receding into history. Lord Amhent's death reminded us of a different aid passage in our story of Chinese adventure; and Lard Morningtor's of some ancient gossip, well moms as he ones was as Wellesley Pole. The Doke a Reamed died early, and Lord Fitehardinge kite, is the year. We have lost Lord Strangford, whose early promise as a leader of young England having died oat, we have heard little of him for long, except the piteous fact that his death averred within a month after hie marriage. Bishop Blom. field died soon after the surrender of his function ; and Baron Alderson was carried off before he had closed his public life. Of our deceased representa tives, Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Augustus Stafford will be most missed. With sore grief we have parted with two literary men, cut off untimely— Douglas Jerrold, and John Mitchell Kemble—the wit end thescholar, who have hardly left their peers behind them. Croker, too, is gone who is scarcely mourned, perhaps, but who has by no means been grudged his share of prints for the services he rendered to literature. Dr. Scoresby bad fulfilled his long and useful ex istence, hut we were sorry to part with the brave old navigator, who had something useful to say at every British Association meeting on the science the seas. We were sorry, too, to lose the ancient actor, Mackay, who made Scott so happy by his pre sentment of the Bailie Nicol Jsrvie ; and in another way still we were sorry to hear of the deaths of the eldest eon of Barns and of the last of the Boswells of Auchinleck ; and again, of the last of the children of Mt s. Thnle—old Lady Keith. Among the deaths abroad, the most interesting to us were those of IV-renger and of Cavaignac, in France ; of Kane, the Antic navigator from America ; and amidst a very different set of associations, the Princess Lieven, who had played her part in the politico of Europe for a long course of years, in a most practical spirit. Such have been the public looses in 1857. As for the feelings which are common to as all, while indivi dual in character, it may be that, engrossed with the image of India, we have said at times, almost every one of us, that those of our friends were happy who died without witnessing the calamity of this awful year. We may be justified in rejoicing that the aged tad tender-hearted did not lire to share nor conster nation and anguish. Bat if it is true—as the sage, and the hero, and the poet believe—that lib I. better measured by its intensity than its dantion,we moot consider it so small privilege for any of us to have lived through this year, and scarcely less he come to have died amidst its calamities. It is surely a great thing, as discipline, to see • champs open amidst the quiet familiarities of modem life, bringing es into the presence of the old tragedies of a peasionste age end a pagan raying, tempered by the heroism of the primitive Chris tianity. For as at home the deepest feelings of ear emetheal youth have been renewed by traits of woman's anguish, imprecation and revenge, sad oil ma's /edema and prrterhastas strength eel L THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1857. valour—traits as majestic and soul-moving as antique lisbxy and poetry have ever recorded. By ourselves Ire may form some conception of what the life of oar countrymen and countrywomen in India mast haic been. Awful as was the suffering, there must have been a ao leas awful joy, equivalent to long years of ordinary existence. There has been many a " happy warrior" in India this year ; and many a civilian, many a woman, who has found in the fall tension of every faculty, the vivid sensibility of all affections and passions, and new life so prodigious that it was not worth con sidering whether it was most painful or plessiocable. Perceiving these things, and, moreover, that the sterling quality of our race and nation has been proved as splendidly as it ever was in the presence of the Norman Conqueror or of the Spanish Armada, or of the world in league against as, with Napoleon at its head, or of all plague, pestilence, famine, or other calamity that England has ever sustained, we who survive may to thankful that we have witnessed such a year, *hike still grateful that some who could, as well as some who could not, have borne the storm, went to their rest before it broke over our heads. When we further consider that by the manifestations we have witnessed we may learn more than was ever known before of the relation of the old pagan to the modern Christian times—the relation of an age of passion to one of convention—the relation of a barbaric niyime to one of civilisation—and we may regard this year as one of unparalleled instruc tion, or at least as inaugurating such a period. Not in vain may many a daughter of England h►ve wandered alone in the Indian night, or one here and there have satisfied her soul with vengeance : not in vain may our heroes have sat in soli tary peril, keeping murder at bay by the glance of the eye and the tone of command : not in vain may the soldiers' heart have at once hungered for slaughter, and sickened at the monstrous scale of it; not in vain may have been the unintelligible horrors, the dread suspense, and the wild despair undergone by British hearts on both continents, if the one may be thereby established in true relations with the other, and the European and Asiatic natuna be brought into a better understanding. The year is over and gone it has been got through ; and the crisis in India with it. It re mains to be seen how much we can learn from calamity of our weakness and our strength, our mistakes and our capacity, and of the exact value of our civilisation under the fiercest strew to which civilisation was ever exposed. It remains to be seen how we can " better the instruction" given by our cruel torturers, so as to do the races they repre sent the most good, by coercing what is savage in them, and giving them the benefit of their own good qualities, secured from the operation of the bad. To some of us it may be most congenial to regard the year, as such did the fast-day, as one of humilia tion; and these had best follow their natures: but it may be nobler and more useful to regard it as one of exhilaration—at least in the retrospect. The best patriots are those who think no cost too heavy for social wisdom, and for any enlargement in the tree theory and practice of social duty ; and if, Omagh our adversity of this year the civilisation st Asia generally, and the welfare of India in par ticular, should take a new departure, and we our selves should feel released by the shock from any bondage of convention, or perils of indolence and levity, we may well consider the year 1857 as not only one of the most memorable in our annals, bat of the grandest and most blessed in the experi e of our race and nation. En, expregigt. TO 001UMIFONDINTO. Avirtionsati trestisa tog •• Lamina Indy paw, art %a at Se Mo. 11, Pr Tee APO& oP to ing et pilings& NOTIRDIST. Two 'worm. SPUD Tat PLOUOIL-11•100, male Ohnotem promirosidoil VII @LISPING 111A&Wotin Tan WOOD liorkvinsod Optbdol Mot. Nom. liontny. A IwwWW.w G. Looleft; MIN I. Ledirvi. Taw WiWilb.—Ow.man a I. Tin gym.. 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The Report le the work of Mr. Inspector of Charities Butazow, son of Mr. Commissioner of Bankrupts Btualow, and a member, therefore, of what may be tensed a functionary—perhaps almost a Barnacles —.— family. It is not by any means full or sufficient in its details ; it traces imperfectly the history of the Charity ; its account of the actual state of the Foun dation is somewhat confused. It treats with all becoming reverence the great people who monopo lise its government and p►tronage. It quite agrees with them that the complaints of the Poor Brethren are unreasonable ; and u for suggestions for the I augmentation or improvement of the school, Mr. Inspector of Charities SKIRROW hu none to make. He is too discreet and proper a functionary and Barnacle. Nevertheless, the Report, dealing with Charity which had, because of the magnificent pereonages in whom the management was vested, 'leaped former inquiries, brings into pretty strong relief abuses which the Inspector has failed to see. "The Hospital of King JANIES, founded in Char " terhouse, at the humble petition and only meta —.—, " and charges or TIIOIIAB SUTION, Esquire " (u the Foundation of the Old Muter Gunner of Beranek- on-Tweed, who on his way to London, where he be came a great merchant, brought up with him a con siderable fortune from the coal mines of Northum berland and Durham, is legally designated), is now two centuries and a half old. Surroot endowed it with large estates in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Lin colnshire, Wiltshire, Hants, and London ; he bought for its site the dissolved Monastery of the Char treuse; he procured Letters Patent from the Crown for its creation ; he gave it the patronage of nine excellent benefices; he left its future management singularly free from embarrassment in the shape of elaborate regulations ; and conferred on its Governors ample power to extend its usefulness. Sur - 069 was a wise and experienced man of the wend ; and in the sixteen Governor, whom he ap pointed, he took especial care not to confine his selection to any one class of society. Ile composed his Corporation of sagacious peers, pious churchmen.l great magistrates, and eminent merchants. Now., the first great fact that Mr. Inspector of Charities Storshow omits to notice is, that this mixed and use ful element has subsequently been extruded from the government of the Charterhottre, which has be come essentially aristocratic. There has not, we believe, been a man in the government of SUTTON'S Hospital of Surrox's own class for the last century. The great lords, and bishops, and statesmen who have dominated and do dominate over it have stuck most gallantly to their own "order" in the self elective powers conferred on them, and have most rigorously excluded the middle clam linden business men. By way of propping up their system and of clothing it with still higher authority in the edmin istration of its patronage, they have illegally and anstatutably banded over nominations both e poor brethren and poor scholars to the Greer!, the Prince CONSORT, and the Prince of WALES, and this onlaw hil transfer of power and patronage, we are awry to say, the Court sets the bad example of exercising— another fact of which Mr. Inspector of Clarifies Sxtnaow takes not the slightest notice. The consequences of great people monopolising the government of Surrooes Hospital aro manifold- First of all, great people cannot attend properly ; so, though the original Statutes directed that the Orders of the Governors should only be legal when made at an assembly when a majority of the wholebody was present, five of the sixteen may, it is now enacted, make Orders. But, though great people cannot attend regularly, they like to exercise patronage ; so, though by the Letters Patent SUTTON endeavoured to obtain corporate and common responsibility for the proper appointment of objects for his charity, the patronage is now distributed amongst the Governors, indi vidually and separately, each nominating when his turn comes round, whether he attends the Assem blies or not, Next, great people taking merely a nominal share in the government of Foundations, the patronage of which they dispense, must have some working man as a Governor ; so, in utter disre gard of all propriety, consistency, and order, the aristocratic Governors of the Charterhouse have actually elected as a Governor their thief salaried officer, the Muter, thus confounding administra tive and executive functions. Then great people are seldom economical in their management, and while the Muter, Registrar, and Schoolmaster of the Char terhouse are all substantially paid, the Poor Brethren complain they cannot live on the money allow ance of 261. a year allowed them; and in the course of two centuries end a half, the number of poor scholars has only been increased by four, became though the Letters Patent ordain that the increase ed Surrox'4 Estates " shall be employed for the .ssaintenance of more and more people," the increase bea chiefly been eaten up by salaries and 'unneces sary outlay. " The number of scholars," says Mr. Inspector of Charities Smanow, with easy and graceful familiarity, " nowadays is limited to 44." The income of the Charterhouse is, t. now-a days," about 23,0001. a year, and, on the expiration of other two years, it will probably amount to nearly 30,0001. During the ten years, 1845-64, its total receipts were 209,9601. The Hospital has eon- aequently no lack of fund.. 'What is the amount of good donewith this fine income? Simply this-110 Old Brethren are lodged, dined, and allowed 251. a year; and, as their necessary expenditure is at least 161. a year above that sum, and as to secure admission they mast be devoid of other means, they very justly complain that they are not maintained as Surrox intended they should be ; 44 Poor Scholars are fed and educated partially at the cost of the Foundation ; and about 1,1001. a year is spent (with doubtful legality) on University Exhibitions, and some 2501. in donations. It is one of the worst faults of Mr. Inspector of Charities Sufattow's slipshod Report that it does not state, or enable the reader to find out, the actual expenditure on the Old Brethren, the Poor Scholars, and the Exhibitions; but the accounts he publishes show a wasteful expenditure in salaries, allowances, Ice., in which a new scheme of manage ment would soon produce large economies. But improved management is not to be expected in a Foundation the government of which is mono polised by Lords Spiritual and Temporal who have other things to attend to, and over which a person of such imperfect tense of moral responsibility pre sides u the present Master of the Charterhoase. Though the terms of the Foundation do not require that the Muter shall be a clergyman, though the duties they assign to him are the very reverse of ecclesiastical, and though they require him to be an unmarried man, the Master is married and is a clergyman. But that is not the worst of it. Although lay management of public institutions and property is always better than clerical, the Statutes expressly say of the Muter : lie shall neither have nor accept of say place of prefer ment or benefit, either in Church or Commonwealth, whereby be may be drawn from hie residence, care, and charge of the hospital, and if he do, in such case he shall leave that place, or be displaced if be refuse to leave it. But, under aristocratic rule, the present Muter is the most eminent pluralist left to the Church. He is Vicar of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and has cure of 10,000 souls there; he is Archdeacon of Middlesex, and, as such, one of our Diocesan's" eyes ;" and he is Canon of St. Paul's. And all these various heavy and inconsistent ecclesiastical duties of Archdeacon HALL he "deposed" to Mr. Inspector SEHIROW—and the Lawyer of the Hospital " deposed" to the same effect did not interfere with his duties at the Hospital ;" on which "depositions," made, we presume, on oath, Kr. Inspector SKIEROW waxeth regardful, not of the welfare of the Charterhouse, but of the Church. Assuming this to be the case "—Mr. SIIIIEOW does not say it is or it is not the case, as might reasonably have been expected—" the question might occur " might, indeed!—must is the word—" whether the " care and charge of the Hospital interfered with " his duties in the Church ; but that "—Mr. SICIIV now grows frightened at his own andaeity—" is " clearly a question wholly foreign to the present " inquiry, and falls within &jurisdiction other than " my own." For the performance of his duties as Muter of the Charterhouse this more thin CESAR of the esta blishment, soya Mr. SKIRROW, Receives a salary of 8001. a year, sad enjoys the perqui site. and allowances already mentioned. The Heater's home, or lodge, contains many and very handsome apartments, wbich are la most part tarnished at the expense of the Hospital. Now, what are these " perquisites and allow " ances," which, in addition to 8001. a year, and • large, handsome, and well furnished residence, this Master of the Charterhouse, this Rector of St. Giles', Cripplegate, this Archdeacon of Middlesex, this Canon of St. Paul's, " enjoys ?" First of all, his enjoymenta consist in 30 dozens of albs. candles, 30 gallons of oil, end 01. for firewood, yearly, and 71.10 e. once in three years for linen. These are his minor enjoyments. His greater luxury consists in a daily table, and the Master's table costs the Hospital 4161. 31. 2d. a year. At this table, however, the Master dispenses hospitality to the other Officers. Far be it from us to charge Archdeacon HALE with anything graver than such a total want of all tense of moral responsibility as sets all improvement in the Hospital at defiance. But then the Mastership of such • man is only a natural consequence of Great People monopolising the government of a Foundation for the sake of its patronage ; and there lies the secret of the anomalous circumstance that the usefulness of St:TION's Foundation does not in crease in proportion as its revenues have augmented. To this Mr. Inspector of Charities SKIEEOW, ion of Mr. Commissioner of Bankrupts SKIREOu , is, how ever, as blind as a bat. RETIREMENT or Ma. JONTICZ CREF4SWELL. , Yesterday a notice wee exhibited at the Judges' chambers that Mr. Jostles Crewmen would attend to trawled twines@ on Friday neat. In • short time hie lordship will retire from the Court of Common Plea to take his seat in the new Probate Court. TILE LAW OFFlCEL—Yesterday the law offices were opened after the Christman recess, to anticipation of the ensuing Hilary Team, which commences on the 11th of January. THE CASE OF THE Qt'EEN T. ROBINvOV. DIATIt OT MA. Awn MRS. CAHILINOTON.—Our obituary • fortnight ago recorded the death of Mr. and Mrs. Carring ton, formerly of Cheltenham, which event took place on the same day, on Sunday, the loth inst., at th eir residers° is London. We sines learn th at on the morning inquestion /dr. Covington was found dead in bedroom, having been struck by apoplexy, and the intelligence being incautioualy end abruptly communicated to his lady, she, too, was seized with apoplectic symptoms, end died the more even ing. Mr. Carnagtort was formerly in the Ceylon Civil Service, and latterly had resided for many years to Cheltenham, where he occupied a good petition in society and wax much respected. A. few years ago one of hie daughters wee married to Mr. Omwell Lloyd Evans, of this town, and her conduct has since formed the subject of numerous investigation@ in our courts of law. The unhappy stigma attivhcd to three proceedings induced her /*rents to leave Cheltenham and remove to London, where their titvitli occurred within a few hours of each other ander the melan choly circumstances above narrated. It is more than pro bable that the daughter's unhappy position, and the anxiety caused by her approaching appearance in ihe witness box, were the proximate mows of the final catastrophe. Mr. Carrington at the Mao of his death was in his .3.1 year, Mrs. Carrington being some 17 years 161,103210T.—Chettruham Eumminer. CELEBRATION OF TTIE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MAR RIAOI.—The motion brought forward by Councillor Hope at the meeting of the Edinburgh Council yesterday embodies, we think, a nuggeation worthy of attention. Dentine's, the higher and middle chimes will hove their dinners, balls, and festivities in honour of the merriage of the eldest daughter of our gracious sovereign; and It would certainly give an appearance of universsley to public rejoicing if the working dames were also to Lave some entertainment on the Immense' other than that of feasting their eyes and ears on the ine vitable remibe and crackers which the occasion will, doubt less, call forth. A soirie on • large scale, at • low admission, and with substantial attrectione, in honour of the event, Is a ' very good idea and we hope it will be taken op and spiritedly carried out.— Edinburgh Express. The Manchester town council having, as already retorted in these columns, unanimously pasted a revolution of thanks to the executive committee of the late ArtTressures Exhibition for their able cud arduous services in its manage ment, the presentation of this testimonial on behalf of the corporation took place yesterday afternoon in the mayee's parlour at the Town-ball. A ski. Uner was provided by the mayor, 11r. Iris Mackie, at which were present about eighty gentlemen, including, besides the members of the executive committee, Sir J. Potter, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, wr., Mr. J. render, Sir J. Watt.. and the member, of the town council. GIFT TO Tilt Sochi KENSINGTON MUSEUM.— Priej; Napoleon he. Immo 6;;;tiuTo" of c.ousou on Education a very Interesting PpeCil3loll of Gobelin tapestry, the subject being "Arils presenting the dagger to he humbled Pietas, eller leaving 'webbed herself." This OM of work woe given on his marriage in 1807 to lerom, King of Wastpbelia, by the Emperor, his brother. Prince Jerome has lust given it to his son Prince Napoleon, in order that it might be presented to the Museum of Art at South Kensington. TnE STATE OF EMPLOYMENT IN MANCIIFATER.— The weekly return published yesterday showy an increase of persons out of weak, the number bring 9,382 against 9,228; increase, 156. The number on short time has decreased from 21,872 to 20,975; decrease, 897. There his been an int morn:sot in more workpeople having gone on fell time, the tototoer laid week being 19,286, whilst this week it has in creased to 16,243; Improvement, 967. bt Court. MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. WINDSOR, Dzo. SO. The marriage ceremony of the Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William of Prruraia will take place at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Monday, the 25th of January. There will be present on the occasion, besides the royal family, the King of the Belgians, the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince Frederick Charles (nephew of the King, son of Prince Charles), Prince Albert (brother of the King), Prince Charles Albert (eon of Prince Albert), Prince Adalbert (omen of the King), and the Prince of Hohenzollern Sir marittgea ; the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, and Prince William of Baden (brother of the Orand Duke), and the Duke and Duchess of Sale Cobourg, the whole of whom will arrive in London from the Continent on the 16th of January and the following days, and will be her Majesty's guests at Buckinglem Palace; while apartmenta have been engaged for their respective suites at Farrance's and Fenton's Hotels. There will she be present on the occasion Prince Edward of Sale Weimar, the Prince and Prime' of Hohealohe Lsngenbarg, Princess Feodore and Prince Victor of Hoban- lobe, and the Prince of Leiningen. Her Majesty, the Prince Cooed, anti the royal family will arrive in town on Friday, the 16th of January. A series of theatrical representations will take place at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, the 19th; Thursday, the 21et ; and Saturday, the 23rd of January, at which her Majesty, the royal family, and foreign visitors will be present. Iler Majesty will give a state ball at Buckingham Palace _ en Wodnesday, January 20. Prince Frederick William will antra on the 23rd. After the marriage ceremony, on the 26th, the Prince and Primate Royal will leave Buckingham Palate for Windsor Castle, attended by a limited suite. liar Majesty will give that evening a state concert at Buckingham Palace, to which the persona present at the marriage ceremony, the Corps Diplomatique, the members of the Government, and a number of the aristocracy, will be ins ited. On the 26th, most of her Majesty's gawks will return to the Continent. On the 27th, her Majesty and the Prinos Consort, with the junior members of the royal family, will join the young married couple at Windsor Castle, where, on the 28th, her Majesty ti PI hold a Chapter of the Garter, for the purpose of investing Prince Frederick William with this distinguished Order. The Knights of the Garter attending the Chapter will be her Majesty's guests oaths Coatis, and wig be present at • grand banquet to be given in honour of the occaska. On Friday, January 29, her Majesty, the Prinos Consort, and the royal family, with PrMoe Frederick William and the PI ;Weill ROTA', will return to town, and be present in state at the representation at her Majesty's Theatre in the evening. On the following day, Jeunary 30, her Majesty will hold a Drawing Room, at St. James's Palace, for the purism of receiving congratulations on the happy event. The departure of their Royal Highnesses is fined for Taw day, February 2. Their Royal Highnesses will embark at Gravesend, in her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, and cross over to Antwerp. The Duchess of Kent, with the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lady Augusta Bruce, dined with her Majesty yesterday. Also the Porta game Minister and Counter de Las :ladle, and Sir James Clark had the honour of being Included. The bend of the Soots Fusilier Guards wee in attendance end played in the Castle during direr. Her Majesty's private bend performed in the drawing room the Mowing mulatake : Overture, " La Part an Diable" Duo Contestants, " Ls Prophete," piano 1 Rubinstein and and violin, Meears."Cuelas and Retoinyi J Visurtemps. Selection, " 11 Seraglio" The Queen sad Prima Comet, accompanied by the Prin ease Royal, walked In the Home Perk this morning. The Portuguese Minister and Comics; Larradio left the Castle in the forenoon. The Marquis of Clanricarde had an audience of her Ma jesty to-day. MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—Tickets for sdrniesion to those parts of Bt. James's Palace to which spectators will be admitted on the 95th of January are to b e had only at the office of the Lord Chamberlain at St. Jams.ls Palace. Her Majesty's state yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, is being repainted end embelliabed externally and interna lly for the 'pedal service of conveying the Princess Royer end the Prince of Fnueio to Antwerp, en rook to Prussia after their nuptials. She re ordered to be reedy by the 10th proximo, and she will after that date proceed from Port/mouth to the Thames. It I is expected that Gravesend will be the poet of embarkation for the royal pair, as the length of the yacht will render her navigation of the short reaches of the Thames above Graves end a troublesome teak. It is expected that on the occasion her Majesty will appoint Captain Denman a commodore of the Scat class u in the cue of the late Lord Ado l p hus Fits clerence. The engines, fie., of the royal yacht Fairy, Mr. Welch, master in charge, and the Elfin, Mr. Alfred Balliston, master in charge, are also being repaired, as they will form members of the royal squadron. The steam frigates Diadem and Cusps, 32, Captains Mumma, C. 8., and Mason, and all other steam ships "available" at the time of the wedding, will form members of the royal equadren, which will be commanded in chief by the Hon. Joseph D111:11111. It is ex pected that the royal visitors to England from Pruada a the auepiciou occasion writ be landed at Portsmouth from Peas ant,' men-of-war vessels. " Why," says the Timer, "cram the ceremonial of the royal marriage into • chapel which does not properly hold more than 200, though by a portentous squeeze, and at the cost of treasures of millinery, you may all it up to the extent of soother hundred or moor Why select for the procusiona that knot of small courts, corners, and angles which campmate St. JAMB'S Palace, and which ls about the most unsuitable and uncongenial scene for • procession that could be found in London? Why conduct these ceremonials se Uwe were ashamed of therm, as if we wanted nobody to see at ?' The marriage of the Princess Royal of England is a national event ; why should it not be celebrated as such, Lad the two Banda be joined together, es far as can be, in the eight of the country ? Why not celebrate it in that edi fice which is so associated with the history of English royalty, which witnesses the crowning of our kings and queens, and which inspires each deep national recollections and displays truth memorials of English glory—in Weet mummy. Abbey r In that interior thousands, horsed of hun dreds, could see the actual ceremony of the marriage. That would be a great improvement. But, besides the thousands which could be accommodated in the Abbey, tens of thou sands would line the road which would conduct the proces sions from the Palace to the Abbey. That would, indeed, be • national scene. As it is, it looks as if the whole ceremonial were shut up in a box." The Duke and Duchess of Ilueclench and family, who are surrounded by a large family circle at Dowhifl, in tend to come to town upon the lath proximo, from Scotland in order to be present at the nuptials of the Princess Royal and his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton were to leave Mos 011 Monday lest, amompankd by their family, for Rome, for the winter. The Duchess (Dowager) of Hamilton has returned to town, from Brighton. A'iscount and Viscountess Sidney are entertaining a immeseion of visitors at Frognall Lodge, near Footecray. The circle will not separate until after Twelfth-night. The Dowager lady Duckett and Min Makin Lave arrived at the Qaerees Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Edward Ellice, Esq., M.P. for Coventry, his eon Edward Ellice, Leq., M.P. for Bt. Andrew", and Lady and Colonel Tait, brother of the Bishop of London, &c., have arrived at Brechin Castle, on a visit to Lord Pmfrouro. Hie Excellency Ferukh Khan, accompanied by a numerous suits, and attended by Captain Lynch, returned to Claridge's Hotel last evening, frontWates. On Tuesday morn ing the distinguished party inspected the Menai Suspension bridge and the BritaaniaTubular-bridge. Over the l►tter they were conducted by Mr. J. 0. Binger, manager of the Cheater end Holyhead Railway, who explained the nature of this vat mechanical 'fracture, and its enormous proportions. His excellency acoompaaied Mr. Binger on foot through the tube. We (Scotsman) understand that John A. Allen, Esq., of Errol, km prerented the Rev. Mr. Graham, of Aberayte, to Ohs church of Errol, vacant by the removal of the Rm. Mr. Card to Glasgow. M. Gonzalez Bravo, Spanish Minister at the court of London, boa arrived at Madrid. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (110 X OCR OWN CORINSPONDINT.) PARIS. WEDNIZEILT The Emperor, who has merely had an attack of influenza, is better. Ho presided this morning at a ministerial council, and to-morrow he proposes to go to Fontainebleau, for a day's shooting. H e will return to Paris in the evening, to be ready for the New Year's-day reception. No day is fixed for the sitting of the Council of State in the Emperor's presence to settle the vexed usury question. I understand that the Emperor himself, M. Baroche, and M. Ronher, hold very strong opinions in favour of the Benthamite doctrine, that the price to be paid for the use of money is a matter of bargain between borrower and lender with which no law should interfere. Very great opposition will, how ever, be made to this view. M. de l'arien, the Viet- President of the Council of State, is against it, and so are most of the great lawyers on the bench, the clergy also pronouncing strictly against the abolition of the wary laws. I am now able to say upon good grounds that the Isthmus of Suez question is very far off from 'isolation. The French government agrees that the canal should not be made unless in pursuance of a convention made by all the great Powers; and ss it is understood that England continues to withold her assent to the project, it may be considered as adjourned sine die. The Emperor, wishing to pay a tribute to the me- mory of Alfred de Mutant, has expressed his inten tion to pay out of his privy purse for the ground upon which a monument subscribed for by the friends and admirers of the deceased poet is to be erected. There have been many fluctuations at the Bouts. to-day ; but, notwithstanding a fall off in Consols the market evinced a decided upward tendency. The Renteepened for account at 68fr. 25c., rose 68fr. and after a great struggle closed at 68fr. 50c. with a rise of 25c. For cash there was a rise of 50e., the last price being 68fr. 55e. Mobilier rose 30fr. The Orleans, Northern, and Eastern Railways rose 10fr, each ; Southern, 15fr. ; Western, 25fr. ; and Lyons, 3fr. 75e. M. Cambacres, whose election for the Aisne was invalidated, on account of a doubt about his age, has walked over the course on a re-election. Tholozas, of the Val de Once Hospital, is going to Teheran, having accepted the appointment of principal physician to the Shah of Persia, in the room of the late M. Ernest Cloquet. It is said by the maurais plaisants that M. de Morny hopes to be created on new year's-day, Luke de Nade, (not Node, as the word has been written in come English journals), and that should he be ' appointed he will be called Duke de Panade. Mgr. Lucien Bonaparte, who, having been Of dained, might be nominated bishop in partibets at ' the next consistory, has for the present, said nob episcepari in earnest, and his elevation to episcopal rank is indefinitely postponed. It was stated some short time back that the go. vernment was in treaty for the large edifice at Bourges which belonged to Jacques Cceur, the fa mous treasurer of Charles VII., and which is the meet remarkable edifice in the city ; the purchase has just been concluded for 800,000 fr. An English gentleman in Paris is in possession of the conveyance of this property to the city of Bourges, with the signature and seal of Colbert attached. He expots to get I,oooft. for the document from the municipa lity. OBITUARY TOR M. Death hos been more than ordiaarily buoy among the titled °edam daring the year which has Ws day earns to • close The °Wavy for 1667 contains the names of no boo than 22 merman of ths peerage of the United Kingdom. The hat is as tolb.e - pokes of Rutland arid Marlborough, the Marr e. :l , 4ly, the hark of Birchen, Arnheret, Cae- Morniestoo, File, Firshardrage, Fitawil ti.niamwood, sad Spacer; Viaonals Dowse, Lainors, and ; the Mahe, of Cant , C10y.. , and Rom ; and Leda Alvsakay, Doubler, Milford, Rsdaork, and Marlow. Of them the peeress' of Lords Alankry, Douglas, sad Mil ford bars become satinet, as also has the Keel& barmy of the late Sal of Pile. Duarte the arse period the following members of the barooetage have paid ties debt of nature . Sir Hugh R. Hoary, Sir Edmund Filmer, Pa Robert Bar low, Genera Sir J. A. D. Agraw-Wallace, Sir 0. L. Phi lipps, Sir Campton Domale, Sir J. K. Rowley, Sir J. Kennard Shaw, the Reverend Sir R. Flanuag, Sir C. W. Taylor, Sir O. W. Deny., Sir E. Haggsrami, Sir Norman R. Leda (killed in the Indian msday), Sir Orford Cicadas, Sir T. 13. Laniard, Sir R. Howe Bei:easy, Sir C. Dedarefoth, Sir W. 0. Milman, Sir J. A. Boyd, Sir George Pater(killed in Indio), Sir Charles N. CLAW Sir GilltY Markwurth. Sir Charles P. Shaberley, Sir C. H. Rich:: Robert Price, Sir C. Wolarkv, Sir J. Boswell, Sir pleas St. Gimp, Sir Charge CoJkf Sir P . 0. Pater, and Sir A. Dixie. Out of the above thirty-one teronecies ably the alias of Price and Bowed hare acorns 'masa. The het of Knights Bachelors and Knights of the Bath who have deceased during the year 1667 includes the name. of Sir E. H. Alderson (Baas of the Ezchoquer), Sic Nicholas Thorn, Sir John Owen, Sir 0. W. Anderson, Sir R. J. Hare. Cameo, Sir J. Macdonald (of Glengarry), Sir W. Lloyd, Sit G. Masada, Sir Wm. L. Hiram, Sr Jas. Eyre, Sir Robert Crowell, Sir C. B. Egerton, Sir Hugh Piga, Sir John Bent, General Su H. W. Barnard Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, General S:r Hub M. Wheeler, Sir W. 11. Dabs, Sir J. Dosages, Sir G. iH Ber keley, Sir A. Clerks, Sir Thomas Le Breton, and Sir Francis Beaufort —in all 23. Among the other notables who have died during the pat year we ought to mention her Royal Highness the Duran. of Oloasoter, the Prisms Leven, Cleland Co. wow Viet:mates@ Keith, Mr. Morrison, the Mr. James Coppoct, Mr. J. Wilson Croke., litahop Winnfield, Generals Neill end Nicholson, Eugene Sue, fir 'het, the law. Mr. Gorham, Canon Towesend, the Bev. Dr. Macfarlane, sad the following member. of the Hoes" of Commode —Mr. 0. F. Manta, M.P. for Birming ham; Kr. D. Saunders DoVi•IN for Carrnarthanshirs; Mr. A. Staled, for Northamptonshire; Mr. J. Platt, for Oldham ; Mr. A. Bast* for Parsley; Kr. Robert Hall, ley Inds; Major 0. D. Warbortoe, foe Harwich; Me. Charles Hadley, for Ashton- ands -Lyne; sad Mr. R. C. =dye* for Wkitehavea. of MR. GLAIDSIONei 4 ' lioura."--The new work on Honar,by Mr.W.E.Gladsionn M.P., which hes given rime to se each liteniry *peculation, is now to process of printing at the pI of the University *which the tight bon. gentleman represents in parliament. Its title will be " Homer and the Hawk) Age," end it will appear in three volume,. We (Cumberland Parquet) understand that Wm. ltieholson, Iteq , sa-11 eyrie et Melbourne, has coeds the bundsome &auks of 6W. to the feeds of the Whitaharse Moe-basks Institute. At the loot meeting of the French Academy of lethsethes, M. Colleague* announced a discovery he had made enacultation. From numerous experiments made in the hospitals of Toulouse, llotopollier, and Pads, it appeal that immediately shoe death a own - raring sound is heard in the body, loeting era, tea, and even fifteen hours. It dlmlaishes gradually, end omen goat in the pads of the body which ere forthest from the heart. In an amputated member themes sound a heard fur several roinutoa Thu non-existence of this sound say be considered a sure sign of the total Lion of life. 111. Coillonguas calla this branch of anon] "A few thousand English and Scotch," says M. Vilkonsha is the lest agnate, of the Revue 48 DMZ Iforaes. separated at fret, cut of from their support, and dint up in ill-fortified towns, not only did sot enocurab, but hem to part suppreesed the insurrection of the native troops, end still maistids with unswerviug bend dominion over the timid sad laboriogie populetim of the country. How still more firmly egitablwbol ia not the English power to India in become when England shell reorganise bee govern ment of Asa country, sad, casing any longer to try se expe riment of wed& so example is to be found Is the history of the world, shall se longer pat arms is the heads of her con quered leas se • neer of ens/tiring their obedience, and to control this far-of world of tributaries sad subjects by as semy raked awe emeng thernesives." Canna{. PALACIL ONS SHILLING DAT...— W[1)111301a, 30.—Admisidons on payent, 6,856 ; files. by mom blekebry bee ; foal views, 7,1142. PRUSSIA. A German journal says that a decision relative to the question of the regency will probably come be. fore the meeting of the Chambers on Jan. 12. The probability is that the Prince of Prussia, exercising the powers vested in him by the Constitutidn, will declare himself Regent on the ground of the perms. neat incapacity of the King to govern, and will open parliament in person in that character. It is rumoured in Berlin that M. Bonin, now Vice-Governor of Mayence, who was dismisse d from the post of Minister at War during the war in the Crimea, on account of his leanings towards the Western Powers, is Ititely to be reinstated in that office in the place of the present minister, M. de Valdersee. The Earl of Mtt'grave, late M.P. for Scarborough, the newly-appointed Gol'olllo7 of Nova Scotia, errived at g u lgrsve Castle (the family mansion, neer Whitby) os Monday evening. Rio lordship is expected to close this lest vhit to hie ancestral home before leaving England the day (Thursday). THE EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL Colt,Ativ.—This morniug wee boned a return to maimed showing the number of days occupied by the Anaemia melds sines February last, in each voyage out and ken separating the positions of the route between South and Alexandria from that between Suez end blelbann; also a list of penalties incurred by the above comma maws of nonearrival according to manna and the amount already levied or deducted bat the contractors' remuneration. It appears from this rams that, of the four outwar d mails, only one completed to voyage within the specified time—namely, the omit deepsithd in May last. Tbe February mail wee nine days, tumlp hours, in mem, and the penalty 2,2501. The delsy teem' landing this mail at Alexandria and reimbarlsing at et km was nineteen days, whereas the time allowed by the mead with the government by the European and At/strolls Car prey was only two days end twelve hours. For this MN the company had to pay a further penalty of 1,6001., mille( the total deduction from the contract allovemes • 7.7081. 6e. Bd. for the conveyance of the mail no lam the 3,8601. In the March mail the cores. of time Were tea dsa and one hour, and the abatement 2,760.1. A further paselg in respect of , the mime mail to which the company war liable, amounting to 1,3761., was remitted hr commune , d the mail having been conveyed In the Rinds, cue of the exceptional vessels allowed by the contract. The excise it the April mail was only nineteen hours, while in the May mail there was a saving of one day end ten hours. le tle homeward maws the whole payment for the Met or ler usry mail, was &heated b en the pewit, nested by a delay of forty•four days and four hours. In the Febtr wry mail thete was a saving of two houre, and M the Magi mail of one day and fifteen hours. In the April owl thee was a delay of four days and twentymne hours, aid a abatement of 6001. In the May mail the delay was dna days and fourteen hours', and the abatement ; a the Jane mail the delay Ins fifteen days and tseetleare hears, and the abatement 6.00 W.; in the July end Wt eel there was a delay of eight t days and • ten boars, for which da company paid a penalty 1,8001. DROWNINEtts FROM COLD.—Very striking sad curious is the story of Dr. &lender's escape. when in es pony with Sir Joseph Banks among the hills of Tensed Fuego. They had walked a considerable way tboNS I swamps, when the weather became auddenly ploonetal cold, fierce Mute of whit driving the allow before it. Th 6 hog it impossible to reach the ships before night, they M solved to push on through another swamp into the oMhrt a wood, where they might kindle a fire. 1/r. Splodge, experienced in the effects of cold, addretted the roe, conjured them not to pies way to sleepiness. but at all roe to keep in motion. " Whoever site down," esys ha. 006 sleep ; and whoever sleeps will wake no more." no!' monisbed and alarmed, they set forth once more; hat little while the cold became en intense as to prolate thl most oppressive drowsiness. Dr. Solander w e n ee the firer found the lination to aleesgainst which ho hod anal the others inc so emphatically —ton p— itreeletible for him, sad • insisted on being suffered to lie down. In Vail, Bente • treated and remoustreted ; dos./ he lay upon the m how! Int It was with much difficulty that his Blend kept tom It nt z sleeping. One of the black Fervent& began to huger came meaner. When told that if be did not go on he inevitably be frozen to death, he answered thet he dee7 6 nothing more than to lie down and die. &lender doelerelh-" self willing to go on, bat raid Le must Bret Bike some It was impressible to carry thee° men, and they were fore both suffered to lie down, and in a few minutes Inn in a profound sleep. Soon after some of those w ho Ira he scat forward to kindle a fire returned with the welcomi ng that a fire awaited them a quarter of a mile off. Rabin happily succeeded in awaking &lender, who, althoufb • bad - not been asleep five minutes, had almost loot tbs eae hie limbs, and the flesh was so Arnett that the shone from his feet. He consented to go forward, with nal t i t the e , lanes as could be given ; but no attempts to rouse n Fervent were eurreoeful, sod he, with another black." there,—Fraber's Magazine, for January. 111 DAILY NEWS: LONDON IiORNIN 0 asir Ir " .b IT rand red sla or is wed ••••-la immolator, M r. Sf • mord. oM IT de weld dadellle rot rmada! Inareddrion W a ds TIT, 101 TrdoodlidlTlT - on dew ri ZION Trill 1111 muscat ANT UT PATTitt ue , teorkadoly orb rats' digglido Imams gm le wiri Tllll (111LTIM WORT. 4a r d irt,.... 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