The Express. — London, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

r I k ' 11 r Cber•bisa, an empties, whom Diddles' Shark, a lawyer, is trivial to chest oat of her dowry. Seas drill roses MIMI, aq■ia. palmists's sad segoeity of sour brag nude h rein. Pr obst sad Aurora this arrive la • chariot drawn by sight whits hear (which Mr. W. Cocks drives rnun•l the rage with greet skit). T►e tnaitors's• tins is Owner's effected, the remelt belag two harlequins and two clown., with attendant pantalets, sad spirt. The tricks which followed were of the ordiaary 'bracts', bet were very means,. Some of the ornery was very good. and altogether the pantomime pared off szoeediermly well, and *pp•reatly to the entire satisfaction of • crowded hoer. GALLERY OF I r. Oermao Reed and hie accomplished wife (late Hies P. Hortee), ba" " twos to complain or went of patrons on hosing sight; oe the ecctra'7 , they: had more than the Owlet, of Illeetratum cull troll accommodate, and Buy had to go away disappointed, is march of antutemeet elsewhere. Tao antitena, however, although miaowing clarity packed together, IMO yet ',ohm and good-tempered, as they meetly a•e it these ir. wing-room eau rodomeatr, sad they ap plauded and lteshsd rinbt gamily one, the recital of the mimetic. Mee enemed muskies, which Mr. sad Mre. Rood make the vehicle for seem charming vocalisation and se lama eseellent ee•ing. Both were M capital vole* and beams?, and tinned to get t►nigh tha performances with se mach IllthiSo ion to thanseelme as delight to the An °v., !lowing haute has a meaderfal effect epos the spirds of soots, and wit► all It. inoonveniecom - . the festive mum is the but period for seeing and bearing mined or hieratic performers to advantage. POLTGRAPHIC HALL, KING WILLIAII.IIThirr, CMARINO rams Wo;dia n-opened hie Olio of Oddisire "in VI. {rescue of • crowded audience. The ester sialc•at i• all its main features is the was as that which has si atom amused Mr. Woodia's minima; ►at a ho a►reretioae were istradaesd, which appeared to ►e thought jar rovelassis. The perforraaaise was simple,* mons; sail ea imitation of Mrs. Florsoce, with her two adify.eg ai tt i t dkia:seed the company La a slats of hood• less ristrat. etc exl3re#o. REGENT CULLUM—The reception awarded to Gemini T m Thumb yestimiay Swill have bra ray testi fyisg to hi. sad !rinds. The his ws nustseed la Wee strabers, sad the biros bestowed co bin most give *saddest' to nes of small dimmer, by whir they are heard or nod of. We hare ven meetly Reedit the ar rival of th^ distastise hero, sad described his sposereato sad orlitatioss. It need therefore ray bie said hethar that hie nth reran. were yosterdsy warmly respoaded to by hie SUISMOSI patrons. &MLR entertaioment at this; ghee Is riled the "Unity of Nation," berg Was- Inters of satiosal etteseten, by Yr. Vandal( Vends", sad was istroissed foe the Int tire been • Loaded audience • he weeks ago, sad thea whose by us. blr. Voodoo, who is a pothers of gnat tart r • rinds, Ferrates the different amens ss. genii sly well, and elicited seeekkeeble sophism Beaks bible a pod siege', be is as reellest dreier, sad the rapidity with which he sff•tts hie (hasps of dries is este aishisg. Yesterdsy the Hall was very well attended, sad we bar sr doubt the entertaiuseat will sajoy a felt ran sf pstroame darisp the holidays. CZYSTAL PALACL—At the Crystal Palace them were the °Misery sad all-eadlcieat attractions. T. aambove ia the polite yesterday, ve wen talereeed, wen be stiala via sad eaves theatead. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. ti DAT—llandas, 1L U5.....-...Ahanmak tk. Ism. tworaew—Mandis, 316 Sils....—Allinlina. IL 1/3* Potrrzc ins tc.—This plea of nhortaiooset, which for stay yaws has bees a fielded favourite with th. bolitay•liwybig pabie, le putty eeetela mutation by its Cribbage "To pitiful sad &mime Matadi of Blue Beard," illuelrated by dimly*/ view/. It was minds, visited by reel suborn, and h likely to prays a lead's, mastics dories the seem. LONDON, BATURDAY, TEI ROYAL Cot..omitutt.—The psblie owes it to the enterprise of Dr. &Abeam that the Cabanas, la the SeginVe.p MI. is still pranced, sad sete.lp pomerved, bat onlemied, sad aggrandtred, tad sofiehlod by UM title of the "/Loyal Colosseum," the patronage a ha Majesty sad Prise' Albert having bon graciewely meorisel. dome Lieu has hes. of enmity oeospied by the dieter, sad mod Weer lively, in waking his ansagnerste tee solo thumbs, wide the door to the public; end yesterday was his opening day." And it was a megaiilseett *peals.. While all the old glories of this quasi classical spot Sr. prsearesd—lasbed. lag the world wide celebrated pistons of Loudon by day and night, the Swiss caverns, sad the cataract of "real watet"—the pospeletor has appeals* to the powerful aid of mil& Be hersessared the unless of Herr Maass, the nenoweet kale of du Crystal Palaes head, sada, whom waserta us given, while the vocal dipartasat is ably suslslaud by tM meatwes of the Orpheus Ole Daiwa With these additioael attraction', seas soramenJ iaditridael mks what is the additional sharp 1 , Why, the charge is related 60 to 70 per seat. This is a *Olin age; aid Dr. Subbase asseptiet the fast, gives all these advaatages to the pa th ; ea that footles. Is is needless to say that du plus wu seerdad to ewes. WYLD. oLoll.—kir. Wjld has imparted sa ad* &Oral sanitise to his highly hastractive exhibition, by He redolence of a Dioramas of Beads. This now haters of the exhibition sonars of tee lea than lofty revs, beau tifully rented, and latelligerly explained, &Wayne the principal citin sad fortunes of Bessie in Barer sad Asia r well so the Flare most celebrated by the erste of the late war. Norieg could N better sehirseed to awry as rousts idea of the erase which bre ben se ing fasalliar by asses to every eel. Iltainget the rat streak* of the views way be specified reser Crueler, ht. ?mentors by sight with the Naar of Peter the Great, Moscow from the Kremlin, eoreastioa of the Cur, destrastioa of the Tashi& feet at Bin" Ceasteatleople, Odes, sad the bare of re Ara. There is also another series of views, Illsetra tive of is *oar free Black wall to &dikter., mad the harked other objects of interest which Mr. Wyld hr ratrind to rases in this ea* beildiag. • cheaper ec more Juristic* exhlbitleis is hardly rbe frail hi the metropolis, awl he arractleas wen fully appreciated yesterday by the ashen ransereet, far it was enowded frees regain. till eight. MIL GORDON CESIMING'S AMMAN EXEIIIMON. This satertalerest. afar sere fur barred repetitions, Nadas+ to stuset • fell sad frequent asetably of .p.. laws. Perhaps tho antral of Dr. Liviagstest amongst as, •5.4 the Wean thsa awake's" is the asevelless wilder. ems of South Atria, hare cestribetwi lat.ly to resoassaii Mr. Berdta Csatalsg's pi tonal sad sanative Mans- Mess of that sabint ores wen stionally Net bsfas. steed saw sewage Ina sew hose "bled es As 'shanks, sad dm prams of seas satire Basin's' will larva its oast, by istadasisi • pausal sad hums lateral. Mr. Genies Casuist Massif, with N. trophies of Maisano sad sktU a s Mishima mead Ida, is weak gam to ass ; and to ►oar Ma tell the maim tale of hi. ativansres le really a very sawarable Cerbtass that. Di Lines MIJSZOIL—Thie isatitatio• yorterday &Waded • weird, sad Ike @otiosely/8y latent doliveled as dif.reet periods of t►s d•y slime Steed aeateoess tad Meshy, listraen. Soma additions have mostly bees aMe to the estimates. MADAMS Ttithetrill Hurnirnox was Allied by •esse dersbk seater et perms el* suss Is hiss:s sy early bast. lame I. mist Maier es lb. frisks& &penmen it . Make lasts of Rebels, of Ike Crystal Pens Csupssa. The eider Aisne append to lave isistasse nate rewswitles, awl the whets ming*. memo/ to melte mesh Werra Is those who AIWA It tor the Let gem. liatnis II vazuw.—The NUMMI was thronged all day b as ard•rly sad respealable lass of visions. Tbeerb the bourn disks, lildsla It b sow Mn an saw perstswly short, we Moss that betWel• MON mad 111,000 penes. inn sdnieled. NA77OIIAL OALLIMIT.-Bthalige to .y, 211 hoolits , dos liks tole, whin lbe sus shim twaranawit, hays ow low opportealthe if frnseatiag, was ems ywrlsedow ysy to studious, ea omission whin maw a &Hog asoollary to the attempt, isappliy thee fir frusliset2. to 'rums the satins.' pismires isle the vapors reties if tanks ash nessinsese Thous& of pause presestsd themselves et the deers dairies the day, eager foe amines g bet they wore wily repel/ for their pales by laws*, that the Met* which Friday Is tendon to student had bass sewed to with Wield rigidify, thosoh a demise* hos It was err- Moly dessadod by the nen:Meal ohoraiwor of the day. Whoa sill routine endowed torahs limit hr the ones: Oa yobbo ? The nelosin of yesterday was the mere re wakstale from the Let that Them lay sty Christmas, the gouty was s t open it smelly is es that by. Tin 02111aN Fan, idtboosb removed to tho pre- mime formerly the Portland Gallery, has Wet nose of Its attetetion re the ~.manse .union dilly testify. The eaterpristne tamestor, Mr. Cramer, ha. imparted the semi sod v.ye of oar Germas aaigaboara for the •ataww-at o. •!.• ens Rhein holiday maker, aid apperently 2,4 tie r.vard. The is.. Is eallyeasti with rose tolerably ger'l gamic i, of quarrel with Switzerland. The King of PROIJIA would have oared little though the Federal Courts had mutenoed the Neufchatel rioters to the treadmill. He could have put up in the future with the toes of his rights in Neufchatel, as he has done for the last eight years. But he cannot tolerate the existence of an asylum—of a city of refuge—amid the recesses of the Alps, for those patriots who are the objects of his hatred, the mere thought of whom presses like a nightmare on his coward heart. If the Prussian army an subdue Switzerland, the Confederation will not he let off for the mere liberation of the prisoners, or the surrender of Neufchatel, or even the payment of the expenses of the war. They will be tied down by treaty stipulations to refuse to admit political exiles to reside in their territoty. Of this the King Of PRUSSIA'S brother despots, big and little, are well aware; and this is the reason why they all, more or less openly, abet his present aggression on bwitzer land. tbt Court. WINDSOR, Dzo. 28. A A AA beLAdibil ir—'7iTkiiipronA Two Ivied*. me% AAA be at dr OMAN 10, D oses . by Two .• al tb• Ms 01 pakbledes. SAMMIE= . Tao Immo, NONSTN. Wawa Monk& ma Doak. raw; Mass Walbot..—Awl the sow WOO nownlis.2lll 111 woOD ; se. Narlsesla sad We Onall - Www. Nam. Noma kashay sell W. Weir ; Ml. Yaw Wrist& Tom Immo. THE COI6IEINI46IIIMITM. lb. C. Isera.—Atd. ALADDIN AND TD6 WoNDEATUL LAMP; or, Hr loools rod the Gaol of TM Mag. MoromOmmork Maim. I;AA rade ; C. Ati&Ml. EUILIUCT. Tin Verges. DOUG! VA.— Asd lAA Now ' , Antonin?, HAILE HEN AND THE AlrllM Eft QUEEN: or, EWE Muter 0•4 the Tories of As Adger Walowl. Hewn. Cloven Eves. &album sad We nue haft ; Madames Made sad Aiwa. Tina STANDARD. Ramon, Nis Dew muds pentombae. HICICEDT•PICZEDT NT !MAUL ; ca. Harlequin Mag erflena and Queen SW... II MIL W•DINNOMAIbeIta. Med. ma Nana Jun aaa Pena anis ; Nab. Pavane.—AY TVS RISER OP 11101RD11121. The dinner party yesterday included the Princes* Royal, Msjor-O I the Hoe. C. and Mrs. Grey, Colossi the Hoe. C. B. end Mn. Phipps, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, sad Mr. Glover. The following had the honour to rewire invitations in lb. evening :—Lady Elizabeth de Rea, Colonel the Hon. N. sad Lady Mary Hood, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Mks Phipps, sad Mr. Gibbs. The Queea and Prises walked la the Roma-park this morals,. Deepatehee for the Governor of Canada, and alto for the Governor of Sierra Leone, were Hot last evening flout the . Th. Right Roo. Lord Loodeoboraugh hos serai l through bis keel agent, the .. of 201. to be distributed aniireget the families of the ithermien sad boatmen of Scarborough. Tin Xing of Paresis, we kern from Baron MAN. TEI7I7IIL'S Circular of the Bth inst., refugee to negotiate with the Helvetia Confederation, unless the Neufcha tel prisoners are immediately liberated without trial. The question at issue between the Lug of PIIIIIIIA and the Helvetic Confederation is whether the dojo:to outwit Government of Neufchatel is a legitimate Government. The only plea upon which the Bing of PROSISIA can demand the libsration of the pismire is, that they ere not rebels, but loyal subjects of the de jaws Prince of NIVIPCRATKL, captured by rebels while ecgaged in the service of their legitimate Sovereign. By consenting to liberate the prisoners without trial, the Helvetic Confederacy would admit the illegality of the de facto Government of Neufchatel; they would virtually eases& the point at issue between them and the King of Pavans. Alsordieg to Bare. MANTITMLIII circular, therefore, the Leg of Pass el' declares that he will not condescend to argue with the Helvetic Confederation, unless they grant, is Agnew. that he I. in the right ; and that he will extort this admission from them by having recourse to the skim ratio reran. This is royal logic. And yet we read in Baron bf"wrxuerres Circular of " the moderation of which the Ls° has gives so many proofs. The peremptory and braggart tone of the King of Pausal* towards 6winterland contrasts almost ludi crously kith his readopt duriog the negotiations at the first outbreak of the war in the But. Theo, he pot his army os a war establishment, and talked big about what he would do in certain eventualities, and kept his sword in the scabbard. Now, to all appear nee, ha will go to buffets at once. Then, he would have had to mann himself in arms with wealthy and populous monarchial now, he hes only a poor republic, with some million and a half of citisess, to deal with. The King of Pasant Tameable. the big bully of a school whom nothing can persuade, or pro- yoke, to go to fisticuffs with his equals, but who granolas over the little boys. If the conduit of the King of Patna, in this guars' is contemptible, that of the other conti nental Powers api :ers to he no Is.. as Baden, Hannibal, Hesse Darmstadt, Bavaria, all profess to be antra They affect to take part with neither of the combatants. Yet we an told that they are to Wed theses of their railroads to the King of Plums, to many hie trcaps and stores to the Swiss frontier. Now the use of three parallel lieu of railway will go far to annihilate the difficulties which distance interposes in the way of a Prussian intake of Switzerland. The Ooveromoute which accommodate on of the belligerent. with their railways are, in bet, supplying that belligerent with "sentrabud of war." They are aheasetally violating the duties of neutrals. Aced other Powers, nine they are sore belied, are acting with 'gull address towards Bwitnerland. The Federal Government is understood to bare been besieged by the Repreenteline of all 1 the Great Powers, urging them to yield to the pall , unary demand of the Lag of PaUtiflA. Now what sae liana disheartening to a small Bate, with a most unegeal wallet impeding, that to have all its power ful neighbours urging it to makesacrifice of its interest sad of its hoarser, is order that their tranquillity may net be disturbed f They may not threats, ee mid the in vaders, bat they give it plainly to be understood, that if the country threatened with invasion does not yield to their sereaeonable regents, they will owe it a grudge. — Thisoondest of the eontineatal Powers, great and smell, shows what smoker, is the so-called bassos of power in the Europese system. The meaning and object of a Wanes of power is the soloperation of a majority of the States composing the European, Of ley Other, system, to prevent any smaller State from being oppressed by a greeter. But here we have all the other &eta backing Prussia, and bully. lag Bwitzerlead, before they coodesosad to investi. gate the merits of the controversy between them. There is a passage in Baron Kutraurraes Circular which throws some light spot the motives of this shenaefal fawning upon the am powerful of the two conibataatat In the pansy to which we ailed. Switzerland is described as "pang itself up co account of a momentary moose, drawing its in. epirstions from principles subversive of all order and all authority, and subject to the influeoces of a revolutionary propagazdsof an origin foreign to the Helvetian territory." Here we have the real cause Sir Oaorgs sad Lady Musgrove aad family bate arrived at Teabridge Wells fres the Cognises.. The Westin, Tian has the following :—" Earl aid Coastal. Fortune have beet oa a visit to Sir James Williams, at Clovelly Colin. Lady Pectinate ha, we are glad to hear, experietced math beatific Iron the bean bearing breezes of the romantic elite of Clovelly. Lord Forums*, who had rather overdose hie shooting exercise is the rosiest severs weather, la now, we are rejoiced to awe, (ally restored to his wonted health." Lard Henneker was yesterday returned for the Restore Division of Suffolk without opposition. Francis Brodigan, Esq., Pilton Home, county !loath, sad Pall-usall, Loads., hos toss sprinted High 80sriff for the meaty of the tows a Drogheda, for the year 1867. The United Service Gesetie states that the Secre tary of But. for War hte refaced the application of Lient— Gourd Sir R. Ragland, geeantanding the Divii on of the Carragb, to have t►e wheel-roams at the map fitted up 24 a theatre, for the ainasesaent of the troops daring the whiter manathe. The members of the Board of Admiralty at present is tows we Vice-Admiral Sir Maurice Berkeley, Rear Admirals Ede. cud Richards, sad Mr. Osberue, the Secre tary. Tee Firm Lard, Sir Charles Wood, Coptsin•Mline, sad Sir Hobert Peel are indulging in Christmas holidays. The Oxford Journal states that the assaal custom of Perris( up the boar's head ea Christmas-day, in the hell of Qaeen's College, was observed with all the forms ant eeremeales. Oa the peesest owasioa the usual wog was sung by the Der. T. &anises, M.A., &Bow of Qeires'U College, who was assisted by the ehoristen of &addle 1 College. We (.46iettonon) understand that the subscription U.t for a aseatortal to Sir H. Bishop, which records coats! batleas to the amount of 1761. frost 369 contributors, will be clued oa the lot day of this year, and that shortly after wards the esanalttse will meet to decide is what form or halms of mentasat the sum will be beet applied. The scientific meetiop of the mining week are se follows t—lleaday„ lastitat• of Aetuarles, 7.—" Os Fire leeeresee," by Yr. 11.1 tor. Tuesday, Royal lastitatios, 3. Oa the Aggregatteg Totes," by Professor Faraday. Thursday, Royal lestitettes, 3.—" Oa Mongrel Forte," by Professor Faraday; Z tologisel, 3.-01aeral ; Pooto reside. O. Friday. Aret n)lostoes Institute, 4. &tufty, Royal Institution, 3.—" Oa Electric An:settees," by Pro fessor Faraday. _ . . It is with unfeigned regret that we (Cardif Guar dian) record the death of Mr. Taoism Bobbie, as artist whose pestles. of messes is Egypt sad Syria sassy of our moors will remember, formal se Fawkes: an attractions at the Art Exhibition, bold at the Cardiff Town-hall last view ; to which olio le eestribsted • valsablo collection et Segura eastsinse, implements, sad arms, sad, at very Brat sterile, of time, oasis lowa fees Leads to deliver • lecture upon what he had *lnwood deriag his travels in those costar's'. Ea death took place at Cairo. Rli-VAN-WEIXLEISM OF TES Puns.—A Carlisle paper of this day instates • paragraph, gravely anxious:leg to the public the elevatios of Mr. Wawa, Q.C., to the jadisial beset! VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PRO- MOTIONS IN TRE CIVIL SERVICE. I Privy Caution Office.—Mr. Charles A. Hangnail, CIAIS clerk, bee ion appointed Chief Clerk of the Privy d Casten Mite, viol Mr. Bunts Leasud, de *sue_ TeiForsies Departmeat.—The Consulship atßaltimore Voiced &awe of AMMO% hasbecome vomit by the death of Mr. Howl O.oq Koper. Salary. 6004 The Board of Trade.—Coptals Bectbolomen R.N.. C. 8.. hes beat appointed • pronenesa member of the Manse Department of the Board of Trod*, I. plies of the let. Admiral Beethey. The ihdatiralty.—A sonnalselosenhip of Greenwich Hos pital Las bosoms noun by the dart of Admiral fbr H. Hut Cutome.—Mr. P. H. Lowther hes bees promoted hors snood to Ins ones mania at Hall. Mr. Thomas Stork hes Ines ?teaseled from third to mead ohm norther at Hall. Mr. Jobs Frith has bees promoted from fourth to third elan mareiter at Hull. Mr. Checks Taylor has both promoted from eased ti Ant Nam tidoesneyer at Booth. ampton. boned Benne* Deprelmost.-Btamps ad Tans Bnneh. —Mr. elelis has bees appelothid to Beekbasham. Mr. Jahn Mebane hes boos hes Bimini to Barton ea-Trost Ms. Lag FMhs his bees promoted from Worthies Massa Mr. his Daniel has beam pro. meted hoes Bssidastmat to Visualise. Mr. lobs DeMeW, of Ashboorse, has bess_seed from meat! t filth noes, his Manisa baths Best Kossos.7.l7fPriass, sad G. N. Barlow hays bees ottani*/ to rho Belga divides cf the prinking, of Fort William. Mr. W. D Grant km teen appoistad as sans ossimmth 1111•Silleilellf of the sewed eta. is the Hy. I dentinal sosissmi ehltlells Mr. T. J. Faltoa, *arc mimes; has bethappeisesil osieleat eommiasiosee at Banns, vice Liestthaat DoessiloN. Mr. 8. N. Mania, edentates magistrato sad milests• of hewn, has bees appoiated to olliente as a depth ommobistioator la the provisos of Code, is the nom NW. a. Sum. Mr. A. A. Robert; civil sad essaisse Jeffs ha the Smear sad Nu budgie territories, has boss skid ensmielesso et the Lahore diving.. boss sal P. Orr lan hems appointed anistast soft. missisases if the Ant class is lbs pronsos of Oade. Mr. 6. F. Davis has bees eppolaisi allow el Oluitagoag.— Cisol bend*. Gems* ROUTIIAMPTON, FAtDAT. Eirictrio Telegespb.) —At a mintiag of Ms toga mama this day. Mr. Antennas Whim was Modal mayor i• the rem of Mr. Richard Ladner, who rusks,* the ease of Mist magistrate ins barrialag dualist* for the npromatatlam of the botough. A vote of thaska woo pasted to Mr. /teddies for its Goad sot an!yer daring Ottumwa be am la Mks. WHITZHAL - L, lhaa. has bees Sneed to appeiat the Hight Has. Orsavllle to be Chamomile, et the Ueivessatp or Leedom, to the rem tai the Rad d Berliegtee, reelped.—Geeette. 1/0/110111•011ICE. Lsc. 26.--The (Ulm haa hen aimed to approve at Doe Ref 'vegeta de Mtn as Camel -0 I la Leaden; of Goa Intim "eau Outlines ea Coastal st Hong Hoag; sad of Goa Matteett Gomm 69 Ateellnueda as Coastal at Malta, for her Majesty the Quota ol ; also of Mr. Gislosse S. Helmet at Consul et the Cape of Good Hope, for the Gaited States of shaualea.— Gettelto We ( Morning Chronicle) are sore that all our nadirs will Jolt with as N the regret whlell we feel It having to xi that Mr. Charles Mathews' seeldeat ea the map of the Matehester Theatre hie rotated it erysipelas, whisk will preclude his from perforuslas for setae time to tom. This will motet for the first piece keying bees ekupd at Drory.laae last wait% (TSTAL PAWL. ONZ ammo DAT.— ram; Daa. 26.—Admisoloao et mutest, 6,234; MIN bynames Maks% 811. Told tulles, 6,846. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 27. 1856. DAILY NRWS FORWARDED to the COUN TAY Ay KVENING POST. tale.. 6d. por v.. mammal Is ab L%k..t J011:11 MADDOX. 11). 1 I ppor altahreinit. iftinVbiark siAl Km Amt. FIMIE PUBLIC end the TRADE are reminded .A. that Amp eaa M 817PPLIAD watt tb. AVLAING KIPAEIat. istr-satt 4. at J. 011 /AWRY V Abellsal• latakaidata asd POWS. las Mts. 8. Bestaratesset. Plasbutrist, Paddles's:a. DULY NEWS LENT TO READ, from 8 s.m. mu 7 pm. at put mat ; asd la laws ar matev. M R MOM pr. &ace lerbinapWr it ztla ; Mr. Tali% yank Tolylipaavia. W T HE EXPIUR3B.—The PUBLIC and TRADE e, wiry annum in o tt .u.. l-osu brd i ty ( San licokiener. 101 IN OUPPLIND rd LIM TO kske by II la the morsing. THE EXPREBB.—The PUBLIC end TRADE oUPPLIED every aftemooa.M balf-mas 4. by W. ST Denim lloolmam sad Nom Amos, IS. Hamisadoaalmat. med. DAILY NSWII BUYYLIIIID aad UOIT IIiAD by 7la dis mamba& LATEST INTELLIGENCE. A private letter from Berne of the 24th states that on that day 15,00 troops were placed en echelon from Basle to Rheiafelden Liestal, and as many 'from Rheinfelden to Schaffhausen. THE PERSIAN QUESTION. The following telegraphic despatch hu been re ceived in Paris from Trieste: " Intelligence has been reoeived from Constanti nople to the 19th. Ferukh-Khan was to leave the next day for Paris, his negoti►tions with Lord Stratford de Bedell& having definitively failed. Reschid Pacha recommends Persia to yield to Eng land." The Chambers weirs opened on the 19th. The royal speech spoke of the approaching departure of the allied troops. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1101 001 PARIS, FRIDAY iYIII4IKO. The belief continues to prevail that the united efforts of the great Powers of Europe will prevent a war breaking out between Prussia and Switzerland, but it would be very difficult to gay on what particu lar facts that belief is founded. All the tangible news points in the opposite direction. The govern ment journal, the Veriti, says this evening :—" Not withstanding some pacific news which we Rod this morning in the Paris press, war is, perhaps, imminent between Prussia end Switzerland," and it proceeds at great length to justify the conduct of Prussia throughout. The Co,u'itutio•rsel complains of the inaccuracy of • telegraphic despatch from London, which represented yesterday that the French Emperor had made "reserves" in regard to his policy towards Prussia. The despatch objected to state that the Emperor wu not disposed to favour the invasion of Switzerland. The Constilutthnnel plainly means to insinuate that he is. How ever, an opinion is very confidently entertained, by those who profess to be in the secret, that though thecourts of France and Prussia meant to try the effect of bullying to a great extent they have neither of them the least idea of running the risk of war for such a rotten cause. The Manikiar do r Arnie, however, thinks to arreogemeut will cortaialy be made, and that the " affair ought lot to came the least unewsiaree to the friend. of peace." The Presse suggests that the order given to the Berlin journals not to speak of !military movements, instead of being gronded upon the professed motive of not giving intelligence to the enemy, may be really intended to conceal the fast that no very serious pre parations are making. _ The Pays says teat the four Powers are agreed upon a note to be addressed to the Federal Govern ment, and that Prussia has approved of the terms in which the note is worded. The Constifutiowl sad Petrie both say that the Conferences will " probably " meet on the 29th. At the Bourse it was reported that Fran°, and England are quite agreed upon the course to be par sued ; but, nevertheless, the Rent, fell 10e. for cash, sad 10c. for account. closing at 66fr. 72e. and 66fr. 800. Mobilise fell 6tr. Railways were from 21r. 500. to sfr. lower. It is reported that about 200 royalists of the canton of Neufchatel have taken refuge is France. The Gana, de ZATOIMAISO says that such of them am are liable to serve in the federal army will be treated as deserters, if they do not respond to the regular calls. The result of the election. for the Cher are now known, though not yet published to the Mcodetar. In the Ilm circumscription there were found in the ballot boxes for M. do Neale, the government candi• date, 16,889 votes oat of 16,205 votes actually given. The number of registered electors is 38,313, so that according to the returns lase than half of the con• stiteency came to the poll. Io the second circum scription M. Guillautain is returned cleated by 19,306 out of 40,253 registered elec tors, or nearly half the constituency. There mast have been moms mistake in the former reline of the Jarmo! du Cher, from which it appeared that 10,000 votes were given to other than govern ment candidates. A M. de hiontssulasin appears to hays obtained 612 votes, and a M. de Valera 412. A few score of votes were distributed among other obscure individuals, bat that is the extent of the oppo sition attempted. The Emperor has ordered the restgratke of the home of the Bonaparte family at Ajamio,and has pro- mised M. Mostois, the prefect of Conies, to inscribe 200,000 fr. on the civil list of 1867, for the purpose of building a mausoleum to receive the ashes of the mother of Napoleon L, end of Cardinal Facb. What will M. Fould say P The Petri* salmons.. that the Count de Moray, who was expected this math, will not return to Paris till the end of January. Early in next month some fifty political prisoners, who were arrested in the autumn on a charge of eon &pities to assassinate the Emperor on his return from Biarri:z, will be brewed to trial at the Central Criminal Court of Paris. Madlle. Belie, the tetras who was lately acquitted of being a commuting party to an abortion for which her lover and a midwife were sentenced to a were punishment. has left Paris for New York. General Canister, limiest retuned to Paris from a visit to M. D.Lit. hargomester of Moat.enr•Mar. china*, in Belgium, of the coal pits of which place the general is one of the principal abareholdsn. Lord and Led? Cowley, on the omission of Christmas-day, gam a diaries yesterday at the British embassy, at which the following moons were present: —Vitionant Canterbury, Lord and Lady Pollinate, Viscount Wellesley, Mr. sad Mm. Disraeli, Baron and Baroness de Lankee, Lard George Paulo, Bir A., Lady, and Miss Woodford, Sir IL. and Lady Dallas, Sir J. sad Lady 011iffe, General Dupuis, Mr., Km, and Miss Baring, Bishop Bpseeer, Lims.-Coloael Awry, Lieut.-Colonel Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Barring. toe, Mr. and Mrs. Marriott, Dr. and Miss Hale, Mr. Piokford, and Mesa% Steward Stuart. Norton Forel. Drummood, Earle, Manna. Aliso, and numb. "M. Couture has now," says a Paris letter in the Emancipation of Brussels, "terminated all the preli minary sketches required for his picture of the imps del baptism. In addition to the four historical portraits at fret Wended, a fifth has been added by the command of the Resperer—semely, that of the nuns of the young pima. This woman is to a per tain extent his mother,' said the Emperor, as the people are the support of oar dynasty. It is good that in seeiog the picture of his baptism, he should remember that the wife of a peasant nourished him with her milk.'" MARSEILLES, Die. 25. A letter from Nice, published in the 7bulonsois, states that some of the crew of the Russian corvette 'tattooed at Villefranohe bevies left the ship without pennissioo, to drink in a wine shop, the captain, on their return, commanded that they should receive each twentylve blows of a stick, and the leader one hundred. The latter died while undergoing tie punishment, and his body was thrown into the sea. PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND. (now ova owx BERLIN,Dic. 23: Colonel von Manteaffel, one of the Hing's siderde camp, who it will be remembered was much employed during the negotiations which led to the admission of Petunia to the Paris conferences, has arrived in this city from Dusseldorf, where his regiment is quartered, having been sent for by a tele ' graphic message. He bad au audience of the King to day, and is about to start on a delicate diplomatic mission to the court of one of the great powers. Orders have now really been given for the mobilisa tion of one-half of the Prussian army, which is to be ready to march and take the field on the 2nd of y. General von der Gioben is now dear- Dated as the commander in -chief, and under him the following edloers will have the command of divi. lions: General von Werder, General von Wussow, General von Bonin (who commanded the Prussian troops in the Schleswig Holstein war), General von tieback, and General Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia. I■ consequence of what inhere called the obstinacy of the Swiss, the whole question has now entered a new phase ; for the replies from Par, Vienee, and even England (P) to the Prussian note of the Bth inst. being favourable, Prussia conceives it to be a point of honour not only to chastise the Swim, and teach them a lesson fee the future, but to require a material guarantee" for their good behaviour, and thus to prevent a repetition of what is called here their outrageous conduct. Under any circumstances Prussia inked@ to make limn p►y a round sum for the expenses of the expedition, or at least of the mobi lisation of the Prussian troops. It is stated in court circles that Prices Frederick William bas, in the name of the King, invited the Emperor of the French to pay a visit to Berlin in the spring, and that the invitation has been accepted. A letter from Berlin, of the 23rd (in the Cor respondence Hama), contains these statements: 0 England was the only one of the great powers whose support had not yet been obtained by Prose* and it was even known that Mr. Gordon, at Berne, had encouraged the Federal Council in its resistance. Much surprise was felt that England should have taken up such an attitude, being,u she was, one of the powers which signed the protocol of London, and an expression of this surprise wu conveyed to the English cabinet. We have just learnt that in con sequence of this representation being made to the e'en of Bt. James's, Mr. Gordon has now received orders from his government to support as much as he can the demands of Prussia. Information from Berne does, in fact, assure us that Mr. Gordon has declared to the Federal Council that he is obliged to insist upon the accept ance of the Prussian conditions, and this decla ration has caused great sensation at Berne. England his made, in her turn, an offer to the Prussian cabinet of her mediation in the Swiss affair, but this offer has been made without mecca. There can be no further question of any mediation n,w, and only the immediate liberation of the pri soners can present Prussia from sending her soldiers on the march." The Blieserareaseng of Berlin, of the 22nd inst., says, "It is assured that the English government his desired its representative at Berlin, Lord Bloomfield, to declare that the Eoglish charge d'affairee at Berne, Mr. George Gordon, has been ordered to give his decided support to the demand which Prussia has made of the Federal Council, for the release of the Neufchatel prisoners." The New Zurich Gazette of December 22nd says : " The amount of the information we have received, which implies that all hope of the preservation of peace is not yet lost, is just this, that the ministers of England and Franco informed the President of the Federal Council last Sunday that the powers which had signed the protocol of London would engage up to a certain point to obtain from the Kiog of Prussia a renunciation of his claim on Neufchatel, if Swit zerland would agree to the liberation of the royalist prisoners. It still remains to be ascertained whether Prussia will consent to such a renunciation of her A Beme journal, La Suisse, of the 23rd contains this : I• It hu been said here, for the last two days, that the representatives of foreign powers and the Federal Council had agreed upon a plan for the arrangement of the dispute, which had been submitted to Prussia for her ratification. This was the fact ; bet we are authorised to affirm that the Prussian government hu formally refused the proposed negotiations. A declaration of war is therefore imminent." "Several envoys to the German Federal Diet," says a Frankfort letter of the 20th," were to-day dim- cussing the question as to whether any state of the confederation could employ in war, without the formal authorisation of the diet, troops, especially German troops, when such hostilities, as in the present case, were had recourse to for the purpose of recover ing rule over a country left, by the congress of Vienne, out of the territories of the Germanic con federation. Other members also debated this point— whether, if the Prussian army were to experience a defeat from the Swiss troops, the other Federal mem bers would find themselves obliged to place bodies of their troops at the disposal of Prussia, to replace her, militarily speaking, in possession of a principality not forming part of the said oonfederation. There appears not to be any doubt that some envoy of a state devoted to Austria will bring forward this question in the Dist." A foot not without significance is that the Prussian army is not to be allowed the fortnight generally given between the order of mobilisation and the carrying of that order into execution. The troops are to be ready to move almost instanter; and it is calculated dist within a very few days from the present time, by means of railway communication, the Prussia& troops could arrive ors the frontien of Switzerland, and commence hostile operations. It is apparently from the apprehension of such a prooeed iog that the Feleral Council of Switzerland directs to the Rhine, without losing a moment, the levy of 20.000 men just ordered, sou to defend the passages of that river. It does this without waiting for the meeting of the Federal Assembly, being well con vinced that a fall bill of iademnity will be voted to it by that body for any step it may decide on for the protection of the territory. It has been stated that the Grand Council of Berne has unanimously voted an unlimited credit for com pleting the military preparations of the canton. THE UNITED STATES. SOUTHAMPTON. FA! 2 DAT -VINING. The United States mail steamer Arago, with the American mails, arrived at Cowes, on her way to Havre, this day. She left New Yoik on the 13th ins. The Anglo-Saxon and City of Manchester had ar rived out, the former at Portland, and the latter at Philadelphia. Oa the 11th the Africa arrived at New York. In the United States' Senate and House of Repre sentatives a desultory debate on the President's message was kept up. The opening of the Tehuantepec route to the Pistilli) was attrao'ing a good deal of attention. Efforts are making to finish • carriage road across the isthmus by the let of next February. Coaches and otter material batre been ordered in New Hampshire, to be ready for shipment at New York by the first of henry. In the House of Representatives, on the 10th, Mr. Bevan introduced a bill providing for a con tract with Mr. Vanderbilt for carrying • monthly mail between New York and Southampton ie steamers to make as good time as the Conarders, and , for every twelve boars over their go time a I redaction of one tbrrisand dollars to be made. Van derbilt was at Washington with all his lobby strength, hoping to get his bill through ; it is under stood that he has connected himself with Sloo and Co., and will furnish the steamers for the new Tehuantepec route. On the Bth the Southern Convention met at Saran nab. On the 10th the debate was very exciting, being on Mr. Uoulding's resolution to re-open the slave trade, which was warmly advocated by several of the members, and as strenuously opposed by other.. The etiolation wu finally lost by an overwhelming vote. Resolutiens were offered relative to a railroad to the Pacific. The first, which declares that govern. meet has no power to construct • railroad, wee adopted. The second, that • road should be made along the line of the thirty-second parall e l o f l at i tude by States, individuals, subscribers, and grants of land by the federal government, s m , elicited much debate. On the 11th, Mr. De Bow, of Louisiana, offered a series of resolu tions appointing a meeting of the Convention of Knoxville, Tennessee, on the second Monday in August next, endorsing Mr. Dudley Mann's scheme for the establishment ot a line of iron steam ferry boats of 50,000 tons, to ran between Chesapeake Bay and Milford Haven,favourin g the introduction of Southern text-books into Southern schools and colleges, and the appointment of a committee of distinguished Southern professors to prepare such works; recommending Southern legislatures to order the the of said books in Southern schools; teoommending the encou ragement of Southern books, periodicals, and journals in place of Northern publications, and recommending the encouragement of the mining and manufacturing interests of the Smith. All these resolutions were adopted. Mr. Semmes re ported favourably upon an interoceanic communica tion, via the Isthmus of Tenuantepec, and offered a resolution recommending Congress to make a con. tract with the Sloo Company for the transport of mails between New Orleans and California by that route.—Adopted. Resolutions far the appointment of a committee to irquiro into the expediency of re opening the slave trade were debated. Mr. Albert Pike made an eloquent speech for the opposition on the ground of humanity. Re hoped the whole world would ultimately be free. The Buffalo and New York City Railroad was sold on the 11th per order of Judge Mastic, referee, for the account of the Wien' of the second mortgage bonds, to A. D. Pa chin, E q ., of Buffalo, who bid 275,000 dole. for it. Pal:*rslish the following . - - - - h T il i ct i tt e ly N im ew port Y oua ork t intelligence' if Walke r ' s success in Nicaragua, every line o' which, it , hould be ander. stood, comes from Walker himself : NEW ORLEANS,Th it. 12 The steamship Texta,witk San Juan dates to the kb t aa ' t has arrived here. The news from Nimes "a is ', hi d important. 0 I Walker had been summits. in • dr a w of battles with the Central Americans. Oa the 10th ea . General Hornsby, with 200 men, &CAW 1,100 of tb. enemy under the Costa Rican General, Canes. The ene m y lost 200,while Hornsby nad fl uty two killed and 11 wounded. Four days' fighting at Massey& had ended in the entire defeat of the enemy. G. newel Walker bad return e d to Granada, and, atter giving three days' notice of his i n t ent i on to allow time for the removal of valat7.llst, grid the place, sot leaving a vestige of it. The imhabitatta of Granada had removed to Rivas with all their affects, which will hereafter be the capital of Nit:origin. A navel battle bad taken place between the Nicaraguan war schooner Granada. Captain Filson'', and • C.. 4.• Rican brig of war this, time. the on of the °mai'. The C:Ea Rican vessel was blown up, and ell on board of her perished. It fa estimated that the enemy have last 3,000 men is the various bottles tines October. Christ Church, the protestant episcopal cathedrrl in Montreal. was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 10th. A d►y goods wore and the Nuns' building adjoining were also somewhat injured. The church was thought to be one ot the most elegant and costly buildings in Clench. The damage by the fire is estimated at 120,000 dols.—the insurance is 68,000 dole. The church possessed a magnificent organ, nearly sa large as that ot Haarlum, in Holland. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW TONE, Dic. 13,, 71se looney market is without change. The sales of cotton for the I. th, I Ith, end I ttla have been aboht 2,70.) bake, Yesterday the market Mesa firm. The foreign Mare by the Aides was not considered unfavourab'.e, and kenos holders emtumed to mead out far full prime. . . . -- Figoar was firmer, with m re 'cavity, the market closing , bow. ever, without chasge of importune in pieta. The IRMO' Of ho:ders checked eaves of ishrat, which were quite moderate, and chiefly at the previous day's prices. From 10,0 1 :0 to 11,000 barrels were sold, at about the following quotation. Cortmoo to good ' State, 6.20 to 6.40 delo ; oningion to good 3lichlgati. 6.20 to 6.40 dots.; tiara State, 6.50 to 6.7 u Jas.; c .moron to good Ohio. 0.2 S to 6.40 catch Ohio, 6.“0 to 7 dole.; Omni:ern mixed to good brands, 7 to 7.50 d 01..; !Southern laney end extra, 740 to 6 cols. ; Can.clian superfine and extra, f.in to 7.75 40!5.; clone antra Oeorgetown, Richmond City Wilts, and St. Louis. to 1.50 dots.; Ilasall sod Gallegos, 92; to 900 dole. C ,oadlas flour wan Arm, and Peer confined to about 130 to 250 false at tall prima. Southern bunts were tirmer, with sales of about 1,200 dater 'tibia the range of the above quotations. Rye flour and cora meal were quits, and prioco unchanged. Wheat— market was firm, but sale. were ostricted by the high prices de. wooled by holders. The tranvactliona were cm fined to about 13,040 to 2c,000 bushel., including Southern white at I dol. 67e., In tranait for London, with Height at led., Iron a notntiern port; mixed Wee. tern at I dol. 50e., nod Western nolo, at I dol. 39e.; white Weaning , arid Cariosity& were at 1 del. Gic. to 1 dol. 750., asked for choir* qualities. ^__•_'- . . . . itaait;erra—Groh freights to Liverpool were easier. and *boat 40,000 to $O,OOO barbels corn red wheat were compel in balk at Std. to ftd. About 2,U 0 bow. nom at na, with rose 400 to KO tales of cotton at 4.32 d. To London !Lou was taken at 2e. 9d. THIS STORM ON THE ALGARINR COAST. The Akhbar of Algiers gives a graphic description of the violent gale which raged along the Algeria@ oust from this 16th to the 18th December. "On the morning of the 16th a heavy gale compelled the Marseilles packet to return to Algiers after it hod struggled for an hour to pin the offing. Towards (icon the barometer fell rapidly, and the approach of night was he:sided in by heavy snowers of rein; at the same time the rein rote with fury, and lashed itself into a hurricane. The entire population wee streak with terror, and many houses in the upper part of Algiers were abandoned by their inhabitants. At half-put two o'clock in the night, the storm was at In height; telegraphic posts were thrown down; win dow-shutter,, portions of roof., acd the window.framse were blown about, and endangered the lives of the notelet. who were alone sun in the streets. Toward. , morning the wind subsided, but the rein condoned to tall in torrents. On the 17th the spectacle offend by the waves was en awful one ; they hurled the immense blocks of stone which serve to strengthen the jetty into the interior f the port. The ships anchored in the latter were dreadfully tossed about, and presented the appearance of being encircled by • whirlpool. The Eeglish ship Undaunted, which wry ready to sail In bellatt, was tIiTIO ashore, and will not, it is feared, be saved. Tim dant& Maris, a French brig, had the same late. The quarantine boot, which was e:lidly moored beyond the supposed reach of the warn, was swept away end driven about the port. • col lier brig was washed out of the port, and hue disappeared. It is supposed that'll' seek neer the entrance, as mute 'poem above the endue ct the water in that dir.ction. The Marie Antoinette, of Cette, laden with wine, and bound far Algiers, was lost in face of Yeralde, near S.di-Fertech, on the coast of Morocco; the craw perished, with the exception of one 'Min and the mate. The Napoleon 111., with coal from Eoglend, sank in the same direction, and lost two of her crew. The mate of the Marie Antoinette, who had been saved by on inhabitant of %noddle, succeeded in p 'mg the life of one of the Indira of the Napoleon 111., at the peril of his own. On land, several dieutr•re took place. On the 17th, a Moorish house, in the Rue d'Atlas at Algiers, fell in and crushed a matinaker and his wife. In the Rue de la Osselle another house fill in, but caused no Ina of life. The bal cony of a house, near the Porte Bab-Azion, gave way and killed a Spanish woman and her two children, who were passing. Several bowie in the upper town are in danger of fdliog. The road St. Regime was rendered impress , liable, on account of the retool of timber and of boats in course of building, that bare been washed anon it. The 11 1 41 7 sunned by the towo io broken windows is enor mous." TRAGEDY Ili FRANCE—An extraordioary affair has just taken place at Toulouse. The wile of a restless's, Gamed B—, cm Wednesday Informed her busbies% that a sculptor, named B--, of the Rue tire 00111tielti Saint Ambits, had committed • gnu outrage upon her. The hus band at once procured a pistol, went direct to the studio of the sculptor, sod dischsrgesi the pistol right at him. The ball passed completely through the artist's neck, and thee, breakleg • pens of glass, fell toil the street. Thu moots/ad soon rushed from his workshop into his draw ingroom, which adjoiesd it, Burg open the window, stepped on to the balctry, twice cried s. Murder I" and then fell spinet the Iron bahrtrade. His crisp, and the sight of blood dropping from the Weeny, caused the taaserr-by tl toter tic house, but to their horror they found the unfortunate men deed! As to M. B—, after • firing hie pistol he ti•d boos the house, end was ens pro ceadieg towards the canal ; dace ihro, though the most V active search his been mute everywhere, nothing ha been seen cm heard of him, and it is suppoeed that he has tom ' mined suicide. From the position of the head of a sta. Witte found is the centre of the workshop, it weans that the sculptor was at work on it when he was shot; and, tram the astute of the wound, it appears that the pistol Gas fired last as he tureen round hie head to see who had opened the door. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OP CANADA.—MILEAGE COST or Tag Legions SICTIONS —The milesg• cost of the various *folios* of this important communication has been se follows: from Montreal to Portland, a distance of 292 miles, the cost was 9 5001 per mile, making the argregets espenditure on that portion of the lice 2,775.541 ; from Montreal to Toronto, 335 miles, the sot was 3,131,3001., or 9,3471, per mile; from Toronto ti Stratford, 68 miles, the cost, iacludiog the parch... of land and surveys throughout to Sarnia sod the rolling stock, amounted to 1,119,335/ , or 12,7201. per mile; from Q asbec to Richoicud. end 'Mansion. 96 miles, the expenditure was 774.8831, er 8 0711 off mile; sad from Quebec to St. Thomas 40 miler, 317.1001., or 13.6771. per mile. The total espendeure upon the Tarifa motions is thus shown to h.' A 148,125/., which, upon 85/ Sala, gives et p coat of 9,5761 per mile. 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