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Beall Potter, set Calvert; lilt WM. MA Y. asedise. STANDARD.. Tan Evrstve. MACBETH. Mr. C. RmSsi I 11:=as Arabs N 1 parform.—And THE MEM OW Maim Jests Jollamese, E. B. Or4oll. ■ F. libeetri. ma J. Montane(; MIA Limy, Mt.. a !locust. RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. tin bay—Mara*, 41. 12a.-.......Aber5001y 06 Slia. To-acamow—ldanda& 41. Es.-.....Aftsracca, h. 20or LONDON, MONDAY. THE rents is drawing to a close, and an wood is already being opened with the Hovernment as to the measures about to b 3 brought forward, and—aces important still—about to be paned, In the came of the next session. Lord Puri ILMISON has &eland that a few good mcuu►es complete are better than a great show of buskin, and mach talk, with amail pnetinl results. This declaration of the Punkin, larseetly urged upon that eminently practical body— the House of Commons—entitles us to expect that the measures indicated by Government, which ere chiefly law reforms, will be maenad:y framed, and so clearly speed upon in the Government itself, as to have the beet possible chum of forthwith passing into law. It is necessary, however, that the other parties concerned in amending our law and policy should poetically ;remember their responsibility. When any temporary influence, any ousel incident, reuse our passiins or our prrjud:ces, we an inundate Parliament with petition.. Sunday bands, &May trading, Maine Liquor Laws, or some fashionable topic, may load the table with platform which prove nothing so much as the party excitement of the petitioners, while the most pregnant proposals of reform are left to be. managed by the parties whose proper business they are &append to be. It is natural and nameable that Government should complain of the defective annoet afforded them by the people for whose intetests they are working; and if we would not Lave the despots of the world pre- Bounce that our institutions are in advance of oar merits, we must prove that we value our con atitatiocal privileges by using them freely aid diligently. We have now apparently an oppor tunity to obtain reforms of the last import ance to our domestic morality and our social Interests : everything depeLds on our signifyiag oar opinions and wishes with du earnestness: and if the reform of our EcclesiastiCal Courts, of our law of Matrimony and Divorce, and some other valuable ebsogea, fail to be established in the omits, maim, it will clearly be the fault of an apathetic people. The Government declare that they are ready; and Parliament, we know, always doss what the nation with sufficient earnestness desires. This is the purpose of its institution; the fulfilment of that purpose rests with the people. Uwe desire to get rid of the laws, old sad new, which tura marriage into a means and a mask of corruption, and to plant divorce on some principle of reason and humanity, we must simply declare our desire; or we have no right to complain that we are misrepresented in Parliament, and treated with levity or bad faith by Government. Our case is in our own hands; and if we send up—u is too probable—ecoree of petitions against the ticket-of-leave system, while we have nothing to say about reforms which will obviate more crime than our whole body of convicts commit, we so far strengthen the hands of the uremia of representative institutions. Only last Wednesday Lord CAMPBELL declared in court, with an emphatic Amen from the counsel and everybody present, that be trusted this was the last year in which we should present to the world the ignominious spectacle of conjugal dishonour being the basis of a claim for mosey. He said that he felt ashamed when any foreign jurist spoke of our actions for crim. con., by which a man was enabled toput meaty in his pocket for the dishonour of his wife. If the hacknied explanation is made—an explanation which no man living could find out for himself--that our law mites an action for damages an indispensable step to ob • taking a divorce, the obvious criticirm is--why do you allow such a law to remain? However, the law, we are told, is to be amend-d, and, as Lord CemrsELL sad the Bar anticipate, this next session, if, indeed, we exert ourselves sufficiently to speak our minds by means of petitions in behalf of a bill which, however short of what we might desire, yet removes the worst reproaches from the conditions of divorce—ths medals that divorce can be obtained only by mesas of an action for damages, in which the wife has no epper. tunity of explanation or defence; and that Aimee can be obtained only by persons rich enough to p to the Lords for it, and spend a poor maa's hotels ow the case. The opening of the session sproosbos. What step are we taking to support such molly good measures as Government hes announced ? If Government needs the support of petitione s sinsh mote do other prepares of good measures. The Law Amendment Society is not idle; and the intradmlll of their measure. haves right to expect and temple* substantial and energetic support, it their work is to be done. Early in the masks a Bill le to be brought is, prepared by that Aseceiation, in favour of which ipatitions should ba sent in fess all parts of the kingdom, and the more abundantly en ea eosin et the sort of opposition which mesh a aware is sure to encounter. We refer to a Bill to alter and amend the laws relating to the property of married women. There is a en& Moat sanesseikaes between the reasonable wishes of the wears of England, es already exposed by peddeas, and the views of law reformer, both within and without the Association, to guide the petitioners of this session es to what they ought to ask for. The first requ 4 sition is that all property belonging to a married woman, before marriage or accruing after marriage, shell, in the absents. of any settlesseut, belong to her is if she were a fens sole. The next point follows of eourse—that the wits shall have, with the pommies of her property, all the powers and liabilities which belong to it: power to contract, to ens and be sued in respect of it; and liability to its being taken in execution upon any judgment recorded against her, in reaped of contrasts entered into by her, either before or after marriage. Again, it is proposed that, in ease of the wife dying ietestate, the husband shall have the same right to her property as the wife now has to the husband's property under the same eircumstaaess. The husband is not to be liable in respect of any debts of hie wife contracted before marriage; and the property of bothshall be jointly liable in rasped of debts incurred for household expenses and the maintenance of children where the husband and wife an living together. These ire the points, already dimmed and exa. mined with all du urnestness and an, which form the substance of the Bill which we are told to expect early in the session. Fora lug cures of you there has been a plentiful martian of the mischiefs of the existing law and practice by which no roam is left for the requirements of an improved civilisation, sad of a rising morality ; and, as far as appears, there is really no denial of the wrong and the atissltiii. What denial there is is simply of any power to amend the existing state of thing.. This is the point to be proved. Times are changed. Women work for their maintenance—even to the number of nine- tenths oldie women of England. Their improved education and altered position enable them to earn comiderable sums of money, or miller imam of essential importance to the household. As might be anticipated, selfish and vicious husbands compel their wives to maintain the whole family, and even to support the husbands' profligate pleasures; and thee the improved capacities of the wife are made ea injury and a burden to her. The old law, mad* ender a different state of things, has became intoler ably oppressive; and the obvious remedy is to amend it, fa order to mit existing circumstances. This must be effected by a gallant =pre miss of paha° opinion. Individuals, an amociation, a go vernment, may propose laws; bat it rests with the people to get them carried. We might well feel aehamed to say anything so true IA this, bat it Is the complaint of all law makers, in every sessios, and especially in the crisis of any reform, that the people do not afford them sufficient support. It would be a pity that, in the prevent ow, the people should more too later It the bill is to be preamted early i■ the seirion. it in now high time that the due support should be prepared. There is no doubt about the keenness, the virulence of the opposition that will be made by three whose passions, prejudices, or interests will be crossed by this reform. The zeal of oar moralists, of our wisest husbands, of oar best wives, of oar clar•sighted lawyers, and of our hard-headed and warm-hearted lovers ofj notice and domestic peace should be in proportion to the opposition—lsoWever vigilant, earnest, and persevering. When the energies are fairly snatched, the best cause will carry the day. Vbe Court. OSBORNE, Du. 13. l'he Clean and Prince walked out yesterday V 6• no Primers Royal went oat deviag. Tlo royal oltildzen took their usual awes& Dad. 14. Das Musa sad Priam, with the royal !address. walked 's t►e grew* at °shoals yesterday. Tb. Maharajah Dhaka') Singh arrived oa a visit to bar Majesty. Ms Jobs Lassa was la stadium, ea We Highs's,. The Committer of the War Department held a nasetlag eri Saturday, at the Moe of the Secretary of State for War, La Pall-mall. Present—the Duke of Cambridp, Vieseast Palmerston, Lord Penman, Sir Charles Wood, /Ir. Seem Wiry Lebonehers, Sir John Burgoyne, Colons] Owen, HAW Jena', sad Captain Lass. ♦ meetiag of the Cambridge University Collnilleloll was held on Wedneaday, the 10th init., at 6, Adelphi-terraire. Present—the Lord Bishop of Liehil4d, the Lord Biology of Chester, Load ficauley, the Right Ha.. M. T. Baines, the Right Hon. Sir Laurence Peel, the Very 8... the Dina cf Ely, sad the Roo. Dr. Vaughan. The Chancellor of the Erchrquer left town CS Saturday for hi. mat, Harptos Court, Hilltop, Herefordshire. Despiteful' for the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were seat es Saturday from the Colonial-Moe. Has Majesty will, it is said, by in out of singular rase mad searteey, evince her gene of the good foam of the UMW& State", by to-morrow paying a visit to the Amebae, sad biddlag Captain and hie "flan EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE "UNITED STATES. -....- THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. LIVIRPOOL, MONDAY 110111111 NO. The royal mall steam ship Niagara, Captain Wickman, arrived in the Mersey this morainic, with &driers from Boston to 3rd. and Halifax to the 6th inst. She brought 61 pammegem, and 416,600 dollars in epode. The Arabia arrived at Halifax at the 3rd inst. The Niagara briar the President's Menage. The President esmaseness by remerldng that in performing the 000stitudonsl duty of giving Con gress tahrmallon on the state of the Union, he does not do it merely to express his personal oonviotions, but speaks ea the 07.101 the minister of the govern ment, tolled upon to seen impartially the interests of the whole country ; the oondition of thief great interests and our steady regress in private and public will-being attest the predominant spirit of intelligence which has charasterised the American Pa*. Bias the last amnion a presidential elation has taken place, which we. the explicit and eels aitelthe poplar will, the sole ormeolga authority of &Mimi It is imposeible to misepprehend the great which the votes of the people have sanothael till sustained. They have ',sorted the conatitationd equality of the States, and of the eateries, in what ever region they dwell, or wherever they received their birth; and they have protiaimed their deter mination to maintain the rights of all the different maces of the Union. In doing this thsy have condemned emphatically the idea of arraigns in the United States any mere 11 9 °IraPhieldParlim The retinae put forth to justify sack an or gaaisation are then re.examined by the President, at length, sad the consequences to which it would in. syllabi, lead are forcibly poartrapd. The long series of aggreinions against the ore 'Stational rights of one-half the States are next reviewed—first, in referenos to negro emancipation— second, the proceedings relative to the extradition of fugitive elaves—and third, the question relating to the equitation of territorial govern ments. In commis% with the latter is the Yuen question. The mmeap vindicates in strong teems the action of Commis in relation to the organisation of the Nebreeka and Yams Uni ted's, goes over the awes of the difficalties in the latter, which were not the provisions of organic law but the unjust interferes., of persons not inha bitants of the territory; that interference, wherever it has exhibited itself by aces of an issurrectiosary character cc of obstruction to pressmen of law, has been repelled or suppremed by all the means which the coastitution and the Lys placed in the hand' of the executive. The President states that he has no power to interfere in local elections, to en to their freedom, or to pus judgment on the legality of the Yates; he hes no more power in the territories than he has in the States. If he had sash power the government might be repablima L farm, bet it would be a monarchy in hest, and if he had undertaken to exercise it to the we of Kansas he would have been justly snidest to the charge of usurpation and of violation of the dearest rights of the people of the United States. This portion of the massage closes by expressing the confident trust that, as the restored peace in Lassos affords opportunity for wise legislatios, either the Legiela. dye Assembly of the territory or Comptes will take oars that me act shall remain on its statute book in Tided= of the soestitation or salsvenive of the objects he whisk it was ordelned, and will take all other seemeary step to mare to its inhabitants the enjoy ment, without obstrnetion or abridgment, of all the seastitational rights of citizen of the United States. as contemplated by the nude law of the territory. The financial statement is a very satisfastm, one. The receipts of the treasury, from all agrees, for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1866, were 78,918,141 dole., which, with the Wanes then in hand, amounted to 92,260,117 dots. The expenditure, including 12,776,390 on the public debt, was 72,748,792. The total of the labile debt is now reduced to 50,737,129 dole, the whole of which might be paid in ass year, without mnbarramment to the public ser vice; but, being not yet doe, the government cannot preps the holders of the stock to part with it. The annul expenditure foe the part five years has been at the average of 48,000,000 dollars; and the average expenditure tor the next five years need not exceed that amount. The revenue from customs has reached the great figure of 64,000,000 dollars, and the President recommends such a revision of the revenue laws aooording to the views of the Secretary of the Tree euy, as will prevent the receipts from customs from exceeding 60 million.. Here, be remarks, are feet. that speak volumes to old world governments. The army daring the past year has found constant immispeest against the Indians in the Oregon and %Adagios territories, and with so much effect as to warrant the hope of peace for the future. Additional legislation is recommended to remedy defects in the organisation of the army and to increase the military armament. The navy exhibits most gratifying evidence of in. mound vigour. The incaution of the law of 1853 to promote its Mildew has been attended with advantageous re sults. Suggestion are made for its farther improve ment. The sale of the public lands for the lad year amounted to 9,227,878 acres, yielding 8,821,414 dollar,; the whole number of acres located was 30,100,230. Various improvements ire suggested by the escrc tart' in this department. The Post-office expenditure for the pest year was 10,407,868 dollars, the receipts were 7,620,801 dollars, leaving a deficit of 2,787,046 dollars, This deficit is ascribed to the law of 1854, giving increased compensation to postmasters, as well es to the increase of mail routes and railroad service and the reduced rates of wage. Recommendations are made of sew mail contracts on the routes to the Pacific. The massy next treat. of the foreign relations, and state, that the United states are on terms of amity with all other nation. Their relations with Great Britain are of a satisfactory character. The enlistment question is settled. A treaty Just con• eluded by the United States Minister in Loodon, if ratified, will settle the Central American question. The exports to Canada last year exceeded those of the year previous by 7,000,000 dole., and the imports by 6,000,000 dole. There I. now an export and port trade of 42,000,000 dale. The efforts made to relieve the trade to the Bailie from the Bound Dues have not been samossfaL The strong appeal made by Denmark for a temporary suspension of definite action was acceded to, upon • the condition that the muss collected foe a year, His Royal Highness Prince Dhalsep Bing, son of the late Realest Moo, Rajah of Lahore, embarked ea board her Majesty; yacht 1,11ry.- Welch. at the BoutliaMpten Desks oa Saturday, to proceed ea a rleit to her Majesty at Osborne Horne. The Prince was seam yarded by Sir John Logan and Captain Crispin. Els Royal Highness will lasts Osborne 'gala am Wednesday aut. Lord Palmerston and Sir George Goniewall Lewis visited on Friday the ciliation of pictures whist Mr. abeepaimaks has munifimntly placed at the diryosal of the nation. The Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer subsequently inspected the Sonless Collectloa at Kul barmier-house. The Mare Wooten Dowager of Conyoghaso has left loglattil to paw the miaow with lewd sad Lady Loads.. borough, at t►eir shatosv, Gist Gums. The Countess is Jame has arrived at Claridge's Hew. Lord Paramus laves town to day tot his asst is Sootlaad. The Doke and Duohess of Argyll have arrived at Rosetta& Castle. Charles Lamb, Fag., half brother of the Earl of Beliaise, died at his shooting quarters at LoebSankt', ea Tbareday last. His remains have bees interred I t eentetary at Greenock. His body was followed to the grave by** Ball of Ballston and Viscount limed». Mr. Lamb died from the effected lej miss received by the baratiag of a shell while be was salving as a voluotion before Sebastopol. At a ranting of the Carlisle Church of England Baliglees and Literary Inititution, oa Tuohy amiss, a medal compliment was paid to the Right Hon. end Bight Bev. the Bishop of Loudon, by permaneutly connecting 111 aim se visa-patron with t►e society whites be had foaaded sad seerlaked. Before leaving Carlisle the right rev, pre• late espeseesd a desire to this effect, and nest ishaerfally was ft emptied with.—Carlisle raloal. Lieut.-General Sir Stephen Lekemas was married ea the lot last. at Bucharest, to the Prisons Math de Philippe's). Sir Stephen by his wunisge will 'Wank a prissily tortes.; he also becomes a Walhalla settle, " Dowd " of the Arse clan.—Gnarl Circular. A letter from the Hague of the 10th mays :--4 0 A marriage was yesterday celebrated belying Berea de Cash. sad Barman Greaten Van Zook'. The meg couple are to lease shortly for Lisboa, ohm K. de Cults has Wes appelated Laid': of Prowls." 15, 1850 his Jaw 16, 1866, 'kW be settee of future adjustment. With Spain, remarks the President, there have been new dinealtissoind there has been no adjustment of old ales. The circumstances are next detailed attending the proposition submitted by the United States to th Earopsan Powers, that private property, except it be contraband, shall be attempt from seizure by public vessels of war. This proposition, which has been nbmitted to the mane Power', has not been rejected by any, and is favourably enter tained by all. Russia has explicitly approved of it, and will co-operate in getting the smut of the Powers. Such is the aspect of the negotiations on this proposition as to warrant hope that the principal feature of it, which is so just and equal in its operations, so essential to the prospeeity of com mercial nations, and so consonant to the sentiments of this enlightened period of the world, will *com mand the approbation of all maritime Powers, and thus be incorporated into the code of international law. The relation between the United States end Mexico, Nicaragua, and New Grande e outlaw to be embarramed by the frequent reveleflem of Sem states. Mexico continues to who isimmeden put injury. Diplomatic, intercom. fe someold between the United States and Niempe o beemme of the difficulty of deciding upon the &Ante gonna I runt, and the most serious questions have Mum with New Granada, growing out of its runt ter nage and pastap lain, the latter of whioh,by *Ming a toll of three dollars on every pound of mail rat going across the Isthmus, would take two millions of dollars annually from American eines', in addition to the sum paid by the Pena Railroad Company. Am these laws violate treaty Stipa latices, it will be a duty to nab* their ..tics. In addition to theta piemmese br dm deemed he reparation on New Grease fw briery &so is Ame rican Gideon in the runt riot. So premises to protection to life and property there that a Dual force is maintained on the mat, and may not pru dently be withdrawn until these questions unsettled. The manage closes with congratulations on the peace, greatness, and felicity, which the United Stets" now enjoy. We have, it says, reached the dap of the national caner when dangers and efforts are incidents not of weakness, but of strength. le oar foreign relations we have to temper our power le the less happy condition of neighbouring repubilee, and to place ourselves in the conscious dignity of right by the side of European empires. In OUT domestic reladonships we are to guard against the internal shock of interests and ambition which are the natural result of our political ek scion. The President ends with the expression of his profound gratitude to the good Prc • vicious which hes carried the country through many difficulties, and which enables him to contemplate the spectacle of amicable and respectful relations existing batmen the United States and all other government', and of the establishment of constitu tional order and tranquillity throughout the Union. The Nte:era peeled the Baltic, hence for New York, en the 13th inst. Congress saemabled cm the Ist; 39 members were absent. After the reading of the President's message considerable discussion tinned in Senate. Mr. Hale attacked the positions of the President, and denied altogether the charges which imputed to a majority of the people of eleven States want of fidelity to constitutional obligations and a love of the Union. He said it was untrue that they sought to usurp the power of the government. After this debate an adjournment took place. A vessel from Hamburg, at New York, lost 31 passengers by cholera. Californian advioes to Nov. 6, and nearly two million dollars, have been received at New York per the Illinois. Buchanan had carried that State. Mining intelligence favourable. New - Orleans papers contain the last advice; from Mexico, which confirm the 1111001111.811 of Vidarri—a prelude to more revolutionary movements. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money at New York was easy and unohangcd. Stocks are higher, with a moderate demand. Exchange on London heavy at 109 to 109 k. Ashes were steady. The cotton market wes firm, middling upward 121 cents. Flour wu 10 cents lower for very common. Wheat waa alio rosier, and Indian oorn lower. Provisions were at irregular rates. Freight to Liverpool lower. Cotton, id. to la. per lb. Flour, 2s. 10. per barrel. Grain, 7d. to Bd. per barbel. (IT =scram TazzaaAri.) SOUTHAMPTON, MONDLY 1101311M0. The steamer Washington hu arrived, haviog left New York on the 29th lilt. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ilOll 0111 ORIC _ PARIS, Sammy Ileum,. Neither the positive sews from London that wi is proclaimed between England and Penis, nor the warlike attitude of the King of Prussia with regard to Neufchatel, produced the slightest effect upon the Little (Sunday) Bourse today; but these two grave questions are naturally uppermost in the minds of politicians. With respect to the first 1 have nothing Authentic to add to what I stated on Friday, to the elect that, if it be true that Russia is serious in hoe 1 threats to support the Shah against us, the Con ferences of Paris may be nipped in the bud. The Nord of Brussels =firms an opinion I have rn pettedly expressed that the preliminaries of the Con- Amnon are far from settled, and that (apart from the possible consequences of the state of war with Persia) it is yet doubtful whether they will take place. This Russian journal now says :—" It cannot be concealed that certain symptoms seem to indicate not only that all the Powers parties to the Treaty of Paris have not consented to the new Conferences, bat that among those who have consented there anion, who, without haying precisely withdrawn their ad hesion, appear to regret it, and continually raise difficulties." This is a striking commentary upon the ambiguity which I pointed out on the day when the last note on the subject was published in the the Mositaw as lutkiog io the expression " loplwjart (the greater part) of the Powers have adhered." According to the Nord, it is really true that the Euglish government has proposed to exclude Coast Walewski from a seat in the Conferences, and that upon the simple ground that inasmuch ea the meeting was to be one of the second plenipotentiaries only, France ought to be represented by Baron de Bow. Teensy, in the same manner as Lord Cowley would sit without Lord Clarendon, who was the ant plenipotentiary at the Congress. It is also s asserted that, under these eirostrstances, it in* suggested that Lord Cowley should be the President of the Conferences. Great blame is now sought to be thrown upon England and Austria for raising frivolous objections, but how far this blame is well founded it le impoeuble to judge in the present date of oar Information. This broad feet, however,l must be borne in mind , that Lard Pa'me/stoles go. moment was oppoed to the principle of a new Con form* from the first, and it has ben invariably stated in England that if the government consented to yield the point of form, it was only on the ainarance that the substantial point at issue should not be risked. If there be now any doubt about that (as the Nord says there is), England is perfectly consistent in standing out, no matter whe ther upon what may be termed frivolous objections, or others. However this may be, the Nord thinks "it will not be astonishing if, a few days hence, it should be announced that England and Autria formally refuse the Conferences." The French government is very much embarrassed by the fatuous obstinacy of the King of Prussia about NeurchateL The A osemblio pretends that the royal ists in Neufchatel are being persecuted, that, in fact, a reign of terror prevails there to their prejudice but the object of this sally is to urge France to oc cupy the territory, a project which the Petrie openly condemns as impolitic. A financial journal having announced that the Credit Mobilier Society would pay a dividend of upwards of 200 fr. for the year 18" an eminent capitalist lately wrote to the secretary of the society. calling upon him publicly to contradict the report if ' it wee not true. He has received in answer a letter written by order of the executive committee, from which the following is an extract : . . we beg you to caujadiet the statement, the publication of which wee neither directly not indirectly authorised by the Credit MobiHer. The Monigeur d. to CU* d'Or &enmities that the ' prefect, by a decree dated Dee. 2, hen suspended the Municipal Council of Altman& M. d'Agioul, the confidential agent of the King of Naples, is again in Peri& He gives out that he has merely eons on private business relating to the nil ways in whisk he is interested. BERLIN. Oar. 13. The Skala "imager announces thtt on the 6th instant the King of Prussia, in a prints audience of the French Ambassador, received the lesiva' of the Grand Oran of the Logien of Honour. The Bourse Gazette positively contradicts the rc poets of the mobilisation of the Prussian army.• • This contradiction nest not be Indererood u apply- Lug to the threat of Frusta to take • swims. measures" with respect to Neufchatel, which threat's repeated to the same Rushee of the Bourse 04:414. IN SICILY. The Gatos Gageter, of December 9, says :—" The steamer Calabrese, arrived from Naples this planing, kap no official and positive detail of the move. mats in Sicily. It is, however, announced that thus movements have entirely eased, and that the arrests at Palermo were not so numerous as has been pretended." (nor OUR °lnt NAPLES, SATURDAY. Milano, the soldier who attempted to kill the Bing, hes been hanged. It is alleged spinet him that he was an insurgent in 1848, was amnestied in 1862, and entered the army by means of forged papers. THE OVERLAND MAIL: (nor 01111 OWN MARSEILLES, SUNDAY Moasiird. The Indian Mail arrived at midnight, and leaves at ten this morning. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received papers frost the Cape of Good Hope dated Oct. 25. Of the four exam tnneports which had lately arrived with troop., four have sailed again for England—the Insperador, the Baines, the Insperatris, sad the Cleopatra. The opportune arrival of these troops bee already (nye the Cep Toms Mal) had a sensible effect in tranquillising the resting tribes on oar eastern border, portions of whom were believed Who at one time seriously bent on a renewal of hostilities, calealating on the impunity with which a predatory foray might be made to the then defenceless state of the colony. The various reinforcements, as they sr rived, were at once moved to the front by Lieut.-General Jackson, and dispositions made that effectually checked the apprehended evil. The Volluread" of the Tree State have recently assess bled at Bloemfontein. A correspondent of the Journal says it appears from the opening speech of President Boshoff that the principal cane of this body being now . . called together is the state of the Callon River boundary, the whole of the farms along which have been unoccepied all the winter. Moshesh has fai,ed, it is said, to rotors the Moles cattle and bona, as promised at the minting at Satithtled, when hie Etaelleacy Sir George Grey was present. He ha returned a few horses, but many more are stated to have been stolen dime ; and one or two farm•bosses are _ . also retorted to have been burnt. It will be sow the duty of the Volkstread to decide whether there is sufficient cause for war, which we earnestly hope may prove not to be the ems, al a *ditties of this nature might not only be den gereas to the Free State, bat prejudicial to the colony. The "parliament" which has thus been summoned together, woosista of about twenty-four membere, two of whom are Englishmen, four GUMMI, aid the remainder of Dutch iratraetion. _ _ _ It is reported from Kaffirland, according to Use frontier Times That then is some talk going on among the illambies end the (hikes, as to whether they shall sow or not, the more prudent among them not being able to see clearly wby they should starve." This certainly shows that the natives are bee outiog alive to the real nature of the specious representations which have been made to them; " but Kreli is still urging upon the tribes in ques.l time to obey the prophet's injunctions." A correspondent of the Graham's TOWS Jorernal writes : —.' Some of the wail-disposed chiefs, such se Kama sad &Irani, complain that the press eagerly publish everything, which tells against them, but nothing in their favour. Beal these chiefs, as well as some others, are exerting themselves nsalenaly to counterart the evil tendencies of the prophet's commands, and it is hoped that their efforts will not be un availing. Highland is muck altered for the better within the last ten yews. A proof of this is to be seen in the facet that a large proportion of the trade carried on with them is for mosey, instead of unless trinkets. With money yes can now buy of the Kaffir anything be has for fele, and this extends far into the interior. This is a vast step towards civilisation, to which I may add that very her Kaffir& are seen with a skin kern". All, with very trifling exceptions, wear warm woollen blankets, of the quality of which they are excellent judges—preferring to pay Ifs. ow lON. fer • good article, rather than half that price for a bed Om. There an many other changes of equal significance and importance silently going on amongst them, most of wields may be traced to the seeds of civilisation whisk were scattered amongst them daring the administration if ▪ Harry Smith, and which we may hope will prods** in dais time, under the skilful and fostering care of our presort governor, abundant fruit." The Eieg William's Town Gazette states, however, ea the strength of letters received from beyond the Kei, that the natives there are deetraying their settle at • "lead* rate," and that the prophet's reputation is as brilliant sal ever. " Resent reports," the Omens add., " sin show this prophet to be a man of mach better views and more philesie thropy than the generality of Kaffir', it being hie intention slur eradicating all vice from amoog the natives, to attempt 'the reformation of the European population r " lii. Excellency Sir George Grey, we regret to learn, was net Is good hesltb. His Excellency, it appears, was suffer ing from indisposition before be left King William's Town, sa his return to Cape Town, as the Frostier Vow dates, from en old spear wooled in the hip-bone, which he received in Australia many years ago. The missionary ship John Williams arrived in Table Bay ea the Ist Oct., with a mamba of raissiortries oa board for this colony sad the South Bus. She sailsd again es the 6th. Within the colony, perhaps, the most noteworthy subject of remark is the rapid advance which ia being made in the production of fine wool. The export of this artaole from Also% Bay alone, during the three months ending 30th alt., filled seventeen vamelsfor England, and two for Breton, taking between them 13,716 balm, valued at 222,9821., being 1,6661. mote than for the whole of the year ending January, 1861. EXECUTION OF .ROBERT MARLEY.- (THIS DAY. The execution of Robert Morley, who wee con. •lcted at the hit mouton of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of a young man named Richard Cope, under very aggravating cimuntances, took plat* this morning at eight o'clock, in front of the gaol of Nougats. Tb. facts of the crime for which the wretched men maimed are so fresh in the recollection of the public that it will be anneesseary to repeat them. The prisoner, it will be remembered, made a daring attempt at robbery In the .hop of Mr. Berry, a jeweller in Parliamentmetreet, and in the cone of that attempt he inflicted deadly injuries upon the deceased, who was Mr. Berry's shopman, with a Uto pians/. The peisoner, ever since his conviction, has appeared quite resigned to undergo the eminence, and evidently never, foe • moment, anticipated that there was any chance of emaping the capital punishment. He, therefore, evidently appeared detormismd to endeavour to atone for him mints by a foil admission of guilt and on acknowledgment of the justice of hie sentence. Mr. Mader-Sheriff Croilsy and Mr. Anderion, his eel. Woe, have been at the gaol three or four times every week since the prisoner's conviction, and he has repeatedly ex. pressed his gratitude for the kindness he hen received at Weir hands. They have frequently inquired whether there was anything he deiced to be done consistent with their dui, bat he has always declined, and a'ao requested that no letter should be given to him, as he wu desirous to divest his in'ttd freer ell things connected with the world. The prisoner has paid great attention to the religious exhortations of the Rev. Mr. Davis. the Ordinary of Newgate, and on Sunday In partion'as he paid the most earnest attention to the ail- seems of the reverend gentleman, and his firmness was most remarkable. The Re 4 Mr. Davis, at the pri• sonn's reqamt, remained with him the whole of Sanday night, and down to the period of hie ezecntioa. after seven o'clock Mr. Sheriff Mechi and Mr. ' Merl. Rear., accompanied by their deputies, Miens. 'Greeley and Audition, arrived at the gaol, and very soon afterwards they proceeded to the condemned cell. The yebeeme was standing up, and on Mr. Sheriff Mechi ia sguldag hew he felt, he replied " Very well." His then said Yng he wee quit* prepared to die, and that he hoped he had ends his pesos with God. Mr. Sheriff Kiehl said he hoped he bad, and then inquired whether there wre any thing that the prisoner wished to be done. He replied is a cool and firm tone, " No, sir ;" adding, " I am very thankful for the kindness I have received from everybody eines I have been in the prison." Mr. Davis then said that the primer wished him to say that he deeply regrettti the crime he had committed, and that he fully acknow. lodged the justice able sentence, and was perfectly satisfied with his trial and the verdict of the jury. Malley ex. pressed his concurrence in the statement made by the Ordinary ; and his demeanour during thew prcceediegs was moot remarkable for firmness, without, however, the slightest show of bravado. A minute or two before eight o'clock, Calcraft, the executioner, was brought in, and be at once proceeded to pinion the unhappy MID. Marley quietly resigned himself to his hands, and Calcraft inquired if the pinioning appa ratus, which now consists of strong straps instead of cord as foe.nerly, hurt him, and he replied, " Olt, no." All the preparations were now complete, and precisely at 8 o'clock the mournful pronseaion passed from the ems demised cell to the scaffold. The culprit walked with a firm step and ascended the steps leading to the scaffold is the same manner. The cap was then placed over his faoe, and the noose adjusted round his neck, the bolt was drawn, and the unhappy men appeared to be dead almost in an instant. There we. an unusu'ly lr-ge t 3coon-e of persons to witness the execution, end titer behaviour, with very few exceptions, was orderly sod decorous. The body, after hanging an hour, wee eat down and taken back to the gaol, and to-night it will be buried within the building, in conformity with the terms of the sentence. On Friday morning a gentleman came to the gaol who represented himself to be a Roman Catholic: priest, and he expressed a desire to have an interview with the prisoner. The authorities of the gaol invariably allow the utmost possible latitude to unhappy persona in the condition of the prisoner, and they are always allowed to see the ministers of any religious pt mission with which they may be con. aected, if they desire to do so, but as Marley had not ex pressed, any such obis, he wee asked whether he had a desire that this gentleman should be admitted to him. He replied that be could not understand why such an appli cation should have been made, aa neither himself nor any member of his family belonged to the Roman Catholic' persuasion, and that he bad no desire for ■ny further spiritual advice than that of the worthy ordinary of New gate, the Rev. Mr. Davis, which was all that could be wished for, and he therefore declined to see the gentleman who made the application. No one has visited the prisoner during the week except Mr. Davis and the other authorities of the prison whose duty it is to do so, and he has expressed a wish that none of his relations should be admit ted to bim. None of them, however, have applied with that object, and he has seen no member of his family bat the sister who was *nuclei to last week. Executions stNewgate are now nippily much lest frequent than formerly, and nearly twelve months have elapsed shim the list occurred. The 'offeror upon that occasion Ma a _ _ . man named Bonifield, whe murdered his wife and throe children, and it will be remumbered that after he bad beta turned off be made ►l attempts to get upon the scaffold, sad succeeded in placing bin feet three er loor times upon the edge of the drop. The occurrence caused a gocd deal of excitement at the time, as it IMO thought that there was i some neglect on the part of the executioner n the perform. apes of his duty and in cruet queues of what then occurred a aim mods hes been adopted of pinioning criminals that effintasUy precludes any chance of each an event recurring. The Lords Justices have affirmed tho decision of Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, adjudicating Syets, Walker, end Co., bankrupts op - h the r petition for arrangement, the commissioner considering that the proposal they made was not reasonable or proper to be carried into effect under the superintendence and control of the coutt. The suspension of the Kidderminster Bank of Mown. Feeley, Turner, and Co., is announced, in conse quence of the death of Mr. Abraham Turner, its last repre sentative. It wu a bank of lour, with an authorised eirco lation of 14,3091., but the amount of notes out IF believed not to exceed 7,0091. or 8,009/. The general Neb.:Rim of she OODCtin are said to be small. Nathirg bas transpired is London as to the prospect of their being liquolited is fall, beyond an intimation that there is some hle the basilicas may poesibly be resumed. In consequenca of the elevation of Mr. Stuart Wortley from the Recorderahip of London to the office of Solicitor-General and the absence of Mi. R. Gurney on circuit, Mr. Bodkin (who in the event of Mr. it. Goroey's being elected to the of of Recorder will become a eat& date for the then vacant office of Common Serie mil on Yee day laat presided in the Mayor's Court, and disposed et a considerable number of cases, the arrears being very ;rest. The screw steamer Clyde, Captain David Header• son, has now been refused from government Scric,, acd again placed on the station between Sueow anl New York, and is announced to soil oa the 7th proximo. The Emperor of the French having, during his r ecent stay at Compiegne, observed the great flowage doss by rabbits in the wo sets and fields, has given orders that ill the rabbits in the forests of the Civil List shall be destnyede Professor Clcquer, an eminent Parisian surges', (uncle of the Dr. Cloquet., surgeon to the Shah of Penis. who died at Teheran about a year ego, under 6mi:citizen which led some to suspect that be had been p..isoneo) has just received the insignia of the highest coder in 1 . 40111 from the Shah. THE SATURDAY HALF HOIADAT.—Mr. Cele, of Chancery-lane, has forwarded to ns a hat, corrected op to Saturday lest, of the legal firma who have cemented to close their o ffi ces at an early hour on the Saturday a use altsr noon. The total panther now amounts to WI lit rale the c natty courts office, in each place where the toad is holden, may be closed at one o'clock on Saturday afttre noon incept in those towns where Saturday is the market der, in which cows the of is to be closed at the same hoot ma ens. other day of the week. DEGIIMBIR r 1