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Max of genius, especially inventors, have no toriously a hard time of it. Jsmes Wirr and Gaosoz STILPHENSON were long looked upon as flighty enthusiasts. Sprung from the humblest ranks, they were, of course, poor, and it was with diffi culty that they could induce the men of capital to risk any money in the realization of their grand conceptions. It is no doubt extremely aggravating to think that inventions fraught with so much benefit should be withheld even for a day from the world; but the world has only itself to blame. In ventors and capitalists must advance hand in hand. There must not only be the genius to invent, but the pecuniary means to put the invention into prac tical operation. After the man of genius has proved the practical value of his idea men are loud in hispraise, and not less loud in the condemnation of those who at first refused to listen to his suggestion. The praise is seldom exagge rated—the blame too often is. Amid the multitude of schemes propounded by active minded, ingenious men, it is no easy task to separate the good from the bad, the visionary from the solid, the theoretical from the practical. The advocate at the bar who argues with power and ingenuity in support of hi client often gives proof of remarkable ability, but the judge who sits quietly on the bench listening to the arguments on either side, and pronounces a sound judgment, gives proof perhaps even of • higher order of intellect. It is the same with inventors and capi talists. To invent requires genius ; but to sit in judgment on some new invention, to anticipate correctly its success or its failure, and to be pre pared to risk perhaps a fortune in carrying a new theory into practical effect, requires • soundness of judgment, • self-confidence, and a spirit of enterprise which are by no means common. Genuine inventors are rare things : they come once or twice in generations. But the persever ing bores who deafen society with the story of their discoveries, and the neglect with which those discoveries have been met, are porten• tonal) , plentiful. Your crack-brained inventor is never dumb and never indolent. If be has not eloquence he has volubility ; if his activity is not productive it is at all events unceasing. He is stimulated by the hope of glory and the hope of gains ; and unlike other men, he has two pro mised lands—one in this world and the other in the next. Those who bad the good fortune to be present in the Queen's Bench at Westminster during the last few days would have seen a living specimen of the hair-brained inventor in the person of Mr. Quits. In the year 1847 be seems to have ahan boned his business of a broker and betaken him self to the study of iron ships and the means of constructing them. In pursuance of this design Mr. CLAtic took out a patent in 1853, but the de scription which he gives of his designs appears to be so vague that experienced shipbuilders declare them to be useless for working purposes. Mr.Cisaz is of a different opinion. Inflamed with the desire to furnish his country with an iron-clad fleet, he has carried on a vigorous correspondence with successive Lords and Secretaries of the Admiralty, with War Ministers, and with Lord Patarszerox him self during the last ten years. He has even suc ceeded in penetrating into the presence of these august persons—he has conversed with them and given them advice. On several occasions he seems to have bad interviews with Admiral BEIXCLIT, now Lord FITZZAZDIXO; and during that interview he persuaded himself that the Admiral, on behalf of the Government, had con tracted to pay him five per cent, on all the money expended on iron ships. According to this theory Mr. CLAIM claimed an annual sum of 100,0001. for the last seven years, and a like sum for the next seven. Even if he failed to establish his contract he was not without hope, for he insisted that those who planned the Warrior and the other ships had borrowed from his patent, and that, therefore, he was entitled to compensation for infringement of it. It would be a waste of time to discuss the grounds upon which Mr. ClA's attempted to establish his claim. There was not the shadow of proof that any official connected with the Admiralty had made any contract with Mr. Cuss as to the construction of iron ships ; nor, again, as has already been said, was there any proof that those who had planned the construction of the THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1863. Warrior and other such vessels had been indebted to the specification in Mr. Ciraz's patent, or indeed that the specification was sufficiently explicit to enable any person to derive from it any definite idea of his design. The matter was of importance, because Mr. CLARE'S claim against the Government was enormous, and because, if Mr. CLARE had succeeded in establishing that claim, he would have had the power of stopping the con struction of our iron fleet, except so far as he chose to permit it. In addition to which, the case in question was the first which had been tried under an Act passed last Session, on the sugges tion of Mr. &war., by which the proceedings in a petition of right are greatly simplified. The interesting part of the case was Mr. Crass himself. In these days, when the public mind is so deeply absorbed in the study of the means of destroying our fellow-creatures and protecting our selves, those who sit in high places at a public department like the Admiralty are not to be envied. No doubt officials have an infinite variety of precedents for choking off en thusiastic patriots and their new plans. But in Mr. CLARE'S case they seem to have been singularly patient, and to have treated him with great forbearance. Mr. CLARE was a man full of crotchets. Be had novel ideas, not only as to ship-building, but as to the mode in whch the fitness of those by whom his plans were to be considered was to be judged. Thus he wrote to Lord CLARENCE Paola that he should not be satisfied with any opinion which might be given by " the executive of the Admiralty Department," unless the Lords Commissioners were prepared to call in the aid of the novel science of " phrenophy scometry." According to Mr. CLARE, the craniums of all the gentlemen in the Surveyor's department must be examined by "Mr. BRIDGER, " the practical phrenologist, and by the aid of " geometry," before he could submit to have his plans reported on by that department. The sys tem of examination conducted by the Civil Berms vice Commissioners has been thought to furnish ' the only practical test for obtaining competent public servants, or at all events for excluding those who are incompetemt. The system suggested by Mr. CLARE for measuring the heads of the candidates, and judging of the merits of those who wear them by the rules of "phrenophyscometry," would perhaps supply an easier test. But we are tolerably safe in predicting that this reform is almost as remote as the reform of appointing Mr. CiAas, the quondam-broker, constructor of the British navy, and paying him a salary of 100,000/. a year. The world has suffered much from crack-brained visionaries. Mr. CLARE has proved himself one, and, happily for the Admiralty and the Trea sury, this man's extravagance and self-conceit have for ever freed these departments of a model public bore. ' DEATH OF CAPTAIN GLADSTONE, M.P. (THIS DAY.) We regret to learn, by telegram received at noon this day (Saturday), the death of Captain John Neilson Gladstone, M.P. for Devises,which event took place this (Sa turday) morning, at mix o'clock, at Bowden-park, near Chip. ma'am. The death of the hon. and gallant member was occasioned by carbuncle between the shoulders ; he had for some days past been in almost a hopeless condition. His brothers, Sir Thomas Gladstone and the Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), and other relatives, were with him at his death. The lamented gentleman was the third sou of the late Sir John Gladstone, Bart., and was born in 180'. After receiving his education at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, he entered the Navy in 1820, became a Commander in 1842, and a Captain in March, 1880, but, for some years past, had not sought active service, eo that he might be considered to have left the Navy. ••• ' • ' Captain Gladstone was a conservative in politics, and was first elected to the House of Commons for the borough of Walsall, in February, 1841. In 1842, he was retorted, with the Earl of Desert, for the borough of Ipswich ; but that election being declared void, he was spin, the same year, a candidate, when he was placed at the head of the poll. At the election of June, 1847, he unsuccessfully contested the borough, being defeated by Mr. J. C. Cobbold and Mr. H. E. Adair. Since the general election in 1852, the hon. gentleman has represented Devisee in parliament, and a vacancy consequently arises by his death in the representation of that borough. Captain Gladstone voted against the repeal of the corn laws in 1846, but, like many of the early opponents of that measure, subsequently held that it was neither practicable nor desirable to restore protection. He was a strenuous supporter of the agricultural interest, and a constant adherent of the conservative party, with whom, on all party questions, be voted. The respected and lamented gentleman married, in 1839, Him Elisabeth Honoria Bateson, second daughter of Sir Robert &teem, Bart., of Belvoir Park, County Down. She died 11th February, 1882, and was mother of the Countess of Belmore, =datable of Mr. Thomas &teem, Y.P. TREATY FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES WITH THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA. LLTIZIT INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIA. The Official Journal of Bt. Petersburg of yester day says We do not deny that the recruitment in Poland was conducted in an unusual manner, and pressed heavily on the towns while sparing the country population ; but the government had been aware for months that the recruitment would be the signal of an insurrection. Being unable to reach the chiefs, who are in foreign countries, it was compelled to punish their unhappy instru ments." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (71101 OUR own EUtif3, FarDAT EVZIIING. The Bishop of Amiens, yielding to the manifest feeling of his flock, has announced that the collec tion for the St. Peter's pence, which was to have been made on the first Sunday in Lent, is post poned till Whit-Sunday, in order that it may not compete with the subscriptions now urgently needed for the distressed cotton districts. Moreover, notice is given that all monies which, up to Easter, may be thrown into the St. Peter's pence boxes in the churches will be applied to the relief of the opera tives out of work. "The Holy Father," says the bishop, "however great hie wants," would not wish to diminish the pittance of his unfortunate children. In commending the Bishop of Amiens for his very just and wise determination, I can, at the same time, console him about the personal wants of the Pope. I see this very day, in the Temps, a letter from a trustworthy Roman corres pondent, which states that the Pope never in his life had the fingering of so much money as he has now. Formerly the papal revenues were filtered through the adhesive hands of so many administra tive cardinals that, comparatively, very little reached his Holiness for pocket money. He has now at his personal disposition at least three times as much as he had before his "poor and distressed" condition was made the ground for a general and un remitting appeal to the pockets of the faithful. I The Pope, good easy man, no more knows the meaning of financial difficulty than a Grosvenor square footman knows " what is taxes." The deficits in his state accounts are alternately filled up by loans and paper issues. The cardinals are described as now quite jolly about finance, because they argue that the happy reaction in the dis position of the French Emperor must lead to the restoration of all the Pope's lost provinces, and the St. Peter's penny, started for an emergency, is now BO thoroughly organised that it may be kept on foot as a perpetual institution. It is whispered that at the fancy ball at the Tuileries on Monday, there will be, by imperial desire, a set of characters representing the principal personages in Flaubert's new and successful novel " Salammb6." Here is the costume of Hamilcar's daughter, as described by M. Flaubert : Her hair, coloured dark with violet powder, and built up in the form of a tower, made her look taller than she was. Plait.' of pearls were attached to her temples, and descended to the corners of a mouth rosy as a bursting pomegranate. On her breast hung a vast collection of sparkling jewels, resembling in their motley confusion the scales of a lamprey. Her arms, ornamented with diamonds, but otherwise naked to the shoulders, escaped from • tunic studded with red dowers on a black ground. She wore a chain of gold be- tween her ankles to regulate her steps, and her flowing mantle of dark purple, made of an unknown material, trailed behind her as she walked, like a large ways. This is certainly rather a " loud" costume for a young lady, and one calculated to exercise the in genuity of a fashionable dressmaker. About the jewellery and the nudity there will be no difficulty, for they are quite in keeping with the present taste of the court ; but the chain between the legs may be found awkward in dancing the polka, and where shall the "unknown" material be found for the mantle I The Emperor has a silver vase in his bedroom, which was lately found by the diggers on the site of the ancient city of Aleeia. His Majesty has persuaded himself that it belonged to Julius Ceesar, and has taken an extraordinary liking to it. People say this vase was in his mind the other day when he spoke of works of art as evidences of the civilisation of the period at which they were I made. Everything smells of Csisar now-a-days. The court writers have his name always on the tip of their pens. The Emperor's own history of Cuaar, which has been so long coming out, is not yet announced "as in the press," and is not indeed talked of quite so much as it was • few months ago. But meanwhile M. Gastineau has published "The Wives of the Caesars," • well chosen tale, and one that will certainly command I a certain amount of sales. In the time of Louis Philippe the Gazette de France was prosecuted for having published a fac simik of a letter addressed by Marie Amalie to her husband in 1810, from which it appeared that at that perioi Louis Philippe d'Orleans had made great efforts to obtain a command in the Sp►nish service against France, and that he even then con templated getting possession of the French throne, to the prejudice of the elder branch of the Bour bons. The original of this letter was produced at the trial. It is now republished, together with several other documents which are thought to be damaging to the reputation of the Orleans family. There has been some difficulty about the publication on the part of the authorities, but these are now removed, it being probably thought that the correspondence may be useful as an antidote to Orleanism at the coming elections. The work appears at Denta's with the title " Correspon dance, Mdmoire, et Discours inedits de Louis Philippe d'Orlel.ns." "A new bishop," says the Monde, " who leaves for Texas, carries out with him 44 missionaries and eight women devoted to religious and charitable acts." Advices from Madagascar to the 24th November mention the death of Itahaniraksi, Minister of Foreign , Affairs, after an illness of two months. He had been brought up in Eoglaod, and maintained relations with several protestant missionaries, " without. however," mays one account, "having embraced their religion.* M. La borde, junior, was said to have been chosen by King Ba dama to fill the vacant post. CitYgra, Pauacrt—Tbe annual bird show opens this day with a greater number of entries than on any Pre vious occasion. The show of Norwich canaries is exceedingly good, as is also that of the Belgian, London fancy, and Lizard varieties. Many beautiful specimens of canary mulls are also exhibited. Of canaries alone there are upwards of 250 entries. The British birds form quite a show of them- selves, mid include several very curious specimens, inch as white thrush, blue robin, and some Tay rare hybrids. The foreign classes comprise many variation of parrots, cockatoos, love birds, poroqueta, kc., which if not the most interesting portion of the exhibition, are certainly the noisiest, and, according to the programme, include some excialleat vocalists, musicians, and orators. BISHOP Coumeo.—We are authorised to state that at the meeting of the Bishops at Lambeth on Wades'. day there was an unanimous condemnation of Bishop Coleuses book, though a small mioority differed from the rest as to the mode in which it was most expedient to act Any action will most probably be taken through Bishop Colenso's immediate metropolitan (the Bishop of Copetowe), but as we bare before intimated, the bishop is awaiting the decision et the appeal of " Long against the Bishop of Owe. town," now pending before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell. 8011. THR LONDON THAD/ BOCIRPIRB.—A meeting of the odious and leadieg membersof the Loodos Trade Societies was held last evening, at the Brown Baer Tavern, Broad street. Bloomsbury. for the purpose el organising a demon stration of the trades unionists and society men of Londe* in support of the North and more emancipation. It was re solved unanimously that • public meeting of trades unionists and society men generally should be hold es au early day at Exeter.hall. A subcommittee was appointed to PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. A return of the public income and expenditure for the year ended the 30th September, 1862, and for the year ended 31st December, 1862, was issued this morning. The total revenue for the year ended 3114 Dec. last was 70,996,4281. 16s. 6d.. The total ordinary expenditure was 70,341,5521.13 a. bd. ; but the expenses of fortifications, 1,170,0001., make an excess of expenditure amounting to 313,123/. 16e. 11d. The balances in the Exchequer at the close of the year amounted to 5,669,8651. 3s. 7d., which is very nearly 1,000,0001. more than the amount at the corresponding period of 1861. In the year which ended 30th September, the ordinary expenditure was 1,054,3991. Os. ld., in excess of the income. Including fortification expenses, the excess was 2,124,3991. Os. Id. The balances in the Exchequer at that date were 3,169,393/. 3s. 2d. The public revenue in the year ended 31st Decem ber last was 1,310,8881. 19s. ld. more than that of the year ended 30th September last. Cbe Court. OSBORNE, F F.B. 6. The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by the Prime and Prime= Louis of Hems, and attended by fientenant-Colonel de Plat. Countess Blucher had the hewer of driving with her Majesty. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the Conseil of his Royal Highness, held at the office of the Duchy of Corawall. Bnekingham•gate, St. James's-perk• There were present the Doke of Newcastle, Lord Warden of the Sienna/ice ; Sir William Dunbar, Keeper of the Privy Beal; Sir William John Alexander, Attorney-General; Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, Receiver- General ; Lieutenant-General Knollys,Comptroller of the Household of his Royal Highness ; and Lord Portman. Mr. Bateman, the secretary, was in attendance. The Prince of Wales, attended by Viscount Torrington, Lieutenant-General Knotty., and Major Teesdale, honoured the performance at the Lyceum Theatre last evening with his presence. The Brazilian Minister had an interview with Earl Bussed, at the Foreign-offios, yesterday. Sir Frank Crosaley, and a deputation, transacted business yesterday at the Home-office. A deputation, consisting of Mr. John Jowett Willem, Mr. Parker, Mr. gWaiDllOll (solicitor),fand Mr. Hall (parlia mentary agent), bad an interview with the Right Hoe. C. P. Villiers yesterday, at the office of the Poor-Law Board, Whitehall. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Comte sat yester day. An appeal from Jersey, " Hart v. Capone" (part beard) was concluded. Lord Chelmsford gave directions on the part of their lordships on this appeal. Appals from Canada, " Oman Western Railway Company v. Faw cett,* and " same v. Braid" were commenced. The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers will present the freedom of the company to his Royal Uhnpes the Prince of Wales on Thursday next. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have re turned to Apalay House, from Btrathfleklaaye, Hants. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and family will leave Cannes, on about the 9th last., for Nice. The funeral of the late Marquis of Lansdowne will take place to-day at Bowood. The Earl of Ellenborough arrived in town on Thursday, from SouthamEfouse, Cheltenham. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the Hon. Peregrine Coat entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at their residence is South Andleyetreet. Lord and Lady Foley have arrived at their man eke in Grosvenor-square, from Worksop Manor, Notts. Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner lest evening, at their residence in Borkeleyequare, the Earl of Ellisoborough, the Earl of Hardwick', Lord Kinpdown, Lady Egerton of Tattoo and the Hon. Emily Egerton, lion. Mr. Miffed, Admiral Hawke, Captain and Mrs. Uwe', Mr. Markham Law, be. On Tuesday, the marriage of Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart., of Whitburs Hall, to the Hoo. both Jane Hay Liddell, third daughter of the Right Hon. Lord ltavensworth, of itavensworth Castle, county of Dur ham, of Eilingtoo.park, county of Northumberland, and Parey's Cross, Fulham, war solemnised in the church of Learieeley, in which parish the Durham residence of the noble father of the bride is situated. Dram or COLONIC BLIMAILD, K P.—The Hon. Wesel Bernard, member fer Bandon (conservative), died at Qoaenstown yesterday. He was the fourth son of the first Earl of Handers. He was bons in 1792. Psausinurrszv Pares.—The convention with Belgium relative to lointetock companies, the treaty be- Meson her Majesty sod the Ring of Denmark for the morn. age of the Prue, of Wales with the Prince". Alexandre, and a treaty of cornmeres and navigation with Belgium, were issued to-day with the parliamsatary papers. R/EPTLIBILINTATION or DETOXPORT. —The writ for the signiori of a member of parliament for the boroagh of Devosport reached the returning officer yesterday, and the Boodeatios is eiied to take pleas oo Tuesday next. The respective candidate, addressed meetings of the electoni on Thursday night, sad both were well received. SWEDEN. The discussion in the Swedish Diet on Thurs day turned on the foreign policy of the government, and the assembly expressed its sympathies towards Poland and Denmark. Confidence is felt in the government, but a wish was expressed that it would give more publicity to its official relations with foreign powers, and that it would maintain an ac cord with the second-rate constitutional powers, in order to support the rights of nationalities. (aurra's TILOGRAMIL ) FRANCE. LETTER OF THE EMPEROR TO THE GOVERNOR OF ALGERIA. PARIS, Pm. 7. The Moaitewr of this morning publishes a letter addressed by the Emperor to the Duke de Malakoff, Governor of Algeria, in which the Emperor says that' in order to terminate the anxiety caused by the dis cussion in the French Chambers upon the landed property held by the Arabians, it is indispensable for the repose and prosperity of Algeria, that this landed property should be consolidated in the hands of those who retain it, and continues, " Algeria is not a colony properly so called, but an Arab kingdom. The natives have an equal right to my protection with the colonists, and I am as much' Emperor of the Arabs as of the French. The I Minister of War is preparing a senatus consultors which will render tribes or fractions of a tribe inde feasible proprietors of the territory they occupy, and which they have had in traditional possesaion." RUSSIA. AND POLAND. ST. PETERSBURG, Frs. 7. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day, contra dicting the assertions made in a telegram pub lished by the Nord on the 31st ult., says :—" Specie is no scarcer here than before. The Bank of Russia continues to discount at 5 per cent." Wengrow has been taken by the Russian troops afters sanguinary conflict. The insurgents dispersed into the forests. Warsaw is quiet. The Prussian general Von Alveneleben has arrived here, and will proceed to Warsaw. The news of an attempt having been made to poison the Marquis de Wielopolski is fully con firmed. His family and all his servants are seriously ill in consequence. No person has, how ever, yet succumbed to the effects of the poison, which was mixed with the provisions consumed by the family. FEB. 6, &VENOM. Yesterday a body of 480 troops entirely defeated a band of 250 insurgents near Zamasc. The Emperor has ordered that all the reports of the Polish Council of the Empire to the Crown shall be in future in the Polish language. SPAIN. MADRID, Fn. 6. It is asserted that France has asked Spain to send back troops to Cochin China, and that Spain has replied that she will respect the treaty which she has concluded with that country. Marshal O'Donnell is unwell. The friends of the ministry are said to counsel a dissolution of the Congress. Hopes are, however, still entertained of an arrangement takingplace between the govern ment and the opposition. "JUNIUS" IN THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. M. Emilie 011ivier, in bin speech in the French Legislative Corps on Wednesday, appealed to history in order to show that in England the government did not make the guarantees of liberty depend on the extinction of poll. tical parties ; and met M. Pervigny's favourite theme about the Hanoverian dynasty by showing that even in the com mencement of that dynasty the press was in reality free. M. 011ivier quoted some passages from "Junius's Letters." The following, from the celebrated letter to the Duke of Grafton, he reed with emphasis, and amid the smiles of some of his hearers : "The profound respect I bear to the gracious prince who governs this country with no lees honour to himself than satisfaction to hie subjects, and who ecotone you to your rank under hie standard, will save you from a multitude of reproaches. The attention I should have paid to your fail ings is involuntarily attracted to the hand that rewards them ; and, though lam not so partial to the royal judg ment as to affirm that the favour of a king can remove mountains of infamy, it serves to lessen, at least, for, un doubtedly, it divides the burden. While I remember how much is due to his sacred character, I cannot, with any decent appearance of propriety, call you the meanest and the basest fellow in the kingdom" Murmurs rather loud followed this quotation, and the deputies appeared to think that Duke de Moray was going to call M. (Meier to order. They were equally moved by the following from the address to the King ; " The people of England are loyal to the Hones of Han over, net from a vain preference of one family to another, but from a conviction that the establishment of that family was necessary to the support of their civil and religions liberty. This, sir, is a principle of allegiance equally solid and rational, fit for Englishmen to adopt, and well worthy of your Majesty's encouragement. We cannot long be deluded by nominal distinctions. The name of Stuart, of itself, is only contemptible ; armed with the sovereign authority, their principles are formidable. The prince who imitates their conduct should be warned by example, and, while he plumes himself upon the security of his title to the crown, should remember that, as it wad acquired by one revolution, it may be lost by another." Notwithstanding these quotations, which were heard with seeming astonishment, M. Emile 011ivier was allowed to continue his speech to the end, and all seemed to breathe at ease when it was over. "The ball given at the Tuileries the evening before last," says Galipriani, " was moot brilliant, and nearly 3,000 persons were present. The Emperor seemed lin excellent spirits. The Empress wore • diadem of black velvet covered with diamonds. The dress, which was also studded with diamonds, was oompossd of • coinage in black velvet, and a white skirt, the ensemble of which produced • charming effect. Her Majesty convened far • keg time with the young cousin of the King of Wortemburg, who recently arrived in Parisi. The Prieoses Metbilde was pre. sent, bat Prince Napoleon and Princes. Clothilde did not Wend." The French Government have given orders for the construction of two very powerful astronomical tele scopes, embraidag all 11. Foucault's improvements. They are to be made under the supervision of the Academy of Beleoces, and will be used at Marseilles and Montpelier when the atmosphere is extremely pure. The Merge/poet of Vienna states that a recent order of the day forbids military officers to wear double eye glasses. Those who are short-sighted are to wear ordinary spectacles. The Berne order of the day regulates the cut of whiskers. _ for Th e Austrian Government are said to be in poi.- v.= details ominected with the misty and to to •0•6011 of a gun-optima sweat. By esperitneet, they have deputation to Yr . Bright, ILE, inviting him to take the overcome the difficulties which the nature of the materiel, chair onthe access:se t mineral pe~b have been as at first discovered by flichuntesia, opposed to its toe in ' Som e irrm,.,_,L7 v a l ua ble artillery practice. The Austrian; moreover, have dia- (1001. of Tsdr;ottr:grizz produ cin g four are chiefly terra menu; 'audit; aisnifin and hhaa wicks. They rowed a metal—iron, topper, spelter, end tin—which, is certain proportions, is tougher than any gun-metal hitherto are found in the El Ramble Creek am the town ol devised. Martinft.—Contra Costs Gazette. MEOW= TO BOTH BOOB= OF PA In the name of the Holy and Blessed Trinity, be it known unto ell men by these presents, that whereas her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and his Majesty the King of Denmark, on the other part, being already con nected by ties of friendship, have judged it proper that an alliance should be contracted between their respective royal houses, by a marriage agreed to on both sides, between his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Sue-Coburg and Gotha, Re., Re., eldest son of her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Prince 'Albert of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, and her Royal Highness the Priam' Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, eldest daughter of his Royal Highness the Prince Christian of Denmark ; the two high betrothed parties, is I also his Royal Highness the Prince Christian of Denmark, and her Royal Highness the Princes. Leaks Wilbelmina Frederica Carolina Augusta Julia, his Royal Highness's Consort, having declared their consent to such alliance ; in order, therefore, to attain so desirable an end, and to treat upon, conclude, and confirm the articles of the said marriage, her Britannic Majesty, on the one part, and his Majesty the King of Denmark on the other, have named u their plenipotentiaries, that is to say :--Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Augustus Berkeley Paget, Esq., her Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of Denmark ; and his Majesty the King of Dommark, his Ex cellency Carl Christian Hall, his Majesty's Privy Councillor of Conferences, President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Re., who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles : ARTICLE 1.-It is concluded and agreed that the MILT - 1 rage between his Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales, and her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra shall be solemnised in person in that part of the Uniteci Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Called Great Britain, according to the due tenon' of the law' of England, and the rite; and ceremonies of the church of England, as soon as the same may conveniently be done. AITICIA 2.—Her Britannic Majesty engages that his Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales, &a., /re., shall secure to her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra, out of any revenues belonging to his Royal Highness or panted to their Royal Highnesses by parliament, the an- I Dual sum of 10,0001., to be paid half-yearly to her Royal Highness for her sole and separate use, and without any power of anticipation, during the period of their Royal Highborn'' marriage. AIITICLZ 3.—Her Britannic Majesty engages to recom mead to her parliament that her Majesty shall be enabled to secure to her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, in case her Royal Highness should have the misfortune to become the widow of his Royal Hightails the Prince of Wales, the annual sum or payment of 30,0001. sterling money of Great Britain, in lieu of dower ; the said sum being, in such caw, to be paid by quarterly payments to her said Royal Highness or to her assigns Aincii 4.—The prompt treaty shall be 'stilled by her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Greet Bri tain and Ireland, and by his Majesty the King of Denmark, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Copenhagen as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, ►nd have 'nixed thereto the seals of their MIMS. Done at Copenhagen, the 15th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863. _ _ A. B. Ricar. (L. 8.) C. C. HALL. (LB.) (PROM I 4 MONT'S aaszTrz.) LOID CRAM 8K6L•121'13 OPTIC; FIR. 4. —No tie, is Lets► gtvoe, that his Royal Highness tbs Prioos of Wake will, by command of the Queen, hold a levee at St. Junes's-palace. on behalf of her Majesty, on Wednes day, the 25th inst., at two o'clock. It is the Queen's plea sure that presentations to hie royal highness at this levee shall he considered as equivalent to presentations to her Majest LORD y. CHAYBEHL•IIeS-011FICH, FEB. 4.—No ties is hereby given, that her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Pinola (Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland) will, by command of the Queen, bold a drawing room at St. Jones's-palace, on behalf of her Majesty, be Saturday, the 28th 'natant, at two o'clock. It is the Queen's pleasure that presentatioes to her royal highness at this drawing room shall be cossidered as equivalent to presentations to her Majesty. THE VICTORIA CROEB.—WAR-OTTICH, FIB. 6. The Queen bee been graciously pleased to sivify her inten tion to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on George Hinckley, able seaman of her Majesty's sloop Sphinx when' claim to the same has been submitted for her leajesty's approval. for his gallant conduct at the capture of Fuog wha, io China, on Oct. 9, 1E62. Mr. Colley Grattan, a gentleman known in the Londe@ literary world, has been appointed consul at Tenerife. Although but a few days have elapsed since his death, it is aid that the oorrespocdeoas of the late Marquis al Luselowa) is being prepared for publication. It is pro bable that his lordship cornineeted the work himself. Messrs. Saunders and Otley have issued a pam phlet from the pen of Mr. S. Laing, late financial member of the Council of the Governor•Olaeral of India, under the title of " England's ]fission in the East." Mr. Murray has just named the tenth volume of the Duke of Welliagtou's despatches. They relete entirely to the campaign of 1815, to the campaign in Philo', the battle of Waterloo, sad the capitulation of Paris by s mili tary eonveatios with the allied Britiah and Prussian emir*. The library of the late Sir Benjamin Hawes is sold by section on Monday next by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby and Co., sad the isle is expected to last three days. The isms Urn will also bring to the hammer on the 14th, the late Miss Julia Pardoe'a collection of auto graph letters. _ _ - According to a letter from the Secretary of the Hartley Colliery Relief Fund, 70,000 h subscribed for the Hartley sufferers is safely invested in available securities, 5,5001. is in the bank, end 5,5001. las been distributed. THE LATE MURDER IN THE WEST RIDING. Yesterday (FrWay) Emma Walker and Samuel Fox was brought before the West Riding magistrates at Dewsbury, on • charge of murder. The circumstances • this case are somewhat peculiar. George Walks:, coal miner, of Batley, near Dewsbury, was taken ill en or about the led of last December, and died after a week's sickness. The medical man who &Wailed him said he believed death had resulted from natural caa but there was such • strong feeling existing thattoZ play had been used that it was found necessary to hold an inquest on the body. This was accordingly done, and, • post mortem examination having been mad; the surgeon was ordered to perform an scalp& lie, along with Mr. Scattergood, of Lade, operated on a portion of the small intestine, and sneak was found. At an adjourned inquest, held on the 18th December, this fact was given in evidence, and as witnesses were called who deposed that Emma Walker (the deceased's wife) as bad given him all his food and medicine ; and it was proved, too, that Samuel Fox (a man alleged to be her para mour), had been almost constantly in the house, and that be knew of arsenic being kept therein, the jury returned a ver dict of wilful murder spinet both, and they were committed to York Castle to await their insist the next scrims. Oon siderable dissatisfaction was expremed in the district at the • surgeons having neglected to pnalyes the stomach and its contents, as it we. deposed that the woman administered some food or medicine to her husband a few hours before his death, end especially that other evidence had not been celled in support of the prosecution. The hots we have related were made known to the Home Secretary, and he ordered the stomach and its contents to be analysed, and also granted permission for a writ of habeas corpus to be asked for, so that the priscusers might be examined before a magistrate at Dewsbury, and additional evidence placed upon the depositions. Mr. Justice Mellor granted one but week, and the prisoners were brought to Dewsbury yester day morning, and, evidence having been given by the sur pass that arsenic had been found in all the parts of the body examined since the exhumation, the additional evi dence was placed upon the cLoos, and the prisoners were again committed to York WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) liusinuar„ iniquir 7, II MIL Nairn 741: ILI 1 Aberdeen k99.77144 Leith 119.112,45 Ardroman d9.9 9 ,44, Portrush r.osi 44 Valentin .. 410.29150 QQuuexenstown. 30.28;49 Molyhead 30.1614e Liverpool 30.1 4 ,49 Pembroke "30.29149 Penzance 30.9 6 150 Jersey Brest 19919150 L'Orient .38.50 Rochefort o Y e la ymln th tl; :: : 3 4 1 , 3 4 Portsmouth .2740 Key. London Yarmouth . - .1648 Scarborough 39.01.47 Shields _ Heligoland : - . 44 1 Helder Copenhagen - Bayonne F. I. _-4- 7 II • 7 • 7 • 4 1 1 • .w. &W. &&& W. W.N.W. W.1..W. W.N.W. W.N.W. -H Bownee. MONDAY. W.N.W to N. and back 110011.111eu W. to K. and &L, mo te W., moderate. dente, fine. W. to N. and beet to DUBLATD. S.W. to B.E. moderate. &, moderate, fine. Aa above. W.CmMtit.. W.S.W. to S.B.E, freak. one. E to B. and S.W., moderate dne. B.E. to 5.47., light to moderate. W.N.W. to N.N.E. and N.W.YhenCE. moderate, fine. W.B. W. to N.N. W. and B.W.EIMAND. round to S.E., mode rate. N.W. to N.E. and to B.E. ENOLLND. As next above. S.F., light, tine. N.N.W. to &N.& and L floang. Lto S. and to W., to &&E., moderate. light, variable. Mr. B. B. Woodward, the Queen's librarian, is preparing to publish a new periodical under the name of "The Fine Arts Quarterly Review." The work is to treat of painting, eculpture, sad engraving, of photography so far as it is employed as a substitute for drawing and engra in& and of ornamental sad decorative art. The first num• ber is announced to appear is March. Mr. Holman Hunt will probably send to the Royal Academy this year a life-sire portrait, half-length, of Dr. Lushington. _ . . The Exhibition season for this year commences on Monday next by the opening of the British Institution. The private view took plass today. The "hanging committee" for the coining Royal Academy Exhibition boa been appointed, and is to consist of Mr. W. P. Frith, R.A., Mr. Charles Lendaser, LA., and keeper of the academy, and Mr. Abraham Cooper, ILA. Mr. Walter Lacy has been appointed professor of elocution st the Royal Academy of Music. It is understood that in consequence of the death of the Marquis of Lansdowne, his son, the present mar quis, chairman of the Great Western Railway Company, will not preside at the halbyearly meeting of the company on Friday next. The Hoe. Frederick Ponsouby, a director, and at one time chairman, will take the chair. The meet. ing is expected to be a very full one, as. in addition to the ordinary business of the half-year, it appears that the secretary, Mr. Charles Alexander Saunders, has intimated to the board his desire to be relieved (in consequence of failing health and strength) of his present appointment. Another new club is in course of formation—the Greco, intended for artiste, anthem, and savants. The aim of the projectors is to institute a thoroughly social body. and both entrance fee and subscription are fixed at a mode rately low sum (51. • year). The Reader says there will be • table d'hOte dinner every day. The sternal billiard room is to be superseded by • gymnasium ; and there will be no "heedless luxury" whatever. MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES FOR THE ENSUING WEBlL—Monday, Architects, 8; Geographical, 81, " inundation+ of the Nile," Consul Sanders ; • Coen friss sear the Niger, " Dr. Bailee ; " Madagascar," Lien tweet Oliver . — Tue sday, Horticultural, 1, Anniversary Actuaries, 41, Council ; Royal Institution , 3, " Animal Mechanics," Professor Marshall ; Syro-Egyptian, 74, " He brew Pace and Cubit." and " Hebrew Christian Imerip• tion, year 135," Duke of Ronsillon ; Civil Engineers, 8, "Sleeper Woods, Madras Rail." "Drainage, Dundee,' Mr. Fulton; "Drainage, Newport (Mon.)," Mr. Williams; Zoological, 9.—Wednesday, Graphic, 8; Society of Arts, 8; " Construction of Twin Screw fiteam-ships," Captain Symonds ; Microscopical, 8 ; Anniversary ; Society of Litera ture, 84 ; " Mr. Mayer's Papyri and their interpretative by Simoeides," Mr. Vans ; Archicelogial Association, 84 " Roman Villa, Combs Down, Bath. " —Thursday, Royal Academy, 8 ; " Painting," P rofessor Hart ; Antiquanes, 84 ; Royal Institution ; " Chemical Affinity," Dr. Fraokland.—Friday, Astronomical, 3; Anniversary; Royal Institution, 8 ; " Artificial Illumination," Dr. Frank land.—Saturday, Royal Institutioe, 3 ; " Life and Death," Mr. Savory. THE GRAND LODGE OP IRELAND.—MASONIC BALL.—At the meeting of the Grand Lodge. held last even ing, it was unanimously resolved that a ball should be given on • scale of great magnificence, under the mausgeinent of a committee, composed of the grand officers, the provincial masters, the masters of Dublin lodges, and other rrel d rea, to evince the loyalty which exists in the Masonic Order, and their feeling+ of affection to her Majesty's per son and family, and to celebrate the marriage of his Royal -Wally, too Iv. - Omega the Prince of Woloo.—Doblia ii"reiting Mail. HOW.. b:T. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL-It has eeu understood for some time that the dean and chapter of St. Paul's—the present members of which corporation. with one or two who were their colleagues, have probably done more for the embellishment of our great eighteenth century cathedral. and for its restoration to its legitimate uses, than all their predecessors since the days of Wren himself—have decided upon decorating the epee with mosaics, and that they had addressed invitations to four arties— three English sod one foreign—to send in designe e the subject assigned being a tganafiguration, to 6U three panels. We hear that three el the gentlemen aeleeted--• Watts, Kr. Leqhlgas, and Baron Triqueti—have emit in their designs by the appointed time ; Mr. Alfred Stevens, the fourth, was too late. There will, we believe be four teen subordinate panels, besides the principal ones, to fill up. The mosaics themselves will so doubt have to be executed in Venice. The Ranieri mothicista have indeed shown themselves to be formidable rivet to the I talian,whom indeed they surpass io elaborattheas of work, as witness the magnificent St. Nicholas of the Great Exhibition; but it w pears to beaquestion whether, at the distance from which the work will have to be seen, such elaborate productions would produce any better effect than the simpler and less costly works d the Italian artists. Whoa, in addition to these monk% the stained glass windows are put up—for which deigns, we hear, have been prepared by an eminent German lutist—St Paul's will offer • splendour of colouring hitherto unknown in the religious edifices of this country. and which is probably needed to bring out the full effect of a style of architecture in itself little conducive to religious feeling.—Reader. THE ST. GFAMOIN VOLUNTZILIL RIFLE C0M14.•-• Oa Thursday evening the sth instant the members of the Bt. George's Rides mustered in great force at the Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Koightabridge, and marched out, accompanied by both the hands of the regiment, to Wonnholt Scrubs, where, after partaking of supper, which was prepared for them at the Pavilion tavern, they re turned to Knightsbridge. The Actual Regimental Ball of the corps is announced to take place at St. James's Hall ia the course of next month. rf : W.S.W. W. W.N.W. M.N. W. W.&W. W. W.S.W. Ogg an= This 11140 1 0a " As. a yr t o r Chin . E' From f tumble a Deb li peen dee the plai kpennon beed COI Mr. F statr.eur 1850, ao After • him tot habitsol her hail I Pickens wife wa was the Liverpo The a point of penodi From Lug; c needlee carried Mr. Griffitl The the firi Mr. was of act of Hu ontbil Mr. on the Mr. anipto writioi the col or any paid ai The his at Mr. ease, h name I eaperi eeetme !Adel il;E; hard o should JAMIE Mr. Pane - Mr. at t h e h..n Ner. ere thi I6teik direct paid a at one 1861. Mr. "dread being other of wit list. Yr. other. MT lesial tit neer. No