The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-04 00:00:00

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Iris not surprising that upon la ocamiel wpm and so exceptional SS the present, Ministers sbenii have sought for some one of parliamentary ex perience, if not of legislative weight, to move the Address in the Upper House in reply to the Speed from the Throne. They looked round amongst their mraperten to see to whom the somewhat delicate task might be conlkled. Nobody, perhaps, of those who wine available, appeared more likely to serve the rare than Lord Porters. A similar deviation from the rule which leaves the first formal act of the session to the 'prentice hands in either House of Parliament was made by Sir Roster PELL'A administration, when they asked Lord FRANCIS EGZUTOR to move the Address in the Commons, en the entenorshis night when the total and immediate meal of the Can Laws wee announced. How well that accomplished nobleman performed hie task many still remember. He had, however, a great muse to plead, the sager of a great party to depre cate, the perspective of a great change of policy to open. Poor Lord Poreere has not been so fortu nate, and his exseetion of his task has been ooly notable far its perfect keeping with the sterile nature of the country through which he was betrayed into making his sad and solemn march. If Ministers have made up their minds what to do, either with the Beak Act of 1844 or the India Bill of 1863, they have not thought it necemary to take tea smiaquisitive Mover of the Address into desk essofidemer. The reader of his tedious essemenffiwon about both these 'abject' will seek in vain Doe say light thereon from him. Regarding Parliamentary Reform, he avowed himself equally ignorant el what might or might not be coming. But here he took courage to ventilate what may be tidied the Posere.se, or pettifogging, theory of Reform, beyond which be significantly told his Ca binet friends he for one was not prepared to go. All acts of Parliament were fallible. There were leaks in the hull of every ship. Duet would some times lie on the fairest broadcloth. The hand of care must ,ften be employed to repair the Mar flaws, remove the unavoidable blemishes, and supply the few omissions of oversight or haste incidental to the original armature. In short, Lord Poareas having been with Lord Deter a supporter of the Reform Act of 1832, ha thought he was entitled to invite that eminent and consistent Liberal to op-operate in correcting the puss of a new edition about to be Mimed, the enlietaime and spirit of the text of five and-twenty years ago being strictly preserved. Ia this, then, the reshlight glimmer by which we are to read the ambiguous and faltering allusion to electoral progress in her MAJTATY'S Speech ? The Leader of the Opposition dealt with this ill starred avowal in his happiest style. He and his friends had no such stingy notions. Tbey we ready for anything in reason. They would cemokier carefully and calmly the Government plan of Rehm whatever it might be. Of course the Bill was pre pared and ready to be introduced. It would be con venient if it were laid on the table forthwith—not for premature discussion, but that they might have full time to deliberate upon its provisions before they met again after Christmas. He affected to have no doubt that it lay in on. of the pigeon-holes of Downing-street, and pretended to understand a smile of Lord Gasisenta'a to mean assent to his sesump tics. Bat when pressed upon the point, the Lord President anxiously declined committing himself by paying either yes or no. On other 'abject+ Lord llseds's tone was more serious. Forgetting that he wee one of the Administration that brought io and carried the Bank Act of 1844, he proceeded to charge it with aggravating to a great and grievous degree the evils of preemie end panic it was designed to obviate or relieve. He pressed the Government to say whether they were prepared to stand by the law, or to concede the principle of an elutic provision calculated to render unnecessary in future its arbitrary suspension. To this latter policy he seems to have given his unqua lified adhesion. We do not in general vet much value on his lordship's financial or commercial views, because they have too frequently been retrogressive. l But when in feeling and tendency they are in unison with the temper of the time, it would be the mama faction to shut oar eyes to the important aid such II man at the head of so numerous a party may render to the cause of program. India formed naturally the staple, however, of Lord 'ARBY'S lug and eloquent harangue. From TSB EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1857. sum of the statement, pat librwordliy big vre ebetald be dlepeeed to dime& We Elbe from bin is by MOW exoneration of Lord Canning from all Wane in a series of promedinp and ism-proceedings for which he mart and will assuredly be held jointly responsible with Mr. Nrantcon Bunn, unless he can show, to the surprise of all the world, that he knew what was requisite, and called for it promptly, while his sagacity and vigour were thwarted and rendered nugatory by fatuity and incompetence at home. But the luckless Plestncer of the Bolan of CONTROL appears to have been the special object of Lord Dminv's damaging attack. With pitiless precision he recounted the oft-told tale of Mr. Sorru's incredulity of danger when the mutiny was at its height, and of his surpassing rashness in talking publicly of things and persona, cities and armies, possibilities and imposeibilitiee, about which in reality he understood nothing. The dims consisted in a statement of a letter said to have Um written ly the Minister for India to the Chair mond ems clear great Steam Companies, suggesting. es on origiosl bright thought of his own, a scheme grr transporting troops to the East which had acts. ally been in operation for several weeks at the time. Lord DRILST challenged contradiction; add ing, that be was prepared with what he termed irrefragable peed d the statement he made. We shall no doubt beer more about this matter. Inc first night in the Home of Commons has been a sufficiently tame affair. Mr. MARTIN, the mover of the address, on the whole, acquitted himself fairly well of the func tions of a Royal Echo. The reverberations were in some respects unnecessarily prolonged ; and the House listened in somewhat significant silence to a protracted dissertation on the history of the Bank Charter Act—a law which was obviously regarded by the honourable gentleman as, on the whole, • model of financial wisdom. Evidently, if Mr. MAR- I= WAS to be taken as the exponent of the monetary Awe of the Cabinet, no modification of the Act of 1111114 vas stctemplated by the framers of the I soya Ilpecti. We shall see directly bow ter We lallwence is to be trusted. On India, Me Weer at the Address indulged in those Ink pee& sentiments on the unexampled heroism jet Army in the Past with which a very mode- Nab metal Of recent addressee at provincial meet meet have rendered our readers sufficiently Ibr -. On the subject of Parliamentary Reform he eadined himself to the expression of en unbounded essidenoe in the discretion of Ministers ; and, on the whole, meritoriously got through his allotted func tion of expressing truism' which just escaped being platitudes, in sentences which lulled theme without offending the taste or stimulating the intellect. He was succeeded by a mend another order. Lord PAL_ MISSION has committed the same mistake in the case of Mr. A KROT D which he committed last session in the case of Mr. BUCHANAN. This man was not made to be an echo. Without the academical training which fits him for Parliamentary elocution, he has the robust sincerity which utterly incapacitates him for the tame repetition of decorous plausibilities. Mr. AKILOTD spoke like a man who had himself felt the pinch of the Bank serew—upoke for other', his friends and neighbours, who had imffered from it more disastrously than himself. A manufacturer coming fresh from a district where manufacturing rain and operative distress were freely attri buted to the theoretic worship of a cur -1 rency dogma, he produced an effect on the House by the evident earnestness of his reply to the Mover et the Addis's, and by the rough vigour with which be 'simpered certain contemporary dissertations on tie Bank Act to the operations of a surgeon who watches with complacency the dying agonies of some martyr to science, better pleased that the man should scientifically parish than be " empirically" saved. Mr. AIMED is evidently one who has hitherto studied rather how to act than how to speak. When be has pined, if he ever does gain, the powers of expression, he is one whom the House of Commons will listen to with attention. He carries with him, in spite of all present defects of elocution, a weight of character, and a sense of latent power, which in all assemblies of Englishmen are certain sooner or later to find their due laveL 1 1 The centred between the struggling thought and imperfect utterance of Mr. AK ROT I), and the brilliant but artificial rhetoric of Mr. Disnerti, who sue semis& hie in the debate, was sufficiently striking. Moe senamplished leader of her M.O TT'S Op. pities was " prosperously delivered " of one et Ide root successful harangues. In the art af teaching vivaciously on all topics, and eiveincingly on none, few speakers exceed Mr. DtsatlU when in his happier moods. Last *labia display was eminently characteristic. The session wee grave, the topics were momentous, and be contrived so to improve the one and deal with the other, that none of his hearers could for a mo ment have had a suspicion that he ever by any chance lapsed into earnestness, or had indeed any higher function than that of filling an hoar with the ex pected sleight of tongue, and executing the usual cut and thrust play with the accustomed sword of lathe. Nothing could be better in this way than the comic dilemma (meant however to be taken with all gravity by the heavier kind of county mem ' has) on whose horns he made a *bow of fixing Meister" for what they had done in relaxing the Peek Charter Act. If they intended to abandon Peat's Act he should not oppcee the Bill of I Indemnity ; if they meant to abide by it, he should ; in either case they ought long since to have made up their minds on the subject, and to have declared their intentions to Parliament instead of referring the matter again to a Committee of Inquiry. One of the orator's best points was his criticism on that passage in the Qrzrv's Speech which informs us, that " the nations of Europe are now in the enjoyment of the blessings of peace, which nothing seems likely to disturb." The suggestion that the concluding words of this paragraph were unconsciously querulous—that they betrayed the disappointment of that world-pertarber PALMER STON at the failure of his best efforts to throw Europe into a blase, was irresistibly funny; and not less dexterous was the use made of the belligerent and defiant tone of the PREMIER in his famous address at the LORD MATOR'S banquet. On the I subject of India, the general tone of Mr. Disa•et.l's remarks were guarded and in good taste; he, of course, I carried the House with him in the homage which he acted, in well-chosen words, to the memory of the * intrepid " NICHOLSON and the "fiery" NMI.; end it may perhaps have been felt that he was not wholly unjustified in recalling to mind the °berm tiara which he had addressed to the House last see arse to the important bearing of the annexation of Onde on the development of the mutiny. With I reference to Parliamentary Reform the remarks of the Opposition Leader were discreet and guarded; and, both as regards that subject and the future government of India, he strongly urged on the Ministry that, as of were they bed both measures matured, they should lay them on the table of the House before Christmas in order that they might be carefully considered during the recces. To a sham attack of this kind, Lord PAtarasron had obviously very little reply to make. His remarks were brief and to the point. Leaving to the CHAN CELLOR of the Examine' to state the precise cir cumstance' under which the Bank Charter Act had been relaxed, Lord PALMERSTON, amid the general cheers of the House (whose feeling in favour of a permanent alteration in the law seemed pretty decided), declared that its temporary relaxation was both necessary and beneficial. With regard to his Mansion-house speech, the notion that he hod ever alluded in a tone of defiance to our excellent ally the Eurssoa of the FRENCH was declared to be utterly absurd, in proof of which his Lordship stated that Louis NAPOLFIoN, with the view of expediting the traumas' ion of our troops overland to India, had offered every accommo dation for their transit through France. It will be for Lord PALMERSTON to explain hereafter why that offer was not accepted. Peeing to the subject of our Indian Heroes, Lord PALMERSTON proceeded to tell the House what we were some days since enabled to in timate to our readers, that it was the intention of Government to proper* for Sir HENRY HAVELOCK a grant of 1,0001. a year, the East India Com pany making a similar provision for Sir ARCHDALE WILSON. With reference to Mr. Drava& s suggestion for an immediate production of the Government schemes for Parliamentary Reform and Indian Government, the lively PREMIER jocularly declined to impair the vacation festivities of Mr. DISRAELI by any work so dry as the study of Indian or Parliamentary Reform. Nothing would be com municated on either point until the House as sembled after the Christmas recess. After having thus explicitly falsified the predictions of those prophets in the Ministerial press who an nounced that the Company's deposition from the government of India was to be decisively declared to Parliament as the collective decision of the Cabinet, the PRIME MINISTER sat down amid the mild hilarity and subdued cheers of the House. And thus ended, with an interchange of conversational repartees scarcely elevated above the level of • club smoking-room, the first night of a session in which the QCEEN of GREAT BRITAIN has tesommended to the attention of her Parliament the regulation of the currencies for the greatest of all mercantile communities, the modification of the Government of the wealthiest dependency that any Power of modern Europe has ever swayed, and the Reform of that Parliament on whose counsels de pends the destiny, not only of the British Empire, but of the whole civilised world. GROSS ILLTREATMLNT OF TILE BRITISH SUBJECTS IMPRISONED AT NAPLES. was a prisoner, said that, had it not been done, his life would have been sacrificed. He is now sub ject to violent palpitations of the heart, and there were good reasons for saying that Parks ought to be apprised beforehand of the arrival of his father. Watt is still evidently af fected in the head. He speaks little, though that little was sensible—is sad and melancholy. He had distributed a portion of his clothes amongst the pri soners, and a gold watch. On Parks inquiring for it, he said it was in the box or in the bag ; but when it was not to be found, he confessed that he had given it away. A custodi was called, the watch was found, and Parks now wears it as a precaution. Watt, too, has been bled onoe, if not twice. The room in which we were when Mr. Pugh visited us (maid Mr. Parks) was small." " Perhaps," said the father, speaking from the description of the son, "about seven feet by twelve." There were two beds at the lower end of the room packed close against the wall. Then came a small table, large enough for one person, and then another bed. Standing on the bed or the table, one could manage to look out of a small window, the remainder of the room would form a space of four feet square where we walked,and we had worn it down with our footsteps. Such was the room, which was a comfortable Paradise in comparison with what they had occupied in the Viearia in Naples. Nov. 21, Mr. Parks arrived with instructions for Lord Clarendon, for Mr. Acting-Consul Barber. Sunday, Nov. 22, Mr. Barber, saw Signor Carafe, and made a formal demand to be permitted to see the pri soners. A telegraphic commenication was void with his Majesty at Gaeta. On Tuesday, Nov. 24, we were placed in another larger and better room, where you now see us. We could DM explain the reason of it, for none of us knew what was passing without. A permission was then eat to Mr. Acting-Consul Barber and Mr. Pukes to visit the prisoners. I had given the result of that visit. Mr. Pugh's report was less full, and apparently more favourable; but his position was peculiar and delicate. He announced that he went es a priest, and from honour abstained from many questions, declaring that it was not his ob ject to increase the unpleasantness between the two governments. His report of their comfort was comparative, for no man in Naples knows better, or better appreciates the state of things, than he does ; but he confined himself to his clerical duties. In the room which they occupy are five prisoners—the two engineers, the captain and second commander, sad the commander appointed by the insurgents. This man understands English,—does this explain why he, one of the chiefs of the accused should be imprisoned together with the others of the party ? At all events the engineers enjoined precaution in speaking before him. Mr. Perks offered his son a copy of a London weekly paper, but he refused it, as he was afraid that in some way or other it might be used against him. And this may explain why the engineers were less precise in their details to Mr. Pugh, for pri soners, who have been liberated have said that in their reports they were compelled to speak favour ably—they were fearful of an advantage being taken of them. The visitors included Mr. Acting-Consul Barber, the British Vice-Consul at Salerno, Mr. Parke, and two officials." "The captain of the Cag liari appears to me like a man regularly broken down" said Mr. Parke. "He begged me to see Signor Robertini, the chief of the steam company at Genoa, describe his position, and declare his innocence. He has a young wife and two children—one having been born since his arrest, and she has been in a state almost of destitution. The captain had all his property in money and goods on board, but all is in the hands of the Neapolitan government." How the Sardinian prisoners were treated the Sardinian government well knows; and, on authority, I may say that their treatment is worse than that of the English. As for the Neapolitan prisoners, alas! alas! the imagination will conceive it. Call to mind the statements of Mr. Glad stone—call to mind what has been stated in my letters during the last two years. They are in a deplorable state, so much so, that the party in the English room have sent them a few coppers sad some tobacco. "In one part of the gaol, as we walked along," said Mr. Parks, " we passed some iron bars, and some half naked, miserable-looking human beings came up and begged of as ; we gave them a trifle." Such is a detailed report of what ' has been communicated to me by one of the visitors to the prisons of Salerno on Nov. 25, and I send you his voucher for the truth of the statement. And such is the treatment to which men, bearing the once honoured name of British subjects, have been exposed. The reason they have been cut off from all intercourse with their countrymen is obvious. Law for it there has been none. Nothing but an arbitrary police regulation, coined for the pulses.. And what will my Lord Clarendon do? heaven knows. What has Lord Clarendon done? Hoisted a Chinese standard, painted all over with bogies to frighten the King—that is to say, we sent down a telegraphic despatch in French some weeks since, which all Naples knew, demanding im mediate admission to the prison for the Acting- CossaL The demand was laughed at and refused. It is more to the point to oak what will the British public do?—for the case of the English engineers is theirs, and it is to the interest of every British sub ject to insist that their countrymen in every p ar t of the world should be treated with legality and ha manity. One naturally asks—if British subjects have thus been treated—and if all accounts agree in stating that they have been distinguished above the others— what must have been the treatment practised to wards Neapolitans? I believe I may state that a telegraph despatch has been sent to Lord Clarendon with the result of the visit, and asking for directions with regard to Mr. Parks' movements. Exchange on London, 560. NARRATIVE OF ONE OF THE PRISONERS. (ram or' owx NAPLES, Nov. 28. For some time I have sent you such reports of the state of the English engineers now in confinement at Salerno as have ooaed through the walls of a prison. I am able to state upon incontrovertible authority that my reports, so far from exaggerating, have failed to give the true aspect of affairs. The treat ment of our fellow-countrymen has been as bad as it could be. My last letter informed you that a de mand had been made by our Acting-Consul for per mission for himself and Mr. Parks to visit the pri soners. On the 24th it was obtained, and on Wed. nesday, the 25th, both these gentlemen went to Salerno. The following is the report of the l a tter gentleman, and I give it as nearly as possible in his own words, for it is • tale so revolting to humanity, that it requires neither addition nor ornament. At La Cava, the British Vice-Consul joined the party, and they pro ceeded to Salerno, where they had an interview with the Procurator-General. Some conversation took place on the subject of two letters, which were al leged to have been found on the person or in the cabin of the prisoners, and the Procurator said that he was prepared to go on with the case, considering that he had proofs of their guilt. Previous to the visitors going to the prison, an official suggested that it would be better, as Parks was in a nervous condi tion, that he should be first advised of the arrival of his father. A man, therefore, was sent in for that purpose, but instead of reporting correctly, ho said that Watt's father had come. "On entering, there fore, the room in which they were confined," Parks lays, " I saw Watt standing quite pale and immoveable. I was frightened at his appear mace, but I bad no time to think of him, for my son rushed into my arms and swooned. I laid him on the bed and tried to encourage him, and he revived, but immediately he swooned again. I then said to the consul, 'My ion was never subject to this; his nervous system must have been much in jured.' " Parks then gave the following statement of facts to his father, "and my son," he said, "has been always truthful ; I will guarantee what be says." "On the night" said the son "on which the rebels rase on board the Cagliari I was on deck with the captain. A num ber of men, dressed in red, suddenly ap peared. ' What is the matter,' I said, and then turning to one of the men, I asked, ' What are you after? ' You will soon know,' was the reply. I went and spoke to Watt, saying that some thing serious was on, and told him that we must prepare for the worst. A letter was given to me, which, as it was dusk, I could scarcely read. It contained menaces against our livesif the machineeywam not kept inperfect order and we did not do our duty. I managed to decipher it, and read it to Watt. I was followed down by five or six men, armed with pistols and diggers. They remained below whilst another guard was placed above. On passing near Admiral Lyons's fleet there were fears entertained that we might signal them, and additional precautions were taken, for we were not permitted to come up. When we approached Sapri we were told that we must join the revolutionists ; but we answered that we were not fighting men, and that our duty was to manage the vessel. Later in the voyage, on seeing the Neapolitan vessels, the rebels thought that they had been betrayed, and counselled together to murder paesengers and crew. Eleven were about to do so, bat at this moment one of their number fell down in an apopletic fit. It was re garded as an interposition of Providence; all fled to the boats. Some of the rebels came to me (Parks), and asked how much coal we had on board. I told them a leas quantity than we really had, and the answer was, that I must make it, together with the wood, last so many hours, or we should be mur dered. We were returning to Naples when we were captured. Our intention was to deliver ourselves up and state the whole case, for we had not coal enough to enable us to escape had we been disposed to do so. A Neapolitan officer came on board, and! delivered to him the letter which I had received from the rebels. Ile said, ' You had better keep it Ire your exculpation.' I went down and made a sweet copy of it, and then gave the original to the Aar. This copy was left in my cabin in the hurry el my arrest and removal. Whether this was the esoond of two letters spoken of I know not. I am not aware of any other letters. It was said that a letter directed to Watt. sad written in a female hand, was found; but Watt was only the substitute of New castle, who was kept at home by sickness, end the former did not know any length of time beforehand that he would have to go. On arriving at Naples all, excepting ourselves, were handcuffed, and were taken to prison. We were taken into our cell and stripped naked, whilst other pri soners were looking through the iron bars which separated them from us, laughing and joking at oar expense. I was enraged and disgusted with the government which could permit such indignities. We were examined and cross-examined with regard to the letter or letters on which the accusation against us is hued, till my mind was in an awful state of con fusion. When they saw that nothing could be made out of us, they led us round chambers and cells fearful to look upon, and said that if any guilt was proved against us we should be put in there. Finally we were confined in a separate cell, so damp and dark, that Oodknows how we kept our health— the only window that there was was high up in the walL There was an abominable system observed in our cell—in one corner of it was placed a tub, or half-butt, in which to perform the necessities of nature. During the hot summer weather the stench' was insufferable, and we were compelled to pay for the removal of it every night. Our prison fare has been a soup that we could not drink—bread so hard and bad th►t we could not digest it, and beans ; in fact, we were compelled to seek far money for our support, and it was supplied from various sources, though, on several occasions, it was rejected by the authorities. At oar earnest entreaty we were put into another oell ; and at length we were moved down to Salerno to await our trial. We were handcuffed, and that severely, and bound by ropes round the arms so tightly to each other that our flesh was black and blue for flee days after." Watt, who is a strong map, with much feeling, was very indignant. He himself conferees that in his fury he attempted his life with his razor on arriving in his cell. Blood flowed from the wound, and Parks, who was in a nervous state, fell to the ground in a swoon. The captain of the Cagliari wrested the razor from his band, and thus saved him. " With regard to the health of the two engineers," says Mr. Parka, " though it would be what might be called generally good, I see that it has suffered a great shock. My son is not what he was ; he his been bled in consequence of his nervous sensitiveness, and the doctor of the Bey of Tunis, who Irpc court. Her Majesty the Queen went in state yesterday to the Room of lads to open the orlon of Parliament with a speech from the tierces. Her ida" named Ilecklaglam Tam YlO mines before 3 o sad we. resolved by the Lied Chamberlain sad the V The Qom sod the Trims Consort, 1110tOMplai by the Teaser Royal, Telecom Alin, PIIIIOI Frehricat W• Wm al TIM* sod allemisdel byllajmOmed the Hon. C. Grey Ned the Mater of Hauseheld, wept yesterday b Blames's him, mei MIMI the ampilleysl. TM Preece Comm seseded by Capella De PM, alter made TIMM the Math iminitem Hems& The Qom set the Prime Comet, emigrated by the Telmer leM and the Prisms Athos, left Backinakain Tahoe kr Wiliam Castle at 36 lintel teem 6 o'clock in the elemeee, ettentleil by the Duchene el Mho* Mr. R. Ormsby Oars, lleher-t3orest the lien. C. Grey, Captain Du PM, net the seek Meer of the Household. Prime Frol Wlllism et Troia Ma *me at the de parture of the Mesa from the palacts. Let Genres, tlis Marine et Beesisibme, the We qui et Moro" Lied Leif Bros, Lmd Gorge Lamm sod Meng Fronde Ismear, C. 8., candestad her Majesty to bar eledisre, Mr J Hay, Berk, bed ma isamilmr with Prim Frederic* of Tem* end delivered to His Ro Highs= the gold boa eatteieleg the Medea at the City yal of Leedom, with the resolution of the Court of Common Cisme pressatel to the Prime at Guildhall Boor Prime Frederick aflame Pres& 'deftest Could Beradmik the Freesia Kidsler, at hie residue" cm Cul, talabenwairmos. PAM Flidirlek WI el Tench, attended by Captain lace Selmalft, Dr. Were, and Coked Francls Seyroar, Baghsca Takes shadily before sight clock knt evadag, on his Mara is the Goaticient. His o Royal Iftimses went to the leaden-bridge Terminus and pro ese to Dover. WINDSOR, TiIt:MOAT. Her Majesty and the Prince Co m" the Primer Royal, and the writing Aloe attended by the ladies and gentle men in waiting, arrived at the Coeds elect half-Fest six o'clock this Her Keie:t . yti the royal party travelled from Padding am Windsor by • special Ina& an the Great Viacom Rallerq. A moth; of the Coate of the Duchy of Cornwall wee bid retanisy. Them wee remut . th o o=er of the PrMy goal, Vietcong Week, tbn Kr. Alemw dor, the Duke of Noweedulr e d ionises, amd the maw lary k Ms. I. R. Gardiaer. earektrig of 11r. W. L. wows, xi. F. PirmiwtZtlf . . OMB. Mr. O. M. lee% sad the Be.. L. &ewe, bed ea latorview with the Right Hoe. B. P. Dret mete yeMoWl, M the dim of the Poor.law Boo* as the u▪ bject - of esdbrl maid is the Weetbounte Mika. The Judicial Coomatakee of the Privy Cowell set yester day. An ep Reowerd v. The Own " (The New poet), VicealmkoMy, M. Holow (part baud), woe re sumed. Despatch*. were mat peterday hoot the Colonial-otite to the Goventors of Ceylon, Hew Kong, and the Manlius& Downtime wen ratived boot the Oarsmen of the Welt ladle lark PRIM FREDERICK WILLIAM OP PAUSSIA. Prince Frederick yesterday received at Backing hem Pekoe the Seater, Werdass, sad Clerk of the Mer chant Taylors' Company, who waked an him to present the freedom of that body which already las the games of so many royal end distinguished persons ea its rolls. A suitable &Urals was presented, to whkk his royal highness returned the following reply . " Gentleuwa,—l. thank you trout my bent for your kind address. The wish you have expressed to include my name to the keg let of illustrious personages who have at various dmes been members of your ancient corporation I feel to be moat Uttering to me, end It is with no little pride that I avail myself of your kindness. I hens been much struck and pleased during my different Ants to this country to witnem throughout the land the loyalty and attauhrocat of all classes to the Queen and the royal fondly. ea well se the 'carrel affection of which the Priam' Royal is the object, nor can I feel othererke than deeply (candid to and that her proposed union with myself at no longer a distant day meets with such testimony of good will se that which you have 110 W presentei to ma" The Duke of Richmond has arrived at his reel deem, to Portland-place, hoes Ooodwood. no Earl of March, M.P., has also come to town to stied to his parlia mentary duties. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Argyll House lest wean from Haddo Hones, N.B. The noble earl cams to London by easy nage., having left Bad& on Thursday lent The noble sari hos quite recovered from his meat Mass. Colonel the Hon. Alexander and Mrs. Gordon have arrived in town bona the north. . . The Countess of Jersey end Lady Clementine Wisrs Ines wwu to-morrow for Middleton Perk, near BkoSer. _ . . The Earl Amherst hu taken the Earl of Carouvon's mansion in Grosvenor-genre for a term of rte• The Earl of Lincoln, M.P., hes arrived in Dover- I oast from Chamber Perk, Notts. . _ The Earl and Counter of Lisburne have arrived at Claridge'. Howl how Olowester. On Saturday last, the Earl of Listowel, whilst rutting with the Duke of Rattand's howl& in the arab bowtwod at Whisesadine, rag with a were swident, by which two of hie ribs wen broke& The lordship, ahhough pregreselng favourably, will be prorated frees enjoying the sport el the chase for some time. Major-Gen. Sir W. F. Williams, having partially recovered boas the indlepooltion wider which Its hes been rear ly fig, yesterday renamed the duties of his de peremest at Woolwich. The Plymouth Journal says :—" Captain Disney Rooback, late of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, sad Yr. Mon logos Williams, late of the 41st Regiment, ban talon to the stags, and on Morsday evening oommenced an engagement at the Narrow Theatre Royal." EXPRESS FROM PARIS• (TROY OUR OWN PARIS, TEOIISIDAT ETENINO. Preparations were made this morning at the Western railway station in the Rue St. Lasare for the reception of the Emperor, who was expected to go to Rambouillet We morning on a shooting ex cursion. I believe he went, but the evening papers contain no announcement of the fact. The Bourse opened with much uncertainty, owing to a variety of rumours about the Credit Mobilier. The shares of that company fell upwards of 301 r., and brought down the price of all other securities with them. The Rents, however, after having been quoted at 67fr, 50c., recovered rather rapidly to 67fr. 70c., closing with a rise of se. For cash it rose 20e., the last price being 67fr. 500. Mobilier recovered a little, closing at 727 fr. 50c., with a fall of 22fr. 50c. The railways fell from 2fr. 50c. to 7fr. 50c. The Patris says that although the Emperor's permission to General Lamoriciere to return to France reached him too late to enable him to see his dying son, the general is still free to avail him , self of the passport which the French minister at Brussels Dent to him, and that "in all probability" he will soon do so. I have reason to believe, however, that General Lamoriciere does not intend to come to France. lam not aware whether the report, which I perceive has reached London, that passports have also been sent to Generals Changarnier and Bateau is true, but I believe it to be pits certain that they will not at present return from exile. THE PANIC AT HAMBURG. (111011 OUR OWII CORIISPORDE 4 TI HAMBLIRO, Dn. 2, Foca o'Ctoci ' There was a better feeling on 'Change to-day, and as no fresh failures of consequence were re ported, there was a faint glimmering of returning con fidence perceptible amongst the merchants. Some sales also took place both on the Stock Exchange and in the Produce Market, although at greatly reduced quota tions. The Board of Commerce has issued an address to the merchants, recommending the absolute necessity of exercising mutual forbearance and not pressing claims with too great a rigour in this un paralleled state of affairs, strongly appealing to their patriotic feelings, and imploring them to con sider as suspended for the present that paragraph of the regulationain force about bills of exchange which permits the holder of a bill not honoured at matu rity, to demand collateral security front the last endorser. This address has been well -------- _ received in the discount market, and there is every reason to believe that the suggestion will be gene rally acted on till the crisis is over. The delibera tions of the Btirgerschaft are, up to closing this letter, not yet concluded, and I am therefore not able to communicate the result to-day. Gatismani has the following despatch : HAMBURG, Die. 2, Evixiso. " The Senate and the bourgeoune have decreed that insolvent merchants, before being declared bankrupt by the Tribunal of Commerce, shall be placed under an administration named by their creditors." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 28th nit., in the Dibats, rays: Political matters are now coat into the back ground by the ['Emcee, counnercin calamities of which all clams in Prussia, without exception, feel the deplorable effects. Ms capitol in particular has seen large fortunes which were be lieved to be so solidly established, unable to rend, the crisis. It would be difficult to angina. exactly, owing to their great number, the bankruptcies ; which take place daily in Berlin and in the provinces amongst traders of the fast and second rank ; the wheat, oil, and spirit trades Nis particularly affected. Prices of then articks„ having fella from day to day, are now only nominal, end it would be Impassible to sell Ray important quantities of them in any town of Prussia for ready money. The beaks and their branches, and capitalists, use the greaten pre caution in their discounts, and the consequence is a Karon, ot specie, which is extremely injurious to trade. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ADRIATIC. OT minim AND DAONZTIC TILEGALTD.) (sum ova ows mxt.) LIVERPOOL, PEDAL The United States Mail steam-ship Adriatic, Captain James West, the new paddle steam-ship of the Collins Company, has arrived the Mersey this forenoon from New York, with advice. to the 21st ult., with 33 paasengers and 330,000 dole. in specie on freight. The United States Mail steamship Atlantic hence arrived at New York on the 23rd November. The commercial affairs are decidedly improving. THE GOVERNMENT dIrD THE BAHL Last ight the Chancellor of the Exchequer laid upon the n tAL el the Rouse of Commons the coereepondenee which passed between the government and the governors of the Bank, tektite to the enlargement of issues beyond the limit flied by the Bank Charter Act. The letter of the go vernment authorising the temporary relaxation of the law, and the resolution of the &rooters to act upon it, have ahead; been publiabed. It subuqueatly came to the knowledge of the government that the limit of Mote axed by law had ben eiceeded, and the governors were thereupon coquetted to ex plain the course the directors had pursued in regulating their 1.18 , 1011 of notes subsequently to the 12th of November. The following is their reply : " Bank of England, Dec. 2. "My Lord and Sir,—We have the honour to 'clone/ledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th instant, requesd% 'ouch an explanation, with respect to the course which the directors of the Bank of England have pursued in rep 'sting their lames of notes since the 12th instant, as they may be able to furnish for the information of ben Majesty's government.' " In complytng with this wish it may be well to allude to the position of the Bank of England accounts anterior to the receipt of the letter of the 12th. " On the 24th of October the bullion in the issue de partment was 8,777,0001.;, the reveres, 4,079,0001. • the now the hands of the public, 19,786,0001. • the di;count one ' advances., 10,282,0001. ; and the deposits, ' 18,128,0001. • th e rate of discount at the Bank being eight per cent. fat: bine having not more than 95 days to run. " In the following week a great shook of credit end a con sequent demand on the Bank of England for discounts nor from the Wm* of the Liverpool Borough Bank, who's re discounted bill, were largely held by the bill-brokers sal others In London. The effects of this and other failens, however, up to this time, had not occasioned any presimre on the resources of the Bank, or great din= l in eunrencial affairs in London. On the 6th of November the !roues was 2,944,0004 ' th e bullion in th e issue deportment 7,919,0001., and the deposits 17,265,000/. The rate of discount was tannest to 9 per cent, and on the 10th of November to 10 per cent. " The continental drain for gold had awed, the Americas demand had become unimpodant, and there wee at that time little apprehension that the Bank bones would be inadequate to meet the neeeesities of commerce within the legalised sphere of their circulation. Upon this state of thing., however, supervened the faille of the Western Beak of Scotland, and the City of Glasgow Bank, and a renewed discredit in Ireland, calming an increased action upon the English circulation by the ab straction in four weeks of upwards of two millions of gold to supply the wants of Scotland and Ireland; of wBl amounts more than one million was lent to Scotland, sad 280,0001. to Ireland, between the sth and 12th of Novem ber. This drain was In its nature sudden and irresistible, and acted necessarily in diminution of the reserve, which on the 11th had decreased to 1,482,0001. end the bullion to 8,868,0001. " The public became alarmed, large deposits accumulated lathe Bank pi England, money dealers haying von ease lent to them up= call were themselves obliged to mean Its the Bank of England for increseed sappily', and for sews days nearl the whole of the requirements of commente were thrown on the &ink. Thus, on the 12111, it elimosseedi and advanced to the amount of 2,373,0004 which still Ise a reserve at night of 581,000 i. " Such was the state of the Beak of Englund amounts on the 12th, the day of the publication at the inter from the Treastuy. The demand for disounte sod abeam eon' tinned to biersar• till the 21st, when they method** maximum of 21,818,0001. " The public have also required a much larger quantity of notes than usual at this season, the amount In their hod having dun on the 21st to 21,664,0001. The Bank have, since the 12tIL under the authority el el the letter from the Treasury, issued 2,000,0001. of notes excess of the limits of the circulation peeve:bed by the Act of 1844 and have passed Potential to the issue de partment to that amount " That, however, la not the measure of the smout actually parted with the by Bank. which has not ex ceeded 928,0004 the remainder of the 2,000,000!. hernia tees re tained as a MOM of notes in the banking department which, at the same time, also held 407,0201. in coin. "We subjoin a statement of accounts from the Ilse of November to the 28th inclusive, from which it will be Fr parent that the Bank continued to meet all the &wade er discounts and advances, on approved securities, to rose? the canmerelal discredit and distress mentioned to yowling' of the 12th tuna% 'as occasioned by the recent bilged certain Sant sleek tanks in England and Scotland, se es of certain large marouttlle &mesa chiefly connected with de innertnia trade,' and aggravated by the subseqesnt mho" sestruest of lanes knot-cock "la diammals and abeam the mai sae .t :th e y.:4 between the turbot Nonmaterial let of In the aggregate no 12,60.6, " SHEFFIELD OOOI. FIZAFE. Dommot• " BONAMY DOBILIZ, DipdrOviser. " To the Right Hon. the Elea Loud duo and the Right Hon. the Clan. cellar of the Exchequer." r", - 4 - 4 vim, 4 4 •t _.