The Express. — London, England, 1856-12-22 00:00:00

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Tsamuirw—liersks, u< ha......—Allsraoced Ilk LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22. THE question of the Income Mx appears to es very simple ono. That tax was originally imposed to "apply a deficit in the national fineness Grail the pecuniary effects of the large reductions mad' in the Customs tariff should, by Inorsamod consumption, enable the revenue to dispense with a system of taxation which Parliament acknowledged to be a coop d. mem for great national emergencies. The tax, at its cr ginal rate, has bon re peatedly reamed, not bream' the anticipated molts of a hie trade policy hate disappointed the expectations on which it was first temporarily introduced, bet because the country has preferred to get rid of a series of smaller tugs which either offended popular 'sediment or interfered with the natural wares of trade. But Pullamsut, is thereby dello ing the period when the Is. some Tax should cease, refund to anemia it beyond its original rate in time of puma when asked to do so by Sir Cation WOOD g and, in 1863, the Legislature actually made prevision far the gradual reduction and deal :Mine :ion of the tat (se then renewed) in 1880. Coder thaw the policy et the pews Parliament at least may be regarded as settled on the question; sad that polity is the cessation of the Leconte Tex altogether as soon es the financial position of the country will permit. The gentian is, however, practically embarrassed by the necessity which the war created to 'Biretta for a time the rate kayoed which Parliament had declined to go in poser. And this ashen asemeat is of a twofold charaoter. First of all, the tate of sixtesto pence in the pound, by a literal adherence to the language of the led Act, may be continued until 1868, or • year longer than a more liberal miestreetian of the in . Option of the Legislature would justify. And, secondly, until the general state of Zurope shall enable Parliament definitively to fix oar military establishments on something like a permanent peace footing, we shall not be in • position either to revert to the Act of 1863, or to substitute sea first step another statute, wtich shall apply to • posse rate of Income Tax the principle of gradual esdaellen at no disuse date. But of this we may be tam list se Mlaistry or Parliament is likely to venture ea any mil= he malting the tsx, at whatever rate, a peestsesst lON unless, indeed, there should be such an kipallessa d some other objectionable taxa as would Mkt 111 permanence unavoidable. According to Mr. WILLIAMS'. Betels of Palo Ives= and Expenditure, the become Tax pratassi la the year ending 31st March, 1868, the imaassa ea. of 16.169,4381. ; and there can be very little doubt that, in consequence of the greater *ear of asesesmeut, its produce for the intrrett twelve mouths will exceed that sum. The resod to a rate prodecieg that amount was only jsetifiable by the requirements of the war, which nominally brminated on the 31st March, and legally ea the 30th Aphil last. In coosequence of its terminadsa anal of sir millions sterling was struck off this year's estimalls, ad after providing for all the reduced estimates, aMs of credit was given and provided for to the extent se two millions sterling to enable the Treasury to met any unforeseen contingencies of the war. There was, however, still an excuse of expssiEtere ever lasso" but it was provided for by a bat and =INS we are prepared to continue the =title, rate until we r have reduced the funded debt of the country to the point at which it stood in 1863, before the war broke eat, the augmentation of the national debt during the wee has no bearing on the question of t►e Income Tax, except so far as it increases the charge for interest on the permanent debt. Apart, then, from the question of a ebiteespenny or a sevenpenny rate of lemma Tax, the considera tions which affect the immediate reduction of the former, or war rate, ire, the present uncertain state of European politics, and the onsequent inability of the Government to reduce oar establishments to a pesos footieg. No doubt very large rednetleas is or expenditure have followed the return of poser, bet then our income from taxation, it mast not be for gotten, never reached the war expenditure, but was assisted by loans; and it remains to be seen on the let of April next, what, if any, surplus we then have, and to what extant greater redoetioameen be made in the expenditure of 1857-8. Until that period arrives and he future probabilities of European politics ere more clearly seen, the extent to which Bir COSNEWALL LEWIS will be able to propose any re-1 domino of the Income Tex most be double]. Assuming, hoverer, as is probable, notwithstand ing some awl, possibilities, that the political atmo sphere of Enrope will by that time be clearer, it is not, we trust, a very sanguine anticipation to expect is the next Budget a mantles in tb next Ifloancial year of the tax from sixties to ten pears at the least. But as Bassos is emphatically an expo& mental seine& it is imponible to knew with say tainty what the Csexcet.Loa of the Excetsseal will thea be able to do before seat year's BeiPar, have been voted and the balanershest for theme** year made nat. And as the other war tease have cooed before the war booms Tax, the question of its redaction in 1857 is at present entirely a specula tive one. on whack all that can be said is that file dee to the generous way in which the country net the cod of the war, that Government should make every effort in their power to lessen at the earliest memest the memo of that tax an the country, sad set tea I fall bark and rely on the illegal continuad of this rate until the let of April, IE6B. This, however, most be borne in mind, that if the country desire the immediate redaction of the war rate and the gradual menstion of the Ineome Tax altogether, there must be unanimity of opiates and action on the nabjest, and a rigid forbearance of all attempts to seek the reduction of other taxes until both those objects shall be accomplished. If we are next session to have Mr. MILS= GIBSON pressing forward some flasecial prated of the Pesos Party, which deduce to perpetuate the Income Tax even at km peanut rate; and if, in 1868, sad the following years, we are to have other members urging • reduction of this customs duty, and of the other =dee tax, then it le very obvious that the difficulties in the way of getting rid of the Income Tax will be preportirmably increased. Just as it is necessary fora Government to hare a gamma' policy on this 'object, so kit ladle pomade that the anantry oho should adept, sad having adopted, should resolutely adhere to • peaty. Now, we coshes, that in the pecteeediegs of a majority of the public meethap on the subject of the Income Tax, we fall to perceive the adoption of any enlarged and definitive pcGsy es this subject. Then =Wags appear to hushes yeaysked by the entries and injudicious passers et seessomest, rather than prompted by the deliberate detendastica to get rid of the lases, Tax altogether: The capricious and whitest, esemessent of the tax ought of wane te be remedied, for they are discreditable Is asvernmset sad oppreedve and animist; to 'savaged& But, se the country evidently feels disposed to diesels the gabled, it is most desirable that the asenedes 'Meld ge Rya further than that, and deeper even then the impala. Lion of inequality in the iasidesee of the tax, and inform the Legielaters whether the ideation of the Ad of 1863 is lobe carried out, sad the gad cessadss of the Insoles Tax to be kept steadily in view by Parliament. For this is exactly a voodoo in which popular opinion is, whoa folly sad fairly express* irresistible; and if the policy of gradual eatiestles, adopted in 1863, is to be adhered to, as It most take some years Defer* that goal can be mashed, the sower the ooentry mho op its mind the better. And when the resolatioa is formed it Rut be per. elated is, despite all temptation to swerve from it. Wrrw the opening of this week the preparstioes far all sorts of Christmas meetings begin, all ova the kingdom. The most exhilaratieg festivals we , perhaps those of schools for poor Undue ' and especially R eformatory schools, and everybody will. ingly lends a band to prepare the rooms spread the feast, make the tea, lead the rime., swell the chorus, sad light the Christmas tree. The holiday oven the helpers go home satisfied with what hoe bees done, and Wiwi,' that this is onesf the enteixed good things of our modem life— this innocent and exhilarating rejoicing la the season, by the very ketablest order of soidety. Yet even here it may happen that more harm than good hes been done. Do the managers know whin the magmas have came from P Probably not ; and this is the point to which we would direct their attentina in time to make them careful about giving their pence for holly which has le all probability bees stolen. We all need reminding of the changes which lapse of time should make in our ways, as a consequence at the Usages it causes in events. In ancient times it was • the priestly °Moe to cull the mistletoe. The Druid priests gathered it with the gold.. sickle ; and no profane hands might forestall them, or come after them ; and when, little more than a sentory ago, the mistletoe was carried on Christmas eye to the altars of the churches—even to the high altar of York Mlaatee-♦ad proclamation made of pardon and pesos to the sinning and sot. rowing, the rite was still solemn esoegh to keep oat mischief and thievery from any share in the deeme d= of at least the churches. In those days, too, there were still wild woods in England, where the holly and the ivy grew plentifully ; and countrymen sad boys might tura oat into the forest and comes, to get evergreens for the mansion, farm-house, and village, without came. The ems altered whea the towns began to thick.. and spread, and demand more evergreens; sad yet swain within the last half century, whoa oommous began to be enclosed. Not only are many woodlands made private property by these enelosures, bet belt of wood are pleated foe many miles ; and both the old and new woodland is sorely Morris( to people whose fathers seed to get holly without har leg to ask, or being milled to account. Ever since the present generation ma remember, it has Men a sore subject between the landowner and his aeigh. boors that, on the one hand, the boys might not help themselves to evergreens which used to be ammo* property ; and that, on the other, the woods were half-rained by the reckless way in which boys will strip holly trees—to say nothing of the gaps they make in the fences, to let in the sheep at their Mtn. griest swam Through all quarrels, the practice went because the towns were good meteors. The grocer must have sprigs to stick into hie but ter firkin and tempting expanses of sugar, and to contrast in colour with hie oranges and lemon& The poulterer most hate them to set off his turkeys sad pheassate and beans and all the sweetmeats at the confectioner'. must be crowned wish garlacde of shining green and clusters of red heals.. Let the squires say what they would, there would be faggots in the market-plans, and laden boys knocking from house to house ; bat Muse the edniatioual movement acquired form, the de. mend foe Christmas hes really and truly become a cause of crime. If our readers are incredulous, they are only like the last generation, when poaching began to be the evil that it was half a oratory since. There was a period of transition during which the modern method of peaohing—poseltieg by underpaid rural labourers and hungering town operative', in the dsyu of spring guns and corn laws—wee more of an evil than it had ever been before, or can hoopla. and the citizen" in general were unable to believe , what the mischief really amounted to till fasts farad upon them the knowledge of how far society could be disturbed by poor men catching birds and wild *aims!". In the same way many ptopls will now think we are =eking much of a small matter when we say that the extensive purchase of evergreens in our towns occasions miutE offence, some crime, and the 'consequent evil of throwing labouring men and young lads into prison, to come out a good deal worse than they went in. Every well•maasged THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 22, MEL lunatic asylum now has its Christmas inn, and one good thing about it is the amunansat to the penile of deeorating the roams in Christ mas finite.. This is all very well, humus snob tale= enally ban grounds which yield overgrew emagh. The heads of households may be in the habit of ascertaining where their holly sprigs wane from ; and if they have not hitherto inquired, we hope they will henceforward. Bat it is the demand for schools and popular amootadoes of all aorta that does the chief nimbi & There J. such a certainty of a great demand that a vast gain is made from the spoiling of estates. Proprietors who would willingly give largely if properly *eked, so that their trees might be thinned by the woodman or garderser, are cruelly provoked by the trespass of their neigh• boors at this meson. It I. no easy matter to mats young Wiles grow—hardy as the tree is when mature ; and it is no trifle to find hones which were handsome sad thriving at sundown ton to pima in the morning. An ivied tree is ' generally a henna ; aid it is an Wary to have it; stripped bare is the night. Marauders of this elms I are sot diserimisatiag or serapalons ; and they will spoil the symmetry et a eared cedar as easily as of aunietines. They many do so. Ouse are quite common of mischief being dose to grounds and plant& tie= which many years will sot ahem Moreover, then are men in prison at this moment—a whole group in • tingle neighbourhood—eestssesd to two months of bard labour fa this very °Bass. What is to be done P Why, is the first plies, ell hosed people should snake themselves eortaia that they are not buying stein property. Bose p further, and refuse to buy, and adios their neigh. boars to do the same; while all who have prams gin readily whatever they can span. In the ease of Reforroatosy seta' festivals snakily, it is faun to be desirable to abstain from that pandas artiste of deetwatioe, letting every child present know why. By this means many a boy who might hereafter poach in woods and gardens may be taught the value of what he would otherwise hardly regard as property, sad be made conscientious about it by seeing that other people are so. This is on of the various points of senility which arise from the altered pro. portions of our woods and oar towns; and ibis pre. sat week is the one of all the year in which the matter should be attended to. ORDINATION 17 TER BISHOP OF LONDON. Yesterday wining the Bishop of Leaden held his peissry iediastka at It. Paul's CashothaL The tharimes most that his Wild, would deliver a shame to the as ambled dew drew together a vast moan ef pines% sal that sort et the sung edifies to whisk divine swam mu performed was densely orewded. Fall choral senior wee performed, the prams helm stead by the Rev. Jan Lope" M.A., Ream of it. Miebsers, Qmoshithe ; sad the thew reed by the Ray. W. B. F. Webber, , sauna of M. Betolpb, Alienate. The Bishop of Louisa siondiel the pulpit sad saute& for his teat, the Nth verse of the 4th sheath of et Peers TIM Bristle to Timothy : " Take heed sato thyself and este the doctrine ; math*o Is thus, for la doing this thou shalt both save thyself sad them that hear thee." Rh lordship said he was opieldag that day to two Litton sets of psnoss-•thise who were to be or dinal sad those who hod Weeded foe the pa nes of witaimiag the eiresmay. The day was full of hems for both. The "ester days," as they were sailed is the minder of the choral, mad act osem without pat tin them I. Wad of what was piss ou that thesis( is -most of the dismiss threeghost Reeked. Whoa they took sp the public pasts thmorrow or the seat day, they would read, with Ms lame, puritan, a hag list of mass ef penes, who had heaths disease or piths, ben this osght to bee matter of sessiderable interest to the whole snaky. Whatever view in. might take el the miskterial elks, whether they United it with the sesetity whisk attacked to the prieuthood is make those, or were mutest with that mete sober sad mere scriptural view of it width swami only the priest for Chrktiass—Jsess Christ, the Led—it woad be admitted that a readout rospossibility was east epos them is premiss the sinatin of sum. They had smosget them of late yen good mu who had wiled the sneaks of their hllow-meatentha to the propriety of settle( apart metals noon for special prayer, that the Holy Spirit might demead spas them all, sad it epedany ape. the clergy. Bast sums were presidia alsoody is the Prayer Book, sal these osseous were the Rubs, weeks, to which all were ailed upon to pray for the clergy, sad pietlealarly isr those who for the last time were this to be sasiberid aiscopt that body. A godly clergy woad of setiesity always he a pewee/al clergy, sad a powerful slap woad swam a meet bessidel inflesses ever the 'nat y. In this eoeatry, certainty, the day of what ins sommoaly ceded prismarsh had rased, sad they night *bask _ God t►u is WI IS. The, Oki ast mast i elegy la this matey who wen dosimat over son's sesmoinees, who meld lead their people Wad hid, aid who would pis, fees teepee foe their ells, what was sot 41 Jo to their owe penesal share:tar. It they eight eveh privileges fee the Seen sew, they would seek theft I. rein. But hey did an wane them, t.r they kaew that the day for such Miss was ever, sad that teas views premiled with regard to spirituel re possibility. BM the elsegpna meld be is sasy sues a trusty (Mad and atl• nisei to his people. They would be sertais to tars to Id la Vass of allletioa sad Ishil—sese those who is the hey day of youth Smash' they bed outlived the Ids of Wan die • to, their gelds would Mein to bubbler views of thessehes, sad would duels fee bright las those spirt. Seel saddle whisk M es les duty of the Manila of the impel te tea*. Hem ssi pawns maid he glad to ken tie assielsais of • pima eisirossa la the straggle between W. sad death. Them sem wee ea ago is which the. oberz a lted gnats respefmnelft _ass ape them, sad le they sight have sees Mame of a right sherester, then the preset. Let &ea weeks this in ths presoak She they sight have Seemed* el 'Mina ia their shade over whoa dm sight szerebe a meat bees. galsl la/sews. Let them think bow they would be eel. 640141 essupt the peer whoa they west is Ueda's, sad Mae toss es Mad.. Let them remember re lbi t l sal Vs Mk beds they sight visit, sad hew reedy the beset was In Mims es *pea its pleb to • wise sad mei dente filled who spoke frithfally h the mate et Christ. Let them Sisk, too, how they small be Mimi to La their gable sieletstises whea they hid anything to say that wa meth leessieg, and they would always have seenthil ei to my that wee worth hosing U gthey spoke in else ty end godly sincerity of the Lord Jens ChM'. hose asesses were they whisk were bud to he lb. used to with banthises attention wherever they west, tows er sully This wan a question which bilk the slow sod laity would do well to oak thiamine, for there we • great leases fa the 11111141. It MS 1.04 the Ma ,or the aces able, or the soot sioquat services thee were Hefted to, but them elite' "poke with simplicity sad from the heart. Km sight weeder et the pheameson, lost they scald set deny It, sad the lessee she be leaned that a elergysen, If his sistilty were bat moil, sight OM ale by his Obsesses a peat blesses ea all see, eons, awl teaks, U be spoke faithfully, damply, sad really fres lbe beet to the hest of Sees tests welsh his Lord had etelnilliseed his to set forth. If they believed that the teriedisesed, malyresest, ell.powerfal Befog who ems ea earth to redeem soaking was later. Mid fa the mimetic 41 14181. to May If they believed that the 4ertd Jesse we still alive, mid that it was set semis the sun of a dead ass who seen sad esaseelje sestaries, they scold sot suppose that he We let lIMIst tO the way la whisk he woo met gutb belles bb MO fee their ealeadea. It woe dm Is the OW Se b eg lot any had Assisted gnat lams, ewe the goyim Usk wafer. eves ever Ness labs thought they woe set to be led by this. Masi bed bets dose by the easy is that was rasp M liteseture whisk was so power gel is swaldiap She Wogs et as. • few great works of be banYs bed bon Widow* Ig the duly ea oldie tiles., Moe Is Wet. taloned, dna by the laity, bat Is NNW mere pestleelesly sew of that lees redwing bieseliese is Idea the slew had Inds thiamine beewa, sad is the weals of which he wilted Ilhat they would resesber that they were the -cysts of His fres whew they kid resolved spesiel 4411111144103. They smut remember that dip staid sot Waft marking false isto their system with out sessiMp , g the very some of truth, sow might they Mew *eh it to dwell "pm delisted plats of nets. sae whea they mild to be easepied with those great limbs whisk solved estead the pewee sad the eater es pest if May wile le ask pm* of limp of banes ldef wales basteed o tosethig thee ebb* was is the Word 84 they might f *gni bees IS that, to reveres W the weedset the teat, they weed kW both thessalmes sad those tabs hosed *Me bylvimsfai the swhadsrd el spiritual bilions. NOS el the 41111111.44111 vie wets to be ordained that day woe es mbeleeeeiss M distaat lands, and their be {re ster than those of the clergy be elegtry, while ft coloelsed and Milked, mad egleedsd be essemans throughout the world, sassed the gospel to be pushed is distant leads, for It would is,., emend to stand in selfish isolation midst Its pest gospel philippic For those pass sea be Ispbeed the prayers of the 'segregation, that Clod sight gin then month of bide, said ling seal, and singleness of peepess, that they sight aseessfelly per form the great work wee which they were abost to eater. Hie lordship Meld wish sem presided suggeettess Is refer ees to the working *whet el deny and laity in the 'dashes of the peer see is works of charity. The bishop having demeradod fres the pulpit, the Rev. Arthur Pearbya Busby, X.A., Cases of Centerbary, presented to his imdship the esedldates for ordisatioa, sad the. oath' were adaslabtered to Sem Riau Avis.—Aa addition to British collections of Biology has Jul bees made le the shops of • Ace operates of no soolepea &Aka, or Sabine's sails, which was shot by Mann T. Smith, Esq., M.P., on the 17th of October last. le a tar* Geld at Inyabani, near Faunae, Norfolk, Ind mid& ID sew is the pneesetoti of the see el the hoe. ••••••••• a swan, of Trinity College, Cambridge. The herd has hat tree ruffed for Mr. Barn, tor.' by Mr. Baker , melenliet, of Trumplegtonatreet, Cam bridge. The gassy of whisk this bird is a headmen sperm, is so exceedingly rare is this stonntry that Mar Railway could sot refer to • anemia in his " British Water Birds," but was obliged to transcribe the description of Mr. Vipers (who aanouneed its discovery la the 14th volume of the Truisactiens of the Linens Sudsy). 1t is of the saipe Met, bat is distlagalebed flea envy other species of teolupag by the total ablate of white from he plump, or any of than lighter tins of fermium* yellow, whisk *thud, mere or lees, is stripes along the bask of them all Is general appear asos it bears a greater reessablasos to Nonni mann than to may ether Baroptsa seeleperest bat it may immediately be tonguing ea hanging to • diSieent station in the genes ; the two sander toes being united at the base tor a Nora Sienese, se in the gnats, slumber of the ocageaerle epeolee, while these of soralepsx restieeta ere divided is the Men. Three birds peaseselog the same ebsenteristies as ibis epergnes have bees previously shot is Bognod (es renting to Thompsoa) tea la Ireland; is Scotland, nose at all. The lard now eluded to egress with Mr. Vigor' deeeriptlea in every repeat. The redden* of the owner is 26, Onn-nreet, Cambridge, sad be will be happy to show it to the carious is sash mitten. As eke bird le so are, it la congratulatory to think it has bete ormaigned to sunk skilful bands for preservation, Mr. Baker hav in g sueended is rendering a mat life-like representstiou. WlLLit.—The will of Field Marshal the Right 800. Vienna Heritage, 0.C.8., has been proved in Loo doe seder 60,0001. ; also have been proved the 'wills of Lauinger-Ossetia Sir John Belt, K C. 8.. K.C.; air Edward Sherlock Grab, Bart , M.F. for Bast SuffSk, 60,0001.; Charles Walker, Big., Seymour How, Jubi:or pint, Chases, and of Now lee, formerly of Old lowry, 100,0001.; Miss Elisabeth Mary Miller, of Ansley Minor House, Haste, 30,0001.; William Cox, of Dorchester, 14,0001. Mee Ann Dann, of York-plow, City-road, has made a curious will, and, amongst other legacies, has be wreathed to the Friendly Female Society 3001, the interest to be distributed to poor single weans of good character, or widows above forty, having bad sight Ind wh., are hardly able to work, being English prournats ; to the Rev. Mr. Hetheringtoa's Charity for the Blind at Christ's Havre!, 6001.; Aged Pi grime finiety, 3001.; Sock., for Pr. no two of Cruelty to Animals, 3001. ; Asylum for Idiots, Perk Hone, Highgate, 2001.—laurracti New,. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND. The Federal Gaudio, of Herne, publishes the fol lowing announeswents : '' BERNE, Dso. 18. " A Prussian deepatcb, arrived this instant, breaks off diplomatic relations. The Chancery of the Prus sian Legation is already closed. There is an extra ordinary sitting of the federal council this evening. " An hour later.—The Diet is convoked, probably for January 6th. The question has entered upon a new phase (evidently a very serious one). " third Despatels.—The Diet is convoked for Des. 27. The cantons hays been instructed to pre pare the personnel and materiel of their military contingent.' A sorrespoadintoe is the Pros*. says that the Swiss government is nisAyed to exhaust all its moan= rather than make the least conoession to pretensions which would involve the moral suicide of the confederation. C, Du. 20. The Gannon Journal of Frankfort annonooes that the Federal Council has convoked the officers of the staff, and communicated to the cantons the Domino.. does of commanding °Some of corps. The attitude of the people is calm and decided. Direct negotia tions with Prussia here been refused by the latter power. The same journal alto says that the Federal Council has ordered a levy of 20,000 ma. Moreover, a reserve will be formed. Colonel Bourgeois will occupy Bile, with 10,000 men. Colonel Zeigler will march to Schaffhausen with the other 10,000. The Grand Council of Berne has unanimously voted an unlimited credit for the army. The Corrrapowdasse• Pruslimns of Berlin confirms the news of the rupture of diplomatic relation' be tween Prussia and Switzerland; and adds that the Prussian subjects in Switzerland, as well as the archives of the legation, have been placed under the protection of the French embassy. In the Nord of yesterday we read :—" One of our Paris conesposidents makes himself the organ of the fears of a war between Prussia and Switzerland which are spreading in certain quarters. We be lieve these fears to be exaggerated. The King of Prussia Ins given too many proofs of his modern. Lion and his wisdom, to allow us to doubt that he will do all that lies in his power to prevent future disturbances. What his Ma. Piety demands is the recognition of his right. He is impelled by a sentiment of duty towards his own States, as well as towards the men who, although voluntarily and at their own risk and peril, have detended a right recognised and sanctioned in a solemn act by the great Powers. This recog nition obtained, the Log of Prussia will hasten, we doubt not, to prove Ma more how much be has at heart the interests and the pesos of Europe." SWEDEN. A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg that the ion; Charniers of the Swedish Diet, after a stormy debate of tour hours' duration, have negatived all the modifications which the government had pro paid to introduce in the legislation for the liberty of the pram EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS. SUNDAT Emus°. The Constitidionnel has been instructed to say "it thinks" that there is no sort of foundation for the rumours which for "some days put" have been circulated in foreign journals, to the effect that the Conferences were likely to be adjourned. There Is nothing, it says, to " authorise a doubt" that the plenipotentiaries will meet " about " the time indi cated, namely, about the end of the present month., Oonlinuing its remarkably dubitatory style of alt.' nation, it adds, nothing "serious" has, "we be aus," occurred "up to the present time" to im- pede the "reparations for the meeting; the de lays which have taken place were foreseen and inevitable. A note to the same effect, in a London government journal, which appears to have been called forth by my telegraphic despatch, con taining a summary of the Vienna letter of the 14th, seems to leave little doubt that the two cabinets are, for the moment at least, agreed not to throw any doubt upon the probability of an almost immediate meeting of the plenipotentiaries. But I think it worthy of especial remark that the Conststutionnel,in its carefully-worded article, does not specifically contradict any statement of fact in the Vienna letter, and (which is still more important) that it doe, not re-affirm the assertion emanating origin ally from the Nord, that all the plenipotentiaries, with the exception of the Turkish ambassador, had signified to Count Walewski that they were in possession of full instruction*. And yet if the truth were that the only reason for further delay is that the Instructions to the Turkish Ambassador, assumed to have been despatched from Constantinople on the 12th, have not yet arrived, what would be more easy than to say so. The Conefitutionui insinuates that these instructions alone are waited for, but it is ma. nifest that if that were so, it would not use so much circumlocution of language. This point will be brought to the test within a few hours. A despatch from Vicuna announces that Djemil Bey's instruct dons have arrived there, and it is stated here that they ate expected in Paris this day. I will venture to prophesy very confidently that this is not all that is waited for, and that the Conferences will not take place this month. The Constitsitionnel in the above article admits that the question of the re•orgsaisatien of the prin cipalities cannot at all events be gone into till the spring, it being impossible to convoke the divans, who are to metes the wishes of the population, so long as foreign troops continue to occupy the country. The French papers reproduce in all seriousness the story from the Aord, of Mr. James Wilson having come over here as a plenipotentiary extraordinary to settle all matters in difference about the Conferences. The French government is now indulging in un precedented battuts smug the English newspapers. Yesterday the Daily News, Express, Sun, Morning Advertiser, and Atlas wire seized. The list of victims to-day comprises the four first named journals, and also the Examiner. If this sort of thing is to go on, it would be rosily only common justice to the Parisian subscribers to the London papers, it the polio, were to adopt the Russian system, cut out the articles which they think objection►ble, and then give the mutilated property to the owners. Several Swiss citizens have been ted in Paris for having spoken in cafés or other public places, against the manifesto in the Moniteur. It appears that a Captain Morrison, of the English Artillery, has written a his'ory of Napoleon 111. The French pope's publish the following letter of thanks from the Emperor in return for a presenta tion copy : Dslsee of the Tuileries, Dec. 6. Sir,—When Vie truth is so often distorted, it is consoling to its a disinterested and dispassionate writer take upon himself the task of collecting docamints which render to feels their certainty, sad to intuition ell their purity. This delicate task you ken been good enough to undertake is say favour, sad, u I have observed la may passages of your work, you seem to have aesomplished it. I am very thankful. It is cot for me doubtless to praise a book which rental's the narrative of my life, bet I may at lout bs per mitted to express to you bow sensible I am of the noble motive which inspired the work. Accept, sir, with my sincere thanks, the assurance of th Nap sentiments. NAPOLION. THE CONFERENCES. The Paris correspondent of Le Nord states that the second plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sardinia have apprised Count Walewski that they have received their in struction', and that they are ready to take part in the conferences. The instructions for the second Turkish plenipotentiary are all that are now waited for. The Xing of the Belgians has addressed the fol lowing royal manifesto to all the commons. of the kingdom, thanking them for the brilliant demonetn. lions with which they oslabrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his reign: Bremer, 16th Dec. Is the satins% fres tolerated in the alpha! of the kingdom, as well ae in those given is the renown' of the provinces, I have pereived with emotion the epontaseor maallestation of the noble sad earlier sentiments to which Belgium has sontetoceed me, bat which the eiresinstasee of the 26th maternity of the inauguration of my Wigs endows with a special character of solemnity end grandeur. 1 'herd have liked to have visited the meet humble commons., la order to feel muesli surrounded by those faithful subjects who do not markets the Bast important portion of the country, to the happiness of whom I her consecrated a whole life of solicitude sad devotedness. I sun happy, through the organ of the COISIIMISII administrations, to accaaint the entire Belgian people of the strong sentiment of intrude with which my boast bee been penetrated at the eight of so mash affection and of so greet a coridence. LIOTOLD. The document is countersignd by all the min isters, and a certain number of copies are written iu the Flemish language, in order to be sent to such corn. moues as are most familiar with that language. The discussion in the Belgian Chamber of Rep re. sentativea on the bill relative to exportation and to. portation of articles of food has terminated by a sort of compromise, the government proposing to maintain in force until the 16th February the present legisla tion in order to allow the Senate to express its opinion on the question. That proposition WM adopted by 60 votes to 31. gbe Court. WINDSOR, Dzo. 20 Ha Majesty and Primes Albert visited the Dachas of Kest yesterday attersese, at 'reggaes's. TIM Qum awl Priam walked Is the mama adjoislag the Castle this sageslaa. . The Pesetas Boyd; Prises Arthur, sad t►e Primeness Helve sad Lou!.. ♦isited the Dachas of Kest. P►isaa Alia Me is tlis ridiarbesso. SUNDAY, DSO. 21. The Clem aad Priam, the Petals of Wales, the Primers 'Loyal, sad Primus AIM, the Ledies sad Cesatiema of the Coate, sad the demister) kramhold, Reloaded Disks* sorties this morels; is the primes dispel of the Nide. TM Bea. sod Very Bey. the Dem et Wham perfumed the service. Tko Priam of Ufologen was also at the anise. 84 Willlaa Colebrook' bad as Inm:ea with Kr. Bam tary Lansaw, ea Batuday at tat Canal Mao. Si, Clark' Wood loft London as Friday kr Me Nat Sinatea-ball, sear Donator. DISTRIBUTION OF KIR MASOTTI CIIIIISTNAS Bourn Mouss.—Thie samdig bee Majesty's maul Otwismes Meaty was distributed by the Lord High Alessesr, Mr. Haaby, sad ether of her Itsjsety's Maw% at the Alascerpodles, Middle fleetleadlard, Whitehall, $5 upwards of 300 peer sad aged atm mad Imam. Tas Ceetews.--Mest of the members of the Cabiset - -- tam left Lourdes for the holidays. The Dake of Argyll sad laid Pausare an ia ficonsad. Lard Pelasettow rat his owa east at Bavedisade. Lord Tlezemby le La Perk. The Marquis of Leaedome is at Bowled. nir G. C. Lewis sad Mr. Lebowebero are at their amain sesta Sir Chula Wood sad Ur. Vasa' Mal* us ales oat of lows. Lard Gesmina sad Sir Gauge Grey returned our listarday to Lead's. Lord Brunel of Alderay sad Mr. Bela.. naafi la the metropells. Thom, hammer, of the Miaistere still la veva as =postai to take ask depute» early this week. Lady Margaret Beaumont gave birth to a daughter, as Friday last, at the family nantes la Piaadlllp. He. ladyship mad the Mutt are gobs ea favourably. The Doehess of Athol! lute arrived at the St. Cleurges Hotel fres Wisdom Coeds. The Eul sad Countess of lAahflold ban left the Bs. George's Howl for their seat la Staffordshire. Lady Macdonald has left the Bt. George's Hotel to take her tars a lady is welting to the Gana at Wisd sor Castle. --- --- On Saturday meeting, u the Earl el Abingdon wee Mersin sa henebask fro. Waterperry Hews, the seat of the Right Hos. I. W. Healey, M.P., where be had slept the plevbeas algae. his hens slopped spit a dose sad fail, orboosby Ids lordship spooked ...10. His lereiebip wee removed to the Algol Hotel, Osbed, sad Mr. W. Rubor sad Mr. F. Bussed., samosas, hastag bees seat for, adopted the ausseary trestaaat His lordship was .tabled to premed the sone maims M Wythoss Abbey. The sable earl is pedal it satisfactorily, sad the isjaries be hes outsized en set of it serious a sharaster as woo at tint appreheaded. A correspondent of the North British Mail state* that Dr. Livisgstmo wee bus la the village of Slaws, where kis father, Neil Livieptoso, sad his mother, Ague Heater, wore @serried ; both his father sad mother ha,* resided there $ rag time preeisas to their marriage sad 'beet thirty pan after it. The family removed fro. Meatus Weeks to Hserittea Omit slatems yews ago, where Dr. Liviapteses molar sad two siMers at menet rookie. Dr. L 140644044 yeturg family is residing jut sow with rash grsadmetker is Remilna. Dr. Liviegstoms wrought is the miller a *ter boy, sad, before he ion, as • syisaer, attemilag the dames I. Gimpy dunes the mister months, sad remaslag his work as a opium la the mills darts' the sassier meatless. Ho loft Meaty* Works about the time he was moppet by the Ludo. Ilimicsary Satiety. Dr. Liviagstree has two brothers la Ameries—Use elder brother Jobe, la beldam la Curds, his rewire brother, Charles, a mlaister la the United titans. Os the 13th inst., a @alma " Ts Dean" was pm kraal et Visalia, at the Omni of the Fnsidsesse, is return sleeks for the late previdestiel weeps of the Map of Naples. Assam the passes promet were the Imprem Mother, the Arebduehesses Sophie, Elisabeth, sad Maria. the Archdukes Cherne, Ferdleand, William, insergd, Seery, and Maximilian nista, the ministers, the diplomatic body, the staff of the gamins, and the maakspal who. Mies. Duke Churls' Theodore of Bemis, brother of the Repress of Austria. is abort to sato, the Austria& am with the rook of *opiate. ADMIRAL Eli HOUSTON STEWART, K.C.8.--OD Friday "males a bouquet wee given by the °upgrades sad comnsaity of Oreeseek to Admiral Ns Hometsa Stewart, K.C.B in testincey of their permed reopen fog his 'tweeter, sad public approbation el hie 'shoat sad patriode eertNea daring the late war. The ementeninent took plant la the tows•ha4, sa slegsat, wensediemi s Jed stately edillee, jam °amerced at a eon of 20,0001., sad of whist the reseeding ea Friday may be wandered u the earploieas laaagoratieo. The haU floor wee teat folly drew rated with shills, sod its walls with wreaths of laurel, iaterepareed with fruit, snake of anions, mad name artioneally dieplayed ; while the gallery wee Ailed with anon whew were Owned the Dub's. of Argyll and Lady °Marie Shaw Btewsrt. The eatortminatest was flrit-elen is ebareeter, and in ell its appal:assists woo moot creditable to the taste sod liberality of the eorporation. The etude woe Ailed by Provost Hunter, who was sup• ported ea the ►lpht by the plisse islet of the mein, Admiral Sir Hendee Stewart, the Duke of Argyll, Sir R. N. Napier. Admiral Nosegay'. rie, Lieut. J. A. Stewart Mimeos (Grenadier Gouda). Mr. J. M. Shaw Stewart, Captain R. F. Shaw &swam (Soots Fusilier Guards); gad on dm left by the Earl or Cliegeow, Sir M Shaw Sewall, M P., Sir Areigeld Alison, Mr. Hall Maxwell, Major Dorocb, Sheriff Tennent, Mr. Smolt, of Finnan, nod Mr. Tesler. Mr. Robert Steele officiated em glow presideat. The respeay canberod about 200. THE TWO SICILIES. The Official Journal of Palermo at last announces the arrest of Baron de Bentiveugs, the chief of the late movement, u well se the submissiou of a grist number of the insurgents and the dispersion of the others. A letter from that city says :—" Numerous bands of prisoners are arriving here every day. The judicial authorities are actively ongsged in examining into the affair. There is no doubt that the leaders in the insurrection will be condemned to death. It is, however, stated that order, have been sent from Naples prohibiting any execution, the royal clemency reserving to itself beforehand every latitude for de. cidiug on the fats of the guilty. The English fri gate Dauntless anchored in Palermo Roads on the 7th. The whole island is perfectly tranqnil." A letter from Naples of the 16th states that the wound of the Ring is nearly healed. On the day after receiving it his Majesty had a slight fever, and for a few days kept his bed. A deputation from Palermo had arrived at liisples to congratulate his Majesty on his escape, and another was expected from Musing. A letter in the Nord of Brussels says : It is generally thought in diplom►tic circles here that Switseriand will return to ashen and more reuonabla feel ings. I can affirm to you as positive that Prussia has already obtained the authorisation of Wartemberg and of Baden for her troops to pan through thou states, in order to take military poessoalon of Sellaffhessen. It is not neonsary to have that authorisation Bother coa -1 firmed by the Diet—in the Ant plan, because Prussia sets in her own personal name ; and nut, because she has already received the approbation of that body. Switzerland will oonsequeatly act very imprudently if she allows herself to slumber in a false security. The King of Prussia, cannot abaadon the prisoners of Neafehatel at the every momeat when Switsor land persists in bringing them to trial, and when the French government has openly declared in his favour. It Is oh jected that the Germanic Confederation, fearing to lee its trade with Switzerland fall off, will use all its efforts to paralyse the movements of Prangs. It is incontestable that diplomacy ►as not yet completed its work, sad it is still Doped that it may succeed in effecting an amicable arracp meet, if Switzerlaad consents to concessions ; but it is nay to comprehend that if she persists in her refusal, the con duct of Prussia is too clearly marked out for her now to draw back. THE AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF TER PRIN- CIPALITIBS. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 10th, in the Bows* Gazette of Berlin, says; " Count V. Esterhan,the Austrian esebessador, has jest had an interview with Prints Gornehakoff, in which some enivernition took place oa the subject of the reply of the Cabinet of Vienna to the Russian memorandum. The Prince remarked that the pretension of Austria to occupy the Principalitiesuntil the question of the frontiers should be settled was inadmissible for two motives—first, from the declaration of Count Bad at Paris, that the evanetioe of the Turki.h territory by Austria presented less difficalty than that by France end Ragland, and that it should take place before ; and sr esedly,because the projected ine•ractions drawn up at Paris for the members of the completion for the organisation Of the Principalities declared expressly that the Divans mold not meet until the foreign troops should lave evacuated the Principalities. The Austrian ambassador confined biota( to replying that Russia could not invoke the Treaty of Paris so lope as she occupied ny point of the Bassasabien tat ritery, wh'ch shelves booed to cede to Turkey. This eve. femme was consequently without result ; audit is probable that the Russian eabinet will reply in writiog to that of Visage, which may perhaps mese a new delay in the meeting of the Coaferenee of Paris." Awarding to a telegraphic despatch from Vienna, se Dee. 19, the Archduke Ferdinand Masitailiso, who sleeked fa that capital two days previously, would tat oaf Saturday for Brussels. An establisbraent was already id 110mrse of formation in view of his spproachieg marrisge. • Dr. Francis Lieber has retired from his Professor• ship of History and Folitisal Economy in the College of Muth Carolina—a station which he has c torpid for 2d wan. It will not be easy to replace Dim. Dr. Lieber'. Wars residence. we understand, will be at the North:- Nem Fork Doily Imes. K Michelot, the celebrated comedian of the The.iitis Fraeotis, died on Thursday last, at him residence, Fasey, is kis 71st year. Michelotwith Talmo, Fleury, Mdlle. Danienois. Mare, and Georges, or• o f the glories of the Trench stage. lie was squally successful in tragedy and *mealy. Hie lest gust characters were the Juane Mari, it Henri 111., and Don Carlos in Elensoni. The ruins of a Roman theatre have been discovered at Teisaeres, near Mordents, in France; it is 70 yards lone from the back of the pit to the siege, and tO yards wide. It could have easily held 10,000 spectators. The interior of the th is not yet uncovered. THE ADRIATIC —Thia truly 111 igniflcent steamer still lies off the Novelty Works, where the workmen he giving the last finishing touches to hiv machinery. In the opinion o: good jadges she will be reed, for sea in a few weeks. not improbably in a fortnight. Sioce she boa been lying cS the N 4velty Works sloths' been tom plat ely furnished throne , ' out, and in a style et %mew:ailed munificence. From her sixteen metallic lift.bcata, which will lir Id sisty 9see i t n ." apiece, down to the salt-cellars steward's panqi there hi not an article of safety, IFIBUrt, and Neel , I° which she is cot completely appointed. Her intenor 'emblem a palace ; there le a labyrinth , f Pat inns. ruin drawing rooms, and little snuggeries for tits ;I +et Euttstiono, ell 'Ming with each other in b e auty an nog' tuouenees of degvatvri. lo the opinion of r l i and open' erred seamen no chip was ever to thoroughly fitted OM st this an Iwe hope to see the floating A lh a mbra soas sett attaining d..on tho say, bound for the at,ortert trip made mote the Atlanue.—S'ete York rape. I I