The Express. — London, England, 1856-12-24 00:00:00

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Arent. 14 Hentlagokewlarwee, knelland rowt PA ILY N Lehi SUPYLIND Tl.l MAD by la the morning. etc expreoo. 11.1 , vv...0.a• •••• rasa., m. 0.. A terrtlreweete Wended tw "The liprow." Lowka Twain Imre, art be at We Mks. 10. Desier.owlemet. by Two o'Cloit ow the Au of yeabwateo. STANDARD. Too Emus'. tbs new email pantomime. HICI(EDT•PIC[EDT NT BLACR ; or, Hataquin ►ine Waiter and Queen Serial. Rims. J. W.Doostity,A.belto, Bird, anti Kees. Jaws sea ?slit Carlo ; Idle. Paulin.— And TUE Matt OF StIOREDITCH. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tea —Of urn.ag. Oh. M. Allarecon, 01. Ma. Itcbariunw—Xonuog, Ok. 2Sen....—..Altamoom. Ob. Kka. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24. Tins is the season of feasting, and the great feast day is at hand. The questions which agitate the political world are momentous enough, bat still we will cot do our countrymen the injustice to think that even such questions will withdraw them from the social enjoyment and revelry which are the pri vilege of this season. The people of this country are probably the hardest worked people in the world. They lack those perpetually recurring holidays which are sanctioned amongst other nations. But we quer tics whether any people excel as in those scenes of home revelry and family reunion which tend so admirably to develop the peculiar virtues of English family life. Patient labour is an excellent thing. But let those pedants whose insane passion for in formant toil has destroyed their capacity of enjoying idleoew, talk Si they will, it should be matter of sincere congratulation amongst wiser men that some seasons of national recreation are . _ still recognised. Ttere are, Gorr knows, enough of oar fellow.countrymen whose avocations compel them -- to forego even these delights, few as they are. Let us not pretend that that is a benefit which oaly the result of a dire necessity. The slaves of Rome had their Saturnalia. Human 'stare wooded it, and we doubt not it was an institution banded on ct.mmon serge. The hard-worked people of this country stand in need of the same sort of thing; and although these national holidays Sr. - . . . madly rased in number, still let no rejoice that the rasa et" merry ChrietatairS not yet a sere mass To morrow how many poor Whim will have their an nual feast of roast beef and plum pudding ; how many boys and girls will gather round the brilliant dinner table-1101A, perhaps, an hoer or two Won as ordinary time—with eager and joyous fame, to join in the friendly onslaught on those smoking sirloins and monstrous turkeys which have taxed the fat tening faculties of some eminent feeder to bring up to the de.irrd weight. Let no man despise the kindly feelings sod generous sympathies; which can not fail to spring from meetings such as throe. Pug., lishmen are often reproached with the fact that they eon celebrate neither a great victory nor a discovery in science without a dinner. Englishmen have their extravaganeiee. But at all events the Christmas feast is admirably fitted to reanimate thew social affections which it is its chief object to accomplish. It is a question often dimmed how turkey. and roast beef have come to be the orthodox dishes for Christened sy. We confess ourselves ignorant of the true answer to this question ; but it is a matter which might well engage the attention of some of the learned contributors to IVotos mad Queries. At all events these delicacies are admirably fitted to adorn the family board, and they confer that " majesty and which a distioguisbed epicure, in the enthusiasm of hie eloquence, described sas the peculiar advantage of 84/fish joints. Some affected gentlemen who have lost simplicity of taste will no doubt consider an enormous sirloin of beef and a turkey of 20ib. weight—dishes which as English head waiter would denominate " hand some ''—as sad illustrations of a floarieldeg ber barb= But the man of real taste disowns the fallacy. It I. only in a country where the material is inferior that a scientific cook is absolutely atom- marry. Simpex munditiis is perhaps the highest compliment that can be paid to a young lady. It is the same in cookery. The may reason why the system of joints is general in England and a rarity on the Co'nticent, Is because of the superiority of oar beeves, mutton, and fhb. Lot it not be supposed that wears ii.ditfcrent to the imaginative glories of French cuisine. We see •otdieg incredible In the fact that the highest statesmanship has been fogad combined with faculties capable of the ioftiest Sights elAmphitryonic inventios. Have not some of the most sagacious counsellors paused amid the most earnest deliberations to send a despatch to their chef, or written @taborets treatises on the PhyisikVie du OUP ? It it not a comma article of belief that the diplomatic business of the world could not be carried on without the aid of French cuisine f E is impossible to doubt the in. Buenos of an artistic dinner' sad we may say for ourselves that if we had anything to ask or any thing to discover by conversation we should prefer making the assault upon our friendly advarlary_pre ceded by a corps of tirailleare composed of Wes, rather than by a corps of Temple Laundresses. The pat/s, salmis sod souffles of the Preach• man would surely hare a more blinding effect than the raw soles or the tough mutton chops of the Englishwomen. But whatever may be the truth at to dipltersey, moat certain it is that so great General of modem times has ventured to campaign without a scientific chef. Therefore, whilst we do all honour to the genius displayed in the French cuisine, we mast adhere tenor e.pinion th tt the roast beef, the legs of mutton, atd the plain toiled fish of England, are not things which could be introdneed systematically abroad. Indeed, it would seem to be a more hopeless attempt in these days than forossly, for we suspect that the meat must hay* degeaseilled In Francs from what it was at do belly of the century; thus we find the When el? the Almanaele des Gournsonds Abe to pedere eloquence whin they discuss the dishes fitted flse the ibiginnieg of the year. Beef they regard as sae of the best. Beef, they say, is indeed " the king of miens." After specifying the beeves of Anverpe And of Cotentin as the best, they say, " Theo divine sirloins are the foundation of a good hest, and with them the appetite is much lees sully fatigued than with the most reeAereld dishes." Reset beef, they add, is the dish best fitted for a table filled with numerous and hungry guests--a resernessedla tion as powerful to • roaster of a household la the Christmas of 1866 as it was to the Frenchman on the New Year 60 years ago. Bat, if we may credit the accounts which hare reached us as to the know- ledge of besets displayed by the French judges at 'the Paris Cattle Show this year, we may well doubt whether the Parisians of these days are to be congratulated in the same enthusiastic terms as the author. of the AlNsonaeh des Gourmands thought fit to us to the Parisians of fifty years ago. "Nappy Parisians!" they exclaim; "congratulate yourselves; if those travellers who are the most famous gourmands are to be believed, you eat within your walla the most delicious beet in the world!" Either the beef hes degenerated, or the authors of the .41rnaraeh are not so learned as we imagined. These Christmas besets are not confined to England. Elaborate descriptions may be found of the teas called Revedlons, which take place between two and three in the morning of the 26th of December. The logical intellect of a Frenchman cannot, of course, be satisfied without finding some reason foe this strange repast, " which is neither a breakfast, nor a dinner, nor a luncheon, nor a supper—but a moil lons." It seems, however, to the philosophic your. cloud that this anomalous meal is necessitated by the fact that the religious exorcises is which the faithful indulge on Christmas-eve so exhaust them that they need to be awakened, or rather restored. Nothing, of course, can be more natural. But the notable characteristics of the reeeillons, and their peealiar fitness for their purpose, do not stop here. It seems that pork is the chief material in these banquets. Why should this be ? The scientific authors of the Alonanaeh solve the riddle. "We may presume that I the early Christians, in order to distinguish them selves from the Jews, who were forbidden the use of perk by the old law, thought fit to introduce this mime to their tables, which has nothing unclean to ear notions, and is the source of so many of our beet Melee In feet, this profusion of pork at Christmas thee is a mart of protest against the Jews, and we are told that the» is no listeners of any real gour mand apostatising and submitting to the Law of Moses. To establish a man In his creed is surely the crowning triumph de la gournameltee. Zbe Court. , WINDSOR, Dim 23. The Dabs of Cambridge arrived yesterday after aeon. cm a visit to bar Majesty, attended by Colossi Tyrwhitt. Prises Leh ere and Prises Bawd of Lebanon &wed with the Queen in the weentag. Teo Qeees, with Prises ATrthar sod the Princesses Alice sod Louts, welted is the gudeas of the Coatis this 'tondo'. Prises Albert, sceespasied by the Doke of Cambridge, west cat shoat's'. Admiral &r Charles Elliott had ea iatarview with Mr. Sweaty Latossiore yesterday, at the Colonial ogles. Daspetattes tee the governors c t tee felonies on the West Coast of AM.. wise Nat yesterday frogs the Caosiel-offies. Despetehee were reeeivoi from the Governor of Melte. The (loess was expeeted last week to visit the weeks of Haley Hospital, es the banks of Southpaws Water, sad preparations WETS made to reesive her blejestj. From male sears or other, this espestation was dhsp pedaled. Tim foendstlons of the mummies budding are cow almost complete, sad the matreotor for beildieg the hospital from the foundatioa has sosuneneed operations. Sir Benjamin Hall hem left town for Llsaorer, Booth Helm The Marquis sod Merchioeme of Healed hue eft Claridp's Hotel for Brigetos. _ _ _ The Comities of Gaioeboroagh sod family have left Clotldge's Hotel foe Rota. Hall, Rotlendshire. Lord Stafford has arrived at hi. residence la Estes-plan from Ma Best, enemy Hill, tear Norwich. . The Hon. C. C. Cavendish, M.P., and Lady Cathe. elso Caloodleh have loft Claridge. Hotel, for Latimer., Backe. Th• Hoo. Mrs. Fitzroy has arrived at the Bt. G•orge's Hotel. The Doke of Wellington and the Dawager Coun tess GradeMe bare apartateato at t►e Bedford Betel, Brightoe. The Perthshire Cowier dates that a pair of curling atoms us bang eat at Perth for Lud Penman, from a Week of unite which fused a parties of one of the fertilisations of Inbasoopol. The Record states that the Lnd Chancellor has been pleased to appoint the Bev. B. H. Cur, of Christ's Chapel, to. the rectory of Bt. Giles, vaunt by the advisement of Dr. &Aeratesb. The church of St. Poore, Lotrimore-oquato, New. Logue, woo this stoning remseeszatad by the Bishop of London. It is Mastro in an entirely am distriet, assebtreg of apauds of 1,000 boasts, • set respectably latiabitiol, sad Iylag bigness the Walwortb road and Honatagtes- SOISMan. A Oassbridge journal rernarks:—' , It is somewhat eppottsas that jest at the sowed when the traesatleatio npublbaas an atrlrbg for the 'stooges of slavery within their lessdarko, sad eves for isergislig t►e supply by a renewal of the plash' of ♦feiea, the subject s►aus for the Gold Medal gives by the Coition of oar (Isom, as Chan cellor of the Usivetaity, for the 'Coghill pees b Inarery.' lf there be is the train/sit? a poet who Gas wield the leek with Apar, we boat he will be armed by this asnostee aut." It is reported (says the Bury Post) that Bt. John's College, Castvidge, hes •Lead, net sad deterssfsed ape■ the abolition et all ranch:ties': the soilage to be epos to •very ea• whir t• a British subjoin. This is a great step at ogee la a seller hitherto seasidersd intim misdeals stress bed et aatiqualsd prejudise. Tko /gory Pod mmotwamo that the tniatry of Bit Edward Keentea, Bert., M.P sad the resiaests Mika bo rough sad seighbeatheed, beats &.t ou of toetifylog t►e high esteem they eaterteis towards ►i. m s larliora, minify 'asthma, sad aokyhbour, a fall leagth permit of I. M bo Mama la t►e New Cent lizotta•ge, Eye ; sad, as s farther Oestimesy of reepeet, it is reposed to rake big s pnweetatioa of piste. Neatly 2001. ►u !ma sub mike.' already: The writ for the eleotioa of a knight of the shire Ix East BALA larias bees resolved, the Sheriff bee iced es Fraley beet ter the stoslastfoo, awl a so oppoeStion to Lord Smatter le peobehte, the rotors will se doubt be made au that day. The isoesmtet to the moor, of the daughter of Chalice I. whit& t►e Qom conniedised Boas lien. dont to assents, has jest bees meted is Bt. Theme's nook Newport, Isle of Wight, when lite Prison, who dial is optivity at Csriebrook Castle, Ike beried. The isessaist ropreseete she Agin et a youtbfel husks rit e/ham la a noel, reeeohliag the all of a oboe. The pillow as width the head et the Ague rests b as eyes Bible, Is which eas be wee the I'4l4:mills word.:—" Cone sate we all ye that are heavy ledge, sad I will give yes rest." The 10110+44 laseripttos is en the soiserneet. var.: To the memory of the Prineese diatiihter of Kis, Charles 1., who died at Ceriebrook Castle, on Beadily, Sept. 8, 1653, sad is (eternal beneath the them' of this church. This monument is erected u s token of respect for her virtues and of evraosiby for her eutlerings, by Vie torio, 185 G." The figure of the Prineeu is of white suable. The ro.cie or cell i. of Csca stcne. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA AND Telegraphic intelligence wee received yesterday In' Paris from Berlin to the following effect:—All the preparations which have been made here up to this time have for their end to provide for the march of 136,000 men on the 2nd of January. The Prussian troops will be formed in nine divisions, one of which will be furnished by each corps d'armee. The divisions are to be composed of four corp 3, supported by a division of reeerve. Count Groben is appointed Commander-in-Chief t the commanders of the corps are General' Warder, Wassow, Bonin, and Schack. The Prince of Hohenzollern will command the division of reserve. The division of the guards of the let corps is to be under the orders of Prince Frederick Charles of Prosaic It is said that there will not be any new loan. The war taxes will be at the rate of 100,000 theists a week. _ A correscendent of the Nord, by a telegraphic despatch transmitted from Berlin to Brussels on Monday last, states that at the instigation of the representatives of the United States, the English Mi nister has invited the embassies of the powers which have not yet interfered in the Neufchatel dispute to en. deavour to induce the Federal Council to est the Royalist prieooers at hberty. The object of this intervention appears to be to obtain a settlement of the differences by which Prussia would make an important concemion, after proof had been given of a sincere desire of conciliation and peace on the part of the Federal Council. Mill loastiosallsed. Sirltsetlead should put ea lid to I the measly. She easy kayo seed of ell kir N. Ph wUI else know bow to tut to maul her swevatsbee, her 1 defilee, ler @last meekness, mid her saltery traditions. The Press. and the Bide, as indeed do all those who would wish to see repaired, as far 111 possible, the tremendous blunder which the Emperor has war milted, insist that the text in the Mosiatter merely declared that Prance would remain neutral. while the dassubles and the legitimist journals, which, hoping to ergs the government on to its own deatrn^• tion. rotes, to give it their ardent support on this question, say that a mere idle expression of displea sure is unworthy of a great nation ; and, therefore, if the article of the Moniker meats anything at all, it must presage the active support of France in the King of Prussia's enterprise, the real object of which is to "extinguish the hot-bad of revolution which burns perpetually in Switzerland." I observe that several of the Prussian papers ven ture to deprecate the King's mad project. The National Gazelle of Berlin recommends Prussia not to serve ss a stepping-stone to the increasing greatness of France. The Brunswick Gault. says that France professes to be more Prussian than Prussia herself, and that the only object of this policy is to force the cabinet of Berlin to throw itself into the aims of Frew, and to abandon the attitude of neutrality which it has so long main tained. _ The Bourse, after opening heavily, improved in consequence of a report that the Bank of France is at length about to discount bills at shorter date. The Rent. rose 35c. for cash, and 200. for account, closing at 661 e. 601:. and 66fr. 76e. Mobilise rcm 36:r. Railways roes from Mr. to 10fe. The following telegraphic despatches have been received this afternoon : Berlin, Deo. 23. The Godes de la Croix dents that the Eseish ambas sador ha, recently supported the demands of Prussia against Bwi•serlsnd. Fruition, Drs. 23. Tits Frellkley* Journal of yesterday gives the followtog •awe, dated Berne, Monday : _ "birthing is yet decided. bat the hopes of peace aug ment.. There I. a question of a diplomatic mediation, and of epee's' agents being seat to Berlia in that view. ?deny Csaferseess have been held at the home of the President of the Diet." bianeillee. Dec. 23. This Hydupw, Just arrived from Constantinople, an sonatas that an implosion took place on Doe. 15 in tLe powder asagiaims at Cumuli. Twenty barrels of powder and 150 cuss of cartridges blew up. The neighbouriag boasts were greatly Hand, sad several people were killed. Letters from Egypt state that Abye•iaia is agitated, and that Said Pasha is probably coming to Constantiaopie. " • Taws wars warmed rumours of what is pawing in Persia. 1331116 say that Knead Mirse had matched to the south towards the tavola of the Hair rad, and had ocat piad Farrah, in Cabool. It was said at Athens on the 17th that Lord Palms:ll desired to seed eztraordiaary Into Greccato oxalates the state of the settutty. RUSiii I would opp us this measure, n derogatory to the dignity of the Grub govers meat. The protecting pectin hare, it is said, at last dteided that their ordinary ambundor should make a detailed re put ea the subject. PORTUGAL LISBON, Das. 16. The weather still continues wintry and stormy in the estreme, and all vessels from the north report long and boisteroas passages. Yesterday the British Minister, Mr. Henry F. Howard, gave a diplomatic dinner to a numerous circle of guests. It is said that his Bros Honey will shortly retire from the post he occupies here to under tele the duties of the ministry at Fraoklort-on•the- Maine. Mr. Crampton is mentioned as Mr. Howard's 11:100.11101% It is said that the government commission appointed to report upon the dierits of the respective projects of Messrs. Bushell and Law for the forma tion of a patent slip and other facilities for the repairs of vertels on the banks of the Tagus, have represented the plans of Mr. Law as being more easy and prompt of execution. Signor Felix Pereira de Magalbaes, a rich man and a councillor of state, has been proved guilty in a court of law of smuggling veal, mutton, and sausages, through the city gates, to evade the oetroi duty. As Signor Magalbses is said to be an old offender, he has been visited with the full rigours of the law. The brig Clarence, whilst lying near Belem, on her first voyage to Mentalism, caught fire and burnt to the water's edge, a few days ago. The Viscount da Las, when lately at Madrid, pre sented to the Spanish government a project for the connexion of that city and Lisbon by electric tele- Gb• Gneral Wyld has laid before the Portuguese administration his plans for touching at the Azores, and another point of the Portuguese pomesaions, with the projected line of nbmarine telegraph to America. No obstacles wen offered by the Portuguese govern ment. _ _ . ...,„... Neither of the mail downers, Togas or Avon, have yet made their appearance, and they ere anxiously looked tor. Letters written by some officers of the Russian army of the Caucasus, and dated from Orosnsja and Kisler, state that in those places a campaign in Persia is regarded as exceedingly likely. One of these lettere says :=' Orosnsjs is very much agitated. Troops are continually arriving and starting, and there is a constant movement of generals, couriers, and ammunition waggons. The beet troops—the regiments of grenadiers of the Caucasus and the dragoons—are being sent towards the Persian frontier. Schamyl keeps quiet. Siam his eon was restored to him be makes no move. Besides, he would find it dace& to cross the triple cordon of our lines of Tchernomorie, the Centre, Wiakankas, and the left wing." The Austrian Gazette, in referring to the capture of the 18 small vessels by the Russians on the coasts of Cireassis, declares that Russia is in the right, and then goes on to remark :—" It would be erroneous to me in them facts the germ of a new quarrel between Russia and Turkey, as they can be satisfactorily explained. Bookhoom Kale is a Russian town, which a band of mountaineers and Turkish deserters had occupied ; and naturally, after the war, Russia wen desirous of retakiog possession of it. The Turkish' government =mot feel offended at this event, as it quits recently refused to listen to the deputations of Circassian. who have at several occasions solicited the co operation of the Porte. The capture of the Turkish merchant vermin is consented with the measures which Russia takes to reestablish her sovereignty in the Caucasus. Diplomacy has nothing to my to this affair, which loslouge entirely to the consular agents." OUR DISPUTE WITH PERSIA. dome of the Vienna journals profess to have n- 1 aired information that Feroukh Khan, on the Bth, sent off the ultimatum of Lord Stratford de Redefine, 1 which demands the revision of the treaties now ex isting with Persia; the evacuation of Rent; autho risation to establish trading settlements on the shores of the Persian Gulf; and the concruion of railway. on the Persian territory to English companies. The same intelligence states that Persia, supported by Russia, demands the neutrality of Turkey in the present war; whilst England, on the contrary, wishes for the alliance of Turkey, or at least for authorisation foe the pusage of her troops to Trebizood. The Imago of Muscat sides with the English, and refuses to pay the anneal tribute which he owes for salt mines in Persia. Great activity prevails in the Persian anenale. The Russians have rent arms and ammunition to Enuh, a bay on the Persian side of the Cavite Sea. The Grand Duke Michael of Russia, travelling ander t%s ■asse of Count 11,1thalioff, pseud through Berlin on t%e 18. h vith Ms suite, on his way to C erlsruhe to visit the Princess of Baden, to whoa he is betzothou THE PERSIAN QUESTION. The Pays says :—" Letters from Turkey of the llth state that the negotiations between the English Ambassador at Constantinople and the Extraordinary Ambassador from the court of Teheran were dill actively going on; that it wu impossible to foresee the result of the enferenose, bat that all hope of an arrangement was not lost." 1 THE TOWN OF BOLORAD. The Alosanoele of New Roses, for the year 1853, Rives the following statistics respecting the town of Bolgrad B;lgrad is a small market towa, prettily built, attested in the lower circle of the colonies of Budjek, is Bu• suable, ea the ' Alper& ; the residing* of llte administrative authorities of the ealmista of the Trees Danube. It isontaias 8,306 inhsbitaats, and 1,037 houses, the greater part of which ere of stone. It posemess a primary school for boys mad one for girb, with a fine cathedral. General Jusow, the founder of this colony, is interred M the church of the cemetery. There are at Bolgrad, besides public granaries for wheat, 13 private outs, a public garde, 676 private gardens, 16 'ladle sad 2 amp factories, 6 brisk aside, 7 potteries, 8 dyehowses, 14 inns, 1 hotel, and 42 shops. The extent of the examine is 23,765 dismiaittses. Oa the road to Ismail the colonists hare erected a moos meat at the opt where the Berm Nicholas I eetablithed his mop in 1328, on his lured towards the Daubs. The Journal de St. Peterabotny, after quoting the above, adds the following remark : " The Almanach contains no statement relative to another Bolgrad or Tobac." THE TWO BICILIES. A Vienna letter of the 18th in the Bourse Gantt* of Berlin, states from Naples that since the insurrectionary movement in Sicily and the attempt upon the King's life, the latter is more than ever de termined not to make any conoessione, and has re quested the cabinet of Vienna to inform the Western Powers of this resolution of his. The Ofrial Journal of the Tiro Sicilia publishes a royal decree intrusting the religious and moral direction of the prisons of Cosenza and Reggio to the Jesuits, one of whom is to form part of the committee regulating the internal affairs of each of the prisons above mentioned. The Sisters of Charity are intrusted with similar duties in the prisons for women. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova. OWN PARIS, TIMIDLY Emilio. The Moniteur announce*, in an indirect that the Conferences will not take plus till after New Yesr's•day. In its foreign news in the last page it cites an article from the Austria* Gazette of the 18th, which says that in order that the laboars of the Confereness may not be interreptedby Christmas and New Year's-day, it is desirable that they should not take place till next month. It is to be inferred from the French government now adopting this ver- Oon that it did not thick about Christmas and New Year's-day when it instructed the Monitur and the ('oa'titution•el to say that the Coeferemess would certainly rust at the end of December. The Psya in an article defending tie Mesitetir against what it calls the "diatribes" of the English press on the subject of Neufchatel, is pleased to sty that the London journal., so far from representing the English government, scarcely ever represent even any political party. According to the Pays, these papers are something totally apart from the public opinion of the matey, and represent nothing but the furious passions of individual writers, and the necessities of the proprietors to provide scandal for their readers. To bear out this somewhat extraor dinary view of the English prose, it vouches to war ranty Sir Frederick Thesiger, whose " eloquent," albeit unsucessefal, speech as an advocate against the Daily News has more than once been referred to by the French government press as a monument of pigitioal wisdom. The Press' has a very spirited article indeed against the pretensions of the King of Prussia, which have met with such extraordinary countenance from the French government. It describes the gaie ties as one involving le substance the two great questioes which agitate the world—" on the one side tradition, the authority of treaties and the written rights of Kings; on the other the present state, the free act, the natural and primordial right at popish° It thinks that the French government, having "unfortunately" taken the view it did of the question, was quite right in making its intentions public, since " a certainty, in whatever sense, is always better than fallacious promisee." After showing the weak ness of the Kiog of Prussia's written title, , beard upon the treaties of 1818, which have been so much broken in upon, especially by France, and insisting upon his long acquiescence in adverse possession as • bar to his right to tske advantage of as " unenecessful royalist omegas" to revive a question which was practically settled, the Press* thus warmly recommends Switserland to take every possible means to defend its rights: NVs trot that should war really break oat, Snitseriaad will take advantage of the °maim to noall those of bar children who have taken settles in foroign omintriac A free people should sot be the mercenaries of devotion. Those Swiss who are serving abrrad under espitalatioae, must necersarily retort to their country, since them capitu lations have stipala.ed for the:r return in ease of war. As to the others they ought to Titan), under the penalty of 24, 1856. ITALY. THE TWO SICILIEL punt OUR OWN 00/IIIOPONDI NAPLES, Dzo. 18. It is to be regretted that,insteed of being generous and disposed to grant reforms, the government shows itself suspicious and severe. Accordingly, we hear again of renewed arrests and pre: muttons, and a determination to look upon the recent affair ss alto gether the result of a conspiracy. As a coosequener, there have been arrested and taken cif to the Prefec. _ _ .—.—.-- tare of Polies a Signor Caristo, who in 1849 was deprived of his office of judge--a Calabrese long settled here, of the same country with Agesilao Melano, of whom he was a fellow-student, and several other persons. To Sta. Maria Apparente has been taken Signor Fittipaldi, a dealer in ornaments for the churches, end one of a family which has been much persecuted. To St. Elmo yes terday morning was taken a non•commissioned officer in the Lancers. From the Royal Guard of the Ist Grenadiers have been removed two soldiers, both Calabrese, and consigned to the police. Many Cala brese have been sent oat of the city. A commissary of police, M. Spagnolis by name, has bren sent into Calabria, to seek limber information about the recent affair; and doubtless the family and connexions of the criminal will suffer. I fear that we shall hear again of a renewal of persecutions, whilst not &single step has been taken to conciliate or referee, unless the setting at liberty a few of the least important of pri soners can be called so. I must estrum my steps to give you some fresh details conducted with the extraordinary attempt which has lately been made upon his Majesty. I call it extraordinary, and no other epithet can be applied to an attempt upon the life of a sovereign, not from behind a door with a pistol, but face to face, when the King was surrounded by his family, his court, and his army, in the midst of perhaps 60,000 per sons, and when there was the prospect of certain and almost instant death to the assassin. I said that upon high authority_ the torture of the prisoner had been denied, but I must also say that from • number of independent sources I hear it strongly Deserted that he was tortured. Before the council of war he did not speak of it, but to one of the Padri Assieteuti at the place of execution he observed, It seems as if they would torment me again." On being bound after he had been stripped of his military uniform, he shrunk from the pain which a mere touch inflicted upon him, when one of the officials said, " Don't be afraid, we are not going to torture you." This I have heard from an eye-witness. Melanie wrote to hie family a short time before his execution, and consigned the letter to one of the Padri. From the Vivaria (the prisons described by Mr. Gladstone), he was accompanied by a double file of the Chaucer', • body of mounted gendarmes, end the Bianchi, with the cross covered with black, at the head of the cortege. After he had been blinded he endeavoured to look from beneath the bandage upon the people, and whilst throwing back his head for this purpose, his shako fell off, and was not re placed. The scaffold was erected in the:midst of the Piazza Cavalcatojo, which was lined with detachments of troops from every corps in the garrison ; and outside as well all upon the houses • vast crowd had assembled. Whilst be was being taken round in a car, he continually prayed, kissed the crucifix, sod exclaimed," Viva la Religions!" " Viva la Liberia !" " Viva la Patna!' u he did even whilst muting to the scaffold. The particulars of the execution are as disgusting as can well be conceived. A ladder rested against the cross beam, up which the criminal was compelled to mount. It took full five minutes or more to adjust the rope; as soon es this was done the body was turned off the ladder, and the executioner mounted on the man's shoulders, worked up and down, as if on horseback, and beat the head from side to side with hie fist., whilst he looked around upon the officials as though seeking for approbation. This disgusting scene naturally produced a great impression on the crowd, some of whom fainted, and the cry of "Fed, fui," began to be raised; but the soldiers turned round, and all was again still. A gendarme pointed out the executioner to • friend of mice when the tragedy was over, saying: "Then, that is the fellow. My son nearly (stilted, he could not stand it." Aster as I can learn, not merely the crowd but the soldiers observed a proper and &serious demeanour on the occasion, and a general sympathy was felt with the sufferer. "What courage! what piety !" the people exclaimed : Fourier)! poor fellow I' Such was the sentiment and such were the words that were uttered. A. soon as the execution was over the troops de , flied under the scaffold and returned to their respec tive barrack,. In the barracks where the prisoner bad been lodged, immediately on the return of the troops, thing belonging to him was burnt, and the ashes scattered to the winds. The Padri Bianchi, who as usual accompanied the criminal, conducted themselves with great humanity and earnestness ; and upon the urgent representations of one of them the executioner has been put under arrest, but the wonder is that the authorities them selves did not interfere to put • stop to such bru talities. "I would not hang a rat so," was the re- Ilerief en eye witness, not a Neapolitan, who has bL a n with me. The Padri speak of the devotion of the criminal with great admiration, and this feature, together with the courage and fortitude of the man, appears to have awakened an universal sympathy. There was a general expectation of pardon down to the last, and when the man was swung off there was a general murmur of compassion amongst the crowd. These people feel rather than reason, end their impression is anything but favourable or pleasant towards the government. So much is this felt to be the case, that the police authorities are insinuating every where that "the King had wished to pardon, but that the Foreign Ministers would not permit him to do so." As a proof of the sympathy entertained towards the unfortunate man who has so recency and so cruelly expiated his offence,it may be men Sued that the congregation of friars who, on the morrow of an execution, go round the city calling out for collections, " Per la manta Meese, per quells anima scordats," on this occasion gathered half as much again u on any previous occasion, silver being thrown in as well as copper. Of the Padri Bianchi I may say, that they are • congregation formed of regular and secular clergy who are associated together for the purpose of assisting criminals, and accom panying their bodies to the grave. Great numbers of people have been to the Palace to congratulate the King, but the fact proves nothing in thiacountry where safety is beet purchased by an appearance of loyalty, and where official employ ment is the only career open to the youth of Naples. Enthusiasm there has been none, nor has there been anything like the expression of attachment to the Kiog. His Majesty yesterday went to the church of Bt. J ins to return thanks for his recent wonder ful deliverance, but most of the balconies were closed, few people were present, and not a "viva" was raised, nor has there been • "viva" heard on any previous occasion, so far as I can gather, since the attempt was made. Disasters seem never to come alone. Within the last three roonthe I have had to record an earthquake, the outbreak in Sicily, and an attack on the Keg's, life. To thee. I have now to add the explosion of a powder magazine at the end of the new Mole, near the small Lanthorn. About midday yesterday the entire population wee alarmed by a tremeedour colee, as of • cannon close at everyone's ear. Thoee in their houses were lifted in their seats; those in the streets were some of them thrown down. All were dreadfully frightened, imagining at first that a revo lution had broken out, and accordingly 4 , lid, jai," was the cry, and people began to fly in all directions. Some mounted whatever carriage trey could lay bold of—others rushed into the horses: in short, there was an universal panic. Shops were closed, and churches were filled, and the horrors of a revolution, it was believed, were spin to be endured. Nevertheless, the fact thet almost every window was broken, and the glees powdered streets, made people thiiiie that there was some other cause for the noise which had astonish, ri them then that which their tears first suegested. It was shorty ascertained ;hat the powder magazine at the end of the new mola had :elected. I ern in formed, upon excellent authority, that in the wage siuo :here were eighty can'eri of powd,r. The ea• plusion has destroyed a pert of the fortifications; the cannon are in the sea, or lying in the &Wiz; some of the ships in the harbour were seriously damaged; one or two small custom-house boats have disappeared entirely ; misses of stones and wood came dying through the air, and fell in showers upon the ground, at a gre at distance, bursting open doors and windows, sinking boats, and inflicting great personal iujory. At present the extent of in jury done is not well known. Four or five sentinels, an officer, and the men belonging to the custom-house boats, are certainly miseing—perhaps blown to atoms. Otters hare been taken to the hospital with broken legs and various injuries. An architcot calculates that GO,OOO panes of glass have been broken ; no, a hour: hes escaped. The causes of this disaster are as yet unknown, and many of the details I must defer to my next letter. The followiog it; the address which has been pre sented to the King of Naples by revere' Er.glish merchants and tradesmen residing in that city : Sin,—The English merchants established in this now have the ►onoar to present themselves before the august thrtne of your Majesty. Filled with gratitude for the pro tection which your Mejeety has always deigned to accord them, especially in these latter times, they come now toe:- press the sentiments of honor which they have et erienced at the dre..dful attempt which has been perpetrated nom your Meinty's precious life, sod to enure your Majesty that they will prosperity of your royal house. Signed—Charles Mainstay, John Maisiray, H. D. Poke, W. Stanford, James Pilkin, John W. Fume, Conks H. Farce, O C. Doges, Jahn H. Robin, Charles Turner, Wm. Turner, C. A. R. Clausen, J. K. Guppy, Joseph Kerno; Ssotimus Kernot. Naples, December 11. THE IMPENDING CONFLICT. (FROM 00X OWN GIPONDENT BERLIN, Du. M. The orders and instructions fo;i;;TOM'saCciersof corps to be employed in the expedition to Switzerland have all been completed, and are lying at the War. office ready signed, but it is now understood they will not be sent off till the 25th instant. The eight divisions to be employed are already placed on the war footing, and arc equal in numerical strength to 16 divisions on the peace establishment. After the hostile attitude displayed by Switzerland before the breaking off of the diplomatic relations, and after the calling by the Swiss Federal CJuncil of 20,000 men under arms for the purpose of occupying Schaffhausen and Basle—the news of which arrived here today by the telegraph—there is no reason to anticipate any change is the policy of Paves* but it is probable that she will rather rely upon her army and let matters take their course. Moreover, it is to be ex. pected that the demands of Prussia will be raised in proportion to the expenses caused by potting is motion an army of 150,000 men, and furnishing the commissariat stores for them in a foreign country. The serious turn events are taking has created a great sensation amongst our diplomatists, who did not expect that Switzerland would take such a de. cided course, and are therefore taken by surprise, and somewhat alarmed for the future. _ Amongst the members of the Hours of Repre sentatives the raising a loan to defray the expense" of the expedition is already talked ot, and it is stated on good authority that the government hey with drawn several measures which it had intended to have passed this session. Another despatch from Berlin, dated on Sunday last, says: "An order wus yesterday received at Stettin for the mobilisation of two divisions of the second corps d'armee. Similar orders have been given to other corps. Colonel Manteuffel has been summoned here." The representative of Prussia in the German Diet, at Frankfort, made a formal declaration to the Diet, last Thursday, that Prussia, having tried negotiation without success, nuw finds it necessary to resort to esercive measures, and to decree the mobilisation of the Prussian army, for the defence of her rights. The Aafionerf Gagers of Basle of the 20th says:— , "Our correspondent at Berne writes that last eeecing ' a certain number of federal officers had assembled to deliberate on all the eventualities which may wise. It is said that General Ocheaben and Colonel Gehret are again to take service in the federal army. At Zurich also great animation prevails in consequence of the probable levy of the militia." The Swiss National Gazelle has the following despatch from Berne_, dated Saturd6y last: "The Director of the War Department lees declared that the Federal Council had offered the Prussian Cabinet the release of the royalist prisoners before their trill in exchange for the abandonment of the King of Prussia's claims upon Neufchatel, but this offer was made without succese." A letter from Berlin, in the Journal of Fronlif)ri, contains this:—" It is said that the four great powers which with Prussia signed the prceocol of London, think of addressing a conjoint note to Switzerland, recommending her to take the first steps in bringing about a pacifio solution of the Neufchatel affair. The Idea of this note appears to have came from France, to avoid military oomplications." The Federal army has been die ributed, says La Press., into nine division', each of which comprises three brigades, and which make up altogether an effective force of 130,000 men. All the superior officers in command are already appointed, and it was decided at an extraordinary sit t.ng of the Federal Council on the 20th inst. to set on foot immediately a corps Aimee of between twenty and thirty thonsud men, to be composed of two divitiors, one of which will be commanded by Colonel 'kegler, and the ether by Colonel Bourgeois. This corps d'armee will be stationed en echelon along the border country, from Basle to Scheuffhausen. A second corps d'armee will, without delay, come to reinforce this one. lode. pendently of theee forms, the federal government hr. determined to embody the whole of the federal con tingent, both elite and reserve ; and the men of whom it consists are ordered to keep themselves in reedit:es to march. These arrangements have been officiahy communicated to the governments of the different eantoos. It is moreover to be observed, that the military eapitulations concluded in lb2S between the oven! cantons and the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ex measly provided for the event of a war between Bwi•zerlaod and any foreign power; and in strict conformity with the terms of a etause introduced into those engagements, it is probable that the four Swim regiments at Naples, composing an effective force of more than ten thousand men, will be recalled within a very few days, as well es the Swiss troops in the service of the Pope in the Roman States. The cantonal authorities are vieing with the central government, and with each other, to tulal and even more than fulfil their mi:itary obligations. The cantonal council of Berne has unanimously decreed that the military administration of that canton shall lava an unlimited credit, to provide loch mews Is may be required by circumetauces. 11. Migy. vice president of the council, who belongs to the French party in the canton, has expressed himself most ar. dent ly upon the duty which devotees upon its inhabit ants in this emergency. It should be remembered that at the time of the Sonderbund the canton of Berne alone supplied nearly 30,000 men to the Fe duel army. It is well known that the canton of the Pays de Vaud is able to send into the field an viol number of combatants. THE BOLORAD QUESTION. We learn from \liens that Count Crowlenbovre Secretary of Legation, left on the 16 h for Paris aid% despatches for Baron Hubner, containing a velbe no'e which the latter is to submit to the Frencb gorernment, and which replica negatively to the question of grunting a compensation to Aussie fir toe abandonment of Bo'grad. The idea of ao compensation one letter stater, WAS nut ad vanced by Russia, who as yet has not approved of V. but by France, who communica'ed it to England srd atterwards to Austria. Both of these Poiiers refuse to entertain the id. a. The Duke of Oasano, ad , :r from the Queen of Bodo. b:s e•rived is the mitt!, with the whole of his sui c The three eldest daugl.t..re of the Palo 1 Duchess of hlostresisier have b"-u &covetl w.tis cor4 ,, n of the ladies of the Hord ttuguen , der o f SO 'Che Archbishop of Vienna has jnit consti.enli coatrionnisi t•ittral, is as:or with the rr .ei.icts of the Concordat. 'i E