The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-05 00:00:00

tut enit t: 03% •I 0 cJiiitk,;FUNI)NNTS. • affisiml rank): • I . mg... „„„.. (1.• ar tr," b 1.. , '41+13( •`.frry Tss.q awl Inds, mistt. la Ina e . • - Mr pat. &..,v...e5,a.....101.....104 fat •`Tlee 11spreme,"Lambra heels*/ paper. Mil, he at the inbee, 10, bouverie-Artiet, by Two Wet.* ea Um; day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts Dav—llogsof.llli.4l2.. .Afteraess, O. no. Ils.stuase.—stesmsB, Oa 17m.....- Aftarsocr. 01. Ma. LONDON. B.4TUBDA 1. FEBRUARY 3. No person who lives in this age need ever despair —if he has but a moderate time granted him—of seeing re-produced all those forms of popular delu sion which render history so much like a romance. historical wildcats have marvelled at the story of JOHN OF LF.TDEN. They have been half incredulous of the strange tales that are told of the power which he possessed of persuading his followers that he was accredited with a divine mission, while he was acting in opposition to all laws divine and human. But how does the delusion propagated by the great Anabaptist " pale its ineffectual fire" before the gigantic mendacity of JoE SMITH. How small appear the features of the infatuation which pea- Weald the German fanatics compared with those which distinguish the believers in Mormonism and the Coil-lane Ghost ! How many a reader of the Gentleman's .I.layazine has said to himself mourn fully, after the perusal of that strange story, " Ah, the march of intellect will never let us get up a ghost like that again ! We have changed all that now." Nevertheless, what was the Cock-lane Ghost com pared with the Rappers, who have been lately iu full employment in the U ailed States? Where shall we find in the trickery of past times anything so thoroughly well-managed as the case of ELIZABETH SQUIRREL ? And to come to the point to which we shall have occasion to allude presently, how poor are the per formances of JOANNA SOUTHCOTE compared with the audacious tours de force of the proprietor of the Agapemone ? We mention this establishment because it has again emerged from the obscurity into which it had sunk, partly on account of the disgust of that portion of the world who believed in the monstrous tales connected a ith the institution, and partly :rom the indifference of those who did not. Both parties were glad enough to dismiss fioni their memories de tails at once so strocionsand so humiliating. Nothing, however, seems so vital as humbug. The Ag a pemone has too much of this quality to die quietly. The prophet of this "Abode of Love" has, it ap pears, been living—neglected, indeed, by the public but " fooled to the top of his bent" by his devoted partisans—in the same style as before. One of these adherents, a Mr. JAMES Rouse, has, it now appears, dwelt for the last five years in the Agapemone. Oa entering, he, it is stated—accord ing to custom—handed over his property to the insti tution. If the tales which were some time back current with regard to the place are true, he must have made a similar surrender of all title to his wife. However that may be, the lady was, as well as her husband, an inmate of the establishment. After five years abne gation of his property and liberty, Mr. Rouse got tired. Custom dulls the edge of the keenest plea sures, and this gentleman at last became weary of adoring a prophet in this commucity of love. The plain truth of the matter, we shrewdly suspect, is, that Mr. Rouse recovered his intellects which, pre sumably, were damaged before he entered the Aga pe/none. On becoming sane, he endeavoured of course to get away, and ultimately, after some oppo sition, succeeded. Upon reaching the house of his brother, it was determined that an attempt should be made to rescue his wife, Mrs. Roust. The deliverers, on proceeding towards theAgapemone forthat purpose, encountered that lady in ono of the vehicles of the establishment. She, evidently as sick as her hus band of the place and the treatment, was delighted at the prospect of her release from captivity. This, however, was only effected at the price of a severe struggle, in which the lady suffered. Upon being dragged from the hands of her gaoler., she was driven rapidly off to a place of safety. The lovers of the marvellous must be hard to please if, after perusal of the above details, they are not satisfied, for a time at least. The Agapemone is not a sew fact in English society. The thing was exposed some years back. Every sane person who read the accounts of the exposure saw clearly enough that the Agapemone must be something very like a house full of lunatics—not precisely • lunatic asylum in the legal and licensed sense, but an abode where all the dwellers were essentially mad. There may have been some doubt as to the madness of the head of the establishment, but there could be none as to that of his followers. A man who claims, if not divinity, a divine mission—who exacts enormous contributions from his followers—who is said to make use of his influence for his very peculiar gratification— may, it is true, clear himself from the charge of insanity, but it will only be by having another name, which scarcely sounds more eupho niously, affixed to his conduct. There can scarcely be question as to the mental state of those who submit themselves, soul and body, to his guidance. How comes it then that this man has been allowed, whether sane or not, to hold in durance the poor creatures who have become inmates of his house, without inquiry into the scenes there enacted ? How is it that in England a husband is obliged to employ violent means to liberate from custody a wife who is impatient for deliverance ? How is it that the husband himself is obliged to make his escape from a place where he has no wish to remain ? If so strict a watch is kept over the inmates of the Agapeinone, we are led to infer by the circumstances of the escape of Mr. Rouse and the liberation of his wife, the fact must have been well known in the neighbourhood. How is it then that the authorities of the vicinity have not interbred, so far as to invite a visit from the Commissioners d Rainy! Is the " castle " into which every Englishman's hones is metamor phosed by the well-known proverb, to become a castle full of captives? Is it a place where men and selves and their property may be forcibly de tained? Here, we repeat, is something for the lovers of the marvellous to rejoice in. In the midst of a country which boasts to take more especial care of the liberty of the subject than any other country in the world, we have incidents which would seem adapted for a German fief in the middle ages. It is probable that the magistrates are not in the wrong. There may be technical difficulties insuperable in the way of meddling with the Agapemone ; but this does not deprive the case of its marvellous features. It is strange that legal tolerance is extended to lunacy and violence. There are other persons in the country, as well as the head of the Agape mone, who lay claim to superhuman powers. There are numbers is Hanwell, or Bethlehem, or St. Luke's, who assert their title to divinity. It ia not at all improbable that these men, if given their liberty, might be able to persuade others to believe in them. Madness is very °etching. But we sometimes take good care to preserve people from contagion, as well as from other mischiefs. We do not allow each pseudo-divinity to set up for himself, and gather around him a crowd of street worshippers. How is it that an exception is made here? Why is the head of the Agapemone allowed unchallenged to testify his contempt of law by the detention of un willing inmates of his "abode of love," whilst he, as the report states, is "flaunting about the neighbourhood i n a carriage and four, with out riders ic a rich livery, escorted by bloodhounds?' Are the laws sufficiently careful to protect that portion of the 0: flux's subjects who, if not abso lutely insane, are liable to be excited by maniacal pretensions These persons, left to tbmselves, might move through misty enietly, and without attracting remark, but their brains are email/ heated, and then they fall into snares which more robust intellects can avoid. At any rate, if they cannot be protected by laws made for the sane, why cannot there be some shelter for them under the laws made for the protection of the insane? One thing is cer tain. The proprietor of the Agapemone or the in mates of his dwelling, or both, have been acting for some years in a manner which can find its parallel no where but in the walla of a lunatic asylum, and scarcely there. Why are not the laws respecting Commissions in Lunacy applicable in their case ? We have a Governmental department to attend to Insanity. Why don't they act in this ease ? THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1853 ceived the following lithographic circular, in answer. to their applications to Lord Cowley : Ladies and gentlemen who are desirous of being pre sented by her M.,jrstyls Ambassador at the Court of the Toil • , are requested to provide themselves with letters of intrud ucticn to Lord Cowley, either from some mutual friend, or from the Foreign Office. They win be required further to state when, and by whom, they have been pre sented at court in England. Lird Cowley would earnestly request ladies and gentlemen. who may be inconvenienced by the former of these rules, to recollect that it is in the bower of every one to ask to be presented, and that Lord Cowley has no other means! of ascertaining the respecta bility of those who address themselves to him. He has, however, less scruple in laying down this role, because any person respectably connected can procure a letter of intro duction from the Foreign Office, should they know no mutual acquaintance to whom to apply. The second rule is laid down by order of the Emperor, and Lord Cowley cannot deviate from it.—ilritish Embassy, Paris, Jan. 15, 1863. • _ This reply has occasioned a good deal of disap pointment to many English in Paris, who, relying upon former custom, supposed that the fact of their having been presented to the Queen of England was *sufficient passport to presentation by their ambas sador here. Many people of undoubted respectability do not admit that it is practically so easy to get a letter of introduction from the Foreign Office as the circular assumes it to be. sees comprised 300 bbls., in lots, at 16 dole. for old prime ; 16 dole 371 c. to 16 dots. 60c. for new ; 18 dole. 760. (or old mess ; 19 dole. 260. for new. About 120 pkgs. plain cured shoulders and hams were taken, at 7fc. to Bc., sod 101 c. to 100. per lb. The sales of lard did not caned 180 bbls., at llie. to 111 e. per lb. Beef was in good demand, and firm. The sales consisted of 310 bbls.; country mess, at 9 dole. 75c. to 11 dots. 25e.; city ditto, at 12 doh. 50c. to 13 dole. ; country prime, at 6 dol.. 13lic. to 6 dole. 25c.; and city ditto, at 6 dole. 75e. to 7 doh. A lot of beef hams was sold at 15 dole. 60e. per 220 lbs. TOBACCO.—SaIes of 200 hhda. Kentucky were reported, within the range of from sc. to 13,1 c. per lb. NEw OILLICASB, JAw. 20, Nowt. Cotton quiet, awaiting the steamer. Barley, 2,000 bales sold this forenoon. We quote middling 91 to Sales of 800 bales tobacco at tic. Freights easter. Fl nu, to New York, 80e. The weather is cool and fine. We under.tand that the dividend proposed to be raid by the London and North-Western Railway Icompany will be at the rate of a per cent. per annum, carrying over a balance of 90,000 L or 93,0001. FRANCE. PARIS. FILIDAT ETININO. The Mot.iteur was looked for this morning with greedy anxiety by thousands of familio, to ascer tain if their relatives were included in the Empe ror's promised political amnesty. Never probably have so many copies of the government journal been published in a single day. Pardons are decreed to no teas than 4,312 persons (condamnes) by name, exclu sive of the generals and the representatife du peuple, who were proscribed or sentenced to durance, in con sequence of the events of December, 1851, and the exiles aro to be forthwith restored to freedom. The terms of the decree of amnesty are unexcep- tionahle. No conditions are made, and the word "pardon" is not used. 'rho decree directs that the measures of general safety taken by the commission of revision of the lit military division, and by the mixed commissions in the departments, are to " cease to have their effect" with respect to the persons whose names follow. You will remember that on the day after the marriage the Monilear announced that 3,000 persons, whose names would shortly be pub lished, were to receive pardons, and that there would then remain but about 1,200 political exiles or trans ports yet suffering on account of the events of De cember. The amnesty now decreed is, therefore, more extensive than that promised, and many people that I have seen understand it to include the 1,200, whom it was not at first intended to pardon. The figures naturally point to that supposition. It is, however, scarcely possible that this can be so. The announcement of Monday last appeared to refer ex clusively to persons who had been either banished or transported. Now, on looking through the list of the 4,312 name* in the Menden, I observe that very many of them have never been out of France, but are under sentence of internment, or sur veillance only. But a conclusive proof that the amnesty cannot be a general one is that scarcely a single name well known in Paris can be found in the list. Political men have been hunting up and down the columns of the Moniteur in vain. They do not find the names of their friends who they know to be in exile. The list is divided into departments, and gives the names of the persons belonging to each, with the description of the punishment to which they had been condemned, whether trans portation' expulsion from France, inlernement, or surveillance . I have heard seve ral people say that they do not find in the list any names known to them in the departments with which they are best acquainted. The greater part of the four thousand appear to be labourers, mechanics, or small trades men. The only name of any note pointed out to me is that of M. Huguenin, the ex-representative. I believe there is nopther ex-representative in the list. However, the amnesty, such ai it is, is the one that has been the subject of so much difftlience of opinion among the members of the cabinet. The Persigny party in the ministry, as I anticipated yesterday, seems to have been com pletely triumphant. It is remarkable that even the comparatively trifling punishment of surveillance is remitted, and this does away with objections made to the announcement of last Monday that measures - from would be taken to prevent danger . the persons pardoned, an announcement which was thought to imply that they would all be subjected to surveillance. A number of men and women employed by the prefect of police are selling the Mositeur in the streets, and proclaiming the amnesty of" 4,312 poli tical eosJainne4 on the occasion of the Emperor's marriage." The most positive orders have, says the Petrie, been given by the government to set the persons who have been amnestied immediately at liberty. It is reported that the Emperor intends to settle a pension of 400,000 f. a year upon the Countess de Monti o, and an annuity of 600,000 E upon the Ea. proms for her toilette. Ma committee of accounts of the Senate have molded the Senate's budget, and sent it direct to the minister of finance, without its having been subjected Se any kind of control. As I observed at the time tee constitution was published, the minister of finance will have nothing to do but to find the money the Senate may think fit to ask for. In the midst of the excitement of the wedding.g fors it was entirely forgotten that on Sunday fish I elections were going on in different departments to i fil a lu s no less than eight vacancies in the Corps g tif. Intelligence has now been received front six departments that the government candidates have been successful, and of course the sass result will have occurred in the other two. do far I can learn nothing like a serious opposition has been attempted anywhere. The republican party resolved from the first to stand aloof. A fin thousand votes appear to have been recorded in three er four places by leocistimists, but the government majorities are everywhere enormous. Not the least interest in tee result of the elections is felt in Paris. and people do not so much as care to inquire the names of the eight additional gentlemen Who will be neat to the metropolis to wear embroidered liVerille, to receive feta a day, and to vote as they are told. In case you should be more curious than the Parisians the new legislators are Colonel Ririe, Basses Alper; M. Varela d'Ainville, Gard; M. Auguste Rolle, Eure-et-Loir ; M. de Cor heron, Oise; M. de Cohort:, Bas Rhin ; and M. Ls Harivel, The Emperor, in the name and at the special in tercession, it is stated, of the Empress, has liberated a great number of minor offenders, who were con demned to less than six months' imprisonment as* for venial crimes. The police have made a number of arrests of pub sous having in their possession lithographed an& Wares representing the Empress eientklng a he ex- tative Bertholon, of the liatinlabl o has • leave to return immediately to Fromm Mors than 300,000 persons have visited Notre Dame within the last three days. It is asserted more confidently than ever that the Imperial Coronation will take place in the month of April. The Bishop of Versailles ham left Paris for Bones on a secret mission ; it is believed to have reference to a request on the part of the Emperor that the Pope will be present on the august occasion. The bust of the Empress by Count Nieuwerkerks is attracting crowds of spectators; it is considered to be a striking likeness, and a magnificent copy in broom was exhibited at the late ball given by the Minister of the Interior. The municipality of Amiens, imitating the example of the Emperor, has voted the sum of 2,000 francs to be expended in dowries for three happy couples, to be asketed by the authorities. The statement copied from the French paper Le Droit in many of the London journals, respecting a young English milord who was alleged to have been swindled at the Casino by a supposed duke, count, and marchioness, is substantially accurate, with the exception that the victim is not a member of the British nobility, but a Mr. belonging to a highly respectable and wealthy English family. The losses on the Bourse during the month of January have been enormous beyond precedent, and the recent settlement, notwithstanding copious ad ventitious aid, is not yet adjusted, and will be a work of some difficulty. The Rentes to-day partially recovered from the great depression of yesterday; the Three per Cents. regaining more than half of that day's loss, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 30c. The last price of l the former was called 79f. 25c., and of the latter, 104 f. 05c., both for the account. Bank Stock rose five francs during the day, but closed without the improvement being sustained. Railway shares were little dealt in, and rates are nominally as last re- ported. Alarming rumours have circulated about the public health in Paris. The Union Medicate declares that in the last six months there have been but 12 cues of choleric affections in the hospitals, and, ex cepting one cue, not one had been serious ; that the Asiatic cholera does not exist in Paris, but, on the contrary, it was going away from the centre of Europe, and that everything gives reason to suppose that the Russian and Polish epidemic will extinguish itself in its own focus. PARIS, TIIIIIIIDAT Several English residents desirous of being pre sented at the court of the Tuileries, have lately re- G EItMANY. The ministerial Zeit states that a proposition for the increase of the Prussian army will very shortly be laid before the chamber. The reinforcement pro posed will chiefly affect the reserve regiments. - - - - - A Cabinet Council was held at Berlin on the 29th ult. to deliberate on a complaint made by the French Ambassador, respecting the injurious attacks upon his master, published by some of the Prussian news papers. The Weser Gazette, which makes this state ment, adds that after a long discussion it was resolved to recommend to the journals complained of the adop tion of a milder tone when adverting to Louis Napo icon, and to remind them of the judicial punishments of which they ran risk in calumniating the French government. DENMARK. The Preunische Zola?", usually well informed on diplomatic subjects, states that the Danish ministry has introduced essential modifications into the bill for regulating the succession to the throne, and that in consequence a new royal message will be presented to the Chambers. But, with respect to transfer ring the customs frontier from the Eider to the Elbe, the resolve of the ministry is unchanged. Indeed it is said that an administrative decree by the Council of State will effect this change, whi:h is a necessary consequence of the theory of a " one and indivisible monarchy," before the meeting of the Diet, and pre sent it to that assembly as un fait aceotnpli. TURKEY. The correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette writes from Bucharest, the chief town of Wallachia :—" We learn that next spring the Russians will enter our principality. This report is so well accredited, that speculators are already buying provisions for the soldiers. It is added that Austria will concentrate her forces on the Walachian frontier ; but this intel ligence requires confirmation. Russian couriers arc constantly passing through this place for Mon tenegro." THE UNITED STATES. TREASURY REPORT. The treasury report of the United States for the last fiscal year has been published. The receipts for the year ending June 30, 1832 :—From customs, 47,339,326 dole. ; from sales of public lands, 2 043,239 dole. ; and from other sources, 34.1,820 dole. These, added to a balance of 10,911,643 dole. in the treasury at the beginning of the year, make the aggregate receipts 60,640,032 dole. In order to show the actual ree.ipte of last year with the estimated receipts for the current year we present the items is annexed : Actual. Estimated. Revenue. 1851- 2. 1852-3. Customs Dols. 47,339,326 62 Dole. 49,000,000 00 Public lands 2,043,239 68 2,000,000 00 Miscellaneous Previous Wanes 10,911,615 68 14,632,136 37 Dols. 60.610,032 57 Dols. 66,932,136 37 Expenditures In January last, the receipts for 1851-2 were estimated by the secretary at Dols. 62,411,645 86 While the actual receipts were 60,460,032 67 Deficit for the year The estimated expenditures for the current year include the redemption of the public debt to the extent of 6,922,931 dole. of the loan of 1843, and 1,276,516 of the loan of 1847. The entire debt of the let of January, 1853, was 65,161,692 dole., exclusive of 5,000,000 dole. yet to be delivered to the State of Texas. The secretary alludes to the increasing foreign commerce of the country, as contributing " for the time to a sudden expansion of its revenue." This increase of revenue is, to his mind, and we think so too, injurious to our own great manufacturing interests. Among these the iron interest is cited; the importations of that article alone having been— In 1845 —102,723 tons, with duties 1,794,784 dole. In 1861.2-435,149 „ ss The foreign manufacturer, having larger means and cheaper labour, has forced down our market and crushed our own iron interest, and now, before our manufacturers can recover, is reaping the bens& of the enormous demand for iron in the United States at advanced rates. These has been an increase in thee:ports of tobaooo, rice, and breadstuff', bat the aggregate value of domestic ex ports last year were 24,349,6115 &la. lees than the previous year, leaving a general balsams against us of 40,142,000 dole. for the last heal year in our daveign trade. The coinage of the United States saints kr the but year is shown to have been 62.414.11110 deb. of latish Italy 847,310 dole. was in silver, and 61,010 Ms. Ns. la ssgpsr. The secretary shows that the silver eels sew in the country is gradually lessening, and urges the pelage of a bill, as adopted by the Saute, for " a sow hews of saver aloof., of such reduced weight as will teSew it t siewslots with the gold wisp of established weight sod inammas." The MS of saint sestiflostes is eho Issmosmosdmi t wrlfsl weld maws a mist of SWAM dela se NAM lei. annually to the government. Such asstillostms to be for noes of 100 001000 deb./ 1,000 dab, U'S data., and 10,000 dole. soak paid to d epositors at the mint, sad receivable for all .11.111111111 St doss. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.. New You, lea. 22. BICHILNOI.-There was a good demand to-day for foreign exchange for remittance by the Pacific (Saturday) for Liverpool. The market closed firm, at oar quotations. We quote bills on London at 91 to 91 per cent., premium; on Paris, 6f. 16 ovate. to 6f. Of oents. ; Amsterdam, 411 to 411; Bremen, 791 to 80 ; Bambini:ls, 361 to 361. The steamer will not take out • large amount of specie. Ar rangements have been nude for shipping a moderate sum ia Aleutian gold. BASADITOM.-Flour wee active and firm previous to the publication of the Europa's unfavourable news, since which very little has been done to demonstrate the condi tion of the market, which may open to-morrow with heavi ness and la ng uor. The day's operations comprised 12,200 barrels fine rye, at 4 dole. 60c.; superfine ditto. at 4 dols. 756._; sour, at 4 dole. 811 c. to 4 dole. 931 e. superfine No 2, at 4 doh. 931 c. to 6 dole. 61e. ; ordi nary to choice state, at 6 dole. 60e. to 0 dole. 68/e. ; mixed to fancy western, 6 dollars 621 cents. to 6 dole. 811 c. ; common to good Ohio and southern, at 6 doh. 681 e. to 6 dole. 871 e. ; fancy Genesee and Ohio, at 6 dole. 76e. to 6 dole. 931 c. ; extra wessern, 6 dots. 931 c. to 6 dole. 371 c. ; extra Genesee, 6 dots. 871 c. to 6 dole. 60c. ; and fancy southern, at 6 dole. to 7 dole. per barrel. Wheat wee less active, the higher claims of owners, and the dis ooaregtng English accounts retarling transactions, which reached during the da but 6,000 bushels western white, at 1 dol. 31e., and 4,20 0 Long Island red, at 1 dol. 121 c. to 1 dol. 16e. Rye wee in demand at 90c. to 91c. per bushel. Barley displayed greater animation and firmness. Some 7,800 bushels common to prime two and four rowed rea. limed 70e. to 740. per bushel. State and western oats were in better demand, at 60c. to 52c. per bushel. Corn wee plenty and easier. 'rho sales consisted of 38,000 bushels new southern white and yellow, at 70c. to 73c. COTTON -The sales to-day were 2,100 bales, at firm prier. The Niagara's advice' were anticipated, and, as we have no stock, we cum, decline, or hesitate in our movements. We quota: In ay uvcarooc C Atlantic. Or. and Tex. Gulf Parts. Lew is geed ord. 9, to IS 91 to 10 to lot Mid. to red NM 101 to 101 101 to 11 10 to 10t Mid. Pit to tair lt to Ili 111 to 12 11 to 111 rally kir to good ran nontinaL amatnal. nemlaal. Whole stock in the city, about 12,000 bales. Fnmonits.—The news by the Niagara had the effect of checking engagements for Liverpool. Through room being limited ship agents were firm at previous rates. Some en gagements of wheat were reported on private terms. To London 300 barrels turpentine were engaged at 31. Bd. ; to Australia 1,000 barrels flour were engaged at 3 dole. 800., and some inquiry existed for charters to the seam place. Rates to California were quite steady, at 55e. to 85e. To Havre, flour was at 75e. ; end rice, at 8 dots aad 10 dole. NAVAL Sxonss.—There were 1,400 barrels spirits of turpentine bought, at 70e. per gallon. Other articles were held too high to be dealt in with freedom. Paoristoss.—Pork °outlasted to faros: bums. Ths Mx Court. WINDSOR, Pl 3. 4. Her Majesty gave this evening the fifth of a series of Dramatic Performances at the Castle. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, passed from the royal apart ments to the temporary Theatre, in the Rubens' Room, at eight o'clock. Iler Majesty and the Prince were accom panied by the following illustrious circle, who had had the honour of dining with her Majesty : The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of Hohen lohc, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Eon of Aberdeen, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, the Earl of Mulgravc, Lord and Lady Ashburton, the Right Hon. Sioney arid Mrs. Herbert, and the Right Him Sir William and Lady Molesworth. Shakespeare's Tragedy of " Macbeth " was the play selected for the eve ning's entertainment, and immediately on her Majesty and her distinguished guests being seated, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, the per formance commenced, the parts being filled according to the following programme : - - Id AC BETH. Duncan ....King of Scotland .... Mr. Bartley. .1. F. Cathcart. Malcolm .. ( his ions) DonalbaM Macbeth I Generals of the King's Rumpus j army) Macduff ..) Lenox .... ' Roue .... (Noblemen ef Scot- Menteith .. land) Angus .... Caithness.. Fleance (Son to Banquo).... (Earl of Northumber- Siward land, peneral of the Euglish forces) (An officer attending on Se7t " Macbeth) Physician Wounded officer Mr. J. F. Mi 44 Hastings. Mr. Charles Kean. Mr. Graham. 'Mr. Ryder. Mr. G. Everett. Mr. James Vining. Mr. Sttee?. Mr. Brazier. .Mr. Staakm. Miss Kate Terry. Mr. Tcrry. Mr. Paulo. Mr. J. Chester. Mr. Hermann Vezia. Mr. J. Collett. Officers Mr. Daly. Mr. Collis. Mr. RoHeaton. Miss. J. Lovell. Miss Desborough. Mrs. Charles Kean. Apparitions Lady Macbeth Gentle woman (attending on Lady Macbeth) Mn. W. Daly. Mr. Addison. Mr. Meadows. Mr. H. Baker. Director Witches Assistant director Prompter Mr. T. W. Edmonds. The Theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. Her Majesty's Private Band was in attendance. The following gentlemen and ladies had the honour of I receiving invitations to be present at the performance, in sdaition to the Queen's dinner guests :—Prince Edward of Sane Weimar and the Countess of Dernburg, the Dowager Viscountess Ashbrook, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington. Lady Jane Stanhope, Lsaly Frances Hotham, Mr. Hothant, the lion. Mrs. Sackville \Vest, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Miss Farquhar, Lieut.-Colonel F. H. and Lady Emily Seymour, the Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Labouchere, Sir Henry and Lady Mikhail, the Provost of Eton, the Rev. W. end Mrs. Canning. Lieut. Colonel Williams, Commanding Officer, Lieut. Lumley and Lieut. Hawksley, of the 2nd Life Guards, Colonel Anger , stein, Commanding-officer, Captain the lion. H. A. Neville and Captain Tipping of the 3rd battalion Grenadier Guards, Mr. and the Misses Grenfell, Mr. Henry Seymour and Mrs. and Miss Seymour. Refreshments were served to the company as at the previous entertainments. Prince Albert, attended by Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, left the Castle at hall past nine o'clock this mornog, by a special train of the South-Western Railway, for London, and returned to the Castle at five minutia before two o'clock. The following had the honour of dining with her Ma jesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Ade laide of Hohealohe, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cran worth, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, the Earl of Mulgrave Lord and Lady Ashburton, the Right Hon. Sidney and M rs. Herbert, and Sir Wain= and Lady Moleswortb. The band of the 2nd Life Guards attended in the Castle during dinner, and performed the following music : March Overture, La Gam Ladle" DaseinL Walt; Nordlander" Grand selection, n Proclaim" Quadtille, "Olsen." Maser& Oelon, " lemma's , Ws" The Oonscripc, Farewell Marsh Winner. God rave the Queen. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and played the following compositions: gsnfosia No. I, Op. 3s—Andante us poor meadow, Allegro motto since, Ler ghetto, ethane molto ro Schumann. vacs, Trlo soda. Alleg la Prophets" ....... Meyerbeer. The Committee on Education of the Privy Council had a meeting yesterday, which was attended by the Lord Presi dent, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Doke of Argyll, Lord John Russell, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. John F. Leah. Foster had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has removed, with Mrs. Gladstone and family, from Carlton-gardens, to his official residence in Downing-street. Despatches were receivel at the Colonial-office, yesterday, from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governor-General of Canada. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from the Prerogative Court, " Farlar v. Lane," wee resumed. (FROM lan' NIGMT'S °LIME.) DOWNING-ETREET, FEB. 4.—The QUM has been pleased to appoint Edward Rawdou Power, Req., to be As sistant Colonial Secretary for the Island of Csyloc, and Philip Watson Braybrooke, Esq., to be Awistant Govern ment Agent, District Judge, Commissioner of Requests, and Police Megistrate of Radulle, in that Island. PRINCE OP WALEB'II COUNCIL CHAMBER, SORER sin-Housz, Fn. 4.—Alfred Hervey, Em., (commonly called Lord Alfred Hervey), one of the Commissioners of her Modesty's Treasury, has been appointed Keeper of the Privy Beal of hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in the room of the Marquis of Chandoe, resigned. WAR-OFFICE, Fin. 4. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards.—Lieutenant Roger Charles Tichbourne has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale alas commission. Ist Dragoons.—Brevet Colonel Sir William Alexander Max well Bart., from half-pay unattached, to be lieutenant-co lonel, vies Marten, who exchanges; Major John Yorke to be lieutenant - colonel, by purchase, vice Sir William Alexander Maxwell, But., who retires ; Captain Robert Wardlaw to be major, by purchase, vies Yorke ; Lieute nant Harry Croft to be captain, by purchase, vice Ward law ; Cornet Henry Sykes to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Croft. Bth Light Dragoons.—Lieutenant James Sadler Naylor to be captain, by purchase vice Walter, who retires. 12th Regiment of Foot.—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Villiers George M.D., from the Staff, to be surgeon, vice Dun can, de ceased. 22nd Foot.—Brevet-Major T. Sydenham Conway, C. 8., to be major, without purchase, vice George, who retires upon half-pay ; Lieutenant Joseph b 1 &peek to be captain, without purchase, vice Conway; Ensign John William Poole to be lieutenant, without purchase, vies Meycock. 48th Foot.— Opie Smith, gent., to be assistaat-surgeon. 65th Foot.—Ensign Lionel Smith Warren, from the 91st Foot, to be ensign, vice Hoskins, appointed to the 44th Foot. 69th Foot.—Lieutenant William Shepherd Milner to be captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major O'Halloran, who retires upon half-pay ; Ensign Henry Thomas Allen to be lieutenant, without purchase, vice Milner. 3rd West India Regiment.—Lieutenant Edward Conran to be captain, by purchase, vice Poitler, who retires. Ilarn-rtscaitn.—Brevet Major Charles Nelson, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be major, without purchase ; Lieutenant Henry Piercy, from the 18th Foot, to be captain, without purchase; Lieutenant Robert Cairnes Bruce, from the 25th Foot, to be captain, without pur chaos. STAFF.—Major F. Dailey George, C. 8., from the 22nd Foot, to be deputy adjutant-general in the Windward and Leeward Islands, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army, vice Terence O'Brien, appointed assistant quar termaster-general in Ireland ; Brevet Major Henry Dunn O'Halloran, from the 89th Foot to be deputy quarter master general in the Windward and Leeward Islands, with the rank of lieutensnt.colonel in the army, vice Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John Doyle O'Brien, de ceased. HONFITkL STAFP.—Thomas Partridge, gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces. - - -" Mittoasxuou.—Tbe Christian names of Ensign Roberts, of the 32nd Foot, are Charles John Cramer." The Christian name of Ensign dello, appointed to the 86th Regiment of F.,ot, in the Gazette of 21st January, 1863, is Weller," and nit " Walter ; " as therein stated. The surname of the *saga appointed to 41st Foot, is "Dixon," and not "Dickson," as preciously stated. DINNER TO THE MEMBERS FOR HALIFAX. HALIFAX, FEB. 4. ' Last evening the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood aad Frank Crossley, Esq., the members for the borough of Halifax, were entertaine d at a dinner given by their friends and supporters in celebration of their return at the recent shalom. Nearly six hundred tickets were taken toy the actors and non-electors , who dined at sixteen di ff erent betels and inns in the tows; the two members and their leading friends dicing at the 010 Co de Inn, the head quarters of the liberal arty. After dinner the holders of Bakes assembled in the Odd Fellows Hall, which was must tastefully decorated for the occasion, and there the speeches were delivered. The CHAIRMAN first gave—" The Queen," which was (bunk in a bumper, and duly honoured. He next give 'Prince Albert, and the rest of the royal family," which was received with great enthu-iada ; and then followed " the Army and Navy." The CHAIRMAN again rose, and after pointing in terms el eulogy to the long an I varied services rendered to the borough by Sir Charles Wood, and to the independetr posi tion taken in the House of Commons by Mr. Frank Crossley, who wokl for the first time returned as one of the members for the borough, at the election in July last, he gave as the toast of the evening "Our borough members." Sir CHARLES WOOD was the first to return thanks, and said—Time, lum afraid, has changed many of us. is are all getting older, we may be failing, but this at least I may congratulate you upon, that in the look and the prospects of Halifax all these changes aro for the better. (Hear, hear.) This town is growing in improvement, if some of its inhabitants are growing older. No doubt the great natural tVatures of thecountry, its Beacon Hill and its Skir emit Moor, remain the same. But if any one compare the town now with w hat it was some 90 years ago, how mightily surprising the difference, and how much there is upon whith I may congratulate you all. "Honour to whom honour," and therefore, in use first ' , lace, I would congratulate you on the cirdbmstance of having become a corporate town endowed with the privileges of self government. (Hear, hear.) Believing as Ido that the stability of our institu ' tions, that the stability of the institutions of almost every country. depends upon the degree in which its citizens are used to self-government, I hold it to be by no means an unimportant tact in the history of this country, that great and increasing towns like this have had municipal charters conferred upon theta and have been enabled to manage and govern their own concerns. It is said to be the characteristic of the Anglo-Salon race that they are almost the only people capable of governing themselves. (Hear, hear.) I look also at improvements no less strik ing than those taking place in the neighbourhood and country at large ; and if such a being as an °id tory of 2d years ago could rise up and look at England as it now is end as it was before I had the honour of representing the borough of Halifax, how surprised would he be ? It is not • little remarkable that sve are now, I think, cele brating the final triumph of the third of three great struggles in which the party with which I have been con nected hes borne a prominent part io the course of the last quarter of • century. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The first was completed before I became connected with Halifax ; the triumph of civil and religious liberty, by the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and the emancipation of the whole:1. The second was consummated by the ex tension of political rights, when Halifax became enfran chised. The third was the triumph of commercial freedom, sealed at the last general election, when you bore no inconsiderable part in securing that triumph by the return of Mr. Crossley and myself. (Applause.) From that time forwards till unfortunate occurrences within the last two or three years have taken place, I must say that no antagonistic feeling scented to exist amongst the varied denominations in the country. We never asked in the House of Commons of what religion a man was. (Hear.) We believed that they did their duty faithfully. Provided a man was a good citizen and fulfilled his duty, we never inquired into his religious faith. And that I think was a sound and wholesome state of things. I am sorry to say, and your werthy chairman has referred to it also, that theta appeared to me to be some symptoms at the last election which looked as if a revival of those feelings had taken place. But I am sure it is the part of every good and wise man to discourage the revival of such feelings as these. (Hear.) I think, with my friend the chairman, we ought from time to time to revise our parliamentary constituencies ; and I think that the principles on which the Reform Bill of 1832 was framed were sound, and just, and correct principles. It would be strange indeed if there were no faults and no defects which the experience of twenty years did not bring out. Those faults end those defects we are prepared to amend. (Loud and reiterated applause.) But we propose to proceed upon the principle we advocated in 1832, and so to extend the franchise as to embrace the most intelli , gent of the classes below those now enfranchised—(what I mean by below is in point of pecuniary qualification)—who may be most fitted and best fitted to enjoy the franchise. believe that, wherever the freemen have been suffered to remain, their leaven has corrupted the mass, and there is hardly a borough where freemen exist where corruption is not rampant. And therefore, till the people of that class become better educated aid more intelligent, I am against extending the franchise too far and too fast. And surely, gentlemen, we have warning enough in what has taken pace in foreign countries against precipitate and ill-con. sidered measures of this description ? There is hardly a country in Europe which in the last four or five years has not attempted a revolution. There is hardly a country in Europe in which I may say the mob has not for a time ;pined the ascendancy; and there is not a country in Europe in which the re-action has not been such that at the present moment despotism rules from one extremity of Europe to another, and the only power ac knowledged is that of the sword. Take our nearest neigh bours. Such a despotism never prevailed in France, even in the time of Napoleon the First. (Hear.) The press gagged—liberty suppressed—no man allowed to speak his opinion—the neighbouring country of itel ei ium forced to gag her prest—no press in Eurupe free but ours, which, thank God, he cannot gag. (Applause.) And hence his hatred of our press that it alone dares to speak the truth. How has that despotism been constituted ? Not by the intelligence of France ; not by the intelligent electors. Not by the educated classes of France ; because he altered the constitution before he put the question of his power to the vote. Twice an appeal has been made in the form in which he chose to put it, to the people of France. The votes in France were taken by universal suffrage and voting by ballot. Now, gentlemen, just consider what the effect of this has been. I don't mean to compare ourselves in con stitutional knowledge with any nation in Europe; but still the re,edt of universal suffrage and the ballot heedlessly given, or rather given for a purpose, has been to establish a despotism such as never existed in any country in Europe. Therefore, gentlemen, let us extend the franchise, let us extend po litical rights—that has been my opinion and my idea ever since I had a vote in parliament; but let us take care that we do it cautiously and steadily, not beyond what the general feelings and wishes of the country demand. Let us extend lower, and let us extend wider the middle classes in this •country—those classes which in every part of the world have been the depositories of liberal opinions, the champions of freedom against the encroachments of the great and the corruption of the lowest orders ; extend the middle claws with the intelligence and education of thane who have not hitherto sufficiently benefitted by . those pri vileges. Thus, and thus alone, shall we in my opinion pre serve that fre edom—that constitutional freedom, which exists in this country beyond what I believe is to be found in any country in the world, however pure its insti tutions may nominally be. Thus we shall pre serve that which has been, end will be, I believe, the distinguishing blessings of this country. (Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, there s a constant cry for revision of tax ation; and a revision of taxation no doubt is desirable sad necessary. But people who don't attend to these things are sometimes led away by words, and have net time wit leisure to know what lir been done. The truth is this, that our taxation has for the last five and twenty years beam in a constant state of revision. Year after year changes sad improvements have been made ; and you, perhaps, will be astonished when I tell you that I don't think there are above three or four trifling taxes which exist now in the seam sings that they existed twenty years ago. (Hear.) SIMS All poem upwards of 43 millions of taxes have been repealed nit re duced. Some few taxes, as you know, have bees limpued, but the estimated produce of this, or the balms et repeal and reduction, is nearly 40 millions of taxation smite the peace. (Applause.) And, gentlemen, you will per ceive that it is impossible this can be done without constant and steady attention to revising the system of taxation in this country. (Hear, hear.) In five years I repealed or reduced myself nearly five millions of taxes. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) 1 believe the sound and the safe sys tem is when the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mean avail able surplus to apply it to a reduction or repeal as the case may be—in the revision of what appears to him at the time to be the most objectionable tax. That was the course which prudent Chancellors of the Exchequer have pursued, and which I think ought to have been pursued, on a recent occasion. (Hear, hear.) And certainly if the fall of the late government is to be attributed to any one thing more than another, it is to the most injudicious and ill-consi dered attempt made to impose unnecessarily an obnoxious tax for one which nobody on earth considered to be a grievance. There is another collateral advantage which I anticipate from the extension of free trade and commercial inter course : that is, it will afford the best security for the peace of the world. (Applause.) No one concurs more than I do with the objects of the Peace Society, though I confess I differ with them as to the means by which we should seek to attain our common end and aim. There is no one more convinced than myself of the evils of war, but I do think that the best security for peace is to be prepared for war if need be, hut which I hope will not take place. (Hear, hear.) Offensive war I should deprecate as the greatest of evils; defensive war I apprehend no man in this hall would shrink from. (Hear.) We are not to be bullied, insulted, or trampled upon by any nation in the word—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And if there is no system of aggression, no attempt to foster a war spirit, there can be no cbjeetion to putting ourselves in a proper state of defence. (Applause.) I am, myself, u satisfied as any one can be of the courage of Englishmen when once put upon their metal and tried, but it would be the highest folly to excite undisciplined men to meet the fire of regular disciplined troops ; there fore, it is as our chairman has said, bat a small sum in the shape of insurance for the security of our homes and pro perty that we should have to pay for putting ourselves an a proper state of defence. Now, lam not one of those who have ever been an alarmist. (Hear, hear.) The first time I made • long speech in parliament, was to answer the speeches of thou who contended that oar army was in such • state as to leave our shores defence less. I Lave believed in the possibility of the success ful invasion of this country, or such an invasion as we could not meet. But this is not the danger which any man thinks even possible. The danger which may be ap prehended is that which has been referred to, and from which Injury might result, even if it took place on a slight scale. You all remember the Tahiti na qu me i took place with the French, and when the ter lilue of this country were excited to such a degree th it I believ e it would have been popular to have taken up teats in defence of Tahiti. What.; gentlemen, would have been the pieta niary loss if that had been done ? Why, millions of mo ne y could not have replaced what might have Mee destroyed in a single night. Is it worse, then, to leave our govern ment arsensls in a defenceless state ? And what would be the loss to us if by chance some 5,000 Frenchmen landed on the coast of Sussex? Why, the very htuali sum of money needed to prevent this would be cheap expendi ture of the national funds. We have at pr.sent some 30,000 men, while in France they have 200.000, and meant of transit are not difficult to procure. I don't Say this will be done. I hope and believe it will nit ; bee it would be unwise in us as a nation not to ho prepared to meet it should such a thing happen. (Hear, hear.) I am, there- fore, as I have said, %gaited all measures which look like aggression, but in favour of all measures which will give us adequate means to repel insult or injury. (Hear, heat) I believe then that the putting of our shores in an adequate state of defence is one of great necessity. lam not in this pointing to any street increase in our expellees, fur I say I would do nothing which Melts like aggression, or which can give just offence to any nation in the world ; I limit myself entirely to those things which arc necessary for the defence of our own shores and our own country. We have, as I have said, improved the natterial condition of the people, and it now behoves us to look to their intellectual welfare; and lo , king to this as we ought, there is, I believe, but little Inuit to be placed to the prosperity to which this country may eventu ally attain. (fleet., hear.) By the legislation of east years, the restrictiens which fettered our industry have been re moved, those provisions in our comditu•ion, whidt excluded some of the best iron political power, have been amended, and those trannuels which religious bigotry imposed upon some of us have been taken away ; we are, therefore, in a much more favourable position for securing pra e tie e t improvement than wo have been, and if wo can only edu cate the people and bring their intellectual superiority up to that which is enjoyed by them in their material welfare, I see no reason why the Eng! •nd of our childrea may not be as superior to our Etigheid as ours is to the England of our fathers. The principles which we in this room profess are those of steady, permanent, perpetual, cell-advised, and well-considered petress. (Hear, hear, and applause.) Your principles have now be come popular front having been depreciated in periods of old, and I hope, by the blessing of God, that this country may be raised to a still higher state of superiorey than it has yet enjoyed. Such is my earne4 wish and prayer, and when this happiness and prosperity shall be realised, I trust that this town, with which I have been so long and so in timately connected, may °Main and presei ve its full sham of it for ever and ever. (The right hon. barouct resumed his scat amidst loud and prolonged cheering.) Mr. CROSSLEY having also addressed the assembly, seve ral other toasts were proposed, and the proceediegs which went off very satisfactorily, did not terminate uutil twelve o'clock at night. THE AGAPEMONE. Matters are not proceeding very smoothly at this notorious establishment, near Biiilawater, and it is not improbable that some of its mysteries may shortly be exposed. An affair has recently occurred which has caused much gossip in the neighbourhood. It appears that about five years ago Mr. James Rouse, an attorney, of North Curry, Somersetshire, became an innrite, with hie wife, of the " Abode of Love," conforming, of course, to one of its paramount conditions by conveying all his property in favour of that institution. Weary, at lust, of the usage he experienced, and disgusted with the conduct of those around him, ho contemplated his escape ; but aware of such intention he was vigilantly kept in surveillance, and ne opportunity of effecting his object prescoted itself until the night of Sunday, the Ilith ult., when he ma naged to make his way over the walls of the haildiug, and-. leaving his wife therein, he succeeded in re irking the house of his brother, a respectable farmer of North Curry, where he was kindly received, and congratulated on his return. The retention of Mrs. James Itou..e soon attracted the attention of the family, and her rescue was undertaken by Mr. Rouse's brother. Accordingly, with a companion, I they left North Curry in a light cartißge, and were pro ceeding towards Charlinch when, at a four tressway on the road, they encountered one , f the vehieles beloniring to the Agapemone, driven by a servant on the box, and Mrs. Rouse in the rumble, who was delighted at the prospect of her release from captivity. A few words sufficed to announce Mr. Rouse's intention, but it was vehemently re sisted by the Agapemone charioteer, who resolutely re. fused to admit of ,her leaving the carriage. Mr. Rouse, however, was not to be deterred, and, brandishing a stout oaken cudgel, contested the matter too strenuously to ren der his victory doubtful. The struggle, however, continued for some time, to the great terror of the poor woman, whose habiliments were disordered is the contest, and it was not until she was dragged out from the hind part of the carriage that Mr. Rouse ultimately succeeded in plac ing her in his own vehicle, in which he then rapidly drove off to North Curry. The head of the establishment still continues to flaunt about the neighbourhood in a carriage and four, with outriders in rich livery, and escorted by bloodhounds. It is not improbable that Mr. Rouse will seek to recover his property, and obtain redress for his coerced detention. It is stated that several other inmates have avowed their determination of quitting the establish ment.—Globe. LETTERS FOR AUSTRALIA.—Tho Post-office autho rities have advertised that ship-letter bags will be made up for Australia by the steamer Antelope, which will IMO Liverpool about the latter end of this month. ST. PANCRAS. ASSENSSINNT 01 , THE LOYND): AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY. The London and North-Western Company. through their solicitors, Messrs. Swift and Wagstaff, have paid the pooes-rate due in Sep tember IW, amounting to 1,7161. lls., being the amount of a half year's rat at Is. in the pound, upon an assessment of 31,3311. The amount has been paid without prejudice of previous rate due, and which has been ordered to stand over until the Court of Queen's Bench has given its decision upon a special case referred from the Middlesex Quarter Sessions. BOTANICAL SOCIETY of LONDON. —The ordinary meeting was held last evening at the society's rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Strand; Arthur Henfrey, Esq., V.P., in the chair. Various donations to the library and museum were announced. Mr. Bardin presented a collection of plants collected by him on the late expedition sent in search of Sir John Franklin. Mr. Syme, the curator, stated that the distribution of the British duplicates, comprising up wards of 20,000 specimens, would take place this month. Mr. Syme read a paper, being " Notice of some of the rarer plants found in the neighbourhood of London." GROSS INHUMANITY TO A VERY AGED MAN.—An old seafaring man named James Benet Welch, who has been living for some time past in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth and Gosport, gaining,.a very precarious subsist ence by means of charity, was on Tuesday taken before the Gosport bench of magistrates, charged with vagrancy. The presiding magistrate was Captain Samuel. The old man was set down as 103 years of age, and his appearuiee was wretchedly deplorable ; he seemed paralysed, and had hardly strength enough to support himself on two crutches. On his leg he had an open sore, which was said to be the remains of an old wound he had received in war time, and by the exhibition of which he was in the habit of exciting pity and charity. The charge of vagrancy and exposing this wound was fully proved, and Captain Samuel sentenced him to be imprisoned in the county gaol at Winchester for 21 days, and during that time to be kept to such hard labour as he was capable of undergoing. This sentence on a man so old, and in such a physically de plorable state, was thought at the time to be severe, 'spa eially when it was recollected how stringent is the system adopted at the county prison of Hants, where the silent and solitary systems are carried out in perfection, and with the utmost rigour. On the following day the old man, with three or four persons committed to take their trial for fe lony, were conveyed by the police from Gosport to Win chester, per the South Western Railway. At Bishopstok• he asked for a drink of water, but the train being in motion, or from some similar cause, this request could not be complied with. When the train got to Winchester, the old man took no notice of the order of the police for him to get out of the carriage, and a shake, not the most gentle, was applied to him, with the observa tion, " Come on ; don't let us have your hypocritical pre tences here." This having no effect, he was taken hold of and forcibly ejected out of the carriage ; but when the police got him on the platform of the station, he was found to be dead ! The cue has excited great sensation in the places where the old man was known, and his inability to undergo such a sentence as that imposed upon him is the remark of all who had seen him of late years. REPRESENTATION OF BLACKBCRN.—It is reported that Mr. Eccles, one of the liberal members for Blackburn, is about to resign his seat, and it is also confidently stated that addresses will be issued in a few days from Mr. W. H. Hornby, in the Tory interest, and Mr. Montague Fielding in the Liberal interest. Mr.. Hornhy is the gentleman whose name appeared in the papers some months ago in a paragraph, headed "Assault by the Mayor of Blackburn," and Mr. Fielding is a son of the late baronet Sir Williams Fielding. A considerable and respectable party in the town seem to be anxious to deviate from the rule that has hither to prevailed of having a gentleman of heed interest merely, and prefer a straager of greater political mark to represent their borough, which has become in consequence of the great increase in its population one of the most important boroughs in the country. Viscount Duncan, it is also re. ported, is likely to come forward. THE MADIAI AND THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. — The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland have lost no opportunity of bringing the case of the perse cuted Christians in Tuscany under the notice of her Ma iesty's Government. Repeated memorials have been sent on the subject, to the latest of which the following answer from the Earl of Aberdeen has been received :—.• London, Jan. 2,5, 1863.—Sir,—I have had the honour of receiving the memorial of the Committee on Popery appointed by the General Assembly of the Free Church. of Scotland, setting forth the case of the Medial, husband and wife, who have been imprisoned by the Tuscan government for no other apparent offence than that of reading the Scriptures. I beg to inform you, in answer, that representations have been re peatedly addressed to the government of the Grand Duke on la, half of these Tuscan subjects, and that a strong re monstrance was very recently made through her Majesty's Minister at Florence. I have only to add that her Ma =government will lose no opportunity of pronnttnit t an act so much at variance with the civilisation of modern times, and will use all justifiable means to procure the liberation of these two unfortunate persons.-1 have the honour to be, sir, you obedient humble servant, ADZILDIZIC. Rev. Dr. Tweedie." Rtit tick' for w by a gglk): Th eveni 6011 serve 1131:111 soon dissi spin Refo hi M: (el an