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Celeste Stephan : Tom Supers and his two perform*" Yaks.—And MARY EDMONaTONL—Ccaumsuce at haltpaat HIGH WAN= AT LONDON 131DGE. Tan DLT Marsha. NAL 1101.....AA•n055. Itd 190. To-Nonow—Namtai lIIL OIL Om. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30. Aeolian. the domestic measures promised us for the next session of Parliament there are none which seem more worthy of a broad unpre judiced support than the Abolition of Metropolis Tolls BilL This bill is prepared at the instance of the Metropolis Roads Commiesioners, and it proposes to abolish all turnpike tolls within a radius of five miles throughout the metropolitan suburbs. A measure more needed, or more in harmony with our best free-trade legislation, has not been heard of for many sessions. We trust that it will meet with the earliest approving attention of Parliament, and will not be smothered by cosmopolitan gossip. Legislation, like charity, ought to begin at home. The official life of the present Government may depend upon the necessity of keeping its successful foreign policy to the fore, but that is no reason why parochial measures should be put off to indefinite convenient seasons, and the more close and pressing interests of the public be neglected. There is no real narrow ness in true parochial politics. There is much more narrowness—narrowness of substance—in that frame of mind which spreads itself as thinly as cobwebs or gold-leaf over the whole universe. It is fortunately not necessary at this time of day to go into arguments to prove that all turn pikes are nuisances, and that metropolitan turn pikes are the greatest nuisances of all. They are the barbarous remnants of a mistaken financial policy, and part of the clumsiest and most irri tating machinery ever invented for the collection of revenue. The various rates of tolls—the block ing up of thoroughfares, the delay caused to the circulation of men and goods, the power to pull up a line of vehicles, to compel a fumbling for money, the taking of a ticket, the waiting for change, are all enough, and more than enough, to condemn such obstructive agents in populous towns. There is always a waste in the collection of every impost—always something more drawn from the taxpayer, in time and temper, than the mere money dezna;ded ; but, with the exception of the mode of levying Customs and Excise duties, it would be difficult to find a method of collection more wasteful than the toll-gate agency. We have no wish to go into a discussion about the operation of contracts and the farming system; we condemn the toll-bar agency in and about London on principle, not in detail. We hold that every road in and about a city ought to he paid for by the general taxation of the city, both for conve nience and as a duty. A Government that did its work sensibly and well would not allow half-se dozen half-starved companies to retain poeseasion of important highway bridges across the Thames. These properties would be bought and thrown open in the name of the public. A Government that did this would probably go further, and remove those fiscal obstructions on the free circulation of men and goods which are represented by the Hall way-tax, the Hackney-coach-tax, and one or two similar imports. The contemplated introduction of the Abolition of Metropolis Toils Bill has, of course, produced a large amount of parochial agitation. Only yeater• day we were called upon to report a meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry, at which something like an organized opposition was threatened to the measure. We have nothing to say against vestrymen who do their work to the best of their ability, and watch narrowly over the real or supposed interests of their constituents. St. Pancras is an important section of the metropolis ; its population and pro perty are as great as those of some States which oc casionally make a noise in the world. We are not at all disposed to underrate the importance of St. Pancras when it rises, through its parochial repre sentatives, to speak on a question of metropolitan policy, but we venture to think that it has not liberally considered the grounds on which it threatens to oppose this bill. Nine thousand pounds • year may seem a large sum for St. Pancras to have to pay in new highway rates, supposing this bill should become law, but a parish cannot enjoy the dignity of possessing seven miles and a half of metropolitan roadway without submitting to the usual expenses of proprietorship. The burden of fresh local taxation will fall equally on all the parishes, as it will be in proportion to the highways belonging to each local division. Everybody will be benefited, more or less, by the removal of the toll-gate, and no one ought to object to pay in another and better form for a wholesome reform. St. Pancras has appointed a special Committee to confer with other parishes, and to insist upon some equivalent from Government for this altera tion in the collection of a road tax; but as Govern ment can give nothing with the right hand that it has not first taken with the left, the Committee will only be asking that Perna may be robbed to pay Pant. Local self-government most discharge its duties if it means to maintain its rights, and it must not sell its independence for a few imperial pennies. The fact—if it be a fast—that the Ge neral Omnibus Company will save about twelve thousand pounds a year in tolls whesi this bill is passed, has really nothing to do withjhe rpzestion. We are no admirers of this partiodar company, and therefore speak without big interested motive when we ask why, in conneldqg with this matter, it is picked out from other similar traders. The cab interest, the gpoda carrying interest, and a dozen ogler interests, will also be large gainers by the measure, but all these gains will have to be - given to their employers—the public. The Generll Omnibus Company will not be allowed to pocket twelve thousand pounds a year without reducing its fares, or, which is the same thing, increasing the comfort and speed of its vehicles. The other trading in terests on the road will also have to readjust their charges, or give place to more energetic and , liberal competitors. We are almost ashamed to have to utter such elementary truths as these, but economical science seems sadly neglected. If the omnibus or any other large carrying interest has any idea that it will benefit in any way by the passing of this Toll Abolition Bill, except by pro curing greater freedom to trade through the re- ' moral of troublesome barriers, it is very much mistaken. The public will be the great and only gainers by the passing of such a bill, and for their sakes we hope soon to welcome the measure as an Act of Parliament. PATENT LAW CONWIRSION.—On Tuesday and Wednesday last the sittings of the commission for inquiring into the working of the Patent Law were resumed. The commissioners present were Lord Stanley, Lord Overatone, Sir W. Rrle, Sir W. Page Wood, Sir W. Atherton, Sir Hugh Cairns, Mr. H. Waddington, Mr. W. Hindmareb, Mr. W. R. Grove, Mr. W. Fairbairn, and Mr. Edward Lloyd, the secretary. It is proposed to hold weekly meetings of the commission during the coming session. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENT. tic Court. OSBORNE, J. 29. The Queen drove out yesterday morning. Prince and Princes, Louis of Hems also took a drive. The Prince of Wake, attended by Captain Grey, arrived at Osborne yesterday, from London. FAH Rowell also arrived yeeterday, and had an audience of tb. Queen. Lord Roswell left to-day. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon.C. P. Villiers. A deputation on the subject of Dulwich College and its abuses had an interview with Secretary Sir George Grey yer terdsy, at the Home-office. The deputatica, which wee in trodeced by Sir Morton Pato, Bart., LP., and Mr. Locke, LP., consisted of the Rev. Thomas Hugo, ineambeat of All Saints', Skinoer•stteet, Bishopsgate ; Mr. George M. Kerry, member of Court of Common Council for Ward of Bishops gate ; Mr. Thomas Davis, churchwarden of Bishop/gate ; Yr. John Richardson, Biabopgate, member of Court of Common Council ; Mr. John P. Teede, ex-churchwarden ; Mr. John Thomas, member of Court of Common Council, Bishopegate ; Mr. John Henry Helps, Bishopegete, member of Court of Comm Council ; Mr. Edmund Baxter, late Warden of et James's, Southwark ; Mr. Edwerd Medley, St. Luke's ; Mr. Homy Triode% Camberwell ; Mr. Isaac Wood, Honorary Secretary ; Mr. James Robertson, Mr. Luke Em bleton, Mr. Jan Thomes, C. C., and Mr. Henry Potter. ' The Bishop of Sydney had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle y esterday at the Colonist-4605. Marl Russ ell returned to town yesterday from Osborne Ide el Wight. Despatcher were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the governor of Canada. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PILLECE OF Weiss.—A sped al meeting of the town consoil of the city of Oxford waa held yesterday, to consider sad adopt the beet mere of showing their loyalty and atischniest to the crown on she auspicious event of the approaching marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; when, attar much de liberation, the following resolution was adopted s--" That this bonne do adjourn till Monday, sad that a decidable& do wait on the V ice-Ohaneellor to mortals if it he the in tention of the colleges to show their loyalty by a b••d somee Muminatioa on the eves* of the om elet of the marriage of the Prim el Wan." The Town Council of Leeds held a fill whesiatig as Wednes day to determine the most appiegniate manner In wikete celebrate the event. The Mayer presided, sad a imosioltke was appointed, who in a fortaight are testae a report at the subject, and especially se to tie legal mesas by which 40004 Of 2,000 f. can be voted Mel the Immesh faced for providing pablis amusements. A geoeral holiday some to be a fore gem conclusion, and also a review of the Les& Volunteer Artillery, Engineers, and Rides, which is to be Minded by the mem and corporatio•, with their insigais sod mites of clam The volunteers Sr. to be provided with diaper, sa • sari of recognition of the great puma noddies they have made from purely patriotic motives. It is my prob.ble that the whole town will be illuminated, bat that will par ticularly be the atae with reference to the Towa-liell, which stately edifice will be illuminated at nightie • mole of un usual magoificenoe. One or more displays of fireworks on • great scale are also spoken of, and the programme will cloobtleas contain many other appropriate item. His Royal High uess the Duke of Cambridge re ceived • select party at dinner last evening at Gloomier Howe. The Earl and Counteaa of Bandon are expected is town in a few days from Castle Bernard, Leland, His lardehip has taken a residence at Prince's-gate for the Sellloo. Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Ereaby are ex poelei as their nalatafres is Piccadilly to-day, taxa Torquay, Davos. Lord and Lady Sherborne have left Elowchiu'a Hotel att a tour cor visite. Lord and Lady Caithorpe have arrived at their madams is Gramm...square from Elvalmo, Haar. Lady Howard de Walden, accompanied by her moo —Qs Hon. Joke, Charles, and Augustus Ellis—has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the Embassy at Brussels. Lord and Lady Cranworth will return to town on Monday next from Moir seat in Kent. On Wednesday the Earl of Carlisle, E.G., held his ant levee foe tanner= et the Dublin Castle. His Ex cellency 11111 attended by the °finer. of the household, end the levee Ina s very full one. His Excellency Charles Alison, Esq., C. 8., her British Majesty's Euvoy Extraordinary and Minister Piaui rotestiart to the court of Persia, left town yesterday on his Morn to his post. The Newfoundlander learns on good authority QM by the lase mail a despatch was received from the Colonial Minister, deciding the questios of manional pay to the legislative councillors in favour of the claim urged by that body. The War-office, which has appointed the com mittee of scientific officers to inquire afresh into the relative merits of Sir William Armstrogg's and Mr. Whitworth's systems of gunnery, has added to it the names of Mr. Jolla Penn of Greenwich, and Mr. William Pole, F.H.8., who is already serving ca the Iron-plate Oommittge. The preli minary investigations have been is prover for some time, sad both Sir William mad Mr. Whitworth have been examiaed at length. The actual experiamete, bowelw , by which the cootroverry must really be &sided ere sot likely to Ughn before the middle of Yana. The Devizes Gazette of yeeterday says :—" The Hoe. Mr. Masao, the commiasiosser of the Cogfederato &atm, end the gentleman concerning whom we were all so anxious some twelve months since, has bees of the distin guished circle of visitors entertained by the Ifarquis and Marchloome of Bath, at Leggiest, daring the pare week. The hen. gentleman was recegelsed o• the Frame Railway platform, wad Inman object of catuideredie Meat eitriemity." LA 35113 T DITELLIGIINOS. THE POLISH INSURENCTION. The Teapot to-day says : The news d Poland is 4111 confused sad ecateadictory ; but, although a Berlin despatch announces tits voluntary dispersion of the insurgent bands, and the return to labour of the workmen who composed the greater part of them, it is very evident that the movement is far from being suppressed. Engagements which have not been favour. able to the Russian troops have taken place 4 several points. Our private accounts inform us that at Warsaw all the workmen and even the apprentices have, or at least had quitted the city. We may conclude from the speech of the Emperor to his Imperial Guard that the chiefs of the insurrection had sought, and perhaps sue oessfraly, to bring about an understanding amongst the army. In any case the agitation is general and profound enough to weigh heavily upon the external policy of Russia, and turn her from the East, where the populations of the Caucasus cause her great anxiety. The Official Gazette of Warsaw contains accounts of contests with insurrectionary bands at more than a dozen different places. In moat of these the Russians are described as having gained the ad vantage, but nevertheless considerable loss on the part of the military in acknowledged. Contrary to Russian custom, the losses are allowed to have gone beyond twos and threes. The Gazette publishes also the following order of the day, addressed to the army by the Grand Duke : By virtue of the supreme order of his Imperial Majesty rebels taken with arms in their hands will be tried on the scene of their crimes by courts martial chosen on the field, sad sentences of death will be definitively confirmed sad carried out by the chiefs of the military arrondissements of Warsaw, Lublin, Bandon, Malik, Plock, and Augustowj The Central Revolutionary Committee has pub lished two proclamations ; the first calling the whole nation to arms, the second promising a dis tribution of landed property to the cultivators, the proprietors to be indemnified out of the funds of the state. Assistance a is promised to the widows and children of citizenekilled in battle. _ _ It is stated that Pultuak and Kilter) are in the hands of insurgents, and that the garrison at Bodzango have been massacred. The Paris Presse of to-dayisays : We learn that numerous bands, wbich were not able to concentrate and unite their movement; have entered Gal liaa in isolated groups, and—a thinoonexpected enough— the Austrian military authorities [have given them a very good reception. The population bas shown great sympathy for these unfortunate people, and this feeling has been touch. toe, expressed. ROME. A letter from Rome, of the 24th, Nays : If you want to know what value to attach to the reforms projeoted by the pontifical:government, listen to the Pope himself. The following words were uttered by him at the official reception of the Roman municipality, on the lot. : "Oar protectors desire that we should have some reforms. We shall do so; hut they will he of very little importance, and I can assure you they will make no change in the aacieut order of things." The rumour is revived at Rome that the ex• King Francis is about to leave for Venetia. PRUSSIA. The following is the usual course of procedure for the presentation of the address of the chamber Twenty-one members are chosen by ballot to present it to the King. The President of the Chamber is at the head, and is spokesman. He officially asks the President of the Council of Ministers if and when the King will receive the deputation. Up to this time a negatiie reply has never been returned. If there should be one this time, the address will be sent to the King with • letter from the Presi dent of the Chamber ; and, as this has had uo pre cedent, the purport of the letter would have to be voted by the Assembly. The Nord says that the President of the Chamber has met with an exceedingly friendly reception from the Prince Royal and the Princess Victoria. (BMWs Ti!AGSMS.) THE FRENCH SENATE. DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS. FARM JAN. 30. In the yesterday's sitting of the henate, the general debate on the address terminated and the ix first paragraphs were voted. On the reading of the seventh paragraph, which insists of Italy, M. Thouvenel gave explanations concerning the motives of his quitting the ministry. He said that after the suppression of the Gari baldian movement, the Emperor not being able to concede Rome to the Italians, he (3f. Thouvenel) could not continue negotiations with Rome, which rejected every means of reconcilia tion. M. Thouvenel maintained that they who misrepresent the policy of the Emperor are those who pretend to know secrets which have never been confided to them—who, in wishing to impose various combinations for the constitution of Italy, forget that the Emperor has proclaimed the right of every country to freely regulate the conditions of its exiatenoe—who do not comprehend that Victor Emmanuel alone can represent in Italy the principle of order—who forget the declara tions of the minister without portfolio (M. Ni kita) that Italian unity was now an accomplished fact—and those who, dreaming of chimerical re storations of former dyna%ties, forget that the independence of Italy has cost France 30,000 ad , diers. M. Thouveael expressed regret that the con mittee of the Senate on the address had not, in place of paragraph VII. signified their adhesion to the magnificent programme of the Emperor. M. Thau venel adverted to the memorandum of the Pontifical government, and considered that the reforms an nounoed therein were not of a serious character. He said :—" The great obstacle to any reconcili ation is always Rome. I do not admit the right of the Italians to demand Rome, but it is impossible , to contest the right of the Romans to be governed I according to their wishes. It is the wish of the Romans that the temporal authority of the Pope should be transformed. I regret that the com mittee on the address have not stated this in their draft of the address." General Gemean and the Marquis de Laroche jaquelin then spoke on the address. Billault,who afterwards addressed the Senate, said that the state of things was quite defined, and that the policy of the Emperor had never varied. K Billault continued :—" The Emperor has always desired the independence of Italy and the independence of the Holy See. Various means to this end have been proposed but have not yet had any result. But the Emperor intends to pursue his object. In order to characterise the present state of things I must say that the non passions which we met with at Rome, we now encounter at Turin." M. Bil lault further said that the wish of the Senate was to secure the ascendancy of the conciliatory ideas which constituted the programme of the Em peror. - Paragraph VII. of the address was then adopted, and the sitting closed. The Moniteur's bulletin of today contains the following :—" The Official Journal of Warsaw says that the attacks of the revolutionary bands have been everywhere repulsed. There is no doubt as to the result of the movement, since the misguided young men who are taking part in it eve almost children, without arms, aid uudia ciplined, and are opposed by an army 1 . 1 0 00 3. ,000 good troops, oemmanded by experienced The Ifoniteur aloe announces that the Beagieror has received Mr. Lambert, the envoy of like King of Madagascar. RUSSIA AND POLAND. ST. PETEP.SI3I:I4OI, JAN. 30. The Joumal de 131. Petersbourg of this morning publishes a detailed account of the events which have taken place in Poland. While lamenting the Large participation of the clergy in the revolt, the writer rejoices at the abstinence of the majority of the students. 150 insurgents who were at Biabystock had creased from Poland into the district of Bielsk. General Manioukin had concentrated a detachment at Biabystock. The railway station at Luppa, the first in the kingdom, has been occupied by troops. Flying columns have been sent to protect the railway at Kowo and Wierbolor (?), and to dis lodge the insurgents from the environs of Brest and Braby. Colonel Suckow attacked the rebels yesterday in the woods of Plocki, Kostelnoi, Strou mianska, and Koury. The rebels were put to flight, losing 38 prisoners, one a priest, the princi pal instigator of the movement in this district. Warsaw is perfectly quiet. The bands of the Thesiewis are beginning to disperse. Many workmen have returned to their occupa tions. The conscription has been effected in the provinces without hindrance. ID 'ZI PROM PRESIDENT LINCOLN TO OENSLILL M'CLELLAN. The, following letter was read during the sit el the 11Torell cows of laquirn at Washington, on 101 h: " WASHINGTON, Marc. 9, 1862. " To mAJ( My dear Your despatches eomplalniog that you are not properly sustained, while they do not offend me pain me very much. Blenker's division was withdrawn before you left here, and you know the promos under which I did it, ►nd, as I thought, acquiesced in it certainly not without reluctance. After you left, I ascertained that leas than 20,000 men, without • field battery, were all you desired to be left for the defence of Washington and /dimness Junctioc, and part of this even was to go to Geo. Hooker's old position. Gen. Banks' corps, once designed for Ma nassas Junction, was divided and tied up on the line of the Winchester and Strasburg railroad, and could not leave it without again exposing the Upper Potomac, and the Bal timore and Ohio railroad. This presented, or would pre sent when M`Dowell and Sumner should be gone, • great temptation for the enemy to turn back from the Rapp*. hemlock, and sack Washington. My explicit direc tions that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left secure, had been entirely neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain M'llowelL Ido not forget that I was satisfied with your arrangements to leave Banks at Manassas Junction. But when that arrangement was broken up, and nothing was sub stituted for it, of course I was not satisfied. I was con strained to substitute something for it myself. " And now, allow me to ask you, do you really think I could permit the line from Richmond, viL Misname Junction to this city, to be entirely open, except what re sistance could be presented by lees than 40,000 unorganised troops! This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade. " There is a curious mystery about the number of troops now with you. I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying that you had over 100,000 with you. I bad just obtained from the Secretary of War • statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and es' route to you. You now say that you will have but 85,000 when all en route to you shall have reached you. How can this diecrepaocy of 35,000 be accounted for? As to General Wool's command, I understand that it is doing precisely what • like number of your own would have to do if that command was away. I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time, and, if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will readily gain on you ; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone. "And once more let me tell you, it is indispens►ble to you that you strike a blow. 1 am powerless to help. This you will do me the justice to remember. I always cond. dared 'going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manama, as only shifting and not sur mounting • difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy and the same or equal entrenchment. at either place. The country will not fail to note—is noting now—that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but i the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you so far as in my moat anxious judgment I consistently can. But you must act. Yours, very truly, A. 'Ascots." Scarborough.... Shields . 25.30 - 49 Helioland en Cokr g ubag • Haider — Lisbon SAIVLDAT. W.N.W. to N.N.E., &mum. N. to IL and beet to a gala, with rain or strong, tweet snow. tied. W. to N., strong, to • DXLAND. N. to W. and to N., As squally, rainy. As nest above, and W.CrrizAL. As next above. rainy. As above. N.W.Fitaiser.. W. to N. and N.N.L, strong to moderate. Similar. W.N.W. to N.N.L, strong, to fresh. W. to N.E., • ple at ILL ZIGLAID. N.N.W. to E.N.E., times fresh, unsettled. N.N. W. to E.N.E., Z. Mat, N. to Z. and hack to strong to a gale. N. W., atmog,syually. South cone all round on Thursday : drum Friday. A telegram from Toronto, Canada, dated the 16th, states that great excitement exists in Enniskillen, in consequence of the sudden stoppage of all the flowing oil wells. Drilling to a greater depth is being resorted to, and there are sanguine expectations of reaching another strata of od.l Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., of London, had proposed to the Federal government to girt the coast with a telegraph wire from Fortress Monroe to New Orleans, l and to Galveston, if neoeseary. The joint committee, naval and military, are said to be most favourably impressed with the scheme as developed. &metezy Stanton has written • letter to the military committee recommending the project. THE SUEZ CANAL AND THE LATE VICEROY OF EOTFT.—The death of Said Pasha ia likely to bring the question of the Sues Oanal once more prominently before the public. As is wall known, his highness had suffered himself to be inveigled into subscribing for M. Lessem' shares to the enormous sum of 3,500,000/., or nearly one half of the whole capital of the company. Of this sum only about 600,0001. has, we believe, been paid up—and this only in treasury bonds. The question then at once raised is, who is to pay up the remainder': We learn from • source likely to be wall informed that the shares thus to be covered were subscribed for by the late prince in his private and not in his viceregal character—in other words, that it was the individual paella, and not the government of Egypt, whose credit was thus pledged to M. Lamps ►nd his co-partners in the great bubble scheme. As the government, however, is a vastly better stake in every way than the boy-heir and executors of its late chief, it is sot risking much to foretell that the diplomatic projector will seek to shift the rsapossibility for the unpaid " calls" from the dead paths and his reprmeotatives to the broader A m id. at the stow, and that French jurists, at all e►ents, will be ready enough to pronouoce his reading of the contract very good law.—Loom Herald, Jas. 21. l ee lf: 11 1 Widen Aberdeen 20.0047 Leith ..., 0700 Azdromen Portrneh 0.06 48 Valenib oa me lyr imß ead ...19.1009 Liverpool . t6O 66 Pembroke ..., 41 61 Premed ....19.67 41 Jersey Brod L'Orient vamp Rochefort !29.9.60 Plymouth _420.61 60, Weymouth 149.64 50 Portsmouth 129.66 40 Kew. [ 22 9 9.006: Loudon . 60.67 60 Yarmouth SeerhorouBh ,69.37:47 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MON OUR OWN PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The debate on the address in the Senate was begun this afternoon by Baron Dupin, who said nothing important down to the time of the latest report. It continues to be given out that the discussion is not likely to be long or animated. The members of both houses distinctly understand that the Em peror wishes them to restrain their eloquence this year. At present only three senators, Cardinals Donnet and Mathieu, and General Gemeau, have put down their names on the Roman ques tion. Whether Prince Napoleon has been peremptorily ordered to be silent is not yet known. The Marquis de Lavalotto, late French Ambassador at Rome, who had a violent altercation in committee with General de Goyou, did certainly threaten to make a clean breast of it, but the rumour goes that the Emperor laid to a cabinet minister, " Make your mind easy, Lavalette will not speak." K Barthe, senator, First President of the Court of Account. and a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, died yesterday at the age of 68. He was one of the few really eminent men under former governments who rallied to the empire. M. Bertha was a first-rate leader of the bar in the time of the restoration—he took a leading part in the events which preceded the fall of the elder branch of the Bourbons, and his signature appears at the foot of the celebrated pro teet of the journalists of July 26, 1890. He was Minister of Justice under Casimir Perier, in 1831, and held the office until 1834, when he was ap pointed first president of the Court of Accounts and raised to the peerage. In 1837 he again be came Minister of Justice in Count Moles ministry, but after the overthrow of that cabinet by the coalition, he returned to the Court of Accounts, where (with a short interruption during the republic of 1848) he remained ever since. He made himself remarkable in the Senate last year, by a vehement speech against Prince Napoleon, and in favour of the Pope's temporal power. Admiral Julien de la Graviere has resigned his command of the fleet off Mexico, and it is said that he embarked at Vera Cruz, on the sth inst., for France. M. de Isturitz is tube the new Spanish ambassador in Paris. He is SO years old, but very well preserved. He is well known in London, where he has been ambassador three times. The Bourse was weak at the opening, but it being reported that the Bank of France will not raise its discount this week, the Rents recovered to yesterday's dosing prices. Mobilier rose llfr. 25c.; and railways were from Mr. 50c. to Mr. higher. The Daily News is seized. A Paris letter, in the Noueelliste of Rouen, says : M. Moonier, who has just been appointed preceptor to the Prince Imperial, will, it is mid, receive a salary of B,ooofr. • year, besides board and lodgings. It appears that the Em peror, reserving to himself the supreme direction of his eon's education, has drawn up • programme, similar to that traced by Prince Albert for the Prince of Wales. His Ha 'say is mid to have had s few copies of it printed for dis tribution among the members of the imperial family.' Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress ho- noured the benefit of Mdlle. Patti last night with their presence at the Italian Opera. The chef d'auvre of Mozart, Don Giovanni, was selected for the occasion, the young prima donna singing Zer lina for the first time. After the performance their Majesties paid the fair artiste the compliment of summoning her to the imperial loge, and congratu lated her on this new success. Though the prices of admission were doubled, the theatre was crowded to mess. The Levant Herald of the 21st says :—" Sir Henry B•leer had a long private en/liars of the Sultan on Satur day. On Sunday his Majesty parented his excellency with two magnificent Arab bones, said to be amongst the very first iu the imperial stables. Mehemet Ptah*, the new Grand Admiral, who arrived by the French steamer on Saturday, was received the rme evening in • private audience by the Sultan, and remained for four hone with his Majesty, giving a detailed description of the present state and organisation of the British navy, with the con dition of which his Exoellency is very intimately acquainted, as well by his recent as by former careful inspections of the royal dockyards and vessels of all classes in the home po w A certain number of Neapolitan refugees (Reae tio•aaires) had the honour of being invited to the ball given by the Empress Eugenie on Monday night last. They were, it is said, not much surprised, agreeably or otherwim, sad of course accepted the invitation. The Emperor ommemsd with them for some time, and was particular in his inquiries about the King. Prime Napoleon was not Front. He excused himself on the gronod that he, the son-in-law of Victor Emmanuel, Bing of Italy. could not well meet persons who still regarded King Francis as Bing of the Two Sicilia, and who wore on their breasts crosses and stars gives by him _ . The No►d says :—" General ilaynau, who not long sines took part in theaffalrs of Electoral BMW, sad who had been dismissed from his functions in cousiiqueues of an affair of honour, has just blown out his brains.• We (Gatignani) understand that Mr. Paul Morphy has positively declined to play the match proposed with M. Kollosh, his intention being to 'brain from all oheu•play ►t present. The lectures on chemistry now in course of bi weekly delivery at the Dar-il.franoum, Constantinople, by Dervicb Pac ha, are atkactiog large sod enthusiastic audienoes. The lecture-the►tn is very comfortably fitted up d la Eut o p/Anne, and the lecturer is amply provided with excellent irksome* diagram', sod materials for experiment—all at the expense of the Turkish government. At the corkl ike of the series, the present lecturer will be followed by Ralik Effeadi, late President of the Pen Municipality, who will deliver a oourse on N►tural History, and will be ta his tura succeeded by Edhem Poch*, who will discourse* on geology. " Shades of Amara% and Bayard !" exclaims the Laver Herald, "or all this be taking place within the very shadow of St. Sophia I" &&W. saw. &W. &&W. SAW. I. 5.8. W. LW. L.W. B. an &&W. &w. &W. &LW. &W. LW. W.R.W. &W. W.LW. 11108! s '&b l 4 if. 141 LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in. Basoo.—(Before Lad Cliie Justice Eels and Justices,'Wills', sad Knstinx.) WISZVAN AND ♦BOTH= V. NAVVOZ.—PARTNEESHIP Mr. M. Chambers said that the defendant bad bees • partner in the firm of Landon and Raton, and b e was now sued upon 'a bill for SOU, accepted in the partnership name. It seabed that there was a provision in the deed of partnership that landau should not accept bills for the firm, but contrary to this he had accepted the bill in question, and not for the partnership but for hia own private purposes. Another circumstance was that the plaintiffs were honk fide holden for value, and they had taken the bill without any .know ledge of the facts above mentioned. The case was tried before Mr. Justice Byles • few days ago, when the verdict warn for the plaintiffs subject to the opinion of the court. The learned counsel now moved for a rule to enter a verdict for the defendant, and submitted that as Landon was prohibited by the partnership deed from accepting bills, his act amounted to a forgery inasmuchu it was a false making of an instru ment with intent to cheat and defraud his partner ; and further that the bill, having been drawn and accepted en. tirely de hors the partnership purposes, was not the bill of Mr. Barton, the defendant. in conclusion the learned counsel added that it was not only this 500 f. bill which was in question, for Landon had accepted bills in the partner. ship name to a great amount. The Lord Chief Justice said that they would speak to Mr. Justice Bylaw upon the subject. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) NOLTNEUI N. MOLTNIIII, BOYLE, AND iLAWIJNSON. Dr. Spicks and Mr. L. Temple were for the petitioner. Molyeeux, a Liverpool rate-collector, bad been married sines 1845, but for some years his connubial life was un. happy. In July, 1855, the respondent left her home, made away with a portion of her husband's property, and with the proceeds sailed for Melbourne. The co-respondent Boyle wee • seaman on board the ship, and Rawlinson a man with whom she formed ao adulterous connexion in Australia. Decree niaL Costs were not asked for. MILLS V. MILES AND JOHNSON. Dr. Spinks for the petitioner; Dr. Wambey for the respoadent. The petitioner, a workman in a silk manufactory, lived with his wife (whom be married in 1844), fi rst in Isbagtou and afterwards in Manchester. The respondent's habits became very drunken, and she ultimately left her husband's roof at her own desire, alleging, as was stated by the peti tioner's intimater, that she Geoid then do as she liked. Since the separation she had been taken in the fact. Decree nisi, with costs. COOLS S. COOL! (mina). Dr. Spinks and Mr. Murphy for the petitioner ; the Queen's Advocate and Mr. /Lapland for the respoodeat. This snit, which was one for • judicial separation on the ground of cruelty, was brought by Mrs. Frances Judith Cooke, wife of the Rev. James Young Cooke, rector of Seymour, nearlpswich. The pleas in defence were • denial, a justification, condonation, and undue delay in presenting the petition. The parties were married in the year 1835, and they bad had 11 children, of which six sons and three daughters survived. The respondent was stated to be a gentleman of considerable wealth, besides being the patron of his rectory. The petitioner said—My maiden name was Briggs, and my father was a fellow of Eton. My youngest child is about twelve ran old. I had often had unkind language from Mr. Cooke even before IBSL In the September of that year I paid a visit, with my husband's permission, to my sister, Mrs. Richards, at Wootton Courteuay, Soutereetahire and remained with her till the 12th of January, 1852, who: I came back. Mr. Cooke treated me with unkindness. In the following winter I first experienced personal violence from him. He rubbed me violently in the mouth with his hand. This was is the drawing-room at the rectory. On the 10th of Feb., 1853, after having been very angry for some time • previous, he followed me into my dreseing-room and forced me down in a chair, with my head against the wall. He pressed me violently and hurt my face. His language was very violent, but I cannot remember hie words. After 1 4 was in bed Mr. Cooke dragged me across it and kept me ie such a painful position that I could warmly move or breathe for an hour's time. Part of that time, I believe, be was asleep; and eventually I managed somehow to extricate myself. The next morning Mr. sod Mrs. Richards came for me, in order to take me away, for they know that my husband had previously been behaving ill to me. We went first to Mr. Charles Stuart's, of Thurston Lodge, Richmond ; then for a few days to London, and then to Somenetehire. I did not return to Seymour till the 12th May. 1 cannot recollect how my husband received me; but in • few days he was as bad as ever. le the following October my mother died, and I soon afterwards came into of some separate property. We had differences a= it haT. In Felintary aaa l e t t is4, a paper was put into my hands about it bY dsaglaar, Eliabeth Susan. In that west to Dr. Wines at Colchester. Mn, gtine is a deter of the respondent's. My hothead drove me and my two daughters over in a dog-cart. We returned with one of my daughters the same night. Be fore we got out of Colchester my husband struck me on the Laos with the handle of his whip, and he sated the blow several times before we got home, and he pushed me backwards so that I could scarcely keep my seat in the cart. He also struck me on the hands with the handle of his whip. He was very irritable, said made use of violent language. In the following August 1 wens with his permission to visit my sister Lady Simon. I returned about the end of the next month. On the day I came home, or the day after, my husband told me that I was not to resume the keys or the house-keeping. He gave the house-keeping to my eldest daughter, and put her at the bead of the table. She was at that ine 16 yews of age. In October, while we had company staying at the rectory, he was very violent with me one night because I had ordered some eandles into the house. He rubbed my faosand hurt rue very much. The next moron ift I left the room while he was in bed, end went to my daughten. When I returned, I found that he had locked my dressing-room door, and taken away the key. My clothes were all in the dressing-room, and therefore I could not go down to breakfast. I went back to my daughters' room and stayed in their bed. I sent one of the servants to leak my husband for the key ; but he did not let me have it till the middle of the day. One night in November I went to my daughters' room to speak to them and bid them good night, and when I went to my own room Mr. Cooke had locked me out. I passed the night with my daughters. The next night I slept with my husband, but I believe he was asleep when I went to bed. His language and conduct were very unkind, and he began to say that I was not tit to live downstairs with the family. I there fore lived in Miss White, my governess's room, for a forte night. Mr. Cooke sent the children to ask me why I did not return to my room at night I answered, that as long as I was not properly treated downstairs I should sot sleep with him. I was allowed to go down in order to walk out, and one day Mr. Cooke came to me and said that if I would go beck to hie room I should live down stairs again. I refused for some time, and said I ought to be allowed to live downstairs before I returned to his room ; but eventually I gave way. He treated me quietly for some little time. On the 28th of January, 1855, my husband attacked me violently in bed, so that my memos brought my two eldest daughters and some ol the amid servants to our bedroom door. He bad pushed a out of bed and hurt me in different ways. My daughters wanted to get me out of the room, but Mr. Cooke refused to let me go ; but eventually I did get away, and I went to my governess', room. On the sth of February I came to town to visit my friends, and from thence I went to Somerset.. shire. I returned home to Seymour on the 12th of May ; and I was then informed that a separate room had been prepared for ma. I took my meals with the family, but was net allowed any proper place at table. To wards the end of May I was again domed to live upstairs entirely. The respondent said I should not interfere or give ' orders about his children's clothes. I remained upstairs till the 29th June, whoa Mr. Wyld and Mr. Jocelyn (a solicitor of Ipswich) came to Seymour. My husband came to me that morning, and brought me luncheon. He told me to keep in the way that &Bemoan. I was soon after wards sent for to go downsatirs. At luncheon there was a long consultation between, us all. Mr. Wyld said I ought not to live upstairs any imager, and Mr. Cooke opted that 1 should come down. At denser Mr. Wyld gave roe his arm, and led roe to the top of the table. Mr.Wyld is dead. For some weeks my husband treated me much better. On September 14 he task offence at me again and said that I had been interfering in the house again. He told me that I should tio longer keep at the bead of the table, and drove me rudely from the room in the presence of Miss White. I was never allowed to resume my place spin at the head of the table. [Mrs. Cooke was still giving her evidence when we went to prem.] NARROW ESCAPE AT A FlRE.—During last Riglit sod this morning the firemen were engaged in ademaK fires in various parts of the metropolis. lo one Capt. Shaw was Elated in jeopardy. This fire took place lathe premises of Ik. t. Wynne, a tailor, No. AM, Spencer-street., Goswell read. The nusates fortunately waved, and plenty of water having been procured the engines were set to work. The Icgof the Royal Society having been pitched in frost of the building, Captain Shaw ascended the same, sod was at tempting to direct the hose pipe from the steam engine into rise of the upper rooms, when the flames shot forth. and set fire to the escape. Fortunately two of the manual power engine, were at work at the time, and the brooch from one was instantly directed under the 010•1181 bagging. extinguishing the fire, enabling the captain to descend upon reaching ftrra firms he was loudly cheered by the populace. The migines were worked with full vigour, Out the fire could not be subdued until the premises and their contents were nearly destroyed. The loss will fall upon the Sun, and Liverpool and Landes Fire-offices. JANUARY W I , 180 ::: SIR ROBERT PEEL ON THE AMERICAN QUESTION. Sir Robert Peel has been delivering a lecture at the Fazely Reading Club. It was de omnibus rebut, bat the ostensible subject was " Wood, with reference to the Great Exhibition." The right hon. baronet managed to consect with that subject the following rather decided opinions on the American war. He said be was one of those who' hoped, aa an individual, to see the States ultimately' become separated and independent of each other—(cheese) —for he wee convinced that such it course would tend to further the emancipation of the slaves. (Cheers.) For this simple reason. if they saw the continent *gain united, they would see again confirmed the state of things which existed before the breaking out of the war. Then there was the odious and abominable proclamation of President Lin coln, in which he said, " You who are rebels your slaves shell be emancipated, but you states that remain united shall keep your slava." (Cheers.) He said that if they followed the course of the heaths which had taken place, they might almost fancy that they saw the God of battles fighting . for the South. At all even* the courage, vigour, and patriotism with which the South had fought were certainly • strong proof of the existence of • feeling on the part of the South that they were fighting in a good and true cause. He should, as a member of parliament, be glad to be able to look back to 186.3 and say that he belonged to a government headed by a man who was the most popular statesman that ever ruled the destinies of England, which by acknowled . ging the independenoo of the South led also to the emancipation of the slave. (Cheers.) They would, mcognition, put an end to the most wicked and most ioable traffic, which he believed in his heart the coun cils of hell imagined for the degradation of a very large portion of the human race. (Load cheers.) WKATHEB REPORT. —crais DAY.) Fitzsay, JIJUAIY $ll. 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