The Express. — London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

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TUB DAT — iiiiiiiii.4l7siii.77.7iiis7sTNNZ4ll. d to•goasow le. sop_ .AtbracaL 511. 00m. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29. THE King of DEHMAI I having to defend his dominions against foreign invasion, finds himself without constitutional advisers. M. Raz and his colleagues tendered the resignation of their re spective offices on Christmas-day, and hitherto no one has been foetid willing to accept them. The late Ministers cannot be charged with having re tired because they were not ready to face the dangers which threaten Denmark. They resigned because they could not advise the Kura to follow the counsel of the Powers which profess to be his friends, and which recommend him to withdraw the Constitution for Denmark Proper and Slesvig which was promulgatedabout two months ago. Their withdrawal left the field open to statesmen who might be able to support the advice of those Powers. But hitherto such statesmen have not been found. The plan i iit9li gg yar ;Act situ by ! the Gym's Q"..airia would place Denmark under tte power of a German minority; and the Consti tution of November, 1863, the abolition of which is now demanded, is dear to the Danish people because it opposes • barrier to the efforts of those who would bring Denmark into vassalage to foreigners. No Danish statesman can be found to consent to its abandonment. The Kura has therefore only two sets of advisers to consult—his old Ministers, who bad no thought of deserting him, and who only retired to give him an opportunity of finding more useful men—and the envoys and ambassadors of the foreign sovereigns who profess friendship for him and his people. But there is this difference between the two classes of counsellors, that while the one give advice and nothing more, declining to accept the least responsibility for the consequences of its acceptance, the other can promise men, money, and arms. Our Government is at this moment conspicuous among the advisers of King CHRISTIAN IX. We are earnestly advising him to give up the November Constitution; but we are careful to declare, as we have been from the first, that in any event he must not look to us for help. The incon venience of this policy is, that whereas the advice is tendered on the ground of expediency rather than on a judicial estimate of the merits of the case, its rejection by Denmark has the effect of exhibiting the policy of that Government as condemned beforehand by England, and the Government itself as obsti nately rejecting the advice of its beat friends. We do not think that this is a position which we, as • people, ought to occupy. If we cannot help the Danes, our Government may at least abstain from embarrassing them. But while the foreign advisers of the Kiss only counsel sub mission, and say nothing of material assistance, the constitutional Ministers of Denmark are sup ported by the entire people. It is true the po pulation is small. The Danes are but a handful compared with the Germans. But when • nation is menaced with destruction, brace men do not count heads, and the Danes are the bravest of the brave. It is now too evident for doubt that the Germans are bent on wresting not only Holstein, but Sleavig, from Denmark. This end, which has long been proclaimed in popular assemblies is now avowed in Parliaments. It is in vain that the King of Dinnvaar withdraws his troops from Holstein, for the sake of peace. The Federal Commissioners permit the proclamation of a Pretender, and Prince FitZDZEICH of Augusten burg notifies his accession as Duke of Hourrinv, under the protection of the very Powers which signed the Treaty of London, and the Chambers of the German kingdoms are calling for war as an excuse for o►erunning Slesvig. Public feeling and public decency are sacrificed to this fanatical exaggeration of national spirit. The popular feel ing in Germany rises and rolls like a tide, and threatens to carry even the most powerful govern ments before it. The King of Patens is hesitating about breaking his word and renouncing his en gagements under the Treaty of London. It is in vain to moon with men excited as the Germans now are with passion, otherwise we might point out the advantage which they give their powerful enemies by the course they are following. If we suggested that France was only waiting to see Germany well involved in war in order to reclaim the frontier of the Rhine, we should expect to be told, as indeed we have been told, that the Ger man people are impatient to demonstrate their military virtues once more in an encounter with the Gaul. Spectators who are not carried away by passion, and who wish well alike to Germans, French, and Danes, cannot look on the impending conflict with out apprehension. It is very unlikely indeed that the flames of war once kindled will be confined to the territory of Denmark. If Germany sets the example of violating treaties and beginning a war for territory, fortresses, ports and har bours, she does so at a greater risk than any other country in Europe. Should Prussia attack Den mark, the Emperor of the FRENCH would have every conceivable motive for attacking Germany. It would be creditable to him to side with the weaker country in defence of treaties and inter national right, and, as we all know, he is not insensible to reputation. He might plausibly say that the honour of France required that she should not abandon a brave ally. The people of France would back him as they have not hitherto done, in an enterprise which had honour for its spring and the Rhine frontier for its reward. The prospect of that restoration would inflame the national enthusiasm, and give the Mi riam a complete hold upon every element of the national strength. Nor would be go alone into the conflict. A war between France and Germany would have a war between Italy and Austria for its inevitable accompaniment. Even now VICTOR EMMANUEL can with difficulty keep the peace, and throughout Northern Italy expectation is on tiptoe. It is probable that Eng land would not be engaged in the general war at first. It is certain that our Government, sup ported by the country, will do all in its power to preserve peace, a blessing which the observation of every year is teaching us to prize. Our heartiest maledictions will be bestowed on those, whoever they may be, who wantonly break the peace of Europe. But the war once engaged, it is impossible to say that we shall not take part in it. At any rate we shall wish well to Italy, and shall not feel the slightest jealousy of France if she punish by deprivation of territory the Ger mans, who, themselves submitting to the most degrading Governments, pour forth their myriads to overrun a gallant people, whose liberty they might envy, and whose example they would have done well to follow. To affect surprise at the satisfaction, or rather the exultation, with which the result of the CRAWLEY Court-Martial has been welcomed in high official circles, and more especially among the ruling class of military functionaries, among the dis pensers of favour and the rewarder* of merit, would be little less idle than to affect surprise and anger at the reasonable probability that the some what too Ciceroni= oratory of Colonel Crueuir's counsel is extolled to the skies by • large circle of discerning friends, and that Lieut. -Colonel CRAWLIT is himself pronounced by the same impartial judges • martyr to discipline, and a victim of popular clamour and injustice. The hero of so triumphant an acquittal, we have no hesitation in acknowledg ing, deserves all the felicitations, not only of his friends, but of his equals and superiors in rank, and of the authorities who brought him over with a cloud of witnesses from India, at • vast expense to the British public, in the well founded hope of teaching that respectable civilian public to mind its own business, and to leave military law, and military justice, and military humanity, to the higher wisdom of the Horse Guards. Let all those who may naturally be ex pected to rejoice in the sentence of the CRAWLZT Court-Martial enjoy it ea one of the special bless 'this!esti lingo of present TO &MOM This is all fair enough. We should be sorry to vex with the faintest echo of a note of dis cord the mutual compliments of any family party. But as we do not happen to represent the interests, or the amour propre, of either client or counsel in the case, it becomes our business and duty to look a little beyond the oratory of the one or the injured virtue of the other, and to ask our readers to con sider what effect the uncoutrsdictedcircumatancesof this case are likely to have upon the minds of that large and influential clam of the British public from which the bone and sinew and the working intelligence of the ranks—the private soldier and the non•commissionedoffcer-4re teken.jhese are not times in which the plain popular verdict on the proceedings of the Court-Martial at Alder shot—the verdict of families from which sergeant-majors may be supposed to be derived—the verdict of the thousands to whom the recruiting sergeant tells his tale—the verdict of the unknown, unlettered heroes who fight the "soldier's battles," and drag blundering com manders out of ignorant and fatal scrapes—can be sneered away as vulgar ignorance. No doubt the military spirit runs high in this country; our Volun teers show this. But the rank and file of our Volun teers are composed of professional and com mercial men, whose habits and occupations in life are fixed, and who take to soldiering in their idle hours as a manly sport. Against an invasion these warlike civilians may be transformed in an instant into a splendid army of reserve ; but they must fight at home for their hearths and altars, their counting-houses, their offices, and shops, and farms. Our Volunteers cannot, as indeed the authorities are never tired of insisting when Army Estimates are in question, replace the line in foreign fields, or even come forward, like some militia regiments in the Russian war, to garrison distant pests. In the event of European war involving English interests, or of another Indian mutiny, it is of course the army that must go in and fight ; and it is the army that must be recruited from our peasants and mechanics, from a labour market growing scarcer, and consequently dearer, every day, with the tide of emigration rising round it like a flood, and teeming continents yawning for the overflow of British pauperism and Irish discontent. In Whitehall and Pall-mall it is neither the fashion to speak, nor the habit to think, of these things. The eminent philanthropists who at agricultural dinners pat poor Gnu, whitelipped andgnaried with rheumatism, on the back, and give him a guinea for bringing up a family of ten chil dren on ten shillings a week, would doubtless, if war should come, call upon GIL= to fight for the glory of the country to which he owes so many hearty meals. Only these benevolent patrons are apt to forget that even Gnu is beginning to know his market-value, and groping his way to some promised land, in which there is less philanthropy and more bread and mast; s land where everything may possibly be better for the poor man than in ; land where everything is for the beat—for the rich. If these are dangerous lessons, they are the lesson of an advancing and irresistible civiliza tion ; lessons that human eyes and ears are learn ing in every hamlet and in every hovel in the land. Anyone who remembers how the news of the starvation of our army in the brat Crimean winter was discussed, not in the capital or the centres of public opinion, but in country villages and markets, will be at no lose to understand how the question of justice and humanity towards the " lower orders" of the army affects the question THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER of sapplybg the rank and file of that army from the " lower orders" of the British people. No one denies that Lieuk-Colonel Ciewtay has been put to a very serious expense and to con siderable inconvenience in being summoned from India to take his trial at Aldershot, and that he must have suffered almost as much in mind as in pocket. But Lieut.-Colonel CRAWLEY has power. ful influences, able advocates, the moral support of his equals and superiors in rank, and of the highest authorities iu the army, and even the passion of high society for subscribing testimo nials to worthy objects, on his side. Besides, he has been triumphantly acquitted. All the malignity of low newspapers can do him no further harm ; all the generosity of the moat powerful organ of good society can, neither by its reticenoes nor by its authoritative announcements, advance his canoe. But now that Colonel CaAwLEv is safe, there remain two questions be fore the British public. 1. How is that discipline, without which no army can exist, to be maintained if the commanding officer of a regiment on a distant station is liable to be sent home in obedience to vulgar and ignorant clamour to take his trial on • false and frivolous charge 1 2. Supposing the charge to be not altogether false or frivolous--supposing, at least, that some body is to blame for the illegal confinement which ended in a sergeant-major's death, and that the somebody to blame remains undiscovered and un sought for—how is the British army to be re molted for the future from that class of the popu lation from which its 'ALLEYS—not its CRAWLZYS Or it' CARDIGANS—must come, if they are to come at allf Che Court. OSBORNE, Due. 2& The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers arrived at Osborne on Saturday, and had an makes@ of her Majesty. Dr. Watson aad Dr. Joiner also arrived from Loudon. The Queen and Prinorm of Wales drove out this morning. The Atom of Wales and Prime Alfred went oat shooting, attended by Lieatenant•General the Hoe. C. Grey, Liea teaant•Colonel the Hon. D. de Ras, sad Lieatenaat•Coloael Koppel. We are sorry to bear that Lord Broughton, who is residing as Tedworlh, is seriously indispresd. _ _ _ _ The guardians of the Marquis of Bute are about to lay out about two millions sterling in making new docks at Cardiff. The marquis already owns two docks there, each about a mile loeg, and vessels are lying in them six and eight deep. Bev lord of the manor of the country round Cardiff. In his father's time tbia property was valuelsse—it would not even feed sheep ; but steam oral WM. were &seemed there, "think have proved to be of etionsweis value. The royalty of these mines and the dock rowans bring in a princely income. The marquis's water side property was given his father by the town for the pur pose of making docks. . . On the 15th of this month a piece of silver plate was peresated to Kr. lirMahas, /LP., on behalf of the fishermen and others inters s& is the salmon fisheries of Galway and Mayo, in the form al a silver salver, 19 inches in length, and weighing 90 ounces, with the following in scription in Irish and English :—" Presented to Patrick IPMehos, Eon., ILP., by 172 fishermen and others in Con nemara, and in other porticos of the =intim of Galway and Mayo, Ireland, in acknowledgment of his invaluable services is obtaining the Act of Parliament to amend the Fishery Laws (Ireland), 18E3." The Morning Herald says :—"We are authorised to state that there is so truth in the report that the Earl of Cardigan had subscribed either 1001. or 500 i. towards payiag Colonel Crawley's expense., or that, pending the proceed `ings of the general eourtmartial, he has placed himself at the bead of a list of subscribers." TBZ NEW PACIFIC MAIL ROUTE. (r,4011 A COIRIBPOSDFXT.) The Pacific mail steaMthip raga about W be established between Sydney and Panama will not only give us as additional mail communication with Australia, but will more intimately connect that portion of the globe with the American °anti' neat ; and also this country with the fertile islands of the PaciEc, now pawing into great importance through the Free& settlements there. The Pacific mail route has bees chiefly desired by Eastern Australia and New Zealand. All other puts of Australia prefer the Indian route. The Peninsular end Oriental Gummy have offered to convey an additional mail to Australia from Ceylon at a empire tively smell sam, sod most probably Victoria and South and Vest Australia will accept that offer, which would make the nail communication with our antipodean colonies tri-monthly. Steam communication with the most distant porta of the world sr* int:reorder in number by means of oar own and foreign omen mail lines, and our own are diminishing in expense to the nation. The English and French lines give as a mail oni2lllltl6lol4klo with India live times a month ; with China, Brazil, the River Plato, and some part of the West Indies, three times a mouth and with Mexico tyke a mouth. And we have by English and German lines a communication with the United States ten times monthly. Owing to the increase of traffic with the West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope the new on tracks for conveying mails to these places lines bees entered into at reduced subsidies. Notwithstanding the French Oriental Mail line, the Peninsular and Oriental Company have ais much traffic as they can manage, and as the go- vernment have determined on sending troops to and from India mid China by the Red Sea, it is probable that print' '. stomas will be hired to do the work, and this will cense the establishment—ol another Oriental mail steam line. In a few years the large sum of nearly a million sterling a year now paid by this coun try for the conveyance of ocean mails will probably be reduced one half. The commerce of the East, through the advancing prosperity of India and the opening up of the trade with China and Japan, is enriching the Oriental steam packet companies, both French and English. The development of the resources of Central America, South- Western America, California, and British Columbia, is rapidly increasing the profits of the Royal Mail Company, and the traffic between New Zeeland and ►ustralia with Panama will still further income it. Steamers are now running profitably between Liverpool and the Isthmus of Panama without a mail contract, and German and English steam linos convey mails between the United States and this country wKb regularity and despatch for merely a portion of the postage paid on the correspondence in such mails. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL —The Bishop of London has a 'clod the following Runtimes to preach in the Cethadenl on Sunday mornings in the month of January : &today, Jan. 3, Rev. William Josiah Dose, D.D., of Quiree's College, Oxford, vicar of Holy Trinity, Broropton ; Sunday, Jan. 10, Rev. James Luptou, hL A., of Christ Chunk, Oxford. rector of St. Micheal Queoakithe, and inheor arson of Westminster ; Sunday, Jan. l7, Rev. Wil lhun Sparrow Simpsoo. M.A., of Queen's College, Cam bridge, rector of St. Matthew, Friday street, and Lord Lice's chaplain ; Sunday, Jan. 24, Rev. Dement Cole ridge, M.A., of St. Jobn's College, Cambridge, principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea ; Sunday, Jan. 31, Rev. Jams Harriman Hamilton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, perpetual curate of St. Michael's Church, Chesteroquare. YRDISTRILNIBM. —A very large concourse of spectators assembled at the Week Lesdon Cricket Ground yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of 'vitamin's' a five mile walking match between James Miles, of Brixton, and William Halley, of the City, for 254 a side. The men started st 12 miontes put 4 o'clock, Halley completing the first quarter of a mile in 1 min. 44 sec, with a load of about 2 yards. The first mile was finished in 7 min. 45 sec., Halley still in the same panties. On the completion of the second mile (time 16 min. 9 sea). Halley broke away from his opponent, bat they again amid together, sod so continued until they entered the straight to complete the third mile, when Miles pined the poet with a lead of • dozen yards (time 24 mie. 37 see.). Halley struggled or, but could sever get withi n 50 ya r d s o f Mil es , an d a t the conclusioe of the fourth mile gave up the contest. The four miles were duos in 33 min. 8 sec., no time being taken for the last one. PCNIKHED FOR LIVING TOO LONG.—A pan per in the Ucklield Union, named William Novice, aged 82, was charged before the magistrates wttlt refusing to work. The poor old man, who had lived twelve years beyond the three score years and ten allotted to mail. said he was unable to work, but their worships thought differently, and sentenced bias to 21 days' hard la bo ur.—Brighfon Examiner. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SPEECH OP THE ICING OF DENMARK TO HIS CHAMBER. The following is the speech from the King of Denmark, which was read by the President of the Council at the last sitting of the Rigsraad on the 22nd : Wz, annortur ix., DT TR. GIACZ OP GOD, &C. To rim Mamma, oar royal parkin ! When this assembly, whin); haiTto-daYarrived at the sad of its labours, met for the feet time eight been ego, it wee repaired with the hope that it would Irish the antageesset annouoced in the royal resoript of 1852 for a collective representation of the commas affairs of the monarchy. This hope would have been realised if the Germanic) Confederation in its rektions with Denmark had kept to the limits of its federal competency. The Rigeread well knows that it was only with great reluctance, and under threats of a remoras to coercive mealtime, that the Danish government ham been brought by the Confederation to abolish the col lective constitution for Holstein and Lauenburg. The Itigemad in aware, moreover, of the steps taken at different times for the re-catabhshment of the constitutional union without being able to obtain the assent of the States of Relater% required as an Lodi/parable condition by the Con federation. _ The new charter voted by the Ripened, and sanctioned by us, under date of the 18th of November last, rests upon the same basis as the actual collective constitution. The smauration of common makers from local matters is not subjected by this charter to any kind of modification ; while it doss not give to the Rigs- road any power in matters pertaining up till now to the peculiar authority of the special representations. It is true that it will not have the forged law except in the part of the Danish monarchy where she Germanic 000. federation exercises no authosity ; but as it is oar intention to grant Joan German Wend territories the same autonomy and the same liberty, the road will be thus laid open towards • more Intimate union by the agreement attained of the Myriad with the States of Holstein. To such an accord the new coestitution will oppose no obstacle whatever ; and it is certainly only by • misunderstanding that certain powers have believed that they saw in it motives for leaving undecided the question as to whether they would szeeuN the engagements imposed by treaties contracted by them without any condition. Side by side with the exaggerated demands raised by the Germanic Confederation, tendencies have been manifested in Germany which would result in the dismemberment of the Danish monarchy. The authors of such subversive plans imagine they have found an efficacious instrument. We console ourselves with the hope that Europe will know how to maintain for the Danish monarchy the collective stionesion, the unaltered existence of which it has recognised as indispensable to the preserva tion of the general peace. Although we have given saris. faction to all federal resolutions mourning oar territories connected with Germany, German troops are on the eve of invading, not only our duchy of Holstein, but even our duchy of Leuenburg, the contentment and fidelity of which have been Untitled to us by con vincing proofs. In such ► case it is impos. able for us to recognise the legality of the federal execution ; however, to avoid as much as is possible the outbreak of hostilities, we have deemed it right to with draw our troops is order to concentrate our whole force of resistance on this side of the Eider, well convinced se we are that our heave and loyal people will unite in perfect harmony armed their King, when the safety and liberty of the country are at stake. By these words we present to the members of our Itlipirsed our parting salutation. We express to them our thanks and those of the country for their perseverance in their work, and the fidelity of their devotion, during the difficult years which have claimed their activity, as well u for the eagerness with which they have responded to the appeal of the country in its present situation, so full of imminent dangers. We pray God to have you in His keeping— you, together with ourselves—end to watch over the misty of our dear people. Done at our residence at Christianeburg, Dee. 21, 1863. Cnnurrusi After the reading of the above message the members of the Rigaraad separated with shouts of " Long live the King !" THE KOSSUTH PROCLAMATION IN HUN GARY.-EXCITEMENT IN AUSTRIA. The following is the text of the proclamation issued in the name of Koaeuth, which has been referred to in • telegraphic despatch. It is pub lished in the A Ueanza, of Milan—a journal estab lished by the Hungarian emigrants in Italy—and appears to be considered a genuine document : BT OEM OT LOOTS KOBBOTH, THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE NATION. Fidelity to the flag of 1849 @arrives in the heart of our nation. Refusing to accept any kind of compromise, the great majority of the nation is firmly resolved to shake off the detested yoke of German domination. But as the ex ternal signs of our national life have in recent times not been in harmony with that resolution, our natural allies abroad have conceived doubts as to the firmness of our designs. These doubts have been the greatest ob stacle to the efforts of oar government tending to the deliverance of the country. The removal of that obstacle becomes an imperious necessity before the new turn of European events—a turn offering a prospect full of promise to all the peoples who groan under a foreign yoke. We must give a sign of life in order that our natural' allies may be convinced that agaiust the common enemy they may surely count upon the arms of the Magyars. We must hold ourselves in readiness, in ceder that the ties of the terrified Austrian may not I entangle our nation in the anus. We must prepare to be io a state to seise energetically the favourable opportunity. For these porticoes the Governor, Louis Kossuth, abolishing every previous order, and having judged it necessary to decree the formation of a new general committee, makes known, by the present document, to the nation, that is consequeue of that order the general committee of Inde pendence is constituted; that it boa for ite sad the realisation of the declaration of independents of 1849 ; and that, full of resolution ►nd reedy for all sacrifices, it has taken in hand the direction of affairs, according to the in structiona received, or to be received, from the chosen go vernor of our country. The committee expects, from the patriotic sentiments of the nation, that the orders emanat ing from it will be promptly executed, that its in struction' will be followed, and that its measures will be speedily accomplished. At the same time it calls upon the enemies, open and concealed, of the flog of 1849 to abstain from any plot or intrigue if they would not incur the penalty inflicted upon traitors. At all events, the general committee of indepen dence declares that it will know how, and that it is deter mined, to secure obedience to its orders and the accomplish. meet of the measurer which it must take. Long live the nation sod good hope ! let every homes patriot prepare himself for action ! Our motto is-1849 and victory ! Doss at Bode Pesth, the 24th December, 1863. The article iu the Alleaman which contains this document is published under the significant title, "Hungary awakes." The excitement produced by this unexpected event is greater at Vienna thou anywhere else. Some persons speak of pro claiming the state of siege, which would be ex• tended to Croatia. The Prase of Vienna speaks in the following sombre terms of the situation of Austria : ----- - There is always danger, especially in an epoch like ours and in a state like Austria. The storm threatens us from all directions. In the east it is an insurrection, in the west a conqueror under the steak of the love of peace, in the south an enemy greedy of sensations, in the north an insolent provoker, and in the mid■t of Germany an an. traordinary netional ferment. Thus surrounded, Austria is seen not having achieved its constitutional transformation, agitated by internal dissensions, borne down under the weight of a deficit which is in coarse of aggravation, disturbed by the instability of its public stocks. This is neither the time nor the place for a ministry to be disunited, in a state of permanent crisis, and remaining in spite of that tithe head of affairs. (arum's mamasArs.) SPAIN. MADRID, Duo. 28, EvErnw. The papers deny that there is any truth in the rumours of a miuisttrial crisis. 29, 1863. FRANCE REPORT OF MARSHAL RANDON. PARIS, Dec. 29. A report of Marshal Bandon, approved by the Emperor, has been published to-day. It decides that general officers on service, no matter how employed, shall be legally relieved of their functions as soon as they have reached the age of 70. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the reply of the Sultan to the Emperor's invitation to the congress. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Mc. 2S, Emma. The Channel fleet is at Madeira. A few cases of scarlatin► have occurred on board the Black Prince. The Oporto Railway is completed, and opens next month. Great cold prevails in Portugal. THE ALABAMA. POINT DE (ULU, Dam L The United States steamer Wyoming has gone to Christmas Island in pursuit of the Alabama. AMERICA. (astrria's TILIGIUMS.) GALWAY, Dec. 29. The Atlantic Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Columbia, from Boston and St. John's, arrived here last night with 9 cabin and 40 steerage passengers, and 25 mail bags. (Per the Columbia.) (By telegraph to St. John's.) NEW YORK, DEC. 17, Ann-NOON. Upon the afternoon of the 14th inst. General Longetreet, who had been reinforced, turned and attacked the pursuing force of the Federals near Pear Station, on Cumberland Gap and Moreston Railroad, driving the Federal' back • distance of half a mile. General Longstreet simultaneously executed • movement to cross the river and to get in the Federals( rear, but failed to effect a pang° across the river. More fighting is expected. Southern journals state that by a Confederate re connaissance it has been ascertained that the Federal' have deserted Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and all the country between that place and Ringold. The Federal force at Chattanooga was supposed to be intended for the pursuit of General Long. street's force. Advices from Charleston to the 15th inst. state that the shelling of the city continued with trifling damage. An accidental fire had occurred in Fort Sumter, killing 10 and injuring 30 men. The Federal brig Perry has been captured near Charleston. The steamer Ceres was destroyed off Beaufort. The New York Herald has nominated General Grant as candidate for the next Presidency, and has put forward as an electioneering cry that he would demand from England an indemnity for the depredations of privateers, and would expel the French from Mexico. KEMAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Dze. 17, Arrzrmoop. Money easy ; gold 60] prem. Exchange on Lon don, 164 g. Stocks advancing. New York Centrals, 1331 ; Illinois, Mi. Cotton steady ; middling Upland, 82c. Breadstuff' advancing. NEW YORK, Die.lB, Arrmooir. The steamer Ella Annie has captured the Chess. peake, with three of her crew, in Sambro Harbour, Nova Scotia. The Chesapeake was taken to Halifax for judicial decision. The British authorities have ordered the arrest of the pirates who seized the Chesapeake. The Richmond press denounces President Lin coln's amnesty proclamation as an infamous docu ment, which will but arouse the Southern people to new zeal and new efforts. The Federal House of Representatives has passed a resolution, by 93 to 64, that the war should be prosecuted so long as the rebels are found in arms. Money easy. Gold, 511 per cent. premium. NEW YORK, D. 18, Evearso. The fighting with General Longstreet is still pro gressing. o Union citizens are leaving Knoxville. Money easy. Gold, 52 per cent. premium. Ex change on London, bankers' bills, 166. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 29. Further advioes, to the 19th inst., received here viA St. John's, state that there was no fresh new■ of importance. Gold was quoted 52 per cent. premium. Fix change on London, 166. Cotton quiet, at 82c. Crude petroleum. 30 to 31 ; refined, 44 to 45i. United States Si: per Cent. Bonds, 105. Illinois shares, 119. Erie, 1081. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TUESDAY. Damn !9. 8 LK. Q. L EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PROPOSED CONFERENCE. (7110 a Ma owl aninroannorr.) PARIS, MONDAY Evisina._ The Nation, going a great deal further than the weekly journals which, on Sunday, sang in chorus the revival of the congress, treats it now as a settled thing. It says : It appears to be certain that Eagiand and Austria have adhered to the proposal of a conference of ministers. As to the adhesion of Prairie sad Ramie, that has never been ter a moment doubtful. The plan is that than should be, In the first place, a conference of ministers et the great powen,including, perhaps, Span. Brussels is spoken of as the piece of rendezvous. The negotiations are actively going on. England wishes the question of the duchies to be treated of above all thinp. Austria asks that all the questions to be diseased shall be hid down beforehand, while Frans considers this esterase as merely a presration for the general cougreas of sovereigns, and desires to proceed with a afar to this result. The above is probably but another version of a report more soberly gated in the Temps, to the following effect : It is rumoured that the great powers are agreed to arbitrate upon the difference between Denmark and Get , messy. But there is a diversity of views as to the place where the conference shall take place. England proposes London, where the conferences of 1852 were held ; but the French government wialies the question to be submitted to the limited congress the meeting of which it is trying to bring about. There is too much reason to think that the French government will show itself as sulky as possible about all arrangements proposed for the solution of the Danish difficulty, and will make political capital of that pressing question, in the hope of forcing the powers to come into the utopian scheme of a congress. Ido not, however, at all believe that this project is so advanced as the Nation and the weekly dispensers of canards would infer. While a great many letters from Italy speak of preparations for war the Temps receives a positive assurance from Turin that the Italian government has not the least idea of attacking Austria,and will remain strictly on the defensive. This news is quite in contradiction with a long story told by the Independance Beige about the mission of M. Pasoldni to Paris and London. The telegram, however, reporting the resignation by Garibaldi of his seat in the Turin parliament is construed as an indication that he at least thinks of taking the field. General Fleury arrived in Paris yesterday even ing, on his return from a special mission to the courts of Denmark and Prussia. On Thursday last M. de Bismark gave him a grand dinner, to which the entire personnel of the French embassy at Berlin wee invited. It is stated that the ex-Duke of Modena has commissioned Dr. Raphael Castelbolognesi to defend the action brought against him by Prince de Crony Chanel, contesting his right to the title of Marquis d'Este. The plaintiff claims to be the rightful heir of Beatrix d'Este, wife of Andrew 11., King of Hungary. The Bourse was firmer in the early part of the day, but closed with very little change. It is ob served that speculators are trying to raise quota tions now, with a view to operate for a fall after the settlement. TILL Miearna SHIPS.—Five weeks have now elapsed, and Maws has been no intelligence of the missing lades oasis which mailed from the Tem and adjacent worth country porta in the last week in November for Lon don, and it is reduced to a certainty, it is feared, that they have perished with their crews. The names of the Tyne vessels that have, it is almost certain, foundered are the Esther, the Brodricks, sod the Lady Mary, of North Shields ; and the Ann and Elizabeth, the Spray, and the Jame., of South Shields. Another vessel, named the Adorns, which left the Texel before the gale of the 3rd of December for the Tyne, has not since been heard of. If the Adorns does not turn up, very close upon sixty gasmen will have perished with those ships. As far as coo be moor tained, either eight or nine laden colliers belonging to ad jacent ports base been miming for the same time as the Tyne ships, eo the& at the lowest computation it is feared 120 north country seamen lied sailor lads have perished by their vessels foundering at sea with them. Me sad ealamiti is being realised in all its bitterness by the bereaved families in the northern seaports, for, down to about Christmas. they had hoped against hope that those ships had been driven towards the Dutch or Norway coast, and might turn up again. Among the vessels included in the number men timed above are the Gem and the Cleveland, belonging to Whitby. That seaport has suffered severely by the gale. A vessel named the George. belonging to that poet, after being abandoned, has been picked up sod taken into Gottenburg. As already reported, several crews of water-logged and disabled ships suffered fearfully by ex posure during the terrific gales of the first week in December. The George is reported to have lost four of her crew, in cluding the mate and his ma, by exhaustion, before a friendly ship came to their aasietanea It would appear that mod of the vessels missing, and of which there is little doubt nothing more will be heard, bed put into the Humber through adverse winds, sod that on Wednesday the 2nd of December, the wind having got round to the N.V., blowing fresh, they had put out of that roadstead with every prospect of a quick passage to London, but during that night or Thursday morning the wind chopped round to the S. W. again, and came on to blow a hurrimare. It will be remembered that the force of Thursday's gale was most severe in the midland counties, and it would catch these ships io Boston Deeps, the very worst place for laden colliers to encounter such a storm, and there is every reason to believe that most of the vessels miesiog perished there or on the edge of the Dogger Bask. It is to be feared many of the families of the men that are supposed to be lost are in a destitute condition, some of the widows being left with large families. EVIDENCE "BEFORE COMMITTEE."—IE is much harder to obtain hiformation than some people may think ; the most don't know anything, and those who do don't say what they know. Here is a real episode from the history of as inquiry, which took place four or five years ago, into the desirability of making a new line of railway on the Border. A witness was giving what is called " traffic evidame," in justification of the alleged need of the rail way, and this is what occurred :—Mr. Brown (the cross examining counsel for the oppouents of the new line) : Do yen mean to tell the committee that you ever saw an in habited house in that valley!—Witness : Via, I do. Mr. Brown : Dal you ever see a vehicle there in all your life —Wheels: Yes, I did. Mr. Brown : Very good. Some other questions were put, which led to nothing particular; but just as the witness —a Scotchman—was leaving the box, the learned gentleman put one more question. Q. lam instructed to ask you if the vehicle you saw was not the hearse of the last inhabitant!—Answer : It was.—CornAill Magazine for January. . . EXETIIR-HALL —Haydn's oratorio, the Creation, which vim announced to commence at belf.pact 7, will begin at 8 instead. The principal singers engaged are Mediate Pampa, Messrs. Reeves and Sentley ; the band and came, 700 ; conductor, Mr. G. W. Martin. HOZ ASIA'S& 1 AlmedilW--I3mal IdY - aft el 1 Cape near lAveryod lt 82 it 1 Holyhead 13.79 53. 0 Pembroke 298 611 1 Peuraeoe X30.10 61! Brea L'Orkm& '30.20 60 1 0 Rochefort 30.32 43 nymonth 0010 611 1 Weymouth 10.06 60' 1 Portemontla 40. 1 tendon 30.00 43 1 Dover 30.01 411 0 resemodh. 30.40.6 1 Seerlereesi ,2078 43 1 Nails 29.77 48: 2 8393 34. 0 Z. &B. W. W.N.W. &IV. W.N.W. W.B.W. W.&W. W.&W. F. .1..1 oiz 2 2 4 14 I SI $ R.S. W. W.S.W. w . s:w . - ' - 20 - _ 111 1 0. 0.01 15 I a 1121 WZMIZSDAT. PRONAMM TIIIIIMAT. N.N.I. to W.N.W., on Nonnaut W.N.W. to N.N.L. Maxim. Comma. drat& some tall ii.W. to N.W. and Warriax. N. W. to N.E, and H, N.N.N. strong, some strong, snow ur mot. WI As next above. Moms.. As beet above. W. to N. and Z., fresh 90111ZEBN. N. to E and A.E, fresh, to wise rats • . 1. nor. , rainy B.W.lrtlV.,and . N.E., ZaitAnit. As next above. Aram some imow. - - - • • - - • - ---- Northern:Scotland. Weeterne-Ircland. Middler.Walsts opoalte and adjacent. Southern =English Channel and Biscay Nay. Suitern.Esstward England and Heligoland. B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to AV at half tide tent. Each ten feet, of vertical elevation, causing aboutoue hundredth of an inch DINDIUTIoN . and each ten (levels, above 92'. mus ing nearly three hundredths INCRKASIS —Expo§ed thermo meter in shade. D.—Dltference of wet bulb (foe evaporation sad dew point). direction of THUS—two whits Lan of magnetic:. Ir.—Force (I to If —estlinated;. X.-21treme tone since last report. Q.—Quarter whence ems= force ( NH2=4 to 32=N). I. —lnitlals b.—blue sky: c.—clouds detached): L—fog: L—lightning m.—misty hazy) : o.—overall (dull) r.—rain: s. —ono w t.—thunder. ft.= snow at hall melted;, since last report. 9. Yes disturbance (I to 9). Z.—halm. TrtAxwitY ox Mohr Carta.—Newapaper readers have at different times been informed of the proposal sub mitted by Mr. Fell, in concert with Messrs. Heaney and dackeoe, to the French and Italian governments, for laying down • tramway on the present Mont Canis route, covering the Isms with wooden, nee. and storm galleries. *Ad working it by means of • new arid lighter species of locomotive, so that the distance between Suss sod St. Michel, which now takes tee, might be safely and regularly traversed in • period of from four to five hours. The first sense of these Mont Ceois locomotive expenineets for producing a low engine capable of carrying • train of 100 Teenagers with their luggage over the mountain have bad satidectory results. The trials have been made on an in cline of 1 in 13 (the Mount Canis being 1 in 12), and the experimental engine, a new one on Mr. Fell's peculiar system, has taken op and down the entire load proposed, whilst the break power for descending is most perfect. A great number of practical and scientific men have been j witnessing these locomotive experiments with much interest, and now • second sinks of experimenta is just being commenced, viz., on • gradient of 12, and carver of 30 and 50 metre. radius combined, for wbieh a piece of line is in process of construction—the far-simile of the Most Canis. These Mont Canis locomotive experiments havebeen carried on at the Cranford and High Peak Hail way, Wbrilley.brialge, sod, as may he easily supposed, the reporta of their progress are received with the greatest interest throughout Italy, it being hoped by their mamas to solve the problem of • rapid and comparatively cheap communication, not only across the great passes of the Alps 2 but likewise over those of the Apennines. bI•SCHESSER UNITY 0? ODD FILLOWS.—The manual meeting of the North London District was held at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, yesterday, G. M. Mitchell in the chair. nappies delegates were present. Mr. Harris read the auditors' report, which was adopted. The mortality for the past half-year has not increased according to the increase of members; 57 male.' and 37 females' deaths have caused an expenditure of 1104 f. Ss. rid.. which was met by a levy upon the lodges of Is. each member ; the ioeidental expenditure amounted to 89/. ss. 64d., which was met by a levy of 241.. for the ha lf-year. D.G.M. Stephens was elected Prow. G.M. for 1864, and P.G. Creech, of the St. Thomas Lodge, D. Prov. G.M. ; P.G's. BUM and reltoo were elected examiners of lodge books ; various alterations of rules were made ; appeal ems beard ; and several distrait petitions wen relieved; reconirnenda Lives were also mode that a general sutecription he opened for the boat Institution ; Moors. Dansie, Diprose, Nationalet, Mitchell, Rough, and Stephens, were elected as represeo tativas to the A.M.C., tole held at Birkenhead inn hitaun week. I