The Express. — London, England, 1863-12-30 00:00:00

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Weil WATS& AT LONDON RILLEIGIL TIP Orr —llinollm. ea. ..AlAwmar. 6b..201‘ Tanana, Montag. 6i .Affaseaa. sh. MA LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30. To-nax, at noon, all that mortality can claim of one whose sudden departure from amongst us is more than a national bereavement—for genius is an heir-loom to the world—was conveyed to the last resting-place, amidst the not unmanly tears of a host of friends and a multitude of unin vited mourners. All England was present in heart and spirit at Kensal-green at noon to-day ; for the "dear brother departed," whose large and loving heart nothing but the hand of Death could chill, was one to whom the long last absence makes the heart of a whole people yearn with a fondness that defies the grave. Familiarity sometimes obscures from us the worth of living objects, but death removes the weeds of trivial circumstance from the base of the human figure, and consecrates the noblest work of GOD. Never, we believe, has the death of • public man been more acutely felt, as a personal grief, by thou sands of strangers far and wide, than the death of that true English gentleman whom this morning we call for the last time, Mr. THACICIRAT. There are no titles of gentility among the Immortals. If Christmas merrymaking has not been officially suspended, or the public gaietyformallyeclipsed, not the lees real or heartfelt has been the general sorrow. Many who never set eyes on their famous and lamented countryman have drawn their breath in pain, as if the shadow end the silence had fallen on their own household. In this age of ours itis still acknowledged to be "no common lot that " takes away a noble mind." The change from a royal to • waxen figure, from titled or monied nothingness to the nothingness of common dust, may be loudly wept for by a world of worshippers of false gods. But when one of those rare beings departs, of whom there may come two or three ia a century, who fill the world with the light and warnitA of their genius i whose divine gifts are spent in the service of thew felfow-crew tures, and who dignify by their lives the most self denying and generous of calling's, it is then that the lamenting voice of a whole nation should be not loud but deep. So private and personal to us all is such a calamity as this, that after weeks and months it opens and bleeds afresh, like a bodily wound ; into festive companies the re membrance of the one familiar presence pierces like an icy wind. Idle as it is to repeat the commonplace of all human experience, and to meditate the oft-repeated bitter thooghtthatws never know the worth of what we have till we have lost it, it is impossible not to own that men of letters will only now begin to value at its true worth the life of mach a leader as Mr. TILACIEHAY. Only these who had the happiness to know him intimately—and to know him was to love him—can tell the world all that there was of greatness and of gocdnem in that large, sweet, happy nature. In his por traits we may discern the scornful intellect or the tenderness of affection ; but no one knew the man as he lived, who knew not that childiah simplicity and shyness, that profound sensibility, that trans parent truthfulness, that gentleness, that charity. Delightful companion, steadfast friend, faithful com rade, his home and his heart were open to how many beaten and forlorn fellow-workers of his own obscurer days! Of course, he was often absurdly misinterpreted by the many who never met him, and only judged him by this or that character in his books. Enough to say now that the best men in his books were most like himself. And so to-day we bid farewell on earth to this good English gentleman, this great English man of letters, this humourist and moralist, and we lay his mortal part in one of those vast and vulgar cemeteries escaped from the straps and fever of the streets of which the everlasting hum is heard even at their gates us the murmur of adistantsea. Assu redly it matters little where the good and the great ~~~~ 1863. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nag ous ()Inc 0021281.01IDENT.) PARIS. TOMSDAY KVINIMG. The Sultan's letter, published in the Moniteur to-day, completes the series of the royal replies to the imperial proposal for a congress. The Patvie so far presumes upon the carelessness of its readers as to describe the Ottoman answer as the " most formal and explicit adhesion to the imperial pro position." In point of fact, the Sultan's letter contains nothing but barren compliments, and refers the Emperor to a note of the conversation on the subject of the congress which took place between the 'Turkish sovereign and the French ambassador at Constantinople, the Marquis de Moustier. From that conversation it results that the Sultan's acceptance of the congress, so far from being "explicit," is strictly "conditional"— he says he will come with pleasure, "if " the other sovereigns do. The Pays states from "certain information" that the rumours of the Archduke Maximilian having hesitated to accept the throne of Mexico may now be "decisively" contradicted. A contradiction to this effect was given by a government journal two days ago, but the public mind would seem to be so obtuse on the subject that iteration is felt to be necessary. M. Menton, the editor of the Union Bretonne, a government journal, has been convicted by the Correctional Tribunal of Nantes of a libel upon Viscount Lanjuinais' , the opposition deputy. The libel consisted in an allegation that the plaintiff had been "elected by surprise, and faithful to his part remains in the chamber by 'uprise." The sentence is only a fine of 300 fr. and the costs. The action is a very frivolous one, and I am sorry that it should have been brought by an opposition member, who must know that the government is only too glad of a precedent to restrict the liberty of the press in matters electoral. Lord Westmoreland has presented the Empe ror's physician, Dr. Larroque, with a valuable gold snuffbox, as an acknowledgement of the attentions received from him when his lordship was taken ill at Compiegne. The news from Holstein, though not free from contradiction, excites great uneasiness. Bullier's Correspondence says exultingly that France will not be forward to help towards a solution of the difficulty unless it gets its own way about the congress. 1 The Bourse was very dull, and prime are a shade lower. The Daily News is seised. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, SPECIAL NOTICIL-THE BOOKS OF THE NORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, - For the yew 11161, rime ea flet December Life Policies 'Masted es a before that date will rank for an additional yeer's bones la esetherlison to later entrant& Dorms the Foos Yenta preceding last division of Pronto „UFO, the Dempsey toned 1,595 Life Policies, assuring Duriug the Four succeeding Teen the number of Life Policies Issued amounted to 1,108, and the gams assured to C2,? . -.21,522 Being an Increase of St per cent. The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the Company's Profits will take place on 81st December, IS-06. The whole Profits which have accumulated dace list Decem ber, DOH will then be divided, and ninety per cent. allocated among the assured on the participating scale. i'etithles of ImUsputabllity granted, and every facility offered insurers are laid, for their sepulchre is al the world, and true genius lives evermore in ita works. Whatever we have loved and admired in THAcIIZAY death can never touch. And we are consoled at least by the thought that if he was taken away before his time, death came to him, and beckoned him away gently, and removed him as in a dream from infirmity and decay. It is not in such a case, or, indeed, in any. case, for the dead that we speak, when we say that while we have Westminster Abbey, Kenaal-green Cemetery should not be the final resting-place for the ashes of one whom even in death Europe envies us to-day. THE FUNERAL OF MR. W. M. THACKERAY.-(THIS DAY.) This morning the mortal remains of Mr. W. M. Thackeray were interred in the Kensal-green ceme tery, the resting-place of many who have served this generation by their genius, their character, or their unselfish industry. This great author lies in ground made sacred by the ashes of numerous good men, but a fitter place of sepulture may possibly yet be found. Westminster Abbey has been men tioned in connexion with his name, and the sug gestion is not unlikely to approve itself to the public mind and to gain so large an amount of as sent as to become a realised idea. However this may be, English eyes will never look emotionless on the grave of the author of " Pendennis," of " The Newcomes," and of " Henry Esmond," whe ther it is to be found in • modern cemetery or a time-honoured abbey. The hour appointed for the funeral was 12 o'clock, and for the season of the year this was sufficiently early. The sky was clear and the sun bright, but had the weather been less favourable the group of mourners would still have been numer ous. So identified was the deceased with the litera ture and thought of the time, that many felt that they knew him though actual personal acquaintance was wanting, and were drawn to his grave to bear him associated with the words of immortal hope, and to pay the last tribute of human respect and grate fulness. But though the assemblage contained several who knew the deceased through his works alone, very many were personal friends and former colleagues. Rarely has been seen so large a display of the representative men of English literature and art. The funeral procession left the private residence of the deceased, at Kensington, shortly before 11 o'clock, and arrived at the cemetery about noon. There was but one mourning coach, and in this and the succeeding carriage, which was the private one of the deceased, were seated the Rev. F. St. John Thackeray and Mr. James Redd, cousins of the deceased. Captain Shaw his brother-in-law, and the Hon. E. Curzon. The remaining carriages were those of Mr. Martin Thackeray, General Low, Lord Gardiner, Sir W. Frazer, Hon. E. Curzon, Earl Granville, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Sir James Colville, and Messrs. Bradbury and Evans. The funeral service was read, in a solemn and impressive manner, by the chaplain of the cemetery, the Rev. Charles Stuart. When the coffin was placed in the little chapel of the burial ground a strong desire was manifested by nearly every one to enter the building ; biat the space inside was soon occu pied, as far as it could be conveniently, and the pervading reverence for the departed was quite suf ficient to prevent any unseemly pressure. After the conclusion of the first portion of the service, the mass of those present proceeded to the grave, which is in a quiet spot on the left side of the cemetery, and not far from the entrance gate. In looking round, men were to be seen on every side, whose writings constitute the mental food of our people, the muscle and the flesh of our litera ture ; writers whose books go wherever the Englishman treads, whoee portraits are hung up in the hut of the early settler in a newly-disco vered tract of a distant colony, as in the mechanics' institute of a provincial town. Instinctively the presence of the great English humorist whose genius was ever touchingly and gracefully acknowledged by the author whose burial was cele brated tay, was felt to be assured. Mr. Dickens was naturally present at the solemnity. Some who were aware of the long-established friendship between the deceased and the author of " Sartor Resartus" looked for him too in the group, but Mr. Carl7le dislikes crowds, and is all but a sep tuagenarian, and he wail not recognised among the spectators. Among other mourners were the successful dramatist and pungent writer, Mr. Toni Taylor ; Mr. Shirley Brooks, who possesses no slight share of the wit, the finished style, and the knowledge of the world which distinguished his departed friend ; Mr. Mark Lemon, the genial and popular editor of the famous periodical in which were laid the foundations of Mr. Thackeray's fame ; Mr. John Leech, a fellow pupil and friend ; Mr. Tenniel, Mr. Horace Mayhew—in short, the whole staff of the contributors to Punch ; Mr. Robert Browning, the poet ; Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Theodore Martin, Mr. John Hollingthead, Mr. G. H. Lewes, Mr. Dallas, Dr. W. Ruse.% Sir James Carmichael, Mr. H. Cole, C.B. ; Mr. Robert Bell, Mr. IY/feile, Mr. Creswick, R.A. ; Mr. George Cruikahank, Archdeacon Hale, Mr. E. Pigott, M. Louis Blanc, eke., tkc. The numbers present amounted to nearly a thou sand. The scene at the grave both during and after the ceremony of interment was extremely affecting. The silence was profound, and every countenance bespoke a deep sense of the loss which the nation as well as individuals have sustained. When the ser vice had terminated, the Misses Thackeray, the two daughters of the deceased, who bad formed no part of the procession, but who broke through the conventionality which ex cludes from such scenes those who are the deepest sufferers, and were in the chapel, approached the open grave and looked into it with a grief which was touching to behold. After they had withdrawn, other relatives advanced for the same purpose, and these again were followed by the immediate friends, and successively by almost everybody present. The coffin, which was exceedingly plain, bore upon it the following inscription : WILLIAM MAXIIMACZ THACZELAT, FAQ.. Dun 24TH Dzczion, 1863, MID 52 YZABIL Peach of to-day has the following :—" While generous tributes are everywhere paid to the genius of him who has been suddenly called away in the fulness of his power and the maturity of his fame, some who have for many years enjoyed the advan tage of his assistance and the delight of his society would simply record that they have lost • dear friend. At an early period in the history of this periodical he became • contributor to its pages, and he long continued to enrich them, and though of late he had ceased to give other aid than suggestion and advice, he was • constant member of our council, and sat with as on the eighth day from that which has saddened England's Christmas. Let the brilliancy of his trained intellect, the terrible strength of his satire, the subtlety of his wit, the richness of his humour, and the catholic range of his calm wisdom be themes for others ; the mourning friends who inscribe these lines to his memory think of the affectionate nature, the cheerful companionship, the large heart and open hand, the simple courteousness, and the endearing frankness of a brave, true, honest, gentleman, whom no pea but his own could depict as those who knew him would desire." A Paris paper informs us that an English gentle /ma ordered of • mechanist in the Roe Vidal du Temple— s. an &roam, too—a " bon Anglaise ;" that is to say a ring, la which the champions of England and America are to fight over again —whenever the purchaser winds them op —the recent great battle. The mechanism is said to be most curious, and the toy cost 22,0001 r. (8801.) The de scription of the model, and the contest which gun rise to it, I. amusing. A " bore Aeglaise " is a generic term, meaning • make of moiety which frequents le ring." " Boxeure " indicate the people who go to see a fight. There is always preseet a "jags du camp "or " humspire," who " imposes Waal" looks at his watch, and gives the signal to begin." The paper then takes a moral tor., and says "The magis trates are now determined to stop this brutality so loved of Ball! The blows showered es the human chest would make • outlet tender. They produce no effect on Bull. Let as, thee, oongratulate • cutlet on being more impressionable thee se Englishman." WHITEHALL. Dec. 28.—The Queen has been tatto appoint Francis Alexander, Earle( Kismet., to be at and sheriff principal of the shire of Aberdeen, is the room of Charlie, Marquis of Hazily, deemed The Qom ham also bees phased to appoint air AWNS Bern Burnett, Bert., to be lieutenant sod sheriff principal of the shire of Kincardine, in the room of Francis Alexander, Earl of Bisbee, resigned—Gazettc. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. rbe Court. OSBORNE. Dro. 2S. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds to- Despatches were remised yesterday at the Clolosial-odice from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wands. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is expected to leave Gloucester Howe early is the monis( week, on • visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley, near Prescott, when a distinguished circle will meet the royal duke. His Serene Highness the Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein has left the St Oeorge's Hotel His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador arrived at the embassy, in Byranstowaqulre, on Sunday evening, from visiting Madame Magueys and family at St. Leonard& The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury's party during the lest fen , days at Hatfield Hones, Herta, has included the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Oka willnun, LoidJolso Hay, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir Hugh and Lady Cairns, the Right Hon. Benjamin and Bre. Dis raeli, Major Teesdale, Baron Harochetti, &c. The Right Hon. Thomas M. Gibeon, M.P., is staving with the Rev. J. G. Gallant. at hi. seat, Hardwick Howe, near Bury St. Maus& Mrs. Gibson is psalm the wiater at Nice. Mr. H. A. Bruce, M.P., Under• Secretary of State for the Home Department, loft town on Noeday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess de Grey, at Studley Park, sear Ripoo. The Right Iron. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived at Grosvenor-gate frogs Hatileid House, Herta, where they have been es a visit to the Marquis and Marehicisers of tialiabory. The Dublin Evening Mail says that the vacancy io the representative peerage created by the death of the Earl of Charlemoot will probably be filled by the election of Lord Dummy, the candidate selected for nomination by the raneenstive peers of England. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. This commission was founded, so far as the aug mentation of beeefiess is conciereed, in 1840, and the amount which would ultimately be obtainable for that pur pose was estimated at 134,251/. a year. The grants made by the commission, either in the form of capital or of in come, are now equivalent to more than 160,000/. a year is perpetuity. On its foundation, greets to the amount of 30,0001. a year were made, chiefly for the relief of spirituel destitution in populous districts ; and in 1843 further grants of 30.0001. a year were applied to the formation of 200 pa rochial districts aid their endowment, with incomes of 1504 a year, in the manufacturing and populous parishes. Between 1840 and 1850 other gnats equivalent to 20,0001. a year were made to meet benefactions, and for persougethouses and other purposes, so that at the dose of that period the total grants were equivalent to about 80,0004 a year in perpetuity. Ia 1850 the comminith was strengthened by the appointment of the Estates Committee to manage the property vested in the commission ; and in 1831 parliament decided the principle of applying to the augmentation of livings the improved value which might be obtained from the property of the episcopal and capital's corporations beyond the amount of revenue derivable from the system of taking lines on the renewal of leases. In 1857 the oommiasion resumed its grants, and in that and sulietharat successive years rams of 8,0001., 18,0001., 57,0001., 66,0004, 64,0001., 100,0001., and 100,0001. have been granted to meet bensfee. lions of at least equal amount, and is 1862 and 1863 pante of income amounting to 40,0001. a year Is perpetuity have been made to meet load claims and to ram to 3001. a year the incomes of all livings lade, the ears of populations of 10,000 persons. During the Name period grants equivalent to about 10,0001. a year have also been made in respect of property which has fallen into the commiesiosere possession. In the whole the grants of capital and income from 1840 to 1864 are equivalent to a permanent charge of 160,0004 a year in per petuity. Acoording to a recast speech of the Bishop of Loodoo, at Islington, the immense of all livings bevies the care of populations of 8,000 persona are to be raised immediately to 3001. • year, and the present amount of greats made by the commission may be expected to be ultimately doubled. The commission has been under the peculiar care of the archbishops and of the episcopel member of the Eatable Committee—from 1850 to 1856—Bishop Blomfield; from 1856, the Bishop of Winchester. The Estates Committee are at present the Fad of Chichester, the Right Hoe. E. P. Roarer* the Right Hon. 8. H. Walpole, and Lord Viscount Everaley, with (ea before mentioned) the Bishop of Winchester as episcopal member.—Tines. HEALTH OP LOEDON. It appears from the weekly return of the Regis trar-General that the total number of deaths in Loudon in the week medial; on Saturday was 1,312. It differed little from that of the previous week ; bat the deaths at 60 years dap and upwards roes from 244 to 285. The average amber of deaths for the aftyosneed week, derived from the returns of that week to tea 1853-62, is, with a correction for iOllOllOlO of popalatioe, 1,558. The actual number is km by 246 them that *Maned by celealatioa. There were 14 deaths from small-pox, sad 44 (rent manta Six of those caused by the letter disease were returned in Sown Town, and Sin the subdistrict, Lambeth Chutchi, mooed part. Searialisa was fatal I. 78 ewes, 6 of TWO; were in Ktmitit Ton Bin lalingt9s_ Bronobitis Wto mat fatal in the Tees of all the diseases oe the list ; it war recorded in 164 cease, whilst the corrected ave nge in ten corresponding weeks is 185. The deaths from bronchitis rose as onapared with the numbers of two pre vious weeks ; bat those from pneumonia, which were 81, showed a decrease. Wkop-cough honased decidedly ; it wee fatal to 49 chadrea. Than 1141,11 138 deaths from phthisis. Three rams of murder or manslaughter, 2 of which were deaths of infants, were recorded is the week. Only Oyu acospearisas died ; they were widows, ssd 92 sad 95 years. Lad week the births of 806 boys sad 727 girls, in all 1,532 children, were registered in 'London. lo the ton eorrespooding weeks of the years 1853-62 the avenge somber (corrected) was 1,828. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mesa height of the barometer in the week was 29.970 inches. The mean daily reading was above 30 teethes on three days of the week. The reading was 30.30 hitches oft the morning of Sunday ; and fell to 29.70 inches co Tanediv. The mesa temperature of the air in the week was 42.5 dews., which in 5 degs. above the average of the Isms week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Malabar). The mean temperature was stove the average 011 every day except Tuesday ; and as the last three days the meat was from 8 dogs. to 11 dep. The thermometer fall below the ironies point of water ea two nights ; the lowest reading was 26.5 dep. us Wider- day. The highest day temperature wee 61.9 dews. as Saturday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 25.4 dews. The mean daily reap was 12.2dep. Tin nage on three days was only 7 sad 8 dep. The different* between the mean dew-point torapersturs and air towipenture war 4.6 dep. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 84, complete saturation beds( repreassied by 100. The wind blew from a westerly point ; ea Tuesday hem the mirth wait, and afterward, from the month-west and west. There was no rain measured. The mesa of the highest tampers tun:4 of the water of the Thames was 44.2 dep. ; that od the lowest was 42.0 dap. WAR-017ICZ, Dsc. 29.—Tbe Queen has been pmieutly pleased .11ive onion for tbe appoiutment of er Colonel Alimand Tulloh, of the Royal Artillery, baviag the temporary reek of major-gesieral while he mood as the director of Grubman, to be aa ordinary member of the civil division of the third ohms, or companions, of the Hest Hooonrable Order of the Beak --Gazette. Tin FRIEND OF TMI 011111wi CourOMATION.-- Tbe NessicA will be perfameed ea Tarim amt, Jim. 5, at Exeter-ball, in aid M the feeds of the gyre ladittitioli, established for the mem el making provision for the widows and unmarried orphan daughters of clergymen, aid also for exteedirm relief to elergymma under eiretunsteness of temporary difficulty. The eratarie wfi he 'wasted with more than ordinary brilliaecy, Mama Ooldsobehill (JelloY Lied) baviog offered bar market, with whom are coo. joined Madame Saintoe-Diffley, Hr. Waive Cooper, sad Mr. Weiss. Hr. Otto Golan:Maids will oradset. ENGLAND AND ITALY. The Brussels bidependance says that the recent declaration of the ministerial journal at Turin, the Stampa, that Italy will not be the first to give the signal of war, is due to the influence of England ; and the Discussions of Turin tells us that "Oount Pasolini, sent on a mission to Paris and Loudon, has returned quite undeceived as to the good will of the English ministers with regard to the Italians." "This is in confirmation," says the Indepeodnuce, " of what we have said of tbe coun sels given by England to Italy respecting the pro jects of aggression against Austria." RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg in the Nord nye : The Emilia\ Club [lt bee bees before explained that the " English Club" of St. Petersburg is e misnomer, there being now sanely any Englishmen in it] of this city, the members of which belong almost exclusively to the aristo cracy of the country and to the high Swoop, ham just pan ' ted to the Vioe:Chancellor Gortchakoff the title of , honorary member. This is an honour which the English Club rarely confers. If lam not mistaken it I. only Prices Paskiewitch, after the campaign in Poland, Prince Eariatis. sky, after the @amender of Schamyl, and Count Nees'rode, chancellor of the empire, that have been °moldered worthy of that favour. This will explain to yon how highly the services of Prince Gortchakoff are appreciated, and bow much the lien of conduct he has pursued during the late negotiations is approved of. A grand banquet has table place at the club in honour of the new member. Speeches were delivered, and every passage which related to the intimate union of the Bosnian nation with its Sovereign was loudly applauded. HORRORS OF RUSSIAN RULE IN POLAND. A letter from Gumbinnen (Eastern Prussia) con tains the following : The situation of Lithuania at the end of November may be thus briefly summed up. Several hundred capital °zeta iiolll4 accompanied by circumstances of cruelty, bad taken place without any regular trial. More then forty thousand persona, chiefly nobles, ecclesiastics, and landowners, had been carried off into the interior of Russia, no one knew where, without any opportunity of proving their innocence, and, for the most part, on groundless accusation,. The above number certainly dam not exceed the truth, as may be seen from the official lista published by the Russian authorities, from which it appears that the num bers transported from Lithuania within the last nine months are :-15,000 from the government of Witte', 12,000 from Sown°, 10,000 from Orodno, 3,800 from Auguetowo (re cently ad to Lithuania), 3,500 from Vitebsk, 3,000 from Mobilew—in all, 47,300. The prisons of Wane, Dusabnrg, Boom, Orodno, Mobilew, Vitebsk. and Bialystok were crowded with persons 'awaiting death or traesportetion to make room for other victims. It is scarcely necessary to mention the butcheries en muse committed on armed bands of insurgents who fell into the power of the Russian troops. A system of brutality had been organised and continued to be carried out with in messing vigour against women, especially three of the upper classes. Overwhelming taxes, decreed by the Emperor Alexander's lieutenants, as much from political motives as from the necessity of meeting the expels,e of such a mode of government, oppressed all owners of property,' especially the nobles, to ouch an extent that many of them, being usable to pay their enormous contributions within the time allowed, were stripped of all they possessed acid reduced to indigenes. As a counterpart to the loyal ad dresses extorted by the Russian authorities, the most ardent declarations of devotedness to the national government had been been drawn up, in spite of the reign of terror, it every part of Lithuania, and had received about 250,000 signatures in the course of a few days. (uaymes Tigizoiams.) AMERICA. (Pa the Etna). NEW YORK, Die. 19. (vu Crookhaveo). The Fedorals are falling back in East Tennessee before Longstreet, who has turned against his pursuers. _ _ . The New Orleans papers repeat an improbable report that the Mexicans had recaptured Puebla. The Heels, Hibernian, Australasian, and City of Washington have arrived out. - THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. FRANKFORT-ON-TIMIAINE, Die. 29, EVENING. The following is the text of the Austro-Prussian motion introduced in yesterday's sitting of the Federal Diet :—" That the Confederation should require Denmark definitely to suspend the No vember Constitution with regard to Schleswig, and should at the same time notify that in case of re fusal the Confederation will be compelled to obtain a pledge for the fulfilment of its just demands by the military occupation of Schleswig. " That the Federal Diet shall also request the military committee to submit propositions for rais ing the forces possibly required for the occupation of Schleswig to the necessary strength." THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLAU, Dsc. 30. Arrests continue to be made in Warsaw, particu larly at the hotels. The National Government Las made a fresh appeal to the insurgents in arms. In telligence received from Radom states that Chimie linski has been shot at that place. JAPAN. PARIS, Dsc. 30. According to news received here from Alexandria the parties of the Tycoon and Prince Satsuma had agreed upon the expulsion of foreigners from Japan. Te yielding of the Tycoon was attributed to the mamae exercised by Prince Satsum► THE BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. (By Telegraph from Lisboa) BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 28. Wet salted bider, 35 to 38 ; dry American, 33 to 37. Wool, 85 to 102. Tallow, 14}. Lumbar, 34. Flour, native advancing. Refined sugar, 174. Imports paralysed owing to the depreciation of the currency and the unsettled state of affairs. MONTE VIDEO, Nov. 30. Exchange, 521-3. Wet salted hides, 5.30. Dry American, 4.74 to 5. Dry German, 5.20 to 5.60, &woe, small transactions. Wool, 3.80. Tallow, 1.65. Imports unaltered, very dull. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Dic. 30. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Shannon, with the above mails, passed Horst Castle at ILI° a.m. this day. Several of the Continental journals contain the following paragraph :—" A submarine vessel, of colossal dimensions, is now being built at Cronetedt, in the con stroctioo of which 2,000 tons of iron and steel will be used. She is to be moved by two large engines, worked by com pressed air, is to be armed with powerful spur, and will carry every ameasory foe axing to the hulls of vessels large cylinders of powder to be fired by electricity. Large glass covered openings will enable the crew to direct the coarse of the veers' ; they will also be able to regulate the depth at which she is to swim, but in general the vessel will be sear the ettrfaos. The Emperor recently signed a decree appropriating 673,000 fr. for the construction of the sea mender." ------- A well-kuown modiste bag been in the habit of purehiwieg in Paris Honiton lams worth a hundred dollars per yard, trimming her old dresses therewith, and passing them through the New York custom-hones ea a portion of her wearing apparel. The pleasant little operation was repeated far the last time the other day, and the queenly looking lady drew her check for 10,000 dollar to mottle arrearegm at the constorn-heme.—Nets York paper. PAUSAIII.I. THURSDAY. ON NORTHERN rarDAr. W N. ICE., COosro. N. W. to N.K. and back, fresh. troth to atzong, *owe hLL _ _ _ N.W. to N.E. and E., WiIITIRN. moderate to fresh. B.E. and S.W., strong, some Wow or rain As next above. MIDDLE As next above. NW. to N.E , mode- Boirtfignit. E. to S. and W., mode rate to fresh, fine. rate to strong, some rain or snow. N.W. to N.E. and S.E., EASSEAX. AS Uslt above. fresh, fine. Northern=Scotland. Western= Ireland. Middle=Wsles opposite and adjacent. amrrl crn.English Channel and Biscay Bay. Nam grim Eastward England and Ileligolanit. CHRISTMAS " FESTIVITIES" AT DUBLIN. —Four hundred primness were brought before the magistrates at the two police-courts in Dublin oil Monday, charged with drunkenness and offences arising therefrom. They had all been arrested in the coulee of Saturday night and Sunday. In consideration of the festive season they were very leniently dealt with, being let off with small fines, except those who had been rash enough to resistor assault the constables, and who were mulcted in heavy penalties. GREAT DESTROMON or FARM PRODUCE—On Sunday morning, about 3 o'clock, a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. Thomas 11111 a, of Newchurcb, Roansymarsb, Kent. About 12 o'clock on Saturday night the waggoner's mate, named Crust, returned home, and before retiring to rest he went into the stable to see that all was secure, and about three hours afterwards the Lire was discovered. A messenger was despatched to New Romney to procure the fireanguse belonging to the cor poration, which reached the scene of disaster about 5 o'clock. Efforts were at first directed to prevent the fire spresdiog. There were emend stacks of corn in the yard, Melodies three of wheat estimated to amide 100 quarters. The wheat stacks burnt rapidly, and the engine appeared to have little effect in checking the flames. Ooe horse in the stable perished, but four very valuable horses in a stable near were liberated. A barn, containing a thrashing machioe, a stack of untbrashed beans, and about 15 quarters of beans io sacks. and modry agricultural implements, was totally destroyed. There are ose or two bniklings con tiguous, but they escaped. The estimated loss is stated to be near 6001., but we understand that the property is iosured io the Alliameafice. Nothing is koown as to the origin of the Are. Disrassamo SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon a oung woman threw herself from the parapet of a lofty in Stamford-street, at the south-west owner of Berndt-street, Blackfrisra, and died shortly afterwards from the injuries she received. She was a domestic servaat, and is said to have lived there only • few days, so that little is known of her at present. The unfortunate creature. who must have fallen from • height of 30 or 40 feet, was precipitated is the area, and her mangled remains were towards evening removed to ► neighbouring deadhouss. A PILOT STABBED WHILE IN CHARGE OP A VESSEL. Another of those cases of stabbing by seamen, which have been so frequent in this port of late, occurred on board • Spanish ship in the Mersey last night. It appears that the ship Maria y Vicente arrived in the river yester day in charge of James Beery Irvine, pilot, of No. 6 pilot boat, who resides at 126, Wellington-road. The ship authored opposite the King's Dock. it being Intended to dock her at high tide. While in the river tea wee ordered, and Irvine requested the cook of the vessel, Orissa San Francisco, a Malay, to bring him some sardine/. Os hearing the order the cook evinoed a sulky disposition, muttered something which could not be distinguished, and refused to comply with the pilot's request. A short time afterwards Irvine repeated the order, when the cook again muttered an unintelligible ex pression. Irvine then gave the cook a slight push, and turned away. A minute afterwards Irvine felt some thing trickling down toe of his legs, and on looking saw that he was stabbed in the thigh, and that blood was flowing copiously from the wound. The cook went to another part of the ship, and Irvine, who sou io a fainting condition, as soon as the vessel had been anchored in the basin, went on shore and gave information of the occurrence to police constable Barrow, No. 7. This officer, in company with police-constable :366 and 523, got a boat, went on board the vessel, end asked for the cook. They were told that he waa in the forecastle, and of ter they had called to him he came on deck. They told him that he wu charged with stabbing Irvine, when he replied that he was cutting chips and that Irvin fell against his knife. On being asked by the police. officers where his knife was, be went to the galley and pro duced it. The knife, a formidable looking instrument, with a blade about five inches loag, was covered with blood. The injured man, who had lost • peat quantity of blood, was conveyed in a cab to the Northern Hospital, where the wound was dressed, and be was thee conveyed home. The surgeons stated that though Irvine was not in immediate danger the wound was a most serious one, and it is doubtful whether he will be able to appear before the magistrates to-d San ay. Francisco was conveyed to the main bridewell, and will this morning be brought before Mr. Itaffies.—Licerpool Mercury. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIB DAY.) WiDNISDAT, Dicm so, 8 'A. IL B. ilt SIR JOHN PAKINOTON ON EDUCATION 4ND THE PUBLIC PRESS. The annual soirée of the Kidderminster Church of England Mutual Improvement Society took place M th e Music Hall, Kidderminster on Monday evening. Th em ware about 1,000 pinions present, the majority being w i t h the ladies. Amongst the principal guests were the Ma w (the Rev. T. L Claughton), who is president of the society; Sir John Pakingtoa, M.P. ; Hon. Major Anna, M.P.,lt e , The vicar having °pried the proceedinp, sod the repeal of the society haring been read, Sir JOlllf PAKINOTON Mood its adoption. He elptileid his hops that then societies, each is its separate locality should all be exerting themselves to women the moral ar e i intellectual improvement of the people. He thought it matter of great oongratulation, is a satins' point of We. that the public mind was now ocinviseed of the seesuity that great object, sad the public mind, let him toll them_ was manned of it sot use day too woo. They were lama in Reeked, they were justly proud of their freedom. They wamprood of it because it was • freedom more real sod more genuine than was punned by any other country in th e world. But, like other good things, this freedom was soma. times pushed a little to excess, and amongst other proofs ' of it in this country then was no doubt of the fact that for • very long period of years they had felt free in &mind, he thought, to neglect—he said for • loan period of years, because be by no means meant to ignore, on the mbar, he fully recognised, the pest and suocessful offside of late yean—but he said for a loog period of time they did feel free to neglect the intellectual cultivati on e i those peat muses of the people upon whose intalligew n and character the prosperity of that great empire so stably depended. (Cheers.) The result of that neglect had base —it was perhaps not a Very acceptable fact, bat it was • fact nevertheless—the molt had been that basked was laggi eg bellied many parts of the world in the intellectual cultivation of the people, an the appliances of education, in the mesas required to cultivate the intellect. They were behind the United States of Atomics, they were behind some of thew colonies and depeodeacies—those you°, communities which, now springing into active life, had learnt to know that, w ith the liberal institutions which we hadgranted them, thank. stitutions could only be safe if carried out by an InlArketad and enlightened people. If they wasted proof- if soy one wanted proof the fade to which he bad adverted, that they had no time to lose in pressing forward national educe. tioo, he would briefly mention two pub: mations which were to be had by any person who liked to apply to • bookseller for them. They bad all no doubt bau of d the fact that within the last few years • Royal Commission bad bees cos. aideriog the great subject of the education of the people a y England. That commissioe, amongst other step to whisk they resorted, very wisely and very prudently, sa he thought, sent an asstatent commissioner to travel our Europe, and report upon the state of education in otbie countries. That report was one which he would refer to all who took an interest in and wished to know what wu ous condition compared with other civilised nations. Another document equally accessible to all was the report of the om national section of the leternatioesl Exhibition of last year. He recommended that report to all who took an Miami in this question, and there they would find, in a very kid, compendious form, information as to the real politico in which we stood. He had mentioned not only the improvement made in other States of Europe, bet also in the United States. Now, there were two great branches of this great educational question—the intellectual cultivation, and the moral and religions cultintion. He did not hold out to them as an example, the mode in which the United States of America had dealt with the religious breach of that question. (Hear hear.) It wee a branch to which they in England atta ched the greatest and most just and proper importance. They held in E q . land—h. believed that with regard to the greet bulk of the people he was justified in so expressing lilineelf—they held that no education could be sandectory, or could be what it ought to be, to train a citizen for his duties even in this world, unless together with intellectual colt'. mann, they combined full and sufficient religious Untrue. tion. On that point he did not hold out the United States of America as an example. But he did tell them, and he had told other assemblies again and that again, th in respect to the intellectual and secular portion of their system we bad, be believed, very much to learn from them. He was tempted to advert, in alluding to the system education which had obtained, and certainly in many m meets which had obtained with very great sowers, in the United Stater of America—he was disposed to thick he should not occupy their time unprofitably if he andel for • few remnants to the speech which he read with very great admiration a short time ago, as having been made at meeting of the Educational Institutes of Lancashire by Lord Harlington. Lord Hartiegton was • yenta rue occupying • position in her Majesty's government He was a young man of high intelligence, el great promise, and great ability, and not long since he made a tour in the United States, nand devoted his mind to the oonsideratioo of the Matta. lions of that country. And lately, in addressing this meet ing of Educational Institutes in Lancuhire, Lord Harting too adverted, in what broth him (Sir John Pakiogtor) as very just and sensible leavings, to what he had observed in that country. Lord Hann:etas said, "The school tide cation of American children is not is all cases very judiciou There is, even while the children are at school, a Widenry to exaggerate everything—to make them admire more chit is large than what is good ; and above all, what is Americas than what is anything else." Bat it is when the children have school that the bad influences get hold of the national de racier, which prevent its being SS great and so good as other wise it might be. However widespread the education, I believe that after boys have left wheel the mato part of the reading of ninety-nine hundredths of the people will be the reading of the daily press ; and the daily press in America, from reasons which it wall take too long to enter into here, i certainly not the Milder ton food which tends to make • people great, or generous, or good." Lord Harlington said shortly afterwards "Newspapers will always les • very great portion of the m• tellectual food of a people, and our own are conducted is very different spirit. False and wrong their views may dim be, but in general they are advocated fairly and tempo rately, the arguments are addressed to the judgment of the people, or to the best and noblest, and not to the base and vulgar prisioss of humanity." He had adrenal to that portion of Lord Hartiogtoo's speech which arum him very much, because be thought it touched c matte in connexion with the intellectual cultivation of its people of this country, which was of the highest intern and importance. Amongst the great changes whisit tad distinguished the progtw which had been so remarkable in this country of tla years there were few, if any, mew remarkable and more interesting than what be might ad the revolution which had taken place in the public Fees d this country. A few years ago the newspaper might Is considered as coo of the luxuries of the rich, but sow lb newspaper had become one of the necessities of the nisV. A few years ego what was the press of England' As press of England consisted of • few daily paper.. publihol London, and as regarded the local press of a few sere papers, for the most part high priced. What was the side of affairs at protect! Why the . leading means' of Loehr were redaoed to half their price, sod th e re was ecazoily s ad :F e b is o f la rge published importancea exercised upon the national ehatacter was almost sr populationw a ee i nne wspape r , r :a d c e wh en penny. :ar whichy.t t he n To reo the r° senw pets ig friends of the purple ought to watch with more earnestaew and anxiety than that of the character of the British pre& the English ibl Eng hadeal liah Loire press rdakhalidart : en gd WrPued: b h e ehiad k td ne irieraW w tmahld f tht i :h t m h ig i i ng hnhsoct e wbita w umiti° h °e ich .r:bi al l:l mo H t a tih vi erm :g rea e r o d l r a i r i g essp ol f au.d op l e; thil th t. i hk s rtivact su im bjec pa t, ,zd S t ir t: Jo l li b nil io u l d f ed :dia to . educational institutes. He concluded with wishing every prosperity to the institution in ammonia) with which they were met together. Admiralty instructions — have been received at Chatham, directing that in future all engineer studeou attending dockyard schools are to be granted two lord leave of absence at Christmas and Midsummer in each yen without being checked in their pay. A novel accident occurred to the train ou the Cork and Passage line on Christmes•day. It was of iii. menu length, and carried 7,00 D passengers. The opriae of one of the carriages gave way from the gre.t weight upon them, leaving the body of it to rest upon the w horls In a short time the friction caused the wood to Irak. the Sr. was seen in time and the train wan stopped. tbs passengers being obliged to walk the rest of the joust'''. The Legitimist journals announce that Count de Christen has arrived in Paris. RZNOVAL OF TER MILITARY ()CARD FROM IV Blume Monmrst.—To-ilay Uwe long established custom d maintaining a military guard at the British Museum !rw, distootioned. The sentinels on duty at the prierr entmoce were permaneotly displaced, and the sentry boil removed. The duty of watcbiog over the misty of the sawed collections will to future devolve on the men polio' police, • party of whom relieved the military, and will be constantly stationed within the building. The new sr rangement extends to the Natioeal Gallery and the olio public institutions, where it was simultaneously carried odes' EXETER-HALL. — The Sacred Harmonic 1 4 ..c1et, next performance will take place under the dire ction Mr. Coats on Friday, January 15th, being a subspum concert. RAILWAY Ae.•IDENT. — A few days sauce Mr . Arthur Jones attempted to get into one of the earrito of the Oystermouth Railway when the train WO 110.1 f 0 motion, but slipped and fell, when one of the cairUfe passed over his foot. Upon being conveyed to his rev donee amputation of one of the toes was found sieeessir. which was successfully done by Dr. Williams, of Swam. and Mr. Jones improved for . some days. On Swab!. however, be expired somewhat unexpectedly. Mr. Joses had fi lled the office of clerk to the Hones of Cam oll''' for the IS" thirty Years, and was brother to Mrs. Vivian, relict of the late Mr. H. H. Vivia n, Y. Sweats& In 1850 there were 80 sheep in Minnesota wbt yielded 800 lbs. of wed. At the Pr , SADi fu seet'b en. jj d 175,000 sheep there, mad the wool clip will aot be leo than 500,000114. Next year it is estimated that the deco will be half • million, and the wool clip two million Pound` Minnesota paper. Nana .... „ .03;1 Abirtto . si; .Ol'3V Leith 07;41 Ardrostan .15431 Greencastle— .16 42 Cleway lentla 10.16 40 Cape Orr er =l l 7 : : re 1.4 Pembroke homooe . W 46. 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On Sat closed all tiv the the pl a tform train bad eta rushed totem door, and she train stopper out of the au made a repoe la sonnet had given the and at that t her attempth lest she 'bon carriages and Mr. is dcn ni u t applied for be wear three w Mr. 8440 4 Ina a 00171•41: Collgota y gad not have take her fault and fused to do, Pohho they fa Mr. Burets right. The e Mr. Charles rad data% that statics thermos in just am he wa maw the prim to open the did not too toward" her nese. Witco had child is infest were _ —.— Mr. Moot be lug sgaiatt as He lid cum; ooropsay woui wu a poor without reueil coridartbly t sfuldod tyrai totorany. 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