The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

etHAMPAGNE, DRY and DELICATE. ; X../ Plum Nu, quarts tes. pr rethrit_carriage Paid. Itec.tuntended with oonlidence.—HZl4lY Ithi:T and Co., Impwteee, 063 Iroznivars Distillers, Holborn. SC.. sad 30, 11kt:cut-Sweet, Waterioo.place, BOX-111S-EARS.—PIESSE and LUBIN'S new PKlat'llE for the teetivithe, the aKUVI to Stolen i gam else ate Boner de Coverley by itavoor, three bottles, in pretty oak re. : or else. bottle, b. at None Antis without our mun• writtng.—PLESSE and Lt'BIN. Bond-.test, Loudon S/MOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. CLULLIt. BEALE, and WOOD •••• • larip eamorunnt et wooed-Mad Plaaatorlag by the most soleskotl oaken, at peals mimed prima -9M. 1.41M1-elriet. at, •xlreoo. Avertisamenta Intended Soy - ' . lLa]tlpnr• landau Events* u4,t he at the hflice, 10, ltouvarbowtraet, by Two oo ctoct on the day of publication. COVENT GA RDILY. Tuts Enema, RUT BLAB. Mews. Hartigan and Rantky : Mi. Louisa Pro*. —And the grand comic Christmas Pant.,mitoe, entitled EA Ul2l BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.—Con d ator : Mr. A. Commence Si ten minutes to 7. MAYILULEBT. innt SYlanin. OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Mown. &Ahern and Beekatose : Mrs. E. PltstrEWant - RAMOSL AS PRINCS Or ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton and Wm L Keeley. —And MX& WHITE. Mr. Compton and Mtn Harlenr. PRP:CR.IM Tim MVEMIG, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE Was Coestance Aylmer. -And the Pantomime, RIQUET WITH TRY TUFT : or. Herleinin and Mother Minton. Maws. Matto, R. Power, and AM/ord. 1i A. collanson. BRITANNIA. TRH Priem, the Pantomime, AEON HASSAN. Wm Lane. Hamra. CULLY. Loa* Newham, and Wile. Celeste Stephan ; Tom Sayer* and bia two primula, llnies.—And SOME ELLS THAT RANG.—Commence at baltvaet 0. WOE WATIM AT LONDON MUDGE. TIED DAT —lleroblA. 21. 17m.....A.fterenes. 210- 3Ses. Zu-aoiutOW—ltortlaa, 9A 64a.. ..Atimeass. L. 9a. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 5. Ir is time to glance once more at the statistics of a trade which now unhappily numbers some three hundred thousand unemployed operatives, and the present prostration of which is seriously affecting the interests of many hundreds of thou sands of persona in other branches of business. A few facts and figures relating to the course of the cotton trade during the past year may serve to place in a familiar light the completeness of the dislocation which has occurred, and the mag nitude of the transition which is still in progress. Tke fluctuation in the prices of cotton has been tre moat remarkable ever known : on the Ist January, 1862, " middling Orleans" was quoted at 12d. per lb., and the Indian sort known as " fair Broach" at Sid. With numerous oscilla tions, quotations ran up until in September last they touched the highest point ever known, namely, 2s. 6d. and Is. 90. respectively, show ing a rise of no leas than one hundred and fifty per cent A great speculative reaction followed, and in the middle of November the same sorts of cotton commanded only ls. 7d. and Is. 3d. per lb. Well may the annual circulars affirm, on looking back at the eventful year, that " the ad " vane has frequently been so rapid as to out " strip the fastest of speculators, and been fol " lowed by a fall so great as to appal the boldest." The present quotations for the above-mentioned qualities of cotton are respectively 2s. and ls. 6d. per lb., being an advance of almost exactly one hundred per cent. established between the Ist January, 1862, and the Ist January, 1863. These unprecedented and bewildering variations in the value of the raw material could not fail to be attended with a paralysing effect on industry. Accordingly, the quantity of cotton taken for con sumption by spinners and manufacturers during the year ham fallen off by one-half as compared with last year, the average weekly delivery having heed 22,033 bales, against 43,340 in 1861, and 50,590 in 1860. Thus, in the aggregate, only 1,145,716 bales have been taken for consumption in the past year, whereas in 1861 2,253,700 were taken, and in 1860 2,630,993. The export trade has been similarly affected, the shipments of cotton yarn having fallen off to the extent of about 50 per cent, while the decrease in those of cotton goods has amounted to seven hundred and ninety one millions of yards. Figures of this amount give some idea of the vastness of the depart ment of national industry now so grievously de preened. The reason why the exports have de dined so materially ia, simply, that while textile cotton fabrics are now at about double the value they commanded a twelvemonth ago, thereby checking consumption, the rise which has taken place at Manchester has not been adequately responded to in those foreign markets to which we look as the chief outlet" for our manufactures, and the principal purveyors of employment and wages to our operatives. The whole trade is still suffering from the recklessness with which cacao sae consignments were previously made, without regard to the capacity of foreign consumption. It is noticed that even during this last month of December nearly all the business transacted at Manchester in India 'hidings and other fabrics for the East has been merely on speculation. Prices are still much lower in India than they are here, and as long as this anomalous con dition of things lasts there can be no real relief from the great Oriental market. It is also justly pointed out as another great anomaly that throughout the past year the price of good American cotton has been above that of the cloth manufactured from it. If the reader, therefore, will bear in mind the double fact, as we may call it, that, though prices in Manchester are actually above those current in India, they are not by any means high enough to allow manufacturers to go to work upon cotton at its present exorbitant value, be will perceive that a very extensive relative re adjustment of prices must take place before busi ness can be replaced upon a solid or reliable foot ing. Prices, both in India and here, and both as regards the raw material and the manufactured article, have yet to be shaken into their proper places before our cotton workers will have a chance of earning their bread again. . . At the same time it is evident that though the recovery in the cotton trade may be yet distant by many months, we are on the high road to it. The course previously adopted was one of error on many points, and on each of these points a reme dial action is now in program.. Thus we had glutted foreign markets, but now we are sending much less to them, and it is only a question of time as to when their revived demand shall over take the diminishing stocks. Other markets bad not been so much abused as those of India, and thus a certain recovery in the demand, vainly looked for as yet from the East, is being already experienced from some of the less distant foreign warehouses. Again, the stocks of goods at home are being drawn upon materially, through the dimi • notion of production at the mills, and as the home public will certainly require to be clothed in much the same way as usual, a prospect of some relief is arising in this quarter. The mstere of the remedial proms will be best grasped if it be assumed that the grand error of the cotton trade was over•produetion—i.e., production in exeess of thn demand for consumption at home and abroad, leading to the accumulation of stocks, partly at home, but chiefly abroad. The natural and only - THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1863. remedy is, of course, a great curtailment of pro duction, and this is precisely whatis being effected, as is attested by the closed mill; diminished con sumption of cotton, and diminished exports of goods and yarns. We repeat, therefore, that it is merely • ques tion as to the time when the demand for goods for consumption at home and abroad shall so far over take the stocks as to establish prices which will enable spinners and manufacturers to buy cotton at its increased quotations and work it up. The arri val of this time must be accelerated by the large ex tent to which the mills have beenclosed. The more idle the mills are, the less cotton do they consume, and the fewer goods do they produce, and this action must operate in the long run both to depress the prices of cotton and to raise the prices of goods, through the stock of the former increasing, while that of the latter diminishes. Such is indeed the only mode in which that adjustment of the relative prices of cotton and cotton goods can be brought about which, as already remarked, must form an indispensable preliminary to the reconstitution of our cotton industry upon a solid basis and to the renewal of general employment. 110 panacea put forward by Government, or any other D4till en machine, can be half so effectuaL Indeed, any official or legislative tinkering with the cotton trade is to be deprecated now more earnestly than ever, because it would have the incalculably mischievous effect of dis arranging everything at the very time when manufacturers and merchants have learnt clearly to discern the legitimate point to which affairs, left to the operation of natural laws, will ultimately tend. It is our duty, individually and collec tively, to do our best to relieve the present severe local suffering, but those who advocate any tam pering by Government with the present recupera tive movement in the trade ought to be denounced as traitors to the common weaL The very want of employment, the painful effects of which induce well-meaning but illogical people to cry out far State interference, is, by reducing the production of goods, the most powerful agent of all for recovery. If people will have re course less frequently to declamation, and more often to charitable personal exertion and sacrifice, at the same time abstaining from all attempt to in terfere with the wholesome operation of the natural laws of commerce, the reign of famine and typhus in Lancashire will be abbreviated more surely than by any means we know of. The re quisite equilibrium between the prices of cotton and those of goods is being slowly but steadily ap proached. When it is reached the mills will re open for work, but they will not do so until then, neither is it desirable, in the permanent interest of the trade, that they should. It is the more requisite to insist upon these points because there is a popular, but fallacious, notion that the stock of cotton is exhausted. The fact is not so by any means, the aggregate stock in the kingdom being now about 433,000 bales. At the beginning of January last it did not ex ceed 700,000 bales, and at the beginning of Ja nuary, 1860, it was but 594,000 bales, so that the immediate deficiency is not absolutely alarm ing. Of the present stock the proportion at Liverpool is 394,000 bales, the discovery having just been made, under circumstances which loudly call for authoritative explanation, that the quan tity is in excess of the estimates hitherto put forth by 100,000 bales, representing a value of probably at least two minima sterling. In other words, it has been found that we possess cotton sufficient for five weeks' oomsumption more than we knew of before. This is, of itself, no small gain. But it may be pointed out that the 433,000 bales which are known to be held at this moment in the kingdom are sufficient for nearly twenty weeks' consumption at the average rate of the whole of the past year, which was of course much above the greatly reduced con sumption at this moment. Confirmation is thus afforded of the view that what is really wanted is not so much cotton as an equilibrium of prices between cotton and cotton goods. Our mills could of course go to work pros perously at the moderate and prudent rate of, say, three days a week on the existing supply of cotton, even at the present high prices, did the prices of the manufactured fabrics present a proportionate remuneration. But it is just here that the shoe pinches, for the prices are not remunerative. This is the point, then, in which amelioration is most urgently needed. The ratio of decrease of 50 per cent. has held good is rather a singular manner in the cotton trade during the past year ; for instance, we have received 50 per cent less of cotton (the imports of all kinds into the kingdom having been 1,445,051 bales, against 3,035,728 in 1861) ; we have used, as shown by the statistics of the consumption before cited, 50 per cent. less ; and we have exported 50 per cent. less of yarn. Its also calculated by com petent authorities, that, putting America entirely on one side, we may get in 1863, from all quar ters, 50 per cent of the ordinary supply of cotton, which would give the workpeople 60 per cent of their usual employment. In other words, all the mills ought some time in this year to be restored to half-time. It need scarcely be said that, after what our poor people have gone through, even this moderate gain would be hailed with lively satisfaction. At the last meeting of the Lancashire Relief Committee at Dublin, a letter was reed from the Rev. Mr. Heaney, • priest at Blackburn, who said :—" From a twelvemonth's experience as • member of every committee, and, with one or two exceptions, every sub-committee, I feel great pleasure in being ►ble to say that in Blackburn the catholic* have received • fair and impartial share of public relief. How, then, may I ask, can any catholic journalist, either in Lancashire or Ireland, lend his infln• once to stop the charity of those who thick proper to use their right of giving their money for the support of • people who are even now suffering most severely without say fault at theirs?" Mr. Wollaston Ramadan is appointed Vice- Causal at Satan° do Cuba. THE MIN omit Y .—Visootant Palmerston remains w ith Lady Palmerstoa, at his seat , BroacUands, Hants. Earl Russell is at Pernbrokelodge, Richmond-park. Mr. Cardwell went on Friday to attend the Queen, at her Ma jesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Secre tary Sir George Grey went, in the early part of the week, to pay a visit to Lord Harrowby, at hi seat, fiandoo-hall ; the right hon. baronet is expected to return to London to- MOROI, (Monday). Sir C. Wood remains in the ncrth. Br. Gladstone is at Hawarden Castle, and the Duke of New castle at his seat. Ctumber•park, Notts. The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, president of the Poor-law Board, and Mr. Millie Gibson, president of the Board of Trade, have been io Loudon during the week.-06eerrer. DIMNESS AMONGST THI CAMSON °FIXATIVES IN lITLAIM.—The Freemen's Joanna! says :—" We have re ceived a communication from the operative cotton hellion of Dublin, from which we learn that for three months three operatives have been on half time and half wages, and that DOW the great majority of them are altogether with• oat work. These poor men—patient and tumora -1 plalnieg—bore up against the misfortune that had overtaken them with heroic fortitude ; but hunger will beeak down the bravest &tempt us, and the.* operatives are but men. and being men they appeal through us for some aid under the trying circumstances of their position. They bare no " h an k.b oo lts" to fall beet upon—no savings of years to draw imbe—so spare furniture I. send to the pawn-oMee ; for in the bust days the average the fell hanellks did not exceed l a week, while r il n :m of it, of the handvdid not reach even abet Sgere. feel assared that something will be dose for these patient saffereve, who in common with their brother operative. in ' Leneseltire suffer from the one sans—• muse wig Whki they have and can have no possible control." gbe Court. -4- OSBORMIL, JAL 3. The Queen drove out yesterday, attended by the Countess of Gainaborough and Mejor•General the Hon. A. N. Hood. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell arrived yesterday, and had an audience of the Queso. SUNDAY. Her Majesty drove oat yesterday aeseinpanied by the Princess Beano& Colonel the Hon. A. Harding. attended on boneblack. The Prince/is Louis of Here took set airing. This morning the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, PAWS Leopold, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Louis of Hesse ettanded divine service at Whippingliam Church. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Lord High Commiseiceer of the lonian Islands, and from the Governor of the Falkland Island,. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lbuan, Canada, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. THE PRINCE or WILL/ —His Royal Highnesa the Prince of Wales is expected to Tint his recently acquired estate at Sandringham, Norfolk, to-day. It is understood that Ike Prince will travel from town by a special train on the Great Eastern Railway to the Wolleiton Station on the Lynn and Hunstanton branch, which is within easy distance of the mansion. In that case his stay at the Lynn Station will be very brief, and it is intended that the visit shall be of a strictly private character. A portion of the Prince's stud and carriages were to precede him, his royal highness proposing to devote some attention to field sports. The mansion at Sandringham hoe received several additions, Ro., but it is expected that its interior fittings will yet be greatly enriched. Probably in these matters, however, the tastes of theprincess Alexandra will be consulted, and nothing further will be undertaken for the present. THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA. —A Copenhagen letter of the 30th ult. says :—" The Hoe. A. B. Paget, the Eng lish Minister at this Court, end M. Ball, the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has received special powers from the King on the subject, have comnaseced the necessary negotiations relative to the marriage contract of the Prim es, Alexandra. A sum of 100,000 rix dollars (about 12,0001.) to be voted legislatively, will be allowed by Denmark to the Princess. A lady of hour= is to accom pany her Royal Highness to London, but will only remain with her during the stay of the Prince and Princess of Denmark in England. Prince Frederic will probably stop is that country for some time after his sister's marriage, and he intends, it is said, to study for some months at Oxford." The Naples correspondent of the Times writes : All that concerns any son of our Queen must be of inte rest to Englishmen, and we frequently hear much pleasant gossip. " nue several times been on board here and else where," said a gentleman to me, "without finding the Prince. He was up aloft, I was told. At lent I met him. who I Missend, ' War, I am unfortunate ; your royal high ness is alw►ys aloft when I visit the St. George.'" Their Royal Highnesses the Duchene of Cam oridge and the tPrinotas Mary intend to honour the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort by a visit at Badminton featly in the ensuing week. The Duke and Dneheas of Bucoleuch are enter taining a enooeedon of visitors at Delkeith Palaoe, near Edinburgh. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are shortly winded in Belgrave-nquare from Buchanan Howe, Stir- The Marquis of Tweeddale has loft town for Seagate, Kent. We (Peat) understand that Colonel Lord Arthur Hay, who by the death of his brother, the Earl of Gifford, becomes heir apparent to the family honours, does not intend to take his deceased brother's title, but will adopt that of Viscount Walden, an old title conferred as far beak as 1691. The Marquis of Donegal' laid week entertained, at Harnstead Park, Berke, the Duke ol Cambridge, with other visitors who had been invited to meet his royal highness. The noble marquis's preserves being well stocked with game some excellent sport was afforded, The Marquis Conyngbam will leave Hamilton plass in a few days for his seat in Inland. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have entertained a =cordon of guests during the past week at Apthorpe, their seat in Northamptonshire. The Earl de Grey Etas returned to town from Studley Park, mar Ripon, and resumed his official duties at the Warofilee. The Countess of Fife arrived at her residence in Grosvaeas-plasa on Saturday from hton. Lord Henry and Lady lllrica Thynne have returned to Maiden Bradley from Wort Ling. _ _ The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., has left Whitehall•gardens on his return to Ireland. Lady Emily Peel is staying at Nice for the winter, and we learn that her ladyship is in improved health. Lieutenant-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Totten ham, family, and suite have arrived at their Irish residence, Woodstock, county Wicklow, from their seat in Wales. The Duke of Sutherland arrived at Naples yesterday week from Kama Use on board his yacht the Undies. The Duke of St. Albans has gone to Corfu. We (Dublin Evening Mail) are happy to be able to state that Chief Justice Lefroy has satirey recovered from his recent indisposition, and is at present on a visit with Sir John Ribton, Bert., at Bray. It is his lordship's intention to open his own court on Monday week, the first day of next term. The Observer says that the trustees appointed to carry out the intentions of Mr. Peabody in his munificent gift to the poor of London have visited various localities and selected sites for improved dwellings Plans have been drawn a nd contracts are in progress. In a letter from Mr. Henry J. Raymond, pub li►bd in the New York Tinier, giving an amount of the cabi- net crisis ad its miuses.weread:—" President Lincoln listened with attention to all that was said. Hs et:premed the pro found solicitude which be felt on the subject they had brought before him, and the overwhelming anxiety which oppressed him concerning the oondition of the country and the progress of the war. What the country wanted, he said, was military vetoes& Without that nothing could go tight; with that nothing could go wrong. He did not see haw the measure proposed by the committee would furnish the remedy required; if be had a cabinet of angels they could not give the country military success, and that was what was wanted, and what most be had." The death of the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has reduced the number of French cardinals to 6ve. The following are their names and ages :—Cardinel Archbishop of Chambery, born the 28th of February, 1748; Cardinal de Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons, born 30th of October, 1787; Cardinal Ganes* Archbishop of Rheims, born the let of May, 1792 ; Cardinal Donoet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, born the 16th of November, 1795 ; and Car dinal Mathieu, Archbishop of Breaocon, born the 29th of January, 1796. Riatori made her first appearance in Maria &oar& a few nights ago at the Fondo, Naples, and was rewired with enthusiasm. Oo the following evening OisdiUu was performed, is which the great actress took the principal character. During the faro* which followed • Falafel event occurred. Tho audience were leaving their smote in that lode and noisy manner which has of late con verted the theatres Into bear gardens, when one of the actors, who was evidently much annoyed, remained with hie arms extended, p walyeed as it were for several seconds, and then fell back apparently dead. The curtain fell directly, and the poor fellow, who had had an apoplectic stroke, was taken home in • daemon. state. Norma is still the stock piece ►t Ban Carlo. Titian; was expected about the sth or 6th. The new number of the Revue dee Deux Monde, draws a forcible picture of the distress in the cotton manu facturing districts of Normandy, sod makes as eloquent appeal in their behalf, and very properly rebukes the French pries for their silence on the subject. In the department of th e Low er Seine alone, 100,000 workmeo —that is to say, 100,000 or 300,000 persons —are now reduced to absolute destitution, and their prospects show no chance of improve ment for many month, to come. According to th e A rc h. bishop of Rouse the railway atatioss are besieged d e , and night by troops of children beseeching the charity of the yeasengers as each train arrives, sad bands of hunger. stricken artisans wander about the country from farmhouse to farmhouse imploring shelter and breed. This is the state of things vouched for by the archbishop in his pastoral letter, and yet, as Y. Pomade very justly asks, is it not singular that, with one solitary aroispisos, nose of the Paris papers have thought fit to make kaowa this appaLliss distress to their readers I LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. The following is the text of the address presented on New Year's-day by the municipality of Berlin to the King of Prussia, and which they had refused, lie has been before mentioned, to communicate pre liminarily to the Minister of the Interior : Most High, Powerful, and gracious King and Lord,—At the moment of entering upon a new year, we yield to the desire which brings us every year to the foot of the throne, in order to convey to your Majesty the assurance of our most siemens devotedness and most respectful homage. It is from the bottom of our hearta that the wishes' arise which we express in the name of the citizens whom we represent. May the Almighty take under His holy keeping the life and health of your Majesty. May He bless the solicitude of your Majesty for the welfare of our country, and mown it with happy fruits. It is that devoted and indefatigable solici tude which strengthens as in the confidence that your Majesty will succeed in putting an end to the serious complications with which—we believe it to be our duty to declare this to your Majesty frankly—we enter upon the new year. The lamentable conflict which termin►tes the year that has just passed away, without having been settled in the year which has just opened—that conflict which places in dispute the bases of the con stitution—the longer it shall last the more will it create confusion in the minds of the people, mod the snore will it prejudice the prestige of Primo' abroad, which rests on the union of the King with the country. May it plasm your Majesty to enter on a path which will take from us discord, and lead to conciliation. This truly patriotic wish now exists io every heart. We persist in the conviction that the illusions which the enemies of Premiss and bee ocestitution found upon the continuation of internal dissensions will be scattered by the high wisdom and justice of your Majesty ; that this year will be a year of prosperity and moms, and that it will contribute to advance the happy result of the exertions which your Majesty, as you declared in your rescript to the municipal authorities of this city, on the Nth of March, 1960, devotes, and will ever devote to the true union and strength of Prussia and all Ger many. We are, &c., the Municipal Councillors of Berlin. Jan. 1, 1863. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (non °us OWN PARIS, SUNDAY EVENDIO. 1 The Opinion Nationale publishes an almost in credible document from Rome. It is a permit given to a Jew to stay a few days in Velletri, which runs as follows : The Vicar-General of Velletri, having seen and recognised as regular the passports required by the law, hereby grails permission to the lanielite N— to slaws in this town for the space of days, for the sole purpose of transact log lawful business, enjoining him during the whole time of his stay to go home to the lodging which he may choose within one hour after sunset at the latest, and not to leave it before sunrise ; and interdictiog him from ►ccess to any monowiery, conservatory, or other pious place subject to episcopal jurisdiction; also from using any affectionate and familiar terms in convening or treating with Christians. The breach of any of the above prescrip tions will be visited irremissibly by the penalty of imprison meat and a fine of 5 crowns, to be applied to pious uses. Given at Velletri from the vicarial residence, this day of 1862. The Vicar-General J. Vista en. Eli. (L.S.) The Criminal Secretary of the Bishopric, Giov. JLSOSNGFIL The Opinion Nationale ogee several instances without mentioning names (lest the victims should be exposed to fresh cruelties) of monstrous oppres sion of Jews in Rome. They meet with every kind of injustice, and dare not complain, for fear a worso thing happen to them. One of their tribe thus expressed himself on a recent occasion : How and to whom are we to complain ? We are warned that on the slightest remonstrance from us some discharged servant, or somebody or other with whom we may have had deviling', will be found to declare that they have baptised our children, and then our own flesh and blood, the soul of our life, the hope of our redemption, will be taken away from us for ever. The house of Jacob suffered less in Egypt than we do in Rome. Pharaoh contented himself with killing the first born ; be did sot keep them and bring them up to be the cruel enemies of IsraeL You in France are free, bat whet can you do for our deliverance? Have you been able simply to achieve the liberty of Edgar Mor tara? And to think that French sentinels mount guard throughout Rome! Why cannot you at least help us to quit this country? The law and the inquisition detain us here, and will not release their wretched prey. Where is the new Moses? We have but a tingle hope left, and that reposes on the heir of Napoleon L, who was for you in France a liberator, a legislator, sad a warrior. Will this hope also deceive us? May the Eternal who rules the hearts of princes dispose him to pity and justice ! It is indeed a curious subject for reflection that the troops of Baron de Rothschild's guest counte nance the barbarous legislation of the Pope against the Jews, and stand between the stolen child Mor tara and his parents. The France says that on December 28 the governor of Gibraltar harangued the troops of the garrison, and assured them that there was not a shadow of truth in the reported cession of the place to Spain. The Prance denies, with much indignation, the statement, in a correspondence in the Times, that it had received a subvention from the secret service money to enable it to start. ENGLISH POLICY IN THE EAST. The Nord of to-day contains an article entitled "The New Policy of England in the East," the whole of which is founded on the assumption, confidently made, that England is about to change her tactics in the east—that she now seeks to check the progress of Russia by msking Greece the advanced poet of British influence in the European East. The Nord thinks this a stroke of Palmerstonian genius, and that it will give England • powerful agency against both Russia and France. The Nord prints • letter from Mos cow, to which it attributes considerable importance, in which this view is taken. The correspondent declares that, though the new policy is dictated by an anti-Russian sentiment, the public opinion of that country would greatly prefer it to the eon tinned support of " a barbarous and effete domination." It is stated that in a con versation with Lord Napier, in which the latter insisted upon the impossibility of allowing a Russian prince to ascend the throne of Greece, Prince Gortchakoff replied, " Ah, well, there's the difference between you and us! If, in spite of the documents which exclude Prince Alfred, he was called to ascend the Greek throne by the will of the nation, I can assure you that we should not see in it necessarily any motive for jealousy. Provided that he frankly showed himself a Greek prince, and laboured sincerely for the prosperity of the country, we should be quite ready to hold friendly relations with him." THE SHAM REFORMS IN ROME. The Opinion Nationale has the following : Rotes, Dee. 26. It is sot distinctly knows here whether the intention is to give a deliberative voice to a sort of financial consulta, which now exists in name, and is composed of nullities, or worse, or to create • new manilla. At all events, if the individuals called upon to fulfil this ungrateful task are honest and conscientious, it is to be tiered that, however ninth they may desire to find some remedy for the state of the financial administr►tion, they will shrink with de spair from the work when they discover the enormities and inextricable difficultiee which inevitably await them. They will find that the registered public debt, which in 1847 amounted to 206 millions, has more than trebled ; that the book in which this debt is inscribed is entirely at the mercy eta great variety of people—each as, ex. gr., the treasurer, the secretary of state, the committee of subsidies. the delegate, the keepers of the chancery, and the bishops. All these people take upon themselves, separately and arbitrarily, to create new stock and issue state paper. The colusalta will find that there exists • category of titularies celled " vacabilista." be. longing to the college of apostolic writes. (such as abeweri. start, Inbrit ulari, annatisti, &c.) to whom the government sells °Mom for money which goes nobody knows where ; it will find that fully one-third of the Roman population— monks, nuns, priest., cardinals, idle domestics, and beggars —live upon the public treasury ; it will And that many ex traordin►ry measures which the government bad recourse to under the pretext of state monomania' served only to raise mosey for other than pablio purposes : for instance, it will find no trace whatever of the proceeds of the sale of the Duke de Leuchtenberg's property which the curia sold, ner of the millions paid by Spain to buy off the tithes which it was in the habit of rendering to the apostolic chancery. Such enormities, which the mind re fuses to believe, but which, nevertheless, are moat strictly true, were pointed out by the Gaeta ronruita of 1849—the world knows with what result. So lately as 1860, Count Savelli, the president of the present conesaffs, having ven tured to submit a few observations on the financial disorder, ' was at moot dismissed. Well, then, is it possible to believe, whatever powers may be ostensibly given to the new eon. Stall, that it will be permitted to unravel the frightful mys teries of such an administration ? And, in any case, how is • radical remedy to be applied? Nothing can be done with out destroying all those parasitical interests which have ever resisted all idea of reform, and hays thereby reduced the temporal power to its preesat disastrous condition. Ever since 1831 the powers, by reiterated memoranda, and public opinion, by means of the European press, have conti nually demanded reforms ; and, so far from any progress having been made, things are now worse than ever. Tits EVPeaoa NAPOLEON AND 1* H E FRENCH CLERGY. —Le France says :—" When receiving the clergy on New Yeer's day, the Emperor expressed his sorrow at the death of the Archbishop of Paris, adding that the de ceased prelate had left behind him an example of mode ration and wisdom which the whole French clergy would follow."—The Moniker of yesterday publishes the re marks addressed to the Emperor on New Year's day by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. Alluding to the late arch bishop, the speaker said :—" Guided by his counsels and his example, we shall faithfully follow the path he traced out for us, ►nd in the exercise of our holy functions we shall seek, like him, without regard to soy other consideration, how to do the largest amount of good around us, without ever separating is our hearts the love of the church from the love of France, and acting on all occasions according to the Sa viour's precept, ' Render unto God the things which are God's, and unto Clear the things which are (10w'.." The archdeacon concluded by thanking his Majesty for the visit he had paid to the dying prelate, and by stating that the clew: would always pray for the Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial." A letter from St. Petersburg of the 24th ult. states that the cold is almost insupportable, and se no snow has fallen there is no travelling, since sledges cannot move without snow. The wind blows with such violence that on approaching the Neva neither the thiokest cloak nor the warmest fur can resist It. The impossibility of travelliog by sledge has raised the price of provisions enormously at St. Petersburg, as none arrive, as formerly, by that mode of conveyance. Many of the necessaries of life have risen 100 per cent. Accounts from Moscow likewise state that the winter has set in there with unusual severity. The California merchant,' are now paying their Jobb is legal Seders. Br the last steamer one could per shone a draft for 1,000 do/lars by toying 800 dollars in gold, that the California trades saved just 24 per oent.—a e profit and 'wily roads.—CailfoT7OG paper. INDIA. By the arrival of the Bombay and Mauritius mail we have received advice. from Bombay to De cember 12; from Calcutta to December 3 ; and by telegraph to Dec 5. The Rajah of Miser (Oudh) has given the princely donation of ra. 15,000 to the Lancashire Relief Fund. The Roman catholic Archbishop of Agra is pub licly offering up thanksgiving in Lis church for her moat gracious Majesti having embraced Romanism, and being about to aodicate the throne ! Aboorzuffer Serajoodeen )(showed Beladoor, Shah Badshah Glasse, titular ex-emperor of Delhi, and the last of the Great Moguls, died in captivity at Rangoon on the 7th Nov. The following remarks upon the event are from the Calcutta Englishman : The last vestige of the Mogul sovereignty in India has jut passed away. The last King of Delhi has expired in miserable exile, far away from the lard where his ancestors ruled as Emperon ; and yet few, we believe, will give a tear of pity to the end of that dynaity winch could bout of the great MIDIS of Aurungzebe and Akbar, and fewer still will waste their regrets upon the wretched imbecile who proved • traitor to hie benefactors, and met with the just reward of his follies and his crisis. The appointment of Sir Charles Trevelyan as Finance Minister has been very favourably received by the Indian press. PARTICULARS OF THE LOSS OP THE COLOMBO. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Mumlia we have received full particulars of the loss of the Colombo. Owing to the thickness of the weather, no observations could be taken after leaving Gallo, and on the morning of Nov. 19, at 4 o'clock, the weather continuing very thick, nothing being visible at a ship's length, and the! rain coming down in torrents, speed was rednoed to "full slow." Two hours afterwards, breakers ahead were reported • quarter of • mile off, and before the engines, which were immediately reversed, could have any effect on the ewes!, she forged ahead, and the swell and a strong wind drove her bodily on the coral beach. She touched so lightly that no one on board felt the shock. There was • strong current to the northward at the time of about three mile. an hoar. After striking, she fell over to windward, exposing her deck to the sea, which poured down the hatchways and skylights in torrents. As nothing could be done to save the ship, the brute on the land side were cleared, and by 8 a.m. all the passengers and crew were safely landed. A drenching rain con tinued all the time, which was the more felt as most of the ladies and children were very lightly clad. Awnings and spars were brought on shore, end by 2 p.m. the passengers were comfortably housed until better accommodation could be obtained at the villaie short distance off, where they repaired the next day, and took up their abode, until the arrival of assiatanee. A native boat, with an officer, was sent to the nearest land. 210 miles distant, to telegraph the news of the disaster to Bombay, Gas, and Calcutta. An abundance of provisions was obtained from the wreck. On the 30th of November the Ottawa arrived from Bombay, and brought the passengers to Sues. Eighteen hours after striking, the ship parted in two pietas midships. The disaster appears to have bees occasioned by insufficient allowance having been made for the strength of the current, which, notwithstanding a mile and a half an hoar had been allowed for it, drove the vessel some 32 miles out of her course. The passenger s speak in great praise of the presence of mind shown by Captain Farquhar under the trying circumstances, and his unwearied exertions for their comfort and convenience. A short time before the disaster Captain Farquhar had sue , cackled in saving a vessel from shipwreck. THE ATLANTIC TZLIONAPIL —A meeting of merchants, shipowners, and others interested in the ac complishment of this great notional enterprise is ap pointed to take place on Wedossday, at 3 o'clock, in the public-salesroom, in the Liverpool and London Chambers, for the purpose of aiding the national effort now being made to connect Europe and America by tele graph. A considerable amount of capital has been sub scribed by leading houses both in London and our own town, and there is, we understand, every hope that the sum required will be forthcoming, the public being strongly ini• pressed with the necessity for this communication. The mimes of Fairbsirs, Whitworth, and Wheatstone, which form the consulting committee of the company, sre, we think, a guarantee that due care will, on the next occasion, be taken in the construction andlaying of the cable, which, it is thought, can very easily be laid and worked through at a good speed if proper Mildew arrangement. prevail. The contract with Glass, Elliott, and Co., es described hi the prospect's., appears to leave nothing to be desired hi this respect. The directors appeal to all slaws —the shares being 51. each, with 11. payable on deposit, sad we nodes stand the calls will be spread over at least twelve months.— Liverpool Albion. Rags are iu active demand, and unassorted sell at sc. to fic. per pound —an &drums of nearly 100 per cent. Newspaper has advanced 180. to 20s. r zene poond, and all other kinds in preportica.—Cincissati NAST SENT ZLECTION. NOMINATION.-(TRLS DAY.) (BT ZLICTRIC TILZGRAPH.) CANTERBURY, MONDAT. . _.. The nomination took place to-d►y shortly after ten o'clock on Bambara Downs, near Canterbury. o.* to the inclemency of the we►ther the attendance was he from numerous. Mr. P. H. KNATCHBULL-HUGZMULN, 1.P., nominated, mod Captain GILLOW seconded. Sir Edward C. Denng, th e liberal candidate. The Hoe. Csolica Mara nominated Sir Norton Ka.! -y. bull (conservative); Sir COMM:NAY HONETWOOD wooded the nomioation. The show of hands was declared in favour of Sir N. Knatehbull, upon which a poll was demanded for Sir E. Daring. DR. WISEST= ON THE DETECTION AND PUNISHMENT OF CHILD MURDER. At an inquest held at the Wellington Tavern, University-street, respecting the murder of • child by me a l exposure, Dr. leakester took csicasion to call the publi c attention to the important subject of the great frepuincy of wipuniabed child murder. The learned coroner said th a t the mod alarming feature wee that the polio°, seeing that cases of infanticide had became so common, had apparently given up all ideas of preventing it, and no lon ger exerted themselves to &mower the perpetrators of such murders. It wee much to be feared that the public, finding that infanticide was constantly Weeded with impunity, would cease to regard it as • crime. The result, of course, would be a merifice of infant life to an extent that would be dreadful to contemplate. He was aware that there was • general disposition to shrink from regarding this crime, and an unfortunate tendency to ignore it. prevalence, but from his experience be bad no hesitation in saying that each a course wan erroneous sad mischievous, and that the proper remedy was to be found it facing the evil boldly. Already the partial ventilation of tbesubject in the columns of the press had caused • sen sible diminution in the numbers of such raese—at all events, la the populous district of Central Middlesex. When he first became coroner, he found that in 72 inquests 16 were cases of infanticide. Owing partly to the manner in which the juries did their duty, by returning verdicts of wilful murder against the criminals, even though they were aware that the police could not or did not try to follow up the matter, and partly owing to the publicity given to the proceedings in the neWsisspen, the Own. ben had become gradually . reduced until they were now only about 26 in every 252 tequilas. He would earnestly area upon the authorities the necessity of infusing more energy icto the police ate. The appointment of female police, and the careful watching or stopping of young women at night when carrying suspicious parcels, be con sidered would be measures likely to deter intending criminals. . . polies-sergeant present said that the police did what they could in the nutter. The Victoria srehes were so fre quently used to deposit bodice that special watches were set, but upon cue occasion, within two hour, after a watch had been made, the body of a murdered child wu deposited there. _ _ _ in the case immediately under consideration it was proved that the deceased had been placed naked on the ground near the arches of the Metropolitan Railway, and that it had died from the cold. The jars returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unkuowm" .-(THD3 DAY.) r I, S AJL WEATHER ItZPOB.T. --e , -- MOMAT, JAArtrAar IU. W. 1. IC. L. I.lt IL —...- • -- Nairn 36 11 4 • 71 — 11 Aberdeen 1196 40 8. $ c 9 0 4 Leith . lt96 41 8. 4 m - 1 ArdrosWan raw &B. 7 011 0.66 1 8.1 4 b - 3 Galway Valenti* Queenstown 28.99 . N. s 0 9 1.91 1 Holyhead 2B 91 4. um 7 c 7 0.91 1 Liverpool 1110.119 4 Pembroke ll6. 8.8.2. &W. 5 5 011 O.M 1 98 o ti 9.77 1 Penzance BO6 41 W. 7 e 4 9.0 3 Jersey Brest 97 &W.. 9 S.W. 4 • 0.49 r 14 1.46 4 L'Orlent Rochefort - OM 8 Mmoutb Weymouth Art ..... W AV. 9 • 7 0.748 Portsmouth 5.11 '' && W. S rIUS 8 8. Lew. - Loudon Yarmouth —1123 4 & 7 0 - 8 Scarborougb.;.o3 B.&W. 8 r 9 0.46 41 ld Shies 19.03 &S.W. 1 r 5 tie 5 Heligoland - 46 Lisboa nouns. TaXSDAT. WIWI/MAT __ . _ Tar.SDAT. W. to N. sad E.. heavy SOOTLAND. gale, with suuw. Rotary pie. heavy, LIZIAID. with snow and rain. As above. W Oats from B. and W., N.W.Fitann< then to N. and E., to L, isle, above, with snow or to Y. and K. strong, with rain. Hwy rotary pls. with LW.Ziowni. next above. iiiti. 81.211ar. SA lIIIGLUID. N. • Notary gala W., N., to N. OUR N, E., heavy, with 'sow. Drum mod NUM Com all round- to X. strong, and E. K.. ple, snowy. —Monday. WHY MONET IS HOARDED IN MALTA.—There are two banks in Malta, writes a correspondent, both con. fined to local operation, both under the same roof, both conducted in the same manner, and both managed Ire. quently by the same directors. Person' depositing money receive no interest, and if they open a regular account they have to pay 41. per annum for the accommodation. This charge prevents many persons from making use of the banks, sod induces them to hoard op their money in their own houses, thereby offering a great temptation to the evil-disposed. THE ACCIDENT TO THE PHINCESB ALB:E.—The postillion on the instant after the accident managed the horses admirably, and et ooze cut them out free of the car riage. Mr. Joseph OfOVOll, 8.A., medical student at King's College. London, oe a Christmas visit to Newport, happened to be passing with his sister, and ran to the assistance of the ladies. not knowing at ell who they were. He immediately raised them front the graced, and carried the Prison'. who for the moment was prostrate from the shock, across the road to the gate of the residence of Mrs. Parker, who happened to be absent from home, and the gate was las lased. Her royal highness had by that time recovered Meetly to walk, leaning ea the arm of Mr. Groves, and accom panied by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, to the next residence, Ilea. Nose's, when they received every required attention, and bee royal highness quickly resumed her wonted cheerful ems. ' God bless her!" exclaimed an Isle of Wight pea; sent dune, res hearing the story, " she's a good plock'd nn. The Hoe. Mrs. Bruce bore the shock remarkably well. Mr. Robert Jacobs. of Hawley, rode up very soon after the acci dent and rendered assistance in the way of ordering a carriage et her Majesty's coscbbitilder's close by, Mr. Dashwood. In the course of an hour after the accident the Princess was well on her way to Osborne with the same postillion and horses, one of which received a very slight injury. We hear that Mr. Groves was graciously received by the Prince of Hesse the same evening et Osborne, and heartil y thanked for the attention he had paid to her royal high nos. It appears that the accident occurred through thew tempt of the postillion to pass in that narrow mad between two carte—one of which was stationary at the approach of the royal oarriage and the other moving slowly on the other side of the ;cad, a little is advance, and sud denly the horse in the stationary cart turned in to wards the hedge and threw the beck of the cart some Lairs further in the road, and instantly the royal carriage dashed what it. The cart, in charge of a boy, who wee not at fault, belonged to the farm at Staplers, io the occu pation of Messrs. Mew, of the Bugle Inn, Newport, bad the shafts broken by the concussion The royal phaeton was a plain, strong, old-fashioned vehicle for two, on low wheels, and was sai d to have belonged to the late King George IV. ; a broken spring was all the injury it appeared to have sus tained by the collision. The inhabitants were very happy to hear next day, through the rev. the vicar of the parish of Newport, that her royal highness was quite welL— Honapsh I lY A deo-riser. CeNoNs ON TRIAL.—Oa TUeaday and %del:4- day lest ten clergymen, who had been selected front a con siderable number of applicants by the dean end chapter, oo account of the excellence of their testimonials, were called upon to undergo a trial in the cathedral, as re' garde their special qualiikatioos, for the two vacant minor renoories. They were required, in the presence of the Dean. Archdeacon Homy, Chancellor Lear, the Sub. dean, and other clerical and lay members of the cathedral. to reed a chapter from Holy Scripture, which had been &elected, to chant seemed parte of the service, including portraits of the Litany according to Tallis, and to sing from mote. The good reeding, and correct and pleasing chanting and singing of mayoral of the candidates were muc h admired. The Dees sod Chapter may have some difficulty in choosing the two gentlemen in all respects beet fitted for their office, but we have sot a doubt that those selected from such a list will prove themselves most efficieet members of our cathedral body. The election will take place on the pith of Jeentry.—Salidoiry Journal. EXTRAOEDINLET &OAPS PROM CumuNG, —On Saturday last, at the Peebles Freemasons' dinner, John Somerville, shoemaker, was observed to be choked by a piece of meet lodging in his throat. It is supposed to have been caused by his speaking while eating. lie was carried out apparently dead, and medical aid was immediately pro cured, when Dr. Riddell promptly performed the operation of tracheotomy. or opening the windpipe—keeping up &Ai finial respiration—by which the man • life was saved. The piece of meat was afterwards extracted, and we understand the man, though confined to bed, is doing natl.—Border Advertiser. N T called is, lei hie in that impression o the proacenn strop banal greed jury to that the act cies which w thought it hi so into the parties Woo quantity of mills of M Beak of The prihair who WY pipit wig net he had mud coeseq, accomplice, He then cal/ *el of the wu relied a (motion fa were =Mee Them were t to call the a to the pert° TM Janus d Middles*, Ansisiaut-Ju calendar is prisoners co t e r or w er r ' i Imperfectly. TM Assisi datia that the sebradar is accounts seaat bad eb sad therefor he WAWA The mere th solve so di is the palm nada it. Tii; Wand James Cr a pans and Jams Beat,' Tido was deeded Nil Locbyer, bath-Solda, hem Ida tim filmdom:me, Mos 16th of May, 1/t52 ; flraa yea's' dam lime t iiiik ef The AA Ay lids prised si lierfbaga agaeldium derviimdle. le kepi is i Midas; Aa1•141•4 Woe M. Aare Owe Lerporerd iii:iiii IS* Ima Imbed e = m doe aary what he E la the cow Ler father injury. TI mad said, same MOOR! 'ad lifter a 'head with dowdier ii Ink and rarthla tike 'ee bad lood to by • Bur k from well. had been it biting • ph from low with blood Io answ4 bad not ch witting th Dr. Jim Islington, I brought to from a lari the •:tent of Wood. tot been hay? lost I Mr. W. b iota, as identity of Wits . see boos, one out for sell Mr. D'E awe berm., prisoner fa Mu to thi odeodar ---- - The pill moved. Dr. ara amnions •ver Sipa hirthine • Yr. WE be had nn Dr. 6; Ley shoo: to Olose to Mimed the Paid for tt lot up &De =rd. 167b 7 i to the H Peeper cam Dr. Ore hie worshl Tyro fa' Nn char kiehertl am from am 1 lille