The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-02 00:00:00

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This is see of these highly settled enseenrai of statesmanship which will ►ave to he jedged wording to its SUCCISS. And whatever may be said or written amid the ex citement of ev.hts, in the long calm period that succeeds we shall estimate that success by the firmness with which we have adhered to a simple intelligible policy, cunformable to oar nonscieuriness of duty and to the freedom which is of the essence of our national character. Them are some who warn us against troubling our heads about other people—who bid us thank Gnu we live in as island, and devote our neighbours to perdition. It boss thing to learn from dear experience the evils ota meddlesome policy, and wither to profess the doctrine of Cats as a principle, 'Alike to men and nations, voluntary, selfish isolation brings its own swift curse. A tendency to moral issiatien, however, is not the besotting temptation of Englishmen, as the unnvalled foreign correspondence of our newspapers and our missionary societies, among a hundred other signs, show. We did not Isolate ourselves in the three months which preceded the late war. If we abstained from this Congress it would rot be from insular feeling, bat from a doubt whether, on the whole, our presence there would do more harm or good. It is for the English Govern ment, which it. this Italian question unquestionably has the intelligence and heart of the nation with it, to choose, on its responsibility, the ground on which it will make a stand on behalf of its known principles. No overpowering antecedent obligation forces it into cooperation with despotic Governments. England is strong enough, by her character and resources, to stand aloof from their counsels without Imo of influence, a political pro- testant. But the dignity of such a position would depend mainly on the strength and obviousness of the reasons which had rendered it necessary. The resolution at which our Ministers have arrived in dicates that in their judgment no such necessity exists. If this is so, and if by joining in a Congress we can help to consolidate Italian freedom, while we at the same time give to other Powers new proofs of good neighbourh‘oti, we believe the nation will approve the generous policy of its Government. WHAT are the shareholders is the Great Ship doing ? To what point of depression are they pre. period to see their undertaking descend before they will pat their shoulders to the wheel? Their mag nificent design has been regarded as a national glory; unless great changes ere soon made, it may almost becomes national disgrace. The record of this enter prise, from tiro to last, is, in truth, one of disaster. First the Eastern Steam Navigation Company appeared on the scene with its capital of 700,0001. Subsequent phinne of the affair were extreme depre ciation in the shares, and the failure of the contractor. Next, the Great Ship Company was erected upon the ruins of the Eastern Steam, the shares in which were merged into the new project at the disastrous rate of 21. 10e. for every 201. The shares in the Great Ship Company are now rated in the market at only 10s. per 11. In other words, according to the market valuation, this maritime wonder of the world, upon which nearly one nisilass sterling has been expended by the spirited, but particularly unfortunate, proprietors, is now worth only about 160,0004 There is a grow ing want of confidence in the mopeds of Om undertaking under the present management. Gild cultim--esprcially financial difficulties—are daily multiplied. From the very iaoeption of the pro. ject, the popular faith in the purity of the condi tions' surrounding the contracts has been weak. The misignmeet of the contemn for the completion of the vessel ►y the Directors of the sew Company to Mt. SCOTT Kortszxx, the old contractor, provoked nisch discussion amongst the shareholders. Tat blest Ow is the publication at this 'dra•eed period of •joint Report, dated es long back meth* lab Out bur, hem Wears. Oso•os Benet, Witusit PAT I•. 1101. And Joan JORDAN, who had been prohosiosislly =gaged to examine be Great Ship for the purpose of solortaining whether the eontract to fit her for sea kid been honestly carried out. Pending the pre potation of a detailed report, which has not yet beet allowed to be the light, these gentlemen submitted • hw preliminary remarks, which may of course be mkopted se forming the substance of the deoa t•ett. As the moult of • "complete surrey," they liking that the hull of the ship is out completed, either as to the " general scope; or the " details of the contract," as a first-class passenger ship, and that "in her present state it " would be imprudent to send her to sea on i " a lengthened voyage." Without venturing upon • definite estimate of the out requisite to complete ', the ship, the surveyors remark that " the amount must be very large." As regards the passenger I ormommodation afforded, they oisament upon the barbarity of the materials, workmanship, and ble aker.. " The decks are not tight, and a great deal " cif inferior material and workmanship has been " used in them." Besides the expense, a "consider , " able time" will be required to do what is &boo ' lately ',Tibial to be done, " and, even with this " done, the ship would not be what the contract "requires her to be; and deficiencies in other " respects would be &constant source of expense and " annoyance, to the Campany." This report only einefirma lean which have bag been entertained in many quartisea The Com pany is in great financial straits. It is esti mated that, at the very heat, an additional 60,0001. will be required to equip the vessel in any Omaha fit for sm. This sum is irrespective of en gagements for which the Company in said to be even new responsible, to the extent of between 20,0001. and 30,0001. The latter liability was believed to Lave been covered by the issue, at pa►, some ' time ago, of 30,000 reserved shares of 11. each, which the Directors gave the public to understand had been placed, but of which, It tarns out inexplicably enough only about 6,000 were really taken. Toattempt to sell thebalanes, arise existing circumstances, would be folly, kr the premeds would be utterly inadequate, and the pol tics of the undertaking in the market would be still MOM ly damaged. The question—how ma we rake the 70,0001. or 80,0001. required as a rola saes ?—is weighing heavily upon the minds of the shareholders. Apart from the lawsuits which are looming in the distance, it is perfectly clear that the Board, as at present constituted, does not command that degree of confidence indispensable to the resuscitation of the Mouldering undertaking. It is, doubtless, a fine thing for the Directors to have so magnificent a yaoht, and to be brought prominently into acentiot with the notabilities of the land. Bat the satishation which they probably experience is by as mane shared by the proprietors, who have not been at all mollified by the private accounts of messes occasionally enacted on board the vessel. Time presses. What may be remedied with comparative saes now, may become an evil of aggravated dimensions, if neglected. The longer the Company le allowed to lie in its embarraes manta, the heavier they must become. An intelli gent shareholder, whoa/ letter was published in oar impression of the 24th November, sees no way out of the present difficulty, save by the extreme measure of ones more transferring the vessel to the beads of a new company. Thus, the 201. shares la the Great &eters Company, merged at the rate of 21. 10e. into the Great Ship Company, may, per haps, be converted at the further reduced rate of about 10s. per 11. into the New Great Ship Com pany. It is really high time for the proprietors to be up and stirring. As every one seems to agree that the present Directors command neither confi dence nor money, and as more money is indispensa ble, the first step should unquestionably be to replace them by men who will be regarded more favourably. The proprietary is a mattered one, the shares being widely diffused. This may reader the organisation of a combined action difficult. Never , theless, the attempt ought to be made at once. Upon a proper requisition, the Directors are bound to eon vene a general meeting; and the shareholders' fate ' will then be in their own hands. No one can help them, if they won't help themselves. The members for Totoes, Thomas Mills, BK., and the Berl of Gifford, will rim the borough the ant week la December. On Tuesday Mr. R. P. Lang, M.P., will deliver lecture before the lumbers end fries& of the Literary Is. safeties, Chlprishey t►e subject Wag "Recollections of • Tour is the Holy Lead." We (Stamford Mercury) aedentand that the tenantry of U. F. Renew, Esq., M.P. for Lincoln, as Minton and Si:hills, ooeteroplate mists; a subscription for the purpose of preseating their worthy landlord with a full length portrait of himself, to be painted by one of the first artists of the day. It will be • graceful tribute of reaper' to one who is acknowledged on all heads to be one of the beet landlords in the county. The Bishop of Peterborough is going on es favourably as can be expected, considering the tevaity of the sccidect—the fracture of two rib, and the left arm is the elbow joint. At present, his lordship is unable to shied to begins=; communicatiuna respecting ordinations ttw mililesseei to his Examining Chaplain, the Ray. Canon Antes, Bermack Rectory. It is in contemplation by some gentlemen of Ply mouth to erect a clubhouse as a impel x scale. TM Court of Directors of the Bank of England Iwo appointed Yr. Robert Ru , hvan Byrn to fill the post of agent at their Wee►end branch, Burlington-gardena, vacant by the death af the hoe agent, Mr. Charles Tindal. Ruling:ewes Much Ado about Nothing, with Mr. Marks Kean as Benedia, and Mn. Kean el Beatrice, pro duced at Dublin on Wednesday night " by command" of the law4L4utermat, wbo west in Mate, brought together one of the moat brilliant endemism that ever filled Hawkins thee theatre. The house was actually pecked from the cahalf to the pit, and numbers awe rhut out from the is poesibility of being acoomoridatad even with ateoding room. Tice viceroy's reception by the anthems was quite enema ' Mastic, end the delineation of the leading port• In the comedy by Mr. and Mrs. Kean wee not the least of their brilliant triumphs daring their Dublin engagement. Daring the pirforessace they wen repeatedly called in front of the cur taia, sad were applauded until the house rang again with the echoes of the cheering. Mr. Alfred Wigan - and Mre. Wigan are still per forming ea eageeeterat at the Theatre Royal Oladayoer. The Princess Royal, 91 screw, Captain Thomas !Millie, at Portsmouth, will pay off on the conclusion of the court martial now being bald cc board her Majesty's ablp Victory. Letters from Partlaud state that great dissatisfac tion is kk smog the of of the Alpe lbws, in rouse quar• of SR order which has been lewd by the admiral etimossoiliog, turbidding uy °Most gam on shore ander say eireamtsasse, mhos in uniform. The @awesome et in the Fr — ernsano 'a Journal, to the West that • most important letter bed jut bees received ham the Pepe, Is than dimmed of by the is paper al yeteurtley :—" We regret to bore bees led late ea error no- Mae so the prod rentlpt of an amagraph letter from We Rearm the Pop. We sre mooned to mate that the denim* es whielk w esemiesed did sot emanate from hi Helier, se Ere= eliobil menu bet am a conimanks- km hem • petty reekhnt Is Roo" conveying hi. *ekes • the premed preture of drain. We thought the gentle men an wham Inermation we WWI wee moursie fa Ws ebalemest, bat ft appears be was mistakes." irDt Court. WlllllllOll CASTLI. Dso. 1. no Queen, accompanied by Primal§ Frederick of Persia (Prism« Royal), the Primer Alia% mil Princess Hasa, walked in the Itom-parit tide aromas, sad visited the Nedra of Heat, at Frogman. Prime Lespold, aid tba Pilasseirs Locks sad Beattie% she paid • visit le bee Royal IlleiddieL _ _ The PriaasComOrt with Prince Frederick William of Praia west to Leaden, attended by Caked the Hoe. Air Marin B. Phipps, Coketel th• Ho& A. Hardinge, ssd Captain ma Schwainita. The Priem Comewt presided at • santleg at the o®ce of tbe Dusky of Carswell. The royal party adarwarda rearmed to Wisest Cambs. - TM D;chers ci Last vidisoll Mr MO N, in the after mom. TM Dale sad Dualisms of Mush liR Wladaor this fora awn for Teilkasian. The Sabato( visitors mho took their dapartaro:—Tle Dub sod Duero of Argyll, the Duke sad Dubin of Ikamaraik the Earl and Countess of Elea, sad Liaakmat-Ocanal Kaollys. _ _ The Hee. Lamar Stanley end the Hoe. Emily &opined lei esceeedsd the Hon. Caroline Cavendish end the Han. Floes Mankaeld an Maids of Honour In Waiting to her ilnitie-Geseeel tho Eon. C. Grey AM Ce pteis Da Plat lave eneensied Lard Alfred Peet and Colonel the Hos. A. aintlyre ea erperthe in vregung to Um Q4Bllll sad Prison Comeort. TM Pros Censer resided yeerday at a mars( of the Cooed of the Darby of Cerra, Bseidagliargatio, at. Jerre-park. There wens also reser the Chearslics• Lord !Meador ; the Yaps of the Privy Seel, Mr Wil liam Dauber ; the Tremor, Carel the Rea. Sir Cherie. Beasmont Phipps ; the Doke of Rewards, Lord Portmaa, sad re deanery, Kr. J. R. Gardener. Mr. breeds bed r Interview with the Dar of New ark reorder in re Colostal-odirs. Sir Therm P,. .ad., chairman of the Croon, had ea taterview reterday with the Chancellor of die Lachreer. Mr. Prig's', chairman of the Board of laird R weans, sr bad en reerview with the right hon. radar at Ids cartel riders, in Downing -street. . _ Despatches mere seat from Me Cokidal-ofilos yesterday to the Governors of the West India laleads, sad us. Governor of Britt& Cohuatea. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1859, PUTT P 11174 AT BLENlillif PALA= Hie Royal Highness the Prises of Wales paid a visit to the Dike and Duchess of Marlborough, at Blen heim Palma, on Wednesday lest. Hie royal highness en joyed the upset of sheethog daring the day, his party consist ing of ►lnd[, the Beal Vane, the Berl of Denbigh, Lord Chelsea, Colonel the Rea. R. Bruce, and Colonel TM man al the day'esprt was as follows —146 *manta, 91 harm lOrelthits, 2 deer—total, 239. In the mooing the ' duke sad duchess gave a banquet la the grand saloon, when covets were lai6 for 36. The party comisted of the Prince of Weiss, the Duke sod Duchess el ILsriborough, the Earl end Comers Tam, the Berl eat Counter of Macclesfield, the Marl of DeWitt ad Logy Mary and Lady Adelaide Fielding, Lead sad Lady Alfred Churchill, Lord and Lady Ala Churchill, Lad Aanselay, Lord Chaim% Lady B. Bartle, Lady A. AMY*, Lady B. Ashley, the Austrian Ambassador sad the Countess d'Apponyi, the Bishop of Oxford, Colossi the He.. B. Bruce and Mrs. Best" Calomel Reppal, the Counter of ParterUngtoa, the High ilhartf and Mesa. Gammas, the Vice-ChanosLier of the University end Mrs. Jame, the Dos of Christchurch ad Mn. Liddell, Bit O. Wombwell, Bart, Mr. Farquharson, sad Mr. Whitely. The saloon was brilliantly illuminated, and had an im posing effect. The table me laid oat with great taste, the Illagniesent plateau In silver representing the first Duke of Marlborough on horsebtok, writing his despatch in pascal en a kettle drum on the field of battle, occupying the centre of the table. After the banquet the date and dueller gave sa evening party. The splendid snits of rooms, comprising the gland ablest, smell drawing-room, large drawing room, cad dining-mom, were all brilliantly illuminated, and had ea imposing effect. The company numbered up wards of 300 persons A quadrille teed from Oxford was la attendance. His Royal Rightism the Prince of Wales matted the ball with the Counties Vane. The/its was the most brilliant that has occurred in the county to, a losg series of years, and the palace wse nem saes to greater perfection. TBZ 2(1881AN IMBA6BF. Hi Excellency the Russian Minister and the Hamm Braonow g.. a diplomatic dinner last evening at Chesham Howe, at which there were present:—His Exalt label the Turkish Ambassador, his Excellency the Bayed= Minister and Beron.se Cetto, his Excellency the Danish Minister, hi. Excellency the Oreek Minister and Madlle. Tiicoupi, his Excellency the United &atm Minister and Mrs. DOW and Mies Dallas, his Excellency the Hanseatic Towns Minister, Count Brandrnboarg, Count Blucher, Count Wimples, Count Mulinen, Count Paumgarten, Baron Dural:tem, Prince Repoine, M. Nirpokojynki, M. &about°ti, and M. Tolstoy. After dinner the Baroness Brunnow had a reception, which was attended, amongst others, by his Excellency the Ambassador of France, hie Excellency the Pruneien Minister sad the Counter" Bcrestorf, hie Excellency the Swedish Minister, hie Excellency the Miniater for the Netherlands, hie Excellency the Persian Minister and suite, his Excellency the Spanish Minister, the Dachau of Inver ness and Mrs. W. Peel, the Countess Blooded, Viscount and Viscountess Malden, Count de la Bosnionneye, Lady Arthur Lennox and Miss Lennox, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir Thomas Baring, the Right Hon. H. T. I. Corry, Mrs. Henry Bariag, Mr. Bates, Mrs. Burnaby sad Ml. BUM by, &a. DLPARTUDI or TES PItINCI MID PIDICF.BB FRADZILICI WILLWII 01 PRUSSIA.—To-morrow morning (Saturday), at hall-past seven o'clock, their Royal Highnesses Prince and Prlabeee Frederick William of Primes will take Imes of the Quasi sad the Priam Consort mad the royal family, and Maws Windsor for Prussia. The royal visitors will travel on the Great Western Railway line to Dover, mid from theta cross the Matta to Calais, Mom which piece they will prooerd by railway to Brussels, for the purpose of paying a net to his Majesty the Kin al the Belgirma . . On Monday next bee Majesty and the Prince Consort and the roy.l family will leave Windsor Castle for the We of Wight, where the court will remain until tho 24th inst., and then return to Windsor. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who, we are happy to my, I. now enjoying good health, will re main at her residimoe, Ftogtoore Lodge, daring the absence of the court from Windaor. The following lean extract from a private letter trim Mount Athos', dated Nov. 1.3:—" Hie Royal Rightism Priem Alfred landed at Monet Athos, and wee received by Hama, Effendi, Kalmar= arid Rutpei•gank, and the bishops and distinguished persons of the mormateries. The pries% acoompanied by these gentlemen, visited the moms terries and the libraries attached to them, and all the places of note in the mountain, after which his royal bights= made • hunting excursion, during which he shot two stags and four pheasants. The prince embarked atter this party, lot, how ever, without making splendid presents to the Kaimakan, bishops, and priests. Daring his sojourn the convent and monaceries were splendidly illuminated throughout the night." Maria Marchioness of Ailesbnry has left town on a visa to the Marquis and Marchieeees of f3alisbury, at Hatfield. The Earl of Albemarle and the Ladies Keppel have left Qaiddenhem Hall, Norfolk, for Torquay. Viscount Chelsea will return to town today from visiting the Duke and Duchene of Marlborough, at Blen heim Palace. The marriage of Charles Brace, youngest son of the late Marqiiis of Ailesburi, to Kim Augusta Seymour, daughter of Lady Amnesia Seymour, and niece to the Mar quis of Bristol, will take place in February sett. - - The Right Hon. JO Hamilton and Lady Seymour me staying oa • visit watt Lord and Lady Caesium, at Latham, Backe. The Earl and Counters of Yarborough and Lady Sophia sad the Hon. Beebe Pelham have arrived at Brighton, sad takes up their residence In the King's-road. . . .. . . . .. . Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining a succession of company at Normanion Perk. The gusts hare included Marla Marchioness of Aileabary, dm Berl of Aaassby, Count sad Countess nasals, Lord and Lady Harry Vane, Lady William Powlett, Lord hdelkert Coal, Lord Charlie Brace, Hoc. F. Calthorpe, Colonel Fsr sad Kra Foy &a LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CONOREI3IS. The Nord of to-day states that Ruda pill be represented in the Congrem by Primo aortchakoif and Count Lumley ; Count Wa lewski will preside, and will be aimonspir nied by M. de Banneville or M. de Bourgeoise, t Prumia has appointed M. de Schleinitz and M. de Poartales ; Austria, Count de Rechberg and Prince Metternich ; Naples, Count Ludolf and Spain, Portugal, and Sweden, their usual representatives at Paris. The Nord doe. not profess to be able to give the names of the English representatives, bat inclines to the Earl of Clarendon and Lord Cowley. It is certain, according to the Nord, that Piedmont will be re presented by M. Deeormais, but there are many obstacles in the way of the nomination of Count Carom as his oolleagae. FRANCE AND THE WAR BETWEEN SPAIN AND MOROCCO. PARIS, FIUDAT, Ds°. 2. The Motif/rue of this morning contains the fol lowing despatch : "The Bretagne, off Algeirea, Nov. 26. "Yesterday the vessel St. Louis was cannonaded by the forts at the entrance of the river Tetuan. Informed of that the same night, I have this morn ing, with four steamers, destroyed the two forts, which have been abandoned by the Moroccans. " To-morrow the Foodre will proceed to Tangiers to make severe representations to the Minister KatiL " hullos fulfilled. I manna the part of neutrality. (Signed) " Adairel Ronan Duman." The Meadow de ?Annie sa ys: - . . Serrano, near Ceuta, lately takealy the flat seeps of the Spanish army under Gasses( Behan% Is a kind at tortilla camp, which is defended 60100 Moors of the /tiff. Dr yond it extends an homer, loran. mewing the let elopes of a lofty chain of mountains, theatres do Bethune, through which rune the road from Ceuta to Tetuan. The 700 bombs found near Serene an new howitser-shalle, end shot, which the Moore had not time to convey further inland, and the brans& army seem, to anticipate Boding in the moun tains other depot. of not lam importance. The latest advice' state that hopes were entertained of a cessation of rough weather, which had prevented the laying of the submarine cable to establish an electric communication between Alger tine sad Gala. At the arsenal at Carioca, at the extremity of the bey of Cubs' , twenty-four gunboats have been balk, armed with hap howitzers. This offensive flotilla, reinforced by thirty let-bottomed boats 67 feet long, with smell beats and pontoone of every kind, is now lying at the Said Petri Canal, to the east of Cadiz, waiting for steamers to take it in tow. PIEDMONT. The P4dmongets Garotie publishes the new elec toral law of the Lombardo-Sardinian kingdom : The number of deputies for the whole kingdom be fixed at 260, being about one deputy for every 30,000 inha bitants. The province of Turin sends 31 deputies to the Lower Chamber; Milan, 30; Alessandria, 21 ; Annecy, 6; Bergamo, 12; Breeds, 16; Cagliari, 12, Chambdry, 10; Como, 16; Cremona, 11; Canso, 90; Genoa, 22; Nies, 8; Novara, 19; Pavia, 14; Basel, 7; and doadtio, 4. Bat the most remarkable part of the law is that ralatiog to the guelification of electors. In the ministerial report on which the law is framed, we read the following prosy : —" We propose to call into the electoral body the citizens who, from more certain proof/ then that furnished by the samosa of taxes they pay, are considered to possess the amnesty capacity for the e xercise of political rights. And on the name principle we propose to exclude those who cannot read end write, in favour of whom the amount of WAS paid Is too frillscione • proof of capacity." Accordingly, the law sweets that to be an elector, a man must be born in the kingdom, or naturalised by • royal decree, if an Italian by birth ; or else naturalised by a law, if • foreigner ; he must be turned of twenty.fivs, have Meat to read and write, and pay taxes to an amount not taferior to forty kenos per annum. The latter condition, however, is dispensed with in favour of members of ace, demies, professore of colleges, doctors, clvil end military officials, knights of the orders of the kingdom, lawyer., notaries, surveyor., chemists, brokers, Be., all those, be short, who, from their poet ion in sooisty, are knows to possess sufficient capacity for the exercise of political right.. . . . . Merchants, traders, sea-captains, &c., are electors, provided they occupy premises paying from 200 fr. to 600 fr. rent per annum, or possess an annual in come of 600 fr. in government stock, or daily employ thirty hands at least in their factories. CENTRAL ITALY. FLORENCE, TICIADLY. Of the three members of the National Assembly who conveyed to Tarin the vote respecting the Re gency, one, M. Coppi, has returned to Florence ; the second, M. Oaleotti, has gone to Modena, whither he had been summoned in haste; and the third, M. Fabriz., remains at Turin as official charge-d'affaires of Tuscany. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN. TimAssiut. The attempts of the Councillor Rattivitt to form a new ministry have not at present succeeded. He left to-day, accompanied by the Councillor of State Weetenholz, for Fftderiksburg, to see the King. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. t►aor OUR OW7I 0011RJR1ORDINIA PARIS, TRURIDAT IVINING. The Bourn recovered to some extent from the sort of panic occasioned yesterday by the rumour of the event on the African coast. The Rents, after open ing at yesterday's price, closed at 70fr. 60c. and 70fr. 40c., with a rise of 16c. and 10e. Mobilier left off without change. Railways were in demand, and two or three lines rose M. 26c. to 2fr. 50c. The Press* justly characterises the decree in to day's Monsteisr, removing the oflloe of " Public Safety" from the Ministry of the Interior to the Prefecture of Police but leaving it still under the minister's orders, as " equivalent to the revival of the Ministry of Police, with this difference only, that conflicts between two ministerial departments are precluded." Ido not say whether the measure is a good or a bad one. The Opinion Nationale, which yesterday had a warning, announces to its readers to-day that it is compelled to discontinue M. Champfleury'sfeuilletow the Namara* Parisi/ens, in consequence of an official "invitation." It appears that the " vivacity and reality" of the portraits in this publication has "awakened respectable susceptibilities." A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" It is stated that the Pope has written to Cardinal Morlot, Archbishop of Paris, to beg him to recommend the French bishops to display moderation in their pas toral letters on the affairs of Rome—moderation being neceeaary in order not to thwart the good in tentions of the French government, and not to increase the difficulties against which the Holy See has to contend." The Univers, lamenting the tendency of the pre sent age to change governments by the capricious jurisdiction of "public opinion," openly preaches the doctrine that the Pope alone should, as of old, have the power to depose sovereigns. The Gazette de Francs thinks this suggestion inopportune. A joyous Mt., and one which must have done good to the heart of M. Flatirons, the celebrated author of a work written to prove that the average life of man was intended by nature to be 100 years, came o ff yesterday at La Chapelle St. Denis, close to Paris. The occasion was the birthday of the oldest inhabitant of the commune, M. Armand David, an old soldier, who was born on November 20, 1760, and I. consequently now in his 110th year. The celebration of the anniversary commenced with a mess at the church, which was attended by the venerable hero of the day. Afterwards, at a banquet given in his honour, he played an excellent knife and fork. His health was proposed with "many happy returns of the clan" and he humorously neared the company, is returning thanks, that he would do his best to oblige them. RIMER SOIRBB AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, TEURSDAT EVININO. A seine, under the auspices of the Financial Refers Association, bee this evening been given to lltseas. Cobden sad Bright sad Goma Perrcast Thompson, in the line wean of the Philhenande Hall. Mr. C. Ronannost (In the weldable Ilbilliel, through indisgeatica, of Mr. Robertson 131eristeas, the presisliat sf the esiociatios) pre sided. Yr. Cobden wee not gressat, but the following letter from bin was reed : To Robertson Gladatotoe, Esq., Prinklett of the Liverpool Fiseactal Reforms Arnie Peri, Nov. My dear Sir,—For the bet ten days I have been con B fined to my bedroom by severe ladlapaitioa, originating M • oold and cough, followed by fever, which has let me in • state of mondani:is debility. My medloal attendant, who mores me, with care end oan ra, a speed recovery, worm me that to andruake a journey to Liverpool to address • large politic mentors would, in the pressen stir of my leap, be almost an act of suicide. I need sot mare you how deeply I regret to be unable to fold my long-standing prong's to be with you on the lat. Ido not, bowers:, ask you to niers an bum my samurai, but only to tallow me to prime its tallithim& to • hoar% mad, I hops, early opportualiy. There rue re • moment when I felt rester interest than at prevent in the realisation of your wry's programme for aubstitatiag direct for indirect trotioa. If I require:lac illustration of the Importance of iyour principle, which im plies the removal of custom-hors impedimenta between no time, I should And it in the pearl arras of Ireland and Asses. — Whet mune this periodical visitation, which, like the cholera or some other iambus dimes, bee, every two or three years also@ 1847. caused thr pule cry ria Preach inva des to overspread England, and which at the present mo mut Is heard again in tones as loud and ormarlag se ever f Here am I, with all my children, in the very jaws of the beiaary monster which has been conjured up to totally my countrymen, and yet I feel no lea safe from attack or try of say kind so long as I refrain from molesting or wringing *tun, than if I were residing to London or Liver . pool. Whence springs the idea of danger which pervades the public Wad st home P I attribute it mainly to the want of h i tercenuanniestion and the consequent ignorance and prejudice which prevail respecting the character and dodges of our rarest ematinental neighbour P Hero ass two of the greatest nation., separated only by the earrowest strip of ocean, with their distinct and proud stasis, their rivet traditions, their difference, in race, Magus" and religion, all tending to produce alienation ; but nature, which always works by laws of compensation, has endowed the two countries with a variety of productions, end Imparted to the popelstions so instinctive desire to sup ply each other's wants end dellatinciee, which, had nature's laws been allowed their tree action, would have brought the two nations into such constant contact and roam mad laid thus under inch mutual dependenco,7= have subdued the merely latent canoes of antagonism, and rendered impossible the present state of hostility and alarm. But, down almost to the present day, the guava:mate of the two oatmeal. have devoted their seeress to the task of preventing, as far as possible, say commercial Intercourse between them. The baneful con sequences are smuttily such uwe behold. Let us bops that legislators will awaken to • sense of the responeiblity which attache@ to those who thus array themselves against the obvious laws of the Creator. _ Meanwhile, your society will, I hope, persevere in its use ful labours, and continue to draw around you the sympathy and co-operation of good men. You are not a political organisaum ; your functions are Ursa of an educator, and your object in to prepare the public mind for the future action of the statesman. The day for the fall realising= el your views may still be remote, but, step by atop, we every year approach nearer to the desired goal. You have only to per severe in the advocacy of your humans, just, and peaceful principles, end God will assuredly, In His own good time, crown your labours with success.—Believe me, yours very truly, Rims.= CURDZN. The Cuotance, in opening the businem of the meeting , gave a general sketch of the object, of the Financial Reform Ameektion, and announced that In addition to the regretted Omen of Mr. Cobden, General Thompson had been com pelled to forego his Intention of being present, owing to an Important engagement. Mr. Jarinis read an address to Marr-Genrel T. Peeress' Thompson, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., and John Bright, Esq., M.P. Mr. Barn; on presenting himself to the meeting, was greeted with long-continued cheer., the whole nonparty rising. Be said be was quite unable to make a fitting answer to the address which had just been read, but he felt grateful to the =mil, sad to all who had taken part in its prepara tion and premonition, for the sentiments 'speared towards himself sad his friends, Messrs. Cobden and Thompson. There were many in this country who were unable to com prehend and appreciate the noble mission which had been undertaken by the association. They proposed, in the diet place, to secure an economical expenditure of the na tional finances, and in the second to obtain a spasm of taxa non whereby all subject. of the state should be taxed as cording to their means. He believed that this sad could only be attained by a system of direct taxation. Many newspa pers would doubtless attack these views within the next few days, and large numbers of people—particularly among landed proprietors and the agricultural classes—would . . regard them as pernicious and perhaps revolutionary. The landed gentrh were generally the last to learn anything. They were the let to learn the jambe and necessity of the repeal of the corn laws, although no class had derived greeter benefit from that measure than themselves. He anticipated results, 01e0.% as greet and beneficial when the programme of the Financial Association was carried into effect. He had lately been much attacked by the press. He would detain the for • abort time by reviewing a few of these newspeper articles, and he hoped to show them what bad political economy these practised leaders of public opinion sometimes indulged in, Mr. Bright then read passages from the Teas, the Spectator, sad the .Seomotniet, and proceeded to rent. the assertions made. He mixt adverted to the consumption of the people in order to show the relative proportions of taxation. The revenue from theaters. was about 42,000,0001., and it had been thus divided by a competed Wheal aaterity. The upper classes paid 7,350,0006. ; the middle cease 15,960,0001. ; and the lower deem, 18,690,0001. Dares the last 20 yen the consump tion of sugar, tea, coffee, corn, cattle, and tobacco, had very nearly doubled, and by whom, he would like to know, bad this mat ;cones, of commodities been consumed? Ca qaeaionably by the middle sad lowa classes. At this hoar 24,000,000 of people in this country live in hone of lees ren tal than 101. per annum, and only 6,000,000 live in bones of s,higher rental than ltd. The conclusion then to be drawn from all these facts war that the revenue produced by taxation upon the ordinary articles of consumption fells heaviest upon the industrious classes. He (Mr. Bright) lived in the midst of • manufacturing district, and he knew something of the life of the labouring man. Although this was a time of unusual prosperity, the life of • labouring man was one of peculiar hardship and difficulty. Labouring men have to maintain an incessant struggle to keep themselves from *hat they dread to much—the workhouse. Their life is pre carious, any on the average not of long duration. He (Mr. Bright) appealed to the middle classes of toe country to band together to relieve the labouring classes front their heavy Madam, and to abolish • system which weighs so heavily upon the great mass of our fellow-countrymen. (Great applause.) Well, then, how beat to meet the difficulty P lie would propose • tax ul Ile. per 1001. upon the whole property in the country belonging to persons having 1001. per annum or more. This would productelet27,ooo,oool.perennum. Reis tax were adopted, we could abolish the duties ua anger, tea, coffee, insurance, carriages, and a great variety of articles. Such • measure would Immediately increase tha trade of the nation, end spread happiness and contentment amongst the great industrious population, whilst at the same time the tax would not weigh heavily upon these classes who would have to pay it. As regards the duties on Whew and spirits, they produce about 18,000,0001. and he would not propose their abolition, at least not for the present. The largest proportions of these, which come from tobacco and spirits, are paid by the lower &asses, and we may fairly leave the proportion of the national revenue to be paid by thee whilst the upper and middle °lessee ought willingly to burden themselves with the re ambling taxation required by the Chancellor of the B e th. qua. Mr. Bright then referred at considerable length to the legacy duty on personal property, the probate duty, and the succession tax of 1866, which last he denounced as • shame and a dbgr•or. The poor, he said, were taxed emeavely to spare the rich, and all classes are taxed exceadvely to spare the proprietor ef the soil. He I would give his explenation of this state of *imp In a few words. The parliament which hair the taxation is a par liament of the doh, sad the majority of the namben belong es the landed proprietors. Whet is the remedy f We may either have an agitation extending over Kme man, reaming the ocientry to futtgnation, sad perhaps to the brink of hiIIIIM. lion, or we may have • nemenre of perikunentery reform which will change the eliersoter of the legislation. The monopolists of power dread the extension of the franchise. The existence of the lament cabinet, however depends upon the courage and hon es t y with which it deals with this important and unavoidable question the very future of their party depends upon it. " A word more," seid Mr. Bright, " =Maws done. lam seabed with virulence, .vas charged with falsehood, by than masked comp retars against the ecesinanwealth who write in the leading columns of the Timis. Congenial slanders are vomited forth every weak le the lines of the peat 8 starday reviler, but the fact. which I have stated to-night remain, and they remain, I hesitate not to sty, to the dishonour of our country and the weakening of our government. Aristocracy intrauched within the citadel of power , and Kiting upon generations of t t . ebellenpd role — m onarchy itself, venerable with th e willing homage of • thousand years--authority every kind must be shaken, and will pees away. unless it be beset upon the true interests and commend Itself to the emsolenes of the people. (Cheers.) I ask that parlis. went should be made • real represented= of the pro. party. the industry, and the Intelligence of the mike ; that we may be delivered, if poseible, from ohm* Ispaletion„ from reckless expenditure, end from a taxation oppressive, unequal, and unjost. (Cheers.) The monopolists of power reject that demand with Korn. The day may come when it will be made in • loader voice than miss, when this quKition will be peeped in • ruder hand then mine, and, when it is so made, es wee the came in UM, that will be narreeidere with her and humiliation for which reason and justice now plead la min." (Loud cheers.) Lord Tit-smelt advocated a prompt diminution of el. peaditani, sad said that may government anxious to retain power suet great Mend mamma of reform to the people. . -• - Mr. J. C. Swam, M.P., sold that, though not egroeing in Me with kr. Bright, he WM/ as reran for • system of more direct taxation, and r • member of perliannut he had often felt mach indebted to the publioatices of the Financial Reform Arociation. Be then called attention to the timber datlee and the tax on marine inaursnos, which he denounced ea particularly unfair and opprenive, When taxation cord a reduced, he hoped the poor would be relieved from deny of W. harden. now proofing upon them. Mr. Pou.aatt-Uactuniar, M.P., se • landowner, meld beer witness to the beinefita of free-Inds legialstka, ead signed that es ready money wee one of the best preenodert et morsoloy, he was, therefore, as advocate for direct cu. Won ld its simplest seam. He considered that the sonnet of Marrs. Cobden and Bright far surpassed these of Howard and Wilberforce sad would be more uivessal in that benefits to the nation at large. He would say to them, Go as in the goad work you have began, and God give you strength to carry out your designs." Mr. lAIMINCII HITWORIN then proposed • voto of thanks to the members of parliament present, which wm seconded by Mr. F. MOULT. The resolution was carried by acclamation, end replied to by Mr. 15SANSTELD, M.P. for Halifax, who said that he bad read the publications of the Financial Radom Asso- ciation with intereet and advantage. Should Mt. Bright undertake to bring before the Bowe of Commies the scheme he had foreshadowed that night, they would assuredly find that many members of the Lower bow would better meet the thanks of the people of Liverpool, then they had done that night. Mr. Swan; in moving a vote of thank' to the Chair. man, shaded to the volunteer movement sit a spasmodic ex citement which would soon anbaide, and of which many people now connected with It would, in a few years, be heartily ashamed. This, with three cheers for Mr. Cobden, termina►ed the promedings. PAILI4JLEN74.I7 REFORM. The following petition, which is promoted by the Parliamentary Reform Committer, has been extensively signed throughout the My " To the Honourable the Commons of °rest Britain and Ireland In Parliament Assembled. " The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the City of London, sheweth, "That your petitioners accept with satisfaction the sr Nuance of her Majesty's minister. that they will be pre- pared, In the enitaing region of parliament, to inteduos a real and heart measure for the amendment of We laws which relate to the representation of the people. " That, in the judgment of your petitioners, no measure will be regarded as a settlement which does not include large extension of the suffrege both in counties and in boroughs; an ignitable redistribution of seats in proportion to the population and property of the constituencies; an men:illation of electoral laws for England, Scotland, and Ireland; and such protection to the voter, by mew of ballot, as may arrest that corruption sod intimidation which have been so fearful!y prevalent in the lite election, and which threaten to undermine the political institutions of the coantry. " In the opinion of your petitioners, these offences should be visited with more severe and disgraceful punishments, and conviction be rendered more summery and more easily attainable, than under the present Corrupt Practices Preven tion AM. Your petatonere therefore pray your honourable Room spnedilyto pais Kr? a Unatate Into leer:. '" Aid yO r tir petitioners will ever pray." It is intended, we believe, to place the petition in the bands of Lord Jolter Rowell, to be prevented shortly after the opening of parliament. The Madrid Gavotte of the 27th ult. announces officially that the Queen bas entered the ninth month of hie pregnancy, and that In consequence her Majesty had gives 120,500 reels to charitable establiAbluente, and had com menced visiting churches to offer up prayer* for bar oafs delivery. _ _ The Trieste Observer gives the followiog news of the Archduke Ferdinand, eon of the en-Grand Duke Ieo• paid of Tuicany. This prince has just establiiihed Unwell for the winter at Linden, a fortified town of Bavaria, en the Lake of Constance. The old Duke Leopold has retired to another old chateau in Bohemia. The Maher of Parma remains at the Hotel Bauer, at Zurich. In the lut day's shooting at Compiegne, the Em• parer killed 127 head of pine (3 deer, 6 harts, 19 rebbite, 60 pheesaote, 49 partridges) ; Prioce de la Moskows, 89; Baron de Rothschild. 29; Barge Duple, 28 , the Duke de Leech iceberg. 46; Duke de la Force. 72: Count Bonwalo6, 3.5; Duke de Spurs, 69; the Marquis de Tonlongeon, 60, and the Count de Nisawerkerke, 83. The Levant ilerakl, of Nov. 23, says :—" On &twig nest Mr. Hereby, judge of her Britannic lisjesty'S Supreme Consular Court, leaves for Loudon, having bon summated thither by telegraph, to cotter with the law of of the crows on the framing of the sew procadate ruks for maisular guklanoB in Turkey and the Levan. During Mr. Hureby's abuses, the judicial business will bit taken u usual, by Mr. Logic, law secretary to the wart." AN ASPIRING YOUTH.—On Sunday a gentlemaell aervant performed the dangerous feet of climbing to the nuncio of Moulton church epire, and turned the weather vene round! This eteeple la one of the hif haat in the neighs boerhood, and it is thirty years since anyone ventured Al climb up by the crochets. Owing to the dilapidated misled the le:oldie, there I. mach danger. About four pent ago the crowning stone of the spire fell down; the weather vane therefore te very insecure. COINERS IN TER EAST.— On Monday evening the police anoceeded in capturing the laincipal members of a large and sell organised band of coiner.' in Peru, amongst whom ars several iudividuala whose wool standing would have placed theta for above suspicion. The special object of the weporetion—for .uch it war—was the coinage of Wallachian and other dumits, for circulation in the provinces; and for thin purport, a complete set of marhinery had be received from America. The opine thus mode wore admirable corm terteiia sad it le believed that a huge quantity of them has been already issued in iLe Principaltties and throughout the Interior. The police had bean in pursuit of the parties sag their hiding .place for nearly tour montha.—Loverit Nor. 23. _ _ TWEED ROD FISDINO.—Good sport continues to be had with the rod, and elesest all the hob taken ara salmon of largely); and being meetly new run are of better quality than are usually got in the river at this late period of the atikaaa. At Spruaataa, ea Wednesday, Captain Kidd killed 2 admen, 191 b. and 2116. ; ea Thursday, 3 salmon, 271 6 1 20:b , and 171 6 ., and 2 ipilre ; and on Priddy, 9 salmon, the average of which was above 181 b., the heaviest being 241 b. Captain Johnston Stewat, at Spoliate's, killed 6 salmon, the average of which was 1916., the largest weighing 2610. On Friday, the Duke of Dosburghe killed 6 salmon and 1 grilse; the salmon averaged full) 181 b. At Iltrabaat Lord Dung's. killed 3 .amen, 211 b., 161 b., and 9ilb. • booked and w loot 2, and ra ft ed het 3 salmon, all withia; one bean Oo Saturday Mr. Pones', Hello, at "The Put.' killed 6 salmon and 1 grilse ; the salmon averaged 161b.—Ifelte Neil.