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Hi. hew Wrlgla.—Oememee al T. rantawm. Tura Samba, ?WS RIVALS. Mr. Elsikry.— lad Or paaarealmak biLINC lb WRITE Owl; or. Th• Prisms Illorba W hart riaionatbara. filaraGorasak. hi; C. llama. mi. Inas Terry. —Open al plat • Teti Mono. Till KINGS 11 O. Diem— ANA tie 011.61•11•11. LALLA zoo aR. Mosal.T. J. Malmo. A Peas. J.L.T.IIs. sod War 11.01.1 dead I. Um lAra. C. Mr, Mao Weior. lisisabsard Uns.--Ormin• Tuts /Dame, MAP S i al.e . Lhoi • Cl=is emit taw lisminse. on It : ord Jam. Mem. rasian. imilliEWirglaga•—egomme 61W/ism a. HlOll WATER A? LONDON BRIDGE. Most:2l4= LONDON, TUESDAY; JANUARY 5. Tim debate in the Sardinian Chambers (reported in yesterday's ltsprus) will form a landmark in the history of the 19th century. Of late years there has been a sad reaction in the matter of religious free dom. Sacerdotaliam has awakened from a death- like slumber with new energies, and has been re gaining lost strongholds. The emissaries of the Court of Rome have everywhere been inde fatigably encroaching on the civil power. In France they have availed themselves of the in security of a usurper to obtain concessions from him most detrimental to the liberties of the Gallivan Church. In Austria they have nearly succeeded in undoing all that was done by JOSEPH 11. They had at one time all but broken up the fabric of the Hel vetic Unice. They have disturbed the peace of Prussia, and nearly overturned the balance of the constitution of Belgium. In Ireland they have re paid the confiding and liberal Protestants who laboured for their emancipation with a black in gratitude that has led some weaker brethren to entertain doubts of the soundness of the principle of religious toleration. While the Romish Propaganda has been thus active outside of the Alps it was not to be expected that it would view with tolerance or indifference the growth of Liberal prin ciples within them. The consequence has been that at home and abroad the Piedmontese Government has found itself systematically belied, thwarted, undermined, by the emissaries of the Roman Court. From one aggression to another the ultra-priestly party have at last advanced beyond the point up to which a diplomatic war can be carried on with the show of external courtesy, and the Government of Piedmont has been compelled to throw down the gauntlet openly to its sacerdotal enemies. The contest into which Piedmont has been draws is one that " craves wary walking." With the exception of the numerically insignificant minority of the Waldenses, and the Protestants of Savoy, the whole Piedmontese people are from conviction holders of the creed of the Romish Church. There are among their working clergy— especially in the rural districts—many conscientious, s elf-denying, indefatigably diligent pastors, who have honourably earned the love and confidence of their flocks. The Romish faith is part and parcel of the intellectual and moral being of the Piedmaatees population. In such a state of society it is not easy for a Uovernment to resist the political usurpations of the Church without running the risk of being represented as hostile to its spiritual authority. The statesman called on to fight such a battle must combine the most entire and sleepless control of his passions with the most unflinching courage. Hitherto the KING and his Minister have shown themselves powered of both qualities in an eminent degree. The spontaneous respectful letter addreseed to the Pore by Vtcroa EastaNum. was equally creditable to his feelings as a man and his wisdom as a Sovereign. And the moral grandeur of Count CATOrle, appearance in the Chamber of Deputies cannot be surpassed. He spoke, even at that agi tating moment, with the dispassionate acumen of a recluse philosopher, of the happy influence produced upon the well-coaditioned minds among the clergy by their living under free constitutional institu tions. He acknowledged in the widest ewe their right as citizens to take part In all political movements. But he made a resolute stand against the abuse of the priestly character and the perversion of spiritual influence. There WO that in the tone and bearing of Count CAvOOS which must have taught the sacerdotal faction that they have precoked to active hostilities a man endowed by nature with the power to bridle them. And it is equally clear that the intelligence and patriotism of the Chamber were instinctively moved by his gallant demeanour. In that Chamber, where the machinations of the Priests were understood to have diminished the ministerial majority to something little more than nominal, Count Ca ot n'. motion for an inquiry into the conduct of the Priests at the late election was canted by the unexpectedly large ma jority of 8$ to 35. for are the numbers in the divi sion more suggestive of the most sanguine hopes, than the timid, equivocating, shuffling manner in which the Opposition sought rather to evade than resist the mutton. The vote of the Sardinian Chamber is a " Mene, Mme, Tekel, Upharsin," to the temporal usurpation of the Court of Rome. The Parliamentary struggle for the religious liberties of Piedmont begins in a far more auspicious manner--for a less questionable object and in a more Catholic spirit—than the Parlia mentary struggle for the religious liberties of Eng land. The language and attitude of the BING and his Ministers ere every way worthy of the great contest it is their proud privilege to have been called upon to wage. And the hest spirits of the nation are prepared to follow their lead. Words have been spoken that cannot be unsaid; a deed has bees done from which it is impossible to recede. The 3rd of January, 1838, will constitute an epoch iu the history of Piedmont, of Italy, of Europe. It is no mere sectarian propagandism that is in pro- gress. Io the movement initiated with so much cou rage and so much dignity, religious conviction, devo tional sentiment, and unfettered reason, walk hand in hand. Ter, new Judge, Mr. Serjeant BTLIM, is DOe only not with the Liberal party, but is, or is- IILE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1858. ther has been, strenuously opposed to it. Are we, on that ground, opposed to the appoint ment ? Most unquestionably not. In all these eases there is one, and only one, question to be asked with • view of forming a correct opinion as to the nature of the selection. Who, in the general esti mate of the legal profession, would be the fittest man for the post, apart from all political conside ra tions ? . . _ . This is the fair test. In that gregarious and quick sighted brotherhood, a man's merits and capacities ars rapidly and accurately assessed. Professional j ealonsies and exaggerated eel f •esteem may blind some, but the general judgment of Westminster Hall, the common voice of the long-robed populace, rarely errs. Tried by this test, the choice of the new Judge has been a right choice. If Mr. Serjeant BYLCS had been passed over, the general feeling, we think, would have been, " Ah, BYLES no doubt " would have been the best man ; but then his poli " tics, you know, put him out of the question." The occasions on which we have had to re monstrate against Lord CILLNWORTR'S want of energy as a law reformer have been only too frequent ; but we have always recognised that conscientious desire to select the best man, which has honourably distinguished his higher legal appointments. A firm adherence to the prin ciple that professional fitness, and not political opinions, ought to form the guide in judicial appointments of all kinds is especially valuable in the present day, when the legal patronage tested in the Chancellor is so enormously increased by the recent creation of subordinate judgeships. In • free country few possessions are more valuable than the thorough independence of that profession which has been, and again may be, entrusted with the defence of endangered liberty against the encroachments of irritated power. Once proclaim and act upon the principle that judicial office, high or low, shall be the prize of political subserviency or parliamentary adhesion, and the independence of the Bar is at an end. Instead of a body of free-spirited ad vacates, you have a crowd of expectant place men. The tendency of the times, the necessities of our increasing population, and the growing demand for • more certain and scientific administration of justice—all point to the probability of a still further increase of judicial offices and a corresponding exten sion of the legal patronage of the Crown. The same circumstances conspire to give an additional value to such appointments as those of Mr. serjeant BYLF.S. Whether he will make a good Judge, time alone can show; to venture • prediction on this point is at least as hazardous as to attempt the con fessedly hopeless task of estimating the chances of an enacted play. But this is certain: the new Judge has a professional reputation for sagacity, good sense, and sound judgment, not surpassed by that of any other practitioner in Westminster Hall. If the possession of these qualities by an advocate do not constitute a guarantee for excellence as a Judge nothing will. Cbt Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 4. The Queen walked and drove in the Home-park this morning, and visited the Dothan of Kent at Frogmore. Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, sad Princess Louisa 1100DOI• panied her Majesty. - The Prince Consort went out shoodag. The Bishop of London left the Cade in the forenoon, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., also took his departure. A LEAF FROM THE " PEERAGE." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. power which can Dever give her umbrage on any point of the globs, and so the alliance was concluded. Preemie; we have said, was urgently solicited to join the alliance. We have reason to believe that King Frederick William was quite disposed to sign the protocol if he could have prevailed upon the Emperor of Russia to sign it at the seine time. It was with this object that the King of Prussia took a part in arranging the interview between the Em perors Alexander 11. and Francis Joseph at Weimar in the month of October. But Russia appearss resolved to stand aloof, for some time at least, from any concert with other Powers. The new Czar desires to be a simple spectator of what is going on in Europe—an interested spectator in ' deed, bat one unfettered by any engagements. His internal reforms, his railways, his fortifications fur the defence of his frontier, will for many years to come absorb all his attention and all his 1 . 11100/0118. He thinks he has nothing to fear from isolation, and nothing to hope for from any new alliance, and be will probably not change hie present attitude. As to Prussia, she has been in • state of interregnum since the interview of Weimar, but this situation cannot be prolonged. Either a regency or a new reign are imminent ; and in either case the well known sentiments of the personage who would become the head of the date are in favour of the &Mono. of which we have spoken. The marriage of the Prince of Prussia with the Princess Royal of England, which will take place in a few days, will draw still closer the bonds which unite the courts of Berlin and London. It Is very possible that an abdication, much spoken of in Germany, may very shortly place the crown upon the head of the young husband of the English princess. It is therefore not rash to consider that Prussia, and in consequence all Germany, will in all probability adhere t the alliance between Austria and Great Britain. This alliance, we hasten to say, will have nothing offensive in its character. It is one formed with • view to observation more than action. It does not menace the established order of things in Europe ; it is but a work of reciprocal self-defence against foreseen or unforeseen eventualithe. It Is, however, s fact beyond doubt, that of all the diplomatic events of the year just concluded, the alliance we have mentioned is the most important : it is one the consequences of which must necessarily be universally felt. In seeking the alliance of Austria, Lord Palmerston was necessarily compelled to renounce the policy which he bad pursued for many years in Italy. From being • revolu- Uteriat in Europe, he become ;conservative. If he still thinks of M. de Cavour and his friends in Piedmont, it is only to advise them to be very prudent, and to keep on good terms with their neighbours of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. Far from encouraging the revolutionists of Naples or Sicily, he is almost ready to hold out the hand of friend ship to King Ferdinand, and is disposed to say that, otter all, his states are u wall governed ea those of her Britannic Majesty. It has been already remuked with whet moderation, with what unwonted consideration for the rights of nations,the noble lord spoke of the arrest of the engineers of the Cagliari. • • • • But it is more especially in regard to the two great Powers loft out of the combination—France and Russia —that the existence of the new protocol deserves notice. Why this barrier placed between them from the Mg to the west of the European Continent P Is it a conflict, or is it an alliance too intimate and dangerous for the balance of power in Europe that the new auks have wished to prevent by their interposition f These ere questions which it would be pro mature, if not Imprudent, to raise and to discuss. Let us confine ourselves to the immediate effects of the event of which we are treating. Russia, as we have said, occupied with internal refdrms, which will require years to complete, will not for a long while to come seek to take any active part in the affairs of Europe. Without abdicating her position as a first-rate power, she will remain ea far es possible a simple spectator. • • • • The same cannot be said in any point of view of Fromm. Doubtleas;,we have nothing to fear from en alliance which is not menacing to us ; and doubtless France will always be strong enough to resist any hostile designs; but the sort of isolation in which we are placed is a great change in the situation. The barrier erected at our very gatea, although it does not interfere with our movements, oppose' to throw us beck many years. We have not, like Russia, taken a vow to stand aloof for a time from the general MGM' of Europe; and yet this alliance places us in a certain minority in any conference or congress whenever we may happen not to agree in opinion with the parties to it. We are, moreover, exposed to a repetition everywhere of the situation which, linos the departure of our troops, we have suffered at Constantinople. There, whenever any question of im potion°s has been raised, we have found ourselves opposed by Angle-Austrian influence. We have in Turkey an am humidor admirably fitted for his task. But It is all In vain that he is supported by the remembrance of the glorious ser vices which our soldiers rendered to Turkey. He is never listened to unless he goes the length of threatening. His allies of yesterday have become his declared or secret adver saries of to-day ; and he passes his whole time in unravelling wretched intrigues, or discussing the most miserable ques tions of etiquette. Such, with few exceptions, is the state to which we have been reduced in the East for the lest two years by the policy of Atuarialand LEngland. If we are to suppose that the object of the ethane* concluded between the two powers is to place our relations in Europe upon a similar footing, it cannot be denied that we have a good right to complain. The above article has very considerably disturbed the equanimity of the government to-day, and the question of what was to be done in consequence was the subject of very lively discussion both at the police-office and at the ministry for foreign affairs. I understand that it has been determined that it would be impolitic to adopt severe measures against the journal, although, of course, it will be marked down for a warning on the first trivial occasion on which it may be found tripping. The government journals have been ordered to prepare stately leading articles throwing ridicule upon the allegation that France is in a state of isolation, and denying positively the existence of the supposed protocol of Vienna. I think, however, more especially as the assertion of Speetateur is evidently not lightly made—that the fact of a warning not being given to that journal for promulgating false news of very serious import, is a pregnant proof that the protocol in question is a reality. The Patrie and Pays, en attendant the going off of greater guns, merely analyse theSpectateur ar ticle, and treat the protocol as a " diplomatic ro mance," and the " isolation of France" as a troubled dream of the Spretateur. Much more will be heard of all this. The Bourse has been extremely animated, and a great rise has taken place. The Rente rose 7k. for cash and lfr. 13c. for account, closing at 69fr. 40c. and 69fr. 95c. Mobilier rose 62fr. 50c. The Or leans Railway rose 40fr ; Northern, 12fr. 50c. ; Eastern, 15fr. ; Lyons, 10fr. ; Southern, 10fr. ; Western, 72r. 50e.; and Grand Central, 2fr. 50c. No particular reason was alleged for the great ad vance in the Rente, but a feeling of confidence in the future prevails. TAE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The light portion of these mails will probably miss at Marseilles to-night, and reach London on Thursday morning or afternoon,—jost Ave days after the contract time. In conaequeoce of this delay the merchants in the northern manufacturing towns will have barely sufficient time to wind replies to their edvicee by the outward mall, which leaves on the 12th inst. THIS AXERICAN EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH OF Sin Jonx Flue ILIN.—From Washington we Wen, under date Dec. 19, that Lord Napier bad, by instrootion of Lard Clarendon, placed in the hands of Secretary Cass a number of medals which her Msjesty's government desires to prevent to the officers and men engaged in the several expeditions which have been fitted out in the United States for the re covery of Sir John Franklin and his companion. Her Majesty's government directs Lord Napier to express the high sense which they entertain of the real and devotedness of the parties who volunteered in these enterprises, and their earnest hope that the CitILMIS of the United Stateswito shared the same dangers may be permitted to acoept Ike same hono rary rwgnitions as the °Moen and Moo( her Mejesty's ser vice empioyed in the cause of the Arctic dieoovery. . MURDER OF A WALLACHIAN JUDOF..—A Baehr. rest letter of the 41st nit., in the Post Aotiet Gazette, rays:— " The preaident of the cavil tribunal of this plea was me seaelnated to-day about twelve o'dock on his seat of Nair meat. Th e murderer is a Greek, aged 22, who had just lost a mutt for the prosecution of which be had been obliged to sell all his property. When be heard the judgment Iwo- Doctored, he drew a Oat& from hie pocket end blew ont the president's brains. rilahnitur, 'At last. justice is donor He then wanted to kill himself with another pistol, but be was prevented and lodged in prima." THE UNITED STATES. (rma ova owN NEW YORK, Dec. 23. Without waiting for the President to remove him Governor Walker has sent his resignation to the Secretary of State, accompanied by an able and un answerable vindication of his official acts as Gover nor of Kansas. It is said that the President (dis turbed by the course which events have taken) refuses to recognise this official communication of Governor Walker, and that he has been or will be peremptorily dismissed by a species of political drum head court-martial. But the Governor has evidently got the start of the President, and as you will doubt ing find space for the Governor's letter, it will be unnecessary for me to say anything fur ther, unless it may be a word on the reception of the letter, so far as we learn it front the telegraphic, despatches which have come to ns this morning. It has been sent over the wires to all parts of the Union, and it is as long as a presidential message. Immense ex pense has been Incurred in its dissemination, and but one response has come back from the Eastern, Western, and Northern States. One of the New York daily journals uses the following language on the subject : Governor Walker's letter to the president, resigning his commission es Governor, is not merely a defence of himse l f. it is an attack upon the good faith of the President, which cannot fail to cause that functionary a great deal of WNW& nese. The Governor takes the ground that nothing but his promises, authorised by the President, that the Lecompton Constitution should be submitted to the people, prevented the assumption of authority under the Topeka Constitution, accompanied, as it must have been, by civil war; nor does he entertain a doubt that the failure to keep this promise, sad the attempt to force the Lecompton Constitution on the people, will be attended by a like result. This is a plain statement of the facts in the case. But a careful reading of Governor Walker's letter of resignation will be necessary to enfold the subject clearly, even to an American. It is now evident that a great and wide-spread defection has taken place in the Democratic party all through the Free States. Fifty of the Demo cratic newspapers of the single State of Ohio have enlisted in the cause of Douglas and Walker against the Kansas policy of Mr. Buchanan. The State of Michigan (General Casa's state) has also wheeled into this revolutionary movement, and at a Democratic Mass Meeting the great doctrine of State Sove reignty" has been re-affirmed in favour of the policy of Walker and Douglass. The meeting was held in, the town where the Secretary of State lives (Detroit), and the men who moved most conspicuously in the affair were the personal and political friends of General Cass. In close connexion with this general movement, we have received Acting-Governor Stanton's address to the newly assembled legislature of Kansas. When the news arrived by telegraph that Mr. Stanton had summoned the new legislature to meet before the regular day of their assembling, the President of the United States appointed his successor; but before the news of Mr. Stanton's removal could have been received in Kansas the legislature had met, and taken the power into their own hands. What they have done we do not yet know ; but we do know that the Free State men are determined to be trifled with no longer. They have the clearly defined right by act of Congress to frame their own laws and in stitutions to suit themselves, and they are resolute to do it. The great mass of the American people, too, will stand by them in the doing of it. Mr. Stanton'. reasons for calling a special session are very clearly and frankly stated. He wishes, first, to preserve the public peace; and, secondly, he is determined to nul lify the acts of the Lecompton convention, and he will succeed, it is believed. Thus, you will perceive that we are again fairly afloat on the open sea of sectional strife ; and that in attempting to buoy up the sinking ship of slavery, Mr. Buchanan promises to wreck himself and his PartS• In executive session yesterday the Senate re ceived from the President the nomination of General Lamar as Minister to Nicaragua, and, unexpected as it was, he was instantly confirmed. This is alto gether the most important diplomatic appointment on this continent at the present time, and the General is, with the exception of General Walker and M. Soule, the most prominent Filibuster we have. He had no small agency in taking Texas' from Mexico, and became one of its Presidents be fore its final annexation to the United States. He has seen active service in war, is an experienced senator and financier, and altogether en extra-' ordinary man. His capacity fits him for any diplo matic position. But he is "an intense Filibuster," and one of Walker's intimate friends. His object is accepting this mission is to help Walker. How all this is to be reconciled with Mr. Buchanan's message we cannot explain. I subjoin the following statements contained in a despatch from Norfolk, to show the active revival of the slave trade. It is only a single indication of the enormous mason which this barbarous traffic is now being carried on by American vessels with Cuba. Will not the British government at last do some thing definitive on this subject? Norfolk, Dec. 21. The barque William 0. Lewis, thirty-eve days from the coast of Atria', arrived here to-day. She was captured ma slaver in the Congo river by a boat expedition, commanded by Lieutenants Walker and Cummins, from the United State* sloop of war Dale. The brig Windward, supposed to be a slaver, was also captured, and will be here in a few dam The British steamer Electra had seised the barque Clara 3.. Williams and an American schooner about the same time. Many slavers are reported to be on the African coast. Twelve bad been captured after the arrival of the Dale there. She was to leave soon for St. Helena. Her officers and crow were all well. MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. The public will be admitted to the Chapel Itoya/, St. James's, by ticks* on Wednesday, the nth inst., and the two following days, snd to the chapel and state spirt:meats in the following week. Tickets of admission will be tamed at the Lord Chamber Wee-odic, on Tuesday, the 26th fiat. Mr. Healy Bradbury h.O been honoured by his Majesty the Erg of Sardinia with the following oteareunkation in connexion with the new art of Natere•Printing . " Londres, 2 Janvier, 18.58.-23, Park her.—Le Marquis d'Azeglio primate see complimens 1 Man. Henri Bradbury, it s'empropee de 'lnformer quo son bel °lmre, " Ferns of England and Iniend," a he preente u So Malone le Roi, qui non. rulerriest • daigni Papier, mai', en rooonnaissant le merite et l'utilite, • rods le deetiner i PAcademie Royale des Betuu-Arts. Le Ministry dee Affairs' Etrangerea, en trans• nentant au Marquis d'A zeglio con renseignemens, le charge en out,, d'informer M. Bradbury de touts la satisfaction de Sa Malone." The Dean and Chapter of Westminster have pro moted the Rev. Dr. WaMon, of the Collegiate tic/tool, Eaton. square, to the incumbency of Trioity Church, Knights His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Passim will leave the residence of the E.b•ssy. Albert sate Hones, to-day, on • visit to the Duke of Newcastle, et Clamber Park Notts. His Kicellency Count Von Platen, the New Minister from the Court of Sweden, hes taken a large ressoks hi Orosrestor-place. His Kneelimey the Minister for the Hansa Towns tell ben a Sow asp since for Berlin. His Excellency the Saxon Minister will return to lows to-morrow from German]. Th. Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have not hod the aeoal festivities at Baby in coasequence of the mane ladigoeltiea of her grace. The circle hichaded only Led, Charles Sonareet, Col. end Mts. Paden licasoreet, Hen. Mr. sad Mrs. Vasa Ilea. Capt. Poulett, Mr. Heavy Mf%take, Mr. sad Yrs. Frederick Mlbeaks, Mr. beery Neuter. and Sir John Hippieley. We are glad to hew her once Is new nearly oceivaleseent. The Earl and dounteas of Mulgrave arrived in *ma last evening, from visiting the Dachiss (Dowager) of Clewlead, at Newton House, Bola* Yorkshire. The Cnanteas Dowager of Macclesfield and Lady Louisa Parkas havearrivad at Ilowchitt's natal., St. James stmt. Laura Counter of Antrim arrived in town pester *day, hose visiting the Earl and Countess of Macclesfield, at eisevberne Castle, Ozon. Viscoant Eversley and the Hon. Mrs. Shaw Lobvrir have Sotton-place,near Guildford—whore they have lent staying on a visit with Sir John and Lady Lefevre— to-day, for Hsckasid Park, Hants. Lord Ravensworth has been entertaining a dis tinguished circle at Ramusworth Castle, including Prances Anne Marchioness of Londonderry, the Earl and Countess Vane, ,Viseennt and Virmountess Boyne, Lady Williamson, Hon. Mrs. Liddell, Hon. Mrs. Langley end the Mimes Latikr, Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bir W. and Lady Was, Hos. Gustavus Hamilton, Mr. Williamson, Mr. Haesesik Mr. Henry Milbank*, and Mr. Victor Williamson. Oa Wednesday last his lordship gars a bell, to which 400 of tM nebility, gentry, and clergy of the county were invited. Lord and Lady Harry Vane have 'left town .for Brighton for a few weeks. Lady Arthur Hay is slightly indisposed, at her maiden°, in Chester-square. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. G. Barrington have ar rived is Wen, from visiting Lord and Lady Barrington, at Beckett Hones in Berkshire. The Right Iron. C. Villiers, M.P., left town on Monday, on s visit to Lord Broughton, in The marriage wu celebrated yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, of Llesteeent-Coloael Hairy Tomes D'Agnilar, late Onstadier Onarde, and eldest sou of the late lie George D'Agailar, E.C.8., with the third daughter of Lady Elisabeth Datum. MALVERN, JAN. 4.—There are several Visitors still namining here. Aumag others may be tneoHoned Lord and Lay Keane, Lord sad Lady Blayney, Dowager Lady Wil mot and Colonel Wilmot, the Hoe. Coked Scott, the Hon. E. Colborne, Colonel Herbert, Captain O'Callaghan, Captain Forbes, Colonel and Mrs. Moutirtrg the Hon. Mrs. Brown low, to. Imam Ms bun sansully fine in this die- TO Tlll ZDITOI OP TI =PLOW Sta,—The following is not a bad illustration d "Bow to do it," es practieed by the Upper Tat : The Marqtds of Noesnby—Our Minister at Memo% and high in Austrian favour. The Earl of Mulgrave (eon of the above peer)—Just ap pointed Governor of Nova Scotia (?) - The Hon. Charles Phipps, C. 8., Colonel in the army (brother of the marquis)—Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, and Troasurer of the Houmehold to the Prince Con sort. His son, Charles—Page of Honour to the Queen (which will soon procure the boy a commission in the Guido, worth 1,2001.) His son-In-law, Captain Bayer, Deputy- Assistant Quartenuester-General at the Horse Guards. The Hon. Edmund Phipps (second brother of the manilla) —Commiesiceer of Encumbered Estates in the West Indies (mu&lly resident in Rely). The Hon. Augments Phipps (third brother of the marquis) —Rector of Etistort-cum-Barnhats, Suffolk, and Chapin" in Ordinary to the Queen. Here re have an entire family excellently provided for at the public expense. It la indeed time fora new Reform Bill.—l am, &c., A COMMON FELLOW. Jan. 4. MUTH OF THE EARL OP ILOHEBTER. (From the Dame Comely Egress of this day.) We have to announce with extreme regret that to the griefs and losses which society has sustained by the hand of death, and which overshadow with unusual gloom this SWUM of the year, is to be added the demise of the Right Hon. the Earl of Ikhester, which melancholy event took place at Melbury House, at ten minutes past seven o'clock on Sunday morning last. The sable earl was seised with what unhappily proved to be a mortal sickness so recently as Monday weak. Much anxiety was felt for his lordship from the earliest manifestations of his malady, and the beat radial assistance was speedily at hand, including the able profes sional services of Dr. Bence lona, of London, and Dr. Cowden, of Dorchester. As the week advanced, however, the fears of hie lordship's friends became more and mon in tare; and, for many hours previously to the closing soave, all hops of a favourable lane seems to hare fled. As a politicises, Lord llamas was steadily attached to the old whig pasty, wee the personal friend of the Marquis of Lanalowne, and co-operated with the noble marquis in all those manures which brought out and testified to the well-understood and broadly-marked character of the whip. The deceased nobleman mealy, if ever, spoke in the House of Lords, but was studiously watchful of the progress of public afar', and was rarely absent from his piece what the policy of his party stood in need of vindication by the votes and speeches of its adherents. The late earl held very extensive possessions in this county ; and his country seats at Melbury House, near Shabome ; Redlynch, Somerset; and Abbotsbury Castle, are well known to most persons in the West of England. As a landlord, his lordship filled a high and most honourable position. It is in this relation of life, in which be was so worthily distinguished, that the passing tribute of our humble admiration of Lord Ilchester's high character is due, and may be rendered with the utmost sincerity and truth. Our own personal knowledge of the sen timents of many of his lordship's tenantry justifies no in speaking with equal earnestness and gratification on this point, and assures us of the hearty and general concurrence "In speaking his praise now" on the part of a vary numerous body, who only peahen. most loved and admired him because tthhy knew him beet. Kind-hearted, considerate, and just— affable, accessible, and condescending—his lordship has left behind him a memory dear to many an honest heart, and an example which rosy be followed by landowners of this and other counties with a welcome addition to the lustre of their ' reputation and the geniality and usefulness of their career. Many local and other institutions felt the benefit of his lordship's benevolent impulses, and our County Hos pital found in him a generous patron and a mu nificent contributor to the revenues of that cha ritable asylum. The deceased nobleman was the third Earl of Ilchaster, created 1766; Baron Delmar and Strangeways, 1741; Baron Ilchester and Stavordals, 1747; Baron of Redlynch, 1747; Privy Councillor, 1837. The family name of the late earl was Henry Stephen Fox Btrangeways, D.C.L., son of the second earl by his first wife, daughter of Standish Grady, Esq. He was born in 1787, and was therefore in the seventy-first year of his age when he died. lie married, in 1812, the second daughter of Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David's, niece of the fourth Duke of Atboll, who died in 1818 ; and he succeeded his father in 1802. He was appointed Lisa.- Colonel Commandant of the Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry in 1846, and was patron to seventeen livings. The heir presumptive of the wealth and honours of the de ceased earl is the Hon. William Thomas Horner Strange ways, born 1796, who, having held vari distinguished sppointenente since 1820, filled the post of envoy extraor dinary sad minister plenipotentiary at i'rankfort from Augnst, 1840, to January, 149. The deceased nobleman, as we have said, was widely and most deservedly esteemed among us in this part of England ; and In consequence of his lamented death several festivities in which many leading county j families were prepared to take a part about this period , have ban necessarily postponed. In this oetegucy are the aunty ball, the great gathering in our town in honour of .1. J. Parmiluirson, Esq. (on which occasion the noble earl was to have taken tie chair), and the dinner of the Military troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. The earl had four ehildrea, two of whom are living, namely. Lady Dishy, and lady Caroline Harrison, married to Sir Edward Kerrison, Hart.; and two eons, namely, Henry Thomas and Steven Savor dale, both of whom are dead. DEATH or MR. HACKBLOCK, M.P.—We re gret to announce the death of this gentleman, member for the borough of Reigate, and much esteemed and respected in the county of Surrey. Mr. Rackbluck has long beet in indifferent health, and at one period had some intention of resigning his seat In psrltament on that account. Hie death took place on Saturday last, at the residence of his brother, Brockhers Warren, Betchwortb. The deceased was formerly a merchant in the city of London, and retired in 1866. He was returned on the liberal intermit for Reigate,: in April, 1867. At the time of his death he was in his 63rd year. In connexion with the vacancy in the representation of Reigate, an eddies. hoe already appeared from Mr. J. Monsen a liberal, but other names are mentioned, and it Is understood that the conservatives intend starting a osailidate. PURCHMIE OF PICTURES FOR THE. NATION.—A correspondent of the Morniag Past at Florence makes kaoline the fact that Sir Charlie Eastlake has purchased a collation of paintings of the early Tassan masters, for the NaSonal Gallery. "In purchasing the moat valuable portion of the Lombardi collection," writes the correspondent, " our go vernment has profited by an opportunity which might lever again present itself of furnishing artists and amateurs with the materiels for an unbroken and continuous history of art, ti exhibited in the productions of the Florentine school, from its glorious dawn with Ciambue, to its naeridima splen dour under Maseccio and Fillpptno Lippi." The purehese consists of 22 pictures, by Ciambue, Giotto, Demi*, Segna di Duodo. the priest Emanuel (a great satin), Taddeo Gaddi, Sefton° Aritino, Jacopo di Cosentino, An drea Orgagna, Fra Angelico, Gentile de Fabt nu°, Pietro della Francesca, Andrea del Cutest°, Filippo Lippi, Mesa_ lino da Penicalle, Filippino Lippi, Paolo Condo, Andrea Mantegna, and Margheritone d'Arezzo. If we take into account the separate compartments into which the pictures are divided, the number would ha smelt greater. That of Andrea Orgasms cohabits of 10 separate *or, the Jacopo di Cosentino of 9, the Taddeo Gaddi of 7, dm. The entire collection has been bought for 7,0001." • THE BISHOP OP OXFORD o. TER VICAR OF BYNSIIAII —ls ooneequence of the &pats between the Bishop of Oxford and the Bev. William 8. BrioltneU, M.A., Vicar of Bynames, Oxon,relatlvo to the removal of the communion-table in the perish church, the following notice wee pieced on the church door, Eyeshot's, revious to Claristmea-day The Bishop of Oxford ha v i ng directed the removal of the oonitounion-table in the pariah church of itynsharn. by riokeos if necessary, in the event of ita being placed in the pcwition required by the rubrics and canine of the Church of England when the holy commotion is ad ministered (canon 82), and It having been made known to me that several persons are likely to be deterred horn at tendance at the communion upon the approaching hided through fear of witnessing the unseemly which might ensue from an aucopt to earry out eorA a di:trona' from his lordship, 1 hal it my duty to give this public nabs that no opp opportunity will be afforded on Christmas-day for any each dwention of the auwAsary.—W. 8. Balcunitt.t., vicar." •—• NEW YEAR'S DAT IN THE METROPOLITAN PIIIIIONO.-0a New Year's-day the whole of the inmates of the feversl metropolitan poisons, 810 persons in ell, partook of a dinner coesisting of rowed of beef, bread and potatoes, sad one pint of porter each, being the gift of Aldeemen Lawrence and William Ferneley Allen, Esq., Sherds of Landau and Middlesex. The numbers who dined were es follows :—Whitecrose-street debtors' prison, 260 primmer@ sad 30 omen ; Holloway criminal prism. 400 primers and 16 climes ; Newgate. 100 prisoners and 15 Akers. • PltlßCE3e'S.—The revival of Hamlet, which has not been repreeented at the Prince...ea far two years, vie announced for last night, but Mr. Hese was oompolied to succumb to a severe attack of infIUBLES and licereseme, and Mr. o:milord's Came of CoNseintee, with Mr. Trenettee's Levine Too host, and the paalomune, formed the lowish mews. THE FRENCH OPERATIONS IN CHINA. The Independence Beige of yesterday evening says:" At the moment of going to press we h►ve received from Paris by electric telegraph an an nouncement which merits the special attention of onr readers. France has resolved not to participate in the operations which England is preparing against Canton. Formal orders to this effect have been sent to Rear-Admiral Rigeult de Glenouilly, and the forces commanded by that general officer have re ceived another destination. The question is no longer of acting against China, but to make a demonstration against Cochin China, where a cruel persecution is at this moment being carried on against the Christians, and where the authorities recently insulted a vessel of the French Imperial navy. It will be remembered that in the last cen tury great advantages were accorded by the Emperor of Cochin China to the French government, repre sented at his court by several officers of fortune and of great merit, and by some very able Christian missionaries of the order of Jesuits. Doubtless these are the advantages—especially the cession of Tournane in the bay of that name—that are now to be sought after, there being also the ulterior pur pose of securing for French influence in those distant seas a position equivalent to that which the English, the Dutch, and Spanish enjoy, and which the Russians essay to create by their establishments to the north of China, in Mantchouria, along the river Amour. As Spain, which possesses important colonies in these seas, has equal cause to complain of the conduct of the Cochin China authorities, she will be invited to join France in the projected demon stration. A Council of Ministers was to be held to-day under the presidency of the Emperor, to discuss the part which the government of Madrid shall take in this affair, and also to what extent France herself shall proceed." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mow ora owx PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The great event of the day is the appearance in the Spectatsur (such is the title which, in conse quence of a decree of suppression, the old A ssernblEe Nationals has taken) of a more elaborate and more startling political article than any that has been published in Paris for many years. The article evi ' dently emanates from the small but intelligent political party which formerly inspired the Asserts 511e. And although it cannot be doubted that it is written for the purpose of doing as much damage as possible to the present government of France with out necessarily provoking a warning, suspension, or suppression, the facts which it states, coming as they 1 are supposed to do from unusually well-informed sources, will undoubtedly make a great sensation in Europe. The article is headed, " A Coup d'cril on Foreign Policy." It commences by a re sume of the state of the only two ostensible great diplomatic questions of the year—those of Denmark and the Duchies, and the Danubian Principalities. As to the first question, which it says excites no interest in France, it expresses an opinion that the Great Powers will adhere to the resolution which the Germanic Diet will probably take in a few days, and will not encourage Denmark in a resistance which would be dangerous to the peace of Europe. On the second it comes to the conclusion (which I long ago announced to be so certain that I should cease to notice conflicting rumours on the subject) that the cause of the union of the Principalities is lost. But its arguments on these questions, although developed at great length, are merely prefatory to the main object of the article, which is to show that a diplomatic work, of immense importance, has been achieved during the past year, of which the European public entertains very little suspicion. What this works alleged to be appears from the concluding part of the article, which, on account of the great sensation which it is certain to produce, I subjoin at length : From the moment that the Treaty of Paris of March 30, 1856, was signed, it erase universal oplolon that the alliances under the influence of which peace had been maintained in Europe for the last thirty years were at an end. We were of this opinion, notwithstanding the conclusion of an alliance between Prance, England, and Austria. We did not heel tate to say that the true situation of ell and each of the Great Powers was—isolation. And accordingly, whenever, since that time, any European question has arisen, each Power has appeared to be feeling its way, to hesitate what part to take, and to lean sometimes one way and sometimes another. At the present time, the situation as to two Powers at least has completely changed since the triple treaty was signed, and the change deserves the most serious attention. At the opening of a recent session of the English parliament, Mr. Disraeli made an inquiry concerning a guarantee given to Austria for the security of her Italian possessions, •ith the knowledge and concurrence of England. Lord Palmer ston was much embarrassed by the question, and gave • hesitating denial. After having said at a subsequent time that he did not know of any such guarantee, he was after wards forced to admit that he knew all about it, but he said that the eventualities in the view of which the arrangement had been concluded not having Aviator, the whole thing was at an end, and no thing more was to be said about it. The guarantee in ques tion was given by France In the expectation of the waist anon which Austria had led the two Powers to expect that she would give them in the Eastern we:. It Is quite true that that treaty is not now binding. But it will not be for gotten that a few months since a German journal revealed the existence of a secret treaty between England and Aus tria, by which the first of them Powers promised its good offices, and even its aid, in case the Austrian possessions in Italy should be in danger. This statement was not strictly correct, but there was • foundation for the news. We do not, indeed, believe that any special arrangement with re gard to Italy was ever made between the cabinets of London and Vienna. But if we are well informed, and we think we are, • protocol in four articles was signed at Vienna, some time about the middle of last year, between the English Am bassador and M. de Boot, by which the two Powers mutually engaged to enlist each other in case of aggres sion, and not to take any offensive measures without consulting each other. This, then, under the least solemn form possible, wee, in fact, an alliance in the most extensive sense of the word, and the two Powers have since spared no effort to Induce Prussia to join them. The reasons which guided the conduct of Austria and England in these circum stances are nut difficult to understand. The first of theme powers felt the Isolation of her position after the termination of the Crimean war. At the same time England had learned by experience that, in order to maintain bee influence on the Continent, the alliance of a great military power was Indispensable. What would she have does against Russia without the aid of France? It may be asked why Remised did not think the tried alliance with France preferable to an alliance with Austria? We will not, indeed we could not, discuss this question thoroughly. Is Franco an ally either two powerful or too reserved? Are them between us and England toe many points of contact sad subjects of rivalry for It to be possible that an alliance between us cen be complete and desirable? Has Austria, who a year ego so efficaciously seconded the views of England by maintaining that the preaance of her resettle In the Bosphorne was necessary to assure the in tegrity of the Ottoman empire and to preserve the Isle of Serpents for the Sultan, shown herself more adroit than ourselves in seising an opFortanity ? We do not know, and once more, we dare not inquire. But this much is certain, that the alliance in question suits both Ensiled and Austrian policy. It relieves Austria from the isolated situation In which she had been left by the events of 1854 and ism, and gives to English Moses IS the Osolimat the support of a glut military THE BRAZILS. LIVERPOOL, Mosnxr. By the arrival of the clipper ship Margaret Deane, Captain Arthur, from Bahia, at this port, after a capital voyage, we are in receipt of advice@ from that port to Nov. 27, being three days later than previously to hand. The general news is of very little importance, the chief in terest being in commercial affairs, which had undergone soma alight variations. Sugars were declining in value, and the previous rate of 2.590 dole. could not be obtained. Cotton wee quiet, and quoted at 8.700 dole. to 9.700 dole. A fair bushier had hem transacted in exchange on London at 26k. Freights were steady at the following rates —Cotton, to Liverpool, 3s. Bd. restore ; to the Channel, 30s. per too. Ms CZAR NICHOLAS AND AN " EXQUISITE."—A when Jacovleff, one of the wealthiest men iu Amelia, and proprietor of one of the moat productive iron works, was sup posed to have presumed upon his wealth, and shown too independent • spirit by evading the load of honours and offices which a man in his position was expected to seek. Among other slights consequent therefrom, he age refused permission to travel, and for consolation indulged himself on the Newsky Parade at St. Petersburg in the moet outrd foreign costume which his fence could devise. Or his head was a little oeaked hat, reeembfing a flower-pot reversed; a handkerchief with a gigantic bow was tied round his neck ; cloak reduced to the dimanaions of a cape was thrown over his 'hankies; and on his chin he wore • beard, el is Henri Quetta. An enormous oaken cudgel in hie hand, a slam stock in the corner of his eye, and a bulldog following st his bele, made a Met ersannbl• fit, one would suppose, " to sat before a king." And so It did befell M. Jecovhff that, while sauntering along Le encountered the Emperor's careless. The equipage was abruptly 'topped; the Emperor himself leaned forward, and beckoning the exquisite to approach him, " Pray," said Nicholas, cyan's him with effected curiosity, " who in God's name are you, and where do yes come from?" " May it please your Majesty I have tho honour to he your Majeitq'e faithful subject, Save &reit& Jakorleff." " Indeed," replied the Empenles "we are escheated to have tho opportunity of melds' your acquaintance, Save Saveitch. Oblige us by just strip ping up end taking asset beside us." Jakuvleff slily Liter his cudgel, and with some misgivings took his seat. "DO stop," said the Emperor, when they had driven on a Weds way, " where is your stick, Save Saveitch r "0, aver mind the stick, your Majesty." "0, we must have lOW stick, Save Saveltch. Tarn beck," he add to the eo. The stick picked up, they drove on straight to the pikes. Nicholas alighted, and beckoned to Jakovieff to follow him. "0, no, Save flaveitch, don't take off your cloak ; we Pu l l have you just as you are—hat, and stick, and cloak, sad The Emperor led the way straight to the apartment el the Empress. " Pray, my dear," he inquired of her, ;1 1 = haw who this le ?' -No," replied the Empress, into a fit of laughter. "Then allow me to inform 3 , c:cella this Is our faithful subject, Hare &von& Jskowleff. What do yen think of him P Is he not &pretty fellow?' This unfortunate exquisite, after tarnishing food hor lane edataled merriment, Isr dismissed, half deed with terror sad nos'' fusion. But before he departed, he wee admonished that the Emperor did not always punish the foolery of his ae* so leniently. The men West home, took to his hods sod" dengsrionaly 111.-INtional Bering, Jan number. I i