The Express. — London, England, 1862-01-04 00:00:00

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Tice RAW asul the Moo Mer. Alcorn. Y. Maltherre. Behaorr. and R.blno. /I•Gloo. !forbore. K. Ten7.—Arrl TUX BOARDING SCROOL—Dimmosooarlf. BRITANNIA. Tine Rvorcee. The ralliONNiMe. TRII BIRO OP TIN CI RICA. lira A Leas. Mom A. Roby. J. Laois, :imbue% the Clostrelle Funny. 11.111 e. C. Sopttes. Rica W. Creased. —*ad TIE BLOVILID ONL—Cemoswee RIAU WATT& AT WINOS mesa TO Dpi—Mmulm Ma .... Meximiss. H. We. Tu-Aomboir —M Natisssa. 51k. sun. L9NDON, BITUIDAY, JAN. 4. Tne news from America is din indecisive, since it reports no action of the Government. There is nothing in it from which the most in genious telegraphist could make one of those short snapping sentences which ring through Europe when some critical event is to be announced. Nevertheless, it is most important; if no decisive resolution of the Washington Government is re ported, the promise of such a decision is affirmed almandantly. If we were to adopt the theory of some of our contemporaries, that the Go vernment of America resides really in the New York prey—a theory which has been hurriedly put away since the arrival of the Africa—we might say that the question of peace or war wee already decided when the Hansa left New York. The leading journals are unanimous in declaring that the fullest satisfaction must be given to England. The Nett. Yuri. Timis, by far the most influential organ of opinion in the Uoion, concludes a review of the legal bearings of the case by &clad ig that the American Government is " bound to restore matters to their original " status," and to "give up the rebel ministers." The New Yiirk Herald also says that it is informed that the Cabinet has resolved to yield to the demands of England, "even if these demands " involve the restoration of Messrs. Mason and " SLIDELL to the protection of the British flag, and " an apology for their seizure by Captain Rites's." And the Herald endwise this resolution, though in a mean and truculent way, of course. The New York Times, wit► honourable candour, traces to their sources the errors into which the American press had fallen in the earlier stages of the discussion, and arrives at • conclusion on the question of internationallaw not 'materially different from that which the English press had formed with • fuller knowledge of the facts. It argues that although Captain WHAMS was entitled to visit and search the Trent, and in case articles contraband of war had been found, to bring her into port; yet here his authority ended. It continues : "He is the bailiff; not the court. His office is " purely ministerial, not judiciaL Did he not " then (from the best of motives, to be " sure) commit • grave oversight, Isar " ing us no choice but to make the proper " amends, whatever theme may be! No court has "jurisdiction unless the subject matter to be passed " upon is within its reach, so that its judgments " can take effect either upon persons or property. " The subject here was the steamer or some article " contraband of war. Ware the rebels such ! Cau " they be adjudicated upon as contraband in a " Court of Admiralty! Is not their offence of a " nature entirely different I If, than, we have no " competent proof with which to condemn the " ship, and as she is out of our jurisdiction if we " had, no judgment in the cam can "be passed." And then the conclusion is drawn that Mews. MASON and SLIDELL. must be given up. These arguments, it cannot reasonably be doubted, stand in intimate relationship with the resolution of the WaaLington Cabinet, and give probability to the report of the Paris Temp.% that the Antiulcer-Gs:ream. of the United States had rendered the opinion that the Confederate _ • must be surrendered. It is not uninteresting to notice that this conviction has been acquired by the representatives of American opinion —and, as there is reason to believe, by the Government of the United Statea--iithout the volunteered aid of Enropean diplomacy. The celebrated despatch of M. Tsui:rasa. bad not reached its destination when the lines we have ex tracted were written. We trust we are not premature in congratulat ing our readers on the assurances of continued peace which these tidings seem to convey. We trust that one of the greatest calamities that could teal the world is averted. And if so, we owe the benefit, under Pativiumses, mainly to the wise and firm conduct of our Government. Had nervous and fussy men been at the head of the Admini stration in this crisis, as has happened under similar circumstances within these few years, the result must have been disastrous. But Lord PALetrurrov and Earl H , NNELL, intent, as Englilh men, on vindicating the honour of the country, have shown themselves as enlightened statesmen sensible of the value of peace. The form and terms of their note to the Cabinet of Wash ington, whcu it is laid before Parliament, will show this, to the surprise of those who have formed their opinion of it from the vulgar and bridal spirit in which it has at times been praised. And the meaner in which the demand has been brought to the knowledge of the American Government is equally conciliatory. There is every proba bility that this high-minded policy will be crowned with success ; and if so, we are persuaded the result will be as salutary to the Americans as it is agreeable to us. They will see what true mag nanimity is, and how easily the well-balanced Government of a free people rises above the waves of passion which surge and roar around it. We have no fear of that working of the old 1 f malice with which the New York Herald threatens us, as a consequence of our diplomatic action at this conjuncture. The two peoples most gnarl look lack on the.. trenseetions from different ponds of •iew ; but history will do justice to us, and American writers and statesmen will admit that our Government, compelled to take notice of an outrage, acted with dignity and moderation. If any sting remains, it will be the recollection of the wanton and malicious language held by some of our journals during the last oar public writers, while . • tweet pastime, appear to plume themselves on a moderation wkieh,•when examined, will be found to bo.fab' Unary wit superficial. Calmness is the airlV oiini lag. Ebb's wort could not be done by a choleric man. Tha public mind, however, is not so easily misled mto be deceived by tee manner when the ends are apparent. It waddles wretched affectation to doubt that there is a piny among us, numerically indeed small, but from the political ability and station of ita members meet influential, who would gladly see the energies of this nation engaged in • wee with a people who have presumed to be green and prosperous without the institutions of felted. ism, and by Anglo-Saxon liberty alone. We mg hope that for the present these miserable dealing 'have been frustrated, but we may be sure that they are not abandoned ; and it will be the duty of all who value that progress at home which is the work of peace to watch well their development. Whenever the honour of the eountry is really concerned we shall be united as one man ; but we cannot afford to have wars got up against republicanism abroad merely to pre vent some trumpery concession to the people at home. ITALY. TILE POPE AND HIS MODELES. ROME, Dm 28. * - The short speech of Cardinal Mattel to the Pope, on Christmas day, contains a passage which many catholics disapprove of—that wherein be said that he was the more happy to express, on behalf of all the cardinals, their sentiments of devotedness, sympathy, and respect for the Holy Father's person and conduct, because calumny had represented some of them as being imbued with other feelings. These words are understood. as Implying not a de fence, but an accusation, Cardinal Mattei is at the head of the reactionary party in the sacred college, but it is quite well known that some of his col leagues, and those not the least distinguished for piety and learning, do not regard the Papal govern ment as the patrimony of a privileged class, and are earnestly seeking how to reconcile the Pope with the Italians. The Pope's reply must have been mortifying to Cardinal Mattel, inasmuch as his Holiness made no allusion to the want of orthodoxy imputed to certain cardinals. Pius IX thanked the Sacred College for its testimony of affection, spoke of the unfortunate times tierrlttik we Heed, sled elliereseed that it seemed to be the destiny of the church at the present day to be tried, not by those violent perse cutions which made so many martyrs in the early ages, but by new devices of hypocrisy. He raised his voice in pronouncing the word "hypocrisy," and paused, and looked round, as he does when he thinks he has made a great hit. He went on to my that the new mode of proceeding was to feign respect for the church and to pretend to protect its head, while in reality it was sought to compass their destruction, as far as was humanly possible. Jesus Christ, from the stable of Bethlehem, in which it had pleased him to be born, although he was the King of Glory, had foreseen the trouble of his church, but had endowed it with sufficient strength to be always victorious. He was resigned to the will of God, and was ready to suffer what might be required of him, consoled as he was by the conviction that the church must be triumphant. The following is a fuller report than was sent by telegraph of the Pope's speech to the officers who were presented to him by Mgr. de klerode after =am as Dec. 27 : His Holiness said that be heartily thanked his officers and soldiers fur the generous sentiments expressed by the Minister at War, and that their assurances of devotedness and fidelity were a great (immolation to him at this period of universal confusion. " You know," he told them, "the story of King David,that prophet king, whose Psalms we daily sing. You know how he was stripped of his kingdom and driven out of his capital by an iniquitous rebellion, headed by one of his own sons. What did David do 1 He sup ported his misfortune with calm, deplored such great iniquity, and, when he wee forced by his faithful army to do battle with the rebels, he begged, with tears in his eyes, that his son might be spared. Yes, David would have saved his son, but God was determined to punish him, and you all know how that miserable rebel perished. In like manner %xi, in his justice, will avenge the persecutions and outrages under which the church is now suffering." Thus does the Pope, while offering up his New Year's prayers for the eldest son of the church, express a most confident expectation that the fate of Absalom is reserved for him. Re then proceeded, as previously reported, to tell the officers that the time would come when they must either precede or follow the Pope ; and that if not himself, his successor would lead them to victory, for the church must triumph. Jesus Christ bad said so, and heaven and earth might pass away, but his word should not pass away. This warlike speech has made a considerable sen sation. It is certain that the Marquis de Lavalette ha personally expressed to the Pope the desire of France that Francis IL should leave Rome. The Pope positively refuses to interfere with his cherished guest, and Francis IL, knowing this, tells M. de Lavalette that he would go in a moment if the Pope would only ask him. • .....,. .., • ~ firE , A , .... • tiiiitipt ! _ 4; .•,.. i 9 1 Air Csix t six weelci.. Some of 1. - fATE ln'ST i : 0 i : 'gully stimulating the Cbt Court. HER MAJZSTY. The Queen continues to have good nights, and is tranquil. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. LETTER PROM THE PRINCE OF WALE. At • meeting of the council, epochally summoned at Thursday last, the follow* autograph letter from his Royal Hy lames the Prince of Wales vas resolved : " OSBORNE, Dec. 28, 1861. •- " GrxrcrwEs,—Prortrated with overwielming grief, and able, at present, to tura her thought* but to one object, the Queem my mother has constantly in her mind the meioses desire of doing honour to the memory of him whose good sod glorious chanter the whole nation in its soiree so justly appreciates. " Actaated by this constantly recurring wish, the Qum has eornmaisded me to mall to your recollection that her Majesty hail bees *mod to smelt to a proposal to place • statue of herself upon the memorial of the Great Haiti- Utica of Ihsl, which it was intended to erect in the New Horticultural Gardens. " The characteristic modesty and self-denial of my deeply- Luneoted father had induced him to interpose to prevent hie own statue from tilling that position, which properly Wiwi to it, upon a memorial to that greet wetissieking which agrung from the thought of hi enlightened mind, and wee tarried throogli to a terrnisatios unessinpled seism by hie aiming sepwintesdenoe. " It timid Isom/wit wow, her Majesty directs me to say, be wt hurtful to her hasp were say other sato* to BUTTIOSSi this ineaswil but that of thereat, good prince, my dearly beloved faihrs. to whew bowitir it is in reality mimed. " The Quire, therefore, would aaxiously desire that, Mewed of ber status, tk.et of her beloved husband should stead ulna ibis memorial. " Aarious, however humbly, to fedi& my respectful and heartfelt affectio• for the best of fathoms, nod the gratitude and devotion am" enroswing km* I have einglit, and hems with thaakfulsom obtained, the pormeieds• of the queen my mother to offer the feeble tribute at the admiration and lows of a bereaved se m, by pomades the 'Wee thus pro posed to be placed in the gardens wider your ammegement..- - • remain, ;teatimes, yours, " ELM? EnWalLi. "To the Council of the Horticultural Society.' The letter having been read, the council resolved : That soder the lamentable and afflicting cirettmelemess in which the council are placed by the irreparable leas Wash they, is common with the 'ratio's, have sustained by the decease of their late president, the gracious offer of his Royal Highnees the Prinoeof Wales should be acctpted ; but at the same time that he should be assured that they con template the loss of her Majesty's statue with very great regna." His Royal Highness; the Duke of Cambridge is rfteoveriag from hie attack at goat. Yesterday, although his royal highness Ina much better, he was usable to &nand at the Horse Oyu& The Duchess of Atholl has arrived M the St. Osorge's Hotel from Osborne. The Earl of Norbury bas arrived at Farrauce's Hotel from Valletta, Kent. The Countess of Hardwick° comes to town on Tuesday next from Wimp* be Hail, Cambridgeshire. We learn that Mrs. Coventry, wife of the Hon. Hoary A. Coventry, died at Malice Mowbray oe Wedoes. day last. Mn. Oommtry wee daughter of Mr. Jammed Dun. das, of Dundee, N. 3., cad Lady Mary Doom, youngest daughter of Adelina Visaing Deacon, the victor of Cam. perdo on. She meth& Aug. 2, 147, the Hem H. A. Coventry, yosumpat son of the late Earl of Coventry, by whom she UMW a SIMI /MO US family. A deputation, consisting of Mews. Robert renter, Samuel Fox, and William Allen, had an interview yesterday afternoon with the Home Secretary, Sir G. Grey, Hart, to preseut an address from the Society of Friends, expressive of sympathy with her Majesty in her remit bresvernent. On Thursday evening Sir Robert Peel attended • uneetiog of the Young Men's Christian Association at Dehlio, in cminexion with the United Church of England and Ireland, for the parishes of St. 'lichen and St. Paul, Se the schools of which he had promoted a donation of lOC He addressed some friendly coueeels to the young men, sad was enthusiastically applauded. The chairman (the Rev. J. MonAhan) stated that Sir Robert bad, a few clays ago, visited the vault. el St. Ilichan's. In walking through the charchyard be saw a ton:bowele with this iwienlition, " Let so man write his epitaph until Ireland shall be free." Sir Robert Peel remarked, Now is the time to write it, for there is no country more free than Ireland." It was the tomb of Robert Emmett. Mr. Maguire, M. P., ha* been elected Mayor of Cork for the present year. The defeated candidate was Sir John Araott, whose extensive charities sad liberal prin ciples have repined him $ favourite. After the iaaugura ties of Mr. Maguire, tbe city trades, to mark their sym pathy with Sir John Arsott, ch►ired him through the city, preceded by beads of music aid the various symbols of their The Rev. T. W. Goodlake, M.A., bite rector of Broughtoe-cum.Filkins, Oxfordshire, bad been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. to the rectory of Swindon, is Olossosstembire, recast by the resignation of Lilo Rev. 1.. R. C. Griffiths, on the presentation of John Burman Sermon. Esq., of Swindoe-hall. The Rev. Canon ninon has be ti admitted and licensed, by the Lord Bishop of (41ouesstar and Bristol, to the timely constituted district sod perpetual curacy of St. Arnse'sOldlina, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, oa the nossinatioo of the Vicar of Bittow—as such the patron. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the 'uterus tinsel Exhibition of 1862 held a meeting at their offices In the Strand yesterday. The Haudel Festival at the Crystal Palace is to aocaineace on the lied of Juse—to continue ow the 25th, and conclude on the 27th. There will be this year a band and chorus of four thousand performers. DZATiI or 7113 COUP:rim (DoWaor-lt) or MAC etanrotta.—We bare to an 001111. the demise of Elise. Dowager Canalise at Meoelestabl, who died at Eyoeham MidL as the *demised legs of In yean. The late countess, who was the yosagset dauhter of Mr. William Breton Woletealmilnis, of Holly Hil l. Hume:, married March 19, 1907, Thome. Um fifth. and lit. Earl of Macclesfield ; by w►om her ladyship had a son, the present earl, sod two daughters, Luta, Countess (Dowager) of Antrim. and Lady Uvula Agnes, muried to the Hoe. J. Dittos. Captain Kelloelt died yesterday, at Lis reaitleone s$ lreemantle, near Enatharnploa. He yes upwards of 20 years in the Peeksoalar sad Oriental Compasy's Ina we of their mat pepetersommanders, and was ...motel° of am, of their lawn smi guest shim, imch as the His dasten, Beatiack, sad Himalaya. He took out the Hin dustan le ladia, and was for many years the notopany's su. pariateodest at Calcutta Be was shoot SO years of age, sad low left a wife and you"' handy to lenient his hoes. The deg■ of all the Peninier and Oriental Company'. vessels in the Southampton Water, were lowered yesterday out of respect to his memory. THE PRUSSIAN DESPATCH TO AMERICA. In the despatch which has been forwarded by ' the King of Prussia to the Premien Minister at Washington the law of the ease is not treated in a detailed manner. It is remarked at the outset that the news of the maritime measures adopted in regard to the Southern states must give rise to an apprehension that the rights of neutral navigation may be injured. In treating of the affair of the Trent, the despatch expresses the hope that Captain Wilkes may have acted without instructions. If, it says, this supposition should not be well-founded, which the Prussian government would wish to be the case, it would be neceesary to admit that the rights belonging to all neutral states have received a severe blow. It is observed that the de mands put forward by England are not of such a nature ea to wound the dignity of the government of the United States or of its President. The hope is expressed that these demands will be acceded to by America. His Majesty the Prussian Kiug has, it is remarked, always been animated by the moot friendly dispositions towards the United States ; and be has charged Count Bernstorff to express this poin particularly, and to urge in the meet pressing manner the maintenance of peace. Prussia would, it is added, rejoice in having contributed to avert the conflict. But if at the time this despatch arrived at Washington a decision in the opposite sense had been unfortunately adopted, the govern ment of the King would nevertheless experience the satisfaction of having pronounced iu favour of peace." THE SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE OF PORTUGAL LISBON, JAN. 3. A bill has been presented to the Cortes annulling the renunciation of the right of suocesion to the throne made by the Ideates Doua Maria Anna and Dona Antonia on their marriage, the former with Prince George of Saxony, and the latter with Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen. This bill also provides that Don Ferdinand shall be agent in the event of the death of King Luiz L THE SPANISH EXPEDITION TO MEXICO. MADRID, JAL 3. The Spanish squadron in the Mexican waters will await the arrival of General Prim before com mencing operations. The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 31st ult. says :—" Seldom lave we seen the sue so bright in the kat day of Deemeher as at preeeet. The sky la clear, without • cloud, as la the Boat days of rimmer. What makes us eejoy all the more this glorious sunshine and high teet pastime is the seseast gives is Use Paris journals of the feats of the skaters om the lakes in the Bois de Bonier/se. While the Seism Is drifting ice through Paris, here at Mar seilles we have violets in lower and a brilliant atmosphere, bet so *Win." ..a;i ' .. EVENI*(I, JA: CANADA. THE REINFORCEMENTS AND THE COIONIAL PREPARATIONS. (Pram the Quebec Chronicle of December 10.) In view of the fact that Great Britain has made certain demands of the United States, and of the uncertainty whether the Washington government will accede to them, preparations for a war which is, to say the least, quite possible, arelieing made by the authorities, both in England and Canada. Three transports, the Persia, Australasian, and Melbourne, are now on their way to River du Loup with 30,000 stand of arms, two regiments, and three batteries of Armstrong guns. We have no doubt that further reinforcements and more munitions of war will be sent on very shortly by way of Halifax, and as the Temisoousta road is now finished, both troops and arms can be conveniently and expeditiously forwarded by it, as well as by the Kempt road. We understand that his excellency the com mander-in-chief of the militia will to-day issue a general order for the immediate formation of one company for active service from each battalion of Sedentary Militia in Canada. It will be re membered what valuable services in the field were rendered during the last war by the so-called " flank companies," and we suppose a similar organisation to theirs will be adopted now. There are at present, in both sections of the pro. vino; 459 battalions of militia, and the organisa tion of one company from each will give a force, including officers, of 39,015 men. Adding the strength of the active militia, classes A and B, which may be estimated at 7,600 men, there will thus be organised a total militia army of 46,515 Men. The Hank companies are to be formed so that each shall preserve as much as possible its local charac ter. This will also be kept in view in grouping them together. Thus the Kent, Lincoln, Quebec, Rimouski regiments and others, will doubtless have a strong esprit de corps, and endeavour to keep up lie credit of the locality from which they are re cruited. Farther details of the proposed arrangements will of waive speedily be made known to the proper officers and to the public. The.(h , thee Chronicle of the 19th ult. says : General Sir F. W. Williams, commander of the Forces, has not yet left this city. We believe we are correct in stating that at a sort of council of war, it was resolved by the imperial authorities that on the slightest symptom of a movement on the other aide, the whole of the troops here should be sect westward, when the volunteer militia would be called out to do genie= daty. An extra Gazette ought to be at ones issued, prohibitiag the exportation of arms, ammunition, and ell stores which can be turned to the see el armies. The precaution is not unnecemary, far it is well known that large supplies of blankets, dc., bare been forwarded from the Canadian storehouses the American side of the Mr. Seymour, the Queen's meemager, who has been to Waabington, arrived hem yesterday morn ing. We believe Captain Lindsay. R.N., who has beea staying is Quebe for some time, will leave for England to-day, sod carry with him despatches for the British gonnatent. The Loadooderry (lua rdian tells us the Anglo•Saeoa was detained a day on her last outward trip, to receive as immure quantity of telegraphic cipher for Lord Lyons. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Mon OUR OWN PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. A rumour is alleged by Bialier's Correspondence to be circulating in diplomatic circles to the effect that President Lincoln will ref use to release Messrs. Mason and Slidell at the request of England, but that, as soon as Lord Lyons has broken off diplo matic relations, he will offer to give them up to France until the legal questions raised by their capture shall be settled. It occurs to me that even if such an offer were made, it is by no means cer tain that France would consent to be the gaoler. The Bourse has again been very firm, and except in the case of the Credit Mobilier, which fell 6fr. 25c., the rise of yesterday has in no instance been lost. The Rents closed at yesterday's price, 67fr. 55c., for cash, and at 67fr. 70e., being a rise of 20c., for account. The Italian Loan closed without change. The Orleans Railway rose 7fr. 500., and the other lines from lir. 260. to 2fr. 500. Advice' from Marseilles state that K °tarry, mayor of that city, is shortly expected back from Paris, where be has negotiated a loan of twenty millions with the Cr&lit Foocier. The city bad before opened an account current with that com pany, and bad expended 14 millions of francs which it bad obtained from it. There now remain six millions at its disposal for other projects. The Journal du Havre states the receipts of the custom-house of that port during the month of December last werel,BBo,B7ofr. against 1,262,6461 r. in December, 1880, showing a balance of 618,233 fr. in favour of last month. On the whole year, how ever, there is a diminution of 3,166,904 fr.; the numbers being, for 1860, 23,181,773 fr.; for 1881, 20,014,809 fr. The half-duty on tonnage, granted by the government to the city of Havre for repairs to the port, has produced in the course of 1861, tolls included, the sum of 913,965 fr. The government journals boil over with delight at the testimony of interest which literature and the arts have just received from the Emperor's government, by the decree iu the Monitevr appoint, • g a committee to revise the law of copyright. It is a popular subject, but one full of difficulties, and there is nothing in Count Widewski's report to show in what way or to what extent these diffi culties have been got over. The French government has determined to Lave the pharmacopeia of the empire revised, and the now codes will most probably appear simultaneously with that which is soon to be iteued by the Royal College of Physicians of London, from which so much is expected by the faculty of England, in consequence of • committee from the colleges of Dublin and of Edinburgh having met the members of the college of London in order that there might no longer exist three different pharma copeia, but that one embracing the most important rocipes of the three hitherto promulgated should be the general standard for the United Kingdom. The Moniteur contains an official report from the Minister of Publi Instruction, and the appointment by the Emperor of some of the most eminent physicians and chernista, for the purpose of amending, humoring, and issuing the pharmacopreia of Franca. 11C Coate, the piacimilturist, arrived at Toulon three days sinoe,and on the following morning embarked for Nice ea beard the steam sdrice.boat Croiseor, on a tour aloes the meet of the Mediterranean, to ascertain the re- . salts of the experimeabi made there about two years sham. M. Costs is amompanied by a naval officer, M. Trotabas, who is charged to follow the operations of oetreocaltars, the development of which near Toulon and LS Boyne has mossdal the most sanguine expectation. M. Costa, during his progress along the ooast, will superintend the laying down of two million of oysters taken for that purpose _ _ _ . from the large basks formed according le his proem mar i God help nee I rye I take my part Boreaux. Of dames on the mating sea, airdiVtches were received yeaterday at the Ode- 1 A dirt/ rises la my Mart, d e: from the °overbore of Carlos, Hong Kong, Malts, Far worm titan say death to me. Gibraltar, and the Lord High Comminioner of the lasi= CRY RTAL PALACR. —0 If R SRI LLI N 0 DAY. —FRIDAY, Islands. Despatches were seat to the Governors of Lebo= ' Jaw. 3.—Admisaioes on payment, 3,312 ; ditto by season aid Canada. ' *kits, 869 ; total visitors, 4,18 L 4~Y , ;4, 1444 COLLISiONVIITHE PORTADOWN AND DUOANNON RAILWAY. (Prom the Northers Whig.) BELFAST, FIMAT. A goods train, proceeding from Donipnnon to Paraders, lad resired a peint ea the line between Ogee and four miles direr tress the Warr place, about ha/f -ret 7 yesterday orideg, and proceeding at a acerars. tarry moderate speed, a fat presager train running in the same direction, to meet the Dublin erre. train at Portadown, at tea minable to eight, came in sight. The guard of the geode tern at once dismounted, and platted warning simile on the rail. This precaution, however, erne too late, as did also the effects of those conducting the approaching train to attack Its advance by turning off steam and epplying the break. The passenger train, a few minutes affierraede, ran right into the hiadermost goods waggons, amaing one or two. Two of the carriages of the former were thrown across the rails and against each other. Almost every person in the train was more or less injured by the violence of the collision. A dealer in live pigs, named Sweeney, of Yampa, suffered mote severely than any other, and V reported to be in a precarious condi tion. Information of the accident was despatched to Porta. down, and a special engine was at ere forwarded to the scene al the accident. The injured passengers were con veyed to Portadown without loss of time, and were placed in one of the waiting rooms, where efficient medical warns* was afforded almost instantly. ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OP A CHAIRMAN OP QUARTER SESSIONS. The proceedings at the Montgomeryshire quarter sessions, at Walkout, as Thursday, were disturbed by the ferocious wit al a primes, maid Jolts Enke, a tramp ing blacksmith, who was elimised with stealing a thermometer, the pninety el Major Pugh, of ljanerchrydel. When the deputpeimirman, R. H. Mytton, Faq., of Guth, wee in the act of sentence, prisoner put his hand in hie pocker ni Z pulling out a heavy stone, and exclaiming " I'll knock your h head off !" Bung it with great format the chairman, just missing that gentleman's head by a few inches. There ts no doubt that the blow would ham seriouely Injured, if, indeed, it would not have been fatal to Mr. Myttm, for the stone wee a large one with sharp edges, and wu thrown with such force as to rebound three or four yards. Much excitement prevailed in court, the moue unmoved person being the deputy-ohairman himself. The prisoner was at once handcuffed, and Mr. Mytton addressed him, said, "Pri soner, you have disturbed me in the middle of my sentence ; you are to be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for six calendar mouths, and to receive twenty lashes on your bare back. For We attempt at my life you will be committed to take your trial at the ageism" The other prisoners were immediately searched. A plan has been suggested by M. Eugene Rondo, and is now under the consideration of the Minister of Public Instructive, for establishing four international colleges of education at Paris, Rome, Munich, sad Orierd, where youths from eight to sixteen are to rendre their edeastices, remaining two years at each of these ertablislunonta This idos has been favourably received, and its realistic's seam to be eartain. The Gotha Genealogical Almanac appears this year for the ninety.ainth time. A. usual, it holds a review over all the reigning families of Europe. The eldest sovereign in Europe is at present Wilhelm the First, King of War. temberg, born in September, 1781. Two first Williams are now reigning in Germany ; Wilhelm the First of Prude, and the Pet named Wilhelm the First of Wurtemberg. Another table arranges the sovereigns of Europe by the length of their reigns. In this respect, a German prince, Duke Bernhard of Saxe-geiainpe, who has reigned since 1833, carries the field. The primes most meetly some to hie throne is King Louis the First of Portugal. Bus every day makes alterations in these paps ; hardly out of the prow, we find it incorrect, owing to the death el Prises Albert. As concerns Germany, we learn that leer wiping families of that country have no hereditary male lesse. The Greek journal the Arcadia mentions the death at Tees, in the Pelopoomms, of • farmer named Jean Bossinioils, at the age of 113. Tote last day of his life he had the full enjoyment of his sight, hearing, and all his intellectual faculties. Two hours before his death he told his wife, who is 95 years of age, that he felt his end ap proaching. Ia the evening be aameehled all his workmen, sod having eats. and drank with them, lay down on a sofa is the room, where they were Einem and enjoying them. *elves, and without a struggle expired. This venerable patriarch bad from his eagle marriage twelve sons and two daughters,who by their marriages pee him 132 desaindents. Messrs. Neill Brothers, in a circular dated New York the 19th ult., says :—"As regards the papal of any arrangement between the North and South, it seems to us as detect as ever. On both sides the most perfect coo fidence of ultimate victory exists. Neither will admit even the possibility of a doubt upon the subject. The Washing ton governuient are in a pecuniary strait at this marmot, but they will doubtless find a way of getting over it as aeon as the question with England is settled. If not, they can at 1 1 any moment resort to the mode already practised in the South, sod to which all countries have usually been reduced during long wars—the nisaufacture of paper money, made legal tender by the State. There is at present so large a stock of gold in the country—estimated at 80,000,000 dol lars more than last year—that for some time the premium on gold would be trilling. This system all intelligent bull pen men are already preparing for, as it is ocesideral in evitable. M. Teouvzszes Dwsvarca.—lt is believed that M. nonvoters despatch to the French minister at Wash. hasten wan sent out in the steamer America. This steamer was at Halifax, short of coal, on the day when it should have reached New York. EARL Roseau AND me DIRIBINTING DRPUTA SION. —One of the deputation writes to a contemporary —" My own inspreesto' as of what Red Russell said to the demoting deputations differ oonaidetably on one or two points from the version given in the Freeman, which you cite this morning. I have no recollection whatever of his lordship's expressing any special concurrence in the Mati menu of the Baptist memorials. He expressed a general concurrente in the wine sentiment. contained alike in all the memorials, and assured the gentlemen present., collec tively, that be considered those sentiments as being ' honourable to them as man and as Christians.' Nor do I certainly remember his lordship's stating his ' inability to agree' with the suggestion for arbitration. I believe the expression he used was, that it required ' peat consideration' whether the present was a case that could be properly submitted to arbitration. He then adverted to other points, mentioned by the Freeman, not as conclu sively setting aside the idea of arbitration, but as merely suggesting certain difficulties, which made him hesitate es to 1111 applicability. I seeped,. Wood, that the main came of any disfavour with which arbitration may be regarded by our oldest statesmen I. that, as Lord Claseeidon midst the Paris conference, it is a • happy innovation'—that it is eat found among the diplomatic . traditions delivered from the fathers." Itussas or Viscomer Pirmssnr. —We (Sussex Express) regret to inform our readers that Lord Privessey is exceedingly ill at Paris, where he has been Joined by the Countess and Earl of Sheffield, and other siembeee of his family. lie is suffering from a low fever with exceeding weakness. A letter dated from Paris, D ecember 30, and received at Sheffield-place on January 1, gives hope of amendment of his lordship's health, but t h e physicians anticipate it will be glow for the next tea days. The news was received throughout Hatt Seem with feelings of much regret by the constituency, espe cially in those circles where it had received the usual additions and exaggerations of rumour. A letter subse quently received from Paris, dated December 31, gives the following satisfactory information respecting Lord Peirense . y's health :—" Lord Fevensey is decidedly better and is go ing on favourably." SINGULAR &CAM AT SEA. —A sailor-lad, named Peathey, of Littlebemptoa, has, this year, in little mare than six months, bed three very narrow eneepcs of his life by shipwreck. After an apaeuticeship in the Era, of this port, be shipped on board of the barque Orissa, at Shields, which vessel was totally loot off Cape St. Vincent on 20th Marsh. He was providentially picked up, with some Ahern of the crew, and taken to Liverpool. He then shipped in the brigantine Villiers, of London, and experienced ship. wreck by the vessel being lost on the Mumbles. in Septem ber, and was taken from the rigging, where he had been eight hours, in great peril, by a steamer end landed at Swansea. He then shipped on board the b arque Fanny, of Shoreham, just after the vessel had undergone a large outlay by considerable lengthening, he. The ship was, on the 'And of October, totally destroyed at sea by Ere, but his life warn again rovidentially preserved. The reader will scarcely be prepared to read that the intrepid youth has already had the coinage again to ship himself to sea, and encounter the rick of another casualty. This is a singular illustration of Tenoyson's lines " The Sailor Boy : My mother clings about my neck, My sisters clamour "stay for shame r My father rases el death and wreck, They me elite lima they ere all to blame. EXECUTION AT STAPPORD.-{THIS DAY .) Thie learning rats Abet tie sorniiiinned convict, Dadd Ikenaltiek, wesseeedelis henget Os minnty prisos ▪ Staillead. Coatiw = _to be szpedellang Not only of tle, ihi lai wr a.t. have every ellep in the OW with is. but even et the priesmard immediate fries* belt Maddock' and Jams have been reprieved. The &e,fordshire Advertiser of to-day says L es t week we intimated tie existases of a rumour Unit ea effort wee being gawk on behalf et Haddocks, but we believe it wen eagles& to the personal application his solicitor Mr. H. Barber, to the Home Secretary cad Mr. Baron Meadd, setting worth the inconclusive nature of the evidence against him. The application was only an analysis of the testimony given by the witnceses —not memorial. At the some time, the statement which Mad. docks had made, and which we subjoin, was forwarded. Mr. Baron Martin, in acknowledging the receipt of the c ee , muoication, intimated his design to call the attention d the Home Secretary to the case, but said that he personally 6, 4 a course no power to interfere with the execution of the mandate. This letter arrived on Wednesday ; and yesterday morning Mr. Barber received a eommuniestion from the Horne Department, informing him that "after full considers, Lion of all the circumstances of the ode, and ooniniunicati ts with the learned judge before whom the trial took place, Sir George Grey has felt warranted in advising her Maim, to commute tee capital sentence passed upon the on. sonar to one of penal servitude for life." It should be stated that before Mr. Baron Martin left Raiford, Majo r Fulford, the governor of the gaol, handed the statement' of both Maddock' and Jones to him. Subsequently it came to the knowledge of the Home Secretary that the thi r d prisoner, ' , bad also made a statement to the chaplain (the Bev. W. P. Vincent), under the promise that it should not be published until after his death ; and Sir George Grey consequently at once put himself in oommuni. cation with the governor, desiring him, if it could be done without breach of lath, to procures copy of the statement and forward it to London. Mr. Vincent acoordingly, at hie mit interview with Brandrick, obtained the required permission, and the statement" of all three primers were then brought before the Secretary of Sada la the ease of Janes however, a further step was taken. Partly as the result of his owe convictions, and partly aiding as the advice of his frieads, he had requested the attendance' of a Somme catholic priest; and in compliaam with his wishes the Bev. H. O'Sullivan visited hint daily as his spiritual adviser. Fatly in the week, Jones repeated his statement to Mr. O'Sullivan, with the addition, however, that he bad so far participated in the murder as to strike Mr. Bagott on the leg and kick him oa the head. As this declaration was made to the priest in his character of a feiwd. Mr. O'Sullivan felt at liberty to transmit it to the HOMO b@ee to be viewed with the reel. This be did on Tuesday last. The result of Sir George Grey's deliberations in Maddock'" case we have already shown ; but at the time of the arrival of the cornmunica. Lion above referred to, the following document was put into the hands of Major Pulford : " Whitehall, Jen. 2, 1862. " Sir,—l am to signify to you the Queen's commands, that the execution of the sentence of death passed u ppoana Willisun Jones and William Haddocks, now in tllaffart gaol, be respited until further signification of her Majeaty'e pleasure.-1 am, your obedient servant, "G. Girmr.". m Accopanying the document was a note from Cidd Clerk of the Home Department, stating it to be Sir G. Grey's wish that, out of consideration for Brandrick's feel ings, the intelligenee should not be revealed to him until the morning of the execution. Acting on this injunction, the governor went only to the coils of the two reprieved =4..t0 anneance to them the contests of the . Yr. O'Sullivan !accompanied him on his visit to Jones, who exhibited hie emotion by tears when told of the Menge is his fate. Haddocks, although he led all Meng been hopeful of a respite, Wee not lees dentomettatire of his Joy at the receipt of the news. As bad hem feared, it was found impracticable is Braid riek's ems to comply with the desire of the Home Secre tary. He pointedly put the question to the cplain at Friday marning , what his companions were to be dse with, and Mr. Vinoent could sot evade • direst answer. The agony the couch* felt at his own position was augmented as he heard the reply. He omaidered himself unjustly dealt with, as he mid his associates in crime, and especially Jones, were at all events equally guilty with himself. The selection the government had made in choosing him for executers be attributed to the anspkion entertained that he was the nom darer of the Waimea Piper, who, it will be reinemberedoine robbed and loft dead in the fields near &lam some months before the murder of Mr. Bagott was committed." Haddock's demeanour &snag the week hes bens ricen posed, but, ea we bays already stated, he always seemed to entertain • hope that his life would be spared. JOll4ll. on the oostrary, had given up all ides of a ea= ria , and was resignedly preparing himself for death. listened to the bastructioas of the chaplain with appa rent pleasure, sad expressed a wish for the atisadmale of his spiritual counsellor as often as peed/MI. Until Friday he seemed to have no fear of the prospect of death, bat yesterday morning t= change came over him He was obviously much ua and exhibited great anxiety to pray sod direct his thoughts to his approaching sad. He was always ready to mavens with the chaplain on his past life, sad expressed peal sorrow for the offences he bad committed. Of the crime now imputed to him, however, he several times &dared moat solemnly his entire innocence. Both he and Madclocks were visited by leveed of their relatives ; but Jones had as opportunity to see only his brother and sister. To some others of his fneods he sent a letter during the week, pro testing his innocence of the murder. EXECUTION OF 4 CONDEMNED POACHER AT YORK.-(THl8 DAY.) At noon to-day the convict James Waller suffered the extreme parity of the law, at the place of executiou ad joining York tliatle. It will be remembered that Waller was tried at the late winter gaol delivery, for the murder, on the room ing of the sth of November, of William Smith, paw keeper to T. Horrid, of liawkswerth Hall, near Weer by shooting him in the body, and that after the murder he concealed himself from the officers of justice for twelve days, he being eveoLually discovered in a kern, covered with he and straw to • considerable depth, in a half-starved tine. This, coupled with other evidencesof guilt, made oat a case—although based osi circumstantial evidence only—of • very cogent character, and Waller was accordingly con victed of the charge which was preferred against him. The " cosdemeed sermon," as it is called, was preached on Suoday Isat by the prison chaplain, who horn the wear in the 7th verse of the 2cid chapter of Genesis, " Thom t i t surely die," dwelt upon the certainty of death to all, es the uncertainty of human life, on the necessity of ressabres towards God, and on the doom which awaits the imported sinner in another world. The Archbishop of York, on Thum . day last, preached in the chapel at the Castle, Waller being preset. The text of his graft was taken from Romer viii, 32, and ho addressed them as brethren. He observed that he had long desired to come among them, partly became their respected chaplain besought him so to do, but more especially, that through the blessing of God on the word be should speak, he might impart to them ease spiritual instruction. He said be felt this lodged to be • very solemn and interesting owasien, and that pro bably they should never Les each other again till they stood before the judgment seat of Christ. He had come to tell them of the "glad tidings of salvation ;" and after directing attention to the rebellious nature of rams, who has " sinned, and come short of the glory of God; his Grace alluded to the fact that God had proved his newill infoess that any should perish, bemuse he had awed not His own son, but delivered him up for us all. God, how ever, could Dot be reconciled to them unless they were reconciled to Him ; and the Archbishop urged the WI. portance of prayer, and the forsaking of sin, if they would obtain mercy, it being premised that if eves the moat guilty would only ask they should receive; seek they should find ; and knock it should be opened to them. Hie grace subsequently had • conversation with Waller in the condemned cell, on spiritual subjects He seemed penitent, and said he had been a great sinner. It appears that the malorit has exhibited • good deal of distress of mind during the past week, and that his net has been a good deal disturbed at nights hy frightful dreams. He seems, however, to have still maiotsined that he had not gone out with the intention to shoot the game keeper, and, on hearing that • petition had been got up in his favour, he said he would rather receive • panto° from Jesus Christ than from the Quern Two years have elapsed since the last execution at York, and the prisoner who then suffered was Chas. Normington, convicted of the barbarous murder of Mr. It. Brolightoi, of Rounilhay, near Leeds. Yesteeday, three of Waller's brothers, his wife, and three chi , dree—ten. eight, and three years of age, had • parting interview with him, in the condemned cell, and the sore, especially with the wife, was of the moat agonising descrip tion. To enable the wife and children to comer York, the High Sheriff of the county (Sir G. 0. Wombwell, Bart.) kindly gave 51. That gentleman was with the culprit for a short time in the afternoon, and Waller was also ore, on Thursday evening, by t he Rev. Joseph Iditton, ,the dery man of the parish of Hendee, in which the prisoner resided. Thorns. Askron, of Maltby, sear Rotherham, wee the ale cutioner. CHURCH 0? ENGLAID READISIte A 0.40- CIATION.—The Marquis el Westminster has annowsoal hit inteatiou of placing in the heeds of trustees the munidoent sum of 5,0001„ the interest of which shell be give to the Scripture Readers' Prieedly Society for the purpose:lc . veiling pensions of JIM. per annum for Scripture when incapacitated for further duty by reason of old ego, sickness, or infirmity. Lord &bury, brother of the noble marines, ocatributed 5001. a few years ago towards the mine object. A RAILWAY Them IN PERIL. Ax Maize net= CAME—As a train was passing along the railway an the Ritchie side of the Baldock station one night lam week, it came in coated with a beery coping stone forced from an adjoining bridge and laid across the rails. Pann n one of the iron guards the engine reasoned* , IcrA of iment, or • serials accident would in all probabilitY have ensued, particularly as that portion of the lase bps an embankment of considerable height. Immediate In quiries were at once set on foot by the &stem Counties Railway directors, but without WOMB& A boy named Gentle has since beam convicted of throwing atoms at train entering the Baldock station, on the 21st alt., and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.-- Hertford Men cury. 1 11 It+ at cb oft de M rC ba tb Ire SM TI fa IA tb to to 111 ti tk an til IA S a 3 • b a 1 a 1 1 • • •