The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-13 00:00:00

DUBLIN INTER-NATIONAL F-NRIBITION OF FINE Mils AND NIANUFACTURE 4 .I, ISGS. Coder the Special Patmnage of her Majesty the QUEEN. INTENDING EXHIBITORS are informed that the 3154 De- Comber is the latest day on which APPLICATIONS for SPACE will be receisel The requisite forms can be obtained at the BOUItt of the Society of Arts, John-sleet. Ad,elpid, London, C., or at the Exhibition Palace, Dublin.—By order. HENRY PARKINSON. secret-Arr. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms .4 the past year. the boats of the Natiatud Lifeboat Insti tution •svr.l 417 pcnons front different wrecks on nor coasts • ::,:itutinu has also expended £13,011• Ss. !..1 in the same it: Lifeboat estahli,hineuis. In ad titian to granting, a▪ 1. ill Os. as rewards for saving 710 ship% rcekni persona by its I'L•nt• and “ther mean,. The Commli:,m .f the institution s•ar, 4tly A bi the public for a-mtATANCE, to enable tin a to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 73- life'inat establishments. C intributions reccivi. Iby Messrs. Willis slid Co. Berries ni..! , t ',oats and Co, and by all the Loudon and country back. and by the :4 errtary. Iticluril Lewis, Eau, at the In. ▪ th, 14, Julm.eltryt. Adelphi. CANDLES. —PRIZE MEDAL. ['Altai'' , IN C.—Ado.,:c4 by Me Majesty's tiovertunentfor tt.e C. and J. FIELD, the azt.... 4 n1 tcanufset arum and holders of the isat Prize Medal. eau3.4, Ii a.; amat any sparioua Imitation'. Their label pa.-kets and boles. Sold Dy all dealers throughout the kta., .r •. tt .• ',la as 4 !wr txportatiot, at the Works. UPPER MA I • Bt.t H. iN DON. 9., where also may he obtained Shur c.q , orased Galata .?erviee Soap Tablets JOHN BROGDEN'S PARIS FIRST CLASS Lo N DOS PRIZE Ml:DAL.4.—Manufactory, Hen. or, t. C-u,i,t.,:arden, Lorton. W.C. This tst.iblialuocut I- na.l 4 .iturilays at I o'clock. 31ILES'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) E wqrl.l.faraed 16a. TROUsEIIS ran only la: ha.l at ;3. Blom LIANOVER. , 4II:ARE. fairly distanced by Ni" les WEBU MILW. ESTABLISH/7) 1811. OVERCOATS. —No. 105, STRAND.—Special ..t0v,..11 is L:iven In this establishment to WINTER IT, ishwh a select stAck is always on hand to choose from. iIA MILTON and KIIIPTON. Overooafrogkers, StRAND ;opposite liteter-hall;. NE' qtETTI and ZA3II3RA'S One Gaines and rvro Ualata Fl OLD 11LAS31111 and TILEECOPE: are war. ranted u irtris tar power and brillimay. 11, and 425. In Ilationgsnloa. E.C.: 33. Conitaill. LC.; 121 t. Et ,i4-ctrest. W.; LIE Flositesnwst; and Crystal Palace. REMEMBER! we wait Supper for you after t!..• Great Uarden O;sra, at EtiNs . YIU not. C:tie eVarrer4* rn CORRESpONDENTa. '.utett.to.l for ^ The E..prri." Evening 1, at th • thl:e. tv. I;.myetie-.street, by Two the day of pnbticatioo. HAYM ARKE?. hr A KvrsrN4. tpiloi-111.1.1:15E BELLE. BCE. Mews. 11,a . .. VAT. n. Cr.! and Car Mesdames Beatrice and ‘l._.! —%u NOM; NO -ATMS. o.mpton amt AitLa . 3ltsies :.nd NI .•ore.—And 11.1.1i1" ANNE. YRINCIASIL TES E7TITII:. BORN TTCSIOODLLTR. 7.tr. D. tfarray. AT.d ILI ,LREETS OF LONDON. Mears. %lair:4, J. W. Ray, V. Puller. U. Hurray, J. Nelson. H. Vnrrester, and H. Yellow biro LI. Marston, Stlista Barnett and Gwynn:. CITErlf. TRH EVICILIG. 31 Mr. - RUT MU- lessn. Fe. liter, Ryder, Fitzpatrick. Cltdits, tlcint) - re, Collett. Clifford : Itsas c. Lrelere.i. Mrs. tt.L.staidry.—dii N CRARY CHICKWEED. Mr. Wiiii..scomb. ISIUT AN NIA. Trt9 Ermo. DICK WIIITTINOTON AND 11 C •,"11 se¢ t.y the Great Vance, the little Steele, 1!)111... 1) :I, and the ~.!,hrsted D'Aqlaus.—Autl ACILJEA FLoYD. 3t:,. at halfq•ut e. HIGH RATES AT Lomporcilguncr. Tins DAT - 4)113. -- 41: 2h. 421. Nkruing, 2h. 2 Afternoon, 2h. Gm. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13. Thre.e is a formof dual devotion occasionally to Le found in families of which the principal charac teristic is the use which it makes of the parents' name to engender discordamong the children. The reotlicr who has just succeeded in soothing a rising store has scarcely left her offspring to themselves when she is recalled by fresh symptoms of strife and confusion. On her re-entry, she finds that her leteific endeavours have evidently been all threwn away. The former combatants are again arrayed against each other, and her intervention is claimed by one of them on the plea that he has °el; beau acting in support of the maternal autho rity. " I was only telling my brother," cries the itinecent aggressor, " how badly he had been " behaving to you, and he: got into a passion "a;ain. - It is in vain that this too dutiful infant is hidden to mind his own business, and leave his mother to assert her supre macy. The having such a stone to throw at the fraternal head seems to make it his obvious duty not to keep it useless in his hand, and finally his arent finds the genuine rebel far less trouble some to deal with than the little Pharisee who has so estentatiously enlisted himself on the side of doniestie order. The dispositions which disturb the nor--ry are apt to re-appear in later life. Ina 3th of November row at Oxford, it is, we have heard, an ap;reved undergraduate expedient to raise a cry of " !hip the Proctor," in the hope—usually, it met confessed, a vain one—of diverting that wary etlicisl from his search after University dello ; and many people can tell what it is to sueer film the devotion of an over-zealous friend, vth> let'ite on saddlin; them with half-s-dozen r.tees, on the pretence that he is standing up for the.ir Llnt of all the mischievous defenders cf aetlesaities which could dispense with their snt . ;e:t, the Orangemen of Ireland may the uncontested palm. No other body have suce...edcd in noing so near to treason .ee,e of loyalty, in producing so good an helto tien of civil war in the alleged interests of p. r. • e ;11 frustrating the legitimate ends of go !It nl.ile professing to obey its laws, or in •• to be the bulwark of "civil and religious erty," while they are ministering all the time to l• - .:..hrian and exclusive tyranny. It is hardly ten to say that, if this pestilent organization he,' never been set on foot, the final pacification cf ei.and would not be still unachieved, and that its i.i •. exiitence is cue of the most fruitful rho• the auomplishment of that most de. !' • seems fated to rennin for the future. i half-yearly meeting of this anomalous and n:•:weciating Institution was held hit week in ru , lin, ani the adireFa of the Crand Master di:.•••:.; - s the eti,tomazy mixture of n. , tation ar.d unconstitutional teach- Hitherto," says Lord ENNI.KILLES, " i .th Lard htl;,ed us." Hitherto, 1. • • to sty, we have been enabled, by providen ti ....1 b..rb,...rance, to do our humble F.-. .0 ts:•eratii._ our lt;mian Catholic fellow C.... . 1.,: .3, i nu:;:iiig the namo cf Eti4land at no•drils of ir.shaien. hitherto we ••. • :.!.•., ;rig on our holy enterprise of set.; law at clerlaneo and di..hououring the t.•l i ;.1 the Cospel. Ilit11•to wo have learnt 11—.2 1.4 a: fore ;:ten nothing ;we have profited is !!..• 1.. , -ou of exile+ without the trouble of being e•.;!, I. naturdly ba supr-osed that the • ..••• fervour of this retrospect was caused by ; u•s•ti , tti-less of unusual activity during the pr - .• that the :rand Lodge was flushed • t : 3 , 3 r•'.'Unt2.. - ti ir:l of the noble outburst in which ▪ ,t ' , '••ly won deathless fame, and that Lord • • .. • • • "dei:gti for SII EItrNLLEL" would in ch • • c...binoi on the Lozan, surmounted by :he of a ship's carpenter tiring at a navvy in the n••,,1. It appears, however, that by some r • : !••• • .I , ', mischance the I irangemen of Lister b. • ; Ives tic:o , l nel to the occ:sion. Although "1 . ..• ••• er.t heliuh:g portion of the population of " • t ar•• lest or more connected with the c. , _7 „ 7 7. - •y t it has been as.tertained, after a " -•.!• •ol • that not a single member " of the Orange institution has been in any degree THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1864. " whatever mixed up in the matter." If an " overwhelming portion" of the Belfast Protes tants held themselves wholly aloof from the riots, we can only say that the turbulence of the re sidual minority must be of a very remarkable description. But we are rather inclined to set down this statement to a sudden attack of modesty on the part of the office-bearers of the Institution. It is sometimes found that men who will boast loudly of what they have not done will preserve a blushing silence on the sub ject of their real exploits ; and on this principle the Orange lodges, which are never weary of pro claiming their unappreciated services to the cause of peace and order, may perhaps prefer a maidenly reticence when questioned on thoir apparent par ticipation in a carnival of riot and bloodshed. It remains to be seen whether the Report of the Commissioners and the trials of the prisoners will not restore to the Orangemen of Ulster that proud pre-eminence in factious demonstrations of which their too retiring leaders seem weakly will ing that they should be deprived. It is a melancholy result of persecution that it embitters the souls of its victims, and the language of the Orange manifesto shows that their great and undeserved sufferings have not been without their effect. They have put up, it seems, with too much. "Patience has its limits, indignity cannot always "be submitted to." The Protestants of Ireland must no longer groan under the tyranny of those penal laws which forbid them annually to re-conse crate Derry Cathedral by the display of party em blems, to soothe the savage breasts of their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects by the performance of party tunes, and generally to show their thankful. ness for past mercies by the infliction of present insults. The special grievance of 1864 is the im punity accorded to the O'Comsetc demonstration in Dublin. Considering that the "counter-demon " stration," as it seems the fashion to call it, was allowed to have its own way in Belfast for as many days as its pro totype lasted hours, it might have been thought that, on their own showing, the Ulster malcontents were scarcely in a position to quarrel with the supineness of the law ; and if some English journals had not committed them selves to the same view, we should have said that only an Irish partisan could suppose that the erec tion of a statue ought to be equally prohibited with the burning of an effigy. If the Protestants of Belfast like to install a figure of WUJ.IAM 111. at the corner of every street in their town, we are not aware that there is any law which can prevent their doing so ; but if the Catholics of Dublin chose to retaliate by a solemn incremation of the great Dutchman in St. Stephen's-green, the authorities would very properly interfere to prevent it. To honour your own heroes is one thing, to insult ether people's heroes is another; and the real grievance of the Irish Orangemen is that they are not allowed to enjoy the last-named gratification. Time was when the consciousness of their own freedom was quickened and intensified by the con temporaneous contemplation of somebody else's chains, and it may be a useful lesson to lriah Roman Catholic politicians to observe that the one dream of an Orange lodge is to recover this ex hilarating privilege by the overthrow of a Liberal administration. lALTLST INTELLIGkINCE. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have this morning received advices in anti cipation of the Overland Mail, bearing the follow ing dates :—Madras, Nov. 12 ; Melbourne, Oct. 20; Adelaide, Oct. 20; Sydney, Oct. 24 ; Dunedin, Oct. 18; Hong Kong, Nnv. 1. INDIA. FEARFUL HURRICANE IN THE PRESI DENCY OF MADRAS. The Madras Athena 'on of November 12 contains a letter sent to it by the government, in which the collector of the Kiatna district d es cribes the fearful effects of a hurricane which had just passed over Masulipatam. This official, writing from Masuli patam on Nov. 3, says : I have to report the moat fearful caLimity to this place. On the night of the Ist a cyclone commenced at 7 p.m., and continued to increase in force until 12, from when it gra dually decreased until daylight. At 9or 10 p.m. the sea rose and swept over the whole place, inundating the entire town and washing away whole streets, it roses foot or so in my house and more ; three or four feet in some others. Every house in the cantonment is gutted, and I should imagine four.fdths of the town ►re totally destroyed. Not a single house has *tamped serious injury. Moat pro videntially there have been no deaths amongst Europeans. Amongst the East Indian Community, Mrs. Jameson, and Mr. and Mrs. Scott, of the Engineer's department, and Mr. Carr have been killed. The native dead may be counted I fear by thousands. The typhoon extended certainly 30 miles inland, I do not know bow much further. The Treasury has been blown down, but the boxes are there—the records are all destroyed. I fear the store of medicine in the dispensary will have been spoiled—also, in the Regimental Hospital. Pray send up a supply as soon as possible. There is rice in the Bazaar now, and I do not anticipate scarcity of food ; thousands, however, are homeless, and must perish if not assisted. I wish you would get me sanction to spend what is necessary in that way, and in clearing ruins and burying the dead. The latter work I am doing as fast as possible. I want sanction for 30,000 rupees-30,000—t0 ba spent if necessary. I trust it may not be neceesary to spend so much. I have been out the last five hours, and am dead best. _ . The Madras government lost no time in furnish ing " medicines, stores, and such essentials," ar.d it was expected that it would convene a public meeting to devise measures for organising a relief fund. during the voyage. An attempt was made to take the ship, the particulars of which, however, I have not yet learned. By her we have an acces sion of 257 to our strength of road-makers, two having died on the passage." The general election of members of the Legisla tive Assembly was proceeding ; 41 out of the 78 who form the assembly bad been returned, 23 of them only having bad seats in the last parliament. Almost every candidate who presents himself for parliamentary honours advocates some revision of the tariff, and declares himself favourable to the passing of a liberal land law, the abolition of trans portation, and a reform of the Upper House. Attention Lad been called to the distress existing in Melbourne and other parts of the colony, and a public meeting to consider the subject had been held and a subscription opened. The destitution is described as chiefly arising among families "who, through distress, death, or desertion, have been deprived of their natural protectors." No changes of any especial importance bad oc curred on the gold fields within the previous few weeks. The tendency still was towards a great in crease in the amount of deep sinking, but not one of the late rushes had assumed large proportions. The boring rods have disclosed the existeuco of gold in many likely-looking places, and the more widely the search is extended the harder it seems to be to set any limit to the branching and ramification of these deep loads under a large tract of country, The late mania for shares has greatly facilitated the formation of companies, and there will now be no want of capital for all enterprises of the kind with any promise of success. The continued success at the principal deep lead companies at Ballarat will be best learned from the returns obtained during the past quarter. Of these, the Band of Hope Company now stands first on the list, with a yield of 8,282 ounces, and a payment of 24,0001. in dividends ; the Koh-i-noor Company having washed out 6,537 ounces of gold, and paid to its shareholders 15,6001. during that time, these payments being in all cases clear of expenses. The Great Extended is the only other company at all approaching these in the extent of its operations, and the quantity of gold obtained by it was 3,036 ounces, out of the proceeds of which the large proportion of 10,0801. was paid in dividends. A number of the smaller companies are also paying very well just now. The Melbourne 11.ral says : The increased activity in nursing matters which was uctaced last month has continued throughout the present. and bids fair to result in the permanent establishment of the confidence of a larger and we dthier clam is goldfields investments. Mining is no longer the disorganised affair which it was five or ten yeses ago. Although there are thousands of small co-operative parties of diggers, and hundreds of " individual miners," the great bulk of mining operations is conducted by companies legally crganieed and registered under an act known as Frazer 's Limited Liability Act. The older goldfields continue to prove that their riches are not" worked out," miaow discoveries, or fresh develop ments of auriferous wealth, are reported from week to week. Gipps Land and the Australian Alpe bid fair to become as famous for their gold, as the European Alps are for their snow and ice. Ballarat, Dayleaford, Sandhung, Castlemaine, Malden, and other prominent goldfields are yielding rich returns, ■nd are daily attracting capital to further develop their undoubtedly rich mines. The gold fiekls are, as a rule, able to care for their own poor, anal du so in a noble and ungrudging manner, which should act as a rebuke to certain parsimonious dwellers in the metropolis. The Argus reports that some improvement in business was perceptible although confidence was not re-established. An abundant and strongly grown clip of wool was expected, and the market was buoyant. In the import market, the opera tions of the month had been scanty in the extreme. At the close of September Lour was largely dealt in, but the almost simultaneous arrival of considerable cargoes of Chilian at Melbourne,Sydney, and Auck land, caused the price to decline rapidly. Adelaide fell in a few days from 2V. to 24'., and foreiln from 241. to 201. It has since slightly rallied, but transactions have of late been confined to the satis faction of trade orders. In other grains there has been little speculation. The clearances of gold during the week ending the 22nd October have amounted to 30,445 ounces, making the total ship ments since the cominencemeut of the year 1,413,929. ozs. ; of which quantity 1,233,6780z5. were the produce of Victoria, and 180,2510z5. transhipments from New Zealand. The shipments made from Melbourne during the corresponding period of last y,ar were 1,251,1300z5. of Victorian gold, and 2.77,0900z5. of New Zealand gold, giving a total of 1,508,2200z5. NEW SOUTH WALES. The dispute between Victoria and New South Walea on the question of harder Cllstolll.l seems as far from adjustment as ever. New South Wales has reveled from her position of seizing dutiable goods found in Victorian vessels on the Murray, but customs-houses and officers still guard her side of the river. The Melbourne government have adopted a course which bears the aspect of reprisal, and now, at some half-dozen stations south of the Murray there are " coast-waiters" and other otlizials to pre vent the entry of dutiable guols from tae sister colony. Business during C.:, mouth hid Lieu very dull at Sydney, "but thiA," says the ~udacy 11. "is generally the season of the year when there is little doing. The new clip will shortly come to hand, and orders for the inters r will have to ba executed ; we may, therefore, expect a general improvement iu trade. The principal transactions during the month have beau in flour, sugars, teas, and beers ; but in other articles of daily consumption there has not been much doing, aud prices show litth, if any, alteration. The failures that have taken place in Melbourne have caused large parcels of goods to be forwarded to this colony for and this has checked any advance in those goods of which stocks were light. Ou the other hand we have done a steady trade with the neighbouring colonies of New Zealand and Queensland." to be eminently satisfactory. The South Au>tra lian government intend to charter a steamer for the conveyance of reinforcements and stores to North Australia. In addition to the passengers sho will carry 50 tone of cargo and 400 sheep. By sending this last portion of her freight an oppor tunity will be given to the settlers of at once testing the question of woolgrowing in North Australia. Bishop Patteson's Melanesian mission party were savagely attacked at a village of Santa Cruz Island by the natives. Two young men were killed and one wounded. The bishop escaped unhurt. NEW ZEALAND. THREATENED RISING.-RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY. The hopes of permanent peace with the natives of New Zealand have been abruptly dispelled. A number of the disaffected Maories built a large pa in the Tauranga district, and stopped the surveyors who were employed in measuring the confiscated lauds at To Puna, which is on the highway to the Waikato district. A force of 300 men, under Colonel Warre, was despatched against two rebel pas at Matabani and Mataitawa, in the Taranaki province, which they captured and destroyed. The only casualty to our force was one private wounded ; the rebels had one man killed. Two hundred Maori prisoners, who had been captured at Rangirira, escaped (as was stated in a postscript to our last advices from New Zea land) from Kawau, an island near Auckland, on the 12th September. Captain Strange and a party of the 14th Regiment had been sent after them ; but at the date of the latest advices it seemed that they had entrenched themselves in a strong pa. To add to the complications disputes have arisen between Governor Grey and his re sponsible advisers, which have led to the latter resigning their offices, but their resignation was not accepted. "The immediate cause of the rtviguation" (says the Otago rinks of Oct. 18) "is understood to have been twofold—viz., owing to opinions ex pressed by his Excellencytbat the ministry favoured the prolongation of the war ; and secondly, owing to the refusal of the ministry to be responsible for a proclamation prepared by his Excellency, and which he would neither abandon nor publish on his own authority. Its substance is described as an entire concession to the Maoris. It asks from the rebels merely a formal submission, and a renuncia tion of only so much land as the Governor and Gene ral may decide. it does not require them to give up their arms. Tho ministry agreed to accept it provided that a stipulation as to giving up arms was added, and that Sir George Grey would undertake to require at least sufficient land to enable the colony to keep faith with the military settlers. Sir George Grey refused both requests, and the resignation of the ministry followed. Cp to this time it seems neither side resorted to the obviously proper course of desiring a meeting of the Assembly. Now, however, it is said the ministry have given that advice, and are willing to hold office until the legislature meets, provided his Excellency desires them to do so." A second edition of the Auckland Gerald of Oct. Bth, states that the escaped rebels at Omaha com pelled the settlers to supply food, and ordered them to quit their farm.. Further outrages were feared. The Otago Times reports that gold fields on all sides are improving. " Large quantities of the j re cious metal are being obtained, fresh ground is being opened up, mining is being carried ou on a large scale, and no one seems to deny that there are ample inducements to justify a considerable accession to the wining population." Cbt Eon. WINDSOR CASTLE, Den. 12.. The Queen, accompanied by Princeis Bea trier, walked in the grounds this morning. Princess Helena rode in the riding school, and Princess Louise went out driving. Prime Leopold, attended by Mr. Buff, went by the South Western Railway to Richmond, and visited Lady Bowater at Richmond-park. The Archbishop of Canterbury had the honour of dining with her 3lajesty yesterday, and left the CAstio this morning. A meeting of the Finer' Committee of the Royal Com. mission for the Exhibition of 1651 Irai held yesterday at the Privy Council-office. There were present Earl Granville (chairman); Mr. T. F. Gamow, Mr. Thriog, and Mr. Edgar Bowriny, C.B. (secretary). The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is still engaged in the hetneg of arpeals from Imre. The lords present yesterday were the Lords Justices Knight Brcce and Turner. tie Muter of the Rolls, Sir Lawrs me Peel, and Sir JOANN Colvile. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer hu arrived at Hawarden Castle from Clamber, Notts. Despatches ware received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa, the Bahamas, the Mauritius, Gibraltar, and Malta. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prioce ,- s of W.des act suite will ply a visit of two or three days to the Eirl and Countess of Leicester, at Holiham, about the 201 of Jenuary. MA Excellency t'.,43 Pruniian Ambassador and the Counteas Berustorff left the Prussian E:ubauy at Carl. ton-brow-temp yesterday for Hatfield, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gweodoline St. Maui will leave his pace's official residence at the Admiralty, Whitehall, to-morrow, for Stover, Dawn• The Marquis and 3larchionewi of Salisbury will entertain a select circle at Hatfield during the week. The Earl and Countesa tie Grey left Coniton genitor, yesterday morning, for Studley Royal, their salt, near Sawn, Yorkshire. The Bishop of Loudon's usual Tuesday levees at London House, St. James's-sqatre, are discontinued, in c ,nscluence of the online:lam essmiustions, nnt:l after the Christmas recess. TLere will be c ❑ly 32 raeancieb to be competed for at the examination for the Royal Military College at Woolwich in January neat. The C r,. 4 p 0),.1k hciat of Madrid states that Lady Franklin, the widow ci the celebrated Arctic explorer, is at present et ilarceloca. - The Fr.mcli Court is expecte" from Compii-gue at the Tuleriee tomorrow. The hat group of visitors h iv° r, turneil to Prris. The Emperor has recently incited several eminent men of letters, composers, psuatvra, sculp tors, end gentlemen of the bar. The weltihig present from the pelple of Victoria to the Princess of Wales, the result of a shilling subscrip• ti conies home by the Elackwall clipper Monarch, which a:ale.l on :Le ttlod of October. The present consists of a dower rue. From a stand composed of polished black. wood from Mount Macedon rises a rock work of quartz specimens streaked with gold obtained from Wood's Point, Cu:tem:due, and Tornagulla ; and bri,At black nubbly antimony from roster6.•ll. Surported by this is a hallo of st. Arnaud silver, exhibiting specimens of Australian fauna sr.] e.01..1. Front the centre of the group spring two gellen arms of the oak, which symbolise England and Denmark, and the tree fern, which represents Victoria. The whole is surmounted by a fluted silver bowl for dowers, round the border of which are gripes Lad frosted vino leaves. The coat is 300 guineas. Mr. Edward A'Beekett, a son of the former chief in , tic. of the colony of Vitoria, has been appointed registrar to the rtiversity of Meiource, in the room of .Me. James, deges. d. A signal gun uow• atmounce4 tie time to the citizens of Melbourne. Two 32. pounders h.ve been mounted at the Meli.ourne l'uiversity. and at 1 o'clock, p.m., each day one of the pieces is discharged. At pressnt the discharge of the piece is timed by a chronometer, but is soon U a wire can be laid down it will be r rad from tam observatory b y electricity. PATENT-OFR. t 311' , ErM, SOUTH KENsINGTON. —Number of visitor, for tLe week radio,: Dec. 10, 1,708, Tot.) umber since tb..ppening of the =IOCYm free daily (12th 114, 1d38), e 73,77 7. CHINA AND JAPAN. The China'/nil (Hong-Kong, Nov. 1) gives the following summary of news : The news of the fortnight, both from China and Japan, is by no means unimportant. It appears that the Japanese have made a show of coming to terms with foreign nations ; and there is no reason to doubt that they are in any way untrustworthy in the latest arrange. manta come to with outside powers. Private .uivices state that the late fight at Shimonoseki has had the happiest effect. The most powerful among the Daiinios have begun to believe tLat England is not so easy to quarrel with as they had supposed. After the flag of truce had been hoisted at Shimonoseki, foreigners could walk about on either side of the straits in perfect security. The fleet remained in the place for some days. It appears, from every account, that the manner in which the fight was ocuducted impressed the Japanese somewhat forcibly as to the force of foreign arms. Nagato's ministers have visited Yokohama. and had an interview with the native and foreign authorities, They returned to Shimonoseki in her Majesty's ship Tartar. Sir It. Alcock went to Yedo soon after the lighting occurred, and found that the little brush with Nagato produced the most desirable "moral" effect. The Tycoon, whatever power he may possess, is said to be very well pleased with .Nagato's defeat, and there is no reason to doubt the rumour. Satsuma, who is a much more wealthy and powerful Daimio than Negate. came off second best in his engagement with the British fleet ; and Prises Nagai* has fared very much worse. So strongly does the current of feeling go against him at Vedu that his palate has been razed to the ground. The Datieios are recalled to Ye& to reside, as before the disputes arose ; and there is every reason to believe that matters will now go on with perfect smoothness in every treaty port in Japan. The Tycoon is said to rule once more supreme, and to be favourable to foreign intercourse, which is about all that we desire. Negate is likely to receive punishment fur his selfosautued hostility to foreigners. The reports aiy that be has Leen stripped (by the Mikado) of all his titles, and is nu« little more than a common swashbuckler. In Yokohama, silk is plentiful and itzebooa am MM. The rumours with regard to the Taepings having began to regain ground appear to be utterly without foundation. The rebels still in the field amount to a very small num. ber, and are pressed into a corner of Kian,;si. It is not likely that they will cause any further sai.rtai trouble in China. AUSTRALIA. THE TRA.NSPORTATION QUESTION, No efforts were being relaxe.l in Victoria to strengthen the conviction " which seems," says the A rgus, "to have dawned upon the English mind that the colonists are thoroughly unanimous and in earnest upon the subject of the convicts, and to show that they regard it as a sacre.l d ry t i them selves and their posterity to prevent the continu ance of transportation to Australian shores in any form." Communications had been furw•arded to the mayor of every municipal corporation and chairman of each kcal board in th•• a.y, to convene meetings for the purpose of arranging petitions to the English parliament. The other day, at a ladies' meeting at Ballarat, a pc.thion from the women of Victoria to the wain , m of England was adopted, appealing to them to nse their inti once. The following is au extract from this petition : Mothers, sisters, and Women of Enlaod.—We, the women of Victoria, we, your daughter' and siaters, appeal to you to avert from us a terrible calamity. By the monthly mails, you know how—amid trials, discomforts, and disad• vantages which you have never known—we strive, and agonise, and pray that our little ones may grow up servants of the Most High Gad; how, amid difficulti:s a-d dis• cocragements, we endeavour to raise and keep etre: the standard of truth and righteousness. You have encouraged um, and sympathised with us ; you have yearned over us, and prayed for us. We beseech you to come forwird now and aid us, lest we be overthrown iu the strulo ; lvst we be steeped to the lips in the polluted stream of con victim ; lest our children grow up t tinted is an atmosphere of ‘..rime. If only half the convicts sent hod their way to us. in ten years hence we shalt haw. 3,0C10 among ns—sunoo.; a pops. lation of only Lilt a million, alreidy deeply tinctured with the convict stain. The measure devised by a number of gent Kneen who have taken a prominent part in the anti.trau sportation movement, for the pitrpum of raisiag funds to send back to England expirec convict, who were ori4inally transported from that country, have been thoroughly organised, and an active secretary appointed to carry out the 0 i,j 2 ,!: promoters. The first instal:mut of expirees, in ch:4hr.: a notorious felon who w m coat - lend of burglary at Newgate and transported L.r Li:, ha.' already been shipped off. As an illustration of the character 01 Cie scamps scut out to Western Australia, it may be mentioned that the Fremantle mirresp.sid lit of the 110 A u,teettin rants announce.; the arrival of the convict ship Merchantman front Eii;:anil. "This," he says, "is the second time this ship Las brought out convicts. Her freight seen.. not to have been as quiet and well-behaved as usual ; 38 are in irons, and nine or ten were fogged SOUTH AUSMALIA. The transportation question has been discussed iu the Adelaide parliament during the mouth in connexion with the bill for excluding expirees. This measure, which has passed the Assembly, is a copy of the Victorian Art, and is intended to prevent the landing in South Australia of all liberated convicts whose sentences have not expired for at least three years. A great impetus, it seems, bi bring given to the intercolonial river trade. Many new steamers are being put on, and tel;Taphie communication is to be established between Adelaide and Went worth at the Darling junction. The general shipping trade of the colony is also greatly in creasing, "and the question is arising," says the .••.:with lfedrnline RegiNter, " thether a harbour more worthy of South Australia than Port Ade laide is at present should not be provided. This is a question which the colonists will not allow to be much longer neglected." Reports front North Australia show that Mr. the leader of the expolition fitted out in South Australia fur the Adelaide River, has been touch harassed by insubordination iu his party and hostility on the part of the native+. The country in the neighbourhood of the settlement ho declares THE ITALIAN CONVENTION. The bill just voted by the two Chambers of the Italian parliament now only waits for the royal sanction to become law. According to the terms of the protocol of the 15th September, which forms an appendix to the Convention of the same date, and of the declaration dated the sth October, which modified that protocol, the removal of the capital must take place within a delay of six months from the time when the bill voted by the Chambers shall have received the royal sanction. It is from that same date that is to run the delay of two years fixed for the evacuation of Rome by the French troops. Tne Turin correspondent of the Dnats declares that the government of the Sub-alpine Kingdom cannot settle at Florence before the mouth of May. The reasons which that writer gives are these : The various establishments revised cannot be got ready by enchantment, and the artistic ensrvele which are to be met with everywhere at Florence are at the present moment en embarrassment. The prosaic and buromcratic necessities of parliamentary government are hardly corn petite with the fine arts, as a deputy's seat is placed just before a celebrated fresco, and there is • bes.relief where a guard-room or a clerk ought to be instilled. Consequently, the preparations for the change cannot be completed till towards the summer. (11C172'15 MECHAM.) THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Die. 13. The Royal Mail steamer Seine has arrived here with the above wails, GO passengers, 1,289,865 dols. in specie, jewellery valued at 3,936 &As., and 965 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of bark, indigo, tobacco, and indiarubber. The Seine left St. Thomas on the 29th ult., and encountered heavy winds and head seas. The following vessels had arrived at St. Thomas —The steamers Hausa, Kenilworth, and Ellen Denny, from England on the 13th ult. The British ship Young Mechanic, on the 23rd ult. The Hanoverian barque Belle was towed into St. Thomas on the 28th, having lost fore and mainmast, bowsprit, ac. In Chili, the decree declaring coal contraband of war had been much discussed by the press. The government bad promulgated a decree order ing the universal adoption of the decimal system from the Ist Jan. next. Exchange on London was quoted 440. Paris, 4;0 to 4;5. The most important news from Peru refers to the South American Congress. In a private preparatory sitting the Spanish difficulty had received the grayest attention of the plenipotentiaries. Senor Centemo, Secretary of Legation,fhad sailed fur the Chiuchas iu a specially chartered steamer with au important communication for Admiral Piuzon, requesting him at once to give up the occupation of the islands, on the grounds that their seizure had been disapproved of by the cabinet of Madrid. The Congress declared the pending question to be one affecting the whole continent of South America, and the states represented in the Congress would unitedly take measures in defence of American interests against Spain. Admiral Pinzon's reply was not known, but it is understood he intimated his intention to hold the Islands pending instructions from Madrid. Exeltauge on London at Lima was quoted 370. TtOVAL FREE. HOSPITAL, GRAY ' R-irst-ROAD.-..—The number of patient. relieved at this howled daring the week ending Dec. 10 vas 2,032, of which 1,041 were sew Mee. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE BURIAL OF M. MOCQUARD. (non ora OWN coaassPonsorr.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENI:. M. Mocquard was buried to-day with induar, honours. The funeral service was perfori.,,l the church of St. Roch, which was str. 10, 1 crowded. The chief mourners were M. 31s. pi,c the notary, the deceased's eldest sou, and :v. Rainibeaux and Franehou, the husbands two daughters. The other sou, Conan Mocquard, is with his regiment in Africa. •I pall bearers were Marshal Valliant, (:, u• - Fleury, Procureur-General Dupiu, and D Lacrosse, secretary of the Senate. The ii,t, al, • took place in the Montmartre Cemetery. Marshal VaiHaut pronounced the speech over the grave . _ The Minister of the Emperor's household canoe: ':, id, L• before this tomb, which has just received one of the most constant. and most usefid servants of the L.:41.0 and the empire. Gratitude and admiration, in view ~r :- g reat events which have already illustrated t qwr,• daily produce new and sincere adhesions. Bat M. M devotedness was older than them ; it days of his youth, and, far from belt, w was strengthened by time; it will for ever an example of uochangeei•le attachment ! tonal fidadity. Is not M. Movinard's . • meet complete symbol of fidelity? Fidelity a,.. faith, hie religion, the worship of his whole lif: , practised it with ardour, with energy, without ...e aortal objects, and with no other ambition th,n • contributing tothe glory of his soversigo,and the gre • his country. Like others—and with s better ri,7,1 • • most others—he might, had be so wished, have v: .: high public office, but he preferred to remain at ! • &mild po.t, and he became greater by ke, pi , 4 . . voices less t.ensulons than mine will here 1,,v 1,1 his solid merit, Ms profound hurtling, his cl.am,) his character at once ami►ble and herions. It, and in this place I can only call to mind the of his Lout, and offer to the departed the '• • t of the beloved sovereign whose Las embrace he r•:. •.. his death-bed. Adieu, Ma:gnarl We weep envy you ; your family has received the sweetest tiro, the most precious tribute possible his been your memory ; the Emperor has said to our " He was my friend." Viscount de la Guerouniltro tn:►de a •: speech, which is reported in the Fran probably nut appear in any other journal. The Pottic says there is no truth in the of Dr.Couneau's illness, given two days succe•• by several French journals ; he was never iu b 't, health. lam assured that M. Duruy has ran- . I lifocquard's place. lam not surprised to . Hu is the must independent minister Oa. Emperor ever had. A man whose strong wi.; : felicitous originality have left indelible trtc. , ii the department of public instruction could not wit:i dignity accept the past of private secretary et'. t.. an Emperor. General Fi/S6, one of th.• Einr .r . . aides-de-camp, is to-day spoken of as likely to :ot the coveted appointment. The Bourse continues weak and witholtt prominent feature. NORTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION. (THIS DAY.) ,LT ELRCTIJC TELIGHIIII.I COLESHILL, TrESDAT, I P.M. The election took place this morning. Mr. ADDEELET. proposed Mr. W. I Aven-nrt Bromley ; Mr. B. LLOYD, of Birmingham, seconded the c"rainatioa. No other candidate berg proposed. Mr. Bromley wee declared elected. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) L.'. I I &W. ob I 1 Q s ?? i" TrESDAT, DZCIMIIII3 U. 1 2, -6 (1 I i 4 • ILbseclems ...;21.4! 401 S.S..f j 1 • 431 ArstroftAn. , isl ES C. 3 W ,b I Greauca•tle . 129.4 s 4? LS E. I , 4 ._ c.) Galway „...1,e9.2.s aS, S. /.. 2 I S.s.F.. , c • Valenti& . ....I 13 4N 3.g 1 • 4. r 1•411 I . Cape Clear .• !tali S.W. I..‘‘ rm , • 9aseastowa. ''L9.l5 a 5 * co • • 11verpoo! .. 2b 43 E.,.E. '2 4 r. . • .1: ; b 1P bv 13 Pembroke... 47. 6.8. E. 6 ' 1 . W 4 Pomace 29.34 471 8.6. 6: 9 ;,: s Brest 22.12 8. 85.12 4 G , SrS.' 1.. fr 1. Mien , 4.33 43: S. 3 4 - Ir • 4 Itachelort 22.63 6.1, , 4 4 ' W. r Plynacrotl 24.3:12 6.6. 710 t.. Wry - 01011th 8.4.4847, 5.6 6 1 ; W. 4., • :7 Porlarno2.6 .7:1 4% S G 6 , W. I.: : 2 !, Laidoti l2 67 40 0.6. 2 6 0. rt., e 3 - 120:44r r.oo 46 S.S.E. r Tirtnouth Scarborough 12.66 43 1 3 • i 1 '2 giblet& ICTIYSWDST. 011 Noatitiai - TICR4I)I7. S. tO t.. stn s ;;. squally. C,,Aara. r.. WJ it) W., »Lay, gal, ia.. I , rate. E.S.E. t • er.ry- WL•Tiis. S. . - so.l N.W , lug frn tatkl.. rate - . I.:I -to a gat:. tan at thnea. As next &Soya. 9017111E13. S. • • stren; to E. to 9 . an.l to S.W., L.• Is. S E •A squally, on- • • , ~.ly to ittli 4. Wester,=.tretand. 1194 ad* eels •,•-• .thern = nnorludi rhauMi au le. • , Z.JB:4111 :Kostwar.l angland ..u.l North sea. iIt:PRE-ENTATION or HULL. —)lr. ,cda &noes, M.P. for Hull, who was elected to r , present that borough in the conservative interest when. in onset the thee members (Mr. Joseph Hoare) was tauses‘ed on petition, Las published a corresiamdexce Limsalt and Colonel Pooe, one of the prominent ...i!morters if Mr. Hoare, in whi.lb he definitely expresses i is f•••edisin from any pledge to retire from • future candidature in favour of Mr. Hoare, awl his determination tn oiler hiiipelf for re-electioc when the dissolution of parliament shall realer such a course necessary,—Lo 'ls ilercur!!. DEATII OE A MISSION ARY.—The ILI - . Aaron Buncott., for many pail missionary at in the South Sam, died at his residence, Melbourne I) sr lingharst. Sydney, on Tuesday. September 1, vi 'h re gretted by all who knew him, either porsona:ly or io his °dice as a minister of the TLe remains of the ceased were interred in the DaY:usLires street on the =tad inst.—S"/ tun Hera ' , I. COLoNIAL 111811uPs. —A STRAN , :' XLL!AN' Some excitement has been proliwed Ly ,de of the heads of the two episcopal churches against tire syz:o.i of general (otherwise national) eduzatimi wl.. h has been adopted in the colony of quisensland. The Dr. Quinn, Roman catholic bishop, and Tuf, Fwd. the bead of the ..lu4lican church, have t• gether mad, i tour through the most thkklj•populated district ‘.f colony to arouse the adhcreursi of 01 • deoc Ai., al system to oppose the existitst order cf thimri. The: bare enjoyed a very small measu.e of .01.'et SI. And have dote otherwise than promote pease and go sl.s. me"- Their union is regarded as nr " unholy : and :' Tufnell has greatly ot:euil,il his co-rtlig:at.st. he P . • Ong second fiddle to the clip....ty from It is witted on all hands that Dr. 1,..4:an i. the active promoter, the leading ',ALI c• r,41. tatioo ; and that lie has got his protestant Utica brother involved in a clever hitrigue which cannot well end to the advantage of both. His pemlc, er the great majority of them, are perfectly satisfi , l with his conduct ; so that in this respect he h is the a.lvsnt ~40 the Angl'ean bishop. It is shrewdly thi,:ght !f the ednestion system were chanced to Teens:nips d,nomina tionaliam, this would be lout the "thin earl of Hie 'react*" to split one of the first prioziples of • it being about "state aid to religion." All , mpartill men deplore the chenmatemees to which wo ha , e referi. Brietcae Courier, Oct. 17. AN AMERICAN STEAMER 11-ILDIN. }''l Er;usn COMPANT.—llaniel Wes.ervvit, of , his is building far the Pacific Steam Nt7igition Comp iny. of Liverpool, England, a beautiful side-whorl steamer. to be called the Favorite, and from prossit at.otur..u..co sei be probably the fastest steamer of her 1 sortli in the world —she is intended to be no, at least. The F..rorita is in tended for the route of this company on the west cope: of South America, extendiug to the isthmus doe., •0 t!`' lower parts of Chili. As the route In cut up int. air , ' &DLit is not known at present what division she will be attached to.—New York paper. CITE OP LONDON HOSPITAL FOE DLSEA , E4 ERZ CREST. rICTORIA-PARIL—Tbs numl , er of te . ' ,o f! relieved et this institution during last week was which :28 were sew rem. /rhea thin cam had a lo o;th them re Ur. Soria' , a , i ) add I the Part'WA r..,aa should not oecalwary ter whom he plaintiff, that whom be Iv uader th, ar rtagement. withdraw all ~ • Mr. sorsa' his cheat, up raw every in of the deism conduct she h forward in a :he was willie The jury w The rest of &meat bra 3 . persou Elam reudlel 4110 In this case ler ;be loss of socidents ',heel of the rim of Moods re for 71., eh. rakry law of t directed the • lure to the t• . ..ix he it enti. sittiop at 1t:..71 AND .1 The plaintit : and tl the Res! D. Ket :HI., and , ppearsal t... 0 Craig, iu to ad guarani 1 by 31 wild that zb to au Harris, of t to pay tb, ? his writ =mu . to be pr •r payment it t raies bills fa rheasizn was i which was nos The question +ilt had or nol t aerantee, and The ;ury ton CO (Before 111 The bankrnp ,:r•tt, and No: Mr. Sarg.wd :•turned his d ta I aioee inclu 1 W. i ore ci ~a, in reFpe , . I;)ndou tre oankropt w triitor ot th. : : the amount :Ile bankrop 1.00130 and promoter ,p;e4 part .social enmp nreraises ..: to the othe Mr. Sergood ..::y in his claimed the Mr. Ltagley, !ridge, ; awl toe The bankruil ioester-squar : , 42uus, show 'of:a of 2,4727,1. :tiog for exao dr. Broueb. :eady b-en re • thus the erect Ur. Strzood Hie Honour of discus aalli Flre baulmtp ,-street, a .e L Aare the ..ted tube di .:ability on a ,-king Comp pt attrih ny, and i ectatioo. t;i: l : r ru ' ing p Ald t 7 .3. 144 n t0 m i liable as Sat good, 'err, Nevillo •Ling tallilll i4t kit% 01 ! ... r their see I , aukrop! ya•a;e Lon ' . rett tad the .z array da! wbg wen r for 4.00 P. - • '. exit for the Ina varied on Ilia Honour g CENTII f •1 Pa!! r 4' charging nrdata, ti forging an, • 1 ' ....eh, wit 3lntealf • •o prisocer ALLI ur.; -'l-% Galore oue )Ir• Conine ;r , u 120 f 4 PPearell t' het the 410 ;ta -- .- ,0,1 by tl 1, 1 iatt paste, tieke.l tvi ca? and ban and the pi E wed eatl id t, :dt. Thu prt 3 2111. "`(a iDocked la IL Tr.ro who ha _ itul rvtui ' , PIY to th "atm Gray, I t r - i , tera, %tate.' Ladati preri 4 well • I " IZ^ , nreer hcatl 114 dtSi LAM "11111 cal This c"' .rued when ; 11 the ExPro b.ther Jr eswo o f the meat to nil Hi s Honor looked into tJ that as no ei he L o dung CO oaf Ttheerm The court erlock in COI attend at We COL