The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-20 00:00:00

'A• PPEN Bllol4l3E.S.—Bstsblished A. D.lBlO. - CHESTS of SILVERPIATE for the COLONIES. , FRY and SILVER PLATE for 1111N1111112403. MAPPIN BEOTHRB, LONDON-BRIDGB. bIAPPIN BROT= 222, REGENT- CIHRISTY IiHNt3TRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL, 11.1 NOW OPEN for the BEASON, way night at eight Wednesdays and Saturdays, three and eight. Hall newly and beautifully decorated , company greatly Increased new mem bers. twenty performers at known excellence and ability, in- Obdialit all the original members: everything new for the new demon. Fauteuils, de. ; area, to gallery, le Tickets at Austin's ofdce, td, Piceadtily.—Mesers. Moore, Crocker, sad Sitter. proprietor —llanager, Hr. Frederic Burgas'. an ,hottest penny by supplying powder and ball to the Maories during the recent war. Neverthe less, we abide by our question. If any choice in left us, we 'would rather see British money lent to improve the lot and multiply the productive power of some industrious population capable of becoming our customers, than to be spent in guns, tumbrils, and ammunition, to settle the Eastern question against us. This question of foreign loans is becoming a serious one. The improve ments that have been made in all kinds of engines of war, attended as they are by a great augmentation of the cost of their pro duction, has enormously enhanced the importance of money for all purposes of warfare. It was solely by means of English money, so liberally poured into Turkey and Egypt within the last ten years, that the Ottoman Porte was enabled to quell the insurrection of the Christian population of Crete. The steady-going tradesman who bought Ottoman Sir per Cents. because he understood that the Turk was about to reform himself and live like a gentleman, little imagined that he was about to become a partner with the Paellas sent from Constantinople and Cairo in the atrocities perpetrated in Crete, although, if he bad reflected, he might have known that such a result was highly probable. These considerations are ad dressed to those who can be affected by them, for there is, after all, a certain moral responsibility attending the investment of money in a foreign loan. 2 trE BROWN and poLsoys CORN FLOUR ous in raising such a quedion. .11gapts mites i eiL _P a for CHILDREN% DELT. not differently constituted, have gifflfrelst habit To obtain extra jUP offer of W I the nd ro th reoTif kinds are °Meth"' There is military authority for the assertion that " ad "' "_Jobs l3 rwo." 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THREE months ago our monetary authorities were commenting on the complete collapse of British credit abroad. Foreigners, possessed by an unreasoning and an overpowering incredulity, would not look at English commercial paper, and stories were told of bulky parcels of gold passing one another in contrary directions between London and this and that foreign capital, because discredit had thrown the delicate and invaluable machinery of exchange quite out of gear. The announce ment of a new Russian Loan for Six Millions ster ling may, we suppose, be taken as an indication that some of our neighbours believe that our state of impecuniosity has been succeeded by one of repletion. Whether, if the Emperor of RUssIA had six million sovereigns in hand, he would thirk himself safe in lending it to us, is not certain, but he does us the high honour of inviting us to be his creditors, and the public will this morning feel flattered accordingly. The time for tendering this opportunity to Englishmen has been happily chosen. It is the season of compli ments between the two nations. The HEIR APPA RENT to the British Throne is at St. Petersburg, on the first visit a Prince of Wales has ever paid to a Czar, and the Royal Houses of the two Empires are now connected by marriage. While the most touching marks of affection and confi dence are being interchanged between the rulers, why should not the two countries be drawn closer together in more material bonds f There are, no doubt, people of grosser fibre who will say that such considerations as these are altoge*.her ita the matter in hand ; that the Loan has been brought out just now because the eminent finan cial houses who have charge of the operation have accurately surveyed the state of the market, and taken the measure of local feeling ; and that a Russian Loan is held to have a good chance because immense sums of money, thrown out of employment through the prevail ing distrust of railway debentures, financial and other miscellaneous securities, are more likely to be drawn forth by the offer of a Government Stock free from undefined liabilities than by any other mode of investment that could be offered. If so, it will not be well to lay too much stress on sentimental considerations. Leaving then, the experienced financiers of the City to compute, as they are well able to do, the direct and incidental advantages of the new Stock and its value for the purposes of investment and specula tion, we may remark, from the po:nt of vie x of national interest, that the Russian Govern ment has not on this occar'on thought it necessary to state for what purpose it wants this large sum of money. This observation is not made as if the Government had omitted any state ment which it was bound to make; but, as a matter of fact, the announcements of former loans have been accompanied with a designation of the occasion and purpose of their negotiation. The Imperial ukase authorising the Minister of Finance to con tract this loan may contain the necessary informa tion, but it does not, as has been the case on some former occasions, accompany the published in structions. To individual investors this may ap pear a matter of indifference. They may concern themselves simply with the rate of interest, the quality of the security, and the circumstances likely to affect its standing in the market. They will, of course, make inquiry, and then if they should find that the dividends on Russian stock have been punctually paid, and besides this, that through the good management of the Imperial Government every new loan is brought out at a higher subscription price than the one before it, instead of gradually sinking in value, as some Government stocks have been known to do, they would probably think that they had found a most desirable invest ment. From a political point of view, how ever, these considerations have an almost inappreciable value, while, on the other hand, the intended application of the money assumes considerable importance. We confess we should like to know whether these Six Millions are wanted for some purpose of peaceful, economical, and social development, or for iron-clad war steamers, and Kaure's steel guns, which our seamen and soldiers, recruited with so much difficulty, may one of these days have to meet in sulphurous encounter. We are aware that to some persons there will appear something fantastically superfiu- (THIS DAY.) WORM DIPIONSTBATION/ 3 . Describing those who took part in the Edinburgh demonstration on Saturday as on the whole • good, honest, trubstaatial body of working men, with whom the country has reason to be satisfied, and to • number of whom the franchise might be wisely extended, the Times proceeds to suggest what • different demonstration it would have been if the Scottish people bad been resenting a real grievance. What fierce denunciations, what strong resoletions, and what evident signs that the malcontents were bent upon deeds as well as words, we should have heard ! Edinburgh has had its processions because Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow has had them. The Tisam trusts that the trades of London on the 3rd of neat month will imitate the peaceable demeanour of the Edin burgh artisans, and will arrange their legions so as to leave as little space as possible for the London rabble, who will certainly seek to attach themselves to the procession. It is simply impossible, says the Star, for any ministry or any class to resist these united appeals from the body of the people. The multitude and importance of the handicrafts represented—in a few instances by the men actually working in the presence of the spectators as the procession poured along—is convincing proof of the im portance of these men in the economy of the nation—that they, in short, more perhaps than the classes already en franchised, constitute the nation, and that until they can send representatives to parliament our constitutional free dom is only half effected. The success of this great meet ing will, doubtless, animate with new scat the reformers who attend to-night the Manchester banquet. All our largest towns have now been subjected to a searching ordeal, and the only disturbance was created in London by the foolish and officious interference of the chief policeman. The Star has no doubt that if the police abstain from in terference the display of the 3rd of December will be as orderly and effective as any that have yet taken place in the provinces. TRADES' UNTOIM. In the opinion of the Times the official inquiry which the principal operative unions in Sheffield are anxious should take place into the late outrage, can only be abor tive. Whatever the result of an inquiry, it will matter little, for everybody knows what these outrages mean better than a commission could tell him. They interpret one another, for their significance is in the certainty of their recurrence under similar circumstances. Of course, the trades' unions do not connive at such criminal violence as the Sheffield outrage. But they wish to be feared, and it is only by appealing to fear that they can rule the mass of their members. The worst is that what they intend to be only a useful degree of fear some brutal natures take care shall be terror, of a penal as well as coercive character. The Herald looks for a speedy collapse of the strike organisation in the Durham and Northumberland iron fields. The men are getting tired of enforced idleness and voluntarily endured privation. Slowly ■nd unwillingly they are recognising the obvious truth that not the will of the masters, but the circumstances of the times, are against them. Coincident with the renewed sellinsness of the men to work is the unwelcome discovery that by their ill-advised action they have in a measure a t least deprived themselves of work to do. Already many orders which but for the strike would have gone to the north of England have gone upon the Continent, to the serious detriment of a trade previously in an abnormal state of depression. Let the leaders and sup porters of trades unions remember this, or they may find, when too late, that by successful combinations against working on any but their own terms they have prevented themselves from working on any terms whatever. Reporters were excluded by Mr. Walpole from the late in terview with the Sheffield deputation, but a local paper has p iblished a tolerably full report of what took place. The Star. commenting on the narrative, says that every word uttered did honour to the artisans. Several very inter esting facts were brought to light. It was shown that on previous occasions the workmen had made the utmost endeavours to ascertain the truth respecting these out rages, and that in some oases the inquiries had proved fruitless through the absence of co-operation on the part of the employers, and that in several cases where the facts were arrived at grounds of private malice were proved, wholly distinct from trades union motives. FORZION AFFAIPS. Intimating that the French press, through its peculiar position, is allowed oirk blanche in Utopia, in compen sation for the restrictions imposed on its dealings with the real world, the Daily News proceeds to interpret in this way certain speculations which have excited alarm in Switzerland and P.elgium. The pretexts on which previous imperial interventions have been undertaken do not apply to either of these cassia. The sanity of judgment which seldom deserts the present ruler of France, and which speedily corrects even where it is unable to prevent his aierrations of the moment, makes it improbable even to tie verge of impossibility that he should meditate any experiment on the temper of Europe so dangerous as that which would be involved in an ads* on two of its freest, most orderly, prosperous, and pacific states. In the Emperor's remarks two months ego respecting the disappearance of secondary states he had to allay the ap prehensions of his people and was possibly framing his general theory to suit a particular instance. Another theory will be ready, doubtless, when other circumstances call for it. In the true sense of nationality—one which does not confound an ethnological fact with • political sentiment—Switzerland and Belgium are nations as legi timate as any which Europe contains, and their er'd dice is incontestably protected by the principle which is mis employed to assail it. Discussing Baron Ricasoli's circular on the Roman question, the Times comes to the methadon that the Pope is not likely to desert his post in Rome, though his fight would not materially alter the consummation of affairs. The Pope cannot dispense with Rome and Italy. What he may be capable of in the way of inconsistency and sudden revulsion of feelings no man in the world can foresee. Take away the //erodes, the Reisachs, the Itn pen, loops the Manning*, the Spalding i, end other dan gerous ultramontane advisers, and you may still have in the querulous Pontiff of 1886 the popular Pio None of 1847. And if the Pope will again sow blessings, he will be sure once more to reap applause. The Herald has suddenly deserted the cause of the tem poral power, having defended it up to the present time on the ground of policy as well as of right. It retem to his Holiness today as " the poor old priest who fulminates in hie impotence from his desolation at the Vatican," and 11 Il'► .I 1 t 1 . 1111 .' 10 i i 'RISS, TETE4I/O,Y EVtrillfG, NOVEMBER ,it caundipe how hinipirituallnnolleity, can lose . hy I abalisilmeat of tigplyesporal palm. A . will esly we dropped a weapon which can never k g deed for its olventage, but is perpetually turned &plat it with fatal offset by its enemies. The Daily News gives some aooonnt of the pest mer- ' eantile experiment which has been made by Northern merchants in America since the close of the war in the South. Large sums of money and enormous quantities of goods have been sent to the South, and industrious and adventurous men have gone there to settle, but the result is disheartening. Generally speaking the re ception has been unfriendly, and adequate pro tection to life and property has been with held. The consequence is a general depressionheld, throughout the South, portending a financial catastrophe. There is one, and only one, way out of the Southern diffi culty. The people of the North are determined to make the principles of republican equality—which in America are the only really conservative principles—prevail through out the union, and when the people of the South perceive that this result is inevitable, they will have no difficulty in getting beck into the road to prosperity. In the mean time the losses and sufferings they endure are of their own choosing. Ova rim. Our unarmed fleet consists of seven three-deckers and 40 two-deckers, exclusive of frigates or corvette', vesiels constructed of the best materials but rendered useless from the water line upwards. Such being the coo the Times gives ea aooount of a proposal which has been commanded to the notice of the Admiralty to cut away the after decks of these ships and add turrets. This would cost about 100,0001. a ship,while a new turret veLeel would cost perhaps 2 50 , 000 1 . We should get a vessel capable of excellent service instead of a vessel capable of ow service at all. We could not powibly send the Victoria into lotion as she is ; but we could send her into action with very great con. fidence after converting her as proposed. It is possible that she might still be unfit for long sea voyages ; but if foreign service were reserved for our new ironchuis, converted ships would protect us at hom e. Admitting that these vessels would be qualified at best only for Channel duty, yet that would leave them as efficient and as valu able as the American Monitors ; in fact, we should at once be put on the footing of the United States. LAT] 4r% as. • THE JESUITS IN AUSTRIA. .1 Notwithstanding the strong o pp osition to th e establishment of the Jesuits manifested in Aus tria and Bohemia, the Prior of the Order has received = assurance from the Cardinal Archbiahop von gchwarzenberg that they would be protected by the government and need not entertain any appre hension of being expelled. The Nurodny Lesty of Prague is under prosecution for three articles which it published against the followers of Loyola. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. Nov. 19. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Wales and Princess Christian, drove out this morning. The Princess Louise went out walking, and Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-park. The Duke of Edinburgh, attesded by Lieutenant Haig, went to London. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left the Castle this morning for Greenwich-park. Prince and Princess Christian left tho Castle to-day for Woodmorton, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Lord Alfred Paget. Viscount Cranborne, Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Jonathan Peel, and Lieutenant• General If. Sandham have left the Castle. A deputation from the Incorporated Law Society, con sisting of Mr. Bell, Mr. Young, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Field, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Williamson (secretary) had an in terview with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, at his official residence in Downing-street, yes tenlay. A deputation consisting of Mr. Thomu J. Bower, Mr. T. F. Edwards, and Mr. Alexander Young, had an inter view with Lord John Manners, at her Majesty's Office of Works yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. The lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Hilegoland. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Laboan, and the Austulian colonies. The Right Hon. Horatio Waddington arrived in town yesterday from Brighton. PROROGATION Or PARLIAMENT.—(THIS DAN.) — The Lord Chancellor attended 'n state to-day in the House of Lords, for the purpose of further proroguing the Imperial Parliament. His lordship, who was attended by his officials, ordered the House of Commons to be sum moned, and Sir Denis Le Merchant, Bart., the Chief Clerk, appeared at the bar. The writ authorising the prorogation was read by the Hon. Slingsby Bethell, the clerk, after which the Lord Chancellor, in the name of the Queen, declared the parliament ,Al journed until Tuesday, the 15th of January, 1867. Nothing was said about meeting on that day for the despatch of business, and it is the opinion of the officers of the house that parliament will not actually meet until about three weeks later. CABINET COUNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet Council tomorrow afternoon at the First Lord of the Treaaury'a official residence in Downing-street. The Earl and Countess of Derby are expected to leave town the week after next for Knowsley Park, near Liverpool, for a few weeks. The Earl and Countess do Grey have left their residence in Carlton-gardens for the Countess of Ripon's villa at Putney-heath. Lady Palmerston and some benevolent ladies and gentlemen are about to build a small hospital at Ramsey, in Hants. The Post stated that, in consequence of the energy displayed by Lord Westbury, the President of the Judicial Committee, the arrear of cases, which on Nov. 1 were more than twenty in number, have been got rid of, and that ten additional cases have been set down for hear ing, which in all probability will be determined before the end of the month. The committee of the Carlisle Testimonial have ------ - decided on recommending to a general meeting of the sub scribers that the memorial should be a statue erected in or near Dublin. In consequence of the date for the opening of the Paris Exhibition having been altered from the lit of May to the Ist of April, an order has been received at Chatham directing the whole of the models in course of preparation at the Dockyard for exhibition to be ready for transmission to Paris by the middle of the month of February. " Angus" says of the Shrewsbury meeting " Never before was the betting known to be so heavy ' give and take' being the order of the day ; and in the language of the pugilistic reporters, the deliveries were strong and effective, and both parties countered heavily. The guards sustained their well-known reputation for bravery in the face of superior numbers, and the merchant princes bore with equanimity the turn of the market against them, as favourite after favourite came to grief. And I cannot better illustrate the state of affairs than by the fact of Mr. R., one of our greatest commissioners, losing 24,000/. before be won a shilling." Carlotta Patti sang on Saturday night at a con cert given for her by Monsieur E. de Girardin, at his pri vate residence, Rue Tanquet. Among the audience was Prince Napoleon, M. Darimon, the deputy, Barmier de Rothschild, and others. She sang the car atina in "Linda," as well as some brillant variations of extraordinary diffi culty in the " Carnaval de Venise," accompanied by M. Frank. Carlotta Patti asks 1207. to sing ate concert ; yet, notwithstanding this somewhat high tariff, is in peat de mand. The Patti family are a dynasty of artistes ; it is said that there is • younger sister who bids fair to out shine Adelina, and • brother who is a magnificent tenor. The South Australian Weekly Mail says that a company has been formed for laying down • submarine telegraph cable from Rangoon to Singapore,that the Dutch government is going to connect by telegraph Singa pore and Batavia, via Sumatra,and the eastern part of Java with Timor, and that the Queensland government are about to extend their telegraph lines to the Gulf of Car pentaria. A CLERICAL ERROR.—The following anecdote is related in oennection with the recent journey of Prince Napoleon. On his return to Franca hi entered • small town in company with Dr:Yvan, and wishing to remain in cognito he requested the doctor to say or do nothing which would make known his rank at the table ,P/rott where he dined. The doctor, however, incautiously made use of the epithet " monseigneur" which was overheard by the servant. After dinner she said * the doctor, " Sir, I heard you call the other gentleman monseigneur ; is he • bishop ! " HANOVER. The city of Osnabruck, in Hanover, in answer to an address forwarded to the King of Prussia, lhas received a reply, in which the following pas- . 110 sage occurs : You have rightly remarked that I bad no intention of incorporating the kingdom of Hanover. Events have, waver, overruled my intentions, which tended, accord ing to the words of my late brother, to a unity of the various German nations. You know what efforts I made in that directio n, with your late King. But what you are perhaps not aware of is that be fore the affair at !Amgen Balsa, when the sword was already drawn from its scabbard, I reiterated my previous offers on the subject of the admission of Hanover into the northern union and the maintenance of her neutrality. The King of Hanover has formally denied the existence of the proposals to which King William now refers. -- TZLEGBaII B .) RUSSIA. ST. PNTERSBUB. O , Nov. 20. During his stay at Moscow the Prince of Wales was requested by the Metropolitan Philaret to convey to the Queen of England the wish enter tained by his co-religionists that her Majesty might bestow her sympathy and protection upon the Christians in the East. The Prince replied, " England desires to protect and foster the spread of Christianity throughout the world." FRANCE AND ITALY. PARIS, Nov. 20. The Moniteur of this morning, referring in its bulletin to the circular of Baron Ricasoli, says : " The language of Baron Ricasoli furnishes another proof that the Italian government is resolved to faithfully execute the September Convention and cause its stipulations to be respected." ITALY. FLORENCE, Nov. 19, Evsmo. General Fleury has arrived here. Mr. Odo Russell has returned to Rome. On Thursday next the municipality of Florence will give a grand banquet of 150 covers to the representatives of Venetia, who will accompany the King on his Majesty's return to the capital. THE BOMBAY MAIL. PLARSEILLEB. Nov. 20. The Tanjore arrived at 2 a.m. to-day, having been delayed by bad weather. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. The Tanjore will leave at 10 a.m. for Southampton. OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MALLS. _ MARSEILLES, Nov. 19. The Messageries ImperialessteamerPeluse left here at 2 p.m. to-day with the outward India, China, and Japan Mails. She had 68,0001. for Alexandria., and 48,0001. for India and China, and a full cargo of merchandise. AMERICA. (By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNITED STATES FIVE-TWENTY BONDS. NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Secretary McCulloch has replied officially to an inquiry made by Messrs. L. P. Morton and Co. relative to the manner of payment of the prin cipal of the 5-20 Bonds. The Finance Secretary says :—" 1 regard, as did also my predecessor, all United States Bonds as payable in coin. The bonds that have matured since thebuspension of specie payments have been so paid, and I have no doubt that the same will be true with all others; this being, as I understand it to be, the established policy of the government. The 5-20 Bonds of 1862 will either be called in at the expiration of five years from their date and be paid in coin, or be permit ted to run until the government is prepared to pay them in coin." The Inman steamer City of Boston arrived out yesterday at 10 a.m., and the City of Limerick this morning. The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen has also arrived out. THE THREATENED FENIAN INVASION. The Irish government are, it is said, about imme diately to give additional strength to the military detach ments stationed in Sligo and other western Irish towns. The Freeman's Journal says:—" Within the:past few days notice has been given at all the metropolitan police stations intimating that the constable or constables who may capture James Stephens, in the event of his returning to Ireland, will be entitled to a reward of 1,0001. This intimation would go to show that the government dues not wholly disbelieve that the Head Centre will have the temerity to return to Ireland, as he announced that he wi11.,. " A ministerial crisis," says the Progris of Lyons, " has just taken place at Madrid, but, fortunately, or, the contrary, if preferred, it lasted only five hours, and terming/14d by the maintenance of the atatu quo. The cause of this incident wax so singular as to be worth mentioning. The Queen, it appears, was anxious to confer the dignity of Commander of the Order of Charles 111. on a tenor singer at one of the theatres, but Marshal Narvaes, probably not appreciating the value of the services which this nomination was to reward, refused in the most formal manner to sign the decree, and offered his resignation. The Queen, after a stout resistance ended by giving way, and the subject of the dispute is not at present to receive the honour intended for him." A St. Petersburg letter says :—" Without count ing the three grand balls which are already announced officially at Bt. Petersburg, and which will be given, the first by the ambassador of England, the second by the representative of France, and the third by the Russian nobility, others are spoken of by the Grand Duke Constantine and the Grand Duchess Helena. On Thursday last the Emperor gave the first grand ball of the season at the Winter Palace, at which about three thousand persons were present." NEW PLCHAOL—The Liberti, speaking of ladies' dresses for the coming season, says : " Another fashion, of an eccentric character, is appearing. It consists of trimmings, made of feathers. For merly a plume or marabout was worn in the bonnet, now the whole person is covered with them, just like the savages of the New World. Sportsmen cannot supply them in sufficient quantity. Feathers of the pea cock, partridge, pintedo , pheasant, isy, blackbird, and pigeon, are all seized on with eagerness., and even the ducks of the poultry-yards are plucked to satisfy the caprice of our fashionable ladies. What a fancy I It reminds one of the distich of Catullus : Quid levies plaint? Pelvic Quid pitivere? Teaks. Quid Ventot Muller. Quid Dialers? ! (What is lighter than a feather!—Dusk Than Dust!— The wind. Than the wind!—Woman. Than woman ? Nothing !)" SOUTH ArsmtAttA.—We (Wallaroo Times) have seen a specimen of bitumen, recently brought from Kan garoo Island, where it is found, we are informed, in large quantities. It is black, moderately bard, displays a glossy surface when broken, and burns slowly. The existence of such a substance on the island should seem to warrant the expectation that a valuable discovery would result front a systematic search for the origin of the bitumen. e O, 1866. PARIS. (PROM 01111 OWN PARIS, MONDAY EVIISING. The Pays, which goes on with its appointed work of preaching the annexation of Belgium to France, has to-day an article pirated from the fable of the wolf and the lamb, alleging that France does not threaten Belgium, but that Bel gium threatens France. It affirms as a matter to be seriously taken notice of that Belgian journals claim the annexation of Lille and Valenciennes and a great slice of the North of France, extending from the Somme to Metz. It accuses the King of the Belgians of having in sulted France when he said at Mona, close to the French frontier that true liberty was the special heritage of Belgium. The French organ of that universal suffrage which is now estimated in the world at its true value, sneeringly says that Belgium is governed by the votes of 1'20,000 electors, whose price is 41. a head. The late King Leopold) I. is accused of hostil;ty to France, and it is stated that a pamphlet on the fortifica tion's of Antwerp, which made a noise at the time, is now known to have been written by M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister in London, and one of the late King's especial favour ites. These are the arguments by which the public mind is prepared for the absorption of Bel gium when the troops come home from Rome and Mexico, when the reorganisation of the army shall be completed, when the Universal Exhibition shall be over, and when—if nothing impede meanwhile, the time shall be ripe. The rumour is revived that the Corps Legialatif will be convoked for a short session before Christmas. My surmise that the Paris papers were mistaken in announcing the arrival of General Dix was well founded. Mrs. Dix and some members of the family are here, but the new minister has not yet arrived. The Bourse was tolerably steady, but without any remarkable feature. Rents rose sc. for cash, and closed for account at Saturday's price, 69fr. 37itc. Mobilier fell 7fr. 80c., and Credit Fon der bfr. The impression prevails that the Societri Immo bilibre will not be authorised to raise the large loan, the rumour of which has been the main lever of recent Bourse transactions. Tilt LATE GALES. THURSO, N. 8., Nov. 18. While it was blowing hard last night, with showers of snow (says John Swanson Esq.), the schooner Anna Berrie, of Lerwick , br ou g ht up in the bay with sails split. The lifeboat Polly of the National Lifeboat Insti tution put off and took out the crew of five men and brought them safely ashore. RAMSGATR, NOWDAT NIGHT. About half-past six o'clock this morning signal guns and rackets were fired from the North Sand Head and Gall light ships. It was blowing strong at the time from N.N.W. The lifeboat Bradford, of the National Lifeboat Institution, immediately proceeded out, and was met by the harbour steam tug Aid, which took her in tow, and proceeded direct for the North Sand Head, when a brigwas oUerved onshore on the high part of the sand. The lifeboat was towed to windward and then bore down to the brig, which was ob served to and under water with a very heavy sea breaking over her. The lugger Florence Nightingale, of Broadstans, was just leaving her, having succeeded, with great risk and skill, in rescuing the crew of eight men, and a quarter of an hour afterwards the vessel turned over and entirely dis apewd. It is believed the lugger happened to be near thee brig when she got upon the land. .As the lifeboat left the wreck she observed the North Deal and Widmer life boats, which belong to the National Lifeboat Institution, a pp r oaching, when they were informed that the crew o f the brig were saved, and the lifeboats thereupon returned. The vowel was the brig Joseph and Elizabeth, of Whitby, bound from Shields to Dunkirk with coals. When out at the land a large quantity of span and rigging was observed about a mile from the wreck of the brig sup posed to belong to another vessel lost during the night. MUNDESLEY, NORFOLK, Nov. 18. A number of small vessels were riding off here on the 16th inst., when it suddenly came on to blow from the E. N.& a heavy sea was running in, which caused four of them to part from their chains or drive ashore. As soon as their perilous position was seen, the Mundesley old lifeboat went to the rescue, and succeeded in saving the lives of nine men and two women from the rigging of the stranded vessels, one man and one boy having unfortunately perished by being washed over board by the heavy seas as their vessel drove ashore. HASBOROUGH, NORFOLK, Nov. 17. Intelligence was brought here last evening (reports the Rev. J. Slater) that a vessel was ashore about two miles to the south of this place. The wind was blowing very strong at the time, bringing up a very heavy sea. The Huddersfield lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was launched as soon as possible and proceeded to the wreck and effected a communication with her, but, unfortu nately, the crew, instead of taking the line, went aft, and the lifeboat then drifted to leeward, and such was the strength of the boiling tide that all efforts to pull baok to the vessel were unavailing, and the crew of the lifeboat were therefore obliged totake the boat back to land in order that they might along the shore, and launch again to windward of the wreck. Meantime, how ever, before the lifeboat could get idlest again, the ship wrecked crew of five men were fortunately got safely ashore by means of the rocket apparatus. I'he vessel was the brigantine Anemone, from Dunkirk. Imme diately after this, the crew of the lifeboat heard that another vessel ' was ashore at Ostend, about a mile and a half to the northward of Hasborough, and they, therefore, hastened to convey the lifeboat thither- but before they could reach the scene of wreck the men heard that the lifeboat Recompense, of the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at Becton, had preceded them, and rescued the hands on board. About the same time another small vessel, laden with wheat, stranded about a mile south of Hasborough. The crew of two men and a boy were saved by 111•11116 of the rocket apparatus. WEATHER REPORT.-(THD3 DAY. TrIXDLY, 2702121111111 20, 8 A.X. B. I T. W. ------- Nalra 30.1734 N.N.W. Aberdeen 30.10 33' N.W. L e ith 30.4 0351 W. Ardroman —10.23 36, E.N.E. Greencastle 80.33 45! N. Valentia 80.36 42 E. Cape Clear 30.92 40 1 , H.S. Liverpool 30.25 33 N.N.E. Holyhead '30.21 42' N. Penzance 30.29 44 N. N.H. Bred '30.28 39, N.H. Wriest 10.20 VP N. Rochefort— 10.20 39 3 N. Plymouth 30.25 41 N. Weymouth —30.22 3.5' N.V. Portsmouth 80.19 35 N.N.W. London 2 30.15 31 N.W. Yermodh 3 0 . 05 95 N.W. Scarborough. 80.11 32 N.N.W. NUM& 30.17 32 N.W. Helder — Moderate northerly winds with tine weather prevail over the .ater portion of the British isles and France. Barometers are high and rising, with low temperature. Snow has fallen in the northeast. A " F eßif - TOWABLE " C0171%11. —Patin is Con stantly favoured with a number of adventurers, both male and female, and some of them iue so clever as to take in the wide-awake Parisians. An instance occurred lately of a young and beautiful English woman entering one of the fashionable restaurants, accompanied by a fashionable Parisian youth. They walked into one of the commodious cabinets and mined dejetner. After feasting on the delicacies of the mean of the day, coffee was ordered according to custom, and the waiter retired. About an hour after the lady descended, and requested the waiters not to disturb her husband, who was in the habit of indulging in a nap after his breakfast. These orders were given in good French, but with the inevitable Britannic accent. The lady said she should return after a little shopping, and requested the bill to be prepared on her return. A couple of hours passed away, but no lady made her appearance, whereupon the waiters entered the room where they had breakfasted and found the young gentleman not only asleep, but so thoroughly in a state of corm that they hod great difficulty in awaking him. When restoratives lied been administered he cams to his lenses, and informed the esker d'Agiel, who was present, that he bad lost his watch and 1,7096.. It mu evident that the fair damsel had administered a narcotic in order to rob bim. N.W. N.w. N. N.N.W. N.N.K. :E: N. N.I. LAW INTELLIGENC% (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAg . Sittings in Banoo.—(Before Lord Chief Junks Justioes Wilies, Bytes, and Keating.) The court sat this morning to &spate of the appeals from decisions of revising barristers. VALLE, APPELLANT r. COPE, IESPONNINT. This case was heard on Saturday. The app e a l " one of the trustees of lady Hewley's Charity, so a k „An ge ntlemen there were vested considerable e a*, West Riding and North Riding of Yorkshire, v et 7_l l among other things, to pay themselves 54 •os, The appellant alarmed to vote for the North 8ic..,41.‘ that although, if the 5/. were to be spread ear d estates proportionally, there would not be age m ia.t Oa the fioith Biding seats to give the vote, ea' . power t o elect to take 40a. a year out of the K a i estate, and thus sogaire a right to vote , no t oo ,"" 11 1 held that the doctrine of apportionment mot he refused to allow the vote. Mot The Lord Chief Justice now said that he vra g that the revising barrister - - right I. ;...",7% that the appellant had • sufficient to give him estate, and that the , proportionally over all the enough to decide the case, many other points raised disposed of by him with so precision, that if the court not do better than nse the Decision affirmed. SLIGHT, APPELLANT This was an appeal f barrister for the borough of voters for the borough,. others perish lists of occupy the yreernas's list, and he o b e ing , on it, and signed ,c, &embed himself as of voters for St. Peter's, Make.- that the notice was insufficient did not describe himself The barrister held that rejected the vote. ogtingt. r. Wills, for the appellant this court is " Tutball v. t 5 Man. and G., was concha& Mr. Cooke, Q. on the in that ems was • mere p , that it was time that it r The court, however, the Town Clerk of present appeal. Derision reversed. TILACNIVAT, AMLLANT, The reepoadent object , list of voters for Hersh address on the notice , known as "Barionsham, built on, and contained The barrister being sat Bertanham" would that notice sufficient not appear he rejected decision was come t 4 present appeal was to Mr. Cooke, QC., H. James for the reepondet The Court thought to • finding as • mat' sufficient, and the fin( of fact was amehuive. law raised upon the appeal to the court Decision affirmed. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. N.N.W. N. N. W. N.R. Bitting' at Nisi Prins.—(Before Mr. Banal* Common Juries.) The eourt only sat a short time this monk It ns quence of the parties in several of the our sedum pared to go to trial. The learned judge complained of the res4asied the solicitors, that they were liable I. NNE for negligence in that respect. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVOICL (Before the Judge Ordinary.) lIRIMMER V. BILEMNER AND BIM. This was an application by a respondent is eels upon her attorney to pay over to her certain sobs had been received by lsim as alimony, and cesiiih alleged that he had a lies for his costa. Sir J. Wilde considered that the claims of leleg were well founded. The order for the payment slim always contained a direction that it should kapiiti wife 'herself ; and if she chose to let it come instill of her attorney it must follow the ordinary rilsnigs; to monies in the possession of a lqal adviser. !mph cation must, therefore, be dismissed with own CENTRAL CRIMINAL COM, (THIS DAY.) (Before the Recorder.) TRZ CliAll l l3 OF PERJURY AGAINST TNT ITIA Matthew Hayes, a respectable-looking men, I: police-constable of the S division of surren dered to take his trial for=unN _ ' Pri M urY• r. Sleigh, MT. Montagu Williams, entilelik conducted the prosecution ~ Serjemt Mani s specially retsined, with Mr. Cooper, Mr. G. 2 Gin and Mr. F. Turner, for the defendant. The circumstances under which this drip en ferred will be fresh in the recollection of our sin I the case was gone into very fully at the linimen t another police-constable named William Bury, kin! to the same division, was tried and acquitted fersie j offence. It will be remembered that the clip 1 0 ' out of an accusation that was referrei OW and Hayes against two yo un g wen nueranl Dye and Charles Pearce of having anew commit a burglary at the residence of a geneses* Dolmer, residing at No. G 2. Gloucester crescest,llo park, on the night of the :kith of Anglin lau. Bi 0 dance that was given by the defendant and Wu the effect that on the night in question One! two young men jump over the ewes g i Dolman about buff - p ast 1 o'clock in thi sell and that they attempte d to run way ii , ter apprehended on the spot. They were urn upon two occasions at the blar y lebone Fol i ose! the result was they were both committed Sessions forting Middlesex, a nd after a long inrieell lil were acquitted, and the present charge of le I 7 Fee,. then preferred against the defendants, and of conspiracy. Barry, one of the defendants , ir, upon the charge of perjury rat the last Kann ai l ' being acquitted an application was made e' pone the trial of the other defendant te in i sent session. The cue in support of to Fil l was that in the first pl ace the defenden ga tirely innocent of the charge of attempted gtO t t, in support of this assumption t he evidence 014. was that they , were not near Gloucestervounlio night in question , a nd that they were ponied!!! taken into custody by the two constables ill.. street, which was more than a nude t L i _ where the burglary was alleged tohies dee. witted. Both Dye and Pearce swore _ __7 4 1 1 to this fact, and their statement was ang. 1 2 . testimony of a girl named Phiebe Glue and t1e . .. 11 - Young men who were with them on the "' A ii.e-g 1 -7, 2 It was also alleged in support of the chatgil 1 that instead of the constables having been • 2 considerable time on the night in question in _.., 1 lads Dye and Pearce, on account of their owe^. they were about to comm it some illegal sit, th I 'ln public-house in the vicinity, called ti an:Startionl 0.. , a considerable portion of the esening d fo,bin!gl 5 was moat positively denied by tee efend:li 4 companion Barry—their eviden ce in this 2 materially confirmed by t he landlord of the ~. 2 question and his two barmaids. It transpire er l 3 of the inquiry that upon the last trial' he 2 was defended from his own resources, but it affe, since his acquittal the Commissioners of Nei: it ,heir duty to interfere in the matter, and bf 1 7, tions Serjeant Ballantine was specially the defence. to n . veeeryvidweenaceeleness ithdi,danondthtehperecaserioubsoccui°,lital of, couple of days. inters arei --- - - - - -- -- -INS, MIDDLESEX SESSIOI (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-thcr The oourt reassembled this morniog before • Bodkin, the assistant-judge, Mr. Joseph assistant-judge. and the following justices at ""' Mr. H. Harwood and Mr. Loveland. lo St& A SAVAGE ASSAMT WITH INTENT - Charles Fox, 25, a burly-looking fellow. 01 1 — ii labourer, was indicted f or assaultiog J a mes s" -- hithw ro a with intent to rob him. living at u N t O r .'lo 6 , Carlton - roa d, Ktaenbletishu"to"..,Bsl morning of the nth of November be d walla road at Limehottee. The prisoner ~,010 said, " I know you've got money, end !;„, h , then knocked him down. Prosecutor te" rifriamor " knock e d I'll bare your ;•id e,," and he again knocked hint down • took him into custody. Ho bad 11 bean; the miaow", sad had never seen him bweeeige 1 LI Patrick Fitzgerald, 201 Y, said be il l lo and saw the whole of what took ace.pe a knock the prosecutor down, and W I have' our money. He picked the d `°774 bleeding from the mon th, up front there . '" the prisoner into custody. arrister was right d no power to elect t o m a. vote upon say e 51. charge most the trust estates. %ar aae, but he would 6 4. 11 4 eel before the tonight Wi lt such remarkable curt had to decide thenok r ,..." "` the words of the banien t . ""I r. DLUIDIII, Imo! 1 from the decision et dm 1 , 1 1 gh of Malden. There wen% rash,. one a fremnaa's B e t gm tic couplers. The respondeet he objected to the eg ga ll s e in : pad hie notice of of laido ircrdgrz p l: d e insufficient because the elf as being upon the franion that the notice was watehei This decision was so appellant, said that the W s i t all v. the Town Clerk el Iwo onclusive in his favour. n the other side, said that *la, are Odell for bona fide dim % a i it should be removed. tr, held that the cane of "Wu % Bristol" was concluin fa tla ILLANT, e. Menu, linielnit Masted to the appellees raford, and the relpanism pa ice as " Bartooaham." The dldt ham," has been a farm Miaow ained 42 terraces, plata, ad* as satisfied that a lee* Wool mild find the reams* eient ; and as the mow acted the claim to rata 'Bs to In thirteen other mom alb to test its validity. appeared for the appellant; silk wpondent. it that what had bees dot atter of fact that the dun* el biding of the barrister email ire. There was in truth sa . . w. I B. co 0.05 5 cb'o.o4 oh 0.01 reS I 1! 1 i~, w~ i \!, • 'I