The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-15 00:00:00

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If, contrary to reasonable expeetatles, it should prove a mere de lusion, failing to grapple with any of the acknow ledged evils of the present condition of things, and seeking abortively to reconstruct the old Cooserva tive interest oo territorial and class theories, then we shall either have a change of Ministry or a disso lution on the Bill before Easter. If, on the cootrary, the advanced portion of the Cabinet shall prove that they have succeeded in persuading their colleagues to adopt all that was good is the proposals of 1833 and of 1834, and to add something more liberal of their own, then it is certain that the great interest of the BOW= will be concen trated on the fate of each distinct provision of the Bill, and upon the effort' that will be made by the Independent Liberals to improve and expand it. Once entered on the great work of Representative Reform, Ministers will be released from all appro. heosion of piety imprimis or defeats on other ques tions. The moral damage of such diecomfitures every Government tries to avoid. But on the =is hens which every Government by the law of its being is forced to deem paramount to all minor con siderations—that, namely, whether it is justified in holding office or bound to surrender it—there can and will be no uncertainty after the mood reading of the Ministerial plan. If at that stage, as we have said, the plan should be rejected by the Commons, Ministers must either resign or dissolve ; but if the House should deem the plan to be prisakjetra worthy of detailed examination, little else will be heard ce thought of until after the dissuasion that nest ens** thereon shall hare been brought to a class. As far as the country is concerned, and es far as its voice can make itself heard within the portals of St. Stephen's, the urgency will be all in favour of finishing the work thus began. We hare recently bad occasion to point cat how stow the people were in 101 l to pot any straw mean upon their Re preesntatires null they saw plainly that, without each pressure, they could not he relied on to do their duty. The means of popular organisation and con- cert are twenty times greater at the present day then they were eight and twenty years ago; and if the earnest friends of Reform bat make it palpable to those out of doors that the carrying of a sound, wise and reemnable measure depend@ three months hence on the manifestation of national opinion, manifestations enough they will have. We cannot, therefore, concur with Mr. ROltant% in anticipating that the prime interest of the coming &region will be ►uccessfully diverted from domestic to foreign affairs; we never remember a greater approach to unanimity of opinion respecting any new phase of external affairs than that which we have witnessed daring the last fortnight regarding armed intervention in Italy. On all sides we hear the same toile of sober earnest hope that nothing will betray our rulers into any complicity with either of the contending despotions. The very suspi cion of an Austrian alliance for the pro longed enthralment of Italy would be apt to drive Lord DEP.RT from power in the first ten days of the Session ; and it is hardly conceivable that the House of Commons which summarily cashiered the late Government for its obsequiousness to Frann•, could be hoaxed or bullied into restoring them to piwer in order to rapport the Emperor of the FarVCH in a wee with Austria. A frank and dignified neutrality in the only course which England can punnet consistently with policy or with honour. Coalition with Austria is utterly impossible; but coalition with such a power as the present Government of France to readjust the map of Eu rope and to determine the domestic institutions of States, w.inld be at variance with every maxim of sound statesmanship and every instinct of popular life. What security could we have, if without pro vocation er quarrel of any kind we entered into • smut part with NA roLtOtt 111. to wrench her Italian pomession. tram Austria, that our Ally would not client as to our from, when the deed was done, by the establishment of Imperialist institutions in the Peninsula with oe without the help of some other despotic power ? Or, what right should we hare to complain next year if, in like secrecy and disregard of treaties, he were to ester into a league less unna tural and less unlikely with arbitrary Governments like his own toenail ourselves unaware.? Are public law, public faith, and public morals, nothing? To Italians writhing under such • ml• WI that of Austria no son► cootiderations apply. If they. with or with- out help, can succeed in !baiting off a bated yoke, and roes eetablishing their independence, then, tree to the poll."' of Y. tit snzTn,the policy of Curia amt., the policy of CANNING, and the policy of Berl 0112 T, we shall not only cordially welcome them iato the brotherhood of Nations, but ws shall feel earsitlefte free to sustain end etningthem them with all ear %a waited power sod unsullied pestle. But we are 110 t gotog to be made tools of Bonapartism either in peace or in war. L THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1859. RIFLID small arms having made a rapid stride towards perfection in a few years, the attention of all improvers was directed to larger ordnance. Greet difficulties were found, both in rifling the cannon and in adapting the expansive principle to cannon shot. The Lancaster gun, with its oval bore and wrought iron shot, proved an expensive failure. Mr. W. L ARMSTRONG, a civil engineer, not a pro fessed artilleryman, seems now to have solved the problem, and raised the larger ordnance to its pre vious pre-eminence over the smaller arm. lie makes his gun of steel and wrought iron. Inter nally steel, it is surrounded externally by wrought iron, twisted in a spiral form, as in a musket or fowling-piece. The strength and tenacity of this combination, as compared with gun-metal or wrought iron, enables Mr. ARMSTRONG'S gun to project an eighteen-pounder shot with a cannon weighing no more than an ordinary nine-pounder. The interior of the bore is rifled with small grooves, about forty in number, making • complete twist as they pass from one end to the other of the cannon. The bell is of cast iron; it is cylindrical in shape, termi nated by a rounded head. The greater part of the surface is coated with lead, securely prevented from being driven off the shot in its progress through the barrel. This leaden seat sakes the shot a little larger than the bore of the cannon. Mr. AIItSTIONG'I gun is loaded at the breech, and the shot being propelled through the bore by the explosion of the powder, the had in its expansion tightly fits the ball, and the neceseuy spinning motion is given ia the right direction. The advantages gained by this improvement can only be estimated by a consideration of the results obtained. At thir experimental trials at Shoebaryness as lailoander shot was made over and over again , with the greatest saes and certainty, to strike a sir feet target at a distance of 3,500 yards. That is only 20 reds lees than two miles. This sets at met the gumbo' • both of accuracy and length of range. The cylindrical abet with rounded head, when made to mole* la the right direction, suffers far less Aetna ties ham the resistance of the air In its speedy flight than a spherical shot of the same weight. Mr. AMISTRONG . s shot can be made into a shell, and of all shells the most destructive, a percussion one. It contains a small cavity in its centre. When this is filled with bursting powder, and a detonating fame is inserted in front, the instant the shot strikes an object the detonating powder explodes and fires the fuse. A minute span of time, sufficient, however, to allow the shell to travel four or five feet, takes place before the bunt ing powder is ignited and the shell explodes. Thus the shell may penetrate the side of a ship entire, and then bursting, scatter its deadly fragments in the midst of the crowded deck. When used simply se • shot, a head of iron or steel is substituted for the fete. The penetrating character of the new sidle may be judged from the following facts:—A flet pound shot fired at a timber target three feet thick, composed of six layers of rock elm bolted together eo se to form a solid block, passed entirely through it whoa fired from a distance of 1,800 yards. A 12- pound shot at Shoebaryness fired at 800 yards die tance perforated a solid body of oak timber nine feet thick. The havoc made in the iron aides and ribs of the Trusty, floating battery, by one of Mr. MUM RONG . II 32-pound shot we recorded on Tuesday. At a range of 400 yards the steel-headed shot " drove in • " portion of one of the plates, went through the " side, tearing away one of the berms, deck, &e., " and pissed out over the upper deck." With seek deadly flying steel-headed iron rams as Mr. Aix. eruovc has invented, and with the improved cannon for projecting them, we need fear ao floating rams nor iron mailed batteries. We trust that official obstructiveness will not be allowed to worry the heart out of this enterprising Civil Engineer. While England possesses such men, if we only give them fair encouragement, wa may both defend our coasts and diminish our estimates. Cm Court. WINDSOR, JAI,. 14. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Marquis of Lreadateue, the lad sad Costar of Shel burne, sad Ms. A. Paget; she Yr Rat sad Counts@ Stanhope sad dr Islet Welsher. who arrived co • vlait In the aftertaste. Wald tbe Hen. air Charles sad Lady Phipps had the Wiser d bean imbed. Ti. Imil lile Gook' bead ;whim' lean dim: avow. - liaprer Time% PdllllllllZ. " DOM al Lap. OmNos. ' &di II SeigiL Ostaw. ::: iiii,. Her MOW. Ovate bawl shamods *i le dr tbusligiesu as harriss pars: Oserms, " Pialon" w - . PAroari, "L V de Pals' orregs. " n oar Adis. faidsi The Qum, with Primes Alb. sad Primo Arthur, valued la She Hew Perk this warn*, sad vidtmd the Mambos ed teat al Pompom The Primo Crowd west out 'hoods!, somoopoded by Prises Edward of Sale Weimar and the Earl of Warlike. Mr. A. Peet left Windsor is the forenoon. Viecounteca Joiselys has succeeded the Countess of Os borough a Ledy in Waiting to her Majesty. Mr. Reuben Aytiff* had ea interim with flit Eared Unlwer Lytton yesterday, st the ColooLl•otflae. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the Disronty- Governor, bad en lowniew with the Chancellor of the Xi chequer on Thursday, rt his dads] residence, in Dowsing slaste. THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM.--FiE Isaias Clark left Lark. Maaday for Berth, ht order to be par net at the appeedelag seemehetatet of the Prthatee Freda. risk "Mem ne Priem, will be attended by the Prose= physician who tree moat al the last accouthetheat of oar Claeth—Yealieei new. The DO, of Rielaseed has arrived at Portland pima is Mina a mak casealleke. We regret to =mum the demise of the Dowagrr Loly Om. which event took place on the 31. t oh., et Worn*. How, neer Edinburgh, in her 90th year. Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, M.P., has left boa, oa • visit to Lord sad Led; Churchill, at Corabary Park Charlbw', Ono. Lady Blanche Balfour hu arrived at the Queen's Hoeg, Upper Norwood, from Wl)[Weems. Mr. Augustan Paget, who has been on a visit to bar flagasty at ilftwisee Cate* has toss lately appointed Lair, et the Cart of Meadow. Mr. A. Paget is son of lira km ilea Hoe. !ir Arthur Paget, L. 8., who was for waxy pan a disaarnatted eabwander at the Courts of Maas, Conalsathtople, de. . . The convocation of the prelates and clergy of the poetics of Caaterbary was yesterday maregaed la the Jeru salem Chamber, WartaMaur, by ths iser-Gemeet, Dr. Tamers Twin. trader • remmlisks Lim lie Omegas Laid Arabella? of Cawlerbevy, Primate of ell Begird sad Me- Meyettesa, pareasat le the royal • db. to !'rtdy, Feb. 4. NV* us happy to loan; that Mr. John EWA, late sholoolo at the Miami ositway, is *pia roolorod to battik. The general meeting of the Highland and Agri evienral society wW take Owe M Baggiest ill the ilkk bet 1t M likely Is be seruelly labrectin, swift Is br eak dtforescee which hive meant Wines the diteeten and lame ambles of the umbees. Capt.. Boise awl Spoke, of the expedition to Zoe Africa, have eaeraded, after Ph. abort trritor effqrte, le math* sad eareerlag the great lake of the interior, and ere oa their rotors to Zearibet. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, LOMBARDY. VIENNA, FRIDAY. Advioes have been received from Padua to the 12th inst. On the occasion of the burial of Professor Zambra, a seditious disturbance took place among the students of the university, which was however immediately suppressed. The lectures at the university were at once stopped. The inhabitants remained quiet. SERVIA. BELGRADE, FRIDAY, JAR. 14. Kabuli Effendi has communicated to the Skupts china the Porte's approval of the election of Prince Milosch, which communication wu followed by rejoicings among the people. NAPLES. (711011 OVA ORM NAPLES, FRIDAY. The following edict has been issued --" Any per son or pumas taken in the act of an attempt (stunts° against the internal safety of the State will be tried immediately by a council of war. Persons messed of conspiring against the safety of the State will be tried before the ordinary 000ru." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN. 13. A great riee took place to-day in public securities. Five pat Cent. Metalliques, 80, being 1 per cent. higher than yesterday, and exchange on London improved 2 per cent, viz., 103.80. SPAIN. A telegram, u follows, was remised last night: MADRID, JAN. 14. The Queen has granted certain lands, portion of the royal patrimony, for the site of the termini), of the Northern Railway of Spain. TURKEY AND BERVIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, hs. 5. The Servian deputation has arrived hire for the purpoee of representing to the Porte the wiehee of the nation. The Prince Miksch hu written to the effect that he will not accept any dignity from the Skuptachina which has not been ratified by the Porte. The telegraph to Crete is finished. The news is confirmed that the agent of the English loan contractors has protested in vain against the new loan of 15 million franca contract d for by the Porte. MARSEILLES, THURSDAY, JAN. 13. Advice:B have been received from Constantinople to the bth inst. Ali Packs and Fnad Puha have become recon ciled, and all reports of ministerial changes have essisti. The example of Seffill has given rise to agitation in the Empire. A new loan of 15 millions bas been contracted for by the Porte on ruinous conditions. The delegate of the contractors for the great English loan remon strated against it, but in vain. The Persian Government bee ratified an agree ment concluded between FeronkKhan and a French house for working up pert of the silk produce of Persia. BELGRADE, J*x. 13. The Skuptschina has addressed a demand to the Senate, calling upon it to accelerate the arrival of Prince Miloech and to grant him power as an hereditary i tiler. It is asserted that the Porte has refused to recognise him in that character, and that on account of this refusal the Skuptschina has just summoned an extraoro;nary sitting to consider the question. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raox ova OWN PARIS, TWEET EVENING. M. Rente's long semiofficial article in the Coe stigutioenel has been as unsuccessful in its professed object of reassuring the public mind av was the laconic paragraph in the Monittur. Like the Moni tour, the Conatitutioniel is evidently insincere, and does not wish to be believed. It says that the alarm which exists is founded " more upon imaginary fears than upon facts." Three facts only it pretends are before the public—the Emperor's address to M. de Hubner on New Year's-day, the King of Sardinia's speech, and the marriage of Prince Napoleon. It gravely repeats the hackneied official absurdity, that what the Emperor said meant only a sincere regret for the peat, and indicated nothing for the future. As to the King of Sardinia's speech, it pretends that his Majesty could not have said less with sin ' mity, considering that he broke off diplomatic relations with Austria eighteen months ago. Then the alliance of the French imperial family with the house of Savoy is represented as the most natural thing in the world, and we are told that " if" entastances should arise calling for the interference of France in Italy, she would fulfil the duty incum bent upon her with neither more nor less exactitude than if her sovereign had not been allied to the Sardi nian King by family ties. All these arguments, which do not touch the real state of affairs, display that profound contempt for the understanding of the bulk of its readers which the French semi-official journals habitually exhibit. The Constitutionnal asks repeatedly with an assumed naivete, why France and Europe are so much frightened. It affects to be ignorant of the obvious snswer, which is—" because the question of peace or war depends upon the will of a single man, whose whole history shows that whew he meditates a startling enterprise, his custom is to ventilate it in the public mind by unauthorised agents—sparvere vexes in rulguns antbiguor—con coaling his real intentions from those who think themselves most in his confidence, and reserving always a loophole to affirm that he has been mis interpreted until the moment comes when he acts upon his predetermined resolution." The Consiitos- Simnel pretends that France will not make war un less there shall be a breach of treaties. This is poor oossolation, for you may be very sure that a pretext that treaties unbroken may be found whenever wanted. Already we are told by the Press that Austria has committed a " flagrant " violation of treaties by inducing Tuscany to receive an Austrian force of 12,000 or 15,000 men to replace an equal number of Tuscan soldiers, who will be sent to other parts of Italy. This particular fact may or may not be true; the Patric doubts it. and suggests that Austria has lately lost much of her influence with the Grand Duke. But the fact of snap an argument being brought forward by the Pram shows how curiously pretexts of quarrel are sought for. The Press, denies that it is under the in fluence of Prince Napoleon, but if this denial is to be accredited, all the newspaper world in Paris has long been under a mistake. The Prince, it is well known, has surrounded himself with redoeteurs of that journal. There is a report this evening that the Emperor is at length frightened by the unmis takeable attitude of the country, and the supplica tion. of his official advisers. But I do not believe in his hesitation. As far u I can see, the prepara tions for war are urged on with increasing haste and firm determination. The Bourse opened with considerable firmness under the influence of the peace rumours which are industriously circulated, but it became suddenly mach depressed in the afternoon. The Rente closed with a rise of 10c. for cash and a fall of 10c. for account, at 68fr. 76c. and 68fr. 50c. The closing price was the lowest of the day ; the quotation at one moment was 89fr. 2.5f3., the oscillation being therefore as much as 75c. Mobilier, 15fr. Railways did not suffer so much by the reaction of the after noon, and most of the lines closed with a rise of a few francs. It is officially stated from Spain that the Duchess de Montpenmer has entered upon the fifth month of her pregnancy. HOMELESS POOR. yo . 1:1111:Drroa . 07 TN! zIPItieS. Sts,—With your kind pwmissiiia I will resume the narrative of the Cave. It was warm, and the boys were in good spirits, especially No. 8, whose cheeks were full and red, and his eyes all in a glow, indications these of his sanguine temperament. These lads might have been in the Refuge: there was plenty of room, and the muter was no bugbear, but most kind, and a warm-hearted friend of the homeless. They knew it too, and in their own odd way filly appreciated his readiness to serve them. Two or three gave as a reason why they slept in this place, that they sweated to be in the market two or three hours before the time came for opening the Refuge to let the inmates out : the rest could give so reason at all. I can put this peculiar preference of theirs in a much stronger light. On the same night that I discovered the fourteen boys in the hole, I was inquiring for a particular boy for whom the Refuge muter had a few days before applied for admission to our " Home." He was not there, but one of the boys told me I should find him out side Westminster Workhouse. Thither I went, and found him sleeping on the pavement, but not alone ; for in one promiscuous heap there lay between sixty and seventy pennies, yosaN and old, of either sex. What a sight it was! A tightly-packed mem, sacs ceremony, sans order, sans almost everything—the heads of some " cropping " out between the bodies of others, and almost all sound asleep. On the edge of ths line of sleepers, at the feet of its mother, wrapped up in a shawl, and with only another old shawl between its poor little body and the cold pavement, nestled • nice little girl between three and low years old. I recognised amongst them many whom I knew as having been many months upon the streets, apt had resisted all efforts to make them reputable members of society. The boy I went in search of was on the same morning admitted to our " Home" with another lad whom I pulled out of the same bundle. The latter left us the next day at his own re quint, in order not to be separated from his mother, who was a vagrant; he called on me a yser ago to tell me that he was working in a coal shed in Fetter-lane, and his mother wee living in • room hard by. The former boy absconded from us twits, and was ultimately discharged for attempt;ng to rob us under very aggravated circumstances. It is difficult to convey to anyone a correct notion of the details and movements of these outlying heaps. ' They are, however, belonging to the past, and one may safely predict that their day is " gone about," ! never to return again. To anyone who has attentively watched them it has been apparent that there has been for the last L four or five years a steady decrease of homeless people. And although just now the public mind Is considerably excited upon this question, it is never ! Useless true that there is at this moment less home r lemur in the metropolis than has prevailed for many years. More than this, the decrease will, in , obedience to certain laws, still continue. I must, however, further postpone the consideration of these laws and their phenomena in order to state a few feats, in confirmation of this statement, gathered from recent observation. Accompanied by the Incumbent of All Saints, Lambeth, I went last Wednesday night to ascertain by inquiry whether the accommodation for these casual lodgers was equal to the demand. We started at nine o'clock p.m., beginning at the Dudley Stuart Night Refuge, finishing at White chapel, at one in the morning, sufficiently tired to make us wish ourselves at home. We visited in secession the following institutions—Dudley Stuart Refuge, St. Pancras Workhouse, Clerkenwell Work house, Field-lane Night Refuge, Playhouse-yard Night Refuge, St. Lake 's Workhouse, and White chapel Workhouse. The next morning we went to the Lambeth and Westminster Workhouses. You must allow me to gladly acknowledge the ready courtesy of the various officials without a single ex ception ; we were specially indebted to one who will ingly left his bed to give us the desired information. Here you have the result—Dudley Stuart Refuge, space for men, 51 ; present, 67—theses in excess were going to lie on some forms in the sitting room; for women, 50 ; present, 25. One woman was re fused admission in consequence of her being intoxi cated. This Refuge bad been able to take in all applicants through the winter. St. Pancras Work house: space for 108; preeent, 64; had not been full all the winter. Clerkenwell Workhouse : room for 8 ; present, 4. Field-lane : room for 170 men and boys, full • 60 women, hill ; and one in excess. Playhouse - yar d : room for about 760 ; present nearly 600, consisting of men, boys, and women ; opened ten days; had not been full. St. Lake's Workhouse: room for H; present, none. White chapel : room for 40; present, a nightly avenge for one week, 6. We inquired of a policeman who was on duty about the workhouse whether he had seen many homeless people sleeping in the streets ; his reply was, " I have seen only one case this winter, a woman and child, and I took them to Bethnal-green." Lambeth Workhouse : room for 28, present 14. Westminster Workhouse : room for 70, present 2. The superintendent, on showing us the books, said, " We've had hardly any tramps for months, and I can't think where they are got to." We went to all those places where, four years ago, I used to find little groups sleeping, but through the whsle journey we did not find one person lying out for want of shelter. The women seemed, as far as appearance went, to be in much better case than the men. Generally the women were in fall flesh and of healthy aspect. One hears of starving looks and wasted frames, but to find them, as a rule, we must go to the rooms, garrets, and cellars of some of the wretched diatncts of London, not to the casual ward or nightly. refuge. Occasionally we find among those we admit to our own Home a mere moving skeleton ; such a specimen I selected last Saturday; but, on the whole, they are in tolerable condition. I do not wish to make any observation on last Wednesday night's statistic. We hear the homeless poor enumerated in the most loose way, some speaking of them as number ing tens of thousands, others going much further. Things are not so bad as this, nor so bad but that they may be remedied. The Ragged-school Union, end the men of Ragged-schools, began the work, and they are the men to end it. Money they want, bat not spasmodically; money, but not money alone. Money, sympathy, prayer ; give them bat these, and the work would be dope, let the evil be ten times greater than it is.—l am, &c., WILLIAM DRIVER. Home kw Outcast Boys, Belvedere-crescent, Lambeth, S. Wawa um lnoll murms) FOREIGN -O,M; JAN. 14.—The Queen hu been graciously pleased to make the following eppolutments Hoe. Frederick William Adolphus Brum, now her Majesty's Agent and Conant-General be Egypt, to be her Msjesty's Envoy limmordinary nod Mleistm Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; HOMO allaibold, , now Second Peed Attache to her Majesty's Legation at St. Petereburg, to be SierMary to her &Needy'', Legation in Chine. Ruther ford Aleoek, Bag , now her Moyeety's Consul at Canton. to be her Majesty's Coeval-Gettersl is lapin ; Daniel Brooke Roberta's, Esq., now bar Majesty's Coral at Shanghai, to be her Majesty's Consul at Canton ; Harry Smith Parkes, Eaq., sow Mr Majesty's Consul at Amoy, to be Mr Ma justy'• Consul at Shmigimi; Waller Henry Mahone, Esq., wen her Majesty'. Cement at Foo-chow-foo, to her Majesty's Consul at Tangehow ; Thom.. Taylor Meadows, Esq., now ' Interpreter to her Majesty's Catania' at filmaghte, to be her Majesty's Coeval at Newelterang ; Martin Crofton Mor rison, , now Meek Viee-Constd at Poo-chow-foo, to be her Majesty's Cowed at Poo-ohow-foo ; William Ray mood (Nara, Esq.. now British Viet-Ccetwel at Amoy, to be bar Marety's Coe el i Away ; Chaise A. Sinclair,lim., now British Vim-Cooed at Nin to o, be Mr Mabety's Cow sal at Chinklans ; Fredk. E. B. Harvey, laq., sow British Vice•Couml at Shanghai, to be bar Majesty's Cassel at Wimp. ; George Whittinghant C•ine, Beg., now Firm As" Meant in bee Majesty's Superintendency in China, to be bar Majesty's Coaml Seamy • Robert Gilmour Caliphate, Eq , now her Matta r Aisat and Consal-Gresral la Wallachia, to be s Agent sad Coned-General M Egypt , lola Green, sow her Majeety's Cowed M Alexandria, is be bar Maj esty's Agent and Conant-General la W +Sarkis; and Edward Walter Bonham, Bag., now • Matesty' s Camel st Cade. to be her Majesty • Corneal at Naples. Foaelow-omaa lAN. 14.—The Queen has been planed to approve of Mr. Swim Pp, tie Colqabovo re Con seil-Genera la Landon be his Royal Highame the Greed Duke of Oldwabarg. WHITEHALL, JAN. 13.—The Queen has been Owed to direct letters poteat to be pawed under the great seal, graedng the Amity of a KeMkt of the 'Jolted King dom of Great Britain and Ireland Into Jams Buctuuma etaaley. Bog., C. 8., some time ChM Janice of the Court COMM Pleas for Canada West. r , THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The screw steam ship Kangaroo, Captain Jeffery, belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and Phila de!** Steam Ship Company, arrived here about noon to-day, having sailed from Now York on the let inst. She brought 22 cabin and 140 steerage pessengers, 131,808 dots. in specie, and the United Sfttes mails. The steam ship Fulton, from Southampton for New York, put into Halifax on the 31st tilt. for wale, having experienced a 'my tempestuous pas- Congress not in session, having adjourned for the Christmas holidays, and there was nothing of political importance transpiring at Washington. A fearful accident occurred on the Macon - Railroad, in Georgia, on the 31st ultimo. The train ran off the track in consequence of a culvert being washed out at a place called Adams' Mills. About thirty persons were supposed . to be on the cars, and, as only twelve were saved, its supposed that the remaining eighteen were drowned. Nine bodies had been re covered. —.____. A New Orleans telegram says :—" Private ad vices received here confirm positively the report that a number of Americans were in Cuba, ready to aid the revolutionists. They all left New Orleans with regular passports." Captain McCluney had been appointed to the com mand of the home squadron in place of Commander Mclntosh, who returns home on account of ill-health. Senator Douglu had arrived in New York, and met with a public reception, in which much enthu siasm wu evinced by bur crowds of people. As already announced in the Halifax telegram re ceived per Arabia, the California mail steamer had arrived at New York. She brought *event items of interesting news from Central America. Intelligence had reached Panama that Walker's filibusters would land at Truxillo or Omos, and march through Hon duras to Nicaragua. The British fleet at the port of San Juan del Norte had been reinforced by two war vessels—the Cleat and the Diadem—one of which mounts 91 gnu. Sir Gore Oaseley had left San Juan for Aspinwall and Nicaragua, reaching Aspinwall on the 6th, Panama on the 7th ultimo, and taking his departure for the scene of his mission on the following day, in her Majesty's steamer Vixen. Sir Gore was in very bad health, and the climate of Central America ap peared to have affected his system injuriously. New Granada was much excited, in consequence of the passage of a law compelling all disaenters to pay tithe to the catholic church. The Panama Railroad Company had concluded a convention with most of the republics of Central America, by virtue of which a new line of steamers for freight and passengers will run between Panama and the chief ports of the States. The New Orleans Delta seaters the President of the United States, is a very absurd way, of hang under the Indent. of Lady Gore Oniony, se regards political affahw end nye :—.Nothiug leaked by her was ever refused, nor was the back door or frost of net notable political man sion ever reluctantly opened to her knock." Again . '• To bar direct and incomprehensible fascinations of persona and manners was t:ruthfally attributed the unaccountable change in the Presidential mind In regard to Mr Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and Ito abrogation in accordance with the almost unanimous demand of the nation." In con clusion, the Delta auks:—" What guarantee has the country that any important statement or recommendation he may make will not immediately thereafter be completely over turned by some new intrigueate, some fuctnethig ambeme dram, who ham the back and front door entreat:es to the White Holum always at her deposal? The Samson of De moorsey bee had his locks sham of a verity I" _ _ A Paris letter in the Nord la ye :—" Prince Napoleon will remain about a week at Trek, where a:fem ales preparations so. being made for hie reception. It is not yet decided whether the marriage will take place by proxy, but in any ms the prince and princes will make a solemn entry into Paris by the Boulevards. The Emperor Intends, it is said, to call on the Legislative Body to grant an annual dotation of 4,030,0001 r. for the primes sad princes. This latter has not yet attained her sixteenth year, the age of the prince being 38. Her royal highness is tall and very handsome ; she bears a remarkable resemblance to the most flattered portraits of Maria Therm, whom descendant she is. The mother of the princes. was considered the most beautiful princess in Europe." FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.—In the Daily News especially the correthondence has an even excellence, and • divereity and heehaws of matter, combined with an indica tion of reel knowledge, and independent views, which always make the foreign columns of that journal interesting and valuable. The experiment made by the Otattinetstal Review, coupled with the great exertions to get reliable intelligence and impart requisite knowledge that thareeterise the foreign columns of the Times and the Daily News, shows that there are some persona on this side of the Channel who feel that E.o4,politics runot really be separated from Continental. The effect of universal suffrage in Frame Is, for example, the my beat instrument of persuasion that osa be placed in the heads of those who have to resist the proem of democracy la the construction of • new reform bill. The state of Italy I. beginning to tell on the purees of many English families. The history of Continental ultremontaniem has bad a con siderable share in producing that reaction of the general educated public, from any approach to Romanism which so noticeably separates the p_resect from the recent past. And every student of current European history finds the deck of phenomena that call for an examination becoming wider and wider. Any one, for instance, who casually took up the Daily It'ettx at intervals of a kw weeks might to tempted to think that the money and dm spent by the conductors of that Pouraal In pros:win intelligence from Bosnia, Sere* Dal matia, Moldavia, sad other territories on the borderland between Austria and Turkey, were very ill-bestowed. But the more metal reader ia aware that the vague but undeniable and Increasing movement that has takes Panslaviem a. its title, IS an element of change that threaten. to recast the mould of European power. No one, in fact, who reads foreign correspondence casually can hope to master what is a difficult and a dry study. Bet we may be at ones grateful to, and proud of, the English press, when we find it giving us, if we choose to use theca, such ample materiala for reflection— materials obtained at so great • coat, and presented in a form which is marked with se many sigma of ability, impartiality, and sound Judgment—Saturday Review. LORD CAMPBELL AS AN ILLUSTRATOR OF Suez zzzzz .—A new illustrator of Bhakepere ha. entered the held in the person of the Lord Chief Jumbo of the Qaesn's Bench, Lord Campbell. During a recent vacation in &offend, he twined his attention again to our great thematic poet; and, reading over his plays consecn sleety, he was struck by the vast number of legal phrase. and allusions they contain, and by the extreme appropri ate.= and accuracy of their application. He began noting and remarking upon them, giving them such ex planations end elucidations se his east experience and knowledge of the law enabled him readily to furnish. Helms since put them Into more regular form and order, and la printing them in the shape of a familiar letter to Mr. Payne Collier, who, in his recent Biography of B baliaimni 'tails that there are more indications In Stakapere that be had In some way, early in life, been connected with the legal pee fautios, then are to be met with in all the works of contem porary drawable lir together. Lord Campton's contribu tion 10 our small stock of information regarding the life and productions of the poet is nearly seedy /or pabielkm.-- Atheneum. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAM. 14. In a convocation holden this morning the follow ing gentlemen were admitted ad ewedens William Aimeeley Mayne, D.C.L., Trinity College. Dublin. Thomas Levee Coley, M.A., King's College, Cambridge. Bev. fleanuel Pryer Field, M.A., Prantreke Collage, Cambridge. In a congregation holden immediately afterwards the fol lowing degrees were conferred KLOTZ'S OF ARTii. Rev. John Monkhone;Tebeiar, Gerrie College. Rev. Albert Smith, Litman College. Rev. Minted Beaky, Lincoln College . it.,. James H. IPCiermN Lincoln College. Rev. Herbert Coady, Lincoln College. Rev. Charles H. Price, fellow, St. John's College. Rev. BOMA (Garrard, Wedham College. William Barber, Worcester College. BACHILLOU OP ♦ITS. Edward H. Whinlield, dewy, Magdalen College. Charles H. Loma, Christ Church. Proderkk 8. P. Beale, Trinity College. John Temlbws, Wellborn College. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. Yesterday the general half-yearly court of the members of this so wee held at the institution, to con firm the minutes of the last half-yearly covert; to receive the auditors' report for the last ; and a report from the board of management en the state of the inetitution gem rally ; to elect trustees, governors, and an auditor for the manng year; also to nominate au auxiliary committee fee the next twelve months. Likewise to consider and deter. mine on the following notice of motion That any new bar who maybe foundto be subject to attach of epilepeyor any other bodily infirmity which might remonably be expected 03 subject the afflicted party, at times, to become dangerous to himself or herself, or to other inmates, or the, safety of the buildings of the institution, be not allowed to be approved by the board el management to become a candidate tor admis sion ;" and on other buetneu The court was numerously attended. Mr. Tiomes Poem, the chairman, took the chair at three o'clock. The CZAILILAX bele: liar, in reference to the notice of motion teeetiosed that it was not intended to bring it before the court. (Hese, hear.) Tee Szoirreas then read the minutes of the leg half yearly 110301111 ill, which were confirmed. He next read the report al the beard M =mamma, from which it appeased that the esyloni cusieted if 141 hmtes, and the number of inmates, mak and female, wee 170—that then wane two mouths in the asylum, sensed by the death of two el the 'mutes, that them vacancies, with any others that might arise 4 the course of the year. would be filled up at the next sisethro—that the antemiptione received durieg the year emanated to 45,11131. 17e., out of which sum 16 new houses had been erected on the grounds of the asylum, and endowed—that the unitsl of the endowment fund of the asylum was 16,0311. 17e. 9d. • and that the endowment of the chapel fund was 1,8 401.; that the moats derived from the joint ball, given by the Licensed Victualkee School end the asylum,st the Guild.. hall, was 4064, a similar sum having been realised by the school ; that another joint ball, for the benefit of the mhos mud the school, was to take place on the and of February, at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, which, it was anticipated, would be highly credal:elm to the funds of both institutions. On the moteraellr. Savoie, seconded by Mr. Tiros um% the report wee received and The auditors' socoaats wer=read and received. The skotka: of treitea;,governora, and i;;;nditor was then procesdad with. The following was the result Nor Trustees :—Mr. Thomas Icemen Hap*, Whit= Collego-atnet, Bslvidams-road, Lambeth; Mr. Henry Friend, - Cook Tarim 21, We/la-row, Islington; Mr. Thomas Whaley, Coach sad Horses, Broadway, Stretford; Mr. Benjamin Avery, Old Gibraltar, 193, Evelyn-street, Net. ford; Mr. William Howell, 'Naomi's Cas.hotase, 3, Walbrook. New Governors:— Mr. William James Baker, Jell Saks, 182, St. George-street, Ratcliff ; Mr. Charles Comm Horton Bradlay, New Tariff, 44, Old-street-road • Mr. Ths• ors Butler, Flower Pot, 146, Church-et ; Mr. William Callinghaso, Duke of Sussex, bridge Raggerstone ; Mr. Richard Elliott, T Mortiensreoad, Hingeland; Mr. James Gill, Black Hotra. I, Tork-plaes, Kingaland-read ; Mr. James Frederick Hallett, Pitt. Head, 4, Grenge-rced, Benoesdasy ; Mr. Thomas Heritage, Thistle and Crown, 84, (bed Pater career, Westminster; Mr. Joshes Liege, Lord Bhoosilell. Picirostead.common; Mr. James Leek. Pitt's He i t u lA Old-atreas, Bt. Lake's • Mr. William Pollen, Wh Hunry!strest, Woolweett ; Mr. William James Small* Lord Nigh Admiral, 29, New Clinch-street, Lisson-grova. Mr. C. Franklin, of the Earl Zotland, Lee-street, Wags. land, was elected sadder. Thanks were them given to the chairman, board of ma. nagernent, Ac., and the coin adjmuned. MEETING ON THE TEN HOURS BILL AT PRESTON A crowded meeting of spinners, minders, and WBlOlllll woe held in the Temperance Hall, North-road, Postai, cc Wednesday evening, for the purpose of taking into cousidwation " the propriety of memorial idng the Some. tarp of State for the Home iparttnent on the unentielarp tory state of the present Factory Act, and calling for ite ameedeesst." Mr. ROBERT RICHARDSON moved—" That in the opiate of the maim, the experience of the lam few year bee proved that lb. Factories Act has been, and is being, and grosslviolated. The meeting therefore resolves = ha memorial addressed to the Right Hon. Spencer R. Wsl. pots, paying that he will introduce an amendment into the present act, embracing the following propoeitions —l. TIN all proceedings taken to inquire into all violations of the pie sent Factory Act be submitted to an impartial tribunal. Se That the penalties which at. attached to infractions cies ma should be augmented. 3. That the fact of any towels, yoeog person, or child being found in any mill or Wary be• fore six o'clock sm., during meal hoary, or titer six o'clock pm., end after two o'clock on Satur day, shall be deem d conclusive evidence that such person is in the mill for *he purpose of being illegally employed.' FT:LLOWNS emeaded the propodtion, which, after along Hecusei, woe serried. A memorial loth@ H om e Secretary, praying for en amend• meet of the retest met, woe dam read end agreed to. A Toluene of " Handel Studies," by Mr. Henry F. Charley, Is in progress. The Philharmonic Concert', which, u during hits years, are only to be six in number, will begin on Monday. the 2nd of May, conducted by Dr. Bennett. Herr Molique and !thine. Anna Molique, his daughter, have left England fora short concert•tour in Germany. It is said that the oratorio on which Dr. Bennett in known to have been engaged fur some years past has been bespoken for the next Leeds Festival. Mr. Wigan (says the Illustrated Times) is in treaty for the Lyceum Theatre, and the transaction will be concluded, one way or other, in a few days. Should Mr. Wigan not be the future leases, It is not improbable that ft direction will be undertaken by Madame Celeste. _ _ A g new two-act drama, by Mr. Slone, author of The Templars' ko., is in rehearsal at the. Adelphi • sad it la understood that an engagerneut is pending with Kr. sad Mrs. Charles M►thews to appear at the some theatre. The Era states that Miss Annie Fowler, the favourite columbine at the Grecian Theatre, whose dress caught alight last week at the °inclusion of the Pantomime, causing her to be severely burnt, is fast recovering, sad will be able to resiune her professional duties at an early period. Play-going " pleasure-trains" will possibly booms a fashion in Prams; the Ober day a party of flee huadnd persons front the Haute-Vienne was announced as due fa Paris on a certain evening, to witness a representation of the Imes d'ims /runs 80011.41 ramere, at the Theatre " " Private letters from those who should know, tell us (Atheneum) that Mies Thomson keeps her grneusd •t the Foils Grand Opera—no easy matter for a novice and an Beg lishwoman, the firat,we believe, of our "perfidious " race who has ever sang there. Should she really equal descriptions them is occupation enough and to agars for her, whenever it pleases her to come home. Mr. W. Cooke, jun., of Astley's, was enabled to quit his bed, for the first time since his late severe accident. on Wednesday last. A gathering of the members of the Photographic Society and their friends will take place on Thursday even lag next in the rooms at Suffulk-street. Every podia= ' invited to this roil M la expected to bring a lady on his sm. FARMERS' CU:MS.—LONDON CENTRAL.—The fol lowing subjects hove been sleeted for diecussion during the ensuing year:—Feb. 7. Arterial Drainage, including the state of our Rivers and Watercourms ; groomed by Mr. J. A. Clarke, Long Sutton, Lincoln —Mardi 7. The Educelion, Discipline, and Introduction of the young Farmer to Life. Mr. A. lined, Kesterall, Long higioni, Soffolk.—April 4. The Progress of Agriculture. Mr. It. Smith, Emmett's Grange, South Molton. May 2. The Advantages of Steam in Agriculture, how for they have bees availed of. Mr. J. J. Mechi, Tiptrre Hall, EMI. — J an. 6. What System of Caltivetion upon Mixed Soils will, under preset eirenmsbuices, be found mast profit able I' Mr. R. Baker, Weittle, Fastex.—Nov. 7. TheOrowth tel Seeds in alternate Husbandry, without the admixture al Trefoil or Ityegnise. Mr. J. Marstuill, Riseholme, Lincoln. —Dee. 5. The Composition of Different Varieties of Vega. tables end Plants, end their respective Values es Food. Mr. J. C. noble., Kennioteton.lene. The discussion will commence at half-peat 6 o'clock, p.m. Members unable to attend these meetings are invited to forward greenest tofor station upon them. Their letters will be handed to the in- Inducer of the *abject to which reference is =Cs. This coatroT traded — Dr. i oprusitir renrur) in Du Bell. dsught tagethe aught I sad I This who , Saod thud done F;cel time ditile "U ling bar