The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-03 00:00:00

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THE India. news in anticipation of the Bombay Mail is once more a report of steady proems. Mercy and judgment are conspiring to pacify Oade and the remaining insurgent districts. "The "amnesty, - we are told, "is slowly but surely thin " ruing the ranks of the rebels;' and, on the other hand, tits: Ntstino SINGI, the great Oade Baron, who preferred t.) abandon his stronghold rather than acknowledge allegiance to the QuEesr, has had the honour to be completely defeated by Lord 4 . 1.41. e. in person. The enemy appear to have been overtaken after a protracted chaos in a jungle, near Dundeakeira, from which they were driven into the open country, and thence chased with cavalry and artillery down to the' Ganges, in which many of them perished. We can well believe that his lass was enormous." This engagement was probably fought on the 24th of No vember ; the telegraphic date is demonstrably erro neous. General ifort G %NT, returning from beyond the Goomtec from an expedition of which we have no reported results, met on that river a considerable body of rebels, whom he dispersed with heavy inflicted lose. A, long as large bodies of armed men promenade the territory our troops will be occu pied, but sppeirsncis are in favour of the opinion transmitted by the telegraph, " that the country " will be restored to peace without much additional bloodshed.•• The only taddenieg fact in the telegram is re ported in a poettcript from Genoa. General JOIIN JACOB, CAL, tho creator and commander of the famous Scinde Irregular Horse, is dead. The per manent exi4eracies of our position in India, evoking latent ability in a measure unexampled in our own or any other history, have raised up to eminence as soldiers and administrators far too many men to per mit us tospeak of any individual as if he were indispen sable to the goiernment of that country. Yet General JACOli'l death must be lamented as a serious law lie was one of those clear-headed, strong-willed men who seem born to cope with the elements of society in their most rudimentary state, and to mould them to order and usefulness. His command on the Noriti•NVestern frontier will some day supply the material for a brilliant chapter of our Indian history. J icon found the British troops there shut up in forts, in the midst of desert, supplied by a distant commissariat en the absence of production and commerce, knowing nobody, linable to tell friend from for, and threatened by wild marauders. Oa his arrival the forts were thrown down, incessant patrols and the steady pursuit and stern punish ment of robber or ineurgent bands at once announced that • real power was eatablished. The country became habitable ; the poor felt assured, and settled down under our protection ; cultivation began, and now on the formerly desert border of Upper Scinde an army might obtain supplies, and on the site of the old mud fort of Khanghur Ls the large and flourish ing town of Jecobebad, completely open and without the least attempt at any sort of defensive arrangement. The peace, quiet, industry, and plenty, with full protection for life and property, which have succeeded to rapine and disorder, are doe entirely to the discipline and efficiency of that Irregular Horse the reputation of which has spread over the world. This corps, consisting of 1,600 men—gentlemen in the estimation of their na tive countrymen—proud of their profession, trained to be independent of extraneous assistance, devoted to their commander, and bound together by the repu tation of their fora, was always " ready to go any . where, and do anything." To produce and maintain its discipline was the co:.stant study and unceasing labour of JACOB, from the time he was appointed to its command in 1.41 he was never absent • single day from his duty. The late Major- General Sir CIIABLES NAPIEII declared that the discipline of JACOB'S Hone was "perfection i" and it is remarkable that a court-martial has never been held is the coma It is, however, from the work to which all this military skill and assi duity was made tnbutary—the civilisation of bar baric tribe*, the conversion of the desert into corn fields, and of thousands of robbers into cultivators-- that General JOHN JACOB'S WOO will derive Freud lustre and lasting renown. Taa tide is evidently still rising. Regardless of the .sadate of Mr. Lowe, and the protestations of his anooymous supporters in the back ground, the waters of popular opinion continue steadily and peacefully to swell, and prepare to obliterate soon the very toot-pnnta r f unarai.ing resi.tance. Those who would fain persuade themselves and each other that the tact as not so, keep audibly muttering that there is no foam nn the ware. And why' 13mistwei by the conhas.on of their own brat spokesmen, there hate hardly been found any sulheisutly reek lees or resolute to oppose the onward flow of national feeling. Infinite praise, of course, is heaped on the vicarious victim of oligarchic monopoly who publicly professed his readiness to incur the risk of drowning in his attempt to stem the tide of Reform. But no admiration for the hardihood of oar modern CANUTE has led any of the real members of the privileged order in imitate his example or share his assumed danger. And now they are told in accents of bitter reproach, almost verging on railing, that whatever peril their mono poly may be exposed to, is doe to their social cowardice and want of political pluck. We are not about to discus the ethics of Eldonism as it existed previous to the first Reform Bill, or to inquire why we have now-a-days no Princes of the Blood ready to blaspheme in public against liberty, or Dukes and Marquises shouting like lunatics to an enraged people that they " will do what they will with their own." All we wishto do here is to note pleasantly the excited and incoherent state of mind into which our adversaries have fallen. Their stronghold of exclusive power is beleaguered, and they can find nobody with courage enough to make a sally, save the solitary QUIXOTE whom they sent forth alone out of the Kiddermin ster gate, without one knightly comrade or follower. A sorry condition this for the lineal descendants of all the bravery and heroism of the land, and the ex clusive possessors of all its high genius, greatness of soul, and true wisdom. Bat if such be the case, and if the Philistines of Reform be threatening to press sore on every side, would it not be better to lay nothing about the rank cowardice and silken luxury of the noble race to whom is entrusted the sacred duty of defending to the last the British Consti tution ? There is something not a little remarkable in the way this same accusation of " a want of civil courage" seems to turn up in all directions. Ina recent speech of Mr. Ronan Pamirs, M.P., addressed to the non electors of Bury, we find some very suggestive re marks on the subject referred to. He states that when in America a few years ago, he beard an emi nent preacher in the city of Boston lament the want of moral energy among the wealthier dares of so ciety in New England, to which he ascribed certain evils observable in the national condition. Mr. Future appears also to entertain the opinion, ex pressed by many eminent thinkers in France, that the exegeses of revolution and the recurrence of des potism under varying forms in that country, is to be attributed in a great degree to the timidity and selfish ness of the higher orders. It were easy, we think, to show how litle analogy there is between the state of society in either France or America and that exist ing in our own country. With rare and casual exceptions it might with truth be said that, what ever evils of intolerance, prodigality, or corruption prevail in our system of government, arise from the lack of outspoken and uncompromising opinion on the part of men of the industrial claws. Poli tical power in England is notoriously monopolised by a small and exclusive section of the community. The direction and control of the military and civil administration is confessedly in their hands. Every approach to the throne is filled exclusively by them, and every post of power or distinction is occupied (with exceptions few and far between) by members of the sacred cute. The entire of one House of Legislature and more than one-half of the other are theirs; at their nomination, subject to their veto, and swayed not nnfrequently by their influence, is the magistracy of every county in the realm, by whom justice is locally adminis tered and local tazation imposed. And so complete, in point of fact, is the predominance thus exercised, that it is only when, from time to time, popular dis satisfaction finds utterance by the lips of some ex- j ceptional man of the middle classes, and by his ,eloquence and courage he is able to well together in threatening combination the separately powerless units of industrial intellect and worth, that he is able to wring from the selfish fears of oligarchy any notable concession to justice or to right. How was Catholic Emancipation carried? By the reitera- , tion of the most offensive and insulting threats ever . openly addressed to oppressive power by an infuriated . people. It was withheld emphatically by the aris tocracy and their adherents until all the grace of concession was utterly goue. and every pretence of yielding to considerations of policy or justice was at an end. How was Free-trade carried ? By an anti-oligarchic combination, which was denounced as seditious and anarchical by nine-tenthe of the ruling class, whose aim a Whig Prime Minister told the QUEEN was to take the crown from off her head, and whose leader a Tory P rime Minister did not scruple to point to in full Parliament as one who by hie speeches encouraged to assassination. Neither religions nor commercial liberty was ever yielded to reason : they were dropped In terror by the here ditary monopolists of power when they dared no longer resist. Is it for a repetition of such scenes of humiliation that our opponents in the present controversy sigh ? Will nothing suffice to consioce them of the suicidal folly of their affecting to ignore the intelligence and industry of the nation at large but the organisation of its masses, and the awakening of dangerous passions ? All is tranquil now ; the popular brow is unruffled, and its voice though confident is calm. There is indeed no pretence or excuse for the libellous up braidings we daily hear—no sort of justification for the ill-feigned airs of apprehension adopted in some quarters as to the possible results of restoring the old common-law right of household suffrage, and enabling the constituencies to vote as those of every other civilized community do, with the freedom that is secured by the ballot. This hypocrisy of pole will not do. The (luny( in her palace most be told plainly by her Ministers, if they are honest men, that the present is a peculiarly propitious moment for putting an end to a gross and grievous wrong, which it is only marvellous to think that millions have endured hitherto so patiently. The bishops, on their episcopal thrones, must be warned, respectfully but with candour, that in no way could they do more harm to the Church of which they are the legislative guardians, than by heading with croziers a pharisaical cabal against the rights of the humble and the poor. And the magnates of the land—who, after all that is asked has been given, will still possess a greater amount of power, territorial, social, and political, than any other est of men were ever suffered to enjoy in a tree country—must be told—blandlyand benignly if that will do, boldly and bluntly if they will provoke it—that the tax-paying people of England have made up their minds to exercise henceforth the share they are entitled to in • the representative government of the land they love; t and that legal guarantees for its future exercise they are determined to have. Mr. Gibbs, the tutor of the Prince of Wales, is now in Remo, and wa, conspicuous a gew evenings ago with his C.D. star at Cardinal Remoter's reception. The third of a series of lectures commenced* ~h„r t ri o m, ago at Woolwich by Colossi Wilford, ft A., G.,remor of the ft.yal Military Academy, and Colossi Eardley Wilmot, Supermtandant of the Royal Military Gun Factorieq was gloss on Friday lest In the regimental school room, sad was attended by Msjnr•Generst Sir William Pertwkk Williams of Kars. commandent of the gamma, art a crowded assembly of officers, sca-commissioned officers, sad paws of the Royal Artillmy. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1859. gilt Court. WINDSOR, JAS. 1. The following visitors arrived yesterday afternoon and dined with her Majesty to the evening. The Duchess of Cambridge and Prinrees Mary (attended by Lieut.-Colonel Purvee), the Duke of Cambridge (attended by Colonel Tyr wbitt), and the Earl of Malmeabury and Ludy Victoria Noel. The party also included the Prince of Wales, the Prince. Alice, the Princess of Leiningeo, the Primo; of Leiningen, the Belgian Minister and Madame Ven de Weyer, Colonel the lion. R. Bruce. and Major Loyd Lindsey. The band of the Grenadier Guards played during dinner the following pieces . - - W.Wing March o•Rtart.... DOll2lllO N2tr' Wa/ter, " ti•elmr4•lld-• Nisi'leobn. Zabi After dinner her Majesty had ea evening way, to which the following had the honour of being MAW :—Prinos Edward of Sere Weimar, Mks Victoria and Mr. Victor Van de Weyer, Viscount Mahon (Grenadier Guards), Lady Mary Hood, Miss Hood, Major-General the Hon. C. sad Mrs. Grey, COlOll4l the Hon. Sir Charles and lady Phlppw, Miss H. P hipps, Captain and Mrs. F. Sayer, Colonel F. H. and Lady Emily Seymour, Miss H. Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the Hon. Mrs. Biddolph, Bir George sad Lady Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. G. Cooper, and Mr. R. Cooper. Her Majesty's private band attended in She Drawing room. Basing New Yt lied Day the band of the 2nd Life Guards played • selection of favourite airs on the East Terrace at seven o'clock this morning. Hee Mejeety'a annual diatribution of food and clothing to about 700 poor perms. of the Windsor and Clewer parkas* took place today an the Riding-house of the Castle. At a quarter put ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Con sort, acoompanied by the Prince of V. aka, the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prices Leopold, Prince** Helens, Primer Louisa, th e Diebee. of Cambridge and Princess Mary, and the Due of Cambridge, attended by the ladies and Gentle men in Waiting, proceeded to the Riding-house to witness the distribution, which was under the direction of the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the clergy of Windsor and Clewer, and the district rialto,. for the relief of the poor. The mainahme of the Clothing Caub, established under her Majesty's patmease, received at the same time articles of clothing, socordiug to the amount of their contributions (se on former ocreaions) with the oddities& provided by hag M Sooty. In the forenoon the Queen, with the royal children, ac compacwl by the Dectmee of Cambridge, Princes. May, and the Duke of Catubdrige, visited the Dachas of Kent a' Progroore. The Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, socompatied by the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Lalningen, Tem t oaf obn,llog. The Spaniel) 51initter arrived on a visit In the afternoon. Her Mejeioy'e dinner parry in the evening included the Duchene of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales, Prince's Alice, Ermines Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess of Leiningen, the Prince of Leinhagen, M. Isturito (the Spanish Minister), the Earl of Mslombury, lady Victoria Noel, Maj.uo Gannet the lion. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Pal pp, Colonel the Hon. R. Bruce, Sir George Cooper, the Dean of Windsor, Colonel Tyrwhitt, the Rev. C. F. Tamer, Captain Grey, Sir lames Clark, and Mr. Glom. The band of the 2nd Life Guards was in attendance and played during dieter: . J. . Oar% Adam. tkleetloo .. w!" Arthur Owen. A performance of choral made was given in St. George's- WI In the evening by en orchestra el nearly 160 performers. The first part consiated et Moodelesolues overture to " Athatie ;" die l'rbludium sad Basailagua fa Beethoven's Mar in D (the violin obligato Wag Mari by M. Itereenyi, solo violin to her Majesty), and the dial* to Der Freischnts, ilZ;p7: 7 'Nfo;' . cornmsnelng with Us; chorus : "See, 0 sea the .hot his bride high strode" The wooed part, comprising "The May Quesis,r • Paige nil composed by WWl.= Sterndale Benseta him Pref. Centel.. to words by Henry F. Chorley. The Solo Wadies were Mir Louise Fyne, Mies Lamellae, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Whailln, Mr. bmythihxy sad Mr. Weiss. • Mr. Sires Reims rang the air: " 0 meadow clad in early green" Mina Louisa r ) se, as the May Queen, sang the solo : " With the carol in the tree Aed the blooming of the lea, Aed the riot of the bee, Is my merry reign begun." Mr. Weiss, as Robin Hood, sang the ballad : "'Tiejolly to hunt in the bright moonlight When a man cas coach in the six-foot feta I And the cold crisp air of the autumn night Makes the outlaw's faggot more clearly burn. After prayers (Heaven blew him') the fat red priest T►lks big of his park, as he site at his feast There is not an abbot from sea to sea But kapeth the best of his deer for me!" The bead mutilated of her Majesty's private band, aided by several of the priacipal iestrumentaliste of the Pail herroosie Society, Her Mejesty's Theatre, and the Royal Dalian Opera, Covent-gardea. The chorus were selected from the open..., with • numerous body of amateurs of the awned Harmonic Society, Exeter-bell. The performance wee conducted by Mr. Anderson, the director of her Mejeaty's private band Mr. W. G. Cu ri ng, the organist of her Majesty's private , chspcl, presiding at the omen. Lord Colville and Lieut.-Colonel Ponsonby have succeeded Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood and Captain du Plat as equerries in waiting to the Queen and Prince Consort. Captain they has succeeded Msjor Lloyd Lindsay (Scotch Fueilier Guards) es equerry in waiting to the Prince of Wass. SUNDAY, JAN. 2. The Queen sad Prince Clamart, the Preece of Wales, Print:we Alice, and Princess Helena, the Duchene of Cam• bridge, Princess Mary, sod the Duke of Cambridge, and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, attended divine tervios thu morning in the private chapel, which was performed by the the Hon. and Very Nev. the Deus of Windier, who lelao administered the holy samement. The Earl of Melcosebury, the lollop and gentlemen of the court, sad the domestic household, were at the service. The Spenteh Minister went to the catholic chapel at Glower. . On New Year'a morning the band of the Gmisdier Guards attended at Frogniore, the reoidinos of the Duchess of Kent, s.d performed a =ataxia as follows : Ati► " 0 lint le the Lord " Prayer. " Preacripta Amman Chorale, "Sleeper* mkt." Prayer," Naaablello" ...... Wxla a.mplor.l W. Doalme of Kest The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Ditraell have Harnett to Groavenor-gate front Torquay. Deepatches were sent on Ratorday from the Colonial-office to the governors of the West India Islands and BriUsh Cegumbta. Meadeboob& Loeb." Mandel MALL Anton A ball given at the Palace of Malta, on the even lag of the 22nd ult., wan opened by Lady I.e Merchant, with hie Rays] Highness Priam Alfred, haviog Lady Bomenet sad his Excellency the Governor sa V.' a -Via. TIN Prince also danced with Mn. Brett and other ladies. The Maltese races were to take place at the Pier: on the 27th "for the plateure of his Rot's! Highness Prince Alfred," on the evening of which day en Illumination was to take place. A police notice, moreover, announces that—" Direc tive. hare also been given by his Excellency's commend for issuing on the said day double rations to the inmate. of the Ospialo, Incurables, and Orphan Asylum, In Melt., and Oepisio io Gino; aid hi. Excellency has fixed the same day for granting a free pardon to sore of the prisoners order sentance of punishment, I. extennemoration of his Royal Highness's visit to ibis part of her Mairety's dominions." A letter from Berlin dated Friday, maye:—" The Duke end Duchess of Maubeater have arrived at Berlin, and are stepping at the Hotel du Nord. Yesterday they was visited by Prince Frederick William, and In the evening the Duke and Ducbresi were present et the fririe gives by the Prim* Regent and the Princess of Prusla." . _ _ _ His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the C,onatess de Bernotorft arrived In tone, on Saturday. from rigida( the Earl end Countess d Clarendon, at the Gran, afar Watford. The Marquis of Bath is paring the season at Loopiest*, when his lordship will receive his Royal Ingh am the Duke of Cambridge sad a select circle during the premed week. The Countess of Lichfield cm confined of a son on the 29th alt., at the Margnia of Alowortnes seat. Barons °oust, Inked. Her ladyship sad the child are both going on well. The Earl of Erroll has purchased the mansion in Grafton•street, formerly the reeidesee of Mr. Panther. The Earl and Countees Grey are expected in town co the ISth ioet., from Hostiek Hall, Northumberland. The Countess of Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt are passing the wane ►t Nunehat• Perk, where bar ladyship will shortly entertain the Duke and Dachau d'Atuoals and • Want deck. The Count and Countess, de Persigny passed through togs on Saturday, on a visit to Baron and Baroness Meyer de Rnitteebild, at Mestseore. Lord and Lady Wensleydale are passing the Nellllo at Amptbill Put, Bedfordshire. _ . . • • - . - Lord and Lady Saltoun have arrived at their town saaska, Harefwd•rtreet, Nrk-lane. Lord and Lady Stratford de lisdcliffe have arrived in Rome from Nagle', where they were m long delayed by har ladyehip'e Indiepoeitlon. No interview whatever took plane between hie lord.hip and the King, although many Indirect eivllltlet were paid by hie Maleety to Lotd Stratford daring his May. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIAN ITALY. A Turin letter of Friday says : " The belief in war gains ground every day, bat no one can gnesa how it will break out. Prince Con stantine was talking the other day with a military man who played a considerable part in 1848, and asked his opinion uto the rumours of war. 'As a military man,' was the answer, ' I wish for war, but I do not know if we shall have it." At all events,' said the Prince, ' I wish you better luck than in 1848." Then we were alone,' replied the officer ; ' and Austria was staunchly misted. To-day I hope that the contrary would be the came.' ' Amongst us,' said the Grand Duke, 'the Austrians are looked upon as my father's murderers, on account of their ingratitude, but we are too much occupied in our country just at this moment; nevertheless, so far as I am concerned, I am always ready to follow the orders of the Emperor, my brother.' I report this conversation in the moat faithful manner possible." The indipasdents says : " Letters from Parma state that demonstrations occurred at Modena on the 24th and 25th of Decem ber. The government made a great display of force. Modena may, perhaps, give the signal for the general explosion." (runt A cozazspoxozre.) MILAN, Dim 24. At Venice and Milan, as also in the provinces, the agitation is great, with a strong mixture of pru dence and common sense in it notwithstanding. They are willing enough to have the affair of 1448 over again, but no more puerilities, hectoring, and swaggering ; no more silly bragga docio. They are organising themselves quietly and steadily, but solidly and with a will. The Austrians seem bewildered, and are taking meuures never heard of before, and which some think perfectly ab surd. I need not instance their law on conscription, or their monetary transactions, but here is one of their strange acts : the government is compelling the various municipalities of Lombardy and Venetia to purchase all the public official edifices in the cities and towns, such as the palaces of the Archducal Princes, the guildhalls, barracks, and the like. By this forced sale it is realising millions ; and, should the Austrian authorities be ever forced to make a run for it, they would leave nothing behind them the loss of which might occasion them regret. The government has arranged to continue the use of the buildings at a certain rent. Now, every one here knows what " paghera" means in the Austrian month ; it is a promise to pay, as the wolf said to the stork, when he had a bone in his gullet. The Archduke has caused his palace at Mantua to be re-furnished, evidently for the purpose of taking refuge there in case of disturbances breaking out at Milan. The antieigar agitation has recommenced ; people smoke no longer. Some superior Austrian officers wanted to set the veto at defiance, but were immediately accosted by some of the Barabbas—a cant term for what they call "gamins" at Paris— with the short but now well-known cry, " Chi, abbasao it sigaro !" One or two resisted, when their cigars were taken out of their mouths,. politely enough, it is true, but still by main force. Others obeyed in silence, and flung their cigars away. The Archduke wished to give a ball the other day. Fifteen attended, being officials, and because they could not help themselves. The Dukes Merl and Sootti, both of them devoted to Austria, have left Milan from prudential motives; Count Nara, an other devotee of Austria's, speaks openly and loudly against the imbecility and harshness of the govern ment The fact is that; in 1848 you would meet with scores of people that upheld Austria's good right and her virtuous intentions, but you would not find now half a dozen in the whole Lombardo- Venetian kingdom. Every one is now convinced that if the Austrians were only once out of Italy, the King of Naples, the Pope, and all the petty princes of the Peninsula would soon change their tone, and that a lasting peace might then become a possibility. No cue dreams of a republic, no one hints at socialism. What Italians desire is, to have Italy governed rationally by native princes and native laws. INDIA. The following telegram from Acting Consul- General Green wee received at the Foreign-office, at 11 p.m., Jan. 1 : ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 25, 1848. The steamer Bombay arrived at Suez from Born. hay on the 21st, with dates to the 9th ; the steamer Emeu also arrived at Suez on the 21st, from Ms trails. The amnesty is slowly but surely thinning the ranks of the rebels ; and there is good reason for be lieviog that the whole country will be restored to peace without much additional bloodshed. On the 4th November, a force, commanded by Lord Clyde in person, having marched 61 miles in 60 hours, completely defeated Bene Mando, Sing, and a large army of rebels, at Dundeca Klan, nearly opposite Futtehpoor ; the enemy was driven out of the dense jungle, and afterwards chased for miles by guns and cavalry ; their loss was enormous; many were drowned in the Ganges. Bene Mando fled down the River Oomrao. Sing escaped towards Cawnpore road. The rabble threw away their arms, and fled to the steep ravines in which the Yonnksy abounds. Belle Mando is raid now to be at Dolemon Ghat, on the Ganges. On the 28th of November the Commander-in- Chief arrived at Lucknow ; the health of our troops is said to be excellent. On the 21st of November, General Grant re crossed the Goartee ; the rebels, in considerable num bers, disputed the passage, but were forced to fly with great loss; six of their guns were taken. Tend* Topee continues to avoid the ingenuity of his pursuers. _ - Genoa, January 1, 1869. Owing to an interruption in the communication, the remainder of the message cannot be forwarded to-day. Continuation of telegram from Mr. Consul- General Green. Received at Foreign-office, Sunday January 2, it 4 p.m. Malta, Dec. 30, 1858. He (Tantia Topee) is said to have entered Onzurat, The Bombay Gazette announces the death of General John Jacob, on the 6th December, from an attack of brain fever. A. FANSHAWE, Via-AdmiraL BOMBAY COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. UST 809IAKINI AND BRITIAN TZLIONAPN4 MARSEILLES, JAx. 2. We have received the following advioes from Bombay dated Dec. 9: " The import market continues in an improved and active state, the market for grey goods having been partieuleely brisk daring the fortnight. The money market has become light, and the Bank of Bombay has again raised its rates of interest and dicsount one per cent. all round, and the rates of freights look down. " Australian mails arrived in Panther at six in the evening." AUSTRALIA. ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 26. The Emeu hu arrived with the Australian mails, and gold valued at 60,0411. The dates of intelligence are—Sydney, Nov. 11 ; Melbourne, Nov. 16. A bill to increase the number of members had passed the Victoria House of Assembly. The electric telegraph was in operation between Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide. Wool sales had commenced; in grease, 9d. to 10Id. ; scoured, 2s. Trade, especially import, very dull. Exchange for 60 days' sight was at par. The shipments of gold to England are :—Oct. 27, the Blackwell, for London, with 80,589 ounces ; Nov. 7, the Donald MEay, for Liverpool, with 34,398 ounces; on the 14th, the Swiftaure, for London, with 84,775 onnoes. The second, reading of the Chinese Emigration Bill has been rejected by the Upper House of New South Wales. The receipts of wool at Sydney were very light. Buyers were ca.ltious and prices uncertain. Tallow was firm. Exchange at sixty days' sight purchased at 1 discount: sold at j premium.—Times. We have been favoured with the following tele gram by the Peninsnlarand Oriental Company : . _ MARSEILLES, JAN. 2, 1869. " The Panther arrived at 6 p.m., and will be out of quarantine at 2 p.m. on the 3rd. "The Bombay and Australian mails leave for London at 10 this (Sunday) evening." SERVIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, .1 AN. 1. The Fresco d'Orient gives the following se the substance of the instructions sent by the Porte to Xabouli Puha: The Skepetchin► had no right to der.. Prince Alexander, who refused to atedicatis. The Porte proposes, to corner plena, either to appeint a Gammen who would be the President of the Senatre,or otherwissa Calmacenate mamma of the present mioistars. The t3enats will afterwards inform the Porte of the wishes of Serria touching the deposition of Prince Alexander, and the appointment of his successor, in accordance with the precedent of 1539, eller the !allot Prince Prince Milack is still atVienna, and does not mean to go to Belgrade till his election has been defini tively ratified by the Porte. A Belgrade letter, of December 22, in the Fremdenblatt of Vienna, gives the following cations text of the speech made to Prince Alexander by the deputation of the Skupstchins, which demanded his resignation : Seigneur (gospodam), the nation is thoroughly convinced that thou hart neither the means nor the Inclination to render Berrie happy. She therefore begs thee, through us, to re tire from power, and she permits thee to remain in the coun try in complete liberty, sad not a hair of the head of thee or thine shall be touched. The nation expects thy abdica tion. Abdicate without hesitation, and thus show thy pa triotism. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 1. Ministers have declared in the Congrets,that they will c►ll for explanations of the insulting passages in Mr. Buchanan's speech, and that Spain will never sell Cuba. A motion of M. Olazsga, supporting this ministerial declaration, was carried unanimously. EXPRESS FROA PARIS. (CROP[ OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Bulletin des Lois of this day publishes an Imperial decree, dated Dec. 18, formally ordaining that the Cathedral of St. Denis shall be the bury ing place of the Emperors of the French. It is known to be the wish of the Emperor to remove the remains of his uncle from the Invalides to St. Denis, but Prince Jerome is opposed to the measure, and in all probability the splendid tomb in the IncaEdell, of which he is the guardian, will not be desecrated as long as he lives. Tile Emperor thinks it would be more " dynastic" that his family should be buried among the ancient Kings of France, and he wishes particularly to place the body of Napoleon I. on that very spot which—as all visitors to St Denis will have remarked—he is represented in one of the painted glass windows as selecting for his final rest ing place. . . . The Presse his reason to know that nothing has yet been decided with regard to a new meeting of the Paris Conference. M. Villas, the Mayor of Macon, has been sus pended by the Prefect of the SaOue and Loire: the reason has not transpired. A riding-muter of the Sumer Cavalry School, Captain Jauchene, met with his death last week in an extraordinary manner. His horse ran away with him and plunged into the Loire. The captain dis appeared in the water, and his dead body was not found till after a long search. The horse, when it had shaken off its rider, swam safe to shore. A house in Douai was blown up the other day, and considerable damage was done in the street of Fort-de-Keel, in consequence of some powder taking fire in the house of a blacksmith named Cornille, who carried on an illicit trade in gunpowder. One man was blown almost to atoms—his leg was picked up in the street, while his body was buried in the ruins, but he was still alive, though in a desperate condition. Cornille himself, and one of his children, were slightly burnt. He confesses that he obtained the powder from a corporal of the 6th Chasseura. Cornille and the corporal are arrested. PARIS, SATURDAY EYRNINO. New Year's-day has been favoured by finer wea ther than we have enjoyed for nearly a month past. The mud and rain, which for the last week have turned the Boulevards into a swamp and driven the toy stall-keepers to despair, gave place this morning to a white frost and a thick fog, which two symp toms greatly divided the prophecies of the weather wise. The sun at length gained the day, and the streets have been as full of holiday folk as could be desired. The receptions at the Yuileries were un usually well attended. The courtyard was nearly full of carriages all the morning, and certainly. if the prosperity of the Empire can be measured by the improved appearance of the equipages of its func tionaries, there has been marked progress since lest year. The number of hackney carriages has greatly diminished, and gorgeous liveries have increased in a very great proportion. 'the only other novelty in the day was the appearance, on one of the pillars of the Rue Rivoli opposite an entrance to the Tuileries, of the follow ing stimulus to loyal feeling, written on an immense sheet of white paper in a schoolmaster's hand : Francela,—L'Emplre a enf, est, et was laminar' La Oohs at Is smitten do is France, Powwow dorm onanimement co cri Ls peas beensonhaii qu'un sujia pulses fairs. Viva rEcupara 1 M. Leroy, the prefect of the Seine Inferieure, by a circular dated Rouen, Dec. 24, has strictly ordered all the communal schools in his department to dis continue the theatrical representations which the children have been in the habit of giving on the oc casion of the annual distribution of prizes. The in terdiction applies as well to any recitations from standard plays as to verses composed expressly foe the prize meeting. The mayors are also to take care that no schoolmaster makes any speech to his pupils unless it is vise by the inspector of the academy. The Slick ventures to observe upon the above ordonnance: These !MASSIMO seem to no needlessly severe. From time Immemorial, and under the Restoration as well as under Leal Philippe, professor, have been in the habit of testing the me mory, the nerve, and readiness of Rick pupils by allowing them to play parts in dramatic pieces either com posed ad hoc or selected from standard author'. "Lee Ineottunedith de la Grandeur," by Jean Antoine do Cereeau, was played by the scholars of the College of Louis-le-Grand, first before the King of England, after wards before the Primes Palatine, end finally before Lottis XV. We see no inconvenience in three annual repreeenta time, and, at any rata, it would have been enough to ' , abject them to previous mature without prohibiting them alto- gather. _ . . For my own part, I think the prohibition, to nee a French expression, enters into the " logic of the situation," and is altogether justifiable in a govern. mental point of view. If the present system is to be permanent, and if Frenchmen are to be in all time coming docile instruments in the hands of the priest, the policeman, and the soldier, it is absolutely necessary to operate on the rising generation. What untold germs of sedition may be sown in an infant mind by the reading of a play ! As M. Drs fence truly said, when pleading for M. de Monta lembert, "if it is to be a crime to speak of liberty even in theory, you must suppress Montesquieu and Corneille." M. Leroy is making a beginning, and s considerable one, towards this desirable consum mation. M. Laroncidre le Nourv, captain in the navy, and aide-de-camp to Prince Napoleon, whose departure for Berlin about a month ago on a secret minion, the object of which haa not yet transpired, excited con siderable curiosity at the time, has now gone to the Prussian capital again. Before leaving Paris he had a 10115 audience with the Emperor, and was accompanied to the presence chamber by the Prince Napoleon. Count Sercey, a retired staff colonel, has gone to Egypt on a secret mission. At the levee on Saturday, the Emperor Napoleon A reported to here told the Austria Minister, M. Hubner, that ha regretted their relation' (rappo, !s) were so bad, but that his personal mods:maw for the Emperor of Austria were the sense in ever. A rumour circulates, also, that Marshal Vs/neat, Minister of War, west up subsequently to M. Hub ert, sad ask: to hire, I supports I must not give you my head attizr that." _ . The King and Queen of Prussia, with their 'amorous suite, Itave tarn up their residettoe at the Cafe. salli l'aleos on the Capitol at Rome, usually occupied by the Prosaism Embassy. It is stated that General Count Defitte de Suer, Governor of Martinique, who has bean a keg time unwell, is afflicted with Insanity of a melancholy character, which heave" no hope of hie recovery, and which prevents him from continuing hie function'. . . . A Nice letter of Thursday last gives the following account of a duel fousht there .—" A deplorable event has been the exclusive subject of conversation sines yesterday. At the Philharmonic Club a dispute occurred a few days since between a French gentleman, sixty years of age, and the Count de B—, a young man of twenty-three or twenty four. The latter tore off the Frenchman's decoration—ea insult which rendered a meeting indispensable. The par ties fought with pistols; Count 8— received hie 'bur sary's bell in hie chest, and is now lying at the inn near the Pent du Var., in a state which leaves scarcely any hope of his recovery." . —-- - - - In spite of New Year's-day and its manifest attractions for young folks, Professor Faraday found a crowded hall awaiting his entrance on Saturday in the theatre of the Royal Institution. The subject of the lee turn wan the conduction of heat and of electricity by metals and their tenacity and malleability. CHLOROFORM AT THE ROYAL ACCOCCIIEMENT.—. From • memoir of the late Dr. Snow, in the Maisel Times, we learn that on April 7, 1853, he adminis tered chloroform to her Majesty at the birth of Prince Leopold. A note In his diary records the event. The ha halation lasted fifty-three minute,. The chloroform wu given on • handkerchief In fifteen minim doses, and the Queen expressed bereelf as greatly relieved by the se ministration. He had previously been consulted on the occasion of the birth of Prince Arthur in 1850, but had eat been called in to render his services: Previous to the birth of Prince Leopold he had been honoured with as interview with hie Itoyal Highness Prince Albert, of returned much overjoyed with the Prince's kindness NA great intelligence, en the mimetic pram which had format the subject of their conversation. On the 14th of April, 1857, another note in the diary thounts the fact of the administration of chloroform to her Majesty at the birth of the Priacess Beatrice The chloroform again exerted its be neficent inflame" and her Mei...ly mos moue:pressed here pelf as much satisfied with the result. Inquisitive folk often overburdened Snow, after those events, with a multi tude of questions of an unmeaning kind. Ha anewend them with all good-natured reserve, "Her Majesty fa a model patient," was his usual reply—a reply which, ha once said, seemed to answer every purpose, and was very trim. One lady of an inquiring mind, to whom he wee administering chloroform, got very loquacious during the period of excitement, and declared elm would inhale no more of the vapour unless she were told what the Queen said, word for word, when the wan taking it. "Her Majesty," replied the dry doctor, "eked no queeticee until ohs hoe breathed very mach longer than you have• end if you will only go on in loyal imitation, I will tell you everything." The patient could not bur follow the exempts held out to her. In a few seconds she forgot all about Queen, Lords, and Commons; and when the time came for • renewal of beetiliiiee, round that her clever witness had gone home to his dinner, leaving her with the thirst for knuerkthre still on her tongue. R.kILWAT GATES.—At the Huddersfield police- *Dart last week, Janos Clapham. farm servant, in the employ of Memos Haigh, of Caine-bridge, was charred by Ms. Batley, solicitor, on behalf of the Llndon and North-Warta ani Railway Company, with having omitted to abut and fasten a gate near the Heath-lodge Junction, by which emir siaa a horse had escaped, oberiv.red the line, and thrown off the rails • pathanger-train, by which the lives of the Inman gen were fearfully imperilled. Mr. Floyd, solicitor fm the defence, contended that his clout bed clotted the gate with the spring mach, and had therefore done his duty, the requirement of locking the gate never having been under stood to be the duty of persons in such vises. The evidence adduced on both sides we. of a coufbc , ing character ' tho station-master deposing that the gate was found open after the accident, while on the other aide it was shorn that the gate had been polled to end faatened. The magistrates fined the defendant 20s, and coop, but intimated that the compeny ought to have provided a better fattening for the gate. The defendant's attorney gave notice of appeal. POSITION OF THE Jaws IN THE PAPAL STATER. —The following letter, for the authenticity of which we (the Jewish Chronicle) can vouch, hat been placed at our doelll by a touch reepected on-religionist :—•• My dear frien-1 fear that I cannot do scything here in bebalf of the Mortars case because, as I hare, the Pope is very indignant at the publicetione made by the public prep* on this rubject, and thinks the Jew, are the author.. Though no steps appear to be taken (openly) by the Papal government spinet the Jews, neverthelees, there is indirectly, plainly discernible, the oom mencement of a very severe system of persecution. The recent earth of Jewish honatio for Christian servants was executed suddenly, and the fine. were imposed without any justification, or wittier. , or opportunity for defence. I know the Fops ha; given positive orders that the restrictions on this point shall be carried out with the greatest rigour. A young man, an Israelite, who has been lately examined aa • phi skim, and who passed hie examination, and was found fully competent to receive • license to practise his profession, has been refused the license simply on account of hie religion, nor could he even procure permission to act in the capacity of an assistant in an ape- thecary's shop. In aeveral towns in the provinces, your brethren canted stop at all, whether for business or wherries, without being subject to One or inthrivenuent. Indeed, my good friend, persecutions against the breadths in the domi nions of the Popo are again rearing their beads. I regret to say, to the Miami of the Lula church, and to the disgrace and shame of the age in which we liss. When will the re called Christian nations Act, for themselves, and with. W against other. in accordance with their high prstetuathef Rome, Dec. 17, 1858." FRENCII PASSPORTS.—Tho French Minister for Foreign Affairs has issued, to ell the consuls and diplomatto agents of the empire, the following circular releveg the stringency of the passport 'poem In Pram , " Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Considers and Commercisl Affairs, Paris, Dee. 27. Sir, — Ton re aware that, according to the regulation adopted in the month of January lam in regard to penaports, travel lers entering France from abroad must toe each journey cure the ',um' nt a French consul or diplomatic agent. no Minister of the Interior, thinking that under meant r cunatancas this obligation may be dispensed with althea% inconvenience, has determined that the' visa' in question shall be considered good for one year, the legal duration of French passports. "I beg your attention, sir, to this alters ion, and that you will commusicate to the colonise sects nod, r your order the necessary Instructions so far ao commas them. Receive the assurance of my dboinguished coutiders tom, WALDWIIII. Couotemlirmol by the Director Minister FlanipMentiery Lt elam, eft. TM Leasure." oP" (wbc Utdit fiber • Int day — Lead Won hand said, felt I not d of pr G m 3 week cane Dave moo said wori ring • d men unk be• loaf reCCI bone goc ler a& reo